Linux-Misc Digest #387
Linux-Misc Digest #387, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 23:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need to find my IP address (brian moore)
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Christopher Browne)
Re: using gaim for linux (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: "Core" file ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [HELP] Mounting Macintosh fileserver on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Choice of modem (Ian)
Re: incremental backup with tar? (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Need to find my IP address (Kaz Kylheku)
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Rick Hoffman)
Re: Man display error ("James Li")
Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM? (Tim Lines)
Re: sound in corel linux (Prasanth Kumar)
Re: Benchmarks and relative speeds (Raj Rijhwani)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: 7 May 2000 01:25:34 GMT
On Sat, 06 May 2000 21:06:50 GMT,
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 May 2000 17:51:38 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Anderberg)
> wrote in comp.os.linux.development.apps:
>
> > int fd;
> > struct ifreq i;
> > fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
> > strncpy(i.ifr_name, "eth0", 5);
> > ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFADDR, (int) &i);
> > close(fd);
> > return (char *)inet_ntoa(((struct sockaddr_in *)
> > &i.ifr_addr)->sin_addr);
>
> Herein lies one of my biggest complaints about the Linux development
> environment: there should be no reason why an application programmer must
> rely on undocumented "catch-all" calls to accomplish simple tasks. The
> "man ioctl_list" page is a complete waste of time-- it's hopelessly out of
> date and only contains the argument type for each command without any
> explaination of where, why or how each should be used. Application
> programmers shouldn't have to resort to sifting through the kernel source
> code to figure out how to perform simple and common tasks.
Perhaps you should just buy a book? Something like Unix Network
Programming should have the above.
It will certainly have the much-more-recommended method of finding your
IP number, which is to find your hostname and then look it up. Both
methods will be lacking in some circumstances (think of machines with
more than one IP number for a trivial case).
> People who write device drivers or kernel modules should provide a proper
> man(2) or man(3) page. Ideally, we should kill off the ioctl() function
> and place all accessible driver variables in /proc.
If you remove ioctl(), how will you plan on maintaining compatibility
with other Unix systems?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Why partition a Disk?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 01:34:12 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Rick Hoffman would say:
>> My inclination would be to fix things up by reinstalling, perhaps moving
>> ahead to a newer distribution version, and recovering data from the backup
>> of /etc as needed.
>>
>> You're not required to agree with that approach...
>
>Well, you all are giving me a better feel for what multiple partitions
>provide. I am also beginning to realize that backing up Linux
>doesn't necessarily require the backup to be a full bootable system.
>Just the data that changes regularly and if the partition strategy
>is done well then recovery will be just a matter of reinstalling the
>"system friendly" partitions like you just mentioned which would then
>be automatically integrated with the partitions/data that you backed up.
>Did I say that right?
That sounds pretty appropriate.
You know, I'd suggest virtually the same approach for a Windows install,
with much of the same reasoning.
Basically:
- Have C: be where Windows is installed, and, probably, applications.
- D: is where user data gets put.
This way, if the Registry gets so screwed up that you need to reinstall
Windows, there's at least a hope of keeping data on D: around.
I have gradually moved to using cfengine to set up increasing amounts
of my system configuration.
Linux-Misc Digest #386
Linux-Misc Digest #386, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 21:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Help with efax0.9, Sending FAXes using the Print Spooler (Rod Pike)
Re: rpm problems (Patrick O'Neil)
Like Defrag.exe in Win, but in Linux. (Federico Czerwinski)
Linux Login Logo (Federico Czerwinski)
Re: Why partition a Disk? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Distributed file system (Christopher Browne)
Re: Linux Login Logo ("David ..")
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Why partition a Disk? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Rick Hoffman)
Re: what changed my /tmp's write permissions? (Hans Kinwel)
Re: Why partition a Disk? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Locating files ("mpierce")
List number of files in directory? (Ken Williams)
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: IRC help (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Like Defrag.exe in Win, but in Linux. (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Linux Login Logo (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: List number of files in directory? (Hal Burgiss)
From: Rod Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with efax0.9, Sending FAXes using the Print Spooler
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 01:10:49 +0200
Does anyone have this working? Could someone post an example of what
the client and server printcap looks like? I can send a fax by printing
locally using lpr on my server but I can't do it from a client across a
network connection. I am able to print on my inkjet connected to the
server from a client machine using lpr so I'm puzzled why it won't work
with efax.
Thanks in advance
Rod
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm problems
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 17:38:02 -0600
YamYam wrote:
>
> Did u try to build rpm files with: cd rpm -ivh cd
>/usr/src/RPM/SPECS rpm -ba --clean It will show u all messages when it
>compiles, and when it succeeded it will put the rpm files
Thanks but I tried this and still get this instead of any binary rpm
after
a successful compile:
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3914 + umask 022 + cd
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd Device3Dfx-2.3 + make RPM_INSTALL=1 install +
grep '^/lib/modules/' + /usr/share/spec-helper/spec-helper no
RPM_BUILD_ROOT variable; exiting. Bad exit status from
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3914 (%install)
patrick
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From: Federico Czerwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Like Defrag.exe in Win, but in Linux.
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 23:30:07 GMT
Hey!, this questoin is a short one, just this, Is there any program for
Linux that defrags the disk, just like Defrag.exe in windows? Where can i
get it?, Thanx!
Federico
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From: Federico Czerwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Login Logo
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 23:30:10 GMT
Hi there!, well, this one is short. I just wanna know where i can get more
"Linux_Logo", for the login, you know, that ASCII penguin. Or how can i
make them? can i put anything else in the login? Thanx!
Thanx a lot.
Federico
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why partition a Disk?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 23:32:11 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Rick Hoffman would say:
>> If everything's on one big partition, your options are limited and your
>> chances for disaster recovery are less.
>>
>> You separate /, /usr, /var, and /home for safety. If / gets corrupted, at
>> least you can still recover the data from /home. If some malicious user
>> or process fills up /var, / still has space. If /usr gets br0ken, you
>> have utilities available in / that can get the system up to a working
>> state. Personally, I dual-boot to SuSE and RedHat, and I share /home and
>> /usr/local between the two distros... that option wouldn't be available if
>> I'd just lumped everything on one partition!
>
>Ok, so many partitions allow the OS to be broken up into seperate pieces. Your
>mentioned a malicious user filling up space so I guess one advantage to
>partitioning the OS into smaller pieces is to better manage memory? So
>partitioning the OS into seperate pieces is basically for security?
It can _help_ from that perspective; the point is more to improve the
resiliancy of the system against problems that are not all related to
security.
#1. If you keep all of the "data" on some partitions devoted to that
purpose, then if the system, for _whatever_ reason gets broken,
you can reformat the "system" partitions without disturbing the
"data."
Persistent "data" tends to sit in one's home directory, so this
encourages having /home on its own partition.
#2. If you've got a set of files that get "touched" a lot, as tends
to be the case with log files, mail spool files, print spool files,
and such, it would be nice to have
Linux-Misc Digest #385
Linux-Misc Digest #385, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 19:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: "Core" file ("Tom Hoffmann")
RPM Database corruption :( (Alexis M)
Re: RPM Database corruption :( (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Interested in purchasing a Linux OS (jb)
Re: Why partition a Disk? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Need to find my IP address ("Peter T. Breuer")
sound in corel linux (mike_mcc13)
Re: Is JavaServer Pages alive in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Howto use a funtion in a struct (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: Need to find my IP address (Kaz Kylheku)
Re: Need to find my IP address (Kaz Kylheku)
LILO 21.4.3 update (John in SD)
Re: Need to find my IP address ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Need to find my IP address (Chris)
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Rick Hoffman)
Re: Linux and PCI..? (Tim Hockin)
Re: Need to find my IP address ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Benchmarks and relative speeds (David Efflandt)
Re: Help: "Swapoff" error (David Efflandt)
Re: howto setup vi style cmdln editing with bash (David Efflandt)
seyon location (Kevin Bree)
From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Core" file
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 21:10:04 GMT
"core" files contain information on the state of a program at the time of
an abnormal termination. The can be used by developers to troubleshoot
problems. If you are not planning on passing the core file to a developer
or using it yourself, it can safely be deleted.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Federico Czerwinski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey! This site rules!, Here's the question: When i got an error (usualy
> under X) a file is created, named "CORE", which is quite larger..can
> i erase it? What is that file!? What's it for? Thanx a lot!
>
>
> Federico
>
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Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 00:04:24 -0300
From: Alexis M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.rpm,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: RPM Database corruption :(
Greetings
My PC suffered a power failure recently, and since then it's been acting
up on me. I'm running RedHat Linux 6.1, and it seems that my RPM
database is completely corrupt. I can't add/remove packages, check
dependencies or anything.
Here is a sample output of what I get when I try to install a package:
[root@spartacus Linux]# rpm -i bzip2-0.9.5d-3.i386.rpm
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/nameindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/groupindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/triggerindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/obsoletesindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/versionindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/releaseindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/dirindex.rpm: Success
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
cannot open file /var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: Bad file descriptor
error: failed dependencies:
/sbin/ldconfig is needed by bzip2-0.9.5d-3
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by bzip2-0.9.5d-3
libc.so.6 is needed by bzip2-0.9.5d-3
/bin/sh is needed by bzip2-0.9.5d-3
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by bzip2-0.9.5d-3
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by bzip2-0.9.5d-3
What do I do to fix this?
Thanks
Alexis M
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.rpm,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: RPM Database corruption :(
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 21:17:17 GMT
On Sun, 07 May 2000 00:04:24 -0300, Alexis M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>My PC suffered a power failure recently, and since then it's been
>acting up on me. I'm running RedHat Linux 6.1, and it seems that my RPM
>database is completely corrupt. I can't add/remove packages, check
>dependencies or anything.
>
>Here is a sample output of what I get when I try to install a package:
AFAIK, the only tool rpm has t
Linux-Misc Digest #384
Linux-Misc Digest #384, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 17:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Is JavaServer Pages alive in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Remote authentication (DanH)
POP3 Problem (Sky Cree)
Re: redhat 6.1 install woes (Leonard Evens)
Re: Can anyone clarify boot sequence? (Prasanth Kumar)
Re: corrupted RPM directory?? (please help!) (John McKown)
LILO: Kernel too big ("Erik A. Mogensen")
Re: Remote authentication ("I-Way")
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Rick Hoffman)
Re: Winlinux question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to print page range in Netscape/Linux (Frank Hahn)
Re: Why partition a Disk? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: using gaim for linux (Rob Flynn)
"Core" file (Federico Czerwinski)
Re: Linux Windows Managers (jb)
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Rick Hoffman)
Re: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem (jb)
Re: "Core" file ("Plathora")
Re: Distributed file system (jb)
Re: The Best Man Page in the Internet? (jb)
Re: Need to find my IP address (Chris)
Re: Howto use a funtion in a struct (jb)
Re: Distributed file system (JEDIDIAH)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,alt.os.linux,comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Is JavaServer Pages alive in Linux?
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 02:25:48 +0800
Hi, I'm a student attempting to use JSP in Linux but i notice few
questions in linux newsgroup on JSP. I would appreciate it if anyone had
used JSP in Linux and could share their experiences with me, good and
bad.
Also in particular, which free JSP implementations should i use
1) GNU ServerPages by bitmechanic, or
2) GNU JavaServer Pages by klomp
Thank you very much.
Regards
Funky
P.S. - remove CAP words in address to correspond
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Remote authentication
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 14:34:22 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "I-Way" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am setting up a network at home using only linux boxes. Is it possible to
> have a server hold all a persons work and authenticate their
> password/username when they log on to a terminal machine instead of having
> each machine holding a users account? (Their will eventually be many
> machines and many users so having all the users and accounts stored on each
> machine wouldn't be practical)
> Is it then possible to map the users home directory on the server to the
> local file system?
> I would hope to use KDE to accomplishe the logon if possible.
You are describing NIS (also called YP.) It's been a standard in *NIX forever.
Home directories automounted when someone logs in via automount, NIS
passwords and NIS automounts.
DanH
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From: Sky Cree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: POP3 Problem
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 11:45:52 -0700
Hi, I am using redhat 6.2 on kernel 2.2.12, on an hp ppro 200 system
with so and so mb memory.
Problem: I installed in.pop3d version 1.005l for my server and didn't
have any problems for 3 months. All of a sudden I am getting this error
message: "-ERR being read already /var/spool/mail/user"
I had this problem once before, but only with a single user. I simply
had to remove the lock file for that account from /var/tmp.
This current problem is affecting all of my users simultaneously and has
brought down my entire system.
Furthermore I tried to install GNU-POP3d but also had problems. I know
that sendmail is working, because I can access my mail through pine.
Gnu-pop3d gave me a similiar error: "-ERR bad login"
If anyone has had similiar problems, or if anyone has any suggestions as
to what I could do, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks in advance.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.1 install woes
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 13:42:50 -0500
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> I tried to install RH 6.1 on a P90 ASUS PCI/P54SP4 board, 64MB,
> 2 IDE (M-2.2 GB Maxtor, S-2.1 GB Quantum FB), ELSA Victory Erazor,
> Intel Etherexpress NIC.
>
> Nothing fancy, as one can see.
>
> Installing runs fine, I install a minimum system, on root
> partition of 2192 MB (or something like that), 350 MB swap on second IDE.
>
> But when I reboot first time I just can see the letters LI
> (obviously from LILO) and then stop. Nothing anymore. I can only
> CTRL-ALT-DEL.
>
> Tried this now three times, even with IDE Normal mode.
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In principle, the installation should have created a boot
floppy for you. (If it didn't, reinstall but use the
upgraded Anaconda installation floppy images from the RedHat
Errata or a mirror site. Actually, you could probably just
choose the upgrade
Linux-Misc Digest #383
Linux-Misc Digest #383, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 14:13:02 EDT Contents: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 6 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 6 of 6) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 18:07:29 GMT Archive-Name: linux/faq/part6 URL: http://www.mainmatter.com/ Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posting-Frequency: weekly Last-modified: 05/06/2000 english.au or swedish.au from ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/SillySounds/. If you have a sound card or the PC-speaker audio driver you can hear them by typing cat english.au >/dev/audio The difference isn't in the pronunciation of Linux but in the language Linus uses to say, "hello." For the benefit of those who don't have the equipment or inclination: Linus pronounces Linux approximately as Leenus, where the "ee" is pronounced as in "feet," but rather shorter, and the "u" is like a much shorter version of the French "eu" sound in "peur" (pronouncing it as the "u" in "put" is probably passable). _ 9.11. Where Is the Linux Food Page? It's at http://members.xoom.com/gnulix_guy/geek-gourmet/. It contains recipes for dishes like Fusili Chicken Marinara, Speedy Guacamole, and Idiot-proof pilaf, as well as hints for cooking things in a hurry. At the time of this writing, no recipes for penguin, though. _ 9.12. Where Can I Find Out about Free Software Projects? The Free Software Bazaar lists current openings to do work on free software projects, and tells how to sponsor free software projects and how to make money writing free software. Its URL is http://www.csustan.edu/bazaar/. _ 10. Frequently Encountered Error Messages 10.1. Modprobe Can't Locate Module, XXX, and Similar Messages. These types of messages mostly occur at boot time or shutdown. If modprobe, insmod, or rmmod complain about not being able to find a module, add the following to the /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modutils/aliases file, whichever is present on your system. alias off And use the name of the module that appears in the error message. [J.H.M. Dassen] _ 10.2. Unknown Terminal Type "linux" and Similar. In early kernels the default console terminal type has changed from "console" to "linux." You must edit /etc/termcap to change the line reading: console|con80x25:\ to linux|console|con80x25:\ (there may be an additional "dumb" in there--if so it should be removed.) To get the editor to work you may need say TERM=console (for bash and ksh), or setenv TERM console for csh or tcsh. Some programs use /usr/lib/terminfo instead of /etc/termcap. For these programs you should upgrade your terminfo package, which is part of ncurses. The same is true for X terminal displays. If your distribution sets the TERM to something strange like xterm-24-color, you can simply reset it to a generic value from the command line: # TERM="xterm"; export TERM _ 10.3. INET: Warning: old style ioctl... called! You are trying to use the old network configuration utilities. The new ones can be found on ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/PROGRAMS/NetTools/ (source only, I'm afraid). Note that they cannot be used just like the old-style programs. See the NET-2 HOWTO for instructions on how to set up the old-style networking programs correctly. Even better, see the NET-3 HOWTO and upgrade your networking software. _ 10.4. ld: unrecognized option '-m486' You have an old version of ld. Install a newer binutils package--this will contain an updated ld. Look on tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/GCC/ for binutils-2.6.0.2.bin.tar.gz. _ 10.5. GCC says, "Internal compiler error." If the fault is repeatable (i.e., it always happens at the same place in the same file--even after rebooting and trying again, using a stable kernel) you have discovered a bug in GCC. See the GCC Info documentation (type F1-i in Emacs, and select GCC from the menu) for details on how to report the error--make sure you have the latest version, though. Note that this is probably not a Linux-specific problem. Unless you are compiling a program many other Linux users also compile, you should not post your bug r
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Linux-Misc Digest #382, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 14:13:02 EDT Contents: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 5 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 5 of 6) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 18:06:28 GMT Archive-Name: linux/faq/part5 URL: http://www.mainmatter.com/ Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posting-Frequency: weekly Last-modified: 05/06/2000 8.7. How Do I Get Dial-up PPP to Work? This information is mainly for people who do not have a wrapper utility like kppp or pppconfig, or are not able to get those utilities to work correctly. If you need to manually configure PPP to dial in to your ISP, you will need the following information: * The port that your modem is connected to: /dev/ttyS0--/dev/ttyS3, which correspond to COM1-COM4 under MS-DOS. * The phone number of your ISP's data connection. * The user name and password that your ISP gave you. * The IP addresses of the primary and possibly secondary Domain Name Service that you will use when dialing in to the ISP. This assumes that you will not be using a DNS that you installed on your system. When you have all of this information, make sure that the programs pppd and chat, at the very minimum, are installed correctly. In most current distributions, they are installed in the /usr/sbin/ directory, and you will need to be logged in as root to use them. In addition, the following programs are also useful for configuring network connections, determining network status, and diagnosing problems: /sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/route, /bin/ping, /usr/sbin/traceroute. These are the basic steps that you need to follow to configure PPP. You must be logged in as root. * Make sure that the serial port and modem are operating correctly. Using a program like minicomm or kermit, you should be able to send AT commands to the modem and receive the OK string in response from the modem. * Enter the primary and possibly secondary Domain Name Server IP addresses in the /etc/resolv.conf file, using dotted quad notation, with the nameserver label. For example: order hosts,bind nameserver 199.182.101.103 nameserver 199.182.101.104 This tells your networking software, when it resolves network domain addresses, to first look in the /etc/hosts file, and then use the bind service; i.e., the DNS servers, which are specified on the lines that begin with nameserver. * Locate the chat script that PPP will use to dial the modem and connect to your ISP. In many systems, this is either in the /etc/chatscripts or /etc/ppp directory, and will be called provider or something similar. You can store a chat script anywhere, provided that you tell pppd to use it rather than the default script. Refer to the chat and pppd manual pages, and the information below, for details. Here is a sample chat script: ABORTBUSY ABORT"NO CARRIER" ABORTVOICE ABORT"NO DIALTONE" "" ATDT ogin word This is a chat program for a simple, script based login. The chat program uses the pair of strings on each line as a match/response pair. When it starts, it sends the string "ATDTyour_isp's_phone_number," where you have substituted the actual phone number of course. It then waits for the string ogin (a substring of the word login) and sends your user name. It then waits for word (a substring of password) and sends your password. If your ISP uses a different login and password prompts, and any additional prompts, you will need to edit the script accordingly. Again, refer to the chat manual page for details. If your ISP uses PAP or CHAP authentication, you will need to edit the pap-secrets or chap-secrets files in /etc/ppp directory as well. Refer to the manual pages for these files, as well as the instruction in the files themselves. * The configuration of pppd, the program that maintains the actual connection, is usually contained in two or three separate files. The first is usually /etc/ppp/options, which contains options that all of your system's PPP connections will use. (Yes, you can have more than one; as many as your computer has serial ports, generally.) Here is a sample /etc/ppp/options file: # /etc/ppp/options asyncmap 0 auth crtscts lock noipx # -- The options may be given on one line or each on a separate line. Many options files are much longer, and come with a description of each option. Here, the options mean, in order, do
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3. Network Sources and Resources
3.1. Where Can I Get the Latest Kernel Version?
Make that versions. The 2.0. series kernels are still available for
older machines. Following Linus's even/odd versioning scheme, the
latest production kernel is 2.2.x. The updates to this kernel are bug
fixes. Active development is proceeding on the 2.3.x versions of the
kernel, and a feature freeze has recently been announced for the 2.4
series production kernels.
Linux kernel version 2.2. was released on January 25, and a bug fix
version 2.2.1 was released several days later. New versions are always
being released. The kernel contains numerous improvements in features
and performance compared to the kernel versions 2.0.x.
Among the 2.2 kernel's many improvements are a video frame buffer,
faster (although bigger) memory management, support for more hardware
devices, improved security, and improved POSIX compatibility. The
Linux kernel, in many of these instances, is superior to commercial
OS's.
To read more about the features in kernel version 2.2.x, the
unofficial, draft press releases are located at
http://www.tip.net.au/~edlang/linux/linux2.2pr.html.
If you want to download the source code, FTP to ftp.xx.kernel.org,
where "xx" is the two-letter Internet domain abbreviation of your
country; e.g., "us" for United States, "ca" for Canada, or "de" for
Germany. Kernel versions 2.2.x are archived in the directory
pub/linux/kernel/v2.2, as are patches for the prerelease versions. The
kernel source code is archived as a .tar.gz file, and as a .tar.bz2
file.
Follow the instructions in any of the standard references to compile
the 2.2 kernel, as you would with any other custom kernel. The
Documentation subdirectory also contains information by the authors of
various subsystems and drivers, and much of that information is not
documented elsewhere.
If you want to participate in kernel development, the latest 2.3
version kernels are available from ftp.kernel.org as well. Make sure
you sign on to the linux-kernel mailing list to find out what people
are working on. ("What Mailing Lists Are There?")
There is a story about the features of the 2.4 series kernels at
http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html.
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3.2. Where Can I Get the HOWTO's and Other Documentation?
Look in the following places, and the sites that mirror them.
* http://www.linuxdoc.org/
* ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/OS/Linux/doc/HOWTO/
* ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/
* ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/
For a list of Linux FTP sites, see, ("Where Can I Get Linux Material
by FTP?")
If you don't have access to FTP, try the FTP-by-mail servers at
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
A complete list of HOWTO's and Mini-HOWTO's is available in the file
HOWTO-INDEX in the docs/HOWTO directory at the FTP sites, and on the
Web at http://www.linuxdoc.org/, but here is a (probably incomplete)
list of topics:
3Dfx AI-Alife AX25
Access Alpha Assembly
Bash Prompt Belgian Benchmarking
Beowulf BootPrompt Bootdisk
Busmouse CD Writing CDROM
CVS RCS Chinese Commercial
Config Consultants Cyrillic
DNS DOS/Win to Linux DOSEMU
Danish Diskless Distribution
Ecology Emacs Beginner Emacspeak
Esperanto Ethernet Finnish
Firewall Framebuffer Ftape
GCC German Glibc2
HOWTO Hardware Compatibility Hebrew
Hellenic INFO-SHEET IP Masquerade
IPCHAINS IPX IR
ISP Hookup Ingres II Installation
Intranet Server Italian Java-CGI
Jaz Drive Kernel KickStart
Keyboard and Console Kiosk LDAP
Large Disk LinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell META-FAQ
Loopback Encrypted File System MGR
MILO MIPS MP3
Mail Mail User Modem
Majordomo and MajorCool Multi-Disk
Multicast Mutt GnuPGP Networking
NIS Networking Overview Optical Disk
Online Troubleshooting Resources Oracle
PCI PCMCIA PLIP Install
PPP PalmOS Plug and Play
Parallel Processing Polish Portuguese
PostgreSQL Printing Printing Usage
Quake Reading List Root RAID
SCSI Programming SMB SMP
SRM Security Serbian
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compile-time option and a module.
See, ("How Do I Upgrade/Recompile My Kernel?")
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4.8. Can Linux Access SMB File Systems?
Linux supports read/write access of Windows for Workgroups and Windows
NT SMB volumes. See the file Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt of
the Linux kernel source distribution, and ("How Do I
Upgrade/Recompile My Kernel?")
There is also a suite of programs called Samba which provide support
for WfW networked file systems (provided they're for TCP/IP).
Information is available in the README file at
metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/samba/.
The SMB Web site is http://www.samba.org/, and there is also a Web
site at samba.anu.edu.au/samba/.
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4.9. Can Linux Access Macintosh File Systems?
There is a set of user-level programs that read and write the
Macintosh Hierarchical File System (HFS). It is available at
metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/.
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4.10. Can I Run Microsoft Windows Programs under Linux?
WINE, a MS Windows emulator for Linux, is still not ready for general
distribution. If you want to contribute to its development, look for
the status reports in the comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine newsgroup.
There is also a FAQ, compiled by P. David Gardner, at
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/Wine-FAQ/.
In the meantime, if you need to run MS Windows programs, the best
bet--seriously--is to reboot. LILO, the Linux boot loader, can boot
one of several operating systems from a menu. See the LILO
documentation for details.
Also, LOADLIN.EXE (a DOS program to load a Linux, or other OS, kernel
is one way to make Linux co-exist with DOS. LOADLIN.EXE is
particularly handy when you want to install Linux on a 3rd or 4th
drive on a system (or when you're adding a SCSI drive to a system with
an existing IDE).
In these cases, it is common for LILO's boot loader to be unable to
find or load the kernel on the "other" drive. So you just create a
C:\LINUX directory (or whatever), put LOADLIN.EXE in it with a copy of
your kernel, and use that.
LOADLIN.EXE is a VCPI compliant program. Win95 will want to, "shutdown
into DOS mode," to run it (as it would with certain other DOS
protected-mode programs).
Earlier versions of LOADLIN.EXE sometimes required a package called
REALBIOS.COM, which required a boot procedure on an (almost) blank
floppy to map the interrupt vectors (prior to the loading of any
software drivers). (Current versions don't seem to ship with it, and
don't seem to need it).
[Jim Dennis]
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4.11. Where Can I Get Information about NFS Compatibility?
This information is partly taken from Nicolai Langfeldt's excellent
NFS HOWTO, and is current as of 10/1/1999.
Most version 2.2.x kernels need a set of patches to install the knfsd
subsystem, maintained by H.J. Lu, to communicate efficiently (if at
all) with Sparc, IBM RS, and Alpha machines, and probably others. This
package is actually a collection of patches to the kernel sources.
There is also a user-space server. Although it lacks remote file
locking, it is easier to install. It may be equally efficient.
In the Documentation/Changelog of recent kernel distributions, there
is a list of URL's for both the knfsd server and the user-space
server.
There is a CVS server available for the kernel-space NFS subsystem, as
well as a NFS WWW page at http://www.linuxnfs.sourceforge.org/,
although the URL requires a password for access. The relevant URL's
are listed in the README.nfs file at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/, and
other kernel archive sites, along with login information. Patches are
at ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/kernel/latest/patches/.
The source archives of the user-space server and utilities currently
reside on
ftp://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de:/pub/linux/people/okir/.
The linux-kernel mailing list has on-and-off discussions of the status
of the NFS subsystem, which appears to be changing rapidly.
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architecture-specific asm directory--if you have a freshly unpacked
kernel source tree, you must make symlinks. You'll also find that you
may need to do `make config' in a newly-unpacked kernel source tree,
to create linux/autoconf.h.
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6.11. I Get Errors when I Try to Compile the Kernel.
See the previous question regarding the header files.
Remember that when you apply a patch to the kernel, you must use the
"-p0" or "-p1" option: otherwise, the patch may be misapplied. See
the patch manual page for details.
"ld: unrecognized option `-qmagic"' means that you should get a
newer linker, from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/, in
the file binutils-2.8.1.0.1.bin.tar.gz.
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6.12. How Do I Make a Shared Library?
For ELF,
gcc -fPIC -c *.c
gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.1 -o libfoo.so.1.0 *.o
For a.out, get tools-n.nn.tar.gz from
tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/src/. It comes with
documentation that will tell you what to do. Note that a.out shared
libraries are a very tricky business. Consider upgrading your
libraries to ELF shared libraries. See the ELF HOWTO, at
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/
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6.13. My Executables Are (Very) Large.
With an ELF compiler ("What's All This about ELF? glibc?"), the most
common cause of large executables is the lack of an appropriate .so
library link for one of the libraries you're using. There should be a
link like libc.so for every library like libc.so.5.2.18.
With an a.out compiler the most common cause of large executables is
the -g linker (compiler) flag. This produces (as well as debugging
information in the output file) a program which is statically
linked--one which includes a copy of the C library instead of a
dynamically linked copy.
Other things worth investigating are -O and -O2, which enable
optimization (check the GCC documentation), and -s (or the strip
command) which strip the symbol information from the resulting binary
(making debugging totally impossible).
You may wish to use -N on very small executables (less than 8K with
the -N), but you shouldn't do this unless you understand its
performance implications, and definitely never with daemons.
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6.14. Does Linux Support Threads or Lightweight Processes?
As well as the Unix multiprocessing model involving heavyweight
processes, which is of course part of the standard Linux kernel, there
are several implementations of lightweight processes or threads.
Recent kernels implement a thread model, kthreads. In addition, there
are the following packages available for Linux.
* GNU glibc2 for Linux has optional support for threads. The archive
is available from the same place as glibc2,
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
* In sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthread/ or
ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/unix/threads/pthreads. Documentation isn't in the
package, but is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/home_page.html. Newer Linux
libc's contain the pthreads source. The GNU Ada compiler on
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/ada/gnat-3.01-linux+el
f.tar.gz contains binaries made from that source code.
* In ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu:/pub/qt-001.tar.Z is QuickThreads.
More information can be found in the technical report, available
on the same site is /tr/1993/05/UW-CSE-93-05-06.PS.Z.
* In gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk/rex/ is lwp, a very minimal implementation.
* In ftp://ftp.cs.fsu.edu:/pub/PART/, an Ada implementation. This is
useful mainly because it has a lot of Postscript papers that
you'll find useful in learning more about threads. This is not
directly usable under Linux.
Please contact the authors of the packages in question for details.
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6.15. Where Can I Get lint for Linux?
Roughly equivalent functionality is built into GCC. Use the -Wall
option to turn on most of the useful extra warnings. See the
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Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
This is the list of Frequently Asked Questions for Linux, the free,
POSIX compatible operating system kernel that runs on many modern
computer systems. Linux uses free, GNU system utilities and
application software, although commercial programs are available also.
Originally written for 386/486/586 Intel/ISA bus machines, Linux
versions exist for Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, ARM, 680x0, PPC, and many other
platforms. ("What is Linux?") This FAQ is meant to be read in
conjunction with the Linux Documentation Project's HOWTO series.
("Where Can I Get Linux Material by FTP?" and, "Where Can I Get the
HOWTO's and Other Documentation?") The INFO-SHEET and META-FAQ also
list sources of Linux information. Please read them, and, "You Still
Haven't Answered My Question!" before posting to a Usenet news group.
You can also get Postscript, HTML, and SGML versions of this document.
("Formats in Which This FAQ Is Available.")
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction and General Information
1.1. What is Linux?
1.2. Where Do I Start?
1.3. What Software Does Linux Support?
1.4. Does Linux Run on My Computer? What Hardware Is Supported?
1.5. What Ports to Other Processors Are There?
1.6. How Much Hard Disk Space Does Linux Need?
1.7. How Much Memory Does Linux Need?
1.8. How Much Memory Can Linux Use?
1.9. Does Linux Support the USB Bus?
1.10. Is Linux Public Domain? Copyrighted?
1.11. Is Linux *nix?
2. Topics of Current Interest.
2.1. What Resources Are There for Linux DeCSS and Other Open
Source DVD Software?
2.2. Where Can I Find Out About Linux and the Millennium (Y2K)
Bug?
2.3. How Is the DocBook Version of the FAQ Produced?
3. Network Sources and Resources
3.1. Where Can I Get the Latest Kernel Version?
3.2. Where Can I Get the HOWTO's and Other Documentation?
3.3. Where Should I Look on the World Wide Web for Linux Stuff?
3.4. What News Groups Are There for Linux?
3.5. What Other FAQ's Are There for Linux?
3.6. Where Can I Get Linux Material by FTP?
3.7. I Don't Have FTP Access. Where Do I Get Linux?
3.8. I Don't Have Usenet Access. Where Do I Get Information?
3.9. What Mailing Lists Are There?
3.10. Where Are Linux Legal Issues Discussed?
3.11. Are the News Groups Archived Anywhere?
3.12. Where Can I Find Out About Security Related Issues?
4. Compatibility with Other Operating Systems
4.1. Can Linux Share My Disk with DOS? OS/2? 386BSD? Win95?
4.2. How Do I Access Files on My DOS Partition Or Floppy?
4.3. Does Linux Support Compressed Ext2 file Systems?
4.4. Can I Use My Stacked/DBLSPC/Etc. DOS Drive?
4.5. Can I Access OS/2 HPFS Partitions from Linux?
4.6. Can Linux Access Amiga File Systems?
4.7. Can Linux Access BSD, SysV, Etc. UFS?
4.8. Can Linux Access SMB File Systems?
4.9. Can Linux Access Macintosh File Systems?
4.10. Can I Run Microsoft Windows Programs under Linux?
4.11. Where Can I Get Information about NFS Compatibility?
4.12. Can I Use True Type Fonts with Linux?
4.13. How Can I Boot Linux from MS-DOS?
4.14. How Can I Boot Linux from OS/2's Boot Manager?
5. File Systems, Disks, and Drives
5.1. How Can I Get Linux to Work with My Disk?
5.2. How Can I Undelete Files?
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Contents:
Re: cloning linux partitions (Bastian)
Re: [HELP] Mounting Macintosh fileserver on Linux (Jonathan Sanderson)
Re: where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet? ("ChemSoft GmbH")
Re: Would I be able to install as UNIX? (Oliver Jung)
Re: Those distributions are stupid (Moe Koenig)
Newbie question about power saving ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I NEED HELP (Andrew Purugganan)
Which WM lends itself well to skinning? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Which WM lends itself well to skinning? (Aron Felix Gurski)
Re: where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet? ("David ..")
redhat 6.1 install woes (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: Need to find my IP address (Tobias Anderberg)
Re: Mounting my system read only? (Leonard Evens)
Re: Newbie question about power saving (Leonard Evens)
Re: restoring the lilo (Leonard Evens)
Help: "Swapoff" error (George Bell)
Remote authentication ("I-Way")
Benchmarks and relative speeds (Raj Rijhwani)
Re: redhat 6.1 install woes (Stephen Cornell)
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howto setup vi style cmdln editing with bash (lam)
quake 3 file (noel)
Re: Xfree86 4.0 XF86Config help needed (Harvey London)
Re: Newbie question about power saving (Karel Jansens)
Re: quake 3 file (Dances With Crows)
Re: cron stderr question (lam)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: cloning linux partitions
Date: 6 May 2000 13:14:31 GMT
On Sat, 06 May 2000 04:13:55 +0200, Bård Selbekk wrote:
>Hi people at comp.os.linux.misc!
>
>I have Redhat 6.2 installed on a PC with two large IDE drives. I
>installed everything in one drive (/dev/hda). Now I want to make disc
>no. 2 (/dev/hdc) a clone of /dev/hda. Because if the /dev/hda disk
>crashes, I will be able to get the system up and running in no time by
>booting the /dev/hdc disk.
>
>In Solaris we have ufsdump and ufsrestore. Excellent tools for the
>mentioned task. I'd like to be able to do a "ufsdump --several_opts
>/dev/hda1 | ufsrestore --several_opts /dev/hdc1" in Linux. So far I've
>failed to locate such a tool for Linux.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>-Bard Selbekk
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb (if the disk are the same size) or
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdb/image (if hdb is mounted and larger than hda).
To restore swap if and of.
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Sanderson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: [HELP] Mounting Macintosh fileserver on Linux
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 15:04:29 +0100
Paul Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a very large picture archive stored on an Apple Mac server, which I
> would like to be able to mount (nfs style) onto a Linux server. The Mac
> server already exports volumes to many other Macs in my organisation, so
> effectively I just want my Linux box to "pretend" to be a Mac.
I hate to point out the obvious, but I've overlooked it often enough
myself... would running an FTP server on the Mac solve anything for you?
--
Jonathan Sanderson
'If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter' (Pascal)
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From: "ChemSoft GmbH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet?
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 15:51:50 +0200
Hi YamYam,
go to ftp://ftp.kando.hu
/pub/CDROM-Images
Tobias
YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi there...
> I have a tow parts question:
> 1. Where can I get debian 2.1r5 -latest version- ISO files from internet?
> 2. Can I find the 4 debian 2.1r5 ISO files -all latest debain CDs images-
from the
> internet?
>
> Thanx in advance for ur help.
>
> -YamYam
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: Oliver Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Would I be able to install as UNIX?
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:38:46 +0200
On Thu, 04 May 2000 21:25:44 -0400, Jason Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Binary files are available for:
> 1) Digital UNIX v4.0 (nee OSF/1) [ ]
> 2) HP 700 HPUX v10.0 or v11.0[ ]
> 3) IBM Power PC AIX 4.2 [ ]
> 4) SGI IRIX 5.3 [ ]
> 5) SGI IRIX 6.3 [ ]
> 6) Sun Solaris 2.5.1 [ ]
> 7) UltraSPARC Solaris 2.5.1 [ ]
>What architecture(s)?
Correct me, if i am wrong, but I think there are several emulators
outhere, so you should find on for running some of the files above...
Greetings,
Olli
P.S.: FUp2 redhat.general
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Oliver Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Dolo agit qui petit quod statim redditurus est..."
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From: [EMAIL
Linux-Misc Digest #376
Linux-Misc Digest #376, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 09:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Man display error (Bob Martin)
Re: anonymous ftp problem (Sky Cree)
Re: Locating files (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
Re: How to print page range in Netscape/Linux (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
smbfs (wally)
incremental backup with tar? ("ChemSoft GmbH")
where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet? (YamYam)
Re: Need to find my IP address ("smylie")
Re: Xfree86 4.0 XF86Config help needed (Duane Evenson)
Re: rpm problems (YamYam)
Re: How do I get linux to recognize my FAT32 partition? (Matt)
ippp: no decompressor defined! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: incremental backup with tar? (Matt)
Re: incremental backup with tar? (Matt)
From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Man display error
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 03:22:44 -0500
James Li wrote:
>
> I have installed RedHat Linux 6.2 on a Pentium machine. I can't search man.
> It display some errors.
> Take "ls" for example. Display looks like the following:
> man ls
> hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1737096,
> sector=1499145
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46 (hdb), sector 1499145
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command /bin/gunzip -c /var/catman/cat1/ls.1.gz | /usr/bin/less -is
> exited with status 135
>
> Please help troubleshoot the problem.
>
> James Li
man doesn't look to be the problem, you are getting errors from your
disk drive , hdb. You might run fsck on it, see if it can fix anything.
but may be having a hardware failure, which means it's time for a new
drive.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Sky Cree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp problem
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 12:35:34 -0700
I never used wu-ftpd but I did have difficulty using the built in ftp server.
Instead I went with proftpd and after some troubleshooting with the different
commmands I was able to get the anonymous to work. Here is an example of my
config file:
ServerName "Your Server Name"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
RequireValidShell off
UseFtpUsersoff
ServerIdent on "Your Server Name"
Port21
Umask 022
MaxInstances30
Usernobody
Group nobody
# Allow files to be overwritable.
AllowOverwrite on
# Basic Anonymous configuration.
User ftp
Group ftp
UserAlias anonymous ftp
MaxClients 10
DisplayLogin /usr/local/etc/welcome.msg
HideGroup root
HideGroup root
HideGroup root
AllowAll
DenyAll
This setup hides the lib, etc and bin directory's for simplicity but works fine
otherwise. There are troubleshooting pages available on proftpd's website and
explanations of all of the commands.
Tat Ho wrote:
> Bob Hauck wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:33:23 -0700, Christopher Fonnesbeck
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I am trying to set up an anonymous ftp server on my Linux machine, using
> > >wu-ftp. However, when users try and log in anonymously, they are asked
> > >for a password, rather than their e-mail address.
> >
> > What happens if they just enter their email address? Here's what my
> > wu-ftpd does:
> >
> > [hauck@lab hauck]$ ftp localhost
> > Connected to localhost.
> > 220 lab.codem.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Wed Jan
> > 7 01:03:55 MST 1998) ready.
> > Name (localhost:hauck): anonymous
> > 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
> > Password:
> >
> > If I give an email address as my password it logs me in as anonymous.
> >
> > --
> > -| Bob Hauck
> > -| Codem Systems, Inc.
> > -| http://www.codem.com/
>
> I too am trying to setup "annoymous" ftp access on my system but without
> success. The problem
> is I just do not get the line that says "Guest login ok..." after entering
> "annoymous" to the user
> name prompt. Do I need to setup a login account "guest"? If yes, then what
> should it look like in the "/etc/passwd" file?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> T.L.Ho
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Locating files
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 11:00:24 -0400
Reply-To: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mpierce wrote:
>
> Is there a way to find out where a specific file is located in an
> uninstall RPM package? I am looking for the file libGL.so.1
$ rpm -ql toto.rpm | grep libGL
HTH
--
Nguyên-Ðai Quý
LTAS-Mécanique de la Rupture, ULG
Rue des Chevreuils, 1, Bât B52, Local 522
B-4000, Liège, BEL
Linux-Misc Digest #375
Linux-Misc Digest #375, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 04:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Why partition a Disk? (Dances With Crows)
ppp with worldnet.att (Chuck Busby)
Re: Choice of modem (Robert Grizzard)
Re: The start button and icon panel has dissapeared from Gnome.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Locating files (ground zero)
Re: oldest linux box? (Jeff Workman)
rpm problems (Patrick O'Neil)
Linux and PCI..? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How do I get linux to recognize my FAT32 partition?
Re: Choice of modem (Smitty)
Re: Choice of modem (Bob Martin)
Re: Choice of modem (Bill Unruh)
Re: microsoft word on linux (Jim Tom Polk)
kscd rpm (David Mehringer)
Re: kscd rpm ("Peter T. Breuer")
xmixer for console? (BuDMaN)
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive ("Michael")
Re: xmixer for console? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: xmixer for console? (David Efflandt)
Re: Trouble with the Korn Shell (Ben Park)
Re: Creating multiple pages automatically (BuDMaN)
Re: Installing PCI (non-winmodem) modem ("Troy M. Turner")
Re: xmixer for console? ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: ppp with worldnet.att (Bob Martin)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Why partition a Disk?
Date: 06 May 2000 00:13:18 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 05 May 2000 22:31:11 -0400, hoffmyster
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>This leads me to another question in what significance does splitting up
>directories into different partitions have? That is one concept about
>Unix/Linux that I don't fully understand. What harm is there in putting
>everything into one partition? What advantages are there in splitting
>it all up?
If everything's on one big partition, your options are limited and your
chances for disaster recovery are less. Check the Partition-HOWTO:
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html for a lot of advice.
You separate /, /usr, /var, and /home for safety. If / gets corrupted, at
least you can still recover the data from /home. If some malicious user
or process fills up /var, / still has space. If /usr gets br0ken, you
have utilities available in / that can get the system up to a working
state. Personally, I dual-boot to SuSE and RedHat, and I share /home and
/usr/local between the two distros... that option wouldn't be available if
I'd just lumped everything on one partition!
As regards your original question, your backup disk will be difficult to
boot if it's actually on /dev/hdc. Some BIOSes are capable of booting
from an IDE drive on /dev/hdc, but many aren't. /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are
often the only ones available to the BIOS upon bootup. I'd suggest having
a 20M /boot partition on /dev/hda, configured with a lilo.conf like so:
boot=/dev/hda # or whatever!
map=/boot/map
compact
linear
prompt
timeout=100
append="blahblahblah" # whatever you need...
image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda2 # or wherever it is
read-only
label=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hdc2 # root partition of backup drive!
read-only
label=backup
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
If /dev/hda fails completely, you'll have to boot with a floppy, of
course, or you could just configure /dev/hdc with LILO in its MBR right
now, and when something BAD happens, open the case and swap /dev/hdc with
/dev/hda! There's more than one way to skin a filesystem, after all.
HTH.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Chuck Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp with worldnet.att
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 04:26:41 GMT
Has anyone had success using linux on the worldnet.att isp? If so, how
do I log on? ppp keeps crashing unexpectedly.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Grizzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Choice of modem
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 23:23:47 -0500
Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can somebody tell me which of the following should I choose for linux ?
> I'm not sure if any of these are winmodems, so if some are, please let me
> know. If you have used any of these in Linux successfully, please let me
> know (send an email too please!)
>> AOpen AOpen FM56 ITU/2-56000
This is a real modem. I'm using it right now to connect to the Internet
through my ppp daemon, and I'll send this post from my leafnode newsspool
to my ISP's newsspool through this modem when I run fetchmail. It works
well for me.
--
Learning Linux is like joining a cult. Sure it's fun at first but you waste
time, become brainwashed, and then have to be de-programmed by Bill Gates
before yo
