Linux-Misc Digest #932, Volume #25 Tue, 3 Oct 00 11:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: CD ROM Mount Problem RedHat 6.2 (Thomas Schonborg)
Hard disc problem (Fabrice BAZETOUX)
Re: ERROR too many files systems !!! what is this? (Agron)
Re: Disable booting message? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: slow? ("David ..")
Wich Linux version is best for a small business ("E. Dumont")
chpasswd source, portable to True64? (Christopher Kolar)
Perl : ODBC and DBI with ActivePerl on Linux ("Etienne Laverdiere")
Re: Mail API for Linux (Tony Lawrence)
Re: Disable booting message? (Beggar)
Please help with last step before remove windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SQL database connection fail ? ("tips")
extract mail attachments (Natanael)
Re: Lightweight distribution w/ X? (John Hasler)
Re: PPP and routing. (John Hasler)
Printing man pages (Dave Barcelo)
Re: Disable booting message? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Solaris x86 won't boot from LILO (Agnelo de la Crotche)
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From: Thomas Schonborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: CD ROM Mount Problem RedHat 6.2
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:49:04 -0600
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You should check out the entry in your /etc/fstab file for your cdrom. With this entry
working properly you only need to type:
mount /dev/cdrom
As an example the entry in my fstab is:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
Keeping in mind that you need to make sure you have a the /mnt/cdrom directory for
your cdrom to mount to. You might even get
away with copying this entry to your fstab but I can't guarantee it will work. I don't
know what type of hardware you have. Hope
this helps.
--
Tom Schonborg
JPSS Inc. - Sandia National Laboratories Contractor
(505)844-5753
--
There are two major products that come out of Berkley: LSD and Unix.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
simon wrote:
> try using
> mount -t iso9660 -v /dev/cdrom/ mnt/cdrom
> "ascii7" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:aZaC5.18053$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > What command are you using to mount the CD?
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I'm a Linux newbie switching from WinNT to Red Hat 6.2. The Red Hat
> > > installed perfectly from a CDROM that came with the Osborne book. I
> > > created the boot disk from the CD ROM on WinNT and then installed the
> > > Linux 6.2 system.
> > >
> > > I can mount floppies, but cannot mont the same (or any other) CD ROM
> > > to get to the RPMs. I get the message "Wrong medium type" when I try
> > > to mount the cdrom.
> > >
> > > Any ideas or help will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> >
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<pre>You should check out the entry in your /etc/fstab file for your cdrom. With this
entry working properly you only need to type:</pre>
<pre>mount /dev/cdrom</pre>
<pre>As an example the entry in my fstab is:</pre>
<pre>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0</pre>
<pre>Keeping in mind that you need to make sure you have a the /mnt/cdrom directory
for your cdrom to mount to. You might even get</pre>
<pre>away with copying this entry to your fstab but I can't guarantee it will work. I
don't know what type of hardware you have. Hope</pre>
<pre>this helps.</pre>
<pre>--
Tom Schonborg
JPSS Inc. - Sandia National Laboratories Contractor
(505)844-5753
--
There are two major products that come out of Berkley: LSD and Unix.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson</pre>
<p>
<br>
<br>
<p>simon wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>try using
<br>mount -t iso9660 -v /dev/cdrom/ mnt/cdrom
<br>"ascii7" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<br><a
href="news:aZaC5.18053$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:aZaC5.18053$[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>...
<br>> What command are you using to mount the CD?
<br>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<br>> <a
href="news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>...
<br>> > I'm a Linux newbie switching from WinNT to Red Hat 6.2. The Red
Hat
<br>> > installed perfectly from a CDROM that came with the Osborne
book. I
<br>> > created the boot disk from the CD ROM on WinNT and then installed
the
<br>> > Linux 6.2 system.
<br>> >
<br>> > I can mount floppies, but cannot mont the same (or any other) CD
ROM
<br>> > to get to the RPMs. I get the message "Wrong medium type" when
I try
<br>> > to mount the cdrom.
<br>> >
<br>> > Any ideas or help will be appreciated.
<br>> >
<br>> > Thanks.
<br>>
<br>></blockquote>
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From: Fabrice BAZETOUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard disc problem
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:47:10 +0200
Hello
I can't boot with my computer, there is this log :
Attemp to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying
to open /dev/hda7
Could this be a zero-lenght partition ?
There is something to do or not ??
Thanks
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From: Agron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ERROR too many files systems !!! what is this?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:51:11 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:46:20 -0400, Agron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I added another hard disk and a cd burner to my system. CD-burner is OK
> >but HDD not. I have formatted the hdd and installed windows 98.
>
> What mount options did you give? Did you specify VFAT or FAT32?
>
I have specified VFAT, so is this the problem, FAT32, I'll change this as
soon as I go home.
Thanx Bob
Agron...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Disable booting message?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:03:41 GMT
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:43:59 +0800, Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>How to disable the booting message during system startup?
Pipe all the output to the bitbucket (>/dev/null 2>&1)
But, you really don't want to do that.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:57:20 -0500
Jeph Herrin wrote:
>
> i'm a new linux/old unix user who has just installed redhat 6.2
> on a cyrix 686/166Hz machine with 64MB ram. it's not
> top dollar hardware, but I'm still a bit discouraged by how
> slow linux runs. using the Gnome/Enlightenment combination,
> it takes palpable seconds to get shell window open, on the order
> of a minute for graphical apps. is this normal?
I would say to upgrade gnome to helixcode it helped my system some.
http://www.helixcode.com/
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "E. Dumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wich Linux version is best for a small business
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:06:38 -0400
Hi,
I'd like to know if there is a version of Linux that is easier to implement
(and use) in a small business and wich offers a good technical support...
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:03:20 -0500
From: Christopher Kolar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: chpasswd source, portable to True64?
Apologies if is this is a dumb question. I have a nice shell script to
create batches of user accounts using a text file with
account1 pass1
account2 pass2
... ...
as the input. It uses the chpasswd command that is part of the shadow
utils package. I would like to set up something similar on a True64
system that I run, but I have not had luck hunting down the source for
chpasswd, and then I don't know if there are other issues that would
prevent it from compiling under True64.
Any help would be much appreciated.
--chris
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From: "Etienne Laverdiere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Perl : ODBC and DBI with ActivePerl on Linux
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:11:10 GMT
Hi all, I just installed Red Hat 7.0 on my system, and it works very well.
This system is very cool. But I am very "newbie" right now.
I installed Apache and it works very well too even with cgi-bin scripts.
I use to work with ActiveState Perl on Win Nt. I installed DBI and DBI:ODBC
to work with a Oracle Database.
I was wandering : what is the -- best -- implementation of Perl on this
system?
I want to migrate all my works from Nt to a Linux Server. I never tried to
installed any module with the "make, make install" commands, but only via
PPM from ActiveState. I just installed ActivePerl on my Linux server, and I
haved a little problem to make it run from Apache's cgi-bin.
Question 1 : Does ActivePerl works well on Linux? At a first glance, it does
seems to have DBD:Oracle or DBD:ODBC distribution for the Linux's
ActivePerl. I really need these
Question 2 : How can I tell my apache system to use the ActivePerl
distribution of Perl and not the original Perl?
Question 3 : Should I forget ActivePerl and use the default Perl
distribution? (Perl 5.6.0)
Regards,
Etienne Laverdiere
Montreal
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail API for Linux
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:12:39 -0400
John Lodge wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there a c API for Linux, equvivalent to MAPI, that I can use to send
> mail direct to a POP3 server from
> a program.
You don't send mail to a pop server, you get mail from it.
If you want to send mail, there are numerous Perl modules, or you
can just (using the proper commands, of course) open a pipe to
sendmail or directly to a SMTP server that allows you to use it.
The API is just using proper syntax for whatever you are talking
to..
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disable booting message?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 22:21:53 +0800
Is that need to change all the daemon's startup script and pipe
the output to /dev/null ?? Or is there any .conf that can do that ?
I just don't want the screen output the message during bootup .
Dicky
Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:43:59 +0800, Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >How to disable the booting message during system startup?
>
> Pipe all the output to the bitbucket (>/dev/null 2>&1)
>
> But, you really don't want to do that.
>
> Lew Pitcher
> Information Technology Consultant
> Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please help with last step before remove windows
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:29:59 GMT
Please help with last step before remove windows
I have redhat 7.0 running on my computer and I am happy with it. I
only have you find a way to do the following things before I can remove
windows
1) How can I copy mixed music cd's??
I mean music cds without a dead space on the track changes??
2) I run a design bus. and I need a way to send out bills
something like quickbooks pro.
3) Does anyone know of any DSS card programming software?
IF YOU CAN HELP PLEASE SEND EMAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "tips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SQL database connection fail ?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 22:41:55 +0800
SQL database server connection fail ?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
hello,
I'm using Redhat 6.2 . I installed it with " Everything " option in my
computer.
When I type % psql ( I want to do my SQL homework at home)
It shows an error message:
SQL database connection fail ........ Is postmaster at local host ? or
Unix socket 5432.........
I confused with this condition .
regards,
tips.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
besides,
I'm studying Computer Studies , and need to do SQL homework.
At school , I'm using Unix under SunOS. Everying is already installed for
me,
so that I need not to know how to install SQL related application.
At home , I'm using Win98 . The reason why I install Linux is to
practise C programming and SQL.
Is it a wise method ? Any idea or comment ?
regards,
tips.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Natanael)
Subject: extract mail attachments
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:44:38 GMT
Hi!
I wonder how to extract the attachments in the mail. I want to extract
the attachment, virus scan it and send the mail to the right
recipient. Since we already pay for a antivirus software for NT, I
thing I could just extract the files and let NT scan a shared
directory (yes, i said samba)
I suppose this should be done in procmail, but I have no idea how.
Have looked for a mime/uudecoder but realise I need som help.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lightweight distribution w/ X?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:38:21 GMT
Matt O'Toole writes:
> I'm looking to install on some old 486s with 16MB, and I know this will
> work OK as long as I keep everything to a minimum, and use a lightweight
> window manager like IceWM. Has anyone packaged something like this?
Debian includes IceWM as well as other lightweight wm's. I would be
surprised if most others don't do likewise.
> Most distributions install everything but the kitchen sink, with it all
> up and running by default.
So don't accept the default.
> All I want to run is Netscape, even an old version, and maybe some
> lightweight desktop apps. What's the best approach?
Install a lightweight wm, Netscape (_not_ lightweight), and some
lightweight desktop apps.
Of course, the lightest apps are the non-GUI ones...
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PPP and routing.
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:21:38 GMT
perl_monkey writes:
> Oct 2 20:39:15 mothra pppd[279]: not replacing existing default route
> to lo [127.0.0.2]
This is your problem. When you installed you told the installer to create
a default route via your ethernet card. Pppd won't replace an existing
default route. Get rid of it: you don't need it anyway. Edit
/etc/init.d/network and comment out every line with the word GATEWAY in it.
The best place to post Debian questions is the debian-user mailing list.
Go to www.debian.org to subscribe.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Dave Barcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing man pages
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:53:33 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I print man pages. I tried your standard redirect to an output
file but all I got was garbage.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Disable booting message?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:58:40 GMT
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 22:21:53 +0800, Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Is that need to change all the daemon's startup script and pipe
>the output to /dev/null ?? Or is there any .conf that can do that ?
>I just don't want the screen output the message during bootup .
You can
a) change the /etc/inittab entries to direct stdout/stderr to
/dev/null for each script they start, or
b) change each script to direct stdout/stderr to /dev/null for each
program they run
Of the two, the second gives you finer grain control over which
messages you see.
Caveat: I haven't tried this on the startup scripts, so I cant vouch
for the safety of this technique. I still say that it is inadvisable
to hide those startup messages, as they contain critical information
for when your system doesn't start up and can't be recovered in those
situations. I'd say that the inconvenience of viewing strange messages
for 30 seconds during startup is worth the security of knowing what
went wrong.
>Dicky
>
>Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:43:59 +0800, Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >How to disable the booting message during system startup?
>>
>> Pipe all the output to the bitbucket (>/dev/null 2>&1)
>>
>> But, you really don't want to do that.
>>
>> Lew Pitcher
>> Information Technology Consultant
>> Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
>>
>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>
>> (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
>
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Agnelo de la Crotche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Solaris x86 won't boot from LILO
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 08:00:45 -0700
The following section in /etc/lilo.conf will boot Solaris
installed in the second primary on the second HD.
You have to activate the Solaris partition from within Lilo and
deactivate the other primaries.
But it is even not necessary since the Windows partition doesn't need to
be active at all (provided it is the only C: drive and you installed
Lilo in MBR)
Don't use the map-drive commands if you have Solaris on the first HD.
# Solaris section begin
other = /dev/hdb2
label = Solaris
alias = 6
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
change
partition = /dev/hdb2
activate
partition = /dev/hdb3
deactivate
partition = /dev/hdb1
deactivate
# Solaris section end
If you had a FAT 16 C: with only the Windows boot stuff (IO.SYS.
MSDOS.SYS and eventually config.sys
and autoexec.bat) and the rest on a logical drive, you could boot
Windows with the Solaris bootmanager. I don't know if it can boot FAT32.
You can also have Lilo installed twice, in the MBR and in the bootsector
of its root or boot partition.
That way you can boot Solaris from Linux and Linux from Solaris. If you
add the NT bootloader (even without NT) and save your bootsectors in
files, you can also just boot in a loop and have fun ...
Agnelo de la Crotche
- Bootmanager -
freekick wrote:
>
> I just have a same question.I do as following, it does work.
> But I have another problem:
> I installed Solaris7 for x86 and linux Redhat 6, Windows 98 just on one fix
> disk.
> After I set the FAT32 partition active,The LILO only prompt k. and don't go
> to solaris
> boot manager when I enter solaris options.
> I thinked that solaris boot manager would run normally when its partition is
> actived.
> It is really disappointed.
> Anybody have new suggestion?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> "Timothy J. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8ojoi3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:52:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >>
> > >>After installing Solaris 8 x86, I reconfigured LILO on Linux with
> > >>
> > >>other = /dev/hdb
> > >> label = solaris
> > >
> > >err.. isn't taht supposed to be
> > >
> > >other = /dev/hdb1
> > >
> > >or something like that?
> >
> > After a bunch of fiddling, the following works:
> >
> > other = /dev/hdb1
> > label = solaris
> > loader = /boot/chain.b
> > unsafe
> >
> > The "loader = /boot/chain.b" is needed when booting from something
> > other than the first disk, and unsafe is needed to keep lilo from
> > complaining about the partition table.
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Timothy J. Lee
> > Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome.
> > No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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