Linux-Misc Digest #299, Volume #26 Mon, 13 Nov 00 06:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Subdirectories
Re: xmms playing CDs? ("pl")
Re: xmms playing CDs? (Craig Holyoak)
Re: Netgear cards (jeff)
Re: CD -- Why do I have 30 kscd processes? (Bill Unruh)
Re: xmms playing CDs? ("Jerry Segers, Jr.")
Re: Need help setting up second SCSI CD-Rom (cfish)
Re: retreiving mail and news from isp (Lew Pitcher)
Re: how to remove file starting with - ? (Wayne Pollock)
Re: Which windowing system? X-windows? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Was: Software RAID ("U. Siegel")
Linux RH6.2 on Prosignia VS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
webalizer referrer report (Thinkin Ittover)
Re: Redhat, Slackware, SUSE, FreeBSD, Help... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Subdirectories
Date: 13 Nov 2000 05:28:19 GMT
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:30:05 -0000, Michael
McMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am a Linux newbie and I cannot
seem to figure out how to get into a
>subdirectory on my CD to install
rpm packages. I can get to the main
>directory, but not the subdirectory.
using the command line,
cd /mnt/cdrom
will get you to the CD, right?
then ls
will list the directories at the
top level on the CD.
Say there are the following directories:
REDHAT dists README
go
cd REDHAT
to enter that directory. Do not put a
slash in front of REDHAT. In this manner
you can enter any subdirectory in the file
system from its parent directory.
Go ls again to see what's in REDHAT,
and cd name-with-no-slash to enter the
subdirectory you want. If it's a file not
a subdirectory, Linux will tell you.
Go cd .. (just like that, with a space
preceding the two dots) to go back up one
level, and cd by itself to return home.
When you find a package you want to install,
go pwd at the command line. It'll tell you
the path to that package (you may need to
append the name of the package at the end of
pwd's output).
When you want to use rpm to move a rpm
from the CD to your hard disk, go to the
directory on your hard disk where you want
the rpm package to end up. Then use your
rpm commands (see man rpm).
Give rpm
the path reported by pwd previously so rpm
can find and copy the package for you.
I am not sure if this answers your question,
but it'll work. There are definitely
faster/easier ways, but it helped me to
get a sense of the mechanics at
the beginning.
HTH
MP
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From: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms playing CDs?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:52:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Scudder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Can xmms be configured to play CDs?
>
> John
Yes
options->preferences->audio i/o plugins->cd audio player
requires libcdaudio
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From: Craig Holyoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms playing CDs?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:57:13 -1000
> Can xmms be configured to play CDs?
Yes, you can. Depending on what version you have (I've got 1.2.3), you
just slot your CD into the drive, select Play File, browse over to your
CD mount point (or wherever is specified in your settings for the CD
Audio input plugin) and all the tracks should appear there.
--
Craig Holyoak
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.uq.net.au/craigh/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Subject: Re: Netgear cards
Date: 13 Nov 2000 06:28:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I seem to recall, long ago, setting it with the dos utility supplied on a
diskette. I have several of these NICs, so I initially set them up to each
use a different IRQ and IO range. That seems to have done the trick, since
they've since worked fine with several Linux systems, as well as some lesser
OS's.
-jeff
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:40:47 GMT,
Neil Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13 Nov 2000 03:04:44 GMT, jeff wrote:
> >
> >My FA310TX's use the Tulip driver.
> >
> >-jeff
>
> Thanks Jeff, have you left it in plug-n-play mode or can I set it to
> keep the settings?
>
> I need it to do bootp/dhcp.
>
> >On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:40:13 GMT,
> > Neil Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> What chipset/drivers should I use with the netgear 10/100 nic cards?
>
>
> --
> Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
> http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: CD -- Why do I have 30 kscd processes?
Date: 13 Nov 2000 06:32:55 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john slimick)
writes:
>The title pretty much says it
>all. I have all these kscd
>processes and I don't think
>I need that many.
Nope you do not. It is the CD player under kde. Have you been opening
and then forgetting to close them?
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From: "Jerry Segers, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms playing CDs?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:26:53 +0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Scudder"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can xmms be configured to play CDs?
>
> John
>
IFF your cd-rom drive is connected to your sound card, then just select
the tracks off /mnt/cdrom in the add file dialog. this will not allow you
to do visualization or effects on the tracks as they never go thru the
cpu. If those features matter, there is a plugin on xmms' site that
claims to make cd audio go thru the cpu, but I couldn't get it to compile,
and so can't vouch for its efficacy (sp?) if you're asking how to set xmms
as the default program to play cds, I don't know.
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help setting up second SCSI CD-Rom
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:43:48 GMT
it shouldn't behave like that... make sure
1. you got the correct driver for the SCSI card and it detects fine
2. you terminates the SCSI bus correctly
3. you assigned the right SCSI ID for each device no replicates.
the kernel should detect them all. does the dmesg output say that it
sees the second drive??
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:40:46 +0000, Tim Banner
<tim.banner*NOSPAM*@btinternet.com> wrote:
>Sorry if this posting is in the wrong group, this is my first posting to a
>linux group.
>
>Upto now I've done pretty well setting up and running my Linux box using
>HowTO's and online manuals, but this one has me stumped. I've never got my
>SCSI CD-Writer working. I think Linux is only detecting my SCSI CD-ROM.
>
>My SCSI card is a Tekram DC390, and the CD-Writer is a Philips CDD 3600.
>
>I've scanned through the CD-ROM HowTO and it recommends reading the
>SCSI-HowTO, which I'm just starting. It suggests including the line
>max_scsi_luns = 8 if you are using devices on other LUNS besides 0. I'm
>not quite sure if the number asigned to the SCSI device is the LUN, ID or
>channel but I've given it a try anyway. Linux appears to scan the device
>at start-up, but I can't use it.
what does that mean?
>
>I've read the output from dmesg and it only mentions one scsi cd device at
>boot. The error I get when I run mount is:
>
>"mount: /dev/scd1 has wrong major or minor number"
>
>I assume /dev/scd1 since /dev/scd0 is the cd-rom (but I've tried the rest
>of scdx). I've also checked the major and minor numbers and they appear
>correct as well. I'm guessing I'm getting this error message because the
>kernel is not expecting the device.
>
>I'll keep reading the HowTO's, but I hope somebody could speed up my
>process a little and shine some light on what I'll bet is a simple problem
>(i.e. a second scsi cdrom device requires a boot up perameter).
>
>TIA
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: retreiving mail and news from isp
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:42:44 -0500
Benjamin Autin wrote:
>
> How do you get your email and newsgroups from your ISP in Linux? This will
> aid me very much when I need help as I don't always have to reboot to
> Windows to get answers.
Once a night, around 2:30AM, cron on my server runs two jobs:
1) 'fetchmail' to fetch any mail for my id and my wife's id at my ISP,
and
2) 'fetchnews' (which is part of the leafnode package) to fetch all the
newsgroups that my wife and I read
Since I have my PPP connection configured for dial-on-demand, this means
that my server calls my ISP at that early hour, downloads my mail and
netnews, and then (after a suitable time) disconnects from my ISP. From
that point on, either my wife or I can use our regular tools (she uses
Pegasus mail and Forte Free Agent under MSWin95, while I use Netscape
under Linux) to read our mail and newsgroups.
Fetchmail (available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail) is a
POP/IMAP client coupled with an SMTP client. It will retrieve mail for
individual users from individual mail servers and respool each item back
to your home-server's mail system. Thus, you can retrieve mail from
seperate outside accounts to be placed in the seperate mailboxes of
those accounts on your local system. Very configurable, and easy to use.
Leafnode (available at
http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html) is a
lightweight NNTP server designed for use in cases where intermittant
connections and/or ISP contract requirements prevent the use of a
full-scale NNTP server. It comes with a program that retrieves news from
your ISP's news server ('pull' technology, rather than the regular NNTP
'push' technology), and a program that acts as your local NNTP server.
There are also a number of maintenance tools provided, and overall, the
package works well in home-server situations.
> Thanks once again
> Ben
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to remove file starting with - ?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:49:10 -0500
Try:
rm -i foo *
The command line processing of optional arguments stops on the first
non dash argument.
-Wayne Pollock
Thomas Ruedas wrote:
>
> By a silly glitch in a makefile, a file with a name beginning with a -
> was created on my system. Does anybody know how to get rid of it? I
> tried several combinations of rm with putting the filename in " or ',
> masking it with a \ or using * etc. - nothing works, I always get an
> error because the shell thinks that I want to pass an option to rm.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which windowing system? X-windows?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:44:08 -0800
On or about Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:04:06 GMT, Bill Kocynjski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
scrivened:
> Hi,
> I'm going to write a program using graphics to display data, using
> OpenGL. I can develop under Linux, Mac OS X, Unix on SGI. My primary
> requirement is portability. I am a post doc, and will be moving to a
> new position soon and don't know what hardware will be available
> there. This will be a program under perpetual development for use by
> me and perhaps a few others.
> Should I use X-windows? Are there other GUIs more popular in the
> Linux/Unix/Mac OS X world? If I develop for one of them, will I be
> able to move my application to the other unix platforms easily?
Developing for X (language-fascist note: 'X' or 'X Window System', but
not 'X Windows', though I probably say that a dozen times a day) will
give you fairly broad cross-platform portability. Sticking to a generic
development toolkit, or staticly compiling, will also help -- Motif,
Lesstif, or (preferred) Gtk are your best bets. Linux binaries tend to
be supported on other x86 Unix flavors, though SGI will require a
recompile, and I'm not sure what Mac OS X does.
Scripted or interpreted languages -- Tk/Tcl and/or Python, might
minimize porting issues, if runtime performance isn't a major issue.
--
Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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From: "U. Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Was: Software RAID
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:46:56 +0100
OK, here are the /etc/raidtab's contents:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 3
nr-spare-disks 1
persistent-superblock 1
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
chunk-size 32
device /dev/sd[b...d]2
raid-disk [0..2]
device /dev/sde2
spare-disk 0
Of course the device and raid-disk lines are written not packed in the
raidtab.
And here is /proc/mdstat:
Personalities: [raid5]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0: active raid5 sde[3] sdd2[2] sdc2[1] sdb2[0]
16707456 blocks level 3, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]
unused devices: <none>
The filesystem was created by the command:
mke2fs -b 4096 -R stride=8 /dev/md0
After the first write attempt to array system keeps on sending following
messages to /var/log/messages
EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Alloacting block in system
zone - block = 131456
EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system
zone - block = 131457
EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system
zones - blocks = 131458
EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system
zone - block = 131458
Last two lines are repeated upcounting the block number until the system
crashes.
Lee Allen wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 14:40:40 +0100, "U. Siegel"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Seems to be that there are several people having experience with
> >software RAID.
> >So, let's be a bit more detailed.
> >Since one week i'm trying hard to get RAID5 to work.
> >The System is a netfinity server with 2 Pentium III/933MHz, 2GB RAM and
> >5 SCSI hd's. On 4 disk i created identicall partitions, each about 8GB.
> >The first three shall be for working and the fourth as spare.
> >Creating the array wasn't a problem, also the mke2fs completed w/o
> >errors. But when i try to copy some data to the array the system
> >crashes. All i get are EXT2fs errors in block allocation. This happens
> >under kernel 2.2.17, 2.2.17, 2.3.40, 2.4.0-test9 and 2.4.0-test10.
> >Always the same errors.
> >Is there a trick about ext2fs?? I upgraded to the newest ext2fs-tools,
> >but no change :..-((
> >Can anybody help me?
> >
>
> How about posting your /etc/raidtab and /proc/mdstat files,
> ideally after mkraid.
>
> -Lee Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux RH6.2 on Prosignia VS
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:11:39 GMT
Hi there,
I have trouble installing RedHat 6.2 on A Compaq Prosignia VS. It has a
scsi smartarray 2 controller and i have installed SmartStart. In
SmartStart there is no option for making support diskettes for Linux,
only voor Windows, Novell and SCO Unixware. Does anyone has experience
with installing Linux on a Prosignia VS.
Pls help me on my way
Regards,
Nebular2002
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From: Thinkin Ittover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: webalizer referrer report
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:42:37 GMT
I'm using webalizer 2.01 and in my referrer report, I've got several
lines I'd like to group together for example:
http://dmoz.org/Business/Financial_Services/...
http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Financial_Services/...
http://www.dmoz.com/Business/Financial_Services/...
I've modified the .conf file several ways such as:
1. GroupReferrer dmoz./ OpenDirectory
2. GroupReferrer dmoz.org/ OpenDirectory
3. GroupReferrer dmoz.*/ OpenDirectory
None of these approaches worked. Any suggestions?
Daniel
Ps. I have a similar problem with aol referrers where:
GroupReferrer aol.com/ AOL
doesn't include URLs s/a:
http://search.aol.com/dirsearch.adp
http://aolsearch.aol.ca/cat.adp
http://aolsearch.aol.com/cat.adp
any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Redhat, Slackware, SUSE, FreeBSD, Help...
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 02:47:00 -0800
On or about Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:33:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrivened:
> Ultimately(but not right away), I want to setup a highend webserver and
> ftp server on linux with apache, perl, eperl, mysql. Any knowledge I
> have of linux comes from browsing the web.
> 1. Which distribution would you recommend? wrt ease of upgradability,
> application installation uninstallation, security and stability given my
> level of knowledge and goals.
Debian. For all reasons given. I've driven RH from 4.2 - 6.2, used
Mandrake, SuSE, TurboLinux, and Caldera. Run an OpenBSD firewall. For
a general workstation or server, Debian, hands down. Configurable,
secure, stable, easy to admin, stays out of your way. Some think it's
not quite as straightforward to set up as
> 3. Further, should I get a copy of the enterprise server version of a
> distribution
Generally the real value-added is support, you can get the software free
or cheap in virtually all cases.
> 4. If you setup linux first as a workstation, would it be easy to later
> on set it up as web server,
Yes. Actually, a server configuration is generally a subset of a
workstation config, so it's a process of elimination.
> 5. How hard is it to upgrade a distribution? What's involved in it? Is
> it easy enough to just download some components and upgrade it or is it
> better to just buy the cd for the next version?
This is debian's forte:
$ apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
...and answer a few friendly configuration questions <g>.
On-the-fly, over the wire, no reboot needed, shy hardware or kernel
update.
> If you upgrade for example the kernel, would you have to upgrade all
> the other applications like the c compilers, webserver, xwindow,
> gui's, and what about the hardware configurations.
Generally, no. Some specific kernel-dependent utilities, e.g.: ps and
related process/accounting utilities may need to be updated.
> 6. What about FreeBSD and OpenBSD? Would you recommend them? are they
> easier or more difficult than linux wrt configuration, upgradability
> etc. ?
I chose OpenBSD for a firewall system -- the packet-filtering tools are
slightly more powerful and (IMO) significantly easier to configure than
GNU/Linux. The system is "secure by default", which is good for a
firewall or bastion system. While people do run OpenBSD as desktop
systems, I'd prefer GNU/Linux for the task.
> 7. I'm looking for a good and thorough book on linux, with basic
> information such as setup and configuration to more advanced topics such
> as server administration and security. If this is too much information
> for one book to contain, what combination of books would you recommend?
O'Reilly's _Linux in a Nutshell_ and _Running Linux_. The updated _UNIX
System Administrator's Handbook_, by Nemeth, et al, is another good one.
If you're getting started with Debian, there's a hardcopy packaging of
the users' manual, and also a Sams book that's pretty good (the O'Reilly
Debian book is disappointed). For OpenBSD, read the FAQ and see the
Nemeth book.
--
Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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