Linux-Misc Digest #921, Volume #25 Mon, 2 Oct 00 11:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: R: add tape (David_C)
Re: Asus P2B-DS, ok???????????????????????????????????? (Arturo C)
Re: DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!! (aflinsch)
Re: Newbie: EZ question about dir structure (Derek Jolly)
Re: monitor problem in gnome (CDM)
Re: DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!! (David Hassett)
looking for stg like freehand or visio on Linux (TM)
Web services and firewall in same box? (Henrik Sjostrand)
Re: DISPLAY env variable problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: news and mail client for linux (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Memory per process question (Loukas Kallivokas)
Re: Web services and firewall in same box? (Patrick M Geahan)
PPPD - PAP FAILS ("Peter Woodall")
RAID1 performance even worse than one single drive (XWinger)
Internet connection through Linux (frasermac)
Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??! (Max Denneboom)
Re: looking for stg like freehand or visio on Linux ("John E. Garrott Sr")
Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??! (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!! (Brandon Hoppe)
Re: Memory per process question (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: getting mpg123 to launch (Michael Perry)
kickstart, ftp and login (Marco Fornari)
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: R: add tape
Date: 02 Oct 2000 09:16:13 -0400
"Lodo Nicolino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Thanks for the tips.
> the tape a would like to install is an old wantek qic02.
> Can i use that ?
The old QIC-02 adapters are supported by Linux. At least I found a
module with the drivers in my RedHat installation. I don't know how
well it works.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arturo C)
Subject: Re: Asus P2B-DS, ok????????????????????????????????????
Date: 2 Oct 2000 12:16:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I'm planning to use an Asus P2B-DS in a web-server because of the
>onboard SCSI. Can anyone tell me if this is a good and stable board?
>..and is the onboard SCSI (U2W) based on Adaptec AIC-7890 fully
>supported by Linux? (...i'm thinking of using RH7.0)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Kees.
I've been using the P2B-DS for quite some time without any problems
whatsoever.
Asus P2B- DS
2 P2-450's
512MB Ram
Seagate Cheatah 10,000RPM 9.1GB SCSI using the onboard SCSI controller
RedHat 6.x
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:05:47 -0500
Brando wrote:
>
> I am installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 using lnx4win. The install went
>wonderfully.
> Very nice. There were only a few packages that caused an error during the install,
>but I
> continued to finish the install. Now, after everything was done, it came time to
>reboot.
> The GRUB loader comes up with
>
> linux
> failsafe
> windows
> floppy
>
> I choose linux and I get this error and the laptop freezes:
>
1 - beta means not ready for prime time, use at your own risk.
2 - try reinstalling, pay close attention to what packages failed
during
the install, be sure to create a boot disk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Jolly)
Subject: Re: Newbie: EZ question about dir structure
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:26:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew N. McGuire ), in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
>On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Barry OGrady quoth:
>
>BO> Whats an EZed question?
>
>EZ -> easy
In the US maybe. Not here though. 'Z' is not pronounced "Zee" here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: monitor problem in gnome
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:13:18 +0200
Such problems can occur if you're freq/viewmode settings are incorrect. Try
to find a
XF86Config file for your board/screen. Lots of distributions have tools to
configure/test.
"Matt Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qtoev$aqs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i type startx from my command line in redhat 6.2 and get a dimmed screen.
> it's bringing stuff up, but i can barely see it. it's so dark, i doubt
> anyone above my age would be able to see it. i get a "welcome to gnome"
> window.
>
> i'm using a viewsonic viewpanel 13.8, which was in the list of
recognizable
> hardware during installation. my video card is a 16 mb 3dfx voodoo3 3000d
> agp.
>
> btw, i just installed. this was my first attempt to launch gnome.
>
> desperate,
> matt
>
>
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: David Hassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:31:58 +0100
Brando wrote:
>
> I am installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 using lnx4win. The install went
>wonderfully.
> Very nice. There were only a few packages that caused an error during the install,
>but I
I have to say it. Those packages _may_ have been very important. The
fact they had errors is usually an indication that something is wrong.
What were the error messages? What were the packeages?
> continued to finish the install. Now, after everything was done, it came time to
>reboot.
> The GRUB loader comes up with
[ker-snap! Hideous error messages and other scary stuff...]
Something else which struck me when I first read your message was the
line:
"I choose linux and I get this error and the laptop freezes..."
Key word being 'laptop'. As far as I'm aware, laptop hardware support is
usually quite low-down on a devoloper's list of priorities, since many
laptop parts are vendor-specific. Also, in a direct quote from
Mandrake's website:
"MandrakeSoft is happy to announce the new Beta (Beta 3) of the
upcoming
7.2 release: Ulysses.
Please keep in mind that Ulysses is an experimental Operating System,
it's not for daily use! The goal of beta testing is to help debug it
and
Ulyssesn is sure to contain things that are broken. Use with care!"
So - you are now officially a beta tester. You accepted that things may
not work - and surprise-surprise - they don't. That is what being a beta
tester is about. Form a bug report, and then read:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/bugs/Reporting.html
and perhaps you should then send your bug to Mandrake. :-) Well done for
making the world a better place.
Now, for your actual problem. I would suggest you obtain a *stable*
release of Mandrake (currently 7.1), and try that. If that doesn't work,
read this 'Linux on Laptops' site and see if there is any specific
information on your particular make and model:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
That is about the best advice I can offer. :-)
Cheers,
Dave. :-)
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From: TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: looking for stg like freehand or visio on Linux
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:30:40 +0200
Hi,
do someone know about a diagramming tool for linux?
Thanks
TM
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From: Henrik Sjostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Web services and firewall in same box?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:26:16 GMT
Hi,
This is for home use (ADSL) so I'm not looking for Pentagon security,
but is it completely insane to use a Linux box both for firewalling AND
web services like http, ftp and mail server?
I'm thinking of binding the services only to the private/inner network
adapter and only opening up the necessary ports to the outside/public
network adapter via the firewall software? In addition to the web
services that are accessible from the outside/Internet, I also need
telnet, Samba and X to be accessible from my private network.
I know that the less amount of code you run on the firewall the safer
you are, but as I said, I'm not Pentagon, or even commercial.
Thanks in advance!
/Henrik Sjostrand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DISPLAY env variable problem
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:30:12 GMT
I think you are right. In the Oracle install document, this stuff all
takes place in the section "Tasks to perform as the Oracle user", so
naturally, I was trying all of this as Oracle, not root.
After posting the question last night (about an hour after 8-)), I
tried "xhost +" as root, and voila! It said anyone could log in from
anywhere.
They need to make the docs a little clearer.
Thanks for your help.
--Michael
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8r9694$tfq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >Trying to install Oracle 8i. I'm typing the following & receiving the
> >following error:
> >
> >DISPLAY=192.168.0.5
> >export DISPLAY
> >xhost + 192.168.0.5
> >Xlib: connection to "192.168.0.5:0.0" refused by server
> >Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> >xhost: unable to open display "192.168.0.5:0.0"
> >
> >I'm running this from within Xwindows on the linux box itself.
>
> ...but not as the user that started X. Am I right? Try giving the
> command "xhost + localhost" as the user who started X, then try your
> stuff again.
>
> /A
>
> --
> Andreas K�h�ri,
> Uppsala University, Sweden.
> ------------------------------------{ GNU it yourself: www.gnu.org }--
--
>
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From: Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: news and mail client for linux
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:30:04 GMT
In article <#kSm0O5KAHA.213@net025s>,
"dick dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Suse 6.4, does anyone has a good suggestion for a news
reader
> and email client?
> ( KRN (news client does not run very well on my system), kmail works
OK but
> maybe you got an even better suggestion)
The KRN in Suse 6.4 is probably still 0.6.0, which is 18 months old. You
should try 0.6.12 instead. You can get it from
http://krn.sourceforge.net.
The RPM will probably not work, but you can build your own out of the
src.rpm.
--
Roberto Alsina (KRN author, MFCH)
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From: Loukas Kallivokas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory per process question
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:00:41 -0500
I am using tcsh; the equivalent ulimit bash command is limit. All
indices
(datasize, stacksize, memoryuse) are set to unlimited. Yet the 512MB
limit
per process limit persists. Any ideas?
Thanks
Loukas
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From: Patrick M Geahan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web services and firewall in same box?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:16:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Henrik Sjostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is for home use (ADSL) so I'm not looking for Pentagon security,
> but is it completely insane to use a Linux box both for firewalling AND
> web services like http, ftp and mail server?
Depends.
If you need http and ftp to be visible to the outside world, you might as
well. The argument can be made that securing one box would be easier then
securing two(firewall and web server, for instance).
If it ONLY needs to be visible to the inside network, then placing it on a
separate machine from the firewall would be a good idea. THat way, remote
exploits for the http/ftp servers would be pretty much blocked from the
outside world.
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note has happened in Europe since the Germans got uppity a couple of times
earlier this century." - Natural Born Cereal Killer in alt.peeves
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From: "Peter Woodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPPD - PAP FAILS
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:27:31 -0400
Started using Linux via the GUI interface supplied by Corel. After some
effort got the dial-up function working.
Now I have to use diald & pppd. diald works and pppd starts but fails to
authenticate using PAP. I have put the userid & password in pap-secrets
and enabled (+pap) PAP in the options file of pppd (as well as telling diald
to let pppd do the authenticate for it with no luck.
Does anyone know where kppp (the gui dial-up) keeps it scripts for dial-up?
Thanks
Peter
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From: XWinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID1 performance even worse than one single drive
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:30:04 -0000
Hi, I have a slow harddrive which can run up to Mode 4 and another
harddrive that can run up to UDMA2. My motherboard supports PIO 5 and DMA
according to the manual. Can someone tell me what PIO 5 is?
Also, with the two harddrives that mentioned above, I created a RAID 1
array. The two harddrives are on different on-board IDE controllers. And
according to the results from "hdparm -t" and bonnie++, the performance of
the array is even worse than the slow drive by itself! Can someone tell me
what is wrong with my setup? What I want from RAID is read performance,
does RAID1 provide the best performance boost or should I switch to
RAID10? Thanks.
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From: frasermac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internet connection through Linux
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:30:06 -0000
Hi,
I've recently installed Redhat 6 on my Windows 98 pc, setting up as a dual
boot.
I've got most of the initial configuration completed successfully, but I
just can't get connected to the the outside world. I realise that my modem
may actually be a win modem, but I don't think it is.
Does anyone know of any potential problems in getting a connection that I
could be experienceing?
Assuming that perhaps I do have a winmodem, is there any way of getting
connected without having to buy a new modem??
Thanks in advance
Fras
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From: Max Denneboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:29:25 +0200
The Archimage wrote:
>
> I lost DNS configuration, Apache configuration, Samba (although,
> granted, I use SWAT), and service management (although that seems to be
> covered now by ntsysv and xinetd).
I want to configure sendmail in linuxconf (or netconf), as I did in
RedHat 6.2... They seem to have taken that out as well. Bug or feature?
Max
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From: "John E. Garrott Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: looking for stg like freehand or visio on Linux
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:13:58 -0700
TM wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> do someone know about a diagramming tool for linux?
>
> Thanks
>
> TM
You can try dia :
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html
It may do what you want.
Good luck,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??!
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:43:43 GMT
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:29:25 +0200, Max Denneboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The Archimage wrote:
>>
>> I lost DNS configuration, Apache configuration, Samba (although,
>> granted, I use SWAT), and service management (although that seems to
>> be covered now by ntsysv and xinetd).
>
>I want to configure sendmail in linuxconf (or netconf), as I did in
>RedHat 6.2... They seem to have taken that out as well. Bug or feature?
Probably a bug fix ;)
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From: Brandon Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:48:08 -0500
Henry Kruuskopf wrote:
>
> I dunno why your copy of this nice dist. screws up. I installed it and
> everything went fine. I didn't use lnx4win, but i installed it by booting
> from cd-rom. I have also installed it from dos using autoboot.bat.
>
> I think your problems might come from lnx4win.
> Just boot from cd-rom or use autoboot.bat from dos (remember to have cd-rom
> drivers loaded it u use autoboot.bat)
>
> Only problem i encountered was that Mandrake altered my extended dos partion
> to linux extended partion and i couldn't accsess to it from windows. This
> had simply solution. Just change the type of extended partion from linux to
> win and everything is cool.
>
> For my opinion, Mandrake is realy good dist. to workstation computer for
> generic daily use. With right piece of hardware you can do everything on
> Linux that you did in windows.
> For right piece of hardware i mean right display adapter with right 3D.
> (3DFX works better on Linux than other OpenGL boards. correct me if im wrong
> :)
>
> -Wmute
Perhaps your right. lnx4win does sound like the culprit here. I have
installed LM 7.0 on another machine with no problems. That's why I came
back to put 7.1 on this laptop. I didn't have to use lnx4win last time.
So, I'll take your suggestion and try autoboot.bat and give that a shot
and post the results.
CORRECTION: lnx4win is a Piece Of Shit!! :)
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Subject: Re: Memory per process question
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2 Oct 2000 16:56:14 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Loukas Kallivokas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using tcsh; the equivalent ulimit bash command is limit. All
>indices
>(datasize, stacksize, memoryuse) are set to unlimited. Yet the 512MB
>limit
>per process limit persists. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>Loukas
How do you know it's 512 Mb? Do you deduce it from the array sizes,
from e.g. 'top' or from some warning/error message? Are you sure it's
not a limit in the compiler? Does the operating system recognize the
whole gigabyte? How much memory is actually free when you try to run
the application?
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
===================================={ GNU it yourself: www.gnu.org }====
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: getting mpg123 to launch
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 06:09:15 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 12:41:57 -0400, Matthew Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>mpg123 came preinstalled with RH 6.2, but for some reason it won't
>launch. when i double-click on the icon in the /usr/bin directory, it
>just gives me an hourglass for a few seconds and then goes away.
>
>i didn't realize that it came preinstalled and tried installing an older
>version that i downloaded, which wasn't successful.
>
As others have pointed out, mpg123 is a command line app; however, if you
decide to keep it nad not go to xmms, you can use gqmpeg as a front end
which is quite nice and graphical. It does playlists, has lots of nice
skins, etc. There are also windowmaker dockapps for mpg123.
--
Michael Perry
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From: Marco Fornari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kickstart, ftp and login
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:06:11 -0400
Hi,
I need to use RH kickstart ftp installation without
having anonymous ftp. How can I specifiy username and
password on the ftp server ?
Thanks, Marco
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