Linux-Misc Digest #717, Volume #26 Fri, 5 Jan 01 18:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: joining two lines of text ("Gerard H. Pille")
Re: Red Hat dead/dying? (Donn Miller)
Re: ipchains question ("Tim Mark")
Re: Stupid question about mail in RH6.2 ("Peter T. Breuer")
cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: mounting floppy ("Hung P. Tran")
Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter (dan)
Re: Stupid question about mail in RH6.2 (kristian ragndahl)
Re: 2.4 finally made official ("Nigel Feltham")
Re: Need MINIMAL Linux for a laptop dinosaur... (H Dziardziel)
Re: Linux into a blank PC (Rolie Baldock)
Lost root password. ("Chris")
network shutdown by itself?? ("Londonboy")
Palm OS / Windows CE communication software (Radu Serban)
Re: Lost root password. (Nick Williams)
ppp problem with ISP (Glitch)
Re: cannot startkde (John Todd)
Re: Lost root password. ("Chris")
Re: mounting floppy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lost root password. (Michael Schulz)
Trying to get sendmail working...(RH6.2) (Bo Berglund)
Re: mounting floppy ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: network shutdown by itself?? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Installing a CDRW Drive on a Linux System (Martin McCormick)
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From: "Gerard H. Pille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: joining two lines of text
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:22:28 +0100
Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a comma delimited text data base file I need to fix. The
> problem with it is that the (now defunct) software that did
> the export put a carriage return right in the middle of one of the
> fields. So, I get two lines where I should only get one. Also,
> since the export chopped the entry in the middle, I can not export
> before and after and then fix it with a spread sheet! What a pain!
>
> So I thought I'd ask if anyone knew if there was a sed or
> other command that would let me join every other line together,
> for example:
>
> Before:
> 1234
> 5678
> abcd
> efgh
>
> After:
> 12345678
> abcdefgh
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sed -e 'N' -e 's/\^J//' /tmp/test
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:14:53 -0500
From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Red Hat dead/dying?
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> Actually, it wasn't just Berkely. A lot of BSD development also
> happened at Purdue, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon and U of Illionois (Urbana-Champaign).
Too bad Penn State doesn't do this sort of thing.
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From: "Tim Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: ipchains question
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:17:01 GMT
try this one,
http://firewall.langistix.com/
--
Tim Mark
Certified Technician & Network Administrator
MelComp Systems Inc.
Registered Linux User # 198720
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question about mail in RH6.2
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:25:03 GMT
Bo Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I type mail I only get a message that there are no messages for
> me...
> But I want to SEND mail to test if it is working OK, how?
man mail.
But why use "mail" as a mail client? It's an ancient and basic exemplar.
There are lots of other clients. I use elm. Other people like pine. And so on.
Peter
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:16:06 -0500
Hello,
I used to have perfectly well running system under RH linux 6.1 but I
chose to upgrade to REDHAT 7.0. Now I can not use cdrecord anymore to
burn CDs. I have external CD writer HP7200e. I can use the this writer
as cdrom i.e. I can mount CDs but can not create new CDs. It gives me
error like can not scsi command , inappropriate ioctl for the
device......
cdrecord -scanbus also gives the same error.
Help ! please.....I am getting frustrated now.....
Thanks in advance
Parminder Lehal
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From: "Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mounting floppy
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:20:07 GMT
Your tip certainly help.
Thank you to all who response. I've check the device major/minor number
and it seems fine. Nothing is wrong with fstab. Yes, it seems like Redhat 6.1
does include the floppy driver. I've checked my /var/log/dmesg and found
the following error:
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use
Anyone has any idea.
Thanks,
hung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a standard installation (using typical installation)
> > of Redhat Linux 6.1. I am having problem mounting floppy
> > drive. I tried:
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy <RETURN>
> >
> > and get the error: the kernel does NOT recognize /dev/fd0 as
> > a block device (may be 'insmod driver' ?)
> >
> > Any idea ? It seems like the regular Redhat installation does
> > NOT include the floppy driver.
>
> Redhat 6.1 does include the floppy driver (on my system).
> Maybe the drive has failed, have you tested it with a
> boot floppy?
>
> >
> > Please advice.
>
> Check the file /var/log/dmesg for logs of the floppy drive init
> at boot time, that should give you some clue what is broken.
> Look right after the logs of hard drive init(s)
> My dmesg logs look like this:
>
> <snip>
> hda: Seagate Technology ST31276A
> hdb: WDC AC2420F
> hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> <snip>
>
> Hope this helps
> Bluster
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:19:15 -0600
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I used to have perfectly well running system under RH linux 6.1 but I
> chose to upgrade to REDHAT 7.0. Now I can not use cdrecord anymore to
> burn CDs. I have external CD writer HP7200e. I can use the this writer
> as cdrom i.e. I can mount CDs but can not create new CDs. It gives me
> error like can not scsi command , inappropriate ioctl for the
> device......
>
> cdrecord -scanbus also gives the same error.
>
> Help ! please.....I am getting frustrated now.....
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Parminder Lehal
if this is an ide burner, you need to load the scsi emulation module
(ide-scsi)
insmod ide-scsi
i haven't figured out how to put this into /etc/conf.modules yet
if it is scsi, i have no idea what is wrong
good luck,
dan
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From: kristian ragndahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question about mail in RH6.2
Date: 5 Jan 2001 21:32:49 GMT
>>>>> "BB" == Bo Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> How do I send email from RH6.2? Note: I installed the server
BB> version so there is no graphical UI only a command prompt.
There's a lot of mail clients for the console like elm, mutt
and pine.
BB> When I type mail I only get a message that there are no
BB> messages for me... But I want to SEND mail to test if it is
BB> working OK, how?
mail -s subject to-address < body.txt
The man page for mail has all the info.
--
kristian ragndahl, http://www.ragndahl.cx/
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From: "Nigel Feltham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: 2.4 finally made official
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:33:01 -0000
Glitch wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/512189.asp
>It's about time.
Surprising to find this on a MS sponsored site especially the
mention of it being an alternative to windows - better read it
quick before MS get the page removed ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need MINIMAL Linux for a laptop dinosaur...
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:51:02 GMT
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arque Bishop) wrote in part:
>wanting
>> to do is put a very minimal Linux on this laptop. Basically, ALL it would
>> be required to do is dial up a remote PC using minicom. In fact, if it
>>
>> any recommendations for a distro and config of Linux that could be used to
>> make this laptop into a simple dial-up terminal?
>>
http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolie Baldock)
Subject: Re: Linux into a blank PC
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:52:15 GMT
Hello cpw,
What is your complete email address plse?
On 28 Dec 2000 16:17:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolie Baldock) writes:
>
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> I have a blank PC (486 DX2-66) set aside for Linux. No Windows. HDD
>> partitioned into 2 partitions as requested in Red Hat booklet and
>> armed with Red Hat CD where do I go next. Thinks !! I might make a
>> boot floppy with RAWHIDE on the CD ??? Correct ??? Then what??? Don't
>> have any info on the monitor, never needed it before so why now?
>> PARTINFO and FIPS provide partition info. No I cannot afford a BLOODY
>> Pentium and I don't need another PC in the house, anymore and I'll go
>> bananas. So don't make any such stupid suggestions. I only want
>> initially a better LAN server system and I think Linux may be the
>> answer.
>>
>> --Rolie Baldock. email: <berd_kalamunda@'nospam'techemail.com>
>
>Does this blank PC have a CD drive? Slackware used to have a setup
>where you could install a nice complete distribution from
>floppies. When I first became aware of Linux all I had was a laptop
>with a hard drive, a floppy drive but no CD drive (this was in 1995),
>and a friend showed me an ad where you could get linux on 50 floppies.
>It was a slackware distribution and I got it and installed it. When
>you get a Slackware CD, I think there are instructions on how to make a
>set of installation floppies from the data on the CD.
>
>If you do have both a floppy and a CD drive on this blank PC, then the
>redhat CD should have some images that can be xferred to floppy using
>some DOS utility (rawrite?) or standard unix utilities like dd or
>cat, and you can boot up from the floppy which would be able to mount
>the CD (unless it's some strange, old proprietary hardware, not SCSI
>or IDE), and then install the distribution.
>
> -- email me at rahul.net, not ragwind...
--Rolie Baldock. email: <berd_kalamunda@'nospam'techemail.com>
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lost root password.
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:48:40 -0500
Subject says it all, is there any way to recover the box's root account
without having to reinstall?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Londonboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: network shutdown by itself??
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:50:14 GMT
I am running RedHat 7.0 as server and I have 2 NICs (one is for Internet,
and the other is for LAN), everything works fine. One day, I unplugged the
RJ-45 cable from the internal hub (LAN), the outside NIC is still working
fine.
However, after a while (maybe several hours) the RedHat server cannot access
the web any more, it seems that the network services "time out"?? or shut
down by itself?
Any idea?? Please help.
Thanks
Linux Newbie
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From: Radu Serban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Palm OS / Windows CE communication software
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:50:57 -0800
Hi all,
I am thinking of getting a handheld device. I am trying to decide
between Palm OS and Windows CE. Since I have Linux (RedHat 6.1)
on both my desktop and laptop, my main concern is finding Linux software
for communicating with the handheld PC. What is available out there?
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
--Radu
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From: Nick Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost root password.
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:07:32 +0000
Chris wrote:
> Subject says it all, is there any way to recover the box's root account
> without having to reinstall?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can boot linux into single user mode from the lilo boot: prompt. Just
type
linux sinhle at the prompt. You tghen get a root shell without password
necessary (it works on my linux box)
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:24:00 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ppp problem with ISP
hello,
My ISP uses PAP for ppp connections. I can login fine using Win98 but
kppp won't login using PAP. Neither OS will work usinga terminal window
as my ISP has changed their menu system to where a person can't initiate
a ppp link manually therefore it has to be done automatically.
Unforutnately that doesn't work in Linux, as I said.
I'm getting teh 'receive serial link is not 8-bit clean". I'm reading
curently from search results at Google this error usually means that my
ISP didnt' have ppp running on yet on their end. If that is the case
then how is it Win98 can make a connection to my ISP w/o my
intervention? What does Win98 do that Linux isn't doing to force the
server to start a ppp link? There is no way I can use a expect/send
script (in a terminal window) with kppp like i used to. The closest I
can get is using PAP but ppp times out b/c it says I tried to start ppp
when the server wasn't ready so it just dies. But I dont know how to get
the server to start ppp.
I've also read that it may be something to do with the number of bits or
the settings of how those bits are sent, like 8 bits are sent with Non
parity , something like that. Right now Win98 is configured with an 8N1
setting. Where do i look to see if ppp in Linux is setup the same way
and how would i change it if it's not like that?
How does win98 do it and can i do the same thing in Linux? How do i fix
this? Get a new ISP? It has to be something in
Linux if Windows can do it.
My Net connection is the last thing I need to be able to use Linux the
majority of the time I use my PC so I hope I can get it going soon.
thanks
brandon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: cannot startkde
Date: 5 Jan 2001 21:27:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To start KDE with "startkde", you have to start x first.
The easy way is, as user, do startx;then in Gnome, pull up a
terminal and do "switchdesk", and choose KDE.
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:04:41 GMT, blix
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I installed xfce, gnome, and twm and have tried each. Right now I am
>using twm... seems fast and easy.
>
>But I'd like to go back into KDE. I have a .xinitrc in my home directory
>I was using to start twm. I rename that so that when I type 'startkde"
>KDE will start. But it doesn't... I su'd to root and get the same errors
>below:
>
>[blix@CX562133-F]1 ~> startkde
>/etc/profile.d/lang.sh
>kcontrol: cannot connect to X server
>kbgndwm: cannot connect to X server
>kaudioserver: Can't connect to the X Server.
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost root password.
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:21:40 -0500
> You can boot linux into single user mode from the lilo boot: prompt. Just
> type
> linux sinhle at the prompt. You tghen get a root shell without password
> necessary (it works on my linux box)
>
>
How do I bypass Grub interactive loader and just get a prompt?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mounting floppy
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:23:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Your tip certainly help.
> Thank you to all who response. I've check the device major/minor
number
> and it seems fine. Nothing is wrong with fstab. Yes, it seems like
Redhat 6.1
> does include the floppy driver. I've checked my /var/log/dmesg and
found
> the following error:
>
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use
>
> Anyone has any idea.
>
It seems another device may be using the same I/O port address
as the floppy drive (0x3f0).
Check if this is true in the /proc/ioports file, the device
using the 03f0 port address should be listed in there. Mine
looks like this:
<snip>
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
<snip>
If there is another device using that I/O port then you must
change its setting so the floppy can use it. If there is not,
then the floppy drive may well have failed on you, have you
been able to test the drive with a boot floppy?
Hope this helps,
Bluster
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Michael Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost root password.
Date: 5 Jan 2001 22:07:07 GMT
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject says it all, is there any way to recover the box's root account
> without having to reinstall?
Just type the following at the LILO-Prompt :
LILO: linux single
linux = the label of your kernel
single= the runlevel to boot into
with this option your machine will boot into single-user mode
leaving you with a root-shell.
bye
michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Trying to get sendmail working...(RH6.2)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:35:18 GMT
Is there a configuration tool somewhere for sendmail?
I have looked into the sendmail.cf configuration file and I am
completely stunned! The apache configuration was a piece of cake
compared to this....
I have sent a number of emails via sendmail, both from a script
(formmail.pl) and from the command line, but the mail log tells me
that all have been queued, so there must be something preventing it to
be delivered, probably some configuration setting, but how do I fix
it?
I have visited www.sendmail.org and looked at the docs there, but it
is all too complex. I just want to simply have sendmail deliver the
mail to the recipients...
My system is a RedHat 6.2 (server install) which sits behind a D-Link
home firewall which is handling the NAT stuff towards my ADSL Internet
connection. I don't want sendmail to receive anything, only to send
email out when a form on my website is filled in.
The Linux box knows the gateway and DNS IP:s and it is no problem
pinging anywhere on the Internet from the command prompt, so I can't
figure out why mail is not delivered.
Any advice gratefully received.
Bo Berglund
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mounting floppy
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:27:30 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Hung P. Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use
check /proc/ioports.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: network shutdown by itself??
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:28:56 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Londonboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, after a while (maybe several hours) the RedHat server cannot access
> the web any more, it seems that the network services "time out"?? or shut
> down by itself?
And where do you keep your DNS server?
Peter
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Subject: Installing a CDRW Drive on a Linux System
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin McCormick)
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:00:31 GMT
If I install an IDE CDRW drive on a Linux system, is it likely to
work? I wonder how much of the functionality of the drive is
hard-wired in to the device and how much requires special drivers. Of
course the drive comes with a boat-load of software applications all
designed for Windows systems, but all that will be just so many extra
CDROM's in this situation.
What is a good course of action?
This drive will get a slot on an IDE cable plus the power
connection and that's pretty much it.
I don't have a specific drive bought or even picked out yet,
so any suggestions are much appreciated.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group
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