Linux-Misc Digest #944, Volume #27 Fri, 25 May 01 18:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: X-Server / Resolution (Robert Fleming)
Debian: Installed package list (* Tong *)
Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not ("Damiano Fasoli")
Re: Winmodems? (Tony Curtis)
Re: fetchmail + deliver to several local user (variable needed) (Michael Heiming)
Re: Creating rescue disk in Red Hat 7.1 (Jeff Shepherd)
Re: IBM to let Linux fans use mainframe--for free (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: Debian: Installed package list (Colin Watson)
Lib for Linux Kernel Sound API (* Tong *)
Re: M4 (Michael Heiming)
Re: How To Set The Swap size ? (Yvan Loranger)
Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not ("Natman")
dselect & dpkg (* Tong *)
Re: Debian: Installed package list (* Tong *)
HELP formated drive (Douglas Gouty)
Re: Star Office is NOT stable, but it beats ms orifice ("KW")
Re: How To Set The Swap size ? (Sevatio)
Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow (Fredrik Olausson)
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From: Robert Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: X-Server / Resolution
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:07:13 -0600
Michael Jakscht wrote:
>
> Hi to all of you!
>
> Maybe you can help me. I'm stock at the following
> point :
>
> - Diskless Linux Client
> - Server runs good
> - Clients (with ATI RageIIc) are running good
> - Clients with SVGA or S3 card don't run
>
> In /var/X11R6/bin/ the link "X" directs to the right
> X-Server, XF86_SVGA or XF86_S3. Both of them don't
> work in the following way:
>
> I just can't change the resolution to more than
> 640x480.
> It doesn't matter what I'm telling the Clients
> with the SVGA or S3 card in the /etc/XF86Config
> -File, it doesn't work.
>
> Where do I make a mistake?
> Does anyone have an idea?
> Would be a great help.
> I just need 800x600 with more than 16 colours,
> so I would love to have 800x600 with 256 or more
> colours.
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> Michael
Michael;
It sounds to me like you've found two problems. Your trying to give a
higher scan rate than the monitor will do or you have a card that
doesn't have enough memory for the color mode. I have a diamond stealth
3d2000 that works flawlessley with only 2mb of ram on it and a 19"
monitor runnning 1024x768 in 16bit.
Find out what rev the chip on the card is (s3, s3 virge, s3trio64/64+
etc) then try some of the timings of other cards that use that chip.
The standard non-interlaced setting for xf86config should work on most
monitors unless they are really really old. Then you would have to use
a low res config for 800x600 or less.
The time saver would be to backup your old XF86config file and try some
dry runs of configs and rename each one as you go when using
xf86config. Then copy them to where you would be using them on that
machine. There is an option where you could eliminate most of the mode
lines in the XF86Config file except the one that you think will work.
Then on the one you think will work there is a number that specifies
rates of scan that you could use to target the resolution better.
Example
Modeline "1024x768" 65 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 781 802 -hsync
-vsync
the number in the line to adjust would be the "65" up or down would
allow you to get closer to what you need. This would apply to the other
modes as well.
Robert
--
Robert Fleming
Systems Administrator
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Debian: Installed package list
Date: 25 May 2001 17:11:45 -0300
Hi,
How can I get a list of what packages are installed on my Debian? Is
there any way to use this list for my future installation? thanks
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
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From: "Damiano Fasoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:28:05 GMT
I know that using
pwconv
you transfer passwords from /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow
and using
pwunconv
you transfer passwords from /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd
Have a Nice Day
Damiano
"LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone give me a reason why when using RedHat's User Manager, new
> accounts have the password encrypted in /etc/shadow, but users created
> with useradd at the command line have clear text passwords in ..shadow?
>
> Is there a way to set a password at the command line that comes over as
> encrypted in shadow?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Liam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems?
Date: 25 May 2001 15:36:17 -0500
>> On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:54:34 -0400,
>> "Peter Titas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have a Lucent Winmodem and I have installed the Lucent
> drivers in redhat 7.1. Unfortunately, my modem is still
> not recognized. I made sure the driver was correct for
> my particular modem.
Can you talk to it directly using minicom? Make sure
/dev/modem is pointing at the right tty device created by
the lucent installation script. Then configure minicom to
use /dev/modem (I know you can address the tty directly
but this is nicer). If it connects, what does "ATI3"
display?
Has the module loaded? "lsmod" will show you. Did you
compile your own module from the provided lucent source,
or try to use the pre-compiled one? If different kernel
versions are involved, I'd re-compile and then insmod the
one you just built.
hth
t
--
Just reach into these holes. I use a carrot.
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:37:43 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail + deliver to several local user (variable needed)
Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
>
> On my ISP's server I have a mailbox with several aliases. I get the mail
> using fetchmail. The entry in .fetchmailrc (the sendmail command is part of
> postfix):
>
> *****
> user [EMAIL PROTECTED] there with password mysecret
> options fetchall stripcr
> mda '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T'
> *****
>
> With this fetching I get mails to several recipients (because of different
> aliases at my mailbox), e.g. sent to
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ...
>
> My local machine name is different to my e-mail domain at my ISP, but I
> have the same user names on my machine (thorn-dev, thorn-dev-owner, sympa,
> ...).
>
> How can I tell fetchmail to set as %T only the name before @my.domain so
> that sendmail is delivering the mail to the appropriate user on my machine?
> Or is there any other good way to do this??
>
> Thanks for any hint!!
> Claus
Try:
poll <servername> with protocol <POP3> user <username> password
<password> is <localuser>
You can setup multiple lines (the above is one, case this gets
mangled) one for every account. "man fetchmailconf" for other protocol
options.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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Subject: Re: Creating rescue disk in Red Hat 7.1
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:41:21 -0700
From: Jeff Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Shepherd wrote:
> > How do I create a floppy rescue disk in Red Hat 7.1?
>
> Not sure this is what you want but maybe.
In the last version I worked with (6.2) in the images directory there
was a rescue.img file used to make a rescue disk. The 7.0 docs talk
about using it at
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7-Manual/ref-guide/s1-sysadmin-
rescue.html
Oops. The 7.1 docs talk about it here
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manual/customization-guide
/rescuemode.html
Though the above web page says the rescue.img file is on CD1 in the
images directory, my CD does not have it there. Also, looking at the
Red Hat ftp server, *they* are missing the rescue.img file from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/images/ as well.
Anyone have the image?
- Jeff -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: IBM to let Linux fans use mainframe--for free
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:45:45 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roger Blake
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote
on Fri, 25 May 2001 12:03:24 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>On Fri, 25 May 2001 03:58:01 +0000, Richard Thrippleton
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>characters regardless? I know there's some reason for this, but it escapes
>>me at this time. Any ideas?
>
>Because the most popular character-cell terminals (ANSI/DEC VT-xxx series)
>have 80-column wide screens. You'll notice that if you use a terminal
>emulator or the Linux console, that's what you'll get by default.
>
>(There was a time on Usenet when no one would need such a thing explained
>to them. :-)
There was also a time where HTML didn't exist and we wouldn't have
to worry about posts therein, either... :-)
Variable-pitch fonts screw up a lot of things... :-)
[.sigsnip]
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- iiiii != WWWWW
EAC code #191 25d:23h:08m actually running Linux.
This is not a .sig.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Debian: Installed package list
Date: 25 May 2001 20:45:24 GMT
* Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I get a list of what packages are installed on my Debian?
dpkg -l
or:
dpkg --get-selections
(The former has more detail, the latter is machine-parseable.)
>Is there any way to use this list for my future installation?
dpkg --get-selections > selections
[move to another computer]
dpkg --set-selections < selections
dselect install (or apt-get dselect-upgrade, same difference)
BTW, linux.debian.user is a newsgroup gatewayed from the debian-user
mailing list (see http://lists.debian.org/). I'm not convinced that
messages posted to the newsgroup make it to the mailing list; I've
retained the crosspost just to see, but at any rate it probably won't
behave the same way everywhere. If you want to ask debian-user
something, best use the mailing list instead.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"I see people didn't read the smiley I didn't include."
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Lib for Linux Kernel Sound API
Date: 25 May 2001 17:55:34 -0300
Hi,
The API such as register_sound_dsp or register_sound_special are
list in the Linux Kernel API (/usr/src/linux/include/linux/sound.h)
Where is the corresponding library for them? Doesn't seem to come with
my Debian-2.2.19 and I couldn't find it in all the alsa packages.
Please help. thanks.
--
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http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:58:19 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: M4
Bob Zimmerman wrote:
>
> I just installed Red Hat 7.2 and configured my .mc file. I went to
> run m4 and got the error:
>
> Cannot open /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4 no such file.
>
> I had this on another machine working fine and am setting this
> machine up from scratch and can't figure out why I am getting this
> error. Any suggestions are appreciated...
Hello,
try:
locate sendmail | grep README
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: How To Set The Swap size ?
Date: 25 May 2001 21:21:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> On Fri, 25 May 2001 18:04:13 +0200, yotam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I am using R.H 7 is it possible to change the swap size after installation ?
>
> boot in single user mode and run cfdisk. However it's a bit primative.
> I don't think you can resize partitions with deleting and recreating.
yes you can, that's the traditional way. don't forget to run mkswap and
swapon. see the man pages. basically:
mkswap -c /dev/hda5
swapon /dev/hda5
[change /etc/fstab if you change the order of partitions]
--
Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: "Natman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:25:57 GMT
I'm assuming that you are using the -p argument?
as stated in the useradd(8) man page:
-p passwd
The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3).
The default is to disable the account.
which (to me) means that you have to call crypt yourself, and send useradd
the encrypted password, and not the plain text version. I'm not sure how to
do this (aside from writing a perl script, or C program). crypt(3) is a
definition of the crypt function for use in C programs. What I would do is
create the user with 'useradd', without the -p switch, then just run 'passwd
user' to set his/her password after. AFAIK, this 2-step procedure is what
most people do (I just use RH's User Manager).
Natman
"LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone give me a reason why when using RedHat's User Manager, new
> accounts have the password encrypted in /etc/shadow, but users created
> with useradd at the command line have clear text passwords in ..shadow?
>
> Is there a way to set a password at the command line that comes over as
> encrypted in shadow?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Liam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dselect & dpkg
Date: 25 May 2001 18:33:11 -0300
Hi,
I found there's something wrong with my Debian's dselect:
Some files are missing from the list that dselect shows me. I found
out this after I learned how to use the 'dpkg -l' command, for
example, the alsa-modules, alsadriver, alsalib0.3.2,
alsalib0.3.2-dev... All these important files are missing from my
dselect list. No wonder I was having an extremely difficult time
trying to install my alsa.
So my first question is how to fix it? I've tried "update" many
times and it doesn't work.
my debian box info:
Linux 2.2.19 #1 Sun Apr 8 14:17:18 EST 2001 i586
dpkg Version: 1.6.15.
My second question is that how can I get a full list of the package
name? The above alsalib0.3.2-dev for example, this is only my guess
because the full package name is not listed from 'dpkg -l'. This
make it hard for me to query/install the right package.
thanks
--
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http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Debian: Installed package list
Date: 25 May 2001 18:34:12 -0300
thanks Colin, you've always been very helpful.
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
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http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
- All free contribution & collection
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From: Douglas Gouty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP formated drive
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:44:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP...
I have accidentally formatted one of my data drives.
I was doing a reinstall of SUSE 7.0 to a new ATA-100 drive and still had=
=20
one of my data drives attached. I was watching TV while I was selecting=
=20
partitions and formatting and accidentally selected my data partition as=
=20
well. As soon as it hit the data drive I noticed it and killed the powe=
r. =20
Not quick enough though. <arrrggg> So I have lost some very important=20=
account and contact data that had not been backed up as recent as I had =
hoped. I am looking for some utilities to recover from the partial form=
at.=20
Any help would be appreciated.
Doug
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office is NOT stable, but it beats ms orifice
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:56:47 -0500
Chris,
I symapthize with you and agree with most of what you said. However, 4 or 6
crashes a day for me is stable compared to my MS office that locks up every
time I use it... :) I'm pretty sure it's in the OS =80
I hope you get that star office problem worked out....
--
KW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Christopher R. Carlen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I wrote last week about some crashing and blank printing problems with SO5.2,
> specifically running under Suse 7.1.
>
> Several respondents replied that they almost never see Star Office crash,
> including under Suse 7.1, and doing "normal" (implying a range of functions
> employed) tasks.
>
> I have uncovered the cause of the most frequent crashing problem that was
> impeding my work last week, and it is easy to work around. See
>
> <http://supportforum.sun.com/cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?/staroffice.com.support.stardraw>
> specifically
> <http://supportforum.sun.com/cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]>
>
> However, I still find that SO5.2 crashes on average 1-3 times a day during
> heavy use, ie. continuous use for 4-6 hours of complicated functionality and
> integrating objects between application modules. Thus, I wish to refute the
> anecdotal data that SO5.2 is extremely stable. I would rather call it
> tolerably stable, or perhaps a grade of "C" as big commercial office apps go,
> but certainly not worthy of praise. I understand and hope others do as well
> that these datums are anecdotal. A detailed evaluation of the stability of
> SO5.2 on various platforms, following formulated sequences of complex
> activities would be the only way to quantitatively measure the "stability" of
> SO5.2, and to determine if instabilities are due to Linux distribution
> differences or SO5.2 itself. In the case of my particular system, it is
> SO5.2 that stands out as disproportionately less stable than any of the other
> programs I use regularly: Netscape (yes even Netscape is slightly more
> stable), Applixware (never fails), Mathematica (very rare crash), Eagle (very
> rare crash), VMware (crashes only when settling on a configuration),
> Konqueror (very rare crash). Given that the instabilities on my system are
> not evenly distributed among the apps I use but rather concentrated in SO5.2
> is strong evidence that the problem is SO5.2.
>
> I also have concern about the usefulness of a common response that often
> arises when one posts about instablities in an application, that is, that the
> user has an improperly configured system. One person responded to my earlier
> posts with a suggestion that my X configuration was suspect. My X
> configuration was done by the distribution, and so I have every reason to
> expect that it was done correctly. I know it may in fact be faulty due to
> errors on the part of the distro. But the point is that in the context of
> the advocacy and improvement of Linux as a useable OS for desktop users,
> those users will not accept the blame for improper X configurations or
> whatever other fundamental flaws in the platform are the cause of an
> application crashing (if in fact that is the reason). They will see things
> in either one of two ways: the application is unstable, or Linux is unstable
> (no, they will not differentiate between "Linux" the underlying kernel and
> the X and associated KDE/GNOMEs layers.) Before offering the response that
> the user's system is improperly configured, we should first carefully
> consider evidence such as what I have stated above about the observed
> distribution of instability among applications running on a particular
> system.
>
> Thus, I simply ask that we keep an open mind to the constructive value
> potential of reports of problems from users of Linux, that those problems may
> in fact be due to some problem in the apps or in "Linux" itself (the sum
> total of kernel+X+extra GUI layers). It will be through investigating and
> correcting those flaws, or in the case of commercial app instabilities,
> documenting bugs and workarounds in the public space, that will lead to a
> more successful Linux desktop future. Of course we generally do this very
> well, so I am not saying we don't, but rather just reiterating the value of
> this.
>
> Finally, in case anyone thinks that my experiences of SO5.2 instability are
> isolated, I suggest reading the issues being discussed on Sun's news server
> starnews.sun.com, and the web based Star Office support forums located at
> <http://supportforum.sun.com/staroffice/index.html>
>
> One will find a variety of crash reports.
>
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From: Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.certification.redhat,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How To Set The Swap size ?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:59:10 -0700
I think it's a matter of resizing that swap partition to your liking. Use
Partition Magic.
yotam wrote:
> I am using R.H 7 is it possible to change the swap size after installation
> ? thanks in advance
> Or Freund .
>
>
>
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From: Fredrik Olausson <[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: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:36:35 GMT
I second that - there is something distinctly wrong with the 3dfx
drivers. I finally got mine working half-decent, but Unreal Tournament
looked like crap because of the 16 bit colordepth the 3dfx driver uses,
so I replaced it with an old TNT2 card - less hassle, much more stable,
and it renders UT correctly.
-Fredrik
Charles Wilkins wrote:
>
> I have seen this exact symptom when software gl is the driver in linux
> and in windoze.
>
> I am leaning towards there being a problem with the 3dfx driver under
> X. smp compatibility or not, the 3dfx driver is not working properly.
>
> Charles Wilkins
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001 20:02:29 +0100, "Crap Name [AGQx]"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I used to run a p2-300 + v3 without much issues. It was in vertex mode and
> >at 800*600 but I still managed to get 40-50 fps. The person with his Dual p2
> >setup should have NO problems running Q3.
> >
> >I still have my V3 in my new Athlon tbrid 750 on a 21" screen and still run
> >it at 800*600. Yes the display would be better at a higher resolution but I
> >prefer to keep stable at 60fps at all times instead of having the variations
> >I get when I run at the higher resolutions.
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