Linux-Misc Digest #887, Volume #25 Thu, 28 Sep 00 05:13:02 EDT
Contents:
port windows application into Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: temperature readings ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: temperature readings (Alex)
Re: HELP: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows (Robert Kiesling)
Kernel compile/boot problems (James Myers)
Desktop is Only 1/4 of Full Screen (John)
Linux complains about faxserver (Claus Atzenbeck)
Re: Desktop is Only 1/4 of Full Screen (Davide Bianchi)
Re: port windows application into Linux? (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: Dell Notebook (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: List of RH7 iso mirrors -- we need one (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: md5sum? (Andreas K�h�ri)
amd (am-utils, automounter) -- need help (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: HELP: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows (Massimiliano)
xwin problem ("Hello World")
Re: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows ("Tristan Day")
Re: How to read excel file using Linux? (Eric)
[Fwd: Netscape often crashes. Any fix?] (TM)
What's that maximum mount count error reached ? (TM)
Re: Partitioning..... (Eric)
Re: Partitioning..... (Eric)
"maximum mount count reached" error : what's that? (TM)
Re: searching for old x game ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: [Fwd: Netscape often crashes. Any fix?] (Andreas K�h�ri)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: port windows application into Linux?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:30:35 GMT
I want to port some applications from Windows98/NT into Linux. Who knows
how to do that?
I've heard before that there's a Linux project that is a windows emulator
under Linux and could let some window application run under Linux. Who
knows any information about that project?
Thanks!
Ming Zhu
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: temperature readings
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:35:36 -0600
> Current Mandrake kernels already have lm_sensors modules compiled
> in.
How reliably does it run? The few machines that I ran lm_sensors on
crashed every few days, until I disabled the package, then they were
rock-solid again. It is a nifty package, though.
steve
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: temperature readings
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 02:59:40 -0400
Steve Wolfe wrote:
> How reliably does it run? The few machines that I ran lm_sensors on
> crashed every few days, until I disabled the package, then they were
> rock-solid again. It is a nifty package, though.
>
It runs very well on my machine.
Running RedHat 6.2 on AMD K6-3, ASUS P5-A.
I don't think lm_sensors ever causes my system unstable.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kiesling)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Sep 2000 02:51:04 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sharon Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Symptom: I've never been able to login!
>I suspect teh ftp client sends some thing to the server
>which is misinterpreted by the sever as bad user
>name and/or password.
There should be a /etc/pam.d/ftp file on the server, since Red Hat
started adding pluggable authentication modules without documenting
them, the network services require them. I guess they decided you
don't need ftp. There's some documentation in /usr/doc/pam-<version/.
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From: James Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel compile/boot problems
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:05:35 -0700
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I have never had a problem creating a new kernel until just recently.
I am upgrading from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16/2.2.17 (doesn't matter which one).
I do:
make config, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install.
Next:
move kernel to /boot (my boot partition)
move System.map to /boot
run /sbin/lilo
do depmod -a for good measure
Boot system:
When it tries to start the raid file systems I get dropped to a
system maintenance login (in rc.sysinit). It is trying to run
/sbin/raidstart and fails.
Raid is compiled into the kernel, not a module.
What's going on? Have naming conventions changed? What's
different now?
James
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<pre>I have never had a problem creating a new kernel until just recently.
I am upgrading from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16/2.2.17 (doesn't matter which one).
I do:
make config, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install.
Next:
move kernel to /boot (my boot partition)
move System.map to /boot
run /sbin/lilo
do depmod -a for good measure
Boot system:
When it tries to start the raid file systems I get dropped to a
system maintenance login (in rc.sysinit). It is trying to run
/sbin/raidstart and fails.
Raid is compiled into the kernel, not a module.
What's going on? Have naming conventions changed? What's
different now?
James
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Desktop is Only 1/4 of Full Screen
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 03:15:56 -0400
Having some trouble with an install.
I have a sharp picture, but I'm only seeing 1/4 of the full desktop.
If I move the mouse to the edge, I can move the screen around the desktop.
Suggestions?
TIA
-john
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From: Claus Atzenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux complains about faxserver
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:23:43 +0200
I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1
Every day Mandrake complains about my fax server. In /root/dead.letter I
can find this entry every day:
*****
FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing!
The file /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is not present. This
probably means the machine has not been setup using the faxsetup(1M)
command. Read the documentation on setting up HylaFAX before you
startup a server system.
*****
The thing is that HylaFAX is not started on boot. Since the fax server
is not running, why is Mandrake complaining?
Thanks for your help!
Claus.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Desktop is Only 1/4 of Full Screen
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:36:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 03:15:56 -0400, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Having some trouble with an install.
>
>I have a sharp picture, but I'm only seeing 1/4 of the full desktop.
>If I move the mouse to the edge, I can move the screen around the desktop.
>
>Suggestions?
Probabily you have configured the Virtual desktop. Remove the
"virtual" from your XF86Config files. See the XF86Config-HOWTO.
Davide
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Subject: Re: port windows application into Linux?
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Sep 2000 09:49:25 +0100
In article <8quoib$dcd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to port some applications from Windows98/NT into Linux. Who knows
>how to do that?
>
>I've heard before that there's a Linux project that is a windows emulator
>under Linux and could let some window application run under Linux. Who
>knows any information about that project?
>
>Thanks!
>Ming Zhu
Wine:
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation
of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a
development toolkit (Winelib) for porting legacy Windows
sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified
Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine
does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely
alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free
code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are
available.
<URL:http://www.winehq.com/>
/A
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Subject: Re: Dell Notebook
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Sep 2000 09:52:10 +0100
In article <8quf6u$6qa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Looking at the 7500 series. Anyone ran Linux on one of these critters??
>Thanks for any info,,
>
See my answer in another news group.
/A
ps: That's why you should have crossposted properly or waited for an
answer before posting to other news groups...
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: List of RH7 iso mirrors -- we need one
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Sep 2000 10:00:13 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That would be cool if we could get a list of RH7 iso mirrors going!
>
>
<URL:http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html>
Most of the mirror site dosen't seem to have the images yet (some of
them have empty directories). Others have them.
/A
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Subject: Re: md5sum?
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Sep 2000 10:02:24 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kirk R. Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone give me the rundown on how to check an iso image and newly
>burned cd with md5sum. The man page didn't help me much ;-)
>
>Thanks,
Did it fail to tell you "md5sum file"?
You can't run md5sums on a burnt CDROM, you're supposed to run it on
the image file (before burning!!) and to compare it with the checksum
in the checksum file.
/A
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: amd (am-utils, automounter) -- need help
Date: 28 Sep 2000 08:20:48 GMT
I need help in an amd/NIS configuration:
Server
users defined only on server and distributed to clients via NIS.
acx01 /home filesystem with user home directories (~200) named
/home/a101 /home/a102 /home/a103 etc...
Clients
acx02
acx03
acx04
acx05
I want to have all user directories automounted when users log into
the clients (and server as well of course).
I want to have a map
[ home ]
map_name = amd.home
My questions/assumptions:
I assume amd must run on every computer in the network.
NFS server has to run on server and /etc/exports must export /home on
server to the clients.
/etc/amd.conf on server should contain map_type=file
while
/etc/amd.conf on clients should contain map_type=nis
How does amd.home have to look like on server and clients?
(it's Redhat Linux 6.1 FWIW).
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From: Massimiliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:31:53 GMT
Robert Kiesling wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Sharon Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Symptom: I've never been able to login!
>
> >I suspect teh ftp client sends some thing to the server
> >which is misinterpreted by the sever as bad user
> >name and/or password.
>
> There should be a /etc/pam.d/ftp file on the server, since Red Hat
> started adding pluggable authentication modules without documenting
> them, the network services require them. I guess they decided you
> don't need ftp. There's some documentation in /usr/doc/pam-<version/.
>
> --
> Robert Kiesling
> Linux FAQ Maintainer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check the file /etc/passwd. At the end of the line concerning the user
being refused by the ftp server there shoul be the shell used to login,
usually /bin/bash.
If there is NO shell selected the user can login from consoles but NOT
from remote (ftp is considered remote login even if used from the same
machine).
So, simply add "/bin/bash" at the end of the line, and it will work
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From: "Hello World" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xwin problem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:43:35 +0800
when i reboot a machine in runlevel 5, i got
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
what is the problem? i am using redhat 6.2 on a poweredge 4300. i have no
problem before, but when i try to login in x-win today, my system hang. i
try to kill the X but not successful. then i reboot it but cannot enter x
automatically. but when i type startx, i can still enter xwin.
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From: "Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to use FTP or should I turn to Windows
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:53:02 +0100
have u put a .htaccess file in the ~me/ directory? with password, if I
remember right.
I would confirm it for you, but I broke my machine and am having to build a
new one :o(
Hth
good luck!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"Sharon Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Can someone point to me the things I should look
at in order to get ftp work under RedHat 6.x?
Symptom: I've never been able to login!
Connected to host.domain
220 host.domain FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Tue Sep 21 16:48:12 EDT
1999) ready.
Name (host:me): me
331 Password required for me.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
ftp> quit
Here are the things I have and have checked
Files:
/etc/passwd (has non root user "me", group is also "me"
/etc/shadow (generated by pwconv)
/etc/group (defined group id "me")
/etc/inetd.conf
/etc/ftpaccess
/etc/ftpusers ("me" is not there)
/etc/identd.conf
/usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.ftpd (wu-2.5.0(1))
/usr/sbin/identd
/var/log/messages (says: ftpd[13]: cmd failure, etc.)
/var/log/secure
Someone suggested look at /dev/tty, well, it's crw--rw--rw-.
I suspect teh ftp client sends some thing to the server
which is misinterpreted by the sever as bad user
name and/or password.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read excel file using Linux?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:55:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John wrote:
>
> I need to read an excel file using Linux. Is this possible. I would
> like to do it for free if possible.
You could try staroffice, it's a big program, but it can handle the MS
office filetypes just fine.
Eric
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From: TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: Netscape often crashes. Any fix?]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:53:49 +0200
TM a �crit :
> Hi,
>
> when using netscape 4.72 or 4.75 sooner or later it stops working and
> freezes so I have to kill it.
>
> Do you people have the same trouble and did some of you found a way to
> fix it?
>
> Thanks
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From: TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: What's that maximum mount count error reached ?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:58:23 +0200
Hi,
I'm getting sometimes at boot time this kind of error:
/dev/hard_drive_id has reached maimum mount count, check forced.
What does it mean and how do I prevent it.
Thanks
TM
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning.....
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:03:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Jigsaw Man wrote:
>
> > Do you have any free space?
> > That means NON PARTITIONED SPACE, not just space in the windows FS.
> > Else you will need to create it. You can use FIPS.EXE for that or
> > Partition Magic (if you have it)
>
> No, all space on my drive is set in a dha partition, for windows.
you will need to free-up some space or else you really cannot install
linux at all (Well actually you can install from inside windows, but I
wouldn't do that)
>
> > IIRC that's not an issue for mandrake 7.0, (you can choose to use GRUB
> > as bootloader eg.), but don't quote me on this. Anyhow I doubt you'll
> > have this problem anyway, since your HDD is only 7.5 GB (in LBA mode
> > 1024 cyl. ~*G).
>
> OK, good.
>
> > If you insist on booting linux from floppy (i really don't know why) you
> > will not ever have this problem, because a floppy never exceeds this
> > amount of cylinders :-)
>
> I hoped to boot from floppy in order to avoid this problem, and because
> I don't know how to set up a dual-boot. Does it occur automaticly?
I haven't installed Mandrake before, but you can very likely make lilo
be setup to boot windows too during the install (In RH linux you can, so
I assume most other distro's support this too) It indeed occurs
automatically, but even if it doesn't it isn't very difficult to correct
it afterwards. Just come back here if you didn't succeed.
Eric
> The Jigsaw Man
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning.....
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:01:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Jigsaw Man wrote:
>
> > Do you have any free space?
> > That means NON PARTITIONED SPACE, not just space in the windows FS.
> > Else you will need to create it. You can use FIPS.EXE for that or
> > Partition Magic (if you have it)
>
> No, all space on my drive is set in a dha partition, for windows.
you will need to free-up some space or else you really cannot install
linux at all (Well actually you can install from inside windows, but I
wouldn't do that)
>
> > IIRC that's not an issue for mandrake 7.0, (you can choose to use GRUB
> > as bootloader eg.), but don't quote me on this. Anyhow I doubt you'll
> > have this problem anyway, since your HDD is only 7.5 GB (in LBA mode
> > 1024 cyl. ~*G).
>
> OK, good.
>
> > If you insist on booting linux from floppy (i really don't know why) you
> > will not ever have this problem, because a floppy never exceeds this
> > amount of cylinders :-)
>
> I hoped to boot from floppy in order to avoid this problem, and because
> I don't know how to set up a dual-boot. Does it occur automaticly?
I haven't installed Mandrake before, but you can very likely make lilo
be setup to boot windows too during the install (In RH linux you can, so
I assume most other distro's support this too) It indeed occurs
automatically, but even if it doesn't it isn't very difficult to correct
it afterwards. Just come back here if you didn't succeed.
Eric
> The Jigsaw Man
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From: TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux,redhat.misc
Subject: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:02:48 +0200
Hi,
I'm sometimes getting this kind of error at boot time:
/dev/drive_id has reached maximum mount count check forced
what's that and how do I fix it?
Thanks
TM
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: searching for old x game
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 05:06:43 -0400
> not really a linux specific question, but it does fit in the misc
> category. i was wondering if anyone out there could jog my memory. i
> remember playing a game in x in which one assumed the character of a
> monster godzilla, some robot, a poison gas cloud, etc. and romped
> around trying to smash up a town. what was that game? and is it
> still available somewhere?
Yes, it's a pretty good game! That's Battalion, and you can get it at
http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/AndyBattalion.html. Have fun!
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Netscape often crashes. Any fix?]
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Sep 2000 11:06:26 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>TM a �crit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> when using netscape 4.72 or 4.75 sooner or later it stops working and
>> freezes so I have to kill it.
>>
>> Do you people have the same trouble and did some of you found a way to
>> fix it?
>>
>> Thanks
>
How much later is "sooner or later"? Two weeks? 30 seconds? I haven't
had a problem with any of the two versions (on Solaris and various
GNU/Linux distributions). Oh, some MS web pages causes it to freeze,
yes, but then I just make a mental note not to go there anymore.
/A
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