Linux-Misc Digest #466, Volume #26 Mon, 4 Dec 00 19:13:03 EST
Contents:
Systems administration shell scripts (Richard Anderson)
Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Multiple IPs on dial up interface (Eric Headley)
install linux from unix ("Dr. Michael Albert")
Need Help with PASSWD! Urgent! ("JP")
Development Environments ("Guy Dillen")
test ("Jordan S. Jacobs")
printing from acrobat (Douglas Nichols)
test ("Jordan S. Jacobs")
Re: /etc/fielsystems versus /proc/filesystems (Otto Wyss)
help with nfsd please! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kickstart Problem with Red Hat 7.0 ("Jordan S. Jacobs")
noarch rpm (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Re: Problem connecting to X server -- Font directory. ("Emmanuel Beranger")
Help: 2.2.17 kernel crashes during large I/O operations ("Marco Imperatore")
Howto indentify file's owner & group? (Young4ert)
Is Kde 2 Reeeeally slow, or is it my box poorly trimmed ? ("Emmanuel Beranger")
Re: su (to root) ("Iain Ambler")
Re: Is Kde 2 Reeeeally slow, or is it my box poorly trimmed ? (Robert Spangler)
Re: problem with mkisofs (James Pearson)
Re: help with nfsd please! (Darwin Mecham)
How does Sendmail verify the sender? (Des Whewell)
Re: Need Help with PASSWD! Urgent!
Re: New To Linux - Distributions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: printing from acrobat (Neil Cherry)
Re: Howto indentify file's owner & group? ("Peter T. Breuer")
RAM-problems in Redhat7 ("Erik Knave")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Anderson)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:30:01 -0500
Subject: Systems administration shell scripts
The software product Typhon (www.unixscripts.com) contains over 100 portable
Korn shell scripts for text processing, file and directory processing,
customizing your login environment, disk space management, performance
analysis, system monitoring and system security. It includes generalized
login environment files for the Korn shell, bash and the C shell.
Some functions of Typhon:
* Substitute one text string for another in all files in a directory tree,
skipping non-text files. The substitution strings can be regular expressions
or plain text.
* Display all subdirectories as a visual directory tree.
* Copy a file to multiple remote hosts, with disk backup of the target file on
each host.
* List all subdirectories in one or more directories, including symbolic links
to directories.
Typhon is distributed as part freeware, part commercial. You
can download the freeware or purchase the product at www.unixscripts.com.
Richard Anderson, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Raycosoft
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 20:29:50 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Mikael Gramont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ATI XPERT2000 AGP
Consider yourself lucky... Since there's no PCI gart support for
the linux kernel, PCI version work even worse.
Adam
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From: Eric Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple IPs on dial up interface
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 20:29:58 GMT
Is is possible to assign multiple IP addresses to a dialup interface ?
If so how would one do it ?
Eric Headley
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From: "Dr. Michael Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install linux from unix
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:33:27 -0500
Dear Friends:
I have an old 486 with 16M of RAM on which a coworker had installed
linux (redhat 4.0). Recently, the bootable harddrive failed. I
have a tape of the system directories (except /dev). However,
I have been unable to boot to any of the "install" or "rescue"
disks--either the install/rescue program crashes or reports that
it can't find the SCSI harddisk (aha1542 controller). I've tried
several different distributions with essentially the same result, so
I'm not taking a different route. (The clever fellow who
got Linux installed the first time has gone on to bigger and better
things).
I've installed FreeBSD, and used some ext2fs utilities from sourceforge
to create an ext2fs on which I have restored the system
directories (/etc, /boot,...). I'd like to make this hard drive
bootable, so I guess I need to do "by hand" some of the things
the install/rescue disk would have done for me if it had worked
(ie, but LILO in the MBR, etc). I understand some of the pieces
involved, but I don't quite know how to do this. Can you advise
me of somewhere I might find out the details?
Thank you.
-Mike
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Need Help with PASSWD! Urgent!
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:50:09 -0500
We are running Slackware kernel 2.0.38 (?). Lately, a lot of users having
trouble logging to the server to extract email.
For some user account, when I trying to telnet to the Linux box as usual,
it keeps saying login incorrect even if the account has been deleted and
re-created. I checked the password and shadow files and did not notice any
problems. Now more and more users are getting this problem.
What should I do? Please give me some advice. Thanks.
Joe
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From: "Guy Dillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Development Environments
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:31:46 +0100
What is/are the most used development environments on Linux for database
based applications?
Guy Dillen
E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jordan S. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:35:57 GMT
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From: Douglas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing from acrobat
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 14:47:37 -0800
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I downloaded acrobat 4.x for linux, runs fine, but doesn't print. I ran
it from the command line doesn't seem to spit anything out to the stdout
like an error message. Printer works fine and it is printing correctly
to the lpr and I can print from everyother app to lpr.
Anyone have an idea about this?
Thanks
dn
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121 Lakeside Ave., Suite 306
Seattle, WA 98122
206.323.0860
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From: "Jordan S. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:47:13 GMT
test
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Subject: Re: /etc/fielsystems versus /proc/filesystems
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:43:10 +0100
> >Since I rather like floppies mounted as vfat instead of msdos (using
> >auto in fstab), I consider creating a /etc/filesystems. Or is there a
> >way to change the order in /proc/filesystems to get the same effect?
> >
> Change the word auto in fstab to vfat. That should do it.
>
No that's not the point. I want to be able to read different floppy
formats, I only want to have the sort order changed for vfat/msdos. So
far /etc/filesystems works, I only would like to know if I could change
the sort order of /proc/filesystems.
O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: help with nfsd please!
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:39:58 GMT
Hi,
I added the following line to /etc/exports :
/home/wroot/mydir comp*.domain(ro,insecure,all_squash)
I even rebooted the machine (BTW, do I have to do it?)
However, I still can not mount the directory from other machines
(IRIXes)
What can be wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Wroot
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From: "Jordan S. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kickstart Problem with Red Hat 7.0
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:59:54 GMT
Goal:
To perform an NFS Kickstart using DHCP. More specifically, to
only use a network capable kernel to boot the target install machine
and to grab the ks.cfg and Linux installation tree from a server.
Setup:
o I created a boot disk using bootnet.img
o At the boot prompt, I am typing: linux ks
o I can see that it is grabing the Kickstart file from the server (so
at this point, the DHCP is working)
o I can also see that it is mounting the Linux installation tree from
the server
o Then, I am getting the following messages:
On the F1 screen:
failed to read /modules/module-info
install exited abnormally
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems...
/mnt/source
/tmp/nfskd
/dev/ptsxt
/proc
you may safely reboot your system
On the F3 screen:
getting ready to spawn shell now
cannot open shell - /bin/sh doesn't exist
It almost sounds like the chroot'ed environment is not being set
properly when the ramdisk (initrd.img) is being mounted. Just a
guess.
Any suggestions???
Thank you,
Jordan S. Jacobs, Vice President
I.D.E.A.L. Technology Corporation
1109 East Concord Street
Orlando, Florida 32803
http://www.idealcorp.com
407.999.9870 x12 or 1.877.IDEAL.CORP (Phone)
407.999.9850 (Fax)
I.ntegration D.evelopment E.ducation A.ll L.inux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: noarch rpm
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:15:39 GMT
I built a noarch RPM on my Linux system. The noarch.rpm contains
a Bourne shell script and some doc's. I tried to install this
RPM on my Solaris system and got this error message:
package package-1.4-1 is for a different operating system
What more do I need to do in building the package to let my
Solaris system use it?
Thanks....
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Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: "Emmanuel Beranger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem connecting to X server -- Font directory.
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:18:40 +0100
"-1" indicates that X should be using the font server "xfs"
check in the log "/var/log/messages" what can happen.
I had more or less the same problem once, because some process had built a
huge garbage file that ate all my disk space. In result, xfs could not find
any spare disk capacity to start, and X faild to start. Took me a while to
figure out ...
O'Neill a �crit dans le message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a linux machine running RH 6.1. Yesterday I rebooted. After
>the reboot, I can't bring up the X server. (It was up and running
>fine until the reboot.)
>
>Linux tells me it can't find the Font directory. /etc/XF86Config file
>has the fontpath entry as "unix/:-1" This makes no sense to me, and
>apparently not to linux either, although up until yesterday there
>wasn't any problem, and there's no sign that the file was changed.
>
>Any ideas??
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From: "Marco Imperatore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Help: 2.2.17 kernel crashes during large I/O operations
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:40:34 -0400
When moving large files or doing full backups, my Linux box running 2.2.17
crashes.
Never crashed with previously installed kernel (2.0.36). Does anyone have a
patch
for this? Pls e-mail back. Thx.
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Howto indentify file's owner & group?
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:15:59 GMT
Hi,
I need to write a shell script searching for some text/ascii files in a
certain directory. After having found the text/ascii files, I would
like to remove the files and recreate them with the same owner and group
having a 0 length. To search for the text/ascii files in a certain
directory as a regular user with "sudo", all I have to do is to write
the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh
DIRS = "/home/local/tmp /tmp"
sudo find ${DIRS} -type f > /tmp/file-lists;
FILE=`sudo file -f /tmp/file-lists | awk -F':' '/ASCII|English text/ {
print $1 }'`
Having found the text/ascii files (listed under $(FILE) variable), I
wrote the following script to 0 length the file to no avail (the files
are still having the original sizes):
for ff in ${FILE}
do
[ -e ${ff} ] && sudo cat /dev/null >& ${ff}
done
One other way I can think of is to physically remove and retouch the
files as shown below:
for ff in ${FILE}
do
[ -e ${ff} ] && sudo rm -f ${ff} && sudo touch ${ff}
done
But then, how can I preserve the ownership (including the group) of the
erased files?
Can anyone please help or if you know a better way to archive such task,
please don't hesistate to let mw know. TIA.
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PS. Remove "4" from e-mail address should you want to reply.
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From: "Emmanuel Beranger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is Kde 2 Reeeeally slow, or is it my box poorly trimmed ?
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:26:26 +0100
Kde 1 was fine on my AMD 350
I tried KDE 2, just to see ... but I soon reverted to 1, because it was
sooooo slow ...
Any1 got the same impression, or you all have rocket 1,5 Ghz chips ?
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From: "Iain Ambler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: su (to root)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:33:20 -0000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:90b3iv$9b3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> is there any way to set up the system so that only
> *one specific user* can SU to root?
Why do this?
When you are logged in as yourself it is easier to su to root so you can run
root commands. Otherwise its log out as you, log in as root.
If you dont want to let anyone perform root functions, dont give them the
password (or SET it to password!!!)
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From: Robert Spangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Kde 2 Reeeeally slow, or is it my box poorly trimmed ?
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:34:08 +0000
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:26:26 +0100 Emmanuel Beranger wrote:
> Kde 1 was fine on my AMD 350
> I tried KDE 2, just to see ... but I soon reverted to 1, because it was
> sooooo slow ...
>
> Any1 got the same impression, or you all have rocket 1,5 Ghz chips ?
Well I don't have a 1,5 Ghz but I do have a problem that no one seems to be
able to help me with. I receive a respawning error when booting into run
level 5:
INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast : disable for 5 minutes
using Red Hat 6.2 and KDE 2.0, everything worked fine before the upgrade.
Anyone have an idea what I might need to look at ?
Thnx
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From: James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: problem with mkisofs
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:33:00 GMT
In article <90giv0$fh9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lukasz Mach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have problem with mkisofs, especially multi session feature.
>
> i have one session on my cd, and i want to append second. so i do:
> mkisofs -o image2.iso -R -M `cdrecord -msinfo` -C /dev/scd0
> second_dir/
>
> my image is created, and have proper size (i think). but if i want to
test
> it with mount -o loop image2.iso mntdir, my kernel tells me, that he
can't
> read this image, that i want to read (from /dev/loop0) more than i
have
> available. I've tried this on my friend's linux, and the results are
the
> same. Can anyone help me?. Is mkisofs ONLY program to create iso
images?
>
> my linux is RH6.2 with 2.2.13 kernel, my friend have mandrake7.1 with
> oryginal kernel
>
> maho
The output of mkisofs for the 2nd (or subsequent) sessions is not a
complete ISO9660 disk image, therefore you cannot mount it by itself.
The easiest way to check the image is to use isoinfo - part of the
cdrecord/mkisofs package.
James Pearson
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From: Darwin Mecham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with nfsd please!
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 15:45:00 -0700
Several things could be wrong.
First look at /var/log/messages.
Without reviewing your error logs you can't
tell much.
Then look at /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny
to make sure that the nfs client machine is
allowed to connect.
Then ps awx and grep for nfsd or whatever the
daemon is on your nfs server. Make sure
that it's started.
BTW - you didn't say what flavor boxes were
nfs servers - I did assume the clients were
IRIX.
TTFN ~ Darwin
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From: Des Whewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How does Sendmail verify the sender?
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:52:32 +0000
Despite having the BAT book, I'm still a bit hazy on how Sendmail
verifies the source of the sender with respect to relay prevention.
Does it do a reverse-DNS look-up and compare the IP to the source of
the connection?
--
Cheers, Des
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Crossposted-To:
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Help with PASSWD! Urgent!
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:55:57 +0000
Seems to be a common thing anymore. My trouble started late in August and
it's been getting worse and worsr all the time. Sometimes it takes three
or more tries to connect to an ISP, and that many or more times to connect
to a mail server. Times are getting rougher all the time.
===
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, JP wrote:
> We are running Slackware kernel 2.0.38 (?). Lately, a lot of users having
> trouble logging to the server to extract email.
>
> For some user account, when I trying to telnet to the Linux box as usual,
> it keeps saying login incorrect even if the account has been deleted and
> re-created. I checked the password and shadow files and did not notice any
> problems. Now more and more users are getting this problem.
>
> What should I do? Please give me some advice. Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: New To Linux - Distributions
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 23:00:58 GMT
In article <ybiT5.13365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am thinking about downloading and installing Linux for the first
time. I
> am very familiar with Windows/DOS environments but from what I have
> heard/seen of Linux so far I have a feeling I am going to be pretty
lost,
> but I think I would like to try it any way.
>
> I have found huge lists of Linux Distributions, and I am not sure
which one
> to get. Bascially I use my computer for Windows based games (such as
Red
> Alert 1/2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, C&C Tiberian Sun, and a few
other
> DirectX and OpenGL based games) and the only application I use
heavily is
> Microsoft Office 2000. Can I run these things in a particular Linux
> distribtion, if so which one?
>
> I have an Athlon 700, 256 RAM, Geforce 2 GTS system as well.
>
> Can any one recommend a distribution for me? Prefereably one that is
> novice-medium level of "difficulty" too...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
I'm not sure how large your hard drive is, but you could try a dual
boot. That way you could keep Windoze on your computer and put Linux
on at the same time. Linux doesn't usually take more than 3 gigs with
some room to spare. If you could get Partition Magic it is possible to
put aside some area on you HD just for Linux and install it there.
That way if you decided later that you didn't like Linux, you could
delete that partition and reclaim it as FAT32. I would recommend a few
things first:
1. make sure that all you hardware is supported by the distro you pick
2. get it on CD, do not download from the internet. Downloading a
linux distro from the web takes forever.
3. read the manuals and study for a while before doing the install.
4. back up your HD.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: printing from acrobat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 23:18:52 GMT
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 14:47:37 -0800, Douglas Nichols wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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>
>I downloaded acrobat 4.x for linux, runs fine, but doesn't print. I ran
>it from the command line doesn't seem to spit anything out to the stdout
>like an error message. Printer works fine and it is printing correctly
>to the lpr and I can print from everyother app to lpr.
>
>Anyone have an idea about this?
Mine blows up in Ghostscript, but it prints the error message to the
printer (an HP DJ500C via an HP JetDirect). I'm using LPRng.
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http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Howto indentify file's owner & group?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:23:13 +0100
Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> certain directory. After having found the text/ascii files, I would
> like to remove the files and recreate them with the same owner and group
> having a 0 length. To search for the text/ascii files in a certain
> But then, how can I preserve the ownership (including the group) of the
> erased files?
cp /dev/null file_in_question.
Peter
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From: "Erik Knave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAM-problems in Redhat7
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:59:57 +0100
Hi!
I recently installed RedHat 7 on my computer. It seemed to be no problems
with the installation. But when I ran X I was suprised by how slow the
system was, and so I checked with 'top' how much RAM i had according to the
op-system. 'top' said 13 Meg, when in fact I have about 130 Meg (128 M)
installed. I asked a friend, and he told me this could occur if the BIOS
didn't report the proper amount of memory to the kernel.
And so, he told me to use the flag 'mem=128M' when booting in lilo. But when
booting, the system said that no ram-disk space could be found, and so the
boot was halted. Have anyone outthere experienced the same kind of problem?
Regards Erik
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