Linux-Misc Digest #672, Volume #26 Sun, 31 Dec 00 14:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Internet Filtering (Bob Simon)
Re: Unable to ping (Silviu Minut)
Re: Redhat 7.1 release ! (Silviu Minut)
HP Laserjet weirdness (webqueen, queen of the web)
Re: ext2 recovery, incorrect partition table, URGENT! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: init_module: Device busy? (Dave Brown)
Re: powerpoint, linux and wine?? (Dave Brown)
Re: How to get CPU usage (Todd Knarr)
Compiling ghostscript (Richard Kimber)
Re: Gtk lib location (John David Bowden)
Weird LILO problem (mike)
Re: Configuring email for a laptop... (Steve)
Upgrading hard-drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Starting Oracle at Boot (Sanvir Singh Jham)
Re: HP Laserjet weirdness (Robert Kiesling)
Confusion over what is needed for 3dfx Voodoo 3 & X-4.0.2 (Geoff Stanbury)
Re: Gtk lib location (Zed)
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From: Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internet Filtering
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:58:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Simon wrote:
>
> > I have @home (cable) service and am setting up network access for my
> > family. Although I am a unix newbie, I was able to plug 2 NICs into
> > an old PC, loaded RH7, and successfully enabled simple masquerading.
> >
> > My wife now wants me to block all porn, violence, and hate sites. I
> > know that there are Internet filter programs for Windows that do
this
> > (NetNanny, CyberSitter, etc) but have not found a program for Linux.
> > I believe I'd prefer a program that evaluates content "on the fly",
> > rather than via predefined lists of inappropriate sites.
> >
> > Is this practical? If so, would someone please point me to a
> > suitable product?
>
> Although it's intended to filter advertising and cookies,
> Internet Junkbuster (http://www.junkbuster.com) can be configured
> to block specific sites. You have to add the sites manually,
> however.
>
John, Thanks for the pointer to Junkbuster but it's not practical for my
intended use. Bob
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to ping
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:38:44 -0500
> Someone else already noticed that both eth0 and eth1 have the same base
> address.
I would take it one step at the time: if the cards use different modules,
uninstall one module at the time, so that the kernel would see one card only.
You can also physically uninstall one card, leaving the other card in the
machine, to test it.
If your cards work separately, see if you can load the modules with options, to
use a different base address. You can find module specific information in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation. Double check with http://lhd.zdnet.com/ to see if
you're using the right modules.
Also, if your internal net is 10.10.0.0, delete the routes to 10.10.0.1 and
10.0.0.0 and just add a route to 10.10.0.0
route del -host 10.10.0.1 dev eth1
route del -net 10.0.0.0 dev eth1
route add -net 10.10.0.0 dev eth1
I put together a sort of tutorial for configuring an external+internal network
(including IP masquarading). You can find it here:
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~minutsil/Linux/networking
> Further info:
> 1. As i am using DNS i am having only one entry in the /etc/hosts, that is
> for localhost with 127.0.0.1 IP
> 2. /proc/interrupts shows Interrupt 5 for eth0 and Interrupt 10 for eth1
> 3. When i used '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop' and '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
> start' i observed these following lines in /var/log/messages from which i am
> unable to understand anything:
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
> net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=1
> net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag=0
> kernel.sysrq=0
>
This info comes from /etc/sysctl.conf. If you want your machine to be able to
forward packets (e.g. for ip masquarading) you need to set
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1. My /etc/sysctl.conf looks as follows:
12) root:/etc> more sysctl.conf
# Disables packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
# Enables source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
# Disables automatic defragmentation (needed for masquerading, LVS)
net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag = 1
# Disables the magic-sysrq key
kernel.sysrq = 0
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 release !
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:04:20 -0500
RH 7.0 does come with more bugs than other RH versions, or other
distributions. There are some bugs even in the install program and if you
don't know how to get round them you can't even install.
However, despite all these bugs I still like 7.0 better than 6.2. Many of
the initial problems have already been fixed (glibc, gcc, etc.), just
follow the updates. RH7.0 also has enhanced security by having portsentry
run by default. I was very frustrated with g++-2.96 and I thought it was a
very bad idea, but what do you know, after I made a few changes to my code
(supposedly compatible to the standard c++) and after I installed the
patched gcc, all works beautifully, even threads with c++. Many new
versions of development libraries (e.g. gtk+) with more functionality, have
been included with RH7.0, which I think it was a bold idea. Just let them
fix the bugs!
I'm really looking forward for a stable RH distribution with the 2.4
kernel. Maybe 7.2.
Enough said. I don't want to turn this thread into a "best distro"
discussion.
John Hanson wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:25:43 GMT, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >>I think Redhat 7.1 is dependent on when kernel 2.4 is release.
> >>Kernel 2.4 should have shown up in December, 2000, but it look like it
> >>will be showing up in the beginning of 2001.
> >>
> I think it not ought to be. 7.0 is such a pile that they had better
> fix it before their stock goes completely to sh*t. Unless Linus is
> telling them that 2.4 will be out any second now, they should release
> a better distro tomorrow.
>
> I've run RH since 4.1. I upgraded that to 5.0 and then switched
> machines with 5.1. That machine was upgraded to 6.0 > 6.1 and then to
> 6.2 which operated beautifully. I hestitated with 7.0 but did
> upgrade. What a pile of sh*t. 7.0 is RH's worst of all time in
> MNSHO. I'm still kicking myself. At least it motivated me to check
> out FreeBSD.
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From: webqueen, queen of the web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: HP Laserjet weirdness
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:17:47 GMT
I configured my HP laserjet4 with printtool, using the HP Laserjet
4/5/6 drivers. When I print an ASCII file now I get:
"No way to print this type of input file: fsav (linux) virus (8293-117)"
Then if I vi the file and add an empty line at the top & bottom, it
prints fine.
Suggestions?
HUG,
WQ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ext2 recovery, incorrect partition table, URGENT!
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:19:15 GMT
Thanks to both of you. In the mean time I tried gpart and pqmagic, but
both don't work. I will reinstall the system and use my backup of 24-11-
2000 (/etc, /home, and /mnt/mydocs). Think I only lost some e-mail, mp3
files and my not so busy agenda. Thanks again!
Martin
P.S. i'm a bit ill, that's why this was urgent :-) Tip of the day:
never get behind a linux box as root when you're ill..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: init_module: Device busy?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 31 Dec 2000 00:19:05 -0600
In article <92lf3c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Purugganan wrote:
>
>i'm attempting a
>
>modprobe n2.o
>
>on an ISA ethernet card that is detected as NE2000 compatible (IRQ=5,
>0300-031F) in WIndows 98 SE. WHen I switch to COREL Linux on this
>dual-boot machine and try out the differnt ne2000-type modules, when I
>don't get these
Try: modprobe ne io=0x300
Then you'll have to setup ifconfig.
But then you'll have to do something to make it happen each time you
reboot.
If you have linuxconf, it will do all the work for you. (Or, Redhat
has a utility, run in X, called "netcfg". It's on the gnome menu in the
category "Another Level".)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: powerpoint, linux and wine??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 31 Dec 2000 00:36:23 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob van der Poel wrote:
>
>I need to view some MS powerpoint files. I can't seem to find a native
>linux app to do this, so I grabbed ppview from the MS site and figured
>I'd use wine to run it. I'm sure that wine will do this...but I can't
>seem to get past the installation.
It's probably too late, since you're off on your WINE adventure, but
StarOffice can show powerpoint files. (At least the set that I tried.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get CPU usage
Date: 31 Dec 2000 16:39:39 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wasn't running it at superuser level. I'm pretty sure it's giving a
> false reading because for one, if it takes 100% CPU to run top then
> someone needs to take that program back to the drawing board. And Two,
> if you run top to output twice then exit, one's completely different
> than the other.
You don't need to be at superuser level for -q to make top run with no
delays between updates. It's only the priority boosting effect that
requires superuser privileges. Exactly as the man page says.
And yes top _will_ use up all available CPU at that level. By passing it
-q, you've asked it to start one update as soon as the previous one has
finished. It's in essentially a tight CPU-bound loop updating it's data,
so why _wouldn't_ it be using up all available CPU time? My advice would
be to either quit using -q, or use nice to bump it's priority down so
it doesn't suck cycles away from useful programs.
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station. These 'targets' can shoot back.
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in n.a.n-a.e
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From: Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Compiling ghostscript
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:42:54 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone tell me how to compile ghostscript on my pentium pro, gcc
2.95.3, Mandrake 7.2?
After a mass of warnings, I get an error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [obj/gs] Error 1
The how-to instructions say
With gcc version 2.6.3 or later, you may encounter an incompatibility in
object formats (a.out vs. ELF) with the XFree86 library. Typically, ld
complains that some X library is not found, or that many Xlib or Xt
functions are not found in the library (similar to the messages for
omitting SM and ICE from XLIBS). Or you get a message when you start
Ghostscript that the program or the shared library is an unrecognized
format.
If this happens, edit unix-gcc.mak to add the switches "-b i486-linuxaout"
to both CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, then "make clean" followed by "make"). If this
doesn't help, or if other strange things happen, contact your Linux
supplier or support resource.
I tried this, with no success.
-Richard.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John David Bowden)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Gtk lib location
Date: 31 Dec 2000 17:06:23 GMT
* Tong * ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: When I launch any program that use gtk+ library, I got the following
: error:
: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",
Try removing your .gtkrc -- xfce has its own gtk engine, and your gtk
settings are still trying to use it.
---
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weird LILO problem
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:11:28 GMT
Hi,
I have an old 486 DX2-66 generic compter with 32 megs
of ram. Now I am using an IBM 1080 mb hard drive. It
had Slackware 7.0 on it and it booted off the hard drive
with lilo with no problems. I have also had a Debian 2.1
on a Samsung 1.5 gb drive and I have also had
a Fujitsu 528mb drive with Redhat 5.1 on it. All the
hard drives booted with lilo.
I just installed Redhat 6.1 on the sole 1080 IBM drive
and can't get lilo to boot the drive. I get "LI" on the
screen while it's booting and then the system hangs.
I have tried the options in lilo, such as, "linear" and
"compact" to no avail.
I have even installed the new lilo 21.5 which does
not have the 1024 cylinder boundry, still, it won't
boot from the hard disk, but it will boot from the
floppy.
What could be the issue?
Does using or not using the keyword "linear" in the
Linux origional install of lilo effect how the hard drive
is formatted?
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Configuring email for a laptop...
Date: 31 Dec 2000 17:29:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:16:20 -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>Do you also have sendmail running as a background process? I'm assuming
>the answer is no.
Sendmail seems to be running in the background so it shouldn't cause you
any problems.
I seem to remember disableing sendmail at startup, (but maybe that was
before the upgrade a few months ago), but it hasn't caused me any problems.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
3:13pm up 13 days, 2:35, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.08, 1.03
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Upgrading hard-drive
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:44:51 GMT
I'm running out of space on my hard-drive. I was thinking of adding
another drive and then transferring my existing GNU/Linux partition to
it (I don't want to lose my existing data and configuration files).
How do I do that?
You can simply refer me to a HOWTO or similar document if it exists.
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From: Sanvir Singh Jham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting Oracle at Boot
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:44:45 GMT
Hi!
Look into the file /etc/oratab
Here you will find what you are looking for ;-)
HTH,
Regards,
Sanvir
In article <Ne536.8782$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to get Oracle 8i to load upon booting. I have a feeling
that my problem is a OS issue, not Oracle.
>
> I have placed a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d called oracle8i. When I
run "oracle8i start" logged on as su, it works perfectly.
> However, it doesn't work upon reboot or shutdown.
>
> Can someone recommend a way to trap the error so I can figure out
what's happening? I looked in /var/log for relevant messages,
> but don't see any.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> root@ init.d]# cat oracle8i
> #! /bin/sh
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
>
> # The echo return value for success (defined in /etc/rc.config).
> case "$1" in
> start)
> echo "Starting Oracle server"
> su -c dbstart - oracle || exit 1
> echo "Starting Oracle listener"
> su -c "lsnrctl start" - oracle || exit 1
> ;;
> stop)
> echo "Shutting down Oracle listener"
> su -c "lsnrctl stop" - oracle
> echo "Shutting down Oracle server"
> su -c dbshut - oracle || exit 1
> ;;
> *)
> echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
> exit 1
> esac
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet weirdness
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:15:58 GMT
Hi,
webqueenie, queen of the web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I configured my HP laserjet4 with printtool, using the HP Laserjet
> 4/5/6 drivers. When I print an ASCII file now I get:
>
> "No way to print this type of input file: fsav (linux) virus (8293-117)"
>
> Then if I vi the file and add an empty line at the top & bottom, it
> prints fine.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> HUG,
> WQ
What is the source of the ASCII file? It might be that the filter
that printtool installed does not recognize the line endings or
accented characters.... Keep in mind that Linux uses a Line Feed
(^J, 11 ASCII) to end a line, Max use a Carraige Return (^M, 13 ASCII),
and DOS/Windows machines (last I looked) use a CR/LF pair.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Stanbury)
Subject: Confusion over what is needed for 3dfx Voodoo 3 & X-4.0.2
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:38:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I'm afraid that this question is a RTFM, but after doing so I'm
still feeling lost in the dark.
I'm running linux 2.2.17 with glibc-2.1.3 on a Pentium-II, with a 3dfx
Voodoo 3-2000 agp card. I'd like to build and install X 4.0.2 from
source. What drivers or other files do I need to accomodate my
graphics card? I'm not a hard-core linux gamer, so I don't think I
need DRI. (Am I mislead to have assumed this?) I see all sorts of
drivers at http://linux.3dfx.com but I can't figure out which ones I
need. Any guidance would be tremendously appreciated.
--Geoff
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From: Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Gtk lib location
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:51:10 -0800
John David Bowden wrote:
>
> * Tong * ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : When I launch any program that use gtk+ library, I got the following
> : error:
>
> : Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",
>
> Try removing your .gtkrc -- xfce has its own gtk engine, and your gtk
> settings are still trying to use it.
>
> ---
> John Bowden
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had the same problem after installing xfce, rathing than wasting
too much time on tracking down why, I just copied those files from
/usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines to /usr/local/lib/gtk/themes/engines. If
that's where it's expecting to find those files then so be it. I
didn't try a sym link, though - that might also do the trick....
--
Zed
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