Linux-Misc Digest #475, Volume #26 Tue, 5 Dec 00 21:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom (Robert Heller)
Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom (Robert Clayton)
antiantisniffersniffer and patch (Praedor Tempus)
Adobe drops linux beta (Christopher Michael Collins ())
Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom ("Gero H. Marten")
talkd & MDK7.2 (Maik Schwandt)
Linux telnet windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux telnet windows (Black Dragon)
Re: Is Kde 2 Reeeeally slow, or is it my box poorly trimmed ? ("Emmanuel Beranger")
Re: can't compile gimp-print.-4.0.2 (Zero Piraeus)
Christmas Virus Warning (Nigel)
Re: talkd & MDK7.2 (Moe Koenig)
Re: Help: 2.2.17 kernel crashes during large I/O operations (RogerB)
Re: Color Printing Quality (Frank Hahn)
Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom (Dave Brown)
How do I install ANYTHING in Linux???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
lynx and https problem (Tom Hoffmann)
Re: Adobe drops linux beta ("Garry Knight")
Re: Using Linux with current Solaris network ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Corel Linux VS Redhat 7 (John Collier)
Re: How to fix bad sectors on HD? (Jc)
Re: can't compile gimp-print.-4.0.2 (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux???? (mwa)
Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom (mwa)
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom
Date: 5 Dec 2000 15:19:20 true
Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 05 Dec 2000 21:05:02 GMT, wrote :
DB> Whenever I try to mount an audio cdrom I get the following error.
DB>
DB> mount /dev/cdrom
DB> or
DB> mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom
DB>
DB> Error:
DB>
DB> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
DB> or too many mounted file systems
DB>
DB> Any ideas?
DB>
DB> Dave Brown
Audio CDs are not iso9660 *data* CDs. You cannot mount an Audio CD.
*Some* Audio CDs also have a data track, which can be mounted. If you
want to read audio tracks off the disk, you need a program like readcdda
(which is included in xcdroast).
DB>
DB>
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From: Robert Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 17:13:40 -0500
Dave Brown wrote:
>
> Whenever I try to mount an audio cdrom I get the following error.
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> or too many mounted file systems
As I recall, audio cdrom's do not have a filesystem of any sort (at
least not directly mountable).
Sorry, don't know how to extract data from them (dd doesn't work, I've
tried it). Maybe someone out there knows?
Robert
--
Robert Clayton - System Administrator - ACTiX
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: antiantisniffersniffer and patch
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:59:22 -0700
Anyone? I am a little spotty on the whole patch thing. I have
had mixed success applying patches and the antianti sniffer sniffer
patch is in the fail column.
I downloaded aass.c (antiantisniffersniffer) and the aass.patch
file. Has anyone applied said patch to said file?
On another note, is there anywhere a document to explain the
usage of aass? A simple file to explain command options and
syntax? I have been making guesses based on a look at the
sourcecode but have come up with nothing so far.
anyone?
praedor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Michael Collins ())
Subject: Adobe drops linux beta
Date: 5 Dec 2000 22:16:50 GMT
Adobe had a product called FrameMaker 5.5.6 beta for linux.
They just announced they are dropping the program. Anyone
using Frame for linux will see it rendered useless on
January 1. And it will no longer be available.
WTF?
Why not just release the code?
--Chris
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 22:55:18 +0100
Asked and answered a thousand times. You can't mount audio CD's. They
don't have a file system.
By the way, don't you read man pages or the documentation of your
system?
--
Gero H. Marten
"Computers are like air conditioners: They stop working properly if
you open
windows."
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From: Maik Schwandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: talkd & MDK7.2
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:32:08 +0100
H!
I want to have a talk daemon running on my MDK7.2 system. Therefore i
installed the package ntalk-0.10-1TL.i386.rpm which provides a talk
client and two talk daemons (in.talkd and in.ntalkd). I edited a file
called talk and copied it into /etc/xinetd.d/ because my xinetd.conf
holds the following line:
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
the file /etc/xinetd.d looks like this:
service talk
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = tcp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
disable = no
}
but whenever i try to "talk" to somebody my talk client shows the
following error message:
error on read from talk daemon : verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt (111)
knows anyone how to solve that problem?
greetz
Maik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux telnet windows
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 22:31:58 GMT
HI all,
I'm very familiar with Unix, but new to Linux. I now have a
new Linux desktop at work.
I've always relied on the menus to cut and paste into telnet
windows. But the mouse is causing me some mistakes now.
Is there a telnet tools for Linux out there that has the
standard Edit menu, with both the standard Cut and Paste
commands?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux telnet windows
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 22:45:13 GMT
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 22:31:58 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
: HI all,
:
: I'm very familiar with Unix, but new to Linux. I now have a
: new Linux desktop at work.
:
: I've always relied on the menus to cut and paste into telnet
: windows. But the mouse is causing me some mistakes now.
:
: Is there a telnet tools for Linux out there that has the
: standard Edit menu, with both the standard Cut and Paste
: commands?
When running telnet in an xterm:
left-click-highlight = copy
middle-click = paste (simultaneous left-right-click on two button mouse)
--
Black Dragon
Sign The Linux Driver Petition:
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From: "Emmanuel Beranger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Kde 2 Reeeeally slow, or is it my box poorly trimmed ?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:03:50 +0100
This comes from the FAQ, posted on this newsgroup a couple of days ago ...
10.24. "init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes."
This means, generally, that the system is booting by default into
runlevel 5, which enables a graphical login via xdm/kdm/ gdm/whatever
program, and can't locate it.
In other situations, "Id" might indicate the absence of another
program.
The temporary solution in this case is to switch to runlevel 3, a
standard text-mode login, by typing "telinit 3." To make the change
permanent, set the correct runlevel (1,2,3, or 5) in the initdefault
line of /etc/inittab.
Some systems, however, rewrite /etc/inittab when booting. In that
case, refer to the init man page, and/or the settings in
/etc/sysconfig/init.
Robert Spangler a �crit dans le message <90h64c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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: Zero Piraeus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't compile gimp-print.-4.0.2
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:52:41 +0000
Hey:
> > I've been trying to compile gimp-print for my system (RH v6.1,
> > kernel 2.2.16) without success.
>
> I just replied to your earlier post under the subject "Problem with
> headers [was: Re: gimp-print won't configure]" - it seems that both our
> systems are having trouble turning <linux/something.h> into a correct
> path.
And now I've solved it. I don't know whether it was changing from RH's
586 kernel to the 386 version or installing the kernel-sources RPM, but
now everything's fine.
Innit grand when you do something at random and then it works, leaving
you no wiser?
-[z].
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From: Nigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Christmas Virus Warning
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:12:18 GMT
Our IT dept. have received a Virus warning this morning.The virus
appears as a file attachment called Navidad which is part of an
e-christmas card.
If you receive such an e-mail please do not
open it!
--
Worker
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http://disk.vstorecomputers.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moe Koenig)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: talkd & MDK7.2
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:27:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:32:08 +0100, Maik Schwandt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>H!
>I want to have a talk daemon running on my MDK7.2 system. Therefore i
>[...]
>the file /etc/xinetd.d looks like this:
>
>service talk
>{
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol = tcp
> wait = yes
> user = root
> server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
> disable = no
>}
>
>but whenever i try to "talk" to somebody my talk client shows the
>following error message:
>error on read from talk daemon : verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt (111)
hello,
talk is a rpc service and therefor needs the rpc-portmapper running.
you dont really want this stuff on your box tho since the whole
rpc-crap is wellknown for a long, dark history of bugs, slips and
remotely exploitable security holes.
the portmapper also is required for the unfamous
ugly-but-still-hardly-avoidable nfs service.
so if you export nfs-shares you may as well run talkd, just be sure to
read up on and _understand_ the potential security problems nfs/rpc
usually introduce.
i would recommend to rather set up an ircd or instant messenger
service if you need external<->internal live communication, the
talk/rpc stuff is broken by design and should - imo - be avoided
whenever possible.
i will very soon release a console/ncurses-based multiuser splitscreen
chat utility (very similar to talk) on freshmeat. i wrote it up
because i wanted to offer the users on the boxes i admin a simple,
secure way to communicate w/ each other.
the daemon as well as the client both run w/o root-privilegs and
should be rather bulletproof against any kind of attack.
keep an eye on freshmeat.net for "partyline" or if you cant wait drop
me a line and i'll send you a beta-tarball.. :)
the whole thing is almost done, just still got to make it customizable
(config-file), write some documentation and finish off/tidy up the
code...
regards, m.k.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RogerB)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help: 2.2.17 kernel crashes during large I/O operations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:47:33 GMT
My kernel was to fast by default (10meg transfer) and ran in ascync
mode so I needed to slow it down and and run scync. The drives
are marked freshes before 1987 so I think they're getting a little
long in the tooth.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:18:47 +0200, Alk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just read help on scsi adaptor driver parameters in kernel configuration -
>it says it fails for some reason with tagged que on or whatever else - just
>play around with these parameters
>Maybe your old kernel had a bit different approach to SCSI bus on your
>adapter
>
>AG
>
>"RogerB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I'm not sure about the kernel version but are you sure it's not a
>> hardware problem. I have the same problem on my little box because I
>> can't get the scsi timing right. Also bad drive cables can do the same
>thing.
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:40:34 -0400, Marco Imperatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > wrote:
>> >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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Color Printing Quality
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:10:02 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:15:38 GMT, S. G. Student <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I get superior results with turboprint. Don't have the URL but you can
>find it via google or maybe search the announce archive.
>
Is this shareware, commercial, free software? The web page was not
clear on this but it called the download an evaluation version.
Just curious.
--
Frank Hahn
Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
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From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:16:43 GMT
>
> By the way, don't you read man pages or the documentation of your
> system?
Yes I do, in fact that's the first place I went and didn't see any
references.
In article <90jo86$3s3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Asked and answered a thousand times. You can't mount audio CD's. They
> don't have a file system.
>
> By the way, don't you read man pages or the documentation of your
> system?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux????
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:09:07 GMT
Ok, I'm just about completely frustrated. I'm trying to convert myself
from the evil blue screen world of windows, and trying to learn to use
Linux. I have been playing with several different types and find that
I like the Mandrake 7.x versions the best.
My problem:
I try downloading software from the internet to install and try out on
Linux, but I can NEVER figure out how to install anything and make it
work! I keep getting errors saying I need to have QT, PHP,
MySQL...etc..etc...installed. When I try to install the needed stuff,
it never works either or I just do something dumb.
I have the tar -zxvf thing figured out, but from there nothing works. I
try 'make', 'make install', 'make clean', './configure' and all those
different variations of compiling and installing software, but just have
no luck - EVER!
What is the trick to simply downloading and installing software on this
operating system?
I'm just getting completely frustrated with this whole thing.
Anyone out there that can give a newbie some advice??
Thanks,
Tom
--Sick of Windows blue screens, and can't make friends with the cute
penquin. :-(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Hoffmann)
Subject: lynx and https problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:20:42 GMT
I have RH7 w/ lynx 2.8.4. When i try to access a secure login page, I
get the message "This client does not contain support for https URLs".
I looked at the lynx man page and at the lynx user guide. The only
thing I found was the -validate option, but I can not get it to make a
difference.
-validate
accept only http URLs (meant for validation).
This flag implies security restrictions generally more severe
than -anonymous: restriction options as for -restrictions=all,
with the notable exception that *goto remains enabled for http
and https URLs*; in addition, the PRINT and DOWNLOAD commands
are completely disabled, and use of a Trace Log file is forced
off.
Am I on the right track here ... is this the way to get lynx to process
https URLs? Or am I totally misreading this?
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adobe drops linux beta
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:20:45 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <90jpgi$r04$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Christopher Michael
Collins ()" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adobe had a product called FrameMaker 5.5.6 beta for linux.
>
> They just announced they are dropping the program. Anyone using Frame
> for linux will see it rendered useless on January 1. And it will no
> longer be available.
Well, you could always use Canvas 6 instead. Apparently it's free.
<URL: http://www.deneba.com>
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using Linux with current Solaris network
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:10:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I plan to integrate some linux servers into a solaris network.
> where can I find information on doing this, from naming the servers
> to allowing access to user accounts.
> The main area I need help is on NIS and NFS.
Do you have any specific concerns?
I just set up several Linux machines using NIS and NFS on a mixed
Solaris/HPUX network. It was not too difficult.
I had a little bit of a problem getting the Linux machines to export
via netgroups, but it was a bit of confusion/typos on my part, not a
Linux issue.
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=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings
thrown in. (Other than that, it's quite a nice language)" -Larry Wall
========================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Collier)
Subject: Re: Corel Linux VS Redhat 7
Date: 6 Dec 2000 01:23:23 GMT
Sinner from the Prairy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: William Pelish wrote:
:
: > Thanks
: > I have found in what little use I have had with Corel that there is little
: > or almost no bugs in the OS. However Redhat has a few too many I don't wish
: > to deal with. I am looking for something I can understand and grasp easy. So
: > far this one for me seems to work however everything is expendable.
:
: Then try Mandrake Linux 7.2. Easy to install, manage upgrade.... based
: on RedHat distribution plus enhancements. It's particulary good the
: multilanguage support. And it's not as buggy aas RedHat 7.0
I've used Corel. I found it to stupid and difficult to hack,
but it worked fine out of the box. I don't care for the interface
much, but that is a maater of taste. I've also used various RedHat
versions (started there several years ago), and it is more flexible and
well supported. I tried 7.0, but I thought that the installation
procedure had gone backwards. I now use Mandrake 7.2 at home, and
I like it. It installs well out of the box on my rather unusual
homebrew machine, unlike Corel and RedHat, and I have found it relatively
easy to recover form erros I make when I play with the system.
So it has both reliability and flexbility goung for it. The only
real problem I have is that installing Mandrake 7.2 over 7.1, I
couldn't get the install program to upgrade the system, and
reinstalling over the same system with downloaded upgrades
results in a downgrade. The 7.2 upgrade system, on the other hand,
is easy to use, and bug fixes come out regularly.
John
--
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Philosophy -- U. of Newcastle Fax: +61 49 216928
Callaghan, NSW, AUSTRALIA 2038 http://bcollier.newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/pl/Staff/JohnCollier/collier.html
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From: Jc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to fix bad sectors on HD?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:41:29 +0900
I've tried e2fsck -c and near the end of the drive it give me a bunch of
"short read {UNRECOVERABLE ERROR}" messages ... I've run e2fsck -c twice and
still I get these messages (but I don't know if it's for the same sectors or
not though).
Jc
Jimenez Martinez Angel Luis wrote:
> Jc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I currently have RH 6.2 installed and recently I have been getting some
> > problems and these seem to be caused by bad sectors on my HD since I
> > keep getting read errors poping up on my console ...
>
> > How to I go about cchecking my HD for bad sectors, fixing them and then
> > marking the sectors as bad?
>
> > Jc
>
> badblocks is the answer, but I think that e2fsck can do the same with a
> comandline option:
>
> man e2fsck
> man badblocks
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can't compile gimp-print.-4.0.2
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:49:18 GMT
I've rpm'd gimp-print 4.0.4. I can post the spec file, if you like.
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Subject: Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux????
From: mwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:55:50 GMT
Installing via compiling source files can be a painful process.
Especially when the sources in question have many dependencies.
You might consider a couple of things.
- Try to find RPM files of the installations you wish to install.
More and more projects are creating RPM binaries as an alternative
to manual compilation (man rpm).
- Check out the gnorpm app. It can search through remote RPM sites
for available apps.
- Chalk it up as a learning experience. I have learned a great deal
about Linux over the past six years by manuall installing stuff
(back then you had to compile and install everything yourself).
This may not be attractive to someone who wants a drop in solution,
but for me it has paid off. And of course
you can exercise a greater deal of control when installing stuff
manually.
-mwa
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Subject: Re: Problem mounting audio cdrom
From: mwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:59:28 GMT
check out grip on freshmeat.net
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