Linux-Misc Digest #757, Volume #26 Mon, 8 Jan 01 22:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: I want to know which one calles ~/.profile ("Johnny Li(Li Guang-lei 1575623)")
screen in chroot jail ("bart sikkes")
Re: New Network Cards (staplesj)
Re: How do I get my NIC:s started on RH6.2 boot???
Re: CDs play mono with SB16 and ALSA 0.5.10 -- OSS/Free fine ("Ernest N. Mamikonyan")
Re: Partition overlapped
ext2 boot failure (patrick)
Re: The mailx program ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0 (Dances With Crows)
Re: email software (Dances With Crows)
Re: SNMP with MRTG (Andrei Ivanov)
enlightenment in SuSE 7.0? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
MP3 to wav or audio cd ("R.Constantine")
pitfalls of hdisk upgrade on laptop (Dave Brown)
Mouse stops working with ADSL (Noname)
Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor ("Bill M Leagans")
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From: "Johnny Li(Li Guang-lei 1575623)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I want to know which one calles ~/.profile
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:16:00 +0800
I now know the problem.In Solaris,there will be a file named .dtprofile in you
home directory.and you should uncomment the last line of that file in order to
let solaris to call ~/.profile automatically during your login session of CDE.
Dan White wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I want to know which one calles ~/.profile during your login session of
> > CDE in a Solaris box.
>
> You're shell probably reads it directly, see the man page for it.
>
> - Dan White
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From: "bart sikkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: screen in chroot jail
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 02:31:18 +0100
Hello,
I'm trying to get /usr/bin/screen working in my chroot route but i'm very
succesfull in that. when i start it i get this error:
Cannot open your terminal '/dev/ttyp1' - please check.
I have copied all the the files from /dev to the chroot jail is there
something else that i have to copy too? of course i also copied the
important libs and bins.
thanks,
bart
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From: staplesj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: New Network Cards
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 01:32:46 GMT
John Rowe wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Becker) writes:
>
> > The new FA311 and FA312 use the NatSemi dp83815 and require either driver
> > from Netgear or
> > http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
> > ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/natsemi.c
>
> Donald, do you have any thoughts on how this one compares with the 310?
> They seem to be discontinuing the 310 :-(
>
> Thanks for all the drivers BTW..
>
> John
my personal experience with the 310 has been mixed
i have several in different systems, and have had no trouble
i did, however, have trouble with one that started to packet storm a few weeks
ago, hanging my entire network
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How do I get my NIC:s started on RH6.2 boot???
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:34:30 -0500
under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory,
you will find files like "ifcfg-eth0" , "ifcfg-lo" etc.
These are the files that list the interfaces.
When redhat systems start up, they start the "network" by using a script
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
This script looks in the first mentioned directory for interfaces, reads out
the parameters and brings up the ones specified as "onboot=yes"
For ethX, create a file :
ifcfg-ethX in the first mentioned directory X goes from [ X = 0, 1 ] for
your two interfaces.
Copy the parameters off some working file , and you should be fine.
hth
Sloan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:938f0k$qbg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I too think setting up these configs throught linuxconf is a great idea.
Do
> this then after look into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ cat the file
> ifcfg-eth0 and see why you were better off letting linuxconf do the job.
> then cd up one dir and cat network this would be easy to write but let
> Linux do it for you.
>
> An alternative would be to add the commands to the end of the
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local file this is the last file read upon boot and the
config
> could happen there.
>
>
> Bo Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have two NIC:s (3C509 combo) in my RH6.2 server. Since it is a
> > server install I have no KDE or any other GUI tools at hand :-(
> > I have had to add the two cards to mu /etc/conf.modules file in order
> > to be able to use the cards at all. But every time I start up Linux I
> > have to do the following as root:
> > ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> > ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> > route add default gw 192.168.0.129
> >
> > Only at this point does the network function.
> > It is becoming rather tedious work and I want it all done as a part of
> > the startup. How can this be done?
> > Every time I install a Linux before I did it as a workstation and I
> > could use the KDE tools for this. Then it was somehow entered into the
> > system permanently, but not now. I tried adding ifcfg-eth0 and
> > ifcfg-eth1 files to the network-scripts directory but then the
> > ethernet driver totally refused to start so I had to remove them..
> >
> > I have read Linux Networking HOWTO and Ethernet HOWTO and several
> > other docs but I can't find a tip on this problem....
> >
> >
> >
> > Bo Berglund
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:33:41 -0500
From: "Ernest N. Mamikonyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDs play mono with SB16 and ALSA 0.5.10 -- OSS/Free fine
Yeah, sure. I am not sure what ALSA is but I do have an SB 16 Sound
Card that has been working with all the recent kernels (2.2.14-2.4.0).
Just compile is as a module (sb.o) and run `sndconfig' (if you run RH
6-7) or just put something like this in your `/etc/modules.conf' (or
`/etc/conf.modules'):
>>> alias sound-slot-0 sb
>>> options sound dmabuf=1
>>> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330
This is my own setup, of course. You have to substitute your own values
for the irq, dma, etc.
Good Luck!
--
Ernie
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition overlapped
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:41:51 -0500
Isn't 0B a Fat 16 partition ? This person wanted win95 fat32 , which is >
32MB , the code for which is, I believe "c"
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >/dev/hda1 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux
> >/dev/hda2 65 319 2048287+ 83 Linux
> >/dev/hda3 * 320 1057 5927985 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> >/dev/hda4 1058 2491 11518605 5 Extended
> >/dev/hda5 1058 2030 7815591 83 Linux
> >/dev/hda6 2031 2491 3702951 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> I guess I could have told why. An extended partition ending 1 based
> cylinder 1024 or later *must* by type 0F or 85 if DOS or Windows is
> present. The type of hda6 should be 0B.
> --
> Svend Olaf
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From: patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ext2 boot failure
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 01:44:02 GMT
Hello
I am in serious troubles! Somehow the pcmcia-tool managed to screw up my
Harddisk so I can't boot anymore :-( When booting my singel-boot linux,
the following message appears:
EXT2-fs: error (device ide(3,1)): ext2_check_descriptors: inode bitmap
for group 0 not in group (block 4026597203)!
EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
I started a rescue system and ran e2fsck, but didn't help! I can't read
the man-pages because they are not implemented in the rescue-system. Is
there a possebility to fixe my HD without loosing all the data on it?
Thanks for any help
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The mailx program
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 02:01:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> There are two version of command line email programs: mail and
> mailx. At least it is true for Solaris. I'm wondering where I can
> find the mailx for Linux.
>
> The reason I'm asking here is that the mail tool come with Redhat is
> called mailx-8.1.1-10.i386.rpm, but it is actually mail.
...
What does it matter what it's named, if it has the functionality you
want?
If you'll examine the man page for both Solaris mailx and Linux mail,
you'll probably find all the functionality you're used to, including -s,
-c and -b.
If you have some scripts that need it, then just
# ln -s /bin/mail /bin/mailx
- tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
Date: 9 Jan 2001 02:11:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:47:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
> In article <930vbp$fsj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>wrote:
>Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
>I got a ATI Xpert 98 Video Card, NEC MultiSync XV17+ Screen and Redhat
>7.0 and the best I could get this config to do is 640x480?
>Can you please help me out. I cant get it doing anything better then
>800x600
Did you read the message I sent? I know you must have, since you sent a
CC to me, which I most emphatically did *NOT* want. Therefore, I ask
the same questions I asked on Usenet before. Til you find the answers
to them, I doubt anyone will be able to help you.
Did you try running Xconfigurator as root, did you follow the directions
on the screen, and does it spit out any error messages when you try to
configure a resolution like 1024x768? If you don't see your monitor in
the fancy list, don't worry about it, just pick one of the generic
options like "Monitor that can do 1024x768 @ 75Hz" and you should be
fine. Or go to the manufacturer's website, dig around a bit, find the
Hsync and Vsync ranges, and enter those in.
--
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!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: email software
Date: 9 Jan 2001 02:11:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:37:02 +0000, Harry staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
[snipp]
>Thanks to all of you lads for the advice.... (I confess to still being
>a bit in the dark though).
>
>To compare the situation with a windows environment, what equals what?
>Or to put it another way, it seems to me that the unix "MTA" component
>is missing from the windows scene, and so what would I lose by not
>using one of these on my linux box?
No, 'Doze has MSexChange, which is sort of an MTA if you bang on it hard
enough. MTAs are used to deliver mail from one machine to another in a
standards-compliant, quick, and efficient way, and if they can't deliver
mail directly to the machine it's supposed to go to, they "relay" it to
another MTA on another machine that's closer to the destination. This
relaying is the dangerous part; MTAs that are incorrectly configured can
cause a great deal of havoc as they bounce every message they receive,
go into "Sorceror's Apprentice" mode, or act as open relays, allowing
vile spammers to send their drivel through.
The idea that a normal user doesn't need to run an MTA came about
because... well, take a look at /etc/sendmail.cf if it exists on your
system and see if you can take a wild guess as to why.
>HOWTOs, and so my head is spinning somewhat. Mutt for the MUA appeals
>to me with being so configurable and not forcing an editor upon you.
>Also one of the authors highly recommends qm@!l (which I'd never heard
>of) as an alternative to sendmail for security, simplicity and speed.
>Does this all seem over the top for one guy on one small home-based
>network?
Well, running your own MTA does give you the ultimate in flexibility.
It requires a bit of an investment in time. Originally, POP3 and IMAP
were designed to be used on a LAN, not for far-flung users--people far
away from their mailserver were supposed to get their mail via SMTP.
However, having an MTA and a MUA is more complex than just starting up
Pine/Netscape/Mutt when you want to read your mail, so the less complex
solution won out and users in most places just have a MUA.
sendmail, qm@!l, postfix, exim --take your pick, but sendmail is the
original beast and the reference implementation for SMTP. Any MTA will
do the job if it's configured right.
>I also read in those HOWTOs not to post mail related questions to the
>linux newsgroups <cringe> and so I thank you also for not burning my
>arse. I'll bow out after this and go lurk in comp.mail.?.?
I guess people have engaged in flamewars over MTAs. *shrug*
>Free Agent is a news reader by the way - the paid for version is a
>news reader combined with the best POP3 client I've ever seen.
Ah. (Paying for software? How quaint! :-] )
--
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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Ivanov)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Re: SNMP with MRTG
Date: 8 Jan 2001 19:34:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Rick Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not even sure how to start snmpd after installing ucd-snmp.
Create proper /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file (man pages were installed as
part of the package, I assume), then run "chkconfig snmpd on" command
(if under RedHat Linux; with other distros some other command may be
necessary to start SNMP daemon on boot), and start SNMPD by invoking
"sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd start".
> Do you know of any good documentation on Linux - SNMP - MRTG?
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ and links from there.
> In addition, I need to monitor the various services like http, ftp, pop,
> smtp, ... by monitoring their ports.
> How do i configure SNMP to be able to this?
> And how do i configure MRTG to retrieve this info from SNMP?
Few days ago I posted OID to monitor number of processes on your system
(by process name) - try to find it on deja.com.
--
andrei
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: enlightenment in SuSE 7.0?
Date: 9 Jan 2001 02:27:56 GMT
Doh! I just installed SuSE 7.0, and Enlightenment is not in the distro.
Sawfish is used as the defalt Gnome WM. I tried to install E off my SuSE 6.3
disc, but it looks like some of the libraries it looks for have moved in 7.0.
My question is this: Has anyone installed the current download version of E
on 7.0? Does it work? I'm on a dialup connection, so I hope to save the heart-
ache of an hour-long download if it won't work.
Thanks!
ef
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL
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From: "R.Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MP3 to wav or audio cd
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 02:28:02 GMT
Anyone know of a program that will make wav out of mp3 so I can burn them
on a cd?
rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: pitfalls of hdisk upgrade on laptop
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Jan 2001 21:30:40 -0600
After all the advice I've rendered in this newsgroup, I find myself
needing some.
I just installed a 10GB drive in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 3200),
which had a 4GB drive with Windows98, old slackware, and RH62.
After backing up each partition (by installing the old drive into
my desktop and tarring each filesystem to a "server", I partitioned
the new drive (now attached to desktop) with partition magic, and
untarred the filesystems back onto the drive. Now I put the drive
on my laptop and it detects a 8.5 GB drive. I booted from diskette
and re-wrote lilo, but no joy. I get "LI".
I thought maybe that was because Windows was screwed up.
I tried to reinstall win98, and it still won't boot, (says bad disk).
I haven't tried to reinstall lilo, but I think my current track is a
dead end.
I suspect my options are few (I'll bet I can't upgrade the laptop mobo
to accomodate >8.4 GB disks). I presume I could locate some ONDISK
stuff from previous hard disks that I've bought, but I'd rather not.
One thing occurs to me... Boot magic (comes with Partition Magic).
Does this have any way to help BIOS past the 8.5 gb problem?
My other thought is to use fdisk to rewrite the partition table, setting
cylinders, heads, and sectors to >8.5 GB. Repartition with fdisk, and
go that route. (I think PM will have nothing to do with this scheme.)
If I put in bogus values, like 1024,255,63 for chs, will I run into
any translation problems between Win98 and Linux?
Incidentally, the laptop CMOS does not let me enter anything for disk
parameters... It apparently does its best, maxing out CHS, but I'm
guessing.
I suppose another possibility would be to locate a DOS 6.2 diskette and
try to DOS FDISK it. It would probably go along with whatever the
system board said.
Any comments?
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse stops working with ADSL
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 02:32:48 GMT
Hi
After successfully starting pppoe, the mouse stops working in X-Window
These are the files i loaded from my ISP.
After I login into Linux and start GNome, KDE, or etc, I do:
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up -arp
/usr/local/bin/start-pppoe
so far everything works, even the mouse. But once I exit/logoff
X-Window, if I login again, the mouse doesn't work !!!
http://www1.sympatico.ca/help/local/bell/hsedownloadslinux.bell.html
Any ideas?
Thanks
Please post only
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ?
Date: 08 Jan 2001 17:08:22 -0600
>>>>> "Roberto" == Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Roberto> In article <93daiq$9dc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harlan Grove
Roberto> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roberto> [snip]
>> Konqueror is a good browser, but for me insufficient on its own
>> to justify using KDE exclusively.
Roberto> No need to. Konqueror runs under any WM you want to use.
Indeed. The use of the word "exclusively" is just _wrong_; one of the
major design features of the X Window System is the ability of an X
server to simultaneously service applications using multiple GUIs.
Thus, if using Konqueror required "using KDE exclusively," that would
represent a gaping huge flaw that _would_ justify tarring and
feathering the KDE team. But it's just not so. I can run Konqueror
simultaneously with:
a) Netscape Communicator, which uses the Motif GUI toolkit,
b) Gnumeric, which uses GTK and various Gnome subsystems,
c) EXMH, which uses Tcl/Tk.
"Exclusively" is just _nonsense_.
>> In terms of anecdotal evidence, KDE users seem to like KDE much
>> more than Gnome users like Gnome. For something a bit objective,
>> see the Linux Magazine interview with the Nautilus folks (October,
>> November or December 2000 issue - don't recall which) on why they
>> decided on Gnome.
Roberto> Erm. Excuse me, but Eazel has a vested interest in GNOME
Roberto> becoming the de facto standard desktop for Unix. I wouldn't
Roberto> say they are unbiased. Besides, IIRC, that article had
Roberto> simple factual errors.
Eazel _now_ has a vested interest in GNOME representing a "defacto
standard;" that was not always true. You seem to be indicating that
they were biased _before_ they decided on working with Gnome, which
doesn't seem to make sense.
--
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``Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a
computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it
transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our
most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.''
-- "The Humble Programmer", E. Dijkstra, CACM, vol. 15, n. 10, 1972
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From: "Bill M Leagans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:44:17 -0600
How do you enter special charactes in vi or another editor such as ASCII
code 27 (escape).
The reason being is that I can control the advanced functions of my printers
such as duplex, tray selection easier this way. Though since I can't enter
special characters in editors I've had to resort to creating then in windows
and copying them over.
Bill
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