Linux-Misc Digest #133, Volume #27 Sat, 17 Feb 01 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
VERY URGENT! Oracle linux installer problem ("chuckmachi")
Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else) (Johan Kullstam)
Printer in debian: (cups and kups?) (Kyle Parfrey)
Re: xsane and Segmentation fault (Robert Jones)
How to associate *.mp3 with XMMS? (Bora Ugurlu)
Cannot connect to MySQL server ? ("Eric Chow")
System backup, repartition, & restore. (Barry Mathieu)
Re: linux only know first 8 char of password! (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (John Hasler)
Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space? (Michael Badt)
Re: Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space? (Michael Heiming)
Redhat 6.2 rescue mode doesn't seem to work for me (mike)
NFS : Linux with AIX... (jeffrey)
Re: Fix corrupted filesystem? (RogerB)
Automatic server status watch? (Jari Huovila)
unistalling linux mandrake
Re: linux only know first 8 char of password! (Michael Heiming)
Re: Size of LINUX (Grant Edwards)
Re: User migrating from winders, to Linux. Need advice on programs. (Grant Edwards)
Is my server sending information to Redhat? ("Londonboy")
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From: "chuckmachi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VERY URGENT! Oracle linux installer problem
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:11:23 GMT
I am trting to install Oracle 8i (8.1.7) on a Red Had 6.2 Server and keep
getting an error when starting the runInstaller script.
The error is as follows:
oracle@ff:/root/Oracle8iR2 > Initializing Java Virtual Machine
from../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/
jre.Please wait...current locale is not supported in X11, locale is set to
CX locale modifiersare not supported, using defaultWarning: translation
table syntax error:Unknown keysym name: osfActivateWarning: ... found while
parsing ':<Key>osfActivate:ManagerParentActivate()'Warning: String to
TranslationTable conversion encountered errorsWarning: translation table
syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLineWarning: ... found while
parsing ':<Key>osfBeginLine:ManagerGadgetTraverseHome()'Warning: String to
TranslationTable conversion encountered errorsWarning: translation table
syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelpWarning: ... found while parsing
':<Key>osfHelp:ManagerGadgetHelp()'Warning: String to TranslationTable
conversion encountered errorsWarning: translation table syntax error:
Unknown keysym name: osfActivateWarning: ... found while parsing
':<Key>osfActivate: DrawingAreaInput()ManagerParentActivate()'Warning:
String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errorsWarning: translation
table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUpWarning: ... found while
parsing ':<Key>osfUp: DrawingAreaInput()ManagerGadgetTraverseUp()'Warning:
String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errorsSIGSEGV received at
bfffe938
in/root/Oracle8iR2/stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expande
d/linux/lib/linux/native_threads/libjava.so. Processing terminated
I've ried glib-c patches and installed the jre stuff as per the install doc.
Does any one have a solution to this?
Thanks,
Charlie
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else)
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:10:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> >> I am a Democrat. Please take your politics to a political forum.
> >>
>
> > Fuck off, Socialist.
>
> LOL! That's a good one... Calling an american "Democrat" a socialist...
> ROTFL! There's no such thing as a socialist in america. (Not in any serious
> political position anyway). They're both as bad as each other.
>
> Oh, and fuck off arsehole... Lose that fucking sig!!!!
> (how many times have you been told about that now?)
let him keep his sig. in it, he is just bragging about how big an
asshole he is. that's a good warning to someone who has not seen him
before.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer in debian: (cups and kups?)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:12:20 GMT
Hello all ::
I have been trying to get my epson stylus photo 700 working with debian 2.2
with no luck. I have installed cups, and the frontend kups, but I still
cannot get anything to print. I am using a ppd file from the cupsomatic at
linuxprinting.org.
1) What is the "location" of the printer, and is it different from the uri?
2) When I try to print I get "error 1024". Does anyone know what this
means?
How do I get and setup a driver for my printer? I cannot get gimp-print to
compile either.
Is there a better printing solution for debian - one that is really easy to
setup??
Thanks,
Kyle
--
"For he on honey dew hath fed,
and drunk the milk of paradaise"
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xsane and Segmentation fault
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:16:56 -0600
John Thompson wrote:
> Robert Jones wrote:
>
> > I remember reading about this problem in *a* newsgroup or *a* web page
> > several months ago. I didn't pay a lot of attention at the time because
> > it was before I had a scanner. Can someone give me a clue?
> > RH6.0, 2.2.16 kernel, xsane-0.47-2
>
> I haven't seen that problem here with my Epson 636U scanner, but
> isn't xsane v0.47-2 fairly dated? I'm using xsane v0.62/kernel
> 2.2.18 and it works fine for me.
You're certainly correct about the version being ancient:
$ rpm -qip ./xsane-0.47-2.i386.rpm
Name : xsane Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 0.47 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 2 Build Date: Sat Jan 29 06:58:24
2000
I was amazed to see I had downloaded v0.61-2 but not installed it until...
$ rpm -qip ./xsane-0.61-2.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
It looks like I have some things to do and the timing is perfect. Xsane was
working after a fashion until I got stuck in tape drive purgatory for a few
weeks. I feel a little better about upgrading stuff with that problem
resolved.
Thanks to both of you!
>
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
6:57am up 6 days, 14:49, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.02
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From: Bora Ugurlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to associate *.mp3 with XMMS?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:26:02 +0100
I have XMMS 1.0.1, KDE 2.1 beta2 installed on SUSE 7.0 and I would see XMMS
coming up and play the song when I klick on an MP3 file. I registered XMMS
as primary application in File Associations, but when I click on a song,
XMMS comes up with the song carried into the list, but it just doesn't
play.
Please help.
Bora Ugurlu
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From: "Eric Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Cannot connect to MySQL server ?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:09:27 +0800
Hello,
I can't connnect to MySQL server use mysql client.
The following is my information
mysql> select user,host from user;
+-------+--------------------+
| user | host |
+-------+--------------------+
| dba | % |
| myfaq | _ |
| | linux.ericjoey.com |
| root | linux.ericjoey.com |
| | localhost |
| root | localhost |
+-------+--------------------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
And the I tried to connect to MySQL using dba in the same machine(Linux, the
MySQL server).
[eric@linux eric]$ mysql -u dba -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'dba@localhost' (Using password: YES)
[eric@linux eric]$
It failed to connect to the MySQL server, and I also tried to use JDBC in
another machine which connect to the LAN with the MySQL server. It also
failed. What should I do ?
Please teach me.
Best regards,
Eric
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From: Barry Mathieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System backup, repartition, & restore.
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:08:01 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm still a relative newbie, so please keep that in context as you
read.
I have been running RH 5.0 (kernel 2.0.31) for about 2 yrs (at home, and
I am not computer professional). I have come to the conclusion it is
time for a system upgrade, and a stab at a different distro.
Currently my RH system occupies 1.5G on my 6G drive (a single linux
native partition, hda1). I like the setup, and although it has some
deficiencies, I want to preserve it. I have read many favorable
comments about DebIan and its system upgrade utility, apt-get. My desire
has become to repartition the drive to 2G (for the ol' RH system) and 4G
for the new DebIan system. A 64MB partition will be set up for swap.
Therefore, approximately:
hda1 linux native (83) 2G
hda2 linux native (83) 4G
hda3 linux swap (82) 64MB
But before I go willy-nilly into rapartitionville using fdisk, I need to
backup my entire current system onto a second drive (the old Windows
drive - that must stay Win system). I believe the way to go about this
is to use, tar. Can I tar my entire system, while it is being used as
the current system? That is, "tar cvf /system.tar -P /". Or, is the
correct approach to use something like the tar utility on Tom's root
boot disk with my current system (/hda1) and the win drive (hdc5) in
/mnt? That is, "tar cvf /mnt/hdc5/system.tar /mnt/hda1".
I tried Tom's root boot disk, just to see what it looks like, and I'm
wondering if it sees my entire system. For example, I keep all the RPMs
I download in a directory, "/usr/local/download". When I booted using
Tom's disk, I couldn't see this directory. I didn't try with other
directories 3 levels deep, so my conviction as to this being a Tom's
idiosyncrasy or my own ignorance is unclear.
With the system backed-up, I would then repartition and format the
drive, as shown above, with Tom's root boot disk.
Then, using Tom's root boot disk, I would restore the system onto the
now smaller /hda1 partition. That is, "gzip -d < /mnt/hdc5/system.tar.gz
| tar -xvf -". Do I need to hand edit the /etc/fstab file to correspond
to the new drive partitions? Do I need to turn on the bootable flag
(with fdisk) on the hda1 partition? It isn't currently boot flagged in
the partition table (fdisk -l).
Then, if everything goes well, pull Tom's disk, reboot, and voila, my
old system on a fresh 2G partition.
The DebIan system is on its way from cheap*bytes. Once received, I can
load it on hda2, edit the lilo.conf file (& run lilo), and have working,
potentially dual boot, RH and DebIan box.
Well, does this sound like a viable approach?
Barry
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux only know first 8 char of password!
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:27:50 -0500
Carfield Yim wrote:
>
> I have set the root password of my machine have more than 8 char for
> security reason, but I find that everyone can login as root if he know
> the first 8 char of root password. How can I tell linux to know all
> password?
You need to enable the MD5 password mechanism. I enabled it during
the install and do not remember how to do it later.
I looked around in my Red Hat control-panel, but could not find it
there.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:50am up 19 days, 17:17, 4 users, load average: 3.56, 3.50,
3.16
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:38:47 GMT
spike1 writes:
> He appears not to know what the word materialism means...
It appears that he does.
> The goal of materialism is to acquire money and things to improve your
> quality of life at the cost of moral/spiritual/whatever health...
But it is clear that you do not. We are discussing philosophy in this
thread. Take your politics to the other branch.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Badt)
Subject: Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:03:55 GMT
Hi,
I've a dual boot system.
I need to address a Windows folder whose name contains a space (e.g.,
"D:\Internet Data").
How can I address such a path from bash?
TIA
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:10:28 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space?
Michael Badt wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a dual boot system.
> I need to address a Windows folder whose name contains a space (e.g.,
> "D:\Internet Data").
> How can I address such a path from bash?
>
> TIA
/mnt/Internet\ Data
Should do the job, try to avoid spaces in path/filenames if you are
using the files with
Linux, you will get problems with apps like find and others.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 rescue mode doesn't seem to work for me
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:25:07 -0500
Hi.
I just got a Linux 6.2 CD that a friend created via an iso image.
Before installing, I wanted what the rescue mode would be like.
Supposedly in this version, there is no rescue floppy. The procedure
is to use the install disk. At the boot prompt type "linux rescue".
I did and I got a bash prompt. I could not execute any commands
from there. I tried "fdisk" to see if it could look at my hard drives.
The message indicated that it couldn't perform the operation.
I tried "ls -la" and the message was: command not found.
Is there an update for this rescue mode?
Is there a rescue.img available to correct the problem.
According to Redhat, there was no rescue.img origionally. I was
thinking that maybe one was created later on.
Thanks
Mike
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From: jeffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: NFS : Linux with AIX...
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:28:54 +0200
I have setup Linux NFS Server and one of my clients is a box running AIX .The
directory I'm
sharing with the AIX machine(called junior) is /home and hence my
/etc/exports
(on the Linux box) has the following line :
/home junior(rw,no_root_squash)
and on junior(The AIX machine) I have the following(in the
/etc/filesystems file)
/newusers:
dev = /home
vfs = nfs
nodename = 196.21.46.132
mount = true
options = bg,soft,intr,vers=2
account = false
where /newusers is the local directory on junior(the AIX machine) where
/home is
suppose to be mounted
When I do " mount /newusers " on the AIX box I get the following
message :
mount: giving up on:
196.21.46.132:/home
vmount: Not owner
What's going wrong?
Jeff Mutonho
Cape Town
South Africa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RogerB)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Fix corrupted filesystem?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:06:34 GMT
If you check the size of the files you might find that they don't
make sense. You can use e2fsck to fix the file system from a recovery
disk or a boot disk. Run e2fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/hd? where hd? is your damaged
partition. Your file system shouldn't be mounted when you do that. Also
the 8193 is the location of your superblock if it tells you the superblock is
bad add 8192 to that number and try again.
It's been a while sense I had to fix one so if you can check out the
man pages on e2fsck .
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:47:11 GMT, Jonny Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My filesystem got a bit corrupted from a system crash. Now when I boot it
>up, some symlinks show up as orphaned symlinks, pointing to missing files.
>However, I can see the actual files when I do a 'ls'. I tried deleting the
>links and recreating them, but it doesn't help (still shows up as missing).
>I've tried running fsck, but it didn't recover any files into lost+found.
>What should I do?
>
>I did an 'rpm -Va' to check my files (thanks Mike for the advice). Some
>files show up as failing MD5 checksum. Does that mean those files are
>corrupted? Can I fix them?
>
>Thanks.
>
>- Jonny
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jari Huovila)
Subject: Automatic server status watch?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:21:02 GMT
Hi everyone!
Is there a program available for Linux to automatically watch status
of remote server(s) and send an e-mail alert when a server goes down?
Watching could mean just pinging the remote server, or preferably
whether or not specific TCP/UDP services are responding.
Thanks!
- Jari
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unistalling linux mandrake
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:30:09 -0000
hi,
about 8 months ago I installed Linux in my laptop, i have them as a dual
boot LinuxMandrake/Win98 but now i dont need linux in my laptop anymore, I
want to uninstall it from my laptop and install it in other machine. The
problem is that i dont want to loose Win98. How can i uninstall Linux
without messing Win98? Any suggestions?
thanks!
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:40:08 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux only know first 8 char of password!
Carfield Yim wrote:
> I have set the root password of my machine have more than 8 char for
> security reason, but I find that everyone can login as root if he know
> the first 8 char of root password. How can I tell linux to know all
> password?
Hello,
not easy to answer, this is normally set in /etc/login.defs
and depends on your systems crypt function,
despite your system uses PAM system, you should have
then /etc/pam.d/passwd or /etc/pam.conf where you can set this.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-6.html
Gives some more info.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Size of LINUX
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:45:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rolie Baldock wrote:
>Back in the days of the DEC PDP-6 we ran a TIME SHARING operating
>system in 4K words of memory. Now some horrendous amount of bytes are
>required to run an operating system such as LINUX which does not seem
>to provide any more intelligence than the old PDP-6 operating system.
Really?
The PDP-6 had demand paged virtual memory? Network support? Combined
buffer/cache? Support for a dozen different filesystems?
>Doesn't seem to show any degree of cleverness to my way of thinking.
>In those days all operating systems were written in assembly
>language!!!!! I rest my case.
Trolling newsgroups doesn't show any degree of cleverness to my way of
thinking, so go show some cleverness by writing a kernel in assembly
language.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! -- I love KATRINKA
at because she drives a
visi.com PONTIAC. We're going
awaynow. I fed the cat.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: User migrating from winders, to Linux. Need advice on programs.
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:48:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Desktop publishing package, Quark Express.
>
>Nope. Think the only DTP program is FrameMaker by Adobe...
>Nothing as powerfull as Quark or PageMaker yet.
I saw an add for a DTP package for Linux called "Ice Sculptor" in this weeks
flyer from Micro Center. For $69 it's worth a shot -- except I don't need
DTP beyond what LaTeX can do.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Did YOU find a
at DIGITAL WATCH in YOUR box
visi.com of VELVEETA?
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From: "Londonboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Is my server sending information to Redhat?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:59:51 GMT
Hi there,
I installed a Redhat 7.0 server behind the firewall, I use packet filtering
to log all the packets and I found out that for every 5-10 minutes, my
server tries to contact 216.148.218.160:443 which is
"head.rwc.rhns.redhat.com"
Do you guys know what is this? is my server sending information to Redhat?
and how can I disable it on my Redhat service?
N.B
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