Linux-Misc Digest #775, Volume #27 Thu, 3 May 01 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Gnome/X: Can no longer login under my username (Chris Leahy)
Re: Problem with dosemu (Yvan Loranger)
Re: Problem with dosemu (Yvan Loranger)
Re: HPFS (Rod Smith)
Re: Windows 2000 and Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: List of all command in section (Vilmos Soti)
Re: newbie 'top' question (Dave Uhring)
xgamma tells me Xserver has VidModeExtension too old. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Windows 2000 and Linux (Dave Uhring)
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From: Chris Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome/X: Can no longer login under my username
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 21:50:55 -0400
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David Wake wrote:
> Hi: I'm using RedHat 7.0 with Gnome. Everything was running fine
> until I did a CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE while running in Gnome/X under my own
> login (david). Now, whenever I try to login on Gnome/X as david, the
> computer acts like it's going to start Gnome, but instead it switches
> to the console screen (by "console screen" I mean what you get when
> you type CTRL+ALT+F1 on RedHat). However, I can login as root at
> Gnome/X and it's fine.
>
> I've tried telinit 3 followed by telinit 5, and the same thing happens
> again. I've tried rebooting, but no luck. I'm guessing that when I
> did CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE I must have corrupted some file which enables
> Gnome/X to start under my username. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> david
Well, I dont know what could have happened to mess things up but you
could
work around it by removing all the gnome directories and X config files
in your home directory.
Then when you log in it should act like it was your first login. It will
recreate all the
X configuration files and directories like you re a new user.
You will have to re-customize your desktop, but your presonal settings
werent working all that well for you anyway :)
try deleting the following directories and files from your home dir.
If this doesnt work, you can back up personal data and remove the whole
user account. Deleting all directories and subs.
Then recreate the account.
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 2 21:50 .gnome
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 2 18:09 .gnome-desktop
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 22 20:23 .gnome_private
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 30 21:43 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 18:07 .mc
drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096Apr 24 21:04 .mcc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 22 20:37 .sawfish
-rw------- 1 root root 99 May 2 18:09 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1126 Aug 23 1995 .Xresources
-rw------- 1 root root 4242 May 3 20:38 .xsession-errors
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Christopher Leahy | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UBLIX Silly Administrator | http://www.zoltanium.com
Zoltanium (aka /dev/null) | Voice (610)408-0151
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David Wake wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi: I'm using RedHat 7.0 with Gnome. Everything
was running fine
<br>until I did a CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE while running in Gnome/X under my
own
<br>login (david). Now, whenever I try to login on Gnome/X as david,
the
<br>computer acts like it's going to start Gnome, but instead it switches
<br>to the console screen (by "console screen" I mean what you get when
<br>you type CTRL+ALT+F1 on RedHat). However, I can login as root
at
<br>Gnome/X and it's fine.
<p>I've tried telinit 3 followed by telinit 5, and the same thing happens
<br>again. I've tried rebooting, but no luck. I'm guessing
that when I
<br>did CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE I must have corrupted some file which enables
<br>Gnome/X to start under my username. Can anyone help?
<p>Thanks,
<p>david</blockquote>
Well, I dont know what could have happened to mess things up but you could
<br>work around it by removing all the gnome directories and X config files
in your home directory.
<br>Then when you log in it should act like it was your first login. It
will recreate all the
<br>X configuration files and directories like you re a new user.
<br>You will have to re-customize your desktop, but your presonal settings
werent working all that well for you anyway :)
<br>try deleting the following directories and files from your home dir.
<br>If this doesnt work, you can back up personal data and remove the whole
user account. Deleting all directories and subs.
<br>Then recreate the account.
<p>drwxr-xr-x 5 root
root
4096 May 2 21:50 .gnome
<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 root
root
4096 May 2 18:09 .gnome-desktop
<br>drwx------ 2 root
root
4096 Apr 22 20:23 .gnome_private
<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 root
root
4096 Apr 30 21:43 Desktop
<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root
root
4096 May 2 18:07 .mc
<br>drwxr-x--x 2 root
root
4096Apr 24 21:04 .mcc
<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 root
root
4096 Apr 22 20:37 .sawfish
<br>-rw------- 1 root
root
99 May 2 18:09 .Xauthority
<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root
root
1126 Aug 23 1995 .Xresources
<br>-rw------- 1 root
root
4242 May 3 20:38 .xsession-errors
<br>
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Christopher
Leahy |
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
UBLIX Silly Administrator | <A
HREF="http://www.zoltanium.com";>http://www.zoltanium.com</A>
Zoltanium (aka /dev/null) | Voice (610)408-0151
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: Problem with dosemu
Date: 4 May 2001 02:18:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Nicklas Larsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> On 2 May 2001 20:12:35 GMT, Yvan Loranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Isn't FreeDOS considered unstable? try using another ms-dos, dr-dos, or ..
>>[works for me - msdos6.22 & dosemu 1.0.1-1, EMS *and* DPMI; slackware BTW!]
>
> could you please post your conf?
Apologies to the rest of the newsgroup, but the foll. seems to interest
more than 1 person [otherwise i would have emailed the OP]
##############################################################################
# This file is /etc/dosemu.conf, included by /var/lib/dosemu/global.conf
#
# Linux DOSEMU configuration for parser versions >= 3 (dosemu-0.97.0.1)
#
# Access rights are defined in
# /etc/dosemu.users
###########################################
# Notes for editing this section:
# In $_xxx = (n) n is a numerical or boolean value
# = =
# In $_zzz = "s" s is a string
#
$_debug = "-a" # same format as -D commandline option
# (but without the -D in front)
$_features= "" # list of temporary hacks, see release notes in
# the file ChangeLog. e.g "0:1 2:0", which means
# to set feature_0 to 1 and feature_2 to 0.
$_mapping= "" # prefered mapping driver, one of:
# auto, mapself, mapfile, mapshm
$_timint = (on) # emulate INT08 type timer interrupts
$_mathco = (on) # or off
$_cpu = "80386" # 80586 is used runtime!
$_rdtsc = (on) # if possible use Pentium cycle counter
$_cpuspeed = (0) # 0 = calibrated by dosemu, else given (e.g.166.666)
$_pci = (off)
$_xms = (1024) # in Kbyte
$_ems = (1024) # in Kbyte
$_ems_frame = (0xe000)
# DPMI is dangerous to use! I need it for F-Prot antivirus!
$_dpmi = (4096)
#$_dpmi = (off) # in Kbyte
$_dosmem = (640) # in Kbyte, < 640
$_hardware_ram = "" # list of segment values/ranges such as
# "0xc8000 range 0xcc000,0xcffff"
$_secure ="ngd" # secure for: n (normal users), g (guest), d (dexe)
# empty string: depending on 'restricted'
# "0": always insecure (not recommended)
$_odd_hosts = "" # black list such as "lucifer.hell.com billy.the.cat"
$_diskless_hosts="" # black list such as "hacker1 newbee gateway1"
$_emusys = "" # empty or 3 char., config.sys -> config.XXX
$_emubat = "" # empty or 3 char., autoexec.bat -> autoexec.XXX
$_emuini = "" # empty or 3 char., system.ini -> system.XXX
$_hogthreshold = (1) # 0 == all CPU power to DOSEMU
$_irqpassing = "" # list of IRQ number (2-15) to pass to DOS such as
# "3 8 10"
$_speaker = "" # or "native" or "emulated"
$_term_char_set = "" # Global code page and character set selection.
# "" == automatic, else: ibm, latin, latin1, latin2
$_term_color = (on) # terminal with color support
$_term_updfreq = (4) # time between refreshs (units: 20 == 1 second)
$_escchar = (30) # 30 == Ctrl-^, special-sequence prefix
$_rawkeyboard = (0) # bypass normal keyboard input, maybe dangerous
$_layout = "auto" # one of: finnish(-latin1), de(-latin1), be, it, us
# uk, dk(-latin1), keyb-no, no-latin1, dvorak, po
# sg(-latin1), fr(-latin1), sf(-latin1), es(-latin1)
# sw, hu(-latin2), hu-cwi, keyb-user
# hr-cp852, hr-latin2, cz-qwerty, cz-qwertz.
# Or 'auto' (which tries to generate the table from
# the current Linux console settings)
$_keybint = (on) # emulate PCish keyboard interrupt
$_X_updfreq = (5) # time between refreshs (units: 20 == 1 second)
$_X_title = "DOS in a BOX" # Title in the top bar of the window
$_X_icon_name = "xdos" # Text for icon, when minimized
$_X_keycode = (auto) # on == translate keybord via dosemu keytables
# or 'off' or 'auto'
$_X_blinkrate = (8) # blink rate for the cursor
$_X_font = "" # basename from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*
# (without extension) e.g. "vga"
$_X_mitshm = (on) # Use shared memory extensions
$_X_sharecmap = (off) # share the colormap with other applications
$_X_fixed_aspect = (on) # Set fixed aspect for resize the graphics window
$_X_aspect_43 = (on) # Always use an aspect ratio of 4:3 for graphics
$_X_lin_filt = (off) # Use linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation
$_X_bilin_filt = (off) # Use bi-linear filtering for >15 bpp interpolation
$_X_mode13fact = (2) # initial size factor for video mode 0x13 (320x200)
$_X_winsize = "" # "x,y" of initial windows size (defaults to float)
$_X_gamma = (1.0) # gamma correction
$_X_vgaemu_memsize = (1024) # size (in Kbytes) of the frame buffer for emulated vga
$_X_lfb = (on) # use linear frame buffer in VESA modes
$_X_pm_interface = (on) # use protected mode interface for VESA modes
$_X_mgrab_key = "" # KeySym name to activate mouse grab, empty == off
$_X_vesamode = "" # "xres,yres ... xres,yres"
# List of vesamodes to add. The list has to contain
# SPACE separated "xres,yres" pairs
$_video = "vga" # one of: plainvga, vga, ega, mda, mga, cga
$_console = (0) # use 'console' video
# GRAPHICS=1 requires turning off 'video bios shadowing', in theory!
$_graphics = (1) # use the cards BIOS to set graphics
$_videoportaccess = (1) # allow videoportaccess when 'graphics' enabled
$_vbios_seg = (0xc000) # set the address of your VBIOS (e.g. 0xe000)
$_vbios_size = (0x10000)# set the size of your BIOS (e.g. 0x8000)
$_vmemsize = (1024) # size of regen buffer
$_chipset = "" # one of: plainvga, trident, et4000, diamond, avance
# cirrus, matrox, wdvga, paradise, ati, s3, sis
$_dualmon = (0) # if you have one vga _plus_ one hgc (2 monitors)
$_vbootfloppy = "" # if you want to boot from a virtual floppy:
# file name of the floppy image under /var/lib/dosemu
# e.g. "floppyimage" disables $_hdimage
# "floppyimage +hd" does _not_ disable $_hdimage
$_floppy_a ="threeinch" # or "fiveinch" or "atapi" or empty, if not existing
# optionally the device may be appended such as
# "threeinch:/dev/fd0"
$_floppy_b = "" # dito for B:
$_hdimage = "bootdir"
# $_hdimage = "hdimage.first" # list of hdimages under /var/lib/dosemu
# assigned in this order such as
# "hdimage_c hdimage_d hdimage_e"
# If the name begins with '/dev/', then partion
# access is done instead of virtual hdimage such as
# "/dev/hda1" or "/dev/hda1:ro" for readonly
# Currently mounted devices and swap are refused.
# Hdimages and devices may be mixed such as
# "hdimage_c /dev/hda1 /dev/hda3:ro"
# Note: 'wholedisk' is _not_ supported.
$_hdimage_r = $_hdimage # hdimages for 'restricted access (if different)
$_aspi = "" # list of generic SCSI devices to make available
# for the builtin aspi driver (format of an entry
# is 'device:type:mappedtarget' such as
# "sg2:WORM sg3:Sequential-Access:6 sg4:CD-ROM" or
# "sg2:4 sg3:1:6 sg4:5" (which are equal)
$_com1 = "/dev/mouse" # e.g. "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/cua0"
$_com2 = "/dev/cua1" # e.g. "/dev/modem" or "/dev/cua1"
$_com3 = "" # dito "/dev/cua2"
$_com4 = "" # dito "/dev/cua3"
$_ttylocks = "" # Lock directory (e.g. "/var/lock")
# default ("") is /usr/spool/uucp
$_mouse = "ps2" # one of: microsoft, mousesystems, logitech, mmseries
# mouseman, hitachi, busmouse, ps2
$_mouse_dev = "/dev/mouse" # one of: com1, com2, com3, com4 or /dev/mouse
$_mouse_flags = "" # list of none or one or more of:
# "emulate3buttons cleardtr"
$_mouse_baud = (0) # baudrate, 0 == don't set
$_printer = "lp" # list of (/etc/printcap) printer names to appear as
# LPT1, LPT2, LPT3 (not all are needed, empty for none)
$_printer_timeout = (20)# idle time in seconds before spooling out
$_ports = "" # list of portnumbers such as "0x1ce 0x1cf 0x238"
# or "0x1ce range 0x280,0x29f 310"
# or "range 0x1a0,(0x1a0+15)"
$_ipxsupport = (off) # or on
$_novell_hack = (off)
$_vnet = (off) # 'on' for packet-multi (used by dosnet)
$_sound = (off) # sound support on/off
$_sb_base = (0x220)
$_sb_irq = (5)
$_sb_dma = (1)
$_sb_dsp = "/dev/dsp"
$_sb_mixer = "/dev/mixer"
$_mpu_base = "0x330"
--
Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: Problem with dosemu
Date: 4 May 2001 02:41:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Nicklas Larsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> On 2 May 2001 20:12:35 GMT, Yvan Loranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Isn't FreeDOS considered unstable? try using another ms-dos, dr-dos, or ..
>>[works for me - msdos6.22 & dosemu 1.0.1-1, EMS *and* DPMI; slackware BTW!]
>
> could you please post your conf?
I should add - my dosemu is suidroot; dosemu.users & autoexec.bat &
config.sys are all pretty straightforward; i'm using a bootdir rather than
an hdimage [obvious from dosemu.conf].
--
Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: HPFS
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 02:49:35 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Chris West wrote:
>>
>> Is anyone aware of a HPFS format program for linux?
>> Also is there a way of writing HPFS extended file attributes from a program?
>
> No, I have heard about HPFS in 2 ways:
> - HPFS on HP-UX as in HP's own File system. As far as I know, is it a
> Harddisk filesystem
I'm not familiar with this one.
> - HPFS on Apple (MAC's?) where it is an CD-Rom file system.
You're thinking of HFS, not HPFS. HFS is used on both hard disks and
CD-ROMs, although Apple's been using HFS+ on hard disks for some time,
rather than HFS.
> As far as I know, there is some support for the latter one in the CD-Rom
> section of the kernel.
HFS support appears in the filesystem section of the kernel. That's also
where HPFS support appears. Chances are the poster was referring to
IBM's HPFS, which is used with OS/2 (and some early versions of Windows
NT -- HPFS was actually written by Microsoft).
Concerning the original questions, I'm unaware of any tools to do a
high-level HPFS format from within Linux. Likewise, AFAIK the only way
to write HPFS EAs from Linux is to use them to store Linux ownership
and permission information, and that only works with the 2.4.x kernels
(or backports of the read/write driver to 2.2.x kernels). AFAIK,
there's no way to access other HPFS EAs from within Linux. You might
check the HPFS documentation in the kernel directory tree, though --
there might be some clues there if the HPFS driver has some hooks into
the EAs that you might be able to use.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 and Linux
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 02:54:28 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <yglI6.8620$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two machines at home, machine A is running windows2000 and is
> connected to the internet. machine B is running redhat Linux 7.1. what i
> want to do is connect the two machines together, and I would also like to
> connect machine B to the internet as well. how should i go about doing this
There are several ways to do this. Which is best depends on your needs.
In brief, the less radical solutions include:
- Install a second NIC in Machine A, set it up with Microsoft's ICS
(which comes with Win2K), install a NIC in Machine B and configure it
to point to Machine A as the gateway/router. (I believe that ICS
includes a simple DHCP server, so you can do this by telling Machine B
to use DHCP.)
- Do as just described, but reverse the roles of Machine A and Machine
B. In this case, you'd use Linux's IP masquerading instead of ICS.
(There's an IP masquerading HOWTO document with details.)
- Buy a separate gateway box, connect it to the Internet, and connect
both your computers to the gateway box. This works well with cable or
DSL connections, for instance, using residential broadband routers.
There are other possibilities, too. Post more details about what type of
connection you've got and what your needs are if you want a more
specified answer.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.help
Subject: Re: List of all command in section
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 02:55:45 GMT
Alex Vinokur wrote:
> Can we get list of all commands in some section (using the man command or
> something else).?
locate /manX
where X is the section.
Vilmos
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie 'top' question
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 21:57:54 -0500
Daniel Berger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Redhat 6.2.
>
> I'm trying to capture the output of the 'top' command on . I want the
> first
> 10 results. In solaris I can do 'top -d 1 10'. In linux, I know I can
> capture the output, but I'm not clear from the man pages on how to limit
> the
> number of results. Please help. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
Doesn't appear to have the same options as the top I built on Solaris.
Using RedHat-7.1 here. Try
# top > top.txt
^C
Then edit the resulting file.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xgamma tells me Xserver has VidModeExtension too old.
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 03:02:52 GMT
I can't seem to run xgamma because of this error:
Xserver is running an old XFree86-VidModeExtension version (0.8)
Minimum required version is 2.0
>From what I heard, I have the latest XFree86:
XFree86-4.0.3-5 (from rpm).
I am using RedHat Linux 7.1. Any ideas? Thanks! :)
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 and Linux
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 22:03:25 -0500
mark wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two machines at home, machine A is running windows2000 and is
> connected to the internet. machine B is running redhat Linux 7.1. what i
> want to do is connect the two machines together, and I would also like to
> connect machine B to the internet as well. how should i go about doing
> this ?
>
> thanx a lot
> mark
>
>
>
Personally I would put OpenBSD on machine A. But I suppose you're stuck
with Windows. And implementing ipchains and ipmasquerade is certainly
going to go beyond your present knowledge and ability.
Install and configure Internet Connection Sharing on the Windows box and
take it from there. I don't use Windows 2000 so I can't give you precise
instructions. This after all is a Linux news group.
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