Linux-Misc Digest #731, Volume #27 Sat, 28 Apr 01 06:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Removing Linux ("Jeffrey J. Bacon")
mounting a file (Charles Herman)
Re: XMMS Kernel 2.4.3 (Mandrake 8.0) ("Mordak")
Re: Problem installing/running KDE 2.1 in RH7 (MH)
Re: mounting a file (Francis Litterio)
Re: Realtek 8139b NIC ("Cameron Kerr")
Why ftp login always fails? need help!! (Manbo Luo)
Re: mounting a file (Dances With Crows)
Re: Web Server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Crontab problem (Rick Lim)
Free ISP For Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues ("Michael")
Re: sending input to serial console (Michael Heiming)
Re: Web Server ("Peter T. Breuer")
play wav file automatcially? ("Rod")
Re: help with partitioning (Frank Ranner)
Re: Free ISP For Linux? (Andrew Donehue)
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From: "Jeffrey J. Bacon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Removing Linux
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:28:22 GMT
What if he cannot boot into Linux? (ie. that installation is bad for
some reason) How would he remove it then? (I have a friend in that
situation)
John Hasler wrote:
>
> Markku Kolkka writes:
> > That will _not_ remove Linux, it just prevents booting it from the hard
> > disk (it's still usable with a boot floppy). You must remove the Linux
> > partitions using _Linux_ fdisk (or cfdisk)...
>
> Yes, but first restore the MBR with 'lilo -u'.
>
> > ...before clearing the MBR.
>
> fdisk /mbr does not clear the MBR. It just installs a Microsoft MBR.
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI
--
================================
Jeffrey Bacon
================================
Administrator, Breakfast.ca
Student, Carleton U.
Java Programmer, Extrordinaire!
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http://www.breakfast.ca/~jjbacon
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From: Charles Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting a file
Date: 28 Apr 2001 01:54:20 GMT
I want to mount a file as a vfat device. I have tried the following
command
[root@muirwoods bin]# mount -t vfat /usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk
/win2000.
mount: /usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk is not a block device (maybe try
`-o loop'?)
I then tried
[root@muirwoods bin]# mount -t vfat -o loop
/usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk /win2000
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/loop0,
or too many mounted file systems
How do I mount a file?
-charles
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From: "Mordak" <kmg_NOSPAM_5150@.hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: XMMS Kernel 2.4.3 (Mandrake 8.0)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:14:43 -0400
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I had the same problem with SuSE 7.1 Kernel 2.4.0 using XMMS. SuSE has an
XMMS update that I installed the RPM for and it fixed the problem. You might
check Mandrake's site or go to the XMMS homepage and download a newer
version. If that doesn't work, I don't know what else to say.
Good luck,
Mordak
"Bigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed Mandrake Linux 8.0 with the kernel 2.4.3-20mdk and XMMS
> 1.24 (i think). When I play a CD using XMMS, it works. I even have it
set
> to use the OSS mixer to play the CD. I am having problems with other
> things, like .wav files and .mp3 files. In those cases the song advances
> at about 20x the normal rate and no sound is output. I don't see any wav
> writer thing (and why would it do this to wave files too). I need some
> advice, thanks in advance.
>
> Brian
>
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem installing/running KDE 2.1 in RH7
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:47:33 -0700
Jeffrey J. Bacon wrote:
> OK, so I had KDE1 from the RH7 CD instaled but decided I wanted to
> upgrade to KDE2. So I downloded all the KDE2.1.1 RPM files and tried to
> install. I got dependency warnings saying that KDE1 depended on files
> that were to be overridden with KDE2 files. So I went, ok , let's
> uninstall KDE1. So I did and then installed the KDE2.1.1 RPMs but KDE
> will not start from the console. If I run Gnome and then run 'startkde'
> from a terminla in Gnome, it starts as an application in Gnome. If I
> run "switchdesk KDE2" it says KDE2 is not installed. I tried
> uninstalling and re-installing KDE2 RPMs but still no luck. Any help?
You pretty much hosed everything. The simplest, quickest solution is to
reinstall RH7 cleanly, with X but without GNOME, and then install KDE
2.1.1. If you don't repartition or reformat, make sure you clean out ALL
the KDE-related config files in your home directory. Most of these are
"hidden". If you aren't sure how to do this, just move anything you want
to keep to a new sub-directory then delete everything else.
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From: Francis Litterio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting a file
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 02:48:17 GMT
Charles Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I then tried
>
> [root@muirwoods bin]# mount -t vfat -o loop
> /usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk /win2000
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/loop0,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> How do I mount a file?
You're doing it right. The file must not contain a vfat filesystem.
How did you create that file?
What does the command "file /usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk" report?
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realtek 8139b NIC
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:03:51 +1200
Have you disabled the mouse port int the BIOS then, in
that case.
--
Cameron Kerr -- cameron.kerr @ paradise.net.nz
Praise Slackware, our baud and saviour!
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From: Manbo Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Why ftp login always fails? need help!!
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 03:23:57 GMT
Hollo;
Need help on ftp!! Thanks in advance.
Manbo
--
Ftp to my machine always failes.
(1) The "chkconfig --list wu-ftpd" command gives:
wu-ftpd on
(2) The /etc/hosts.allow has ALL:ALL
(3) /etc/ftpaccess has the following
limit users 0x8125df8allow-retrieve
loginfails 5
private no
passwd-check none warn
log commands anonymous,guest,real
log transfers anonymous,guest,real inbound
log transfers anonymous,guest,real outbound
anonymous-root /var/ftp
guest-root /var/ftp
passwd /etc/passwd
shadow /etc/shallow
(4) The failed ftp screen looks like this:
% ftp 1.2.3.4
Connected to 1.2.3.4
220 machine.domain FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1-16) ready.
Name (1.2.3.4:user_id): user_id
331 Password required for user_id.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
ftp>
(telnet works!!)
(5) My system: RedHat Linux 7.1, run level 5
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: mounting a file
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Apr 2001 04:18:02 GMT
On 28 Apr 2001 01:54:20 GMT, Charles Herman staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I want to mount a file as a vfat device. I have tried the following
>command
>
># mount -t vfat /usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk /win2000.
> mount: /usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk is not a block device (maybe try
>`-o loop'?)
>
>I then tried
># mount -t vfat -o loop /usr2/win2k/win2000.dsk /win2000
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>or too many mounted file systems
>
>How do I mount a file?
Are you sure that this is a VFAT filesystem? Lose2K also uses NTFS, so
you might try that as well. However, you may need to recompile your
kernel, and you *MUST* mount any NTFS volume read-only unless you are
willing to live with potential data loss. The other poster's comment
about "file" may be useless; "file temp.iso" where temp.iso is an
ISO9660 filesystem image made with mkisofs returns "ASCII Text" which is
worthless. Running file on a FAT32 or NTFS fielsystem image will most
likely return "data".
You are passing the right options to mount in the -o section; the
problem lies elsewhere. HTH,
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Web Server
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 04:50:32 GMT
"WaCkOkId" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which distribution would be the best for running a dedicated webserver?
>
> It will be running on a Pentium 120 with 64mb of Ram and a 1gig hard drive.
Based on your hardware, you probably should limit yourself to the set
of distributions that "play well" without X.
Most do, so I think you'll need to provide some additional information
about your requirements and expectations, otherwise it will be
singularly difficult to provide any guidance.
It is exceedingly unlikely, in any case, that there is a distribution
that could be objectively considered the "best" for your purpose.
Instead, it would very likely be more correct to say that there are a
wide variety of distributions that should be quite satisfactory for
your purpose.
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babysitting by a phalanx of provincial Unix clones, there'll be a lot of
unemployable, twinky-braindamaged misfits out deservedly pounding the
pavements.
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From: Rick Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Crontab problem
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 05:16:40 GMT
You are 100% correct,
I needed to specify the path, the path cron has is not
the same as the root shell has
Thanks !!!
Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:04:47 GMT, Rick Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have a test script
> >---------- start of script tt.sh -------------
> >#!/bin/sh
> >#
> >STATIC_IP="1.2.3.4"
> >echo $STATIC_IP
> >---------- end of script tt.sh -------------
> >that when I schedule using crontab test.ct
> >------ start of crontab file test.ct ---------
> >* * * * * /root/tt.sh >> tt
> >------ end of crontab file test.ct ----------
> >and then do a tail -f tt
> >
> >I then get an output of
> >------ start of output from tail -f tt ----------------
> >1.2.3.4
> >------ end of output from tail -f tt -----------------
> >
> >If I modify the line in tt.sh
> >from STATIC_IP="1.2.3.4"
> >to STATIC_IP=`ifconfig eth0`
> >then go and schedule the same job again and tail -f tt
> >I get just blank lines being printed, yet if I just run the script
> >from the command prompt I get the output
> >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:xx.xx.xx.xx
> >Bcast:xx.xx.xx.xx Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING
> >MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:788 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >TX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0
> >txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
> >
> >anyone got any ideas
> >1) why ???
>
> Most of the time, my cron problems are related to environment. In this
> case, can you be sure that 'ifconfig' is found on the path that cron
> uses? Does 'ifconfig' require environment variables not normally set
> by cron?
>
> >2) how to fix ???
> >TIA
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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]
Subject: Free ISP For Linux?
Date: 28 Apr 2001 06:11:14 GMT
Hi,
I recently loaded Red Hat 7 on one of my computers, and realized that I
have no way to connect to the Internet! My other computer uses a connection
which needs Windows, and the software isn't available for Linux. Are there
any
free ISP's out there that will accept connections from Linux users?
Thanks for the help!
Mark
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux.redhat,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 06:51:43 GMT
Here's some food for thought:
Use a static ipaddress & free it from the dhcp server.
http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dhcpfree.c
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "grooveman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
> I am running Redhat 6.2, and I am tying to use it with Mediaone (Now
> ATT) Road Runner service in the Detroit Metro area. My problem is that
> my machine would not lease from the DHCP server. Of course, the
> customer support was useless in this issue: "we don't support
> Line-ucks".
> I have researched this thoroughly, and have seen many people with the
> same or similar issue, but every single one failed to document clearly
> how they overcame this problem (if they did at all). I dropped pump all
> together. I have the version that comes stock with RH 6.2. (0.7.8-1).
> I downloaded the latest version of DHCPCD version 1.3.20-p10. I have
> gotten that to work -- but it only works about 10 percent of the time.
> 90% of the time (or so) it fails. The README for this utility is not
> helpful at all. The howto I found was even worse. When modifying the
> script of ifup an ifdown, it not only had the script wrong, but it said
> to remove an "if" statement without touching the fi. I am no scripting
> whiz, but I know you can't break conditionals like that without trashing
> the script.
> I modified ifup and ifdown, basically by replacing the pump commands
> with their dhcpcd equivalents. Then, I wrote a script that loops the
> ifup until it gets a lease. I put the script at the end of rc.local,
> rather than having eth0 come up at init level 3. The net result is that
> it runs through everything fine, and at the very last stage, tries to
> bring up eth0 until it is successful. It take about 10 times plus or
> minus.
> (SIGH........)
> What can I do to get this to work?
> I really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!
> Chris
>
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:11:49 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sending input to serial console
Jonathan Magid wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a Livingston Port Master terminal server to create a serial
> console server for a bunch of linux machines. I'm using lilo to send the
> boot information to the serial console, with these statements in the
> lilo.conf:
>
> serial=0,9600n8
> append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8"
>
> This mostly works. I get all the boot output on the attached serial line,
> but it doesn't allow me to input anything- if I type characters they echo
> on the screen (they're transmitted fine), but hitting the tab key, for
> example, at the lilo prompt does not pause lilo for input.
>
> Is this normal? Or is there some way to have my input used by the serial
> console?
Did you check "man lilo.conf"?
serial=parameters
enables control from a serial line. The specified
serial port is initialized and the boot loader is
accepting input from it and from the PC's keyboard.
Sending a break on the serial line corresponds to
pressing a shift key on the console in order to get
the boot loader's attention.
[...]
Something like this in your inittab:
S0:123:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0
Should make it possible to login from your terminal server,
after boot succeded.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Server
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:46:36 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "WaCkOkId" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Which distribution would be the best for running a dedicated webserver?
>>
>> It will be running on a Pentium 120 with 64mb of Ram and a 1gig hard drive.
> Based on your hardware, you probably should limit yourself to the set
> of distributions that "play well" without X.
Good grief! A p120 with 64M ram is fine for X (now my 486sx50 with 8M
is getting tight, but it still functions OK as an X terminal). Yes,
he has to load some of the lighter window managers but KDE 1.1 (for
example) would be no stretch in 64M. The cpu speed is irrelevant.
Peter
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From: "Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: play wav file automatcially?
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:06:22 +1200
hi.
i want a wav file to play when certain text appears in the terminal.
while playing quakeforge the quotes within the game are mirrored to the
terminal ,
on particular quotes i want a certain wav file to play.
eg
grenade primed for 3 seconds
play grentimer.wav
thanks for any help.
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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with partitioning
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:18:28 +1000
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> Sudhakar R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Currently my fstab is as follows
> > [root@matrixuc local]# cat /etc/fstab
> > LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > LABEL=/home /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>
> What? Where does LABEL= come from? lvm?
>
You can label filesystems using -L option of mke2fs. You can also
specify the partition to be mounted using the label by using -L option
of mount. Presto, you get around the nasty problem of scsi IDs moving
when you add another drive, or worse, another controller which happens
to get detected earlier.
regards, Frank Ranner
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From: Andrew Donehue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free ISP For Linux?
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:25:58 GMT
Hi,
I don't know of any ISP that is platform specific. Many ISP's offer install
disks for Windows, but you will still be able to connect using red-hat. Basically
the ISP's offer a standard connection type (called PPP). To connect to your isp
you need to get the following info from them.
1) you user/pass
2) dial-up number (if on a dialup modem)
3)DNS addresses
this should be all you need if you are calling up an isp that gives out dynamic
addresses.
if this doesn't make any sense, email me back.
Cheers,
Andrew.
Canberra, Australia.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently loaded Red Hat 7 on one of my computers, and realized that I
> have no way to connect to the Internet! My other computer uses a connection
> which needs Windows, and the software isn't available for Linux. Are there
> any
> free ISP's out there that will accept connections from Linux users?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Mark
>
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