Linux-Misc Digest #425, Volume #19 Fri, 12 Mar 99 09:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: suid root... (Jean-Yves TOUMIT)
Re: Major modem trouble. ("K.A. Steensma")
Re: Hotmetal Pro (Michael Proto)
Re: Newbie, URGENT QUESTIONS (Michael Proto)
Major modem trouble. (omegapi)
Help: No man pages in Debian 2.1? ("Bill")
Re: Help me with experiment ("George Georgakis")
Re: Help: No man in Debian 2.1? (**Nick Brown)
Re: memory management (David Steuber)
Re: how to mount ftp-connection (Jens Reinsberger)
Re: eth0: Rx frame corrupted (siim)
Re: .bz2??? what is it? ("Anders G. Olstad")
Re: kerneld not needed in 2.2? (Andy Piper)
Re: FS support - kernel 2.2.1 (Andy Piper)
Re: Upped wuftpd. ftpshut. Never came back on.... (Abe Lin)
Text to bitmap convertor... (Raghavendra B K)
Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix (Ralf Draeger)
Re: [question] dcc for linux (Jean-Yves Simon)
Re: Problems with maple after upgrade (Jeffrey Krebs)
Re: Unwanted "failure" message at boot time (Charles Packer)
Why is my microphone disabled in Red Hat Linux? (".exe")
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From: Jean-Yves TOUMIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suid root...
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:36:29 +0000
William Cherry wrote:
>
> Jean-Yves TOUMIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have installed shadow on my linux box. Everything seems ok except for
> > xlock.
> First, when you installed the shadow suite, did you actually move
> the passwords into /etc/shadow and out of /etc/passwd?
Yes I have.
>
> If that doesn't work, I'd download the sources for xlock and
> compile them on your system. The ./configure script that comes
> with the sources knows how to look for most common shadow password
> implementations.
Well, I have downloaded the source, but have some problems compiling
(it's
xlockmore, actually) (bad version of gtk, not finding crypt etc...) but
I'll
manage anyway.
But still, I would like to know why the tip with suid root doesn't work
because I would like to have some other commands (i.e. my backup script)
to be run suid root...
Thanks!
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Jean-Yves TOUMIT
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://rfv-pc28.insa-lyon.fr
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From: "K.A. Steensma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Major modem trouble.
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:08:38 GMT
My suggestion is that you are fighting a lost battle. Your Supra modem is
not a 'win-modem' but it is next closest thing. The combination of PCI and
PNP is probably to much to fight. Get a 'real' modem that has jumpers for
the comm 1-4 ports. In the long run, you can justify the cost of the modem
in the $ of your time. KAS
omegapi wrote:
> I run RedHat 5.2, on two machines. One has US Robotics 56K Voice modem,
> the other has Supra Express 288i Plug and Play modem. They both can run
> under linux. The US Robotics one is running fine, and I have no problem
> with it, but Supra Express is anoying the hell out of me. I tryed
> everything. Writting scripts, isapnp, reinstalling Windows to see the
> resources that it's using, and than reinstalling Linux and trying those
> resources in isapnp.conf file. I run that modem under RedHat 5.0 fine,
> but under 5.2 I don't get shit. And yes I did compile the kernel
> multiple times for ppp and the rest. Compiled modules too, wrote a
> couple scripts to try and test the modem, no dice. I am a network
> administrator for a major financial company, and I work with Solaris a
> lot, I have been running linux for about 5 years, and I never had this
> kind of problem. I think that I went through every possible idea, but
> if anybody has any others, it would be very appreciated. I even tryed
> swiching my modem manualy from one PCI port to another, no dice. Here
> is the latest error message I get when I look at my /var/log/messages
> file:
> pppd[920]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> pppd[920]: tcgetattr: Input/Output error(5)
> pppd[920]: Exit.
>
> That's it. I can't find any unresolved dependencies in my I/O's between
> any devices, so I don't fucking understand this error. If anybody has
> an idea, I would appreciate it. E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or
> post it here. Thanx in advance.
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From: Michael Proto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hotmetal Pro
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:47:33 +0000
jas shultz wrote:
>
> I read in Redhat Unleashed that there's a ver. of Hotmetal Pro for
> Linux, or atleast the X Windows system. Does anyone know anything about
> this? I checked the Hotmetal information at http://www.sq.com and was
> unable to find any mention of Linux of X Windows. Any assistance would
> be appreciated.
>
> Jas
>
I don't think there is a Linux version, but you might want to take a
look at WINE (a Windows emulator).
--
-] Michael Proto [-
-] MCP: Win95 [-
-] Happy Linux user since 1997 [-
ERROR: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (Y/n)
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From: Michael Proto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie, URGENT QUESTIONS
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:48:42 +0000
eric malloy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am now sucessfully running Slackware 3.6
>
> I want to know how to do the following:
>
> 1) change my resolution to 800x600 from 600x480
Try running XF86Setup. It will allow you to select (among other things)
the resolution and color depth.
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-] Michael Proto [-
-] MCP: Win95 [-
-] Happy Linux user since 1997 [-
ERROR: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (Y/n)
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From: omegapi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Major modem trouble.
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:42:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I run RedHat 5.2, on two machines. One has US Robotics 56K Voice modem,
the other has Supra Express 288i Plug and Play modem. They both can run
under linux. The US Robotics one is running fine, and I have no problem
with it, but Supra Express is anoying the hell out of me. I tryed
everything. Writting scripts, isapnp, reinstalling Windows to see the
resources that it's using, and than reinstalling Linux and trying those
resources in isapnp.conf file. I run that modem under RedHat 5.0 fine,
but under 5.2 I don't get shit. And yes I did compile the kernel
multiple times for ppp and the rest. Compiled modules too, wrote a
couple scripts to try and test the modem, no dice. I am a network
administrator for a major financial company, and I work with Solaris a
lot, I have been running linux for about 5 years, and I never had this
kind of problem. I think that I went through every possible idea, but
if anybody has any others, it would be very appreciated. I even tryed
swiching my modem manualy from one PCI port to another, no dice. Here
is the latest error message I get when I look at my /var/log/messages
file:
pppd[920]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
pppd[920]: tcgetattr: Input/Output error(5)
pppd[920]: Exit.
That's it. I can't find any unresolved dependencies in my I/O's between
any devices, so I don't fucking understand this error. If anybody has
an idea, I would appreciate it. E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or
post it here. Thanx in advance.
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From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: No man pages in Debian 2.1?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 00:03:13 -0800
With the help of people in these groups, I finally chose a distribution and
installed it, Debian 2.1. But the command I had hoped to use to help start
learning what it's all about and how it works is missing. When I type man,
I get an error message like bash: no such command. I know just about
nothing but tried a few things I found in a book, like find, which turned up
some directories with man in their name (man1, man2, etc.) but none had the
man command itself.
I'm mystified and stumped, wondering maybe if they changed it in this new
distribution or hid it or what? Thanks for your help.
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From: "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me with experiment
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:16:55 GMT
If you really want a bare-bones install, and want to avoid much of the
hassle involved, try ZipSlack from http://www.slackware.com
George
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fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In the LKS project there are instructions for a manually created
> installation.
> Check it tru http://www.linux.org
>
> propsync wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I have 2 partitions on my harddrive. The first one has the redhat
linux
> > distribution on it. On the second partition, I want to create a bare
> > bones linux system by copying the necessary files from partition 1 to
> > partition 2. My goal is to see just how small I can get the operating
> > system. The first thing I did was to create the filesystem (ext2) on
> > partition 2. My next move was to add this partition to lilo to enable
> > it to boot. The third thing I did was to copy vmlinuz to the /boot
> > directory that I created. When I attempt to boot from partition 2, the
> > system freezes by saying "cannot find the console" or something like
> > that. Can anyone help me by specifying what files I need to copy to
the
> > second partition to get it to boot?
> >
> > thanks
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------
> This are my personal opinions
> Real email: sanabriaf at yahoo dot com
>
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: No man in Debian 2.1?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:52:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You have to install the man-db package, which is at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/doc/man-db_2.3.10-68.deb
if you don't have the CD.
If you are a total newcomer to Unix in general, you might want to buy a
book. There is a Debian 2.0 book at www.linuxpress.com, but any Linux
book will cover 99% of what you need. Trying to learn Unix from 'man'
is like studying French by reading Voltaire in the original.
Bill wrote:
>
> When I type man in Debian 2.1 I get something like bash:man no such command.
> This is very disappointing because I'd hoped to learn from these pages. I'm
> a total newcomer. I've looked in books and FAQ's but they keep telling me
> to use man, which I can't.
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory management
Date: 10 Mar 1999 21:04:23 -0500
Daniel Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> started. I use "top" to show what's running. I've added up the column
-> for %mem used - it comes to about 40%, but 80% of the memory is consider
-> "used".
->
-> What gives? It doens't go into swap when I start new applications, so
-> should I just pay no attention to it?
Linux will use all available memory for disk cache. As you use the
disk, the blocks read get chached in RAM. This improves performance
and actually uses the memory you paid so much money for.
So, don't worry about it. If an application needs more memory, it
will be made available.
--
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http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
Where was it you said you wanted to go today? Sorry, you can't get
there from here.
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From: Jens Reinsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount ftp-connection
Date: 12 Mar 1999 12:11:52 GMT
peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
p> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> nfs != ftp
p> yes, but I´ve seen a fstab a few weeks ago where something like this
p> worked (I saw the metalabs on a public ftp mounted as /lab, but I can
Then there was obviously a nfs server installed, too. Look at the manpages
for nfsd and the exports file. The new 2.2.X kernels support acting as nfs
server directly but I don't have any experience with that yet.
Bye, Jennes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (siim)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,comp.os.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: eth0: Rx frame corrupted
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:12:42 GMT
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:14:59 GMT, Stu Lewallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would start by getting the 2.0.36 source and recompiling.
>
Done. Still same error.
Would it be worth the effort to install the 2.2 kernel ?
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From: "Anders G. Olstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .bz2??? what is it?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:48:57 +0100
Keith Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: What file format is .bz2, and what program do I use to uncompress it?
Well - it is bz2 format... Use 'bzip2' with options to to decompress it.
See also. 'man bzip2'
--
Anders Gulden Olstad @ Jeeves
RedHat 5.2 Linux kernel 2.0.36
"Penguins are generally nice creatures"
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From: Andy Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: kerneld not needed in 2.2?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:31:34 +0000
Chris Wilson wrote:
> The question is whether you want to maintain backwards compatibility
> with 2.0. If you can forgo modules under 2.0 then deleting all
> references to kerneld is okay. Also you may want to add a "rmmod -a" in
> crontab to remove autoclean modules.
Well, I do have a couple of old 2.0.x kernels hanging around in
case of problems, so probably best in my case to hold on to
kerneld for the moment, then...
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Andy
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Andy Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fareham, Hampshire
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From: Andy Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FS support - kernel 2.2.1
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:32:43 +0000
David Roberts wrote:
>
> I can certainly confirm that I can't read any of the ADFS format disks
> available to me on PC running a 2.2.1 kernel with ADFS support
> included - mount grumbles about 'can't read superblock' or
> something similar.
So it's not just me then :-/ thanks!
Andy
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Andy Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fareham, Hampshire
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abe Lin)
Subject: Re: Upped wuftpd. ftpshut. Never came back on....
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:31:31 GMT
Found solution. :)
rm /etc/shutmsg
>Hi, guys,
>Guess this is a stupid question:
>=================start of story===================
>My ftpd worked well. /etc/inetd.conf:
>ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
>
>I upped wu-ftpd to the latest rpm using:
>rpm -Uvh wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18-2.1.i386.rpm
>then:
>ftpshut
>
>then:
>shutdown -r now
>
>ftpd never wanted to come back. ftp message now:
>500 linux-box.local FTP server shutdown - please try again later.
>
>If i take "-a" off the in.ftpd, then it runs well withoug the above
>"500" message. How could I get ftpd back to work with "-a"?
>
>Tried NET3, networking HOWTO, wu-ftpd faq. Looks like time to turn to
>my peers:)
>==================end of story==================
>thanks,
>abe
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From: Raghavendra B K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Text to bitmap convertor...
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:37:00 +0530
Hello,
I recently learnt that there is a tool in Linux which converts text data
into bitmap format. This may be achieved using LaTex. Could you please
let me know whether such a tool/utility really exists?
My requirement is as follows:
If I give the input as \alpha, then the output should be a bitmap file
containing the symbol alpha. The list includes all types of symbols and
some complex mathematical formula containing symbols (in a bitmap).
Any tool out there that closely matches this requirement may be informed
to me.
Thanks in anticipation.
Regards,
Raghavendra.
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:48:35 +0100
From: Ralf Draeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Matthew Kirkcaldie wrote:
>
> D. Vrabel wrote:
>
> >> [*] I'm referring to an American "billion" here. That's
> >> a "milliard" to you out there 'cross the pond who
> >> prefer to think of a "billion" as a "million million".
> >You're a bit out of date. A billion in the UK is a thousand million.
>
> Then you've adopted the US meaning, because it certainly was originally a
> million million in UK parlance.
>
> MK.
Just to give ken a credit a billion is a million million in germany and
yes, sometimes it is a little bit confusing :-)
Having the same words with different meanings in other languages makes
it even harder to learn and i know I have to learn english sometime ...
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> What is the most widely available Unix utility to randomize lines
> in a file?
vi. Just ask a novice to edit the file for you. (Cal Dunigan in c.u.s)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Yves Simon)
Subject: Re: [question] dcc for linux
Date: 12 Mar 1999 13:35:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D. Vrabel
wrote:
: On 12 Mar 1999, Jean-Yves Simon wrote:
: > Hi,
: > in windows 95, one can have a "poor man network" by connecting
: > 2 computers using parallel port with a little utility called
: > dcc.
: >
: > Is there such a thing in Linux ?
: Can't you use plip or somesuch thing?
Thanks for your answer, yes I could use plip, but having
never delt with network in Linux so far, could you give
me more information ? Do I have to assign ip numbers to
my 2 machines.
I am running slackware if that counts.
Thanks again.
: David
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From: Jeffrey Krebs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Problems with maple after upgrade
Date: 12 Mar 1999 07:42:02 -0600
Have you installed the libc5 update from redhat? You might try
installing it and any other updates from updates.redhat.com.
Jeff
In linux.redhat Bernhard Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I just upgraded my computer from Linux RedHat 4.2 to RedHat 5.2.
> Ever since, my 'maple' (or, to be more
> specific, my 'xmaple') doesn't work properly. I can start it and do
> regular computations just fine. If I want to
> graph something (i.e. if I want 'xmaple' to open a new window for the
> graph), a core file is written and no window
> pops up. 'xmaple' keeps running and doesn't seem to be affected by this
> at all.
> I probably just forgot to install one or more rpm's, however, I have
> no idea which ones and how to find this one
> out. Any idea what to do? Is there an easy way to 'read' the core file
> and trace back the error? Well, any input
> is appreciated. Thanks,
> Bernhard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Packer)
Subject: Re: Unwanted "failure" message at boot time
Date: 12 Mar 1999 13:38:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, **Nick Brown wrote:
>But it could also be a simple question of configuring your network,
>which RedHat may provide its own method for.
Yes, I was hoping that there is some little file I can put
in /etc or someplace like that will satisfy its need to find
something in that lookup. Incidentally, I noticed that while
it says "Host name lookup failure" when I boot, subsequently
when I'm on-line and open a new xterm or rxvt window, I see
the modem lights twiddle, and the message that appears in
the new window is "Unknown host".
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From: ".exe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why is my microphone disabled in Red Hat Linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:36:31 +0800
Hello there,
I've a problem regarding my microphone. When I open
xmixer, I see that the microphone is disabled. The
button to enable the microphone doesn't work (i.e.
it can't be enabled). What is wrong here? Please
help. Thanxx!!
F.Y.I.
Architecture: i386
Operating system: Red Hat Linux 5.2
Kernel version: 2.2.3
Soundcard: SB16 non-PnP
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