Linux-Misc Digest #129, Volume #27 Fri, 16 Feb 01 23:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Winders Millenium and the mbr. (Michel Catudal)
Re: Booting Win2K and Caldera eDesktop (Michel Catudal)
Re: Linux or Windows (NOT A HOLY WAR!) (Michel Catudal)
ImageMagick's montage: no foreground? (S P Arif Sahari Wibowo)
2.2.19prexx vs 2.4.x (Paul Lew)
Re: Where to put hdparm (Dances With Crows)
Re: netcrap locks me up (The Real Bev)
Re: Booting Linux on Windows Computer. (Michel Catudal)
Re: 2.2.19prexx vs 2.4.x (Dances With Crows)
Re: User permissions for vfat mount ("Scott L. Foglesong")
Re: Uninstalling Corel Linux? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Getting my sound card to work... (Michel Catudal)
Re: Intruder (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: keep connection alive (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: User permissions for vfat mount (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_R=FCppel?=)
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winders Millenium and the mbr.
Date: 16 Feb 2001 20:17:05 -0600
"atl.mediaone" a �crit :
>
> Does Winders Millenium take over the mbr? I've installed linux in the past
> on machines with Win98 present and it set itself up as a dual boot box, no
> problem. Just got a WinMe box and things have gone way south. I can boot
> Linux but when I try to go for the Windows boot it just says it's starting
> Me and then hangs. Vendor of course can't be bothered to support Linux so
> that's not much help. (If it were'nt for relatives I'd have the whole thign
> as a Linux box, so please let's not get into that argument.)
>
Try xosl, you can install on its own primary partition (about the same size as
OS/2 boot manager), or on the MBR
http://www.xosl.org/
You will need to change lilo to be on the root of the linux partition.
I was using the OS/2 boot manager until my winblows drive died and replaced it
with a 30G hard drive. I reserved 2G for winblows and later had to make a small
partition at the very end in fat32 to satisfy winblows installation who refused
to install unless I would let it format my 28G of Linux partitions.
When I installed the one of my other linux distributions I found out that it was
impossible to boot with the OS/2 boot manager past the winblows partition (2G).
It was set as LBA so I'm not sure what winblows did to the drive. Anyhow xosl boots
5 different Linux distributions with no problem whatsoever.
--
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: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Booting Win2K and Caldera eDesktop
Date: 16 Feb 2001 20:19:08 -0600
Ken a �crit :
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to dual boot Caldera eDesktop 2.4 and Windows 2000 Pro. I have two
> hard disks. The first one /dev/hda has a single partition and Windows 2000
> is installed on it. The second one has an ext2, FAT32 and a swap partition
> on it and Linux is installed there. Caldera uses a boot loader called GRUB.
> Right now I have to boot from the Caldera CD. I can boot Windows 2000 no
> problem.
>
> I tried making an image to boot Linux with like this
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb1 bs=512 count=1 of=linux.img
>
> and copied it to my Windows partition and added it to my boot.ini file. I
> get the option when NTLoader runs to launch either Windows of Linux but when
> I select Linux it just sits for a second and then my machine reboots. I
> have tried making images of everything from one block to 9 blocks. None of
> these image files work. I want to load Linux using NTLoader. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken.
use this boot manager and put lilo on the root of the caldera partition.
http://www.xosl.org/
--
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: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux or Windows (NOT A HOLY WAR!)
Date: 16 Feb 2001 20:33:01 -0600
Scott Brady Drummonds a �crit :
>
> Hi, guys,
>
> A class I'm taking has asked us to have a round table-type discussion about
> ancient holy war of "Windows versus Linux". Basically, they've asked us to
> consider the differences between these OSes on every front.
>
> I quickly realized that, as usual with these debates, we're long on opinions
> and short on facts. I've done some quick searching of the USENET and the
> web and haven't been able to find any specific benchmarks comparing Linux
> and Windows reliability, speed, efficiency, etc. I'm sure that a little bit
> of this info would be monumentally valuable to our discussion.
>
> Does anyone know where I can find such resources on the web? I know some of
> these may be difficult to obtain (especially since each OS runs different
> applications) but any kernel of fact would be a great fuel for the fire.
> Again, if possible, I'm talking about specific measurements observed by
> impartial bodies.
>
> Also, being a USENET veteran, I beg you not to post your opinions here.
> Just post, e-mail, or quote references. We all know how protracted this
> conversation will become if everyone throws in their two cents. ;)
>
> Thanks!
> Scott
Anyone can play with benchmarks and you may not find a valid answer from either
side of the issue.
If you use stricly Microsoft's software on your winblows machine you may not have
very many crashing problems. It is not that Microsoft's programs are any better than
others but that this is the way Microsoft intended for their OS to be, a Microsoft
friendly turf. If you are a threat to their turf, watch out. (Word Perfect, IBM and
Novell
for example)
The best way to judge which is best it to use both system. For me it is a simple
thing as I use winblows at work everyday. When I arrive at home I don't want anything
to do with that shit. You see I got to be familiar with frequent blue screens on
winblows
and virtually no crashes on my Linux machines.
An argument that often fly by on the flame groups is the ease of use of Winblows versus
Linux. Actually the ease is the installation which doesn't have to be done with
winblows
when you buy the PC because PCs with Linux are just not available in most stores.
As for the reality of which one is easiest, I would say neither is for the average
man or lady who is not computer litterate. My wife who just uses the computer to do
word processing and browse the net is scared of touching winblows because of the
crashing problems, viruses and the very fact that she knows Linux but doesn't know
winblows. Those people who are casual users of computers will accomodate with any
OS as long as they have someone to coach them at first or they spend the time to read a
bit as to which buttons or which icons they have to click on.
--
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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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.os.linux.x
From: S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ImageMagick's montage: no foreground?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:35:52 GMT
Hi!
I try to use montage - part of ImageMagick package - with changing its
foreground color (that will be the color of the label under the
thumbnails), however it give this error:
montage: Unrecognized option (-foreground).
The man page said -foreground should work.
I tried -foreground, --foreground, and -fg with no avail.
I tried changing the resource in .Xdefaults, no effect on all options!
I use ImageMagick-5.2.2-5 on RedHat 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-22) and
XFree86-4.0.1-1.
Any idea?
Thank you!
--
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: 2.2.19prexx vs 2.4.x
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:03:37 GMT
I have updated my kernel to 2.4.1 but still also see "updates" available
for the 2.2.xxx level. Anyone know what is the "basic" difference and
why the parallel "updates"?
Just curious about this strange behaviour....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Where to put hdparm
Date: 17 Feb 2001 02:44:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:55:25 GMT, me staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Efflandt"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Compile a command into the kernel? Put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>> (preferably with full path to hdparm in case it is not in the PATH).
>
>I put it at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local (wow... transfers really
>improved), and I added the switch -S120, but the hdd never sleeps.
>It is ALWAYS spinning. It is a mini-B52 sound maker. I have disabled
>all deamons/services/cron-jobs at startup, and still no sleepy time.
>Here is what is running:
>
>top, init, kflushd, kupdate, kpiod, kswapd, minilogd, login -- root,
>
>I imagine the ones with 'd' at the end are deamons... but how/can I?
>turn them off?
>
>Even wincrap put the hdd to sleep after the amount of inactivity I tell
>it to. But who wants to use wincrap anymore?
The disk with / and/or /var on it is *never* inactive for 5 minutes at a
stretch in a normal Linux installation. The update daemon (on older
kernels) or the kflushd kernel thread runs every 30 seconds at least,
flushing dirty buffers to disk. And various logging daemons write
things to the logs very often, whether they need to or not. Older
systems control this behavior with a parameter passed to "update" in the
init script, while newer systems allow you to do things by echoing
values to /proc/sys/vm/bdflush . There's some documentation in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt at least. I believe there's
also a kernel patch for people with laptops--spinning down the disk
there saves a great deal of power.
This is Linux showing its roots--hey, servers are up all the time
anyway; why would they want to spin their disks down?
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: The Real Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netcrap locks me up
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:51:49 -0800
Can't remember the details of the adduser problem, just that I got tired of
fighting it. Easier to fight humans...
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Then they are complaining that they don't have a single braincell.
> Netscape is a userspace application. It doesn't care who runs it.
> That's why you CAN run it as root ...
It comes up frequently in the netscape newsgroups. Never been my problem,
so I never read the messages.
> > Three years and still alive. So far, so good, and way better than win9*.
>
> .. and of course you know why you shouldn't. You really hate those
> 512MB core files all over your system tree don't you!
Nope, haven't had any of those for a long time. What does not kill me
makes me stronger.
> And then there
> are the vicious javascript attack pages. Seen the one with the roaring
> bear?
Nope. More often than not I see java/javascript pages as almost totally
blank, which in many cases is probably a positive boon. Shame that there
are places I have to go that use the stuff.
--
Cheers,
Bev
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Of course SoCal has four seasons:
Earthquake, Mudslide, Brushfire, and Riot
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting Linux on Windows Computer.
Date: 16 Feb 2001 20:56:06 -0600
Harsh Strider a �crit :
>
> Hello,
>
> Until yesterday my computer was a dual boot Windows only machine. I
> decided to install Mandrake Linux on it so that I could also use it
> for Linux. This is the setup I have.
>
> I have three physical hard drives in my computer. The C: drive has
> Windows 2000 Pro installed on it. The D: dirve has Windows 98 on it.
> The third drive is where I did install Mandrake Linux 7.2. In the
> installation manual it it said that Mandrake would wipe out my Windows
> Master boot record and install a boot loader called GRUB in its place.
> The installation of Linux went fine and then the computer rebooted,
> however I never get to boot into any OS. This is the line that I get:
>
> Low Level BASH line editor Initiated:
>
> and then I get this prompt
>
> grub>
>
> I can boot into windows, if I boot off a floppy disk and then run this
> command from DOS.
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> When I restart the computer it gives me the option to boot into
> Windows 98 or Windows 2000 pro, the way it always had.
>
> I also installed Mandrake Linux on a clean machine (Linux would be the
> only OS). And that worked fine. I do want to install it on my Windows
> machine because it is so much faster (Pentium 3 933 w/ 256mb RAM, w/ a
> 64mb video card vs. a Dual Pentium Pro 180 w/ 96mb RAM, w/ a 4mb
> video card).
>
> I have been using Linux for about three years now, however this is the
> first tmie I have tried to install it on a computer that already has
> other OS's on it. I have only ever used Linux on Linux only computers.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Harsh Strider
Try this
http://www.xosl.org/
Grub screwed up my boot manager as well but I cleaned up the MBR
and installed xosl. You can install it on the MBR or on it's own 8M primary partition
(you have to create a small partition first) or on the MBR of the first drive.
Be carefull if you install on a partition not to install on your winblow partition
because it will do it if you tell it to. You can easily pick whatever partition
you want. For me it was easy as I allready had the OS/2 boot manager which I
highlighted
to be used.
Boot on diskette to your Mandrake Linux
Here is the top of my /etc/lilo.conf
Yours is probably similar but probably has boot at /dev/hdb
replace it with the actual partition and run lilo.
You then boot on a dos diskette and run the xosl install. Put winblows and
Linux on the boot manager's menus. I use this graphic boot manager with
8 different OSes and love it (6 are Linuxes) 57G and I have win 98 (3G) and PC DOS
(200M).
It is free and works beautifully.
boot=/dev/hdf2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
default=linux
keytable=/boot/qc-latin1.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdf2
append=" mem=128M hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=788
read-only
--
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
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 2.2.19prexx vs 2.4.x
Date: 17 Feb 2001 03:02:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:03:37 GMT, Paul Lew staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I have updated my kernel to 2.4.1 but still also see "updates"
>available for the 2.2.xxx level. Anyone know what is the "basic"
>difference and why the parallel "updates"?
>
>Just curious about this strange behaviour....
Feh, kernel 2.0.39 came out a couple of months back. This newfangled
2.2 stuff, who needs it?
This is actually expected behavior. Lots of people are reluctant to
switch to the 2.4 series, as it might not have all the bugs worked out
yet. While adventurous people beta-test 2.4.x on their nonessential
machines and find all the bad bugs, developers back-port changes and
fixes from 2.4 into the 2.2 tree. (The USB support in 2.2.18 is the
most recent big example of this.) Both kernel series are being
improved, but theoretically more developer time is being spent on 2.4.
At some point, 2.4 will be pronounced "OFFICIAL" by public opinion or
whatever, and driver writers/commercial software companies will write
code that requires a 2.4 kernel to function. Work on the 2.2 series
will slow to a crawl, as developers pour their energy into 2.5, and
eventually 2.2 will only be used for really old Athlon 600 systems that
have only 256M--too little for kernel 3.4 to load the automatic DWIM
feature....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Scott L. Foglesong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User permissions for vfat mount
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:10:07 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ralph Miguel Hansen wrote:
> Scott L. Foglesong wrote:
>
> > Hello all--
> >
> > I have several vfat partitions (i.e., FAT32) mounted as //mnt/drivec,
> > and //mnt/drived. These come up just fine (they're in fstab).
> >
> > However, they're accessible for writing only by root. I've tried
> > changing the mode to allow all users to read-write, but that doesn't
> > seem to work.
> >
> > I've also played around some with the DOS options (that you see in the
> > LinuxConf settings for accessing local drives in RH7), but anything I do
> > there seems to render the partition almost unaccessible across the
> > board.
> >
> > Could someone point me in the right direction for finding out how to
> > deal with this? I looked through the HOWTOs and I didn't find anything
> > that seemed specific to this kind of a problem--although perhaps the
> > information is somewhere in there, and I overlooked it.
> >
> > Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Scott Foglesong
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> Here a line of my /etc/fstab with umask-entry for read/write-access:
>
> /dev/hda5 /Daten vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
>
> man umask (uarrgh !)
>
> Cheers
>
> Ralph Miguel Hansen
> Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
Thank you! This worked quite well for me as well.
Now on to studying umask...
Cheers,
Scott Foglesong
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uninstalling Corel Linux?
Date: 16 Feb 2001 21:12:06 -0600
jayoeming a �crit :
>
> All:
>
> I'm brand spanking new to Linux. I put Corel Linux on a hard drive on a
> spare computer. I went to install a second hard drive on that same
> computer, which I want to partition up for different operating systems.
> To install the hard drive, I need Windows on my machine.
>
> But, I don't have Windows on my machine: I have Linux.
>
> Thus, I want to uninstall Linux (i.e., reformat the hard drive with Linux
> on it, I suppose), so I can install Windows, so I can reinstall Linux.
>
> Sheesh!
>
> I tried putting a Windows startup disc in the "A" drive, and using
> the "format" command on to erase the "C" drive, but Windows said it
> didn''t recognize the "C" drive.
>
> I also looked in the Corel manual, but it said that to uninstall Linux,
> you had to reformat the drive. When I looked up "format" or "reformat,"
> all it had was stuff on formatting floppy discs.
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated, so this Linux newborn can get the
> show on the road.
>
Why make your life hard when you don't need to.
Download xosl boot manager on http://www.xosl.org/
unzip file and put on diskette that has a boot of dos on it.
Make sure lilo is on the root of the partition and not on the MBR.
If it is on the mbr do a lilo -U and change the /etc/lilo.conf
to have boot point to your root partition where /boot is
like /dev/hda1 for example or whatever you have as root partition for /boot
run lilo before you shut down. Make sure you have a boot diskette for your
Linux.
Remove your linux drive and put your new drive as master with the linux
drive not connected at all.
Install winblows on new drive.
Put back Linux drive as master and make winblows drive as slave.
Boot on diskette and install xosl boot manager. Add Linux and winblows on
boot manager menu, save, and choose default booting OS. Reboot and enjoy
the crashes on win 98 and fun on Linux.
What the boot manager will do is make winblows believe that it is on the first drive.
--
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
------------------------------
From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting my sound card to work...
Date: 16 Feb 2001 21:22:06 -0600
Rajesh Radhakrishnan a �crit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I ran 'sndconfig' and here is the error I get,
>
> The following error occurred running the modprobe program:
> x
> x /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or x
> x resource busy x
> x /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/sb.o: insmod x
> x /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/sb.o failed x
> x /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/sb.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed x
>
> When I ran insmod I got these following messages,
>
> insmod sb.o
> sb.o: unresolved symbol midi_synth_send_sysex_Rfddcbfb3
> sb.o: unresolved symbol probe_uart401_R6467f99b
> sb.o: unresolved symbol DMAbuf_inputintr_Reb315d99
> sb.o: unresolved symbol sound_free_dma_R394cb088
>
> My /dev/audio is always reported to be busy,
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 avi sys 14, 4 Aug 24 05:00 /dev/audio
>
> My Sound Blaster card was working fine until last week. The problem
> started after I had listened to some Realplayer files from the web and
> the player hung while playing one of the files.
>
> I rebooted the machine but the problem persists.
>
> Any suggestions.
> Thanks
> Rajesh
Are you booting on graphic? KDE is quite obnoxious about trying to keep
shit reloaded after a crash. You will have to make sure there is no junk
loaded. Your sound modules may allready be loaded but some crapy program
may be using the sound card. Do a lsmod to see what is loaded.
If all fails check the startup files on .kde tree to see what junk it
loads. Disable noise support in KDE to see if it is what is hogging the sound
card. I've had cases under KDE where the sound card was not usable after a KDE
crash until I disabled noise support under KDE.
--
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
------------------------------
From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intruder
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:35:58 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> rc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> > I noticed that the a-hole created 2 or 3 users that were hidden. I removed
> > them and closed the ftp access. I am not sure what else to do. Does anyone
> > know if sendmail works behind a firewall?
>
> If you leave the sendmail port open it does, yes.
> If you only use sendmail for sending mails externally and distributing local
> mail, then also yes. (Even with the SMTP port closed to external connection
> attempts)
>
> The only advice ANYONE can give you after you've been cracked is...
> backup important files such as /etc and /home.
> Wipe the hard disk, and reinstall.
While I agree about backing up /etc, you should not casually
re-install it. Instead, you should first take whatever /etc you get
from your re-install, and carefully compare the backed-up versions
(that you restore to somewhere safe, where they will not get used)
with the newly installed ones line-by-line, understanding each
difference. If you have a wide enough screen, as I do, do an
sdiff -w 180 installed.file backedup file | less
and make sure you understand each difference. If I were a cracker, I
would surely diddle your /etc directory to give me maximum advantage
in getting back in.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:30pm up 19 days, 6:57, 4 users, load average: 2.28, 2.20,
2.12
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: keep connection alive
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:45:43 -0500
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner wrote:
>
> Doug Forbush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If all you need is ANY network activity, then set up a cron job to ping
> > some arbitrary host every 5 min's..
>
> Cron is kind of overkill for this purpose. Just do
> nohup ping -i 600 2>&1 >/dev/null &
> Alternately, you could put that in your PPP startup script and have something
> like
> killall ping
> in your PPP shutdown script.
>
> JDW
My ISP has a different idea: they reserve the right to hang up on me
after 4 hours of connection time, whether or not I am active. So
running a keep-alive program will not help. It is less of a problem
than I might expect. I think they do that so no-one will hog a
dial-up port, but they are well-provided with these, so it seldom
happens, especially at night.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:40pm up 19 days, 7:07, 4 users, load average: 2.07, 2.10,
2.09
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_R=FCppel?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User permissions for vfat mount
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:43:14 +0100
Ralph Miguel Hansen wrote:
> Scott L. Foglesong wrote:
>
>> Hello all--
>>
>> I have several vfat partitions (i.e., FAT32) mounted as //mnt/drivec,
>> and //mnt/drived. These come up just fine (they're in fstab).
>>
>> However, they're accessible for writing only by root. I've tried
>> changing the mode to allow all users to read-write, but that doesn't
>> seem to work.
>>
>> I've also played around some with the DOS options (that you see in the
>> LinuxConf settings for accessing local drives in RH7), but anything I do
>> there seems to render the partition almost unaccessible across the
>> board.
>>
>> Could someone point me in the right direction for finding out how to
>> deal with this? I looked through the HOWTOs and I didn't find anything
>> that seemed specific to this kind of a problem--although perhaps the
>> information is somewhere in there, and I overlooked it.
>>
>> Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Scott Foglesong
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
> Here a line of my /etc/fstab with umask-entry for read/write-access:
>
> /dev/hda5 /Daten vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
>
> man umask (uarrgh !)
>
> Cheers
>
> Ralph Miguel Hansen
> Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
>
>
>
What are the last two 0s good for?
J�rg
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