Linux-Misc Digest #178, Volume #26 Sun, 29 Oct 00 11:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: wu-ftp more setup ("Micer")
Re: How to gauge Linux stability? (Hartmann Schaffer)
Re: Apache Install (Steve)
Re: boot sector virus after installation?!? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Registered Linux User? ("David ..")
Re: RH 7 to RH6.2 - weird NIS error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Triple boot with NT in second drive (Brendan Heading)
Re: Which Gcc version to compile Linux Kernel ? (Philip Armstrong)
can't login with 2.4.0-test9 (Barry Rutten)
Re: Printing the addressbook in netscape (Steve)
Re: SENDMAIL has no timeout? (Steve)
Driver for DC10 plus capture card (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?=)
Re: Burning .BIN files.. (Jerry McBride)
Re: uptime....I love linux! (Jerry McBride)
HTML -> TermInfo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Driver for DC10 plus capture card (E J)
Re: Driver for DC10 plus capture card (E J)
Re: Driver for DC10 plus capture card (E J)
Re: cron and end of daylight savings time (Robert Jones)
Bootable install CDs survey ("Lev Babiev")
Re: HTML -> TermInfo (David Dorward)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Andrew J. Perrin)
Re: Printing the addressbook in netscape (Robert Jones)
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From: "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wu-ftp more setup
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 05:16:39 -0800
What do you mean 'recompile it statically' (I'm not familiar with this
term)? If I follow the wu-ftp instructions of './configure', 'make', and
'make install' I don't get the home/ftp folder structure created. I have to
create the whole thing manually. Therefore arises the problem of what the
permissions should be and what versions of files should go into the
structure, as solved by the GUEST HOWTO.
Micer
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8tfg4o$a99$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Micer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Figured it out! Having "ls" not work is the most common FAQ of all time
for
>: wu-ftpd according to the GUEST HOWTO at www.wu-ftpd.org. Check it out -
>
>: In particular, for Redhat you need to do the following after installation
>
>[snip inslalation of bin/ls and suporting lib/lib*].
>
>Why not just recompile ls statically and put it in place? No fuss, no
>muss.
>
>Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Subject: Re: How to gauge Linux stability?
Date: 28 Oct 2000 19:33:20 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>By the way, I have gotten error messages that puts a yellow bomb in the
>user acconut folder. If that happens, should I reboot, to be on the
>safe side,...
you mean in your file manager? if yes, it's just a core file,
i.e. some program aborted and its memory contents got written t that
file. you can use it for determining what went wring in that
program. the os isn't effected at all, and you can safely delete that
file
hs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Apache Install
Date: 29 Oct 2000 14:45:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 03:42:51 GMT, Jim Finney wrote:
>
>I cannot tell why it is failing. Any suggestions? Same thing happens
>with version 1.3.13
It looks asthough there's something wrong or missing to do with the
compiler, have you built any other packages, has the user who does
the build got execute access to the compiler.
Give us some more info such as what system/distro, is it a very
new setup, and have you compiled other stuff with gcc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: boot sector virus after installation?!?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:58:49 +0100
In article <8th6s1$r3v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "gina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie in Linux, pls help.
>
> I have just installed SuSE Linux on a partition in my WINNT4.0 Server
> harddisk. LILO was installed on a floopy to boot Linux from there.
> Installation has completed successfully.
>
> However, when I tried to boot to Linux for the first time, the system
> prompted a boot sector virus and prevented me from going further. No virus
> information was provided. I'm not sure if this is a CMOS message or Linux
> message, but a funny sound was played from the system.
>
> When I booted into Winnt, no virus was informed.
>
> Pls help as to how I can remove the virus or is this a false alarm?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Hi
Lilo writes to the MBR
just go in your BIOS and disable viruswarning.
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Good Luck
Repo
http://beginnerslinux.saxen.net/
http://beginnerslinux.org/
Linux Red Hat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586
2:57pm up 12 days, 14:23, 2 users, load average: 1.96, 2.02, 1.99
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Registered Linux User?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 09:06:12 -0600
Micer wrote:
>
> What on earth is a Registered Linux User? (Registered with who? And for what
> reason?).
>
> Micer.
Registered with the linux counter.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: RH 7 to RH6.2 - weird NIS error
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:08:14 GMT
Run ypbind/ypserv in debug mode... You'll get better answers step by
step... Whats the output of:
root@machine# ypserv --debug
root@machine# ypbind --debug
root@machine# nisdomainname
Does your nis domainname show itself?
--Dave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
The Archimage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy -
>
> I have a Red Hat 6.2 server (all current patches applied as of about
20
> minutes ago) running NIS (ypserv, yppasswdd, and ypbind).
>
> I have a Red Hat 7.0 host (all current patches applied as of about 10
> minutes ago) running as an NIS client (ypbind only).
>
> When I log in as a regular user on the RH 7.0 box, all is fine. When
I
> log in as or su to root, I get the following error:
>
> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
>
> However, if I log out as root and then log in as a regular user, NIS
is
> actually working just fine. It seems to be some sort of informational
> message, everything seems to work fine, but it kind of bugs me.
>
> No log file entries at all on the server or the client.
>
> Any ideas what is up with that error?
>
> Thanks
> The Archimage
>
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From: Brendan Heading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Triple boot with NT in second drive
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:14:11 +0000
In article <8th4ng$n2d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rudy Tuypens
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hey,
>
>A very good solution to your problem is BOOTMAGIC (with Partion Magic) from
>POWERQUEST.
Sure, but it costs money :)
--
Brendan Heading, Belfast, Northern Ireland
T�s maith leath na hoibre...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Which Gcc version to compile Linux Kernel ?
Date: 29 Oct 2000 09:43:43 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc T.R. Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> During one of my Searches For Knowledge(tm) on the internet, I have stumbled
>> across some information related to kernel compilation that confused me
>> terribly. There is conflicting information available to which gcc version
>> should preferably be used to compile the linux kernel v2.2.16. There seem to
>> be people who claim that the kernel should preferably be compiled with Gcc
>> 2.72.x instead of Gcc 2.95.x, due to some issues with 2.95.x, and the fact
>
>Never anything less then 2.7.3.2
>
>Read the documentation that comes with the kernel.
>
>I use gcc 2.95-2
And I note that with the release of test10pre6, gcc 2.7.3.2 is no
longer able to compile the kernel correctly. Quoting Linus:
pre6 has tons of small fixes, the most noticeable of which are
(a) the new compiler requirements (sorry, but it turned out that
2.7.2.3 really is too subtly broken with named structure initializers
that are very heavily used these days inside the kernel)
Suggested stable compiler: gcc-2.91.66, aka egcs-1.1.2, which
is the one most vendors have been shipping for a long time,
and while sure to be buggy too has not been found to be
seriously so at least yet.
Other modern gcc versions may well work too.
So if you're compiling 2.4.0 prereleases it looks like 2.7.2.3 is no
longer safe to use.
Phil
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From: Barry Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't login with 2.4.0-test9
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:31:58 GMT
I just compiled and booted 2.4.0-test9
everything starts ok, but when I try to login nothing happens
I can enter username and pass, but then it does just nothing
is there anything I should update?
I had no problems with 2.2.17
Thanks in advance
Barry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Printing the addressbook in netscape
Date: 29 Oct 2000 15:43:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:07:59 +0100, Rudy Tuypens wrote:
>Hey,
>
>1 How can I print my address book in Netscape (linux version)?
Don't know, I don't use NS for mail or news.
>2 Is Suse Linux a good linux version (I can buy a 6 CD-ROM box for a good
>price)? Until now I found that Red Hat is - without any doubt - the best
>linux version (between Mandrake, Open Linux Caldera & Red hat)
A distro is very much a matter of taste. They all have different strong
points and come with some different software, but at the end of the day
they're all linux.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: SENDMAIL has no timeout?
Date: 29 Oct 2000 15:43:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 05:02:02 -0800, Micer wrote:
>During my Linux training I have installed sendmail, but I don't have a
>permanent internet connection, (I use a dial-up ISP via PPP). Whenever I
>reboot my Linux Redhat 6.0 box it hangs forever at the "Starting SENDMAIL"
>message, and never says [OK]. But the moment I connect my default gateway to
>the web (another Linux box running RedHat 6.0, and NAT via ipchains) then
>SENDMAIL picks up and loads, so that the Linux boot continues on
>successfully.
[snip]
So if you don't need it at startup why do you have it in the startup routine?
Run /usr/sbin/setup and there you can choose what starts at boot time, take
sendmail out.
>From my knowledge of the problem, it's caused by linuxconf trying to
reconfigure sendmail or soemthing like that, you may find that the
problem also goes away if you stop linuxconf from running at startup.
But as I said above, if you don't need something running all the time
then don't have it running all the time.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for DC10 plus capture card
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:52:14 +0800
Where can I find the driver for DC10plus capture card?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Subject: Re: Burning .BIN files..
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:03:18 GMT
In article <0eKJ5.31705$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Trail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>How can i burn a .BIN and .CUE combination file with linux ?
>
Track down CDRDAO or run CDWIN under DOSEMU.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Subject: Re: uptime....I love linux!
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:03:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hugh Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> To all,
>
>> I just wanted to pass along a bit of information for the group:
>
>> [root@eng_serv ron]# uptime
>> 5:39pm up 105 days, 9:32, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01
>
>Sure... good isn't it! here's mine..
># uptime
> 3:04pm up 131 days, 2:44, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.06, 0.02
>
>and this is a 16MHz 386 SX serving multiple ppp ports!
Since we are proud of our toys...
># uptime
> 10:04pm up 287 days, 3:44, 5 user, load average: 0.44, 0.20, 0.09
>
Intel 166mhz, 32meg..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.html,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
Subject: HTML -> TermInfo
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:22:37 GMT
Running linux in a shell window:
Is there a simple TermInfo based renderer for HTML code? Obviously no
graphics, but with the ability to render tables, boldface, italics,
etc.. This would allow me to view basic HTML text pages on a
vt100/vt102/linux-console .
/iaw
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for DC10 plus capture card
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:35:45 -0800
�L�W�p�l wrote:
> Where can I find the driver for DC10plus capture card?
Try the manufacture website.
If they don't support linux, send them a email telling to support linux.
Or else ask them to release the specification so at least you can
attempt to program it under linux.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for DC10 plus capture card
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:36:01 -0800
�L�W�p�l wrote:
> Where can I find the driver for DC10plus capture card?
Try the manufacture website.
If they don't support linux, send them a email telling to support linux.
Or else ask them to release the specification so at least you can
attempt to program it under linux.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for DC10 plus capture card
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:36:19 -0800
�L�W�p�l wrote:
> Where can I find the driver for DC10plus capture card?
Try the manufacture website.
If they don't support linux, send them a email telling to support linux.
Or else ask them to release the specification so at least you can
attempt to program it under linux.
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cron and end of daylight savings time
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 09:42:27 -0600
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> I found out what cron does when daylight savings time ends. It
> does not know about it and runs some jobs twice.
>
> I have a 2.5 hour job (backup of my hard drives to mag tape) I
> run every morning at 1:04AM; it is part of /etc/cron.weekly and
> /etc/cron.daily. This morning it started at 1:04AM EDST as
> usual. When 1:59AM EDST arrived, it was not finished, of
> course. But at 2:00AM EDST, the system set its time back to
> 1:00AM EST as expected. Then, when 1:04 EST arrived, cron
> started up those tasks again. (cron.weekly). Most of them are
> fast and harmless, but it tried to restart the backup.
> (Incidentally, BRU, the backup software, died with a
> segmentation fault, not what I like to see, instead of some
> kind of device busy fault. Luckily, the instance that failed
> was the second instance.)
>
> So I just diddled my /etc/crontab to start nothing on Sundays
> between 1:00 AM and 2:00 AM.
>
> Any other pitfalls out there that I should know about?
Color me lucky. My backups are run at 3:17 on Saturday mornings. The only
other stuff I've done with cron is to run a script that uses 'fortune' to
generate these stupid taglines.
On a stand-alone box like mine, it's no problem to examine the crontabs
for each user (both me and root) with $crontab -u <user> -l
but that could get to be a chore if there were a bunch of users. Seems
like someone that was reasonably proficient at shell programming could
cobble together a little script that would list all users' crontab entries
to either printer or a disk file.
Cheers
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9:30am up 15 days, 3:55, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.44, 0.22
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From: "Lev Babiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bootable install CDs survey
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:04:02 +0500
Hello all,
I have installed this system back in 97 as an RH 4.2. Since then it
mutated through various updates and changes. I'm close to recent rawhide
library-wise, but configs and init scripts are mostly my own. (Yes, I do back
it up from time to time). I would like to make sure I have a boot disk
handy in case I get stuck in some way. I'd prefer to have a bootable CD,
since I am trying to do my part of phasing out floppies ;-). I could put
together my own. But I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel if
possible. Now my question is, are there distribution install CDs that
allow to do rescue? I'd like to be able to boot from CD and access my
hard drive, have all file utils handy, plus fdisk, mount and lilo.
(kernel must have support for sym53c875 scsi hba, since both cd and hdd
are hanging on one).
Do any distro's have a cd that allows that? Preferably cheap version from
cheapbytes or lsl.
Thank you,
Lev
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From: David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.html,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
Subject: Re: HTML -> TermInfo
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 03:50:50 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Running linux in a shell window:
>
> Is there a simple TermInfo based renderer for HTML code? Obviously no
> graphics, but with the ability to render tables, boldface, italics,
> etc.. This would allow me to view basic HTML text pages on a
> vt100/vt102/linux-console .
Head over to http://www.freshmeat.net/ and search for links (as opposed
to lynx) and w3m, both of which are pretty good for console mode
surfing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew J. Perrin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 29 Oct 2000 10:36:55 -0500
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> > In comp.os.linux.misc Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : On linux you can make the system effectively single-user, by olcnffvat gur
> > : abezny vavg naq trggl & ybtva cebprffrf naq fgnegvat lbhe cebprffrf
> > : frcnengryl sebz gura bajneqf, but you'd be a prize moron for bothering.
> >
> > Wonderful! Now HOW did you do that? Is there a rot13 command somewhere
> > ...
> >
> > Peter
>
> I thought that might be it, but I tried rot13 and it did not get any better.
> Maybe he was running some Internet Explorer to make his post? That is not it
> either: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands)
toggle-rot13-mode in emacs worked fine for me.
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing the addressbook in netscape
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:06:16 -0600
Rudy Tuypens wrote:
> Hey,
>
> 1 How can I print my address book in Netscape (linux version)?
One way is to alt+shift+2 to open the address book, then from the address
book window, alt+S to export the addr book to a file (Save to... dialog box
opens). Once you have the file, you can edit it, cat it or whatever you want
to do.
> 2 Is Suse Linux a good linux version (I can buy a 6 CD-ROM box for a good
> price)? Until now I found that Red Hat is - without any doubt - the best
> linux version (between Mandrake, Open Linux Caldera & Red hat)
Please, no 'Holy Wars' over distros!
Cheers
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-- Lillian Day
9:51am up 15 days, 4:16, 1 user, load average: 0.62, 0.52, 0.37
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