Linux-Misc Digest #477, Volume #26 Wed, 6 Dec 00 05:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Runing WINE without WINDOWS partition (Reinhard Karcher)
Sendmail question (root)
Re: another bash scripting question (Mike keithley)
Re: another bash scripting question (Manfred Bartz)
Mandrake 7.2 shutdown error? (Rafael)
Problem to halt - HELP (Rafael)
Re: Kernel won't mount raid0 (solved) ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: another bash scripting question (Sebastian Hans)
Re: Sendmail question (Alexei Kichkine)
Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition? (Sebastian Hans)
Re: Do Linux ext2 partition need defrag? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Adobe drops linux beta (Richard Steiner)
Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition? ("D. Stimits")
Re: Do Linux ext2 partition need defrag? (Richard Steiner)
Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition? ("D. Stimits")
Re: Adsl-start as start-up script (Carfield Yim)
Re: problems with .rhosts? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
half newbie question ("A.Bev")
Re: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00 (Eric)
How should I install Linux and Win2K (dual boot) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:48:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Runing WINE without WINDOWS partition
Calvarezl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to run a WINDOWS .EXE program and download and installed WINE
>but I do not have a WINDOWS partition.
>How i configure WINE to run the .EXE program?
You better ask at comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.
Or look at their homepage www.winehq.com.
Reinhard
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 05:31:49 GMT
I am running RedHat Linux 6.2. As my system boots up it loads Sendmail
just fine and gives an [OK] status. When I log onto the system I can
send out e-mail to friends and family fine. But when they send e-mail
back to me they get the following bounce back:
"This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.
Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reason: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you feel this message to be in error."
Can anyone help. What do I need to do to receive e-mail on my server to
my local domain?
Thanks for your help.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
From: Mike keithley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another bash scripting question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 05:39:28 GMT
Where does one find a summary of the options if the if statement?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: another bash scripting question
From: Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:18:34 GMT
Mike keithley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where does one find a summary of the options if the if statement?
``if'' is actually very limited, it only knows zero (TRUE) and
not-zero (FALSE). The options are given to ``test'' which is
symlinked or hard-linked to ``['' (also builtin).
man bash
man test
Bash Reference Card:
<http://www.ssc.com/ssc/bash/>
--
Manfred
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 shutdown error?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 11:36:42 +0100
I have installed on one server Linux Mandrake 7.2 and on the other RH
7.0. When I choose security level high, I can not shutdown system
properly. It tell me now more prcess and I have to turn off computer and
then starting take 15 minutes becouse system was not cleanly unmounted.
Where is the solution of this problem
Rafael
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem to halt - HELP
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:17:52 +0100
I have Mandrake 7.2. Everything is running except
for one thing: it will not complete a shutdown.
After shutting down processes it generates the message "INIT: No more
processes in this runlevel" at which point the machine just sits
there. I don't want to say the box is hung, because when I hit
Ctrl-Alt-Delete the disk gets hit with something.
I can also switch to other console using ALT+ F2...F6 but I can not log.
I was trying:
shutdown -h now - the same
halt - the same
How to soleve this problem, I did not have such problems with Mandrake
7.1 and RH 6.2. On RH 7.0 I had the same problem.
Rafael
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel won't mount raid0 (solved)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 07:47:25 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ of striped raid root ]]
> I don't think there are only very few people doing it, as it's a good
> thing (tm)!
What's the point? I don't see any. It's not more robust and it's not
faster if you mean / (though it has lower first-time latency).
> I needed 2.2.18(prewhatever) as I needed USB. That just to
> explain. Basically, its not the kernel causing the "failure" here. I
> actually tested it with 2.2.17 stable AND 2.4.0-test<something> as
> well.
Better report the failure.
> Still not finding any info about how to exactly specify the "chunk size"
> in the kernel parms, I made a exhaustive test. The results for
> my two raid0s are:
> mdtab : /dev/md0 raid0,16k,0,802eab69 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdc2
> kernel args: md=0,0,2,0,/dev/hda3,/dev/hdc2
> ^--"chunk size": 2 works
> mdtab : /dev/md0 raid0,8k,0,08716985 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
> kernel args: md=0,0,1,0,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1
> ^--"chunk size": 1 works
> Other values for the chunk size (factor) (tested 1-16) do NOT
> work. Obviously, "mdtab-value == kargs-value x 8k" must be met. This
> really should be in kernel's md.txt, imho.
How would that work with 4K stripes? (;-).
> My normal disk / fs layout is to only have a small /boot partition on
> a bios-secure place and some swap space partition. All the rest is
> root-raid. This obviously has two advantages:
> 1. Speed (striping).
No speed increase on / as it is cached. It only contains libraries
(cached) and utilities needed at boot (not needed after boot).
Oh .. you are saying that you are striping /usr? Not /? Yes, striping
/usr has advantages. But you lose heavily in robustness by striping
/! And you only gain in speed if you stripe over two controllers.
Well, I suppose you can sync / to a different partition daily.
> 2. No fixed space mounted partitions (which is REALLY annoying).
??How does raid enable you to resize partitions? Yes, it enables you to
combine partitions to taste (which is what I use it for).
> I don't have a clean "old-style" root partition any more to boot
> from. I get security by other means. Previously, I had that, using the
> raid via symlinks, but that solution has some disadvantages, besides
> the fact that it is ugly !
Peter
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: another bash scripting question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 08:16:10 +0100
Manfred Bartz wrote:
>
> man bash
> man test
Or "help test" when running bash.
seb
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From: Alexei Kichkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail question
Date: 06 Dec 2000 11:43:46 +0500
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running RedHat Linux 6.2. As my system boots up it loads Sendmail
> just fine and gives an [OK] status. When I log onto the system I can
> send out e-mail to friends and family fine. But when they send e-mail
> back to me they get the following bounce back:
>
> "This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
>
> Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> each recipient was rejected.
>
> Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reason: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> if you feel this message to be in error."
>
> Can anyone help. What do I need to do to receive e-mail on my server to
>
> my local domain?
>
> Thanks for your help.
I guess you didn't setup sendmail.
You must write all your local domains (one domain a line) to file /etc/sendmail.cw
(and restart sendmail after that)
For example my /etc/sendmail.cw
potutkov.ru
mts.infocentr.ru
arteast.ru
It means - my sendmail can receive messages to users like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..
--
Best regards, Alexei Kichkine
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 08:24:26 +0100
Roger Beeman wrote:
>
> What is the difference between < mount -tvfat > and < mount -t msdos >?
msdos doesn't support long filenames.
> And if you'd be so kind, what is the correct command for mounting the
> cdrom (my /dev/hdd)?
mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdd /somewhere
HAND
seb
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Do Linux ext2 partition need defrag?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 22:46:12 -0500
Carfield Yim wrote:
>
> As title, do I need to defrag it to maintain performance just like
> Windows platform?
> If yes, any defrag software avaliable? I have download one from
> freshmeat but it need a ext2.h file and I don't have it...
A point:
Fragmentation is not always a detrement to performance. In certain
classes of system (of which Linux is one), fragmentation isn't the
performance impact that it is in MSWindows (sometimes it can even
enhance performance).
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Adobe drops linux beta
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:39:23 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Michael Collins ())
spake unto us, saying:
>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?
They did the same thing to the OS/2 beta back after Adobe bought Frame.
I guess they decided that Linux didn't have enough of a market (which
seems strange to me given its current growth, and also given that Adobe
also apparently has a "UNIX" version which surely has less potential
for market growth).
>Why not just release the code?
Software companies like Adobe rarely do that. It's not their way.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Eden Prairie, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ PC/GEOS + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Don't use commas, which, aren't necessary.
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:07:44 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition?
Roger Beeman wrote:
>
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> > mount -tvfat /dev/hda2 /xyz
> >
> > If that fails, be sure you have vfat filesystem type supported in your
> > kernel (directly or as a module).
>
> What is the difference between < mount -tvfat > and < mount -t msdos >?
>
> And if you'd be so kind, what is the correct command for mounting the
> cdrom (my /dev/hdd)?
>
> eternally grateful --Roger
vfat supports the older -t msdos. vfat has support for items such as
long file names, whereas msdos doesn't. vfat obsoletes msdos.
Most CD-ROM's are iso9660 filesystem. Typically:
mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
The above would mount read-only (avoids write protection warnings), and
assumes you have a directory /mnt/cdrom/ to mount it on. You could
create any other directory and use that.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Do Linux ext2 partition need defrag?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 02:02:03 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>A point:
>
>Fragmentation is not always a detrement to performance. In certain
>classes of system (of which Linux is one), fragmentation isn't the
>performance impact that it is in MSWindows (sometimes it can even
>enhance performance).
Very true. OS/2's HPFS filesystem will actually intentionally break
large files into multiple segments called "extents" in some cases.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Eden Prairie, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ PC/GEOS + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
APATHY ERROR: Don't bother striking any key.
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:15:29 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is It Possible to Mount a DOS Partition?
Wayne Watson wrote:
>
> Thanks. Let me add a little more. I'm operating off of a RH rescue disk and the DOS
>partitions are on a
> DOS partition. In fact, one machine has a DOS partition, an NT partition, and a
>Linux partition. The
> other machine has an NT partition and a a Linux partition. It's the second machine
>where I ultimately
> move some source files from the Linux parition to the NT FAT16 partition. I guess I
>could write the
> stuff to a floppy, as well. Fortunately, there are only about 50-60 source files
>that are about 25K
> apiece.
For any of the windows style filesystems, other than NTFS, use vfat.
NTFS support is not the same as fat16 (or fat32), so your NT fat16
partition still uses vfat to mount it. Regardless of what operating
system is running on a partition, you should probably stick to the
filesystem type (for describing the partitions); the operating system is
irrelevant, the filesystem type is what matters. If you are stuck
writing to an NTFS partition, you will have to use the floppy copy
method (NTFS support is read-only; the write version is "experimental"
and truly not a good idea to use).
If you must connect to a remote machine from a floppy rescue, try
ftp...this is not a way to mount the remote partition, but it does allow
file transfer. NFS will work if it is set up already (not sure if your
rescue disk supports it).
>
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> > Wayne Watson wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd like t o mount a DOS partition and copy some source files to it. So far
>attempting to do mount
> > > /dev/hda2 /xyz hasn't cut it. Maybe there's a DOS argument to mount? Maybe some
>other way?
> > >
> > > --
> > > "It's better to wear out than rust out"
> > > -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President
> > >
> > > Wayne T. Watson
> >
> > mount -tvfat /dev/hda2 /xyz
> >
> > If that fails, be sure you have vfat filesystem type supported in your
> > kernel (directly or as a module).
>
> --
> "It's better to wear out than rust out"
> -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President
>
> Wayne T. Watson
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:33:25 +0500
From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adsl-start as start-up script
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are you using an ethernet card connected to a dsl modem , to get to your isp ?
I am using an ethernet card, but my ISP don't support Linux...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problems with .rhosts?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:12:03 GMT
<sigh> replaced the hostnames with the ip addresses and also with the
fully qualified domain names (greantea.companyname.com) but still not
luck :(
if anyone has had the same sort of problems, please could you let me
know. thanks
P
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One more thought, you could have an unprintable character in the line.
>
> Delete the greentea line and re-type it above the coffee line.
>
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:06:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >hi all
> >
> >i'm currently getting some strange behaviour with my ~/.rhosts in
that
> >in there, i have specified:
> >
> > coffee pfdev23
> > greentea pfdev23
> >
> >and for which greentea and coffee are the official hostnames (as
> >specified in their /etc/hosts files) of a solaris 2.6 and linux
2.2.17
> >hosts respectively (and pfdev23 is my uid)
> >
> >however, when i try to do rsh/rlogin into the sun (greentea) from
> >coffee, i am still prompted with the passwrd prompt. once onto
> >greentea, i can do a rlogin back into greentea and it doesnt ask me
for
> >a password. is there something (other config) that i have missed?
> >
> > pfdev23@coffee:[/tmp]$ rlogin greentea
> > Password:
> > Last login: Mon Dec 4 13:45:32 from greentea
> > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997
> > $ rlogin coffee
> >
> >the last rlogin (back to coffee) is fine.
> >
>
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From: "A.Bev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: half newbie question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:41:35 +0100
I have some questions relative to my Mandrake 7.2, all answers are
welcome
The first list is about sound :
I have succesfully configured, and installed Alsa drivers for both
Soundcards i have in my PC (a Guillemot Fortissimo, and a SB 16). I have
succesfully changedmodules.conf. But here start the problems.
Apparently my default sound card is the Fortissimo one. But i want it to
be the SB. Were do i change it. The SOUND deamon loads Fortissimo, and
also does KDE 1.99. Does anyone knows were are the config files for the
Sound daemon and KDE ?
Also i have noticed that the audio mixer doesn' save the configuration.
Anyone knows were this file is so i can edit it by-hand.
Second about daemons.
I'm searching for the config file of the program "Service" wich allows
you to start,stop, status the different daemons wich are running. I'm
trying to add a daemon for the Infrared Control but can't make it apear
with Service. Generally speaking, were are the config files for daemons.
Third list :
About Lirc. I'm trying to install it so i can use the infrared control
of my hauppage TV card. It compiles well, and installs, but it seems
like the char-major-61 isn't valid. (don't remember exactly the error
sorry). Also when i run the script to uninstall the daemon, it fails so
i think that when i load the daemon it crashes in some kind.
Last :
It seems that XFdrake doesn't save the configuration file. I'm trying in
vain to setup up my monitor and Graph card, but once i restart KDE it
seems to ignore it.
Thank you for having the patience of reading all this.
Config :
PIII 350
128 Mb Ram
Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 1.99
Matrox G200
SB 16, Guillemont Fortissimo
Hauppage TV card
of course mouse keyboard etc...
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:48:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David V Bowen wrote:
>
> I have a Gateway Solo laptop 9300XL running Windows 98 and Linux
> RedHat 7.0 as a dual boot (using Bootmagic). I recently used
> PartionMagic 6.0 to resize the partions slightly (by 500MB), and
> everything seems to have gone fine except except when I boot into
> Linux I get a whole slew of messages related to the start-up files all
> of the form
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ... invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
>
> This last part is always identical. The boot continues fine, however,
> and once completed, there don't seem to be any problems. I get
> identical errors on shutting down the machine too. So, three
> questions:
>
> - does anyone have any idea what this means?
>
> - Is it serious?
>
> - Should I/How do I cure the problem?
>
I don't know how serious this is, but I'd run a fsck on the partitions
you resized.
Did you make the partitions larger, or smaller (check their filling with
df)
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: How should I install Linux and Win2K (dual boot)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:43:44 GMT
Hi,
If you require to run both linux and win2k at the same time check this
out!
http://www.vmware.com/download/downloadlinux.html
cheers
crsankar
This is the first time I am here. Please forgive any mistakes on my
part.
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