Linux-Misc Digest #686, Volume #25 Thu, 7 Sep 00 00:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Booting troubles, MBR not right? (jeff)
Re: Tekram DC-390 SCSI - start on boot ("Rich Piotrowski")
Re: IP address stealing on Intranet (D G)
Re: Talk problem in linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98 (D G)
Re: ~user www directories needed (William W.)
VirtualHost disables main server!!! ("Devon Harding")
Duplicate path entries when using gnome (Leonard Evens)
Re: what's up with Sun? ("Ez-Aton")
Restricting Users (Dave Barcelo)
Re: Booting troubles, MBR not right? (Hammer)
Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver?? (Steven Lee)
NEC Silentwriter LC 890 ("William Bradley")
System hangs on modem disconnect ("Chew GH")
compile error w/ kernel 2.2.14 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver?? ("D. Abuan")
Re: Fdisk problem with SCSI HD (Craig Kelley)
Re: Before I remove windows from my computer?? ("Philo")
Re: Restricting Users ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Subject: Re: Booting troubles, MBR not right?
Date: 7 Sep 2000 01:14:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Sep 2000 21:55:35 GMT, David Boldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At boot time I end up with a cursor on an
>otherwise empty screen. No "LILO" or subset
>thereof.
>
>With a boot floppy, everything is fine.
>
>/boot has its own 19 Mb partition, /dev/hda1.
>
>LILO has been used to install to both the
>MBR and the partition table. (No luck
>either way) Linear is turned on.
Not sure what this means (lilo can be installed into an MBR or a partition's
boot record, but not into the partition table). I'd try:
1. Boot into system via diskette
2. One booted, make sure that /etc/lilo.conf contains the line:
boot=/dev/hda
3. Run lilo
4. Try rebooting
If nogo, try again with linear mode off. Good luck...
-jeff
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From: "Rich Piotrowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390 SCSI - start on boot
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:47:36 -0600
In article <8p3vd5$j79$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI card. I compile support into the kernel
> (have tried module and *, but no help). I have to boot up, wait until
> init
> drops to a shell because it can't mount all the filesystems, and then
> insert the module and mount the filesystems. I then go to runlevel 3 to
> resume startup. How do I get it to do this at startup?
>
>
Strange, I have a DC-390F (same chipset). I have done it with the support
compiled in and as a module. I am using the standard NCR53C8XX support.
If it is done as a module, you must of course, create an "initrd". Are you using
the stock kernel or is it patched with the tekram mods. What Kernel version?
Rich Piotrowski
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP address stealing on Intranet
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:39:18 -0700
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
>
> "kipz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I urge everybody in this group to with-hold any help to this person if
> >it will be used to restrict peoples access to the web.
>
> Nonsense. There's no human right to web access. After all, this is
> a highly expensive tool, and somebody does have to pay the phone
> bills, huh?
Tell that to Al Gore and his "internet access tax".
--
DG
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Talk problem in linux
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:42:43 GMT
Hi, Frank, and thanks for your reply.
I looked at the file you suggested and saw that it was commented out
and where you had "udp", the file had "tcp". I uncommented the line
and changed the 3 letters, saved the file, rebooted the machine (don't
know if I had to do that or not) and tried again. Alas, I got the same
message. Believe me, I'm not sharp enough to write a firewall script
so I can't explain the 111 either. Again thanks, and if you have any
other ideas....
dhill
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> =
>
> > In trying to use "talk" on my Mandrake 7.0 system I got an error
> > message that said: "[Error or read from talk daemon:Connection
refused=
>
> > (111)]". Can anyone explain to me what that error is and how it
can be=
>
> > fixed?
> =
>
> You need an entry in your /etc/inetd.conf like
>
> talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
>
> Does that exist? Also make sure that you don't have firewall skript
> running that blocks port 111 (sun remote procedure). Although
> I wonder why it needs 111 because talk should run on 517...
>
> Best,
> Frank
> -- =
>
> Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CAU Kiel, Olshausenstra=DFe 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -
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> D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-
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> /
>
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:43:44 -0700
Greg F Walz Chojnacki wrote:
>
> I'm still not entirely clear on this biz. I don't _want_ to be prompted for a
> password to use the printer.
>
> Greg
I don't see the original post, but you can fix this by putting "guest
ok=yes" in the printers section of the /etc/smb.conf file. If you want
it listable, put "browseable = yes" in the same section. Here's the
relevant section of my /etc/smb.conf:
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
For windows, you set it up through control panel->networking, but I
don't remember the specifics.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William W.)
Subject: Re: ~user www directories needed
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 02:09:11 GMT
In our last episode (Wed, 06 Sep 2000 23:37:57 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Ed said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William W.) wrote:
>> In our last episode (06 Sep 2000 15:46:52 GMT), the artist formerly
>> known as LFessen106 said:
>
>Cute! How did you do the above? Did you manually change the standard
>text (i.e., "In article") or is there a way of changing the default text
>in your (or any other) news client? Please pardon my ignorance if this is
>an obvious. Thanks!
In my .slrnrc file, I have:
set followup "In our last episode (%d),\nthe artist formerly known as %r said:"
Most other newsreaders should support some way of doing something
similar.
Cheers.
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: VirtualHost disables main server!!!
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:18:51 -0400
When I enable VirtualHost in httpd.conf, request to the main site is being
redirected to the VirtualHost site. I have to create another VirtualHost
for the main site. Take a look at my httpd.conf:
Note: I have to use dns name for NameVirtualHost because the adapter on that
ip is obtained by dhcp
### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
#
# VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them.
# Please see the documentation at <URL:http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# If you want to use name-based virtual hosts you need to define at
# least one IP address (and port number) for them.
#
#NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80
NameVirtualHost venus.domain.com
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
#
#<VirtualHost ip.address.of.host.some_domain.com>
# ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.some_domain.com
# ServerName host.some_domain.com
# ErrorLog logs/host.some_domain.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/host.some_domain.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost _default_:*>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost venus.domain.com>
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ServerName siresol.domain.com
DocumentRoot /www/docs/siresol.domain.com
ErrorLog logs/siresol.domain.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/siresol.domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost venus.onedesigns.com>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html
</VirtualHost>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Duplicate path entries when using gnome
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:59:31 -0500
I am running RedHat 6.2 with gnome-*-1.0.55-12 I am using runlevel
5. When I login using one of the alternate terminals, I seem
to get the path expected from my entry for PATH in my .bash_profile.
I also get something that looks plausible if I use su - user_name
to start a new shell within a gnome terminal. But the normal
login from the gnome login screen yields a complicated path with
many repetitions of path entries. So it appears that gnome or
X or something is adding entries to the path in some bizarre way.
It even looks as if something like
. ./bash_profile
were done after some directories were added to the path (which
in fact were already there).
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this.
On another machine, running a very recent version of gnome
from the Helix gnome installer, we find that when logging out
from gnome, the file .bash_logout is ignored. But with my
earlier version (which is that which comes with RH6.2) it
does as expected when logging out.
Does anyone have any idea of what might be happening there?
Generally where can one find a simple explanation of what gnome
does when you login or logout?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Ez-Aton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 05:33:24 +0200
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8p6h5i$qu1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : On 6 Sep 2000 13:24:42 GMT, Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :>In comp.os.linux.misc Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : The general consensus is that you will not see the advantages
> : of SCSI on single user workstation or if you've only got a
> : single storage device. SCSI really starts to shine when you're
> : managing multiple devices and IO operations concurrently.
>
> As in: more than one user logged in, or exporting your FS via NFS.
>
> Peter
Rgarding this, I remeber a friend ofmine who could use his scsi cdr while
playing.
It might look simple today, but one issue can't be ignored: It was a
P166MMX, not the monsterous P3 of these days.
IDE cdr at these times would require you to stay still and disable your
screensaver...
SCSI is more expensive, but it's abilities pay well when dealing with
heavily IO loaded systems, and with servers, which, by definition, should
maintain high IO load.
Ez.
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From: Dave Barcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Restricting Users
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:48:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a way to keep users from running there own daemons.
Dave
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting troubles, MBR not right?
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 02:35:06 GMT
In article <8p6egn$5mu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Boldt) wrote:
> At boot time I end up with a cursor on an
> otherwise empty screen. No "LILO" or subset
> thereof.
>
[snip]
I doubt this is very helpful, but I had this problem once too and it was
NT bootloader and Lilo getting confused. I never did figure out how I
munched it so bad. I ended up having to "fdisk /mbr" (<--don't do that
unless you know what you're doing) and resinstall the NT boot laoder in
the MBR and Lilo on the linux partition. I tried everything to try to
get around it, and couldn't. fdisk'ing the MBR was my last resort.
If you haven't been messing with NT, than that's not your problem... but
that's how it happened to me. I wish I knew enough to help more, sorry.
GL.
-=hammer
--
MC
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Before you buy.
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From: Steven Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver??
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 23:13:59 -0400
In article <SNBt5.239324$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "D. Abuan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just bought this Brother HL-1030 printer but forgot
> to check the hardware compatiblity list... Does anyone
> have any solution to get this thing working???
I have a HL-1240. It works beautifully on my Redhat 6.0 box. In
printtool, I selected the HP LaserJet 4/5/6 series filter. All the
Windows PCs on the LAN prints great via Samba :-)
I hope this helps.
--
Steven Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "William Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEC Silentwriter LC 890
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 03:18:30 GMT
Does anyone have any experience with getting the above postscript printer up
and running under Linux?
--
William J. Bradley,
http://www.leaflets.on.ca
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From: "Chew GH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: System hangs on modem disconnect
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:24:38 +0800
When I terminate my ppp connection, either with ppp-off or physically
unplugging the telephone line, the following messages will be displayed:
Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 571)
Connection terminated
Connect time 28.3
Sent 356568 bytes received 4420119 bytes
Waiting for 1 child processes... script /etc/ppp/ip-down. pid 571
Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 571), status=0x0
Sometimes this works fine, but sometimes the system would freeze at this
point, and pressing the reset button is the only way out.
I noticed that the system is more likely to freeze on modem disconnection
when connection time is long (about 20 minutes) and/or when the total
transfered bytes is high. I can't exactly quantify 'long' or 'high' but
there is no freeze when I'm connected for short times like a few minutes.
Also, I'm using a 56k lucent winmodem made to work by ltmodem. Any ideas
where the problem lies? I could provide some of the script files and log
files if needed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: compile error w/ kernel 2.2.14
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 03:25:48 GMT
I have been trying to compile kernel 2.2.17 but kept getting an error.
So I loaded kernel 2.2.14, I have had success compiling that until
now. The error I am getting is:
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make [3]: ***[root.o] Error1
make [3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/fs/autofs'
make [2]: ***'first_rule] Error 2
make [2]: leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/fs/autofs'
make [1]: ***[_subdir_autofs] Error2
make [1]: Leaving direcotyr'/usr/src/linux/fs'
make :***[_dir_fs] Error 2
[rot@computer linux]#{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:0:Warning: end of file not at end of line; newline
inserted
{standard input}:265 : Error: bad register name ('%')
cpp: output pine has been closed
I do the make mrproper, make dep, make clean, and then make bzImage.
With the 2.2.17 it stops in the fs directory but has a different error
(I don't remember what it was).
Also after the process crashes and I run it again by pushing the up
arrow key to recall the last command, the process races through the
first part and picksup where is left off and continues to completion.
I am afraid to try the kernel, is it ok, what does this message mean,
what can I do to fix it.
All thoughts and advice are greatly appreciated
John Miller
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From: "D. Abuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver??
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 03:36:35 GMT
Sorry Steve.... the HL-1240 is a model just above mine... Checked Onvia
and the printer is only $75 more... too bad!
Thanks for your advice... I was hoping that someone out there could
give me a driver or some work-around to get it working.
"Steven Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <SNBt5.239324$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "D. Abuan"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Just bought this Brother HL-1030 printer but forgot
> > to check the hardware compatiblity list... Does anyone
> > have any solution to get this thing working???
>
> I have a HL-1240. It works beautifully on my Redhat 6.0 box. In
> printtool, I selected the HP LaserJet 4/5/6 series filter. All the
> Windows PCs on the LAN prints great via Samba :-)
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> --
> Steven Lee
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,tw.bbs.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Fdisk problem with SCSI HD
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Sep 2000 21:36:24 -0600
Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Segate 18GB Ultra2 SCSI HD, after I "fdisk" it and write the
> partition to disk. It work fine without any error message, but the
> problem is that when I quit fdisk and enter fdisk again, the partition
> table does not change as I modify before.
>
> what's the problem?? Harddisk problem or fdisk problem? It have also
> use "cfdisk", but with the same result.
On many partitions, you must reboot between calls to fdisk (hence the
warning it gives you).
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Before I remove windows from my computer??
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:50:19 -0500
i don't know if everyone would agree with me...but when i first started with
linux...
i always tried to do an economical installation...and would install as
little as i though i could get by with...only to have to keep doing updates
etc...it was a real a pain .
then all of a sudden, when i loaded up a new drive with mandrake i
thought...
this is kind of crazy isn't it...with 30gig drives costing under $180...
and ten gig drives for about $80 or so...
why not install virtually the whole package.
so when i installed about 1 gig of mandrake on a ten gig drive...i still had
9gigs left over!!!
and just think... a year ago i was using an 850meg.
unlike windows...the more linux you install the better it runs
(especially after you had tried to compile something only to find such and
such library you thought you'd never need was missing)
Philo
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Restricting Users
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:55:55 -0500
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Dave Barcelo quoth:
~~ Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:48:50 -0500
~~ From: Dave Barcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Restricting Users
~~
~~ Is there a way to keep users from running there own daemons.
1. give them a restricted shell.
2. chroot them.
3. do not let them log in.
4. have your own daemon that kills theirs.
5. halt the machine, and tell them that their daemons crashed it.
6. throw the server off a tall building and tell them that their
daemons drove the machine to suicide.
7. use windows (who needs daemons, when you can have satan himself).
8. use mac os (that damned second button confuses users anyhow).
9. convince them that the pacman machine at the laundromat down
the street is really a dumb terminal (tell them the ghosts are
daemons).
10. threaten them, let them know that big brother is watching
(xsublim is good for convincing them of this).
11. kill the users. make them account for every bit they
send over the network, make them give you od -c'ed script files,
and tell them to file it in your cylindrical inbox on the floor.
12. users need wedgies (helps clear their mind).
Only take the first couple seriously, please!
anm
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