Linux-Misc Digest #665, Volume #25 Mon, 4 Sep 00 10:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: PPP works but web browsers don't ("Chew GH")
binfmt module failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
.tkdesk/popups (Frank)
Re: PPP works but web browsers don't ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mkisofs problem (James Pearson)
JavaWebServer Installation Problem (Andrew)
Re: Partitions (Dux)
Re: Cluster-Software for Linux (Raymond Doetjes)
Install Wordperfect from CorelLinux CD (Brian Goodyear)
CueCat (Cokey de Percin)
ipchains redirect ("kipz")
Help! compile problem (Richard Kimber)
installing from ISO image ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: so what do I do with my spare CPU cycles? (John Ridley)
dev-files ("m")
Problems with Big partitions? (GianPiero Puccioni)
Re: Help! compile problem ("Peter T. Breuer")
installing suse 6.4 (Danny Wingate)
newbie XKB keymap problems (Gareth)
Re: ipchains redirect (Arnstein Oseland)
Re: Restrict user login (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: installing from ISO image (Rod Smith)
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From: "Chew GH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP works but web browsers don't
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:07:55 +0800
>
>If /sbin/ifconfig shows a pppX device then your're up and running.
>
yes, ifconfig shows a pppX device running
>The problem could be with not knowing the DNS servers you use. Get
>your ISP's DNS ip addresses and add them to:
>
>/etc/resolve.conf
>
>nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
Does this apply if my ISP uses dynamic ip addresses? A check in MSWindows'
dialup networking revealed that no DNS ip address is specified.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: binfmt module failure
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:17:47 GMT
Failing to start pppd I found this in /var/log/messages:
"Aug 29 13:02:27 GOOFY modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0"
How can I fix this and what might cause such a failure?
I'm very unexperienced in linux so I tried this:
GOOFY:[rland] #rpm -V ppp
S.5....T c /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
S.5....T c /etc/ppp/ppp-off
SM5...GT c /etc/ppp/ppp-on
SM5...GT c /etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
.M....G. /usr/sbin/pppd
GOOFY:[rland] #
-> assuming no errors have been found...
and...
GOOFY:[rland] #locate binfmt
/lib/modules/2.0.35/fs/binfmt_aout.o
/lib/modules/2.0.35/fs/binfmt_java.o
/usr/doc/DLD/Linux/DOC/linux-kernel/kernel/binfm
gif
/usr/doc/DLD/Linux/LDP/LDP/tlk/kernel/binfmt.gif
/usr/lib/perl5/i586-linux/5.004/linux/binfmts.ph
/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/fs/binfmt_aout.c
/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/fs/binfmt_elf.c
/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/fs/binfmt_em86.c
/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/fs/binfmt_java.c
/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/fs/binfmt_script.c
/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/include/linux/binfmts.h
What does "-0" in "binfmt-0" stand for? (a instance?)
Nevertheless I cannot find such a src file on HDD
I would be awfully grateful for some help.
Robert
This message is posted both to comp.os.linux.misc &
comp.os.linux.networking
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From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: .tkdesk/popups
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:22:33 +0000
Hello,
has someone an idea how to make a popup item
that removes all backupfiles (*~) from the marked directory.
This does not work:
{{Remove *~} {dsk_exec rm $(find -name '*~')}}
rm $(find -name '*~') does fine from the comandline...
Thanks Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PPP works but web browsers don't
Date: 4 Sep 2000 06:29:29 -0400
Chew GH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>The problem could be with not knowing the DNS servers you use. Get
>>your ISP's DNS ip addresses and add them to:
> Does this apply if my ISP uses dynamic ip addresses? A check in MSWindows'
> dialup networking revealed that no DNS ip address is specified.
Windows can handle dynamic ip addresses AND setting dynamic DNS addresses.
Linux couldn't (can it yet?) and you will need the IP addresses.
Can you access sites using ip addresses instead of domain names?
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From: James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mkisofs problem
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:57:28 GMT
In article <8ota0c$sci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I try to create an install CD for Corel Linux second edition which
> should
> contain some directories added by me.
> The problem is when I try to create the image file with mkisofs, this
> will substitute some file names and give me messages like this one:
>
> Using PARTITIO.000;1 for /live/usr/X11R6/pixmap/Partitiong16.xpm
> (Partition16.xpm)
>
> how can I avoid this?
These are warnings that you can ignore - assuming you are using the -r
(Rock Ridge) option.
mkisofs has to create ISO9660 (8.3 style) names for each file - even if
you have given the -r option. When the CD is mounted on a Unix/Linux
box, you will see the (long) Rock Ridge file names, not the ISO9660
names.
The above message is just telling you that the ISO9660 name has been
changed.
This is detailed in the mkisofs man page
James Pearson
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: JavaWebServer Installation Problem
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 11:32:35 GMT
Hi,
Can anyone help me with the installation of the subj.
I am trying to install JavaWebServer on my Linux RH6.2 machine.
Though this server is primarily for Solaris/Windows it's is said in
documentation that it can be installed on linux as well. I stopped at
the point of "Rebuilding the Server Library"...
Sincerely,
Andrew
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From: Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: Re: Partitions
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:50:15 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> :> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> : "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> :> :> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> :> : couldn't set up Lilo boot or something. The problems I have are
> :> Here is the result of a search on my disk:
> :>
> :> barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10% locate Partition
> :> /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition
> :> /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition-Rescue
> :> barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10%
> :>
> :> and as you can see, they are installed under /usr/doc/*HOWTO*/ on my
> :> disk. I don't know where you've put your copy, but it might well be
> :> nearby. In general, if you don't know where something is, you should
> :> search for it as above. If it isn't on your disk, search on the net, or
> :> on your cd, or in other obvious places. The FAQ for this newsgroup
> :> strikes me as good reading too! And as a random guess, I just looked up
> :> www.linuxdoc.org on the net, and hit the howtos there too:
> :>
> :> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-1.html
>
> : What I mean is I can't find the file, are you sure it exists. The URL you sent
> : me gave me a dead link.
>
> I didn't send you anything. As to your not being able to find the file, I
> can't help you with that, until you state what is the command you
> are using, and quote the result of the serach. I gave you a full transcript
> of what I did. What happens when you do it?
>
> To find the url, I did "lynx http://www.linuxdoc.org/". I leave the
> rest as an exercise to you (hint: drop the final component of the URL
> and look at the directory above ...). I KNOW you're capable of using
> your wits ...
>
> Peter
Sorry I found the document in the MINI HOWTO, I was searching the HOWTO (not mini).
Hope I didn't wind you up too much.
Ta.
Ian.
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cluster-Software for Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:47:02 +0200
Beowulf is not the answer, beowulf is a PVM parallel virtual machine just for
number crunching. There is no Clustering File System that would be reliable
enough for a RDBMS. They probably want 2 nodes working simultaniously to also do
loadsharing.
Raymond
Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote:
> In article <8otlj9$bo4f4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hartmann wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I am looking for a good cluster-software to cluster 2 linux-maschines and
> >one "network attached storage disk array". I want to set up a RDBMS-Cluster.
> >Can anybody give me some recommendations? Maybe some URLs?
>
> The ultimate resource for such is probably the beowulf website:
> http://www.beowulf.org/
>
> Marius.
>
> --
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Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 07:59:49 -0400
From: Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install Wordperfect from CorelLinux CD
Does anyone know how to install Wordperfect from the CorelLinux CD
without installing Corel Linux. I manged to unpackage the deb package
but the installed expects to be run from the cd and if I just try to run
it seems to complain that it's settings file is missing.
Thanks, Brian
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CueCat
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:23:08 GMT
I wasn't able to download the driver before it was pulled. I would
greatly appreciate it if someone would send me a copy.
Tnx
Cokey
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From: "kipz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ipchains redirect
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:29:22 GMT
Please help me linux people, have had problem for weeks.
I have a dialup connection to internet (dynamic ip) on my linux box
which is the gateway to the web for my two win98 boxes.
I would like to be able to forward requests to the server
from the outside world on a specific port to one of my clients using
ipchains.
People have suggested:
ipchains -A input -p tcp -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 2401 -d 10.0.0.102/32 2401 -j
REDIRECT
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the internet ip of the server.
Should this work? If so what could be going wrong?
Also, it would be nice to be able to update my dynamic ip directly into the
chain.
Should I just grep ifconfig or is there a more elegant way?
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kimber)
Subject: Help! compile problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:48:26 GMT
I'm trying to compile Sawfish. Sawfish requires librep and rep-gtk. The
latter (after much installing of other packages) still gives an error when I
run configure. It complains that it cannot find gdk-pixbuf-config even though
it is present in /usr/bin and this is on my path.
What do I need to do? I am running Mandrake 7.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: installing from ISO image
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:59:54 GMT
hi,
I have the iso image of freebsd distribution. how can I install from
it?
Thank you in advance
Sandy
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From: John Ridley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.society.futures,sci.astro.amateur
Subject: Re: so what do I do with my spare CPU cycles?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:19:55 -0400
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:35:34 -0700, "Bob May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>You should have bought a slower computer for less money! <G>
>Sounds like you have more time than you know what to do with.
>Oh, if you do buy a slower computer, make sure that it doesn't have a
>processor in it that understands the HCF instruction.
Not really. 500 MHz CPU's are more than most people really need, and
they only cost about $60. Even if the CPU was free, it wouldn't cost
much less for the whole computer.
Personally I don't have any use for anything much faster than about a
Pentium 233. That's when the machines started appearing pretty snappy
in a GUI to me. However, my new laptop is a 500. Because that's the
slowest thing I could buy.
99.9% of the time, it's waiting for me to type. A 286 could keep up
with that. However, it's nice having the 500 because it allows me to
play DVD movies for the kids in the hotel room. Sometimes you need
that power.
How much money could I save if I bought a car that could only go 60
MPH, because that's all the faster I need to go?
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From: "m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dev-files
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:21:35 +0100
Hi,
i backuped my linux but i forgot to save my /dev - directory.
when i installed a minimal installation of my distribution, it installed the
devs - package and i got several dev-files back.
then I extract my saved files and overwrite the new installation.
So do I have all dev-files which I had before?
or did I lose some?
on the first view i saw nothing different.
but i.e. the syslogd told me it cannot found /dev/xconsole...
i created /dev/xconsole with "mknod xconsole p"
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE THAT NEED TO CREATED??
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From: GianPiero Puccioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.list
Subject: Problems with Big partitions?
Date: 4 Sep 2000 13:28:18 GMT
Hi,
I still have the problem I asked about time ago, that is, a big
partition (around 50 Gbytes) gives a lot of problems. I followed the
suggestion to upgreade the kernel from 2.2.12 (RH 6.1) to 2.2.16 without
any improvement. I tried to upgrade NFS too as it is possible the
problem is triggered by the fact that the filesystem is accessed by NFS
(even if it is mounted read-only). No success, after some time the
filesystem is unreadable both from NFS and from the local system, I can
umount it but it doesn't remount (it gives a "bad fs") and even fsck
cannot read it ("short read"). This keeps happening even after a reboot,
fsck, or even fdisk, can't read the partition . After a while I was able
to reread the disk (just retrying or maybe it was that I left the
machine off for a while resetting something?). I suppose one solution
could be to split the disk in two smaller partitions but I'd rather try
to avoid that as it could give problems organizing the content.
Summing up the hardware:
OS RedHat 6.1 (no X-win on a separate IDE disk)
with kernel 2.2.16 and nfs update
disc SEAGATE Model: ST150176LW
scsi Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI
the partition is (given by sfdisk -s /dev/sda1)
48845601
the filesystem is (given by df)
/dev/sda1 48078504 10178036 35458188 22% /vol00
Any suggestion?
Thanks,
GianPiero
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! compile problem
Date: 4 Sep 2000 13:17:00 GMT
Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm trying to compile Sawfish. Sawfish requires librep and rep-gtk. The
: latter (after much installing of other packages) still gives an error when I
: run configure. It complains that it cannot find gdk-pixbuf-config even though
: it is present in /usr/bin and this is on my path.
: What do I need to do? I am running Mandrake 7.0
You need to read the configure log and the configure script, and
possibly fix the latter.
Peter
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From: Danny Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing suse 6.4
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:28:58 GMT
I'm trying to install suse 6.4 om my compaq laptop. I don't have an
internal cdrom only an external. Is there a way to get my pc to boot from
it? I'm not very experienced, and have never installed any Linux at all.
The installation manual makes it look easy to do if using yast. Any help
will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Danny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gareth)
Subject: newbie XKB keymap problems
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:36:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I'm running RH/mandrake 6.1 (Helios) and was in the process of trying to
setup Apache CGI (more ?s once I've got it to boot into X again) and must
have altered something else somewhere (though I've no idea what /when /
how).
Symptoms : when booting to runlevel 5 the screen just flicks
when in runlevel 3 after statrx it bombs out with...
.............
XKEYBOARD keymap compile (xkbcomp)
> err bad length in geometry
> output file "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" removed
fall back to pre-XKB keymap
_FontTansSocket UNIX connect : failed to set
can't connect errno - 111
default fontpath 'UNIX :-1'
could not open default font 'fixed'
................
Ok please excuse the ignorance but is this a problem with my fonts, keyboard
or file system, to the best of my knowledge I didn't go anywhere near these,
and what is the easiest (best) method to correct.
This is the second time something similar has happened, the last time I was
even more ignorant than now so I simply re-installed, this time I'd like to
learn (i) what went wrong, (ii) how to fix it.
Keep on Groovin'
gareth
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From: Arnstein Oseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipchains redirect
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:54:27 +0200
kipz wrote:
>
> Please help me linux people, have had problem for weeks.
> I have a dialup connection to internet (dynamic ip) on my linux box
> which is the gateway to the web for my two win98 boxes.
> I would like to be able to forward requests to the server
> from the outside world on a specific port to one of my clients using
> ipchains.
> People have suggested:
> ipchains -A input -p tcp -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 2401 -d 10.0.0.102/32 2401 -j
> REDIRECT
> where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the internet ip of the server.
> Should this work? If so what could be going wrong?
> Also, it would be nice to be able to update my dynamic ip directly into the
> chain.
> Should I just grep ifconfig or is there a more elegant way?
> Thanks in advance.
Or you could use ipmasqadm if you use a kernel >= 2.2.x. See
http://www.linux.no/biblioteket/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.8
for info on ipmasqadm and
http://www.linux.no/biblioteket/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.5
for info on finding your dynamic IP address.
Arnstein
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Restrict user login
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:59:34 -0400
Jack Cheng wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Redhat 6 linux system.
> How can I restrict the user login from remote side but allow from some
> specified IP and users
>
> Thanks
> Jack Cheng
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: installing from ISO image
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:02:53 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8p06c5$orl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> hi,
> I have the iso image of freebsd distribution. how can I install from
> it?
First, FreeBSD isn't Linux; FreeBSD is a BSD. You've therefore posted to
the wrong group.
Second, CD-R image files (aka "ISO images") are almost always used after
being burned to a CD. You do this using a CD-R package's "burn from
image file" option (or something similar; details vary a lot from one
package to another). If you have no CD-R or CD-RW drive, chances are you
have a big useless file on your hands. In that case, check with
http://www.cheapbytes.com or various others to buy an inexpensive
FreeBSD CD. It's conceivable that FreeBSD can install from a CD-R image
file on a FAT partition, but if so I don't know how to tell it to do so.
If I'm not mistaken, you can tell FreeBSD to install from an FTP server,
so if you've got a fast network connection, you could forget about
creating or buying a CD and just get a boot floppy image, create a boot
floppy, and install from the net.
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