Linux-Misc Digest #873, Volume #26 Sun, 21 Jan 01 11:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Win2K partition restored ("Null Pointer Exception")
Re: Linux not free anymore? (Jerry Kreps)
Re: Journaling filesystems. Where can I find a comparison? (Jerry Kreps)
Help with Speak Freely 7.2 !! (Eduard Garcia)
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 (Markku Kolkka)
Formating different filesystems (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 (John Hasler)
2.4.0 && Athlon && fs modules == 0 ? (Manni Heumann)
Re: What distribution seems the most popular and easy to work with? (Jerry Kreps)
Re: How do I change cd-rom from d: to e: (Jerry Kreps)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Robert Jones)
Re: [xcdroast] why does my mouse hangs? (Reiner Griess)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Robert Heller)
Shutdown from a Win PC (Marco Menardi)
Re: Why do I get auto-logged-out of my telnet session? (Frederic Faure)
Lib problems (MONZ)
Re: Shutdown from a Win PC (Youngert)
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From: "Null Pointer Exception" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Win2K partition restored
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:12:58 GMT
you can make a boot sector file by running a command like:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/C/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
of course you need to change things like where your bootsector is located
(eg /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, etc) and where you want the
file to be deposited (the of=/mnt/yadayadayada stuff).
A more complete article is here:
http://real.dyndns.org/useful/directboot.html
watch out for the backup bootsector as well, if you create an NT bootloader
file and then a new kernel for linux you will have to go through this entire
process again.
-NPE
"Nebula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:TDra6.5506$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the off-topic. I have been playing with Linux for a few days now
> and as a side effect partition data on Win2K drive was wiped out. So,
after
> this whenever I went through Mandrake 7.1 installation process it would
show
> the partition on Win2K disk as empty. Originally, Win2K set on
> single-partition ATA and Linux went to two-partition SCSI drives (that is
> swap and root).
>
> I have pretty much exhausted every no-cost solution I could find on the
net.
> At the end here is what saved the day.
>
> 1. I took MBR from another Win2K PC with totally different
> single-partition(!) ATA drive. This was done with MBRWORK utility from
> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html. Thanks a bunch to these
> good folks!
> 2. Booted broken PC to DOS from FD and copied that MBR to the broken drive
> using same utility.
> 3. Rebooted the PC.
>
> At this point Win2K fixed some NTFS problems by itself.
>
> 4. Copied the restored MBR to Win2k boot FD.
>
> Having Win2k and LM boot FDs has helped a lot, as sometimes the PC
wouldn't
> boot from HD at all. Now I am trying to set up LILO on SCSI drive rather
> than on ATA and make it work via a Linux boot-sector-file in Win2K's
> BOOT.INI -- unsuccessful so far:)
>
> Thanks,
> AB
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:44:03 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HS Education is expensive and, sadly, equivilent to ignorance.
It has become an indoctrination camp with strict inforcement of
'politically correct' dogma. Kids graduate with highly developed
'self-esteem', a Marxist view of US history, and little else. Their
reading, writing and math skills can't even match the eight grade
student of their grandfathers day. The only kids who leave school
with an education are those who taught themselves.
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> avenj wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps - on the other hand, without taxes there's no services,
> > including no military and no education. Would you rather have no taxes,
> > but have everyone living in fear of being attacked and being completely
> > uneducated?
>
> I liked a billboard, suprisingly one posted by the owner of a local
> public-storage outfit, that said:
>
> If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
>
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Peter Mitchell writes:
> > > > The BIG question - what makes a tax fair?
> > >
> > > 'Fair tax' is an oxymoron.
> >
> > --
> > avenj
> > http://www.idl3.org
>
--
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical
history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites-
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Journaling filesystems. Where can I find a comparison?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:57:27 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree. I'm using ReiserFS on SuSE 6.4 at work. The box has been up now
since September 7th. It is the first Linux box we installed at work.
About 30 minutes after I installed it I was giving management, as some of
the hardware folks who faught it tooth and nail, a demo of it and KDE.
Suddenly, the second drive, containing only /home, died. I was in as root
at the time so I could still access my 'home' directory. ReiserFS smoothly
disconnected /home and continued working. A drive replacement was
necessary so for giggles and grins I pushed the reset button. The network
folks gasped (the suits didn't understand what that meant) but after about
30 seconds I had the command line again, as root.
The harware folks had given me an old P100 with 39MB of RAM (!!!) to set it
up on (hoping for failure) even though the current DOS-Win95 system was
setting on a 450MHz puppy with 128MB of RAM. The P100 with SuSE 6.4
outperformed the Win95 box. A certain process that took about an hour on
the Win95 box took less than a minute on Linux. The Linux version of the
app took only two bash scripts on one Python script. None of which were
over a page in length.
JLK
Chris Jackson wrote:
> I can just tell you from experience that Reiser is DOPE! It's very solid
> like ext2 only feels much faster, and recovers from crashes flawlessly.
> I've never done anything bad enough to hose it that it couldn't recover
> from.
>
> Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote:
>
> > I am upgrading now from ext2. I would like to know what filesystem
> > best suits my need. Reiserfs is supposed to be what's in now, but I
> > hear good things about xfs. Does anyone know where I can find
> > comparisons of various journaling filesystems?
> > alt.os.linux.mandrake
> > TIA
>
--
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical
history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites - are formed in
such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: Eduard Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help with Speak Freely 7.2 !!
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:58:21 +0100
Hi!
I'm trying to run speak freely (7.2), but I still haven't found the way
to enjoy it.
I want to use it between a Toshiba Satellite and a Pentium PC. Both with
a Red Hat Linux 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14-50).
First, I ran it trying to use full-duplex, but the sfspeaker told me
that it couldn't open the audio device, and it advised me to use
half-duplex.
The next hop was to recompile with the new Makefile. Now it runs without
error messages, but although I can see how it sends udp packets, I can
only hear annoying high-pitched noise.
Please...HELP!!
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0
Date: 21 Jan 2001 15:32:26 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley) writes:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:53:08 GMT,
> Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I just downloaded KDE 2.0 RPM's.
> >It's approximately 26 files; all RPM's.
> >I issued the following commands.
> >rpm -Uvh qt*
> >rpm -Uvh lib*
> >rpm -Uvh htdig*
> >So far so good.
> >And then I tried issuing the following command.
> >rpm -Uvh kde*
> >I got tons of failed dependencies errors.
> >Any help?
>
>
> Install the required dependencies.
If Arctic Storm had KDE1 previously installed, the problem may be with
packages that depend on the old KDE packages that would be replaced by
KDE2 ones. So the solution may be to _remove_ the packages giving
dependency errors.
KDE2 installs easily on a "clean" system using only the RPMs from KDE
download site.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Formating different filesystems
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:08:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are some basic tests on different filesystems I would like to
run before finally rebuilding my kernel, so I can decide what
filesystems to use.
I suspect I might have to download some of these filesystems
seperately, but I suspect I have some already available.
My question is this:
during install of Mandrake (7.2) I am given the option of
formating partitions using different formating schemes.
Can I get a list of the formating schemes and an idea
( the name of a rpm would be nice ) where I can access them on my
installation disks?
TIA
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:39:45 GMT
Arctic Storm writes:
> Why not just include *all* the dependencies, so that we won't have to hunt
> down the files.
That isn't practical. Would you include libc in every package?
> I don't even know where to get these dependencies files. Why can't they
> produce an easy, user-friendly product?
If you were using Debian or a Debian derivative such as Storm or Progeny
you would have issued the command 'apt-get install task-kde' (perhaps via
one of apt's GUI front-ends) and apt would have figured out all the
dependencies itself and downloaded, installed, and configured everything
you need.
> Regardless of how much the Linux community criticizes Microsoft,...
Some members of the Linux community criticize Microsoft. The Linux
community has better things to do.
> MS would *never* produce a product where installation is tough. MS built
> their company on catering to the general public.
So why bore us about it? Use Windows and be happy.
> KDE sucks!
How do you know? You haven't tried it yet. Your problems are with your
distribution, not with KDE. In any case, either fix it or don't use it.
Nobody cares what you think.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manni Heumann)
Subject: 2.4.0 && Athlon && fs modules == 0 ?
Date: 21 Jan 2001 14:24:10 GMT
Hi,
I was just playing around with my new 2.4 kernel and ran into a
problem: I compiled all sorts of file system support (like vfat)
as modules, and I chose Athlon/K7 as my processor.
Everything compiled just fine, but loading the modules did not.
I get unresolved references to _mmx_memcpy.
Choosing another processor type (e.g. 386 or pII) works fine.
Any clues? Might that be a bug?
TIA,
Manni
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution seems the most popular and easy to work with?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:30:30 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, buying a domain name and hosting a URL just to put up a static page
about versions of Linux!!! Nice site.
Your experiences with RH generally agree with mine. However, I have been
using SuSE since 5.3 and I have NEVER encountered the problem you mention:
"Especially for English language users, SuSE 6.3 has a few too many warts,
in my opinion. For instance, even when you specify a U.S. keyboard during
installation, SuSE installs a German keyboard for X. This means you may not
be able to log in, depending upon your username and password, because some
keys may be remapped. "
My keyboard has always mapped correctly, even on SuSE 7.0, which I am
currently enjoying.
JLK
Rod Smith wrote:
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <2s0a6.57085$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "jt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Okay, going to take the Linux plunge...
> >
> > I'm looking at all distribution packages, pluses and minus on all of
them
> > for sure.
> >
> > My main purpose is to do C development....
> >
> > What would you recommend and why?
>
> You'll probably get a lot of different responses on this one. For my
> thoughts on several distributions, see:
>
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
>
> One special comment, though: Red Hat 7.0 ships with an unstable version
> of GCC. Therefore, if you decide to go with RH 7.0, you'll probably want
> to replace that with something else.
>
--
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
proven wrong, by experiment.
Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology
were Popper's favorites-
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I change cd-rom from d: to e:
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:43:19 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
J. Brock Angelo wrote:
> In article <94c6ai$kmr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In the control panel click the system icon.
> > Under the hardware tab find the CD-ROM and choose
> > properties. Set botht the starting and ending letter to "E"
> > , or some other letter, if you don't want it to be "D"
>
> Ya, I've tried this before, but Win95 doesn't give access to that.
>Any way to override that?
Windows 95 uses a built-in CDFS (CD File System) driver that take the
place of MSCDEX. It is configured through the SYSTEM.DAT registery in
Win95. You can use REGEDIT.EXE and do search for CD-ROM. Set the
drive letter you want in the registery.
Otherwise, you would set something like the following in AUTOEXEC.BAT:
C:\windows\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /L:<letter>
JLK
--
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified,"
or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist
dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites-
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:00:52 -0600
Marvin Minsky wrote:
> This isn't about Linux at all, it's only a useless disclaimer.
<snip>
I understand your concern. Unfortunately, that quote is stuffed into the
'fortune' database. (/usr/share/games/fortunes/computers on my RH6.0
machine.)
--
Introducing, the 1010, a one-bit processor.
INSTRUCTION SET
Code Mnemonic What
0 NOP No Operation
1 JMP Jump (address specified by next 2 bits)
Now Available for only 12 1/2 cents!
8:39am up 28 days, 12:58, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reiner Griess)
Subject: Re: [xcdroast] why does my mouse hangs?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:40:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Jan 2001 02:06:59 GMT,
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 02:56:05 +0100, Reiner Griess staggered into the
>Black Sun and said:
>> Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Reiner Griess staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>>>>when i read from cd, my mouse is sticking around. it isn't possible
>>>>to move it smoothely. does anybody know what the problem is?
[...]
>>>
>
>??! On my system (K6-2 400, 224M, all-IDE, 1 ISA NIC, PCI sound and
>NIC, AGP video) cdrecord itself uses about 7% of the CPU as measured by
intel Celeron 400 @ 400, Diamond Viper (AGP), 128MB RAM
[...]
>just fine as stated above. What happens if you make an image (using
>xcdroast or mkisofs) and then burn it directly from the command line?
I will try. Don't know this yet, because I've always used the
graphical interface (not familir with command line oprions yet,
but will check it out)
>
>If the SCSI card is ISA, then that could also be a problem, but it
>shouldn't be *that* bad. Running my 3c509 ISA NIC at full speed causes
>a barely perceptible slowdown, and that's a 750K/sec transfer rate--
>probably more than your SCSI+CD-RW is transferring. Oh well, HTH and
>see what you can make of it....
No ISA. It's PCI card. This couldn't be the prob I think.
THANKS
Reiner
--
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: 21 Jan 2001 09:15:00 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
In a message on Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:46:50 GMT, wrote :
c> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter) writes:
c> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
c> > Flacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
c> > >I seem to have no luck finding a decent WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux. In
c> > >particular, it must be good with frames and tables (so Mozilla's out).
c> >
c> > HTML isn't supposed to be WYSIWYG. So-called editors that treat it like it
c> > is are usually borken in one or more ways. (BTW, frames are evil.)
c>
c> Ah, frames indeed.
c>
c> And consider CSS. And the fact that the latest HTML standards are
c> designed to allow you to generate web pages that have _NO VISUAL
c> REPRESENTATION_.
c>
c> Links are not particularly visual; scripts are certainly not; the
c> interface for frames breaks "WYSIWYGness" in that they indicate that
c> the document has multiple views, such that "what you see is explicitly
c> supposed to be variable."
c>
c> The fact that the UIs for the web browsers don't play very well with
c> frames is a sign of some inherent "brokenness;" how a WYSIWYG designer
c> is supposed to cope with that is anybody's guess.
c>
c> Someone wanting to "WYSIWYG" some HTML into place probably shouldn't
c> bother trying to do so directly; they should get a word processor,
c> designed to do visual layout, and then publish their word processor
c> documents in HTML form once the layout has been finalized. That
c> approach seems to be commonly supported by word processing software
c> these days...
And the word processors generate some of the worst HTML and web pages
going. If there *really* is some merit in a visual design, create a
damn *image* or else a PDF file or (at worst) a Shockwave Flash thingy.
c>
c> --
c> (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn@" "enworbbc"))
c> http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linux.html
c> Rules of the Evil Overlord #62. "I will design fortress hallways with
c> no alcoves or protruding structural supports which intruders could use
c> for cover in a firefight." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
c>
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From: Marco Menardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Shutdown from a Win PC
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:18:59 +0100
Hi, I want to installa a Linux server without monitor and keyboard for
my 3 Win PC lan. To shutdown it (saving energy when is not work time,
i.e. sunday) I need something that my secretary can run from her Win
Desktop. Any idea/solution to give me? I really need it soon!
Thanks a lot :)
Marco Menardi
SuSE 7.0 pro
Please, don't tell me that this is a bad aproach and that I shuld shh to
the system and give user account and password... my secretary will
hardly do it and mine is a very very small office and I'm introducing
linux most for my fun than because I need big security. Of course, I
will have to stay with windows server if introducing linux will
complicate our work too much... so help me this way! :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Why do I get auto-logged-out of my telnet session?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:26:19 GMT
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:58:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm running RedHat 6.2 on a PIII-700. Whenever I telnet OR ssh into
>that box, then leave the sessions idle for some amount of time (maybe
>1.5 - 2 hours), I get auto-logged-out.
I'm experiencing the same thing, whether it's on a RH 6.2 or 7.0,
telnet or OpenSSH 2.x, from a Windows host with PuTTY or SecureCRT.
The host is a desktop Dell.
Since I have no problem when working with other RH 6.2 servers we have
at work, I have no idea what is causing this on that Linux test host.
I was thinking of a bug in the network driver.
It happens much earlier than you (even 5 minutes, whether I'm typing
stuff or not). Somebody mentioned parameters in /etc/profile, but
nothing in there that looks like auto-logout. I also checked
/etc/bashrc, but no more luck. Weird, and a pain in the butt.
FF.
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From: MONZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lib problems
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:35:33 +0100
Got a link to an .asx webpage I couldn't view.
Found out that .asx should be viewable with realplayer, so I checked
my netscape plugins.
Believe I remember from download of flashplayer that realplayer is part
of flash; correct me if wrong. Anyway, I got the error(s):
netscape &
ERROR: libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/CURRENT/plugins/nppdf.so. Ignored.
(CURRENT is a link to netscape475)
find /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/ -iname libc.so.5 -print
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5
cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
/usr/lib/qt-2.1.0/lib
/usr/lib/qt-1.45/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
ls -l /usr/local/netscape/CURRENT/plugins/
total 856
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jan 21 14:02
ShockwaveFlash.class -> /usr/local/netscape/ShockwaveFlash.class
-r-xr-xr-x 1 5115 wheel 57089 Aug 15 10:11 cpPack1.jar*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jan 21 14:03
libflashplayer.so -> /usr/local/netscape/libflashplayer.so*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 5115 wheel 807196 Aug 15 10:11
libnullplugin.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jan 21 14:03 nppdf.so ->
/usr/local/netscape/nppdf.so*
Docs to these plugins says they're supposed to be copied to the plugins
dir; I use links, but fail to see the differense here.
So I just tried erasing the links and copy the files instead; same
thing...
Ok, I then checked the libs using ldconfig -v og -p; no problemas, but
wait a bit, ldconfig -D chunks out a whole lotta errors like:
/usr/lib:
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libform.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent soname
(libform.so.3.0)
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libmenu.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent soname
(libmenu.so.3.0)
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent soname
(libncurses.so.3.0)
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libpanel.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent soname
(libpanel.so.3.0)
Many more follows later, and no, libc.so.5 are _not_ among the errors.
Two Q's:
Are these 'inconsistent soname' thingies common?
Why on earth do I get liberrors in netscape when all libs exists?
..netscape/plugins aren't supposed to go into ld.so.conf, or what?
--
Regards,
Mogens Valentin
Networking - Security - Programming
Linux configuration and troubleshooting
http://www.danbbs.dk/~monz - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shutdown from a Win PC
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:35:40 GMT
Marco Menardi wrote:
The only approach I could have thought off for your situation is to setup
your Linux machine with a sudo package and have your secretary account
listed in the /dev/sudoers file, i.e.:
secretary ALL=(ALL) ALL
Then, ask her to login to your linux machine from windows and do the
following at the shell prompt:
~ sudo shutdown -h now
to shutdown the system. She will have to put her own password when issuing
the "sudo" and you can trace what "sudo" execution in /var/log/messages
file (although she may be able to edit the messages file using usod and
erase the trace, too). I believe you trust your secretary in this matter.
> Hi, I want to installa a Linux server without monitor and keyboard for
> my 3 Win PC lan. To shutdown it (saving energy when is not work time,
> i.e. sunday) I need something that my secretary can run from her Win
> Desktop. Any idea/solution to give me? I really need it soon!
> Thanks a lot :)
> Marco Menardi
>
> SuSE 7.0 pro
>
> Please, don't tell me that this is a bad aproach and that I shuld shh to
> the system and give user account and password... my secretary will
> hardly do it and mine is a very very small office and I'm introducing
> linux most for my fun than because I need big security. Of course, I
> will have to stay with windows server if introducing linux will
> complicate our work too much... so help me this way! :)
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