Linux-Misc Digest #360, Volume #24 Thu, 4 May 00 14:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I install X? ("Michael Bernardo")
PPTP Help: Winnt pptp through a Linux Firewall ("Michael Bernardo")
Kernel Problem ("Miguel Angel")
Re: Autologin as root ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Kernel Problem (Vilmos Soti)
Netscape ("Ian")
Re: oldest linux box? (Bob Hauck)
Re: ViaVoice (John Hunter)
Re: tar: "cannot readdir" on samba-mounted directory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Software Automation Tool. ("Lilia")
what does this msg mean ? ... ("G.L. Grobe")
Stange problem with HP DJ 895Cxi (Fabio S.)
Re: Netscape (Jim Townsend)
Set user id (uid) on execute in chmod not working? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Set user id (uid) on execute in chmod not working? ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: upgrade (Leonard Evens)
good email client for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Reply-To: "Michael Bernardo" <m b e r n a r d @ a s y l u m . t o>
From: "Michael Bernardo" <m b e r n a r d @ a s y l u m . t o>
Subject: Re: How do I install X?
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 12:03:24 -0400
Why, is this too much to ask for Linux? I just want to be able to test
drive it to see if I can use it as my main desktop PC at the same time. I
have a spare PC (Win98) that I currently rely on to do website work and
general desktop work. I'm just getting bombarded by rave reviews by alot of
Linux users that it is a better desktop than Windows. I would like to test
it, perhaps, allow me to have other options other than buying expensive
software. I had a co-worker doing 50% of his work on an Irix machine, doing
multimedia and animation work! I'm currently using it as a firewall, I have
3 other machines behind it serving pages (Winnt Servers).
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 3 May 2000 13:40:09 -0400, Michael Bernardo
> <<HvZP4.14815$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I did an over-the-net installation of Redhat 6.2 and chose "Server" for
the
> >installation package. It didn't come with X! Can anyone tell me how I
can
> >manually install X? It took me 3 hours to download, and over a week to
> >configure the server as a firewall proxy. Thanks.
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html (official)
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html (unofficial)
>
> "If this machine is going to be a dedicated server, why do you need X
> running on it?" is the idea RedHat is pushing here. And it's actually a
> good idea.
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with
more
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being
stupid,
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but
a
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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Reply-To: "Michael Bernardo" <m b e r n a r d @ a s y l u m . t o>
From: "Michael Bernardo" <m b e r n a r d @ a s y l u m . t o>
Subject: PPTP Help: Winnt pptp through a Linux Firewall
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:55:55 -0400
I am trying to setup a Linux firewall to allow a Windows NT client from the
Internet to connect to our internal network. The firewall (RH6.1) is already
setup with ipchains, ipmasqadm, ppp, and pptpd. The Windows NT client
outside seems to get authenticated fine by the firewall, but then, NT
complains that it fails to negotiate. What I want to do is to be able to
map Windows NT drives through pptp over the Internet. Has anyone been able
to do this? Can anyone lead me to a more specific HOW-TO about my problem?
Thanks.
--
M i c h a e l B e r n a r d o
m i c h a e l @ t i c o o n . c o m
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From: "Miguel Angel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Problem
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:50:19 +0200
ict-aliasing -pipe -DCPU=586 -march=i586 -c -o ide-geometry.o
ide-geometry.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__SMP__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototype
s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DCPU=586 -march=i58
6 -c -o floppy.o floppy.c
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make[3]: *** [floppy.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/block'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/block'
[root@menphis linux]# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Autologin as root
Date: 4 May 2000 16:29:28 GMT
Mark Crotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: My Debian 2.1 box tries to autologin as root. Any ideas how to stop this?
Make it autologout as root too!
(become more comprehensible)
Peter
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Subject: Re: Kernel Problem
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:29:53 GMT
"Miguel Angel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__SMP__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototype
> s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DCPU=586 -march=i58
> 6 -c -o floppy.o floppy.c
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> make[3]: *** [floppy.o] Error 1
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11
Vilmos
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From: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,netscape.communicator
Subject: Netscape
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:45:33 +0100
Hello, I have just had to borrow a modem cause of this winModem bobbins. I
am really struggling now with setting up my mail and newsgroup server and my
netscape navigator browser. I have logged on with my freeserve stuff from my
windows setup which allows me to get a connection, but I can't get any joy
from the browser. If anyone could help me out it would be great, if more
details are neede please let me know. Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: oldest linux box?
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:42:07 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 22:21:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just curious, what's the oldest linux box that folks have these days?
I use a 486/50 as my home firewall.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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Subject: Re: ViaVoice
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 May 2000 11:48:00 -0500
This is a library from lesstif.
http://www.lesstif.org/
ftp://ftp.hungry.com/pub/hungry/lesstif/ (RPMS are in the bindist
subdur and src is lesstif-current.tar.gz ).
I downloaded it and installed it. You can install it from source or
from an RPM. A word of warning: I had some trouble with the lesstif
RPM and didn't pursue it. I installed from source and though this
provided the requisite library, the rpm program did not know about it.
Thus I had to use the -nodeps flag to get the SDK and runtime ViaVoice
libs install, and this method worked fine.
You must read the README files that come with both the runtime and
SDK. This would have told you about the lesstif requirement. I did
as you did, just tried to plug along, and would have saved myself a
good bit of time had I read the README's. There are more snags
lurking in the woods (like setting users and default users and making
sure your sound devices have the right permissions, which are
described in detail in the READMEs and are required to get ViaVoice to
work). See also the FAQ on the IBM site and my summary below. Good
luck.
Secondly, if you don't plan to acquire a Windows Millenium copy and
train your voice model in windows and then tranfer to linux using
convuser, you will be wasting your time. See the cureadme.txt after
you get ViaVoice installed. In my opinion, the recognition accuracy
is too low with an untrained voice model, which is not surprising.
JDH
Attached below are my notes which summarize my installation problems
and solutions with viavoice:
First install lesstif to provide libXm. This installed to
/usr/local/LessTif/
and made symbolic links to usr/local lib and include.
Then install the ViaVoice-runtime and the ViaVoice-sdk in that order.
ViaVoice installed to /usr/lib/ViaVoice/
docs are in /usr/doc/ViaVoice/
Be sure to read rtreadme.txt and skreadme.txt for post install configs
from rtreadme.txt:
changed the audio device permissions with
chmod go+rw /dev/audio* /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer*
from skreadme.txt:
User Setup and Audio Guru (Automatic):
======================================
1) Create and setup a default user from the window manager by
following :
the menu path : System menus --> AnotherLevel menus --> IBM
ViaVoice --> Tools --> Setup ViaVoice UserId and EnrollId. Note: If
you use this method, it will assume your userid is your Linux user
ID and your enrollment ID is your Linux user ID with "1"
appended. This will then set the environment to this user ID and
enrollment ID.
2) Run the Audio Guru at least once to set the sound and microphone
levels. To run the Audio Guru from the window manager, use the
following menu path : System menus --> AnotherLevel menus --> IBM
ViaVoice --> Tools --> Audio Guru.
I did 1) and accepted the defaults (jdhunter and jdhunter1)
This didn't work for me and I had to proceed manually (perhaps because
the 9 digit enrollid was too long?). To get around this problem, I took
the environment vars from vvsetenv and placed them in .tcshrc (I use
tcsh and the problem may be because I don't use bash) and
modified them to read:
#------------------------------------------
# Executables, shared libraries, tools, etc
#------------------------------------------
setenv SPCH_BIN /usr/lib/ViaVoice/bin
setenv SPCH_TRN /usr/lib/ViaVoice/bin
#------------------------------------------
# Data, lots and lots of data!!
#------------------------------------------
setenv SPCH_RO /usr/lib/ViaVoice/vocabs
setenv SPCH_LOC vl1
#------------------------------------------
# Pool-specific path
#------------------------------------------
setenv SPCH_PATH /usr/lib/ViaVoice/vocabs/langs/En_US/pools
#------------------------------------------
# User-specific things (in $HOME/viavoice)
#------------------------------------------
setenv SPCH_RW ${HOME}/viavoice/
setenv SPCH_RUN ${HOME}/viavoice/temp
Then, I executed:
26 12:39 source ~/.tcshrc
28 12:39 /usr/lib/ViaVoice/bin/vvuseradm -newuser -userid jdh
29 12:40 /usr/lib/ViaVoice/bin/vvuseradm -newenrollid -userid
jdh -enrollid jdh1
30 12:40 /usr/lib/ViaVoice/bin/vvuseradm -userid jdh -enrollid
jdh1 -setdefault
32 12:41 /usr/lib/ViaVoice/samples/gtkhello/gtkhello
which worked.
>>>>> "roger" == roger smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
roger> Hi there I am sorry to bother you but did you get viavoice
roger> running. I installed lesstif as I was supposed to, and then
roger> I run rpm -ivh ViaVoice_runtime... and I get this error:
roger> error: failed dependencies: libXm.so.1 is needed by
roger> ViaVoice_runtime-2.0-1.0 How can I fix this?? thanks Rog
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.samba
Subject: Re: tar: "cannot readdir" on samba-mounted directory
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:43:08 GMT
In article <8eq3c5$bvl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme) wrote:
> >I'm getting this really bizarre error message from tar:
> >
> ># tar -cvf foo.tar /odin_e/Sites/Organizations
> >tar: /odin_e/Sites/Organizations: Cannot readdir: No such file or
> >directory
>
> What does "ls /odin_e/Sites/Organizations" give you? Probably
something
> like:
>
> ls: .: Permission denied
Interesting -- what I get is nothing.
# ls /odin_e/Sites/Organizations/
#
I told NT to give "full control" to "everyone" and got the same
result. The weird thing is smbtar works fine...
-Jonathan
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From: "Lilia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Software Automation Tool.
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:03:12 -0700
Peter, while you laugh, i suggest you to learn about subject you are
replied to and about SQA. In the meanwhile, one of the usenet group
responded to what i was looking for: it's call Dejagnu. Have a better luck
in your future flames,
(and thanks for responding anyway)
Lilia
Peter T. Breuer wrote in message <8er8sr$o3q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Lilia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>: it's an emulator. it basically means a tool to automate the process of
>: testing an application. there is a manual and automated testing. and
plenty
>
>What kind of application? Could it test my compiler? Or my compiler
>compiler? How can the tool test anything at all without knowing its
>spec?
>
>: of packages for all OS except Linux. Winrunner (actually XRunner) by
Mercury
>: Interactive is running on Unix. Another poduct LoadRunner can test Java
apps
>: on Linux. But i'm looking for simply an automated software tool by
third
>: party that will create a test scripts to test in-house application that
is
>: run under Linux. thanks!
>
>There is no such thing on any operating system. You are being conned by
>snake oil salesmen. Without knowledge of the requirements and the spec
>it can't do anything at all. And it couldn't do anything but the most
>basic i/o type-checking even given the spec.
>
>Excuse me while I laugh.
>
>:>What do you mean? Do you mean something that constructs test vectors
>:>from source code? That's generic theory-of-testing stuff, and will
>:>in any case be specific to the source code language used.
>:>
>:>Please explain yourself ..
>
>
>Peter
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From: "G.L. Grobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what does this msg mean ? ...
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:02:52 -0500
This seems to happen every once in awhile (every two weeks or so). I'll
walk in my office and find that my web server is totally unresponsive
and locked up with the following msg's displaying on my screen.
================= from display ===
... (many lines of the next line here w/ diff addresses)
[<c01096ad>] [<c0110912>] [<c01cfe76>] [<c0116b34>] [<c0109a74>]
[<c01ce8
18>] [<c01cfd0e>] [<c010e9c4>]
Code: 89 01 8b 0a 85 c9 74 08 8b 42 04 89 41 04 eb 06 8b 42 04 89
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In interrupt handler - not syncing
================= end ===
Usually after a boot (sometimes two) everything is back up and running
fine. Is this a drive problem of some sort? The box is a RH6.1 distrib
on an intel 266 w/ 128Mb.
Any ideas/hints/suggestions to what this means would be much
appreciated.
TIA
Gary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fabio S.)
Subject: Stange problem with HP DJ 895Cxi
Date: 4 May 2000 17:07:37 GMT
Hi,
I installed that printer and I get a strange behaviour. That is, it works,
it prints fine, but after the end of the print the "on" led keep on
blinking, then it stops and the paper led lights on.
Then it is enough to switch it of manually and everything is ok (but this
is not nice...:-(
I stress that the paper _is_ out, there is no need of a SEND_EOF.
Moreover, if I give the SEND_EOF, the printer ejects a blank sheet of
paper and the it gets in the same situation.
For the settings:
ghostscript-fonts-6.0-1
ghostscript-6.01-1
rhs-printfilters-1.51-2
printtool-3.44-2
and the driver is cdj550 (as suggested by the aladdin compatibility
database). BTW, it is the only one which gives some output...
Can you help me?
Thanks
Fabio
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From: Jim Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,netscape.communicator
Subject: Re: Netscape
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:08:12 -0500
Ian wrote:
>
> Hello, I have just had to borrow a modem cause of this winModem bobbins. I
> am really struggling now with setting up my mail and newsgroup server and my
> netscape navigator browser. I have logged on with my freeserve stuff from my
> windows setup which allows me to get a connection, but I can't get any joy
> from the browser. If anyone could help me out it would be great, if more
> details are neede please let me know. Ian
Yeah... a few more details other than "I can't get any joy" would be
useful :)
Does Netscape run ? What happens when you try to connect to a URL ?
What happens when you try connect to your mail account or news server ?
./Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Set user id (uid) on execute in chmod not working?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:56:50 GMT
I'm trying to get squid http caching to start on
boot. Squid should be run as a plain user
and not root in case there is a bug in squid.
I can't get set uid to work as describe
in the docs in Caldera 2.3 linux.
I set the set uid bit to test file (squidst) if set uid works:
root> chmod 6755 squidst
root> cat squidst
#! /bin/bash
id
root> ls -l squidst
-rwsr-sr-x 1 user user 803 May 4 08:52 squidst
root> ./squidst
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
As you can see set uid bit does not seem to be working
like it does on other unix flavors I've used.
Can somebody try this test to see if they get it to work
on their machine?
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Before you buy.
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:26:59 -0400
From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Set user id (uid) on execute in chmod not working?
IMS bash/Linux does not support SUID scripts only executables for security
reasons. It's just to easy to insert a wrapper script to replace some
program and do mischief.
Art S. Kagel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get squid http caching to start on
> boot. Squid should be run as a plain user
> and not root in case there is a bug in squid.
> I can't get set uid to work as describe
> in the docs in Caldera 2.3 linux.
>
> I set the set uid bit to test file (squidst) if set uid works:
>
> root> chmod 6755 squidst
> root> cat squidst
> #! /bin/bash
> id
> root> ls -l squidst
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 user user 803 May 4 08:52 squidst
> root> ./squidst
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>
> As you can see set uid bit does not seem to be working
> like it does on other unix flavors I've used.
>
> Can somebody try this test to see if they get it to work
> on their machine?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: upgrade
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:43:21 -0500
Andrew Wai wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a redhat 5.2 with a 1.2 GB hard disk that has been slowly
> upgraded over the years. It is now almost full and I wish to upgrade
> my pc with a 4GB drive. The problem is what is the best way to preserve
> my system as it has lots of files and configs on there I want to keep
> using. I just want to be able to have the same computer running again
> with
> a new larger drive/partitions. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Andrew
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would install the second disk and then install Linux on it.
If you do this carefully, you should still have access to what
is on the first disk. You can then copy things over. But
think carefully about how you want to partition the second disk.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: good email client for Linux?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 17:46:26 GMT
Can anyone recomend a good email client for Linux?
kmail sucks. Staroffice is too heavyweight.
Netscape mail only supports one POP3 account and
is slow.
Regards,
T
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