Linux-Misc Digest #194, Volume #25 Fri, 21 Jul 00 08:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Problem with missing RAM ("Frank James Wilson")
What is opening these ports? (Fester)
Re: Problem with missing RAM (savo)
Re: Help on tar.gz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What is opening these ports? ("Frank James Wilson")
Re: non-English letters in xterm (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: What is opening these ports? (Fester)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: audio on cdrom? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Copying files without changing the timestamp? (Bernd Eggink)
PCMCIA probs after reboot from Win9 (Bernd Eggink)
Re: getting software (Rasputin)
Re: How to resize Linux Screen? (Rasputin)
Re: color in emacs (Mathieu =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dub=E9=2DDallaire?=)
Re: What is opening these ports? (Mathieu =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dub=E9=2DDallaire?=)
Software for panorama pictures? (Jonte Myra)
Re: hdparm, tips, tricks and config recommendations wanted (Eric B)
Re: mke2fs problem - Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up
superblock ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: Video Capture cards ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: Network Neighborhood for Linux (Dances With Crows)
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From: "Frank James Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with missing RAM
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:37:59 +0200
I've just installed SlackWare 2.2.16 on my brand new DualPIII i800Mhz
machine.
I also installed a nice 396mb of ram, however on 64mb show up?
I heard someone mention something about Lilo having something to do with
this, and
that I should look at the lilo config, but so far I havn't been able to make
sense of this..
So, suggestions on how to remove my missing memory is great appreciated!!
best regards,
Frank James Wilson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: What is opening these ports?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:44:07 GMT
(Distrib: RedHat 6.0)
There are some mysterious ports open on my computer. An nmap readout goes
something like this:
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
Port State Protocol Service
21 open tcp ftp
23 open tcp telnet
80 open tcp http
111 open tcp sunrpc
1460 open tcp proshare2
3333 open tcp dec-notes
6000 open tcp X11
Okay, I want to run ftp, telnet, and http.
What on earth are "sunrpc", "proshare2" and "dec-notes"? And how can I
turn them off?
Also, is it possible to close port 6000 (X11) and still run X?
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-- Fester
White Text on Black since 1999.
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From: savo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with missing RAM
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:46:30 GMT
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the thing with RAM is that there is a funny way
the BIOS reports how much ram there is to the OS.
And liux only sees 64, what you can do is type the
name of the boot image (usualy linux) and mem=396M
i think slackware calls theirs mount, i'm not sure.
and you can add a line to /etc/lilo.conf called append
here is a sample from mine
image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
append=" mem=396M"
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Frank James Wilson wrote:
> I've just installed SlackWare 2.2.16 on my brand new DualPIII i800Mhz
> machine.
> I also installed a nice 396mb of ram, however on 64mb show up?
> I heard someone mention something about Lilo having something to do with
> this, and
> that I should look at the lilo config, but so far I havn't been able to make
> sense of this..
>
> So, suggestions on how to remove my missing memory is great appreciated!!
>
> best regards,
>
> Frank James Wilson
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the thing with RAM is that there is a funny way
<br>the BIOS reports how much ram there is to the OS.
<br>And liux only sees 64, what you can do is type the
<br>name of the boot image (usualy linux) and mem=396M
<br>i think slackware calls theirs mount, i'm not sure.
<br>and you can add a line to /etc/lilo.conf called append
<p>here is a sample from mine
<p>image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
<br> label=linux
<br> root=/dev/hda2
<br><b><font size=+1> append="
mem=396M"</font></b><font size=+1></font>
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<p>Frank James Wilson wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I've just installed SlackWare 2.2.16 on my brand
new DualPIII i800Mhz
<br>machine.
<br>I also installed a nice 396mb of ram, however on 64mb show up?
<br>I heard someone mention something about Lilo having something to do
with
<br>this, and
<br>that I should look at the lilo config, but so far I havn't been able
to make
<br>sense of this..
<p>So, suggestions on how to remove my missing memory is great appreciated!!
<p>best regards,
<p>Frank James Wilson</blockquote>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.misc,linux.help,alt.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Help on tar.gz
Date: 21 Jul 2000 09:49:33 GMT
No,
Unpack somewhere like you home area, or /usr/src or /usr/local/src.
Most applications that use configure will put the FINAL files and
executables in /usr/local/bin, usr/local/man, etc. when you do the
"make install." You don't want to clutter up this area with sources.
Sorry if this wasn't clear,
Chris
In alt.linux Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: So i should unpack in /usr/locaL?
:> What errors are you getting?
:>
:> My guess is that you aren't doing the install step as root.
:>
:> configure usually is set up to want to install to /usr/local (which I prefer)
:> or /usr. You need to be root to write to these areas. You can just be
:> yourself up to the "make install" step. Then su (or sudo, if installed) to
:> root, and finish the installation.
:>
:> Another possibility is you don't have your build environment set up right
:> (missing headers or compilers). Without seeing the errors you are getting I
:> couldn't guess though.
:>
:> hth,
:> Chris
:>
:> In alt.linux Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : I tried to install a few software with extension tar.gz, I follow the
:> : instruction lthings like ./configure and install etc...
:> : Most of them don't get to install.
:> : Do I have to unpack these files to a speciify directory??
:>
:> : Thank you
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From: "Frank James Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is opening these ports?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:00:38 +0200
Hi fester,
most services can turn on/off my editing your /etc/inetd.conf file
For example, if you want to turn of pop3 service, just put a hash
sign in front of it.
Like so:
# pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
However there are services that are not located in the inetd.conf file,
and may be started with other
You can grep looking for the proccess, sunrpc on your local machine, by
logging in as root, then do a :
ps ax|grep sunrpc
Just replace sunrpc with the proccess you wanna locate.
Get the PID number, and just do a kill -9 <PID>
I not sure what that is, but I think it's a propretary sun protocol.
I found a uncompiled libary of it on my server, under the protocol section
so I'm
guess that's what it's gotta be.
best regards,
Frank James Wilson
"Fester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> (Distrib: RedHat 6.0)
>
> There are some mysterious ports open on my computer. An nmap readout goes
> something like this:
>
> Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
> Port State Protocol Service
> 21 open tcp ftp
> 23 open tcp telnet
> 80 open tcp http
> 111 open tcp sunrpc
> 1460 open tcp proshare2
> 3333 open tcp dec-notes
> 6000 open tcp X11
>
> Okay, I want to run ftp, telnet, and http.
>
> What on earth are "sunrpc", "proshare2" and "dec-notes"? And how can I
> turn them off?
>
> Also, is it possible to close port 6000 (X11) and still run X?
>
> --
> -- Fester
>
> White Text on Black since 1999.
> =================================
>
>
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: non-English letters in xterm
Date: 21 Jul 2000 10:58:36 +0200
Oystein Viggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I now have the ��� keys on the keyboard working directly, so I don't need
> > any other key. But I do get alt + d = � in the shell, which I would like to
> > have as word-delete, which I think is the default for the readline library
> > used by bash. Any hint on how to have it back?
>
> Try commenting out the "set convert-meta off" part.
It does not work... I still get alt+d = � and, for example, alt+k = � instead
of kill-line-to-end...
Thanks for the suggestion,
Stefano
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: Re: What is opening these ports?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:05:24 GMT
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:00:38 +0200, Frank James Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi fester,
>
>most services can turn on/off my editing your /etc/inetd.conf file
>For example, if you want to turn of pop3 service, just put a hash
>sign in front of it.
>
>Like so:
>
># pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
Yep, that's how I turned most everything else off. Only things left
uncommented in inetd.conf are telnet and ftp. And I did send inetd the
SIGHUP signal to refresh it's config.
>
>However there are services that are not located in the inetd.conf file,
>and may be started with other
>
>You can grep looking for the proccess, sunrpc on your local machine, by
>logging in as root, then do a :
>
>ps ax|grep sunrpc
I've been scouring the process lists to no avail. Nothing even close to
"sunrpc" is the name of a process. The above command only returns itself
("grep sunrpc")
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-- Fester
White Text on Black since 1999.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:11:18 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
>> Yawn.
>>
>> 6:27pm up 445 day(s), 18:47, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.20, 0.18
> Well that's just posing ;-)
It is overdoing it a bit...
2 days should be enough to impress the average windoze user...
:)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: audio on cdrom?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:13:07 +0100
Mary P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> since nobody else has offered any suggestions,
What ARE you on? There're 8 articles in this thread offering suggestions!
have you checked all the
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From: Bernd Eggink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copying files without changing the timestamp?
Date: 21 Jul 2000 10:57:45 GMT
Thaddeus L Olczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can you copy stuff from one folder to another without changing the
> timestamp?
> I need this for two reasons:
> 1) I want to backup and restore directories by hand ( specifically I
> want to copy over the some directories by hand, reinstall linux from
> scratch, then recopy those files, some of which are scm files so
> timestamp is important ).
> 2) I want to compile a large library on one computer ( which has a
> large hd), then copy stuff over to other computers which don't have
> as much storage ( after i remove intermediate files and unneeded files
> ). Part of this involves not mucking up the timestamp.
"cp -a" ior "cp -dpR" preserves as much attributes as
possible, such as timestamp, owner, permissions etc.
Regards,
Bernd
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Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg
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From: Bernd Eggink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA probs after reboot from Win9
Date: 21 Jul 2000 11:10:26 GMT
Hi,
whenever I reboot my notebook from Win98 to Linux, the
PCMCIA ethernet card (EZ PC Card 10) won't come up. I have
to power the machine down and up again in order to get it
working. A arm reboot from Linux to Linux works. Looks like
Win leaves the card in a state the Linux driver can't
handle.
Any ideas how to correct this?
Thanks,
Bernd
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Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: getting software
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:15:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You're safe for two reasons:
>
>1. Anyone who designs trojans would want them to work on as many
>computers as possible. And since most computers use Windows, they
>would write the trojan for Windows, makng it incompatible with Linux.
As the number of Linux users grows , this argument sounds
less and less convincing. I feel safe because I'm empowered
by linux, not because I am too small for the script kiddies to see.
>That is why no Linux users were hurt by the Love Bug virus.
Well , that and the fact that MTAs on Linux aren't totally
bug-ridden.
>2. Unless the program is setuid root (and only root can allow it to
>be), the program has the same permissions as the user who runs it.
>Therefore, if the program is a trojan or contains a trojan, it cannot
>destroy the system unless the root user is careless.
No, that's true. But you generally install RPMs as root.
RPMS also comprise scripts that are run as part of the install.
2 + 2 = a good way to total a linux server.
In response to the original posters question, I recommend
freshmeat.net
I have no idea if they audit the code they link to, but I
can at least be confident that I'm getting the correct homepage.
rpmfind.net for RPM lovers.
>On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:20:33 -0400, John Gluck
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> How do Linux (RedHat specifically) users usually get software? For
>>> example, I want Xemacs and Pine. Obviously, I can't search the web with
>>> altavista and then download rpm's from random sites, as they can be
>>> trojaned. Is there any standard procedure for getting Linux software
>>> that I'm not aware of?
>>This is linux not windows...
>>As far as I know there are no trojans on linux (unless some Greek geek
>>recently created an app called trojan)
--
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Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: How to resize Linux Screen?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:18:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Neal Rhodes> wrote:
>Yes, I was aware of that mechanism, but it's not happening when using
>either SCOTERM or a win95 pc using qvtnet. If I'm careful and make
>sure I do the eval `resize` and resize in SCO, then do a telnet, it
>works ok. If I attempt to resize while in linux, nope, it does not.
>At least not for vi and linuxconf.
Is there are reason you have to use these? No offence, but they
sound crap!
teraterm and putty (both of which support ssh if that's an issue)
do this automatically - do you emulate vt100?
For the few apps that don't notice the resize, a ^L do force a
redraw seem ot sort them out.
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Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Mathieu =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dub=E9=2DDallaire?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: color in emacs
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:30:08 -0500
Hi,
> I would like to know if emacs can display color in the linux console.
> I could not find any info on this in the emacs info files...
As mentionned before, you can't with emacs. BUT, there is another editor
out there called "jed" that can be set up to use all of emacs'
keybindings and supports syntax highlighting (color) in the console for
most popular programming languages (including shell scripting). It's
like emacs in color! :)
Mathieu
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From: Mathieu =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dub=E9=2DDallaire?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is opening these ports?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:39:02 -0500
Hi,
> You can grep looking for the proccess, sunrpc on your local machine, by
> logging in as root, then do a :
>
> ps ax|grep sunrpc
BTW, sunrpc is the portmapper
ps ax|grep portmap
Mathieu
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Subject: Software for panorama pictures?
From: Jonte Myra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:38:17 -0700
I'm looking for a software that generates a panorama picture of
several images. PhotoStitch by Canon can do this but not for
Linux.
Regards
Jonte
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From: Eric B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: hdparm, tips, tricks and config recommendations wanted
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:47:31 -0700
max barwell wrote:
>
> Hi, I recently posted about my machine running slowly, thrashing, and
> generally bugging out , and one thing I was told was check my HD and
> what I got from hdparm -tT, I was told I should get 140+/10+. I get on average
> 70+/14+ even with no other processes running. I have a maxtor 10GB HD,
> 5400rpm not sure about DMA and all that but I can find out im sure, its
> only 1yr old. Is there any online documentation for good hdparm tuning, or
> does anyone have any suggestions, I have read the man pages etc, but still
> find it a little confusing.
>
> thanks in advance Max.
> --
> --------------------------------------
> - Max Barwell - - Powered by -
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Really, all you can do is play with it. Read through the man pages and
make a note of the "dangerous" options. You can safely try things like
hdparm -c1 -m16 (changes it to 32 bit IO and the multisector read ahead
to 16). Use -i to get info on your drive. hdparm --h will give you a
list of uses. Just make sure you understand which uses will result in
file system corruption if used wrong. Once you come up with some
parameters that you like, put them in rc.local so they will start on
boot.
Eric
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written for
an 8 bit processor on a 4 bit bus by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1
bit of
competition!
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mke2fs problem - Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while
setting up superblock
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:06:59 -0500
The only things I can think of are do you really have the proper amount of
space on the device?? Also, shouldn't you be creating an extended partition
and then create logical drive(s) inside that??? I filled up an 18 gig drive
using the extended partitioning scheme and it's been happy ever since.
Cheers;
Jeff
root wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Dear All,
> Please can anybody explain the above message I am getting when
>trying to format a newly added Linux partition on a 8GB IDE HD? The HD
>is setup as follows;
>
>bash-2.02# fdisk
>Using /dev/hda as default device!
>
>Command (m for help): p
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda2 511 1024 4128705 83 Linux native
>
>Command (m for help): q
>bash-2.02# mke2fs /dev/hda2
>mke2fs 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>/dev/hda2: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting
>up superblock
>bash-2.02#
>
>My hda1 is a Win98 'C Drive' and the HD is a Quantum Fireball, from the
>kernel;
>
>hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 10, 9787MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63,
>DMA
>
>My system is Suse 6.0 with kernel 2.0.36.
>
>TIA
>
>Mina
>Dept. Physics, RHUL
>University of London
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Video Capture cards
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:09:02 -0500
I have a Hauppauge Wincast PCI TV/Video card and it uses the BT848 chipset
on it. Works great under Linux, BeOS, FreeBSD, and obviously Winblows...
Cheers;
Jeff
Kerry Cox wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Any good recommendations supported in the latest (stable) kernel? I'm
>looking to capture images from off a video feed (traffic cam) and then
>post the images to a INternet page. We're using something right now but
>it's not handling data well. Works but is kludged together.
>Willing to spend whatever on getting a good video line to a video
>capture card.
>Any recommendations would be appreciated.
>KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Network Neighborhood for Linux
Date: 21 Jul 2000 12:09:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:43:48 GMT, Thaddeus L Olczyk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there something like network neighborhood for linux that will allow
>me to access a remote ( samba ) partition without actually mounting
>it?
If you want to access a filesystem, you have to mount it. The only
exceptions are DOS and HFS filesystems contained on floppy disks, where
you can use the mtools or hfstools utilities to read/write without
mounting. I believe there's a program called "LinNeighborhood" that
allows you to browse/mount Samba shares in much the same way as Nyetwork
Neighborhood in Lose9x. Check http://freshmeat.net/ .
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