Linux-Misc Digest #315, Volume #24 Sun, 30 Apr 00 09:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problem with running windows98 and linux5.2 (Michael Powe)
Re: getting on the internet ("Joe M.")
Re: How do I shutdown my PC? (Stephen Biggs)
Re: How do I shutdown my PC? ("vector_sector")
Can't get 8.1.5 to install on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: remote printing: lpr: connection refused (Nicolas Eymerich)
Re: XWindows ("Joe M.")
Webcams on Linux (GT)
Re: Disabling the boot logo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Difference between Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2 (Bastian)
Fixing a corrupt partition table. (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Re: Fixing a corrupt partition table. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Converting outlook.pst to unix format ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fstab mount options for zip drive (Jonathan Mendez)
problems with Diskless Linux Box (Olivier Ravard)
Re: Difference between Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2 (YamYam)
crontab hates me (peter pilsl)
changing root username ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: VPN server for linux (Yan Seiner)
Re: changing root username (GC)
The Server is working slowly ("Alex")
Good Contact Manager for Linux (root)
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with running windows98 and linux5.2
Date: 30 Apr 2000 00:34:36 -0700
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>>>>> "jason" == jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jason> After installing linux5.2, everytime i double click 'my
jason> computer', it takes several minutes to open it. when i use
jason> the internet explorer, it's even worst. it takes ages to
jason> open the site. everytime i click the links, it has the same
jason> problem. i'm using overclocked pentium pro 200mhz, 32mb ram
jason> and 2.4gb quantum hard disk. please help.
Your question is not worded very well. It appears that you have
installed win 98 and linux on the same machine. This suggests a dual
boot. If that's the case, and windows has suddenly slowed down, it
may be that you have not left enough free space for virtual memory for
windows.
If that's not the case, you need to be more precise in your
description of what you have installed and how you have installed it.
mp
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From: "Joe M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting on the internet
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 18:51:28 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the install of the network package did fix the problem i realizes after
going back to linux after writing this message that i needed to restart
as it loads daemons at the startup.
Joe.
Joe M. wrote:
>
> I just installed linux on my system with kde and decided the next step
> was to try and get it to connect to my isp. I went to kppp(i think thats
> what it's called) and it said that my kernel did not support the
> protocol, i thought because i didn't install the network package that
> was why. So i installed that and it still said the same message, not a
> very good start i can't even get past the first screen hehe..
> I don't know what information about my system you need to help me but im
> using slackware 7 with xwindows and kde. I havet installed everything
> because i only have 500 meg to play with so maybe im missing some
> things. Any help would be appreciated
>
> Joe
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do I shutdown my PC?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Biggs)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:18:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8egeoa$d0g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>You may want to look at commands like halt, shutdown and reboot. Do a
>man on those commands...
>
>it is not a good idea to power off a linux comuter without doing
>something like shutdown first.
>
>
The main reason why it's not a good idea is that, even tho you might be
sitting at the login prompt, this doesn't necessarily mean that all file
writes have been saved to disk before you cut the power. Shutting down the
machine in an orderly fashion insures that all caches are flushed before
the OS goes away.
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From: "vector_sector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I shutdown my PC?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: 30 Apr 2000 17:14:51 +0800
shutdown -h now
halt
reboot <- this command of coause does what it says
poweroff or was it power off <- for atx casings you have to compile APM
into the kernal first
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article <8egeoa$d0g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> You may want to look at commands like halt, shutdown and reboot. Do a
> man on those commands...
>
> it is not a good idea to power off a linux comuter without doing
> something like shutdown first.
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tandem Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm a new user of Linux in general and Redhad 6.0 in particular. This
> > may be a silly question, but what is the safest/best way to turn off
> my
> > PC which is running Redhat 6.0 (and only Redhat 6.0). I've been
> exiting
> > out of X-Windows or whatever it is called and then logging off with
> exit
> > which puts me back at the login prompt. Once at the login prompt I
> kill
> > the power to the PC. Should I be doing something more, because when I
> > turn the PC on I often get errors telling me there are problems with
> my
> > filesystem which need to be repaired? So, should I be doing something
> > more when I'm ready to power off my PC? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Tandem Guy
> >
> >
>
>
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Can't get 8.1.5 to install on Linux
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:31:55 GMT
Hi
I've been trying but failing to get 8.1.5 (downloaded as an ISO image
then burnt onto cdrom) to install onto linux. I get the following error
when I run the installer:
Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Please wait...
Error in CreateOUIProcess(): -1
: Bad address
I've done everything mentioned in the installation notes (created the dba, oinstall
groups, set up enviroment vars etc) but i still keep getting this error.
I'm using Slackware 7, kernel 2.2.14 with jre 1.1.6v5 and glibc 2.1.
Can anyone suggest whats wrong because I'm getting rather frustrated?
Thanks in advance.
NJR
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From: Nicolas Eymerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: remote printing: lpr: connection refused
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:35:18 GMT
> On remote, I created /etc/hosts.lpd. It has the contents:
> abc123.gcal.ac.uk
Somebody know if (and how) is possible to have wildcards in
/etc/hosts.lpd?
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From: "Joe M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindows
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:58:01 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i know how to do this now that 2 out of 2 posts that i can answer
myself. Next time i look for faqs before posting.
Joe
Joe M. wrote:
>
> Ok a few questions about using X (these may sound really stupid but oh
> well).
>
> what is the correct way to start KDE? I'm not sure if im loading all of
> it, at the moment i just go to a terminal and type kde however the
> background doesn't come up and things don't seem to change a great deal
> (i get a few icons and a browser but thats it.)
>
> also i found a menu editor for kde but i don't even have the menu that i
> can edit, i still have the normal X menu when you click on the screen?
>
> how do i configure it to look the way i like? how do i add links/folders
> etc?
>
> I looked at a few screenshots on kde's page and they have menu's above
> and below the screen, how do i get those?
>
> KDE runs on top of XFree86 (or whatever it's called i still can't
> remember all these names YET.)
>
> I installed gnome as well but cant find how to start that either?
>
> ok well that's enough questions i still have heaps more but i don't want
> to sound like an absolute idiot.......oh too late.
>
> Joe
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From: GT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Webcams on Linux
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:05:21 +0100
Hi, I am a newbie to Linux and was wondering if any webcams are
available with Linux support. I have an USB Intel Create and Share
camera but Intel do not provide Linux drivers.
Does anyone know of other webcams (not parallel port ones) which have
linux drivers?
Thanks in advance
Grant
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disabling the boot logo
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:22:27 GMT
Hi Robie,
It worked like a charm-thank you.
Bye,
Joane
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: Difference between Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2
Date: 30 Apr 2000 10:41:37 GMT
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 07:19:22 GMT, Michael Iwaki wrote:
>I see many auctions for Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2 linux distributions
>on ebay. What's the differences between the two. The Mandrake 7.0
>sellers claim their distribution is the easiest to install and is fully
>compatible with RedHat addons..Can someone give some more objective
>information on this?
>
>thanks
>
>Michael Iwaki
Mandrake is also optimised for Pentiums, AFAIK Redhat will even run on
a 386. But IMHO Mandrake is easy to install, although the package
selector is a pain. It's compatible with Redhat, I've never encountered
any problems.
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Subject: Fixing a corrupt partition table.
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:14:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note: I said partition table not partition.
I've gpt a hard drive where the partition table
has been blanked, with some medium important information
on it ( if it's gone I'm not going to cry, but it would be nice to get
it back ).
Is there any way of fixing the partition table?
( A simple example that I can think of is to run fdisk
and create a partition starting at x. Try to mount that partition.
If I fail to mount then repeat for x+1, untill I find a bunch of
starting blocks that work. Then copy data and repartition drive.
Is there a program that does this automatically? )
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fixing a corrupt partition table.
Date: 30 Apr 2000 11:34:06 GMT
Thaddeus L. Olczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is there any way of fixing the partition table?
: ( A simple example that I can think of is to run fdisk
: and create a partition starting at x. Try to mount that partition.
: If I fail to mount then repeat for x+1, untill I find a bunch of
Exactly.
: starting blocks that work. Then copy data and repartition drive.
: Is there a program that does this automatically? )
Yes. Several. I have gpart-0.1f.
NAME
gpart - guess PC-type hard disk partitions
SYNOPSIS
gpart [options] device
Go to freshmeat.net and search for it.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Converting outlook.pst to unix format
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:07:17 GMT
I've just got a modem that works under linux, so now there's no reason
to keep Windows anymore. Unfortunately I've used Outlook 98 as my
email client. It uses the proprietary .pst format to store all my
email messages in one big file.
Is there a tool that can convert from .pst to a standard unix format
(readable by pine and such)?
Thanks,
frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Mendez)
Subject: fstab mount options for zip drive
Date: 30 Apr 2000 12:06:20 GMT
Hello,
I've been working on this all night, and I'm sure if I had a little bit of
particular knowledge, I'd be able to solve this, but as it is, I don't know that
knowledge yet. I've been trying to allow the console user to be able to mount
and unmount zip disks, instead of only root. However, I don't want just any
user to be able to mount them.
The fstab options which seem to be what I want, and work for the cdrom and
floppy disk is as follows: (i'll include the floppy fstab entry I have that
works, and the zip drive entries I'd like to work)
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos vfat noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,owner 0 0
I tried simply entering these but to no effect. I then read the fstab man which
led me to the mount man, and in the mount man, I found the following pertinent
information:
The owner option is similar to the user option, with the restriction that the
user must be the owner of the special file. This may be useful e.g. for
/dev/fd if a login script makes the console user owner of this device.
This seems simple enough to apply to the zip drive, except that I have no idea
where to find the login script that is making the console user owner of the
cdrom and floppy so that I can add the zip drive in there as well.
Please help if you can, I've been working way too long on trying to solve this
when I'm sure I'm being silly for not knowing where to find the login script.
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan
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From: Olivier Ravard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with Diskless Linux Box
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:30:45 +0000
Hi,
I setup some Diskless Linux Box. It works fine but I have 2 problems :
- I boot with a floppy and only 64 Mo RAM is found by Linux. (I have
128 Mo).
What can I do to ?
- the root file system is on NFS. So I can't create a swap file (on
swapon, the
error message is : "swapon: /sw: Invalid argument")
How can I create a swap file ?
Thank you.
O. Ravard
University of Rennes
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From: YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Difference between Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:30:03 GMT
The most differences between redhat 6.2 and mandrake 7.0, as I see, since I
use both of them now:
1. The installation wizard is differenet. RedHat 6.2 uses an installation
wizard similar to LiZard (Linux Wizard) that came with cladera (>= 2.2) but
built with the beautiful gtk+ library (written in C language), beside
mandrake 7.0 which uses different look and feel installation.
2. Mandrake installation process is longer than RedHat (RedHat 6.2
installation is preferred for linux newbies). Mandrake does not allow u to
select indiviual packages which RedHat allow.
3. Number of packages that bundled with the downloadable CD of mandrake is
much more than the packages come with redhat downloadable CD.
4. Mandrake is optimized for kde (users). It uses kdm as login manager and
kde as the default desktop, it has many kde programs that redhat does not
have, like KLYx, ...
5. Both uses GUI installation.
6. I perosnally see redhat 6.2 runs faster than mandrake 7.0 -I have both
on machine-.
7. And there are much more than these points which I've written.
-YamYam.
Bastian wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 07:19:22 GMT, Michael Iwaki wrote:
> >I see many auctions for Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.2 linux distributions
> >on ebay. What's the differences between the two. The Mandrake 7.0
> >sellers claim their distribution is the easiest to install and is fully
> >compatible with RedHat addons..Can someone give some more objective
> >information on this?
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >Michael Iwaki
>
> Mandrake is also optimised for Pentiums, AFAIK Redhat will even run on
> a 386. But IMHO Mandrake is easy to install, although the package
> selector is a pain. It's compatible with Redhat, I've never encountered
> any problems.
>
> Bastian
>
>
>
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From: peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: crontab hates me
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:26:37 GMT
suse6.0, new kernel 2.2.14
(I didnt install the system, I just migrated to it !!)
I install a new crontab with new MAILTO,SHELL,PATH-settings and cron just
dont care about it !!
at 13:25 I installed the new crontab
[root@server]#crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.27944 installed on Sun Apr 30 13:25:26 2000)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
MAILTO="peter"
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin:/home/user/peter
*/10 * * * * fetchmail >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1
and later I get this email (one every 10 minutes !!):
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:30:03 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron <root@server> fetchmail
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
fetchmail: No mail for usera at servera
fetchmail: No mail for userb at servera
fetchmail: No mail for userc at servera
fetchmail: No mail for userd at servera
fetchmail: No mail for usere at servera
fetchmail: No mail for userf at servera
fetchmail: No mail for userg at servera
fetchmail: No mail for userh at servera
fetchmail: No mail for useri at servera
<skip>
and /var/log/cron.log shows:
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 27891.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 27920.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 27953.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 27966.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 27977.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 27989.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 28006.
whats going on here ?
seems that there is another cron running !! but root is the only user with
an active crontab (according to /var/cron/tabs) and ps shows only on
daemon. I even restarted /usr/sbin/cron
there was another crontab in /etc/crontab which I deleted !!
I am really confused !!!
peter
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 15:19:23 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: changing root username
Would anyone know if it is safe (in the sense of "will things still work
ok") to change the username of the root account by editing /etc/passwd?
Grts,
Tijs van Dam
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VPN server for linux
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:56:41 -0400
also vtun, vpnd - there is a bunch out there.
--Yan
Tom Eastep wrote:
>
> H.T. Sun wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know of any VPN (Virtual Private Network) server
> > applications for Linux ? Any info. will be very helpful.
> >
> >
>
> http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan
> ftp://ftp.eunet.cz/icz/ipnsec/
> http://www.opensec.net/tunnel.html
> ...
>
> -Tom
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> ICQ #60745924 \ "Any sane computer will tell you how it
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ works if you ask it the proper questions"
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From: GC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: changing root username
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:03:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Would anyone know if it is safe (in the sense of "will things still work
> ok") to change the username of the root account by editing /etc/passwd?
Can be done. Shouldn't be any detrimental side effects (assuming you
keep the uid as 0). However, it is a bit of a waste of time, being
security through obscurity and whatnot (many canned exploits create a
user (e.g. rewt) with a uid of 0 during the crack of a box.)
Cheers,
GC
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From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Server is working slowly
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:25:41 +0200
Hello.
After installing the new version of linux(6.2) (2.12) - server in laboratory
he worked ok, but after some days he began to work slowly !!??
What can i do ? ( I check all services, and anyone is useless !)
Alex.
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:05:34 -0500
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Good Contact Manager for Linux
Does Anyone know of a Good Contact Manager for Linux?
I am looking for one with most of the features of Outlook 98.
This is really the main reason I contunue to use Windows
It must be X based.
Thanks
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