Linux-Misc Digest #183, Volume #26 Mon, 30 Oct 00 08:13:03 EST
Contents:
Thanks ("Runar Woldt")
Appache access configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to recover a deleted (rm -fr) directory and files (CDM)
how to start tn5250 (Rick)
Re: Partition table problem (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: UDF support (Eric)
Re: How to Auto Insert USB module? (Eric)
Re: Work of a cracker or something else? (Janus Loo)
Re: how to start tn5250 (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Re: Suddenly, no Inet... ("Ross M. Greenberg")
Imwheel & USB mouse (5 buttons) (Oliver Battenfeld)
slocate eating up inodes? (Guillermo Labatte)
silly question: clock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: adding hardware in linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: Turning services off and on? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 only recognizes 64mb of 256mb (Marc Richter)
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From: "Runar Woldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Thanks
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:24:37 +0100
Mark + Norman,
Many thanks for your help.
R.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Appache access configuration
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:42:32 GMT
I�am having problems with the access restriction
configured in the
httpd.conf of apache.
If anyone would be so keen to edit the text
below, so that it works,
or writes how it would work, i would be very
happy.
"OurGroup", "UserGroup?" are pseudonyms fo the
IP�s.
There are 3 directories:
users #all three groups need access
user1 #subdir of users; "UserGroup1"
and "OurGroup" need access
user2 #subdir of users; "UserGroup2"
and "OurGroup" need access
The way I did understandd it, it would look like
this:
(part of httpd.conf)
##################################################
<Directory />
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd
AuthGroupFile /etc/httpd/group
Options -FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
#
# Note that from this point forward you must
specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if
something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have
specifically enabled it
# below.
#
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set
DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory /usr/local/httpd/htdocs>
Options Indexes -FollowSymLinks +Includes
MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from "OurGroup"
<IfDefine DAV>
DAV On
</IfDefine>
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/users>
order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from "OurGroup"
Allow from "UserGroup1"
Allow from "UserGroup2"
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/users/user1>
order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from "OurGroup"
Allow from "UserGroup1"
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/users/user2>
order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from "OurGroup"
Allow from "UserGroup2"
</Directory>
##################################################
with best regards
Simon Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Subject: Re: How to recover a deleted (rm -fr) directory and files
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:52:21 +0100
Try the "recover" utility, should be on every major linux site...
or do a search on http://www.freshmeat.org
The utility will try everything possible to recover the files, if it can't
they're probably lost forever.
"Philip Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:LLLK5.23985$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have accidentally deleted a directory with a lot of files in my RedHat
6.1
> machine.
> Does anyone know anyway to get the files back?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: how to start tn5250
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:36:30 -0500
Can someone tell me how to start tn5250?
--
Rick
* To email me remove NOSPAM from my address *
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: Partition table problem
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:48:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Findpart, version 3.91.
>Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2000.
>OS: DOS 7.10 WINDOWS 4.10
>
>Disk: 1 Cylinders: 2482 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 19469
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> 0 - 0B 63 9205182 4494 0 1 1 572 254 63 B OK
> 0 - 0C 63 19792017 9664 0 1 1 1231 254 63 BU OK
> 0 - 83 9205245 11277630 5506 573 0 1 1274 254 63 B0 OK
> 1275 1 0B 63 48132 23 1275# 1 1 1277*254 63 NB OK
> 1275 2 05 48195 19342260 9444 1278# 0 1 2481*254 63 1275 OK
> 1275 - 0B 63 19390392 9467 1275 1 1 2481 254 63 B OK
> 0 - 0B 20482938 19390392 9467 1275 1 1 2481 254 63 BU OK
>
>-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
> 0 1 33 19964 4 2 19964 0 0 0 990610 3684
> 1275 1 33 18899 4 2 18899 0 0 0 991215 5
>
>Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> 0 1*0C 63 20482812 10001 0 1 1 1274*254 63 NB OK
> 0 2 05 20482875 19390455 9467 1275# 0 1 2481*254 63 OK
>
> 1275 1 0B 63 48132 23 1275# 1 1 1277*254 63 NB OK
> 1275 2 05 48195 19342260 9444 1278# 0 1 2481*254 63 OK
> No signature CHS: 1278 0 1
Problems are not expected, but I assume you will be able to contact me
from another PC in case of trouble.
To correct the partition tables, repair the FAT32 backup boot sectors,
and recover the 5506 MB Linux partition as second primary partition,
you can do (wilson1.bat):
findpart getsect 1 0 1 1 1 boot0 noheader
findpart getsect 1 0 1 7 1 back0 noheader
findpart getsect 1 1275 1 1 1 boot1275 noheader
findpart getsect 1 1275 1 7 1 back1275 noheader
set findpart=edit
findpart 1 0 1 * 0B 0 1 1 572 254 63 0 2482 255 63 26
findpart 1 0 2 - 83 573 0 1 1274 254 63 0 2482 255 63 26
findpart 1 0 3 - 0F 1275 0 1 2481 254 63 0 2482 255 63 26
findpart 1 1275 1 - 0B 1275 1 1 2481 254 63 1275 2482 255 63 26
findpart 1 1275 2 - 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2482 255 63 26
findpart putsect 1 0 1 7 boot0 2482 00000000 checkfile back0
findpart putsect 1 1275 1 7 boot1275 2482 00000000 checkfile back1275
set findpart=
findpart 1 fp1-1.txt
To prevent errors, you must download the batch file from:
http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/wilson1.zip
I recommend that you run the batch file in a Windows DOS box, and post
the file fp1-1.txt for confirmation before reboot. You can cc in mail,
but I will reply to the group.
Note that a Linux swap partition was not found.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDF support
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:53:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TM wrote:
>
> Eric a �crit :
>
> > TM wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > how to get UDF fs support in RH 7.0
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > by compiling the udf module and then insmod it?
> >
> > Eric
>
> Where can I get this module source?
>
> Thanks
Try a search on freshmeat.net
I have it in my bookmarks somewhere, but can't find it right away.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to Auto Insert USB module?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:59:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root wrote:
>
> Dear sir
>
> I am using a Creative Web3 Cam and have installed a usb driver ov511.o.
> However, I need to use the command "insmod ov511.o" to activate it. I
> have tried to use xconfig to set "y" instead of "m" and then build
> kernel again but cannot work :-(. Is there any place in Linux can
> automatically run some commands during startup (such as AUTOEXEC.BAT in
> DOS) ?
>
> Please give me some advices on this case.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Alan Po
Put the insmod line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janus Loo)
Subject: Re: Work of a cracker or something else?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:01:41 GMT
On 27 Oct 2000 17:22:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) wrote:
>Considering the types of problems you've been having over the
>year, it really sounds like a hardware problem, maybe not so
>much the media but the IDE controller maybe. I've seen this
>type of problem before and it wasn't fixed by changing the
>hard disk, it happened again some weeks after so I assumed
>it was a controler problem, (thank god it wasn't my own
>machine).
I have had Linux running for more than 3 months without any crash
and/or known hardware problems. The reinstalls were caused by my
insufficient knowledge of Linux and rendered it unusable. I kept on
trying though. After reading all other answers to my posting I guessed
it is worth mentioning this: recently I have had some problems with
the power supply at home. Dued to a defect in the main power supply
outlet, which I only found out last week, I got total power failure at
some points in the last months. This caused the server to be shut down
unexpectedly. But Linux always recovered from this and did a fs check
everything after this happened. It became worse a few weeks ago that
it would sometimes happen two to three times a day while Linux was
running. I discovered the problem only last week and fixed the power
supply outlet. We never had that for two days and then this disaster
happened. I would like to know could this be the problem why all my
files were gone? A controller problem? Then I should replace it. Funny
is that I never had this problem before.
Thanks a lot for your posting. I will keep searching for the causes as
to what happened to my machine. Thanks once again!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: how to start tn5250
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:43:39 GMT
Searched http://google.com/linux with "tn5250" and it returned a FAQ as the
2nd hit:
http://perso.libertysurf.fr/plinux/tn5250-faq.html
Not sure if this gets you what you need, but it should be a start.
--
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From: "Ross M. Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suddenly, no Inet...
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:49:01 -0500
My two nameserver IP's, set properly.....
"Jerry L Kreps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8titmn$84a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What is in your /etc/resolv.conf ??
> JLK
>
>
> Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
>
> > I had a hard disk crash, got a new disk, reinstalled Corel Linux and all
> > is back together, except no Internet access.
> >
> > I can ping within my network but I can't seem to go out to the Inet; no
> > pings
> > go off it. Dual Boot machine with Win98 and through it, no probs: only on
> > the
> > Linux side of things. I do an ifconfig eth0 192.168.100.5 on startup, but
> > I simply can't figure out where to go from here.
> >
> > Any ideas? What am I forgetting?
> >
> > (DNS and gateways set properly)
> >
> > TIA..
> >
> > Ross
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Oliver Battenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Imwheel & USB mouse (5 buttons)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:55:31 +0100
Hi,
any idea on how to make a 5-button USB mouse (MS Intelli Optical) to
work under X ?
The "preferred" method (/dev/gpmdata) doesn't seem to work at all with a
USB device, the method that is described first in the documentation
(ZAxisMapping 4 5 in XF86Config, then "imwheel -k" under X) does nothing
as well.
Any ideas ?
--
Ciao,
Oliver
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From: Guillermo Labatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slocate eating up inodes?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:07:24 -0300
I discovered my linux box was crashing every other day due to inode
depletion.
My first though was to increase inode-max. I did it, then checked
inode-nr regularly. No matter how high I set inode-max, the number in
inode-nr (first value) continued rising.
So I created a log, sampling inode-nr values every two minutes. I
discovered the numbers went more or less the same all day, but at 4am
inode-nr increased in 14000 units every day. That is the time when
cron.daily scripts run. I modified the scripts in order to create a log
of inode-nr values (before and after the script execution). The culprit
seem to be the slocate script. After its execution inode-nr is increased
in 14000 units.
So the question is... Is somebody aware of a problem with slocate? Is
there a solution other than disable the script? Are other programs apart
from slocate affected?
Setup info:
distribution: Mandrake 7.0
kernel version: 2.2.14
slocate version: Secure Locate v2.1 - Released October 19, 1999
(library dependencies)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00128000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00110000)
Thanks in advance
Guillermo Labatte.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: silly question: clock
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:05:32 GMT
Sorry if this question is extremely stupid. I have started with linux a
week ago, and i am very new in this operqative system. The guy that
helped me is now gone and the clock did not change las saturda with the
change hour, how can i reset the clock in my desktop?
thanks
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: adding hardware in linux
Date: 30 Oct 2000 12:32:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29 Oct 2000 19:10:05 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am running Red Hat 6.2 which usually detects new hardware at bootup.
You must be very lucky then. I've never actually seen kudzu work
correctly.
>But I really don't know how to add new hardware once I am booted up.
>Can someone please explain how to do this, either for the command line
>or from within KDE? Thanks.
Gracefully shutdown the machine, remove the case cover, plug in the
card(s) and/or cables, then boot the machine. Load the appropriate
modules for the devices you've installed, or run SaX, Xconfigurator, or
XF86Setup if this is a graphics card. If this is a printer, run
printtool. If you don't know the appropriate modules for your
device(s), look in file:/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ or at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ for information.
>Also, I just bought a Hayes Faxmodem internal ISA (heard these are good
>quality) and want to install it. Also, I just bought a new video card
>I'd like to install.
Does the modem have jumpers? Set those jumpers to reasonable values.
If not, you may have to boot to DOS and use a DOS program to set the
card to non-PnP mode and give it a fixed I/O base, IRQ, and COM port.
Then boot Linux and use the "setserial" command to tell the kernel
what's up with your new modem. Detailed information can be found at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html in the "Internal" section.
The graphics card may be easy, or it may be a pain in the arse. If this
is a brand new SuperFoo7000 card that was just released last week,
Xfree86 probably doesn't support it at all. If the card has been around
for more than 3 months, it's most likely supported. http://xfree86.org/
has info on which releases of Xfree86 support which cards. 3.3.6, which
RedHat 6.2 shipped with, supports a lot of things, but Xfree86 4.0.1
(the latest version) supports even more but is not quite stable yet.
Plug the new card in, boot into runlevel 3, and run Xconfigurator --you
may be lucky. If not, post the exact make and model of the card and
someone here should know what to do.
>I bought a book called Running Linux but it seems to assume you already
>know how to do basic stuff like install hardware as it doesn't cover
>this topic very well.
The current edition of the book is almost a year old, and the answer to
the question "which hardware is supported?" has changed a lot since
then. Have you checked out http://linuxnewbie.org/ ? They try to make
things simpler for new users. HTH, good luck....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Turning services off and on?
Date: 30 Oct 2000 12:32:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29 Oct 2000 19:20:20 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>When my machine boots up a number of services start which I don't
>really need right now. I would imagine they effect performance by
>running in the background.
>
>I was wondering how to turn off certain services that start at boot and
>turn on others?
/sbin/init.d/rc?.d/ contains symlinks to /sbin/init.d/$SERVICENAME .
Replace the ? with a runlevel number. So for runlevel 3, "ls -l
/sbin/init.d/rc3.d/" shows a whole lot of things:
K10oracle -> ../oracle
K10xdm -> ../xdm
[...]
S90oracle -> ../oracle
S90xdm -> ../xdm
If I didn't want to run Oracle in runlevel 3, I would remove the
symlinks containing "oracle" from the /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/ directory.
If I wanted to run service "blah" in runlevel 3, I would create an
S??blah link in that directory, and I'd point it at the script for
starting and killing "blah", which should be in /sbin/init.d/blah .
On a RedHat/Mandrake system, these things are in /etc/rc.d/ instead of
/sbin/init.d/ . Slackware does things completely differently. There's
a frontend for this called "SysVinit" for KDE if the above confused you.
HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Richter)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 only recognizes 64mb of 256mb
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:56:36 -0500
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:47:53 -0500, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone come across this with Mandrake 7.1 only recognizing 64mb of ram
>anytime it is installed on a machine with over 128mb?
>
>TIA,
>Scott
Scott,
On certain machines (greater than 50%? Not sure...there are many catfights
about this issue in the advocacy groups) Linux does not properly detect
RAM above 64MB. It is thought that this is possibly caused by an
archaic routine that the kernel uses to query the BIOS.
"Ok," you'll say, "I knew that. Can it be fixed?"
Oh. Yeah, right....no problem.
Edit your /etc/lilo.conf file and add the line
append = "mem=xxxxxxxk" where you replace the xxxxxxx with the RAM reported on
startup. For instance, mine looks like this on my Thinkpad 600:
append = "mem=163264k"
Once you save the lilo.conf file, run lilo by typing "lilo" and then
restart the machine. The "free" command should report much more RAM.
One caveat...double-check the number. Entering a value that is too high
may cause a kernel panic, possibly rendering your machine unbootable.
Good luck!
Marc
http://www.vitinc.com/~marc/linux.html
>
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