Linux-Misc Digest #485, Volume #27 Fri, 30 Mar 01 10:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Looking for XFree86-4.0.x.rpm for Redhat 6.x Linux box? (Orange)
Re: Looking for XFree86-4.0.x.rpm for Redhat 6.x Linux box? (Orange)
I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm (Jean-David Beyer)
Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0 ("Hi.T.")
Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point (Lee Allen)
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: system.map ("Jeremy Paiz")
Re: mc, vga fonts, xterm and lines... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux without a video monitor. (Kevin Croxen)
Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0 ("Pascal MiQUET")
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. (Steve Lamb)
IDE problems CUSL2-C ASUS motherboard (fix is idex=serialize) (Kees Lemmens)
Re: system.map (Michael Heiming)
Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0 (Joshua Baker-LePain)
jetdirect and linux. ("Kenny@BUI")
Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp. ("Dan Forsythe")
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From: Orange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for XFree86-4.0.x.rpm for Redhat 6.x Linux box?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:28:57 +0800
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Where can I find rpms of XFree86-4.0.x for Redhat 6.x?
>> Or how can I make the rpms for my RH 6.x Linux Box?
>> Thanks a lot for your concern!
>
>
> http://www.falsehope.com/ftp-site/home/requested/XFree86/
Thanks!
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From: Orange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for XFree86-4.0.x.rpm for Redhat 6.x Linux box?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:29:30 +0800
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Where can I find rpms of XFree86-4.0.x for Redhat 6.x?
>> Or how can I make the rpms for my RH 6.x Linux Box?
>
>
> Get the source rpms and compile them. Or just get the source and
> compile it.
>
> Peter
Thanks!
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I cannot find where to change colors for an xterm
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:24:34 -0500
Normally, when I just need a CLI when running GNOME/Enlightenment, I
click on the little icon on the panel (task bar) and a "Gnome
Terminal" comes up. I can customize it by clicking on the menu
(normally hidden) and set the colors. I prefer very pale yellow on a
black background.
If I run a plain xterm, it is black on a white background that is hard
on my eyes. But I do not know how to get a menu with that. Likewise, I
could not figure out from the help how to change it. It might be in a
.Xconfig or something, but I could not find it anywhere.
So how do I change it from black on a white background to pale yellow
on a black background? I would settle for white on a black background.
Note, I do not want the CLI I would get by pressing C-A-PF[1-6]; I
want a window on the desktop.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 8:15am up 1 day, 22:28, 3 users, load average: 2.18, 2.16, 2.16
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From: "Hi.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:44:14 GMT
I've been all over google and redhat.com in search of the answer, but I
can't find one.
Basically, I have a RAID0 md0 device on my system now with 2 disks. I want
to add a 3rd disk to it and probably a 4th, 5th and 6th later on down the
road. I can't figure out how to get Linux to add the disk without
destroying the data that's currently in the MD0. Also, I'm using reiserfs,
not ext2.
The problem I'm running into now is I've partitioned the new drive and added
it to /etc/raidtab. When the system boots, it's telling me that there is an
invalid suberblock for the new disk, obviously because I haven't run mkraid
on it as I fear the destruction of the current md0.
Incase anyone asks, no, it's not possible for me to move the data from the
md0 elsewhere while I nuke and recreate the md0 :)
I'm running Kernel 2.4.2 with all the latest patches and raid tools.
Any help would be appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:52:02 GMT
On 29 Mar 2001 17:52:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scrumpy) wrote:
The simpler way to accomplish your goal is "--one-file-system" which
excludes all other filesystems mounted under / including your NFS
mount point, proc, and any transient mounts you might have (eg, you
might have your floppy or CD-ROM mounted at the time you take a
backup).
-Lee Allen
>Linux Newbie here :)
>I'm about to backup a Linux installation using tar to an NFS mount point
>called /cdrom. /cdrom links to an NFS server on another PC on my home
>network.
>
>The syntax I'm thinking of using is:
>
>tar --exclude /cdrom -c -z -f /cdrom/slakhdb2ext2.tar /
>
>My aim is;
>a) a complete backup of / with all sub-directories and files but of course
>excluding the NFS mount point /cdrom and;
>b) preserve permissions in case I need to restore and;
>c) to save space on the target by using compression (not bzip2 as it takes
>too long).
>
>Will the above syntax achieve my aims?
>
>Will tar preserve permissions by default i.e. without adding any specific
>option(s)?
>
>I'm not sure if I've got the NFS mount point /cdrom excluded properly from
>the tar command and the NFS server PC contains many gigs of data!
>
>Looking forward to receiving your constructive comments.
>
>Tks, Scrumpy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Crossposted-To: alt.windows-me,alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:02:06 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Man:
>On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:25:28 -0500, "Dan Forsythe":
>>"Linux is free if your time is worth nothing" - - Author unknown, but
>>enlightened.
[Snip...]
>So if you implying that
>this is a windows user your wrong.
[Snip...]
Actually, what I think he's implying is that his toolbox contains only a
hammer; ergo, his world is only a collection of various nails. :)
--
Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tar backup via NFS excluding NFS mount point
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:27:38 GMT
On 29 Mar 2001 17:52:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scrumpy) wrote:
>Linux Newbie here :)
>I'm about to backup a Linux installation using tar to an NFS mount point
>called /cdrom. /cdrom links to an NFS server on another PC on my home
>network.
>
>The syntax I'm thinking of using is:
>
>tar --exclude /cdrom -c -z -f /cdrom/slakhdb2ext2.tar /
>
>My aim is;
>a) a complete backup of / with all sub-directories and files but of course
>excluding the NFS mount point /cdrom and;
>b) preserve permissions in case I need to restore and;
>c) to save space on the target by using compression (not bzip2 as it takes
>too long).
>
>Will the above syntax achieve my aims?
>
>Will tar preserve permissions by default i.e. without adding any specific
>option(s)?
There is a tar directive (option) which tells it not to change
partitions (-mount ? I'm going from memory here). That will keep you
from following links and mounts to other places. You probably don't
want to back up /dev or /proc either. For bundling up a project, or
some related set of files, tar works fine. For bundling up
everything, I personally like cpio better.
Gord
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From: "Jeremy Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system.map
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:05:51 -0500
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99v7t0$jiv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> If you don't know what it's for, you don't need it.
> Don't bother with that file yet, just leave it where it is.
> (You could use it for debugging, if you must know)
>
> Eric
>
>
typically people who query a newsgroup like to get their questions answered
in full and as accurately as possible. what you've basically told him is,
"if you don't know what an alternator is, your car doesn't need it." why
reply, if you're not going to help? the only thing you've done is leave him
even more confused than before.
--
________________________________________________________________________
JEREMY M PAIZ
Software Engineer
Research & Development Division
Welding Technology Corporation
24775 Crestview Court
Farmington Hills MI 48335-1507
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.weldtechcorp.com
Phone: (248) 477-3900 x3362
Fax: (248) 477-8897
Mobile: (248) 568-1592
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mc, vga fonts, xterm and lines...
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:27:06 GMT
Yvan Loranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> trolled:
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> How do you get line-drawing characters to show for Midnight
>> Commander using vga or linux8x16 fonts in rxvt?
>>
>> linux8x16 works in Konsole ok, but I use rxvt with fvwm2...
> Isn't there a switch for running mc under X? mc -x ?
I don't know - but I figured out how to solve it - I just change
$TERM from xterm to linux...
cordially, as always,
rm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Linux without a video monitor.
Date: 30 Mar 2001 14:05:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bart Friederichs wrote:
>Gungmas wrote:
>>
>> I am using an old 486 as a firewall and I really don't login on it very
>> often and now the monitor has broken. I don't want to get another one but
>> instead use an old VT100 serial terminal.
>> Can I set up Linux to use the terminal instead of the non existing monitor?
>> Thank's for any help!
>>
>> Gungmas
>check the Terminal-HOWTO to attach a dumb terminzal to your serial line.
>You might need to login to the console to do it, but i guess
>thats no problem.
>
>See also your /etc/inittab. There should be a line like:
>
>s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0 vt100
>
>commented out. Comment it in and it should work (that is: I did that
>and I can login using an old XT-laptop with Procomm)
>
>Bart
>--
Or for 98% of what needs doing on the firewall, just run it headless and
SSH (or even telnet, while setting up SSH) in from another machine
on the LAN.
--Kevin
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From: "Pascal MiQUET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:29:00 +0200
Books from 7.1 Pro told us to add into /etc/init.d/boot.local the following
command :
/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
and to make links ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
HTH
PMiquet
"Keith Marjerison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message news:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello Again;
> I have an IDE burner ( HP CDWriter+ ) and would like to use it in
> Linux. I have gone through the directions in the SuSE Linux 7.0 Personal
> edition 'Configuration' manual on page 122, and adjusted the item 'Append
> line for hardware parameter' in 'LILO' and altered the file
> '/etc/modules.conf'/ , but the emulation does not work. All I have done is
> removed my CD burner as a CDRom.
> My CD Burner is on ide1 slave with a CDRom as master.
> I added 'hdd=ide-scsi' to 'Apend line for hardware parameter' and
> saved my changes and exited 'YaST'.
> I changed the line 'alias scsi_hostadapter off' to 'alias
> scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi' in the file/etc/modules.conf'.
> Thats all the manual says to do, but when I try to 'Configure'
> 'X-CD-Roast' it does not see the 'ide-scsi' drive emulation.
> What have I missed?
> Thanks in advance.
> />Keith Marjerison
> />[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:50:26 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:32:46 -0600, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Let's just end the thread and save a bunch?
How about you figure out how to post properly and save even more?
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: Kees Lemmens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE problems CUSL2-C ASUS motherboard (fix is idex=serialize)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:56:58 +0200
**** IDE problems on my CUSL-2 C PC (March 2001) ****
I have a new 733 MHz PC with an INTEL 815 based ASUS CUSL-2 C
motherboard 1IDE harddisk, 1 CDWRITER and 1 CDROM drive. I also have PCI
SCSI, SOUND, ETHERNET and USB running.
Writing a CD on the writer connected to IDE0 or IDE1 confuses the
harddisk resulting in "hda: attempt to access beyond end of device !!"
This even corrupted my harddisk !!
Also the write buffer sinks rapidly, resulting most of the time in a
buffer underrun while writing the CD.
What did I try to solve the problem ?
- moved my normal CDdrive from IDE0-1 to IDE1-1 => no effect.
- changed the harddisk parameters in the BIOS from UDMA 5 (100 MHz) to
UDMA (33 MHz) => no effect.
- changed the cable from a 80 wires flatcable to a normal one, while
keeping the interface on 33 MHz. This improved things a little, but
not enough.
- provided the idex=33 parameter to the kernel using LILO => moves
IDE0 -> IDE1 and IDE1 -> IDE2, making the system fstab invalid
(hda = hdc enz) .
Didn't check any
further if this worked.
- provided the idex=serialize to the kernel using LILO => this finally
solved the problem !!! However, if a write a CD sometimes (especially
during blanking or fixing) also my harddisk locks up, causing the
system to be unusable during at least 30-60 seconds.
So if anyone knows anything better : please tell me !
--
groeten/regards,
Kees Lemmens.
=======================================================================
Department of Applied Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Information
Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology,
Address : PO Box 5031, NL-2600 GA, Delft, The Netherlands.
Phone work/home: (+31) 015-2787224/010-4740254, Fax/XOIP : 020-8666099
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW : http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/DV/Staff/C.W.J.Lemmens.html
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:00:21 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system.map
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Wong Ching Kuen Frederick wrote:
> >>
> >> what is the use of the file /boot/system.map?! after compiling a new kernel,
> >> should i copy this file to /boot as well?!
>
> > Yes, you should, it's the first place klogd looks for this file.
>
> It doesn't matter. Klogd doesn't need it, and he doesn't need the output
> of klogd when it does use it :-).
>
> GGGPeter
I'm not sure, what you said should be true for loadable modules, where modprobE
informs
klogd about symbol information. But for the part of the kernel that is static
build, klogd
will need System.map (according to the man page)?
Anyway, were are talking about ~250 KB and it can't be wrong to copy System.map to
/boot.
Regards
Michael Heiming
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0
Date: 30 Mar 2001 15:01:00 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Hi.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically, I have a RAID0 md0 device on my system now with 2 disks. I want
> to add a 3rd disk to it and probably a 4th, 5th and 6th later on down the
> road. I can't figure out how to get Linux to add the disk without
> destroying the data that's currently in the MD0. Also, I'm using reiserfs,
> not ext2.
> The problem I'm running into now is I've partitioned the new drive and added
> it to /etc/raidtab. When the system boots, it's telling me that there is an
> invalid suberblock for the new disk, obviously because I haven't run mkraid
> on it as I fear the destruction of the current md0.
> Incase anyone asks, no, it's not possible for me to move the data from the
> md0 elsewhere while I nuke and recreate the md0 :)
What, you didn't like the answers last time, so you're trying again? I'm
sorry, but this cannot be done. Even if it could, it cannot be done safely.
Whenever you futz with filesystems, you *must* backup the data or you
risk losing it. And you can't expand software raid arrays in this manner.
So, *again*, your options are to 1) Buy some sort of backup medium (tape
is the standard), backup your data, wipe/recreate your array and restore
your data, or 2) Just add the disks but make them a new partition.
And I ask, again, what is your thinking in wanting to do this? Is this
a big data storage array? That you're not backing up? That will die
completely if any 1 disk in your array goes bad? That's a Bad Idea.
Or is it your whole system? That, again, will die if even one disk in the
array goes bad? RIAD0 b/c you don't want to deal with multiple partitions?
Again -- Bad Idea.
I'd really be interested to hear what kind of setup this is...
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: jetdirect and linux.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:06:19 -0500
hello guys,
have any of you worked with hp jetdirect printers being shared through linux
or samba?
is it similar to setting up a remote smb printer attached to a win98 client.
does the jetdirect use netbios names? are the jetdirect printers independant
of the winNT or win98 computer running the jetdirect software?
thank you,
kenny.
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From: "Dan Forsythe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows-me,alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Windows 98 and Linux comp.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:06:21 -0500
Actually, I was replying to a post deploring the security of Windows
compared to Linux. The post was comparing apples to oranges. Windows can be
very secure, much more so than Linux, as long as increased management is
taken into consideration. There are secure operating systems and less secure
operating systems. Windows 9x was never intended to be secure from the
outset. Windows 2000, on the other hand, with EFS, IpSec, L2TP, and a host
of other security measures, can be configured to be quite secure.
There's nothing wrong with hammers, both physical and metaphorical. They can
be extremely useful, when nothing else can get the job done. Ever try
framing a house without one? They're also very good at whacking obtuse
people.
Perhaps next time you could actually follow the complete thread of
conversation, so you could better comprehend the full context of said
conversation. Picking one statement, out of context, without taking into
consideration the background behind it, is indicative of your edification.
Whack, whack.
>
> >>"Linux is free if your time is worth nothing" - - Author unknown, but
> >>enlightened.
>
> [Snip...]
>
> >So if you implying that
> >this is a windows user your wrong.
>
> [Snip...]
>
> Actually, what I think he's implying is that his toolbox contains only a
> hammer; ergo, his world is only a collection of various nails. :)
>
> --
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