Linux-Misc Digest #631, Volume #21 Wed, 1 Sep 99 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: LS120 Super Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: File change monitor for Unix? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Linux success stories (Justin Clancy)
Re: A silly question: POP and Sendmail ("Gumby")
Re: Executing a shell script (Paul Kimoto)
Re: fsck after power failure (Brandon Warren)
Re: Tmail Problem (Mark Johnson)
Dancing the Samba with WP and an Epson Stylus Color (NoMadis)
Re: Disabling control-alt-delete from a program ("Ben Gunter")
Re: This is probably a simple one :) (Dave Brown)
SENDMAIL from my Windowsbox thru Linuxbox... (mist)
Re: Had it with RH6 (Chris Campbell)
Re: BIOS upgrade needs DOS(??) (Chris Campbell)
Re: Wordperfect will *not* work! (NoMadis)
Num-Lock on boot up ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dual boot win 98 (Leonard Evens)
Re: kppp connects and immediately disconnects with pppd died (biosci2000)
Re: Executing a shell script (Georges Giralt)
Re: Wordperfect will *not* work! ("T.E.Dickey")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LS120 Super Drive
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:22:31 +0059
Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I don't think there are any drivers around for it for the IDE version (if
: you hear of any please let me know) - if it's a SCSI version you should be
: able to set it up as any other SCSI device.
The IDE version works fine just so long as you have ATAPI Floppy support
enabled in your kernel. It appears as an additional IDE drive
(i.e. /dev/hdN).
The 120 Mb discs come pre-formatted as DOS disks and can be mounted as you
would any other DOS drive (I can't remember how they are partitioned, but
fdisk will soon tell you).
You can re-partition them and built Linux filesystems on them just like
any other IDE disk (but MUCH slower).
Create an fstab entry as below and away you go. If you insert a 1.44 Mb
floppy it will mount that and if you put a 120 Mb disc in that will work
just the same. Its easy!!
/dev/hdN /ls120 auto user,noauto 0 0
:> Can anyone help me set up a LS120 Super Drive.
:> I can get it to 1.44mb, but do not know how to get it to 120 mb.
--
Richard Simpson
Farnborough, Hants, Uk Fax: 01252 392118
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not aware of any views shared by myself and my employers.
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: File change monitor for Unix?
From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 Sep 1999 10:40:07 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio) writes:
> [ snipped to save the Internet from meltdown ]
http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/smartinst.shtml
and something called "instmon" for which I have no URL.
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml and
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Justin Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux success stories
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:26:49 +0100
Kari Pahula wrote:
> John G. Sandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Javier Fernandez wrote:
> >>
> >> Where can I find true success stories of Linux at real enterprises?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/testimonials/testimonials.html
I have my own success story to add - and it shows that Linux is far from
the amateurish system that so many (too many!) management
people believe.
We run a group of companies which deal in UNIX consultancy and
Biotechnology (It's a long story ;-)
Linux is used throughout the group for several reasons:
1. I am the major shareholder and I know a lot about UNIX and I *will
not* allow the group to become dependent on M$ - maintenance
costs are too high for one thing. OK, that may be bigotry but...
2. Linux is *cheap*. No nonsense about licences - we use SuSE 6.1
One CDROM set and that's it for over sixty systems.
3. Linux is reliable. Our network server (multi PII with 512Mb RAM
and 80Gb disk) has been running without pause since it was installed.
4. Linux is flexible. We use it as the host O/S for everything we do
from office management to massive number crunching (see below).
5. Linux has *excellent* support. No calls to helpdesks who don't
know what they're doing. Post to the Internet and wait for the answer.
6. Linux is secure. Well, that is not true of course until you
compare the security aspects of NT and Linux. No system is ever secure,
but NT
NT systems are *never* secure. They can't scale up very well
either (see Number cruching, below)
Ok, what do we use it for?
Office management: We have the usual stuff, email, Netscape etc. We
also have spreadsheets, word processing etc (applix). Project management
individual desktops (KDE), graphics
etc.
Training: We use Linux to teach students about UNIX
in general.
Number crunching: We use a large cluster (beowulf'ish) to deal with
large calculations for the Biotech function. Our cluster cost us ~20,000
UKP
to buy a commercial solution
capable of our system would cost in excess of 500,000 UKP. (reason:
cheap PC hardware and
free O/S and tools)
I have been working with UNIX for over 18 years. Linux is an excellent
implementation of UNIX in my not-so-humble-but-expert opinion. It's
true that Linux has it's weaknesses - installation and maintenance is
still a nightmare for the uninitiated and fault tolerance needs a lot
more work for
example. But these issues are being addressed (I'm tracking progress).
I believe that Linux is already a credible alternative to M$ products and
will
continue to improve. As more and more third-party products are ported to
Linux, its usefulness to the general user community will improve.
--
Justin Clancy
Windoze has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer. Press any key to
restart
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From: "Gumby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,tw.bbs.comp.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: A silly question: POP and Sendmail
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:33:50 GMT
Read the Mail HowTO.
Then you won't have silly questions...just serious ones.
:-)
-Gumby
Jimmy Lio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does Sendmail support POP3? If not, what should I install for my client
> computers to fetch mail from my Linux server?
>
> Jimmy
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Executing a shell script
Date: 1 Sep 1999 10:46:49 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[The usual searchlinux.com end-of-line nonsense corrected.]
[Red Hat-specific groups deleted.]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Laverick wrote:
> Per the instructions, I cd to the root directory of the
> cdrom and execute the command "install/install /home/webuser/install.conf".
> I receive the error message "bash: install/install No such file or
> directory". The file is there, I can open it in an editor, and I have
> checked the user privileges, and I have execute rights. Can anyone
This is just a guess: is your CDROM mounted with execution disallowed?
(See the mount(8) man page.)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brandon Warren)
Subject: Re: fsck after power failure
Date: 1 Sep 1999 17:38:18 GMT
Do you have /sbin/update enabled in /etc/inittab?
I have a litle server running RD 5.2. It has had many power failures,
and always boots back up on its own. (The system isn't
"important" enough to warrent a UPS)
Brandon
Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I recently had a power failure and lost my system.
>Yet another person running a critical machine w/out a UPS.
>>Upon reboot, I had
>> numerous file system errors. I ran fsck several times, and got rid of
>> all problems except for the partition containing /usr. After 45 minutes
>> of trying, I could not go into a normal boot, since fsck could not clear
>> up all the problems on this partition.
>I've never seen fsck fail. You may wind up with some stuff in
>lost+found, but it doesn't fail.
>>I don't have a ups or a Linux
>> compatible backup device (Syquest Sparq 1 gb external ide).
>That's hardly a Linux problem.
>>
>> Are there any other methods or tricks I could use to correct a file
>> system. It is unacceptable for me to have to reinstall.
>Then you should have had a UPS.
>>Maybe I could
>> sue some options with fsck, or a third party utility.
>Without any info, error messages, etc. from this fsck failure it's
>hard to give you the magic options...
>-ckm
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From: Mark Johnson <markj*no*spam*@gilanet.com>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.imap,comp.mail.misc,msn.computingcentral.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Tmail Problem
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:47:33 -0600
Reply-To: markj*no*spam*@gilanet.com
Mark Crispin wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> > I tried to switch my local mailer in Sendmail to tmail. But, after I did
> > it, I was not able to receive any messages. I got the following error
> > message in my log file. What did I do wrong?
> >
> > Aug 24 19:24:18 apple tmail[15213]: unable to log in UID 500 from UID 2
> > Aug 24 19:24:18 apple tmail[15213]: error in delivery
>
> tmail must be setuid root when called by sendmail. This is noted in
> tmail's man page.
>
Where can I find manpages and other doc for imap-utils? Thanks.
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From: NoMadis<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dancing the Samba with WP and an Epson Stylus Color
Date: 1 Sep 1999 17:50:52 GMT
Hi,
The trusty old HPDeskjet 510 died, and a new printer had to be set up on
the network: and someone conned me in buying a Epson Stylus Color 640.
It plugs in a printserver running Debian 2.1 with Samba 2.05.
This computer serves 3 OS'ses: 8 computers running windows98, and the
prints turn out flawless, terriffic, cann't do better.
3 computers run Debian with WP8 for linux: It turns out garbage with the
builtin printerdrivers, but things improved a little bit when I DL old
WP6.0 drivers from the corel site, renamed them, and used them with wp8
4 linux: I could then within WP choose the correct printer, and it
started looking OK, but generally after a few lines the printer hangs.
I *can* use the generic dos printerdriver from WP, but then I loose all
the formatting.
I can also cat a textfile to the device, which will print out nicely,
but the paper will be stuck in the printer after it has printed the last
line.
further there is one computer running NT4 SP5, and there I cannot even
setup the driver: Samba apparently complains that there is not a
suitable NULL driver installed on the server. Then it proceeds
installing the drivers, which will not even print a testpage: "the
parameter is wrong." AAAAARGGGHH!!!
(the Deskjet had no problem with it, however)
And so the question is:
1.how to set up WP8 for linux in such a way that it actually *will*
print something usefull, instead of spewing endless pages of garbage
or simply hanging?
2. What do i have to add to my printcap file, so that the printer will
release the paper after finishing with the last line when printing
textfiles?
Please help, I have studied kilobytes of HOWTO's the past 2 days, but I
somehow have managed to miss the final clue.
Greetz,
Joop
=======================================================================
Joop Bollen. Nuts & Bolts Department, Nomadis Systems, Holland
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (31)-252-532489 PGP-ID: FFB003FD
### Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat ###
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From: "Ben Gunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Disabling control-alt-delete from a program
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:48:22 -0400
In /etc/inittab, there's a line like this:
# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
I think commenting that line out and running "init q" will have the effect
you're looking for.
-Ben
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can someone explain how to disable the console control-alt-del key sequence
>so that if an important program is running some bozo can't reboot the
>machine short of doing a hardware reset. I realise the program will have
>to be setuid root but thats not a problem. I know its possible since the
>XF86 server accomplishes it somehow (though I've never understood why it
>bothered)
>
>NJR
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: This is probably a simple one :)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 31 Aug 99 02:12:21 GMT
In article <7qfah9$lo2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Davis Eric wrote:
>I have also met this problem when I dialed up to my ISP from home and
>then telnet to the server in my department. I didin't try DISPLAY=...
>stuff. Myabe that is the reason.
>
>Maybe it is a stupid question, but can anybody tell me why not use
>telnet but rsh? Is there any crutial difference between theses two?
>
>Davis
On many systems, the "r-commands" are disabled. Some consider then
security risks. They can be configured to permit logins without
passwords.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SENDMAIL from my Windowsbox thru Linuxbox...
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:45:59 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MoPar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>When I try to send an emai lfrom my windows98 machine, it says "relaying
>denied", why is that and what can I do to get rid of it?
With a standard 8.9.3 rpm for Redhat, you could either add the win98 IP
to /etc/mail/relay-domains or put into /etc/mail/access
ip.of.win98.machine RELAY
>
>Also, I try to make my "D" drive on my windows machine avaliable by mounting
>it under /filez on my linuxbox (for FTP purposes) this fails and all I get
>is "connection to JOHN failed" (JOHN is the server/Windowsbox that has the
>'D' drive).
>
>I think the command was something like "smbmount -L //john/d 'mount
>/filez'" or something.
>
>
>I can't smbmount -L john it doesn't show my PC, I can however see it
>through my roommates PC by typing smbmount -L Roomate
>and then my machine (john) shows up)
>
>Does that have something to do with it?
>
Probably. You could try
smbclient \\\\john\\d -U username -I ip.of.win.box
to see if that connects. If not then your problem is probably
elsewhere.
--
Mist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Campbell)
Subject: Re: Had it with RH6
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:09:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I could listen to CDs also, but only through the front panel port. :c)
Chris
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:31:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Steve D. Perkins wrote:
>
>:> > SB16 PNP worked flawlessly under 5.2, and is broken by default in 6. I
>:> > got it to work, only after pouring through several HOWTOs including
>:> > one for a completely different model sound card.
>:>
>:> I've been complaining about the exact same problem on this group for
>:> about a week-and-a-half, and haven't heard any possible solutions yet.
>:> What exactly DID you end up doing to make your sound card work?
>
>: I got a friend's machine with SB16 PnP to work ni RH6 by using ALSA (supplied
>: on the Eridani RH6 CDs).
>
>This is all mildly puzzling to me. I'm running a SB16 PnP on an
>out-of-the-box RH6.0 installation and had no problems during install or
>after. In fact, I'm listening to a CD through it right now.
>
>Antryg - Tried most of them...came back to RedHat.
--
Chris Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.xoom.com/tech33/
Tech33 on the IRC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Campbell)
Subject: Re: BIOS upgrade needs DOS(??)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:07:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's apples and orangutans. Win95 was made before the technology of
bootable cd's was widely used/accepted. Windows NT 3.x couldn't be
booted (from CD either) either. For that matter, neither could most
strains of Intel-based unix-like OSs. Once the bootable CD and more
importantly, BIOSs with that capability, were made, all OS's started
getting released in the proper format CDs (El Torrito?).
Windows 98 can do it. Windows NT 4 can do it.
Chris
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:16:43 +1200, muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Except that the Win9x CDROM is not bootable -- :(
>Real operating systems come with bootable CDROMS!!
>
>cll
>
>> You may easily use a preformatted floppy, copy the FlashBIOS
>> file onto it while running Linux (and the flash program), then shutdown,
>> boot off of the Win95 CDROM and abort the installation process, which
>> should bring you into command line mode (aka native DOS 7.0) .
>>
--
Chris Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.xoom.com/tech33/
Tech33 on the IRC
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From: NoMadis<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wordperfect will *not* work!
Date: 1 Sep 1999 17:54:12 GMT
Will Lorentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi- When I was running Red Hat 5.2, I installed Corel Wordperfect and
> all went
> well. Now, with a new computer and 6.0, I install it and no matter what
> I've tried,
> it seg faults when it first starts loading. Corel's page suggested
> installing libc5,
> which I did, but this did not bring any success. Any ideas?
>
WP needs termcap. Have you installed that?
Greetz,
Joop
=======================================================================
Joop Bollen. Nuts & Bolts Department, Nomadis Systems, Holland
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (31)-252-532489 PGP-ID: FFB003FD
### Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat ###
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Num-Lock on boot up
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:31:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This my sound really stupid, but I have a pc that I need to have boot
with the num-lock on. We've set that in the bios, but it appears that
linux ignores that. I'm sure there is a setting that I can change, and
I'd really appreciate it if someone would tell me where it is.
It's a pc running TN5250, with lynx on a 2nd virtual terminal pointing
to a pager gateway in an admitting office of a regional hospital. I
need this as rock solid as it can get.
Thanks,
Brian Seppanen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bell Memorial Hospital
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot win 98
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:14:57 -0500
rob wrote:
>
> Sort of but you are very likely to run into problems with lilo
> if you're adding linux to a windows system on the same drive.
> Unless the linux boot partition is near the beginning of the
> disk lilo cannot load it.
I guess this depends on one's definition of `likely'. One
will only run into trouble if the Windows partition is so
large that one can't make a small Linux partition entirely
below cylinder 1024. And, if I understand correctly, with
the most recent BIOSs, even this may not be a problem. See
the mini HOWTO on Large disks.
>
> rob.
>
> <snip>
> > > >for very small gain to use anything but lilo.
> >
> > > Lilo will boot Linux, but it will not, to the best of my knowledge, give
> > > you the option of booting to Linux, Windows, OR some other OS at boot time.
> > >
> > > MF
> >
> > Sure it does. It may not be as pretty as the commercial
> > boot loaders but it can do the job just as well.
> >
> > Press [TAB] next time you're at the LILO: prompt and see
> > what pops up...
> >
> > --
> >
> > -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: biosci2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,redhat.config,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kppp connects and immediately disconnects with pppd died
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:31:12 GMT
Hi, my suggestion should work since I just got mine work. Try to use
Minicom to figure what exactly your ISP needs for you to login. Don't use
PAP, just use scripts. For me, after I dialed my ISP, my ISP needs Login
name and Password. So I added scripts:
Expect: Login:
Send: xxxx (what ever your name here)
Expect: Password:
Send: zzzz (your password here)
Hopefully this will solve your problem.
Michael Malone wrote:
> Can anyone help, before I lost the rest of my hair?
>
> I would prefer to keep using kppp and I already removed "lock" from
> the script, because kppp uses it's own.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Micha
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From: Georges Giralt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Executing a shell script
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:26:38 +0000
George Laverick wrote:
>
> I am attempting to install sample web pages from the book "Apache: The
> Definitive Guide. Per the instructions, I cd to the root directory of the
> cdrom and execute the command "install/install /home/webuser/install.conf".
Do you have . in your PATH ?
if not try typing : ./install/install /home/webuser/install.conf
> I receive the error message "bash: install/install No such file or
> directory". The file is there, I can open it in an editor, and I have
> checked the user privileges, and I have execute rights. Can anyone
> suggest what I may be doing wrong?
BTW you can also check the other answer given, they also are good
candidates !
--
Georges Giralt L.D. : +33 (0)5 62 74 85 31
Alcatel TITN Answare Fax : +33 (0)5 61 49 02 14
82 Route de Bayonne Std : +33 (0)5 62 74 84 84
31300 Toulouse
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wordperfect will *not* work!
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:39:10 GMT
William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi- When I was running Red Hat 5.2, I installed Corel Wordperfect and
>>> all went well. Now, with a new computer and 6.0, I install it and no
>>> matter what I've tried, it seg faults when it first starts loading.
>>> Corel's page suggested installing libc5, which I did, but this did not
>>> bring any success. Any ideas?
> I had a similar problem. For some reason, wp seemed to require libc5 X
> libs as well. Fortunately, I saved my entire libc5 X11 tree for just
> such purposes and use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point
> wp in the right direction. This may not be useful to you, but I'd like
> to hear from people who didn't have to do this as well.
That's correct (the X libraries have to be consistent with the libc).
I've got wp installed on a slackware 3.6 partition (and would rather
not bother making it work on redhat ;-)
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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