Linux-Setup Digest #131, Volume #20 Wed, 29 Nov 00 16:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Parallel port zip drive ("ne...")
Re: multiple IDE-adapters (DualIP)
Re: suid (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? ("ne...")
Re: rsync permission denied? ("tin")
Re: Software to monitor online time ("Frank Kreller")
How come paths not working? (Rand Simberg)
Re: How should I install Linux and Win2K (dual boot) ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
Re: safe way to install win98 on an existing linux machine? ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
Re: fvwm95 curser pointer? (Sven Mascheck)
VMware Setup??? ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
Re: How come paths not working? (Lew Pitcher)
Help: inn and suck (David. E. Goble)
Re: Parallel port zip drive (Patrick Boucher)
Re: VMware Setup??? ("Bernie Day")
Raid Howto ??? (Patrick Boucher)
Re: Printing glitch with SUSE and Epson Stylus 1160 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How come paths not working? (Rand Simberg)
Re: How come paths not working? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: How come paths not working? (Rand Simberg)
Lilo halting at boot (Brian C. Kiefer)
acpi won't power off 'puter ("Arthur J. Yarwood")
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel port zip drive
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:19:07 GMT
On Nov 29, 2000 at 13:04, Gary eloquently wrote:
>
>Using RH 6.2 kernel 2.2.14, I am trying to setup
>a Parallel port Zip drive. I use the following
>command to mount the drive:
>
>./iw -m /dev/lp0
>
>iomegaware has no errors (I already created the
>/mnt/zip100.0
>default mount directory) but the access LED on the drive
>never goes on, and the directory in empty.
>
>According to the readme doc, this is all correct to use the
>default
>zip100.0 directory.
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this up?
Make sure you have zip drive support in your kernel
or as a module. If zip support is via modules, make
sure the module is loaded before you try mounting the
disk. I do not know what './iw' is so here is what I use:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip.
If you have a line like the one below in your /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user,umask=0,rw 0 0
then all you need do is:
mount /mnt/zip
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
-- G.K. Chesterton
2:13pm up 9 days, 23:57, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: multiple IDE-adapters
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:02:01 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:51:23 GMT, Miguel De Buf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I am putting together a linux server with 6 disks. I plan installing
>two extra IDE-cards (PCI), so I would have 6 IDE controllers.
6 controllers?
Onboard are 2 IDE controllers , capable of hooking up total 4 HDs
You only need one extra standard IDE controller to hookup 6
For each HD on it's own IDE string you need to add 4 controllers
There are boards out there that do hardware raid on IDE disk.
I'd go that way , and check linux support prior to purchase
DualIP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: suid
Date: 29 Nov 2000 14:30:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <903c51$62l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Terry wrote:
> I am writing a backup script that unloads a database, tars the tables and
> then copies the tar file to a zip drive. I want to be able to mount/unmount
> the zip drive and have different users access the script. I have tried to
> set the script up using suid chmod 4755 script, but it does not seem to run
> in suid mode.
There are no setuid scripts on Linux. They are a security hole.
You can either write a compiled program, or use something like sudo
(most distributions include it).
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:32:28 GMT
On Nov 29, 2000 at 13:44, Chet Vora eloquently wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am having Virtual Memory problems while compiling a particular app. I
>keep getting "Virtual memory exhausted" error so I decided to do a
>little investigation about the swap configuration on my RH6.2.
>
>On doing a df -h, I get
>Filesystem Size Used Av %use Mounted on
>/dev/hda6 1.4G .9G blah blah /
>/dev/hda1 19M 2.4M blah blah /boot
>/dev/hda5 1.4G .9G blah blah /home
>
>On doing free,
> total used avlable
>Mem 30M 29M .7M
>Swap: 68M 3.5M 64M
>
>Is the partition named "boot" the swap partition (this m/c was someone
>else's )? If so, why the disparity bet'en the sizes shown by df vs free
>? Or is it that df doen't show the swap partition ? Is a 68M swap size
>right or will I be benefitted by increasing it ?
/boot is when the kernel is stored. This is not the swap partition.
>THis is a 32M RAM,180 MHz Pentium machine. Would also appreciate
>feedback about how to resolve the "Virtual Mem exhaust" problem. I'm
>trying to compile a protocol stack which in turn uses flex and yacc. Any
>pointers will be welcome.
Due to the amount of ram you have, it would seem you need
more swap. The swap initially allocated would have been ok
if you weren't compiling stuff. It more seems you need more
hardware. If you have unformatted space on /dev/hda, I would
format this for swap. Else, if you have a spare harddrive, this
could be used for swap also.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.
2:27pm up 10 days, 11 min, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "tin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: rsync permission denied?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:29:42 +0800
thanks for your reply joe:
:test i point to /home/username directory
i think it won't replace my file on /
can i ask u one more questions
how to set automatically sync. my remote:test to local
computer /home/username directory, i want my local automatically delete file
and create file when my abc.cde.com:test path delete file and create file
cause i want to using in my mail server
thank you very much
tin
"Joe Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "tin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > when i trying to rsync -a abc.cdc.com:test /
> >
> > permission denied
> > unexpected EOF in read_timeout
> >
> > what i'm missing?
>
> Perhaps a slash before "test", but are you *sure* you
> want to do this? If it were successful, localhost's
> / directory tree (that's your whole filesystem)
> will wind up looking identical to abc.cdc.com's "test"
> directory. Seems like you need to be root on localhost
> for such adventurism, and hopefully you're not using
> rcp as root to rsync to abc.cdc.com.
>
> Be sure to check
>
> % man rsync
>
> before potentially inflicting Serious Damage
> to yourself.
>
> HTH
> --
> Joe Schaefer
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From: "Frank Kreller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Software to monitor online time
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:15:30 +0100
"E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If you are using kppp, edit your ISP setting on kppp and
enable accounting.
>
> Philip Jones wrote:
>
> > I now have a limited number of hours online before i
have to pay extra, is
> > there any software I can use to keep a running total of
my online time.
> >
> > Phil Jones
>
if u r using isdn
man isdnrep
ciao Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: How come paths not working?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:55:42 GMT
Running RH7.0, I can't get paths to work as root. I looked in my
.bash_profile, and they are there--/sbin;/usr/sbin, etc. But when I
try and do a command, I have to type complete path. Is there
something else I need to do?
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: How should I install Linux and Win2K (dual boot)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:58:55 GMT
Hi Christopher and others:
I am attempting to use VMware from both WIN2K and LINUX (Mandrake). Both
are installed and working fine on my system (different physical drives) and
I want VMware to run Outlook and maybe a few other win applications.
MY PROBLEM: When I go to run VMware (from windows or linux) it wants to
"install" the guest OS....I don't want to install, I want it to see that I
have the os installed and run it as is.
Is this possible?
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: safe way to install win98 on an existing linux machine?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:03:28 GMT
I am attempting to use VMware from both WIN2K and LINUX (Mandrake). Both
are installed and working fine on my system (different physical drives) and
I want VMware to run Outlook and maybe a few other win applications.
MY PROBLEM: When I go to run VMware (from windows or linux) it wants to
"install" the guest OS....I don't want to install, I want it to see that I
have the os installed and run it as is.
Is this possible?
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From: Sven Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fvwm95 curser pointer?
Date: 29 Nov 2000 21:06:15 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [ 'x-shaped vs. arrow' root pointer after WM startup]
Ah, never noticed that either...
> does anyone know what may be the cause of this difference in pointers?
- An according xsetroot(1) somewhere in the X startup scripts.
- The windowmanager itself initializing with a default,
even varying with its version number perhaps.
fvwm-1.2.4r, fvwm-2.0.46, twm, bowman, (mwm-0.82 on a Sun) didn't.
wmaker-0.62.1, (olwm on a Sun) did.
f'up comp.os.linux.x
Sven
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VMware Setup???
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:08:13 GMT
I am attempting to use VMware from both WIN2K and LINUX (Mandrake). Both
are installed and working fine on my system (different physical drives) and
I want VMware to run Outlook and maybe a few other win applications.
MY PROBLEM: When I go to run VMware (from windows or linux) it wants to
"install" the guest OS....I don't want to install, I want it to see that I
have the os installed and run it as is.
Is this possible?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: How come paths not working?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:17:44 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:55:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand
Simberg) wrote:
>Running RH7.0, I can't get paths to work as root. I looked in my
>.bash_profile, and they are there--/sbin;/usr/sbin, etc.
I hope you mean /sbin:/usr/sbin: etc
(note the _colon_ between each element of the path)
>But when I
>try and do a command, I have to type complete path. Is there
>something else I need to do?
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Help: inn and suck
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:18:59 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi all;
I am running redhat 6.2. I have a problem with suck.
I run /var/lib/suck/get.news.inn from root and it all seems to work,
but when I go to read the newsgroups it gives the error;
Reason: 400 File exists writing symlinking article file throttling
Can anyone help me, please...
--Regards David. E. Goble
goble [AT] kin.net.au
http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Boucher)
Subject: Re: Parallel port zip drive
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:36:55 GMT
Greetings,
There is a manual Howto on linuxdoc.org, (not sure) just make a
Search for that howto. It worked for me.
Maybe your Parallel port is Disable in the Bios? or something like
that
btk
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:04:52 -0500, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Using RH 6.2 kernel 2.2.14, I am trying to setup
>a Parallel port Zip drive. I use the following
>command to mount the drive:
>
>./iw -m /dev/lp0
>
>iomegaware has no errors (I already created the
>/mnt/zip100.0
>default mount directory) but the access LED on the drive
>never goes on, and the directory in empty.
>
>According to the readme doc, this is all correct to use the
>default
>zip100.0 directory.
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this up?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
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From: "Bernie Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMware Setup???
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:33:06 -0500
I think you are asking to run Win both native and under VM using the same
"real" disk.
There used to be directions for doing this. I did it, too long ago to
remember all d-tails.
Basically tell VM wizard to use you native windows disk. Under Windows you
must first setup to allow more than one hardware setup. Then under VM use
the second config.
This requires you to chose the hardware config each time you boot windows.
Look for more info on VMware site.
"Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:NmdV5.33505$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am attempting to use VMware from both WIN2K and LINUX (Mandrake). Both
> are installed and working fine on my system (different physical drives)
and
> I want VMware to run Outlook and maybe a few other win applications.
>
> MY PROBLEM: When I go to run VMware (from windows or linux) it wants to
> "install" the guest OS....I don't want to install, I want it to see that I
> have the os installed and run it as is.
>
> Is this possible?
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Boucher)
Subject: Raid Howto ???
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:43:24 GMT
Greetings,
Using RedHat 7.0
hda = IBM 30 Gigs
hdb = CDROM (Will be removed after installation
hdc = IBM 30 Gigs
I would like to install RAID 1 (Mirror) so that i can from time to
time change HD1 to HD2 and HD2 to HD1. To verify that both disk are
working.
My question is.
Do i make /dev/md0 (md1 and md2)
for /boot
for Swap
and for / partition ?
My Partition is working in mirror, But it does not seems to be syncing
with one and another.. When I change HD1 with HD2 It is working.
but I don't see the "new" files that i have created.. Only the files
created on RH installation!!
How do I force a Re-Sync ?
Thankx in advance,
Btk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Printing glitch with SUSE and Epson Stylus 1160
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:37:35 GMT
Hi,
There is a known problem (bug) with Yast2 and certain Epson printers
(my 760 Stylus for instance) The solution is in the SUSE support pages
- basically, go back into Yast2 printer module and select a "uniprint"
driver. You may get an option to supply stc parameter files from a
drop down list. Select in turn until you get the printer to work
regards
Jeff
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:25:22 GMT, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently installed an Epson Stylus 1160 inkjet printer on my system.
>However, under SuSE 7.0 I get no output. The printer is on /dev/lp0 and
>both maker and model are correctly identified by Yast2. From this I
>conclude that the problem lies somewhere else. My guess would be
>printcap. Can anyone give me an idea of the proper printcap settings?
>
>In summary: Yast2 sees the printer and identifies it properly;
> the test routine fails without any error message;
> command line dodges such as using the lpr -P command, or echoing primary
> input to /dev/lp0 have no result.
>
>Any suggestion will be greatfully looked into.
>
>jwdougherty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: How come paths not working?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:45:26 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:17:44 GMT, in a place far, far away,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:55:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand
>Simberg) wrote:
>
>>Running RH7.0, I can't get paths to work as root. I looked in my
>>.bash_profile, and they are there--/sbin;/usr/sbin, etc.
>
>I hope you mean /sbin:/usr/sbin: etc
>(note the _colon_ between each element of the path)
Yes, I do mean that. I wasn't copying the statement literally, just
giving example paths. Do you have any suggestions?
************************************************************************
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
Replace first . with @ and throw out the "@trash." to email me.
Here's my email address for autospammers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: How come paths not working?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:54:08 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:45:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand
Simberg) wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:17:44 GMT, in a place far, far away,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) made the phosphor on my monitor
>glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>
>>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:55:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand
>>Simberg) wrote:
>>
>>>Running RH7.0, I can't get paths to work as root. I looked in my
>>>.bash_profile, and they are there--/sbin;/usr/sbin, etc.
>>
>>I hope you mean /sbin:/usr/sbin: etc
>>(note the _colon_ between each element of the path)
>
>Yes, I do mean that. I wasn't copying the statement literally, just
>giving example paths. Do you have any suggestions?
Unfortunately, I have no suggestions.
Are you sure that .bash_profile is being executed?
How are trying to start programs: through the console, in an xterm, or
what?
What does
echo $PATH
show you?
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: How come paths not working?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:59 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:54:08 GMT, in a place far, far away,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>Unfortunately, I have no suggestions.
>Are you sure that .bash_profile is being executed?
>How are trying to start programs: through the console, in an xterm, or
>what?
In an xterm.
>What does
> echo $PATH
>show you?
It shows me the problem. <g>
Though I'm not sure why.
I didn't look carefully enough at the paths in the profile. It gives
me a bunch of paths that are in the profile, but none of them include
sbins--they're all stuff like /usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin,
etc. I guess I need to add the sbins...
I'm wondering if this is another wonderful feature due to upgrading
from RH6.2 to RH7.0...
Thanx.
************************************************************************
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
Replace first . with @ and throw out the "@trash." to email me.
Here's my email address for autospammers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian C. Kiefer)
Subject: Lilo halting at boot
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:45:47 GMT
Hello all,
I just recently installed slack7.1 on my desktop. I installed lilo so
that it has two options.... Linux (hda2) or W2k (hdb1). So I setup
lilo that way via liloconfig. I then run lilo (I'm using MBR btw) and
everything looks fine. I reboot, and lilo hangs on the i:
LI
and that where it stops. Any ideas on what I can do? I tried putting
it on the superblock, but I received an error. My paritions are also
weird. My first three partitions do not end on a cylder boundary
according to fdisk. Any way I can fix that so that maybe I can use
the superblock?
TIA,
Brian
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From: "Arthur J. Yarwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: acpi won't power off 'puter
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:09:56 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Small annoying little problem. Just got kernel 2.4.0-test9 up and
running. Started using the acpi stuff instead of the apm stuff. Grabbed
the deamons and pmtools as it said in Documentation/pm.txt. However my
computer won't power off now, when you shut it down?
Any ideas?
Arthur.
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