Linux-Misc Digest #163, Volume #25 Tue, 18 Jul 00 00:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: 2.2.16 and raid-5 (Mike Frisch)
Re: Hard Linux Crash (blowfish)
Re: Password for Postgresql ?? (blowfish)
Re: What's the best linux software for cloning audio CD's? (blowfish)
Serial port printer - flashing light on LaserWriter (justin)
Re: Problem with a Maxtor 40Gb drive (blowfish)
Re: strip chart recorder for sound? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: squid configuration ("Andy")
Re: SSHD won't start. (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: mpeg capture from video capture card (blowfish)
Re: logging DNS/web access (blowfish)
netcg problem - says no DISPLAY env var (Tom)
Re: Loading Windows ("Michael Westerman")
Linux Friendly DSL ISPs (Hal Burgiss)
Re: How to get pop3 Mail in 'pine'? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Hard Linux Crash (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Loading Windows (Mary P)
Re: netcg problem - says no DISPLAY env var (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Hard Linux Crash (Stewart Honsberger)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: 2.2.16 and raid-5
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 02:22:18 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:50:20 -0500, Retro Grouch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?
The RedHat kernel distribution contains later RAID patches than the stock
kernel distribution, which explains why you're running into this
problem. Either use the RedHat kernel or obtain the latest RAID patches
for 2.2.16 (assuming they exist) and patch it yourself.
Hope this helps,
Mike.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: Hard Linux Crash
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:46:07 -0700
John Smith wrote:
>
> Get a UPS and reinstall Linux
>
And install Frasier(?spelling?) File System instead of ext2fs.
-blowfish
> "Charlie Pritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a serious problem with my Red Hat 6.0 Linux. I was using Gnome
> > last night, when the power flickered and my computer rebooted. When it
> came
> > back on, Linux would not complete the boot process. The last message shown
> > was "Freeing unused kernel mem: 60K freed" then it stopped. I am new to
> > linux and do not know what to do now. Please send me some suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charlie Pritt
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: Password for Postgresql ??
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:49:32 -0700
"Denis L. Menezes" wrote:
>
> Hello friends.
>
> When I start the postgresql, it asks for a password. What is the password?
>
> Thanks
>
> Denis
It's in the man page. I believe.
-blowfish.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: What's the best linux software for cloning audio CD's?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:52:42 -0700
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:04:18 GMT, Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Which version? I have xcdroast 96ex and I don't think it uses
> >cdparanoia.
>
> I believe you can force Xcdroast to use cdparanoia. However, I can't
> remember how you would go about doing that--it's in the Xcdroast docs...
> Ah, there it is. "xcdroast --use-cdparanoia". Of course, you have to
> have cdparanoia available in your $PATH. HTH,
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> "Man could not look too long into the face of the Computer or her
> children and still remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did they become
> as Gods, or as Usenetters?" --Matt G
Get Krabber. It uses cdparanoia, cdrecord, lame, bladeenc, gogo, mp3enc,
and a bunch of others.
It's a freeware from Germany.
-blowfish.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (justin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Serial port printer - flashing light on LaserWriter
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 02:53:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the best way to permanently setup the serial port for an Apple
LaserWriter Pro 600 on a Linux system?
I'm using CUPS 1.1 for my print environment. I can print, but the
Ready/In_Use light continues to flash endlessly. This also prevents me
from sending jobs from my Windoze PC on the parallel port. Strangely,
if I send a Linux job, and then inspect the port using stty, the
printer light stops flashing and I can again send jobs from the
parallel port (whatever's causing the flashing doesn't prevent jobs
from RedHat 6.2). But another job from Linux results in flashing
again.
According to Apple, this LW will auto-switch from all three ports
(LocalTalk, Parallel, and serial)
A CUPS author suggested I edit the PPD file, but I don't agree -- the
last page of the job is printed, unlike where an EOF is needed when
the last page never doesn't eject.
Here's the output from stty (below). I'm not sure if I should try
CTS/RTS over XON/XOFF (the print docs don't list CTS/RTS, instead they
list ETX/ACK -- is that the same?).
Should I be attacking this at the PPD vs the serial port config?
Also, I would be using netatalk instead, except that I can't see the
printer through my LocalTalk bridge; and I definitly had netatalk
setup correctly -- I could see my Mac and it's shared printer, so I
beleive it was a problem with zones or phase1 vs phase2, ... (?)
Anyway, here's what happens. Any clues?
Thanx
Justin--
=====================================
Print something from Linux...
(Ready/In_Use light begins flashing, page prints,
light continues to flash...)
# stty < /dev/ttyS1
speed 19200 baud; line = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel
(Ready/In_Use light still flashing)
# lpr /etc/hosts
(Ready/In_Use light still flashing)
# lpq
lw600 is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total
Size
active root 31 hosts 1024
bytes
(page prints fine)
(Ready/In_Use light still flashing)
# lpq
lw600 is ready
no entries
(Ready/In_Use light still flashing)
# stty < /dev/ttyS1
speed 19200 baud; line = 0;
min = 1; time = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel
-isig -icanon -echo
(Ready/In_Use stops flashing)
(can send a job from Windoze)
(send a single job from Windozes or Linux)
(Ready/In_Use light remains flashing again)
...Repeat process... (sometimes -- other times I can't get the
flashing to stop at all until some timeout occurs, the jobs spill out,
and then I can halt the flashing with the stty command)
=====================================
To reply, remove: REMOVE.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: Problem with a Maxtor 40Gb drive
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:56:42 -0700
Tim Lyth wrote:
>
> The problem lies in the fact that the boot partition must be in the first 1024
> sectors (I think, or at the start of the drive at least) of the hard drive or
> else it won't be possible to boot from it unless you play around with (edit) the
> LILO config file which you need to be in linux to edit, so you can't edit it.
>
Or get the newest lilo.
No more 1024cylinders limit.
-blowfish
> Cheers,
>
> Tim Lyth
>
> Bertrand Sirodot wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tried to install RedHat 6.2 on my PC at home and I am running
> > into some kind of problem with my hard disk. No matter what size I
> > allocated to the /boot partition it always fails to allocate the
> > partition due to "boot partition too big". I have tried all sizes for
> > the boot partition down to 8Mg and no joy. The disk is an IDE Maxtor
> > 40Gb - I also have Win98 Second Edition installed on this system.
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Bertrand.
> > --
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: strip chart recorder for sound?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 02:58:26 GMT
I found the answer. I use the linux driver for winradio
(www.linradio.com) and pump it into my sb pro 16, yarec to record (sox rec
doesnt have a timer function), sox to convert to DAT, then some perl to
parse the headers a bit, then gnuplot to throw up a graph. It works well.
I also found the wplot function in the wavetools package, but its not
sensitive enough for the signals I'm receiving (its darn fast though!).
You can see how it all came together to record a solar flare today at
http://www.theendoftheworld.org/flare/july17.html
Thanks to anyone who e-mailed me suggestions.
Aaron Price, Technical Assistant, UNIX, CGI.
American Association of Variable Star Observers
http://www.aavso.org
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From: "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: squid configuration
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 04:13:29 +0100
FYI Squid can be either or both.....
--
Andy
Host/Webmaster to http://www.pal.mine.nu
PAL the Public Access Linux Project
ICQ - 68402991
M. Brio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:aCDc5.401487$k22.1767664@flipper...
> squid is not a program that makes a connection to between internet and
> network (though I thought that also at first). Squid is a cache program,
it
> does the same as "Temporary internet files" does for IE. You should try to
> connect to the internet and network with 'linuxconf' (under Xwindows), for
> more info see ethernet-howto. If this works you can add a cache for
> web-pages.
>
> Mark Brio
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> 8kupd2$gbu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Hello all
> >
> > I have been using Microsoft Proxy server to connect my existing Lan to
> > Internet.
> >
> > Now i want to switch to Linux. I tried squid to connect to internet,
> > but it is not working. I am using RH6.2
> >
> > Where can i get a stuff on topics like " How to connect Network to
> > internet by using Linux proxies (Squid or apache etc.).I come across
> > various topics but all i found complex and confussing.
> > Can anyone suggest step-by-step methos availble on web.Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Subject: Re: SSHD won't start.
Date: 18 Jul 2000 03:16:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chumkil wrote:
>Huh.
>As wussy as a thing it is to do with Linux, I rebooted the server...
>Now SSH works....
Actually, I once had a similar problem - but with the original ssh.
A kill -HUP would give the same error messages (bind .... port already
in use ... etc.)
I tried to kill every possible ssh(d) and whatnot.
I decided that some kernel internals were screwed and rebooted.
I also do hate to reboot a linux box. And usually I can restart
sshd on that same machine without problems.
Andreas
--
Andreas Schweitzer
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: mpeg capture from video capture card
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:24:13 -0700
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> > > Do you know an existing program (with sources) wich capture video from a
> > > video capture card (bt chips) and save it in mpeg or quicktime format.
> > > Without using Xwindows.
>
> > broadcast2000.
>
> Broacast2000 *uses* X. Not what he asked for. Other than that, though,
> it's a really neat program.
Sorry, My fault. :P
Forgot about that because my Linux box runs X and KDE.
Yes, broadcast 2000 is really neat.
Try it with multi SMP clusters. You'll love it.
-blowfish
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: logging DNS/web access
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:34:00 -0700
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> Shawn Button <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : does anyone know how to log web page requests from internal clients?
> : Upper management wants a running log of what pages are requested from
> : our clinet machines. Redhat 6.1 is our gateway/NAT machine. Any advice
> : would be appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Pass all requests through squid as a proxy and look at the graphs
> generated (if I understand you correctly ... it's not clear if you're
> asking about accesses to your server or to other servers).
>
> Peter
I *don't* think you can get an accurate figure from Squids. Squids is a
caching proxy, therefore , pages are send out from cache, and not the
actual hit on the httpd.
You *can* actually shut down your back end server if you have a large
enough cache in Squids, and all of the pages have been requested before,
and you haven't killed the cache. Pages will still be available for
access as long as the pages stayed in the cache alive.
There're several web logging utilities available. Check out freshmeat
for a run down, and see what you like.
-blowfish.
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netcg problem - says no DISPLAY env var
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:45:56 -0500
All:
I just setup a new Redhat Linux 6.1 box, and I've been trying to run
netcfg so I can get it hooked up to my ISP. But I get an error
message. When I run netcfg I get about 13 lines of error desc, the
first 12 of which state line numbers in different files. The last one
says:
"TclError: no dsiplay name and no $DISPLAY environment variable"
I saw a reference on the redhat site to the DISPLAY variable. As
recommended I set it to (substituting my machine's name where it
says myhost):
DISPLAY=myhost:0.0
But I still get the error message when I run netcfg. What am I
doing wrong? Please advise.
Thanks, Tom
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Loading Windows
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:39:07 +1000
use a linux installation that installs on to a dos (fat 12/16/32) partition.
such as caldera and mabey even redhat 6.2 plus possibly other distros.
check there docs on how to achieve this.
look at linux.org for distributions that may support this.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8kvfp8$1uc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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.
>
> TIA
> Vishal
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Linux Friendly DSL ISPs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:47:38 GMT
I am working on putting together a list of Linux friendly xDSL ISPs. By
'friendly', I mean not openly hostile. No hassles or hoop jumping during
pre-install or installation. Ethernet modem _must_ be an option. Tech
support should at least assist with line and modem problems, and not
come on with 'well we don't support Linux, so sorry'. Also would be
interested to know:
Static IP available?
PPPoX?
Server policy?
Timeouts or session limits (intentional ;)?
Bandwidth usage metered per month?
LAN/NAT supported?
Self install available?
And any other significant details or comments. If this is a local or regional
ISP, coverage area would be good to know also. If not obvious, a URL is good
too.
Feel free to email me at the Bellsouth address.
If interested: http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: How to get pop3 Mail in 'pine'?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:56:53 GMT
On 16 Jul 2000 13:42:50 GMT, Edwin Johnson wrote:
>Another alternative is getpop3, which I've been using for several years. It
>is a little easier to configure, perhaps, than fetchmail and has been
>reported faster.
Never heard of it. Do you have a URL I could check for it? I couldn't find
it on Linuxberg, where I've thus far found 99% of my Linux software.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Hard Linux Crash
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:59:54 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:46:07 -0700, blowfish wrote:
>> Get a UPS and reinstall Linux
>>
>And install Frasier(?spelling?) File System instead of ext2fs.
ReiserFS.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: Loading Windows
Date: 18 Jul 2000 03:52:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:29:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>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.
Be sure you have plenty of space on your hard disk (you
didn't say how big it is). After defragmenting, I tried
installing Linux along
with Win95 and it left Win95 with so little space it
would load, but not really run. This was on a 1-gig HD, which
of course is smallish, but be careful.
MP
--
"If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very
important gods."
--Arthur C. Clarke
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V
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Subject: Re: netcg problem - says no DISPLAY env var
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 04:02:03 GMT
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> All:
> I just setup a new Redhat Linux 6.1 box, and I've been trying to run
> netcfg so I can get it hooked up to my ISP. But I get an error
> message. When I run netcfg I get about 13 lines of error desc, the
> first 12 of which state line numbers in different files. The last one
> says:
> "TclError: no dsiplay name and no $DISPLAY environment variable"
>
> I saw a reference on the redhat site to the DISPLAY variable. As
> recommended I set it to (substituting my machine's name where it
> says myhost):
> DISPLAY=myhost:0.0
>
> But I still get the error message when I run netcfg. What am I
> doing wrong? Please advise.
> Thanks, Tom
Make sure you are running X Windows (obviously!) and if you 'su' to
root, don't do it as 'su -' because that doesn't transfer the DISPLAY
setting. You can also do 'xhost myhost' if that fails.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Hard Linux Crash
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 04:03:18 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:19:25 -0700, John Smith wrote:
Netiquette states that you should trim your quotes, put your response after
the quote (the English language is read left to right, top to bottom), and
give an informative answer. Your response was derrogatory, curt, and likely
has helped to turn this person away from Linux.
>> I have a serious problem with my Red Hat 6.0 Linux. I was using Gnome
>> last night, when the power flickered and my computer rebooted. When it
>came
>> back on, Linux would not complete the boot process. The last message shown
>> was "Freeing unused kernel mem: 60K freed" then it stopped. I am new to
>> linux and do not know what to do now. Please send me some suggestions.
>Get a UPS and reinstall Linux
While I may not know the answer, I highly doubt that is it. A more
appropriate answer could have gone something along the lines of;
Do you have an alternate kernel you could try booting from?
Do you have a rescue disk? I know that the (bootable) SuSE CDROMs come
with a rescue system boot option, which can be used to e2fsck your
partitions individually, and also come with a "Boot Installed System"
option which one could use to boot long enough to compile a new kernel
(in the event that the existing kernel was somehow damaged).
Next time you feel the urge to open your yap and help somebody, try to
suppress it, hunh?
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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