Linux-Misc Digest #899, Volume #26 Tue, 23 Jan 01 14:13:02 EST
Contents:
Samba share level security question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on Athlon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NVIDIA GeFoprce Driver and X hassles (Ron Gibson)
Re: Ret Hat vs. Linux - libraries and such? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: mac diskette? (Alexandros Sklavos)
Strange problem: su: error while loading shared libraries: (Carfield Yim)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Oleg Krivosheev)
Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Strange problem: su: error while loading shared libraries: libxalflaunch.so.0
("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3 (Bill Unruh)
Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3 (Bob Tennent)
CVS, committing files, and groups (Lorin)
hdparm (Eric Ho)
Re: Best way to replicate Linux partition? (Hugh Lawson)
Re: Booting with no console (Harry)
slocate.cron error message (Fu)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Samba share level security question
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:58:06 GMT
Hello-
I am trying to understand how to set up a password "protected" share
using share level security on a Samba server. This is similar to a W95
share setting where any user lnowing the password can access the share.
I am in an environment that does not allow all intended users to have
accounts on the Samba Server.
I think that the only way to set this up for each share is to have a
dummy user with a samba password that equals the password for that share
and then set the datashare parameters like this:
[sharename1]
username = dummy1
only user = no
And then I can have another share with a different password like this:
[sharename2]
username = dummy2
only user = no
Is that right? And I set the dummy users up with SWAT?
TIA,
Erik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon
Date: 23 Jan 2001 09:16:20 -0800
drumvudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM what?!?!?!?
>
> "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and
> plain dealing"...Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
> "It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few
> stupid ideas"...George Santayana
>
> Confucious say "If you play in root,
> eventually you will kill tree"...anonymous
>
> SuSE 7.0 2.2.16
> Linux: t h e c h o i c e o f a
> G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, John Peach Pulled His hand out of his pocket and...:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > |>On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:12:19 +1100, Pat Heuvel
> > |><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > |>
> > |>>Gday Eric,
> > |>>
> > |>>Eric Headley wrote:
> > |>>>
> > |>>> I am thinking of buying a new machine with an Athlon chip instead of a
> > |>>> Pentium 4. Are there any problems with running Linux on Athlon ?
> > |>>>
> > |>>
> > |>>Absolutely - you'll never want to log off - your SO will crack the sads
> > |>>and you'll be in deep doo-doo. The mongrel thing screams.
> > |>>
> > |>Could you please translate that so that a poor german can understand
> > |>it. You talk to me in riddles.
> >
> > Never mind German; I'm British, living in the US and I don't understand
> > it :-(
I was the one who translated from 'Merican to generic English. If it makes
John Peach feel any better, I wouldn't know that "It's crackers to slip a
rozzer the gypsy in snide." means "It's crazy to pay off a policeman in
counterfeit money." If I hadn't read the translation in a MAD magazine years
ago, and perhaps Tobias Schenk knows the old German saying, "We kann nicht
fremde sprache, weiss nichts von seiner eigen." (Who doesn't know a foreign
language, knows nothing of his own.) Not that I really kann fremde sprache.
> >
> > |>
> > |>Thank you
> > |>
> > |>Tobias.
> >
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: NVIDIA GeFoprce Driver and X hassles
Date: 23 Jan 2001 17:25:54 GMT
With Sklackware 7.0 and kernel 2.2.14...
I finally got NVIDIA's driver install for the GeForce 256 going. The
problem I had is getting the XF86Config file straight for the
GLX module.
After a lot of trial and error I got it to load and work ok with one
problem.
If I try to go from X to another CLI terminal with CTL+ALT-F1,F2,etc...
the mouse pointer disappears. The terminal doesn't change. Then I have
to CTL+ALT-BACKSPACE to get out.
I've looked over the new file (I had to use the sample from NVIDIA to
get it to work adding all my definitions, excluding some entries that
were unneeded) and I don't see anything that controls that keyboard
sequence. Any ideas?
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Page: http://home.netcom.com/~rgibson/index.htm
------------------------------
From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ret Hat vs. Linux - libraries and such?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:35:44 GMT
Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I am running the WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server on a Debian
> system here at work. According to the WebTrends site it is for 'Red
> Hat Linux". My feeling is that it is simply a marketing thing. But
> the thing is that though it runs fine, it doesn't seem to release the
> memory that it uses. Tech support won't help me because the system is
What do you mean? Nothing releases memory that it uses, unless it dies.
Do you understand linux memory management? Do you have evidence that it
really uses memory in a way that makes it permanently unavailable
to other processes?
> Debian. Personally I think this sucks and wouldn't use it if they
> didn't want it so much here at work. But I digress. So this is their
> reason. Anyone know if this is valid and there are real differences
> between Debian and Red Hat besides the obvious of package management,
> etc.? The kernel is the source I got from kernel.org even.
?? Redhat uses their own (patched) kernel. The libraries and so on
will be very different.
> "Bad news, Ken. You are running Debian. I see why you were inquiring
> on the marketing thing earlier. I did ask for your benefit as to why.
> I am not sure of the specifics, but there is a differenct in the
> libraries and kernel configuration between Redhat and Debian. The
> fact is, we can't support the install at this point unless it is
> switched to Redhat. I apologize for the inconvenience this creates
> for you.
> Thank you
> Webtrends Technical Support"
He's right. Try it under a redhat and see if it behaves the same way.
Peter
------------------------------
From: Alexandros Sklavos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mac diskette?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:40:00 +0100
Unfortunately I don't have a mac running, that's why I need the diskette
written in Linux
Do you have any idea of how to fix this resource fork thing?
Markus Haas wrote:
> Is it possible that the Mac doesn't like the files because there isn't a
> valid resource fork for the files? I've run into a similar situation
> where that was the problem. I fixed it by running a Mac utility that
> generates resource forks if you tell it what kind of file it is.
>
> Markus
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> You know that there are no X's in my real email
> address, but the spambots don't. :)
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Alexandros Sklavos wrote:
> >
> > Hallo,
> > I have downloaded to my linux machine some .image files from
> > installation diskettes of System 7.0 of Mac. I've succeded in extracting
> > the necessary .image files, but now, I don't know of how to get them oln
> > diskette.
> > I 've tryied
> > dd if=Install1.image of=/dev/fd0
> > but my mac won't accept it...
> >
> > Any ideas?
--
Dipl.-Ing. Alexandros Sklavos
====================================
University of Kaiserslautern
Department of Electrical Engineering
Research Group for RF Communications
Building 11 - Room 509
P.O.Box 3049
D-67653 Kaiserslautern
Federal Republic of Germany
e-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone : +49 631 205 3134
Fax : +49 631 205 3612
------------------------------
From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange problem: su: error while loading shared libraries:
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:46:15 +0800
I have a strange problem, I don't know why that some comand like su, man
can't start, it throws:
su: error while loading shared libraries: libxalflaunch.so.0: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I have never modify this file, how can I know which file that
libxalflaunch.so.0 can't load??
------------------------------
From: Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: 23 Jan 2001 11:51:25 -0600
"Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I seem to have no luck finding a decent WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux. In
> particular, it must be good with frames and tables (so Mozilla's out).
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks
www.coffeecup.com
OK
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:53:30 GMT
All thoughtful ideas. The problem is that I can't get a birthday card
to my dear old mother on her birthday!
Jhary-a-Conel
In article <i4Ka6.256554$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I hope you are right. I went to a CompUSA which carried a $30
boxed
> > > basic RedHat 7. We buy one copy to nod to RedHat to keep up the
<insert
> > > your opinion here> work. $30 spent on RedHat is a $60+ plus loss
for
> > > M$. The ole kernel rpm upgrade would justify my faith...
>
> > I buy boxed copies of Redhat for the same reason. I want to support
> > people who are making the effort on my behalf to make Linux easier
> > to use and better supported for hardware and software.
>
> > If they don't get any money then I'll be writing my own device
> > drivers.....and I have better things to do.
>
> > The equivalent of US$50 or $100 or even $500 / annum is CHEAP
> > compared to what I would have to pay Microsoft. That money is put to
> > good use. It gives me CHOICE.....and worth every penny.
>
> > I'll buy 7.1 (of whatever) when it comes out. I may have downloaded
> > the ISO image by then....but I buy the boxed set anyway.
>
> The _problem_ is that doing this only does a limited amount to
"support
> those that work on improving Linux;" in effect, it is a fairly
> inefficient way of getting money to the developers.
>
> Several perspectives:
>
> 1. On $40 paid for a "boxed set," RHAT probably only sees $15, spends
> a chunk of that on the bits of paper and plastic that you get in
> the box, as well as on advertising.
>
> It would be surprising to me if significantly more than about 10%
> of the price paid ($4, perhaps?) actually goes to the purpose that
> you're hoping for.
>
> There is a somewhat legitimate "objection" that in order for Linux
> to be seen out there in Retail Land, there _needs_ to be this
> inefficiency that makes it profitable for stores to stock the
> boxed sets. But that's a separate issue...
>
> 2. Once that 10% gets to RHAT, it provides support to the very
> limited subset of free software RHAT pays developers to work on.
>
> 3. If you _are_ looking at the "10% of $40" as an entirely acceptable
> thing, there is then the issue that you need to ensure that RHAT
> does not consider your $40 to be a "given."
>
> That is, if RHAT concludes that people will just blindly pay for
> each upgrade as it comes along [note: this applies to other
> vendors just as well], then they effectively don't have to care
> about what you want.
>
> In contrast, if they feel there is a risk of losing you as a
> customer, to another vendor of distributions, they will have to
> take action, at each release, to ensure that there is stuff in the
> release that keeps it competitive with the alternatives.
>
> Consider it stipulated that RHAT could care less about the $4 they
> make off of you as a single individual; the "risk of losing
> customers" is something they'd look at from a "statistical
> aggregation" perspective through glasses focused at the 50,000
> customers that might slip through their fingers.
>
> At any rate, I'd suggest keeping your options open to perhaps
> support a variety of vendors, which has the added merit of helping
> sponsor a more diverse set of software.
>
> The way that I prefer to look at sponsorship is via directing funding
> to particular projects. I've sent money to the FSF, Debian, XFree86,
> and such, on occasion.
>
> A _COOL_ idea that would encourage even more diverse sponsorship would
> be to look to what software you use, and see if you could send a nice
> card with $20 inside to some of the individuals that help produce
> software that you appreciate having.
> --
> (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn@" "enworbbc"))
> http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html
> Signs of a Klingon Programmer #8: "What is this talk of 'release'?
> Klingons do not make software 'releases.' Our software 'escapes'
> leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in
> its wake."
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange problem: su: error while loading shared libraries:
libxalflaunch.so.0
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:05:36 GMT
Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a strange problem, I don't know why that some comand like su, man
> can't start, it throws:
> su: error while loading shared libraries: libxalflaunch.so.0: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
So it doesn't exist. Fix that.
> I have never modify this file, how can I know which file that
> libxalflaunch.so.0 can't load??
Eh? What do you mean? It's su that's telling you it can't load something,
and the thing it's saying it can't load is libxalflaunch.so.0. I've
never heard of this library (have you been hacked?). Do you have it?
Is it corrupt? Is it missing?
Peter
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3
Date: 23 Jan 2001 18:08:58 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I have been running this machine with VA Linux's version of Red Hat
]Linux 6.0 for almost a year now, and it works pretty well except for a
]few problems that I have bored you with before. But the pile of RPMs I
]have installed has started to get too confusing, and some of them seem
]incompatible others, and so on, so I decided to start over. Besides,
]there is a remote possibility that I was hacked, and doing a fresh
]install, and running tripwire before ever connecting to the Internet may
]enable me to keep a handle on these things.
]BUT I have a big problem connecting to my dial-up ISP. I push the
]ModemLights applet to connect, and that runs /usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0
]up to make a connection. This part works. What does not work is that
]whenever I connect, it overwrites my /etc/resolv.conf with the addresses
]of my ISP's primary and secondary name servers. Since I want the
]resolver to use my name server (and have that use the ISP's name server
]if necessary), this confuses my name server and nothing works. It is
]simple enough to fix /etc/resolv.conf to what I want, but my machine
]sometimes connects using a script run by cron, and I cannot be around
]for those. Besides, it sucks.
]I suppose this is a great feature for those who do not run named (bind)
]on their machines, but for me, it is a serious problem. I assume there
]is some configuration trick to prevent this from happening, but I have
]not figured out what it is. Any ideas?
Write your own one line script to start up pppd . You have much more
control that way.
(www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html)
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3
Date: 23 Jan 2001 17:53:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:04:20 -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>whenever I connect, it overwrites my /etc/resolv.conf with the addresses
>of my ISP's primary and secondary name servers. Since I want the
>resolver to use my name server (and have that use the ISP's name server
>if necessary), this confuses my name server and nothing works. It is
>simple enough to fix /etc/resolv.conf to what I want, but my machine
>sometimes connects using a script run by cron, and I cannot be around
>for those.
>
>I assume there
>is some configuration trick to prevent this from happening, but I have
>not figured out what it is. Any ideas?
Add appropriate commands to the script, to be executed after the network
configuration:
echo "search ... " > /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver ... " >> /etc/resolv.conf
Bob T.
------------------------------
From: Lorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CVS, committing files, and groups
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:58:56 GMT
This isn't really a Linux-specific question, but I wasn't sure which
newsgroup to ask, so here goes.
I'm using my Linux box as a CVS server. I've got a few people who can
access the server, and they all belong to the same group (let's call it
"cvsgroup"). I also belong to the cvsgroup. Let's say my login name is
"mike". Everytime I check in a file, that file is owned by the "mike"
group instead of the "cvsgroup" group, which causes problems.
How do I get files committed to CVS to be saved as belonging to
"cvsgroup" instead of the "mike" group?
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hdparm
Date: 23 Jan 2001 18:14:34 GMT
Could someone teach me how to optimize my hard disk performance
using hdparm ?
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Lawson)
Subject: Re: Best way to replicate Linux partition?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:13:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric wrote:
>As does a cp -a from mountpoint AA to mountpoint BB.
>This would even be a better solution (IMO), as you don't copy all
>the irrelevant inaccesible data, a FS gathers while in use.
>copying from the mountpoints, only copies the data, and wont do
>strange things like copying the MBR/removed files etc.
Just 2 questions, on which I may have missed an earlier point, on the 'cp
-a' method.
1. Wouldn't it be a good idea to umount everything but the hard drive
being copied (assuming a one-drive install), to avoid unwanted copying of
mounted partitions?
2. Wouldn't it be a good idea to skip copying the /proc directory, and
just do a 'mkdir /proc' on the new drive?
Request commentary.
--
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Booting with no console
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:38:39 +0000
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:27:02 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Anyway - I can set the hardware up not to stall in the absence of a
>> keyboard and mouse, but what file edits must I make to stop the
>> operating system from complaining that they're not there on boot?
>
>None. The operating system doesn't care.
>
>(unless you run X, when you may have to dummy for the mouse, but
>then running X on a server and without a monitor is doubly pointless)
>
>Peter
Thanks Peter.
Seems odd to say the OS doesn't care though, when it's throwing out
what can only be described as error messages....
Harry
------------------------------
From: Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux
Subject: slocate.cron error message
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:41:10 -0500
i'm running redhat 6.2 with an upgraded linux kernel 2.2.15 on my
AMD Duron 700@900
Asus A7V 1005a
30GB primary master ( fat32 - win2k )
15GB primary slave - 8GB partition ( linux )
6.5GB partition ( fat32 )
i've run the slocate.cron command before with no errors, but when i
ran slocate.cron the last few times, i was given this error message:
File system panic (dev 03:01 )
FAT error
File system has ben set read-only
Directory 32165: Bad FAT
how do i correct the error??
do i need a particular program to do so??
--
know Jesus, know peace... no Jesus, no peace.
fu
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list by posting to comp.os.linux.misc.
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
