Linux-Misc Digest #161, Volume #25 Mon, 17 Jul 00 19:13:02 EDT
Contents:
ESD network silence... audio: connection refused :-( (Tijmen Stam)
Re: Which distro for newbie? ("David ..")
Re: Loading Windows ("David ..")
Boot disk (WSU Student)
Re: programming tools and techniques (Jan Schaumann)
Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14 ("ne...")
Re: PCI bus information access (Grant Edwards)
Large file support status? (Steve Wampler)
Recommended RAID... ("Adam")
Can't restart Win98 box in DOS after Linux install ("ldog")
2.2.16 and raid-5 ("Retro Grouch")
Can't compile kernel!! (root)
Re: cdrecord (Bill Unruh)
Re: Which distro for newbie? (Rod Smith)
Corrupted PASSWD, SHADOW, GROUP files (BadBoo)
Re: SSHD won't start. (Chumkil)
Re: screensaver or similar generating problem (Dmitri V)
Re: Cannot write into a read only file ????? (Dave Brown)
Re: Loading Windows (David Steuber)
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From: Tijmen Stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ESD network silence... audio: connection refused :-(
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:39:51 +0200
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Hi. I have 2 pc's, server and client01, and a working network...
On the server I run
root# esd -public -port 11112 &
and it says:
"- accepting connections on port 11112"
and gives the beep sounds. Everithing works ok here. fine.
Now on the client (which has no soundcard) I play an mp3 with mpg123 and
it says:
"<snipped mpg123 no warranty stuff>
/dev/dsp: No such device
/dev/dsp: No such device
/dev/dsp: No such device
audio: No such device"
still seems normal for it can't detect a soundcard
Then on client I do a
root# export ESPEAKER=server:11112
and then again some mpg123, but then it returns:
"<snipped mpg123 no warranty stuff>
audio: Connection refused"
so mpg123 picks up the ESPEAKER env var, but it is refused, while the
port is made public (the -public switch on esd). Whatever I try, giving
192.168.15.100, server or server.tijmen.tn as host, ar trying other
ports (off course with esd too), it still refuses the connection.
the tails of /var/log/messages on both pc's are clean...
What could be the problem and how do I solve it???
Tijmen Stam
p.s. please mail me too, because i might miss the last messages, for I'm
going on vacation soon.
Thanks in advance,
Tijmen
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<br>Hi. I have 2 pc's, server and client01, and a working network...
<p>On the server I run
<p><tt>root# esd -public -port 11112 &</tt>
<p>and it says:
<p><tt>"- accepting connections on port 11112"</tt>
<p>and gives the beep sounds. Everithing works ok here. fine.
<p>Now on the client (which has no soundcard) I play an mp3 with mpg123
and it says:
<p><tt>"<snipped mpg123 no warranty stuff></tt>
<br><tt>/dev/dsp: No such device</tt>
<br><tt>/dev/dsp: No such device</tt>
<br><tt>/dev/dsp: No such device</tt>
<br><tt>audio: No such device"</tt>
<p>still seems normal for it can't detect a soundcard
<p>Then on client I do a
<p><tt>root# export ESPEAKER=server:11112</tt>
<p>and then again some mpg123, but then it returns:
<p><tt>"<snipped mpg123 no warranty stuff></tt>
<br><tt>audio: Connection refused"</tt>
<p>so mpg123 picks up the <tt>ESPEAKER</tt> env var, but it is refused,
while the port is made public (the -public switch on esd). Whatever I try,
giving 192.168.15.100, server or server.tijmen.tn as host, ar trying other
ports (off course with esd too), it still refuses the connection.
<br>the tails of /var/log/messages on both pc's are clean...
<p>What could be the problem and how do I solve it???
<p>Tijmen Stam
<p>p.s. please mail me too, because i might miss the last messages, for
I'm going on vacation soon.
<br>Thanks in advance,
<br> Tijmen
<br>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distro for newbie?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:21:02 -0500
Mark Sidarous wrote:
>
> Which distribution should I use?
This is a loaded question and will get plenty of responses. The best way
is to see which flavor has the best support for your system and what you
want to use it for. Once installed "linux is linux" basically.
It is more like a choice of ice-cream.
What flavor do you like???
Linux is freedom of choice!!
I like RedHat.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Loading Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:23:23 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone! I want to install Linux on my current Win98 system without
> doing an fdisk, coz I have some importatnt documents on it.Can anyone
> tell me how to accomplish this task.
You can do it for FREE!!
http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: WSU Student <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot disk
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:37:35 -0400
I am installing new kernel( for nistnet) through a floopy disk (
using bzdisk ) but gives error while booting - "Failed initializing
eth0" , my ethernet is not working . may me i am somewhere wrong with
my configuration. I wanted to know that is it possible to set up
ethernet with your kernel loaded on a floppy. is it any security issue
involved here.
Please Help.
-Amit Utreja
(Email at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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Subject: Re: programming tools and techniques
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.programming
From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:42:09 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<snip>
>
>Commone examples are:
>make all (Make all files and executable)
>make world (something only deities tend to be able to do)
>make docs (don't compile the code, just generate the documentation)
>make coffee (This sends a signal to the coffee machine to make coffee)
actually... in an ideal work-environment this one sends an email/pager/be=
eper
message to the intern.
;-)
-Jan
--=20
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind!
The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
=09=09-- Charles Schulz
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Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:48:11 GMT
On Jul 17, 2000 at 13:41, Thomas Adams eloquently wrote:
>
>"ne..." wrote:
>
>> 4) tar xzf /path/to/kernel/source/linux-<version>.tar.gz or
>> tar --use-compress-program bunzip -xf
>/path/to/kernel/source/linux-<version>.tar.bz2
>
>I appreciate your cookbook instructions. I am going to
>unpack my tar file again and see what I get.
>Your 'tar' command has fewer tags than that in the
>kernel HOWTO, namely:
>
>`tar zxpvf linux-x.y.z.tar.gz'
>
>I probably used this HOWTO form (going from memory though).
>Maybe the 'p' and 'f' tags limit what gets unpacked.
>The manual pages mention -p and -f, but this may not be the
>same as plain 'f' and 'p'. Also, -p and -f would not seem to limit
>what gets unpacked.
The 'p' means keep the same permissions. I have neva
used this. YMMV. 'v' means verbose, it lists all the
file in the tarbol on screen. I hate it.
>On the other hand, you may be telling me to download 'rpm'
>files. I just looked briefly today for such files at the kernel ftp
>site without success. I'll look harder later.
Er, nope. I assumed you installed Mandrake from cd.
If you did, you should have the kernel source on it.
If you go to rufus (http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/),
you should find kernel-source-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm.
>I am left wondering though, why kernel version 2.2.16 had what I
>needed ('rpm' files? .. net/Config.in), but version 2.2.14 did not.
>That's why I suspect I unpacked wrong.
There are different kernel files. Check out
Rufus and you will see them.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653
In Newark the laundromats are open 24 hours a day!
4:36pm up 7 days, 19:48, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: PCI bus information access
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:50:50 GMT
In article <8kvofe$iao$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Kotchey wrote:
>I'm rather new to Linux (4 weeks) and will need to be writing a small
>program that will allow a user to query the PCI bus, choose a PCI device,
>and be able to get/alter/set the values in the configuration register(s) for
>a particular card (we'll be doing this to do some testing on a card we are
>developing).
There is already a device /proc/bus/pci/... that provides this
for programatic use, and a set of command-line utilities to go
along with it. Look for lspci and setpci.
Somewhere there's a Linux PCI mailing list you might want to
join...
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Someone is DROOLING
at on my collar!!
visi.com
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From: Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Large file support status?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:54:34 -0700
Can someone fill me in on the status of support for large files?
For reasons that are too involved to go into here, I need to
be able to treat an 8-900GB raw partition as a file, but that
size is a little above the typical 32-bit byte offset limit
for fseek and mmap...
Thanks in advance!
--
Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recommended RAID...
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:37:08 -0400
I'm getting ready to build a mail server for about 3000+ dialup cutomers,
but I haven't decided on whether to go with a webbased email server or a
POP3. I'm leaning towards the webbased, due to advertisement reasons.
My question here is what RAID towers would anyone recommend? I've worked
with RAIDs in the past, but I've forgotten what brand names were the best
and worked well with Linux... Any recommendations would be greatly
appreciated.
--
Adam
http://www.chainsawlinux.com
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From: "ldog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't restart Win98 box in DOS after Linux install
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:43:59 -0500
We have a Win98 machine and installed Redhat a few days ago. Since the
install we can't restart our computer in DOS. When you try (via 'Start' -
'Shut Down' - 'Restart computer in DOS'), the computer shuts down, but when
it comes back up, it goes nowhere. A blue box appears near the middle of
the screen, and you can carraige return, but it never actually loads DOS (or
anything for that matter).
Thought this might have something to do with LILO, so we uninstalled today
to do a partitionless install (hence no LILO - boot from floppy). We
deleted the Linux partitions and did a fdisk/mbr to clear the LILO info from
the Master Boot Record. Computer seems to be back to normal (haven't
reinstalled partitionless yet), except we still can't restart in DOS. Of
course our Win98 startup disk works, but we shouldn't need that to get into
DOS.
Any suggestions (other that reinstalling Windows)?
webCOMBO - America's Free Internet Access Provider
http://www.webcombo.net
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From: "Retro Grouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.2.16 and raid-5
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:50:20 -0500
OK, this is driving me nuts. Is raid-5 broken in the stock 2.2.16 kernel?
This is not root-raid, just plain data raid.... I am trying to compile a
stock 2.2.16 kernel, with raid-5 support.
I've tried compiling in to the kernel, modules, everything I can think of.
No matter what I do, it tells me my raid array built under RH 2.2.14 using
raidtools 0.9, is not a mirror or raid-1 array.
I've even tried to blow away the array and rebuild - no dice. tells me
that /dev/md0 is not a valid device.
/proc/mdstat has some really weird stuff in there about md0, md1 md2, and
md3.
The array comes up fine under 2.2.14.....
What's up? What am I missing? Has anyone got this working?
--Yan
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:11:48 -0400
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can't compile kernel!!
Hi,
I've just installed 2.2.16 source + the newest ide patch. I've done
make clean, make dep, and make config. Now when I do make bzdisk, I get
the following:
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -02 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
scripts/split-include scripts /split-include.c
In file included from /user/include/errno.h:36
from scripts/split-include.c:26:
/usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1
Any ideas??
Thanks
-Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: cdrecord
Date: 17 Jul 2000 22:21:12 GMT
In <8klv50$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Hiawatha Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I ask the question but I don't understand the answer.
>I still don't
>understand what commands I'm supposed to type to get cdrecord to work. You
>say try LUN0. What do I try with it? Do I add it to a command? Which one?
>What exactly am I supposed to do here? Assume I know nothing, which is
>pretty much right!
You do not say which answer you do not understand.
cdrecord -v -speed=4 -dev=3,0 filename.iso
where speed is the speed of your writer ( 4x in the above) dev is the scsi
device number of the writer (3,0 in the above) filename.iso is the iso file
which is to be placed on the cdrom ( made with mkisofs)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Which distro for newbie?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:23:04 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Sidarous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Never tried Linux before.
> Which distribution should I use?
There is no single best distribution. A lot of it's a matter of personal
preferences. For some information that may help you decide, check my web
page that compares several distributions:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: BadBoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corrupted PASSWD, SHADOW, GROUP files
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:15:38 GMT
I have inherited a web server that has been through about 5 years of
trauma. It has several hundred public_html style web sites for users,
about 100 Virtual hosts, and several thousand users. (All internet, not
used for login or anything, just for authenticating user's ftping)
Security is handled by radius on a different machine.
My goal is to move everything to a new webserver.
Here is my plan (with no solution)
PWCK flat out freaks out. Hundreds, if not a thousand or more errors.
We don't want all users to have /home/username dirs, but that seems to
be a built in requirement.
The GROUP file is a mess. Initially all users were a member of the USERS
group. Then, about a year and a half ago, each subsequent NEW user
would become a member of the username group. (fredflnt would be a member
of the fredflint group)
For ease of management, I believe I would like everyone to be a member
of ONLY the USERS group.
I would like to reconcile the PASSWD and SHADOW file with eachother.
I do have a valid and completely clean radius USERS file which contains
(only) the username, password, and other normal radius info which is
uselss for this excercise.
I could write a script (perhpas) to match up, and create a new file
containing the Real Name to go along with the useranme and passwd.
I might even get lucky and figure out how to put the required
.home.username/./html portion in their.
Has anyone ever heard of a util, script whatver, that will make this a
little more manageble and realiztic for me?
Pointers towards FAQ's, good books that go more indepth than the man
page of PWCK, would be very much appreicated. Links to the utils, or
even rough guesses where to search for such a beast would be greatly
appreciated.
Bruce Meyer
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Chumkil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SSHD won't start.
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:40:03 -0700
Huh.
As wussy as a thing it is to do with Linux, I rebooted the server...
Now SSH works....
Bob Hauck wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:37:49 -0700, Chumkil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Jul 17 10:17:42 chumkil sshd[6564]: fatal: Cannot bind any address.
> >Jul 17 10:17:42 chumkil sshd: sshd startup succeeded
> >Jul 17 10:18:17 chumkil sshd[6582]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0
> >failed: Address already in use.
>
> Something is already using port 22. Maybe another sshd? Maybe some
> custom program?
>
> --
> -| Bob Hauck
> -| Codem Systems, Inc.
> -| http://www.codem.com/
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From: Dmitri V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: screensaver or similar generating problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:33:46 +0000
Fernando wrote:
>
> Ok,
>
> This is the scenario. A Linux RedHat 6.1 running an application
> started from the inittab as with the command: xinit my_application
> I am not using a PC keyboard (actually there is no keyboard connected)
> After some minutes, the screen is switched off and there is no way to
> recover it (since I have no keyboard to "press any key").
> I am becoming crazy because I cannot find what is switching off the
> screen.
> Any ideas ?
Well, have you tried connecting mouse and moving it a little bit?
HTH
Dmitri
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Cannot write into a read only file ?????
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Jul 2000 17:52:18 -0500
In article <8kva2b$t16$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>' Cannot write into a read only file '
>...
>chown -R root.capatin /home/myfiles/
>...
>' Cannot write into a read only file '
>...
>5. I did check with the attribute for my files from Windows98 and all
>are set to +A
It's been a long time since I used Samba. But I suspect the problems
you're having are Samba "access permissions", not Linux filesystem
permissions. You need to look at your Samba configuration files.
PS, the "A" attribute in Win98 is the "archive" attribute, not having
to do with access.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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Subject: Re: Loading Windows
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:00:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
' Hi Everyone! I want to install Linux on my current Win98 system without
' doing an fdisk, coz I have some importatnt documents on it.Can anyone
' tell me how to accomplish this task.
Buy another disk for Linux. That's what I did when I got started.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
The problem with AI is that it has a mind of its own
--- Devon Miller
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