Linux-Misc Digest #83, Volume #28 Mon, 11 Jun 01 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: 2GB File size limitation ("Spiffy")
Re: best way to copy a large disk from Linux to win 2K? ("D. Stimits")
Re: wierd font when exiting KDE/GNOME (uzon)
Re: Special Characters (Thomas Corriher)
Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card (Chris Nappin)
Re: unable to find a file ! (Baertschiger Thierry)
Re: Special Characters (Gerald Willmann)
Hard Drive Re-partitioning (Skylar Thompson)
Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning ("Peter T. Breuer")
boot message (karl)
Re: RPM question ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: HELP! How to send MSWord mail attachments? (Carl Fink)
hi (amod khardekar)
Re: 2GB File size limitation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: boot message (David Means)
Re: PLEASE help me.....Can you print to "D" size plotters? (Andy H)
Re: where does ping come from? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: /bin/login cannot be removed (Stephen Rank)
Re: Help on NFS (Joshua Baker-LePain)
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From: "Spiffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:07:09 +0200
I've run into 2GB file limit problem with an ORACLE Backup. The problem was
solved as followed:
you need to create a PIPEFELE:
mknod /dev/exp_p.dmp p (you can call "exp_p.dmp" whatever you like)
We then added the following lines to the export script (This was for the
Oracle Backup, but maybe it can help:
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/exp exporter/exporter file=/dev/exp_p.dmp compress=n
constraints=y
consistent=y grants=y buffer=1024000 full=y log=$EXPLOG &
cat /dev/exp_p.dmp | gzip > $EXPFILE &
This gzips the export on the fly.
Hope that it helps some, let me know and I'll let you know how the import
would work.
Kent A Vander Velden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9g093j$clt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [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]
> --
> Kent Vander Velden
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 02:15:26 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: best way to copy a large disk from Linux to win 2K?
This is an interesting problem at least. About the 2 GB limit for
ftp...I suppose that is likely because the ftpd or the ftp client,
depending on which end is running linux, isn't set up to use large
filesystem 64 bit values yet. But I wonder if ssh could do this...the
newer versions have sftp, which is basically just a wrapper to make ssh
copies easier. Possibly if you had this installed sftp might work. Your
kernel would of course need LFS (large filesystem) support, which some
of the distros have by default.
Another possibility. There is iso9660 filesystem support which might be
able to be used on a large drive...no CD and not even a DVD runs as
large as you have need for, but if the software does not break with
large files, you could possibly format a partition the same as a CD, and
use Win to read it as a CD.
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"roger333@--" wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I'd like to find if anyone knows of a solution to this problem.
>
> I have a large disk (80 GB) build on ext2 (Linux file system). I'd like
> to copy the whole disk directory tree to a PC running win2K with an empty
> 80 GB disk on it (NTFS file system). I want exact copy of the tree on linux,
> but to be on NTFS disk.
>
> This is what I tried so far, and none with good results:
>
> 1. SAMBA. I map my Linux disk on win2k using samba. then used
> xcopy with all the options to ignore errors and the likes. But
> copy fails after few hours running with resources or memory insuffient
> errors (I have 12b MB of RAM on the windows PC, and 512 MB RAM on the
> linux PC).
>
> I tried the win2K copy/paste on windows explores to copy directories
> one by one from linux to win2k, but the copy operation on many directories
> failes when it encouters an error such as trying to copy same file name
> again (Linux allows same file name in a directory if case different, Win2k
> does not). and the whole copy stops there.
>
> 2. I tried ftp. But ftp between linux and win2k can only ftp 2GB
> file max. too much work to break the file system on linux into tar.gz files
> each less than 2 GB. (any one knows if there is a way to remove this limit?)
>
> 3. I thought about creating an ntfs file system on linux and use linux to
> copy the data to the new disk. then move the disk to the win2k pc.
>
> But linux support for ntfs write is not reliable and can cause data loss.
> (ntfs Read is OK, but not write yet).
>
> so, any other things I could try? I have not tried PCNFS. would you think that
> would be more reliable?
>
> many thanks,
> roger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uzon)
Subject: Re: wierd font when exiting KDE/GNOME
Date: 11 Jun 2001 01:37:50 -0700
setfont gives me a warning that it's only a shell wrapper?! and that
i should use consolechars. should i worry about this warning?
'consolechars -d' the supposedly default font doesn't display
correctly.
both reset and setfont change to a readable font (not my default but
good enough).
thanks for your help. finally i can work in the terminal again.
by the way, where can i find/change the font settings for the
terminal?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Corriher)
Subject: Re: Special Characters
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], abuse@[127.0.0.1]
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:43:06 GMT
On Tue, 15 May 2001 11:12:44 -0400, Jason C. Hill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How would I reproduce an : � on a Solaris keyboard/OS (Or Linux). In case
>that doesn't come out correctly, that's the letter e with an ' (accent) mark
>over the top of it. It's not sufficient enough for me to type e' in order
>to reproduce it.
I can not remember the actual keyboard combination to access the
extended characters. You can echo out the octal number that
represents that character like this.
echo -e "\351"
It is not likely that you will need that character often,
so this might be good enough. To see the entire list, try
"man iso-8859-1".
--
From the desk of Thomas Corriher
The real email address is:
tcorriher at earthlink.
net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Nappin)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card
Date: 11 Jun 2001 02:01:20 -0700
I'm having trouble getting Red Hat 7.1 (XFree86 v4.0.3-5) to work with
my graphics card - an SiS 530 (8MB shared RAM). It supports up to
1024x768 at 16-bits, but I've not been able to get it to work at any
resolution or bit depth: the screen is corrupted and not legible -
with random black lines and interference flickering accross the
screen.
I know that there is no hardware problem, because it works in Win98.
And previously the card worked fine under Corel Linux and Mandrake
versions 7.0 and 7.1 (which use XFree 86 v3.x). I've tried setting the
card to 4MB and 8MB, tried all supported resolutions and bit depths,
and tried using the "sis" and default drivers. I've been trying to
sort this out for several days now, and would really appreciate some
help.
Would upgrading to XFree86 v4.1.0, or downgrading to v3.3.6, help? If
so, how do I downgrade using the Red Hat RPMs, without reinstalling my
root partition?
cheers,
Chris Nappin.
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:14:43 +0200
From: Baertschiger Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: unable to find a file !
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Frank Ranner wrote:
> Didier Baertschiger wrote:
> >
> > Hello !
> >
> > I've got the following problem:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> What is happening is that the loader is trying to load the file,
> notices that
> some libraries are needed, but cannot find the libraries. To find out
> what libraries
> try 'ldd ./maple' in the directory containing the executable.
>
> Frank
yes but in that case, the loader would give the name of the library that it
cannot find, not the name of the program !!
--
_________________________________
Departement de Physique Theorique
Universite de Geneve - Suisse
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Frank Ranner wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Didier Baertschiger wrote:
<br>>
<br>> Hello !
<br>>
<br>> I've got the following problem:
<br>>
<br>> I have an executable file (maple) in a directory which is totally
<br>> impossible to start ! All the accesses are ok (chmod +x ...).
<br>>
<br>> When I do a "ls -l" everything seems to be ok ,
but when I want to
<br>> run it, impossible ! the bash says that there is no file
or repertory
<br>> of this type.
<br>>
<br>What is happening is that the loader is trying to load the file,
<br>notices that
<br>some libraries are needed, but cannot find the libraries. To find out
<br>what libraries
<br>try 'ldd ./maple' in the directory containing the executable.
<p>Frank</blockquote>
yes but in that case, the loader would give the name of the library
that it cannot find, not the name of the program !!
<pre>--
_________________________________
Departement de Physique Theorique
Universite de Geneve - Suisse</pre>
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Special Characters
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:11:02 +0200
> On Tue, 15 May 2001 11:12:44 -0400, Jason C. Hill
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >How would I reproduce an : =E9 on a Solaris keyboard/OS (Or Linux). In =
case
> >that doesn't come out correctly, that's the letter e with an ' (accent) =
mark
> >over the top of it. It's not sufficient enough for me to type e' in ord=
er
> >to reproduce it.
I have more or less given up on using such characters (since how you get
them tends to be different everywhere). Under Solaris/Linux on a Sun kbd
there should be a compose key so use that one and then ' and e. Sometimes
it's also alt plus the number.
Gerald
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From: Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Hard Drive Re-partitioning
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 22:54:37 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just got a new SCSI hard drive, and am having some trouble repartitioning it. I would
like to make it all Linux, with one big extended partition containing a 3GB root
partition, a 3GB opt partition, and a ~2.5GB home partition. Unfortunately, I cannot
get anything to format the hard drive ext2. Partition Magic v6 crashes whenever it
tries repartitioning the drive, fdisk destroys the partition table when it tries
writing,
cfdisk needs a partition to work with, and I have not figured out sfdisk's UI yet.
Can anyone help? Another repartitioning program or some trick with one of the above
would help.
--
--Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
`All that is gold does not glitter/Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither/Deep roots are not reached by the frost
>From the ashes a fire shall be woken/A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken/The crownless again shall be king.'
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:43:06 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got a new SCSI hard drive, and am having some trouble repartitioning it. I
>would
Well, fix your scsi setup then! Something as basic as that not working
indicates that your scsi system is fouled.
It is usually cabling or termination (lack of). Check the kernel
messages with dmesg.
Peter
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From: karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot message
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:15:35 +1000
Hi. I am using Redhat 7.0. On boot-up I get following:
'WARNING bad format line 29 /etc/fstab"
I have edited fstab using both vi and kedit but am unable to remove
this message. Any assistace much appreciated.
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From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.rpm,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: RPM question
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:02:54 +0200
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Lamar Thomas wrote:
>
>
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/horde-1.2.4-1rh7.noarch.rpm
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/horde-mysql-1.2.4-1rh7.noarch.rpm
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/horde-pgsql-1.2.4-1rh7.noarch.rpm
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/horde-shm-1.2.4-1rh7.noarch.rpm
> /root/docs/download/horde
> /root/docs/download/horde/horde-1.2.4-1rh7.src.rpm
>
> Any ideas? Thank for any and ALL help.
Yes, source RPMs you rebuild are placed in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch>
One source rpm might become several binary rpms, these you install the
ordinaery way.
run rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/horde*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: HELP! How to send MSWord mail attachments?
Date: 11 Jun 2001 10:42:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:03:03 GMT fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But I can say as mail clients go, it drives me absolutely batty.
>How in the world do you get it to "quote" a replied-to mail for you?
You write your own mail template. Sorry.
>Further, it insists on "top posting".
Drives me crazy.
>I can't figure out how to get an automatically-appended signature.
You upgrade to version 5.0.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
<http://www.iconsf.org/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (amod khardekar)
Subject: hi
Date: 11 Jun 2001 04:00:23 -0700
please can anybody can help me please mail any site whre i can get free books on
linux i want to learn linux i am a beginner
amod
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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: 11 Jun 2001 07:04:33 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi) writes:
>
> I'm posting something I read in this group a few days ago...
>
> <Quote>
[...]
>
> So, what can you do? Upgrade the kernel to 2.4.5, recompile your glibc
> against the new kernel, and recompile the applications you use against
> this new glibc. Then everything will use 64 bits for file sizes and
> file position offsets, and you can have 2T files.
>
> </Quote>
That's what you have to do--but the post is wrong for implying that your
worries are then over. Lots of programs use ``int'' for file offets,
instead of ``off_t''. Those programs will *not* silently adopt the 64-bit
offsets. Other programs perform arithmetic on file offsets, silently
converting them to 32-bit integers.
Specifically, Samba and FTP have big problems with big files--so you
will probably find that you *still* can't download the file, even
after following the above instructions.
Best of luck though!
Len.
--
``Install and forget'' is a dubious concept for critical applications.
-- Dan Bernstein
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From: David Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot message
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:09:08 -0400
karl wrote:
>
> Hi. I am using Redhat 7.0. On boot-up I get following:
> 'WARNING bad format line 29 /etc/fstab"
> I have edited fstab using both vi and kedit but am unable to remove
> this message. Any assistace much appreciated.
If you're sure the format of the line is correct, then look for spaces.
It might be complaining about a lack of tabs, but this is a long shot.
We'd probably have to see a snip of your fstab file.
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy H)
Subject: Re: PLEASE help me.....Can you print to "D" size plotters?
Date: 11 Jun 2001 04:11:47 -0700
Not Windows. RHL 7.1. The "driver" is the interface file.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where does ping come from?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:23:38 -0400
Tom Edelbrok wrote:
>
> I mean in Redhat 6.0 or 6.2. I have no netkit-base package in RPMS in these
> versions.
>
> Tom
>
> Peet Grobler <peetgr at absa.co.za> wrote in message
> news:3b2452b4$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > netkit-base package.
> >
> > Tom Edelbrok wrote in message ...
> > >My ping command has disappeared from Redhat Linux 6.0. Has always worked
> > >fine. Where does it come from?
> > >
> > >Tom
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -qf /bin/ping
iputils-20001010-1.6x
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 7:20am up 3 days, 20:16, 3 users, load average: 2.09, 2.08, 2.08
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /bin/login cannot be removed
Date: 11 Jun 2001 12:33:02 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But assuming from the fact, that the OP
> > doesn't really know what's going on, it would be better to reinstall
> > from
> > scratch, case he really got hacked, applying the latest patches to
>
> His distro surely provides him with tools (tripwire? rpm? - does nayone
> kow what the debian equivalent is, if there is one?) that will
> check his installation for him.
The Debian equivalent of Tripwire is, by strange coincedence, Tripwire
;) But if the system's been cracked, how can the OP trust any of the
tools? Including the kernel? Modern rootkits can make themselves
very hard to find and (particularly) remove.
Of course, this is _if_ the OP's been cracked. Detecting such a state
is left as an exercise for the reader :)
Stephen
--
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on NFS
Date: 11 Jun 2001 11:57:23 GMT
ThanhVu Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was able to set 2 of my computer on a network and also able to have
> internet sharing btw both of them. But I can't able to let them see each
> other's drive. I tried to mount them via nfs but nothing works. I can
> ping one machine from another fine.
> in C1's /etc/export I have " /mnt/test C2 "
> in C2 , I usedthe command " mount C1:/mnt/test /temp/test/
> But it gives me RPC: Time Out
> Is there anything I miss here ?
Is nfsd running on C1? If you started it manually, did you also
'exportfs' after editing /etc/exports?
If you have 'ALL : ALL' in /etc/hosts.deny (as you should), do you
also have 'portmap : C2' in /etc/hosts.allow on C1? Portmap is
tcp_wrapped.
Are you running IPchains/tables? If you are, make sure to open all ports
on C1 to packets from C2.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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