Linux-Setup Digest #887, Volume #20 Thu, 22 Mar 01 09:13:10 EST
Contents:
"to many files are open"?? (Carsten Bliessen)
Re: cdrecord problem (Krzysztof Godlewski)
Re: kickstart / nfs problem (Jan Just Keijser)
Re: Need help, how to check harddisk error? (Jan Just Keijser)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (John Beardmore)
Bandwith management (throttling) at home ("John Smith")
RAID1 software failure ... need to rebuilt the RAID...hown do i ?? ("Eulrich")
Re: Problem upgrading from 2.2.14 to 2.4.2 (Steve Martin)
Re: upgrade RPM v3.x to RPM v4.x (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: rtin question (Donald)
Re: beginner: vfat mount problem after kernel 2.4.2 compilation (Melotte)
Re: Opera 5 on Suse 6.0, Kernel 2.0.36, KDE 1.0 - failed dependencies ("ne...")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carsten Bliessen)
Subject: "to many files are open"??
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:24:35 GMT
Hi together,
have a problem with an debian system. I�ve installed it with minimum
config and set an Samba on it.
Everything is working well. But if I copy many files over the network,
after some hours the System hang and the windows clients couldnt write
or read anything and on the console i can�t execute anything. Only
Ctrl alt and del. restarts the computer.
The system say : to many files are open.
Do anybody have an idea about that ?
THX
Carsten Bliessen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Krzysztof Godlewski)
Subject: Re: cdrecord problem
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:28:56 +0000 (UTC)
Ponurego dnia Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:55:19 GMT William Jerrell spod swych
paluch�w wypu�ci� te oto s�owa:
>I down loaded the iso off of thier site.
>I was able mount the file with the loopback filesystem. (I did this to
>test the file before I tried to burn it)
>This was the first file I tried to burn with cdrecord, but I'm getting the
>same error with all other files as well.
Does /dev/zero exist ? If not, create it:
mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
--
Krzysztof Godlewski Ale pod RedHatem wszystko robi sie SAMO!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pioter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> na p.c.o.l
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Just Keijser)
Subject: Re: kickstart / nfs problem
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:52:59 GMT
use 'bootnet.img' from the the RH 6.2 CDROM; the boot.img file only knows how
to do CD-ROM installs, whereas the bootnet.img only knows how to do network
installs - these are actually #ifdefs in the source code for the install
program (on the same CD in /misc/src/anaconda)
HTH,
JJK
In article <99akqq$ik2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello
>
>I try to build a kickstart installation for our company. I put the ks.cfg
>(see below) on the boot floppy, which I created from the boot.img image from
>the RedHat 6.2 CDROM. Booting works and kickstart seems to find the
>configuration file. In the log file on the nfs server I see that the client
>can access the exported directory, which contains all the Red Hat source
>files.
>But then the kickstart displays the following:
>
>"install exited abnormally -- received signal 9"
>
> My configuration file looks as follows:
>lang en_us
>network --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.136 --netmask
>255.255.255.0 --gatway192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.11
>nfs --server neptune.mydomain.com --dir /tmp/rh62
>keyboard us
>device ethernet smc-ultra --opts "io=0x240, irg=5"
>zerombr yes
>clearpart --all
>part /boot --size 16
>part swap --size 128
>part / --size 400
>mouse none
>timezone --utc Europe/Zurich
>rootpw apassword
>auth --enablemd5
>lilo --location mbr
>reboot
> packages
>........
>
>Has anyone an idea what the problem could be?
>Thank you.
>Tobias
>
>
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JJK / Jan Just Keijser
Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Just Keijser)
Subject: Re: Need help, how to check harddisk error?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:53:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Igot a redhat linux in my company, but the hardware seems unreliable.
>the server cannot properly work now, stop at check hardware /var
>
>Is there any check disk command or any suggestion.
>
man fsck
man badblocks
HTH,
JJK
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JJK / Jan Just Keijser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: 22 Mar 2001 12:00:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:32:04 +0000, John Beardmore allegedly wrote:
>
>Yes, it's very cute, but I don't know if I'd like to do the bulk of my
>authoring in tex, though I did contemplate it a few years ago.
For me the main advantadge is that tex files themselves are in plain
text, which anyone can read. That also makes them very compact.
Second using latex and other macro's forces you to structurise your texts,
which you can also do in in Word, except that hardly anyone does, most
people end up using a larger bold font size to designate chapters and
number them manually.
Chapters, sections, equations, tables, illustrations are all consitently
numbered, easy to create an index or table of contents, very usefull in
larger documents. Also you can keep each chapter of your book in it's
own seperate file/directory, they will be merged when you run latex.
And you don't have images loaded in your editor either, just specify the
location of the file and it will be included in the final document. IIRC
you do something like that in Adobe's illustrator as well, the
high-resolution image sits in it's own file, in your editor though you
only get a light, low resolution version, so that you don't slow down to
a grind when you want to include ten high res tiff images in your document,
which is what happens in MS Word.
There is though a much steeper learning curve to be able to create
documents in latex, the results is generally much better as well. The
moment that one wants to do things outside of the supplied macro's, is
generally more difficult.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:23:20 GMT
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M. Buchenrieder
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>Facts: Java is a security risk. Java-script is even worse. And ActiveX
>>is a nightmare.
>:) These views I share.
Good :-)
[...]
>Diagrams and photographs can be very handy ways of conveying
>information. Indeed, any number of words cannot always adequately
>describe their content !
Right, but you may send them as simple MIME attachments.
Reliable, flexible, safe. There's absolutely no need for
HTML just to send over GIFs or JPEGs .
>In the end, email as we know it now will seem as primitive as the
>telephone compared to multi-participant video conferencing.
TEOTWAWKI. Film at 11.
Since you'll - for the forseeable future, at least - never know
what transport and bandwidth the recipient of your message will
have available at a given time, nor what system he'll be using to
receive and read your mail, that's simply not going to happen.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:16:39 GMT
Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>I agree. You know that and I know that....but 'they' don't know that. I
>have to deal with 'they'.
So do I. I take the time to carefully explain them why it is
a bad idea, though. Sometimes it just doesn't work. For those
customers, however, I use a secondary non-networked machine to
connect to, using an actual flavour of MS software. And they receive
answers in an open format, like .rtf documents.
It depends from how worthwile you do estimate your own time to be.
And the potential damage by possibly malicious attachments and
macros to your own machines and business, as compared with the
potential loss of a customer.
Michael
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Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:29:17 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M. Buchenrieder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Diagrams and photographs can be very handy ways of conveying
>>information. Indeed, any number of words cannot always adequately
>>describe their content !
>
>Right, but you may send them as simple MIME attachments.
>
>Reliable, flexible, safe. There's absolutely no need for
>HTML just to send over GIFs or JPEGs .
Agree totally. The thing I'm quibbling about is the assertion somebody
made that only words in ascii text should ever be sent in email.
>>In the end, email as we know it now will seem as primitive as the
>>telephone compared to multi-participant video conferencing.
>
>TEOTWAWKI. Film at 11.
>
>Since you'll - for the forseeable future, at least - never know
>what transport and bandwidth the recipient of your message will
>have available at a given time, nor what system he'll be using to
>receive and read your mail, that's simply not going to happen.
Wrong again !!!!
I generally know what kit my clients have installed, and they generally
know what I have.
This may well be true for the bulk of non spam BLOB emailing. It's the
sort of thing that tests to get established quite early in any
electronic relationship.
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bandwith management (throttling) at home
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:35:24 +0100
Hi dear friends,
I am using a Linux box for NAT routing at home. I share a (slow) cable
internet connection with some others. What I want to establish is a more
fair bandwidth division between all users (i.e. a little more for me of
course).
I read the Linux advanced router howto but this paper is somewhat too
complex for me.
My questions are:
- Is it possible? (yeah, think so...)
- Is it possible with 2.2.18 or do i need 2.4.x?
- Does anybody have some other resources / samples to look at?
Thanks,
Marc.
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From: "Eulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID1 software failure ... need to rebuilt the RAID...hown do i ??
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:42:16 +0100
Hello everybody,
i've created a software raid1 on a Redhat 6.2 on two disk /dev/sda &
/dev/sdb i lost the second and my server works nut in degraded mode of
course. I'm a newbie using Raid1 and i'de like to knox the silmpliest way to
add a new disk and recreate the Raid1.
- should i recreate all partitions ?
- is there a way to rebuilt it with a simple command line ?
here's my partitions table for the moment :
/dev/md0 /
/dev/md2 /home
/dev/md1 /var
Any advices are welcome.
Ulrich Emmanuel
Infogrames Entertainment, France
Tel: +33 (0)4 72 65 52 30 / Icq :50918682
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem upgrading from 2.2.14 to 2.4.2
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:04:45 -0500
mari-k wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "KCmaniac"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hoping somebody can help me with this. I have configured and compiled
> > the new kernal 2.4.2 with no apparent problems.
Did you read the Changes file under /usr/src/linux/Documentation? There
are quite a few things that will have to be checked to make sure they're
up to the needed version.
> > I put new source files under /usr/src/linux and put the old source
> > files under /usr/src/linux-2.2.14.
> > I copied the new kernal image into /boot under the name vmlinuz-2.4.2.
> > The old kernal
> > is named vmlinuz-2.2.14 which I have kept in /boot.
That's good. A suggestion: put an entry in your /etc/lilo.conf for
*both*
the old and new kernels. That way, if you try again and it bombs again,
you'll be able to boot the old one without having to resort to a boot
floppy.
> > The new
> > System.map file is named
> > System.map-2.4.2 and the old is System.map-2.2.14. I insured that the
> > System.map
> > symbolic link in /boot is pointing to the new System.map-2.4.2.
This is not really important, although it certainly didn't hurt
anything.
> > updated /etc/lilo.conf to reflect new kernal image which is to be
> > mounted as root=/dev/hda5
> > which is the same partition as the old kernal booted up in.
I assume that you ran LILO after that, right? (I'm guessing you did,
since you were obviously able to boot your new kernel up to a point.)
I'm not really able to comment on having the root partition in a
logical partition; I've only ever put the root partition in a primary
partition. You indicate that /dev/hda5 was the root partition in the
old kernel...
> > Can anybody tell me whats going on here? When I compiled the 2.4.2
> > kernal its size was well under 640 MB(file size shows around 600).
I assume you meant 640 kb? (At least, I *hope* you did ;)
> > Is it possible that for some reason the new kernal does not like my
> > disk partitioning whereas the
> > old kernal is just fine with it??
Here's a thought... what type filesystem is on /dev/hda5? Did you
compile that filesystem into the new kernel? (It can't be a module,
as modules aren't accessible until the system is booted, which can't
happen until you've accessed the root partition.)
> > How can I remedy this problem to use the new kernal? Thanks anybody
> > for any advice!
Hope this helps.
>
> Just follow the kernel-howto.. and read the docs included in the kernel
> source.. you'll be set.
> >
Side note to mari-k: a little less arrogance will probably prove more
constructive.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: upgrade RPM v3.x to RPM v4.x
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:08:31 -0500
Cyrille Giquello wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like some help about upgrading
> RPM v3.x to a RPM v4.x.
>
> I got the source from rpm.org, but I've got some problem with dependencies :
> I'd installed libtool, but I can't install bd3 in the right place that rpm compiling
>well.
>
> Has some one experienced this update ???
>
I just put mine in last night with no problems detected. I installed
db3 packages first, then the rpm and popt together.
The instructions from Red Hat for installing db3 seem incorrect for
version 6.2 of Red Hat Linux 6.2. They say to do rpm -Fvh db3*, but
this will not work, because RHL 6.2 does not have db3 installed, so
you cannot freshen it. I used rpm -Uvh db3* to make it go in.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 8:05am up 19 days, 15:08, 3 users, load average: 2.06, 2.07,
2.08
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From: Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rtin question
Date: 22 Mar 2001 08:24:14 -0500
Carlos D. Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am useing my ISPs NNTP server from a 56K modem dialup. Probmel is that
: rtin has a bad habit of squeezeing the several megabyte active file from the
: remote NNTP server down the 56K straw. I only read a few news groups so how
: do I get tin to ignore the bulbous remote active file and only look at the
: newsgroups I specify?
: Every now and then I don't mind downloading the activefile and searching
: for new newsgroups that may have recently poped up but this half hour wait
: every time I start tin is getting annoying.
I don't know if this will help or not but I seem to remember doing
something similar awhile back. I went ahead and let it download
the whole thing once. I then copied my .newsrc to .newsrc_all (so
that I could later search it for the names of news groups I was interested
in) Then I created a .newsrc file with only the newsgroups that I was
interested in. Then when I used my newsreader it would only try
to retrieve information on those groups. (I'm not sure if that will
work for rtin or not but I remember this working for me at one time)
I hope that helps.
-Donald
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From: Melotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: beginner: vfat mount problem after kernel 2.4.2 compilation
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:30:07 GMT
Eric wrote:
> > when I do a mount like this:
> > mount /mnt/floppy or mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I get
> >
> > mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number
>
> Are the major/minor numbers correct?
>
> brw------- 1 a_user floppy 2, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/fd0
> ^^^^^^^
> major,minor
>
I have the same values here ....
>
> Or are you missing some library? (libc/glibc)
I have no idea how to check this but I should had make problems if I was
missing these libraries, no?
>
> same command, so try `ldd /bin/mount`
> Any libraries missing?
No, this looks fine too. I found similar problems in forums on the web but no
general solution to this problem.
I downloaded the 2.4.0 kernel and this one can mount the vfat disks without
problems. I build this kernel with the same settings as the 2.4.2 kernel.
Kris
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Opera 5 on Suse 6.0, Kernel 2.0.36, KDE 1.0 - failed dependencies
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:42:22 GMT
On Mar 22, 2001 at 08:35, Timo Feickert eloquently wrote:
>Hello world!
>
>I want to install the Opera5 browser on my Suse Linux 6.0 box (Kernel
>2.0.36).
Seems yur system is libc5 based as opposed to glibc (libc6)
based. You could probably _INSTALL_ (_not_ upgrade) glibc
and this should work. Else download the static version of
Opera and use that. B7 is out.
[...]
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I knew her before she was a virgin.
-- Oscar Levant, on Doris Day
8:36am up 5 days, 9:35, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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