Linux-Misc Digest #800, Volume #26 Sat, 13 Jan 01 16:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Tax Software?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux books, etc. ("John Cusick")
Re: Strange script problems - can't set environment vars ("Gard Bjering")
FTP using DNS instead of me??? ("Tom Edelbrok")
KEYTABLES ("Tom Edelbrok")
Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com (Dave Hensley)
Re: can't print to the screen with gs (fwd) (Bob Hauck)
Metakey in .inputrc (alex k)
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Strange script problems - can't set environment vars (Dirk Groeneveld)
Re: Where is my memory? (Dirk Groeneveld)
Re: problem installing webmin with RPM (Michael Heiming)
Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM ("Arctic Storm")
Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM (Arctic Storm)
Re: kernel 2.2.18: problem connecting to ISP (Michael Heiming)
Re: Problems mounting loopback devices (Dances With Crows)
Re: make modules_install errors (Michael Heiming)
Re: Browser madness.... (David Efflandt)
Re: Where is my memory? (Dances With Crows)
Mandrake PATH setting (* Tong *)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tax Software??
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:11:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken) writes:
> > Is there any tax software like Kiplinger TAXCUT from
> > H&R Block for FreeBSD or Linux?
> You may be able to run TaxCut atop WINE; I must confess to not
> having tried this out in a couple years, but I did run it
> successfully 2 years ago, and Wine _has_ to have improved since
> then...
FYI: I just installed TaxCut atop WINE; I have not run through it in
_dramatic_ detail, and certainly haven't printed yet, which has
traditionally been the thorny part, but it seems to be functioning
well as far as entering values, jumping from form to form, accessing
documentation, and calculating results.
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@ntlug.org")
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/>
"My theory is that someone's Emacs crashed on a very early version of
Linux while reading alt.flame and the resulting unholy combination of
Elisp and Minix code somehow managed to bootstrap itself and take on an
independent existence." -- James Raynard in c.u.b.f.m on nature of
Albert Cahalan
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From: "John Cusick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux books, etc.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:26:15 GMT
In article <93p1ua$1c4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a novice to Linux and have had some configuration troubles,
> including networking, and would like to be able to get into things and
> fix (or screw up) as best I can on my own along with the aide of this
> website. I'm basically looking for suggestions on websites and books to
> help me get started with linux. Editing configurations, editing boot
> files, kernel and kernel module recompiles, and anything else that will
> be useful. Just good linux handbooks basically or authors that would be
> helpful now and in the future. Also, what programs are good for editing
> configuration files?
> vi, emacs, what? Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Jason
Running Linux, O'Reilly and Ass.
The best overall Intro with a lot of good Sys Admin stuff.
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From: "Gard Bjering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange script problems - can't set environment vars
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:25:10 +0100
Just an addition, I found the following lines of text in
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Adv-Ba
sh-Scr-HOWTO.html
--cut--
Note: A script can export variables only to child processes, that is, only
to commands or processes which that particular script initiates. A script
invoked from the command line cannot export variables back to the command
line environment. Child processes cannot export variables back to the parent
processes that spawned them.
--cut--
If the above is correct, then it should not be possible to export
environment vars back to the parent process.
BUT: On my friends Linux PC, this works perfectly, so it is indeed possible.
But how....
-Gard
Gard Bjering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93q463$3ma$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange problem here, when trying to install the BlueCat
> development system for embedded linux.
>
> Simplified, I try to run a script as follows:
> (the real script are several more lines long, but the lines below is
enough
> to see the problem)
>
>
> export BLUECAT_PREFIX=`pwd`
> echo $BLUECAT_PREFIX
> PATH=$BLUECAT_PREFIX/bin:$PATH
> echo $PATH
>
>
> When running the script, everything seems OK, the echo'ed values are
> correct. However, after the script is completed, all the new settings have
> disappeared, BLUECAT_PREFIX is nothing, and PATH is like before running
the
> script...
>
> Anyone got a clue what is actually happening here? Anyone got a solution?
> I'm running a Redhat 6.0 installation with bash shell.
>
> (to me it seems like maybe another shell is loaded when the script starts,
> then this shell is closed again after completed, and all settings are
> removed. Can this be correct?)
> (ps: me = a linux newbie so don't put to much thrust in the conclusion
above
> :-))
>
>
> Thanx for any help,
>
> Gard Bjering
> Options AS
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP using DNS instead of me???
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:33:50 -0800
PROBLEM:
I go into ftp and try to connect to one of my Linux box's (Redhat 6.0,
wu-ftpd) and sit there forever! It says "connected" but never comes back
with the "Name:" prompt to get me to log in. I enable "logging" in ipchains
for all packets, (on the client Linux box) and it indicates that the target
ftp box (the one I am trying to connect to) is sending out DNS requests to
my ISP's nameservers. I am not connected to the internet when I do all of
this.
MY CONFIGURATION:
I have 3 machines in a LAN as follows:
Machine "A" is an NT Server and is a DNS and DHCP server. It has no internet
connection except via Machine "B".
Machine "B" is a Redhat 6.0 Linux box with wu-ftp and a ppp connection to
the internet on a 56k modem.
Machine "C" is a Redhat 6.0 Linux box with wu-ftp and no connection to the
internet, except via Machine "B".
I am going into ftp from Machine "B" and trying to connect to Machine "C". I
am monitoring the DNS requests that originate from Machine "C" via the
ipchains script running on Machine "B" (where I tried to open the ftp
connection from).
HERE'S WHAT BAFFLES ME:
Why does ftp need DNS? If the IP address of Machine "B" is 172.17.10.116
and the IP address of Machine "C" is 172.17.1.2 then why can't I just open
up an ftp connection to Machine "C"? Why should Machine "C" care about
names? Or do incoming ftp connections always work that way? (ie: with names
rather than IP addresses?). Can't FTP say to itself "huh ... no name help
here! Shucks - I guess I'll just use the address instead, since I know the
address but not the name resolution".
HERE'S HOW I GET IT WORKING:
I connect to the internet and everything starts happily working! DNS
requests from Machine "C" are now satisfied and so it prompts for a username
and password. Everybody is happy (but why?).
FURTHER BAFFLING STUFF:
When the internet connection is down I can always open an FTP session from
Machine "C" over to Machine "B". The res-ponse is instantaneous! But when
the internet connection is down I cannot open up Machine "B" from Machine
"A". Why is Machine "B" so picky about letting ftp users in when the
internet is down, but Machine "A" doesn't care???
IF YOU CAN UN-BAFFLE ME:
If you can give me a clear picture of what is happening you will earn a free
big mac. To claim it, go to your nearsest McDonalds and tell them that you
fixed my problem.
Seriously, thanks in advance for any help.
I am not an expert on either DNS or FTP. Just trying to get these suckers to
work!
Tom Edelbrok
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KEYTABLES
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:36:43 -0800
I have something called KEYTABLES in my "chkconfig --list". Can anyone tell
me what it is?
Thanks,
Tom Edelbrok
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From: Dave Hensley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:41:43 GMT
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:24:43 -0600, Jerry Kreps
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>pamela wrote:
>
>> "Jan. 12, 2001 | Since geek glamour is an idea whose time has come, it
>> shouldn't be impossible to make an intelligent and beguiling thriller
>about
>> the open-source software movement. Peter Howitt's "AntiTrust" just isn't
>> it."
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/01/12/antitrust/
>>
>>
>
>Since Salon is owned lock, stock and barrel by Gates would you expect a
>different review?
I think you're confusing Salon with Slate, which is indeed owned by
Microsoft. Salon is not.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.postscript,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: can't print to the screen with gs (fwd)
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:43:40 GMT
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:37:42 GMT, Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Whenever I execute the command gs -q -sOutputFile=- <file.ps> in a
>text console, the screen flickers wildly until I press Ctl-C.
That would be because gs is sending output to standard out, which is
your screen. Said output is probably some binary bitmap format.
>Can anyone point me in the right direction for printing to stdout?
You're doing it right, but probably for the wrong reason. What are you
trying to do? If you want to view ps on a text screen, then you need
something like ps2ascii.
>If we're not meant to print to the screen with ghostscript outside of
>x-windows, why would the above command even be described in the man page?
Because you may want to use gs in a pipeline.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: alex k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Metakey in .inputrc
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:40:41 GMT
hello!
my inputrc was working fine until just a few days ago.
its a newly installed system, so i've made quite a few
changes, dunno which caused it.
most pertinent is perhaps that i upgraded X from 4.0.0
to 4.0.2, i let it overwrite all configfiles and such.
the system is slack7.1, with the new 2.4.0 kernel.
it's only the Meta (Alt) key that stopped working, the
other options (like 'set meta-flag on' etc) still work
just fine.
what could've caused it? something about X overwriting
termcap (whatever that is)?
tia / alex k
here's how the .inputrc looks:------------
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set expand-tilde on
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set input-meta on
set output-meta on
M-q: beginning-of-line
M-w: end-of-line
M-a: backward-word
M-s: forward-word
M-z: backward-kill-word
M-x: kill-word
M-i: kill-line
M-o: kill-whole-line
M-l: yank
M-k: yank-pop
"^[[3~": delete-char
--
.
.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:47:34 -0500
mlw wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> >
> > Chris Lopeman wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend a good raid IDE controller for Linux. Preferably
> > > ATA 100. We have tried using the Promise controller with limited
> > > success. We probably want to run 2 controllers in the server (for more
> > > speed) with a total of 6 drives. 4 of the drives running raid 1+0 and
> > > the other 2 forming a separate mirror. The 2 in the mirror we also want
> > >
> > > to boot off of.
> > >
> > > If you can't recommend a good one maybe you can let us know your
> > > experience with the AMI or Escalade cards. We are considering going to
> > > one of these.
> >
> > http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.html
> >
>
> The link you posted was for software raid. There are a lot of pros and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
oops.
> cons for hardware vs software for RAID, but in the case of IDE, a
> hardware raid solution makes more sense than a software one.
>
> --
> http://www.mohawksoft.com
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange script problems - can't set environment vars
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:44:40 +0100
Gard Bjering wrote:
[trying to change an environment variable in a script]
You have to call the script with "source <scriptname>".
For security reasons, child processes can't mess with the environment
variables of their parent. Shell scripts are executed as child processes of
your command line interpreter (bash, probably). Thus, they cant change the
variables of it.
Dirk
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From: Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my memory?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:48:02 +0100
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Kathrin Geilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you use lilo, write
> > append="128M"
> > to your lilo.conf or pass this option at the lilo prompt when booting.
> Except, of course, that you don't. It's append="mem=127M", or "mem=127M"
> (sans quotes) after the image label at the boot prompt.
>
> Surprisingly many human beings have faulty ram. I wonder how we cope?
Sorry, I don't get this. What are you trying to say?
Dirk
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:57:18 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem installing webmin with RPM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running RH Linux 6.2 (shell-mode) on an old P90. I have a problem
> installing webmin with an rpm-package using a shell-based rpm
> (http://www.webmin.com/webmin/download.html).
>
> When I issue the rpm command "rpm -i webmin-0.83.rpm" the only thing I
> get is "error: foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed" without any
> previous message with the reason or anything.
>
> What can be the problem? Are there any things I can check for?
>
> Thanx in advance!
>
> greetz, Gert.
Hello,
try installing the good old tarball, I never had problems with tar.gz &
webmin.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:30:52 GMT
> No, use -i instead of -U
>
> it means that your old kernel will remain intact, just in case the new
> one doesn't work.
>
> Sean
Hello,
When I issued the command
rpm -i kernel-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm
I got the this error message.
var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32498: geninitrd: command not found
Added linux *
Added dos
Any suggestions?
-
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:32:34 GMT
> No, use -i instead of -U
>
> it means that your old kernel will remain intact, just in case the new
> one doesn't work.
>
> Sean
When I issued the command
rpm -i kernel-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm
I got this error message.
var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32498: geninitrd: command not found
Added linux *
Added dos
Any suggestions?
-
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:22:37 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.18: problem connecting to ISP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> When I try to connect to my ISP I get the following errors:
>
> ---------------------- Jan 13 13:38:01 truus pppd[607]: LCP: timeout sending
> Config-Requests Jan 13 13:38:01 truus pppd[607]: Receive serial link is not
> 8-bit clean: Jan 13 13:38:01 truus pppd[607]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
> Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 000005f4 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel:
> current->tss.cr3 = 0129d000, %cr3 = 0129d000 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel:
> *pde = 00000000 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Oops: 0000 Jan 13 13:38:01
> truus kernel: CPU: 0 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: EIP:
> 0010:[pcnet_cs:__insmod_pcnet_cs_O/lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o_M3+-3
> 86111/96] Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: EFLAGS: 00010283 Jan 13 13:38:01
> truus kernel: eax: 000005dc ebx: 7fffffff ecx: c3972c00 edx: 00000282 Jan
> 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: esi: c129e000 edi: 7fffffff ebp: c129ff4c esp:
> c129ff18 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jan 13
> 13:38:01 truus kernel: Process pppd (pid: 607, process nr: 68,
> stackpage=c129f000) Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Stack: c1215000 c129ff4c
> c018ad36 c1215000 7fffffff 00000008 00000282 c1215000 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus
> kernel: 0806ddb4 0000001a c1215000 c1215000 bffff20c c129e000 c1215964
> c127d858 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: c12b5420 ffffffea c0187f39 c1215000
> 00000000 0000540b 00000002 c1aa3000 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Call Trace:
> [ide_ioctl+174/1784] [init_hwif_data+9/364] [old_readdir+147/184]
> [stack_segment+13/16] [error_code+20/64] Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Code:
> 83 78 18 00 0f 84 99 00 00 00 8b 71 10 85 f6 0f 84 8e 00 00 Jan 13 13:38:01
> truus kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> address 00000014 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000,
> %cr3 = 00101000 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jan 13 13:38:01
> truus kernel: Oops: 0000 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: CPU: 0 Jan 13
> 13:38:01 truus kernel: EIP:
> 0010:[pcnet_cs:__insmod_pcnet_cs_O/lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o_M3+-3
> 85928/96] Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: EFLAGS: 00010287 Jan 13 13:38:01
> truus kernel: eax: c1215000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c1215000 edx: c1215000 Jan
> 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: esi: c1215000 edi: c1215100 ebp: 00000002 esp:
> c129fd70 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jan 13
> 13:38:01 truus kernel: Process pppd (pid: 607, process nr: 68,
> stackpage=c129f000) Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Stack: c018614c c1215000
> c129e000 00000001 c0185fd7 c1215000 0000025f 00000001 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus
> kernel: c01e2000 c1215000 c1215970 c121596c 00000000 c1fd9ac0 00000000
> 00000300 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: c018619c c1215000 000005f4 c1fd9ad8
> c012560a c12b51e0 c01f2d44 c01f2d43 Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Call Trace:
> [rpc_register+104/268] [rpc_getport+139/272] [rpc_register+184/268]
> [sync_buffers+18/500] [pmap_create+46/104] [copy_files+279/648]
> [do_exit+276/680] Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: [sys_wait4+78/760]
> [sys_wait4+189/760] [ne2k_pci_open+32/76] [do_int3+99/116]
> [ne2k_pci_open+50/76] [loopback_xmit+208/216] [remap_area_pages+25/624]
> [ne2k_pci_open+50/76] Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel:
> [pcnet_cs:__insmod_pcnet_cs_O/lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o_M3+-391033
> /96] [stack_segment+13/16]
> [pcnet_cs:__insmod_pcnet_cs_O/lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o_M3+-386111
> /96] [ide_ioctl+174/1784] [init_hwif_data+9/364] [old_readdir+147/184]
> [stack_segment+13/16] [error_code+20/64] Jan 13 13:38:01 truus kernel: Code:
> 8b 73 14 50 e8 bb eb ff ff 53 e8 19 e3 ff ff c7 43 40 00 00
> -----------------------------
>
> One or two minutes after this happens, my pc blocks completely blocks (hard
> reboot is necessary)
>
> When I use my previous kernel (2.2.14) the connection is built up without any
> problem.
>
> I have Suse 7.0 distribution
> Kernel 2.2.18 and 2.2.14
> ppp version 2.3.11
>
> Please help me??
>
> Mike
>
Hello,
did you read Documentation/Changes (2.2.18) and does your system meet all the
requierd parts?
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Problems mounting loopback devices
Date: 13 Jan 2001 20:34:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:59:28 +0000, John William Prowse staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>I am trying to mount an iso image from a DVD drive which is already
>mounted.
>
>losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom/full/mandrake72/Mandrake72-inst.iso
>
>I get the following error message :-
>
>ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Read-only file system
>
>Any ideas what I am doing wrong ? I changed /dev/loop2 to read only and
>tried using that, this did not work either. Is there any way to mount an
>iso image from a read only file system ?
Well, there should be... I'm curious about the syntax you're using,
though. I generally mount an ISO image like so:
mount -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt/somewhere -o loop
and I have successfully burned a small .iso to a CD-RW, then mounted
that image via the command above. Is the "loop" module loaded? If this
ISO is very large (> 2G) then there could be problems from that. HTH,
--
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!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:30:45 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make modules_install errors
Steve Connet wrote:
> Trying to compile the linux-2.4.0 kernel. It compiles just fine and so
> do the modules.
>
> However after I type "make modules_install" partways through it dumps
> out with the following error:
>
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/fs/binfmt_elf.o
> depmod: get_pte_slow
> depmod: __handle_bad_pmd
>
> Mean anything to anyone?
>
> I currently use kernel version:
> Linux version 2.2.16-22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
>19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000
>
> With RedHat 7.0.
>
> --
> Steve Connet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hello,
I don't know how often I've type this sentence during the last week:
Have you read and does your system meets the requierments mentioned
in Dcoumentation/Changes (2.4.0)?
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Browser madness....
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:46:41 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Daren Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Something seems to have suddenly happened which is utterly nuts!
>
>It would appear that I am 'blocked' (for want of a better word) from
>accessing certain sites while using Linux (any browser)
>
>If, however I boot W98 (which I try not to these days, but it's there
>for mad occasions!) I can access them perfectly OK. They are all e-commerce
>site BTW (amazon, dvdboxoffice, dvdexpress)
>
>Other regular haunts are fine. This wasn't happening 1 week ago!
>
>Nothing in the logs, no firewall in use anymore.
>
>Any ideas???
See if you still have problems when you disable Java and JavaScript. I
disabled those recently when my ISP's home page was causing Netscape to
crash. I forgot to re-enable them, but with them disabled (not sure if
that makes a difference), I had no trouble searching for a book on Amazon,
although, I did not attempt a purchase. It is also possible that some
secure sites require a browser upgrade to 128-bit encrytation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Where is my memory?
Date: 13 Jan 2001 20:47:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:48:02 +0100, Dirk Groeneveld staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>> Kathrin Geilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> If you use lilo, write
>>> append="128M"
>>> to your lilo.conf or pass this option at the lilo prompt when booting.
>
>> Except, of course, that you don't. It's append="mem=127M", or "mem=127M"
>> (sans quotes) after the image label at the boot prompt.
>> Surprisingly many human beings have faulty ram. I wonder how we cope?
>
>Sorry, I don't get this. What are you trying to say?
This is a "Ha ha, only serious" statement--see the Jargon File for
details ( http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ ) on what that means.
Many x86 motherboards reserve a small portion of the system RAM for
various things. If you have a board with the video card embedded, that
embedded video often "shares" (that is, STEALS) a certain amount of
system RAM instead of providing its own VRAM. If either of these
conditions hold, then when you tell the kernel to use the full amount of
memory available, it will--and will most likely scribble all over the
reserved portions of the system RAM, generally causing havoc. Hence the
practice of telling the system you have less RAM than you actually do.
Peoples' memories are not perfect, hence the "human beings have faulty
RAM". Computer memories sometimes have bad bits ("memtest86" at
freshmeat.net) and since humans own computers....
--
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!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Mandrake PATH setting
Date: 13 Jan 2001 17:06:24 -0400
Hi,
I choose high security level when installing mandrake and found that
my PATH setting in /etc/profile no longer work any more (at least
for the root). Instead, the comment hints that the Mandrake security
management is taking care of it.
How should set my PATH under Mandrake security management then. I
looked for the man pages but didn't get enough info to get it
going...
Thanks
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
- All free contribution & collection & music from the heavens
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