Linux-Misc Digest #64, Volume #25 Fri, 7 Jul 00 10:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Clearing MBR (Dances With Crows)
Linux and ODBC ("Andreas Moroder")
(newbie) phatlinux keeps on restarting (BioHazard)
kudzu,pcmcia and sound (Darren Christie)
Re: -- MARK -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: -- MARK -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD ROM (Trevor Brown)
Re: NTP trouble... (Tom Eastep)
Re: Root can't take ownership of a file (REPOST) (Eric)
help with ISA ne2000 ethernet card ("Anurodh")
Re: linux suse 6.4 and dual pentirum (Dennis Jarecke)
Re: RAID syncronization problem (Max TenEyck Woodbury)
Re: Linux and Windows NT, partition magic
Re: Need a small C program ("Timothy A. DeWees")
Re: Root can't take ownership of a file (REPOST) ("Marc Thompson")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Clearing MBR
Date: 07 Jul 2000 08:30:52 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 01:07:30 -0700, jkauffman
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I recently attempted to install Redhat 6.2 on a WinNT box and, well
>things didn't go exactly according to plan and I ended up with a broken
>linux installation and no NT (there wasn't anything on the machine
>anyway).
If there wasn't anything on the machine, why'd you call it an NT box?
Also, in what way did the install fail? If you can explain what happened,
someone will probably be able to tell you what you did wrong and how to
fix it next time.
>My problem is how do I reset the MBR so I can start from scratch? Lilo
>seems to have taken up permanent residence and insists on booting
>straight into the failed linux install. Even if I try and re-install NT
>from floppys when I get to the first reboot lilo sends me straight back
>into the failed linux.
Makes no sense. From a Linux rescue disk ( http://www.toms.net/rb/ ) you
can issue the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1" which
will obliterate the MBR and the partition table. The NT boot floppy
*should* detect this and offer you the chance to partition the disk and/or
create a new MBR.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: "Andreas Moroder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.clipper
Subject: Linux and ODBC
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:59:18 +0200
Are there Linux ODBC drivers for the dbf file format. The application that
uses ODBC, the ODBC driver, a database server ( if necessary ) and the dbf
should all reside on the linux machine.
Thank you
Andreas Moroder
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From: BioHazard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (newbie) phatlinux keeps on restarting
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:52:22 +0800
Hello,
I've got this problem with phatlinux. The first time I started it (just
after the download) it worked perfectly fine until it reached a test
("loop" test or something like that), at which point my computer hanged.
Now, the most I gets to is "Decompressing linux....OK" before the my
system just restarts by itself.
I've been to the phatlinux resource message board, and found no help
there. After much searching, the closest information I found regarding
my problem was something about "a spontaneous reboot of the system when
the kernel cannot load is a feature".
I'm totally stumped, and know absolutely nothing about linux. I'm not
about to download another linux distribution, seeing that I spent ages
downloading this one on my 56K modem (left it overnight and it was still
at it). Can anyone help me?
-Rys
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From: Darren Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: kudzu,pcmcia and sound
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:13:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Redhat 6.1 installed on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, however when
booting kudzu has decided not to detect new hardware. After doing some
digging around I found that hwconf was corrupted. So I copied this from
an identical configured system. Rebooted and still the same results. So
I am lost at what to do next to resolve this, so any suggestions would
be greatly received.
The other problem I have is configuring sound on the above laptop,
I managed to get sound to work using alsa 0.5.8, and promptly on
rebooting to test, pcmcia wouldn't start up, but I had sound.
Now for some reason pcmcia is back, but now sound won't work! I get
that the device is busy. I thought it might be a conflict between pcmcia
and the sound hardware (ymfpci) but I can use both together no problem
under Windoze98. So please could you help on this as well?
If you could copy answers to my e-mail, as the work newsgroup feed only
picks up once a day.
Thanks
Darren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: -- MARK --
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:26:52 +0100
Somsak Limavongphanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> What is the meaning of -- MARK -- in messages log?
It's just put there by the syslog daemon to let you know it's still running
when nothing else is being logged.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: -- MARK --
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:27:47 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] did eloquently scribble:
> On or about Fri, 07 Jul 2000 02:11:38 GMT, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>scrivened:
>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:34:11 +0700, Somsak Limavongphanee
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>What is the meaning of -- MARK -- in messages log?
>> man syslogd. Just letting you know it's there. It can be turned off.
> However, it's useful to leave this in, as it's a (simple-minded)
> indicator that your systlog is indeed running. This can be useful
> information in the event of a system crash or hack attempt.
Or the kernel reaping the syslogd in the event of running out of virtual
memory...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Brown)
Subject: CD ROM
Date: 7 Jul 2000 13:16:50 GMT
Hello...
My current CD-ROM drive is not reliable enough for me to install Linux (I
get signal 11). Does it matter how "fast and advanced" a CD-ROM drive I
purchase, or will any one do? I don't want to get a CD-ROM drive that is
so new that it won't be supported by the version of Linux that I have...
is this even an issue? I have Red Hat Linux 6.2.
Trevor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Eastep)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: NTP trouble...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 06:26:52 -0700
Stuart Rauh wrote:
>Using Redhat 6.2 and Xntp-5.93-14 to keep the server clock on time.
>
>Xntpd doesn't complain but doesn't update the clock either. When trying
>to update manually with "ntpdate clock.psu.edu" it responds with "No
>server suitable for synchronization found".
>
>I can ping clock.psu.edu from the Linux box. An NTP client on a Win98
>machine connected through IP masq on the Linux box updates fine. I just
>can't get the Linux box to sync up!
>
>Any suggestions???
Is your ipchains ruleset blocking udp port 123 to/from the firewall
itself?
-Tom
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Tom Eastep \ Eastep's First Principle of Computing:
ICQ #60745924 \ "Any sane computer will tell you how it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ works if you ask it the proper questions"
Shoreline, Washington USA \___________________________________________
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Root can't take ownership of a file (REPOST)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:56:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marc Thompson wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> All at once, five of my RedHat Linux machines can no longer run 'make
> whatis'. The error is 'permission denied.' I, as root, cannot take
> ownership of the affected file. It's as if the system doesn't believe I'm
> root.
>
> The current file permisions are 644 owned by root, group root.
>
> The only change to the system(s) is that I pointed them to a new NIS server.
>
> Any ideas? Will fsck fix this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc Thompson
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Marc Thompson
> BOPS, Inc.
> Austin, TX
Sounds to me like the immutable bit is set, check the file with lsattr
with chattr -i this bit can be cleared again.
Eric
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From: "Anurodh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with ISA ne2000 ethernet card
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:15:47 +0530
hi,
I am total Linux newbie. I have installed red hat 6.2. But i cant figure out
how to configure the ne2000 ISA card i have. My machine is a 486 66Mhz with
16Mb Ram.
I installed linux with the card in the slot.
I cant figure out how to configure the enthernet card. dont even know if it
is properly installed. How do i check.
I tried the route command and it just displayed the loopback 127.0.0.1.
I tried this command in root but it gave me and error message.
route add -net 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
how do i check if my card is properly installed or not. I have had a real
hard time gettin this info off the net.
thanks
-Anurodh
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From: Dennis Jarecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux suse 6.4 and dual pentirum
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:28:29 -0400
>I`ld like to know wether my kernel knows about my second intel-processor or
>not. I cannot figure out where to find information about how many processors
>the kernel uses!
Most linux distributions don't come preinstalled with multiprocessor support.
You should consult the FAQ:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/SMP-FAQ
Basically what you have to do is to rebuild the kernel and compile in the SMP
support. You can find information on rebuilding the kernel in the kernel-HOWTO
at www.linuxdoc.org.
Dennis
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From: Max TenEyck Woodbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID syncronization problem
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:55:58 -0400
Yan Seiner wrote:
>
Thank you for answering. Newsgroup propagation out of here
seems to be a bit slow and I didn't think anybody was
listening...
> Slow the bus speed down to 40, or even 20. If that makes your
> problem go away, it's probably cabling and/or swap trays.
I presume you mean the problem is a bus problem and
not a drive surface problem and is associated with the
following lines from the log -
sym53c895-0-<0,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c895-0-<0,*>: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s (25 ns, offset 31)
and that I need to make some changes to the startup sequence so that
drive operates at a slower transfer rate. I'll dig around in the
documentation and on the net until I find out how to do that. I
checked comp.periphs.scsi just now and didn't see anything right
off. A pointer might be helpful...
> Also, the cabling needed for lvd is different than what's
> needed for u2w.
Got that. The drives are mounted in a separate box. The guy
who sold me the interbox cable said it was a special LVD cable
and I believe him. The cable in the box is a twisted pair ribbon
cable that I have wrapped in bubble wrap to provide separation
form metal surfaces as mentioned in some of the RAID HOWTOs.
I also adjusted the 'dress' of the cable in the swap trays.
All this checks with stuff I read about 1990 with respect to
the original SCSI specifications.
I also added another drive (Quantum Atlas V - 7200 RPM) as a
spare. Initially, I couldn't get it to work at all. After
adjusting the cables, it worked fine and synced to the RAID
set without a problem. However, the original 10K drive got
worse if anything. Now that I know that it is a bus problem,
there are a number of things I can try...
> I had horrible problems getting a quantum-based raid to work;
> eventually I had to set it up as SE and not LVD. The symptoms
> were very similar to yours. Quantum tech support sucked
> (at least for me).
I didn't expect Quantum tech support to have the least clue
about this kind of thing so I didn't call them. The error
messages were out of Linux and the SCSI interface card, so
I'd need to translate them into drive error codes before I
tried to explain the problem to them. I'm not to that level
yet. Further, from what you say, the problem is with the
SCSI bus, and possibly the drive interface electronics, not
with the drive itself. Quantum might have someone on their
front line who knows something about SCSI bus issues, but
finding that person without having isolated the problem
myself just didn't make sense to me.
> See comp.periphs.scsi
Again, thanks.
> --Yan
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Windows NT, partition magic
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:04:38 -0400
> Uff good point, may I just boot from a floppy.
Yup, that will keep lilo off the hdd ,and nt will be very hapy.
> > If you do a complete install of win2k that is, prepare an empty
> > partition and then run the setup from dos , it will trash the ext 2
> > file system. but if you put in a minimal nt4 and then upgrade it,
> > it seems to be fine.
> Ufff this is the situation. I have to install in on a Computer with an
> already complete system. If I squash the NT system I get be killed.
> But I don't understand NT trashes the EXT2 (Linux system)? How come?
During the install, nt5 ( w2k)'s installer does an exhaustive scan of the
hdd. It goes through all the partitions ( why do you think it took me over
8hrs to install the monstrosity? )
After it was setup, i set my /boot partition ( /dev/hda1) active and got the
lilo prompt. Tried to boot linux. kernel loaded fine, but it wouldn't mount
any of the filesystems including root, and kept complaining about bad magic
numbers .
I got so irritated, I put in the redhat cd and reinstalled . Things have
been fine since.
Last week I switched the mainboard, cpu of my computer from an intel to amd
: tbird 700 + GA71X E.
Linux booted just fine. Under X, the 700 mhz was noticeable . Networking,
sound etc were fine without any changes.( I was playing mp3's as I was
reading up on the tbird performance specs :) ). Booted into 98, reinstalled
everything and did the drivers death dance for a few days, and then finally
fixed it.
Next I booted w2k : wouldn't boot with "Inaccessable boot device" . :( . Put
in nt4 from an old ghost image taken on the intel hardware, and upgraded to
w2k. This time it didn't do an exhaustive scan of the hdd, and left the
other partitions alone.
> Well I think for the moment I will chose the floppy option, everything
> you tell me seems delicate.
Well, if you are unable to place a /boot partition within the 1024 cylinder
boundary on the hdd, i guess floppy is the way.
Uh one more thing ( very important with some hard drives )
Just make sure that the chs configuration that the hdd is set to in the
bios ( and Nt is using at present ) matches what linux reports.
for example :
I had nt on a 1 gig hdd with some large cylinder values. The bios said
something with > 1024 cylinders ( in normal mode )
I booted linux off the cd , and it said that it was 527/63/255 chs . The hdd
params did not match , causing partitino table errors.
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From: "Timothy A. DeWees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need a small C program
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:01:54 -0400
I dont thnk so. He needs a Windows program that will help him perform
Linux tasks. This is a very common thing in the industry (writting bloated
programs for a piss poor OS to help it interface with a superior OS)
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Boyle) writes:
>
> > mike burrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : In comp.os.linux.help Gerald J. Puhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : > I am in need of a C program Windows 95/NT4.0 that will simply open
> > : > socket and connect to another machine on a port number.
> >
> > : just a thought: ask in a windows newsgroup?
> >
> > You must be one of those comp.lang.c jerks who are *always* telling
people
> > to post to newsgroups where there posts would be considered on topic.
> > Sheesh!
> >
> Maybe he is, but it's certainly a sacrilege to ask a Windoze Question
> (tm) in a Linux Newsgroup (or in this many as the original Poster
> did)!
>
> Andy
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From: "Marc Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Root can't take ownership of a file (REPOST)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:02:23 -0500
Thanks, Eric.
Turned out that I caused the problem (without remembering what I'd done)
when I removed the no_root_squash option to NFS. So, the exported file was
owned by root on the source and the importing computer's root account was
not respected. This is, of course, what I wanted, just forgot what had
happened.
-Marc Thompson
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Marc Thompson
Network Administrator
BOPS, Inc.
Austin, TX
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Marc Thompson wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > All at once, five of my RedHat Linux machines can no longer run 'make
> > whatis'. The error is 'permission denied.' I, as root, cannot take
> > ownership of the affected file. It's as if the system doesn't believe
I'm
> > root.
> >
> > The current file permisions are 644 owned by root, group root.
> >
> > The only change to the system(s) is that I pointed them to a new NIS
server.
> >
> > Any ideas? Will fsck fix this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Marc Thompson
> >
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Marc Thompson
> > BOPS, Inc.
> > Austin, TX
>
> Sounds to me like the immutable bit is set, check the file with lsattr
> with chattr -i this bit can be cleared again.
>
> Eric
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