Linux-Misc Digest #874, Volume #27 Wed, 16 May 01 10:13:02 EDT
Contents:
installing software from source vs package manager ("tvn1981")
Re: installing software from source vs package manager (Christian Capito)
mincom - function key ("Michael K")
Re: problem receiving mail (Ian Northeast)
ISA WANGTEK 5150EQ tape streamer - ftape (Sander van Geloven)
fonts problem ("Florian Schmidt")
Re: Question about xinetd.conf (Christian Rose)
Re: System.map and multiple kernel versions. ("Wayne Osborn")
Re: Where is the 'crypt' prog (Ed Hynan -- evh at liii dot com)
Re: load average ("Wayne Osborn")
RedHat Box not responding ("Richard Wallis")
How to activate a compiled program
Need help Installing V7.1 ("ENTREKEN")
Re: amanda error (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: How to activate a compiled program (Christopher Albert)
Re: Reloading a module (bert buchholz)
Re: Need help Installing V7.1 (Christian Rose)
Re: SCSI errorr (Pieter Ekkebus)
Windows 2000, RH7.1, FAT32 and Users ("Neil Middleton")
RedHat7 "unable to handle kernel paging request" and other strange errors - RAM
problem? ("Gregor Kuhlmann")
Re: SoundForge for Linux (Reiner Griess)
Re: Running processes in the background. ("bowman")
minimal linux ("jan vandesompele")
Re: script to run telnet (Jean-Pierre Moreau)
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From: "tvn1981" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing software from source vs package manager
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 05:11:20 -0400
as a new user, I find that rpm installing is easier than from source.
I can live with configure and compile from source but it gives me
headache when I want to UNinstall something.
How do you find all the files that was installed if you install it from
source ? Especially if that a library kinda file, it puts all kind of
names in all directories.
please give me your tips -
thanks
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From: Christian Capito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing software from source vs package manager
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:58:35 +0200
on Wednesday 16 May 2001 11:11, tvn1981 quoth:
> How do you find all the files that was installed if you install it from
> source ? Especially if that a library kinda file, it puts all kind of
> names in all directories.
Try
$make uninstall
in your source code directory (You kept it, didn't you?)
christian Capito
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From: "Michael K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mincom - function key
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:33:21 +0200
I use minicom in a xterm window under KDE. Now, I want to use the function
key feature to send special frases to my seriell device. But wether the
function key nor ESC+<number> work to bring it out. Does someone can help me
?
Regards
Michael
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem receiving mail
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:15:11 +0100
Chris Bragg wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001 20:57:08 -0400, Shore Linux Solutions wrote:
>
> > am running sendmail version 8.11.2-14 on a rh linux 7.1 box. I ran
> > sendmail.mc and started the daemon. I can send mail but cannot receive
> > mail at my domain. Just from my little bit of knowledge I am thinking
> > that maybe sendmail is not listening to the port and interface. Can
> > anyone offer me any assistance on this matter and or advise me of a way
> > to easily and properly configure sendmail. Any assistance would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm by far no mail expert, but I believe you'll need to use something like
> fetchmail in order to pull down your mail from your ISP, if this is what
> you mean. Using sendmail does just that, it sends the mail. From what I
> understand, qmail has the ability to both send and receive mail. Someone
> please correct me if I'm mistaken. On my system for my little LAN, I use
> sendmail to send out all the other users mail, and fetchmail to pull it all
> in and store it for each user.
Senmail will receive mail but only if something sends it to the machine
using SMTP. This is fairly unusual for ISPs (Demon do it and I receive
my mail with sendmail, but most don't). Assuming that the OP does have
an SMTP mail feed and the mail is still not arriving:
Check that sendmail is actually listening by "telnet localhost 25";
If the machine's hostname doesn't match the domain name on the incoming
mail, then it is necessary to list this in sendmail.cw and use
"FEATURE(use_cw_file)". Otherwise sendmail will reject the mail as a
relay attempt.
Without an SMTP feed it is indeed necessary to use something like
fetchmail to get it from the POP3 server, if that is what is provided
(most ISPs use POP3).
Regards, Ian
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From: Sander van Geloven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ISA WANGTEK 5150EQ tape streamer - ftape
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:12:10 -0400
Hi,
I have a WANGTEK 5150EQ tape streamer with ISA controller card connected
to a PII with Mandrake 8.0 installed. Now I cannot approach the device
because there is no /dev/... for it or maybe I am looking at the wrong
/dev/... (I do a check with tar fb /dev/...) However the ftape modules
load OK into the kernel.
Does anyone have tips to get this thing going? The controller card has
dip switches for IRQ, DMA and ADDR, so unfortunately it isn't a Plug and
Pray thingie.
Thanks,
Sander van Geloven
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From: "Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fonts problem
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:35:01 +0200
hi. i have slackware 7.1 installed. when i upgraded my X from 3.x to
4.0.2 suddenly many of the fonts don't work no more.. i suppose, there is
different locatons for fonts in 3.x and 4.x. so i dug a bit into the
XF86Config and changed some fontspaths, which made things even worse. so
my question: can i use all of the old fonts, which must be there somewhere
(suppose under /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts)? and if, how?
--
florian schmidt
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about xinetd.conf
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:52:49 +0200
Chakravarthy K Sannedhi wrote:
> This is the first time I am using Red Hat 7.0. I know how the services are
> started and stopped that are controlled by inetd with Red Hat 6.2. In that
> just we need to comment, uncomment and restart the inetd service to make the
> changes to work. But I want to know how these things are done under the new
> version. Let us suppose how can I disable finger service running on my Red
> Hat 7.0 box.
As previously, you can use the simple "/usr/sbin/ntsysv" program to
select which services you want started at startup and enabled. After
that, you only have to "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart" to restart
xinetd and apply the changes.
Alternatively, if you really like digging in files yourself,
/etc/xinetd.d/ is the directory you should look in. With xinetd, every
installed service has its own file in this directory. Find the "finger"
file and change "disable = no" to "disable = yes" in it. Then restart
xinetd with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart".
Christian
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System.map and multiple kernel versions.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:53:23 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dave Uhring"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I may have illustrated that incorrectly. Those are not symlinks, but
> rather are associations. If you boot vmlinuz-2.2.16 and have a
> System.map-2.2.16, the kernel will find its System.map.
>
No, I did not mis-interpret your response.
I have 4 compiled/patched kernels, all 2.2.16 with a corresponding number
of System.map-kernelverionstring files and 1 x System.map symbolic link
pointing to one of these. I would like to understand what setup this
symbolic link, it sure was not me!
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
6:50pm up 1 day, 6:46, 4 users, load average: 4.66, 4.97, 4.79
...Old mail has arrived.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Hynan -- evh at liii dot com)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Where is the 'crypt' prog
Date: 16 May 2001 06:55:21 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>PPS. To anyone who also want to find the 'crypt' source, give it
>up. It's very hard to find and I didn't find it.
A public domain version is in an archive named pdcrypt.
Search for ``pdcrypt download''.
-- Ed
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load average
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:01:47 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michael Heiming"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> this should be true for some home desktop machine, which doesn't really
> do anything,
> like mine, running seti@home -nice 19 and reading news....
Sorry to side step and butt-in, I was interested in increasing my
Genome@home throughput so started playing around with the nice factor.
Increasing nice to +20 when not using the system increased WU throughput
around 30%. I then tried running 3 sumultaneous instances with a nice
value of 19, this seams the best. Results are:
1 x client instance, nice 19 = 26 hours per WU.
3 x client instance, nice 19 = 60 hours per 3 x WU's or 20 hours per WU.
No perceivable reduction in system response during normal desktop use.
Thought you may be interested...
>
> Running as server, it's possible to see much higher load, I.e. on some
> mail server running virus scanning sw, to protect the clients/users.
>
> The machine should just not swap to disc and it will run without any
> problems,
> even with loadaverage > 50.
>
> Michael Heiming
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
6:50pm up 1 day, 6:46, 4 users, load average: 4.66, 4.97, 4.79
...Old mail has arrived.
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From: "Richard Wallis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat Box not responding
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:24:33 +0100
Hi there,
Can anyone tell me why my RedHat box is not responding properly, it seems to
make the intital link to whatever, whether it be the internet over lan or
ftp and telnet, but after a short while things seem to stop, you can use the
machine as normal but anything connecting to it comes to a halt, any idea's.
Thanks in advance
Richard Wallis
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to activate a compiled program
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:30:04 -0000
Hello there,
I'd downloaded freeware 'ncftp' source files from the Internet.
After compiled via the following steps, it's still an unknown
command in bash.
1. Run the "./configure" script.
2. "make"
How do I know whether the compilation is failed or not? If the
compilation is successful, should I perform further steps to
activate the compiled version of 'ncftp' in RH 6.2?
Thank you very much,
Rita
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From: "ENTREKEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help Installing V7.1
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:33:53 GMT
When I try to install Linux V7.1, I get
an error. Here is the install text that is
displayed on the screen:
running install...
running /sbin/loader
running anaconda - please wait ...
exec: No such file or directory
install exited abnormally
Appreciate any help
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: amanda error
Date: 16 May 2001 11:47:56 GMT
Wong Ching Kuen Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i got this in my amanda email. could anyone tell me what's the problem?
> thanks.
> ? DUMP: bread: lseek fails
> ? DUMP: bread: lseek fails
> ? DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [block -2048724168]: count=4096,
> got=0
> ? DUMP: bread: lseek2 fails!
This has been answered many times on the amanda-users mailing list, which
is archived at egroups. The short version is that the filesystem changed
out form under dump. Dump does one pass through the partition to see
what needs to be dumped, then does another pass to actually dump the data.
Between those two runs, the data on the disk changed, and dump didn't find
something where it expected to. This is a typical problem when running
dump on an active filesystem.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Christopher Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to activate a compiled program
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:09:15 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> I'd downloaded freeware 'ncftp' source files from the Internet.
>
> After compiled via the following steps, it's still an unknown
> command in bash.
>
> 1. Run the "./configure" script.
> 2. "make"
>
> How do I know whether the compilation is failed or not? If the
> compilation is successful, should I perform further steps to
> activate the compiled version of 'ncftp' in RH 6.2?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Rita
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Rita
Normally after "make", you need to do a "make install" .
This is almost always descibed in the README or INSTALL docs
that come with the code source.
Chris
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From: bert buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reloading a module
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:14:17 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> Plug the device in, then do:
>
> echo "scsi add-single-device X Y Z W" > /proc/scsi/scsi
>
> X = controller #
> Y = bus #
> Z = SCSI ID #
> W = LUN #
>
> In many cases, X, Y, and W will all be 0. If you don't know the SCSI ID
> of the disk you're adding, find out! Also, when you hotplug SCSI
> devices, I/O on the SCSI bus may stop for a few seconds depending on how
> things are set up wrt termination. HTH,
>
Thank you, that worked. BTW, where did you find this? I read a lot about
SCSI on Linux but never came over that.
Bert, thanking you again
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help Installing V7.1
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:19:01 +0200
ENTREKEN wrote:
> When I try to install Linux V7.1
Red Hat Linux 7.1, I suppose. There is no "Linux 7.1" and you will annoy
many people by calling something that :-)
> I get an error. Here is the install text that is
> displayed on the screen:
>
> running install...
> running /sbin/loader
> running anaconda - please wait ...
> exec: No such file or directory
> install exited abnormally
>
> Appreciate any help
What are you installing from? CD? Did you burn from ISOs? Did you verify
that the ISOs were downloaded correctly and that the CDs were burned
correctly?
Christian
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:28:55 +0200
From: Pieter Ekkebus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI errorr
"Stuart R. Fuller" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Pieter Ekkebus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : When I copy from scsidisk to scsidisk I see sometimes some
> : error's in my log file:
>
> : (scsi1:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64
>
> : Somebody know what's going wrong?
>
> What makes you think this is an error?
Intuition
> Do copies go correctly?
Yes
> Are you seeing file corruption?
No.
--
Groeten,
Piet.
Your mouse has moved.
Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect.
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From: "Neil Middleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Windows 2000, RH7.1, FAT32 and Users
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:38:31 +0100
Any ideas how I can have a FAT32 partition mounted as /home in Linux and D:
in Windows?
I am having problems with being able to log in as a user due to lack of
filesystem ownership...
TIA
Neil Middleton
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From: "Gregor Kuhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat7 "unable to handle kernel paging request" and other strange errors -
RAM problem?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:51:56 +0200
Hi,
I am running a server on a RedHat 7 box with a Pentium-III @ 800 MHz on Via
Apollo Pro chipset (motherboard type unknown since I have no physical access
to the machine). SCSI subsystem is an Adaptec AIC 7892 (U2W-LVD?), NIC is a
LiteON LNE100TX.
Since installing the machine about 3 weeks ago I experienced regular errors
and lockups, including - but not limited to - the following:
* file names changing single characters (e.g. "libcrypt.so" was suddenly
named "libtrypt.so")
* "unable to handle kernel paging request" errors, each time from different
processed and virtual addresses
* no network transfer but machine still up, i.e. local console login
possible and all necessary processes running, NIC properly configured
* programs (both system programs and "homebrewn" ones) cause unexpected
"segmentation faults" (but work fine when started a couple of minutes later
with the same parameters/input files)
I suspect a problem with the system RAM (perhaps also chipset related)
and/or SCSI termination.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
- Gregor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reiner Griess)
Subject: Re: SoundForge for Linux
Date: 16 May 2001 12:57:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mmmm... Thank you. I'll give it a try...
bye
reiner
On Tue, 15 May 2001 19:57:18 GMT, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bzzt. Next contestant.
>
>Try here:
>
>http://ardour.sourceforge.net/
>http://sound.condorow.net/
>
>Happy surfing....
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reiner Griess) writes:
>> There is no really good audio software for Linux,
>> such as SoundForge, available. Only a few bad
>> tools. RIGHT?
>
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running processes in the background.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:38:56 -0600
"Paul Kimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> (In most shells ...)
> If you do "control-Z", then the process will be suspended and you will be
> returned to the prompt.
at least in tcsh, typing 'bg' at this point will put the process you've just
suspended into the background.
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From: "jan vandesompele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: minimal linux
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:53:40 +0200
Hello,
can someone tell me how I can make a bootable cdrom based on linux? I should
be able to startup a basic X windows program after boot. No network support
needed for example. The package should not be bigger than 60Mb.
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Subject: Re: script to run telnet
From: Jean-Pierre Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 May 2001 10:06:12 -0400
On Tue, 15 May 2001 19:17:26 -0000, Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I would like to create a script that will run an xterm session and
> then telnet to a remote Unix host. I have put an icon on my KDE desktop
> which brings up a xterm session when I click on it, but how can I have
> that also telnet automatically to the remote host?
You possibly need a program to automate interactive sessions, text based
as is the case for telnet. Naturally, not for Click and Slap(*) sessions!
Look at expect(1), 'expect' tool on most Linux, and many Unices:
$ man expect
expect - programmed dialogue with interactive programs
. . .
I think other exist, but don't remember for sure.
(*)
Click and Slap: direct translation of my 'Clique et Claque',
good sounding french expression I use when talking about many
(pseudo intuitive Click and Mouse interfaces).
'Clique et Claque' Copyrighted to population of the Universe.
--
Jean-Pierre Moreau,
notuser@inexistant (s/notuser/jpm-qc/; s/inexistant/iquebec.com/)
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