Linux-Misc Digest #976, Volume #26 Tue, 30 Jan 01 23:13:04 EST
Contents:
inetd.conf (jhuman)
Non-ISP dialup (Dave)
Re: How to "kill" in KDE ? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Journalled Filesystem on a laptop (Al Jalaikakik)
Software Need to Creat VCD (Young4ert)
Re: Veeery slow access to samba from NT 4.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: turbo pascal for linux (Mark May)
Re: Non-ISP dialup (Jean-David Beyer)
Backup remotely ? (Wong Sai-kee)
Re: where to find a lot of software (Andrew Purugganan)
Can't start XFree86 after recompiling kernel. (Barry Mathieu)
inetd.conf (jhuman)
Re: X logon question (Dan Smith)
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From: jhuman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: inetd.conf
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:35:55 GMT
I just installed RH 7.0 (workstation install) and wanted to turn on
telnet so I went to /etc/inted.conf and it was not there....does anyone
know how I can turn telnet on or where I can configure what services get
turned on if there is no inetd.conf file?
thx....
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From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Non-ISP dialup
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:30:29 GMT
I'm trying to set my RH6 box up so it will dialup to a mainframe. I've
tried using minicom, wvdial, dip, and several others, but for some
reason none of them will work.
All I want to do is this:
Dial the phone number
Wait for the "PASSWORD:" prompt (there is no username)
send the password
Wait for the "@" prompt
Send some other stuff... etc. until I'm done.
But for some reason none of the scripts will execute properly. Using
minicom, which seemed the most likely, it just hangs. My script in
Minicom looks like this:
# Generic UNIX login script.
# Can be used to automatically login to almost every UNIX box.
#
print Trying to Login..
# Skip initial 'send ""', it seems to matter sometimes..
expect {
"WORD:" send "MY_PASSWORD_HERE"
timeout 15 break
}
print \nComplete
exit
Any ideas on a real simple way to do this? Please respond direct.
Thanks!
Dave Friedman
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to "kill" in KDE ?
Date: 30 Jan 2001 20:44:12 -0600
Arctic Storm a �crit :
>
> GNOME has "kill" option for applications that don't respond. This is nice
> when Netscape or some other program crashes. How do you "kill" a
> non-responding application in KDE 2.0.1?
ctrl alt esc
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
We have all kinds of links
and many SuSE 7.0 Linux RPM packages
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From: Al Jalaikakik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Journalled Filesystem on a laptop
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:47:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a laptop running Linux. As it often runs from battery
> I get the occasional power down with out a proper shutdown
> before hand. This sometimes results in a screwed up disk.
>
> I'm not complaining about the time to fsck, but I would like
> to prevent the loss of data on the drive.
>
> Has anybody tried the various journaled filesystems to overcome
> problems like this?
>
> TIA,
> Erik
>
Yes, I use ReiserFS on a Sony VAIO Z505SX. WOrks like a champ. I made a
small Boot slice, and the rest is the Reiser slice. Since I occasionally
have a locking problem on boot when I forget to remove the CDROM
interface first, the journalling FS is a great help at boot time.
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Software Need to Creat VCD
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:56:17 GMT
Hi,
My Linux system is equipped with a Voodoo3 3500 TV/AGP video card. When I
boot the system into Win2k, I can connect my VCR/Camcoder/Antenna to the
TV/in of the Voodoo3 card and start to digitize any film that is played on
the VCR/Camcoder/Antenna and then create a VCD as well as write it on a CDR
media. The newly created VCD can be played on a CVD player. Now that I
have installed Linux (dual boot), I would like to do such a thing on Linux.
Can anyone please tell me what software package should I install to be
able to digitize and convert a film played under VCR/Camcoder/Antenna to a
VCD?
TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Veeery slow access to samba from NT 4.0
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:06:57 GMT
Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: The same system also got a netware client installed because our company
: runs Novell.
: Is there anybody who already faced the problem and can help?
There is your problem! Using Novel means you have the ipx protocol.
Whenever you have installed both ipx and tcp/ip at the same time
in NT, it will try ipx first. It's only after the timeout, when
tcp/ip is tried.
You should temporary deinstall the ipx stuff to find out if this
is indeed the problem.
If it is, there is not much you can do about it.
Exept for changing the network configuration each time and reboot.
If it would not be a laptop, I would use two networkcards, and bind
ipx to one of them and tcp/ip to the other. That should be possible
because NT binds a protocol to an interface.
BTW.: This is clearly no Linux question. The problem lies in the
stupid way NT copes with multiple protocols in networks. It is
not with Linux, nor with SAMBA. So please use the support you
payed big money for and complain to Micro$oft. :-)
Regards,
Friedhelm
(MCSE)
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: turbo pascal for linux
Date: 30 Jan 2001 22:12:47 -0500
Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: For various reasons, I had to write a program in Turbo Pascal 7.0.
: I want this program to run on linux. Is there a way?
: I didn't use any of the units Turbo Pascal comes with, but I did use
: objects.
Look for FPC (formerly known as FPK). It has command line options to make
it either TP7 or Delphi syntax compatible. Very nice compiler.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Non-ISP dialup
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:20:50 -0500
Dave wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set my RH6 box up so it will dialup to a mainframe. I've
> tried using minicom, wvdial, dip, and several others, but for some
> reason none of them will work.
>
> All I want to do is this:
>
> Dial the phone number
> Wait for the "PASSWORD:" prompt (there is no username)
> send the password
> Wait for the "@" prompt
> Send some other stuff... etc. until I'm done.
>
> But for some reason none of the scripts will execute properly. Using
> minicom, which seemed the most likely, it just hangs. My script in
> Minicom looks like this:
>
> # Generic UNIX login script.
> # Can be used to automatically login to almost every UNIX box.
> #
> print Trying to Login..
> # Skip initial 'send ""', it seems to matter sometimes..
> expect {
> "WORD:" send "MY_PASSWORD_HERE"
> timeout 15 break
> }
> print \nComplete
> exit
>
> Any ideas on a real simple way to do this? Please respond direct.
>
Do not things like minicom, telnet, etc., assume you already have a
connection? Do you not need to set this up in a chat script? (As you can
see from this and recent other posts of mine, I am no expert at this.)
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:15pm up 2 days, 6:45, 3 users, load average: 2.16, 2.09, 2.02
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From: Wong Sai-kee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backup remotely ?
Date: 31 Jan 2001 03:20:21 GMT
Currently, the way I'm doing whole HD backup is to tar the whole HD
excluding the mounted directory into a DDS tape. If anything goes
wrong, I can always boot from a floppy, make filesystem on the
corrupted or replacement HD, tar from DDS, config the lilo if necessary.
With this approach, I don't need to install from zero and frustrate with
configuring individual parts and keep track of the latest config
parameters.
The trouble is I have 10 machines networked but only 2 DDS tape drive.
That means, for each machine backup/restore, I need to shutdown,
install tape drive, perform backup/restore. Switch to other machine,
and repeat, ... Plus I need to install 10 SCSI card unnecessary.
So, I thought about backup through the network:
always connect the DDS to server
NFS mount a big enough server directory to the client
tar the client's whole HD to the server directory
backup the directory in server to DDS
In case I need to restore, I just need to reverse the process.
Then, is there a more elegant way ? I thought of rsh (remote shell)
but from the combination of rsh + tar, it doesn't work.
SK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: where to find a lot of software
Date: 31 Jan 2001 03:10:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/
[ In article <957412$iud$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ > Where can I find a lot of software for linux (preferrably rpm's)?
[ > Lunuxberg I know.
[ >
Why limit yourself to RPMs? ALso try www.freshmeat.net
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: Barry Mathieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.kernel.general,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Can't start XFree86 after recompiling kernel.
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:28:09 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel recompiling newbie in need of help.
Following recompiling a new 2.0.31 kernel, I am unable to start
XFree86.
New kernel source: 2.0.31 from ftp.us.kernel.org
My system:
Red Hat 5.0 (2.0.31 kernel; precompiled) w/ various RPM updates.
XFree86 3.3.6 (loaded from precompiled binaries, not RPMs)
Dell Dimension XPS D233 (Intel i686)
video card: STB Velocity 128
Window manager: FVWM2
My goal is to one day compile the 2.4.X kernel. But before realizing
that achievement, I decided it would be best to start with a recompile
of my current kernel version. Instead of using the SRC RPMs for the
kernel, I downloaded the same version of my currently running kernel;
2.0.31. My current system runs fairly well considering my modest
programming abilities (Yes, I'm always working at improving). I've read
and followed the directions of, "The Linux Kernel HOWTO", and,
considering that I am the sole user of the machine, that I use a dial-up
ISP (PPP), that I don't have need to mount a huge variety of file
systems, and that my sound card (Yamaha OPL3-SAx) is not supported
in the 2.0.31 kernel, I have decided to compile all my requirements into
the kernel -> no kernel modules.
Following, "make dep" and "make clean", I am able to compile the
new bzImage. With my desire to retain the existing (working) 2.0.31
kernel, I copy and rename the bzImage file with the suffix, "..._new",
that is, "/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.31_new". The lilo.conf file is appropriately
edited, and lilo executed (/sbin/lilo). I have similarly dealt with the
System.map file (ln -s /boot/System.map-2.0.31_new /boot/System.map).
With no kernel modules, I did not ,"make modules" and "modules
install".
Then I rebooted.
With the new kernel I do have console mode, but when I, "startx", I see
the sync messages scroll up the screen (just like my working kernel) and
then a black screen :-(. The key sequence ctrl+alt+bksp does not return
me to console mode. My only know resource is execute the dreaded power
down :-{
Looking forward to suggestions,
Barry
p.s. files that follow: .config, .xinitrc, and /var/log/dmesg (from
booting kernel-2.0.31_new)
**********************************************************************************************
.config file:
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
#
# Code maturity level options
#
# CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set
#
# Loadable module support
#
# CONFIG_MODULES is not set
#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M686=y
#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
#
# Additional Block Devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
#
# Networking options
#
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
#
# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
#
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
#
#
#
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
#
# SCSI support
#
# CONFIG_SCSI is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
CONFIG_PPP=y
#
# CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
#
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
# CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set
#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
# CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
# CONFIG_NFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
# CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
# CONFIG_SPECIALIX is not set
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
# CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
# CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
CONFIG_RTC=y
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
# CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
# CONFIG_SPECIALIX is not set
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
# CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
# CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
CONFIG_RTC=y
#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set
#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PROFILE is not set
**********************************************************************************************
.xinitrc file:
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
xmodmap $usermodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
# start some nice programs
xset +dpms
xearth -pos 'orbit 1 -40' -mag .85 -bigstars 50 -day 80 -night 7 &
fvwm2 &
# xfm -geometry +500+0 -iconic &
rclock -geometry 80x80+750+0 &
xload -geometry 153x80+583+0 &
xterm -geometry 80x48+0+77 &
xterm -geometry 80x48+508+77 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -name login -iconic
**********************************************************************************************
/var/log/dmesg file:
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f7550
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd7b1
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9cc
Probing PCI hardware.
Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7180). Please read
include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7181). Please read
include/linux/pci.h
Warning : Unknown PCI device (12d2:18). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 232.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63336k/65536k available (644k kernel code, 384k reserved,
1172k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.31 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 1999031
4/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Jan 29 21:20:03 EST 2001
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.07
loop: registered device at major 7
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf
hda: Maxtor 90680D4, 6485MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=826/255/63
hdb: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28B, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: Maxtor 86480D6, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63
hdd: QUANTUM ELS127A, 122MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=919/16/17
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of
California
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdc: [PTBL] [784/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 >
hdd: hdd1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 80288k swap-space (priority -1)
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From: jhuman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: inetd.conf
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:28:57 GMT
I just installed RH 7.0 (workstation install) and wanted to turn on
telnet so I went to /etc/inted.conf and it was not there....does anyone
know how I can turn telnet on or where I can configure what services get
turned on if there is no inetd.conf file?
thx....
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X logon question
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:26:14 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Can someone give me an overview of what all is going on here to do this
> > graphical login? Can I do it from my linux box?
> >
>
> Try the following command from your linux box:
>
> X -query UNIX_HOSTNAME :0 &
>
> Eric
>
WHOA!!! That is Crazy Awesome!!!
Now how can I get my machine to serve graphical logins like that???
Thanks SO much!!
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