Linux-Misc Digest #260, Volume #25 Fri, 28 Jul 00 11:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: hdparm settings reset on reboot?
Re: RedHat 6.0 Internet Connection Problem
Re: Mp3 player problems (Steve)
Re: Troubling problem with GNOME and UID. (Steve)
Re: highlight stderr, leave stdout alone (Kousik Nandy)
downloading (Trevor Brown)
Re: reinstalling LILO---doesn't work over Win2K???
Re: downloading (Davide Bianchi)
Linux & Data acquisition (Arlan Lucas de Souza)
PPP with null modem link ("Michael Koestner")
Re: finding my hacks ("robin")
Re: Linux & Data acquisition ("Gerald Pollack")
Re: 'Possible to remotely run root through telnet? (-ljl-)
Downloading latest version of Redhat in one file ("Rich Edwards")
Re: highlight stderr, leave stdout alone (Villy Kruse)
Two external modems dial in question (Andrew)
Webmail + which MTA (Mail Admin)
Re: Linux & Data acquisition (-ljl-)
Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2 (J Bland)
Re: Downloading latest version of Redhat in one file (Florian E.J. Fruth)
Changing LILO in Mandrake? (Cap'n)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hdparm settings reset on reboot?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:16:10 -0400
Uh.. gordon, when I use hdparm, I use only the -d1 option due to a few
reasons
1) There are some controllers out there that when they see a 33 and a 66
drive will use 33 for *both*. Then there are others that use 33 for the 33,
and 66 for the 66.
The safest is to use the lowest common denominator. ( If you really want
speed, get a 2 gig of ram and sit back )
2) The 66 requires a special cable with more, thinner wires to act as
shielding. You must have got that with the main board. I have seen several
situations where a drive refused to work at high speeds because it was
farther along the cable. Then again, my hdds are set to udma2 for windows.
3) Linux must be able to set the controller properly. IF you have a intel
MB, it should be OK, even with the 440BX chipset. I have a GigaByte, and
hence I do not use hdparm on my hdd's. On ly on the cdrom. My mp3's are on a
cd :) . So far things are fine eventhough linux says that the ide controller
is "Unknown"
4) After reading the man pages, I still am not "man" ( or penguin) enough to
go messing with the -c values. I once so completely powered down the drive
that I had to halt, power-off and power-on to get it back up ! So I tread
carefully and usually heed the warnings in them man pages.
joseph
Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I turned on 32-bit I/O with sync (hdparm -c3) using hdparm and that
> doubled my transfer rate. However, I found that after I rebooted,
> it was back to 16-bit again. Do you have to put hdparm in a startup
> file or something? If so, which one is best?
>
> This is for an Ultra 33 drive on a Promise Ultra 66 controller
> card. My other drive for Win98 is an Ultra 66. Apparently, Linux
> doesn't see them in their true default modes (ultra 33 and ultra
> 66). I'm afraid to try the DMA flag again (since it corrupted stuff
> the last time), but I wonder if that was because I didn't have
> 32-bit I/O Sync turned on when I did it? Could that make a
> difference?
>
> Thanks,
> Gordon
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.0 Internet Connection Problem
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:27:19 -0400
> 1. A. Why can I access the modem as root, but not as a user?
pppd needs hardware access, only possible from a root account apparently.
So , upon launch, it tries to gain root access to do it's work
> B. Can I fix this, and, if yes, how do I do it?
I never fixed this because because I used pam.d to provide access to a root
script that would ( as root) run pppd , all from the command line.
> 2. A. How do I install pppd with the SUID bit set?
I don't know. But follow the advice in glitch's post .
> B. What is the SUID bit, anyway?
It is a premission bit which indicates that a program can change it's user
and group id's,
instead of r-x you see r-s .
For example , say you just banged out a script to do something for you. now
before you execute it you have to mark it as executable by uing the command
chmod +u+x myscript.
Likewise for suid.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Mp3 player problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Jul 2000 14:26:51 +0100
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:06:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>hi everyone
> i have a redhat 6.2 dist running on my box
>my sound card is "creative vibra"
> while iam playing MP3s on Xmms or mpg123 the slightest disk access,
>for example, opening a new xterm spoils the sound to a very great
>extent.
> i am getting really pained,
>please help me out
>
I had the same problem, here's the fix.
In Xmms, Options, set the Output Plugin to OSS Driver 1.0.1 [libOSS.so]
That should do it.
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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
1:51pm up 13 days, 12:17, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Troubling problem with GNOME and UID.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Jul 2000 14:26:52 +0100
169K worth of binary is uncalled for in a text only news group.
>From your description of what happened, I don't see any problem
apart from the generation of the core file.
Compare the user profile, .rcfiles with a user who doesn't have
the problem.
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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
1:51pm up 13 days, 12:17, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: highlight stderr, leave stdout alone
Date: 28 Jul 2000 12:59:32 GMT
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:05:22 -0400, Mike Schiraldi wrote:
> anything, so i wrote the attached program. Unfortunately, i can't seem to
> run a shell with it - the shell immediately exists for some reason.
Well, I don't know why "bash" is exiting, but "csh" and "tcsh" are
happily invoked, and behaving as desired (printing stderr with different
colour). You may want to strace your program giving bash as argument and
watch what's happening.
Kousik.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Brown)
Subject: downloading
Date: 28 Jul 2000 13:26:40 GMT
Hi:
What I'm wondering is if I can download a Linux program in Windows to a
file, and then access it in Linux later. Will the program survive the
translation process, or not? If I have to have my internet access in
Linux, then I'm going to have to spend some more money to get that to
happen. Right now I've got Juno, but they are MS Windows only.
--
Trevor
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: reinstalling LILO---doesn't work over Win2K???
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:36:33 -0400
You have installed lilo into the /boot partition.
But the active partition is still w2k.
use fdisk or any other partitioning tool to set your /boot partition as
active.
Next, "Unhide" the w2k boot partition, if it becomes hidden, or the nt
loader will freeze half way into booting nt saying that it can't access nt
or something.
Colin Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8lqe74$bsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I lost LILO after reinstalling Win2K. I made a boot disk (bare.i) and got
> back in to Linux.
> Then I ran /sbin/lilo. It said.
> Adding Linux...
> Adding Win2000...
> bla-bla-bla...
> This should reset my MBR to point to LILO right???
>
> (in lilo.conf install=/boot/boot.b, which is what I want and the
default...)
>
> When I rebooted, it still boots right into Win2K.
>
> Help!?!?
>
> thx,
>
> Colin
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: downloading
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:40:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Jul 2000 13:26:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor
Brown) wrote:
>Hi:
>
>What I'm wondering is if I can download a Linux program in Windows to a
>file, and then access it in Linux later. Will the program survive the
>translation process, or not? If I have to have my internet access in
>Linux, then I'm going to have to spend some more money to get that to
>happen. Right now I've got Juno, but they are MS Windows only.
If you download a binary file, the binary format is the same.
In fact, I did a lot of time, download to my NT machine, burn CD,
mount on Linux and run.
Davide
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From: Arlan Lucas de Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux & Data acquisition
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:42:28 -0400
Hi all!
Currently, I'm using an old data acquisition card. Because Windows runs
many tasks and services in the background without the user's control I
have chosen write a simple driver for DOS. I'd like to know if Linux also
works fine in a simple data acquisition system. For example:
1) Is it possible to a user restricts the number of running processes when
the system is acquiring data? Maybe if many processes is running
simultaneously the time interval between each sample is not the same.
2) Is it possble to a non-root user accesses the data acquisition card's
ports?
Are there any homepage about this subject?
Thanks in advance,
Arlan
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From: "Michael Koestner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP with null modem link
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:06:56 +0200
Hello,
does anybody know how I can connect two (Linux)PC's with PPP over a seriall
line ? The problem I have is to bring up the pppd. Normaly it starts with
the chat program but here it can't, because there are no modem messages.
My intention is to emulate an internet access to an ISP.
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From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: finding my hacks
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:08:30 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister) wrote:
> you could find some with
>
> rpm -Va | grep '..5' > /tmp/verify
>
> and check /tmp/verify
>
>
...
I figured that out now, this gives me a list of packaged files which I
might have to consider when I move to an updated version (stuff like
/etc/ppp/options). Trouble is ther are literally hundreds of
initialisation files for mail, kde, gnome etc which apparently don't
belong in any particular package and I can't tell if I need to keep
any/all of them.
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From: "Gerald Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & Data acquisition
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:20:58 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Arlan Lucas de Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Currently, I'm using an old data acquisition card. Because Windows runs
> many tasks and services in the background without the user's control I
> have chosen write a simple driver for DOS. I'd like to know if Linux
> also works fine in a simple data acquisition system. For example:
>
> 1) Is it possible to a user restricts the number of running processes
> when the system is acquiring data? Maybe if many processes is running
> simultaneously the time interval between each sample is not the same.
>
> 2) Is it possble to a non-root user accesses the data acquisition card's
> ports?
>
> Are there any homepage about this subject?
>
> Thanks in advance, Arlan
>
>
Do a search for Linux Lab Project; you'll find info there about daq
drivers as well as links to real-time extensions for linux.
--
G. Pollack Dept. of Biology, McGill Univ.
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'Possible to remotely run root through telnet?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:24:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
.. wrote:
> Dances With Crows wrote:
...
> OpenBSD WON'T even allow you to login as root from anywhere other than
> from the local terminal.
Do you mean remote administration isn't done? I find that hard to
believe. This would require someone to be, or easily be, at the
machine 24 hours per day to fix even a minor problem such as a
reboot.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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Before you buy.
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From: "Rich Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Downloading latest version of Redhat in one file
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:26:50 +0100
All,
I am behind a firewall which only allows me to use my browser to download
files via FTP. Does anyone know of (or can provide for this weekend) a site
that I can download Redhat in one file?
Thanks.
Rich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: highlight stderr, leave stdout alone
Date: 28 Jul 2000 14:35:27 GMT
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:05:22 -0400, Mike Schiraldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've always been on the lookout for a way of somehow highlighting a
>program's stderr output while leaving its stdout alone. I never found
>anything, so i wrote the attached program. Unfortunately, i can't seem to
>run a shell with it - the shell immediately exists for some reason.
>
>Is there a flaw in the program? Is there a better way of accomplishing my
>goal?
>
Some program starts behaving differently if its input and output does not
look like a tty device. To fix this problem you use a pty/tty pair,
much like the script command would do.
Villy
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Two external modems dial in question
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:32:40 GMT
Hi
Can you help me with examples of mgetty & ppp configuration files for
Linux RH6.2 for a dial in server with two external modems (two
telephone lines)?
Sincerely,
Andrew
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From: Mail Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Webmail + which MTA
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:38:44 -0400
Dear Arjan,
Thank you for the links. Which one of them is good for high load mail
servers?
Also which MTA is better for such tasks?
sendmail
qmail
portfix
exim
I heard that although qmail is free now, the author can start charging
for it any time.
Arjan Drieman wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:50:20 -0400, Mail Admin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I am also interested in a Web front end to these mailboxes....
>
> Acmemail is a webmail application written in Perl.
> http://www.astray.com/acmemail/
>
> OCSmail - Electronic web email system for your intranet.
> http://www.obsidian.co.za/
>
> Sake mail - high-end, highly-scalable web-based email package
> Warning: Proprietary
> http://www.endymion.com/
>
> Vamp - PHP based web email client
> http://undead.thegraveyard.org/?topic=vamp
>
> All found through http://freshmeat.net/
>
> Arjan
> --
> begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs
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> end
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & Data acquisition
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:55:04 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Arlan Lucas de Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Currently, I'm using an old data acquisition card. Because Windows
runs
> many tasks and services in the background without the user's control I
> have chosen write a simple driver for DOS. I'd like to know if Linux
also
> works fine in a simple data acquisition system.
...
> Are there any homepage about this subject?
This might be a good place to start:
http://www.imca.aps.anl.gov/~lavender/linux_daq.html
Regards.
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2
Date: 28 Jul 2000 15:01:14 GMT
>Hi,
>
>I don't know have a Staroffice CD. I just downloaded staroffice from Sun
>Microsystems. I can't find the "setup" from the single downloaded file.
>What should I do?
Run the file how you did to do your initial install but add: -net to the
end.
This makes star office install itself so that other users on the same
machine or on other networks can then install a minimum install locally
while using the rest from the -net isstall.
Stick it in /opt/office52 not /root/office52 so everyone can access the
necessary programs. Then as a user /opt/office52/progra/setup should install
the workstation setup for the user calling it.
Frinky
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Downloading latest version of Redhat in one file
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:01:46 +0200
In article <8ls52i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> All,
> I am behind a firewall which only allows me to use my browser to download
> files via FTP. Does anyone know of (or can provide for this weekend) a site
> that I can download Redhat in one file?
> Thanks.
>
> Rich
http://www.linuxiso.org/
fejf
--
the backup of my harddisk only takes the half time it
did yesterday. i started to pipe it to /dev/null
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cap'n)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Changing LILO in Mandrake?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:01:25 GMT
I'll admit I'm somewhat of a newbie to Mandrake Linux,
and this is probably a stupid question...but, I need the
answer.
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my system in a dual boot with
Win98. My hard drive is in four partitions:
Partition 1: Win98 system files (1.5 GB) - hdc1
Partition 2: Win98 programs (8 GB) - hdc2
Partition 3: Linux Swap (133 MB) - hdc6
Partition 4: Linux Native: Mandrake Distro (2.3 GB) - hdc7
After I installed Mandrake and LILO, Linux is the first
boot option and loads Mandrake after 10 seconds,
unless I type Windows. I want to set it up so that Windows
boots after 10 seconds, unless I type Linux.
What's the easiest way to change this in Mandrake? Or
if someone could point me to a Mandrake HOWTO Web link
for this, I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
*** The Cap'n ****
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