Linux-Misc Digest #380, Volume #27 Sat, 17 Mar 01 18:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: XF86Config files (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Beowulf cluster w/ virtual Linuxes in VMWare ? (Arctic Storm)
users other than root mounting cdrw (Ramin Sina)
Re: Does Earthlink support Linux? ("Matt O'Toole")
Re: How can I boot Primary Slave with LILO? (Dances With Crows)
Re: users other than root mounting cdrw (Dances With Crows)
Trouble getting nntp running locally ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: xinetd (telnet) problems with RHL7 (Markku Kolkka)
Re: Newbie - Keyboard, BackSpace key behaves like the Delete key in text editor.
Both write '~' when pressed in the command line. (Markku Kolkka)
FTP and TELNET problems in Mandrake 7.2 (mike)
Eliminate "pops 'n' clicks" listening to MP3's? ("Flacco")
Security Level function in drakeconf in Mandrake 7.2 (mike)
ATI Radeon, XFree86-4.0.2, and hardware acceleration (Praedor Tempus)
Re: Eliminate "pops 'n' clicks" listening to MP3's? (Ed Lea)
Re: help: Could not determine local IP address (David Efflandt)
Web Site Project - Learning... ("webmaster")
Re: ATI Radeon, XFree86-4.0.2, and hardware acceleration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Subject: Re: XF86Config files
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 17 Mar 2001 14:51:14 -0500
charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's the difference between XF86Config and XF86Config-4?
XF86Config-4 is used only with XF86 4.x; XF86Config is used by all others.
> Are both files used if I have XFree86 4.0.1 installed?
No.
> If I want to add a second input device to get a touchpad and a mouse
> both work at the same time, do I have to add new sections in both of
> these files?
No.
Since XF86 4.x is still "unproven," it's expected that some people
will run both 3.3.x and 4.x at the same time. The two conffiles are
to allow that.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Beowulf cluster w/ virtual Linuxes in VMWare ?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:03:34 GMT
> > With VMWare, of course it's possible to run multiple virtual Linuxes
> > simultaneously, but is it possible to create a Beawulf cluster among the
> > virtual machines?
> > If theoretically possible, has anyone successfully ran this virtual
> > Beowulf?
>
> I suppose you could, but since the virtual machines only have
> virtual cpu's and in reality all share the host cpu there's not
> much point unless you have a multiprocessor machine and assign
> each VMware session a separate cpu.
I want to know if this is possible, theoretically. I know that there will
be no performance gain, since all the virtual computers are ran by the same
CPU. I want to tinker around and have fun with Beowulf, but don't want to
invest in new computers just for fun.
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: users other than root mounting cdrw
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:16:55 -0500
Hi all,
What is the best way for a user, who doesn't have the root password, to
mount cdrw or zip disks? This is easy to do for floppy disks and cdrom
with kde, since there are icons for them on the desktop, but I can't use
them to mount zip disks or cdrw (my internal cdrw drive is different
from the internal cdrom drive).
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Earthlink support Linux?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:21:33 -0800
"Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On 14 Mar 2001 03:27:35 GMT, Andrew Purugganan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >They are offering a promo 700 hrs, and DSL. Were you able to get it to
> >work with Linux? Or do they have a proprietary dialer, like NetZero?
> >
> >--
> >jazz
> >Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
> >Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
> >--- OUT THERE??
>
> I don't use dsl with earthlink; but I have to admit to having the easiest
> time with earthlink on the road with dialup ppp. It works with wvdial
> really well for me. I would call earthlink and ask specifically what
modem
> they are offering. At home for me, the Alcatel at home works very well.
> All you do is plug one cable into the phone line and the other is a cat5
> ethernet cable which goes to a nat/firewall box. No setup of pppoe or
> anything.
Even though they probably don't support it, Earthlink should be fine with
DSL/Linux. How you connect depends on the actual DSL setup you have-- this
isn't actually provided by Earthlink, but your local phone company, or maybe
a third party DSL provider. Most likely, they're using PPPoE. In any case,
there's nothing proprietary or unusual about what they use.
Matt O.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How can I boot Primary Slave with LILO?
Date: 17 Mar 2001 20:40:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:05:13 +0800, Chris Fancia staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I have a 40GB harddisk installed on my computer. I put a chinese
>win2k & a chinese win-me on it. And I want to boot them with LILO
>without changing the BIOS settings. When I try it ( I typed the os
>name and hit enter ), it said : Loading cwin2k [ cwin2k is my chinese
>win2k label ] L? [ i don't know what is it ] And the chinese win-me got
>the same result without the L? line.
>
>I typed the following things in my /etc/lilo.conf:
>
>boot = /dev/hda
>other = /dev/hdb1 # This is the problem chinese win2k
> table = /dev/hdb
> label = cwin2k
Windoze assumes that its system files are installed in the first primary
partition on the first hard disk. There's really no way to boot Doze
otherwise. Y'see, why would *anyone* want to have any non-Microsoft OS
on their PC? :-]
There is a way to trick Doze, though. I don't know how you managed to
install LoseME on /dev/hdb2, since DOze only recognizes one primary
partition, but this trick may get you booting Lose2K anyway. Use a
similar entry in lilo.conf for LoseME :
other=/dev/hdb1
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
label=lose2k
If I were you, I'd physically swap the drives and use Lose2K's
bootloader to boot all your OSes. Linux can live just about anywhere on
any disk; Doze is much less tolerant.
>I also tried linuxconf.But it didn't work.
Doesn't surprise me one bit. (Funny, similar setup with a friend's
system with Lose95 on hdb, a 1.5-year-old version of YaST figured it out
automagically....)
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: users other than root mounting cdrw
Date: 17 Mar 2001 20:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:16:55 -0500, Ramin Sina staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>What is the best way for a user, who doesn't have the root password, to
>mount cdrw or zip disks? This is easy to do for floppy disks and cdrom
>with kde, since there are icons for them on the desktop, but I can't use
>them to mount zip disks or cdrw (my internal cdrw drive is different
>from the internal cdrom drive).
root should edit /etc/fstab so that the entries for the CD/floppy/ZIP/
removable media drives have the "user" keyword in the options field. An
example from my /etc/fstab :
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/maczip hfs noauto,user 0 0
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Trouble getting nntp running locally
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:56:38 -0000
I'm trying to setup leafnode and nntp so I can pull Usenet down locally
and read it with tin (without tin having to reach out and touch the net
so often).
I think I've got leafnode setup properly, but I can't get my nntp server
to run. The instructions with leafnode assume inetd, but with RH7, it's
xinetd and a different configuration method.
I've done all the things in the instructions and fetchmail has
successfully retrieved a complete grouplist from my ISP's newsserver. It
exists as /var/spool/news/leaf.node/<my ISP's newsserver>.
leafnode's instructions offer this inetd.conf example:
nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode
I've created an /etc/xinetd.d/nntp like this (all paths are valid):
service nntp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = nowait
# port = 119 # I added this but it didnt' help
user = news
server = /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode
}
/etc/hosts.allow contains "leafnode: 127.0.0.1" and hosts.deny contains
"leafnode: ALL EXCEPT LOCAL". /etc/nntpserver contains only "localhost".
$NNTPSERVER is not set at all. All three examples are quoted here, but
not in the actual files.
The line for port 119 in /etc/services reads (tabs->spaces for usenet):
nntp 119/tcp readnews untp # USENET News Transfer Protocol
I've forced xinetd to reread its config files (kill -s SIGUSR2 <pid>).
However, tin still fails to connect to the nntp server, probably because
it's either not running or not accepting connections. If I "telnet
localhost 119", I get a connection refused error. I've tried adding an
alias for leafnode to the /etc/services line, but to no avail.
Have I missed something or translated the inetd-->xinetd change
improperly? I can "telnet localhost xx" on a number of other services,
so xinetd is working properly.
Thanks for any help.
--
-- Len Philpot -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) <--
----------------> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) <--
------ ><> -----> http://philpot.org/ (web) <--
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: xinetd (telnet) problems with RHL7
Date: 17 Mar 2001 22:45:37 +0200
"Clint Laskowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> According to my boot dialog, inetd does start. But, there is nothing in my
> /etc/xinetd.d directory other than linuxconf-web, which again seems weird
> (no xinetd.conf files and no xinetd.conf on my system).
Inetd and xinetd are two different programs (for the same purpose). It
looks like you don't have xinetd and telnetd installed.
> What am I doing wrong? Was I suppose to do the server install?
Get rid of inetd, install xinetd and telnetd RPM files, and enable telnetd.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Newbie - Keyboard, BackSpace key behaves like the Delete key in text
editor. Both write '~' when pressed in the command line.
Date: 17 Mar 2001 22:39:27 +0200
"Newbie from Win98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just about to give your suggestion a try. Do I run "Xconfigurator" at
> the command prompt
Yes.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP and TELNET problems in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:00:19 -0500
Hi,
I installed Mandrake 7.2 and and found out I couldn't telnet
into it from my local network. I had tried ftp and it seemed to
work. I then installed the telnet-services rpm and then the
telnet function started working, but, it seems that the ftp
function stopped working. Maybe the problems are not
related.
The main problem is that I can't ftp into the Mandrake7.2 box.
I tried configuring /etc/ftpaccess and it made no difference.
Thanks
Mike
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From: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Eliminate "pops 'n' clicks" listening to MP3's?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:06:44 GMT
While listening to MP3's, I get pauses/pops/clicks when I do some things
in X - like opening a browser window, etc.
Is there any way to avoid this?
I'm using:
Midiman (M-Audio) Delta 66 sound card
OSS drivers
XMMS (latest)
Redhat 7
Dell Precision 410 Workstation
Thanks
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Security Level function in drakeconf in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:02:24 -0500
Hi,
How does the drake-conf security function work? What does it
specifically do to the system when one changes security levels?
Does it have a firewall that it modifies or does it change some
of the files in /etc/ and what does it do to what files?
Thanks
Mike
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Radeon, XFree86-4.0.2, and hardware acceleration
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:01:47 -0700
I have an Athlon 700, 128MB RAM, with a new ATI Radeon 32MB DDR AGP video
card. My linux is Mandrake 8.0beta with kernel-2.4.1, XFree86-4.0.2,
glibc2.2 (with glibc2.1 compatibility libs installed), and Mesa-3.4.1.
My video card appears to be properly setup and configured, as bootup
messages indicate that the system knows that I have a Radeon card and the
messages indicate that acceleration is enabled.
I recently bought the game "Terminus". The problem is that whenever I
start it, it uses software opengl rendering instead of hardware
acceleration (via DRI, I believe).
I BELIEVE that DRI is enabled on my system (how can I confirm this?). How
do I get hardware acceleration to work?
--
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
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From: Ed Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Eliminate "pops 'n' clicks" listening to MP3's?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:50:22 +0000
Flacco wrote:
>
> While listening to MP3's, I get pauses/pops/clicks when I do some things
> in X - like opening a browser window, etc.
>
> Is there any way to avoid this?
>
> I'm using:
>
> Midiman (M-Audio) Delta 66 sound card
> OSS drivers
> XMMS (latest)
> Redhat 7
> Dell Precision 410 Workstation
>
> Thanks
I had this problem with my old SB16 (very cheep), I got a SB 1024 Live
and thing are now good
Ed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help: Could not determine local IP address
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:30:49 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How many times are you going to post this (with fake e-mail address) and
NOT read the answers? A ppp connection needs 2 IP addresses, one for each
end of ppp. You only specify 1 (the remote), so is it any surprise that
pppd cannot determine what to use for the local end of ppp?
Is "optins.srv" really spelled that way? The 'proxyarp' option is
meaningless without an ethernet connection. See below.
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:11:16 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>
>Iam running Redhat 6.2, I have no NICs and only one fax/modem.
>
>My hosts file is;
>
>127.0.0.1 gtech localhost.localdomain localhost
>192.168.0.25 rgtech
>
>My optins.srv file is;
>
>noauth
>lock
>-detach
>modem
>crtscts
>proxyarp
>asyncmap 0
>:192.168.0.25
>login
Try specifying an IP for both ends of the connection:
192.168.0.1:192.168.0.25
Or if a remote IP is specified in 4th field of pap-secrets:
192.168.0.1:
>When a user dials in, they get logged in and mgetty sends control to
>pppd, then the /var/log/ppp gives;
>
>Mar 17 18:38:13 gtech pppd[773]: pppd 2.3.11 started by ppp, uid 0
>Mar 17 18:38:13 gtech pppd[773]: Using interface ppp0
>Mar 17 18:38:13 gtech pppd[773]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
>Mar 17 18:38:16 gtech pppd[773]: Could not determine local IP address
>Mar 17 18:38:16 gtech pppd[773]: Connection terminated.
>Mar 17 18:38:16 gtech pppd[773]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
>Mar 17 18:38:16 gtech pppd[773]: Sent 216 bytes, received 291 bytes.
>Mar 17 18:38:16 gtech pppd[773]: Exit.
>
>My linux server is called gtech. I can telnet into it as gtech and
>access the web page from <http://gtech> or <http://localhost> or
><http://127.0.0.1>.
>
>People here on these newsgroups said my hosts file should be like;
>
>127.0.0.1 localhost
>192.168.0.1 gtech
>192.168.0.25 rgtech
>
>But then I can no longer access the server thru gtech or 192.168.0.1,
>its says server is down. But I can access it thru localhost or
>127.0.0.1.
You either need a different name for your modem connection, or just use
'localhost' instead of 'gtech' for your hostname (since you are not on a
network anyway).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: "webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Web Site Project - Learning...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:58:43 GMT
Greetings:
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software package called WWWThreads that incorporates a MySQL server backend.
There are currently several UNIX related forums defined but will create
additional UNIX related forums if requested.
Co-Administration opportunities are available if you have experience with
Solaris 8 (SPARC) - Netscape iPlanet-WebServer FastTack/4.1 -
MySQL-3.23.33 - PHP4 - WWWThreads administration or would like to learn.
Limited disk space could be made available to individuals for personal web
pages or shell accounts.
Please stop by http://h0800207341f0.ne.mediaone.net and have a look or email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI Radeon, XFree86-4.0.2, and hardware acceleration
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:01:18 GMT
Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an Athlon 700, 128MB RAM, with a new ATI Radeon 32MB DDR AGP video
> card. My linux is Mandrake 8.0beta with kernel-2.4.1, XFree86-4.0.2,
> glibc2.2 (with glibc2.1 compatibility libs installed), and Mesa-3.4.1.
> My video card appears to be properly setup and configured, as bootup
> messages indicate that the system knows that I have a Radeon card and the
> messages indicate that acceleration is enabled.
> I recently bought the game "Terminus". The problem is that whenever I
> start it, it uses software opengl rendering instead of hardware
> acceleration (via DRI, I believe).
> I BELIEVE that DRI is enabled on my system (how can I confirm this?). How
> do I get hardware acceleration to work?
If it's using 4.0.2, your Radeon doesn't have 3D acceleration enabled.
3D acceleration is only available from the DRI CVS (and perhaps the
XFree86 CVS perhaps). It should definately show up in XFree86 4.0.3.
To confirm this, open up /var/log/XFree86.0.log and look for a line that
says:
Direct Rendering Enabled
(that might not be the exact wording). If you don't see that, you don't
have 3D acceleration :-)
If you want 3D acceleration, but don't want to wait till XFree86 4.0.3
comes out, check out:
http://dri.sourceforge.net
for info on how to pull the code from CVS.
And trust me, Terminus looks *great* with a Radeon :-)
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Love that sig.
Adam
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