Linux-Misc Digest #465, Volume #26 Mon, 4 Dec 00 15:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Accessing a Linux Partition on DOS/NT with Active Perl (Fabrice Colin)
Shell providers for running X apps remotely? (Steve D. Perkins)
help with printtool in linux. ("Kenny@BUI")
Re: SCSI problem (Esa Tikka)
Problem connecting to X server -- Font directory. (O'Neill)
problem with mkisofs (Lukasz Mach)
Re: problem with mkisofs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: problem with mkisofs (Lukasz Mach)
first time setup of an ftp server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Network problem: don't know where to look (Bill Unruh)
Re: Screen shots. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: first time setup of an ftp server (Robert Kiesling)
Kernel for 4Mb RAM 386 (The Phoenix)
Re: stty erase ^H not working!!!!! (Paul Kimoto)
SuSE 6.4 on a Toshiba Portege 7020 CT ("Timo Volkmer")
Re: Screen shots.
Re: stty erase ^H not working!!!!! (Bill Unruh)
Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers (Mikael Gramont)
Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help setting erase to backspace (Phil Barone)
Re: Kernel for 4Mb RAM 386 (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers (Mikael Gramont)
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From: Fabrice Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing a Linux Partition on DOS/NT with Active Perl
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 15:34:10 +0000
Wayne Watson wrote:
>
> Sometime ago I had both NT an Linux booting from my machine. I managed to clobber
>Linux and can no
> longer access it. However, the partition for it looks alive and contains some C and
>Perl source code
>
> I'd like to retrieve. I'm thinking of doing it with ActivePerl, but have little
>experience with it.
> I do believe Perl has an open statement to get to a disk drive. When I last
>programmed in Perl on
> Unix some years ago, I recall being able to open a directory. Probably something like
> open("/mydirectory", ...). I would expect ActivePerl under DOS/NT to have something
>similar. For
> example, open("C:",...) or something like open("E:\folderX"). Maybe there's
>something like
> pen("LinuxExt:H", ...). Once the directory is open it is then very easy to
>recursively work one's
> way through subdirectories and the files contained in each directory. So the
>question is how does
> one open a DOS folder in DOS/NT, and more to my particular concern, how does one
>open a Linux
> extension found on DOS/NT disk? open(/dev/hda3,...) ????
If you just want to peek at a Linux partition, try LinuxExplorer. That's
an Explorer-like proggie that enables to navigate through ext2fs
partitions.
I don't remember the URL but a search on your favorite search engine
should find it.
If you are definite about using Perl, you need a ext2fs filesystem
driver to mount your Linux partition as if it was formatted with FAT
or NTFS, but I don't know if such a beast exists...
Good luck.
Fabrice
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From: Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Shell providers for running X apps remotely?
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 15:28:49 GMT
At work, I recently installed an X server on my Windows 2000 notebook
to connect to an HP-UX box we're doing development on, and it's been an
amazing breath of fresh air. I can run Gnome, and it's like having all
the convienences of both operating systems running together at the same
time.
This got me thinking... I would love to have some common Linux
environment out there, that I could connect to like this through DSL at
home and through the LAN at work... where I can work on personal
development projects, store common data and access it wherever I am,
etc.
I've been browsing around at shell providers out there, but almost all
of them seem geared towards people wanting to play pranks with gay
people on IRC... none of them are seriously marketed to developers.
In a perfect world, I'd like a provider that could host my personal
domain and website as well as let me connect using me shell account
through an X server and run Gnome and other such apps remotely.
However, my web site requires MySQL and JServ/Tomcat... so I'd just
settle for keeping my current web host and having a seperate shell
provider for those purposes.
Is anyone familiar with a provider that makes this type of access
available?
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From: "Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with printtool in linux.
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:00:25 -0500
hello,
i need your collective input.
i setup a smb or remote printer using printtool. the setup looks correct due
to the fact
that i have successfully done this part before. this difference this time is
i have an nec superscript 870 laser printer. when i send a test print from
printtool it prints a page once and never again unless i delete the printer
entry and redo the setup.
of course the nec870 is not one of the choises of printers offered by
printtool.
when it prints the original test page the output says something like add
CR-LF/CR.
this occurs when i selected "text printer" as the driver.
if i select "postscript printer" then the output is also weird.
i have rh6.2 linux as the server and the printer is connected to a win98
client.
thank you,
kenny.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Esa Tikka)
Subject: Re: SCSI problem
Date: 4 Dec 2000 15:50:19 GMT
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:28:10 +0800, Antony Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a SuSE6.2 Box with five SCSI harddisks. Every time I reboot the box
>the follow messages appear on console. Do this will have problem with the
>filesystems?
>
>Nov 17 17:35:06 prod1 kernel: Unable to get major 8 for SCSI disk
>Nov 17 17:35:06 prod1 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.10/scsi/sd_mod.o:
>init_module: Device or resource busy
>Nov 17 17:35:06 prod1 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.10/scsi/sd_mod.o: insmod
>block-major-8 failed
Does anything work incorrectly? I have this same "error" myself but it
doesn't seem to cause anything.
But, pure guessing: are you by chance using aic7xxx driver as a module?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (O'Neill)
Subject: Problem connecting to X server -- Font directory.
Date: 04 Dec 2000 16:32:53 GMT
I have a linux machine running RH 6.1. Yesterday I rebooted. After
the reboot, I can't bring up the X server. (It was up and running
fine until the reboot.)
Linux tells me it can't find the Font directory. /etc/XF86Config file
has the fontpath entry as "unix/:-1" This makes no sense to me, and
apparently not to linux either, although up until yesterday there
wasn't any problem, and there's no sign that the file was changed.
Any ideas??
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From: Lukasz Mach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: problem with mkisofs
Date: 4 Dec 2000 17:06:40 GMT
i have problem with mkisofs, especially multi session feature.
i have one session on my cd, and i want to append second. so i do:
mkisofs -o image2.iso -R -M `cdrecord -msinfo` -C /dev/scd0
second_dir/
my image is created, and have proper size (i think). but if i want to test
it with mount -o loop image2.iso mntdir, my kernel tells me, that he can't
read this image, that i want to read (from /dev/loop0) more than i have
available. I've tried this on my friend's linux, and the results are the
same. Can anyone help me?. Is mkisofs ONLY program to create iso images?
my linux is RH6.2 with 2.2.13 kernel, my friend have mandrake7.1 with
oryginal kernel
maho
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem with mkisofs
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:15:33 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Lukasz Mach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have problem with mkisofs, especially multi session feature.
> i have one session on my cd, and i want to append second. so i do:
> mkisofs -o image2.iso -R -M `cdrecord -msinfo` -C /dev/scd0
> second_dir/
> my image is created, and have proper size (i think). but if i want to test
> it with mount -o loop image2.iso mntdir, my kernel tells me, that he can't
> read this image, that i want to read (from /dev/loop0) more than i have
> available. I've tried this on my friend's linux, and the results are the
> same. Can anyone help me?. Is mkisofs ONLY program to create iso images?
mkhybrid can also do it, but I doubt that's the problem... Make sure that you
have loopback device support for the kernel. Try running:
$ modprobe loopback
If that works, try the following:
$ mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro image2.iso /mnt/cdrom
If that fails, copy the exact error message into a response to this post.
Adam
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From: Lukasz Mach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: problem with mkisofs
Date: 4 Dec 2000 17:25:32 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[xiah]
> mkhybrid can also do it, but I doubt that's the problem... Make sure that you
> have loopback device support for the kernel. Try running:
> $ modprobe loopback
> If that works, try the following:
> $ mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro image2.iso /mnt/cdrom
> If that fails, copy the exact error message into a response to this post.
> Adam
mkhybrid doesnt work either(this same result). i have loopback in my kernel.
I know this, because i can mount image of normal (not multisession) mkisofs
result. now i can't send the output, because i'm on university and my
computer is 1hour away from here. :((((
but i remember, that in /var/log/messages was line such as:
Friday bla.bla.bla kernel: cannot read from /dev/loop0, av=2345(example)
req=2643.
it's interesting, that if i mount image which is incomplete(ie firs 10M of
600M image), kernel mounts this, and have nothing disturbing him, that he
want read more, than have available
maho
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: first time setup of an ftp server
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:19:28 GMT
I need to set up an ftp server on my linux box.
I have several clients that need to 'get and put' files
and programs but I can't have them wandering around my server
or into each others files.
Are there cheat sheets, books, and/or tutorials that anyone would
recommend to get me started.
TIA,
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Network problem: don't know where to look
Date: 4 Dec 2000 17:54:07 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan Erik Mostrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I issued the ifconfig command and it lists eth0 as up and
>running.
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
bad sign. This is supposed to be the ethernet address of the card (MAC
address) I would suspect something wrong with the driver for the card.
Look inn /var/log/messages or dmesg for some indication tht the ethernet
driver is not properly installed. Check lsmod to see if the module is
loaded.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Screen shots.
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:33:59 +0000
Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 21:03:42 GMT, Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hey.
>>Does anyone know how to do screen shots in kde or gnome? I tried "print
>>screen" and pasting
>>into gimp and it didn't work.
>>Thanks.
>>Ykle
> A followup question. Does anyone know how people grab screen shots
> of installation screens? It would be useful for creating documentation.
> How do they do that? What tools do you have available before you've
> actually installed anything?
The only way I can think to do it, would be to either...
a: Install VMWare and install linux within that, taking snapshots where
needed.
or
b: Photograph the screen...
:)
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Subject: Re: first time setup of an ftp server
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 18:04:40 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I need to set up an ftp server on my linux box.
> I have several clients that need to 'get and put' files
> and programs but I can't have them wandering around my server
> or into each others files.
>
> Are there cheat sheets, books, and/or tutorials that anyone would
> recommend to get me started.
This is getting to be a very FAQ. Install the ftp-server package from
your distribution or from a source code archive. The Network
Administrator's Guide should provide enough information to set up
either anonymous FTP or FTP accounts. The first edition is free on
the LDP web site, the second you have to pay for. It's not hard.
If you have problems search on the Web for 'FTP' and 'ftpd'. That
will provide you, with a whole bunch of documents that will fill in
all of the details.
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From: The Phoenix
Subject: Kernel for 4Mb RAM 386
Date: 4 Dec 2000 17:28:25 GMT
Im planning to install Linux in my old 386 with 4Mb RAM. I have succesfully
installed the system files and applications but I'm having problems with the kernel:
I tried the precompiled 2.0 kernel from the SmallLinux distribution (image size 350
Kb), and the system ran ok, but I wanted a 2.2 kernel so I recompiled the 2.2.12
kernel in my PentiumII machine for a 386, no modules, and disabling everything I didnt
need, but I got a 600Kb sized kernel image, and the kernel would hardly run in the 386
( the disk was allways in activity, most programs crashed due to lack of memory, I
couldnt even get to the shell). I tried again with a kernel with modules: the image
size was 460Kb, but the performance improved little in the 386 ( the system was still
crawling and most programs beyond the shell would crash).
I searched the kernel source documention and the Kernel-Compiling-HOWTO for some
info on the subject but I found nothing. So what am I doing wrong here? How do I get a
decent 2.2 kernel for my 386?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: stty erase ^H not working!!!!!
Date: 4 Dec 2000 13:22:09 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <90fs9g$fjl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Carlisle wrote:
> I cannot get "stty erase ^H" to work! Usually, on most systems this will
> map the backspace key to erase characters.
Are you sure that your shell is not doing something strange with "^H"
before stty sees it? Does "stty -a" agree that you have set erase to ^H?
Which programs to you want to be affected (and under X, or not)? "stty
erase [something]" does not really map the key to anything; instead, it
asks each individual program to perform the desired mapping.
There are some HOWTOs to illuminate or obfuscate the topic:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/BackspaceDelete/index.html
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From: "Timo Volkmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,z-netz.alt.linux,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: SuSE 6.4 on a Toshiba Portege 7020 CT
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:19:03 +0100
Hi there,
has anyone experiences installing and running SuSE-Linux 6.4 on Toshiba
Portege 7020CT Laptop Computer?
I'll appreciate any comments, THANKS!
-Timo
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Screen shots.
Date: 4 Dec 2000 19:20:51 GMT
>>Does anyone know how to do screen shots in kde or gnome? I tried "print
>>screen" and pastinginto gimp and it didn't work.
man import
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: stty erase ^H not working!!!!!
Date: 4 Dec 2000 19:40:13 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
writes:
]In article <90fs9g$fjl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Carlisle wrote:
]> I cannot get "stty erase ^H" to work! Usually, on most systems this will
]> map the backspace key to erase characters.
Yes, but it assumes that the backspace key actually sends out a ^H.
Unfortunately under Unix on Dec equipment (eg VT terminals, Vaxs etc)
30 years ago, the equivalent key sent out the
delete character ^? and so the emacs people decided to appropriate ^H as
a key to use in their editor. Of course when PCs became the dominant
unix/Linux terminal all hell broke out. There is a sizeable fraction of
the community devoted to emacs, and they scream when the backspace key (
not the delete key which is was on the VT machines) sends out a ^H. As a
result a number of distros have taken to translating the backspace key
to send out ^? instead, and writers of programs have taken to
interpreting ^? as the backspace. It is a mess.
Anyway, under Mandrake, you can tell the system (
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard) what it is supposed to send out when the
backspace key is hit. But X then sticks its own keyboard interpreter in
there and you have to tell X as well ( often the X console window has a
setup key which tells it to or not to exchange backspace and delete.)
So you can either "go with the flow" and accept ^? as the backspace (
ugh) or fight it, and scream at the stupidity of some of the Unix crowd
( and they get upset when Microsoft changed the subdirectory separator
from / to \, and equally stupid move).
So I suspect that stty DID make ^H the backspace key. Try hitting ctrl-H
and see if that does backspace. However the OS does not send out the ^H
code when the backspace key is hit.
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From: Mikael Gramont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 20:37:14 +0100
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 19:49:40 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Mikael Gramont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hate it when people say they get good 3D acceleration on linux when I
> am stuck withan ATI Rage 128 that sucks bad. :)
AGP or PCI?
Adam
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From: Phil Barone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help setting erase to backspace
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 14:47:27 -0500
I think this is an exceed problem but here goes.
How do I make the backspace key work like a ^h?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Subject: Re: Kernel for 4Mb RAM 386
Date: 4 Dec 2000 19:54:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Phoenix wrote:
>
> Im planning to install Linux in my old 386 with 4Mb RAM.
> .. I recompiled the 2.2.12 kernel ... the kernel would hardly run
> in the 386 ( the disk was allways in activity,
Did you read the 4MB laptop HOWTO ? And :
http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~tburgess/local/Small-Memory.html
For the kernel itself : There used to be some pages on how to
cut down a 1.0.9 kernel to get it in a few hundred kB. Search
for "Memory savers" and "Linux Lite". But your numbers sound
just as small. The kernel already sounds pretty small.
If you feel comfortable with going into the kernel sources,
you may be able to reduce some parameters. Like maximum
number of virtual consols etc.
But your problem also sounds like there is too much other stuff
running. Try cutting down dameons etc. There are comments on that
in the Small-Memory HOWTO above.
I ran a 1.0.9 kernel on a 4MB 386 and was quite happy with
it.
And then there is X ..... but I wouldn't touch that
issue before your system is happily running.
Andreas
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From: Mikael Gramont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 20:51:41 +0100
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