Linux-Misc Digest #252, Volume #27 Wed, 28 Feb 01 11:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator (Morgan)
Re: small linux distro (H Dziardziel)
Re: XMMS question (Jon Rook)
partition table problem (Dave Brown)
No new entries to error_log in Apache 1.3.17 (Mat)
Re: Linux partitioning question ("Cjv")
Re: licence loops (Eric Buddington)
Re: Linux partitioning question (Jean-David Beyer)
Plextor can't mount CDs 121032A does not grab > 8x (Bora Ugurlu)
Re: Color setting problem!!!! (Michael Heiming)
Re: Your Favourite X or Gnome Software? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Cross-platform development tool? ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
hard disk failure ... data recovery options ? ("John Gill")
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From: Morgan <lumpenprole@Don't_You_Spam_me_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:15:14 GMT
You might also want to look into ttssh for secure connections. It's too
easy to sniff telnet.
-Morgan
Tomaz Cedilnik wrote:
> "Nils O. Sel�sdal" wrote:
>
> > > terminal emulator could also properly handle color (like at the linux
> > > console).
>
> > Open a dos prompt and type : telnet <yourhost> ?
>
> That one doesn't handle colours properly.
>
> Tom
--
"This is the day, your life will surely change"
-Matt Johnson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Subject: Re: small linux distro
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:23:04 GMT
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:17:57 +0500, "Major Dondo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to put a small linux distro on an old laptop. I can get tom's
>disk running with network support, so all I need now is an ftp install of
>a distro that is smaller than, say 100 MB, has Xwindows (I need a
>graphical browser) and supports PCMCIA for my network card.
>
>The lap top has 24 MB of ram, and it's a 486DX4.
>
>Any suggestions welcome!
>
>TIA,
>
>--Yan
Take a look at mulinux. Not sure about the pcmcia though.
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From: Jon Rook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XMMS question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:23:49 -0500
Sorry, I thought of a couple of other points:
1) My audio system works fine under Linux. I can play audio CDs with no
problems.
2) I also tried 'mpg123' and 'gamp' and all of them exhibit the same
behavior. MP3 files only play for the first few notes and then repeat
indefinitely.
Thanks,
Jon
.
Jon Rook wrote:
> XMMS on my system does not work properly.
> When a song is started, it only plays the first 1/2 second, or so, of
> the song. It then keeps repeating that same brief section of the song
> and never advances through the rest of the song.
> I initially thought it was the MP3 file that was corrupted, but all
> songs are "processed" the same way. Also, the same MP3 files play
> correctly in Windows.
> I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling the XMMS package from the
> distribution CD. Didn't work.
> I am running Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 on a 200Mhz K6 with 32MB of
> main memory.
> Does anybody have any ideas?
> Thanks.
> Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: partition table problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Feb 2001 02:45:47 -0600
I have a Tekram 390 controller and IBM 9 GB SCSI drive. I had it
nicely partitioned, using parameters of 255 heads 63 sectors and
1115 cylinders.
But then, I tried to install Corel's new v.2 Linux, thinking I'd
try their version of wine and photopaint. The installation was
partially successful, except that lilo didn't get configured.
(It didn't ever ask about configuring it...)
But in the process, my drive seems to have gotten some bad partition
table data--sorta. All the partitions are still there, and usable,
but when I try to use fdisk, it shows 64 heads, 32 sectors and 8000+
cylinders. And lilo wont touch it. (Even though I'm writing lilo to
/dev/hda...
I can set the CHS in fdisk and rewrite the partition table, but
when I reboot it still shows the 8000,64,32 geometry.
As I recall, I used to be able to partition a scsi drive with an
adaptec controller, or maybe using a EZSCSI utility. But I don't
seem to have anything like that with Tekram.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No new entries to error_log in Apache 1.3.17
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:49:09 +0100
Hi,
Suddenly (I think that after recompiling apache with php and mysql),
apache stopped
writing into error_log. I could find an appropriate entry in httpd.conf.
What could I check?
Kind regards,
Maciek
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From: "Cjv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 07:34:06 -0800
"Floyd Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
> For instance, in most of the multi-partition examples shown in
> this thread there have been both a /tmp and a /var partition.
> That is an unnecessary waste of disk space. The /var partition
> is going to suffer high fragmentation, which is one reason it
> should be a separate partition, but that also makes it a great
> place for /tmp to physically be located. Both /tmp and /usr/tmp
> should be symlinks to /var/tmp.
>
How would I symlink /tmp and /usr/tmp to /var/tmp when they seem to be
created automatically when I do the install?? (Im a newbie)
> Other obvious candidates for locating on other partitions with a
> symlink are /usr/local, /usr/X11, /opt, and where ever it is
> that emacs/xemacs or tex are located.
>
> Likewise the /home directory can actually be on one or more
> other partitions. /home itself can be a symlink, but so can
> each user's directory if that is useful (as might be for the
> /home/ftp directory, as an example).
>
> Hence, while it is possible to get / or /usr partitions too
> small, they will be too small to even install the first time if
> that is true. If those partitions are large enough to actually
> manage a functional install to begin with, they *never* require
> resizing.
>
> --
Floyd, If I were to do a fresh install then, how many original partitions do
you suggest I create? Then how would I use symlinks (as you describe)?
Would this approach be harder to restore if one of the partitions became
unstable?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Buddington)
Subject: Re: licence loops
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:53:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher R. Carlen wrote:
>Like the street light post a block from my home. It has a typical pipe
>street light post, with an integrated pushbutton to activate the "Walk"
>light.
>
>Profoundly innovative. I couldn't believe it when I saw the patent
>number printed on it.
Can I trouble you to copy and post that patent number? It would be
interesting to see what the patent is actually for - it's probably
not for "buttons on street light posts that anyone can push".
-Eric
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:54:58 -0500
"Greg H." wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.setup Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If you do not have time to perform backups, you will have to make much
> > more time to recover lost files without the backups. While hardware
> > and (some) software is more reliable than in the past, my experience
> > in the computing business since about 1954 has made me very conscious
> > of the problems of data (including program) loss, and I do backups
> > every day. If you do not care how your storage is partitioned, and
> > cannot find the time to do backups (how much time could it take if
> > cron does it while you are asleep), why do you care about anything?
> > Why have a computer at all?
>
> Read my subsequent post.
>
> Besides, I never said I didn't care. I said I didn't see the need to
> go beyond having a seperate partition for /home, swap, /, and maybe
> /boot. And I never said I didn't have time or would not do backups.
> I back up what's unreplaceable. The distros these days take care of
> the rest. And my argument pertains to personal use. Servers and multi-
> user systems are a totally different story, which I feel were not the
> focus of this thread.
>
1.) Linux and UNIX are multi-user systems, so it is not a totally
different story in this newsgroup.
2.) I have a CD-ROM with, roughly, my current distro on it. I have a
boxfull of CD-ROMs for IBM DB2 UDB V6.1; it takes a very long time to
install that correctly.
I have a floppy for my BRU backup utility. I have a CD-ROM for
Applixware 5.00, etc. But all that stuff has upgrades I have
downloaded and applied. Some of that stuff can no longer be found at
the URLs from which I originally got them. It would take weeks to
recover all that stuff and do all the reconfiguration all over again.
I can do a fresh install on my machine in a little less than an hour,
but it takes about a week to get all the configurations right again,
not counting getting all the updates that must be applied on top of
all the physical media I have on hand.
That is why I backup everything onto tape everyday. I restore my OS
from its CD-ROM, install the BRU utility, and then read in the whole
tape and I am back to where I left off. In principle, I need not even
do that, since I have an OBDR tape drive and I have made OBDR backup
tapes. Presumably I can just boot the machine with an OBDR tape in the
drive, holding the eject button for over 5 seconds, and the whole
system will be restored, including all the settings and all the
contents of /dev (for example).
I cannot imagine trying to do a full restore from the physical media
lying around here.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 10:45am up 1 day, 18:44, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.08
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From: Bora Ugurlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plextor can't mount CDs 121032A does not grab > 8x
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:55:59 +0100
Hi there.
Two problems:
1) I want to mount my Plextor 121032A CD/RW as a CDROM, but it gives the
following error:
mount: /dev/scd0 hat eine falsche Major- oder Minor-Ger�tenummer.
(=wrong major or minor device id..)
The device is like the following in /dev:
brwxr-xr-x 1 root users 11, 0 Jul 29 2000 /dev/scd0
It is an ATAPI device with IDE-SCSI emulation, and I can burn CDs with it,
no problems. But I can just not mount any ISO CDs on it..
My /etc/fstab looks like the following:
/dev/hda1 /C vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda5 /D vfat user 0 0
/dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
/dev/scd0 /cdrom auto defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/scd1 /dvd auto defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
The Pioneer ATAPI DVD drive on the same bus (/dev/scd1) works perfectly.
The Plextor is master, the Pioneer is slave.
I have kernel 2.4.0, Asus CUBX BIOS 1.07beta
The same problem existed like the same before I turned SCSI emulation.
What can be the problem?
2. I don't know if it has to do with the above problem, but the second is,
I can't grab Audio CDs with the Plextor CDRW with speeds higher that 8x
(cdparanoia, cdda2wav).
In Windows it do up to 30x with AudioCatalyst.
Thanks for the helping hands.
Bora Ugurlu
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Color setting problem!!!!
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:01:41 +0100
tertr wrote:
> I am using Redhat6.2 and under tcsh shell, when I am in text
> mode(level3), the directory and file names can have color highlight.
> However, when I enter xterm inside graphical mode(level5), the color
> highlight disapper and make me a bit inconventient in distinguishing
> between directory and files in browsing. When I change the shell to
> bash, everythings is all right.
>
> Can anyone tell how to set back the xterm to have color highlight on the
> directory and file name in the above cases?
Hello,
you could use something like:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
Or check
env |grep LS_OPTIONS
and adjust it systemwide in /etc/profile or in your home dir.
google may have some additional help for you...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Your Favourite X or Gnome Software?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:03:50 -0500
Scot Mc Pherson wrote:
>
> Thanx for all the info regarding DBs. Please forgive me if I am wrong, but
> it looks like you never looked for mail and news alternatives and used what
> was supplied on the CD?
I have looked around, but looking for the optimum mail and news
alternatives is not what I wish to spend my life doing. I have found a
few that sounded interesting and tried some of those. Some would not
run. Others took way to long to setup, or I could not figure out how
to set them up. Most had way to few advantages to be bothered with.
I use mutt (mostly xmutt) for mail between my machines on my LAN, and
I have cron regularly use /bin/mail to send stuff under control of a
shell script run by cron.
Mostly I just run Netscape, so I can send e-mail while browsing the
web or reading newsgroups, etc. I am aware that there are some tools
that can do any one of these things better than Netscape does, but I
just do not have the patience to figure out how to configure them.
Sysadmin is not my career. I would prefer not do do any sysadmin, but
I recognize that I must do some of it. I refuse to spend more than 1/2
hour searching for new mail, news, or browsing software, including the
time required to configure it. Let me know which utilities I could use
that meet such requirements. At this point, I refuse to read any
README or man page that takes up more than one screen full of text.
Remember, as long as I have something adequate, there is no profit in
switching.
>
> If that's the case, I would suggest looking for some new software...You
> might find some interesting and powerfully simple software out there. I have
> found lots of things out there now that I have begun my search for software
> in earnest (I never needed to go out of the box before), and thus my
> questions about preferences since I haven't any experience with anything
> that is available beyond what is suppied with my linux distributions.
Have fun with your career of looking around for interesting software.
The world is full of it. I need to use this machine, not just
perpetually tweak it.
>
> Again thanx for the input.
>
> --
> Scot Mc Pherson
> http://www.behomet.net
> N27� 19' 56"
> W82� 30' 39"
>
> "Jean-David Beyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Scot Mc Pherson wrote:
> > >
> > > What is your favourite software to use for e-mail, usenet and
> web-browsing?
> >
> > I use Netscape 4.76, but it is not that I love it or anything. I
> > sometimes use /bin/mail or mutt for e-mail, and I use lynx when I
> > think there is something wrong with Netscape. I tried a couple of real
> > UNIX news clients, but I do not really like them. They remind me of
> > the bad old days when all news came through uucp. I guess that was in
> > either the late 1970s or the 1980s.
> > >
> > > What is your favourite productivity software for things like
> documentation,
> > > spreadsheets, presentations?
> >
> > I use Applixware-5.00. It is better than Microsoft Office 97
> > Professional, or whatever it is that I have on my Windows machine. I
> > never tried StarOffice.
> >
> > I use Lyx or LaTex sometimes instead of a word-processor. It depends
> > if it is just for me, or if I must share it with someone with only a
> > brain-damaged word-processor program.
> > >
> > > And finally, how about database software, what are your favourite
> servers
> > > and front ends?
> >
> > I use IBM DB2 UDB V6.1. I guess you would say I use that as a server.
> > I tend to write my own clients, although IBM provide a few
> > general-purpose clients that allow you to manage a database with SQL
> > commands to a CLI.
> >
> > I tried postgreSQL in about 1998 and it was lousy then. I infer from
> > what I read that it is somewhat better now.
> >
> > I never tried MySQL: when I looked at it, I did not dare use it
> > because it did not handle transactions.
> >
> > I switched to Informix-SE for a while, but it would not upgrade from
> > Red Hat Linux 5.0 to RHL 6.0 (I did not even need to upgrade the
> > database, since it would be a simple matter (though time-consuming) to
> > repopulate the database), and Informix would not help me.
> >
> > That was when I switched to IBM DB2 6.1. It works just fine, but their
> > customer support is non-existant unless you are willing to pay them
> > $210/hour to even answer the telephone or answer e-mails. I refused to
> > do that.
> >
> > --
> > .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> > /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> > /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
> > ^^-^^ 3:45pm up 23:44, 3 users, load average: 1.08, 1.08, 1.05
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 10:55am up 1 day, 18:54, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.08
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Reply-To: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cross-platform development tool?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:06:22 +0100
"Lewis M. Dreblow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jari,
>
> Have you seen KYLIX from Borland. It will do all you ask except for the
> MacOS,
> however, as soon as MacOS goes to X (i.e. unix core) you may also get
> that
> capability.
So where do i get it? me & my wallet dont have $1000 ;-)
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From: "John Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,linux.dev.scsi,comp.os.ms-windows.nt
Subject: hard disk failure ... data recovery options ?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:09:58 GMT
I have two SCSI disk drives that I cannot start and have software recognize.
I would like to pose a question about DATA RECOVERY, but not sure what
newsgroup would be most appropriate.
The drives are Micropolis 4.3 Gig SCSI. They will spin up, make some noise,
and after a minute or two, spin-down and the light blinks. I have tried to
get them recognized using "Lost and Found" software from Power Quest to no
avail.
I would like to know more about my options.
Thanks,
-- John
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