Linux-Setup Digest #970, Volume #20 Mon, 2 Apr 01 17:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Install EPSON USB Scanner (John Thompson)
MS Outlooks 2000 -> KDE2 address book ?? (Andy Arbon)
Slackware ftp install (Vilmos Soti)
problem with Xconfigurator ("John Jamieson")
Re: saving HTML (Nico Coetzee)
Re: problem with Xconfigurator ("ne...")
Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1) ("Peter T. Breuer")
How to fetch the dynamic IP address? (Erik Leunissen)
Re: Slackware ftp install (mst)
Re:this is Bellsouth policy. ("gosh")
Re: Re:this is Bellsouth policy. ("gosh")
Re: Partioning problem during install ("Carl Wick")
Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address? (Michael Heiming)
Re: linksys lne100tx - on Mandrake 7.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address? (Ian Northeast)
Re: How to read/write kernel addr, say c0101000? (Ulrich Eckhardt)
Re: Make problems (Ulrich Eckhardt)
Re: 421 error in ftp (Ulrich Eckhardt)
Re: Real thing (Ian Northeast)
Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: fdisk problem (Ian Northeast)
removing lilo from /dev/hdc (Vince Skahan)
Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address? (Lasse Kliemann)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install EPSON USB Scanner
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 09:22:10 -0500
Jacqueline Besnard wrote:
> Have followed the setup from the HOWTOs, but am unable to get the USB
> port associated with the Xsane.
>
> I can see the scanner OK:
>
> S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
> S: SerialNumber=d400
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
> I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
> E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
> T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
> D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
> P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=010b Rev= 1.04
> S: Manufacturer=EPSON
> S: Product=Perfection1240
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 2mA
> I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
> E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
> E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
>
> I do the insmod with the product ID etc and have a link to the
> /dev/usbscanner:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 30 13:11 scanner ->
> usbscanner
>
> I have edited the epson.conf and have the only line in it as:
>
> usb /dev/scanner
>
> When I run it reports "no devices available".
>
> There is something fundamental I am missing...I am using SuSE 7.1. I
> have:
> rpm -q xsane
> xsane-0.70-0
>
> and:
>
> rpm -q sane
> sane-1.0.4-3
>
> I have not changed/downloaded anything further off of the web.
>
> Any help?
Did you enable the usbdevfs filesystem when you compiled your
kernel?
Have you mounted the usbdevfs filesystem on /proc/bus/usb?
Hope this helps...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MS Outlooks 2000 -> KDE2 address book ??
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:12:33 +0100
Hey,
Can anybody tell me how to get my contacts information out of MS Outlook 2K
and into the KDE2 address book? I have got all my email over using the
KMail Import program, but I haven't found a comparable way of getting the
contacts data over.
Also, is there any way to do anything useful with the calendar information
from Outlook (like import it into the organiser in KDE)?
Thanks a lot,
--
Andy Arbon
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Subject: Slackware ftp install
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:46:14 GMT
Hello,
I wanted to install Slackware 7.1, and it seems the only network install
they support is through nfs. Is it true, or just I didn't find the
correct info?
Thanks, Vilmos
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From: "John Jamieson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with Xconfigurator
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:55:18 GMT
Because my video card is not supported by XFree86, I have to resort to using
'generic vga'. But when I select a higher resolution than 640x480, I get
640x480 anyway. Is there anything I can do to get higher resolution using
generic VGA?
BTW, I am using RedHat 7.0, with a matrox g450 card.
-john
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:39:00 +0200
From: Nico Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: saving HTML
Ron Nicholls wrote:
>
> Much as I hate to praise Micrsoft, internet explorer
> has a neat method of saving web pages- a pointer file and
> a dir full of images.
> The only way with netscape seems to be to edit in composer
> and save this--- as a dogs dinner of loose files in the dir of
> choice. And a separate dir for each one. there must be a better way.
>
> Is mozilla or galeon any better.
>
> --
> -
> -
> Regards
> RonN
Get WebDownloader for X (binary is called nt). It supports drag and drop
(from Netscape) and you can specify how many levels deep plus 100's of
other cool options. You will never look back!
Cheers,
Nico
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with Xconfigurator
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 19:25:01 GMT
On Apr 2, 2001 at 18:55, John Jamieson eloquently wrote:
>Because my video card is not supported by XFree86, I have to resort to using
>'generic vga'. But when I select a higher resolution than 640x480, I get
>640x480 anyway. Is there anything I can do to get higher resolution using
>generic VGA?
>
>BTW, I am using RedHat 7.0, with a matrox g450 card.
XFree86 4.0.3 supports the G450.
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love, v.:
I'll let you play with my life if you'll let me play with yours.
3:19pm up 16 days, 15:18, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:12:19 +0200
Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All -
> I have installed SuSE 7.1 (pro) on a Tyan TomCat s1563 MBd (P-II
> 200Mhz ISA/PCI, w/128MB Ram).
> The install process did not give me any errors. This MBd is (was)
> able to support an optional second processor - which is not installed
> (and there are some other controller devices not installed as well).
Stick the loading board into the empty slot (yes, that's what it's for).
Or tell the kernel the number of processors at bootup. From the
BootPrompt HOWTO (which you should have been reading lasciviously as
soon as you realized you had a boottime problem, which can only be
solved by boottime params, of course ..)
3.5.4. The `maxcpus=' Argument
The number given with this argument limits the maximum number of CPUs
activated in SMP mode. Using a value of 0 is equivalent to the nosmp
option.
and if I were you, I'd check out "nosmp" too!
Peter
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From: Erik Leunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to fetch the dynamic IP address?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:47:23 +0200
L.S.
Is there a way that a non-root user queries the Linux system for the
dynamically assigned IP address?
A ppp connection has been set up to my ISP, and currently I have only
found a way to obtain the IP address, by logging in as user root and
extracting the IP number from the information returned by:
ifconfig ppp0
However, the ifconfig command is not accessible to non-root users.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Erik Leunissen.
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware ftp install
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:12:57 -0400
Vilmos Soti wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to install Slackware 7.1, and it seems the only network install
> they support is through nfs. Is it true, or just I didn't find the
> correct info?
>
> Thanks, Vilmos
Slackware doesn't support ftp install at this time.
MST
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From: "gosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re:this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:14:26 -0700
unfortunately I do believe you will have to get an ethernet modem
no choice here, the modem that BS supports and provides is the
Alcatel Speed Touch Home The unfortunate part is that BS only
gives these modems out on Pro-installs. THEY DO NOT SHIP
ETHERNET MODEMS period no exceptions.... It can also be a frustrating
experience just getting bell south to ship a different modem... The reason
that
you will have to go with the ethernet modem is that the only software
bellsouth has for
linux is NTS Ethernet 300 a third party dialer... so you can authenticate
one way with
ethernet 300 download it from ftp.bellsouth.net.. call the help desk
at 888-321-2375 or it might be 877 I forget option 2 to get the password to
DOWNLOAD the SOFTWARE...
or you might say for the SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD. Since a pro install costs $150
if it were me
I would buy a modem off the internet for cheaper if i could find it. Bell
south does not want you to do that of course and they will not support a
modem bought elsewere but then that's not a big deal since we don't support
linux anyway
Be careful of one thing if you do buy a modem on your own since modems that
are like the Alcatel 1000 and
the alcatel speed touch home (the 2 modems supported by BS) are hard coded
no drivers to load you must be
carefull that the vpi vci for bellsouth is set to 8:35 many isp's use 0:35
and there for many modems are set
to this.... of you have any other questions about using bellsouth dsl post
them i'll answer them a better place to post for dsl specific q's is the
tech support news group fr bell south that you can get to on your bell south
news server...
side note:
no difference exsists AT ALL between pppoe and pppoa on the host side....
the only difference is in the manner inwhich
a node authenticates-- ppoe=thernet300 .... pppoa=Dial up Networking or RAS
dialer or I forget what the mac dialer is
called..... any linux customer is going to be pppoe it does not matter what
it sys you are in the bell south data base
gosh
News Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:6uDw6.2219$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Help!!!
>
> We just got this ADSL and set up Linux Mandrake 7.2 but we can't get it
> connected. I did the "adsl-setup". Then "adsl-start" and get a "time-out"
> message. We are not sure but we may have an IRQ problem. What command can
we
> use to see the list of IRQs?
>
>
> meesh32
>
>
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From: "gosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: Re:this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:27:38 -0700
of course it is a possible I suppose that you could find a router similar to
the Caymen 3220
to connect to Bell South DSL using linux if you are on a network...
I suppose it is also possible that if you search you may find a compatible
pci modem---
heck for all I know drivers for the 3com are floating around some where the
modem is known as and can be identified
at 3com by it's name the 3com HomeConnect pci
I've had my DSL with Bellsouth for a while now and I love it I get a good
stable connection at
around 800 kb down not bad considering I'm about 18,000 feet from the
central office...
the only problem I've had is on a rare occasion usualy after a bad storm...
I have to shut down and
unplug my modem for a minute than boot back up and I'm back on... no big
deal...
a happy BellSouth customer,
Gosh
gosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:R85y6.698$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> unfortunately I do believe you will have to get an ethernet modem
> no choice here, the modem that BS supports and provides is the
> Alcatel Speed Touch Home The unfortunate part is that BS only
> gives these modems out on Pro-installs. THEY DO NOT SHIP
> ETHERNET MODEMS period no exceptions.... It can also be a frustrating
> experience just getting bell south to ship a different modem... The
reason
> that
> you will have to go with the ethernet modem is that the only software
> bellsouth has for
> linux is NTS Ethernet 300 a third party dialer... so you can authenticate
> one way with
> ethernet 300 download it from ftp.bellsouth.net.. call the help desk
> at 888-321-2375 or it might be 877 I forget option 2 to get the password
to
> DOWNLOAD the SOFTWARE...
> or you might say for the SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD. Since a pro install costs
$150
> if it were me
> I would buy a modem off the internet for cheaper if i could find it. Bell
> south does not want you to do that of course and they will not support a
> modem bought elsewere but then that's not a big deal since we don't
support
> linux anyway
> Be careful of one thing if you do buy a modem on your own since modems
that
> are like the Alcatel 1000 and
> the alcatel speed touch home (the 2 modems supported by BS) are hard
coded
> no drivers to load you must be
> carefull that the vpi vci for bellsouth is set to 8:35 many isp's use
0:35
> and there for many modems are set
> to this.... of you have any other questions about using bellsouth dsl post
> them i'll answer them a better place to post for dsl specific q's is the
> tech support news group fr bell south that you can get to on your bell
south
> news server...
> side note:
> no difference exsists AT ALL between pppoe and pppoa on the host side....
> the only difference is in the manner inwhich
> a node authenticates-- ppoe=thernet300 .... pppoa=Dial up Networking or
RAS
> dialer or I forget what the mac dialer is
> called..... any linux customer is going to be pppoe it does not matter
what
> it sys you are in the bell south data base
>
>
> gosh
>
>
>
>
> News Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:6uDw6.2219$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Help!!!
> >
> > We just got this ADSL and set up Linux Mandrake 7.2 but we can't get it
> > connected. I did the "adsl-setup". Then "adsl-start" and get a
"time-out"
> > message. We are not sure but we may have an IRQ problem. What command
can
> we
> > use to see the list of IRQs?
> >
> >
> > meesh32
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Carl Wick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partioning problem during install
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:59:11 -0400
No...the drive is completely empty. I had Linux and DOS/Win partitions on
it before and removed them. My thought was something didn't get removed
properly. With the drive completely empty with no partitions...The
installer won't let me create / on it. I get the below error..
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Carl Wick wrote:
> >
> > Currently have a 30gig slave disk.../dev/hdb that I am trying to
> > install RH7 on. Disk Druid will not let me create / on it no matter
> > what the size, keeps saying not enough free space, even though the
> > disk shows 0% utilized. It does let me create /usr /var etc but not
> > /. I keep getting some unallocated partition error, and not enough
> > free space. And...if I try to use fdisk instead of D.D. I get kicked
> > out of the install and the system reboots? WTF??
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Remove the numbers to email
> >
> > Carl
>
>
> Is the drive setup as DOS/win partitions?
> If the drive is completely used as a DOS/win drive and has no free space
> for linux to use then you need to make room for linux to install into.
>
> If you are going to dedicate the whole drive to linux then delete any
> partitions that maybe on it, you will make all linux partitions during
> the install.
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more W/U's than 99.140% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:45:13 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address?
Erik Leunissen wrote:
>
> L.S.
>
> Is there a way that a non-root user queries the Linux system for the
> dynamically assigned IP address?
>
> A ppp connection has been set up to my ISP, and currently I have only
> found a way to obtain the IP address, by logging in as user root and
> extracting the IP number from the information returned by:
>
> ifconfig ppp0
>
> However, the ifconfig command is not accessible to non-root users.
Hm, curious on my SuSE box it's no problem checking the settings with:
/sbin/ifconfig ippp0
As normal user. What kind of distro do you use?
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linksys lne100tx - on Mandrake 7.1
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:49:45 GMT
Thanks :-)
All solved now. Found a download site for spec-helper and the card now
works fine.
Also thanks for giving me the information I needed to find the
solution, rather than the solution. I learn more that way!
andi
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 22:19:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bit Twister) wrote:
>Hummm, locate spec-helper
>/usr/doc/spec-helper-0.2/Howto-spec-helper
>
>Top of Howto-spec-helper
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Starting from rpm-3.0.4-0.2mdk, the spec-helper package must be
>installed as a dependency of the rpm-build package.
>
>The spec-helper script is called automatically at the end of the
>%install section to compress info and man pages, strip files and
>remove backup files from the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT dir. The %install section
>can be cleaned off this tasks but the %files section about man and
>info pages must be specified without the .bz2 extension but with an *
>instead. The goal is to have vendor neutral spec files.
>-------------------------------------------------------------
____________________________________
"A Single Open Mind,
can open any door"
Sonia Rutstein
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:51:31 +0100
Michael Heiming wrote:
>
> Erik Leunissen wrote:
> >
> > L.S.
> >
> > Is there a way that a non-root user queries the Linux system for the
> > dynamically assigned IP address?
> >
> > A ppp connection has been set up to my ISP, and currently I have only
> > found a way to obtain the IP address, by logging in as user root and
> > extracting the IP number from the information returned by:
> >
> > ifconfig ppp0
> >
> > However, the ifconfig command is not accessible to non-root users.
>
> Hm, curious on my SuSE box it's no problem checking the settings with:
>
> /sbin/ifconfig ippp0
>
> As normal user. What kind of distro do you use?
/sbin is not in the default path for a normal user in most cases. This
is probably the problem. I put it in my path in my personal .profile.
Ian
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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read/write kernel addr, say c0101000?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:41:17 +0200
Gu Weining x-posted:
>
>
> In my driver, I try to read/write some kernel address.
> But I always got Segmentation fault. Sounds like my
> access method is wrong. I copied my char driver code
> running with Linux v2.2.1x as follows:
>
> int address, value;
> address = 0xc0101000;
> address = address - PAGE_OFFSET;
> /* even I set either PAGE_OFFSET=0 or
> PAGE_OFFSET=c0000000, still wrong */
>
> value = (*(int *)address);
this is where either the access violation takes place or where you corrupt
your stack so that the next action fails. Why don't you start with
something like
int* mem;
mem = (int*)((char*)0xc0101000 - PAGE_OFFSET);
> value++; /* access this address */
your're not accessing the memory at the address here, your incrementing a
local variable.
> ****** Segmentation fault ******
>
> Would you please give me some hint? Thank you so much.
Would you please stop crossposting then? Post it to whatever is sensible
and set an as well sensible follow-up.
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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make problems
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:50:07 +0200
Carrie Marist wrote:
>
> I am having problems with make. I am in bash and every time I try to make
> something I am told it is not a bash command.
>
Sure, it isn't a bash builtin command but a separate program.
Two possibilities: you have it installed but your path is screwed up, then
you might have to use something like '/usr/bin/make' to start make.
Other is that you simply don't have it installed. If you're lucky and
running Debian, simply do 'apt-get install make' (or maybe better 'tasksel'
or 'apt-get install task-c-dev') for other distros get the packages and
install them with their package-manager.
uli
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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 421 error in ftp
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:55:02 +0200
Kerry Farrell wrote:
> i just installed redhat 6.2. i am a total newbie.
>
> when trying to use ftp to connect to localhost or trying to connect from
> another machine, i get:
>
> "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection"
>
> i read somewhere that it has to do with passwords and PAM, etc. but i
> don't know enough about it to fix it.
>
>
> help.....
>
> thanks
>
>
>
do you have ftpd up&running and is it enabled in ,iirc, /etc/services ?
uli
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real thing
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:55:08 +0100
Ron Nicholls wrote:
>
> Does anyone still make a real keyboard--
>
> ibm layout
> keys that CLICK
> NOT festooned with win keys.
> My present keyboard clicks and when it dies ,I'm finished !!
> soggy rubber thuds
>
I try to nick the keyboards off old Unix workstations. Of course it
helps to have a supply of same:)
Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:56:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Leunissen wrote:
>L.S.
>
>Is there a way that a non-root user queries the Linux system for the
>dynamically assigned IP address?
>
>A ppp connection has been set up to my ISP, and currently I have only
>found a way to obtain the IP address, by logging in as user root and
>extracting the IP number from the information returned by:
>
> ifconfig ppp0
>
>However, the ifconfig command is not accessible to non-root users.
[-]
It is -- you can make it suid root, but this is problematic of
course.
As an alternative use the output of syslog ..
Apr 2 21:32:11 monocerus pppd[201]: local IP address 123.123.123.124
Apr 2 21:32:11 monocerus pppd[201]: remote IP address 456.456.456.456
... or, if pppd runs as root, put the ifconfig command to /etc/ppp/ip-up
since ip-up is being run with pppd's permissions.
Ta',
Juergen
--
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\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk problem
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:59:41 +0100
sam wrote:
>
> Why I can not delete the partition with win98 and liunx when I run "fdisk"
> command?
Do you mean "why can I not delete a Linux partition with Win98 fdisk"?
If so, the answer is "because Windows fdisk is broken".
Use the Linux fdisk, it'll delete anything. Use a Tom's boot disk
(http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html) if necessary.
If you meant something else please clarify.
Regards, Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vince Skahan)
Subject: removing lilo from /dev/hdc
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:38:47 GMT
I'm trying to get a flash disk installed and booted
with ANY boot loader. Works great from boot floppy
via initrd using GRUB, but I'm unable to get either
GRUB or Lilo to work.
At this point, the disk has lilo installed, which
stops at 'LI'...so I'd like to try syslinux, but
the MBR is lilo'd and I can't get lilo removed.
Any ideas how to get lilo removed from /dev/hdc ?
--
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The DoJ has determined that Linux has established and exploited a monopoly
in the nonproprietary UNIX market by means of predatory zero pricing and
blatantly superior implementation -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lasse Kliemann)
Subject: Re: How to fetch the dynamic IP address?
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:13:54 +0000 (UTC)
* Erik Leunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way that a non-root user queries the Linux system for the
> dynamically assigned IP address?
>
[...]
> ifconfig ppp0
>
> However, the ifconfig command is not accessible to non-root users.
On my system, /sbin/ifconfig is executable for everyone.
/sbin is not in the default path for non-root users though.
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ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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