Linux-Misc Digest #359, Volume #27 Wed, 14 Mar 01 14:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: RedHat RPM question (Christopher Albert)
Re: RedHat RPM question (Villy Kruse)
Author wanted: (Hun)
Re: IP Address Change (Tim Limbert)
Re: Bootable backup CDs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lilo with RH 7.0 Won't Enter Linux Automatically Anymore ("Meron Lavie")
How to startup prog automatically. (Tertr)
Re: Memory and other hardware tests? (Leonard Evens)
Re: easy question: ls -l (Stephen Rank)
memory question (Tim Limbert)
Re: IP Address Change (Alex Yung)
Re: Console mp3 player that plays s3m? (David)
Re: PPP log options help (Bill Unruh)
Re: How to startup prog automatically. (David)
access multi-session Cds How? (Lyndon Bartels)
Re: memory question (David)
Re: Books on Unix Kernel for non-programmer. ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: No swap being used ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: No swap being used (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: insmod lp failed ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Printe p� en smb server.. ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: memory question (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: HOW TO: XWindows Client? ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Bootable backup CDs ("Tauno Voipio")
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From: Christopher Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RedHat RPM question
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:27:46 +0100
Sak Wathanasin wrote:
>
> Christopher Albert wrote:
> >
> > Londonboy wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The problem:
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > I downloaded all the source code, and compiled it followed the instructions.
> > > Now, I found that the installation was TOTALLY different from RPM. for
> > > example, the Apache config file is located somewhere and it didn't install
> > > the service in /etc/init.d/httpd
> > >
> > > Even worst, I didn't even get it working. Got some error message in the log
> > > file.. still couldn't fix it. even lookup apache FAQ. (RPM was so much
> > > easier)
> > >
> > Londonboy,
> >
> > 1. Stay calm.
> > ...instructions omitted...
> > 4. I suggest you upgrade the release number in that spec file, and then
> > build it
> > with #rpm -ba php.spec . If all goes well you'll have a new php rpm in
> > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (I think) witch you can install with rpm -Uhv
> > .
> >
> > Chris
>
> Has anyone been able to build php4 on RH7.0? I keep getting
>
> /usr/bin/ld: .libs/libphp4.so: undefined versioned symbol name
> __ns_name_unpack@@GLIBC_2.1
>
> at the final link stage everytime, whether I do a dynamic or static
> build. I've tried
>
> 1) using the glibc 2.1.95 that came on the RH 7.0 CDs
> 2) upgrading to glibc 2.2.1-3
> 2b) rebuilt glibc 2.2.1-3 completely from src RPM
> 3) using gcc 2.95.2
> 4) various combos of apache & PHP including Apache 1.3.12 & PHP 4.0.3
> which built just fine on RH 6.2
> 5) using another RH7 system in case I'd screwed up my RH7 installation
>
> Same result everytime. Anyone know where this
> __ns_name_unpack@@GLIBC_2.1 sysmbol comes from, or better still, how to
> get rid of it?
Sak,
I don't think it is a php problem.
First have you tried just installing the rpms for php4 from the redhat
site or the upgrade site( say
fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/7.0/updates.
You could also get the src rpms and build them on your machines. I know
they contain redhat-specific patches.
I have had no problem building php on RH7. My guess is that somehow
you're glibc upgrades got botched. First did you run ldconfig after
upgrading; that might help.
The symbol you're looking for "__ns_name_unpack" occurs in several
libraries, for example
libresolv.so.2,libnss_dns.so
On this RH7 box, which I update all the time
if I do
#rpm -qf /usr/lib/libnss_dns.so
glibc-devel-2.2-12
#nm /usr/lib/libnss_dns.so|grep __ns_name_unpack
U __ns_name_unpack@@GLIBC_2.1
You can also try using "objdump -T" on some of these libs as well.
Just to get you started.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RedHat RPM question
Date: 14 Mar 2001 16:34:46 GMT
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:04:46 +0000,
Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Has anyone been able to build php4 on RH7.0? I keep getting
>
>/usr/bin/ld: .libs/libphp4.so: undefined versioned symbol name
>__ns_name_unpack@@GLIBC_2.1
>
Are you linking with -lresolve?
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hun)
Subject: Author wanted:
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:38:19 GMT
Hello,
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If you want to work with us or knows somebody, send e-mail to below address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sincerely,
Hun
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From: Tim Limbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Address Change
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:31:04 GMT
Open a terminal window, log in as root (su), then netcfg. This should=20
bring up a utility for configuring network settings.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/10/01, 11:14:05 PM, "O'Banion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
regarding IP Address Change:
> I know this is probably a rediculous question for most of you, but I'm=
=20
new
> to the Linux world. I am running Debian 2.2 and I assigned an IP duri=
ng=20
the
> install, and now I need to change it and I don't know how. Can anyone=
> please tell me how to change my IP? All help will be greatly=20
appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Bootable backup CDs
Date: 14 Mar 2001 16:45:49 GMT
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:15:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2001 00:56:48 GMT, Ed Ohsone staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> >I would like to make backups of my hard drives on multiple CDs.
> >It seems there are some tools for linux, like cdrecord, but
> >I do not know if there exist tools which can create bootable CDs.
> >
> >MS Windows world has some tools capable of this task.
> >Are there any in linux world?
> >Since my system is mutiboot with win95, linux6.1, freeBSD, Solarisx86, etc,
> >each of them taking about 2GB, ideal tool should be able to create bootable
> >CDs for all of the OSs.
> >
> >I am not familiar with booting mechanism. So there may be some
> >special way of creating bootable CDs with cnventional tools like cdrecord.
> >
> >I would appreciate any pointer/comment.
>
> cdrecord does not create a bootable CD; it just takes an ISO9660 image
> and writes it to a CD. Check the man page for mkisofs, paying attention
> to the -b and -c options.
Well, what does the bios look for on the cd when 'boot from cd' is
enabled and 'atapi cdrom found' is issued? Is there a separate small
image of some sort that provides a root image and maybe atapi cdrom
drivers for immediate use by the otherwise bare system?
> The basic idea is that you create a 1.4 or
> 2.8M floppy image, then specify the name of that image to mkisofs in the
> -b option. I don't think you can specify more than one boot image
> though. However, if you get the 2.8M image of Tom's RootBoot, you can
> make a bootable CD that will boot into a Linux rescue system that has
> enough stuff to recover any Linux installation. If you choose an
> appropriate format for your backups, you can probably use Tom's to
> restore Win9x, *BSD, and Solarisx86 installations as well.
>
> Check freshmeat.net for CD-R backup tools. The 2.8M Tom's image is
> available at http://www.toms.net/rb/ .
>
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Lilo with RH 7.0 Won't Enter Linux Automatically Anymore
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:05:01 +0200
I installed RH7.0 a few months ago (it's the only OS on the machine).
Up until last week, when I booted the computer, the Lilo would display
"LINUX" (together with a picture of the man in the Red Hat in the corner),
and then I could either press ENTER immediately if I was inpatient, or could
just wait a few seconds and by default Linux would then boot.
Without warning, Linux is no longer brought up by default after a few
seconds. I now am forced to manually press ENTER. This is a problem for me
as Linux is my gateway, and we have power problems frequently - so I want to
be sure that my gateway will automatically come up if I;m not around to
press ENTER.
Any ideas?
TIA,
--
Meron Lavie
www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOTE: THERE ARE NO DIGITS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS (ANTI-SPAM)
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From: Tertr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to startup prog automatically.
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:14:10 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I want to open a gnome-terminal automatically when I login
the Redhat Linux graphical desktop(level 5). Just like the programs
in the Windows startup folder. How can I set this?
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory and other hardware tests?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:07:00 -0600
David wrote:
>
> Leonard Evens wrote:
> >
> >
> > My latest conjecture is that the problem is not with memory but
> > with the power supply. It seems quite hot to the touch, and the
> > symptoms of rebooting are very similar to what happens when there
> > are transient power dips. In any case, I am going to replace the
> > poweer supply and see if that fixes the problem. Any comments?
>
> I know this may not be the cause of your trouble, just personal
> experience.
>
> I worked on my cousin's system a while back (old IBM system) and found
> that the power supply was full of dust. Even the motherboard had a layer
> on it. I cleaned it out the best I could, it must of had between an 1/8
> & 1/4 inch of dust/insulation in it to trap all of the heat it produced.
> It ran a lot cooler when I was finished since it was able to breath
> again. But it ran M$ junk so the crashes weren't from a hardware
> problem.
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more W/U's than 99.108% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
I've replaced the power supply, and the system appears to be working,
but we have to give it some more time to see if a problem develops.
The power supply had what was called a "smart fan" which was
supposed to come on just when needed. But it is possible its
setting changed due to overheating from a dirty fan, and it was
allowing the power supply to overheat.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: easy question: ls -l
Date: 14 Mar 2001 17:23:27 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann) writes:
> man ls
>
> total xx - xx is the number of blocks used in this directory, per
> default reported in blocks of 512 bytes (unless the environment variable
> BLOCKSIZE is set to some other value >=512). If you use "-k", it will
> report the number of blocks used in blocks of 1024 bytes (=kilobytes).
s/512/1024/g
That's with GNU fileutils 4.0l. Info says:
[ ... ]
`-l'
`--format=long'
`--format=verbose'
[ ... ]
For each directory that is listed, preface the files with a line
`total BLOCKS', where BLOCKS is the total disk allocation for all
files in that directory. The block size currently defaults to 1024
bytes, but this can be overridden
[ ... ]
HTH,
Stephen
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From: Tim Limbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memory question
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:38:20 GMT
I have a RH7 system with 128MB of physical RAM, and a swap file of=20
another 128MB. When I pull up the System Monitor, I see that my total=20
memory usage is 1,037,520K, with Staroffice alone using 968,100K. What'=
s=20
up with that? What don't I understand about these numbers?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: IP Address Change
Date: 14 Mar 2001 17:27:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
O'Banion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I know this is probably a rediculous question for most of you, but I'm new
: to the Linux world. I am running Debian 2.2 and I assigned an IP during the
: install, and now I need to change it and I don't know how. Can anyone
: please tell me how to change my IP? All help will be greatly appreciated.
It should be in "/etc/init.d/network".
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Console mp3 player that plays s3m?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:49:53 GMT
Andrew Purugganan wrote:
>
> I am looking for a console mp3 player that also plays *.s3m songs. Are
> you currently using one? If so, which one?
You might check here:
http://www.mp3machine.com/linux/PLAYERS/
--
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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Completed more W/U's than 99.108% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: PPP log options help
Date: 14 Mar 2001 17:52:14 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Medcraft)
writes:
>Hi, I'm using Debian Potato, with no major modifications. PPP insists on
>sending LCP echo requests and reply notifications to syslog. While very useful,
>for myself it simply fills up the logfile, making it difficult to notice
>important messages without stripping out the chaff using a script/grep etc. Is
>there any way to modify PPP's logging configuration to prevent this logging from
>taking place?
Sure. take out the debug option to pppd in /etc/ppp/options.
If you want to hack the code , good luck.
(Alternatively tell pppd to stop sending the echo requests. They are
mostly useless anyway.)
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to startup prog automatically.
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:54:01 GMT
Tertr wrote:
>
> If I want to open a gnome-terminal automatically when I login
> the Redhat Linux graphical desktop(level 5). Just like the programs
> in the Windows startup folder. How can I set this?
Click on:
/menu/Programs/Settings/Session/Startup Programs
Tell it what you want to start and save.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.108% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Lyndon Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: access multi-session Cds How?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:59:16 GMT
Hello,
I have a multi-session cd-rom. By reading the readme.txt file in the
data session. It looks as though the data session is the first session
and the audio is in the second session.
I've tried xcdroast to pull the session(s) off the cd, but that doesn't
seem to do the trick. I tried "dd" and that errored out on me.
What other methods can I use? I've been reading how-tos, and I haven't
found anything yet.
Thanks in advance,
Lyndon
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory question
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:00:46 GMT
Tim Limbert wrote:
>
> I have a RH7 system with 128MB of physical RAM, and a swap file of
> another 128MB. When I pull up the System Monitor, I see that my total
> memory usage is 1,037,520K, with Staroffice alone using 968,100K. What's
> up with that? What don't I understand about these numbers?
Well for one, Linux will use memory to cache recently used code until it
needs memory. Then it will either swap or free memory as needed. I have
640 MB physical memory and most of the time stays somewhere close to
what is shown below:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 662290432 537939968 124350464 49446912 354062336 60940288
Swap: 271392768 5627904 265764864
MemTotal: 646768 kB
MemFree: 121436 kB
MemShared: 48288 kB
Buffers: 345764 kB
Cached: 59512 kB
SwapTotal: 265032 kB
SwapFree: 259536 kB
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Books on Unix Kernel for non-programmer.
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:08:00 GMT
"J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:qivr6.8829$43.65361@zonnet-reader-1...
> Dear all,
>
> Im looking for some books or web-resources that will help me understand
the
> *nix kernel in some more detail, and was hoping that posting here would
get
> me some good tips ;). Im looking for books that will help me understand
the
> concepts and design decisions, rather than show me the source code. Since
im
> not a programmer but a simple *nix system administrator, Lions' Commentary
> on Unix probably is not what im looking for here. Books that cover the
*nix
> kernel in general (like BSD or SysV) rather than a specific implementation
> (like Solaris kernel) would also be preferred.
>
The classic reference is:
Maurice C. Bach, The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Prentice-Hall,
ISBN 0-13-201757-1 (the ISBN may be for an obsolete printing, mine)
A good reference for Linux is:
Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati, Understanding the Linux Kernel, O'Reilly,
ISBN 0-596-00002-2 (this is brand new)
For a Unix-like system that is less complicated than full Unix or Linux, a
good book is:
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Operating Systems, Design and Implementation,
Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-637331-3 (again, the ISBN may be for an obsolete
printing).
This book describes Minix, an Unix-like system which is simple enough for a
newcomer to the kernel world. There are full source listings included.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No swap being used
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:13:07 GMT
"Jean-David Beyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Paul Kimoto wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> > > Some of the swapped processes are:
> > >
> > > kflushd
> > > kupdate
> > > kpiod
> > > kswapd (I am kind-of suprised that this is allowed to swap out)
> >
> > These are parts of the kernel, not separate programs, and as such
> > they are never swapped out. (Their entries in /proc report no
> > virtual-memory statistics.)
> >
>
> Since each of these has a process-id, I do not see how you can say
> they are part of the kernel; this is not a Microsoft system. top,
> pstree, and ps report them all as though they were processes. Those
> tools that list their swap status list them as swapped.
>
> Are you saying that all these tools are wrong by listing them as
> separate processes? How did they fabricate process identifiers?
>
They are called kernel threads. They are separate threads of execution, like
processes and they are scheduled like processes. They are running in the
kernel address space instead of their own, like full processes do.
kswapd takes care of throwing out such pages that are seen most appropriate
if the real memory begins to get low. There is no reason why it could not be
thrown out itself: it is not needed nor used for page-in.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No swap being used
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:16:36 -0500
Paul Kimoto wrote (in part):
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> > "Nils O. Sel�sdal" wrote:
> >> "Paul Kimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> >>>> Paul Kimoto wrote:
> >>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> >>>>>> kflushd
> >>>>>> kupdate
> >>>>>> kpiod
> >>>>>> kswapd (I am kind-of suprised that this is allowed to swap out)
>
> >>>>> These are parts of the kernel, not separate programs, and as such
> >>>>> they are never swapped out.
>
> >>>> Are you saying that all these tools are wrong by listing them as
> >>>> separate processes? How did they fabricate process identifiers?
>
> >> These are threads, threads in linux is implemented by processes.
>
> > Threads of what, though? Threads of the kernel
>
> Yes, that is what the leading "k" tells you.
>
> This is 2.4.3-pre3:
> $ ps 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | fgrep '[k'
> 2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
> 3 ? SW 0:00 [kapm-idled]
> 4 ? SW 0:18 [kswapd]
> 5 ? SW 0:00 [kreclaimd]
> 7 ? SW 0:01 [kupdated]
Mine (2.2.14-VA.2.1smp) is sure different:
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ ps 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | fgrep "[k"
2 ? SW 0:06 [kflushd]
3 ? SW 4:57 [kupdate]
4 ? SW 0:00 [kpiod]
5 ? SW 4:46 [kswapd]
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
--
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/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 1:10pm up 11 days, 20:14, 3 users, load average: 2.02, 2.06,
1.91
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insmod lp failed
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:18:53 GMT
"MH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Recently upgraded my kernel and now my printer isn't working. It appears
> to be a defective module. I tried recompiling and reinstalling, but
> without success. I get a kernel error message on boot telling me that no
> (lp) device was found. The module DOES exist.
>
> When I run "modprobe lp" to manually install the parallel port
> driver I get this:
>
> ....Device or resource busy
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/lp.o failed
>
> Any ideas on what this problem is, and how to fix it?
>
This is usually reported by incorrect / conflicting I/O addresses or
interrupt requests. Check /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts.
You may be missing the parallel port driver pc_parport.o or equivalent.
Also, broken hardware prevents the hardware probe in installation with
similar results. A better response might be 'Hardware not responding
properly'.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printe p� en smb server..
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:26:05 GMT
"Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:MYHr6.67$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> V�r WinNT 4.0 maskin har en printer man aksesserer gjennom \\grimm1\HP
> LaserJet 4
> Hvrodan kan jeg printe p� denne fra en RH 6.2 maskin.
>
Sorry, my Norwegian is so bad Scandinavish, so I'll use English.
First of all, you have to have TCP/IP running between the boxes: both boxes
should be able to ping each other.
Install Samba on the Red Hat box. Check that the NT box can accept SMB on
TCP/IP.
Another possibility is to install the lpd daemon on NT (it is in the server
set, though Microsoft is pretty good at hiding it). Use printtool to install
the client part for LJ4 in the Red Hat box.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory question
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:26:24 -0500
David wrote:
>
> Tim Limbert wrote:
> >
> > I have a RH7 system with 128MB of physical RAM, and a swap file of
> > another 128MB. When I pull up the System Monitor, I see that my total
> > memory usage is 1,037,520K, with Staroffice alone using 968,100K. What's
> > up with that? What don't I understand about these numbers?
>
> Well for one, Linux will use memory to cache recently used code until it
> needs memory. Then it will either swap or free memory as needed. I have
> 640 MB physical memory and most of the time stays somewhere close to
> what is shown below:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 662290432 537939968 124350464 49446912 354062336 60940288
> Swap: 271392768 5627904 265764864
> MemTotal: 646768 kB
> MemFree: 121436 kB
> MemShared: 48288 kB
> Buffers: 345764 kB
> Cached: 59512 kB
> SwapTotal: 265032 kB
> SwapFree: 259536 kB
>
Yes, but if his memory useage is about a Gigabyte, where is it if the
sum of real memory and swap is only about 1/4 gigabyte? My memory used
never has exceeded tha amount of real memory I have, and according to
you, that is the case for your machine as well. Viz.:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 529072128 384909312 144162816 62558208 46260224 242049024
Swap: 279642112 22069248 257572864
MemTotal: 516672 kB
MemFree: 140784 kB
MemShared: 61092 kB
Buffers: 45176 kB
Cached: 236376 kB
BigTotal: 0 kB
BigFree: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 273088 kB
SwapFree: 251536 kB
What does the O.P. mean by " my total memory usage is 1,037,520K"? Did
he add up the used, free, shared, biuffers, and cached? Otherwise, I
do not see how the amount of memory used exceeds the memory total.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 1:15pm up 11 days, 20:19, 3 users, load average: 2.15, 2.10,
1.96
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW TO: XWindows Client?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:28:47 GMT
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98nicj$7jp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Could someone give me directions on how to setup an NT XWindows Client
> > (accessing a Linux XWindows server)?
> >
> > I just can't find an HOWTO anywhere...
> >
> > I'm just basically trying to display my XWindows session on my NT box.
> >
>
> You got it the wrong way around.
> The X server must be running on your NT box,
> the clients can be running on the linux box, displaying their X output on
> the server.
>
> So look for a X server for NT.
> I use Exceed at the office (not-free), but there are free alternatives
IIRC
>
If anybody knows of a working and free X-server for NT (or even W95/98),
tell us! AFAIK, there are none.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Bootable backup CDs
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:33:18 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:98o77t$npq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:15:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
> wrote:
>
> > On 12 Mar 2001 00:56:48 GMT, Ed Ohsone staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> > >I would like to make backups of my hard drives on multiple CDs.
> > >It seems there are some tools for linux, like cdrecord, but
> > >I do not know if there exist tools which can create bootable CDs.
> > >
> > >MS Windows world has some tools capable of this task.
> > >Are there any in linux world?
> > >Since my system is mutiboot with win95, linux6.1, freeBSD, Solarisx86,
etc,
> > >each of them taking about 2GB, ideal tool should be able to create
bootable
> > >CDs for all of the OSs.
> > >
> > >I am not familiar with booting mechanism. So there may be some
> > >special way of creating bootable CDs with cnventional tools like
cdrecord.
> > >
> > >I would appreciate any pointer/comment.
> >
> > cdrecord does not create a bootable CD; it just takes an ISO9660 image
> > and writes it to a CD. Check the man page for mkisofs, paying attention
> > to the -b and -c options.
>
> Well, what does the bios look for on the cd when 'boot from cd' is
> enabled and 'atapi cdrom found' is issued? Is there a separate small
> image of some sort that provides a root image and maybe atapi cdrom
> drivers for immediate use by the otherwise bare system?
>
The BIOS exchanges the diskette control for the diskette image on the CD-ROM
for the duration of the boot. For details, point your favourite search
engine to 'El Torito' specification.
The diskette image should contain a kernel with the necessary support to run
with the necessary peripherals after boot. There is a possibility to include
device driver modules, see the Bootdisk-HOWTO.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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