Linux-Misc Digest #851, Volume #26 Thu, 18 Jan 01 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
activating swap pactivating swap partition in redhat 7.0 (Ronald Haynes)
Re: What is dnetc?? (Dave Barnett)
Help w/ Amptron MB/C-Media 8738 sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fetchmail (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: Printing... (Martijn)
Re: How can I search file at midnight commander? (Carfield Yim)
2.2.18 + WD8003 = NFS timeouts? (Georg Schwarz)
Re: user created backdoor (Chris J/#6)
Re: What is dnetc?? ("John Riddoch")
Re: Reg Exp containing [] (Harlan Grove)
Re: Linux on Athlon (Eric Headley)
Re: What is dnetc?? (Daniel Robinson)
Re: Time to compile a kernel
Cannot load ppa module for ParallelPort ZipDrive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: user created backdoor (Bill Hudson)
Re: vmware (Eric Ho)
Re: user created backdoor (Lew Pitcher)
The Future of Corel Linux ("Steve J. Planck")
Kickstart creation (bill davidsen)
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From: Ronald Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: activating swap pactivating swap partition in redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:06:17 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I created a swap partition /dev/hda6 on my system. My fstab file
contains the entry:
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults
0 0
however, when I run kpm, in the swap section it says "no swap". This
seems to
indicate that there is no swap. If it was that wasn't using any I would
guess it would say
0% used.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It you forward
a response to my email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
R Haynes
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From: Dave Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is dnetc??
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:13:23 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> HI all,
>
> It's actually a directory, but I can't look at it:
Is this your machine? Do you have root access? If so, become root and
cd into the directory.
> I've been trying to find out what this is, but I can't find anything
> in apropos yet. What is dnetc all about? Which man pages refer
> to it?
The man pages provided with dnetc help explain it. Or are there any? I
forget.
http://www.distributed.net
Cheers,
Dave
--
Dave Barnett System Software Engineer x1434
"Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the
first time, chances are you won't be needing him again."
- Dogbert's Rules of Order
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Help w/ Amptron MB/C-Media 8738 sound
Date: 18 Jan 2001 09:56:42 -0700
Hello, hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.
I have RedHat 7.0 (custom 2.2.18 kernel) running on an Amptron PM-598LMR
motherboard and AMD K6/2-500 processor. The MB has onboard sound via the
C-Media CMI8738 chipset, and I have downloaded the cmpci-4.03 drivers from the
www.cmedia.com.tw website (which are newer than the cmpci-3.21 drivers on the
Amptron.com website).
I can't play .mid files because playmidi says it can't open the
/dev/sequencer. I can, however, write directly to the /dev/midi? devices by
sending individual MIDI commands/notes.
Under Win998/ME I can play .mid files no problem -- but I noticed it's using
an "MPU-401 emulator" at I/O addr 0x300, which is also where I have the
address specified in the Linux sound module configuration.
Also, sndconfig plays the sound sample but doesn't even try to play the MIDI
sample (which I presume means it doesn't detect /dev/sequencer either).
Have I configured something wrong, or am I missing some software? Will
installing ALSA fix my problem?
Any help appreciated, thanks.
--
Togath ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: fetchmail
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:18:41 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daren Russell) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Connet wrote:
>>When I run fetchmail as user blix it works great. User blix as a
>>~/.fetchmailrc file.
>>
>>But I want fetchmail to automatically start when I boot up the
>>machine. If I put fetchmail in my rc.local will it run as root? And
>>won't that look for a .fetchmailrc for root? And if I tell fetchmail
>>where blix's .fetchmailrc file is, won't it send all mail fetched to
>>root?
Yes it will look for .fetchmailrc in /root and will deliver the mail to
root as long as you don't use something like procmail to sort the mail.
Works fine here. See man procmail for details on how to set it up.
Cheers,
Uwe
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:11:04 +0100
From: Martijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing...
Jeffrey Hood wrote:
> Is there a utility or something for the command line that will allow you
> to control the size and type of fonts for printing, without putting the
> file into an editor... also stuff like landscape printing, two-page per
> page, etc...
>
> One of the things that I miss the most from Windows (maybe by now the
> only thing....) but one that I need for source code, etc...
>
> I'm sure that there is a good way, but I can't find it...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> JH
>
Hi
Have you tried to set up lpd?
Kind regards, Martijn
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I search file at midnight commander?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:22:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:01:05 GMT, Carfield
> Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >if the default META is not ALT in MC, how can I set?
>
> Go F1 for help; in there is a section called
> Contents; in there is Learn Keys. This feature
> can help you find out how your keys are mapped.
> Read the instructions there to see if it'll help.
>
> To get immediate access to the Learn Keys feature,
> locate it in the Options pulldown menu on the top
> bar of MC.
>
> Go F10 to get out of Help.
>
> To jump to a file, you have many choices:
>
> try F9, which allows you to select a pulldown
> menu from the top bar in MC. Select the File
> menu. On there is a feature "Quick cd" which
> opens a little box where you can enter the file
> to which you would like to jump.
>
> Or highlight the file on the main panel and
> go F3 to view it.
>
> Or use the little command line right above the
> lowest bar on MC's screen.
>
> Or under the Command menu (F9, highlight Command
> and go Enter to pull it down) & use the Find option.
>
> MC is pretty self explanatory if you are willing
> to spend any time on it.
>
> HTH
> MP
>
Thx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: 2.2.18 + WD8003 = NFS timeouts?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:49:59 +0100
After upgrading from 2.2.17 to 2.2.18 our machines with a WD8003
ethernet card exhibit severe NFS timeout problems. Machines with 3COM
NICs or NE2000 NICs do not seem to be affacted.
Is this a known phenomenon? Has anybody come up with an explanation or
even a fix to the problem?
--
Georg Schwarz http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 178 4727364
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris J/#6)
Subject: Re: user created backdoor
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Jan 2001 17:41:23 -0000
Kae Verens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>to begin with, try changing the root password as well.
>
>Then look in /etc/passwd to see if the encrypted passwords are visible.
>If the second field of each entry is an 'x', then you have shadow
>passwords, which is good. If not, then I suggest you read up on them.
>
>If the user is logging in from an external terminal, then he's most
>likely logging in using someone else's account, 'su'ing to root, then
>'su'ing to his own account, so he may have someone else's account. In
>fact, it may be someone else who is masquerading as your user.
>
>Kae
May also be worth checking /etc/passwd to see if any accounts with UID 0
have been created/modified (it's the second field - only root should have
UID/GID of zero).
Chris...
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ for then do it for the world." -- Stevie Nicks
www.nccnet.co.uk/~sixie/ ~---------------------------------------+
Redclaw chat - http://redclaw.org.uk - telnet redclaw.org.uk 2000 \______
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From: "John Riddoch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is dnetc??
Date: 18 Jan 2001 17:16:16 GMT
In uk.comp.os.linux Rasmus B�g Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
>> 693 root 20 19 708 688 504 3 R N 98.6 0.0 3849m dnetc
>> 692 root 19 19 708 688 504 2 R N 98.4 0.0 3849m dnetc
>> 690 root 19 19 708 688 504 0 R N 98.0 0.0 3849m dnetc
>> 691 root 19 19 708 688 504 1 R N 98.0 0.0 3849m dnetc
Check http://www.distributed.net/trojans.html.en ?
May be a valid version, though.
--
John Riddoch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: (01224)262721
http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/staff/jr/
"I'd change the world but God won't give me the source code" - Anonymous
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reg Exp containing []
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:57:35 GMT
In article <9476ci$d0a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks to all who responded to my question last week
>about regular expressions. John Wingate, your comments
>were expecially valuable in helping me realize that the
>real source of my confusion is the [] construct.
>
>I observe that .* is interpreted differently from [.]*
>Why is this?
>
>Examples:
>echo 123 | sed 's/.*/%/'
>%
>
>echo 123 | sed 's/[.]*/%/'
>%123
Well, you could try reading man regexp(5) if available. Most regexp
metacharacters lose their special meanings when they appear within
character classes, i.e., within square brackets. '.' outside of a
character class represents any character, but inside a character class
it represents a literal period. So '[.]*' represents zero or more
literal periods. The only characters with special meanings within
character classes are ^, -, \ (as first character in an escape
sequence), [ and ]. All other characters are interpretted literally.
See the manpages for more details.
While this may seem confusing, it can be useful. If you want to
represent a literal period in a regexp, you could use '\.' or '[.]'. If
there were multiple levels of shell/sed/awk/etc. string processing that
the regexp would pass through before it was finally interpretted, then
multiple backslashes would be needed, and counting backslashes is not
one of the funnest aspects of scripting. The '[.]' form, on the other
hand, will pass through any number of levels of string processing
unaffected, so it can be more robust.
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From: Eric Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:26:14 GMT
So the general consensus is that I should be able to use an Athlon
machine without too many problems. I was thinking of buying a Pentium
4 machine but I have changed my mind; I was concerned that I would be
stuck with running windows only.
Eric Headley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Robinson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is dnetc??
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:44:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:39:10 GMT, Thomas Rasmussen
>If it's your own computer and you haven't started it, then I really
>don't know what it is... but since it is niced to 19, it shouldn't
>affect any other processes.
This is not 100% correct. Linux is not a real-time operating system.
Even with a nice of 19 the process will be given the CPU once in a
while. To test this you can run something like Seti@home or dnetc with
a nice of 19, and then launch another CPU intensive job such as MP3
encoding without any nice. On my system Seti@Home still gets around
6-8% of the CPU.
This is due to the fact that Linux (and most Unix systems) is
optimised for average case performance. Users expect there jobs to get
a bit of work done even if a higher priority job is available in the
system.
If you want more information on this phenomenon look up the RTLinux
site at www.rtlinux.org.
Just my two cents (sorry for nit-picking, but as the objective of a
newwsgroup is to share information I thought I might as well but in)
:-)
Daniel
===============================================
"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is,
has left the path of wisdom" - Gandalf
Web page : http://student.ulb.ac.be/~drobinso
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to compile a kernel
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:39:58 -0500
Did you have all the text output to the console ?
redirect them to a file, and it should speed up things.
Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9461sa$mdq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am still using a K6-2 450 with 128M EDO Ram, running kernel 2.4.0.
> It takes me about 9.5 minutes to compile the kernel :(
> Could some of you running fast machines (Thunderbird, P-III, P-4)
> tell me how long it takes you to compile your kernel ?
>
> By the way, will changing the cpu to K6-2+ 500 or K63+ 450/500
> improve the performance a lot ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Eric Ho
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Cannot load ppa module for ParallelPort ZipDrive
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:36:13 GMT
I have been unable to get my RedHat installation (Release 6.2) to see
the external PP ZipDrive connected to my PC. Here's what I tried:
insmod ppa (to load the ppa module)
Here's what I got:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
parport_claim_R46138e04
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
parport_unregister_device_R857406d1
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
parport_release_Re207d4f8
When I do a 'rpm -q ppa' it tells me ppa is not installed. How do I
install this? The ZipDrive-HOWTO suggests I should get the latest source
of ppa (1.42?) and compile it into my
kernel. Is this what I need to do to get
my Zipdrive working? Help!
Uday
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From: Bill Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: user created backdoor
Date: 18 Jan 2001 18:55:11 GMT
Kae Verens wrote:
>
> Bill Hudson wrote:
> > ID=`who am i`
>
> s/ //g
>
> sorry about that.
>
> A lot of stuff in there that I didn't know. Thanks.
oops. 'who am i' is/was a SCO unix thing. :-)
the equivalent Linux is 'id'
Sorry about that.
--
Bill Hudson
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vmware
Date: 18 Jan 2001 18:55:18 GMT
Anyone knows if VMware will run on a Slackware (7.0 upgraded to 2.4.0
kernel) ?
For the price of the VMware Express, at only $79, I am very tempting
to try it.
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
Chip Piller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am sure you will get several replies.
> I am writing this to you from a Windows2000 machine and have VMware 2.0 with
> RedHat linux 7.0 up and running in a virtual machine. From my RH7 virtual
> machine I have full networking, samba file sharing, apache web server, etc.
> I am presently running the VMware 2.0 for Windows product because my job
> requires mostly windows only software. At my last job I ran VMware 1.0 for
> linux because I only had one program needed for my job that was Windows
> only.
> VMware works quite well, you will need a relatively fast machine and a
> decent amount of memory.
> Hope this helps,
> Chip
> "Brian Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:93vaef$1t8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with vmware's products? I find
>> myself running more and more Windows stuff and I either have to
>> get another computer in my office or be able to run Windows
>> on my linux system. I've tried dual boot before and using
>> StarOffice, but both of those create problems in one way or
>> another; and from what I hear wine is still a problem with respect
>> to some of the latest Windows apps and not necessarily that
>> easy to get up and going.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Brian G. Moore, School of Science, Penn State Erie--The Behrend College
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] , (814)-898-6334
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: user created backdoor
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:18:30 GMT
On 18 Jan 2001 18:55:11 GMT, Bill Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Kae Verens wrote:
>>
>> Bill Hudson wrote:
>> > ID=`who am i`
>>
>> s/ //g
>>
>> sorry about that.
>>
>> A lot of stuff in there that I didn't know. Thanks.
>
>oops. 'who am i' is/was a SCO unix thing. :-)
>
>the equivalent Linux is 'id'
No, tne equivalent Linux is 'who am i' or 'whoami'
srdscs05:~$ uname -a
Linux srdscs05 2.2.13 #16 Wed Oct 20 17:05:14 CDT 1999 i586 unknown
srdscs05:~$ who am i
srdscs05!pitchl pts/1 Jan 18 14:20 (t7807wll.ops.tdbank.ca)
srdscs05:~$ whoami
pitchl
srdscs05:~$
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "Steve J. Planck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Future of Corel Linux
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:25:48 -0500
Hey everyone,
I heard today that Corel Linux 1.2 was the last release Corel plans to make
of their Linux distribution. Anyone have any information about whether or
not this is the case? I installed 1.2 yesterday on another machine and I was
very impressed with everything about it.. I would like to run it fulltime,
but I want to make sure it isn't going to just be a dead end..
Thanks in advance for any information..
Best regards,
Steve J. Planck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Kickstart creation
Date: 18 Jan 2001 19:54:34 GMT
I have to install a bunch of servers, and for various reasons will be
using Redhat. I see how to install using a kickstart file, but how do I
create the kickstart file? There are references to a utility which takes
the current installation and creates the ks.cfg file based on the
current install. Obviously there is such a thing, but I sure don't see
the name of it.
I have several 600+ page Redhat books, but they all want to tell me how
to use a ks.cfg, not how to create one in some way better than by hand.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"I am lost. I am out looking for myself. If I should come back before I
return, please ask me to wait." -seen in a doctor's office
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