Linux-Misc Digest #760, Volume #27 Tue, 1 May 01 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help with wu-ftpd (Ryan McGuigan)
Re: How about those kernel-panics :( (Ryan McGuigan)
Re: kde or gnome - which on is more stable on rh ? (Ryan McGuigan)
Re: autoloading modules on boot-up (Craig Kelley)
Re: I have RH 6.2 - should I upgrade Gnome? ("David Orriss Jr")
Re: Backuping AND restoring data from tape drive ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: I have RH 6.2 - should I upgrade Gnome? (David)
Re: Partition Problem and New HD ("AK")
Re: copy&paste and pine (Garry Knight)
Out of Memory (Redhat 6.0) ("Tom Edelbrok")
Re: Samba over the internet? ("KW")
Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow ("Mjx2001")
Re: Backuping AND restoring data from tape drive (Frank de Bot)
Re: copy&paste and pine (Eduardo Chappa)
gethostbyname_r in glibc 2.2? (Louis LeBlanc)
Re: What Linux DB is close to Access97? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Multiple mount point for 1 partition (Frank de Bot)
Apache und perl ("Ali")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan McGuigan)
Subject: Re: Help with wu-ftpd
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 20:10:46 GMT
Ummm... I have a better suggestion. Take wu-ftpd, and chuck that damn
thing as far as you can. Transfer it to a floppy or some other
discardable media, and chuck it as far away as possible, preferably into
an extremely hot fire. Then, use a utility to completely wipe the deleted
file from your drive. Make sure you do this well, as you don't want that
sucker reappearing somehow. I'm serious, wu-ftpd is a spawn of Satan. It
is more evil than you can possibly imagine, it is beyond evil, it is one
of the darkest forces in the universe.
Then, when your drive is good and clean, try out proftpd or something else
that isn't so incredibly evil.
Take care, and please exorcise this daemon as soon as possible.
Ryan
ironman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: thankyou, I have installed it yes and it does start.
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:9c3njp$bt1fv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > ironman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > > things in them yet when i ftp localhost I get a 421 error. Any
: suggestions
: >
: > Have you installed inetd (or xinetd) and configured /etc/inetd.conf to
: > start wu-ftpd when asked ?
: >
: > Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan McGuigan)
Subject: Re: How about those kernel-panics :(
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 20:14:41 GMT
What MB/CPU etc are you using. If it's an Intel i8(anything) throw that
in the trash and get a new MB. We were using a dual proc i840(i think)
and that thing was the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen. It wouldn't
stay up for more than 20some days either. Swapped MBs because we heard of
the problems with the Intel i8*'s, thing has been up ever since. That was
quite some time ago, can't even remember how long. 6 or 7 months at
least. Everything else is the same, it's using the serverworks chipset or
something like that.
Ryan
ief ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi
: I've been experiencing several kernel-panics. With as result an uptime never
: longer then 21days, usually shorter even.
: A friend of mine suggested a mem-test, which I ran for a couple of
: hours...no result. Will be running it an all-nighter somewhere this week,
: 'cause it is getting VERY irritating.
: I'd appreciate all suggestions on what to check, and how, or other tips if
: you have any on this subject. For convenience I added the latest
: kernel-panic below. Maby it
: makes sence to some of you... it's jibberish to me :(
: Thanks in advance, hope you send me lots of usefull suggestions,
: Ivo Willems
: The panic:
: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000a0050
: current -> tss.cr3 = 02def000, %cr3 = 0257a000
: *pde = 00000000
: OOPS: 0002
: CPU: 0
: EIP: 0010: [<c011dffe>]
: EFLAGS: 00010202
: eax: 000f0008 ebx: c0261850 ecx: c0261850 edx: 00070033
: esi: 00000180 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000015 esp: c2129f1c
: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
: process httpd pid:165, processnr:19, stackpage= c2129000
: stack: c2128000 00000020 00000006 00000000 0000009f c0123783 00000006
: 00000015
: c2128000 00000015 c2128000 081e75fc c2128000 c01238c4 00000015
: <-- hmm think I missed some there :\
: c01240e2 00000015 c2128000 fffffff4 c2128000 081e75fc c2576498
: c261d580
: call trace: [<c0123783>] [<001238c4>] [<c01240e2>] [<c012e249>] [<c012e7b4>]
: [<c012c6fe>] [<c0107af4>]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan McGuigan)
Subject: Re: kde or gnome - which on is more stable on rh ?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 20:23:14 GMT
tvn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi, rh shipped with gnome as its default so does that mean it is better to
: run gnome on rh ?
In my humble opinion...
Gnome has been quite stable for me for a while now, KDE is about the same.
Gnome is very extremely nice looking, KDE is uglier than http://goatse.cx.
KDE has some apps that Gnome lacks, such as Konqueror(sp?) and KOffice,
however you can run them under Gnome if you need to.
With that said, my desktop of choice at the moment is Enlightenment and
the gnome panel running by it self. One of my favorite features of E is
the icon box. I f%&king HATE the windows style task bar and the mac
style drop down task list. I am much more efficient with E's icon box.
It's all personal preference though, I suggest you try them both out, or
maybe even try to run a mixture of both.
Ryan
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: autoloading modules on boot-up
Date: 01 May 2001 14:23:21 -0600
"J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all.
>
> I recenty have installed Mandrake 8.0, and I must say I am quite happy
> with it. There is however a small problem with my modules and X. I am
> using an matrox g400 video card, and am running xfree86 in DRI mode.
> However, the required modules agpgart and mga are not loaded
> automatically. If I do 'insmod agpgart;insmod mga' prior to starting X,
> everything works fine, so the only problem is that these modules are not
> loaded automagically. I was wondering if it is possible to force the
> loading of these modules on bootup of my system or on startup of X by
> tweaking some module configuration file or X configuration file? As a
> temporarily workaround I have added 'insmod agpgart;insmod mga' at the end
> of my rc.sysinit, but surely there has got to be a more elegant way of
> dealing with this issue?
Yes and no. Some (like myself) would argue that your solution is the
most elegant because it gives you control. You can also compile in
module auto-loading support for your kernel and it will (should)
auto-load the modules for you. Also, you should be able to get by
with:
depmod mga
and the kernel should be able to find agpgart all by it's lonesome.
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "David Orriss Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I have RH 6.2 - should I upgrade Gnome?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 20:24:41 GMT
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Go to the link below and follow the instructions.
>
> http://www.ximian.com/desktop/download.php3
>
> --
> 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 99.181% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
>
Cool.. that answers the 'how', but not the 'why'. Should I upgrade the
Gnome that ships with RH 6.2?
And thanks for that link, btw. That's most helpful.
--
David Orriss Jr
http://www.codeskanks.com/
http://www.davenet.net/
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backuping AND restoring data from tape drive
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 14:36:32 -0600
> I've just put a Onstream Di30 in my linux system. As far I was able to put
> something on to it (I assumes it did) with this:
> tar cvv -b 64 -f /dev/ht0 /home I heard the tape and I saw the standard
> output from tar. But how can I restore the data? I've tried tar xvf
> /dev/ht0 , but that didn't worked. Can anyone say me how this must be
done?
You might want to look into the book "backups under Unix", or something
like that, the last junior admin that quit stole our copy, and we haven't
repalced it yet. It's from O'Reilly, and has a lot of good utilities,
including some fairly good backup scripts.
To answer your question, you might want to do something like...
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
restore -i -f /dev/ht0
steve
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I have RH 6.2 - should I upgrade Gnome?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 20:47:53 GMT
David Orriss Jr wrote:
>
>
> Cool.. that answers the 'how', but not the 'why'. Should I upgrade the
> Gnome that ships with RH 6.2?
As to the why. It is a newer version. RH 6.2 ships with gnome 1.2 or
something like that and ximian is 1.4.
--
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 99.186% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "AK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98
Subject: Re: Partition Problem and New HD
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 21:55:23 +0100
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:42:48 -0400, "neufie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I have 4 Primary Partitions:
> >
> >C:
> >D:
> >E:
> >F:
> >
> >When I put my Removable drive in it shifts
> >the Partitions,
> >
> >and I get:
> >
> >C:
> >
> >D: NEW HD
> >E: NEW HD
> >
> >F:
> >G:
> >H:
> >
> >
> >As you can imagine this cause a few problems in windows.
> >I am planning on putting Linux and and keeping one partions
> >for other stuff .. (this drive is removable).
> >
> >Would converting my partitions to Logical cause the two new
> >partitions on this drive to go in the rightful place.. at the end?
> >
> >If so, would parition magic do this?
>
> Completely repartition your removeable hard drive with FDISK as follows:
> 1. Delete all existing partitions.
> 2. Create a DOS extended partition that uses the entire drive.
> 3. Create as many logical drives within the extended partition as you
wish.
> Their drive letters will follow those of your 1st hard drive.
Tried this but it didn't work.. but got hold of Partition Magic..
and converted F: G: H: to logicals.... they then shifted up to their
rightful place.... (also I think I converted the new HDs to logical too).
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: copy&paste and pine
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 19:04:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 1 May 2001 01:39:47 -0400 in article
<9clifq$aok$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I telnet/ssh to my ISP and run pine in xterm, I can not use
> copy&paste (middle button) in pine.
Try holding down the shift key when you do the highlighting. Does that make
a difference?
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Out of Memory (Redhat 6.0)
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:17:55 GMT
I have a Redhat 6.0 server set up for a customer. It has wu-ftp, Apache
webserver, SSH daemon, and runs the DYNU dynamic-IP client for remote domain
name services via DYNU.COM's DNS servers. I also have several CRONTAB
scripts that run once a minute (one to detect IP address changes and
implement them into the firewall by restarting it), and the other to re-run
the DYNU client if it is ever detected as quitting.
PROBLEM: The machine runs fine for somewhere between several weeks and
several months, then runs out of memory. It says CROND out of memory, SSH
out of memory, blah blah blah. In addition, SYSLOGD is found to not be
running. Also, I see some sort of "mdrecoveryd" process in the "ps -A"
listing.
QUESTION: How can I monitor memory usage in Linux? How can I figure out
where the leak is (if it's not a hardware problem). The machine has 32meg
ram and is a P75.
Here is the "ps -A" listing:
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:05 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kflushd
3 ? 00:00:00 kpiod
4 ? 00:00:01 kswapd
5 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
343 ? 00:00:00 atd
357 ? 00:00:00 crond
371 ? 00:00:00 inetd
427 ? 00:00:00 httpd
428 ? 00:00:00 httpd
429 ? 00:00:00 httpd
430 ? 00:00:00 httpd
431 ? 00:00:00 httpd
432 ? 00:00:00 httpd
433 ? 00:00:00 httpd
434 ? 00:00:00 httpd
435 ? 00:00:00 httpd
436 ? 00:00:00 httpd
649 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
650 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
651 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
652 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
653 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
654 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
662 ? 00:00:00 crond
665 ? 00:00:00 dynustart
686 ? 00:00:00 setdyndns
687 ? 00:00:06 DYNUPREM
946 ? 00:00:00 httpd
31834 ? 00:00:07 sshd
31835 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
31846 pts/0 00:00:00 su
31848 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
31849 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
Thanks,
Tom
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba over the internet?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:19:49 -0500
I had a samba server running on the internet and the win98 box that
was connecting to it didn't "see" it but it did connect to it and allow
me to map the drive. It's slower than grass growing (DSL / DSL at that) and we
disconnected it. I may still have the smb.conf if your interested...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Aaron Brice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> No, apparently it's a limitation of Win98 and not Samba as far as I can
> tell. Thanks for the help though.
>
> Aaron
>
> "Gerard H. Pille" wrote:
>
>> Aaron Brice wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to get a friend's Win98 computer to be able to connect to
>> > my samba server over the internet. He added the servers NetBIOS name
>> > and IP address to his lmhosts file, and I added the IP to the hosts
>> > allow variable in smb.conf but the Win98 computer can't find the
>> > samba server. Looking at the samba log files (with log level set to
>> > 5) I don't see any clients attempting to connect. Anyone have any
>> > ideas?
>>
>> Do you have anything of a firewall running which might be blocking the
>> netbios port?
>
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From: "Mjx2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,3dfx.glide.linux,alt.games.quake3
Subject: Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:24:48 +0100
"Charles Fultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm having a bit of trouble getting Quake3Arena to play at an
> acceptable speed. My setup is as follows:
> CPU: dual PII-overdrives 333MHz
Quake 3 Arena does not use dual CPU systems, so the second CPU is
useless...
Also, a P2 333 overdrive is prehistoric and nowhere near minimum
requirements.
> RAM: 384MB
> Video: 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI
I do use Linux, but I stopped using a voodoo3 years ago. My Athlon 950 MHz /
Geforce 2 can
manage 80 fps @ 1024 x 768 x 32 full detail... Get yourself a new video
card, preferably, one with
a little more power.
> Disk: 18GB IBM SCSI (40MB/sec) 7200RPM
> Kernel: 2.4.3
> X: XFree86-4.0.3 w/ tdfx driver and DRI and GLX modules
>
> The game looks fine, but the response is horrible. I get anywhere
> from 2-10 secs/frame. That's right secs/frame, not frames/sec.
> I get the same results playing as a user or root.
> Can anyone help me out here? I know I should be getting like anywhere
> from 30-50 frames/sec.
50 fps with a p2 333 and voodoo3 - you are dreaming.
>
> Please send responses to my e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Fultz
> fultz
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From: Frank de Bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backuping AND restoring data from tape drive
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:19:43 GMT
This was the output:
tar: /dev/ht0: Cannot read: Invalid argument
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Jim Cochrane wrote:
> In article <rcCH6.112717$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Frank de Bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've just put a Onstream Di30 in my linux system. As far I was able to
> >put something on to it (I assumes it did) with this:
> >tar cvv -b 64 -f /dev/ht0 /home I heard the tape and I saw the standard
> >output from tar. But how can I restore the data? I've tried tar xvf
> >/dev/ht0 , but that didn't worked. Can anyone say me how this must be
> >done?
>
> What error message did you get?
>
> You could try:
>
> tar xv </dev/ht0
>
> >
> >thanks in advanced,
> >
> >Frank de Bot!
>
>
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From: Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: copy&paste and pine
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 14:19:20 -0700
*** wroot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today:
:) When I telnet/ssh to my ISP and run pine in xterm, I can not use copy&paste
:) (middle button) in pine.
:) echo $TERM
:) gives "xterm"
:)
:) Strangely, I can do copy&paste when I'm not running pine or when I'm
:) running pine *locally*. (TERM is still xterm)
:)
:) Can I do something about it?
You must have [X] enable-mouse-in-xterm configured. If you want to use the
mouse to click on things then you must press the shift key at the same
time that you do the copy and paste operations, if you do not want to use
the mouse at all then disable this operation, and you won't need to worry
about pressing the shift key when doing these operations.
--
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/
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From: Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gethostbyname_r in glibc 2.2?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:28:16 -0400
Hey all.
I just started back up porting some stuff from Solaris to Linux. I'm
are starting with RH 7.1 (7.0 was a fiasco).
Anyway, one of my previous hurdles was a call to gethostbyname_r() -
basically, gethostbyname(), but threadsafe.
Now, with glibc 2.2, gethostbyname_r is implemented, but not
documented. At least not as far as I can find. Before I go poring
through code, can anyone out there point me to an updated manpage?
TIA
Lou
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What Linux DB is close to Access97?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:47:57 GMT
"Bill Weissborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In terms of designing screens, reports, etc.
None, at this point.
No database system provides the set of "front-end" tools that Access
does; most of the competent implementers of DBMSes implement database
server systems, which means that at its base, there _is_ no GUI.
That's true for the popular choices of PostgreSQL, MySQL, as well as
for less known options like Adabas-D, SAP-DB, and for commercial
options like DB/2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix [apparently soon to be an
IBM product].
There are some "front end" tools that can connect to some of these
databases; for PostgreSQL, there's something called "pg_access" which
looks a fair bit like Access, but doesn't quite do the "drag'n'drool"
thing.
There are DBMS administration tools, report generation tools, and
such; nothing integrated together the way Access tries to do...
> I am building a RedHat 7 system if that matters.
It doesn't, really, in this case. That only matters if you were
planning to try to get something prepackaged, in which case it would
probably need to be prepackaged for RH7 separately from some other
prepackaged version that would likely run on most other
distributions...
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
http://vip.hyperusa.com/~cbbrowne/resume.html
Rules of the Evil Overlord #30. "All bumbling conjurers, clumsy
squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be
preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon
their quest if they have no source of comic relief."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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From: Frank de Bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple mount point for 1 partition
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:48:20 GMT
Hi,
At the moment I got 2 spool directory. On is located as usual at /var/spool
. But the other one is at /usr/local/news/spool . Both may require a bunch
of MB's. I just wondered if it's possible to mount those 2 dirs on to 1
partition. I'm too lazy to reinstall my news server and so let it use
/var/spool :-)
Thanks in advanced,
Frank de Bot!
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From: "Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache und perl
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 23:00:40 +0200
hallo,
ich benutze suse 7.1 und habe Apache und perl installiert(Und auch Module).
Wenn ich in cgi-bin Verzeichnis eine Datei mit dem Name test.cgi oder
test.pl speichere, bekomme ich �ber web browser Internal server error. Ich
habe auch diese Dateien mit chmod 755 Rechte gegeben. Und als unix(asci)
gespeichert. Warum bekomme ich trotzdem diese Fehler Meldung.
Ich schreibefolgende URL in Browser:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi oder
http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl
Gru�
Ali
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