Linux-Misc Digest #885, Volume #27 Thu, 17 May 01 12:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: use gnupg ? (Christopher Albert)
Re: Losing free diskspace on nothing? ("Eric")
Re: driver for Olympus c3040 digital camera using usb? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: SOLVED:Re: Shutdown for non root users ("Harald Schneider")
Re: A CPU cooler for Linux? ("Jeffrey L. Susanj")
Re: kernel compile (Paul Kimoto)
presario stuck in sleep mode? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: nautilus ("KW")
Re: URGENT: Simple RPM problem! (Kwan Lowe)
What am I doing wrong with iptables? ("George Adams")
Unistalling, version control (Jan Felix Reuter)
Re: Star Office -- I give up ("Christopher R. Carlen")
Re: Star Office -- I give up ("Christopher R. Carlen")
Re: kernel compile (Jason Hudson)
Re: Star Office -- I give up (Kwan Lowe)
Re: Losing free diskspace on nothing? (Dan Mercer)
Problem with Mandrake 8 and disk quotas (Michael Segulja)
Re: How to activate a compiled program (Floyd Davidson)
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From: Christopher Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: use gnupg ?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:11:25 +0200
Pun Kuan Tou wrote:
>
> I am trying to use gnupg, when I run "gpg --gen-key" it say that...
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 299 more bytes)
>
> ps: I choose min. bits, it haven't this problem!
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Pun,
Normally you can type away at the keyboard inorder to generate some
noise. Try it again and when you get the message, start typing.
Chris
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Losing free diskspace on nothing?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:27:32 +0200
> > >On my linux server I'm running diablo. I feed it with pullnews. At the
> > >beginning of this day I've freed up to 600MB of diskspace. Then I
started
> > >to feed diablo and after a while ALL my free space was gone! diablo had
> > >only used 50/60 MB on articles. With du -h --max-depth=1 I couldn't
Then it probabaly wasn't diablo that used up the space?
Find out who did.
I cannot help with that, as I have no access to your system
> > >locate any directories that were filling up... Does anyone how this is
> > >possible? And how can I get my free space back?
First find where it went.
df
df -i
du -bks /*
Anything obvious?
> When I restart my PC I've got all my freespace back. I forget to say
this..
That's odd. (And an important issue to forget)
Was it a tmp directory that got filled?
Eric
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: driver for Olympus c3040 digital camera using usb?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:20:55 +0200
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to use my Olympus C3040 digital camera with RedHat
Lucky. Sounds nice.
> 7.1 using the 2.4.2 kernel. When I plug in the usb cable and
> turn the camera on, the camera is recognized, but it says there
> is no associated driver, or words to that effect. The Lunux-usb
I suppose it will be using a USB storage device. The alternative is a
serial USB connection to the camera, and those protocols tend to be
proprietary.
> web page has a listing for the camera which suggests it works
> with the 2.4.0 kernel if one mounts /dev/sdX1. I have a
Surely they mean "for some value of X"? I suppose the usb storage
device appears as a fake scsi device. (I'm too lazy to look at the code
to find out, but I seem to recall something of the sort from the last
time I looked at it).
> /dev/sdx1 but no sdX1. Nothing happens if I mount sdx1, but that
> is not suprising without a driver. RH7.1 also comes with a version of
> gphoto which some people claim can be used for this camera,
> but I can't see how to set it up for that. I assume I enter
> something other than a serial port in the settings, but I don't
> know what.
Ask the folks at linux-usb.org.
> I also have a Microtech ZiO smartmedia card reader and I also can't
> get it to work.
> Do I have to enable scsi support or something?
Evidently!
Peter
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From: "Harald Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SOLVED:Re: Shutdown for non root users
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:19:13 +0200
Thanks! But I need a solution for a box without keyboard. So sudo is right
for me.
All the best,
Harald
"DanH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Harald Schneider wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried changing the permissions of /sbin/halt to a+x ?
> >
> > No, it's OK - sudo does good work. Thanks!
>
> Another way you can do this without requiring sudo is change one line in
> /etc/inittab
>
> from
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
>
> to
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now
>
> Then whenever you want to shut the box down get out of X (it traps
> CTRL-ALT-DEL from getting to the command line) and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and
> it'll shutdown.
>
> As it is in the first example, you can still do it and it'll shutdown
> for a reboot and you can turn the computer off when you see the BIOS
> screen come back up.
>
> DanH
> --
> Air Cav Reference Board
> http://www.cavalrypilot.com
> UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
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From: "Jeffrey L. Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A CPU cooler for Linux?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:25:22 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:MABM6.9603>
>
> I let Linux idled for a few hours :).
>
>
Just because you aren't doing anything doesn't mean that Linux is not doing
anything. There may be cron jobs scheduled to run hourly, daily, weekly or
monthly that don't require you to be doing anything on the keyboard to be
running.
Jeff S.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: kernel compile
Date: 17 May 2001 10:46:56 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Hudson wrote:
> after recompiling my kernel what changes do i have to make to the boot
> disk? just do a bzdisk?? or what?
It depends. What booting method do you use now?
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: presario stuck in sleep mode?
Date: 17 May 2001 14:59:16 GMT
Hi, i have a compaq presario notebook 12xl300b and tried installing suse 7.1
on it and the instalation seemed to go well enough. after installing i tried
shutting down (i don't quite remember if i did "reboot" "shutdown -h now" or
if it was part of the installation process... it was 2am <sorry>) and i
*know* it started shutting down and such but then i couldn't get it to
restart.
when i press power the hard drive spins up for sec (like it is waking up not
booting up) then sits there. My screen stays blank i can't boot off a CD or
floppy, i have tried taking the battery out but it *seems* to remember it was
in sleep mode and tries to wake up (or it is flat busted though i can't
imagine why).
i tried calling compaq <and argued quite a bit after they almost refused to
help me since i had linux installed> they suggested holding the power button
down for a minute with the AC unplugged and battery out then replug it then
try to turn it on no luck... so they have (begrudgingly) offered to pick it
up and *fix* it for me by reinstalling windows ME (gee thanks) on there.
sooooooo, if anyone out there has had this problem and knows of any good fixes
(other than "ahh don't install that virus on my computer") i would
***reall*** appricate the help!!
thank you!
-Gaiko
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nautilus
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:01:28 -0500
At the top of the nautilus windows right next to help is a little box.
Cick on that box and select preference. Select the windows and desktop
tab, uncheck the "use nautilus to draw desktop" box...
--
KW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Schweikert"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just upgraded to Ximian GNOME and when I started the new version I
> made a mistake and configured Nautilus, now nautilus appears to start
> whenever I log in. However, the unpleseant side effect is that it hangs
> the desktop every now and so often. How can I turn this thing off again?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> --
> Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
>
>
>
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT: Simple RPM problem!
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:09:29 GMT
Dimitris Terzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks...
> Obviously, the error occurs because of the failed "cd", but since the rm -rf
> command happens as a default action, I can't override it. Besides, not
> exactly being experienced with RPMs, I 'm almost certain there are other
> problems with my oversimplistic spec file.
I'm not too familiar with the building process, but the installation does allow
you to specify the install directory using the --prefix option. However, since
you are doing an 'rm -rf', there may be problems (!) with specifying root as the
install dir.
> Could someone then provide a better version that compiles and works (i.e.,
> copies the script to the desired location, after a "rpm -iVh")?
> Many thanks,
> Dimitris
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From: "George Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: What am I doing wrong with iptables?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:13:38 -0400
I'm using a slightly modified version of gShield
(http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html) to set up a firewall for my RH 7.1
Linux box, which also serves as the internet gateway for a small LAN. The
linux box has 3 network interfaces: eth0, the NIC that connects to the
outside world; eth1, the NIC that connects to the local LAN (192.168.1.*),
and ppp0, a dial-up modem connected to the serial port.
The box has a static IP address of, say, 11.22.33.44 . The DSL router
connected to the computer is 11.22.33.43 . The broadcast address is
11.22.33.45
I've been able to tweak gShield to do a lot of what I need, but I'm still
having several problems, even after trying to comprehend the IPTABLES HOWTO
and NAT HOWTO.
(btw, the output of "iptables -L ..." is at the bottom of this message)
1) Every 30 seconds or so, an entry like this appears in /var/log/messages:
May 17 10:36:38 www kernel: gShield / default drop: IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:c1:7a:93:a1:13:08:00 SRC=11.22.33.43
DST=11.22.33.45 LEN=72 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=22423 PROTO=UDP SPT=520
DPT=520 LEN=52
My guess is that the DSL router is sending out a broadcast packet to see
who'll respond, and my Linux box is seeing the packet, then dropping it.
First of all, does the dropping of this packet mess anything up? (i.e. will
the router eventually decide the Linux computer is not on and stop routing
traffic to it?) More importantly, what changes do I need to make to
iptables to allow the Linux machine to respond to this packet (and get rid
of the errors in /var/log/messages)?
2) When I was setting up my PPP connection using the HOWTO, I put the
following in my /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 file:
11.22.33.44:192.168.1.254
which (if I understand correctly) assigns the person dialing into the linux
box an IP address of 192.168.1.254 . (the idea was so that person would be
on the same LAN as the rest of the computers in our internal network). When
someone connects, the following appears in /var/log/messages:
May 13 22:30:25 www mgetty[14828]: data dev=ttyS0, pid=14828, caller='none',
conn='38400',
name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', user='/AutoPPP/'
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
May 13 22:30:25 www pppd[14828]: pppd 2.4.0 started by a_ppp, uid 0
May 13 22:30:25 www pppd[14828]: Using interface ppp0
May 13 22:30:25 www pppd[14828]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: NET4: Linux IPX 0.46 for NET4.0
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva,
Inc.
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
May 13 22:30:28 www ppp(pam_unix)[14828]: session opened for user foobar by
a_ppp(uid=0)
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: user foobar logged in
May 13 22:30:28 www kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
May 13 22:30:28 www kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: found interface eth1 for proxy arp
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: local IP address 11.22.33.44
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: remote IP address 192.168.1.254
May 13 22:30:29 www kernel: gShield / INVALID drop: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=
SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.2 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=52507
PROTO=ICMP TYPE=10 CODE=0
Here it appears that gShield thinks ppp0 shouldn't be using an address of
192.168.1.254 (or else it's not happy about the destination address of
224.0.0.2). The only workaround I could come up for this was to find the
part of gShield that added this rule:
RESERVED all -- 192.168.0.0/16 0.0.0.0/0
and delete it, then add this iptables rule:
> iptables -A STATEFUL -m state --state INVALID -j ACCEPT
I'm sure that's not the best way to solve the problem. What else can I do?
Finally, here is a big ol' list of my iptables rules. Thanks very, very
much to anyone who can help!
============================================================================
======================
> iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
TAINTED all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 unclean
ACCEPT all -- 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.0/24
RESERVED all -- 10.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 172.16.0.0/12 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.1 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.2 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.4 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.5 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.6 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.9 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.13 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.15 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg
30/min burst 5
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp
spts:32769:65535 dpts:33434:33523
DNS udp -- 22.33.44.55 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53
DNS udp -- 22.33.44.56 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:21
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:20
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:80
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:80
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:443
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:443
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:25
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:110
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:110
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:22
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:22
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:23
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:113
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:79
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:123
STATEFUL all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
STATEFUL all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain ACCEPTnLOG (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0
level 5 prefix `gShield / accept: '
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain BLACKLIST (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0
level 5 prefix `gShield / blacklisted drop: '
REJECT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with
tcp-reset
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain BLOCK_OUT (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain CLIENT (14 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain CLOSED (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0
level 5 prefix `gShield / closed port drop: '
REJECT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with
tcp-reset
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
=============================================
> iptables -L -t nat -n
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- 192.168.1.0/24 0.0.0.0/0
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
=============================================
> iptables -L -t mangle -n
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID
LOG level warning prefix `gShield / INVALID drop: '
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp-data
TOS set Maximize-Throughput
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http TOS
set Maximize-Throughput
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:telnet
TOS set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:domain
TOS set Minimize-Delay
TOS udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:domain
TOS set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:nntp TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:pop3 TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:imap TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ircd TOS
set Minimize-Delay
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From: Jan Felix Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unistalling, version control
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:22:34 +0200
Hi,
I was wondering if there is something like version
control or maybe even an uninstall programm.
Sure, I know about RPM and I also know about
the 'make uninstall' thing. But I mean something
more general. Is there a deamon available that
checks wether a file is going to be overwritten
by some process, probably makes a backup copy
and logs it into a file? And if I want to unistall
a package that is probably spread all over my
system I just tell the deamon:
"Hey, I wanna unistall the stuff I installed on
Date <whatever> by executing "make install".
Please check if any other program has overwritten
the files and try to find wether they are still
neaded by some other program or not. Thanx in
advance, unistalld!"
Does anyone know about such a program? Or
maybe something in development where I could
do beta testing?
Thanks, Felix
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From: "Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:19:13 -0700
Dave Uhring wrote:
> By default StarOffice prints to a Generic Printer. Run
> <install_dir>/program/spadmin as root and add your printer and configure
> it. Then make it the default printer.
I have found that the problem is caused by Suse 7.1. I tried preparing
the same document on Suse 7.0, and despite one crash (compared to 2-3
that may have happened in the same sequence of events on 7.1), on 7.0
the .ps output was correct!
The .ps was viewable in 7.0 printing to either the generic printer or to
a specific HPLJ 2II or 4 or whatever. I actually have a 2p+, but it
doesn't matter much, because the .ps gets rendered by gs anyway for
non-PS printers.
I am becoming convinced that this is a Suse 7.1 problem.
_______________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Sr. Laser/Optical Tech.
Sandia National Labs
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From: "Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:22:14 -0700
Michael Heiming wrote:
> I'm running SO 5.1/5.2 on SuSE Linux 7.0/7.1 & SUN Solaris on a bunch of
> machines....
>
> Michael Heiming
On Suse 7.1? Would you be willing to take my document and see if you
can print it or view the .ps output on the Suse 7.1 system? It would be
very valuable evidence if your 7.1 fails to print the document, but the
7.0 system succeeds, which is the behavior I observed this morning.
You can email me direct if you like.
_______________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Sr. Laser/Optical Tech.
Sandia National Labs
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From: Jason Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel compile
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:23:13 -0500
i use a boot disk
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Hudson wrote:
> > after recompiling my kernel what changes do i have to make to the boot
> > disk? just do a bzdisk?? or what?
>
> It depends. What booting method do you use now?
>
> --
> 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: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:24:52 GMT
Christopher R. Carlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using SO 5.2 on Suse Linux 7.1. I will summarize the problems I
> have encountered in the past two days trying this software for the first
> time. Perhaps some of this stuff
> can be resolved. The software is almost unusable with the amount of bugs
> I have encountered.
I've had some instability problems with SO with the newest distros (Mandrake 8,
RedHat 7.1). It might be problems with the later libraries moreso than SO
itself.
As for the 2.2 kernels, the main issues have been with dealing with imported
documents (i.e., converted from Word). I've also found that using a recent Sun
Java helped with performance issues (weird, I know).
Have you looked at the OpenOffice suite? It's based on SO...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Mercer)
Subject: Re: Losing free diskspace on nothing?
Date: 17 May 2001 14:37:14 GMT
In article <8DCM6.70724$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank de Bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On my linux server I'm running diablo. I feed it with pullnews. At the
> beginning of this day I've freed up to 600MB of diskspace. Then I started
> to feed diablo and after a while ALL my free space was gone! diablo had
> only used 50/60 MB on articles. With du -h --max-depth=1 I couldn't locate
> any directories that were filling up... Does anyone how this is possible?
> And how can I get my free space back?
>
> Thanks in advanced,
>
> Frank de Bot!
>
> (Ps. I've posted the same question in several places, since I didn't knew
> exactly where I had to come with the problem...)
In Unix systems, a file is identified by inode. A filename is a
string in a special file called a directory that points to the
inode. Any number (including 0) of strings can point to the same
inode - these pointers are called links. In order for the OS to
release an inode back to the file pool, it must have zero links AND
be closed. So you can open a file, remove it, and it will still
exist until it is closed. It's a handy-dandy way of using temp
storage without worrying about having to remove the file later.
In shell scripts I've often:
exec 4>$TMPFILE
exec 3<$TMPFILE
rm -f $TMPFILE
...
print -u4 "...."
...
read -u3 this that and the other thing
exec 4>&-
exec 3<&-
You need to poke around with lsof to try to find the file:
Assuming it's /home that's shrinking:
$ lsof | awk '("/home" == $9) && ($4 ~ /w$/)'
ksh 11107 dam 3w VREG 64,0x4 (wrapped)
48720 18518 /home (/dev/vg00/lvol4)
Use find to check the inum (18518). If not found, that's the
culprit. See what app is causing the problem.
--
Dan Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 8 and disk quotas
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:34:25 -0500
I'm having trouble with quotas on Mandrake 8. I'm using Webmin version
0.85 to administer the server, and when I set the user and group quotas to
on for the time, it sets quota.user and quota.group in the directory. I
found an article on Deja that said I needed to use convertquota to convert
them to be compatible with kernel 2.4. Before converting, clicking on the
link to enable quotas in the Disk Quota section did nothing. After
converting, it does show the users on the system and how much space they
are using, but I cannot set quota limits. After setting the limit and
clicking apply, it goes back to unlimited.
Anybody else having this problem? I've never had trouble before using
webmin. Thanks in advance for your help.
Michael
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to activate a compiled program
Date: 17 May 2001 06:47:34 -0800
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello there,
>
>I'd downloaded freeware 'ncftp' source files from the Internet.
>
>After compiled via the following steps, it's still an unknown
>command in bash.
>
>1. Run the "./configure" script.
>2. "make"
>
>How do I know whether the compilation is failed or not? If the
>compilation is successful, should I perform further steps to
>activate the compiled version of 'ncftp' in RH 6.2?
The source code to ncftp includes a file name README.
Read it!
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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