Linux-Misc Digest #92, Volume #28 Tue, 12 Jun 01 20:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: pls help newbie setup ftp (Connie L. Graff)
netscape 4.75 dies (Frank)
Re: fetchmail config problem (Frank)
Re: Linux emus for Windows? (Ian Northeast)
Re: Timers in threads ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Forgotten Command/Utility Help?? (Michael Heiming)
Re: Running Linux under Windows? (Ian Northeast)
Re: Running Linux under Windows? (Ian Northeast)
Re: modprobe at boot time (Ian Northeast)
Re: Forgotten Command/Utility Help?? (Robert Heller)
flushing the buffer in the kernel (Aravindh)
Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning (John Thompson)
Re: Where are my Zip and CDROM drives? (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning ("Peter T. Breuer")
Is someone trying to hack my system? (Anthony F)
Re: How to access dos drives from Linux ("kyi")
fsck: Root inode is not a directory (virgil adumitroaie)
rmmod output to syslog (Miasmal)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Connie L. Graff)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: pls help newbie setup ftp
Date: 12 Jun 2001 21:06:21 GMT
luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
> I am very new to linux and have installed RedHat 7.1. I've gotten quite a
> bit accomplished so far (got my NIC working, Samba, configured apache, even
> got httpd moved into the right runlevel so it starts when I boot..)
> I want to set up the ftp server so that is starts when my machine starts (in
> runlevel 5).
> The problem is, when I run ntsysv I do not see ftpd in the list. Does it
> have a different name, or do I need to somehow add ftpd so that ntsysv knows
> about it? What is the best way to do this?
> Thanks in advance..
> Luther
I'm pretty new at this too. After reading a couple HOWTO's and a README
warning about the dangers of ftp, I still wanted regular, old ftp. What
worked for me was to edit /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd to look like:
service ftp
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
server_args = -l -a
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice = 10
disable = no
}
The default in RH 7.1 is disable = yes. After a reboot, ftp worked.
There must be a more elegant way.
Connie
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: netscape 4.75 dies
Date: 12 Jun 2001 14:25:19 -0700
Hello,
I need help with my disappearing Netscape app. Running on Redhat 7, each time
I run netscape it works, but when I invoke the netscape mail client, it will die
as soon as I select the mail client window! Wierd. Anyway, its not a big deal,
but I would like to know what in sam hell is going on. Thanks
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: Re: fetchmail config problem
Date: 12 Jun 2001 14:28:33 -0700
Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank) wrote:
> >Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> Is there a way to configure fetchmail to get messages from a qmail server
> >> >> containing a specific string in the subject line? What I am doing is sending
> >> >> out a message to thousands of users, and fetching all the bouncebacks to my
> >> >> local machine. This works fine, but I want to leave valid responses on the
> >> >> server.
> >> >
> >> > Nope. That's not fetchmail's job. It just talks to a POP or IMAP
> >> >server, neither of which cares what the content of the messages is. You'd
> >> >be better off preprocessing it on the server, perhaps with procmail.
> >> >Alternately, perhaps you could send out the messages such that bounces go
> >> >into a different mailbox than (presumably human-generated) responses.
> >> >
> >> >JDW
> >>
> >> Hopefully he would first learn that spamming the net is not
> >> appropriate.
> >>
> >> And you probably don't really want to assist spammers!
> >
> >hey, just doing my job. If you have another position available
> >for me let me know. Thanks for the info though...
>
> Being paid to do it does NOT make it any more appropriate.
if you must know, it's a newsletter that's sent to SUBSCRIBED customers. Is that
OK mister spam policeman, sir?
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux emus for Windows?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:30:51 +0100
Robert Heller wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ComWizz),
> In a message on 12 Jun 2001 11:01:20 -0700, wrote :
>
> C> Anyone know a Linux emulator for Windows? - Maybe a Red Hat Linux, or
> C> Linux Mandrake emulator?
> C>
>
> You can install vmware.
WinNT/2000 only though.
See also www.connectix.com, this will apparantly run in 9x although I
havn't tried it.
These are both commercial.
Ian
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Timers in threads
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:15:01 -0600
> The man page says there can be one setitimer for
> each process, however when setting one in each of two
> different threads, they interfere with each other.
>
> The separate process ids show up for each thread, but
> apparently they are not considered separate processes for
> setitimer purposes.
While I'm not familiar with setitimer, a new thread is *not* a new
process, so I wouldn't think that it would work.
steve
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:40:22 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Forgotten Command/Utility Help??
WA, Support wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know what the command/utility is that will give me the
> library dependencies of a given binary? I am trying to determine the
> library dependencies for 'named'.
>
> I have used the command before but can not remember what it is or
> where I read about it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Please reply via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I check this
> more often during the day.
>
> Thanks,
> Murrah Boswell
> Systems Administrator
> Wild Apache Internet Services
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man ldd
Michael Heiming
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running Linux under Windows?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:45:53 +0100
George Trapkov wrote:
>
> Do you have the licence key for www.vmware.com?
www.vmware.com is their DNS name and as such does not have a license
key. If you mean "do I have the license key for VMWare", then, yes, I do
have a license key for VMWare as I purchased a copy. I cannot of course
give you it, as you must purchase your own copy to get one. VMWare is
commercial software and you have to pay for it. If you don't like this
then your only legal alternative is not to run it. I am not going to
help you to break the law. I prefer my software to be open source myself
but if it isn't it isn't, pirating is not a valid protest IMHO.
If you want an open source emulator have a look at www.plex86.org, but
be warned, this is basically a hacker's toy at the moment.
Regards, Ian
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running Linux under Windows?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:49:55 +0100
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >Wow. Wonder if this would work:
> >
> > Linux running on ppc
> > Mac-On-Linux running MacOS
> > VirtualPC running Windows
> > VWWare running linux
> >
>
> Should work, provided you have enough memory.
VMWare under VMWare doesn't work, but this isn't involved here. So, yes,
it should work. However, I would not be surprised if it was somewhat
slow. To the point of taking days to install:)
Ian
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modprobe at boot time
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:55:20 +0100
Sebastien Stormacq wrote:
>
> On SuSE, you have to insert a line (modprobe xxx) in the
> /etc/rc.d/boot.local file
>
> I guess there is a similar mechanism in RH
In /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules):
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
I don't think this is RH specific.
It may be better to compile the driver into the kernel. If the root disk
is on the SCSI adapter, you have to do this or configure a ramdisk.
Regards, Ian
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Forgotten Command/Utility Help??
Date: 12 Jun 2001 22:23:22 GMT
WA Support,
In a message on Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:01:41 GMT, wrote :
WS> Hello,
WS>
WS> Does anyone know what the command/utility is that will give me the
WS> library dependencies of a given binary? I am trying to determine the
WS> library dependencies for 'named'.
ldd
WS>
WS> I have used the command before but can not remember what it is or
WS> where I read about it.
WS>
WS> Any help would be appreciated.
WS>
WS> Please reply via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I check this
WS> more often during the day.
WS>
WS> Thanks,
WS> Murrah Boswell
WS> Systems Administrator
WS> Wild Apache Internet Services
WS> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WS>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aravindh)
Subject: flushing the buffer in the kernel
Date: 12 Jun 2001 15:17:15 -0700
hi,
i need to flush the output buffer when the kernel is booting up. how
do i do this? i want to do this so that i can make sure that none of
the messages are stuck in the buffer.
thanks
aravindh
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:27:09 -0500
Steve Martin wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> I hate like the dickens to agree with the good Dr. Breuer, but
> I have to say that it sounds like maybe a hardware problem.
> Double-check the termination of the SCSI chain, especially
> make sure there is only one termination on the drive end
> (if there's only one drive, make sure it's terminated; if
> more than one, make sure that only the last drive on the
> end of the cable is terminated).
Thanks for responding. The drive itself is a 9G Seagate in an
external enclosure attached to an Adaptec 2490 HBA. It is the
only external device; internally, there are two 2G Seagate
drives, an Exabyte tape drive and a 40x HP CDROM drive. All the
devices are ercognized by the HBA when the system boots and all
have unique SCSI ID's assigned. All the internal devices work
fine; only the external drive is giving us problems. Both ends
of the SCSI chain are terminated.
> Let me ask the Stupid Question. You did include support for
> your particular SCSI adapter in your kernel, right?
Yes.
> Can you elaborate on "Parition Magic crashes"? Does it just
> dump core ungracefully, or does it give any error messages
> when it departs? For that matter, if you can lay your hands on
> a DOS / Win9x boot disk, can you partition the disk with
> that? Although not ideal for Linux use, this at least will
> give some indication whether the hardware is indeed crappy.
> Some more verbose error messages might help diagnosis.
We have attempted to partition the unit using Partition Magic
v6.0, which fails with a write error writing the partition table
or simply hangs without completing. OS/2 fdisk will partition
the drive without complaint, but upon reboot the partitions are
no longer found. Linux fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk all appear to
write the partition table, but when examined later no partitions
are found.
> And, as Dr. Breuer said, what does /var/log/dmesg show?
> This would be an indication whether the drive is found at
> boot time by the kernel and what geometry the kernel thinks
> the drive has.
The linux kernel identifies the device as "SCSI device sdc
17755614 512-byte hdwr sectors (9091MB)" but the next line reads
"sdc: unknown partition table"
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where are my Zip and CDROM drives?
Date: 12 Jun 2001 23:08:38 GMT
Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a total newbie to Linux who added another hard disk and loaded
> Mandrake 8.0, to see what it is all about. I have a Zip drive, CDR and
> CD_RW on the system. Bios and Windows see them. Linux creates
> directories in /dev for them
I hope not! <g> You mean "device entries". Seriously, I wouldn't
put too much faith in what you see in /dev. Absolutely anything can be in
there, and it doesn't necessarily have any relation to what hardware you
actually have. You do need them, though.
> but I cannot find out how to load them,
> even as root. Mount does not work, gives message "to many file
> systems, or wrong file system"! umount says "not mounted"
> 30G and 13G WD hard drives
> Toshiba 40X CDROM and 100M Zip
IDE/ATAPI or SCSI? I'll assume IDE/ATAPI since you don't say
otherwise. This is relatively easy.
first (master) drive on first IDE bus = hda
second (slave) drive on first IDE bus = hdb
first (master) drive on first IDE bus = hdc
second (slave) drive on second IDE bus = hdd
etc.
first partition on drive = hda1
second partition on drive = hda2
third partition on drive = hda3
etc.
So, the first partition on the master drive of the second ide bus is
/dev/hdc1. Assuming it has a Linux filesystem, you'd mount it like
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt
If it has a DOS (FAT) filesystem, you need to specify that with "-t msdos"
To mount ATAPI devices (like CDROMs) you need ATAPI support in your kernel,
but if you're using a stock kernel, it almost certainly has that.
> Unknown PCI SCSI with Caravelle CD-RW
SCSI is a little trickier. You need to have SCSI, SCSI CDROM, and
probably SCSI generic support in your kernel. If you're using a stock
kernel, it might well not have these. I'll have to leave this to others
since neither SCSI nor CDRWs are my strong point.
JDW
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:16:35 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Martin wrote:
>
>> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>> I hate like the dickens to agree with the good Dr. Breuer, but
>> I have to say that it sounds like maybe a hardware problem.
>> Double-check the termination of the SCSI chain, especially
>> make sure there is only one termination on the drive end
>> (if there's only one drive, make sure it's terminated; if
>> more than one, make sure that only the last drive on the
>> end of the cable is terminated).
> Thanks for responding. The drive itself is a 9G Seagate in an
> external enclosure attached to an Adaptec 2490 HBA. It is the
> only external device; internally, there are two 2G Seagate
> drives, an Exabyte tape drive and a 40x HP CDROM drive. All the
> devices are ercognized by the HBA when the system boots and all
> have unique SCSI ID's assigned. All the internal devices work
> fine; only the external drive is giving us problems. Both ends
> of the SCSI chain are terminated.
And what is the termination status of the controller? Are all devices
scsi wide, or are some narrow? I imagine that the tape and cdrom
are narrow and the disks are wide. That means that the tape and cdrom
must be on the end of the scsi buss, and the termination for the upper
channel must be before these two and after the disks, whilst the
termination for the lower channel must be after the tape and cdrom.
If the external device is wide, then the controller must be open
(not terminated). If the external disk is narrow, then the controller
must be terminated on the upper channel and open on the lower.
And what is the total length of the bus? As far as I recall it has to
be something like 1m, max.
>> Can you elaborate on "Parition Magic crashes"? Does it just
>> dump core ungracefully, or does it give any error messages
>> when it departs? For that matter, if you can lay your hands on
>> a DOS / Win9x boot disk, can you partition the disk with
>> that? Although not ideal for Linux use, this at least will
>> give some indication whether the hardware is indeed crappy.
>> Some more verbose error messages might help diagnosis.
> We have attempted to partition the unit using Partition Magic
> v6.0, which fails with a write error writing the partition table
> or simply hangs without completing. OS/2 fdisk will partition
> the drive without complaint, but upon reboot the partitions are
> no longer found. Linux fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk all appear to
> write the partition table, but when examined later no partitions
> are found.
Your writes or reads are not reaching the disk, or it is simply not
formatted or not working.
>
>> And, as Dr. Breuer said, what does /var/log/dmesg show?
>> This would be an indication whether the drive is found at
>> boot time by the kernel and what geometry the kernel thinks
>> the drive has.
> The linux kernel identifies the device as "SCSI device sdc
> 17755614 512-byte hdwr sectors (9091MB)" but the next line reads
> "sdc: unknown partition table"
(that's not very interesrting)
But what error messages if any are recorded while reading and writing?
What happens if you place the device on the internal bus?
Sounds like bad cable or bad connector or bad disk.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony F)
Subject: Is someone trying to hack my system?
Date: 12 Jun 2001 16:31:11 -0700
When I came to work I noticed a bunch of messages that I've never seen
before. at the login I saw
svc: unknown program 0 (me 100021)
these were followed by about 20 lines that looked similar
svc: unknown program 100004 (me 100021)
the numbers would be different on each line though.
the last line read
svc: unknown version (0)
Is someone trying to hack in?
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From: "kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to access dos drives from Linux
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:39:36 -0700
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Ok first off. If your are going to download those file in windows
make sure you use a ftp client that can download in binary format,
like ws_ftp. As for the winmodem that depends on what chipset it has,
goto http://linmodems.org for more information on that. Now on to the
mounting of the dos drives. Make sure that you have a place to mount
them first, like /mnt/dos or /mnt/windows, then to mount the first
windows drive.
Type 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows' ( w/out quotes ), asuming
that the windows partition is on the first hard drive ( hda ) and on
the first partition ( the 1 in /dev/hda1 ). If it's a w2k partition
using ntfs just replace 'vfat' with 'ntfs'. Now all you have to do is
'cd /mnt/whatever' and you are on the windows partition. As for a
screenshot utility, there is a utitliy in redhat that will do this
but I can't remember the name, I don't use redhat, but you can goto
http://freshmeat.net and do a search for one, there is also a command
line that will capture the screen and save it to a file, but alas I
don't remember that one either ( sorry ). I hope this all helps, if
not let me know.
- -Jayson
http://linux.microbsys.com
NG_lurker <remove AT from return address when replying by email>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi NG!
>
> i have a 98/2000/RH7 triple boot puter. for internet i use doze
> since i cant dial-up from RH7... for now. running lspci as root
> tells me i have a winmodem US Robotics/3Com. do i stand any chance
> of making this work in RH7? what i read in linmodem FAQ is not very
> encouraging. i tried setting up my modem in kppp in KDE but no
> chance. it just shows the dial-up prompt "modem is ready...
> connecting" or something like that. then it does nothing. in the
> configuration it did query the modem but there are no values in the
> AT to AT7 fields. has anyone EVER got successful with this modem in
> RH7?
>
> my other problem is my screen corruption i havent solve til now. my
> video is S3 Savage4 32MB version 1.02 and this is working great in
> doze. the corruption is in the Xwindows especially when i move the
> horizontal/vertical scrollbars. as a workaround i click refresh
> desktop in KDE right mouse click menu. i stay away from Gnome since
> the corruption there is terrible. in KDE it is tolerable. i want to
> download XFree86 4.0.2 then patch this with 4.0.3 or maybe 4.1.0
> binaries. to do this would mean to download the driver files to my
> dos drives. now how do i access them from Linux? im just a F*!@#
> newbie but i know how to cd to my mnt directory and select floppy
> or cdrom. kewl. i have an inkling the command is mount then specify
> the hdx
> directories. i need help here guys. i know i must be su to do this.
> this is no problem. im having a hard time understanding the mount
> man page. can anyone spell this out in plain english?
>
> im thinking of capturing the corruption display in my KDE desktop
> and saving this in png and post this in the web. the print screen
> key in the keyboard, will this work in Linux? there is a graphics
> program in KDE but it doesnt capture the corruption display. anyone
> can give me tip on this?
>
> whoa, sorry for this long story. but i need all the help i can get.
> i really am serious to make Linux my no.1 OS and no. 2 for the
> rest. TIA.
>
>
>
> --
> "Remove AT from my reply to address above. Spam is not welcome."
>
>
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From: virgil adumitroaie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: fsck: Root inode is not a directory
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:49:02 -0500
Hello,
Does anyone know how to bypass this problem? If one
runs fsck -y -f /dev/hda all the file structure is
destroyed. Is there a way to recover the data from
such a disk?
Thanks,
Virgil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miasmal)
Subject: rmmod output to syslog
Date: 12 Jun 2001 19:56:02 -0400
Linux 7.0 Redhat Guiness 2.2.16-22
Cron job "rmmod -as" fills up /var/log/messages. How can I stop it
from writing to the syslog?
Jun 10 04:30:00 <hostname snip> CROND[3796]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
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