Linux-Misc Digest #683, Volume #26 Mon, 1 Jan 01 17:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: LILO/disk problem (Glitch)
Raid0 troubles with 2.4.0(pre|test-x) ("Sven Riedel")
Linux stucks on M700 when XF86 4.0.1 is running ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is (Daniel Smith)
Re: ssh 2.4 and PAM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is (Bill Unruh)
Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is (Bill Unruh)
automatic DNS server detction when connecting to the internet via dialup (Charles M)
ipx routing on a linux box between 2 diffrent networks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FREEWARE - portable Unix utility scripts (Richard Anderson)
Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is (Daniel Smith)
Re: Linux and filling tax forms - Help ("HH")
RH 6.1 gmc ("Gnu Midnight Commander") Questions (John Clonts)
Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is (Carl Fink)
Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is (Daniel Smith)
Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start (Tom Voltaggio)
Re: RH 6.1 gmc ("Gnu Midnight Commander") Questions (kristian ragndahl)
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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:59:11 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO/disk problem
Matthew Fleming wrote:
>
> Netmeisters,
>
> I am running a server with a DPT SCSI controller connected to 2
> mirrored disks. The server just crashed (naturally while I was on
> vacation). It could not be rebooted using LILO. I was able to reboot
> it with a rescue disk, then made a bootdisk from /vmlinuz, then
> rebooted with that. However, I can't get LILO to work. I reran lilo to
> reinstall the boot loader in the MBR, but it still doesn't work (hangs
> at LIL-). I also tried installing lilo on a floppy, but it hangs at
> LI.
>
> This wouldn't be too much of a problem except that the server, in
> addition to the SCSI disks, has a large IDE disk which is not accessed
> correctly unless the kernel is given some "append hda=..." parameters.
> Of course lilo can do this.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Why doesn't lilo now work? Does this mean the whole disk system is
> headed South?
>
> 2. Is there some way of feeding the hda parameters to the kernel when
> booting from a bootdisk?
>
why don't you provide us with your lilo.conf file? OTherwise there could
be many things wrong but yet we don't know b/c we don't know how exactly
lilo is configured. The layout of your partitions would also be helpful.
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From: "Sven Riedel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Raid0 troubles with 2.4.0(pre|test-x)
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:02:33 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a two harddisk stripe running fine under 2.2.18, but none of the
current 2.4.0 test or pre kernels like it very much.
After booting the 2.4 kernel, 'mdadd -a' complains that
/dev/hde1 and /dev/hdg1 (the partitions to be striped) don't exist,
even though fdisk -l lists them both. Stracing the 'mdadd' command
showed that the open("/dev/hdx1') commands did indeed get ENODEV errors
returned. This behaviour is consistent with the Raid options compiled
in or as modules.
I'm quite stumped at the moment, as I do not know where to look next.
Is this behaviour known? Can anyone give me a hint at what I may be
doing wrong?
Regs,
Sven
--
Sven Riedel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Osteroeder Str. 6 / App. 13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
38678 Clausthal "Call me bored, but don't call me boring."
- Larry Wall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Linux stucks on M700 when XF86 4.0.1 is running
Date: 1 Jan 2001 19:06:11 GMT
Hello,
I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop. My M700 is
Pentium II 366 MHz, 64MB RAM, 24X CDROM model. The VGA is ATI Rage
Mobility.
XFree86 4.0.1 works good with my laptop. It automatically probes my
VGA and LCD, and I can use X without touching /etc/X11/XF86Config.
The problem is my laptop completely stucks after leaving my notebook
10~15 minutes. The screen is blank. Keyboard and trackpoint does not
work. There is no response of 'ping' to laptop. (So I cannot telnet
to my laptop.) Moreover, even the power switch does not work!!!
If I left my laptop with console mode (using Ctrl-Alt-F2 or something
like that), it does not crash. But the following error messages are
displayed every 5~10 minutes.
apm: set display: Interface not engaged
I have look through the linux kernel source. The message is come from
arch/i386/kernel/apm.c . But I cannot understand why this message occurs.
Does anyone give me the hints or solutions of my problem?
Thanks in advance.
-Sanori
--
Jung Joowon | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Computer Science | /\^ Always being
Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. and Tech. | / \/\ with Network
Taejon, Republic of Korea, 305-701 | / \ \ Mountain Duck (Quack)
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From: Daniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:07:37 GMT
Ok.. Thanks..
I thought that the inode usage was dependent on number of files,
regardless of size. How can I have a 1GB partition, but only be able to
fill it to a certain point? Too many large files? Too many small
files? Is there some way to increase the inode count that is available?
Thanks!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Daniel Smith wrote:
> >
> > I have a 1GB root partition. usr and home are on other disks. Every
> > once in a while, I get the message "no space left on disk". There is
> > plenty of space, but I think it's because there are too many files.
> > What is the limit, how can I check it, how can I fix this problem, etc?
> >
> > Do I just need to move things like var and etc off to other filesystems?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --Dan
>
> df -i
>
> This will give you the inode usage. This is
> also the maximum number of files without
> trickery.
>
> /opt, if you have anything there, should be on another
> file system. Also check your log files in /var/log.
> If they're excessively large. Empty them if they are.
> Also /tmp. This directory should be cleaned out
> periodically. (I do so once a month, some people
> whenever the system is rebooted, etc.)
>
> Good luck,
>
> John
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ssh 2.4 and PAM
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:53:29 GMT
In article <92p1qu$9ti$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mmm, forgive the self reply, but I did leave out some impt details..
so additions are needed
> I note v2.4 has support for authenticating via PAM, but has anyone
> managed to get ssh 2.4 authenticating via PAM on RH7 7?
I meant, authenticating via PAM when using the Windows 2.4 client,
with the SERVER running RH7
PAM authentication works fine when using a linux client. That [the
linux] client alows you to set the authentication methods, the
Windows client doesn't [seem to] have this??
Cheers!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is
Date: 1 Jan 2001 20:10:33 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "J. E. Garrott, Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Daniel Smith wrote:
>>
>> I have a 1GB root partition. usr and home are on other disks. Every
>> once in a while, I get the message "no space left on disk". There is
>> plenty of space, but I think it's because there are too many files.
>> What is the limit, how can I check it, how can I fix this problem, etc?
There was a bug in logrotate which would make backups of all files in
the /var/log/mail and /var/log/news directories on Mandrake 7.1
You would find thousands of empty files in there. Check your /var/log/*
directories to see if this has happened to you.
Go into the logrotate.d and make sure that there is not any
/var/log/xxx/* or /var/log/xxx/yyy*
in any of the files, as this tells the system to make backups of all
files, including backups already there. This will double the number of
files every week and as anyone know, an exponential function gets very
very large quickly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is
Date: 1 Jan 2001 20:12:39 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Ok.. Thanks..
>I thought that the inode usage was dependent on number of files,
>regardless of size. How can I have a 1GB partition, but only be able to
>fill it to a certain point? Too many large files? Too many small
>files? Is there some way to increase the inode count that is available?
The bug in logrotate would fill up with 0 length files. They take up
very little space, but run out of filenames (inodes) spaces. The number
is of inodes is more than sufficient for any reasonable useage. You
almost certainly have this unreasonable useage problem.
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From: Charles M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: automatic DNS server detction when connecting to the internet via dialup
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:16:37 -0600
Does anyone know if Linux can auto assign DNS address like it does an
auto IP assignment? You can do it under freeBSD (and Windows), but
I've never seen it done under Linux.
CMM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ipx routing on a linux box between 2 diffrent networks
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:06:44 GMT
Hi
I would like some help with routing ipx thought my linux box! The
system i have is debian 2.2.18 and is working on tcp/ip routing and
also the net being shared. In the linux bor there is a eth0 10 base t
network and eth1 on 100 base t. The reason i want ipx to be routed
between 10 and 100 is so i can play games across them, Most of my games
use ipx not tcp. Unforunatly the person that set the linux box is
unavible to do the ipx and also has no idea. my knledge is very limited
and i can just about navigate around linux. Any one that can help me
with this would very muchly be appreashited. On the linux box /proc,
ethernet, and ip support isinstall and also the ipx daemon is installed
but no commands because they wont compile for some reason.
Thanks Shaun Bone.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Anderson)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:30:01 -0500
Subject: FREEWARE - portable Unix utility scripts
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From: Daniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:20:23 GMT
Ok, that was DEFINITELY the problem. I have millions of files in there.
Now when I try to do "rm * -f" it tells me "rm: Argument list too long".
What should I do??
I have tried going back one and doing "rm -d mail" (as root) but it
won't let me.
Thanks!
In article <92qo7p$dbc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "J. E. Garrott, Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Daniel Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a 1GB root partition. usr and home are on other disks. Every
> >> once in a while, I get the message "no space left on disk". There is
> >> plenty of space, but I think it's because there are too many files.
> >> What is the limit, how can I check it, how can I fix this problem, etc?
>
> There was a bug in logrotate which would make backups of all files in
> the /var/log/mail and /var/log/news directories on Mandrake 7.1
> You would find thousands of empty files in there. Check your /var/log/*
> directories to see if this has happened to you.
>
> Go into the logrotate.d and make sure that there is not any
> /var/log/xxx/* or /var/log/xxx/yyy*
> in any of the files, as this tells the system to make backups of all
> files, including backups already there. This will double the number of
> files every week and as anyone know, an exponential function gets very
> very large quickly.
>
>
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From: "HH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,can.taxes
Subject: Re: Linux and filling tax forms - Help
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:52:54 GMT
:
> > Please, is there a program for filling our tax forms under Linux ?
> > I don't care if it's for terminal or X11.
>
> <http://gnutaxes.sourceforge.net/> is the nearest platform-specific
> thing; it is something less than alphaware, being pretty much in the
> "some people are thinking about thinking about it."
>
> Any thought that this will be usable for Canadian taxation for 2000
> would be _severely_ delusional. [And the fact that they were looking
> for "logic programming" people working in C is _also_ delusional; they
> should have looked at encoding tax rules in Prolog or some constraint
> logic language such as CLP, Oz/Mozart, LIFE, Mercury, ...]
>
software design can be done using any number of software development
techniques. One of the main objectives of current software design is to be
non-language specific. Then the design can be brought to light using any
language to enable the design. Of coarse during the design progess a
language or languages is choosen that best meets the project objectives and
needs. So i can design the "tax rules" (probable set up for me by tax
accountants) using software design methologies (flow charts etc) and then
for example give it to a programming team using C++ for example and also to
a team using delphi and I should get the same results. So I would not jump
to conclusions based on them looking for people who are capable of working
in in C (all programming is logic, but I think I know what you are getting
at with your quote, and you have a valid point). I am sure the C guys will
not be involved the top level business rules phase (unless they have
expertise to offer in this area). They will be given designs for units to
code, within the overall project framework. In any major project there is
always need for a bit of C! I make a great living coding in C and yes my
knuckles do drag on the ground when I walk ;-).
That said I have to agree that taxes and such would make a great
product/service for online delivery thats non-platform specific. And since
tax rules are always changing it would make sense to have this application
on the server side where it can be kept updated. These are the type of apps
that make sense as a service (unlike a word processer for example).
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From: John Clonts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.1 gmc ("Gnu Midnight Commander") Questions
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:22:56 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) I like the ftp feature but is there a way to use something other than
anonymous user id?
2) I like the way it deals with zip and tar files, but is there a way to
tell it to consider a jar file as a zip file?
Thanks,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is
Date: 1 Jan 2001 21:05:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:20:23 GMT Daniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now when I try to do "rm * -f" it tells me "rm: Argument list too long".
>What should I do??
There are several possible answers, but the one that springs to my
mind is
find . -name "*" -exec rm {} \;
DO NOT USE THIS without care, because it's just as dangerous as "rm
*".
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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From: Daniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:09:49 GMT
Well, I ended up doing an "ls > out" and then getting info from that
file to delete the files by section, so that I could remove them :).
I went from 128k inode usage to 13k.
Thanks SO MUCH!!!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ds37577
@appstate.edu says...
> Ok, that was DEFINITELY the problem. I have millions of files in there.
> Now when I try to do "rm * -f" it tells me "rm: Argument list too long".
> What should I do??
>
> I have tried going back one and doing "rm -d mail" (as root) but it
> won't let me.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> In article <92qo7p$dbc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "J. E. Garrott, Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
> >
> > >Daniel Smith wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I have a 1GB root partition. usr and home are on other disks. Every
> > >> once in a while, I get the message "no space left on disk". There is
> > >> plenty of space, but I think it's because there are too many files.
> > >> What is the limit, how can I check it, how can I fix this problem, etc?
> >
> > There was a bug in logrotate which would make backups of all files in
> > the /var/log/mail and /var/log/news directories on Mandrake 7.1
> > You would find thousands of empty files in there. Check your /var/log/*
> > directories to see if this has happened to you.
> >
> > Go into the logrotate.d and make sure that there is not any
> > /var/log/xxx/* or /var/log/xxx/yyy*
> > in any of the files, as this tells the system to make backups of all
> > files, including backups already there. This will double the number of
> > files every week and as anyone know, an exponential function gets very
> > very large quickly.
> >
> >
>
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From: Tom Voltaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:41:26 GMT
Has anyone gotten Redhat Linux 7 to work with Matrox AGP
G450?
Everything installs and it sees my video card and monitor,
but
it will not give me more than vertical lines or "out of scan
range"
messages on my monitor (a Sony E210). I downloaded the new
driver
from Matrox with no luck. Redhat 7 uses Xfree 4.01.1. I
checked
the monitor scan rates from the specs and have used every
permutation
of scan rates and monitors. No luck.
Is there any way I can get it to start in plain VGA?
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From: kristian ragndahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 gmc ("Gnu Midnight Commander") Questions
Date: 1 Jan 2001 21:46:27 GMT
>>>>> "JC" == John Clonts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JC> 1) I like the ftp feature but is there a way to use something
JC> other than anonymous user id?
Yes. Press F1 when entering the remote machine you'll get help
with the syntax.
JC> 2) I like the way it deals with zip and tar files, but is
JC> there a way to tell it to consider a jar file as a zip file?
Command -> Extension file edit
--
kristian ragndahl, http://www.ragndahl.cx/
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of Man."
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