Linux-Misc Digest #763, Volume #27 Wed, 2 May 01 06:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Problem with dosemu (P Stein)
Re: ptys error (David Efflandt)
Re: purpose of port 53 "domain port" ("Dr. Aldo Medina")
Re: AOL on Linux (Claus Atzenbeck)
Re: Best way to manage source code? ("Michael")
Re: smart media and linux? (esp. w/ notebooks) (David Efflandt)
Re: startx -- error (David Efflandt)
SMB between subnets ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question. (David Efflandt)
Re: SMB between subnets ("Tauno Voipio")
auto logout ("Wong Ching Kuen Frederick")
Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues (James Tonsager)
Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow ("Crap Name [AGQx]")
wu_ftp help can'not start (bafi)
Re: linux red hat 7.1 (bafi)
ftpd waiting one minute or more (bafi)
wu_ftpd waiting for loging (Rafael)
Re: What Linux DB is close to Access97? ("Wayne Osborn")
Re: How do I find what library provides a symbol? (J Hayward)
Re: wu_ftpd waiting for loging ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: P Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with dosemu
Date: 2 May 2001 05:59:36 GMT
Has anyone been able to get dosemu to use EMS in RH7.0? I installed the
rpms of dosemu-1.0.1-1 and dosemu-freedos-1.0.1-1, and I can get dosemu to
start, but it doesn't see any EMS memory. In /etc/dosemu.conf I told it
to use 8192k of EMS, and EMS.sys is loaded in my config.sys file, but I
still haven't had any luck.
--
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.
-- A. Einstein.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ptys error
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 06:36:05 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:33:11 GMT, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While trying to scp a file I received the following error message.
>
> "The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create
> more."
>
> What does this error mean?
Are you running scp from an ssh session on the box you are sending the
file from? If not, maybe it simply cannot find any controlling terminal
to ask you for password or passphrase.
For example I don't have my private key on my ISP, so I could not scp a
file from my ISP to me, because my box would not accept a connection
without credentials and there was no terminal open on the sending end to
provide a password. I had to ssh to my ISP and scp the file from there
to me. That worked because I then had a terminal open on my ISP to
provide a password.
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From: "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: purpose of port 53 "domain port"
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 00:36:11 -0600
"D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > What is the purpose of port 53 the "domain port"? I'm trying to close up
> > ports that have to need ot exposed to the internet and I'm not sure about
> > this one. I am running a name server is this vital for that? If not what
> > port does a dns server use? Thanks.
>
> FYI, a lot of bind exploits seem to be published lately. You might be
> careful to get the latest version of this before letting it on the
> Internet.
I regularly receive email from my firewall software reporting attempts
to connect to port 53. Could this be associated with what you're
telling?
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From: Claus Atzenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL on Linux
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 08:53:58 +0200
Mordak wrote on Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:33:04 GMT:
> Here's the link to where you can download the program.
> http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_1822.html
This would be a cool application, because I have to use AOL (there is no
other cheap flatrate provider left in my region), and I don't want to
change Linux to Win.
The above named page exists, but doesn't have the right download link on
it. Does anyone know about what happend to aolip??
Claus
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best way to manage source code?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 09:01:06 +0200
Im Artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb "Garry Knight"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:35:59 +0200 in article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> If you choose to install from source, it's IMHO presumed, that you know
>> what you do, read the docs that come with the sources, check the
>> configure/Makefile for anything curious or unusual, perhaps edit it and
>> take a look at the sources. After this you decide to get it running or
>> not compile/install it at all...
>
> And if you know how to use make, then you can look for the 'install'
> target in the makefile, find out what gets installed where, and either
> create your own 'uninstall' target or write a script to do the
> uninstalling. Assuming you might want to uninstall at a later date, that
> is...
>
if you do "make -n install" you see what make wants to do...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: smart media and linux? (esp. w/ notebooks)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 07:01:39 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02 May 2001 00:56:52 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1 May 2001 14:10:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered
> into the Black Sun and said:
>>Ok, i hope i don't get flamed for too many mini-postings but i figured
>>i would risk it. I previously posted about compact flash due to the
>>fact that i was dazzled by the ability to just plug it into a pcmcia
>>slot (with a converter) and use it like a hard drive. Unfortunatly the
>>cammera i am drooling over uses "smartmedia" (the Olympus America
>>Camedia C-2040). What kind of support of linux have for smart media?
>>While i am at it, would anyone happen to know if (assuming it exists)
>>converting USB to serial would be a problem? (i have a old notebook).
>
> AFAIK, there is a small device you can get called a "smartmedia-to-USB"
> adapter. Put the smartmedia card in one end, plug the USB plug into
> your machine, then "modprobe usb-storage" and attempt to access
> /dev/sdX1 as a FAT-formatted disk, where X is one letter higher than the
> highest-lettered SCSI disk you have connected.
I think he was asking if there was some what to adapt USB to a serial port
on his computer. I don't think there is.
> If you don't have a USB port, why not just use the camera's serial-line
> out and hook the thing to your DB9 serial port? It's highly probable
> that gphoto supports whatever protocol your camera uses. It'll be slow,
> but converting USB to serial would not be any faster. If your camera
> does not have a serial line out (most cameras do!) then you'll have a
> tough time using it with your old machine.
Serial is slow for 8 MB of 1.3 MPix images (10K/sec?), so a larger card
would take forever.
> I thought I saw a PCMCIA smartmedia adapter the other day at the
> CompUSelessA. That should work just like the CompactFlash thing....
I have a Microtech Digital Flash Film Adapter that works with SmartMedia
up to 128 MB, 3.3V or 5V and is ATA compatible (like an IDE drive), so it
works just like a CF adapter. On my laptop it shows up as /dev/hde, so I
mount /dev/hde1 as vfat. It works great (fast) in Win98se and Linux.
The only box that did not seem to have a driver for it was an old 133 MHz
TI running Win95.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: startx -- error
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 07:11:35 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeffrey J. Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>
> the above error appear when calling startx from a user account (root
> works fine).
>
> I'm on RedHat7, I have just wiped out KDE from my system and put it back
> on (ONLY: libs, libs-sound, support, base) as root. I started it as
> root and copied root's .Xclients, .Xclients-default to the user's home
> directories but the above error occurs when trying to start from user's
> directories.
Did you chown those files you copied to the user's home dir to the
username and group of the user, or are they still owned by root?
One mistake some people make too is using 'su' instead of 'su -' and
accidently running X as root with the user's environment, and then these
.X* files (and .netscape files) in the user's dir can end up with wrong
ownership.
You should only run X as root if you need to use certain GUI tools as
root.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SMB between subnets
Date: 2 May 2001 07:24:35 GMT
I'm not sure if this is a problem of networking or a
flaw in the implementation of Windows, anyway...
I have a Win NT server (yeeeeech!) that is connected on
my network with a fixed IP (172.20.118.24), I'm trying to
connect my Linux machine to it using samba. The problem is
that my machine is on a different subnet (172.20.117.42).
SMB tell me 'session request failed'. Any suggestion?
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question.
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 07:27:17 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 May 2001 14:12:15 -0500, Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a known problem with RH private group. You
> either give up privacy by letting others to read your
> home directory (chmod o+r /home/*) or put user html
> in /home/httpd/user and specify it in apache
> configuration file.
Almost, but not quite, apache needs at least o+x (701) permission on
/home/username. public_html would typically have 755 permission. This
would allow access to public_html without allowing a listing of the user's
home dir.
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMB between subnets
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 07:34:56 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cocnj$eosjv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm not sure if this is a problem of networking or a
> flaw in the implementation of Windows, anyway...
>
> I have a Win NT server (yeeeeech!) that is connected on
> my network with a fixed IP (172.20.118.24), I'm trying to
> connect my Linux machine to it using samba. The problem is
> that my machine is on a different subnet (172.20.117.42).
> SMB tell me 'session request failed'. Any suggestion?
>
You need an address in the NT machine subnet to be able to reach it. If both
addresses are fixed, you need to find a free address in the NT machine
network and set it as an alias for the Linux network interface.
There is little sense to try Samba before the hosts are able to ping each
other.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Wong Ching Kuen Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: auto logout
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:43:17 +0800
in suse 7.1 (using bash), how to set auto logout after a preset idle time?
thanks.
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From: James Tonsager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux.redhat,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 08:43:27 GMT
Funny, dhcp and roadrunner work well on my machine with Mandrake 7.2.
Michael wrote:
>
> Here's some food for thought:
>
> Use a static ipaddress & free it from the dhcp server.
>
> http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dhcpfree.c
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "grooveman"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > I am running Redhat 6.2, and I am tying to use it with Mediaone (Now
> > ATT) Road Runner service in the Detroit Metro area. My problem is that
> > my machine would not lease from the DHCP server. Of course, the
> > customer support was useless in this issue: "we don't support
> > Line-ucks".
> > I have researched this thoroughly, and have seen many people with the
> > same or similar issue, but every single one failed to document clearly
> > how they overcame this problem (if they did at all). I dropped pump all
> > together. I have the version that comes stock with RH 6.2. (0.7.8-1).
> > I downloaded the latest version of DHCPCD version 1.3.20-p10. I have
> > gotten that to work -- but it only works about 10 percent of the time.
> > 90% of the time (or so) it fails. The README for this utility is not
> > helpful at all. The howto I found was even worse. When modifying the
> > script of ifup an ifdown, it not only had the script wrong, but it said
> > to remove an "if" statement without touching the fi. I am no scripting
> > whiz, but I know you can't break conditionals like that without trashing
> > the script.
> > I modified ifup and ifdown, basically by replacing the pump commands
> > with their dhcpcd equivalents. Then, I wrote a script that loops the
> > ifup until it gets a lease. I put the script at the end of rc.local,
> > rather than having eth0 come up at init level 3. The net result is that
> > it runs through everything fine, and at the very last stage, tries to
> > bring up eth0 until it is successful. It take about 10 times plus or
> > minus.
> > (SIGH........)
> > What can I do to get this to work?
> > I really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!
> > Chris
> >
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From: "Crap Name [AGQx]" <[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: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:42:10 +0100
Reply-To: "Crap Name [AGQx]" <[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.
>
Quake 3 DOES use dual processors if they are available and the SMP option is
enabled. Your graphics card drivers have to be coded to handle it though or
it will cause issues.
You gain about 10% performance from the second CPU and it helps the load in
big firefights. I have seen plenty of benchmarks on the web that describe
the difference between single and dual setups.
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From: bafi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wu_ftp help can'not start
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:22:31 +0200
I could not start my wu_ftpd on Red Hat 7.1. When it was started by xinetd
I could not log from local host, than I decided to start wu_ftpd manualy
running in.ftpd, but this is no difference at least I can see that ftpd
starting and dying after half second. How I can find the problem. Please
help me .
Bafi
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From: bafi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux red hat 7.1
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:25:06 +0200
I run both RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0.
If you like slower system run mandrake, RH is faster. But Mandrake is more
for Windows users, it is more friendly for beginners but not for prof.
Bafialik blochin wrote:
> by the way has somebody tried Red hat 7.1 ?
> is it in some ways preferreble over mandrake 8.0 ?
>
>
>
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From: bafi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftpd waiting one minute or more
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:23:31 +0200
I menaged somehow to run wu_ftpd deamon but still have the problem, when I
connecting I am geting
Connected to 192.168.25.1
and than I have to waite long time ( one minute or longer) until I will
get prompt to log
220 etc.......
Can any of you help me
Bafi
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wu_ftpd waiting for loging
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 11:18:45 GMT
I am waiting to connect to my wu_ftpd about two minutes or longer. I am trying to do
this from local host using telnet
localhost 21. What is the problem, where to look for solution, and how to sove it?
Bafi
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What Linux DB is close to Access97?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:23:37 +0800
In article <9cmuce$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bill Weissborn"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In terms of designing screens, reports, etc.
>
> I am building a RedHat 7 system if that matters.
>
> Bill W
>
>
"With tongue in cheek:"
No Linux db is that crappy!
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
5:20pm up 1 day, 20:05, 1 user, load average: 1.07, 1.06, 1.09
...Help me, I'm a prisoner in a Fortune cookie file!
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I find what library provides a symbol?
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:20:40 -0700
Hello,
Been awhile back, but I seem to remember getting that error while compiling
a newer version of Gnome. If I remember correctly it belonged to rxvt. I
had to install a newer version in order to get it to compile. Either check
and see if your Linux distribution has an upgrade or look here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rxvt/
Regards,
Jim H
Major Dondo wrote:
> I am trying to run gnome-terminal patched for japanese support. I am
> getting the following error:
>
> gnome-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: gnome-terminal:
> undefined symbol: zvt_term_set_open_im
>
> This symbol is the kanji input manager. Compiling from source is no help -
> the library that provides the funtionality is missing, so the compiled
> version, while it will run, won't have the internaitonal support I need.
>
> I figure I need a patched library as well.
>
> How do I find what library provides this symbol?
>
> TIA,
>
> --Yan
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wu_ftpd waiting for loging
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:48:57 +0200
Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am waiting to connect to my wu_ftpd about two minutes or longer. I am trying to do
>this from local host using telnet
> localhost 21. What is the problem, where to look for solution, and how to sove it?
Read the instructions? RH disabled wuftp for all but local machines in
RH7.1, as I have read. What to do about it are in their release notes
and other documentation that comes with their wuftpd packaged.
So recompile from source if you want something different. Just use -I at
launch if you want to avoid reverse dns lookups by the daemon
and dns is not configured and/or the caller is not in dns. Enable
wuftpd in /etc/hosts.{deny,allowed}, and check its config file
to see which hosts are allowed to connect. Those are standard things.
Peter
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