Linux-Misc Digest #943, Volume #25 Wed, 4 Oct 00 15:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: ppp setup in SuSE 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sniffing Serial Port Data? (Gerry Wheeler)
Installing Redhat 7.0 on a Dell Inspiron 3200 Notebook ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2.4.0-test and lack of shared memory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Rescue -- Need GURU (paul simdars)
Re: PPP and routing. (Bill Unruh)
Re: Respawning too fast (Bill Unruh)
Re: mailing a file from command line (Grant Edwards)
Re: Very simple question (Dances With Crows)
Re: Changing the Settings on a Card (Dances With Crows)
Re: Error 0x10 (Dances With Crows)
lp port hacking (Natanael)
Re: Problem with samba (Natanael)
Re: Rescue -- Need GURU (Dances With Crows)
Re: 2.4.0-test and lack of shared memory (Dances With Crows)
Re: SOS! Netscape RH 6.2 ??? (ALDEL)
Strange printing problem (Kristian Lampen)
arcview 3.2 (Tim Ravndal)
Where is libreadcore.so on Linux? (needed for acroread) (Charlie Zender)
Re: NT + Linux dual boot, can I repair damaged NT loader? ("Jonathan G. Campbell")
Re: so what do I do with my spare modem bandwidth? ("Dan Jacobson")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ppp setup in SuSE 6.2
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:25:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] did eloquently scribble:
> Hi,
> I configured my modem and dialling options (number to
> dial, userid, password etc.) under ppp. The modem
> was auto detected with no problems. When I try
> ro run WvDial as suggested in the wvdial configuration
> section of the manual, it tries to start the ppp daemon
> process which dies with an error code of 10 .
Hmmm, strange.
I've been using wvdial on SuSE 6.2 for ages with no problem.
According to the signal manpage, 10 is a signal used on alpha and sparc to
denote a bus error, but on Linux isn't used...
If it's any help, this is my /etc/wvdial.conf script...
[Dialer Defaults]
Username = spike1
Modem = /dev/ttyS0
Password = XXXXXX
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
Compuserve = 0
Tonline = 0
Dial Command = ATD
Phone = 0845 662 1000
Baud = 115200
Auto DNS = 0
Stupid Mode = 1
New PPPD = 1
idle = 1
[Dialer free]
Phone = 0844 0404142
Username = xxxxxx
Password = xxxxxx
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From: Gerry Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sniffing Serial Port Data?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:41:00 GMT
I have a Windows application that I run in VMWare. It sends data to the
serial port, and works fine. I want to look at the serial data. Since
VMWare is running on top of Linux, is there anything I can do within
Linux to see the data?
One thought I had was perhaps telling VMWare to use a different device.
Then, in Linux, I could perhaps use a pipe or tee to connect that device
to the real serial device, and be able to get the data out at the same
time. But, I've no idea how to do that.
Any other ideas?
Gerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installing Redhat 7.0 on a Dell Inspiron 3200 Notebook
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:40:35 GMT
Installing Redhat 7.0 on a Dell Inspiron 3200 Notebook
Did anyone try it yet??
I toke me over a year to get X working right and now I am thinking
about installed Redhat 7.0?
Any tips
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2.4.0-test and lack of shared memory
Date: 4 Oct 2000 15:21:52 GMT
I've been tinkering with the 2.4.0-test series and end up with shared
memory not being used. For example:
#:free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 126872 98580 28292 0 2732 58756
-/+ buffers/cache: 37092 89780
Swap: 267260 0 267260
Shared is ALWAYS 0. This is making my system VERY slow at times.
Any kernel gurus know what I'm missing in configuring the kernel? Or is
this a new 'feature'?
Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:00:39 -0500
From: paul simdars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rescue -- Need GURU
I have RH6.2 and win98 on same machine. Win98 decided to puke and had
to be reinstalled. It also destroyed the boot sector. I have Partition
Magic and it shows all my linux partitions but I can't access them.
I had a boot disk but it got lost somewhere (because you never use them
with good old stable linux). So, here I am with all my partitions there
and no way to get to all my wonderful data. HELP!
I figure there must be some way to get the data. There are lots of
creative ideas that have come to mind but I need to find someone who
knows about this.
Thanks,
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PPP and routing.
Date: 4 Oct 2000 17:02:03 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>While Debian allows you to edit config files by hand, it does not force you
>to do so.
So, perhaps you will be good enough to tell him how to get rid of that
default route to lo on debian!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Respawning too fast
Date: 4 Oct 2000 17:14:45 GMT
In <8rd2r4$39n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Donnaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I've set up my modem according to the HOW-TO in the LDP section of the
]linux.org website (eventually adding
] S1:345:respawn:/sbin/uugetty ttyS1 F33300 vt100
Do not use uugetty. Use mgetty. Again, use mgetty. EVen the author of
uugetty says, use mgetty.
Anyway some error is occuring when uudetty tries to start. initd
respawns it, error, respawn,error,respawn,.... You get the idea.
Fix the error.
]to the bottom of inittab). Once all the instructions were completed, I got
]an error message on my linux console saying:
] INIT: id "S1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
]What do I need to change to make the init stop respawning so quickly to
]ttyS1?
That is its job! You asked it to respawn. It is trying to do so. Fix the
error, (whose main componenet is that you are using uugetty. Yes I know
some documents still mention uugetty. )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: mailing a file from command line
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:22:45 GMT
In article <8rfeqa$uk6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew wrote:
>Anyone knowing how to do this?
>It would be nice to have a command such as:
>
>mail -a my_file.rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mutt -a my_file.rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED] </dev/null
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Very simple question
Date: 4 Oct 2000 17:42:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:25:14 GMT, Andrew wrote:
>In the following command:
>nohup postmaster -i >pgserver.log 2>&1 &
>what does this part "2>&1" mean?
2>&1 means "redirect standard error to standard output". "man bash" for
more info than you ever wanted to know about this sort of thing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Changing the Settings on a Card
Date: 4 Oct 2000 17:42:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4 Oct 2000 13:37:06 GMT, Marshall Lake wrote:
>I have a SoundBlaster PCI128 card that I'm trying to install on a 2.2.15
>Linux box. I need to change the IRQ setting because it's conflicting
>with another card in the machine. I don't see a way to change the setting
>on the card physically. I don't run anything Microsoft. isapnp doesn't
>recognize the card. How do I change the IRQ setting on the card?
PCI cards are not supposed to step on other cards' IRQs or I/O ports,
and isapnp is for ISA cards, as the name implies. There are some
motherboards that assign IRQs to PCI cards based on the slots they are
inserted into; try plugging the sound card into a different PCI slot.
PCI cards can also share interrupts, so if the other card is also PCI,
there is a strange problem here. It might help if you could post the
exact error message(s) you receive when trying to load the module for
the sound card, as well as the output of "dmesg ; cat /proc/ioports
/proc/interrupts".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Error 0x10
Date: 4 Oct 2000 17:42:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:14:28 +0200, KrayZ wrote:
>I installed RH6.2 in partition 3 of a SCSI disk
>I try to boot from a floopy that i made during installation but it
>doesn't work. It shows "Error 0x10". How can I solve it?
>From the LILO documentation:
0x10 "CRC error". A media error has been detected. Try booting
several times, running the map installer a second time (to put the map
file at some other physical location or to write "good data" over the
bad spot), mapping out the bad sectors/tracks and, if all else fails,
replacing the media.
Most likely, your boot floppy had a bad sector on it. You can pretty
easily make another one even if you can't boot to Linux; use RAWRITE.EXE
(in the DOSUTILS directory of your distro's first CD) and the disk
images in the IMAGES directory to create a boot disk from DOS. You may
have to boot the system like so from the floppy:
LILO: linux root=/dev/sda3
...until you can make a proper boot disk and install LILO on your hard
drive. (DO THAT! It's faster and more reliable.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Natanael)
Subject: lp port hacking
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:52:58 GMT
Hi!
Is it possible to et up the /etc/printcap file so that a
echo "A" > /dev/lp1
is the same as doing a
outb('A', 0x378);
in C program?
I would love to maipulate the pin's on the lp port directly from a
bash script
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Natanael)
Subject: Re: Problem with samba
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:55:35 GMT
It could be that the win98 sends the passwords encrypted, while your
samba expects the passwords as plain text. Look in the samba
documentation for encrypted passwords.
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:23:42 +0200, Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> I have a Linux Suse 6.2 box with samba installed. I could access part
>of the Linux file system from other computers using MS-DOS+LanManager
>and it worked. Now I need to access the same files from Windows98SE
>boxes, but these computers do not "see" the Linux server and the Linux
>server does not "see" the windows boxes. What could be happening ????
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Rescue -- Need GURU
Date: 4 Oct 2000 18:03:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:00:39 -0500, paul simdars wrote:
>I have RH6.2 and win98 on same machine. Win98 decided to puke and had
>to be reinstalled. It also destroyed the boot sector. I have Partition
>Magic and it shows all my linux partitions but I can't access them.
>I had a boot disk but it got lost somewhere (because you never use them
>with good old stable linux). So, here I am with all my partitions there
>and no way to get to all my wonderful data. HELP!
>I figure there must be some way to get the data. There are lots of
>creative ideas that have come to mind but I need to find someone who
>knows about this.
http://www.toms.net/rb/ has a very nice bootable rescue system
available. You can build it under DOS or Linux, and you really should
keep one of them around. Or, every distro CD should be able to boot an
installed system--if your BIOS can boot from a CD-ROM, try that, and
instead of "Start Installation" in the menu you get after the CD boots,
select "Boot Installed System". You may have to tell the thing which
partition your root filesystem is on, but after that, you can rerun LILO
and be able to boot Linux from the hard drive. HTH,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test and lack of shared memory
Date: 4 Oct 2000 18:03:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4 Oct 2000 15:21:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've been tinkering with the 2.4.0-test series and end up with shared
>memory not being used. For example:
>#:free
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 126872 98580 28292 0 2732 58756
>Shared is ALWAYS 0. This is making my system VERY slow at times.
>Any kernel gurus know what I'm missing in configuring the kernel? Or is
>this a new 'feature'?
Add this line to /etc/fstab :
none /var/shm shm exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0
Then "mkdir /var/shm" if it doesn't exist already, and "mount /var/shm".
This is a Feature; everything in Unix is a file, now including the
shared memory system. I forget exactly why they did this, but the
Kernel Traffic page has details on the change if you go back about 3
months.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ALDEL)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:03:50 -0400
Subject: Re: SOS! Netscape RH 6.2 ???
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
10/01/2000
at 04:40 PM, Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>ALDEL wrote:
GOT IT WORKING!!!
Many tnx., I owe u one. ;-)
######################
>> Have Linux 6.2 installed in Pent-1
>> Got dialer working,tnx to RH PPP dialer.
>> Connects to my Isp, Attglobal.net.
>> Loads Netscape 4.72 ok, but Net will not connect to any site
>> period.
>>
>> Get error msg,cannot locate server www.redhat.com
>> on Netscape Welcome page or any site I type in.
>>
>> This happens even though the dialer IS connected.
>> Second error msg, something abt might need $SOCKS_NS
>> envirement.
>>
>> Help much appreciated,
>> Albert, Wa3fib
>> It took me 83 years to get this dumb
>>
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>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ALDEL)
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>Sounds like /etc/resolv.conf is not set up properly or at all. On the
>first line, you should have the word "search". (Without quotes). On
>second and succeeding lines, you should have the word "nameserver"
>followed by a space and the address of your ISP's DNS server(s). Mine
>looks like this:
>search
>nameserver 206.138.224.150
>nameserver 206.66.10.46
>nameserver 206.66.10.94
>nameserver 206.66.12.36
>nameserver 204.178.72.30
>nameserver 204.178.72.1
>In case those nice folks failed to tell you about their nameservers,
>here's what whois returns for attglobal.net:
> Domain servers in listed order:
> NS1.US.PRSERV.NET 165.87.194.244
> NS4.US.PRSERV.NET 165.87.201.244
> NS3.US.PRSERV.NET 165.87.201.243
>HTH.
>--
>Such a fine first dream!
>But they laughed at me; they said
>I had made it up.
> 4:21pm up 3 days, 20:20, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.08, 0.08
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From: Kristian Lampen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange printing problem
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 20:23:19 +0200
I have changed from Suse 6.3 to Debian a few weeks ago, but I was not
able to get my printer to work.
I have a Canon BJC-2000 (on LPT1) . Under Suse (Kernel 2.2.13, printing
and parport support compiled as modules) the printer works fine.
Now I can't even do a
cat samplefile.txt > /dev/lp0
nothing happens
I get NO errormessage like "device not configured". I get this
errormessage when I want to access lp1,lp2, but this is clear because I
have only one printer port.
The device file exist:
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 5 19:44 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 5 19:44 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 5 19:44 /dev/lp2
When I send strings to lp0 the printer does nothing (this worked under
Suse).
I have loaded the modules correctly:
parport_pc 7560 1 (autoclean)
lp 5476 0 (autoclean)
parport 7456 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
/var/log/messages tell me that they are loaded correctly to, too:
Oct 4 18:25:10 Meditation kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7
[SPP,PS2]
Oct 4 18:25:10 Meditation kernel: lp0: using parport0
(interrupt-driven).
What does PS2 at the end of the log mean, is there a conflict with my
PS2 mouse?
But my PS2 port is on IRQ 12.
I have tried with interupts and without ,and with SPP or EPP enabled in
the BIOS.
I although tried different IO-Ports in the Bios: 0x378, 0x3bc.
But nothing happens.
This is really strange.
Hope someone con help me
ciao
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From: Tim Ravndal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: arcview 3.2
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 18:30:08 -0000
I recently picked up a CD disk with some information that I need on
mapping, and my pc accknowledges a disk in the system, but the window is
blank. My system opperates under windows 98, and I am not sure if I need
any particular software to view information on this disk. The program
used to build the disk, is arcview 3.2. As I understand, If I do not have
the particular software in my pc, then I would not be able to open files.
Again, no files appear in the window, and I returned the disk to where it
was built and the information is on the disk using the creators pc.
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From: Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.pdf
Subject: Where is libreadcore.so on Linux? (needed for acroread)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:24:25 -0700
Hi,
I am trying to run acroread 4.0 on a Redhat 7.0 intel laptop:
zender@dust:/data/zender$ acroread cv_prp.pdf
acroread: can't load library 'libreadcore.so'
The application seems to be unable to find libreadcore.so
Where (which rpm) can I get a libreadcore.so so that acroread may work?
Thanks,
Charlie
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From: "Jonathan G. Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT + Linux dual boot, can I repair damaged NT loader?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:35:01 +0100
Harry Lewis wrote:
>
> 1. Make sure you have a Linux boot diskette (so you can boot to Linux
> and configure LILO).
>
> 2. Boot to DOS using a DOS system diskette that has the FDISK tool
> copied to it.
>
> 3. Issue the command FDISK /MBR
>
> You can now go back to the instructions and use the one for NT! (If your
> boot environment is more badly damaged by Linux - say you've overwritten
> the boot sector, then use the NT4 CD-ROM to do a repair - the process is
> the same as an install, but you specify a repair at the appropriate point.)
>
Excellent! Having done 1--3, I can now boot Linux from a diskette, and,
I can boot NT.
Is there anything wrong with booting Linux from a diskette? -- if not,
I'd stick with that. In spite of the fact that I've been using Linux
since 1993, you will note from my approach that I'm relatively lazy and
unadventurous towards it!
Another thing. In order to create a boot floppy, I had to read up on it
in Running Linux (Welsh, Dalheimer and Kaufman). That caused me to find
out why all previous attempts failed -- incorrect pointer to Linux root
filesystem; i.e. 'rdev' had to be used. I'd imagine that's a pretty
common mistake.
Many thanks,
Jon C.
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: so what do I do with my spare modem bandwidth?
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 02:01:43 +0800
> Run a web cacher and try to download the whole internet.
Is that what google does with its cached version of webpages?
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