Linux-Misc Digest #263, Volume #25 Fri, 28 Jul 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: 'Possible to remotely run root through telnet? ("Simon")
Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: In search of a good mpeg video player... (Dances With Crows)
Re: PPP with null modem link (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: fido (Russell Tiedt)
Re: Listing all the files changed since... (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo
=?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=)
Re: In search of a good mpeg video player... (Carl Fink)
Re: Oh no! (Carl Fink)
Re: Ethernet NIC Recommendation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to set hardware time correctly from shell? (Charlie Zender)
Re: pppd and/or wvdial problems (Andrew J. Perrin)
linux version of pcview (Yao Wang)
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'Possible to remotely run root through telnet?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:06:50 +0100
Not really advisable... Try enabling html access in linuxconf.. then you
can do your more basic tasks using a browser interface by using port 98.
With htmlaccess you can define the IP addresses of the hosts you want to
allow.. Even then when you get in you need a username/password.
Simon
"Steve Buxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:tpGf5.45301$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I want to be able to remotely administer my Redhat workstation connected
to
> the internet. Can I do this through a remote shell?
>
> Steve
>
>
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:16:17 -0700
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Hi Jose,
I got this kind problem when I switch IDE disks and normaly it related to names of
devices.
I suggest you boot from floppy and try mount /boot partition. Just check that name
of device
is correct. If not edit lilo.conf to reflect new device name and run lilo itself
to make update
boot loader. Problem normaly consist in fact that device changed name and in
bootloader it
point to another disk where you do not have any kernel - if you have disk there at
all.
But I little confused by fact that you have only one SCSI disk and disconnection
of IDE disk
should not affect SCSI drive name. But anyway I recommend to try load from floppy
and check
what is there. By the way did you SCSI controller configured to boot from this
disk? Some
basic controllers do not support boot from SCSI disks but yours I believe should
do that - I never
had this controller and can not help with details how configure the controller.
Andrey
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez wrote:
> Hi all,
> I cannot get LILO booting from an SCSI disk. Can you give me some
> hints?
>
> This is the situation. I've just installed Linux Red Hat 6.2 on a Dual
> Pentium III machine equipped with:
> Mainboard: SUPERMICRO, SUPER P6DBE
> SCSI controller: Adaptec SCSI Card 29160
> SCSI disk: Seagate ST318436LW (17.5G)
> IDE disk: Seagate STS320430A (20GB)
>
> The IDE disk is only temporally installed, and it is going to be used
> only to hold data, no system files. All the system is installed on the
> SCSI disk. This is the partition table (generated with disk druid):
> --------------------
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2233 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 14 2233 17832150 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 14 906 7172991 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 907 1548 5156833+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 1549 1880 2666758+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8 1881 2174 2361523+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 2175 2213 313236 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda10 2214 2233 160618+ 83
> Linux --------------------
>
> and this an excerpt from /etc/fstab:
> --------------------
> /dev/sda10 / ext2 defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda5 /home ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda6 /usr ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda8 /var ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda9 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> --------------------
> So the /boot partition is (/dev/sda1) located at very beginning of the
> disk.
>
> The overall installation was straightforward. Only the LILO
> installation issued a warning:
> "Warning: /dev/sda1 is not on the first disk"
>
> But then, before booting again I changed the BIOS booting sequence
> setting SCSI on the first place and IDE on the second. After saving
> this, the booting is restarted. The BIOS displays:
> "Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..OK"
> And then only appears:
> "LI"
> and it gets frozen.
> According to LILO's User's Guide (pag. 44):
> "LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
> installer."
> Of course, I haven't moved /boob/boot.b. Since the disk is a large one,
> I used the "linear" global option in lilo.conf, but no luck. I've also
> tried without it, with the same lack of success.
>
> If I install LILO on the IDE disk, it works all right, but I don't like
> this solution because of the temporal condition of the disk.
>
> LILO's version is 21.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help to get the SCSI disk booting
> properly.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Cheers!
>
> Jos� Manuel
>
>
> --
> Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
> E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica
> Universidad de Granada Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 61 43
> 18071 - GRANADA (Spain) Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 33 17
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Hi Jose,
<p>I got this kind problem when I switch IDE disks and normaly it
related to names of devices.
<br>I suggest you boot from floppy and try mount /boot partition.
Just check that name of device
<br>is correct. If not edit lilo.conf to reflect new device name and run
lilo itself to make update
<br>boot loader. Problem normaly consist in fact that device changed name
and in bootloader it
<br>point to another disk where you do not have any kernel - if you have
disk there at all.
<br>But I little confused by fact that you have only one SCSI disk
and disconnection of IDE disk
<br>should not affect SCSI drive name. But anyway I recommend to try
load from floppy and check
<br>what is there. By the way did you SCSI controller configured
to boot from this disk? Some
<br>basic controllers do not support boot from SCSI disks but yours I believe
should do that - I never
<br>had this controller and can not help with details how configure the
controller.
<p>Andrey
<p>Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi all,
<br> I cannot get LILO booting
from an SCSI disk. Can you give me some
<br>hints?
<p> This is the situation. I've
just installed Linux Red Hat 6.2 on a Dual
<br>Pentium III machine equipped with:
<br> Mainboard: SUPERMICRO, SUPER
P6DBE
<br> SCSI controller: Adaptec
SCSI Card 29160
<br> SCSI disk: Seagate ST318436LW
(17.5G)
<br> IDE disk: Seagate STS320430A
(20GB)
<p> The IDE disk is only temporally
installed, and it is going to be used
<br>only to hold data, no system files. All the system is installed on
the
<br>SCSI disk. This is the partition table (generated with disk druid):
<br>--------------------
<br>Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2233 cylinders
<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
<p> Device Boot Start
End Blocks Id System
<br>/dev/sda1 *
1 13 104391
83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda2
14 2233 17832150
5 Extended
<br>/dev/sda5
14 906 7172991
83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda6
907 1548 5156833+ 83
Linux
<br>/dev/sda7
1549
1880 2666758+ 83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda8
1881
2174 2361523+ 83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda9
2175
2213 313236 82 Linux swap
<br>/dev/sda10
2214
2233 160618+ 83
<br>Linux
====================
<p>and this an excerpt from /etc/fstab:
<br>--------------------
<br>/dev/sda10
/
ext2 defaults
<br>1 1
<br>/dev/sda1
/boot
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda5
/home
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda6
/usr
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda7
/usr/local
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda8
/var
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda9
swap
swap defaults
<br>0 0
<br>--------------------
<br>So the /boot partition is (/dev/sda1) located at very beginning of
the
<br>disk.
<p> The overall installation
was straightforward. Only the LILO
<br>installation issued a warning:
<br>"Warning: /dev/sda1 is not on the first disk"
<p> But then, before booting
again I changed the BIOS booting sequence
<br>setting SCSI on the first place and IDE on the second. After saving
<br>this, the booting is restarted. The BIOS displays:
<br>"Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..OK"
<br>And then only appears:
<br>"LI"
<br>and it gets frozen.
<br> According to LILO's User's
Guide (pag. 44):
<br>"LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second
stage boot
<br> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either
be caused by a
<br> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without
running the map
<br> installer."
<br>Of course, I haven't moved /boob/boot.b. Since the disk is a large
one,
<br>I used the "linear" global option in lilo.conf, but no luck. I've also
<br>tried without it, with the same lack of success.
<p> If I install LILO on the
IDE disk, it works all right, but I don't like
<br>this solution because of the temporal condition of the disk.
<p> LILO's version is 21.
<p> I would greatly appreciate
any help to get the SCSI disk booting
<br>properly.
<p> Thanks in advance!
<br> Cheers!
<p> Jos� Manuel
<br>
<p>--
<br>Jose Manuel Benitez
Sanchez
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<br>Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
<br>E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica
<br>Universidad de
Granada
Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 61 43
<br>18071 - GRANADA
(Spain)
Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 33 17</blockquote>
<pre></pre>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: In search of a good mpeg video player...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:25:05 GMT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:38:47 GMT, Zomby Woof
<<rGig5.87731$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>No offense to the author of aKtion! that came with my
>mandrake 7.1 distro, but it... sucks.
>The picture is terrible - extremely choppy, and I'm not getting
>any sound (the fact that there is no sound could be my fault, though...)
>
>Would anyone out there be able to recommend a good
>video player?
mtv? It's semi-crippled shareware, but it goes faster than aKtion. The
command-line version of mtv is freely available (you have to do a little
magic to get it to play MPEGs correctly in my experience) and the
graphical frontend requires a $30 donation or the sound cuts out after 1
minute.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows / Oh my god, you kill -9ed kswapd.
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ You bastards.
http://www.brainbench.com /
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: PPP with null modem link
Date: 28 Jul 2000 17:19:56 GMT
Michael Koestner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ 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.
I believe the PPP-Howto in linuxdoc.org describes the procedure
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Tiedt)
Subject: Re: fido
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:24:26 GMT
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:08:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic) wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:02:17 -1000, Ron Nicholls wrote:
>
>> Is a fido mail reader available for linux
>
>Try <http://freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=fido>.
Do a search for "The Husky Project" for GoldEd or MsgEd or for Off
Line Mail Reading use Multimail (sourceforge)
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=
Subject: Re: Listing all the files changed since...
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:27:55 GMT
Hi Thaddeus L Olczyk:
>
> I need to make a list of all the files I either wrote to, changed the
> permissions on, changed the owner and group of, or create in
> the last n days. Can anyone help?
Maybe tripwire and similar tools is what you are searching for.
Jose Luis Domingo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: In search of a good mpeg video player...
Date: 28 Jul 2000 16:53:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:38:47 GMT Zomby Woof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Would anyone out there be able to recommend a good
>video player?
Sure, but why not check freshmeat.net?
I like mtv (www.mpegtv.com) but it's not free, if that bothers you.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
<http://www.iconsf.org/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Oh no!
Date: 28 Jul 2000 16:55:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:47:36 -0700 Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think we've all had some problems with RPM's. I've heard, and
>probably others will confirm, that the Debian package system is more
>careful about checking dependencies.
I have only minimal experience with RPM, but on my Debian system,
running the development "unstable" release, I've never had problems
with library conflicts. Ever. Not even during the infamous libc
upgrades.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
<http://www.iconsf.org/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ethernet NIC Recommendation
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:15:47 GMT
I just picked up one a SMC ($15). RH 6.2 found it and the card worked
fine from the moment it was installed...
--Dave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dennis D wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I would like to add my Linux computer to my simple
> > Ethernet home network. My computer is a Gateway
> > 166 running RedHat 6.1. Does anyone have any suggestions
> > on a NIC card that is known to work well with Redhat Linux?
> >
> > Any recommendations appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dennis
> I think you will find very few cards that do not work, check the
> ethernet howto. For a simple home network I use some very cheap ( < 10
$
> ) ne2000 clones
> --
>
> Bob Martin
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to set hardware time correctly from shell?
Date: 28 Jul 2000 10:31:00 -0700
Thanks, rdate works as advertised and is much simpler to use than
hwclock for my purposes.
--
Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
Visiting NCAR CGD CMS July 24--September 22: (303) 497-1616/FAX-1234
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew J. Perrin)
Subject: Re: pppd and/or wvdial problems
Date: 28 Jul 2000 13:41:43 -0400
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
You got it right, appreciate your answer. I don't see any mention in
any of the docs of ip-up.local, though.
I solved the problem otherwise - it was a mistake on my part. ip-up
uses run-parts to run scripts in the ip-up.d/ directory. run-parts
requires that scripts not have suffixes, and that they have a shebang
line (#!/bin/sh) at the top. I had not done this, just made my
scripts executable. I added the shebang and it worked.
Thanks.
> You just want to change the nameserver based on whether you're dialed into
> an ISp or not, right ?
> How 'bout doing the work from ip-up.local which is called by ip-up. ip-up is
> called by pppd
> after the link has been established, llikewise with ip-down. and
> ip-down.local
>
> example :
> I have MASQ setup through my dial up.
> in ip-up.local I call startfw ( which starts the MASQ-ing for my lan )
>
> in ip-down.local I call stopfw ( which stops MASQ-ing for my lan)
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> joseph
>
>
>
>
> Andrew J. Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Greetings. I'm having problems with wvdial and/or pppd, and would
> > appreciate some advice.
> >
> > I began this setup using wvdial, and works fine at baseline. But I
> > wanted to set up ip-up and ip-down so they would replace
> > /etc/resolv.conf with one appropriate for a connected machine. What I
> > tried was:
> >
> > /etc/resolv.conf.local the appropriate resolv.conf for non-dialup
> > /etc/resolv.conf.pppd resolv.conf for when connected
> >
> > then, /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/resolv did an ln -s /etc/resolv.conf.pppd
> > /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/resolv did the reverse.
> >
> > Unfortunatley, the scripts never ran, at least when pppd was called by
> > wvdial, so the link was never changed.
> >
> > I decided instead to use pppd directly, and set up chat and peer files
> > for my connection; the idea is to be able to do:
> >
> > pppd call rdu
> >
> > /etc/peers/rdu contains:
> >
> > ttyS1 57600 crtscts
> > connect '/etc/ppp/rdu-up.sh'
> > disconnect '/etc/ppp/rdu-down.sh'
> > noauth
> >
> > When I actually issue the pppd call rdu command, it simply exits
> > silently: no errors, but no connection, and the pppd process isn't
> > around. the /etc/peers/rdu file's access time does change, so I know
> > something's happening. Access time for the rdu-up.sh script does not
> > change.
> >
> > /etc/ppp/rdu-up.sh runs fine from the command line. It contains:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > /usr/sbin/chat -v -s -e -f /etc/ppp/chat-rdu
> >
> > /bin/rm /etc/resolv.conf > /dev/null
> > /bin/ln -s /etc/resolv.conf.pppd /etc/resolv.conf
> > /bin/ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
> >
> > (end of file)
> >
> > This also does not work:
> > pppd debug ttyS1 57600 connect '/etc/ppp/rdu-up.sh'
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew Perrin - Solaris-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
--
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Andrew Perrin - Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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From: Yao Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix..solaris
Subject: linux version of pcview
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:01:41 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, all,
has anyone heard of any linux application that can view and print
MS-OFFICE files (doc, ppt, bmp ,etc.), something resembles sun's
pcview?
thanks
yao
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