Linux-Misc Digest #565, Volume #26 Sun, 17 Dec 00 08:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: How to drop back to X (and switch to Gnome or ...) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install) (him self)
Re: Pass character to a program? ("Flej Ling")
Which ethernet driver is running? (Chip Seraphine)
Re: origin installation (Lew Pitcher)
/usr/src/linux/modules ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Apache forward to MASQ machines ??? ("Flej Ling")
Re: shell script question (Thomas Thyberg)
Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another? (none)
Re: Cd writing problem (Timo Benk)
Re: Apache forward to MASQ machines ??? ("Rick Goh")
Re: Which ethernet driver is running? (Michael Heiming)
Re: /usr/src/linux/modules (Michael Heiming)
Re: /usr/src/linux/modules ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Cd writing problem (Mike Thurlow)
Shell Calculator (Gregor Horvath)
SB-live & Kernel 2.2.18 (Frits Antonysen)
Re: How to drop back to X (and switch to Gnome or ...) (Georg Schneider)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How to drop back to X (and switch to Gnome or ...)
Date: 17 Dec 2000 05:26:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 04:14:37 GMT, Dennis Tuchler staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>After installing SuSE 7.0, and logging on, one gets right into KDE.
>There seems to be no way to get out of KDE except by logging out from
>Linux. How does one boot up and not get into KDE (or, how does one get
>out of KDE and not log off)?
One presses Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to switch to virtual text consoles 1-6, or
one boots the machine with "linux 2" as runlevel 2 in SuSE doesn't start
X until a local user enters "startx" at the $ prompt after logging in.
KDE is the default WM/desktop environment in SuSE, but the kdm login
screen should allow you to choose several other WMs (including fvwm95,
blackbox, Enlightenment, and twm) if you have them installed.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (him self)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 error (new install)
Date: 17 Dec 2000 06:10:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 03:10:21 GMT, Don Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can't run anything. Booting into any GUI and the screen messes and then
> lock.
Are you saying it does not run in non-GUI mode?
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From: "Flej Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pass character to a program?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:40:09 -0800
Actually I'm trying to run a dynamic DNS client for Linux from www.dynu.com.
It works great when I do it manually. It takes my dynamic IP address and
registers it on their DNS server so that www.whatever.com points to my
dynamic IP. I can do this as often as desired. However, what I really want
is to have the IP address get registered whenever the webserver reboots
(because I always connect to the next upon a boot).
But when I put the same script into rc.local it doesn't work! I even put the
exact paths in and try "chmod 777" on the files. Funny thing is that if I go
to "/etc/rc.d" and type "./rc.local" it works. What am I missing? The only
thing I could think of was that the Linux client they have (called DYNUPREM)
says "client is running. Press CTRL Z to exit" when you run it, so I thought
that maybe when it is being run in the background by rc.local that it is
waiting for a CTRL Z.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Flej
David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:43:03 -0800, Flej Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >I am running a program that does some stuff, then prompts "Press CTRL Z
to
> >exit". It works great.
> >
> >Now I want to run it via a bash script with the sleep command so that it
> >starts up 45 seconds after boot up. How do I pass a CTRL Z to the program
> >from within a script after the program finishes. It will be running
> >invisibly in the background, then I want to stuff a CTRL Z into it to
make
> >it exit.
>
> If you run a program in the background it has no keyboard, so you would
> have to find some other means to stop it. Is there some reason you cannot
> have it just do its thing and exit?
>
> There are ways to communicate with background processes. The simplest
> from a bash script might be a named pipe (fifo) that appears to be, and
> can be written to like a regular file. Then you could simply echo
> something to that fifo. Your program monitors the fifo and when the
> string comes that you are looking for, it exits.
>
> 'perldoc perlipc' (interprocess communication) may give you some ideas.
>
> --
> David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:55:12 -0600
From: Chip Seraphine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which ethernet driver is running?
Question: How can I tell which ethernet driver is currently being used
for a particular NIC?
My company regularly upgrades desktop PCs, and I often grab some
discarded ones (current round of discards are PPro 200s and some early
PIIs), install Linux, and use them as servers-- intranet, mail, DNS,
NTP, NIS, what have you. Anyway, I'd like to compile some fairly
small, clean kernels for these machines but one of the problems I run
into is that I never know what chipsets are on the cards. We use
RedHat, and the default RedHat kernel usually works fine. However,
whenever I go to compile my own kernel I never know which drivers I can
safely compile out...
What I would like to be able to do is to do a default install, get the
box up and running, and then somehow determine that (for instance) the
DEC Tulip driver is the one being used to run the NIC at eth0.
Any ideas?
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: origin installation
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:28:47 -0500
maher abedib wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know, how do you install linux on intel architecture
> when distribution like redhat,slackware,debian does not exist at that
> time, I mean when the linux kernel was release in 1991 something ...
>
> thank you very much
By bootstrapping it, of course.
You start with an OS that does exist, and build from there.
In this case, I believe that the OS was Minix.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: /usr/src/linux/modules
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 07:52:08 GMT
Hi,
My /usr/src/linux/modules directory is empty. Is this normal?
I seem to be missing sr_mod kernel module necessary for CD-burning with
IDE hardware (insmod can't find sr_mod).
Is this normal? Should I get new linux sources? (Mine are from the
RH7.0)
Thanks
Wroot
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From: "Flej Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Apache forward to MASQ machines ???
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:43:11 -0800
I know next to nothing about ColdFusion. Isn't it some tags that are
embedded in html so at the server side it can generate some more html?
Whatever the case why can't www.sql123.com and www.coldfusion123.com have
different IP addresses? (Your ISP gives you a block of addresses). Have the
external interface of the apache server on one IP and the external interface
of the coldfusion server on a different IP. Then attach both servers to a
hub, and attach the hub to your ISP's router. This way apache doesn't have
to forward anything to anybody. We have apache on one IP, bind (DNS) on
another, Citrix ICA/RDP on another, etc, etc, yet they all go out a single
internet connection via the ISP's router box.
Flej
Rick Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
> I am facing a crisis. Please read on...
>
> I am a running a Linux server which is connected to internet. I am hosting
> some websites. However some sites need to run a few application servers
> which linux do not support. Linux server running APACHE. MASQ Machines
> running win2k with IIS.
>
> I have:
> A Linux server --> SWITCH --> MASQ Machines
>
> What i want (the domain names are just examples):
> 1. www.sql123.com runs on MYSQL with PHP. --> hosted on linux server
> 2. www.coldfusion123.com runs on coldfusion for win2k with MYSQL. -->
> hosted on win2k MASQ machine.
>
> Is it possible for APACHE on Linux server forward TCP requests to win2k
MASQ
> machine if user types in www.coldfusion123.com, and serves requests if
user
> types in www.sql123.com ???
>
> I know that APACHE supports virtual hosting in which different sites are
> pointed to different directories on linux. But can it point to the IP of
the
> MASQ machines??
>
>
> Regards,
> Rick Goh.
>
>
>
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From: Thomas Thyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shell script question
Date: 17 Dec 2000 10:28:23 +0300
Manitee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What is the advantage of the 'exec' part?
No forking -> saving one process -> tiny decrease in execution time.
--
//TT
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From: none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:18:47 -0800
Have you tried monte?
devren bennett wrote:
>
> try vmware...that should do it. isn't free though
>
> Igor wrote:
>
> > In DOS, there is a program LOADLIN.EXE, which allows me to start
> > an arbitrary version of linux from within DOS.
> >
> > What I want is to be able to start (switch to) another version
> > of kernel from within linux itself. I do not mean just switching
> > a kernel at runtime with all apps still running, I understand
> > that it is impossible. I would like to just kind of boot to another
> > server.
> >
> > The reason for it is that I have a remote colocated server on which I
> > would like to try various kernels. But I want it to boot to a stable
> > version of linux. So I cannot just go around and modify lilo.conf all
> > the time.
> >
> > Any idea?
> > --
> > ***********************************************************************
> > Do your algebra homework at http://www.algebra.com
> > Solve: x^2+4x+3=0 Plot: y=3*sin(x^2) Ask Questions Word Problems
> > ***********************************************************************
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Benk)
Subject: Re: Cd writing problem
Date: 17 Dec 2000 10:00:57 GMT
Hi,
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:08:55 GMT, Mike Thurlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a problem in trying to burn cds and I am not entirely sure if it
>is a hardware or software problem.
Which program you use for burning and, if it was mkisofs/cdrecord let us
know the commandline you used.
--timo
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From: "Rick Goh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Apache forward to MASQ machines ???
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 18:49:37 +0800
I have only one internet IP to play with.
However, my Linux server is acting as a DNS server for the various web
domains. Let's assume I don't have Coldfusion for Linux and need to use
Coldfusion for Win2k which is on my MASQ machine (say, 192.168.0.10).
Is it possible to have www.coldfusion123.com point to 192.168.0.10 via
APACHE or IPROUTE2 or whatever, which is running IIS and coldfusion
application server.
And at the same time, have www.sql123.com point to a subdirectory on the
Linux server via APACHE.
Regards.
"Rick Goh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
> I am facing a crisis. Please read on...
>
> I am a running a Linux server which is connected to internet. I am hosting
> some websites. However some sites need to run a few application servers
> which linux do not support. Linux server running APACHE. MASQ Machines
> running win2k with IIS.
>
> I have:
> A Linux server --> SWITCH --> MASQ Machines
>
> What i want (the domain names are just examples):
> 1. www.sql123.com runs on MYSQL with PHP. --> hosted on linux server
> 2. www.coldfusion123.com runs on coldfusion for win2k with MYSQL. -->
> hosted on win2k MASQ machine.
>
> Is it possible for APACHE on Linux server forward TCP requests to win2k
MASQ
> machine if user types in www.coldfusion123.com, and serves requests if
user
> types in www.sql123.com ???
>
> I know that APACHE supports virtual hosting in which different sites are
> pointed to different directories on linux. But can it point to the IP of
the
> MASQ machines??
>
>
> Regards,
> Rick Goh.
>
>
>
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:35:46 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which ethernet driver is running?
Hello,
you should make a kernel, which has build in modules for allmost every NIC
you could have,
why don't you use a standart kernel which comes with most distros, that
has everything as modules,
you can switch then NIC cards without a problem.
You can use lsmod to determine which modules are loaded and cat /proc/pci
to see what hardware on pci-bus is regocnized on
your mobo by the kernel...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Chip Seraphine wrote:
> Question: How can I tell which ethernet driver is currently being used
> for a particular NIC?
>
> My company regularly upgrades desktop PCs, and I often grab some
> discarded ones (current round of discards are PPro 200s and some early
> PIIs), install Linux, and use them as servers-- intranet, mail, DNS,
> NTP, NIS, what have you. Anyway, I'd like to compile some fairly
> small, clean kernels for these machines but one of the problems I run
> into is that I never know what chipsets are on the cards. We use
> RedHat, and the default RedHat kernel usually works fine. However,
> whenever I go to compile my own kernel I never know which drivers I can
> safely compile out...
>
> What I would like to be able to do is to do a default install, get the
> box up and running, and then somehow determine that (for instance) the
> DEC Tulip driver is the one being used to run the NIC at eth0.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:42:39 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: /usr/src/linux/modules
Hi,
that's OK, your compile/installed modules should be under
/lib/modules/<your.kernel.version>/ that's were they should be...
You didn't write what kernel (Version/selfmade/?) you use...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My /usr/src/linux/modules directory is empty. Is this normal?
>
> I seem to be missing sr_mod kernel module necessary for CD-burning with
> IDE hardware (insmod can't find sr_mod).
>
> Is this normal? Should I get new linux sources? (Mine are from the
> RH7.0)
>
> Thanks
>
> Wroot
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /usr/src/linux/modules
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:04:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My /usr/src/linux/modules directory is empty. Is this normal?
Yes.
> I seem to be missing sr_mod kernel module necessary for CD-burning with
> IDE hardware (insmod can't find sr_mod).
insmod doesn't look for it. modprobe does.
> Is this normal? Should I get new linux sources? (Mine are from the
> RH7.0)
You should get new linux sources ;-)
But if the module didn't come with your installed kernel (not the
kernel sources, note) then send in a bug report to redhat.
Peter
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From: Mike Thurlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cd writing problem
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:02:59 GMT
In article <91i2sp$451vt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Benk) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:08:55 GMT, Mike Thurlow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have a problem in trying to burn cds and I am not entirely sure if
it
> >is a hardware or software problem.
> Which program you use for burning and, if it was mkisofs/cdrecord let
us
> know the commandline you used.
>
> --timo
cdrecord version 1.9 installed from an rpm. The burning failed with iso
files that I made and preexisting ones.
The command line I used was ridiculously simple:
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 file.iso
I did try different speeds and the device number changed when I tried
the cd-r . Nothing changed ie the cd was burnt with a gap in the tracks
at the beginning and it was unreadable always on other machines and
nearly all the time on itself.
--
Mike Thurlow
Dept of Physics & Astronomy
University of Manchester, UK
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From: Gregor Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Shell Calculator
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:36:53 GMT
Hi,
Is there a calculator for Linux (Suse 6.3) for the shell available ? (no
X)
Example:
root@I$ calc 10*2
= 20
root@I$ _
Greg
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:11:59 +0100
From: Frits Antonysen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB-live & Kernel 2.2.18
My soundblaster-live was very well supported by my self-compiled Kernel
2.2.17.
Now using the new Kernel 2.2.18 there's not much live in my
Soundblaster.
What should I do to make it work under 2.2.18 ?
Frits
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:48:11 +0100
From: Georg Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to drop back to X (and switch to Gnome or ...)
Dennis Tuchler schrieb:
> After installing SuSE 7.0, and logging on, one gets right into KDE.
> There seems to be no way to get out of KDE except by logging out from
> Linux. How does one boot up and not get into KDE (or, how does one get
> out of KDE and not log off)?
>
> thanks
> djtuchler
I dont know if SuSe got the programm "switchdesk" but it is a posibilty
If you're using kdm just choose
greetings
Georg
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