Linux-Misc Digest #452, Volume #27 Mon, 26 Mar 01 09:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Help for playing VCD under linux! (Carfield Yim)
executing with GiveConsole ("Xavier Houppertz")
Serial port tapping (DosEmu) ("Ozymandias")
how do I zip it ("Michelle Reddan")
Re: how do I zip it ("muzh")
Re: Newbie Configure Network Card? ("Katriel Traum")
Re: Newbie Configure Network Card? (Vincent Gadebois)
Re: default path ("lenny")
Creative Banshee supported ? (Eric Ho)
Re: Controlling access to portfw ("Support")
Re: how do I zip it (Alumne FIB - MARC COLL CARRILLO)
Re: how can uninstall and install cron daemon (Alumne FIB - MARC COLL CARRILLO)
Re: how do I zip it (Michael Heiming)
Re: Creative Banshee supported ? (Michael Heiming)
Setting up my own News Server ("Rodger Dusatko")
glibc error with rpcgen and C preprocessor (Andreas Fehr)
Re: Setting up my own News Server (Michael Heiming)
Automounter not unmounting (Martin Vonwald)
Re: Newbie Configure Network Card? ("RickQ")
Re: Partitions and Sizes (Martin Vonwald)
Re: iptables under 2.4.2 (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (ANGEL)
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:32:26 +0800
From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help for playing VCD under linux!
OrangeDino wrote:
>
> As I run some vcd software(other than mpegtv) to play vcd, they always
> complains that "Xlib:extension "XVideo" missing" and terminated. Can
> anyone give me some idea what is wrong with me, I am running XFree86 3.3.6?
> Thanks a lot!
Are you using xine?? Which VGA card are you using?
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From: "Xavier Houppertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: executing with GiveConsole
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:30:14 +0200
hello,
I'm trying to execute a java app with giveconsole (executing once, when xdm
is launched)
The problem is : it is executed as root (no problem with that) but without
any environment variable (here's the problem ...)
when i do a /opt/jdk117/bin/i686/green_threads/java resident &
I get an error : java: error in loading shared libraries libjava.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
any idea ?
maybe using the environment variable of user 'sales' ?
How can i do that ?
thanks,
Xavier
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From: "Ozymandias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial port tapping (DosEmu)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:40:20 +0200
Hi all,
I like to know, if I make a named pipe, then tell dosemu to use it as a
serial line, how can I prevent dosemu from reading its own input ? Or
better, how do I prevent a writer to the pipe to read its own input ? I have
some code and my principals seem to work, that is, you can build such a pipe
and use it as a serial line, the data I receive is usefull. But there is one
problem. After the writing process writes, it has to sleep so linux can
schedule the other side.. but sometimes I miss a byte or two, probably
because the other side didn't get to the reading and then the writer reads
and unfortunately reads its own input...
What do I want? I have a dos program which writes to a serial port and
ofcourse expects some data back as confirmation. Now I want to tap off those
serial lines and write back the appropriate bytes (by telling dosemu to use
my named pipe as a serial line). Most of the time this goes allright, but
sometimes some bytes are missing(or better: misread) and the program fails.
(most probably due to scheduling since failures are not reproducable and
irregular)
Now I am not a great linux programmer, so any help would be appriechated. I
created the named pipe with 'mknod p' perhaps there is a standard pipe that
prevents the writer from reading its own input? Or perhaps it is a matter of
some status bits. Or perhaps it can't work since dosemu prevents it ? Or
perhaps there is a better approach...... maybe If I write a device driver
with a special device... (just like a pipe) ?? or perhaps the latter has
allready been done and I just don't know it ??
any help please..
greetz Ozymandias
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From: "Michelle Reddan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how do I zip it
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:26:48 +0100
I want to compress a folder.
I created a tar file of it, but how do I reduce the size, is there a way to
zip in linux
can anyone help?
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From: "muzh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I zip it
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:49:11 +1200
man zip
man gzip
In article <53Ev6.3406$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michelle Reddan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to compress a folder.
> I created a tar file of it, but how do I reduce the size, is there a way
> to zip in linux
> can anyone help?
>
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From: "Katriel Traum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Configure Network Card?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:58:35 +0200
Check out these 2 programs:
kudzu - RedHat hardware detection
linuxconf - name says it all
Katriel
"The R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:HQAv6.64431$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Where do I go to configure the network card and TCP/IP on RH Linux 7.0
> running either KDE or GNOME desktop?
>
> I have a network card installed and I'm not sure if Linux has found it, if
> not how do I install it? (I have linux drivers)
>
> Ps. the card is a linxus card..
>
>
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From: Vincent Gadebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Newbie Configure Network Card?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:07:37 +0200
The R wrote:
>
> Where do I go to configure the network card and TCP/IP on RH Linux 7.0
> running either KDE or GNOME desktop?
>
> I have a network card installed and I'm not sure if Linux has found it, if
> not how do I install it? (I have linux drivers)
>
> Ps. the card is a linxus card..
to configure your network you can use "netcfg" command under root id,
you will see in interface what is your network configuration (you must
have at least two interfaces :eth0 and lo).
Vincent.
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From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: default path
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:14:35 GMT
In article <u6mv6.28343$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "lenny"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where do I set the default path used at startup. Thanks.
> Lenny
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks everyone
I was refering to path as in $PATH
Using Red Hat
And the winning response is
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
Thanks
Lenny
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Banshee supported ?
Date: 26 Mar 2001 10:24:22 GMT
Hi,
My friend has a spare Creative Banshee PCI display card with 16Meg
RAM to give it to me. Is this card supported in X 3.3.6 ?
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
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From: "Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Controlling access to portfw
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:33:18 +1000
Thanks for your guidance
David
"The Spook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99lbku$9b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Support wrote ...
> >I would appreciate information on allowing only
> >specific users access to port forwarding.
> >Is this information included as a part of the portfw string?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >David
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for, but basically, to my
> knowledge, there is no authentication involved when doing port forwarding,
> i.e. it is not possible to restrict forwarding to specific users. This is
> due to the way port forwarding works, it looks only at the IP addresses
and
> ports -- remember that TCP/IP (the protocol) does not in itself carry any
> information about the user of a packet.
>
> If the users are on different machines and if you know the IP addresses of
> these machines, it is possible to allow or restrict packets based on this
> information with ipchains/iptables rules.
>
> You may be looking for a (non-transparent) proxy instead. Such a proxy can
> authenticate a user before giving access to a resource and maybe you
should
> try that avenue instead.
>
> /TRY
>
>
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From: Alumne FIB - MARC COLL CARRILLO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I zip it
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:51:58 +0200
When creating the tar file, just add the z option. This will automatically
compress the file with gzip. Then , to decompress it, add the same z option
(tar xvfz file.tar).
Michelle Reddan wrote:
> I want to compress a folder.
> I created a tar file of it, but how do I reduce the size, is there a way to
> zip in linux
> can anyone help?
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From: Alumne FIB - MARC COLL CARRILLO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can uninstall and install cron daemon
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:57:55 +0200
To uninstall cron: rpm -e crond
to install it again, mount the Red Hat CD-ROM, go to /cd_dir/RedHat/RPMS/
and run rpm -Uvh crond-xxx.i386.rpm (where xxx is the version number)
PD:
You should upgrade your distribution. Red Hat 7.0 is avaliable since long
time ago.
niketan sharma wrote:
> is there any way how i can install and uninstall cron daemon on red hat
> linux 5.2 it has happened to me that cron was not excuting the command at
> specific time i took help of someone but don't know what he did ?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:58:34 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I zip it
Michelle Reddan wrote:
>
> I want to compress a folder.
> I created a tar file of it, but how do I reduce the size, is there a way to
> zip in linux
> can anyone help?
You can use gzip with the z switch tar has (Ie. tar -cvzf test.tar.gz /path_to/)
or use bzip2 for even better compression (Ie. tar -cvIf test.tar.bz2 /path_to/).
check the manpages for more info:
man tar
man gzip
man gunzip
man bzip2
man bunzip2
Michael Heiming
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:01:05 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Banshee supported ?
Eric Ho wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My friend has a spare Creative Banshee PCI display card with 16Meg
> RAM to give it to me. Is this card supported in X 3.3.6 ?
I don't know about your card, some Banshee cards are supported,
check http://www.xfree86.org/ for detailed info.
Michael Heiming
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From: "Rodger Dusatko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Setting up my own News Server
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:16:24 +0200
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Hello.
How can I set up a news conference which can be used by, for example,
Windows Outlook? The server is already connected to the internet
(www.compaqconfigurator.com) , and the news server has already been
installed.
If important, the server Linux installed is Cobalt Linux 6.0
(Shinkansen-Decaf).
Thank you for your help
Rodger Dusatko
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Rodger Dusatko
Managing Director
Tel. 08136-937913
Fax. 08136-937914
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Fehr)
Subject: glibc error with rpcgen and C preprocessor
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:31:43 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
Just wanted to compile glibc 2.2.2 but I run into problems. make stops
with the message:
execv: Permission denied
path/to/source/build/sunrpc/rpcgen: C preprocessor failed with exit code
1
make[2]: *** [path/to/source/build/sunrpc/xbootparam_prot.stmp] Error 1
[and some more about leaving directories and errors making this stuff,
but it's on an other computer without floppy or network. Don't ask me
how I get the software on this machine :) ]
I did check the FAQ but there was nothing about 'preprocessor', 'execv'
nor 'rpcgen'.
I did check some Glibc-HOWTO, same result.
I did check some some GCC-HOWTO, same result (there is a reference to
atoi() and atol(), but this was of no help to me).
Now I'm stuck.
Any help out there?
Maybe some pointer to some other faq or newsgroup, if I'm wrong here?
Thanks,
Andreas
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:28:59 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Setting up my own News Server
Rodger Dusatko wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> How can I set up a news conference which can be used by, for example,
> Windows Outlook? The server is already connected to the internet
> (www.compaqconfigurator.com) , and the news server has already been
> installed.
I'm not sure if I understood what you mean, a real news feed will cost some
money, if you only want to make some ng available, I would suggest using leafnode
to send/receive news from you ISP news server.
Michael
PS:Please, try not to crosspost so much...
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From: Martin Vonwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Automounter not unmounting
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:50:57 +0100
Hi!
I am using the automounter (autofs-4.0.0pre7-87) on a Suse 7.0 system to automatically
mount some directories. After the specified timeout I see some message in
/var/log/messages
===========
Mar 26 14:41:57 xxxxxxx automount[2120]: running expiration on path
/server/xxx/.mountpoint/xxx
Mar 26 14:41:57 xxxxxxx automount[2120]: expired /server/xxx/.mountpoint/xxx
===========
But the shares are not unmounted. I get that messages every 3 minutes (timeout) until
I manually unmount them.
Any ideas where to start looking? Thanks in advance,
Martin
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From: "RickQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Newbie Configure Network Card?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:52:45 GMT
You can check to see if linux has recognized your card by typing "ipconfig".
This will display loopback, and ethernet connections. Also, you can use
"dmesg|more" to see the boot up sequence and see if it list any eth0 lines.
"The R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:HQAv6.64431$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Where do I go to configure the network card and TCP/IP on RH Linux 7.0
> running either KDE or GNOME desktop?
>
> I have a network card installed and I'm not sure if Linux has found it, if
> not how do I install it? (I have linux drivers)
>
> Ps. the card is a linxus card..
>
>
>
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From: Martin Vonwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitions and Sizes
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:21:25 +0100
Ralph Miguel Hansen wrote:
> Tim Thompson wrote:
>
>> Can any one give me some advice on what partitions to set up and the size
>> they should be? From reading the info on the web, there seems to be lots
>> of conflicting information, but so far I plan to set up the following,
>>
>> / 200mb
>> /usr 850mb
>> /var 50mb
>> /boot 10
>> /home 320
>> Swap 64mb
>>
>> My main concern is that the /home partition is not the correct size. The
>> book I am using says that you do not need this partition, but a lot of
>> the stuff on the web says that it is worth setting up and that it should
>> be "set according to your needs." As I am new to this I do not know what
>> my needs will be!
>>
>> I intend to run Linux on a stand-alone lap-top, single user. I have 64mb
>> memory and 1.5gb hard-disk.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> Why so many partititons ? One for swap (100MB), one / (700-900MB) and one
> /home should be enough for your 1,5 GB -disk
>
> Cheers
>
> Ralph Miguel Hansen
> Using S.u.S.E. 4.3 and SuSE 7.1
I read your message and the replies to it - and have to agree you - even
more: for a linux beginner who uses a machine only for one person it is
_completely overkill_ to have more than _one_ partition (+swap).
Dont think "server" - think "workstation"!
He will use this machine alone. So why does he need a /usr, /var, .....
partition???
Especially on such a small harddisk it will happen for sure, that one of
his partition is full while on others there is still plenty of room.
For single user machines I cant see any reason for more than two partitions
(root and swap). When he has gained some experience later on and want to
setup a _real_ machine he can take a look on his machine and find out how
many space is used by each directory and then do it the "right way".
I have to say that all my workstations (all single user) have still only
two partitions - only the servers are done the "right way".
greetings,
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: iptables under 2.4.2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:51:16 -0600
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 02:19:19 -0500, Nick Traxler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Actually, just saying:
>iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
>did it.
>(and echo 1 to the ip_forward process)
>
>--
>Nick Traxler
>Computer Science, Purdue University
>http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend
>
>"The two most common things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity."
I started to post only masquerading portion of the script, but thought the
firewalling portion might give you some ideas about other ways to use iptables.
If you want to check what you have "visible" to the outside world,
http://www.sdesign.com/securitytest/index.html will run a scan on you IP and
email you the results.
I like your masq setup, more succint than mine.
Wyatt.
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From: ANGEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows-me,alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 06:00:52 -0800
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:50:17 +0100, "AK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don't waste your time on ME, a total piece of crap.
>I am thinking of putting Windows ME onto one of my machines
>.. it has 2 Harddisk.. identical in size..
>
>Anyway the HDs has these partitions:
>
>C: Win98
>D: 15GB I plan to put ME on.
>E: Linux
>
>On E: I plan to put Linux.
>
>If I did a setup D: or (whatever the switch is) would my MBR be OK?
>Can all these 3 OSs exist OK.. and would my DOS be preserved?
>I am using loadlin to load linux so it wont touch the MBR.
>
>What would happen if D: was on a removable HD... would the system
>he able to boot OK?
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