Linux-Misc Digest #870, Volume #25 Tue, 26 Sep 00 04:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: gnapster 1.3.5 (Bev)
memory allocation error (puru)
[?] how to configure glibc-2.0.7 without fpu codes? (jauming)
Re: Error on "make bzImage"... (MH)
How to make updatedb include /root/* (Bev)
Systems administration utilities (Richard Anderson)
How to make boot disk on LS120? (MH)
Re: memory allocation error ("David ..")
Re: rh62 and openssh (John)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Richard Steiner)
Red Hat 6.2 - why do only some kernal modules load? (Elliot)
Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here (Tim)
Re: been hacked...have a question (Rob Kroll)
Re: How to make updatedb include /root/* (Paul Kimoto)
Re: The first connection MySQL (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DSt=E9phane?= Lebrun)
'no such file or directory' (permissions problem?) in cgi-bin
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Re: New Linux Install (Raymond Laia)
what is the most convenient and effective way to backup? ("Lucas Tsoi")
Re: Lilo broken??? (Villy Kruse)
Re: Can we fix my wtmp/utmp, please?
view long filenames on msdos partition (Chris Cera)
Re: long filenames in RH (Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?=)
Re: view long filenames on msdos partition (Davide Bianchi)
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: gnapster 1.3.5
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:21:14 -0700
Alex Fitterling wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > My Gnapster 1.3.5 has been disfunctional for about a month. I know that
> > Windows Napster users are having no problems. My Gnapster keeps "Finding
> > best host" forever. It used to function perfectly before. Probably,
> > there was some change in Napster servers, so the native Napster could
> > handle it, while Gnapster couldn't.
>
> > I'd like to know what other Linux users are using instead of Gnapster
> > now.
>
> Hi, there's also a java implemented solution of napster... should be
> available at all recent linux download pages. It hasn't been really
> finished yet, the author seems still working on it. I think it works
> fine, but you'll miss some helpfull options....
Try knapster. I don't run KDE, but this is another one of those nice
little applications that runs without it.
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Cheers,
Bev
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"Don't force it, use a bigger hammer!"
--M. Irving
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From: puru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memory allocation error
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 03:30:08 -0000
hi,
I have posted a question earlier, let me rephrase mine. I have compaq
pressario with windows98 installed. I want to partition the disk. I tried
it using fips2.0(I think this supports FAT32). it patitions the drive. but
as soon as it partitions the disk, i get an error "memory allocation error
and system is halted". so system is halted......
Can anyone help with this....
Thanks,
Puru
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From: jauming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [?] how to configure glibc-2.0.7 without fpu codes?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 03:19:59 GMT
[?] how to configure glibc-2.0.7 without fpu codes?
[?] how to configure glibc-2.0.7 without fpu codes?
because "--without-fp" or "--nfp" doesn't work :<
thanks in advanced!:)
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error on "make bzImage"...
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:52:58 -0700
Bob Martin wrote:
> MH wrote:
> >
> > Recently, while trying to compile a new kernel, I did "make bzImage" and
> > everything proceeded normally until the very end. I got the following
> > error:
> >
> > make[1]: as86: command not found
> > make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127"
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> >
>
> depending on how you did your installation seems you do not have the
> assembler installed. This in the binutils rpm package.
> --
>
That's what I thought, but the binutils package WAS installed. I had to
install the bin86 RPM to make a happy kernel.
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make updatedb include /root/*
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:04:59 -0700
It currently includes nothing in /root or any of its subdirectories when
it's run as a cronjob (updatedb&), but includes it when I do it by hand
(updatedb&). What can possibly be the difference?
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Cheers,
Bev
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"Don't force it, use a bigger hammer!"
--M. Irving
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Anderson)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:30:28 -0500
Subject: Systems administration utilities
Korn shell scripts for text processing, file and directory processing,
customizing your login environment, disk space management, performance
analysis, system monitoring and system security. It includes generalized
login environment files for the Korn shell, bash and the C shell.
Some of the functions of Typhon:
* Substitute one text string for another in all files in a directory tree,
skipping non-text files. The substitution strings can be regular expressions
or plain text.
* Display all subdirectories as a visual directory tree.
* Copy a file to multiple remote hosts, with disk backup of the target file on
each host.
* List all subdirectories in one or more directories, including symbolic links
to directories.
Part of Typhon is distributed as freeware, part as a commercial product. You
can download the freeware or purchase the product at www.unixscripts.com.
Richard Anderson, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Raycosoft
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make boot disk on LS120?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:41:52 -0700
Recently built a new box and, for lack of a floppy drive, I installed an
LS120, remembering that these IDE/floppies were supported by Linux. I
compiled support for ATAPI floppy into the kernel. I can mount the
LS120 (hda), and can read my old boot floppy, but cannot create a boot
floppy using "mkbootdisk", and I can't boot from my old boot floppy
(stops at LIL when loading LILO). How do I create a boot disk on the
LS120?
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory allocation error
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:38:43 -0500
puru wrote:
>
> hi,
> I have posted a question earlier, let me rephrase mine. I have compaq
> pressario with windows98 installed. I want to partition the disk. I tried
> it using fips2.0(I think this supports FAT32). it patitions the drive. but
> as soon as it partitions the disk, i get an error "memory allocation error
> and system is halted". so system is halted......
> Can anyone help with this....
If you made it through the partitioning of the drive then reboot to DOS
and run fdisk. You should see the partition changes since FIPS make a
second DOS partition.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh62 and openssh
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: 26 Sep 2000 12:06:42 +0800
In comp.os.linux.setup Timo Metzemakers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I am trying to install openssh for Linux and cannot complete the RPM
>> install. When I install the RPMs, I get an
>>
>> 'rpmlib (version discrepency) <= 3.0.3 - ...' or something like
>> this. I am not sure what rpmlib means, is it the rpmbuild, or
>> somthing else?
> Being terribly lazy, I just used rpm --nodeps, and it worked.
Upgrading rpm would probably have fixed it too, and maybe a few other problems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:56:12 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake unto us, saying:
>In article <PPty5.1915$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Yannick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Why not both in one OS ? Because it's not an easy thing to do (nobody
>> quite managed to do it yet),
>
>Actually, someone (a very large someone) did manage to do both. But it
>was a company that couldn't market its way out of a wet paper bag any
>more, and they threw in the towel.
It's not quite dead yet. :-) But perception will sometimes create a
situation even though it didn't completely match reality to start with.
In any case -- stability and legacy support are not mutually exclusive,
and of course OS/2 clearly demonstrates that. But people will take the
easy way out, believing press releases and the words of industry pundits
rather than depending on personal experience, so most of them will never
know what they missed out on a number of years ago. :-(
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OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
One dead unjugged rabbit fish later...
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From: Elliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 6.2 - why do only some kernal modules load?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:30:02 -0000
Hi all,
Something has been confusing me - I recently updated a couple of servers
to RH 6.2 amd noticed that neither netatalk nor nfsd started at bootup
(despite the appropriate init.d scripts being run). The problem turned out
to be that neither the nfsd or appletalk modules were loaded into the
kernel. Manually entering insmod nfsd etc. followed by the rerunning the
init.d scripts and all was well.
Of course I could put these commands into a start-up script, but why is
this necessary. it was not in ealier RH releases. I notice that other
kernel modules such as that for nfs (the client)are autoloaded when needed
(as autoclean - so they are alos unloaded if not used). How can you make
nfsd or appletalk modules behave in this way?
Elliot
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:30:10 GMT
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:43:46 -0800, "Chowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>You can download the Red Hat 7.0 ISO images at this location:
>
>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/iso/
Good luck.
Maybe if RedHat lights up a few more OC-192 connections and a couple
dozen HPUX V-Class servers then you *might* be able to get thru.
Right now, as is, it's phlooded.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: been hacked...have a question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Kroll)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:34:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vilmos Soti) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> someone recently connected to my ftp server and did something (i dont
>> know what) to nuke me on irc. the thing is, he/she connected to my ftp
>> server apparently using the IP address of someone else. the IP address
>> in my log file belongs to someone i know...someone that i know didnt
>> nuke me. how did the "nuker" fake the ip address?
>
>The attacker might have cracked your friend's machine and used
>that machine as a springboard. If this turns out to be the case
>then your friend should immediately act upon this so s/he cannot
>be held liable to any damages originating from his/her machine.
>
>Vilmos
>
Isn't there a command in FTP that allows you to use one FTP server as a
proxy for launching a connection to another FTP? I seem to remember reading
something about that....
Speaking as somebody who was in the same situation as "me" about 8 months
ago, I can say quite plainly that I didn't "wipe/reformat/reinstall". I was
running services that I shouldn't have: FTP, HTTP, Telnet, etc. All of the
services that come active by default in most distros.
All I did was close all ports. As I was running the services for internal
use, I went out, bought a $100 office machine (IBM Personal Computer 350,
for those who are interested), and put the services on that machine, behind
the firewall. I realize that it doesn't protect me from all kinds of
attacks, but it seems to have stopped all but the most determined attacker.
Only one attack has been made since the ports were closed, and that was a
"nuke" attempt by some idiot trying to exploit the Pentium F0 0F bug on a
system running with an AMD processor. :)
I realize that you're trying to run an FTP, but be smart about it. Have a
decent firewall between you and your internet connection. If you want to
share files, then use ATd to schedule times when an FTP tunnel will be
openned through your firewall, or better off, have a friend ICQ you when
they want to FTP, and you manually open the tunnel, and close it when
they're done.
The only other viable suggestion that I've seen here is to use httpd
instead of ftpd. Post it on an HTTP server, because (in most cases) users
only have read permissions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: How to make updatedb include /root/*
Date: 26 Sep 2000 01:40:51 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bev wrote:
> It currently includes nothing in /root or any of its subdirectories when
> it's run as a cronjob (updatedb&), but includes it when I do it by hand
> (updatedb&). What can possibly be the difference?
If /root is not readable by all users, perhaps the cron job runs updatedb
as some user such as "nobody".
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DSt=E9phane?= Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The first connection MySQL
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:21:52 +0200
Thanks,
I'am going to download the package from MySQL site.
Jean-St�phane Lebrun
SCHeckler a �crit :
>
> Mandrake's MySQL RPM's have never worked for me. Take them off your system and
> get the RPM's from the MySQL site instead.
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-St�phane Lebrun wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >I installed the Mandrake 7.0. and I want to practice MySQL.
> >The only command that I can execute is :
> >$ mysql -V
> >mysql Ver 6.5 Distrib 3.20.32a, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)
> >
> >If I want to connect, it's impossible !! I don't create a database but
> >the following comman is the only that works.
> >$ mysql -h localhost -u lebrun -p exemple_db
> >Enter password :
> >
> >But I don't know the password !!
> >
> >Then, how can I connect to mysql first to creat my database ?
> >
> >Best regards.
> >
> >Jean-St�phane Lebrun
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 'no such file or directory' (permissions problem?) in cgi-bin
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:18:04 GMT
I can't even get my CGI scripts to run in the shell. I suspect it's a
problem with the permissions. As an aside, I am running a firewall with
a strong ruleset (trinityOS) and may have changed the default
permissions -- it shouldn't matter though, I 'chmod 777' to the cgi-bin
directory and 'chmod 755' to the *.cgi files inside.
I copied the scripts to /home/httpd/cgi-bin (I'm running red hat) and
then 'chmod 0755 cpanel.cgi' as recommended in the docs. It looks like
they exist when I look in the directory but not when I try to run them,
see:
#ls -l c*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16865 Sep 24 19:11 cpanel.cgi
#./cpanel.cgi
bash: ./cpanel.cgi: No such file or directory
What the #?!@? hehe Herein is my problem - the file appears to exist
and be in the directory but bash cannot run it.
I had first thought it was an Apache problem with me not having CGI
scripts enabled (I do now), but the logs gave me this message too so I
thought I'd try it from the command line. Something else must be wrong.
What's going on? I must be missing something easy.
The script is a perl5 script and I checked the path it is using to find
perl; it's correct. I am logged in as root and httpd is running as
nobody. Please CC: me if you do a follow-up ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), in
case I miss it here.
-k
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From: Raymond Laia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: New Linux Install
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:02:36 +0200
> "James M. Luongo" wrote:
>
> I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need some
> help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something about
> LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk cylinder (or
> sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not sure. Is this
> true? Help!
Hallo James, I don't know how big is your harddisk. But I make a good
experience with 2 GB. The normal setup eats ca. 1,2 GB of your disk.
Don't worry about LILO and the disk cylinder. The LILO version in
Mandrake 7.1 can cope with more cylinders. If you like a pretier
Bootmanager then you can try GRUB. Mandrake will ask you to choose at
the end of installation.
Raymond
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From: "Lucas Tsoi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: what is the most convenient and effective way to backup?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:33:18 +0800
As title.
Thanks very much.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Lilo broken???
Date: 26 Sep 2000 07:11:57 GMT
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:40:35 +0200, Jeroen Geilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>the point is that the linux loader doesn't FIT on a single sector (512
>bytes)
>so it writes a 'chain' of sectors to boot from - and is therefore called a
>'chain loader'
>but - this makes it of the utmost importance that the computer (BIOS / OS /
>whatever) translates the CHS info correctly to a linear LBA address, or else
>lilo CANNOT load any further sectors on bootup
>the solution here is to add the line
>linear
>to lilo.conf, then run lilo and reboot
>
>this makes the loader assume that it will get linear sector addresses from
>the drive, a necessity with LBA drives (and SCSI drives, but then it says
>so, but it _doesn't_ say WHY this is so)
>so now you know :)
>
The difference is that with the linear option the LBA addresses are
stored in /boot/map rather than the CHS addresses. Thus at boot time
the lilo loader will get the current disk geometry from BIOS and use
that to convert to CHS address that the BIOS int13 needs. When linear
is not specified the geometry is as the kernel knows it at the time the
lilo loader is installed, and in some cases this geometry might differ
from the geometry the BIOS will use.
Now, with the latest lilo which supports the extended int13 call, the
conversion between CHS and LBA address can be skipped entirely, which
simplifies things quite a lot. Bear in mind that on SCSI drives, the
classic int13 BIOS code needs to translate CHS addresses back to LBA
address again, which is the only thing SCSI drives have ever used,
and which is now also what the LBA IDE drives will be using.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Can we fix my wtmp/utmp, please?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 07:41:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ray wrote:
<snip>
> Thank you sir. This means utmp is not even IN /var/log? Or is in both
>places? Surely not. I wonder how I managed to get it in the wrong dir. :)
>Perhaps wtmp and friends is in /var/log, utmp and friends is in /var/run.
>I wonder if the system will create these files, allowing me to just rm all of
>'em, and let it start all over? Do I need to touch them or will it just
>create them on it's own? Why do I have things like utmpx, and wtmpx?
>
>--
>Ray R. Jones
>Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
>From the man page for wtmp...
FILES
/var/run/utmp
/var/log/wtmp
As it appears you have done upgrades and not fresh installs
things on your box may differ from mine as I believe redhat tries
to save your configuration when you upgrade. I did a fresh
install of 6.2 as I wanted to change the way my disks were
partitioned.
If it were my box I would read /usr/include/paths.h and find out
where the system expects utmp to be. The line would look something
like this...
#define _PATH_UTMP "/var/run/utmp"
I would then do the following as root...
touch /var/run/utmp
chmod 664 /var/run/utmp
chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp
korthals
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Cera)
Subject: view long filenames on msdos partition
Date: 26 Sep 2000 07:48:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an msdos partition, but all my stuff has the crappy
/mnt/dos/progra~1 problem. Is there any way that I can view
these as their normal filenames? I'm using win98 on that
particular partition. Thanks.
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From: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: long filenames in RH
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:05:58 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, Running Red Hat 6.1 as an apache intranet server
>
> Copied across some html files from a windows box using an msdos floppy
>
> Found that they've lost most of their filenames if they were over 8
> characters
>
> I thought that Linux supported long file names? If so how do I get it
> to recognise that?
>
> andy
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t vfat
that's it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: view long filenames on msdos partition
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:09:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26 Sep 2000 07:48:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Cera) wrote:
>I have an msdos partition, but all my stuff has the crappy
>/mnt/dos/progra~1 problem. Is there any way that I can view
>these as their normal filenames? I'm using win98 on that
>particular partition. Thanks.
Probabily you have mounted the partition like an MSDOS partition,
try using a VFAT partition that support long filenames.
Davide
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