Linux-Misc Digest #175, Volume #25 Wed, 19 Jul 00 00:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: SQUID ... s-l-o-o-o-o-o-w! (Tom Williams)
Re: capture screen output during booting ("knos")
Re: Learning RH Linux in Depth ?? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: How to change runlevel at boot time ? ("knos")
Re: is there a port to windows media player? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: slackware (Hexdump)
Re: Learning RH Linux in Depth ?? ("David ..")
Re: inittab ("Andrew Kenna")
audio on cdrom? (Potter Wickware)
Logging with timestamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hard Linux Crash ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: help me keep my interest in linux ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: Use "force" with rpm? (bullwinkle)
NYC LOCAL: NYLUG Meeting Wednesday 19 July 2000: Will Roseman of Linux Global
Partners reports from the front ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux mandrake 7.1 installation error?!? help! ("psychoholic1213")
su problem (Rick Roberts)
Re: audio on cdrom? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: audio on cdrom? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Best free VCD player ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SQUID ... s-l-o-o-o-o-o-w!
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:58:02 GMT
In article <pCZc5.19058$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Micromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed the latest caching proxy-server "squid" STABLE
version from
> www.squid-cache.org and have it up and running. I've configured it to
permit
> all http access so that a client can access any web sites. Am running
Linux
> RedHat 6.0 using pppd to connect to a dial-up ISP on a 56k external
USR
> modem (ttyS1) that probably gets 33k at best of times. For the client
I am
> running NT 4.0.
>
> PROBLEM: Even though I can occasionally get certain web pages others
wait
> for a very long time and then return a "connection timeout" (this
error
> message is sent to the client from squid) at the client. Other times I
wait
> a long time and eventually - clunk - the web page fills in.
Occasionally if
> I press F5 to refresh it helps. Usually nothing helps. Yet many pages
do
> fill in normally. Some pages that never fill in can be pinged
successfully
> directly at the Linux box, and if I reboot the Linux box and choose NT
> Workstation (on the same box, with the same modem) I can connect to
the ISP
> and browse all sites successfully.
>
> I have tried various squid options with no luck so far. I can request
a page
> and if it is going to time out I can simultaneously observe from the
lights
> on my modem that squid is doing nothing at all, (when squid does
return a
> page I will immediately see steady activity on the modem).
>
> I have checked out various threads on the web and find a large number
of
> posts indicating that squid is often very slow and needs tuning. I
find a
> few posts that claim squid needs no tuning at all.
>
> Is anyone familiar with this package? Does anyone have any tips or
> suggestions for isolating the problem? It works, but not good enough
to use
> in practice. Can anyone point me to links or threads that might be
useful?
> Thanks.
>
> Micromans
>
>
You should join the Squid mailing list and you will get your questions
answered there. The list is accessbile from here:
http://www.squid-cache.org/mailing-lists.html
There is also an archive you can search.
Good luck!
Peace....
Tom
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Before you buy.
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From: "knos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: capture screen output during booting
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:10:58 GMT
i think you want the log during boot rite?
use dmesg | more
"mikey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
news:8l19ll$d06$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to capture screen output from the kernel during
> booting ??
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: Learning RH Linux in Depth ??
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:11:15 GMT
"Benson Lei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) The LVS system is built-in during the installation, I do not how to use
> it ??
Try looking at http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org
Vilmos
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From: "knos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: How to change runlevel at boot time ?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:12:40 GMT
vi your /etc/inittab
after all the comment
find the line id:5:initdefault:
and change it to your desire level
"mikey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
news:8l12qn$8cl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to change run level at boot time. Normally it defaults to 5.
But
> sometimes I don't want xdm. (say there is a prob with my xconfig etc.) I
read
> all relevant HOWTOS, and found nothing. I thought I should be able to pass
it
> to the kernel from lilo ?
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: is there a port to windows media player?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:29:43 GMT
On 19 Jul 2000 00:28:03 GMT, Dave Blake wrote:
>> He only said that there are plenty of .asp only sources. I
>> offered him an alternative. Since Microsoft isn't being very
>> forthcoming in offering either a port of their product or the
>> structs of their format, I'd just as soon abandon it completely
>> in favour of something more open.
>
>http://wmformatsdk.smdisp.net/rtm/
>
>This is the media format software developer kit, of course a
>Windows Executable. But it should provide adequate descriptions
>of the media for the willing.
What format? Microsoft's .ASF format? From what I'd understood, they hadn't
released the specs.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hexdump)
Subject: Re: slackware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:33:45 GMT
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:46:37 GMT, shawn wrote:
>hello everyone
> my friend stated that he first learned all about linux and the
>like using slackware 2.x on a 386, so im thinking
> that since im getting a couple 486's pretty soon ill put slack ( or
>some other 'flavor' ) on it and just destroy. and hack around. buy
>mostly destroy it,
> since thats the best way to learn. anyways my main question is this:
>does anyone think this is a good idea, or did anyone learn like this,
>and also which flavor should i use (keep in mind this will be just a
>hackaround machine - probably wont connect it to the web and definately
>wont run X on it, so...) thanks
>
>shawn
>
Slackware is excellent for this. It doesn't hide anything with gui
applications. This is the system I use and I learned it exactly as
you describe above. I've also tried RedHat and found that it wasn't to my
liking. Slackware will definitely fulfill your needs.
Hexdump
--
Having a wonderful wine, wish you were beer.
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Learning RH Linux in Depth ??
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:35:39 -0500
Benson Lei wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Every time, when a new RH Linux is issued, I always can not find its user
>
> manuals, even
>
> I buy the original package. So I can not learn or know the new features.
>
> E.g. in RH Linux V6.2
>
> 1) The LVS system is built-in during the installation, I do not how to use
>
> it ??
>
> 2) Apache V1.3.12, the httpd.conf are already including, access.conf ....
>
> , the httpd.conf is
>
> different, but I do not know what is the difference ??
>
> Can anyone tell me how to find such manuals ???
>
> Thank you.
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/documentation.html
http://www.apache.org/httpd.html
--
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ID # 123538
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From: "Andrew Kenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.*,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: inittab
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:55:40 +1000
get rid of what is in the <> signs in the bellow command line and then run
init Q again and all will be fine
Regards
Andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ie i notice you have > id:3:initdefault<:>
Dan Tripp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3974014e$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Here's my line in /etc/inittab for the default :-
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> Which looks fine and normal to me - however my system is not booting into
> runlevel 3, it's booting past there and into runlevel 5 - which I don't
> want - I don't want X (unless I run it manually via startx). Does anyone
> know why my system is (or seems to be) ignoring /etc/inittab?
>
> I had originally assumed that somehow the display manager (kdm in my case)
> was being started in runlevel 3, however when I type "runlevel" the
> response is :-
> [\u@\h \W]$ runlevel
>
> # 5
>
> Whether I manually modify the file, or whether I let linuxconf do it, it
> makes no difference, whether the initdefault line in /etc/inittab is 3 or
5,
> it starts up in 5 regardless. My system is Redhat 6.0, running on dual
P54
> 166 with 128 MB RAM.
>
> Following is the complete contents of my /etc/inittab :-
>
> # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
> # the system in a certain run-level.
>
> # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
>
>
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> # 1 - Single user mode
> # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
networking)
> # 3 - Full multiuser mode
> # 4 - unused
> # 5 - X11
> # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> # System initialization.
> si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>
> l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
> l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
> l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
> l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
>
> # Things to run in every runlevel.
> ud::once:/sbin/update
>
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
>
> # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
> # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
> # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
> # UPS connected and working correctly.
> pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting
Down"
>
> # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
> pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown
Cancelled"
>
>
> # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
>
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> # xdm is now a separate service
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
>
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From: Potter Wickware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: audio on cdrom?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:55:00 GMT
Hi all --
OK, so I've got Redhat 6 installed & running. Now how do I make the CD
player play music? I've used the mount -a command and the CDROM makes
the expected mechanical noises, and the CD player utility registers
tracks & play time, etc., but no music comes out. Sound card works fine
when the machine is booted on the win OS.
I've read the HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html,
but I'm still scratching my head.
Any ideas?
Thanks for all help,
Potter
============================================
Potter Wickware
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Logging with timestamp
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:49:26 GMT
Hi,
Is there any way to log when, which and by whom commands were issued?
Cheers,
Chris
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Before you buy.
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Linux Crash
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:58:02 -0400
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>
> On 18 Jul 2000 12:02:39 GMT, Peter T. Breuer 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
> >
> >Well, I thought his response was amusing, on the money, and witty to
> >boot.
>
> {sigh} People wonder why Usenet carries a bad name.
Because you post here???
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help me keep my interest in linux
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:58:16 -0400
tvn wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I got linux installed on both of my computers ..... 've been messing around
> with it for several weeks. Now I am getting bored. I am preparing to get 2
> nics to network them together. Please help (or direct) me on the next step
> to configure these 2 nics to linux.
If you're getting bored then why are you even bothering? Either linux
will interest you and keep your ineterst or it won't.
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Use "force" with rpm?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 03:30:05 GMT
Mike Fontenot wrote:
>
>
> I've been told that (in order to get my ATAPI EIDE
> tape drive (/dev/ht0) to work properly), I need to
> update my kernel from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16. I was told
> to download an rpm from SuSE called "k_eide.rpm".
>
> When I did an "rpm -U k_eide.rpm", it listed four
> conflicts (involving vmlinuz, vmlinuz.autoconf.h,
> vmlinuz.config, and vmlinuz.version.h).
>
> Should I use "--force" when I do the rpm?
>
What troulbe do you get trying to add the ATAPI tape drive?
I had no trouble adding the HP Colorado 20M ATAPI EIDE tape drive
to a system running RedHat 6.1 (2.2.12-20). I suspect your trouble
may not with the kernel. I would think that SuSE would have no trouble
when adding that drive using kernel 2.2.14.
> Mike Fontenot
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NYC LOCAL: NYLUG Meeting Wednesday 19 July 2000: Will Roseman of Linux Global
Partners reports from the front
Date: 18 Jul 2000 23:32:26 -0400
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This meeting is free and open to the public.
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From: "psychoholic1213" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux mandrake 7.1 installation error?!? help!
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:34:06 -0400
i downloaded linux mandrake 7.1 on my fat32 partition...and tried installing
it. i selected expert install, and made it all the way to the Install
Bootloader step. it gave an error like "cannot be used as a HASH
reference"...then it gave me the error "installation of LILO failed due to
the following errors: "...and it didn't tell me what errors it was due
to...HELP!!!
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From: Rick Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: su problem
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:46:05 -0400
I can no longer use su to become root. When I execute su I get the
following error:
su: can't resolve symbol '__argz_stringify'
Anyone ever seen this before?
Registered Linux User #180882
http://counter.li.org
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Subject: Re: audio on cdrom?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 03:45:56 GMT
Potter Wickware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all --
>
> OK, so I've got Redhat 6 installed & running. Now how do I make the CD
> player play music? I've used the mount -a command and the CDROM makes
> the expected mechanical noises, and the CD player utility registers
> tracks & play time, etc., but no music comes out. Sound card works fine
> when the machine is booted on the win OS.
<snip>
You need some kind of music cd playing program. There are a few that
come with Red Hat Linux.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: audio on cdrom?
Date: 19 Jul 2000 11:52:02 +0800
>
> audio on cdrom?
>
> From: Potter Wickware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply to: Potter Wickware
> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:55:00 GMT
> Organization: AT&T Worldnet
> Newsgroups:
> comp.os.linux.misc
> Followup to: newsgroup(s)
>
>Hi all --
>
>OK, so I've got Redhat 6 installed & running. Now how do I make the CD
>player play music? I've used the mount -a command and the CDROM makes
>the expected mechanical noises, and the CD player utility registers
>tracks & play time, etc., but no music comes out. Sound card works fine
>when the machine is booted on the win OS.
>
>I've read the HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html,
>but I'm still scratching my head.
>
>Any ideas?
Probably, you have not set up your sound card correctly.
>
>Thanks for all help,
>
>Potter
>
>============================================
>Potter Wickware
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>============================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Best free VCD player
Date: 19 Jul 2000 11:56:20 +0800
Any idea for the best free VCD player ?
I used xreadvcd to play the VCD CDROM. It is good but cannot play VCD from a *.dat
file.
Also, I used vcdkutter to cut part of the VCD image from a VCD file.
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