Linux-Misc Digest #230, Volume #25 Mon, 24 Jul 00 20:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: ontrack ddo; windows doesn't see my files (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Netscape license under Linux (brian moore)
Sendmail ("mary")
Re: Weird Redhat System Time problem (elfin)
Re: what exactly is RedHat install tree then? ("David ..")
Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem.. (Doc Shipley)
converint windows partition (Peter Bismuti)
Re: UPS with serial port (David Steuber)
Netscape Mail Problem (Boddhisatva Troutwaxer)
Re: Help! DNS-Problem! (Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil)
Re: debian and new software ergh! (Paul Eisenberg)
Re: Linux & free ISPs (Richard)
Dumb tar question (Robert Jones)
Re: converint windows partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Alt)
Re: Newbie: want to install Linux badly - but partitiong problems :( (Svend Olaf
Mikkelsen)
This Blackbox user needs help (Andrew Purugganan)
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ontrack ddo; windows doesn't see my files
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:12:16 GMT
Oktay Altunergil wrote:
>
> Well, I tried some stuff with the Disk Manager software and now Linux can
> not mount the Windows partition anymore; I get the
>
> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems"
>
> error. Can somebody help me mount the filesystem. I still need some files
> in there which I did not have chance to save earlier.
>
> ??
Can you boot into Windows now though? Overlay software does with
software what the BIOS does with LBA. Windows needs the overlay
software to work with a large drive if the BIOS doesn't support
LBA. Linux should work with or without it but it might depend on
whether you booted with the overlay software (there's usually an
option to boot to a floppy) or not when you installed Linux.
(Sorry if you already know this.)
Try upgrading the overlay software. There's usually an uninstall
option too which may help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Netscape license under Linux
Date: 24 Jul 2000 22:16:58 GMT
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:00:44 -0500,
Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the Netscape license under linux only for non-commercial use ?
No.
> Do I have to buy a Netscape license to use it in a commercial company ?
No.
(You don't need to buy a License for it for any platform... Netscape has
been free [as in free beer] for a couple years now.)
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "mary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:20:38 +0200
How I forward any message just arrived on one email address to another
address? I use Sendmail and Linux OS.
Tank's
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From: elfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weird Redhat System Time problem
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:30:06 GMT
David Brodmann wrote:
>
>
> On 24 Jul 2000 13:38:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LFessen106) wrote:
>
> >>
> >>I have a server running Redhat Linux 6.1 and have a strange annoying
> >>time problem. Its really not a big problem, but more of an annoyance
> >>than anything.
> >>
> >>Using the date command the system always displays the correct time in
> >>local time (eastern daylight time). All the entries in the system log
> >>files also reflect the correct time. However, the actual timestamp on
> >>any file created on the system, or the timestamp associated with a
> >>process (ps aux) actually shows the time as being 4 hours ahead.
> >>
> >>Any ideas what might be causing this?
> >>
> >>TIA.
> >
> >Try the hwclock command.. It may help..
> >
> >man hwclock
Have you tried this:
in a terminal type: ((be sure to be root or su into it.))
echo "clock -s" > /sbin/hwclock <hit return>
chmod +x /sbin/hwclock <hit return>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what exactly is RedHat install tree then?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:21:59 -0500
pjd wrote:
>
> Any idea what should be to directory structure for the installer to pick the
> RPM's properly? (Does it have to Mimic the CDROM from redhat?)
Just list the path. Say for example you downloaded all the files into a
directoty named: Downloads
and it contains a directory named i386
and the i386 directory contains the RedHat directory.
So the path would be /Downloads/i386
--
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sorry - smudgy display under X problem..
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:43:55 GMT
Lew Trotski wrote:
> 1) Under X whenever anything changes on the screen - it leaves a smudge of
> horizontal lines, rather like a batik pattern. If I move a window, it
> doesn't move, but is smudged or smeared leaving everything unreadable.
> Until something is moved, opened or closed, the display looks perfect,
> except for a vertical line in the right half of the screen.
I had an ATI card do this when the add-on SGRAM was going south. Also, the *very
alpha* framebuffer
module my RS/6000 uses does that to a lesser extent. Basically, in both cases, the X
server was
filling up the buffer faster than the card was emptying it. You might try setting the
memory in
/etc/X11/XF86Config to 1 meg. Not good, but better than generic VGA. You might also
pull the card
and make sure any plug-in memory chips are in tight.
> Can anyone Help? I've even started considering getting rid of Linux since I
> can't do a simple thing like getting a decent display!
There's a huge difference in performance between a 2M video card and a 4M card in
Linux. A lot more
so than in Windows. I hate to tell people to throw cash at a problem, but you should
throw cash at
this problem.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: converint windows partition
Date: 24 Jul 2000 22:47:23 GMT
I initially configured my machine to be dual-boot, but now I want to
use VMWare instead, so I'd like to take my old Windows partition and
convert it back to Linux partition. I have a basic idea of what I
need to do, but if anyone has some experience that they would like to
share it would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: UPS with serial port
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:00:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
' David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' >
' > I'm looking for recomendations for UPSs that Linux can work with to do
' > a proper shutdown. Does Tripplite support Linux? I've been told to
' > avoid APC because it only puts out 90v on battery. I don't want to
' > waste my power supply.
'
' Please post a source for this crazy notion that APC's UPSs cut your
' voltage by 25% when on battery.
A friend of mine used APCs and noticed problems when they switched
over. He measured the voltage output at only 90v.
' I use APC UPSs at home. During full power outages, I can assure you
' that I'm not getting reduced voltages when on battery. If I was, the
' monitor's picture would get smaller and go out of focus.
That was the problem he experienced. Perhaps you have a better line
of APCs than my friend had. It could very easily be that he had the
bottem end models or something.
However, another poster also mentioned that APCs were OK, and I've had
good luck with their surge protectors. Had one occasion due to a car
hitting a pole where 2000 volts came into the building. Blew up the
several breakers and toasted the APC. The computer plugged into the
APC had no damage. I was impressed.
--
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NRA Member | a hoploholic.
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The problem with AI is that it has a mind of its own
--- Devon Miller
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Subject: Netscape Mail Problem
From: Boddhisatva Troutwaxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:02:20 -0700
I've just installed the new Mandrake release on my Linux box. I'm
using the KDE system and connecting to PacBell Internet via Kppp.
Netscape works fine as a browser, but will not get my mail. I
keep getting an error message that reads something like this:
Netscape cannot get your mail because you have not entered a user
name. Please enter a username under the "Preferences" window.
Now this all sounds straight forward, except that I've entered
exactly the same username (and other information) in the
"Preferences" which I also entered months ago in the
"Preferences" section of my Windows 98 machine. The Netscape in
my Windows machine does a fine job picking up mail...
So far I've tried the following:
1.) Renamed the "nsmail" directory in my user file to
"nsmail.old" so that Netscape would write a new, and hopefully
uncorrupted "nsmail" directory. No help there.
2.) Tried logging on with Kppp using both the "script" and
"terminal" login options. No luck.
3.) Created a user which had the same login name and password
which I use at Pac Bell and dialed under that name. Yeah, I know
it was a desperate bit of foolishness, but it wasn't foolish
enough!!
4.) Made sure that Netscape was reading the correct file when it
got my "Preference" data off the hard drive.
5.)Tried logging on as both a "root" and a normal user.
I suspect that there is an enviroment variable somewhere that has
gotten mislabeled, but I haven't a clue where to look.
Any suggestions?
T.
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From: Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help! DNS-Problem!
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:05:56 +0200
Barry Margolin wrote:
...
> knew; otherwise, how do you know that they're even forwarding in the first
> place?
I suppose this because the authorized name-servers hosts always the
right records & when
I resolve the ip from different networks, nslookup on network 1 gives
back always(!) the right ip and responds quickly to nameserver changes,
a computer on network 2 give sometimes the right/false ip and need much
longer (hours) to respond to changed nameserver entries.
> Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
regards Steffen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eisenberg)
Subject: Re: debian and new software ergh!
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:01:02 GMT
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:20:13 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Paul writes:
>> So after I get the GTK in a .rpm format I try to convert it to .deb ,
>> which seems to go succesful, but when I try to install the .deb file I
>> get a failed installation.
>
>Get the gaim package from the Debian archive. The simplest way to do that
>is to add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
>
>and then type 'apt-get update; apt-get install gaim' as root while
>connected to the Net. Apt will download and install gaim and everything it
>depends on.
>
>This will also give you acces to all the thousands of Debian packages: you
>will no longer be limited to the pitiful subset Corel provides.
>--
>John Hasler
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Dancing Horse Hill
>Elmwood, Wisconsin
I tried this but ergh, it still didn't work. I got a ton of errors
after it downloaded about /mnt/cdrom1 for some reason? I have no clue
why. Should the deb http:// line be the only one without a pound sign
in front of it for the sources.list file? Any help would be great, I
just want this to work out. Paul
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Subject: Re: Linux & free ISPs
From: Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:08:45 -0700
That looks great for Linux, except that it seems to be only for
the New York City area.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Try this page
>www.metconnect.com
>
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dumb tar question
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:39:38 -0500
Yesterday I made a full backup of my system using an HP35480A DAT drive
connected to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with the command:
$ tar -cvvf /dev/nst0 -M / -V 'Full Backup including DOS 7-23-00'
Works fine; lasts a long time. My question is this: How does one read
the volume label written on the tape? The only thing I've come up with
so far is to do a
$ tar -tvvf /dev/nst0
and stop that sucker with a cntrl-c before the label has scrolled out of
the buffer. That seems terribly crude. Surely, there must be another
way of doing it!
Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: converint windows partition
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:38:11 GMT
In article <8lih1r$c5l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) wrote:
>
> I initially configured my machine to be dual-boot, but now I want to
> use VMWare instead, so I'd like to take my old Windows partition and
> convert it back to Linux partition. I have a basic idea of what I
> need to do, but if anyone has some experience that they would like to
> share it would be appreciated.
PartitionMagic 5 will do this, I think. It is a commercial product:
http://www.powerquest.com
Conventional wisdom is that you should backup everything before doing
this type of operation. If you have this capability, then you don't
need PartitionMagic. Just backup, delete the partition, remake it
with "fdisk", "cfdisk", ... then create a Linux filesystem.
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Before you buy.
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From: Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.lang.oberon,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:57:09 +0300
Kelly and Sandy wrote:
> In a alt.os.linux.mandrake newsletter entitled "Operating systems for
> personal-computers?", Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> >Was nice to talk.
> >
> >Buy Goods, or Good bye. :)
>
> Was wonderful to hear you talk. The Ukraine! Wow, no wonder
> Tolstoy's "War and Peace" so good to read. Spirited people. Many
> thanks.
>
You know, yesterday, just before I have wrote previous answer,I have seen the
film about secretary of UK's council in unreal country in Africa
with unpronounceable naming.
That was comedy, ofcource.
It was funny, but I haven't thought that shall have a talk with persons from
that film.
Ok, you could compare my with Scottish, but tell me what do you mean, in you
set of words.
AND. It's nice that you know that Ukraine is.
But Tolstoi wasn't Ukrainian.
Pushkin (Harmatny) was, Gogol (Yanowsky) was, but Tolstoi wasn't, at all!
> Thanks for all advice about state-of-play with Operating Systems
> today.
>
Don't mention it.
> Kind regards,
>
> Sandy
>
> P.S. Regards "your Microsoft". Is English colloquial speech: They
> have a big Naval Practice, manoeuvres in the mid-Atlantic. Every
> one showing off their systems, firing mock cruise missiles at
> each-other, sending up tomahawks and showing off all the defence
> avionics for the company suits. Then the on-board Windows NT --
> running the ship -- falls over with a BSOD. Ship's a dead duck in
> the water. That's your Microsoft for you.
>
Ook, seams that I understood something.....
Please, if you are a human (not a "robot") and not sick, of course, :)
give me answers for the next questions:
1. What integer number bigger as 6 but less as 4 times 2?
2. Make a sentence with such words: "I", "computer", "not", "am", "a" ?
3. Which one word are wrong in such list: "bottle", "glass", "lamp", "cap",
"jug" ?
Than you.
Good bye.
and Buy Goods at Joe.
--the Alternative.
P.S. I if you want to "e-mail" me,
better post your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to the both addresses. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: Newbie: want to install Linux badly - but partitiong problems :(
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:07:41 GMT
Peter Lairo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i have a win98 partition (10GB) and a linux partition (4GB), but when i
>set the linux partition to "active" in PartitionMagic and reboot, my
>computer says: "missing operating system. Powerquest has been no help,
>so i hope you can help me.
>
>below is my most recent correspondence with powerquest support, where
>they suggested i delete my old win98 "Extended" partition using the
>pqmagic /ipe command to bypass the error message (#108):
>
>Please help.
Edited Partinfo output:
>==============================================================
>Disk 0: 32760 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.
>The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.
>====================== Partition Tables ======================
>Partition ----Begin---- ------End----- Start Num
>Sector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects
>------- - ---- --- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- ---- ------- -------
> 0 0 80 0 1 1 0C 1023 15 63 6324579387
> 0 1 00 1023 15 63 83 1023 15 6324579450 8177085
> 0 2 00 1015 0 1 82 6 254 6332756535 257040
(1023 is "placeholder" for a larger cylinder number).
With a 2055 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors BIOS setting, the
location of your partitions (but not your partition table) would look
like this:
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS--
0 1*0C 63 24579387 12001 0 1 1 1529 254 63
0 2 83 24579450 8177085 3992 1530 0 1 2038 254 63
0 3 82 32756535 257040 125 2039 0 1 2054 254 63
Each partition would end on a cylinder boundary.
As far as I know, there however is no way you safely can obtain a
partition table assuming 255 heads without detailed partition
knowledge. Currently the first two partitions are made assuming a 16
heads translation, and the third is just wrong, but made using a 255
heads translation. It will however work, since Linux does not use the
CHS entries.
Because of what I call an Award BIOS bug, your data in the Windows
partition might be in danger. If the disk is set to LBA in the BIOS
(what it might be), the BIOS will not read and write the disk correct.
This occurs when there is not a match between partition table and the
BIOS setting.
Make sure the disk is set to NORMAL or AUTO mode in the BIOS.
You might also want to delete the Linux swap partition, and make a new
one assuming 16 heads.
Regarding the boot problem: The message "Missing operating system" is
from a DOS MBR that did not find a boot signature in the boot sector
of the active partition. The MBR might not be able to work above
cylinder 1023, or it read at a wrong location due to BIOS problems, or
you did not install Lilo to hda2. In any case you will need the newest
Lilo version.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: This Blackbox user needs help
Date: 24 Jul 2000 23:49:51 GMT
I have WindowMaker and somehow managed to get bbpager to work, with KDE
hints. Now I've installed Blackbox from a binary RPM, but when I try
bbpager &
I get error loading KWM module and I can't use bbpager
Anybody know why?
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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