Linux-Misc Digest #923, Volume #26 Fri, 26 Jan 01 08:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Konqueror speed (Uri Shohet)
Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help (Jesper Petersen)
Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help (Jesper Petersen)
Re: copying to a floppy (Eric)
channel 0: istate 4 != open ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Napster ' can't connect' (Jimbo)
Re: I need an advice for Zip USB, (Glitch)
Re: DVD playing: hardware vs. software decoding (Glitch)
weird process runnig ("Xavier Houppertz")
Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem (M. Buchenrieder)
RedHat 7.0 startup ("JJ")
Re: Need help with Linux and DSL (Louis Weerpas)
Re: How can I search file at midnight commander? (Manni Heumann)
Re: weird process runnig (Stephen Cornell)
Re: Puzzling messages when running dmesg... (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: kdm startup (Noble Pepper)
Re: kdm startup (Malcolm Cowe)
Help with Bash Alias (Dan Smith)
Re: Help with Bash Alias (Johan Kullstam)
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From: Uri Shohet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: Konqueror speed
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:19:58 +0000
Deltones wrote:
>>Mandrake 7.1), and it does not upgrade well or easily. Grab the
>>sources off KDE's web site and edit the configure files in all the
>>directories replacing the "-O2" flags with "-O3" flags.
>
> Justin,
>
> So far, the only thing I've ever compiled on my linux box is the Kernel.
> Did so by following recommended instructions. I'm interested in trying
> to compile KDE myself, but I'm wondering about those configure
> files. What are the names of these files you're talking about where I
> can replace those flags?
There's no need to edit configure files. You just have to set one
environment variable - CXXFLAGS. Personally, I compile KDE every couple of
days, so here's a little script I use:
==========8<===============
#!/bin/sh
source /opt/kde2/bin/kde2
set -x
#########################################################################
export CXXFLAGS="-fno-exceptions -O3 -mpentium"
#
PACKAGES="kdesupport kdelibs kdebase kdeadmin kdegames kdegraphics
kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdeutils kdepim kdetoys koffice kdenonbeta
kde-i18n"
Opts=""
Keep=""
for i in $PACKAGES
do
if [ "$i" = "kdebase" ] || [ "$i" = "kdeadmin" ]; then
Opts=" --with-pam=kde "
elif [ "$i" = "kde-i18n" ]; then
Opts=" --prefix=/opt/kde2 "
else
Opts=""
fi
if [ "$i" = "kdesupport" ] || [ "$i" = "kdelibs" ]; then
Keep=""
else
Keep=" -k "
fi
if [ -d $i ] ; then
cd $i
else
continue
fi
case "$1" in
clean)
make -k clean;make -k distclean
;;
make)
make -f Makefile.cvs && ./configure $Opts && make $Keep
;;
makeinst)
make -f Makefile.cvs && ./configure $Opts && make $Keep
make $Keep install
;;
install)
make $Keep install;
;;
verify)
make $Keep ; sleep 1
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {clean|make|makeinst|install|verify}"
exit 1
esac
cd ..
done
==========8<===============
You have to run it as root.
To download the sources from the CVS I use the following:
Create a file named .cvsrc (mind the dot) in root's home directory and put
in these lines:
cvs -z4 -q
diff -u3 -p
update -dP
checkout -P
Then in a console do:
# export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs
# cvs login
Press <Enter> when it asks for password
# for i in kdesupport kdelibs kdebase kdeadmin kdegames kdegraphics
kdenetwork kdemultimedia kdepim kdeutils kdetoys kdenonbeta koffice
kde-i18n/he kde-i18n/ru; do cvs up $i; done
The above line has to be one long command. When running this command for
the first time, change "cvs up" (update) to "cvs co" (checkout).
I use Hebrew and Russian translations for apps, change this as appropriate
or delete.
Good luck!
--
Uri Shohet
A.M.S. Advanced Maintenance Systems Ltd.
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel.: +972-2-5822477 Ext.884
Registered Linux User #166615 (http://counter.li.org)
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From: Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:20:01 GMT
>No, but telling us the video card would. In any case, it's clear that
>your laptop is ultra new, and RG 6.0 is ultra old. It doesn't have a
>hope of having come with a driver for your card, since accurate prediction
>of the future wasn't yet perfected when RH 6.0 came out a couple of
>years ago.
It's a SiS 630 with integrated AGP bus 2D/3D graphics accelerator.
(It's exactly what the manual says word by word)
Jesper
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From: Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:25:28 GMT
> One way to "fix" it is to edit the appropriate screen section
>of your XF86Config file to put your maximum resolution first
>in the "Modes" line. Then when you startx, that resolution,
>1024x768 will be come up as your default, and also having a
>desktop size of 1024x768 will mean your entire desktop will fit
>within the confines of your screen. Of course, everything will
>be tiny.
Thanks
I'm totally new to Linux... so I don't know where to find my XF86Config file,
and it's a bit hard for me to navigate as I often can't se the lower parts of
a window. Would you (or somebody else) tell me how to find it? If it isn't too
difficult maybe how to manipulate the file in textmode.
> Another approach is to try <alt><ctrl><keypad +> until you
>get to the screen resolution you like.
Unfortunately this didn't work.
Jesper
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: copying to a floppy
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:43:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> when I do 'cp filename.txt /dev/fd0'
> I copy the file directly to my floppy drive if i'm not mistaken,
> destroying everything that was on the disk. How can I get the file back
> however? I know I can do it with 'dd', but then I need to know the exact
> size of the file if I'm not mistaken.
Obviously. If you don't want to use a FS for this info,
you will have to do some if it yourself
> And I don't have to mount the
> floppy drive to do this?
You can't. (Unless filename.txt contains an FS)
You can only mount a filesystem. Not a raw device
> If someone has indeed a solution for my problem: does this work for
> other devices also? For Tape drives for example?
>
use dd, tar, cpio
With tar you don't need to remember the size either.
(BTW I don't know cpio, it may be equally usable as tar)
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux
Subject: channel 0: istate 4 != open
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:40:11 GMT
Hi,
I get this weird error when I try to start a graphical application on
the server after logging in with ssh:
channel 0: istate 4 != open
channel 0: ostate 64 != open
X connection to my.host.name:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
I did enable XForwarding in sshd_config and I login with
ssh -X my.host.name
so XForwarding is supposed to work, but it doesn't. What can be wrong?
Thanks
Wroot
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Napster ' can't connect'
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:01:13 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I've used Linux Napster client v1.4 for a week.
Everything worked well. But now...suddenly..without changing anything
to the settings, I can start the client but it doesn't seem to
connect.
After I've tried the "/reconnect" command, I got this the message
Getting best host...
Connecting...
Logging in...
The nr. of total songs & total Gb remains '0'. After waiting for about
10 mins and trying several search-actions without any result there
seems to be no reaction.
I've already tried to create a new user and reinstalled all the files
but the result remains the same.
I'm using the Napster client on Red Hat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.18) and it's
behind a firewall with the these portforwarding rules:
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 6699 -R $CLIENT 6699
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 4444 -R $CLIENT 4444
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 5555 -R $CLIENT 5555
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 6666 -R $CLIENT 6666
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 7777 -R $CLIENT 7777
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 8888 -R $CLIENT 8888
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 9999 -R $CLIENT 9999
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 8875 -R $CLIENT 8875
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 8175 -R $CLIENT 8175
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 61275 -R $CLIENT 61275
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 61276 -R $CLIENT 61276
Some help please?
Koen Van Impe
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:30:58 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I need an advice for Zip USB,
ME wrote:
> Thanks for reading this,
>
> I am trying to mount (dev/sda4) a Zip 100 USB drive under Kernel 2.2.16
> (Suse 7.0). The modules usbcore, usb-ohci and usb-storage are loaded, but
> yet the system fails to communicate with the Zip drive. While booting up the
> system it finds the Zip drive. The error message is:
>
> sda: Read Capacity failed
> sda: status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
> sda: sense not available
> sda: block size assumed 512 bytes, disk size 1 GB
>
> sda: scsidisk I/O Error: dev08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table.
>
> My USB Sony CD/RW drive is also seen but can not be mounted. I think it is a
> SCSI issue, which I have tried to remedy with the insertation of module sg,
> but that did not help either. Perhaps somebody has an advice for me, any
> input is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
The error message is 'unable to read partition table'......maybe it
can't read one b/c there isn't one in the first place? (ie. there is no
disk in the drive)
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:56:53 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD playing: hardware vs. software decoding
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm thinking about buying a DVD decoder card. my dvd drive came with
> my system, but had win98 specific decorder software. I'm wondering if
> a hardware decoder will help play dvds with linux. The dvd howto seems
> to only addresses software decoding. Are there advantages to getting a
> decoder card?
yes, it takes the load off the CPU. Using software decoding a PII (maybe
even a PIII) is recommended. Using a decoder card u ucan use a low end
PII w/o slow down problems.
> does linux utilize a decoder card when playing dvds?
it can. Only a few cards are supported. I know the Creative Labs dxr2 is
suported as that is the one I have.
> I
> would like to here from both sides:
>
> -Has anyone got dvd's playing w/OUT decoder hardware?
> -what distro?
> -what apps?
> -what's the performance like?
haven't tried getting dvds to work yet.
>
> -Has anyone got dvd's playing WITH decoder hardware?
> -do you actually use the decoder hardware?
> -what distro?
> -what apps?
> -what's the performance like?
>
> thanx,
> -jason
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Xavier Houppertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: weird process runnig
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:00:51 +0100
Hello,
I use several unix servers, and one of them have these processes running all
the time.
bash /var/spool/lpd/lq570/filter -w132 -l66 -i0 -n ro
rpc.rquotad
sh /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters//asc-to-printer.fpi
Are these necessary ?
What do they do ?
Can I remove them ?
How?
Thanks,
Xavier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:54:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bhaskar Bose) writes:
>For some strange reason I cannot write to /var anymore.
>It complains that "No space left on device".
Well, that would explain it.
>However,
>there is plenty of free space left on the device .
>According to df, it says that there is 800Megs free.
The actual _output_ of "df" would have been helpful.
My guess: You've been running out of inodes on the /var
filesystem, therefor no new files can be stored on it
anymore. In this case, you're a bit out of luck. You'll
have to reformat the partition with a different inode
setting.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "JJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 7.0 startup
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:11:15 +0100
Hi,
I have installed RedHat 7.0 and LILO (not in the MBR). I have also Win2k and
in this bootloader I have a RedHat option. When I choose this I get a
graphic screen for LILO and if I press Ctrl+X I exit this. OK so far.
Today I have compiled the new kernel (2.4.0) and have edit the
/etc/lilo.conf file and run /sbin/lilo and getting:
Added linux
Added linux-test *
Added LinuxTest
Added win
But still I can't get anymore option in the LILO boot menu (text or graphic
boot menu). Therefore Linux still boot on the old kernel. It seems that LILO
igores the config file?!
Questions
1. How can I append LILO boot options?
2. how can I get rid of the graphic LILO screen?
--
Best Regards
Joacim J�rkeborn
Gothenburg, Sweden
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From: Louis Weerpas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with Linux and DSL
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:24:10 +0100
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:39:04 -0800, Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm going to be getting Pac Bell DSL and running it on Mandrake 7.2.
>When I signed up they said they don't support Linux but it should work.
>They also said you need their software to connect and they don't have
>software for Linux.
>
>My questin is, how do you get DSL working on Linux? With my 56k
>connection I use ppp0 and the chat script that was created through
>linuxconf. They say you need the software but usually with a regular ISP
>you can just enter in the DNS numbers and other info yourself and chuck
>the software. Can you do the same thing with DSL? It will be an
>external modem connected through an ethernet card. I'm just not sure if
>it needs a chat script and how I set it up to dial like ppp0.
>
>I'm fairly familliar with Linux but don't know anything about how DSL
>works.
>
>Thanks for any info on this.
Just take a look at www.xs4all.nl /helpdesk/adsl and some of its
links. Unfortunately it's mostly dutch, and probably carrier provider
dependant. But you should be able to get some clues.
Hope this helps,
Louis Weerpas
NL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: How can I search file at midnight commander?
Date: 26 Jan 2001 11:31:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams) wrote on 26 Jan 2001:
>Oops. Yeah, that's what I was thinking when he said alt-letter.
>I uh, blame it on late-night news reading. :-)
>
>Marc
>
Too bad. I was hoping you had a version of mc that finally
behaved like good ol nc. Where are Alt-letter and Alt-F1/F2 when
you need them?
Manni
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird process runnig
Date: 26 Jan 2001 11:54:00 +0000
"Xavier Houppertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I use several unix servers, and one of them have these processes running all
> the time.
>
> bash /var/spool/lpd/lq570/filter -w132 -l66 -i0 -n ro
> rpc.rquotad
> sh /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters//asc-to-printer.fpi
>
> Are these necessary ?
> What do they do ?
> Can I remove them ?
> How?
I don't know what these are, but they look suspicious to me. On the
face of it, they look like they're to do with printing a binary file
to your printer, but that would be rather strange.
This is a Red Hat Linux machine, right? There have been several
remote exploits of such machines over the past few months, including
lpr and rpc services. Have you kept up to date with security updates
of these packages? If not, there's a high probability that your
machine has been compromised.
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Puzzling messages when running dmesg...
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:08:11 -0500
Steve Ackman wrote:
>
> >It turns out that magicdev is it. It seems to be a GNOME thing to
> >automount things. It is not in an init.d script, because it seems that
> >it is started at login (at least, at a login when you are running
> >GNOME/Enlightenment.
> >
> >One reason why I switched from Windows to Linux was to get away from
> >dunderheads second-guessing me and doing what they thought was for my
> >own good, and not even telling me about it.
>
> I don't run Gnome or KDE. Both of them try to second
> guess what the user wants or needs. I tried KDE for
> about 15 minutes before deleting it. I gave Gnome about
> two days.
>
> >Furthermore, each time it made that message, it said:
> >
> >VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,0)
> >and this is wrong, too, since nothing has changed on the CD-ROM drive in
> >a few days. There is no disk in the drive, and hasn't been for a few
> >days.
>
> I think that reference goes back a lot longer than a few
> days... probably back to the install CD.
>
You are certainly correct about this. It probably started at about the
same instant that I logged in at run level 5 for the first time. The
funny thing is that none of my other users (including root) have this
problem. I checked their ~/.gnome directory and none of them have the
magicdev file in there at all. Why did I get stuck with one? I must have
done something to get it, but I have no idea what.
One possibility is that I used linuxconf to give myself a non-root login
(create new user), and linuxconf may have done it. I manually entered
the other users into /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow, and then
I restored everything in /home from a backup tape. Probably entering a
login for myself with linuxconf did it.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 7:00am up 13:27, 4 users, load average: 2.07, 2.08, 2.04
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kdm startup
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:23:32 -0600
Gerald Pollack wrote:
> I use kdm to log on to my system, and I use icewm as my window manager
> (i.e. no kde, no gnome). In the past, when I used startx, I could start
> up a screensaver by including the appropriate command in '.xinitrc'. Can
> someone tell me how to do this with kdm? It apparently doesn't use
> .xinitrc.
>
> Thanks,
>
May not be much help but kdm does use .kdmrc
comp.windows.x.kde may offer more suggestions.
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:28:59 +0000
From: Malcolm Cowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kdm startup
Gerald Pollack wrote:
>
> I use kdm to log on to my system, and I use icewm as my window manager
> (i.e. no kde, no gnome). In the past, when I used startx, I could start
> up a screensaver by including the appropriate command in '.xinitrc'. Can
> someone tell me how to do this with kdm? It apparently doesn't use
> ..xinitrc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Gerald Pollack, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> McGill University, Dept. of Biology, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1
> Tel: (514) 398-418, Fax: (514) 398-5069
The display managers (xdm, kdm, et al.) use .xsession for user
customised logins. Notes that this is an override for the default login
mechanism, so you'll need to launch the window manager from here as well
-- probably just need to copy .xinitrc to .xsession.
e.g. at work my .xsession looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
xscreensaver -nosplash &
xset b off
if [ -x "$(which wmaker)" ]; then
exec wmaker
else
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession gnome
fi
(Window Maker actually has autostart and exit scripts that are invoked
by the WM when you login -- maybe icewm has an autostart feature
independent of the xsession mechanism).
Regards,
--
Malcolm Cowe.
IT | Information Technology, eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Agilent Technologies Ltd. External: +44 131 331 6466
South Queensferry, EH30 9TG. Telnet: 313-3466
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Bash Alias
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:15:27 -0500
Hey--
I'm in a class where my teacher reccomends using tcsh, so all her
material is based on the fact that you're using tcsh. I was already
using Bash, and I prefer to stay that way, so I asked her if I could.
she said only if I could get this one command to work that is part of
her required environment for us.
She wants a command that is an alias that will change the directory and
then do an ls. It is called 'cdl'. I need to be able to do 'cdl
mydir' and have it switch to that dir and then ls inside it. I've tried
alias cdl='cd;ls', but it does not work.
Can a Bash guru help me out?
Thanks!
--Dan
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Subject: Re: Help with Bash Alias
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:01:20 GMT
Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey--
>
> I'm in a class where my teacher reccomends using tcsh, so all her
> material is based on the fact that you're using tcsh. I was already
> using Bash, and I prefer to stay that way, so I asked her if I could.
> she said only if I could get this one command to work that is part of
> her required environment for us.
>
> She wants a command that is an alias that will change the directory and
> then do an ls. It is called 'cdl'. I need to be able to do 'cdl
> mydir' and have it switch to that dir and then ls inside it. I've tried
> alias cdl='cd;ls', but it does not work.
>
> Can a Bash guru help me out?
make a bash function called cdl.
cdl () { cd $1; ls; }
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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