Linux-Misc Digest #36, Volume #27 Tue, 6 Feb 01 06:13:03 EST
Contents:
mkfontdir crashes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Port listening but no application? (Stef)
Re: LILO on Deskstart 45 gig ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Shared memory question - RH 6.1 (Michael Heiming)
SB Live! Software and Redhat 7 (Tomi Kinnunen)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Tom Wilson")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Tom Wilson")
Re: I need an advice for Zip USB, ("cazzi miei")
3com ethernet problem, module driver doesn't load ("Jan Vandesompele")
Re: Which Linux distribution is best?
Re: Netscape 6 - Memory Usage !!
1 screen, 1 keyboard, 2 copmutors (Natanael Copa)
Help, RH kernel question. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SuSe won't play audio cds ... ? (Glitch)
Re: help on Raid ("Joan Carles Monllor P�rez")
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Eric)
How to turn off cron mail? (GYULAI Mihaly)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Tom Wilson")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Tom Wilson")
Re: Which Linux distribution is best? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: dd seek returns permision denied ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mkfontdir crashes
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:44:09 GMT
Greetings and Salutations
I am trying to install the X-windows on a DosLinux, and I can't seem to
get mkfontdir to work. I have put the whole X11 package in, and then
found out about the bug about the X11 binaries.
I followed the steps outlined on the DosLinux homepage.
#mkfontdir
segmentation fault
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From: Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Port listening but no application?
Date: 6 Feb 2001 09:03:22 +0100
One application (vnc) which is listening on ports 5801, 5901 and 6001
crashed. No zombie, it's gone. But I still see the ports LISTENing
with netstat -a -p, but there is no program or PID associated with
them. I can also connect to the ports via telnet. but obviously I
don't get anything after beeing connected.
How can I stop these ports from listening (so that I can start another
vncserver on screen :1)?
Thanks a lot!
Stef
--
IT freelancer
President SOS-ETH
ETH Zurich
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO on Deskstart 45 gig
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:31:03 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95mftb$b35$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a new IBM Deskstart 45 gig disk.
>
> I am unable to install LILO. Whatever I do (use regular, linear, lba32,
> install in MBR orin root partition's boot sector) LILO never gets loaded.
I
> always get, I'm paraphrasing "no operating system" message from MBR.
>
> BTW, I do have my root partition within first 500,000 sectors. And the
> cylinders has more than 1000 sectors so I do not have a cyl < 1024
problem.
>
> Has anyone got success with installing LILO on this device? If yes what
did
> you do?
>
> Post or e-mail (yavuz <aT> nortelnetworks <dOt> com) as you see fit.
>
Create a small (8 - 16 MB) ext2 partition for /boot at the very beginning of
the disk (before anything else). Boot from diskette, mke2fs and mount the
partition under temporary name and copy the contents of /boot there. Rename
old /boot, mount the new partition as /boot and install LILO (run
/sbin/lilo).
The problem is that the BIOS should see all the data necessary for booting
under its own addressing scheme. The contents of /boot must *all* be below
cylinder 1024. The separate /boot partition ensures this.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shared memory question - RH 6.1
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:47:18 +0100
Stearns28 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need some help on setting the max shared memory.
>
> I have a couple of RH 6.1 server with 256M RAM running Sybase 11.9 and Oracle.
> Since Sybase is such a memory eater that I was advised by the Sybase
> consultants to increase the Linux Shared Memory limit to 150M.
>
> I did the following to set the limit:
>
> echo 120000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
>
> but the output of 'free' did not show the change. It still showed the same
> amount before I changed shmmax.
>
> Do I need to reboot after modifying shmmax? Am I missing something here?
>
> thanks for any info/comments/suggestions.
>
> -stearns
Hello,
I've done this for Adabas RDBMS which really did speed it up.
I edited /usr/src/linux/include/asm/shmparam.h
-#define SHMMAX 0x2000000 /* max shared seg size (bytes) */
+#define SHMMAX 0x8000000 /* max shared seg size (bytes) */
/* Try not to change the default shipped SHMMAX - people rely on it */
and recompiled the kernel, I didn't knew that it should be possible with /proc,
as you write?
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Sysadmin
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From: Tomi Kinnunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: SB Live! Software and Redhat 7
Date: 6 Feb 2001 09:14:20 GMT
Hello to all Linuxists,
I'm a newbie to Linux, just installed Redhat 7. I have few questions about the use of
Sound Blaster
Live! 1024 on this system:
1. Is there available SAME KIND of DRIVERS for Linux than the Live!Ware package in
Windows?
( The ability to control all DSP-effects available in the card real-time,
applied e.g. to guitar
"multi-effects processor" ? )
2. I apologize that I have to use "Windowz terminology" :-), but I'd also need the
'corresponding' audio
software:
* "FastTracker / MadTracker"
- Some good tracker to build music from samples & instruments.
* "SoundForge"
(btw., THE BEST audio editing software ever made, IMO !!)
- Adding all possible effects with software to audio files,
( including Compression,Reverb,Delay,Bending,Fading,Tapping,
EQ,Flanger,Chorus, etc. etc. etc. )
* "MultiQuence", "DDClip", "Vegas Audio", etc.
- Multitrack editor/recorder.
Any useful help is very welcome !!! With best regards,
Tomi K.
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From: "Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:28:30 GMT
"Nick Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Ebert:) wrote in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >The main reason why just about all the software and high-technology
> >items originate from the U.S. is we are free.
>
> Yeah, those chains they slap on our wrists make it damn hard to use a
> keyboard.
Ask for slack.<g>
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From: "Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:34:16 GMT
"Nick Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harlan Grove) wrote in <94si7f$7nq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Absolutely true. It's how we define 'freedom'. For those in the US of
> >Libertarian bent, Microsoft can do what it wants to within certain
> >legal bounds (which it's overstepped, IMO).
>
> Microsoft has a centrally planned, state granted, exclusive monopoly.
> That's not very libertarian.
>
> Americans are so busy watching and being suspicious of their government,
> they've missed the big corporations sneaking up behind them, until it's
too
> late and there's nothing left to do but bite the pillow.
No, we're quite aware of big business. Watching the government means
watching big business as well since big business interests dictate what the
government does and does not do.
>
> Europeans have the opposite problem.
I think, if you look closely enough, the problem is just the same over
there. Your governments are just a bit better at hiding it. High dollar
call girls to our street-corner whores as it were...
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From: "cazzi miei" <cazzi_miei@micros~1.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I need an advice for Zip USB,
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:03:17 +0100
Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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)
>
you gotta load the module sd_mod to make the device recognized, because it's
seen as a scsi device....
then you mount sda4... and that's done... i took a while to understand that
too as I'm not used to scsi devices...
Byez
Giorgio Agrelli
========================================================================
I'm at university away from my Linux Box...
heck this lookout thing sucks men
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From: "Jan Vandesompele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com ethernet problem, module driver doesn't load
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:49:47 +0100
Hello,
I want to install my 3Com 3c905-TX network card on my mandrake linux system
(kernel 2.2.17). I have tried to do this by adding a line to my
/etc/modules.conf line:
alias eth0 3c90x
I've checked in my /lib/modules directory and the module exists. When I do
modprobe eth0
I get the error:
/lib/modules/3c90x.o: init_module: Device or Resource busy
insmod 3c905x.o failed
insmod eth0 failed
I tried to set an extra options line like this:
alias eth0 3c90x
options 3c90x IRQ=7 IO=0x280
When i do a modprobe, i get the error
/lib/modules/3c90x: symbol for parameter IRQ not found
insmod 3c905x.o failed
insmod eth0 failed
What am i doing wrong?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux distribution is best?
Date: 06 Feb 2001 18:49:02 +0900
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Peter> wrote:
>>> I have a P133 with 32MB RAM and 10G HD, but my System Bios has
>>> this 8.4 Gig barrier. I am not getting BIOS upgrade for the
>>> motherboard. When I try to install Win 98, at the time of
>>> installation, the scandisk freezes the machine. Would I have
>>> the same problem with Linux too? If not, which
>> 32 MB RAM isn't going to cut it. Either add 32 more to get
>> total of 64, or give up.
Peter> I have a P100 with 32MB ram running everything just fine,
Peter> including X. (that's slackware 7, though debian 2.2 is
Peter> also possible).
Peter> Come to that, I have a 486sx50 with 8MB ram also doing
Peter> fine. Also with X - but it just runs as a terminal. That's
Peter> slackware 3.0.
oh geez, not another reverse dick size wars thread...
i have a sparc ipx with 32mb running netbsd. it's not too bad really.
much more bearable than the 486 with only 24mb ram running slackware,
but that has nothing to do with the amount of ram. what drives me
nuts with the 486 is its slow disk. if it weren't for that, the
swapping wouldn't be too bad. old scsi beats old ide.
g.m.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 - Memory Usage !!
Date: 06 Feb 2001 18:49:00 +0900
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> I have all the java crap unchecked (as far as I can tell) and
Dan> it still takes a lot of RAM. mozilla-bin is the only thing
Dan> it runs (4 processes of it) and it takes 100+MB.
Dan> Can someone help me?
Dan> I know gnus is great, but I'd like to have a graphical mail
Dan> program... Anyone have any suggestions???
if by "graphical" you mean point'n'click, then well, gnus is not for
you. on the other hand, if you just want a mime-capable news/mail
app, gnus is just fine. you can see all the pretty pictures with gnus
too.
g.m.
--
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If our behavior is strict, we do not need fun!
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From: Natanael Copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1 screen, 1 keyboard, 2 copmutors
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:51:28 +0100
I wonder how I connect on terminal to another computer. Alt-F1 to Alt-F6
gives the tty1-6 but I want to redirect tty6 to ttyS0. So when I press
Alt-F6 I see the login screen on the second box.
How? (Yes I have read mgetty docs)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help, RH kernel question.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:48:17 GMT
Hi,
Has Red Hat made an kernel update since 2.2.16-22 ?
The 2.2.4 update on the CD's of RH 7 is just the header files.
Couldn't find anything about this on RH website so either I'm blind
or looking at the wrong place ?
I need a RH update, since I need a driver that is included with the RH
distribution but not with the ordinary kernel-update.
Fredrik
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:37:30 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe won't play audio cds ... ?
Mark wrote:
> ugga!
>
> i've got SuSE 7.0 + KDE2 here on a machine with an IDE CD ROM drive.
> Now, the problem is that the cd playing software simply refuses to see that
> there is an audio cd in the drive.
>
> /dev/cdrom does correctly point to /dev/hdb, which is the CD device.
> The software (kscd) is configured to look for that device.
>
> Any ideas what else I might be missing?
try mounting a data cd and see if applications , or even the ls command,
works correctly with the data cd.
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From: "Joan Carles Monllor P�rez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help on Raid
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:06:02 +0100
Hello, thaks for your answers. I am trying install the LVM system, but I
have problems too. I have problems in same site.
When I install two partirions with LVM system, it run perfectly, but if I
want to add a new disk, it dosen't run. It seems that
the kernel fail, and shown a error fatal.
What can I do ?
Peter T. Breuer escribi�:
> jujubeesRULE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> So, when I create then new Raid partition (
> >> mkraid --really-force /dev/md0), this partition is not shown when I
> >> launch the command df in the shell,
> >> because, "/dev/md0" raid partition needs to
> >> be reformatted.
> >>
> >> Can I add a disk without formatting ?
>
> > IIRC, its not possible with raid. You can do it with LVM though.
>
> linear and raid 0 doen't need formatting .. they don't have headers.
>
> Peter
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:24:51 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's actually really simple:
1) either get a lilo version 21.4.3 or higher.
compile and install it (read the documentation that is included)
2) get a non-destructive repartitioning tool.
examples are: PowerQuest's Partition Magic : easy to use, but not
free
GNU's parted : perhaps less easy, but
free
I'm not sure(And actually doubt it), but FIPS might be capable of
this too.
Just take off one cylinder from the beginning of C: and make that
/boot
Succes.
Eric
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to turn off cron mail?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:15:48 GMT
I start some programs from crontab. (as user and as root)
(I receive the mails also that were sent to root).
How can I turn off mails that cron sends to me?
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http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
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From: "Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:34:50 GMT
"Steve Mading" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:957i20$h7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Steve Ackman wrote:
> :>
> :> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:11:37 GMT, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> >John Hasler wrote:
> :> >
> :> >> Edward Rosten writes:
> :> >> > Christian morals were also invented by people.
> :> >>
> :> >> And the US was _not_ founded on "Christian beliefs".
> :> >
> :> >You're splitting hairs -
> :> >
> :> >There was a strong deist influence, at the very least.
> :>
> :> Jefferson was a Deist, yet was branded an Atheist by his
> :> Christian detractors. Deism is a far cry from Christianity.
> :>
>
> : Deism is a belief in the existance of God.
>
> One that has nothing to do with Christianity. Which is kind of
> important considering what this subthread is about.
It can. It's the belief in A god. Which isn't specified. It could be Allah,
Krishna, YAHWE (However that's spelled)....
>
> : Atheism is a belief in the non-existance of God.
>
> No it isn't. It's the lack of the belief that god does exist.
> To call this a belief rather than simple default skepticism is
> to assume that god existing is the default, which is circular.
Yes it is...
What you're refering to is called agnostism.
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From: "Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:42:26 GMT
"Steve Mading" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95fl3c$dju$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Dan Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Could you please take this conversation private or at least to
> : a more appropriate newsgroup. While I believe God advocates Linux
> : (Bill Gates being the antiChrist)
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
> : are not appropriate forums for this discussion.
>
> When insults are made in public, the responses must be equally public.
Must the responses be made ad nauseum, though?
This sort of debate has been going on for as long as humanity and it sure
as hell isn't going to be solved in COLA...We can't even agree on something
so simple as a distro around here!
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux distribution is best?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:07:00 +1100
I am coming late to this thread but will put my 2c.
Anyone trying to sell you additional h/w as prerequisite of installing
Linux - do not listen.
Started Linux on 586/100 16M RAM.(Ok overclocked to 120 - the mobo had 40M
setting)
Compared to MS-Glassware on the same h/w it was much faster.
Only much later, you start wondering how to improve the performance, but
then you don't have to rely on others.
Linux "makes" you to understand your box.
But, big BUT, I went Slackware, it may be a factor.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
bhogak wrote:
> I have a P133 with 32MB RAM and 10G HD, but my System Bios has this 8.4
> Gig barrier. I am not getting BIOS upgrade for the motherboard. When I
> try to install Win 98, at the time of installation, the scandisk
> freezes the machine.
> Would I have the same problem with Linux too? If not, which
> distribution is good?
>
> Thanks.
> bhogak
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dd seek returns permision denied
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:51:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi. I'm trying to build a boot disk, but I can't do:
> >
> > dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 seek=number
> >
> > it returns Permission denied
> > What can I do?
> >
>
> What do you think about setting the permissions right?
>
> `ls -l file /dev/fd0`
>
The permissions are fine. And it works if I don't do
seek=number !
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