Linux-Misc Digest #423, Volume #26 Wed, 29 Nov 00 11:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: netscape 4.xx (Toby Haynes)
Re: mp3 player with Linux support (Juhamatti Niemelä)
multiple IDE-adapters (Miguel De Buf)
Re: Problem with read mail (Sasha)
At and batch (Alexander Borghgraef)
Re: 3 NICs in a RH6.1 box ("Sylvain Drapeau")
Re: Problem with read mail (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Partitioning questions (Stanislaw Flatto)
What is broken? ("Heinrich Frauendorf")
Re: disable right mouse button in X ? (Joerg)
Gnome "Default Session" (Bob Howard)
Re: via82cxx (Doug Angus)
Re: root filesystem resore from tape (-ljl-)
Re: What is broken? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: What is broken? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: At and batch (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: What is broken? (Stefano Ghirlanda)
passwd protect runlevel 1 (Eric)
Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy (Martin Gregorie)
Re: passwd protect runlevel 1 (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy (Martin Gregorie)
Re: Write to floppy from Redhat 6.0 (phil)
Re: passwd protect runlevel 1 (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Word equations (phil)
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: netscape 4.xx
Date: 29 Nov 2000 09:33:53 -0500
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have the folowing problem. Netscape 4.61 (libc5) used to work pretty well
> on my system (Redhat 6.2) but for some reasons that I don't realy know, my
> system started to crash regularly when I tried to access certain URLs. I then
> decided to install Netscape 4.62 But this new version couldn't even start and
> just crashed with the error message "bus error" I then tried to install
> Nestscape 4.76. I was able to start it. But now I have the problem that when
> composing a mail message, the address completion does not work, and when I
> try to get the address from the address book, Netscape will crash. Is there
> a way to solve this problem? Thanks
Upgrade - to a Mozilla Nightly build. The mail client in Mozilla M18 is
unstable (on Linux) but I have had no such problems with the latest Mozilla
builds. www.mozilla.org has all the info you need.
If you have a slow system (i.e. 200MHz or less) you should investigate
galeon.sourceforge.net for a version of Mozilla without the XUL layer - this is
a bit zippier as it uses the native GTK toolkit but still uses the Gecko
rendering engine. Whether the mail client has been added to this project yet I
don't know.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juhamatti Niemelä)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: mp3 player with Linux support
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:55:17 GMT
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:49:54 -0500, Ralph Blach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Is there an MP3 player with decent linux support. Ie, I can the files
>from linux to
>the player easily
If you mean portable mp3player, there is Linux software for Diamond
Rio 500. Check http://www.linuxnewbie.org for more.
<Juhamatti Niemelä>
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From: Miguel De Buf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: multiple IDE-adapters
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:51:23 GMT
Hi there,
I am putting together a linux server with 6 disks. I plan installing
two extra IDE-cards (PCI), so I would have 6 IDE controllers. I would
attach one large disk to each controller (so I have 6 disks). Now I
would use RAID1, so logically, I would see 3 disks at the software
level.
Does anybody know if it is possible to install 2 extra IDE-PCI cards
onto the motherbord, so linux recognises them (and of course is able to
use them) ? If so, are there limitations on this type of hardware ? Do
I have to use a certain type/chipset ? If so, can someone point me to a
location with more information about that ?
That is a lot, any help would be greatly appreciated :-)
Thanx in advance,
Miguel De Buf
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From: Sasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with read mail
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:54:03 GMT
Thanks allot, that was the problem, i had only configured that in Netscape.
Best Regards Sasha
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From: Alexander Borghgraef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: At and batch
Date: 29 Nov 2000 14:54:38 GMT
I'm having trouble getting these things to work. They seem to have
nearly the same syntax:
at [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mldbv] TIME
batch [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mv] [TIME]
but when I try to apply them
at -f batchfile -m 15.45
works, and
batch -f batchfile -m 15.45
does not. What am I doing wrong here? Also, the manpage says both
can draw their jobs from stdin instead of from a file. I tried
various permutations of "at", the time and the job, but none
seem to work. Can anyone help me on this?
--
Alex
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From: "Sylvain Drapeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3 NICs in a RH6.1 box
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:07:39 -0500
I rebuilt my kernel to include the tulip driver... I found somewhere that
you could not use modules for more than one card... ok, but how do I tell
linux to use the built-in driver instead of the module? It doesn't seem to
do it by itself.
Sylvain Drapeau
"Sylvain Drapeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message news:
TUTU5.274$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello!
>
> They are PureData Lite-On LNE100TX with LC82C169B PNIC chipset and only
the
> first one on the PCI bus seems to work. I can ping either of the three
cards
> using their own IP address but only the first can see its network. They
are
> on three different networks (10.0.0, 192.168.0, 206,162,162)
>
> /proc/pci mentions the three cards but only the first one seems to have an
> IRQ.
>
> my ifcfg-eth# are ok, my conf.modules is ok and I get no error message
while
> booting.
>
> Why does this happen?
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Sylvain Drapeau
> Solutions Informatiques SIGMA Inc.
> tél: (418)851-2943 x104
> (418)851-4254
> fax: (418)851-4580
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.sigma-techno.com
>
>
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with read mail
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:11:26 -0500
Sasha wrote:
>
> Thanks allot, that was the problem, i had only configured that in Netscape.
>
Be sure you do not tell ALL of your e-mail clients to leave the
messages on the server. The server will eventually fill up and stop
accepting e-mail on your behalf. Pick one of your machines as your
primary one, and have your e-mail client pick up all the e-mail and
remove it from the server.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:05am up 3 days, 17:33, 2 users, load average: 3.18, 3.16,
3.25
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning questions
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:21:00 +1100
Alex Stoll wrote:
Hi Alex!
Have read the postings answering your question. There is another simple
solution.
Install Linux on part of secondary drive giving it two partitions swap and root,
the size as much as you wish.
The drive does not have to be wholy partitioned, every OS will let you create a
partition in the empty part whenever the need arises.
Think about it.
HTH
Stanislaw
Slak user from Ulladulla.
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From: "Heinrich Frauendorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is broken?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:20:44 +0200
Hi all
Installed RedHat 7.0 everything worked fine. Just had a power failure.
Now when I sit at the console some of my keyboard keys don't work, however,
when I telnet in from another machine all works well.
What is broken?
Best regards
Heinrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disable right mouse button in X ?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:55:58 +0100
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
>
> X must be running, of course, before netscape can be started.
> Have you tried something like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> startx
> exec netscape
Yes, I tried that. But it didn´t work, unfortunately. It simply started X with
Gnome and nothing else was launched.
Regards, Joerg
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From: Bob Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome "Default Session"
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:21:23 GMT
I start Gnome and the message reads....
Your preferred session type Default is not installed on this machine.
Do you wish to make Default the default for future sessions?
with a green Yes button and a red No button. I answer yes. Gnome
opens. When I log out Gnome pops up a ? Really log out?
with a green Yes button and a red No button.
There is also a Save current setup button on the Log out screen
I click save setup and click yes to log out. The next time I start
Gnome the same thing Your preferred session...........
Can somebody tell me what is meant by session type and why when I
click yes to make it the default it does not seem to stick? Thank you
Bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Doug Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: via82cxx
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:25:03 -0500
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While attempting to configure the sound (sndconfig) I get "error occured while
opening /dev/audio via82cxxx pci audio". I'm really at a loss.
Kevin Hayes wrote:
> Doug Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> >
> > I have the via82cxx module loaded and can run applications such as
> > xmms. Only problem is that no sound
> > comes out.
> >
> > In /etc/conf.modules I have
> >
> > alias eth0 3c59x
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx
> > options sb support=1
> >
> > and in /proc/modules
> >
> > lockd 30344 1 (autoclean)
> > sunrpc 52132 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
> > 3c59x 18980 1 (autoclean)
> > via82cxxx 2708 0
> > sb 33332 0 [via82cxxx]
> > uart401 6224 0 [via82cxxx sb]
> > sound 56792 0 [via82cxxx sb uart401]
> > soundlow 420 0 [sound]
> > soundcore 2628 7 [sb sound]
> > raid1 7940 2
> >
> > Any ideas about what's going on?
> >
> > --
> > Doug Angus
> > Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
> > Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> > <html>
> >
> > <br>I have the via82cxx module loaded and can run applications such as
> > xmms. Only problem is that no sound
> > <br>comes out.
> > <p>In /etc/conf.modules I have
> > <p>alias eth0 3c59x
> > <br>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > <br>alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx
> > <br>options sb support=1
> > <p>and in /proc/modules
> > <p>lockd
> >
> > 30344 1 (autoclean)
> > <br>sunrpc
> >
> > 52132 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
> > <br>3c59x
> >
> > 18980 1 (autoclean)
> > <br>via82cxxx
> >
> > 2708 0
> > <br>sb
> >
> > 33332 0 [via82cxxx]
> > <br>uart401
> >
> > 6224 0 [via82cxxx sb]
> > <br>sound
> >
> > 56792 0 [via82cxxx sb uart401]
> > <br>soundlow
> >
> > 420 0 [sound]
> > <br>soundcore
> >
> > 2628 7 [sb sound]
> > <br>raid1
> >
> > 7940 2
> > <p>Any ideas about what's going on?
> > <pre>--
> > Doug Angus
> > Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
> > Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]</pre>
> > </html>
> >
> > --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753--
> >
>
> Have you made the devices such as /dev/audio etc needed to use the card...
>
> --
> Kevin Hayes
> Freshwater, Australia
--
Doug Angus
Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
While attempting to configure the sound (sndconfig) I get "error occured
while opening /dev/audio via82cxxx pci audio". I'm really at a loss.
<p>Kevin Hayes wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Doug Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<p>> --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753
<br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
<br>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> I have the via82cxx module loaded and can run applications such as
<br>> xmms. Only problem is that no sound
<br>> comes out.
<br>>
<br>> In /etc/conf.modules I have
<br>>
<br>> alias eth0 3c59x
<br>> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
<br>> alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx
<br>> options sb support=1
<br>>
<br>> and in /proc/modules
<br>>
<br>>
lockd
30344 1 (autoclean)
<br>>
sunrpc
52132 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
<br>>
3c59x
18980 1 (autoclean)
<br>>
via82cxxx
2708 0
<br>>
sb
33332 0 [via82cxxx]
<br>>
uart401
6224 0 [via82cxxx sb]
<br>>
sound
56792 0 [via82cxxx sb uart401]
<br>>
soundlow
420 0 [sound]
<br>>
soundcore
2628 7 [sb sound]
<br>>
raid1
7940 2
<br>>
<br>> Any ideas about what's going on?
<br>>
<br>> --
<br>> Doug Angus
<br>> Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
<br>> Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
<br>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753
<br>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
<br>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<br>>
<br>> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<br>> <html>
<br>> &nbsp;
<br>> <br>I have the via82cxx module loaded and can run applications
such as
<br>> xmms.&nbsp; Only problem is that no sound
<br>> <br>comes out.
<br>> <p>In /etc/conf.modules I have
<br>> <p>alias eth0 3c59x
<br>> <br>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
<br>> <br>alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx
<br>> <br>options sb support=1
<br>> <p>and in /proc/modules
<br>>
<p>lockd&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 30344&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 (autoclean)
<br>>
<br>sunrpc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 52132&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
<br>>
<br>3c59x&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 18980&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 (autoclean)
<br>>
<br>via82cxxx&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 2708&nbsp;&nbsp; 0
<br>>
<br>sb&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 33332&nbsp;&nbsp; 0 [via82cxxx]
<br>>
<br>uart401&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 6224&nbsp;&nbsp; 0 [via82cxxx sb]
<br>>
<br>sound&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 56792&nbsp;&nbsp; 0 [via82cxxx sb uart401]
<br>>
<br>soundlow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 420&nbsp;&nbsp; 0 [sound]
<br>>
<br>soundcore&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 2628&nbsp;&nbsp; 7 [sb sound]
<br>>
<br>raid1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<br>> 7940&nbsp;&nbsp; 2
<br>> <p>Any ideas about what's going on?
<br>> <pre>--&nbsp;
<br>> Doug Angus
<br>> Department of Geological Sciences &amp; Geological Engineering
<br>> Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
<br>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]</pre>
<br>> &nbsp;</html>
<br>>
<br>> --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753--
<br>>
<p>Have you made the devices such as /dev/audio etc needed to use the card...
<p>--
<br>Kevin Hayes
<br>Freshwater, Australia</blockquote>
<pre>--
Doug Angus
Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</pre>
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: root filesystem resore from tape
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:15:30 GMT
In article <01c0599e$8bc4a8c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeremy Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to restore a root filesystem from a scsi tape
>CPIO backup?
>
> I've done the usual mknod /dev/sda... and mount the disks etc,
> but I can't persuade rescue to see /dev/st0.I've created /dev/st0 by
> hand using mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0 but it complains that there's no
> such device.
Try "dmesg | less"; you should see something like this:
...
scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.2M: PCI Ultra 16 CDB: IO E800/F, IRQ 9
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 00072-001 Rev: 4.BT
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI Revision:
02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape total.
...
You need three things to use an DAT,e.g. ARCHIVE,assuming
that is what you are using:
My /usr/src/linux/.config
Adapter card CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS=y
SCSI core support CONFIG_SCSI=y
SCSI Tape (st) CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
These can be either modules or built-in the kernel. For a
rescue-system, I'd recommend compiling the stuff into the
kernel.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: What is broken?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:33:12 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:20:44 +0200, "Heinrich Frauendorf"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Installed RedHat 7.0 everything worked fine. Just had a power failure.
>
>Now when I sit at the console some of my keyboard keys don't work, however,
>when I telnet in from another machine all works well.
>
>What is broken?
Your keyboard.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: What is broken?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:38:33 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:20:44 +0200, Heinrich Frauendorf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Installed RedHat 7.0 everything worked fine. Just had a power failure.
>
>Now when I sit at the console some of my keyboard keys don't work, however,
>when I telnet in from another machine all works well.
>
>What is broken?
Have you tried another keyboard?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: At and batch
Date: 29 Nov 2000 16:30:22 +0100
Alexander Borghgraef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> at -f batchfile -m 15.45
>
> works, and
>
> batch -f batchfile -m 15.45
>
> does not.
>From the manual page:
batch executes commands when system load levels permit;
in other words, when the load average drops below
0.8, or the value specified in the invocation of
atrun.
Is your load level below 0.8?
Or maybe atrun is invoked with some stupid value (or the default value
is stupid :-)
--
Stefano
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is broken?
Date: 29 Nov 2000 16:34:00 +0100
"Heinrich Frauendorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Installed RedHat 7.0 everything worked fine. Just had a power failure.
>
> Now when I sit at the console some of my keyboard keys don't work, however,
> when I telnet in from another machine all works well.
>
> What is broken?
The keyborad? :-)
Can you try that on another computer, just to be 100% sure...
Another possibility is that the power filure has corrupted the hard
disk exactly in the point where some keyboard configuration file
resides...
--
Stefano
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: passwd protect runlevel 1
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:43:58 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there,
I'm running RH6.2, pretty default install.
Now when I boot in runlevel 1, root access is achieved, without asking
for the root password. I'd like to have the person that tries a runlevel
1 boot to be asked for the root password. I know that this doesn't
secure my system at all, but it makes sure that some of the
semi-linux-pro's running around here are denied access when trying this.
I know it's possible (I believe SuSE has passwds enabled here) but I
can't find what I need to change to get this going.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:49:31 GMT
On 29 Nov 2000 08:43:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Villy Kruse) wrote:
>In the past it was not uncommon to have the first track low density
>and the rest high density. The idea was that the software could
>read the first track with standard density and if some disk lable
>says the rest is high density switch to high density for the rest of
>the disk unit. MS-DOS and family never did that, but old unix system
>often had floppy drivers that could handle these disks.
>
Indeed. I was remembering Flex09, which did this too.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: passwd protect runlevel 1
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:55:01 -0500
Eric wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm running RH6.2, pretty default install.
> Now when I boot in runlevel 1, root access is achieved, without asking
> for the root password. I'd like to have the person that tries a runlevel
> 1 boot to be asked for the root password. I know that this doesn't
> secure my system at all, but it makes sure that some of the
> semi-linux-pro's running around here are denied access when trying this.
> I know it's possible (I believe SuSE has passwds enabled here) but I
> can't find what I need to change to get this going.
>
I do not know how offhand (perhaps you diddle /etc/securetty, but to
be really safe, you probably do something to the BIOS of your
machine), but be very careful if you do. If you forget the root
password, how will you get in to change it to something you can use?
(Perhaps you could have a boot floppy without this.)
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:54:56 GMT
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:39:43 GMT, "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>From the OP, in case you haven't been following this thread:
>> (however, vi'ing the resulting file did confirm that the disk at least has
>> the words "MSDOS FAT12" and some other nonreadable stuff in its first
>> block-- sorry, I didn't capture this bit, but if it's necessary, I can)
>
>Which is why I recommended SpinRite.
>
Fair comment. I don't know Spinrite, but I can imagine only too well
the havoc Norton would have caused to the disk if it had been run, as
some suggested, to repair a nonstandard or non DOS disk.
Do we know that these disks are 3.5", not 5.25"?
Given that 720K 5.25" DOS floppies did exist, its quite possible that
these are that format. If this is so a 1.2MB HD drive will not read
them; only an older double density drive will do that.
I had a similar problem with some OS/9 floppies and had to raid a
chassis in my loft for a double density drive.
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil)
Subject: Re: Write to floppy from Redhat 6.0
Date: 29 Nov 2000 16:58:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LuisMiguel Figueiredo -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth
the following lines of wisdom:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Flej Ling) wrote in
><xQ2S5.18$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>I want to read/write ability with my floppy drive so ...
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Flej Ling
>>
>>
>
>Well i use an alias to mount a floppy added in ~/.bashrc
>
>alias floppy="mount /dev/fd0 /floppy"
Because of what he said, he already has an entry in /etc/fstab.
alias flop='mount /mnt/floppy; cd /mnt/floppy'
Is what should be used.
You might wanna use mtools, if they're DOS-formatted floppy. They should be
installed along with your distribution considering it's RedHat.
Phil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: passwd protect runlevel 1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:56:18 GMT
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:43:58 +0100, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I'm running RH6.2, pretty default install.
>Now when I boot in runlevel 1, root access is achieved, without asking
>for the root password. I'd like to have the person that tries a runlevel
>1 boot to be asked for the root password. I know that this doesn't
>secure my system at all, but it makes sure that some of the
>semi-linux-pro's running around here are denied access when trying this.
>I know it's possible (I believe SuSE has passwds enabled here) but I
>can't find what I need to change to get this going.
man 8 sulogin
Use sulogin rather than getty for the one (and only) terminal started
in runlevel 1. This will require /etc/inittab changes.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil)
Subject: Re: Word equations
Date: 29 Nov 2000 17:01:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Y. Chang -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth
the following lines of wisdom:
>Hi. I have always done my equations in Latex or Lyx, but I now have a
>secretary who only knows MS Word. Is there any way that I can prepare
>these equations under Linux (a Latex to MS Eqn editor convertor)?
You might wanna look at wv
http://www.wvware.com/wvWare.html
Phil.
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