Linux-Misc Digest #914, Volume #26 Thu, 25 Jan 01 09:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370? (moonie;))
downgrading from 7.0 to 6.1 (Christoph Kukulies)
Good hosting service??? ("Julio C Gutierrez")
Re: locally can telnet, from remotely, can only ping...RH 6.2 ("blah")
Re: $/.bashrc aliases question... (Guy Parry)
xephem make file (Ian)
Re: Need a Browser (Anthony Campbell)
Re: [2.4.0] Yamaha OPL3-SAx No Sound when built into Kernel (Anthony Campbell)
x 4.0.2 problems, permissions and other ("max barwell")
Re: How to configure LILO to boot from alternate HDD? (Eric)
Printing problem ("Puchta Milos")
Re: Suche programm, dass prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls neustartet (Eric)
Re: cdrecord unknown SCSI error while fixating disk (Kees de Bruin)
Re: Suche programm, dass prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls neustartet (Dirk
Groeneveld)
Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please ! (Steve Martin)
Volume Manager software for Linux ("JP")
Open Groupware Standard: could be a Linux "killer 'app'"? ("Lloyd Llewellyn")
Keyboard seting problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help Cant work in Gnome ("NG_lurker")
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 04:25:46 -0500
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Jason Ng wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to know if I can use RAID 0 for my machine in Linux.
>My controller is HPT370. When I boot Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD ROM, it does
>detect my chipset but it fails to detect my Windows 2000 partition which is
>using RAID 0.
>Can anyone kindly help me solve the problem?
>Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>Jason
The reason for this is that the HPT370 uses Software RAID, the software is in
Windows, therefore Linux isn't using it. You can set up RAID (for Linux
partitions) on any drives that Linux can see. I don't believe it is going to
be possible to see the Windows RAID partitions because (I have no doubt) the
windows software does things differently than the Linux software (superblock
kind of thing).
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: downgrading from 7.0 to 6.1
Date: 25 Jan 2001 10:11:30 GMT
A somewhat strange intent but I need to install a RH 6.1 system on a
40 GB Win2000 system which under no circumstances is allowed
to get hosed.
Once (with 6.1) it happened to me that the partition table of Win98
got destroyed when I tried to install from a 6.1 CD.
I want to avoid happening this once again. For some reasons
I need a 6.1 system.
I didn't see iso images of updated 6.1 systems on the ftp servers
so I believe there is only the stock iso image of the
6.1 distribution and the updates appear in form of rpms, right?
I once tried to build such an updated iso image but in the end
it failed to do the installation because file permissions were not correct.
So my idea was to install a RH 7.0 and then 'downgrade' to 6.1. Is that
possible (easily)?
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Julio C Gutierrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Good hosting service???
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:03:04 +0100
Hello All!
Do any of you know of a good (and cheap enough) hosting service? It would
be nice if the host run linux/unix. :)
Thanks a lot.
--
Julio C. Gutierrez -- Please remove both X to send email
Linux Reg. User #75892 -- GPG Key Available
Penguins live only in cool environments... ;)
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From: "blah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: locally can telnet, from remotely, can only ping...RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:28:26 +1100
thanks to all that helped. was a faulty network card in the end. strange
that it could ping though. swapping it fixed it straight away
blah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> just a home user, nothing urgent, but would like to get it working.
> Appreciate if someone could perhaps point me down the right path.
>
> Have got the network card working fine, and can ping from any of the 3
> windows machines to my newly installed redhat 6.2 machine, and can also
ping
> from the linux machine to any of the windows machines, no problem.
> From the windows machines, however, i cannot telnet - it just hangs and
> gives up after the default telnet timout for windows 95, about a minute or
> so, so i never actually get a login.
> I tried telnetting to other ports like pop3, ftp, but same problem.
However
> i can access these services fine if i am attempting from the console
> session, ie, can telnet to 192.168.0.1, the box's ip, and login fine.
>
> tcp dump shows the linux box is seeing the packets requesting the
> connection, but is not responding in any way. Only responds to ICMP
> echo....
>
> Have read the NET-3 and DNS howtos. I suspected that maybe a DNS lookup
> attempt was causing it, so i tried to set it up to only use hosts file for
> name resolving, and set the order to hosts and nothing else in linuxconf
to
> resolve names.
> given that hosts entries exist for all my windows machines on the linux
> machine, thought this would work, but no go yet.
>
> is anyone able to suggest where i might look next?
> Thanks in advance
> Chris
>
> remove "_nospam" when replying, or alternatively reply only to newsgroup.
>
>
>
>
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: $/.bashrc aliases question...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:32:46 +1100
I'm still trying to figure out why I can't get my aliases
recognized by my user account.
When I su'd into it from root today I got:
bash: /proc/733/fd/0: Permission denied
I have several questions apart from what the above message means.
For instance,what does the * after some filenames in Mandrake mean?
Anything to do with this? Is this anything to do with /etc/profile?
I notice there's a line in it saying: LOGNAME=$USER. Should I puy my
userbname in there? This is really irritating me. My $/.bashrc looks
like:
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
alias rm='rm -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias up='cd ..'
alias tree='tree -d|more'
alias ls='ls -la|more'
alias p='cd -'
# Need for a xterm & co if we don't make a -ls
[ -n $DISPLAY ] && {
[ -f /etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh ] && source
/etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh
export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
}
# Read first /etc/inputrc if the variable is not defined, and after
the /etc/inputrc
# include the ~/.inputrc
[ -z $INPUTRC ] && export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
The ones I'd REALLY like to get going are 'tree' and 'ls'...
If I can get this going then I'll start on getting them to work
in xterm windows.
TIA.
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From: Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: xephem make file
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:20:11 +0000
I am having trouble making a software program I installed called xephem.
This is what I do:-
First I tar, then I go into a directory called libastro I xfkmf, then
make. I try make again and get message make: nothing to be done for
'all'
I then change to GUI/xephem/ directory and I try xmkmf as is mentioned
in Install file, this works or seems to. Then I try make and get lots of
errors last one being make: *** [aavso..o] Error 1
I tried looking on a website suggested called www.motifzone.net, but
this tells me nothing I understand.
I also have a file called Makefile.smple, this is beyond my knowledge
also.
I would greatly apprieciate any help.
Ta.
P.s. I am running Linux Mandrake 7.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: Need a Browser
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:08:50 +0000
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:37:49 -0800, Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Jon Rook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Can anyone recommend a good browser.
>
>I use lynx for 90% of my web browsing.
>For another 9%, wget.
>For 0.9%, NS.
>for the last 0.1%, IE
>
>mrc
>--
Lynx is good, but currently I like links a lot, and it seems to be under
active development.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian (Windows-free zone)
Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/
Skeptical essays: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/
"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the
palpably absurd. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H.L. Mencken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: [2.4.0] Yamaha OPL3-SAx No Sound when built into Kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:10:32 +0000
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:43:22 -0600, Robert Wiegand
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Trenton Adams wrote:
>
>> When building support for this card into the kernel, I am getting no sound.
>> I have sent the correct kernel commands on startup. But the card just seems
>> to not initialize (you know the click/crack sound you get when it starts
>> up). According to dmesg, the systems is recognizing the card without
>> error. Any ideas on how to get it to work? Or possibly some websites with
>> ideas?
>
>I have heard of other people having problems when sound is built
>into the kernal. I don't know why.
>
>Try building it as a module.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Works fine here built into the kernel (2.4.0); I don't use modules at
all.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian (Windows-free zone)
Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/
Skeptical essays: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/
"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the
palpably absurd. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H.L. Mencken
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From: "max barwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.debian.user
Subject: x 4.0.2 problems, permissions and other
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:45:38 +1300
i cannot run X as a user, someone told me to edit /etc/X11Xwrapper.config
so that it does not say alloweduser = rootonly, but they did not specify
what to change it to and said that it was not a secure way to do it. they
went on to say, install a display manager so i installed gdm and i can
use X as a user now but i hate graphical login ; (
my other weird problem is that if i start X, all text is gone and icons
etc are just grey shapes, if i switch to a console with ctl-alt-f1 and
back with ctl-alt-f7 it is fixed and runs really well. i have heard this
is a problem with my chipset (sis6326), but X 4.0.1 was fine. this is
very annoying. any ideas for either problem greatly appreciated.
setup is debian 2.2r2, testing, 2.2.18, sis6326 agp 8MB, p2400, 128MB
ram.
cheers max
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure LILO to boot from alternate HDD?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:07:09 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have two HDDs.
>
> One is on the primary IDE channel as hda. This one contains multiple Linux
> ext2 partitions.
>
> The other is on the secondary IDE channel as hdc. This one contains a single
> MS-DOS partition.
>
> I edited lilo.conf such that it contains
>
> other=/dev/hdc1
> label=MS-DOS
>
> then I ran lilo. It said adding Linux* and adding MS-DOS. I just uncommented
> the default lines that start with "# other" and changed the device name and the
> name for the OS to load. I'm citing lilo.conf and the lilo response from memory.
> If I didn't get it exactly right, that's more or less what it was.
>
> I rebooted, and at the boot prompt I typed MS-DOS. It then said
>
> Non-System disk or disk error
> Replace and press any key when ready
>
> I press a key, then it says
>
> Loading Linux...
> Uncompressing Linux.................
>
> and boots from hda1. Did I do something wrong somewhere? I want to be able to
> choose which HDD to boot from without modifying hdc1.
DOS needs to be on the first IDE disc, or it won't boot.
Luckily you can trick DOS.
Use LILO's map-drive command for this.
You may stil fail, if your BIOS can't boot from the secondary IDE
controller.
Connect hdc as hdb in that case.
Eric
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From: "Puchta Milos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing problem
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:10:40 +0100
I have tried install printer LQ670 in the SuSE ver. 7 environment.
The printer does not respond to any attempt (cat, echo, etc.)
Enclosed you will find the printcap file. Is there any problem?
### BEGIN apsfilter: ### epson a4 mono 360x180 ###
# Warning: Configured for apsfilter, do not edit the labels!
# apsfilter setup Mon Feb 14 14:51:37 CET 2000
#
ascii|lp1|epson-a4-ascii-mono-360x180|epson a4 ascii mono 360x180:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-ascii-mono-360x180:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-ascii-mono-360x180/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-ascii-mono-360x180/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/epson-a4-ascii-mono-360x180:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:sf:
#
lp|lp2|epson-a4-auto-mono-360x180|epson a4 auto mono 360x180:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-auto-mono-360x180:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-auto-mono-360x180/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-auto-mono-360x180/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/epson-a4-auto-mono-360x180:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:sf:
#
raw|lp3|epson-a4-raw|epson a4 raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-raw/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/epson-a4-raw:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:sf:
#
### END apsfilter: ### epson a4 mono 360x180 ###
TIA
Milos
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suche programm, dass prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls neustartet
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:14:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bernhard Strathewerd wrote:
>
> Hallo!
>
> Ich suche ein Programm, dass Prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls
> neustartet.
> Ueber Tips waehre ich sehr dankbar!
>
Let it be started by init, and let it be respawning?
Please post in english next time.
Not everyone can read german.
</GERMAN --or at least something like it....>
Bitte den naechsten mal auf English posten.
Nicht jederman kann Deutsch lesen.
Wenn dein English swach ist, versuche dann einen Deutsch
sprachige Gruppe zu finden. In die Niederlaende gibt es
nl.comp.os.linux.* Gruppen.
Warscheinlich, sind die deutschen Equivalenten auch da.
Suche nach die deutschen Linux User Group.
</GERMAN>
Eric
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From: Kees de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord unknown SCSI error while fixating disk
Date: 25 Jan 2001 13:35:45 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) writes:
> I have a Mitsumi CR4802TE on my 2.0.38 kernel system, and I get the
> same error. It seems benign; I have not found any problems reading
> disks (audio or data) created with this error.
>
> I believe that the error is a benign byproduct of the way the CR4802TE
> performs fixating. The error seems to occur only when
> a) the 'fixating' commands have been sent to the CDRW device, and
> b) the CDRW device is busy burning the 'fixating' values
> (the red 'write' light is on).
> My guess is that the drive returns an immediate 'done' reply to the
> SCSI 'fixating' command, then proceeds to fixate the disk. While this
> is in progress, the disk cannot be read (of course), but cdrecord
> (having received the 'done' reply) attempts to read the TOC anyway.
> The drive responds with a 'logical unit not ready, operation in
> progress' reply to indicate that the 'fixating' command is still in
> progress. This continues until the red 'writing' light extinguishes.
I'm seeing the same kind of errors when fixating with a Philips 3600 writer
using That's CD-R's, but with CD-R's from other brands I didn't have this
problem. And I'm quite sure that it started when I upgraded to 2.2.18.
Maybe I should recompile the cdrecord tools and see what that does.
--
Kees de Bruin Software Engineer
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From: Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suche programm, dass prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls neustartet
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:37:14 +0100
Bernhard Strathewerd wrote:
> Ich suche ein Programm, dass Prozesse ueberwacht unt gegebenfalls
> neustartet.
> Ueber Tips waehre ich sehr dankbar!
Hmm, I think you could abuse init for it ... man inittab, IIRC
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please !
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:05:47 GMT
Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > I've searched far and wide, but no avail. No one has created a web page
> > with detailed, step-by-step instructions on upgrading the kernel to
> > 2.4.
> 2.4.0 is in no way different with respect to the process of setting it up
> than any other version.
True, but there are quite a few caveats (admittely included in the
Changes)
file) which can trip one up, especially if one is coming from a Linux
release that is earlier than the latest (like RH6.2 for example).
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Volume Manager software for Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:16:20 -0000
Is there any volume manager software (such as HP's LVM, or the more standard
(??) veritas based like SUN and Sequents (IBM) offerings that can run on
Linux 2.2.x / 2.4.x
JP
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From: "Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Open Groupware Standard: could be a Linux "killer 'app'"?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:24:01 GMT
There is some discussion in the OpenOffice mailing list about groupware. It
started with a discussion of the importance of StarOffice's group scheduling and
calendaring features, but branched into the general question of cross-platform
groupware.
The ability to replace the groupware client, the server, or its database without
disturbing any of the other layers has great appeal to me.
I'd like to ask for your opinions on the feasibility of defining open groupware
standards. Is the subject area too broad to come up with a baseline that
client and server developers can write to?
I wonder if this is something that would be possible in the open source
community, with its greater emphasis on cooperation, than between competing
groupware vendors, each loathe to give its existing customer base an opportunity
to sample other vendors' wares.
Granted, the task of defining a workable, universal standard - much less
implementing it as a usable package - would be a very big task, especially
without the financial incentive. But, I've been stunned with what open source
has accomplished so far, so perhaps it's not out of the question.
Thoughts?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Keyboard seting problem
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:21:30 GMT
Hi all!
I have just installed RedHat 7.0 and got a problem.
When I open a terminal session from X-win (KDE) I
can't use the backspace key and the key combination ALT GR + some key
does not work. The backspace key generates a "~" char and a beep.
I can't set "stty erase" to backspace key because the shell substitutes
the "~" char to my home dir.
I have a swedidh keyboard layout and a Dell keyboard.
How do one solve this kind of keyboard setup problem ??
//Depsi.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "NG_lurker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Cant work in Gnome
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:45:44 +0300
i have to check the version of Gnome to answer you. But my distro is RH7. is
this of any help to you?
muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:94okgt$rm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What version of Gnome?
> I have found all versions since 1.0 to be quite usable -- if not as
> polished as KDE IMHO
> Also, what version of XFree etc?
> Do other desktops/windowmanagers work?
>
> Recently, the keys of "NG_lurker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 's computer
> randomly danced and produced <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>
> > Hi to all!
> >
> > I cant describe how happy i was after installing Linux RH7 successfully
> > on my Win98/Win2K dual-boot system. As a Linux newbie, i consider this a
> > feat. Unfortunately, my joy is short-lived for I cant see a thing in
> > Gnome desktop. My display screen is corrupted. Any menu i click spits
> > out multiple windows in all directions. Now what? Is there a workaround
> > for this?
> >
> > Graphics card is 3D Blaster Savage Pro x 32 Mb x 128 RAM memory.
> >
> > Please help!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Never trust a man in a suit
>
> cll
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