Linux-Misc Digest #813, Volume #26 Sun, 14 Jan 01 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
usb zip 100 prob ("S. G. Student")
Re: Regular Expression Question (David Efflandt)
Re: Regular Expression Question ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: Regular Expression Question (Bob Simon)
How do I access an old linux drive?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where can I find more information of git and FileRunner? (David Efflandt)
Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!! (Michael Erskine)
Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1 (Robert Spangler)
Re: updating with rpm(s) (M.Knight)
Re: Help me to get rid of LILO completely without deleting all (Leonard Evens)
Re: Help me to get rid of LILO completely without deleting all partitions
("/dev/null")
How to get prog to run other than root (Cubic Meter)
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards (Chris Lopeman)
Re: Gnome terminal URL support? (Ed Blackman)
FTP of >2G files (Frank Hansen)
Re: Regular Expression Question (Bob Simon)
Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!! (Jan Johansson)
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From: "S. G. Student" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: usb zip 100 prob
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:50:37 GMT
this is the result of
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbzip
using mount 2.10q-1
kernel 2.4.0-Pre
fatfs: bogus cluster size
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 08:00.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
or too many mounted file systems
here are some messages re my system state:
Module Size Used by
msdos 5424 0
vfat 10576 0 (autoclean)
fat 30528 0 (autoclean) [msdos vfat]
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI-alt Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=b400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=059b ProdID=0031 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=Iomega
S: Product=USB Zip 100
S: SerialNumber=059B003113010584
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50
Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl= 32ms
usbdevfs
hub
48- 63: usbscanner
usb-storage
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 10.V
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/sda
I need some help on how to fix this.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:00:12 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:31:12 GMT, Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I'm teaching myself unix (RH7) and am grappling with regular
>> > expressions. Since * matches zero or more occurrences of the
>> > preceding character, and since a regular expression matches
>> > the LONGEST string of characters that match the pattern, why
>> > are the following two expressions NOT equivalent?
>> > [A-Za-z]*
>> > [A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*
>>
>> The first RE will match zero or more letters, the second RE
>> will match one letter followed by zero or more letters, i.e.
>> one or more letters. What that boils down to is that the
>> first RE will match the empty string, but the second one won't.
>
>OK. But "one or more" is a subset of "zero or more" so it seems
>to me that the first RE should act the same as the second (except
>when there are no characters to match). It doesn't. Why?
Because you have no * after the first character or group, so you are
matching 1 character, plus 0 or more characters. If your put a * after
the first group then they would match the same (although redundant).
[A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z]* would match like [A-Za-z]*
[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]* could usually be written [A-Za-z]+
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:59:59 -0500
* "Bob Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I'm teaching myself unix (RH7) and am grappling with regular
>> > expressions. Since * matches zero or more occurrences of the
>> > preceding character, and since a regular expression matches the
>> > LONGEST string of characters that match the pattern, why are the
>> > following two expressions NOT equivalent?
>> > [A-Za-z]*
>> > [A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*
>>
>> The first RE will match zero or more letters, the second RE will match
>> one letter followed by zero or more letters, i.e. one or more letters.
>> What that boils down to is that the first RE will match the empty
>> string, but the second one won't.
>
> OK. But "one or more" is a subset of "zero or more" so it seems to me
> that the first RE should act the same as the second (except when there
> are no characters to match). It doesn't. Why?
B/c RE's are (usually (always?)) greedy. That means, they match the very
first instance they encounter.
I) [A-Za-z]*
II) [A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*
---a-- ----b---
(I) will start and when it encounters the empty string, it matches (0 or
more alpha-chars) and terminates.
(II) will start and first look for any character matching (a). If such a
character is found it will continue searching for 0 or more
alpha-characters (which is (b)). Since (a) needs to be matched *before*
anything else, and (a) does not include the empty string, (II) will NOT
match the empty string, even though (b) does.
> --
> Please address private email replies to bsimon at ATT dot Net.
Please change your signature-delimiter to "-- ".
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
$ ar m God
ar: God does not exist
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From: Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:01:31 GMT
In article <93sgo0$g6d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK. But "one or more" is a subset of "zero or more" so it seems
> to me that the first RE should act the same as the second (except
> when there are no characters to match). It doesn't. Why?
Let me put that another way. The fact that [A-Za-z]* matches with
zero characters when it also matches with one or more characters
seems to violate the following rule: "A regular expression matches
the longest string of characters that match the pattern."
Apparently, my understanding of the rule is flawed. Would someone
please enlighten me?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I access an old linux drive??
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:12:15 GMT
I have installed a new harddrive in my computer and set up RH7 on it. I would
like to get the inforamtion off my old drive but how do I do this?
I have mounted the old drive as /old but when I cd into that directory, I get
a bunch of System.map, boot.b, vmlinuz files and only one dir...lost+found. I
would have exected to see /old/bin, /old/home, /old/usr etc....
Is is possible to get at my data in this fashion? Please let me know.
Thanks everyone!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Where can I find more information of git and FileRunner?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:21:00 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As title, I find that gnu git file manager and FileRunner seen good the
>use, but I can't find any information of these 2 tools, can anybody tell
>me more information?
A quick Netscape search for filerunner found it immediately at:
http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
It is sort of like WS_FTP in Windows. It might even be on your Linux CD,
but you start it as 'fr'. I used it in the past with window managers that
did not come with many tools, but I use gFTP in gnome and KDE. Although,
I more commonly use ncftp because it also works in the console.
And a quick search for 'git file manager' returned many links including:
http://www.rcr.uga.edu/git_help.html
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: Michael Erskine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:59:46 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi
>
> suddenly, some of my library permissions in /usr/lib (and perhaps some
> others, i havent checked yet) have been changed from their original
> perms (eg. -rwxr-xr-x) to this: "?---------". also, the number of links
> to the file are reported as being 0!!!!!. typical entries look like
> this:
>
> ?--------- 0 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 libncurses_p.a
> ?--------- 0 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 libncurses.a
> ?--------- 0 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 libncurses.so
> ?--------- 0 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 libncurses_g.a
>
> i've never seen perms like this before. so far, it's affected libEterm,
> libaudiofile, libcurses, libform, libgimp, libgimpui and quite a few
> others.
>
> how could something like this have happened????
chmod -R 000 /lib would do that...
I go with the fellow who says that you should run fsck... but unless you
are familiar enough with it that you understand you should only run it
in singe user mode, it might be best read up on it before you try to run
it.
You might also look for other oddities in your logs before you assume
that
the file system is getting flakey.
In particular it is interesting to me that these (if this is all off
them)
are all associated with curses. Curses is used by many command line
proggies,
Pine amoung them. Curses is a text based windowing library.
-m-
>
> ali
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From: Robert Spangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:30:37 -0500
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 07:03:48 -0900, rick wrote:
> Any estimated release date for rh 7.1?
What would interest me more is if RH is going to add the 2.4 kernel to the
7.x or wait until 8.x?
--
======================================================================
Robert Spangler
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From: M.Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: updating with rpm(s)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:30:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dances With Cows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why mess with it? I paid $7 for a redhat 7.0 cd and then upgraded
> the gnorpm and up2date rpm to the Dec 00 version. Now, all my updates
> are automated. The gnome update program logs in and checks if redhat
> has any new updates and then downloads and installs them
> automatically.
>
> Give it a try and you will love it.
>
Anybody using "autoRPM" instead of RedHat's "up2date"?
autoRPM gives you some latitude about installing automatically or
manually, and generates a list of files you need to update that are
available.
Just wondered if it was in widespread use or not.
-Michael
--
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steel, cosmic warlords, Georgia Tech Aerospace
\_______[|(.)|]_______/
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help me to get rid of LILO completely without deleting all
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:15:13 -0600
Lennart wrote:
>
> I tried to install Suse 6.2 on my AThlon TB but it failed. Now I'm stuck
> with LI when I boot. I want to completely uninstall LILO but this seems
> impossible. I tried FDISK /MBR, SYS C:, and tried the Win2000 recovery
> console but the problem keeps returning. The strange thing is that
> sometimes my pc boots normally (into win98/2k with NO trace of LILO), and
> then the next time it hangs at LI again.
I don't know what your problem is, but it doesn't seem likely it has
anything to do with your Linux partitions. There is something messed
up about your master boot record or your BIOS, but I have no idea
what. Or you may be using some other boot loader you didn't mention
since you have both Win 98 and Win 2000. You have to straighten
that out. You may even have to reinstall one or the other or
both.
>
> I understand that one solution is to delete all my partitions and start
> all over but I don't want that. I just want to uninstall LILO without
> using my data. I can't use my SUSE installation cdrom because every time
> I get a general protection error while booting the kernel when I boot
> from the cdrom, so I can't access the linux partition manager or LILO
> configuration.
>
> Is there any way to get rid of LILO without sacrificing my data? Fdisk
> (DOS) or FIXMBR (win2k) doesn't work, and as the linux cd aborts with an
> error, I havent installed linux yet and I cant access the linux partition
> manager. Are there any other tools available?
>
> Please help !
>
> Lennart
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "/dev/null" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help me to get rid of LILO completely without deleting all partitions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:45:57 -0000
Boot from a DOS boot disk,
fdisk /mbr
reboot with same disk and start PQMAGIC..
make sure you have your windows partition set active (can also be done with
fdisk)
--
Andy
Host/Webmaster to http://www.pal.mine.nu
PAL - Public Access Linux Project
Just starting the madh0use.net project... should be fun!
Lennart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I tried to install Suse 6.2 on my AThlon TB but it failed. Now I'm stuck
> with LI when I boot. I want to completely uninstall LILO but this seems
> impossible. I tried FDISK /MBR, SYS C:, and tried the Win2000 recovery
> console but the problem keeps returning. The strange thing is that
> sometimes my pc boots normally (into win98/2k with NO trace of LILO), and
> then the next time it hangs at LI again.
>
> I understand that one solution is to delete all my partitions and start
> all over but I don't want that. I just want to uninstall LILO without
> using my data. I can't use my SUSE installation cdrom because every time
> I get a general protection error while booting the kernel when I boot
> from the cdrom, so I can't access the linux partition manager or LILO
> configuration.
>
> Is there any way to get rid of LILO without sacrificing my data? Fdisk
> (DOS) or FIXMBR (win2k) doesn't work, and as the linux cd aborts with an
> error, I havent installed linux yet and I cant access the linux partition
> manager. Are there any other tools available?
>
> Please help !
>
> Lennart
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From: Cubic Meter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get prog to run other than root
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:51:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I get SANE to run as a user other than root? It only works in root
and I can't access my scanner in my normal account. Any suggestions?
m^3
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From: Chris Lopeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:52:21 GMT
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Thank you for the link. But I am really looking for actually experience
with these products not the manufacture's propaganda.
Tim Moore wrote:
> http://www.ami.com/products/subpage.cfm?CatID=5&SubID=14
> --
> timothymoore
> bigfoot
> com
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Thank you for the link. But I am really looking for actually experience
with these products not the manufacture's propaganda.
<p>Tim Moore wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><a
href="http://www.ami.com/products/subpage.cfm?CatID=5&SubID=14">http://www.ami.com/products/subpage.cfm?CatID=5&SubID=14</a>
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<br> bigfoot
<br> com</blockquote>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Blackman)
Subject: Re: Gnome terminal URL support?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:52:17 GMT
On 9 Jan 2001 05:48:27 GMT, jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I notice in Gnome Terminal that the mouse cursor seems to detect when it
>passes over a URL. Has anyone found a way to configure this to trigger a
>browser on clicking? Even better (if a mouse would not be required) is
>there a way that I can get Gnome Terminal to invoke urlview via keystroke?
Single clicking Control-MB1 opens netscape on my system. I don't know
how to configure it to do something else.
Actually, that's not true. It opens netscape if I don't have an
instance of mozilla open, but if I do, it opens the URL in mozilla.
Ed
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From: Frank Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP of >2G files
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:00:59 +0100
I've tried to ftp large files (above the 2GB limit) between two redhat
7.0 machines with a 2.4 kernel, but the ftp client tells me that the
file is to large, and as a result I have to split the file on the first
machine and cat it together again on the second.
Is this caused by the server or the client (or both)? Is there ftp
software for linux which does not have this limitation?
--
Frank
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From: Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:52:59 GMT
In article <EVk86.4285$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> B/c RE's are (usually (always?)) greedy. That means, they match
> the very first instance they encounter.
>
> I) [A-Za-z]*
> II) [A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*
> ---a-- ----b---
>
> (I) will start and when it encounters the empty string, it
> matches (0 or more alpha-chars) and terminates.
Jan, I don't doubt that you're right and I certainly observe
it to work that way. But this "greedy" behavior contradicts
the rule that regular expressions match the LONGEST string of
characters that match the pattern. Is my understanding of this
"rule" wrong?
> Please change your signature-delimiter to "-- ".
What are you seeing as my delimiter? It looks like "-- " to me.
I think that deja supplies these dashes when I post through them.
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From: Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:09:27 GMT
>chmod -R 000 /lib would do that...
Uhm, but that wouldtn crop the files to 0 bytes :)
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