Linux-Misc Digest #358, Volume #27 Wed, 14 Mar 01 11:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: KDE must learn from GNOME ("Mad@Spammers")
Re: Does Earthlink support Linux? (Dan Million)
Newbie Alert! - Linux Flavours ("Lee")
NFS: nfssvc: Permission denied ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: anyone running VMWARE? (Scott Olson)
Re: Configuring Pine. (Bob Hauck)
Re: amanda to use gnu tar (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: NFS: nfssvc: Permission denied (Michael Heiming)
Sv: Lilo Booting problem. Problem solved ! ("Bo Jacobsen")
Re: To set the date of files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Bizarre message ("Dennis")
Re: ping, syslogd, startx woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
help with Gdk-CRITICAL error messages in Redhat 7.0 (John Prokopek)
Re: RedHat RPM question (Sak Wathanasin)
Console mp3 player that plays s3m? (Andrew Purugganan)
Strange problem with CD Drive (Leonard Evens)
Re: Help! partitioning woes with RH 6.1 (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: No swap being used (Paul Kimoto)
Re: ping, syslogd, startx woes (Jean-David Beyer)
Problem with rpc.lockd [lockd] process (Helmut Kreiser)
Re: How to release a DHCP lease from a Linux client ("Alan Fleming")
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:35:27 -0300
From: "Mad@Spammers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE must learn from GNOME
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<...>
> I guess the point of all this is simple... RPM is not a bad way
> to package files, but some sort of automatic system for dependencies
> is sorely needed. It would even be enough for it to (at least
> temporarily) to have a slightly longer depends field, which could
> be used by the developoer to add the name of a package that would
> contain the file that would fulfill the dependency. Not a perfect
> solution, but I would say that it would help out a lot...
apt-get has been recently ported to support rpm packages. Take a look
at:
http://en.conectiva.com/linux/
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From: Dan Million <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Earthlink support Linux?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:23:05 -0500
Andrew Purugganan wrote:
>
> They are offering a promo 700 hrs, and DSL. Were you able to get it to
> work with Linux? Or do they have a proprietary dialer, like NetZero?
>
> --
> jazz
> Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
> Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
> --- OUT THERE??
I use Earthlink with Linux, yes. I'm not using DSL, though, just
a plain ol' 56.6K dialup.
Dan
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From: "Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Alert! - Linux Flavours
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:58:47 -0000
I have been on this list for a couple of weeks now and I have mainly seen 3
types of linux, SuSE, RedHat & Debian. What are the main pros/cons of these
versions (I presently use RH7).
TIA,
Regards
Lee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NFS: nfssvc: Permission denied
Date: 14 Mar 2001 13:36:42 GMT
I'm having some trouble setting up an NFS server. The machine
is a P2 (original Intel), with 2.4.0 kernel. The rpc.nfsd
refuse to work!
When I try to start it, it complain:
rpc.nfsd: nfssvc: Permission denied
I've tryied everything that I can imagine, hosts.[allow|deny]
are empty (first thing I tried), portmapper is running,
nfsstat and ps -aux gave answers, I've read all the various
documentation I've been able to found but the solution is
not in sight.
I've also checked on Deja and found an old message from
"George Dau" that suggested a patch to auth_des.h, but even
that does not work.
I've run eoi (end of ideas).
This is a part of my /var/log/messages:
Mar 13 19:50:57 opus nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus nfs: rpc.rquotad startup succeeded
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1320]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
unset(nfs): request from non-local host
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1321]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
unset(nfs): request from non-local host
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1322]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
set(nfs): request from non-local host
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1323]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
unset(nfs): request from non-local host
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus rpc.nfsd: nfssvc: Permission denied
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed
Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1324]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
unset(nfs): request from non-local host
There are those "request from non-local host" that amaze me...
Anyway, some ideas ?
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From: Scott Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: anyone running VMWARE?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:39:57 GMT
Jon Tsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I am considering running vmware on my laptop. However I was wondering if it
> is possible to configure vmware to look for an existing installation of
> windows rather than forcing you to install a new copy? I read you can do
> this which saves a lot of time, but I cannot find the docs that support the
> claim.
Yes, you can do that, that's what I've been doing for the past 2
years. My machine is set up to dual-boot Linux and Win98, though I very
rarely boot Windows outside Linux. If you already have Windows installed,
go to the Support page of the VMWare site, enter Multiboot into the Search
Window, then choose Configuring Dual/Multiboot Systems to Run with VMWare
for Linux. Then follow the instructions, paying attention to the
appropriate tech notes. Works slick, I've been very happy with it on my
256M dual-processor system (it worked well on it when it only had 128M,
too, though).
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Configuring Pine.
Reply-To: bobh = haucks dot org
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:43:40 GMT
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:13:34 -0500, Mordak
<kmg_NOSPAM_5150@.hotmail.com> wrote:
>I have the necessary smtp and pop server addresses, but I can't figure out
>how to set up the user name and password in Pine.
Set your inbox-path to something like "{mail.host/pop3}inbox". It will
ask for user name and password when you connect. To put the proper
return address on outgoing mail, you should probably set up a "role".
This will let you use multiple email accounts (e.g. yahoo and your ISP)
with the correct address info for each.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: amanda to use gnu tar
Date: 14 Mar 2001 13:51:16 GMT
Wong Ching Kuen Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how to configure one of my linux amanda client to use gnu tar instead of the
> default dump program?
In your disklist on the server, specify a dumptype for the client that
includes 'program "GNUTAR"'. There are such dumptypes in the example
amanda.conf.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:51:41 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS: nfssvc: Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm having some trouble setting up an NFS server. The machine
> is a P2 (original Intel), with 2.4.0 kernel. The rpc.nfsd
> refuse to work!
>
> When I try to start it, it complain:
>
> rpc.nfsd: nfssvc: Permission denied
>
> I've tryied everything that I can imagine, hosts.[allow|deny]
> are empty (first thing I tried), portmapper is running,
> nfsstat and ps -aux gave answers, I've read all the various
> documentation I've been able to found but the solution is
> not in sight.
> I've also checked on Deja and found an old message from
> "George Dau" that suggested a patch to auth_des.h, but even
> that does not work.
>
> I've run eoi (end of ideas).
>
> This is a part of my /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 13 19:50:57 opus nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus nfs: rpc.rquotad startup succeeded
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1320]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
> unset(nfs): request from non-local host
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1321]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
> unset(nfs): request from non-local host
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1322]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
> set(nfs): request from non-local host
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1323]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
> unset(nfs): request from non-local host
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus rpc.nfsd: nfssvc: Permission denied
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed
> Mar 13 19:50:58 opus portmap[1324]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to
> unset(nfs): request from non-local host
>
> There are those "request from non-local host" that amaze me...
>
> Anyway, some ideas ?
Every time I encounter strange problems with the kernel nfsd, switching
to the user space nfsd solves all problems, don't know why, but it always
works for me?
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Bo Jacobsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sv: Lilo Booting problem. Problem solved !
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:52:47 +0100
The problem was solved by a simple BIOS upgrade of the MSI motherboard
to the latest BIOS version.
--
"Bo Jacobsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en meddelelse
news:lgur6.11407$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I have resently changed the motherboard on a Linux machine, but when I
tried
> to boot the machine it only came as far as "LI" and froze.
>
> I thought, well maybe it has something to do with the kernel not compiled
to
> the new
> processor type so I booted the system from the cdroms (I use Suse 7.0
kernel
> 2.2.16) and
> compiled the kernel (and modules) to the new cpu type. Running LILO and
> booting again
> just froze the system once more displaying "LI". In the Suse manual I have
> read that
> it could have something to do with geometry mismatch or because of a moved
> /boot/boot.b.
> I checked the harddisk specs in the motherboard BIOS and compared it to
the
> old specs on
> the old motherboard and it was exactly the same.
> I then removed (uninstalled) LILO completely from the system and installed
> it again. Again
> without any change.
>
> When changing the motherboard I made no other changes to the system.
>
> At the moment I have booted the system using the Suse boot cd's and from
> there booted the
> installed system on the harddisk. Everything is running as usual, but not
> being able to boot the
> machine without the cd's is terrible.
>
> If anyone has any idears to what the problem could be, and how to solve
it,
> please forward the info.
>
>
>
> I Use SuSE 7.0
> The old system: AMD K6-2 350MHz.
> "New" system: PII MMX 300MHz.
> All the old hardware (nic, vga card etc.) is the same.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bo Jacobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: To set the date of files
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:59:12 -0000
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:25:21 +0100 Baogao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Any info how to set/modify the date of a file is greatly appreciated
man touch
--
=================================================================
| Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ |
=================================================================
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From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizarre message
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:55:18 +0400
Hi Carl
Thanks for your support.
What additional info do you need to help find out the source of the
problem.?Probably logs, but what logs?
Dennis
p.s he will for sure need another guy to do the linux job. (I am
experimenting linux for only 6 months now)
"Carl Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:10:26 +0400 Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >His Linux guru has left the country a few weeks ago and now he is facing
> >this error message on his server :
>
> Tell him, "Find another Linux guru if you don't know how to run the server
> yourself."
>
> >Exec : /usr/man/man4/squid : cannot execute : No such file or directory
>
> >What is this squid? I found in /etc/passwd an account with this same
name..
> >But my friend tells me no one uses this account.
> >
> >Can this be a hacker?
>
> In theory, I suppose it could, but probably not. Squid is a proxy
> server -- the most popular free proxy server there is, in fact. The
> line quoted above refers to the man page for squid, which is a
> Unix-style help system. Why it's appearing in your logs regularly is
> hard to figure out without more information.
> --
> Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
> <http://www.iconsf.org/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ping, syslogd, startx woes
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:05:50 GMT
In <98np50$2o13g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/14/01
at 12:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> (a) I'm confused still about the syntax of /etc/hosts:
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>> 192.168.1.2 lappie.ditmar lappie
>> 192.168.1.1 punzel.ditmar punzel
>The first is the IP address, the second the complete name (host
>+ domain) the third only the hostname.
Thanks. I wanted to be sure.
>> I can't ping 'lappie' or 'punzel' (the latter is the machine I'm
>> pinging from). I can ping the ip numbers.
>Check if the /etc/host.conf contains:
>order hosts, bind
>Or
>order hosts
>Or
>order <whattheheckis>, hosts
>This tell your machine to look into the damned hosts file to
>resolv the IP addresses. If you don't have an host.conf file,
>simply create one with the aforementioned line.
'Damned' is right - I'm getting spooked! I think my machine is
haunted! What could have changed?
Anyway, host.conf looks fine, I never touched it; here it is:
order hosts, bind
multi on
Did I mention the weird loopback behavior? ifconfig (and
/etc/hosts) tells me that 'lo' is 127.0.01. When I do 'route -n',
I get (bars inserted for legibility):
127.0.0.0--0.0.0.0--255.0.0.0--U--0-- 0--0--lo
I can ping either 127.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 but I don't know why
route -n is insisting on this value.
Hey, I appreciate any tips you can give. I'll do a deja.vu (oh,
groups.google) hunt later today to seek company in misery.
I assume I can't start startx etc. because they want a sensible
reference to the host?
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Goethe Universitat / Frankfurt, Hessen
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: John Prokopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat
Subject: help with Gdk-CRITICAL error messages in Redhat 7.0
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:46:46 -0500
I'm look for some help.
Whenever I run a gui application such as liunxconf or gvim I get the
following error sent to the xterm windows
[root@miles docs]# linuxconf
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkimage.c: line 416
(gdk_image_destroy): assertion `image != NULL' failed.
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkimage.c: line 416
(gdk_image_destroy): assertion `image != NULL' failed.
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkimage.c: line 416
(gdk_image_destroy): assertion `image != NULL' failed.
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkimage.c: line 416
(gdk_image_destroy): assertion `image != NULL' failed.
Can anyone tell what is wrong and what can be done to fix it
thank you
--
John D. Prokopek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RedHat RPM question
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:04:46 +0000
Christopher Albert wrote:
>
> Londonboy wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > The problem:
> > -------------
> >
> > I downloaded all the source code, and compiled it followed the instructions.
> > Now, I found that the installation was TOTALLY different from RPM. for
> > example, the Apache config file is located somewhere and it didn't install
> > the service in /etc/init.d/httpd
> >
> > Even worst, I didn't even get it working. Got some error message in the log
> > file.. still couldn't fix it. even lookup apache FAQ. (RPM was so much
> > easier)
> >
> Londonboy,
>
> 1. Stay calm.
> ...instructions omitted...
> 4. I suggest you upgrade the release number in that spec file, and then
> build it
> with #rpm -ba php.spec . If all goes well you'll have a new php rpm in
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (I think) witch you can install with rpm -Uhv
> .
>
> Chris
Has anyone been able to build php4 on RH7.0? I keep getting
/usr/bin/ld: .libs/libphp4.so: undefined versioned symbol name
__ns_name_unpack@@GLIBC_2.1
at the final link stage everytime, whether I do a dynamic or static
build. I've tried
1) using the glibc 2.1.95 that came on the RH 7.0 CDs
2) upgrading to glibc 2.2.1-3
2b) rebuilt glibc 2.2.1-3 completely from src RPM
3) using gcc 2.95.2
4) various combos of apache & PHP including Apache 1.3.12 & PHP 4.0.3
which built just fine on RH 6.2
5) using another RH7 system in case I'd screwed up my RH7 installation
Same result everytime. Anyone know where this
__ns_name_unpack@@GLIBC_2.1 sysmbol comes from, or better still, how to
get rid of it?
--
Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Ltd
178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry
Phone: 024 76 419996 Mobile: 079 70 751912 Fax: 024 76 690690
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Console mp3 player that plays s3m?
Date: 14 Mar 2001 15:25:04 GMT
I am looking for a console mp3 player that also plays *.s3m songs. Are
you currently using one? If so, which one?
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Strange problem with CD Drive
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:24:26 -0600
My son's system is dual boot with Windows 98 on /dev/hda and
Linux on /dev/hdb. Both drives are on the first IDE controller.
On the second IDE controller are a CD drive and an IDE tape
drive, which should be /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. (The tape
drive device is actually /dev/ht0.) I recently upgraded Linux
to RH7.0 from RH5.X. In the process we discovered that the
CD drive was not working and we replaced it.
If I boot directly into Linux, the kernel says it has found
hda, hdb, hdd with the two disk drives and the tape drives
recognized. The CD drive is not recognized. But if I first
go into Windows and then reboot into Linux, the tape drive is
found at hdc. Kudzu also gives messages about a device
starting "FX..." which for it either wants to remove the configuration
or add the configuration depending on whether or not the
drive has been recognized and whether or not it had been removed.
If I boot into Linux with the drive found and then reboot into
Linux without going through Windows, it is not recognized.
I don't know if this phenomenon existed under RH5.X and with the
previous CD. Since my son never uses the CD, he would not have
been aware of the problem if it existed. The previous drive
was a Toshiba, and the new one is a "Mitsuhimi" or something like
that, but it is supposed to be a standard CD drive. I was able to
use it to upgrade to RH7.0 without problem. Also, Windows always
seems to be able to find it.
Can anyone suggest what might be going on? Is it possible that
the Linux kernel is modifying the setting of the drive in some way
so that it is not recognized by that same kernel when it reboots?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! partitioning woes with RH 6.1
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:50:31 -0500
Eric wrote:
>
> > What is the reason for changing the Id of the Extended partition from
> > 5 to 85 or 0F? I run a Red Hat Linux 6.2.3 system with a
> > 2.2.14-VA.2.1smp kernel, and using the default Id of 5 for Extended
> > partitions seems to work just fine. Is it because a regular Extended
> > (Id 5) partition cannot handle partitions over 2Gbytes or something?
>
> No, it's actually a windows problem.
> The partition ID 0x0F indicates that extended int13 BIOS calls
> must be used. (LBA addressing) For linux it doesn't really matter,
> because it accesses the disks directly, not thru the BIOS.
> Linux never uses CHS addressing and always uses LBA addressing.
Good thing, too, since my hard drives are on a SCSI controller. I do
not believe it could use CHS addressing anyway. As a practical matter,
my disk drives lie anyway, since I happen to know they have only 6
heads and a lot more than 1116 cylinders.
>
> 0x05 is just not intended for parittion that extend (partly) beyond cyl.
> 1023
> You should use either 0x0F, when windows must have access to a logical
> partition, or 0x85, when it is linux only. That way, you will never have
> windows messing up data, not even if you change the setup in the future.
>
> If I were you, I'd change both extended types to 0x85
> It can be done without any side effects.
>
> (PS. linux fdisk defaults to type 0x05, this has already caused
> many errors on dual boot systems, and is one of the main
> reasons why it is recommended not to use linux fdisk to
> partition a dual boot system)
>
Fortunately, this is a Linux-Only system, so I need not worry about
any problems Microsoftware may have... .
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 10:40am up 11 days, 17:44, 3 users, load average: 2.13, 2.15,
2.11
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: No swap being used
Date: 14 Mar 2001 10:53:08 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> "Nils O. Selåsdal" wrote:
>> "Paul Kimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>>>> Paul Kimoto wrote:
>>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>>>>>> kflushd
>>>>>> kupdate
>>>>>> kpiod
>>>>>> kswapd (I am kind-of suprised that this is allowed to swap out)
>>>>> These are parts of the kernel, not separate programs, and as such
>>>>> they are never swapped out.
>>>> Are you saying that all these tools are wrong by listing them as
>>>> separate processes? How did they fabricate process identifiers?
>> These are threads, threads in linux is implemented by processes.
> Threads of what, though? Threads of the kernel
Yes, that is what the leading "k" tells you.
This is 2.4.3-pre3:
$ ps 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | fgrep '[k'
2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
3 ? SW 0:00 [kapm-idled]
4 ? SW 0:18 [kswapd]
5 ? SW 0:00 [kreclaimd]
7 ? SW 0:01 [kupdated]
For keventd, see context_thread() in kernel/context.c. The comment before
schedule_task says "The scheduled function is run at some time in the near
future by the keventd kernel thread."
For kapm-idled, see apm() in apm/i386/kernel/apm.c.
For kswapd and kreclaimd, look in mm/vmscan.c for swapd() ("The background
pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread from the init process") and
kreclaimd() ("Kreclaimd will move pages from the inactive_clean list to the
free list"). These functions are called by
static int __init kswapd_init(void)
{
printk("Starting kswapd v1.8\n");
swap_setup();
kernel_thread(kswapd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGNAL);
kernel_thread(kreclaimd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | \
CLONE_SIGNAL);
return 0;
}
For kupdated, see kupdate() in fs/buffer.c. This function is (similarly)
invoked via kernel_thread() in bdflush_init().
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ping, syslogd, startx woes
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:55:04 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In <98np50$2o13g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/14/01
> at 12:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> (a) I'm confused still about the syntax of /etc/hosts:
>
> >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> >> 192.168.1.2 lappie.ditmar lappie
> >> 192.168.1.1 punzel.ditmar punzel
>
> >The first is the IP address, the second the complete name (host
> >+ domain) the third only the hostname.
>
> Thanks. I wanted to be sure.
>
> >> I can't ping 'lappie' or 'punzel' (the latter is the machine I'm
> >> pinging from). I can ping the ip numbers.
>
> >Check if the /etc/host.conf contains:
> >order hosts, bind
> >Or
> >order hosts
> >Or
> >order <whattheheckis>, hosts
>
> >This tell your machine to look into the damned hosts file to
> >resolv the IP addresses. If you don't have an host.conf file,
> >simply create one with the aforementioned line.
>
> 'Damned' is right - I'm getting spooked! I think my machine is
> haunted! What could have changed?
>
> Anyway, host.conf looks fine, I never touched it; here it is:
> order hosts, bind
> multi on
>
> Did I mention the weird loopback behavior? ifconfig (and
> /etc/hosts) tells me that 'lo' is 127.0.01.
If it is not a typo, you might wish to fix this. lo is normally
127.0.0.1
> When I do 'route -n',
> I get (bars inserted for legibility):
>
> 127.0.0.0--0.0.0.0--255.0.0.0--U--0-- 0--0--lo
>
> I can ping either 127.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 but I don't know why
> route -n is insisting on this value.
>
> Hey, I appreciate any tips you can give. I'll do a deja.vu (oh,
> groups.google) hunt later today to seek company in misery.
>
> I assume I can't start startx etc. because they want a sensible
> reference to the host?
>
> F.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Felmon John Davis
> Goethe Universitat / Frankfurt, Hessen
> Union College / Schenectady, NY
> os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
> -----------------------------------------------------------
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From: Helmut Kreiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem with rpc.lockd [lockd] process
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:49:05 +0100
Hi,
we have a cluster of some linux systems, which are connected via nfs
to a server. On this server the process [lockd] (rpc.lockd) doesn't
exist any more. After reboot, the process vanish. Now, mailing has problems
to send mail locally that serversystem.
does anybody no,
- what this process does
- why (perhaps) this process stops working
- and where some documantation exists ?
Thanks in advance
Helmut
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From: "Alan Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to release a DHCP lease from a Linux client
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:03:31 -0000
I am the admin of a NT DHCP server. It is possible to add a reservation for
a specific MAC address, so that only this one NIC will ever get the address
you specify. In the DHCP Manager, select Add reservation, and key in the
MAC and desired IP address. If this does not solve your problems, then it
sounds like a problem on some of your other pc's (ie a box with a statically
set IP, in the DHCP range).
Alan
"Stephane Bourdeaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98imus$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
> >
> > Eric
>
> That only gets me the same IP address as before...
> I was lucky and able to get the IP address my Linux client was using on my
> NT client (after deleting all trace of my old NT client IP address in the
> registry and doing an ipconfig /release followed by an ipconfig /renew).
>
> I'm sure you can do the same thing on Linux, but I couldn't figure out
> how...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stephane B.
>
>
>
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