Linux-Misc Digest #251, Volume #25 Thu, 27 Jul 00 13:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Token Ring Network card on Linux (Werner Kliewer)
Re: SuSe kernel [was Re: Use "force" with rpm?] ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: "dd" copy fails to copy errors (Dances With Crows)
Re: searching for driver (Axel Hinrichs)
File permissions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ftp automated batch copy ("m.hoes")
Re: File permissions (JosB)
Re: "dd" copy fails to copy errors (Rasputin)
Re: problem with fileevent (Grant Edwards)
Re: Scrwed up glibc ... how to fix ? (Mark)
setting up linux box as a router ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Are there substantially more/less RPMs for RH or SuSE? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Looking for Author for UNIX/Linux Optimisation and Troubleshooting Course ("Chris
Brown")
Re: Large HD + Linux + Win98 (Rasputin)
Re: Email client (Steve)
Re: complaints (Steve)
Re: Linux & free ISPs (Rasputin)
Re: Problem with apache-1.3.12-2 (Rasputin)
Debian system swapping since glibc update (Detlef Rick)
Linux takes up >5GB!
Can't get netscape-dynmotif to run under RedHat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with the sebang combo in any script file... (William R. Mattil)
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Token Ring Network card on Linux
From: Werner Kliewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:50:08 CDT
Only IBM ISA cards that are NOT LAN_Streamers are supported. A very few other cards
will work because they use the IBM
chipset. The very latest PCI card from IBM is also supposed to work, but I have not
tried them yet. I have TR running
on a number of Linux PC's, including my laptop, but they all use IBM brand, older
model cards.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon He wrote:
> From: "Simon He" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups:
>comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
> Subject: Token Ring Network card on Linux
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:49:51 +1000
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trring to setup Red Hat Linux 6.2 on a Token Ring Network, somehow the
> token ring card could not be initialized at bootup even after editing the
> conf.module file. The error message I'm getting is:
>
> localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/net/ibmtr.o: init_module: Device or
> resource busy
> localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/net/ibmtr.o: insmod tr0 failed
> localhost kernel: ibmtr: register_trdev() returned non-zero.
>
> I have tried both ISA and PCI card but to no avail, could anyone provide me
> with solution to this problem ?
>
>
> Simon
>
Werner Kliewer
in Winnipeg
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe kernel [was Re: Use "force" with rpm?]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:03:01 -0400
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 23:38:05 -0700, blowfish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Schaumann wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:48 PM, Mike Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Jan Schaumann wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This may not be a direct answer to your questions, but why not
>> >> download the kernel from ftp://ftp.kernel.org (I believe) and
>> >> compile it yourself? Sooner or later you will have tolearn hwo to
>> >> compile the kernel yourself, so why not now? You certainly should
>> >> read carefully through the appropriate HOWTO's from
>> >> http://www.linuxdoc.org
>> >>
>> >> While recompiling the kernel for the first time might seem scary,
>> >> it's not that difficult if you're careful.
>> >>
>> >
>> > SuSE won't provide any support if you compile your own kernel; if you
>> > want their support, you have to use one of their pre-compiled
>> > versions.
>> >
>>
>> Is that so? Wow. Anyway, so you can not optimize your system the way
>> you want it if you want to keep their support? Doesn't that kinda blow?
>>
> SuSE's precompile kernels should cover most situations.
>
> SMP , SCSI, ISDN, Sound, a bunch of NICs pppoE, DCHP, static ip,
> multi-NICs, ATA/DMA, 386/486/Pentium and higher AMD's 3D Now, Fresierfs,
> LVM, firewall, kernel level IDS, etc., are all available from
> precompiled kernels, or in the modules.
>
> And SuSE's hardware supports and detection is second to none. Most
> (99.9%) everything works right out of the box, no mess no fuzz. You
> don't have to waste time to fix and patch broken pieces like with
> another very noisy/famous/popular brand.
>
> I've use SuSE since 5.x, I always buy their official CDs/DVD set. But I
> NEVER even care to register it, because I never need the tech support to
> get everything to work, and installation and maintainance is always a
> snap. Everything gets set up and configured correctly and running
> properly with a single pass.
>
Well, that may be all very nice, but this kernel will *never* be optimized
for your system. You may have everything you need, everything may eb
working, but you sure will have a shit-lot of stuff that you do *not*
need. The whole point of being able to recompile the kernel is to make it
"snuggerfit" to your system.
Your system will run faster if you take out all the crap you don't need
and just compile stuff you do need into the kernel. Since every machine
has a different configuration, SuSe can not provide you with an optimal
kernel.
> And I don't even have to read more than 2 to 3 pages of TFM. Let alone
> to RTFM.
It's *always* a good idea to RTFM. You will get a much better
understanding of what's going on/what the hell you're doing there anyway
if you've read the manual. Just accepting some software-providers idea of
what's right for you without understanding the underlying technology
should be left to M$-users.
-Jan
P.S.: You have a 15-line sig. That's a nono.
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
-- Otto von Bismarck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: "dd" copy fails to copy errors
Date: 27 Jul 2000 15:06:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:44:09 GMT, Rasputin wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <fledermaus> wrote:
>>I need to copy a protected floppy that has "errors". The old program
>>requires floppy to be in pc for pgm to run but as I cannot copy it I
>>have no backup - and floppies don't last long.
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/image
><replace disk>
>dd if=/tmp/image of=/dev/fd0
>should work fine; if not, the errors are on the media, not the data.
Not always! Back in the old days, there were some copy-protected DOS
games where the copy-protection depended on the presence of a bad sector
(or more than one) at a specific spot on the disk. The copy-protection
code would read that sector, and if it was able to read that sector, it
would issue a nasty error message and halt the system.
There are utilities that can make exact copies of disks that are f***ed
up in this way, but I can't remember their names. If you do a Google
search on "DOS copy protection breaking", you will probably be able to
find a place to start. Please post the results if you find something
that works; I'm interested and I'll bet a lot of other people are too...
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Axel Hinrichs)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: searching for driver
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:48:38 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
andreas faatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ich danke Dir. Eventuell kommen von meinem Kumpel Henning noch Fragen dazu-
> w�re Dir das recht ?
So ich sie mitbekomme, klar.
Gru�,
Axel
--
Axel Hinrichs
h i n r i c h s at urz dot uni-heidelberg dot de
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: File permissions
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:05:29 GMT
I know Sun has an extended file permissions system for Solaris and was
wondering if anyone knows of something similar to Linux. The Sun
system (called FCL...I think...it has been 3 years since I've used it),
let one create permissions more like what one can do on NT. That is, a
file/directory can has different group and user permissions. This is
above and beyond the standard Unix permissions.
thanks.
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From: "m.hoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp automated batch copy
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:28:54 +0200
Currently, I am trying to do a automated/batched/scripted copy of a
directory tree and all files in it from one system to another. I do not know
in advance what the files are called, so i will have to be using wildcards
like *. Due to security restrictions which are enforced by other parties
which I am unable to influence, the only available connection method to me
between these systems is by ftp.
Currently I seem to be facing two issues.
The first is that, as far as i can tell, ftp seems to be unable to copy
subdirectorys. Is there a way to make ftp copy subdirectorys as well, or is
there an enhanced ftp client available which is able to do this?
The second issue is that, when i use ftp using the mput/mget * command, ftp
seems to want a manual confirmation of each file i am trying to copy. This
makes it unpractical for automated/scripted purposes. Is there a way around
this?
All suggestions are more than welcome.
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From: JosB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: File permissions
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:18:15 GMT
In article <8lpj3k$kf7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know Sun has an extended file permissions system for Solaris and was
> wondering if anyone knows of something similar to Linux. The Sun
> system (called FCL...I think...it has been 3 years since I've used
it),
> let one create permissions more like what one can do on NT. That is,
a
> file/directory can has different group and user permissions. This is
> above and beyond the standard Unix permissions.
>
> thanks.
>
With Linux you can assing rights for Read, Write and eXecute to Groups,
Owner and All users.
Hope this answers your question.
Jos Buurman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: "dd" copy fails to copy errors
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:30:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Dances With Crows> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:44:09 GMT, Rasputin wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <fledermaus> wrote:
>>>I need to copy a protected floppy that has "errors". The old program
>>>requires floppy to be in pc for pgm to run but as I cannot copy it I
>>>have no backup - and floppies don't last long.
>>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/image
>><replace disk>
>>dd if=/tmp/image of=/dev/fd0
>>should work fine; if not, the errors are on the media, not the data.
>
>Not always! Back in the old days, there were some copy-protected DOS
>games where the copy-protection depended on the presence of a bad sector
>(or more than one) at a specific spot on the disk. The copy-protection
>code would read that sector, and if it was able to read that sector, it
>would issue a nasty error message and halt the system.
I remember hearing the same thing when friends of mine were thinking of
burning, erm, 'offsite backups' of certain PSX games.
I put it down as a urban myth at the time, though.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: problem with fileevent
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:55:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maria Jesus Martin Mohamed wrote:
>In one hand , in one aplication I want to read lines of a file
>one by one ( I open the file for reading ,gets one line and I
>catch when is eof of file , but inside it I don't want to do
>anything) and in other aplication I write one line in the same
>file ( in this aplication I open this file and close it for
>writting).
>I want , when is eof of file, the aplication stop to read, but
>when arrive a new line (not a empty line) the first aplication
>read it (only this new line).
It sounds like you ought to be using a pipe instead of a
regular file.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! The PILLSBURY
at DOUGHBOY is CRYING for
visi.com an END to BURT REYNOLDS
movies!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Subject: Re: Scrwed up glibc ... how to fix ?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:53:18 GMT
Well I'm in a simmilar bind so:
you probably have access to very few commands you could try ldconfig
(this will attemt to re bind your shared libraries) but will probably
not work.
you need to know aproximatly what you did. eg. if you ended up with
two copys or libc that are the same version eg 2.0.7 and 2.1.3 then
you may want to delete both copys and re install from boot disk and
pray.
We decided to back up /home and re install and then but /home back in
place.
Mark
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:48:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
wrote:
>Well, don't ask me why... but I'v managed to screw-up the
>libc of my installation... now pratically the system is
>unusable, since ALL the command and function rely on this
>library to operate.
>
>I tryed to "upgrade" the system reinstalling the library,
>but seems not working...
>
>Any idea to solve the problem (without reformatting) ?
>
>Davide
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: setting up linux box as a router
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:53:35 GMT
I'm new to networking so could someone please point me to the right
place for info. on what I want to do.
I will be getting an untimed connection to the internet via ISDN and I
have the following information from the ISP:
- Set of 5 (i think?) ip numbers that are static
- subnet mask (255.255.255.248)
- primary and secondary DNS numbers
My hope is to connect my ISDN Terminal Adaptor through the serial port
to the Linux box. The Linux box will "route" the other ip addresses to
two other computers in the same room via 10Base2.
I will be installing RedHat 6.2 but have questions on how to configure
it. In the past (before I had static ip number) I would setup my
machine with non-routable ip numbers (192.168.X.X) and used ip
masquerading to share the internet. Would I now configure the machine
with the ip numbers provided by my isp? Or should I still setup up my
machine with non-routable ip?
Any help or pointers to docs. appreciated.
Thanks,
Martin
mcjose [at] usa [dot] net
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Subject: Re: Are there substantially more/less RPMs for RH or SuSE?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:01:51 GMT
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> aflinsch wrote:
> >
> > blowfish wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > If compiled from source yourself. It doesn't matter if it's for i286 or
> > > i100,000,086. It's configured *exactly* to *your* machine.
> > >
> > > Now, What's better?
> > >
> >
> > I agree with you on the compile from source, but that looses whatever
> > advantages that rpm has (notably the ease of finding exactly what is
> > installed on the system).
> >
> > Personally I prefer rebuilding rpms from a src rpm, then installing.
> > that gives me the advantages of both worlds.
>
> Actually. Building entirly from source is really not that much more
> work, or any more difficult than building from tar balls.
>
> Plus, you can change whatever you want if you compile from source to
> suit your own needs. Isn't that one of the main reason why we prefer
> opensource? No? :-)
>
> -Alex / blowfish.
Are 'ports' only available as source packages? Building from source
packages is all well and fine by have you ever tried compiling KDE
from source? It takes a couple hours to crunch through that assuming
you have all the pieces needed to build it and some of us don't have
that time...
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chris Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for Author for UNIX/Linux Optimisation and Troubleshooting Course
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:07:31 -0700
Hello.
My name is Chris Brown and I am a Product Manager for the training company
Learning Tree International (www.learningtree.com). I am looking for someone
to author a 4-day hands-on course provisionally titled "UNIX/Linux
Optimisation and Troubleshooting". The course will not be tied tightly to a
specific commercial UNIX product but will include some focus on the use of
open source tools and software for performance measurement, tuning, and
diagnosis of UNIX / Linux systems.
If you are seriously interested in working on this course then please email
me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] giving a brief statement of your
experience in the area and your experience (if any) in training development.
Thank you
Chris Brown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Large HD + Linux + Win98
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:10:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Jan Fischer> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have got the following problem:
>I want to install both Linux (SuSE6.4) and Windows 98 on a new system
>with a 20.5 GB Western-Digital IDE HD. I have already spent some time
>trying, but nothing seems to work.
>
>Obviously Windows and Linux cannot agree on the partitioning of the
>harddisk. I have tried both LBA and NORMAL as BIOS modes for the disk.
>Every time the result was that one of the OSes only recognized 500MB or
>8GB of the disk, or the partitions overlapped.
>
>Thus my questions are:
>- which mode is the right one (LBA, NORMAL or LARGE)
>- which software should be used for the partitioning (DOS fdisk,
>Linux fdisk, cfdisk, yast or WD Data Lifeguard)
>- are there special parameters for the kernel or for fdisk that have to
>be specified
>
>So far I think I have found out that Windows only works with LBA, Linux
>only with NORMAL.
Funnily enough I had exactly the same problem last night.
The symptoms look like there's something wrong with the boot sector;
everything copies onto the drive OK, but DOS won't boot off it.
It was actually fine until I noticed that the primary DOS partition
started about 1.2Gb into the disk and moved it with
Partition Magic (fool).
My fix was going to be to use cfdisk to create a 1.5Gb DOS partition at the
front of the drive, carry on installing Slackware and use lilo to recreate a
usable boot sector. And remember *never* to run "lilo -u".
So if LBA is a problem (and I doubt it is), it affects DOS too....
If I find anything useful, I'll let you know.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Email client
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Jul 2000 17:13:26 +0100
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:07:01 +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am looking for an email client that can replace outlook for me. I
>need the following features:
>
>1. Pop3 and imap retrieval
>2. Calendar facilities
>3. A link to a palm pilot
>4. Links to Gpg
>5. To run under X.
Gnus Emacs sounds like what you want, (with the calandar), but
there are many, mutt, pine, etc. I use Mutt, but don't have the
calandar requirement.
>
>And I would like the following:
>
>1. To be able to retrieve my email history from an outlook file
>format.
There must be a utility for this somewhere, but mixing formats
doesn't usually work very well.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
3:44pm up 12 days, 14:10, 2 users, load average: 1.09, 1.08, 1.02
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: complaints
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Jul 2000 17:13:27 +0100
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:26:34 GMT, oneal nichols wrote:
>I was interested enough to install redhat 6.0 on my computer. I had
>difficulty, but it's now in there along with Win 98. I had trouble with
>setting up resolution, now after long time, got it working. Now I find
>that modem won't work if it's PCI or winmodem (according to
>documentation). My printer won't work either.
>I installed linux to learn the system but have spent all my time just
>trying to get all components to work (which don't). Even if Win 98 is
>unfair monopoly, it works with comparatively little fuss.
>I'm disillusioned with Linux. I'll leave it on my system (probably
>difficult to even uninstall it) and tinker with it in spare time but it
>just ain't what it's cracked up to be!
>Oneal
Maybe you should have read the documentation first, it's what I do if I
make any major changes to my PC.
The modem you're talking about was built for MS windows, not for computers
or operating systems in general, your palm pilot won't work well with your
microwave oven type of idea.
I'd be very surprised if you can't get your printer working, there's lots
of documentation out there for printers. Have a look in /usr/doc/HOWTO
at a glace there's a couple of files that go into detail on printing:
Printing-HOWTO
Printing-Usage-HOWTO
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Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Linux & free ISPs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:16:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Gerald Pollack> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Heller
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "G Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Netzero does not provide shell access -- you need to set up a PPP
>> connection. Netzero sets you up with an special username and an
>> encrypted version of the password you provided. You need to set this up
>> in your Linux PPP config utility.
>Thanks, but I'm still lost. If netzero encrypts the password, how do I get
>hold of the encrypted version so that I can send that to netzero when I
>log in? I'm not aware of any linux ppp config utility; for my other ppp
>connections (e.g. to my university's sysem) I simply use chat, and so far
>as I know, all that chat does is look for prompts from the server and
>respond appropriately, i.e. automate what I can also do via minicom. Am I
>missing something?
Call them and find out if they use PAP or CHAP.
Plain text logins don't work with these protocols, so minicom will fail.
(Caught me out when I first used Linux)
Once you know which one they use, you can set this up with
netcfg or linuxconf (Redhat and its spawn) or pppsetup (Slack).
If you're worried they'll send the OS Police after you, just try one,
then the other. One should work.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with apache-1.3.12-2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:28:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Kousik Nandy> wrote:
>Hello,
> I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1 which came with apache-1.3.9 httpd.
>It was running happily until I upgraded it to apache-1.3.12-2. Earlier the
>URIs http://ipdc_tokyo/ http://ipdc_tokyo.spd.analog.com/ and also
>http://137.71.79.135/ all were fetching the DocumentRoot/index.html but
>after the upgrade only http://137.71.79.135/ works, and other two returns
>an error:
Don't know if it's relevant, but underscores aren't valid characters in
DNS hostnames. Maybe the new apache is more picky than your DNS servers?
As a more practical solution, netcat is handy for impersonating servers.
You could set that up to listen on port 80, and see what headers these
browsers are sending.
Search on freshmeat.net; if the headers look OK, *then* try changing
the hostname, maybe...
>
> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
>
> Client sent malformed Host header
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Apache/1.3.12 Server at ipdc_tokyo.spd.analog.com Port 80
>
>My hostname (ipdc_tokyo) is resolved by all the nameservers of our domain,
>and I am not using VirtualHost. In the error log I get:
>
>[Thu Jul 27 18:29:07 2000] [error] [client 137.71.22.20] Client sent
>malformed Host header
>
>Anyone got any clue why we can't access the web-server by the hostname but
>can only thru IP address?
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Detlef Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian system swapping since glibc update
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:34:05 +0200
Hi, everybody
I recently updated my Debian (slink) box with glibc 2.1.3 and some system
packages from "potato". I recompiled
the kernel and everything works fine. But unfortunately the system seems to
consume more memory than before
the update. It is swapping about 2~8 Megs. This is causes serious problems when
writing CDs (buffer underrun).
Can anybody figure out what the problem is? I have 96 MB RAM and two swap
partitions on two hard drives.
Should I downgrade back to glibc 2.0.7 (slink)?
Thanks a lot
Detlef.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux takes up >5GB!
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:30:07 GMT
I recently installed Corel Linux and wish I never had. Somehow after I
installed it over 5GB of my free space was gone. Plus I cant run Linux at
all. All I want is to get rid of it and the wasted space. Please help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't get netscape-dynmotif to run under RedHat 6.2
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.config,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:37:36 GMT
I would like to use the dynamic Motif version of Netscape rather than the
statically linked version. Under RedHat 5.2, I used to be able to do
this. I have RedHat Motif v2.1 installed. But, when I do an ldd
netscape-dynMotif, the libXm.so.1 file is not found:
libBrokenLocale.so.1 => /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x4001a000)
libXm.so.1 => not found
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4001c000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40066000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40071000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40088000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4009b000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400a9000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400b5000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40159000)
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
(0x4015e000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401a0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401bd000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
If I do a locate libXm, this is what I get:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.1.2.4
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.1.2
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.a
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXmu.so.6
Doing an ldconfig -p | grep libXm, this is what I get:
libXmu.so.6 (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
libXmu.so.6 (libc5) => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXmu.so.6
libXmu.so (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so
libXm.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2
libXm.so.1.2 (ELF) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.1.2
libXm.so (libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so
What do I need to do to get this to work?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Mattil)
Subject: Re: Problems with the sebang combo in any script file...
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:06:47 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <%Esf5.80236$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mitch Conant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok I give up (mostly in frustration), I've looked for useful
>articles in the news groups, I've poured over the perlrun manpage...no
>luck!
>
>[snip]
>#! /usr/bin/perl
>
>I have verified that perl is there ... YES
>I can run Perl by typing perl anywhere ... Runs OK
>I can run the script by using the perl -e commandline ... PERFECT
>
>I CANNOT RUN THE SCRIPT WITH THE SHEBANG LINE!!! YES THE SCRIPT HAS THE
>EXECUTE ATTRIBUTE SET!!!
Where did you get your perl ?? there are compile-time options that deal with
this. If shell scripts work then I would suspect that it *must* be perl.
Recompile from source .....
Regards
Bill
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