Linux-Misc Digest #762, Volume #27 Wed, 2 May 01 02:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Printer Frustration - Please Help (Ivory Bones)
Re: Printer Frustration - Please Help (Grahame Kelly)
Re: WOL Wake-ON-LAN: sending Magic Packets (Pete White)
Re: Printer Frustration - Please Help ("Rodney D. Myers")
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Which kernel has DVD support? ("Glitch")
Re: Sound Problem (E J)
Re: File System going bad (Yvan Loranger)
Re: Can pine get remote email ?? (Andrew N. McGuire)
Re: What Linux DB is close to Access97? (Juergen Sauer)
Re: Why ftp login always fails? need help!! ("Lee Neely")
Re: File System going bad (NoMadis)
Re: Can't boot the 2.4.1 Kernel !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: wu-ftpd login delay, telnet okay. (John Murtari)
Re: Argh, Linux 2.4.0 does not boot! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't boot the 2.4.1 Kernel !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound Problem (Newbie Girl)
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Subject: Printer Frustration - Please Help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivory Bones)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 01:32:33 GMT
I attached a serial printer to COM2 on my linux box.
I can send a text file to the printer with cat filename > /dev/ttyS1
I used printtool to make a printcap file and it too, prints the test line.
However, every attempt to use lpr fails.
The lpq command reports a file in the queue but /dev/lp0 is busy.
Well, /dev/lp0 is 'busy'! It's not even connected. How do I tell linux to
use the printer clearly defined in the printcap file?
What am I doing wrong here? Whose more confused, me or Linux?
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grahame Kelly)
Subject: Re: Printer Frustration - Please Help
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 01:37:14 GMT
> I attached a serial printer to COM2 on my linux box.
> I can send a text file to the printer with cat filename > /dev/ttyS1
> I used printtool to make a printcap file and it too, prints the test line.
> However, every attempt to use lpr fails.
> The lpq command reports a file in the queue but /dev/lp0 is busy.
> Well, /dev/lp0 is 'busy'! It's not even connected. How do I tell linux to
> use the printer clearly defined in the printcap file?
Don
Why not post your printcap. Assuming you have restarted the
lpd then printcap is its only directives (usually).
Cheers,
G.
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From: Pete White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WOL Wake-ON-LAN: sending Magic Packets
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:09:00 GMT
Check out http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html
Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know how to send Magic Packets from a Linux box
> to an ASUS PII motherboard with Etherfast 10/100 Mbps and WOL enabled
> via BIOS settings and a wire connecting the ethernet card to the
> motherboard. The receving box is just running Win2K but I would
> just like to know how to send the Magic Packets from Linux.
> I just installed the card and I am a little curious about
> testing this interesting new feature.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
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From: "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Frustration - Please Help
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:29:35 -0700
In article <RsJH6.3038$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ivory Bones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I attached a serial printer to COM2 on my linux box.
>
> I can send a text file to the printer with cat filename > /dev/ttyS1
>
> I used printtool to make a printcap file and it too, prints the test
> line.
>
> However, every attempt to use lpr fails.
>
> The lpq command reports a file in the queue but /dev/lp0 is busy.
>
> Well, /dev/lp0 is 'busy'! It's not even connected. How do I tell
> linux to use the printer clearly defined in the printcap file?
>
> What am I doing wrong here? Whose more confused, me or Linux?
>
> Don
Also check the cable.. I had a similar problem last month, or so, and
After banging my head I bought a new printer cable.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:28:13 GMT
"Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Still not good enough. They might be building a unit, and this might take
> 30, 40, 60 minutes, meanwhile their workorder is up and in the "in-process"
> stage. Resetting the terminal can have a nasty effect on that.
So you don't autoreset terminals when they have workorders up.
> Further, how exactly do you know when the terminals screen
> saver has kicked in with a vt100 terminal?
Dunno. I thought everybody was using VT420s or VT510s by
now. Perhaps I was deluded. But for that matter, with
a truly dumb terminal, you can build the screen-blanking
function right into the app.
> > > That "page"? We're talking about a standalone application versus HTML.
> >
> > Page, screen, menu, record, file, function, whatever. I was
> > trying to be general, since obviously the precise content of
> > the CRT display will vary from application to application.
>
> And how do you update only that page, or rather the other pages without
> effecting that one in a standalone app?
Usually, with a decently-well-designed app, the information
displayed on the screen is not hardcoded. It may be built
or arranged dynamically by the app, but it usually comes
from a data file someplace, UIAGM.
- jonadab
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which kernel has DVD support?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 23:00:36 -0400
In article <9cl6rc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew Purugganan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I plan to install a DVD drive on my PC, when did Linux start supporting
> DVD? I have 2.2.13-22mdk kernel from Mandrake on my PC, do I need to
> upgrade to a newer kernel or something?
>
you will need to have UDF filesystem support in the kernel at the least. I want to say
there is another thing you need but it escapes me at this point.
if u are using 2.2.13 u will need to download the UDF patch or you could just
download a new 2.4 kernel which has all the stuff you need ( no need to
patch your kernel to death).
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Problem
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 03:06:34 GMT
Check the audio cable leading from your CD-ROM to your sound card.
Does your CD play under windows using the old CD Player? That uses the CD-ROM
cable (Don't use Window Media Player to play CDs because it bypasses the
CD-ROM cable, and sucks too much processes)
Sarina wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I've got Mandrake 8.0. It's working wonderfully. I even got regular system
> sounds this time!! Problem is, I can't get sound when playing my cd's with
> the players: kde media player or xmms. I have onboard sound AC97 which the
> system recognizes and kmix assigns ICE1232. I have tweaked the players and
> the mixer. Still no player sound. Do you have any ideas?? Thanks in
> advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: File System going bad
Date: 2 May 2001 03:33:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Ok, here's my question:
> Is there any known issue with Linux packages and file systems
> getting corrupted?
>
> I've got:
> Slackware 7.1, kernel 2.2.16, Samba, Apache, PSQL,
> and a host of other things. It's on a UPS, so
> I'm fairly sure it's not a power issue, and I know
> it's not improper shutdown.
> Every couple of weeks, I do a fsck and e2fsck, and it
> comes back with illegal inodes, invalid DTime values,
> and a host of other problems.
>
> I repeatedly run e2fsck and fsck to repair the system.
> When it's back up, everything is great for a while.
> (i.e. I can re-check the FS, and have no problems)
> But after a few weeks, it's bad again.
>
> I keep my backups current, but I'm still nervous.
>
> Are there any known packages that may be causing this?
> (I use midnight Commander A LOT!)
> The machine NEVER has a kernel panic and halts. It's
> only during reboots (or the occasional console message
> about a bad inode somewhere) that the FS shows up as bad.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas in tracking down the problem
> would be appreciated.
>
> -Scott Weber
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
your disk is dying?
--
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http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew N. McGuire)
Subject: Re: Can pine get remote email ??
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 03:37:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming wrote:
> Victor Shirokov wrote:
>>
>> Which type of the remote mail server do you want to use?
>> If POP, then pine is not your choice, for it doesnt' support POP, at
>> least it haven't.
this is not true, PINE does support POP3... as well as IMAP.
## in ~/.pinerc
inbox-path={your.mail.server/pop3}INBOX
this will prompt for a password every time you log in... i think you
can also tell it to use a password, and put it in that line in you .pinerc
file, but it has been a while.
> You can always fetch your mail to your local machine using fetchmail,
> which supports very much different authentication systems.
>
using fetchmail is a good way to go for other reasons, such as being able
to pull from multiple mail servers. i am entirely satisfied with configuring
the genericstable/masquerading/smarthost options to sendmail, (you use these
to rewrite the addresses going out you linux box) after all your ISP does not
know about username@localhost (there is an Address Rewriting Howto, it should
be available at linuxdoc.org) for outbound mail, and using mutt for inbound
mail (it works beautifully with POP and IMAP, and is not nearly as bloated as
PINE).
anm@hawk:~$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/mutt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1169476 Apr 29 15:03 /usr/local/bin/mutt
anm@hawk:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/pine
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 2779788 Nov 27 1999 /usr/bin/pine
> Michael Heiming
>
>>
>> hushui wrote:
>> >
>> > can pine get mail from remote host??
>> > I have configured it.
>> > But it seems it can oly get localhost mail .
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Hi
>> > I am a linux guy from china.
it is customary (and polite) to reply after what you are replying to...
hth. hand.
anm
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What Linux DB is close to Access97?
Date: 1 May 2001 20:11:34 GMT
Doug Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Tue, 01 May 2001 18:30:02 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc:
> Adabas D, available for download with StarOffice.
Ohh my Lord, what an idea.
The standard StarDB in SO is Access like, Adabas D is an
complete RDBMS, a thing like Acess is binary rubbish compared to Adabas.
mfG
Jojo
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From: "Lee Neely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Why ftp login always fails? need help!!
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 04:29:58 GMT
Manbo-
Looking again at /etc/ftpaccess - five of the lines seem odd.
1) Try removing the limit users line - this might be the problem
2) I don't see a lot of value to defining /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow -
these
are in default places
3) The guest-root and anonymous-root entries are equally well defined in the
password
file when defining the entries for those kinds of users, yank them.
Lee
"Manbo Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> (!) In /etc/passwd, the shell is /bin/bash for the ftp user
> (2) /etc/ftp/users does NOT contain a entry for the ftp user
> (3) /etc/ftp/hosts contains nothing
>
> Any further clue?
> Thanks
> Manbo
>
>
> Lee Neely wrote:
>
> > Three places to check-
> > 1) The shell for your user is not in /etc/shells. (The path has to match
the
> > path in /etc/passwd)
> > 2) The user is not allowed to use ftp- check /etc/ftpusers - this is
lists
> > accounts that CANNOT
> > use the FTP daemon.
> > 3) The host is not allowed - check /etc/ftphosts -
> >
> > Lee
> >
> > "Manbo Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Hollo;
> > >
> > > Need help on ftp!! Thanks in advance.
> > > Manbo
> > > --
> > >
> > > Ftp to my machine always failes.
> > > (1) The "chkconfig --list wu-ftpd" command gives:
> > > wu-ftpd on
> > > (2) The /etc/hosts.allow has ALL:ALL
> > > (3) /etc/ftpaccess has the following
> > > limit users 0x8125df8allow-retrieve
> > > loginfails 5
> > > private no
> > > passwd-check none warn
> > > log commands anonymous,guest,real
> > > log transfers anonymous,guest,real inbound
> > > log transfers anonymous,guest,real outbound
> > > anonymous-root /var/ftp
> > > guest-root /var/ftp
> > > passwd /etc/passwd
> > > shadow /etc/shallow
> > >
> > > (4) The failed ftp screen looks like this:
> > > % ftp 1.2.3.4
> > > Connected to 1.2.3.4
> > > 220 machine.domain FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1-16) ready.
> > > Name (1.2.3.4:user_id): user_id
> > > 331 Password required for user_id.
> > > Password:
> > > 530 Login incorrect.
> > > Login failed.
> > > ftp>
> > >
> > > (telnet works!!)
> > >
> > > (5) My system: RedHat Linux 7.1, run level 5
> > >
> > >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NoMadis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: Re: File System going bad
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 04:31:53 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 May 2001 17:14:30 -0500, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
<<SNIP>>
>I repeatedly run e2fsck and fsck to repair the system.
>When it's back up, everything is great for a while.
>(i.e. I can re-check the FS, and have no problems)
>But after a few weeks, it's bad again.
you've got grotty hardware somewhere.
replace the flatcable with a new one.
if the problems persist move slowly to more expensive hardware (IDE
controler, memory, motherboard, the like)
--
Greetz,
Joop
=======================================================================
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (31)-252-532489 PGP-ID: FFB003FD
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't boot the 2.4.1 Kernel !!
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 04:43:56 GMT
On Tue, 01 May 2001 03:29:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 11 Apr 2001 10:07:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vegard Engen)
>wrote:
>
>>In article <9b10gg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Chow wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I compiled the Linux Kernel 2.4.1 for a i586 PC(Pentimum -166 MMX with 98Mb
>>>RAM).
>>>It compiled successfully.
>>>
>>>But when I reboot the system.
>>>
>>>The following message displayed :
>>>
>>>LILO Loading linux ........................................
>>>Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the kernel.
>>>
>>>
>>>And then it kept this stage without response.
>>>How can I do now ? And how to make the linux run again ? Or, what should I
>>>do when compile the kernel or what should do after finishing compile the
>>>kernel(what files should modified) ????
>>
>>Well - first, boot up the old kernel. If you don't have it, you'll need to
>>boot with a rescue disk.
>>
>>Then, when compiling the 2.4.1-kernel again, make sure you select
>>"VGA text console", "Virtual terminal"and "Support for console on virtual
>>terminal".
>>
>>My guess is that you have compiled your kernel without one of these, thus
>>the kernel have to way to give out the messages - and worse, you have no way
>>to interact with the system ;)
>>
>>- Vegard
>
>I had the same result as Michael. Have all those things set. Had a
>successful compile and it doesn't work.
>
>I am looking at the minimum requirements. So far, I've met most of
>them. Will post the results of what I find out.
>
I went thru the "changes" doc and updated all my software to match the
doc.
Compiled the kernel and got the EXACT same prob. I am completely out
of ideas on how to fix this.
Any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.
Thanx in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 04:51:29 GMT
"Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The point here is what happens when you need to update the APP, not the data
> (though frequently they coincide).
If the app is sufficiently modular, you can indeed update pieces
of it en media res. However, even with a monolithe, it's not
hard to install a new version and set the initialisation scripts
so that the new version is used at each terminal the next time
that terminal finishes whatever it is doing and goes back to the
(if I may use a term from the jargon if the early 1980s) main
menu. Or when a different user logs on. Or whenever it's
appropriate; insert your favourite criterion here.
> > The drawback to HTTP for this application is that when a page is
> > requested, a connection is opened, the page downloaded, and the
> > connection is then dropped. It's designed to be stateless,
> Nonsense, you need only provide state information in the
> URL, or via a cookie.
That stores state from the client's perspective, but he was
talking about state from the server's perspective, which is
at least as important. For some applications, the server
NEEDS to know what each client is doing. Especially when
you're dealing with a database, where there are consistency
issues to be handled. And, as he said, you can throw some
CGI or something into the picture and keep track of the
last page each client loaded, but that isn't quite the same
as knowing what each client is DOING. It might do in a
pinch, but there are better solutions.
- jonadab
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From: John Murtari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd login delay, telnet okay.
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 12:17:16 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Update:
>
> I am convinced that the 30-second connect to login delay is somehow
> related to the fact that the clients connecting with wu-ftpd ares
> originating from proxy servers. Further, even though reverse DNS
> lookups are functioning for each of the users and proxy servers in my
> test, I suspect there is something more to the problem.
>
> The stock ftpd on this RedHat 7.0 box did not have this problem. I
> have read some other newsgroup posts that elude to the possibility the
> identd requests back to the client are failing. While I will hapily
> enable this on my own proxy server, I cannot ask my clients to go fiddle
> with their proxy server, when they do not see these delays connecting
> with other sites -- some of which are running wu-ftpd.
>
> Is there a way to disable wu-ftpd identd lookups on incoming
> connections? Am I off base, here, or what?
Yes, just put the "-I" switch in either your inetd.conf,
or in xinetd.d/wu-ftpd -- that disable ident, we had
a similar problem.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Argh, Linux 2.4.0 does not boot!
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 05:23:25 GMT
On 20 Apr 2001 06:44:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Igor4584 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When I try to boot it, lilo says "uncompressing kernel............"
>> and then it hangs.
>
>Had the same problem sometime ago. Check the processor type you
>defined during the compilation, if it does not fit with the 'real'
>processor the kernel won't boot.
>Davide
DING! We have a winner. Thanx Davide for the post. I had the exact
same prob mentioned here, took your suggestion, and it fixed it. Man,
what an ordeal. If I hadn't seen this post, I might never have fixed
it.
They should put this in like a kernel build troubleshooting doc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't boot the 2.4.1 Kernel !!
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 05:26:40 GMT
On Wed, 02 May 2001 04:43:56 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Tue, 01 May 2001 03:29:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>On 11 Apr 2001 10:07:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vegard Engen)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>In article <9b10gg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Chow wrote:
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>I compiled the Linux Kernel 2.4.1 for a i586 PC(Pentimum -166 MMX with 98Mb
>>>>RAM).
>>>>It compiled successfully.
>>>>
>>>>But when I reboot the system.
>>>>
>>>>The following message displayed :
>>>>
>>>>LILO Loading linux ........................................
>>>>Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the kernel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>And then it kept this stage without response.
>>>>How can I do now ? And how to make the linux run again ? Or, what should I
>>>>do when compile the kernel or what should do after finishing compile the
>>>>kernel(what files should modified) ????
>>>
>>>Well - first, boot up the old kernel. If you don't have it, you'll need to
>>>boot with a rescue disk.
>>>
>>>Then, when compiling the 2.4.1-kernel again, make sure you select
>>>"VGA text console", "Virtual terminal"and "Support for console on virtual
>>>terminal".
>>>
>>>My guess is that you have compiled your kernel without one of these, thus
>>>the kernel have to way to give out the messages - and worse, you have no way
>>>to interact with the system ;)
>>>
>>>- Vegard
>>
>>I had the same result as Michael. Have all those things set. Had a
>>successful compile and it doesn't work.
>>
>>I am looking at the minimum requirements. So far, I've met most of
>>them. Will post the results of what I find out.
>>
>
>I went thru the "changes" doc and updated all my software to match the
>doc.
>
>Compiled the kernel and got the EXACT same prob. I am completely out
>of ideas on how to fix this.
>
>Any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanx in advance.
Prob fixed. Re-read posts. Changed my processor to the correct type
and it fixed the prob. Thanx.
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From: Newbie Girl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Problem
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:41:32 -0700
Hi Dave:
Thanks a lot. I'll be checking into this tomorrow. Very kind of you to
point me in the right direction.
sarina :)
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