Linux-Misc Digest #648, Volume #26 Wed, 27 Dec 00 21:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: setting up cd writing (gary green)
Re: unset password (Jean-David Beyer)
HELP: Linux instal won't recognize adaptec SCSI card (Neal Seidl)
Re: HELP: Linux instal won't recognize adaptec SCSI card (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?=
Gyland)
Re: unset password (Michael Heiming)
Printing to an SMB Winprinter (David Bell)
Re: suid root not working on RH7 2.2.16-22 ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: linux firewall help ("Dan White")
Re: linux firewall help ("Dan White")
Re: Problem to understand entry in inittab ("Dan White")
Re: Debian Potato: what's wrong with Sawfish 0.34 ("Dan White")
Re: Xwindows graphical login security question ("Dan White")
Re: how you you play mov, avi files ? ("Dan White")
Re: weird ftp problem ("Dan White")
Re: Printing to an SMB Winprinter (Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?=)
Re: HELP: Linux instal won't recognize adaptec SCSI card (Robert Jones)
Re: Filesystems on a CD-ROM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing KDE problem with libXm.so.1... (Guy Parry)
Re: VMWare icon is WHERE???????? (Guy Parry)
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From: gary green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up cd writing
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:14:45 -0600
I recently went configured basically the same setup try the link:
http://www.calderasystems.com/SxS/amd_2cds.htm
For a guide
luck to ya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having problems setting up my cd-rw and cd-rom under rh7.
>
> I have an IDE/ATAPI cd-rom (hdc) and a cd-rw (hdd).
>
> After following the instructions in the CD writing howto (I think)
> cdrecord --scanbus correctly sees the cd-rw and xcdroast will happily
> burn CD's.
>
> However, it cannot see the CD-ROM and thus I cannot configure xcdroast
> to use the cd-rom as its reading device.
>
> How can I correct this, so that xcdroast will see the cd-rom as a
> reader, but the system will still automount cd's in the cd-rom drive?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
--
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Gary Green
ICQ# 77252544
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unset password
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:53:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > how can i unset password, or do i have to recreate the account?
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com
> > > http://www.deja.com/
> >
> > type as root:
> >
> > passwd username
> >
> > and enter a new one, Re-enter and done...:-)
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
> >
> >
>
> that would only change the password. i want the password "unset", not
> changed, locked or emptied.
>
You mean you want that account exposed to the slings and arrows of
outrageous crackers and spammers? They could then use your machine to
send out spam to the whole world and you would be responsable for that.
You should not run a machine like that because it is dangerous to you
and a plague for the rest of the users of the Internet. Try to figure
out a better way to accomplish what you need.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 5:50pm up 20:00, 3 users, load average: 2.05, 2.07, 2.01
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:57:42 -0600
From: Neal Seidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: Linux instal won't recognize adaptec SCSI card
Hi,
I'm a Linux newbie and would greatly appreciate any help anyone can
provide on this. I'm trying to install Mandrake 6.1 on a new system
with a SCSI CD ROM drive (Toshiba 3701). I have an adaptec 1505 ISA
card which worked fine under windows. I boot from the floppy when I get
to the SCSI adapter screen I select Adaptec 152x. Autoprobe fails to
detect the card, as is expected since the 1505 card has no BIOS. When I
try "specify options" and type "aha152x=0x340,9,7,1" the CD ROM does
light up briefly but the install program reports "can't find device
anywhere on your system."
Any suggestions on what else to try?
Thanks,
Neal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?= Gyland)
Subject: Re: HELP: Linux instal won't recognize adaptec SCSI card
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 23:11:31 GMT
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:57:42 -0600, Neal Seidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>provide on this. I'm trying to install Mandrake 6.1 on a new system
Hint, 7.2 is the latest edition of Mandrake.
>with a SCSI CD ROM drive (Toshiba 3701). I have an adaptec 1505 ISA
>card which worked fine under windows. I boot from the floppy when I get
>to the SCSI adapter screen I select Adaptec 152x.
Afaik, 152x does not include 1505. 1505 appears not to be supported under
RedHat 7.0
<url: http://hardware.redhat.com/redhatready/cgi-bin/us/db-hcl.cgi >
And problably not any other Linux distro.
Why not buy a new scsi controller, there is probably some reason why
no-one has written drivers for it.
--
Oeystein
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:45:07 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unset password
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > how can i unset password, or do i have to recreate the account?
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com
> > > http://www.deja.com/
> >
> > type as root:
> >
> > passwd username
> >
> > and enter a new one, Re-enter and done...:-)
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
> >
> >
>
> that would only change the password. i want the password "unset", not
> changed, locked or emptied.
Hello,
I don't understand why you want an account without an password, if I
understad right that's
what you want?
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell)
Date: 28 Dec 2000 00:03:10 GMT
Subject: Printing to an SMB Winprinter
Is it possible to print, over a network, to a Windoze98SE print server without
the proper printer drivers? The printer in question is a Xerox P8 (No e).
It's not just Linux that needs a driver for this thing -- My W2K machines can't
use it either! It'd be nice if I could use the same solution for both Linux
and Windoze. I was thinking, maybe there's a program I could run on the print
server to recieve the raw data and convert it as if it were being printed
directly from the that machine... Does something like that exist, or is there
an easier solution? Thanks!
=========================
David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my email
address. :)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suid root not working on RH7 2.2.16-22 ?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:12:20 +0100
Danny Aldham1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a couple of RH boxes we have upgraded to RH7, 2.2.16-22 .
> It seems that suid root scripts no longer act as root. Am I missing
suid scripts never have had suid functionality under linux. It's likely
tht your old scripts had a first line that evoked a special suid shell.
Also RH gave messed with their kernel. Details on demand ..
Peter
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux firewall help
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:50:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Clayton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am setting up a linux box to be a firewall, and am having some
> problems. Setup is as follows:
>
> Pentium 166
> 128Mb RAM
> IDE HD, CDROM PCI S3 Virge (86C325)
> 2 X PCI 3COM 3c590c
> Slackware 7.1
>
> It seems that the first ethernet card is responding to two IP addresses,
> and the second one is responding to none. I can unplug the second card
> and ping both addresses, but if I unplug the first card I can't ping
> either.
>
> Ifconfig shows different HW addresses, different IRQ's, and different
> I/O addresses, so it doesn't make sense that they would use the same
> physical device, does it?
>
> I am very confused. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards, Robert
Sounds like a routing problem. Since it's a firewall, i'm assuming
they're both on separate networks. Make sure you have two network routes,
e.g.:
-> 10.10.27.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth1
-> 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 10.10.27.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
Note that each network route should be going to different infterfaces.
If for some reason they are going to the same one, you would see the
problem you're describing.
If not, there may be a routing conflict, where a packet can match two
different routes (this could happen if the two NICs or on the same
network). In that case, try bringing down the interface when you unplug
it (i.e. ifconfig eth0 down).
- Dan White
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux firewall help
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:52:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Clayton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am setting up a linux box to be a firewall, and am having some
> problems. Setup is as follows:
>
One more thing. When you take down the interface to your internet
connection, be sure to add a -n to your ping commands, so that it doesn't
try to do any reverse lookups. Otherwise is can look like an interface is
down.
- Dan White
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem to understand entry in inittab
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:57:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michael Velten"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've got a little question regarding two entries in my inittab file.
>
> f1:0:respawn:/sbin/sulogin f2:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
>
> I don't understand why "sulogin" will be invoked when switching to
> runlevel (0|6). What's the sense of this?
>
> Michael
On my debian box, I've got this in inittab
# Normally not reached, but fallthrough in case of emergency.
z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
In a rare instance, I've had run level 6 (which happens on a reboot) fail
to properly come to a halt. Maybe some service doesn't die right, or init
gets confused. sulogin will give you the oportunity to some maintanence
if that happens.
- Dan White
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian Potato: what's wrong with Sawfish 0.34
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:59:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sylvain Demers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Debian Potato for three months or so and always upgraded
> to helix-gnome using the Spidermonkey site without a glitch. The version
> of Sawfish was 0.33 at the time. Now since early december, Sawfish 0.33
> was replaced by v. 0.34, and it simply doesn't work anymore on my Debian
> Potato box. I do not have access to themes or any other config options
> in gnome control center, and when gnome starts, I hear a beep as soon as
> sawfish is launched.
>
> Is this normal? Is it that helix-gnome is now to be used with woody
> exclusively? If not, is there some libraries that needs to be downloaded
> seperately?
>
> Please Help me! Gnome is my favorite and I'll probably be forced to use
> kde2 even if it's quite slower on my machine.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
I don't know what's wrong, but I suspect recreating the default sawfish
config files will fix it.
rm -rf ~/.sawfish
While logged out of X. If that doesn't work, get rid of your .gnome*
files too. When you start X back up, those directories will be back to
their pristine original state.
- Dan White
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xwindows graphical login security question
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:03:25 GMT
In article <4Dp26.164646$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Londonboy"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running RedHat 7, using graphical login (x-window). In the login
> prompt, it has the option for anyone to reboot / halt the machine, is
> there a way to disable it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> L.B.
If you're using the gnome display manager (gdm), you can play with
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Like changing the "HaltCommand" and "RebootCommand"
lines.
- Dan White
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how you you play mov, avi files ?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:08:16 GMT
In article <92d015$b8j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> xanim gives following error for a certain type of mov file:
>
> $ xanim QuadSets.mov
> XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights
> Reserved
> Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18) Audio Codec:
> QualComm PureVoice (Qclp) not yet supported. Notice: Video and Audio
> are present, but not yet supported.
> Usage:
> XAnim [options] anim [ [options] anim ... ]
> -h lists some common options, but may be out of date.
> See xanim.readme or the man page for detailed help.
>
> I admit I cannot play this file in Microsoft windows neither. any idea ?
>
xtheater (xtheater.sourceforge.net) has better .avi support since it uses
the windows codecs to play them. Although if they're not working in
windows it may be a moot point.
- Dan White
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird ftp problem
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:10:30 GMT
In article <92bqu2$6eg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Netmeisters,
>
> I have just encountered a very strange ftp problem, and I really need to
> get this fixed right away. I am ftp'ing from a laptop with SuSE Linux
> 6.3 installed. After I have established the connection when I try to ls
> or get or anything else I get the following:
>
> ftp> ls
> 500 'EPSV': command not understood
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (141,106,32,10,196,66)
Try ftp'ing in passive mode. ncftp does this by default.
- Dan white
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From: Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing to an SMB Winprinter
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:09:26 +0100
David Bell wrote:
> Is it possible to print, over a network, to a Windoze98SE print server
> without
> the proper printer drivers? The printer in question is a Xerox P8 (No e).
> It's not just Linux that needs a driver for this thing -- My W2K machines
> can't
> use it either! It'd be nice if I could use the same solution for both
> Linux
> and Windoze. I was thinking, maybe there's a program I could run on the
> print server to recieve the raw data and convert it as if it were being
> printed
> directly from the that machine... Does something like that exist, or is
> there
> an easier solution? Thanks!
>
> -------------------------
> David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
>
> Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my email
> address. :)
Yep, there is (in theory). It is called GhostScipt (and RedMon). Both work
together to tell the outside world "look, here's a PostScript Printer
waiting for you to connect).
It is not easy to set up, but once set up, it works without any bigger
problems. Just every other computer thinks, its printing to a Postscript
printer on another computer.
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Linux instal won't recognize adaptec SCSI card
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 19:15:31 -0600
�ystein Gyland wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:57:42 -0600, Neal Seidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >provide on this. I'm trying to install Mandrake 6.1 on a new system
>
> Hint, 7.2 is the latest edition of Mandrake.
>
> >with a SCSI CD ROM drive (Toshiba 3701). I have an adaptec 1505 ISA
> >card which worked fine under windows. I boot from the floppy when I get
> >to the SCSI adapter screen I select Adaptec 152x.
>
> Afaik, 152x does not include 1505. 1505 appears not to be supported under
> RedHat 7.0
> <url: http://hardware.redhat.com/redhatready/cgi-bin/us/db-hcl.cgi >
> And problably not any other Linux distro.
>
> Why not buy a new scsi controller, there is probably some reason why
> no-one has written drivers for it.
The following is from /usr/src/Linux/Documentation/Configure.help (2.2.16
kernel)
================ quote =================
Adaptec AHA152X/2825 support
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X
This is a driver for the AHA-1510, AHA-1520, AHA-1522, and AHA-2825
SCSI host adapters. It also works for the AVA-1505, but the IRQ etc.
must be manually specified in this case.
It is explained in section 3.3 of the SCSI-HOWTO, available via FTP
(user: anonymous) at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. You
might also want to read the comments at the top of
drivers/scsi/aha152x.c.
This driver is also available as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
The module will be called aha152x.o. If you want to compile it as a
module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.
==========================================
>
>
> --
> Oeystein
--
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little
more time for dreaming.
-- J. P. McEvoy
6:48pm up 3 days, 23:06, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.02
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Filesystems on a CD-ROM
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:31:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> floppy. Definitely, the CD-ROM cannot be any different...But in the case
> of an audio CD or a movie CD...which has to run on a VCD player etc. is
I don't know about movies, but audio cd's don't have a normal
filesystem.
The file FAQ.txt that comes with the cdparanoia program explains a lot
of this under the "I can play audio CDs perfectly; why is reading the
CD into a file so difficult and prone to errors? It's just the same
thing." heading.
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
Long ago and far away I heard your voice, Once I heard you sing your
song I had no choice, Terror took control and told me what to say, And
let me loose, I fear I've finally found a way -Sandy Pearlman (BOC)
========================================================================
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing KDE problem with libXm.so.1...
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:06:31 +1100
Thanks guys :)
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 05:19:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elaine chan)
wrote:
> libXm.so.1.0.2 is in the Lesstif package. I needed it for
>Xemacs(Slackware 7.1) so I copied libXm.so.1.0.2 into /usr/lib/LibXm.so.1
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'd like to install KDE - which I *thought* I already had! But
>>apparently I need file libXm.so.1. Anyone know which package I need
>>to install to have it?
>> tia...
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMWare icon is WHERE????????
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:07:59 +1100
I wasn't worried about USING it. I know about xterm, just wanted
to find out why in #$%^&! I didn't have an icon. Someone sent me one
:)
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 03:10:09 GMT, "Dan White"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Guy Parry"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've installed VMWare, but where is its icon? I've searched and
>> searched and I GIVE UP. Where is it? Do I have to download one????????
>> tia.
>
>You don't need an icon to use vmware, just type 'vmware' from a shell.
>Depending on your window manager, you can probably just create one...
>
>- Dan White
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