Linux-Misc Digest #97, Volume #26 Sat, 21 Oct 00 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: What is SAMBA? (Paul Sture)
very spooky (observer)
Absurd mouse behavior (Tyler Larson)
Server crashing (Edvard Fagerholm)
similar compile errors (Victor Dods)
Re: firewall ("Simon")
Re: Server crashing (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: FTP different? ("G Soft")
Re: Server crashing (Edvard Fagerholm)
Re: Install eDesktop 2.4 on Windows ME (Terry)
Using rear speakers on SB PCI128 (Sebastian Strand)
Linux accessing a printer hooked to ethernet. (Hugh)
Re: Linux Backup ("Andrew E. Schulman")
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 08:27:01 +0100
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: What is SAMBA?
From: Paul Sture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <iqbI5.342740$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lamar Thomas wrote:
> From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups:
>comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
> Subject: What is SAMBA?
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:17:34 GMT
>
> Hi,
>
> I am very new to Linux and I just wanted to know what is SAMBA? What is it
> used for? Do I install it on a workstation or server? Thanks,
>
> Lamar
>
Briefly, it provides file and print services from your linux / unix /other box
to Windows systems. It's fast too.
See http://samba.epfl.ch/samba/docs/SambaIntro.html for a full introduction.
(that's my local mirror - if you find it slow, go to www.samba.org (_really_ slow
for me today!) and select the local mirror closest to you)
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From: observer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: very spooky
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 08:33:38 GMT
Tonight I was (as I often am) staring at the command prompt
[*root*] $
when suddenly the following appeared
[*root*] $ hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache.
as if from nowhere!
This happens to be a correct description of my CD-ROM drive
(which does not happen to be mounted at the moment) but I did
not type it in.
After investigating, I notice that this mysterious text is the same as
the last line I get if I execute dmesg.
Would anyone care to venture a guess as to why this is happening?
Very spooky.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Tyler Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Absurd mouse behavior
Date: 21 Oct 2000 08:59:12 GMT
I've never experienced anything quite like this, but I'm hoping that someone
will have some clue as to why this happens:
Im running RH6.2 on my "test" computer. About a month ago I disconnected the
thing and put it out of the way because of some memory errors I was
experiencing (another strange situation, by the way). The memory had gotten
corrupted while the machine was up and cause a bit of havoc. Linux, while
attempting to sync the hard disk with the corrupted information in the memory
completely destroyed my ext2 partition. The machine was "retired" after that
ill-fated shutdown. About 4 days ago I brought old machine out of retirement,
replaced the RAM with some known-good chips and reinstalled RedHat. Everything
worked just fine, except for the mouse. Sometimes the mouse worked, sometimes
it didn't. Hardware problem? I thought so.
Another overhaul. New mouse, new motherboard, new power supply. (And various
pieces that were annoying me). kudzu immediately notices the presence of
the new mouse (serial, BTW). The plot thickens. 5 minutes later the mouse
quits responding. All the connections are still secure, both inside and
outside the box. I restart kudzu just for fun. No change. I restart the
mouse services. No change. I move the mouse from one serial port to the
other and restart kudzu. kudzu detects that the mouse is no longer on the
first serial port and removes it, and then detects the presence of a mouse on
the other. The mouse works for another 5-10 minutes, then stops as if it were
disconnected: No amout of reconfiguration makes a difference. Even if I
reboot the machine, it says that the mouse services have started--no errors,
but no response from the mouse.
But, if I move the mouse back to the other serial port, the absense of the
mouse on one port and presence on the other is invariably detected, the mouse
works for another few minutes. Then it stops and we're back to where we
started.
I'm at a loss. If it were a hardware problem, linux should think that the
mouse is no longer connected and kudzu should try to remove the mouse from
the configuration *before* I physically disconnect the mouse. But if it's
a software problem, *at the very least* rebooting the machine should restart
whatever service is the offender and make the mouse work again. Or so, at
least, my rationale tells me.
Is there anyone that recognizes this bizzare behavior and can at least
tell where the problem lies?
Happy hacking.
--
-Tyler
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From: Edvard Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Server crashing
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 09:03:51 GMT
Ok, my home server is a dual celeron (bp6 mobo) w/ 512mb ram and 2*75GB
ibm HDs. My problem is that it crashes randomly under high network load.
I've got 3 NICs in it all eepro100s (it's doing masquarading for two
networks).
For example, I can't upload more than about 20mb at once. As that
computer is running samba and I've got my files there, this kinda sucks,
and it crashes daily (sometimes it crashes while listening to my mp3s
which are located on a samba share). I'm also hosting my homepage on it
and sometimes it crashes while someone with enough bandwidth is looking
at it.
Normally my server crashes, when transfering data with 7MB+/s. When it
crashes, it just totally freezes, nothing in the logs, no kernel panic,
it just doesn't respond. I've heard that some people have had some
problems with stability when using eepro100s, is this a common driver
problem or something else...?
Running kernel 2.2.16, with openwall patches. This is my dmesg output:
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V.
Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:D0:B7:2E:F5:C4, IRQ 19.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 727095-006, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
eth1: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557, 00:90:27:BE:8A:ED, IRQ 18.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 721383-007, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
eth2: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557, 00:90:27:91:26:5A, IRQ 16.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 721383-007, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V.
Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others
cat /proc/interrupts outputs:
16: 494 263 IO-APIC-level eth2
18: 21572 21234 IO-APIC-level ide3, eth1
19: 29408 30067 IO-APIC-level eth0
I had my server running for about a month with DMA/33 HD access. At that
time I didn't do really anything with it, but it didn't crash a single
time either. DMA/33 is handled by PIIX while DMA/66 is handled by the
HPT366 chip, ide3 is the same as HPT366, so it's sharing an interrupt,
any ideas?
ps. eth0 is the card connected to my DMZ, that's where I keep my own
desktop (need to have it there), so when it crashes, all traffic is
handled by this card, although eth1 is connected to the same HUB, so it
gets the same amount of packets (I'm planning to buy a new HUB, as
monitoring network traffic with 2 networks connected to the same HUB is
really a pain).
Regards
Edvard Fagerholm
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:48:38 -0700
From: Victor Dods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: similar compile errors
Hi,
I have tried to compile a few different programs recently and have got
mostly the same errors. Two of the programs ended in something like
this:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so: undefined reference to
`CCorelComboBox::setBackgroundColor(QColor const &)'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libkdeui.so: undefined reference to
`CCorelLineEdit::setText(char const *)'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so: undefined reference to
`CCorelComboBox::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [ktranslator] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/root/Desktop/kdk-1.2/ktranslator/ktranslator'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/root/Desktop/kdk-1.2/ktranslator/ktranslator'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/kdk-1.2/ktranslator'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/kdk-1.2/ktranslator'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
with about 20 more compile errors referring to CCorelXXXXX::BLAH calls.
The other program gives me this:
kfmclient.cpp:232: no matching function for call to
`KfmIpc::openProperties (char *&)'
/usr/X11R6/include/kfmclient_ipc.h:54: candidates are: void
KfmIpc::openProperties(const char *, bool, bool)
make[3]: *** [kfmclient.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/kdebase-1.1.2/kfm/client'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/kdebase-1.1.2/kfm'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/kdebase-1.1.2'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
I run Corel Linux Second Edition with KDE 1.1.2 (I think, some version
of 1.X), and I just installed QT 1.44, which was a requirement for all
of the programs I am trying to compile. I have gcc version 2.95. If
anyone could help me, I would appreciate it greatly.
Thank you.
Victor Dods
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: firewall
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:11:19 GMT
try IPCHAINS
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8sr6g8$f1e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Looking for a good firewall for Linux box
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Server crashing
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:55:15 +0000
Edvard Fagerholm wrote:
>
> Ok, my home server is a dual celeron (bp6 mobo) w/ 512mb ram and 2*75GB
> ibm HDs. My problem is that it crashes randomly under high network load.
Are you overclocking? If so, pull it back to normal speed and see if
the problem disappears.
> I've got 3 NICs in it all eepro100s (it's doing masquarading for two
> networks).
<snip>
> Normally my server crashes, when transfering data with 7MB+/s. When it
> crashes, it just totally freezes, nothing in the logs, no kernel panic,
> it just doesn't respond. I've heard that some people have had some
> problems with stability when using eepro100s, is this a common driver
> problem or something else...?
I've never had any problems with the 4 cards I have. In fact I think
they are one of the best supported NIC available for Linux.
Erik
--
+-------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+-------------------------------------------------+
Orcad Express 9: "Its a nice demo but I wouldn't want to use it
on a day-to-day basis" -- me
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From: "G Soft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP different?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:08:19 -0500
Micer,
really have to think it is an IE problem. I have a linux box with ftp
setup and have no problems from dos or IE, so then I tried a caldera box
that I just setup with no changes to the base install and tried there. It
also worked with both dos and IE. There has been no ftp adjustments at all
on the new box. Sorry can't give you anything to try though.
Phil
"Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:jl4I5.14843$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> We have WU_FTP running on a Linux box.
>
> We can tap into it from a DOS command line by entering "ftp", then
entering
> the username and password. Once connected we can do an "ls" to list the
> files and a "get" to download any of them successfully. All is well.
>
> However, when we open Internet Explorer 4 or 5 to download the same files
we
> will see a list of the files at the FTP site but cannot download them
> successfully. For example, we enter
ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (where we replace "username" with the real username, etc). A list of the
> appropriate ftp files available appears in the browser. But when we
> right-click any of the items and attempt to save them to a folder nothing
at
> all happens. Or else, if we double-click any file and say "save to disk" a
> transfer box appears that says "0 bytes". We go to the local disk and
indeed
> the file is there but has zero bytes!
>
> Why whould Explorer not save the files but the DOS "ftp" command (from an
NT
> client) will? If the Linux box FTP server works when accessed from an ftp
> prompt in DOS then why wouldn't it also be set up correctly for any other
> ftp client?
>
> Does this suggest that our explorers are all set up with wrong parameters,
> or could there be a folder or permissions problem on the Linux box that
> permits the DOS "ftp" command to work but not a browser "ftp" access?
>
> Thanks,
> Micer
>
>
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From: Edvard Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Server crashing
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:08:11 GMT
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> Edvard Fagerholm wrote:
> >
> > Ok, my home server is a dual celeron (bp6 mobo) w/ 512mb ram and 2*75GB
> > ibm HDs. My problem is that it crashes randomly under high network load.
>
> Are you overclocking? If so, pull it back to normal speed and see if
> the problem disappears.
No overclocking. This is a dual celeron 433.
>
> > I've got 3 NICs in it all eepro100s (it's doing masquarading for two
> > networks).
>
> <snip>
>
> > Normally my server crashes, when transfering data with 7MB+/s. When it
> > crashes, it just totally freezes, nothing in the logs, no kernel panic,
> > it just doesn't respond. I've heard that some people have had some
> > problems with stability when using eepro100s, is this a common driver
> > problem or something else...?
>
> I've never had any problems with the 4 cards I have. In fact I think
> they are one of the best supported NIC available for Linux.
>
> Erik
> --
> +-------------------------------------------------+
> Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> +-------------------------------------------------+
> Orcad Express 9: "Its a nice demo but I wouldn't want to use it
> on a day-to-day basis" -- me
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From: Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Install eDesktop 2.4 on Windows ME
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:31:23 -0500
Gordon Berta wrote:
>
> Really any one out there no how to do this without loosing windows files or
> operating system.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sure, just run the limited version of Partition Magic comes on Caldera's
disk and partition for Linux and don't use the whole disk, or disks
whichever the case may be, and then install onto those partitions. Only
thing is, they say you have to get creative about the MBR when running
ME so check on that first.
The following quoted from:
file:///home/httpd/html/openlinux_help/UG/ch02.html#pgfId-918200
Step One: Preparing Your Computer
Make sure that your peripheral hardware--your printer, modem,
network cards--are
connected and turned on.
With Windows up and running, insert your OpenLinux Windows Tools &
Commercial Products CD. The program should start automatically. If
it doesn't,
then click the Start button, and on Run. In the Run window, type:
G:\winsetup\winset.exe
Where `G' is your CD-ROM's drive letter. Then click the OK button.
The OpenLinux
eDesktop 2.4 welcome screen appears (See The Installation Welcome
Screen, With
the PowerQuest Utilities Button Selected.).
--
The alt.os.linux.caldera FAQ:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/COL_FAQ.html
Step-by-step help for COL problems:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:25:11 +0300
From: Sebastian Strand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using rear speakers on SB PCI128
Hi,
I'm using a Soundblaster PCI128 card under Redhat 7.0. This card has
outputs for front and rear speakers. Is there any way of making use of
the rear speakers while playing music with xmms? Under Win98 I can set
Winamp to use the DirectSound output plugin, which gives me sound
through all four speakers.
--
Sebastian Strand
thezeb -at- bigfoot -dot- com
sstrand -at- abo -dot- fi
http://www.zeb.f2s.com/
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From: Hugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux accessing a printer hooked to ethernet.
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:05:41 +0900
John Jordan wrote:
> Hugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo a todos por la internet:
>>If you know how the printer filter driver works within Linux,
>>you will understand what I am talking about here.
>>
>>I want to use, from a Linux host, a laser printer which is hooked
>>directly to the ethernet. A printer can have an IP number.
However,
>>if you use it that way, the Linux lpd simply sends a raw request
>>to the host, i.e., the printer. In this case, unlike a Linux or
>>MSWindows
>>host, the printer does not have any printer filter software, i.e.,
the
>>ghostscript software in the case of a Linux.
>>So, basically, printing will fail.
>
>>What can we do about this? In the case of HP printers, they
>>provide Solaris JetDirect Software. However, there is no
>>such thing for Linux.
> First, let me warn you, I'm far from a Linux guru. But I do have a
> computer with Corel Linux on it, and I am using it to print to an HP
> Laserjet 5SiMx on ethernet, and it is working fine.
> For the Laserjet, first you need to set the IP address and subnet
> mask. HP makes JetAdmin software to do this, but it runs only under
>Windows. Luckily I also have an NT machine, so that's how I set the
> address.
> Once you have the IP address and subnet mask set for the printer,
just
> set up the printer on the Linux machine. If you use the KDE shell it
> is a snap -- no more difficult than setting up a printer on Windows.
>The only part I found confusing is that "5Si" was the only printer I
> found in the list -- not "5SiMx." Later I discovered that all
> PostScript printers use the same driver, labeled, surprisingly,
> "PostScript." Once I used that choice, it prints the same from the
> Linux machine as it does from Windows machines.
Maybe, your /etc/printcap contains some information on the ghostscript
driver. In my configuration file /etc/printcap constructed under SuSE,
#
stylus|remote printer on norma:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/stylus:\
:rm=norma:\
:rp=lp2:\
:bk:sh:mx#0:
It does not contain any information on the type of the printer.
It says that the name of the remote host is "norma" and
the printer name there is "lp2". That is all. Would you
please post your /etc/printcap file made by the Corel toolkit?
By the way, I am using the lprold...rpm package.
Are you using any of the newer printer spooling system software
such as lprng...rpm or something?
If your /etc/printcap does not contain any driver information,
I think we need to conclude that the network printer must
be a genuine PostScript printer, which is true in your case.
Thank you.
Hugh
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Backup
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 08:07:13 -0400
> i built a tarball and put it on the tapedrive,
> but i wonder how i can get it from the tape
> again. Anyone can explain a bit? thanks,
> remi
tar -xf <tape device>
If your tarball is compressed, add a -z.
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