Linux-Misc Digest #73, Volume #28 Sun, 10 Jun 01 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
rpm and removing package entry from rpm db? (Ray)
Re: Security Testing (james tate)
Re: merging files into one recurisively (David. E. Goble)
Re: problem with X? ("bowman")
Re: Getting help in Linux ("bowman")
Re: /bin/login cannot be removed (Stephen Rank)
Re: Good GUI mail clients?
Re: windows 2000 and Linux (Josep)
Re: Getting help in Linux (David Means)
Re: ARP proxy - help needed (Stan)
Re: Getting help in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: windows 2000 and Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: /bin/login cannot be removed (Dowson Tong)
Newbie: How to install 2 NICs ("Alexander Kränzlein")
Re: Changing Screen res in KDE on Suse 7.0 (Joe Woods)
Re: Newbie: How to install 2 NICs ("Alexander Kränzlein")
tomsrtbt 1.7.358 & 361 - failed boot - no PCI IRQ ("Filippo Cattaneo")
Re: 2GB File size limitation (Kent A Vander Velden)
Re: kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ucc-bin... ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: unable to find a file ! (Vilmos Soti)
Re: 2GB File size limitation (Betastar)
Re: how to forbib telnet for an IP using RH 7.0 (David Efflandt)
Re: 2GB File size limitation (Byron A Jeff)
linux (william)
Re: wierd font when exiting KDE/GNOME (David Efflandt)
Re: rpm and removing package entry from rpm db? ("Jay")
How to make a bootable FD for new kernel? ("Tom Edelbrok")
Re: 2GB File size limitation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: /bin/login cannot be removed ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm and removing package entry from rpm db?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:12:26 +0100
hi folks
i'm trying to find out if it is possible to remove an entry from the rpm
database without really removing the package? i'm running from what was
originally a redhat 6.2 box.
the reason i ask is that i have built and package and installed it in
the same place (ie using the ./confgure --prefix=...) as the rpm
provided package. therefore i dont wnat the rpm system to think it has
package foo-x.y installed when really i have foo-x.w installed.
any way i can get rpm to remove the db entry?
cheers
ray
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From: james tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Security Testing
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:19:09 GMT
Michael Pye wrote:
> Hmm. As asking a hacker not a bit risky. I'd rather the temptation to fuck
> up the machine wasn't there... ;P
>
> MP
>
> "SneakyPeach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Ask a hacker to see if he can get in. At www.netcop.com you can scan via
> > their quickscan webpage or download scanner 2.0 onto a windows computer
> and
> > type the IP of the Linux box.
> >
> > "Michael Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:ekyM6.20158$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I'm looking for some help in testing my web server and intranet
> (connected
> > > to the web through a proxy, though not SUPPOSED to be accessible)
> > security.
> > >
> > > Identifying exposed IP addresses and associated open ports, along with
> > > possible exploitation of these connections, holes in the firewall etc...
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me with utilities, techniques etc likely to be used in a
> > > hacker's attack and ways to probe for such weaknesses.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > MP
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
http:// grc.com will also scan your firewall and let you know if you have any
leaks
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Subject: Re: merging files into one recurisively
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:45:35 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
On 8 Jun 2001 15:15:08 GMT, Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>> Iam running RedHat 6.2 (server). I want to merge together a bunch of
>> files, that are in a directory structure. Then remove all duplicate
>> words and setting the remainer as a comma separated list of words.
>> How can I do this?
>
> Hmm, interesting problem...it depends a bit on the original format
>of the files. You can merge them all with cat, like
>find /dir1 -type f -exec cat {} \; > /otherdir/all
>
Hi;
Well, the files will be web pages and the comma separated list will be
used in the meta header for keywords.
Oh rereading the op, FYI each dir may have more than one file. Also
there will be the problem of say a line like;
<H2>Some kind of title</H2>
This should produce the following comma separtated list of words;
..., Some, kind, of, title, ...
instead of;
..., <H2>Some, kind, of, title</H2>, ...
Or would I need to first strip the files of the html tags?
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with X?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 07:59:05 -0600
"Teke Tu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I don't know why... when ever I logout ,it will just freeze.. and won't
get
> back to the login window agian... so everytime I wanna change from
> a normal user to a root. I have to restart my computer...
this doesn't address your freezing problem, but why don't you just su from
an xterm, or use something like sudo for one shot tasks?
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Getting help in Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:10:27 -0600
"<=oneway=>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there anything in Linux similar to the NT help utility (Start->Help)? I
> know about man pages, but one has to know almost exact name of an item in
> order to use them.
another command is 'apropos', which many times is just a man -k alias, but
may be a bit easier to remember. a 'grep' may help, too. 'info' support is a
little uneven, but sometimes having the information laid out in navigatable
format will jog your memory. 'mc' or 'gmc' scans of the man directory can
help too.
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /bin/login cannot be removed
Date: 10 Jun 2001 15:10:42 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowson Tong) writes:
[ ... ]
> I suspect that my system was hacked with a bad /bin/login.
> Anyway, how can I removed this file under ext2? I really
> don't want to reformat my drive if possible...
If you have been cracked, then you've got no choice but to reinstall.
Until you do that, you don't know which programs are trustworthy &
which aren't. In particular, things like netstat, ls, and ps may well
have been tampered with.
Stephen
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good GUI mail clients?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 14:17:08 +0000 (UTC)
Mahogany definitely does all of these things and I think Balsa does as
well. Evolution may be the way to go in the future. It has all of these
things and its usable. But I really wouldn't call it stable.
All are gnome compliant clients.
Tom
guesswho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm currently using KMAIL, which meets my needs nicely. However, I'm
> looking for other mail clients with support for the following:
>
> multiple mailboxes
> POP
> IMAP
> filtering
> message searching
> mbox
> MIME
>
> Anyone out there care to recommend a STABLE mail client that supports the
> above? The reason I'm looking is that I'm considering a move to the GNOME
> environment. Client must be GPLed.
>
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From: Josep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows 2000 and Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:25:33 +0200
En/Na Dances With Crows ha escrit:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 00:24:01 +0200, Josep staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
> >I am currently running WIndows 2000 on my PC. I would like to use also
> >Linux Red Hat 6.2. Unfortunately, my computer does not seem able to
> >start from CD
>
> ???! How old is this beast? Every x86 machine made since 1997 should
> be able to boot from CD.
>
Not that old. As a matter of fact, I changed the boot order in the BIOS to
CDROM, then C, then A. It didn't seem to work
> FIPS.EXE works fine with Lose2K, provided you installed Lose2K to a
> FAT32 partition and not an NTFS partition. AFAIK, there is no Free
> Software that will allow you to resize an NTFS partition.
Good. Guess what system did I use for partition formatting? YEs, it is NTFS
> >I also don't know how to make a bootable floppy disk in order to
> >install Linux.
>
I meant, to make it out of Win2K
In any case, I thank you for all the info provided. I guess my best alternative
is to buy yet another HD and install Linux on it, or either install it in the 4
GB disk that I have as primary Slave. Any suggestions for this course of action?
Regards
Josep
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From: David Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Getting help in Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:58:29 -0400
Not unless you familar with 'man' pages. Every single one is
different. Rarely are there examples. Learning how to decipher man
pages is an excersise in learning how to think like person who wrote the
program.
David
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc "<=oneway=>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> man man. The -k option (is this not obvious?).
>
> > Thanks for the response. That was not obvious (to me).
>
> What? Isn't "man man" the natural thing to do to find out how
> to use the man system?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Peter
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From: Stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ARP proxy - help needed
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:23:14 -0400
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to add a proxy ARP entry for 1 IP address on Red Hat 6.2.
>
> > What I am doing is working, but the problem is, once I reboot the box
> > all the static entries from ARP cache disappear. I'm guessing I need to
> > add the arp commands to a script, but which one should I use? This is
>
> Any one you like. Write one and stick it in the startup sequence.
>
Thanx Peter. I didn't know what to do and I'm very clear now. Just stick it
in the startup sequence, eh?
>
> > probably a dumb question, but I'm relatively new to linux and have not
>
> It is a dumb question. Now take it from there ...
>
I appreciate you pointing it out. Again, thanx for an informative and
thoughtful response.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Getting help in Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 06:30:13 -0500
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc "<=oneway=>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> man man. The -k option (is this not obvious?).
>
> > Thanks for the response. That was not obvious (to me).
>
> What? Isn't "man man" the natural thing to do to find out how
> to use the man system?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Peter
Sure, but it wasn't obvious to the OP that his problem was lack of
familiarty with man. Finding solutions is often a lot easier than
identifying the problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: windows 2000 and Linux
Date: 10 Jun 2001 15:36:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:25:33 +0200, Josep staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>En/Na Dances With Crows ha escrit:
>> ???! How old is this beast? Every x86 machine made since 1997 should
>> be able to boot from CD.
>
>Not that old. As a matter of fact, I changed the boot order in the BIOS to
>CDROM, then C, then A. It didn't seem to work
>
>> FIPS.EXE works fine with Lose2K, provided you installed Lose2K to a
>> FAT32 partition and not an NTFS partition. AFAIK, there is no Free
>> Software that will allow you to resize an NTFS partition.
>
>Good. Guess what system did I use for partition formatting? YEs, it is NTFS
>
>> >I also don't know how to make a bootable floppy disk in order to
>> >install Linux.
>
>I meant, to make it out of Win2K
RAWRITE.EXE should work under 2K--it worked under NT, after all, and all
it does is dump blocks from one file directly to the floppy drive (like
a stripped-down version of dd.) Just insert a formatted floppy, then
run RAWRITE.EXE on the disk image in X:\DISKS\ or X:\IMAGES\ . The
README will tell you which one to use.
>In any case, I thank you for all the info provided. I guess my best
>alternative is to buy yet another HD and install Linux on it, or either
>install it in the 4 GB disk that I have as primary Slave. Any
>suggestions for this course of action?
You can put Linux on the 4G drive. Just tell the installation procedure
to use all of the disk (/dev/hdb?) and you should be OK. Do not install
LILO on /dev/hda, install it on /dev/hdb1, and make a boot floppy. Use
this boot floppy until you have managed to copy the bootsector of
/dev/hdb1 to a FAT-formatted floppy, then mount said FAT-formatted
floppy under 2K and copy the Linux bootsector to your 2K partition and
make an entry for that bootsector within C:\BOOT.INI .
4G is not a great deal of space for a modern distro, though, so you
can't install everything or keep lots of data on your LInux partitions.
It will be difficult/impossible to transfer data between your 2K and
Linux partitions; Linux can read but not write NTFS, and 2K doesn't even
acknowledge ext2/ReiserFS without aftermarket utilities. If I were you,
I'd find a copy of Partition Magic somewhere, shrink that NTFS
partition, and create a FAT32 partition, a Linux swap partition, and a
Linux partition on /dev/hda.
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowson Tong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /bin/login cannot be removed
Date: 10 Jun 2001 08:55:18 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl) wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Thanks all. Attribute is the problem. The 'a' bit was on
for /bin/login.
> [-]
> chattr -i /bin/login -- beware though, as the util-linux login
> binary may not the one you want. Are you sure it is compatible
> with RH's version ( shadow / PAM / ... ) ?
The util-linux that comes with RH7.1 is PAM enabled. I
verified that with ldd.
thanks,
Dowson
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From: "Alexander Kränzlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: How to install 2 NICs
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:28:18 +0200
Hi NG!
I hava a problem with SuSE Linux 6.4
I want there to install 2 NICs,
bouth SMC Ultra with different IO Adresses!
How can I do this ?
Thanks Alex
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From: Joe Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Screen res in KDE on Suse 7.0
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:30:08 -0000
In suse on the login screen shutdown to console mode, hit return, login as
root then launch sax2
Resolution config is in there.
RHC wrote:
>
> Ctrl Alt + seems to "zoom" in but it doesn't (as far as I can tell)
change
> the resolution so I can get more objects (icons etc) on the screen.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> TIA
> RHC
> Dave Uhring wrote:
> >
> > RHC wrote:
> >
> > > I am new to KDE... how do I change the screen resolution from
800x600
> to
> > > 1024 x 800 (or whatever) from within KDE? DO I need to reconfigure
my
> X
> > > server? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > THANX
> > >
> > > RHC
> > >
> > > --
> > > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > > http://www.help.com/
> > >
> >
> > Did you try Ctl-Alt-+ ?
> >
>
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: "Alexander Kränzlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: How to install 2 NICs
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:51:27 +0200
Answer found ;)
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From: "Filippo Cattaneo" <expand#no-spam@spamkillers#mailcity.com>
Subject: tomsrtbt 1.7.358 & 361 - failed boot - no PCI IRQ
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:10:41 GMT
I am still too ignorant to be puzzled, but I've gotta start somewhere...
Machine is a Tosh Satellite laptop w/ 2 pc card bays
and one Linksys PC ethernet card, normally running Win98FE.
It did boot alright under tomsrtbt 1.7.218.
I am NOT trying to network it (yet).
Now, under both .358 and .361, OS starts pcmcia services, probes the slots:
- - - - - -
INTEL PCIC Probe: Toshiba ToPIC97 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 19 mem
0x68000000, 2 sockets
host opts [0] : [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x10] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci
irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 20/20]
host opts [1] : [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x10] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci
irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 21/21]
- - - - - -
and hangs with FD still spinning.
As if irq addresses were messed up by Windows'
automated irq number management and sharing.. Huh?
TIA a millinon!
Filippo
Milan, Italy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent A Vander Velden)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
Date: 10 Jun 2001 17:00:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My advice: just don't. Why do you need big files, anyway?
And who would need more than 640K? I run into the 2GB limit too
frequently with scientific datasets. It is a real pain in the behind.
---
Kent Vander Velden
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ucc-bin...
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:32:01 GMT
"Nicklas Larsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> please explain the 'error'??..
> i get this on all heavier/mem software like q3ded, ucc-bin..
>
> (the box is running on a smal amount of memory)
>
do_try_to_free_pages() is the internal function in kernel memory management
code responsible to get a page (4 kbyte chunk) of memory to a process
needing more memory.
The message is caused by:
1. you're trying to run the system on desperately small RAM, or
2. your swap file is full.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: unable to find a file !
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:52:48 GMT
Didier Baertschiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an executable file (maple) in a directory which is totally
> impossible to start ! All the accesses are ok (chmod +x ...).
>
> When I do a "ls -l" everything seems to be ok , but when I want to
> run it, impossible ! the bash says that there is no file or repertory
> of this type.
You already got some good advice, but here is one more.
Make sure that the partition on which your maple resides is not
mounted with the noexec flag.
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Betastar)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:57:44 GMT
On 10 Jun 2001 17:00:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent A Vander
Velden) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> My advice: just don't. Why do you need big files, anyway?
>
> And who would need more than 640K? I run into the 2GB limit too
>frequently with scientific datasets. It is a real pain in the behind.
That's where I'm running into problems too - DNA sequence databases.
Betastar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: how to forbib telnet for an IP using RH 7.0
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:15:04 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 11:03:19 +0200, tito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello people. I would like to know how I could to made this using RedHat
> Linux 7.0:
>
> -I have one machine on my LAN with IP 90.0.0.1. This PC has Telnetd
> running.
> -I want the another machines in my LAN could make telnet to 90.0.0.1,
> bue that only the IP 90.0.0.2 couldnt make telnet tto 90.0.0.1.
>
> I made this some time ago but not remember. I think I modify
> /etc/hosts.deny on my 90.0.0.1 PC...but what lines may I out on
> /etc/hosts.deny?
See man 5 hosts_access
Assuming telnetd is running from (x)inetd (not constantly as a daemon)
maybe in host.allow you want something like:
in.telnetd: 90.0.0. EXCEPT 90.0.0.2
If you allow everything you want to allow in /etc/hosts.allow then
/etc/hosts.deny should typically have ALL: ALL
But you should NOT use those IP's unless they were assigned to you by
your ISP. IP's for a private LAN should be in the ranges 192.168.x.x,
172.16.x.x or 10.x.x.x
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Byron A Jeff)
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
Date: 10 Jun 2001 14:26:12 -0400
In article <9f9uv5$sd7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> My advice: just don't. Why do you need big files, anyway?
>
>An audio enginer that uses a lot of computerised equipment.
>2Gb = ~7:17 min of 32 channel audio
>So when recording say a 2 hour session I expect to eat the greater part of
>a 40Gb hard drive.
But this is an issue of file organization, not sheer size. And frankly that's
the purview of the application developer, not the user.
If I were writing such an application, I'd simply break up a song into 7 minute
segments. Each will be less than 2GB and I can have as many as I like.
While this is a slight organizational change, it would work on any past or
present Linux/Unix system.
There's no doubt that there are huge stores of data in audio, video, backup and
databases. But chunking is a simple and effective mechanism for the 2.2 VFS
and libraries because the number of files available are unlimited even though
the size of each is limited to 2GB.
Everytime this issue is brought up, the core filesystem is blamed and chunking
is never discussed. Certainly a mountain made out of a molehill.
BAJ
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From: william <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:30:12 -0000
I have installed Redhat 5.2 successfully, sort of, on my old Ibm 500
laptop. MY problem is my datapoint on the laptop dosen't work, so I use
a :ogitech serial mouse which worked fine with win95, but when linux probed
my system on installing,it found ps/2 on my laptop. When I got thru
installing linux,it asked me to configure my mouse. So I put in Logitech
now when I run xwindows, the mouse doesn't work, when I move my mouse
all the menus open up all over the window, 1st one and then another, all
of them try to get in act.
It seems like linux is fighting between the ps/2 of my laptop and logitech
serial mouse.
Any body have any suggestions of how to disable my ps/2 on my laptop. In
other words, how do I get Linux to only recognize the logitech serial
mouse. I tried a ps/2 serial mouse and that doesn't work any better.
A serial mouse is all I can plug into my laptop.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: wierd font when exiting KDE/GNOME
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:32:44 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10 Jun 2001 02:01:54 -0700, uzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi, ive had this problem since redhat 5.0 (up until my current 6.2)-
> almost every time i exit kde (or gnome) i get a different stretched
> font at the terminal.
> how can i change back to my regular font? or even better, how can i
> prevent this from happening?
> i haven't tried kde2 since my laptop only has 32mb RAM and it takes
> years to load. so this issue is in kde1.
> thanks for your help,
> UzOn
Not sure what causes that, but sometimes when I exit gnome or KDE(1/2) on
different boxes, I end up with a graphic font, or in some cases no font at
all (invisible even if I setterm different foreground color). Usually
'reset' will work, but otherwise 'setfont' should restore your default
EGA/VGA font.
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From: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm and removing package entry from rpm db?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:39:21 GMT
Sorry forget the syntax but rpm --help or man rpm will show the syntax.
"Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi folks
>
> i'm trying to find out if it is possible to remove an entry from the rpm
> database without really removing the package? i'm running from what was
> originally a redhat 6.2 box.
>
> the reason i ask is that i have built and package and installed it in
> the same place (ie using the ./confgure --prefix=...) as the rpm
> provided package. therefore i dont wnat the rpm system to think it has
> package foo-x.y installed when really i have foo-x.w installed.
>
> any way i can get rpm to remove the db entry?
>
> cheers
> ray
>
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make a bootable FD for new kernel?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:38:44 GMT
I am building a new kernel but it doens't entirely boot right. I am thinking
that this might be because I always boot from a floppy and I updated LILO to
point to the noot bzImage, but there are other files on the floppy in
/mnt/floppy/etc, /mnt/floppy/boot, etc, that I haven't changed.
Can anyone tell me how to create a boot floppy for a new kernel version if
you don't boot from the hard drive? What files need to be replaced on the
boot floppy? I can't just do a mkbootdisk because I'm not operating on the
new kernel until I make a boot-floppy for the new kernel first!
Tom
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Jun 2001 14:54:43 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Betastar) writes:
> (Kent A Vander Velden) wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> My advice: just don't. Why do you need big files, anyway?
That's still my advice, whenever possible.
>> I run into the 2GB limit too frequently with scientific datasets.
>
> That's where I'm running into problems too - DNA sequence databases.
Are you using Oracle by any chance? Oracle can easily be configured
to store data in multiple datafiles. This feature was invented mainly
for performance reasons--but one upshot was that multi-multi-gigabyte
databases could easily be stored, even though at the time most OSs didn't
support huge files.
The performance factor shouldn't be sneezed at, though. Splitting your
files can improve performance immensely--especially if it allows you to
stripe your data across multiple spindles. If you are writing your own
tools, or can configure existing tools for multiple files, it's well
worth your trouble.
However, whichever way you look at it it will be a pain. You have my
sympathy.
Len.
--
POSIX is a ``standard'' designed by a vendor consortium several years
ago to eliminate progress and protect the installed base.
-- Dan Bernstein
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /bin/login cannot be removed
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:56:00 +0200
In comp.os.linux.setup Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowson Tong) writes:
> [ ... ]
>> I suspect that my system was hacked with a bad /bin/login.
>> Anyway, how can I removed this file under ext2? I really
>> don't want to reformat my drive if possible...
> If you have been cracked, then you've got no choice but to reinstall.
Sure he does. Just check the md5sums. (boot from a rescue diskette or
cd to be doubly sure .. but I'm not sure I'd bother after restoring
login, ps, ls and a few more).
> Until you do that, you don't know which programs are trustworthy &
Yes he does.
> which aren't. In particular, things like netstat, ls, and ps may well
> have been tampered with.
And therefore should be swapped out to check.
Peter
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