Linux-Misc Digest #26, Volume #28 Mon, 4 Jun 01 00:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Onstream Di30 what is the catch? ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Re: Netscape plugins problem (Flash) (David Wake)
Re: Move a large file from Windows to Linux - How? (Jacob Kristensen)
Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter (Mongolian Horde)
RH6.2 crashes, then /var/log directory lost, then .... (the_ginzter)
Re: weird entrys logged thru ipchains ("David Caldwell")
speaker and mic problems
Re: speaker and mic problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: Apache question (Lamar Thomas)
Re: linux ("Sergio")
remote serial port on win98 client. ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: Move a large file from Windows to Linux - How? ("bowman")
Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter ("The Martian")
Much-less bummed by debian apt-get (Jerome Mrozak)
Root Print Problem in Slackware7.1 (Edwin Johnson)
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Onstream Di30 what is the catch?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 21:03:31 -0400
First the DI-30 does work well under Linux. I know because I have one
working under SuSE 7.1 and have had it working under various other Linux
distros. However, I have never used Debian so I can't speak to it
specifically although I do think I had it running with Corel's Linux distro
for the brief time I used it, and it's based on Debian.
Generally in kernels prior to 2.2.17, you had to download a patch from
Onstream's web site and compile it into your kernel - no big deal and worked
as advertised. There was a bunch of documentation with it as well. Worked
fine with BRU, taper, tar, etc. The BIG thing with Onstream's DI-30 is you
have to set the block size to 32K.
With the 2.4.x series, the support is actually in the kernel and it's
recommended (and it's what I do) that you set scsi emulation for the drive
with ide-scsi. Then instead of using /dev/ht0 and /dev/nht0, you use
/dev/osst0 and /dev/nosst0. All the SCSI tape commands work as they should
with the osst devices.
With SuSE, the osst devices are already made, but there's also a script for
making the devices if necessary. Also, if I remember correctly there's a
script in the /usr/src/linux/scripts directory called MAKEDEV.ide that will
make the ht0 and nht0 devices if they aren't already made. (I'm not sure of
the location since I'm not at a Linux box right now, but you can just do a
search for script).
Don
"Keith Elder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone tell me what the catch to getting this drive to work is?
> According to the web sites there are only kernel patches for 2.2.14
> and 2.2.16. I am currently running 2.2.19. Is support for this drive
> not in this kernel by default? According to /proc/ide/drivers the
> ide-tape driver is 1.13.
>
> I am running debian with a 2.2.19 kernel, can someone tell me what the
> trick to getting this thing to work is?
>
> Oh, and I don't have a /dev/ht0, how do I get one?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Keith
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From: David Wake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape plugins problem (Flash)
Date: 03 Jun 2001 18:01:41 -0700
Pulat Yunusov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Wake wrote:
>
> > I am using Netscape Communicator 4.75 with RedHat Linux 7.0. When I
> > type about:plugins, I get the message "No plug-ins are installed",
> > even though I have ShockwaveFlash.class and libflashplayer.so in my
> > usr/lib/netscape/plugins directory, readable by all users.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > David
> >
>
> Try including this line in the .bash_profile or .bashrc:
> export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/netscape/plugins
> Pulat
>
Thanks: that did the trick
David
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From: Jacob Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Move a large file from Windows to Linux - How?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 03:16:37 +0200
ivorybones wrote:
>
> I want to move some files from my windows box to my linux box.
Take the hardisk in the winmachine out. Plug it in the linuxbox. Type
"man mount" and read all about the mount command. U probably end up
typeing(as root):
mkdir /mnt/win
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win
good luck
Jacob
--
There he goes... One of Gods own prototypes.
A high-powered mutant of some kind,
never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mongolian Horde)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:34:02 +1000
I started with Debian with minumum experience with Linux. The reason
I started with Debian is that it seemed to be the best distribution
to get non-standard hardware on a low specification machine up and
running. All you really need to know is where to get the installation
disk images and installation documents from, as well as a little bit
of Unix (the disks and docs come from http://www.debian.org
obviously), the unix can come from anywhere really. I got some useful
reference from an ancient book from my local library. If you want a
distribution to learn stuff on and tinker, then Debian is indeed the
one. Eventually you will be using your Lowly 386 as a network gateway
/ fire wall for your parents puter in order to get around all the
Windoze networking headaches (that's why along with constant three
fingered saluting why I made the switch).
On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 17:14:35 GMT, Missy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think it's either a 386 or 486, and it has a SCSI hard drive. I'm thinking
>of upgrading it to a 512MB drive just b/c it gives me a little more room
>plus it only costs $15 anyways...I've been given plenty of distros to look
>at....Several people have mentioned Debian to me, but I'm a little leery of
>trying b/c I'm still sort of a newbie to Linux. What exactly do you need to
>know to use Debian (if that isn't too big of a question lol)? Thanks for all
>the help!
>
>
>
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From: the_ginzter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RH6.2 crashes, then /var/log directory lost, then ....
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:30:36 -0400
I would like some advice from others who may know more about
linux (specifically RH6.2) internals.
After nearly 6 problem-free months with my RH6.2, it all of a sudden
started to behave weirdly.
- First, it wouldn't allow me to "su" to root. (If I logged out, and
logged in as root, no problem. Login as myself, and su to root, I
keep getting an "incorrect password".)
- Second, when I ran xlock to temporarily lock my display, I
got the same treatment, forcing me to do a hard shutdown and
reboot.
- On reboot, I noticed that:
1. I can't su to to any user.
2. I can only mount floppies, and cdroms if I logged in as root.
Before, regular users were able to mount filesystems
tagged with the "users" option in /etc/fstab.
3. /var/log dir tree is missing
4. After creating (via mkdir) /var/log, /var/log/httpd, etc,
there's are persistent error logs that show up (repeatedly)
in /var/log/messages:
> localhost init: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty"
> ...
> localhost init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> localhost init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> localhost init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> localhost init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> localhost init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> ...
> localhost rpc.statd[1998]: gethostbyname error for ^X���^X���^Y���^ [junk deleted]
QUESTIONS:
1. Any ideas on what caused this?
2. I'm ready to re-install RH6.2 (or install RH7.x on top). Can I do so
without having to kill my current Linux partitions?
Thanks in advance.
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From: "David Caldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: weird entrys logged thru ipchains
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:38:29 -0500
I used to be a customer of @home. They were too nosey for me so I went to
another ISP.
If I were you I would continue to log all of these scans from them and as
you find another IP from them scanning, shut it down. Just add the rule that
drops all requests from the IP's they are using to scan you.
David
"Bit Twister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> That is one of the nodes @home uses to look for the servers you are
> not supposed to be running. Crackers used to find open news servers
> and spam the news groups. Also, @home was warned several times about
> spam from their customers. They got off their duff and closed several
> spammers down when the Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) was ticking down.
>
> I added this to my iphains rules set, Does not log, does not reply.
>
> OPS_SCAN1="24.0.0.203"
> EXTERNAL_INTERFACE="eth1"
>
> ipchains -A input -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -s $OPS_SCAN1 -j DENY
>
>
>
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 17:29:49 GMT, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am a @Home user and running redhat7.1. I am using an ipchains that i
> >set up and customized from www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/.
> >I have it set to log everything right now so i can see whats going on
> >with it. I keep getting these entries on my logs quite a few times a day
> >and always in sets of about 3 or 4. I am curious as to know what they
> >are. It looks like some kind of loopback that is trying to connect to
> >the news service on my machine? Or could this be a spoof trying to
> >connect to my machine ? Has anyone else seen this or might know what it
> >is? the ww.xx.yyy.zzz is my ip.
> >
> > Jun 2 12:21:23 cx756748-b kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6
> >24.0.0.203:57827 ww.xx.yyy.zzz:119 L=44 S=0x00 I=31061 F=0x0000 T=247
> >SYN (#61)
> > Jun 2 12:21:24 cx756748-b kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6
> >24.0.0.203:57827 ww.xx.yyy.zzz:119 L=40 S=0x00 I=31062 F=0x0000 T=247
> >(#61)
> >
> >
> >rich
>
>
> --
> The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
> If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
> Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
> Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: speaker and mic problems
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 02:30:12 -0000
Im having problems when my mic and speaker are plugged in there is
terrible feed back . When i speak into the mic I hear my voice through the
speakers. They used to work fine,I was able to use msn instant messenger
I've adjusted the sound and tested the mic everything works fine. the
speakers work fine when the mic isnt plugged in. I apreciate any help
Thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: speaker and mic problems
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 02:51:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Im having problems when my mic and speaker are plugged in there is
> terrible feed back . When i speak into the mic I hear my voice through the
> speakers. They used to work fine,I was able to use msn instant messenger
> I've adjusted the sound and tested the mic everything works fine. the
> speakers work fine when the mic isnt plugged in. I apreciate any help
> Thank you.
How about starting up a mixer and muting the mic?
Adam
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:06:46 -0400
Reply-To: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
thanks again guys.
top shows both swap and mem being seen and enabled.
actually no swap is being used and half of ram is.
i will know for sure tomorrow what hapenning.
i will disable sendmail,pcmcia and named using ntsysv.
i will respond with the results.
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From: Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config,redhat.networking.general,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Apache question
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 03:00:12 GMT
J Sloan wrote:
> Lamar Thomas wrote:
>
> > I am running RH 7.1 and I have FTP and Apache web servers working.
> > However, after rebooting my Linux box no one can connect to my Apache
> > web server until I issue the following command: # "service httpd
> > restart".
>
> In my experience with Linux, reboots are for hardware
> upgrades, so we're talking about a once in a blue
> moon thing here to start with -
>
> > Anyone know how I can make Apache auto start after a reboot? Thanks for
> > any and all help.
>
> Any of the elementary Linux runlevel editors will do.
>
> ntsysv, tksysv, or even the command-line
> utility, "chkconfig", e.g. "chkconfig --list httpd"
>
> cu
>
> jjs
Thanks for the reply,
But what did you mean by "Any of the elementary Linux runlevel editors will
do. ntsysv, tksysv, or even the command-line utility, chkconfig, e.g.
chkconfig --list httpd"? What am I supposed to do with all of that? Sorry,
I am new to Linux.
The reason I have to reboot is that I run one system at home that has a pull
out drive. Most of the time I run Windows 2000. But as I am comming up to
speed on Linux I have to put my Linux drive in. When I do, Apache is not
running until I run the # "service httpd restart" command. Thanks again for
any help.
Lamar
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From: "Sergio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 22:59:14 -0400
It's very funny to read post like these. I read mostly design posts, and
discussions are always about MACs being better, prettier, whateverier than
PCs, and windows beeing easier, more powerfull, cheaper, and blah blah blah.
So finally, I decided to give Linux a try. Being a Win user, I'm used to
simple (thoug not always clean) installs, but if something fails, I just
have to deal with that one device not working. So there there I agree with
William.
Without really knowing, I have a pretty strong feeling that Linux is WAY
MORE than DOS. There's no discussion about that. But again, if it's that
powerfull, why can't I install RedHat, Winlinux2000, Armed (the two later
release for installation under win98).
I'm really interested in trying myself that power, but mostly every resource
for help is for Unix/Linux users.
Is there a step-by-step-how-to-install-some distribution? I don't need a
step by step 'cause I dumb or something like that, BUT, Linux is not
graphically native (as Mac's are, and to some extent - hidding DOS- is
Windows).
I guess whatm I'm saying is: Do I have to know every bit of code and
commands and so, to be able to use Linux....I just want Gimp, Internet,
maybe SoftImage or Alias.......and a stable box.
wow, this turned into a long post, didn't it?
Sergio
"william" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> william wrote:
> > I rec'd 15 replies about me knocking Linux and how hard it was for a
> window user to install. Well, I go back 20 yrs in comp. I built My 1st
> one on a modem discard and hand wired it. I used an IBM selectric
> typewriter as an IO. My makeshift comp had 16k memory and that's it,
> but it worked. Then I upgraded to build-yourself from store bought
> parts. And then I was introduced to DOS.
> The point I'm trying to make is Linux is 20 years behind because it's the
> same as DOS and all it's stupid commands. Gates was the only one to
> realize how dumb dos was,even tho he used it in his system.
>
> I now have redhat 5.2 and I still can't install it, because when they
> ask for a command (just like Dos) I don't know what to enter.
> Thanks
> > Does anyone out there know of a linux that is not made for nerds and
> geeks?
> > I've trying for a month to install corel and as a last resort zipslack.
> > If linux is so great and powerful why hasen't some smart guy did what
> gates
> > did and start out with a Linux 1.0 like the win3.1 which was a piece of
> > cake to install. Put the disks in drive a:\ and type setup.
> > But no, they had to make hard so the comp geeks can have ball sitting in
> > front of their comp for 12 hrs.
> >
> > I mean, is it such a big deal for all these comp buffs to make a simple
> > Type a:\install or setup?
> >
> > All I hear about is what a great OS linux is. If somebody wanted to
make
> > gates squirm just a tiny bit why didn't they follow what he did and make
> > it easy for the common folk to install Linux.
> > Thank You
> >
> > --
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> > http://www.help.com/
>
>
> --
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: remote serial port on win98 client.
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:13:29 -0400
Reply-To: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hello,
i have a win98 client telneting to a rh6.2 box.
i am using anzio as the emulator. www.anzio.com
anzio only allows one device which i am using for the remote printer.
how do i access the remote serial port on the win98 machine from the rh6.2
machine?
i know ttyS0 and ttyS1 are usually the serial ports on the linux box. but
since the serial port on the remote machine is not a device. how do i send a
signal to it?
thank you.
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Move a large file from Windows to Linux - How?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 21:17:09 -0600
"ivorybones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> The easiest thing to do would be to split the files, copy them to
> floppies, bring them to the linux box, rejoin them.
the unix tool 'split' has been ported to Windows. you can use it to split
the files, and then cat them back together on linux.
http://208.240.130.28/files/split.htm
if the two boxes are at the same location, a null modem and xmodem, kermit,
or any of the other
comm programs will probably be faster.
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From: "The Martian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 03:31:05 GMT
In article <QMgS6.13626$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Missy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a PS/2 56 or 57 made in 1992 with OS/2 currently on it. I know
> nothing about OS/2, nor really want it. I got this puter to put Linux on
> and tinker with it without destroying my parents puter. lol Does anyone
> have suggestions of what distro to put on it? It has a 216MB hard drive
> and 8MB of RAM, a floppy drive, and a 'cd-rom reader with a caddy' that
> I've yet to install. Thanks!
>
> Missy
>
>
I actually got redhat 5 to run on a IBM PS/2 55sx, that things a
386-sx16, with 8mb and a 120MB disk.
This was years ago, so excuse my memory :-)
The install was a real pig to do, I had to do a custom install and select
nothing, in the packages selection screen. Also needed was a kernel
recompile, to remove almost everything. I did the kernel recompile on
another machine as this thing had no space for the kernel source.
The result was a system that was functional with linux, good enough to
play with, and yes I actually got X working on this thing. By working I
mean it ran, took forever to load.
Good luck.
--
David
Sydney, Australia
www.ozetechnology.com
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Much-less bummed by debian apt-get
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 22:39:53 -0500
Recently, Progeny added Gnome 1.4 to its archives.
Taking the advice in a whole, I pointed my sources.list to the Progeny
site and to the sourceforge site recommended by kde.org and did a
dist-upgrade. This time I let it do the whole thing.
The end result was I can get Gnome 1.4 and KDE 2.1.1 both on my system
through apt. I'm a much happier camper.
Thanks to everyone,
Jerome.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Root Print Problem in Slackware7.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Jun 2001 03:38:45 GMT
Root Print Problem in Slackware7.1
I've combed throught the docs and How-tos and do not understand what is
going on. All users can print correctly using lpr, apsfilter, etc. Root can
send to the printer, such as 'cat filename > /dev/lp0' fine, but cannot use
lpr. I'm getting an email when trying to print the file minicom.log with the
following error:
Your printer job (minicom.log)
was not printed because it was not linked to the original file
It doesn't seem to make any difference where the file is located since I've
tried to print from a directory with permissions for everyone.
The reason this is important is that I'm running dosemu and it runs suid
root, which means that it will not print for the same reason root cannot
print.
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks...Edwin
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