Linux-Misc Digest #381, Volume #26 Fri, 24 Nov 00 19:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: No space left on device with /var filesystem (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? (jtnews)
Re: Handy -> PC put through -> somewhere else (Kai Poehlmann)
Re: D-Link Networkcard DEF 530TX (Matthew Haley)
Re: Please confirm suspicion about fbset (Harold Oga)
Re: Help! Glibc problems on startup. ("AndyW")
Re: Program to notify upon job completion (Kyle)
Not able to compile anymore (Leonard Lin)
sound scratchy? (Janet)
Re: Need a user password (Bill Unruh)
Re: sound of silence: help! ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: E-mail client ("Peter T. Breuer")
Modconf doesn't find any modules (kernel 2.4.0-test10) (Otto Wyss)
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? (Bit Twister)
Re: spam spam everywhere! ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Packet sniffer? (Paul Floyd)
"J" bug in ghostscript (HoSghaj2)
Re: New To Linux - Distributions ( Black Dragon)
Multiple SCSI controller cards ("Scott M. Navarre")
bash scripting question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: suid (toast)
Re: No space left on device with /var filesystem (Bill Unruh)
parport / kernel message problem (Gary Krupa)
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No space left on device with /var filesystem
Date: 24 Nov 2000 20:10:09 +0100
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do you have in there that takes up all the space? Some of it may
> be unnecessary and could be removed.
This seems correct. Imagine the problem is occurring *twice*: the
first fills 50% or so of /var, but only the second time you actually
see the error... might be worth a look.
--
Stefano
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From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:29:01 GMT
How does one get hacked in redhat 6.2 when you have ipchains up and
running
blocking ports 0-1023, 5432, 6000, and 8080?
mnip wrote:
>
> I logged in to my RH6.2 mail and web server for the first time in weeks
> today, but the telnet login is now inoperable. I get the RH62 message, but
> no login prompt. I then went over to the physical machine, and a similar
> thing, login: but any input just returns the login: prompt.
>
> I checked webmin, and that still works, as do the web serrvices, everything
> seems to be in order except the login daemon, or the shell or something I
> don't quite know enough about linux yet to diagnose.
>
> I figured what the heck, the machine hasn't been rebooted in months. I
> issued the reboot signal, and the machine comes back with the same malady.
>
> What is going on, and how can I fix it? RH gives a linuxconf option (I did
> install the latest linuxconf rpms), but I don't forsee any magic daemon
> fixes in that interface.
>
> Please reply with any ideas ASAP. Fortunately, the intended functions seem
> to be uninterrupted, but I'm anxious to login all the same...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Poehlmann)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,de.alt.comm.isdn4linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Handy -> PC put through -> somewhere else
Date: 24 Nov 2000 16:27:46 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moin!
Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to dial xxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyy
> where xxxxxxxx is the number of my PC
> and yyyyyyyy is the number the PC has to
> put through.
Die Fernsteuerbare Anrufweiterleitung der DTAG ist
ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung... Ausserdem
kostet dann die Zeit des Klingelnlassen nix...
> Has somebody an idea how to realise? Are there
> Windows tools for this?
Ja einige - ist eine FAQ - mal Deja fragen.
Kai
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From: Matthew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D-Link Networkcard DEF 530TX
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 12:58:14 -0700
In article <8vm8gs$cbf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Help
>
>
> i have a D-Link DEF 530 TX, and i need a driver for Red HAt,
>
> I use 6. 2 Zooe
insmod via-rhine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Oga)
Subject: Re: Please confirm suspicion about fbset
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:27:16 +0000 (UTC)
Kilian A. Foth wrote in <8vl7b2$2s9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Running a 2.2.16 Linux, I can boot into graphics mode by saying
>vga=791 just fine. However, every attempt to change that mode later
>runs into a laconic
>
> ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: invalid argument
>
>no matter what, even if I try to re-enable the current mode.
>
>From previous enquiries and the answers to them I have pieced together
>this reason: fbset understands only about the VESA 2.0 modes, but
>since the VESA BIOS is a real-mode app, it cannot be used when running
>Linux proper, only while booting. IOW, fbset is essentially unusable
>at the command line. True or false?
Hi,
I assume that you are using the vesafb framebuffer driver, since
you indicate above that you are switching to graphics mode with vga=791.
The vesafb driver does not support mode switching, so whatever mode you
set with the vga= paramater the one you are stuck with, and fbset will
not be able to change anything. If you use one of the fb drivers that
do support mode changes, then fbset will change modes no problem. I
have used fbset with matroxfb and rivafb, and it changes modes correctly.
-Harold
--
"Life sucks, deal with it!"
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From: "AndyW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help! Glibc problems on startup.
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:31:06 -0000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Greetings,
>
> System: RH 6.1. No problem since installation (6+ months). Today while
> I was installing a package (via kpackage), somehow glibc got hosed.
> Now on startup it gets to a point when it should start sh and spits out
> a whole bunch ( more than one screen) of messages that look like that:
>
> /sbin/mingetty: error in loading shared libraries:
> /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libc.so.6: no version information available
> (required by /sbin/mingetty)
> /sbin/mingetty: error in loading shared libraries:
> /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol:
> _dl_global_scope_end
>
> finally it exhausts all available processes:
>
> INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> INIT: No more processes left in this runlevel.
>
> "linux single" doesn't help either.
>
> I don't want to reinstall the OS (a lot have been installed on the
> system).
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
What package was it? Sounds to me like you've 'lost' your shared libraries.
Like, if the install deleted /etc/ld.so.conf then ran ldconfig .
You can get it back by using the system rescue disk (you did make one didn't
you?) or if not most distro's have one on the CD.
Mount the root partition and have a look for ld.so.conf, or possibly
ld.so.preload - if that exists and has a non-existent file in it the same
symptoms would occur.
HTH
Andy
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From: Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Program to notify upon job completion
Date: 24 Nov 2000 20:30:07 GMT
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I am looking for a program to either send a message to the
> terminal / screen and / or e-mail a message that a particular job
> that i submitted has been completed or do both functions.
>
You could start your program from a script like:
#!/bin/sh
/path/programname
echo "Job Completed" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#end
you could also put a read command in if your job is going to be different
each time: ie
#!/bin/sh
read progname
/path/$progname
echo "Job Completed" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- kyle
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From: Leonard Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Not able to compile anymore
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:11:28 +0100
Hello
I setted up a new redhat 7.0 installation. And wanted to
compile a new kernel. I donwloaded version 2.2.17 and 2.2.16
I configured them as usual but if I start to compile with
make zImage it claims some minutes later something about
error in a source file. somewhere in the mm (memory managing)
I've never had such problems and I'm experienced linux-user.
May someone help?
Did redhat change something that you have to install a special
rpm or link something manual?
Thanks a lot in advance
Leonard Lin
--
Leonard Lin
M�llerwis 21
CH - 8606 Greifensee
Switzerland
phone: +41 (0)1 941 40 53
office: +41 (0)1 430 54 50
mobile: +41 (0)79 416 01 07
email-private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
email-office: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound scratchy?
Date: 24 Nov 2000 13:23:25 -0800
Hi,
I have a soundblaster live which uses an Ensoniq 1371 chip (alsamixer
calls it a SigmaTel STAC9708/11). I have been using the alsa drivers to
get sound, which works OK. Although I can hear sound and everything,
performance is not great. Mp3's skip a lot if I'm doing other stuff
(using netscape, doing any sort of disk stuff, etc.), and the bass is
quite scratchy. Is there anything I can do about this?
Just in case this is helpful, I'm using a 2.2.14 kernel with the following
modules:
Module Size Used by
snd-pcm-oss 16432 1
snd-pcm-plugin 12904 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss 3924 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-card-ens1371 1964 2
snd-ens1371 9164 0 [snd-card-ens1371]
snd-pcm 28952 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371]
snd-timer 7456 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 9048 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 2888 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 23904 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-mixer 23088 1 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec]
snd 34444 4 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device
snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer]
soundcore 2340 5 [snd]
Thanks,
Janet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Need a user password
Date: 24 Nov 2000 21:43:56 GMT
In <NNvT5.20310$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bradley J. Bartram"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hello everybody;
>I'm working on one of my servers and I have a user account which I need to
>access but have forgotten its password. I'm the root user so how can I find
>this users password?
You cannot. Use
passwd username
to reset the password for that user to something you can remember.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: sound of silence: help!
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:22:09 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ls -l /dev/sndstat /dev/audio
> which returns
> crw------- 1 maria sys 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 /dev/audio
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 14, 6 Apr 17 1999 /dev/sndstat
> Both are present, although I don't know why /dev/audio should belong
> to maria, except that she is logged in at the console. Trying
That's exactly why. It's the same reason that /dev/console belongs to
her. She's in the position to see and hear the output.
> cat /dev/sndstat
> gives a "No such device" error. The HOWTO says that means the sound
> driver did not load. It gives some hints on getting the kernel to
Exactly, so load it.
> recognize your sound card for plug and play driver loading, but running
> pnpdump finds no pnp devices. That really doesn't suprise me, as I
Irrelevant. Load the driver.
> suspect that a laptop has no "sound card" as such. Looking at the
Well, it may have.
> /etc/sysconfig/soundcard created by the installer reveals it to consist
> CARDTYPE=MAESTRO
OK. That's usually a winmodem coopted into squawking. It's a chip on
the mobo. You need to load the driver (maestro.o).
> and the boot log makes it look like the relevant module was loaded
> without any problem
> Nov 22 03:10:38 localhost rc.sysinit:
> Finding module dependencies succeeded
That is not a load report! It's telling you thereis nothing missing in
your modules.
> Nov 22 03:10:42 localhost rc.sysinit:
> Loading sound module (maestro) succeeded
That IS a load report.
> However, if I load the sound module manually via
> insmod sound trace_init=1
> I do get some worrisome warnings
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sound.o:
> unresolved symbol sound_init_lowlevel_drivers_Rec0251af
Well, that's a killer. Your modules is compiled with MODVERSIONS, and
your kernel isn't. Go back and recompile it (the MODULE, not the kernel).
Nevertheless, I think that modprobe will recognize the problem and
strip the extra version identifier in the module.
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sound.o:
> unresolved symbol sound_unload_lowlevel_drivers_Ra675fda1
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sound.o:
> unresolved symbol sound_preinit_lowlevel_drivers_Rebdfb792
> That's all I could think to do, and I still don't have any sound. What
But DID THE DRIVER LOAD? Go look. (i.e. keep reading the howto, you are
missing the important bits, the ones which tell you what is going on
- you have to understand what it means for a module to be loaded and
how to see that it is, and in what state it is)
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: E-mail client
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:24:30 +0100
LuisMiguel Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need a good email client for X11. What should i use? and why?
xterm -e elm
Because I like it.
What kind of silly question is that! Use whatever you like. Keep going
until you find one you like well enough to keep. I like elm because it
does what I want when I want it, and I can understand the interface,
and manipulate it at great speed.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Modconf doesn't find any modules (kernel 2.4.0-test10)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:57:42 +0100
I just installed kernel 2.4.0-test10 to see if my crashes of X v4 goes
away but modconf doesn't find any modules, even if I have modutils
2.3.19. Of course any of the others in Changes mentioned versions were
okay.
O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:20:14 GMT
For known cracks, look at http://www.cert.org/advisories/
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:29:01 GMT, jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How does one get hacked in redhat 6.2 when you have ipchains up and
>running
>blocking ports 0-1023, 5432, 6000, and 8080?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: spam spam everywhere!
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:21:47 +0100
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My most effective mail filter, in Netscape, is to automatically delete all
> e-mail from hotmail.com and hotbot.com. While I understand that some
> legitimate users use these servers, I know none of them, so I never see the
:-). I must try that.
> My second most effective mail filter, in Netscape, is to dump all incoming
> e-mail where I am not in the To: or CC: fields into a spam bucket. I look at
Yes, I do that too, with the exception of local mail.
> that only when I am bored and feel like sending the stuff back to the
> originating ISP to get their accounts cancelled. Trouble is, I am on some
> mailing lists where I am in the Bcc: field, and I must put in special cases
Exactly.
> for each of those. Fortunately, there are not too many.
I also dump all mails that have the symbols $ or ! in the subject line.
Also any with three capital letters in a row in the subject. There are
also certain words in the subject line that will trigger the
defenses, "hot" and "money" being two of them. After that it gets down
to awarding points for content. Any mail with a MIME MS-* attachment
is binned, with a message sent back to the sender.
The result is not too bad. I might try telling people with $ and ! on
the brain to try again without the emphasis.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Floyd)
Subject: Re: Packet sniffer?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:56:16 GMT
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:49:52 +0000, John English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a utility to let me snoop network packets under
>Linux? I'm trying to solve a problem on my home network (machine A
>can ping machine B but B can't ping A). Having replaced cables and
>network cards, I'm completely baffled and I need something low-level
>to find out what's actually going across the network...
tcpdump
If you can get a copy of Richard W. Stevens "TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1",
then you'll be sorted, as they say.
Depending on which NIC cards you're using, you may have some diagnostic
tools available (I know Realtek 8139 and 3Com 3C509 cards can do this).
As a quick and easy test, you can connect two machines with a crossover
cable (assuming you're using RJ45 and UTP), boot DOS from diskette on
the 2 machines, and run the diagnostic programs.
Assuming that all works, then you can progress to tcpdump running on a
real OS. One last warning though, I once had a problem with a PC that
worked fine with the DOS diagnostics, but refused to work with Solaris.
It turned out to be the "Plug and Play" OS in the BIOS CMOS
configuration.
A bientot
Paul
> John English | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr
EMail = URL (after //), replacing first dot with @
What's the point? The sharp bit on the end.
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.postscript,alt.os.linux
From: HoSghaj2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "J" bug in ghostscript
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:34:41 GMT
When I try to print a file containing the character "J"
at the beginning of a line anywhere in the file, e.g.
November 24, 2000
John,
Happy Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to our next meeting.
Gary
the file won't print. I haven't tested every printable
character in this manner, but I've printed a good many files
with ghostscript, and the "J" is the only character I know
of so far that causes ghostscript not to work.
Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this?
Gary Krupa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Black Dragon )
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: New To Linux - Distributions
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:34:16 GMT
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 00:36:43 GMT in comp.os.linux,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Hugh Lawson' said:
: In article <ybiT5.13365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike wrote:
: >Hi everyone,
: >
: >I am thinking about downloading and installing Linux for the first time.
[...]
: Get a book. Now you can get books specific to distributions. Usually
: they have a CD, so if you look carefully you can get CD and book in one
: step.
I'll second that. IMHO, this is the best way to go and is the route I took
when I first got started with Linux. The books will also come in handy for
many years to come.
--
Black Dragon
Sign The Linux Driver Petition:
http://www.libralinux.com/petition.english.html
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From: "Scott M. Navarre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Multiple SCSI controller cards
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:38:49 GMT
Hello,
(Before continuing, it may be important to know that my motherbaord has an
onboard adaptec AIC7xxx controller which controls my primary hardrive, tape,
and CD drive - everything there works fine)
I am trying to add two Adaptec AHA1740 SCSI EISA controller cards to my
system. I have set the cards through the EISA setup (bootable configuration
disk that came with system) as follows:
EISA slot #3:
Interface Mode: Enhanced Mode
I/O Port Definition: Disabled (Enhanced Mode)
DMA Channel Definition: Disabled (Enhanced Mode)
Host Adapter BIOS: Enabled @ Base Address C800H
SCSI Device Configuration: Enhanced mode configuration
EISA slot #4:
Interface Mode: Enhanced Mode
I/O Port Definition: Disabled (Enhanced Mode)
DMA Channel Definition: Disabled (Enhanced Mode)
Host Adapter BIOS: Enabled @ Base Address CC00H
SCSI Device Configuration: Enhanced mode configuration
I can only use the above addresses for the host adapter BIOSes since I
also have a Specialix RIO card in the system which apparently uses all of
the DXXXH address space - the configuration program will not let me use any
other addresses for my SCSI controllers other than the ones shown above.
When the machine boots up, I see both controller's BIOSes and the drives
connected to them come up (I have 6 identical drives - 3 on each
controller):
.Adaptec AHA-1740 BIOS v1.40
.Copyright 1992 Adaptec, Inc.
.[Enhanced Mode]
.
.Target 0 - QUANTUM FIREBALL540S - Drive D: (81h)
.Target 1 - QUANTUM FIREBALL540S
.Target 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALL540S
.
.Adaptec AHA-1740 BIOS v1.40
.Copyright 1992 Adaptec, Inc.
.[Enhanced Mode]
.
.Target 0 - QUANTUM FIREBALL540S
.Target 1 - QUANTUM FIREBALL540S
.Target 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALL540S
Then (on a virgin RH7.0 install) I invoke the command:
'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/aha1740.o'
and get the following messages:
.Configuring aha174x at IO:3c80, IRQ 11
.aha174x: Extended translation disabled.
.Configuring aha174x at IO:4c80, IRQ 11
.aha174x: Extended translation disabled.
.Unable to allocate IRQ for adaptec controller.
.scsi1 : Adaptec 174x (EISA)
.scsi : 2 hosts.
. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL540S Rev: 1Q04
. Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
.Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL540S Rev: 1Q04
. Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
.Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL540S Rev: 1Q04
. Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
.Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
.SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector=512 bytes. Sectors= 1065235 [520 MB] [0.5 GB]
. sdb: unknown partition table
.SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector=512 bytes. Sectors= 1065235 [520 MB] [0.5 GB]
. sdc: unknown partition table
.SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector=512 bytes. Sectors= 1065235 [520 MB] [0.5 GB]
. sdd: unknown partition table
I was then able to 'fdisk' these three devices and setup the partition
tables on these drives. So, now the above "unknown partition table" lines
read:
. sdb: sdb1
. sdc: sdc1
. sdd: sdd1
So, now my questions are these:
1) What does "Extended translation disabled" mean above, and is it a
problem?
2) Does the "unable to allocate IRQ for adaptec controller" refer to the
second controller that I am not able to access? (which is shown above as
using the same IRQ as the first one - IRQ 11). But, the EISA setup program
does not give IRQ choices for 'Enhanced Mode'...
As a note, these were working in the same box while running the SCO
Openserver O/S. However, I had these cards set to 'Standard Mode' (instead
of 'Enhanced' - I read that Linux supports the AHA1740 in Enhanced Mode).
Therefore, on the SCO setup I had the IRQs set to 9 and 10, the I/O Port set
to 130H and 230H, the DMAs set to 7 and 6, and the adapter BIOSes disabled
(there was disk array software controlling these cards). So, there were
enough IRQs before, and I have not added any other cards to the box since
switching to Linux... actually, I removed an AHA1740 card that used to
control the boot drive for SCO (the onboard AIC7xxx controller wasn't used
under the SCO configuration).
Any help or direction on this would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Scott Navarre
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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 02:06:31 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: bash scripting question
i need to execute a process and assign it's pid to a variable.
eg. if i run xchat, say, and it has pid 1234, how can i store this value
in a variable when the process begins execution?
thanks
ali
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From: toast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: suid
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:43:42 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi,
>
> I wanted to allow non-privileged users to do execute a script that would
> normally require su access (for example "touch /bin/something"), so I
> did "chmod +s script", however when script is executed, its body still
> reports "permission denied".
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Wroot
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I think you should type `chmod u+s filename.ext` as root
to set the suid bit. I think the reason `chmod +s' won't work
is because you can also set a group id bit in much the same
manner.
Hope this is correct,
Ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: No space left on device with /var filesystem
Date: 24 Nov 2000 23:44:41 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Fung Wai Keung wrote:
]>
]> Hi all,
]>
]> I am running Linux Mandrake 7.1. I sometimes encounter the "no space left
]> in device" error when I run some commands like
]>
]> root@acaepc53:/home/users/wkfung>rpm --rebuilddb
]> error creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.11932: No space left on
]> device
]>
]> or
]> [ I can't print anything]
]> root@acaepc53:/etc/rc.d/init.d>lpr ~/.cshrc
]> lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/tfA119acaepc53.acae.cuhk.edu.hk
]> root@acaepc53:/etc/rc.d/init.d>./lpd restart
]> Shutting down lpd: [ OK ]
]> Starting lpd: [ OK ]
]> touch: /var/lock/subsys/lpd: No space left on device
]> root@acaepc53:/etc/rc.d/init.d>
]>
]> and so on. All involve the /var filesystem, saying that it has no
]> availabe space. However, I have more 160M available in /var, as reported
]> by df
This is a bug in logrotate on Mandrake 7.1 It keeps making more and more
and more ( twice as many every time logrotate is called ) in
/var/log/mail and /var/log/news. They are all 0 length files, but they
use up all the inodes, so no new files can be created. Erase all files
in these directories, AND go to the Mandrake site and UPDATE logrotate.
Really, you should be going there regularly ( use MandrakeUpdate or
whatever) to keep your system updated. Next time it will be some cracker
who has erased all your files because you left buggy security features
unfixed.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: parport / kernel message problem
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:52:19 GMT
I've been having a small problem with the IEEE-1284 autoprobe, and don't
know how to resolve it.
Right after I compiled the kernel and modules, and configured the
/etc/conf.modules file with parport as described in parport.txt, I saw the
name of my printer, an Epson Stylus Color 800, appear after parport1 during
bootup after the modules installed. Of course the printer was turned on at
that point.
This is (and has been) my parport configuration:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x3bc,0x378 irq=5,7
Mysteriously, the printer's name no longer appears, even though I have the
printer online during bootup. I made no changes to conf.modules other than
to add a sound driver / module on irq 9. What I see now is:
parport1: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
parport1: Unspecified, Unknown vendor Unknown device
Parallel printer support has been compiled as a module.
The printer prints fine in linux, as well or better than it did before the
change in the bootup message.
What could account for the "unknown vendor Unknown device" message? I know
that the printer is IEEE-1284 compliant.
I've already tried recompiling the kernel, which didn't make any lasting
difference. What I mean is, the problem eventually fixed itself and I saw
the "Epson Stylus Color 800" appear on the parport1 line during bootup.
It'd be that way for a while, until an error occurred such as: a file
wouldn't print correctly or the printer being turned on before the system
was turned on (causing the system not to start properly). Then the printer
ID during bootup vanished. The problem, along with the solution, has been
intermittent.
I'd be grateful for any assistance or suggestions anyone could offer.
Sincerely,
Gary Krupa
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