Linux-Misc Digest #775, Volume #26 Wed, 10 Jan 01 21:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: nfs & redundancy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting up CONFIG_PARPORT_PC in kernel... (Dances With Crows)
Re: CD-RW (Dances With Crows)
Xinetd and Tftpd ("Brian E. Seppanen")
"reiserfsck" is needed (urgent, please!) ("Beispielbenutzer SuSE Linux 6.1")
Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3). (Neuromancer)
Re: Partition overlapped (* Tong *)
Re: Problems installing updates (Harlan Grove)
Re: I need an advice for Zip USB, (Dances With Crows)
Re: Windows 98 dialing to RH Linux ppp help! (John Hasler)
Re: LDAP, Palm Pilot, Outlook, Mozilla ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linuxgruven ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: The mailx program (* Tong *)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: nfs & redundancy
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:07:07 GMT
Brian Pontz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I make a nfs server redundant?
Where I work we do this under HPUX with "MC Service Guard" (sp?) You
set up two identical machines sharing a redundant disk array and if
one machine dies, the IP is assigned to the other. The clients freeze
briefly, as if the network load spiked, then they resume, never
knowing anything happened.
I was asked a few months ago to look into such a package for Linux,
and I found plenty of hits with Google and deja.com. I think I use
'"fail over" linux', or something similar to search. It looked like
this technology is starting to really take off, but it's still a bit
early.
I can't say too much more, as the project was canceled before it got
off the ground, so I never got further. (Other Linux uses are still
being pursued, thank goodness!)
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Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations,for Nature cannot be fooled." -Richard Feynman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:09:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
Lee Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gee, doesn't the subject say it all?
Answer: No
At least under Mandrake 7.1 on my machines. I do like it though
(unlike many people on Usenet and Slashdot). I'm hoping for a more
stable 6.01
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Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"There is a general social trend in English-speaking countries to
treat technically-educated people as the social inferiors of
non-technically educated people. This is a terrible ill affecting our
society" -Bruce Perens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Setting up CONFIG_PARPORT_PC in kernel...
Date: 11 Jan 2001 01:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:21:01 +1100, Guy Parry staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> As far as I'm aware to run VMWare I need to have this compiled in
>my kernel: CONFIG_PARPORT_PC. Without having to go through menuconfig
>from top to bottom to find out what this corresponds to under xconfig,
>can someone tell me what the option under xconfig would be? I've had
>a look and there are a couple of possibilities under Parallel Port
>setup, but I'm not 100% sure which is the correct one. Hope this
>question makes sense...if it isn't already installed by default.
Parallel Port Support->PC-Style Hardware, set to "Y" if you want it
in-kernel instead of as a module. Basic parport support has to be "Y"
as well.
The "Help" function in "make xconfig" should have something at the very
top that says CONFIG_FOO_BAR which tells you which option is being
turned on. HTH,
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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)
Subject: Re: CD-RW
Date: 11 Jan 2001 01:16:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:27:21 GMT, E J staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>> E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> However, the ide-scsi emulation has grabbed my ls-120 drive, and it
>> doesn't work:
>>
>> []$ mount /mnt/ls120
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
>> or too many mounted file systems
>>
>> Th command "cdrecord -scanbus" reports:
>> scsibus0:
>> 0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'LS-120 COSM 04' '0270' Removable Disk
>> 0,1,0 1) 'CREATIVE' 'CD-RW RW6424E ' '1.41' Removable CD-ROM
>>I bet that the ls120 and cd-writer have been converted to scsi emulation.
>Just mount them like a scsi device and ignore them as ide in your
>lilo.conf and conf.modules file # # just guessing.
># mount /mnt/ls120 /dev/scd0 -t vfat
># mount a ls120 dos floppy onto the first scsi device
Nope. I think you want /dev/sda here, as /dev/scd0 is the first SCSI
CD-ROM, while /dev/sda is the first SCSI disk. The CD-RW will be
accessible as a normal CD-ROM via /dev/scd0 . The fact that it's a bit
difficult to mount SCSI devices under Linux by specifying (Bus, Target,
LUN) is another subject entirely, though work is being done in 2.4.x to
let people do that if they want.
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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From: "Brian E. Seppanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Xinetd and Tftpd
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:19:43 -0500
I periodically use a tftpd server to back up configs from several
routers. I have a script that will finish backing up the configs within
15minutes. With xinetd you are supposedly able to restrict the access
times for various servers. I would like to configure xinetd to restrict
tftp server from running until the cron job that backs up my configs
runs.
I have tried specifying
access_times = 8:00-8:15
from within the xinetd.conf, and insured that I'm loading the proper
server definition. does anyone have any ideas on why the access_times
are being ignored?
This is on redhat-7.0
Thanks,
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Brian E. Seppanen
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From: "Beispielbenutzer SuSE Linux 6.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "reiserfsck" is needed (urgent, please!)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 02:59:01 +0100
Hello,
Would somebody please be so kind and send me this
file as attachment to me ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED],
see above) I probably can't compile, see below.
Please send the compiled "reiserfsck" (for
kernel 2.2.x, mine is 2.2.14)
After the first person who mails "reiserfsck" I will
immediately send a reply to this thread
in this newsgroup that you all know
that I have already got "reiserfsck" and I don't get
reiserfsck for many times.
Thats what happened:
My Linux machine with reiserfs is totally locked by
a AC current (230V) accident. Suse 6.4 has no utilities
for reparing on installation CD's. So I took my very
old linux maschine (Suse 5.1) and installed internet access.
Now here I am.
thank you
Ekkard
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From: Neuromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3).
Date: 11 Jan 2001 01:34:09 GMT
Thus spake Meat-->Plow about Life, the Universe, and,
Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3).:
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:12:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] some idiot by
> the name of (Thaddeus L Olczyk) begs for attention by writing the
> following:
>
> >Are there any tools out there which allow one to convert a filesystem
> >from one format to another without losing data. Similar to the kind of
> >thing Partition magic does?
>
> No, moron. None that can guaranty integrity with reiserf or ext3.
>
> You know for someone who thinks they're pretty smart, you ask ALLOT of
> STUPID questions. Questions that you could have found answers for by
> using a search engine.
WooHoo! Time to plow some meat right into my killfile!
--
I'm not lost, I'm locationally challenged.
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition overlapped
Date: 10 Jan 2001 21:34:12 -0400
Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Tong * a �crit :
> >
> > * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Thanks to everybody who tried to answer my question. It seems to be
> > a problem with no fix reason/solution.
> >
> > FYI, I ended up redo the whole extended partition with cfisk, trying
> > to avoid any potential problem. The result is:
> >
> > fdisk -l
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > Lesson learned from above:
> >
> > - PM (partition-magic) may produce a partition that is invalid for
> > Linux
> >
>
> Bullshit! The problem is the mixing of winblows and Linux partitioning tools.
> If you are to more than one os partition magic is the best partitioning tool
> and use only that one. Here the Extented partition number c is probably
> the problem, it should be f because you he's got a bit FAT32 partition.
Have a look at my opening question and try to think of a reason for
the symptom please. Many other posters has point out the above fdisk
error already.
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Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing updates
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:25:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>David wrote:
<snip>
>> Did you upgrade the rpm package to 3.0.5-9.6x ?
>
>How do I do that? They are RPM's and I can't upgrade because I get
>the same error message.
What output do you get from rpm -qa or ls -l /var/lib/rpm ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I need an advice for Zip USB,
Date: 11 Jan 2001 01:42:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:14:08 GMT, ME staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I am trying to mount (dev/sda4) a Zip 100 USB drive under Kernel 2.2.16
>(Suse 7.0). The modules usbcore, usb-ohci and usb-storage are loaded,
>but yet the system fails to communicate with the Zip drive. While
>booting up the system it finds the Zip drive. The error message is:
>sda: Read Capacity failed
>sda: status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
>sda: sense not available
>sda: block size assumed 512 bytes, disk size 1 GB
> sda: scsidisk I/O Error: dev08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table.
>
>My USB Sony CD/RW drive is also seen but can not be mounted. I think it
>is a SCSI issue, which I have tried to remedy with the insertation of
>module sg, but that did not help either. Perhaps somebody has an advice
>for me, any input is appreciated.
Is this the stock SuSE 7.0 2.2.16 kernel? They shipped a kernel with a
bunch of USB stuff backported in, but things have improved since then,
especially wrt USB support. http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ says the
USB-Zip-250 should work just fine with a recent kernel release (2.2.18
or 2.4.0) and the appropriate USB stuff compiled. My advice is to grab
one of those kernels and try it out.
BTW, don't even try to patch the SuSE kernel with the official kernel
patch-2.2.xx.gz files. It won't work, as SuSE engineers have hacked on
their distro kernel, getting it out of sync with the official one.
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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: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Windows 98 dialing to RH Linux ppp help!
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:51:38 GMT
> Any advice/examples would be so much appreciated!
You want mgetty with AutoPPP.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LDAP, Palm Pilot, Outlook, Mozilla
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:59:01 GMT
>>>>> "Dustin" == Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dustin> On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 07:56:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dustin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One option I was considering was using LDAP. I think there are
>> tools that synch between palmpilot and LDAP. And maybe, I can
>> point Mozilla to get address from my LDAP server. However, this
>> looks like a pretty complex approach. Is anybody using a setup
>> like this?
Dustin> This is interesting. I would think that once done it would be
Dustin> a no-brainer in terms of keeping it going. However, initial
Dustin> configuration may be fun.
Dustin> The first question is: can the Palm actually manage an LDAP
Dustin> directory, or does it simply have the ability to read from
Dustin> one?
The only interfaces that a standard LDAP directory can be expected to
provide are _read-only_ interfaces.
As per RFC 2251:
"Implementors are hereby discouraged from deploying LDAPv3 clients
or servers which implement the update functionality, until a
Proposed Standard for mandatory authentication in LDAPv3 has been
approved and published as an RFC."
It seems fairly typical for LDAP servers to receive their updates via
some sort of Out of Band mechanism, and refuse LDAP updates
altogether.
For instance, the LDAP server at the office that is used to publish
employee email addresses and other information has NO update
capability, from the LDAP protocol side; it receives batched updates
[probably daily] from the HR systems. You're not using your PalmPilot
to do updates to that! :-)
<http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/8.html#RTFToC41>
describes how one may update the database if you're using the
SLAPD/SLURPD LDAP server implementation; the page documents both how
to do it via "ldapadd," which uses the LDAP protocol, as well as to do
"mass updates" OOB.
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Room so that every workstation is facing away from the door."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linuxgruven
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:59:19 GMT
>>>>> "jaz406" == jaz406 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jaz406> In article <935oqo$hpb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jaz406> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
jaz406> Just as a reply to many of the posts about Linuxgruven. I have
jaz406> gone through the interview process and had my doubts at the
jaz406> start as well. I passed their initial interview and test. The
jaz406> interviewer offered me a seat in training. I was given an
jaz406> offer of employment after paying the fees for the 80 hours of
jaz406> class.
Herein lies the problem: A _serious_ company would offer employment
_before_ training, and would consider the fees to be _their_ expense.
When Linuxgruven expects this to be _your_ cost, there's a significant
jeapordy, as it is in their interests for _everyone_ to "pass" the
initial interview and test as this results in _them_ getting paid. It
is problematic to distinguish what they're doing from the Publisher's
Clearing House ads where Ed McMahon tells you that "You May Already
Have Won!" [Actually, that's not quite right. PCH doesn't
immediately give you a bill for an 80 hour training course...]
jaz406> The training was good quality and class taught me alot about
jaz406> the Linux operating system and the many things that can be
jaz406> done with it. (Samba,NFS,Apache)
jaz406> I am currently in the process of taking tha SAIR exams and
jaz406> looking to be hired on. I did see several new faces, people
jaz406> being hired on that passed the exams.
The killer question: What percentage of those that took the exams
actually were hired on by Linuxgruven? "Several new faces" could
indicate anything from "3 got hired out of 5" to "3 got hired out of
80."
jaz406> As with anything their will be people who doubt the validity
jaz406> of this thing. To go through the process and finish the class
jaz406> gives me a whole different perspective that many people will
jaz406> never see about Linuxgruven. The company will be the industry
jaz406> leader in Linux service and support. I believe this because
jaz406> there is no other company out there able to offer the volume
jaz406> and quality of support that is needed.
This is reading a little too much like a multilevel marketing scheme;
if you made it up a level in a "pyramid," then it's certainly in your
interests to encourage others to pay for training courses. We're
hardly going to get an objective report from you.
I'd find it more compelling to hear what happens with those people
that take the course and are _not_ hired by Linuxgruven. If _those_
folk are seeing good value in what they paid, that's a far more
encouraging indicator than what you can report.
jaz406> I did not have the LCA certification when I interviewed, but
jaz406> they must have seen something in me to offer me a position
jaz406> with their company after completing the exams. I took the
jaz406> training to speed my learning process.
You took the training to "speed your learning process." Right...
jaz406> Not many companies offer the Linux training. Do the reasearch
jaz406> for yourself. If you like Linux or want a career in the Linux
jaz406> community this IS a GREAT option!
One minute spent at <http://www.google.com/>, using the keywords
"Linux Training" debunks this laughable claim.
"Not many companies offer the Linux training." Right...
Organizations offering training include:
- IBM Learning Services
- GBDirect
- Linux Unlimited, LLC
- SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd
- SmartCertify Direct
- LinuxCare
- Red Hat Software
- Caldera
- Learning Tree
<http://lintraining.com/> indicates that:
"There are a total of 448 training centers offering Linux training
in every corner of the globe.
<http://www.linux.org/vendors/training.html> lists another (smaller)
bunch.
It is quite possible that Linuxgruven is offering something of value;
when you so blatantly overstate its merits, you do them no favors.
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<http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/>
Rules of the Evil Overlord #90. "I will not design my Main Control
Room so that every workstation is facing away from the door."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The mailx program
Date: 10 Jan 2001 22:01:43 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.
>
> The BSD style uses Mail (with a capital M) as a the command line
> mail reader. It's the same as mailx under SYSV style systems like
> Solaris. There's actually a /usr/ucb/Mail on Solaris boxes that's
> a link to /bin/mailx. On most systems /bin/mail with a lower case
> M is a very basic program used primarly by sendmail as a delivery
> agent. On most linux systems that I've seen, Mail, mail, and mailx
> are all the same program, but there's no standard, so you'll just have
> to try them. My slakware 7.1 box has /bin/mailx linked to
> /usr/bin/Mail.
I found out my /usr/bin/Mail is just a sym-link to /bin/mail (RH Linux).
But thanks for info on BSD, I search in BSD only in "fast ftp search"
and found mailx-8.1-4.tar.gz:
The enhanced 4.4BSD-lite mailx program (includes POP support)
Linux/Debian Source distribution
The url is:
ftp://ftp.netsw.org/netsw/Network/Mail/Tools/Deliver/mailx/mailx-8.1-4.tar.gz
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