Linux-Misc Digest #901, Volume #26 Tue, 23 Jan 01 18:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: cdrecord+ATAPI burner (Bill Unruh)
Re: bootdisk "OS not found" (Harlan Grove)
Re: in gcc void main()? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Trojan? (Micah Cowan)
Re: in gcc void main()? (Harlan Grove)
Mandrake Nubie: Can anyone help on Fonts? ("WebWolf")
FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux (schlomo)
Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3 (David)
Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3 (David)
Re: in gcc void main()? (Grant Edwards)
HP Pavilion n5135 X Windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Memory lost (Manuel Cano)
Re: Mandrake Nubie: Can anyone help on Fonts? (Robert Jones)
Re: Trojan? (Andrew Rounds)
Re: help - building my own package ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Booting with no console ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? (Dwight Tovey)
Re: Rachel,this is it ("John L")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: cdrecord+ATAPI burner
Date: 23 Jan 2001 20:47:03 GMT
I have a similar problem with my LG 8081B CDR drive. Note that mine
works fine with the Disk at Once recording, but totally bombs out with a
similar error message to yours in track at once mode.
I am suspecting some obscure bug in
cdrecord. I have sent Schilling a message with the output but have not
heard from him.
On mine, DAO is fine as long as you make sure that you have the 2
seconds of absolute silence at the end of each track. Otherwise,
cdplayers cannot find the starts of the tracks. (I thought one was
supposed to be able to index into continuous bands of music, but
whatever cdrecord does, it does not create a CD which is useable by the
cdplayers I have.)
In <94knir$7os$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Rounds
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Thanks for the info, but no joy
] cdrecord --scanbus
]Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jorg
]Schilling
]Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
]Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
]scsibus0:
] 0,0,0 0) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4804TE ' '2.2C' Removable CD-ROM
]etc
]The CD's work when I burn using my win98 partition, so I'm assuming that
]they are ok.
]Andy
]Brian C. Kiefer wrote:
]> Try running cdrecord -scanbus.... see if you burner pops up.... also, you
]> may just have a bad set of blank cds...
]>
]>
]> Brian
]>
]> Andrew Rounds wrote:
]>
]> > I can't get cdrecord to work on my machine. Anyone have any ideas?
]> > Output from a cdrecord session is pasted below. I am on MDK7.2 with
]> > kernel 2.4.0 if that makes any difference (although I think I had the
]> > same problem with kernel 2.2.18)
]> >
]> > A big thanks to anyone who can tell me what I am doing wrong. I know the
]> > burner (slave on secondary drive, but hdd=ide-scsi emulation switched
]> > on) works, because it works on that other operating system that I dual
]> > boot with.
]> >
]> > Thanks
]> >
]> > Andy
]> >
]> > /usr/bin/cdrecord dev=0,0,0 fs=2048k -v -useinfo speed=4 -dao -eject
]> > -pad
]> > -data "/tmp/track-01.img"
]> > pregap1: -1
]> > Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jorg
]> > Schilling
]> > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
]> > scsidev: '0,0,0'
]> > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
]> > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
]> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
]> > atapi: 1
]> > Device type : Removable CD-ROM
]> > Version : 0
]> > Response Format: 1
]> > Vendor_info : 'MITSUMI '
]> > Identifikation : 'CR-4804TE '
]> > Revision : '2.2C'
]> > Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522.
]> > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
]> > Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
]> > Drive buf size : 1343488 = 1312 KB
]> > FIFO size : 2097152 = 2048 KB
]> > Track 01: data 598 MB padsize: 30 KB
]> > Total size: 687 MB (68:06.50) = 306488 sectors
]> > Lout start: 687 MB (68:08/38) = 306488 sectors
]> > Current Secsize: 2048
]> > ATIP info from disk:
]> > Indicated writing power: 6
]> > Is not unrestricted
]> > Is not erasable
]> > ATIP start of lead in: -11740 (97:25/35)
]> > ATIP start of lead out: 336156 (74:44/06)
]> > Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
]> > Manuf. index: 40
]> > Manufacturer: INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd.
]> > Blocks total: 336156 Blocks current: 336156 Blocks remaining: 29668
]> > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
]> > Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
]> > Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
]> > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd:
]> > retryable error
]> > CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
]> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
]> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00
]> > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
]> > Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
]> > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
]> > cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
]> > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using default CD write parameter data.
]> > Mode Select Data 00 10 00 00 05 32 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
]> > 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
]> > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
]> > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot open new session.
]> > /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 32 puts and 0 gets.
]> > /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was
]> > 100%.
]>
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bootdisk "OS not found"
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:40:51 GMT
In article <94kop4$eoq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Trying to install Redhat 6.2 - downloaded generic.img
>from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-
>6.2/alpha/images/ and copied to a floppy,
>previously checked with scandisk, using
>rawrite12.exe. The floppy does not boot saying
>only "Operating System not found".
Alpha? Do you have an Alpha-based system?
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: in gcc void main()?
Date: 23 Jan 2001 11:12:25 -0900
john connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it possible to declare main to return void instead of int? Using gcc
>version 2.95.2 when I do:
>void main()
>{etc}
>it appears that the compiler ignores the keyword void, it insists that
>return be followed by type int.
>Thanks, JWC
Of course it is _possible_, but the question is how smart is it?
The ISO/ANSI C Standard says that the main() function must be
defined to return type int. If you want the benefits of using
ISO/ANSI Standard C, you have to follow the rules...
Additionally, there is simply _no_ valid reason on a Linux
system to declare main() as anything other than an int.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Trojan?
From: Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jan 2001 12:54:03 -0800
Andrew Rounds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Running nmap on my RH6.2, kernel2.2.18 gave me the following snippet
> highlighted in red. I assume that this is VERY bad news......... Any advice
> on locating the offending program/daemon that is running netbus, so that I
> can stamp on it?
>
>
> 12345/tcp open NetBus
> 12346/tcp open NetBus
>
> Thanks
I could be wrong, but last I heard there is no NetBus for UNIX or GNU.
Probably what is happening is that some /other/ program is running on
those ports, and nmap just thinks it's NetBus because of the
particular ports that are open.
However, there's one easy way to be sure - run "netstat -p", which
will list all sockets in use, and the program names/pids which are
using them.
Micah Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: in gcc void main()?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:49:45 GMT
In article <jalb6.1990$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, john connolly wrote:
>
>>Is it possible to declare main to return void instead of int? Using
>>gcc version 2.95.2 when I do:
>>void main()
>>{etc}
>>it appears that the compiler ignores the keyword void, it insists that
>>return be followed by type int.
>
>I belive that ANSI/ISO C defines main as returning an int.
>Linux expects main to return an int. Why do you want to
>declare it as void?
If exit status is unimportant, how about
int main() {
/* your code here */
return ( 0 );
}
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From: "WebWolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake Nubie: Can anyone help on Fonts?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:07:28 -0000
Hello to the group...
I have just Bought a copy of Mandrake 7.2, and finally installed it and got
it running (amazing) for a three year Windows user.
Anyway it's great, except for one really small problem.
The fonts on the desktop, Help Section and Various other places are so
small i didn't even notice they were there at first. Setting the Desktop
icon fonts to small gets them the biggest, setting them to medium or large
makes them so small they are pinpricks, and the help files are unreadable.
Can anyone help Please.
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From: schlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:57:11 GMT
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1209819290
IBM ThinkPad 365XD Linux ............. [ThinkPenguine]
133MHZ CPU
11" Display
24MB Ram
1.0GB HD
Internal CD-ROM
External Floppy (IBM p/n 10h3980)
AC Adapter (IBM p/n 85G6709)
56K PCMCIA Fax/Modem
Two button mouse
External 1.0GB Sparq Drive including
removable cartridge w/ installed Linux driver
Linux Slackware 3.6 original 4 disc set included
Pre-installed software including Netscape 4.74,
Corel Wordperfect 8, and more...
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:13:05 GMT
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> 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?
--
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten with Red Hat Linux 6.2.3
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:20:29 GMT
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> 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 had the same problem on a redhat system and fixed it with the
following.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and just below the
"PAPNAME=" line add the "PEERDNS=" below.
PAPNAME=
PEERDNS=no
Then edit the /etc/resolv.conf file back to the way you want it and then
run "chattr +i" command on it.
chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
Then edit the /etc/ppp/resolv.conf back to what you want it and run the
"chattr +i" command on it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: in gcc void main()?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:28:36 GMT
In article <94kqp4$gn8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harlan Grove wrote:
>>I belive that ANSI/ISO C defines main as returning an int.
>>Linux expects main to return an int. Why do you want to
>>declare it as void?
>
>If exit status is unimportant, how about
>
>int main() {
> /* your code here */
> return ( 0 );
>}
Or better yet:
int main() {
/* your code here */
return 0;
}
The extra parens make return look like a function call when it
isn't. For some reason that always bugs me. ;)
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! An INK-LING? Sure --
at TAKE one!! Did you BUY any
visi.com COMMUNIST UNIFORMS??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP Pavilion n5135 X Windows
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:28:10 GMT
I have the following installation:
- RedHat Linux 7.0
- Installed on HP Pavillion notebook 5135
- Installed on primary dos partition
(boot up with Linux boot CD instead of separate partition)
I have successfully Linux, but there are two problems:
1. My BIOS or some other location is defaulting the screen
to a very small screen size when the BIOS starts up and the
leaves the screen small and centered on the LCD screen. For a brief
second upon booting the screen is full size and then shrinks before the
options come up to escape or f2 etx. This
makes it very difficult to run linux...
Screen:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
X X
X XXXXXXXXXXX X
X X screen! X X
X X X X
X XXXXXXXXXXX X
X X
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
How do I change this so that the BIOS and whatever is loaded on top
uses the full screen? Why would they want the screen to be smaller
anyway?
2. Display Settings:
I could not find specs on my monitor screen such as refresh rate etc.
I finally got a setting to work with a non-interlaced screen with 1024
* 768 resolution and with 8 bit color. Surely there must be a way to
get better color! If you could help me with that I'd appreciate it =)
Thanks so very very much for taking time to read this. If I was
unclear about anything please ask because I'd really appreciate your
help...
Eric
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From: Manuel Cano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory lost
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:48:55 +0100
Hi,
I have a Linux system with 256 RAM Mb, but Linux shows and uses 64Mb
only.
It worked util two days ago. I removed a SCSI disk and tape and
reformatted the system partition / but not /home.
BIOS at boot shows the correct value, 256, and it does the count (long
count).
Someone have a clue?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake Nubie: Can anyone help on Fonts?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:08:56 -0600
You might find http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html helpful.
WebWolf wrote:
> Hello to the group...
>
> I have just Bought a copy of Mandrake 7.2, and finally installed it and got
> it running (amazing) for a three year Windows user.
>
> Anyway it's great, except for one really small problem.
>
> The fonts on the desktop, Help Section and Various other places are so
> small i didn't even notice they were there at first. Setting the Desktop
> icon fonts to small gets them the biggest, setting them to medium or large
> makes them so small they are pinpricks, and the help files are unreadable.
>
> Can anyone help Please.
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4:06pm up 30 days, 20:25, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.22, 0.09
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From: Andrew Rounds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trojan?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:34:54 +0000
Micah Cowan wrote:
> Andrew Rounds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Running nmap on my RH6.2, kernel2.2.18 gave me the following snippet
> > highlighted in red. I assume that this is VERY bad news......... Any
> > advice on locating the offending program/daemon that is running netbus,
> > so that I can stamp on it?
> >
> >
> > 12345/tcp open NetBus
> > 12346/tcp open NetBus
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I could be wrong, but last I heard there is no NetBus for UNIX or GNU.
>
> Probably what is happening is that some /other/ program is running on
> those ports, and nmap just thinks it's NetBus because of the
> particular ports that are open.
>
> However, there's one easy way to be sure - run "netstat -p", which
> will list all sockets in use, and the program names/pids which are
> using them.
>
> Micah Cowan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're right. PortSentry is the culprit. It was me fiddling around trying
to lock down my machine and then panicking!
Thanks for a very swift response.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: help - building my own package
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:30:13 GMT
In article <t85b6.283$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"datagram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi and thanks for reading,
> I'm trying to build my own package from a tar file. It's the first
time I'm
> doing this,
>
> my spec file seems to be all right, everything works fine except the
%file
> part
> I don't understand what I have to put in there.
>
> example:
> I'm trying to build an rpm package of bluefish so I send a copy of the
> tar.gz file in the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and build my spec file in
the
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> in the files I type
> %files
> %doc README (only one that works) :)
> /usr/local/bluefish-0.6/bin/bluefish
>
> after the compilation and everthing I see a message saying that it was
> unable to find the file
> /var/tmp/bluefish-0.6/usr/local/bluefish-0.6/bin/bluefish...
> what da !?
>
> help please I've gone throught my books and simple tutorials on the
web and
> I can't make this thing work!
>
> by the way I'm on RH 7.0
>
> thank you very much for you time!!
>
>
--
Hi. I thought I'd suggest a couple things that may help to understand
what the problem may be. After the compilation, when it could not find
the files you mentioned, it sounds like they may not have been in the
directory path that was expected. If you could not find them you might
use the find commmand to see if they exist and if so, where they are.
Maybe use: find / -name bluefish . Also, check out the options for
the rpm command. It can check and find the list of installed packages,
or which package a file belongs to, failed dependencies, and info about
the specified package.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Booting with no console
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:47:01 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> Seems odd to say the OS doesn't care though, when it's throwing out
> what can only be described as error messages....
What? There should be none. Show some, please! You must be
misinterpreting what you are seeing.
Peter
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Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
From: Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:01:46 -0700
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Ken Moffat wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Try Balsa - best effort I've seen so far on Linux.
> >
> > /Mats
>
> Probably needs kde2 or gnome.
> :-(
>
Nope. I use an old version of fvwm95. Balsa came up just fine. I'm
still not sure if it will do what I want in a MUA though.
/dwight
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Reply-To: "John L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "John L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Rachel,this is it
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:01:28 GMT
arsehole
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