Linux-Misc Digest #327
Linux-Misc Digest #327, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 04:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Can't ftp to Linux box from windows ftp client - SOLVED ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Bloatware (William Clifford)
Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI Model CT4810? (John Scudder)
Mounting proc filesystem dup2: bad file descriptor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
package managers vs compilation (was: slrn-0.9.6.3 and all that - thanks!) ("Jan
Schaumann")
Re: Configuring printer from text UI - RH6.1 (TopQuark)
Re: Help... X Windows runs at a crawl.. Be my mentor,, Please (Jason B)
Re: Dialin - Server (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Boot from floppy very slow ("Michael")
Re: Bloatware (John Hasler)
Re: Dang those KDE rpms (Doc)
good c/c++ debugger ("dick dijk")
Need some suggestions... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Boot from floppy very slow (Vilmos Soti)
NCD15B (Ben)
Re: Boot from floppy very slow ("Michael")
Linux freezes totally (Claus Atzenbeck)
Looking for book on Linux Device Drivers (gaurav virendra navlakha)
Re: good c/c++ debugger (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
ANNOUNCE: Bootable ABACUS4 CDs (The Abacus User)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't ftp to Linux box from windows ftp client - SOLVED
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 02:00:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having the same issue. I had thought of allowing ftp-data (port
20) and tried it to no avail. I am using a Ugate 3200 Cable Sharing
gateway. Same symptoms, if I ftp in, I can log in and all that, but as
soon as I type ls -la or just ls, it just sits and hangs. BUT I can
ftp locally no problem at all. I don't know what to try next. I can't
imagine its something really arcane.
Ryan
In article <8uhda8$b6m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, got no responses...But fixed it anyway.
> Here is the deal. Not only do you need to allow ftp through
> your firewall, you need to allow ftp-data
> This is on the linux side in firewall scrip..
> Funny that ws-ftp worked either way and dos or browser ftp
> didn't work without ftp-data available. Also quote pasv did not
> make a difference.
>
> While I am at it, I tried wu-ftpd, ncftpd and proftpd.
> wu-ftpd it ok, works through inetd too.
> ncftpd is very flexible. Fills in things wu-ftpd is missing. Even
> though it is commercial, you get a free 3 user license.
> As for proftpd, what was looking like an excellent ftp server
> ended up being by far the worst. It is bug ridden, no doubt.
> Plenty of buffer over flows, even in latest versions. Now even
> if you think it is the greatest thing and say oh I don't have problems
> think again. Things are there that allow someone to shut it down
> just by typing a few letters in while logged in.
> It also looks like it has been idle since about July, maybe no one
> is working on it anymore??
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Clifford)
Subject: Re: Bloatware
Date: 17 Nov 2000 02:36:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:52:52 +,
>I purchased a Linux distro just as I did with Windows 9x. Windows came with
>an GUI, a limited console, basic networking, a few multimedia apps, basic
>text editors and an Internet Explorer, a total of about 200-250MB's. Just
>enough to get going, but not much else. My Linux distro, SuSE 6.4 came with
>over 1500 apps, 6CD's which comes to a rather impressive 4-5GB's. Where
>does the Linux newbie start with this bewildering array of apps? After a
>bit of experience, and a few re-installs I've now got it down to a Linux
>console (100-200MBs), X-Windows Server (50-100MBs), a few windows managers,
>KDE 2 and Gnome (ok I know I just need the QT and GTK+ toolkits but I'm
>trying to just make sure I'll just get the apps working) a couple of hundred
>more MB's, networking apps, source code for the kernel so I can recompile, a
>compiler and libraries for compiling (SuSE says 450MB's!) which lets face
>it, Linux would be useless without and finally the day to day apps and games
>which in fairness should not be counted (1GB). These I consider the basics
>of my Linux system just to run. A basic Linux set-up weighs in at 1-2GB's,
>which is sizably larger than the 250MB's of Windows. Yes I know you get so
>much more, but I'm referring to a basic running system on which you can
>install further apps. Since a distro is the only feasible way of a newbie
>getting Linux does this not make the Linux OS Bloatware?
Last night I did a basic install of Debian at a friends house. I didn't
change or add anything from the first list that came up in dselect and it
was less than 150 MB. In fairness this is a pretty bare bones installation
(but no means the barest bones installation possible). After adding all
the neat stuff we want to it I expect it to come up to about 750MB to 1G.
This is about how much I've installed here on this machine.
Linux-Misc Digest #328
Linux-Misc Digest #328, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 09:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Bloatware (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Re: memory leak tools for linux? (Graeme Roy)
Re: Bloatware (Robert Kiesling)
Re: Linux freezes totally ("muzh")
RPM-database & non-rpm packages (-XoF-)
Re: Need some suggestions... (Matthew Haley)
Re: RPM-database & non-rpm packages (Matthew Haley)
Re: Dialin - Server (-XoF-)
Re: SAMBA/Netatalk clustering/high availability (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Linux freezes totally (Sandy Drobic)
Re: clock confusion (Robert Kiesling)
sniffer like c code (Polat)
How migrating Win-Favorites to Netscape-Bookmarks? (Dragan Colak)
[OT] Re: sniffer like c code (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Will NIC/PPP work ONLY at dialup? (Andrew Purugganan)
Do I have framebuffer on my PC? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: where are SuSe kernel mods kept? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
VM: killing process - box freezes (=?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dorothea_M=FCcke-Herzberg?=)
Re: Linux on IBM A20p or A21p laptop ("Tauno Voipio")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Subject: Re: Bloatware
Date: 17 Nov 2000 10:21:41 +0100
In article <8v1o6v$8fo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Banner wrote:
[cut]
>OK my next concern is what I found my Linux box running. It took me by
>surprise to see that (back in my less experienced days) my Linux box at home
>was acting as a web server, ftp server and telnet server. I have yet to
>find out what other interesting services I'm offering the web. I didn't
>remember setting these services up or asking them to run. I may have asked
>to install the files to run at a later date. It seems that I need to find a
>port scanner to find out what ports are open and offering services on a home
>workstation. The only worry I remember having with my Windows box was
>ensuring that I didn't have file and print sharing enabled on the dial-up.
>How many Red-Hat/SuSE/Linux users out there are unknowingly offering an
>array of interesting services to the internet? Is this not Bloatware?
[cut]
This is a real concern.
Newbies really don't know what services might provide crackers with
doors into their systems, or they don't even know that it is possible
to crack a GNU/Linux system with a default install, or what a
"cracker" is.
It'll take a good deal of work and time before the post-newbie knows
how to deny external access via rsh, telnet and other sensitive
services and how to read the security documentation and install the
latest updates. It may take even longer time before he/she understands
*why* closing these services is a good thing, and why "system
administrator" is a real money-making job for many people.
Here, in Sweden, there is currently an explosion in the number of
people who have broadband (sp?) access to the internet. There's going
to be more and more GNU/Linux (and Windows and other) system connected
to the net for longer and longer periods of time. Installing a
GNU/Linux system that comes with "everything by default" will
definitely help you getting new and nasty friends.
Please also read "Clueless users are bad for debian" at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9903/msg02288.html> (I fully
agree with the author of the article).
/A
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Andreas Kähäri, Uppsala University, Sweden (until 1:st of Dec. 2000)
"If you leave now, you're going to miss the real experience."
-- Richard M. Stallman, Stockholm 1986. Visit www.gnu.org
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From: Graeme Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory leak tools for linux?
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:47:42 +
On 15 Nov 2000, Jeff Lacki wrote:
> Ive used purify way long ago for SunOS but it is not
> currently (apparently) available for Linux.
>
> Ive also tried upgrading to Linux 7.0 (which has memprof)
> but that had a major malfunction with make here at work
> so we are using RH 6.2 through our release date (early 2001).
>
> Im in need of a free or bought memory leak etc detection software
> tool for our Linux RH 6.2 code. Preferably free of course, but
> Im sure a professional bought tool would be better. Whatever finds
> the bugs we currently are dealing with.
Try out mpatrol at:
http://www.cbmamiga.demon.co.uk/mpatrol/
It is a dynamic memory allocation debugging library and can not only
detect memory leaks but also most common errors related to using malloc(),
operator new, etc. It also contains a memory allocation profiler along
the lines of what gprof does for execution times and can be linked in at
run-time without requiring a recompile or relink. I have no idea if it
works with RedHat 7.0 but it definitely works with RedHat 6.2 since that's
what I'm currently developing it on. And it's free!
Graeme.
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Subject: Re: Bloatware
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dat
Linux-Misc Digest #329
Linux-Misc Digest #329, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 11:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: VM: killing process - box freezes (Hal Burgiss)
Re: SAMBA/Netatalk clustering/high availability (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Responsiveness under X (John English)
Re: v4l & xawtv & ibmcam problems FIXED! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How migrating Win-Favorites to Netscape-Bookmarks? ("Chris Ripp")
Re: [Lynx/screen] Loading a File into a Web form Box (Russell Marks)
Re: Boot from floppy very slow (Leonard Evens)
Re: Bloatware (Kevin Croxen)
?start and stop logrotate (smilemonkey)
Re: MP3 decoder-encoder (Adam Foster)
Re: Bloatware (Gregory Spath)
Re: Bloatware (Gregory Spath)
Re: Boot from floppy very slow (Hugh Lawson)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: VM: killing process - box freezes
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:18:19 GMT
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:12:29 -, Dorothea Mücke-Herzberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have now twice experienced the problem that my SuSE 7.0 box
>freezes completely. X is down, screen black, no telnet.
>A look in /var/log/messages shows the following:
>
>Nov 15 00:00:10 ssc kernel: VM: killing process Xvnc
[...]
d>
>Can somebody tell me
>a) What is VM?
Virtual Memory. You ran out of it.
>b) Why does it kill the processes?
Memory got exhausted, and some process was requesting more. Maybe you
have something with a memory leak (which keeps using memory, but never
releases it back to Linux).
>There is nothing suspicious going on in the middle of the night, noone's
>working on it.
There is always something going on, ie cron jobs, etc. Isn't midnight
when SuSE does its cron.daily thing?
You might try a later kernel. I think they may handle this a little
better. But bottom line is that something has to give in this kind of
situation.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: SAMBA/Netatalk clustering/high availability
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:25:01 GMT
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:02:32 +0100, Raymond Doetjes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Define HA is a hot standby server for you HA which does a failover in 2 of
>3 minutes???
>The use failoverd, to me failover is that when a server dies all process
>keep running without any downtime just line a NFS server on TruCluster
>from DIGITAL. In that case no there isn't.
Yes, please define "high availability" for your purposes.
Regards, Dustin
--
Dustin Puryear <$email = "dpuryear"."@usa.net";>
Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network
- http://www.prima-tech.com/integrate-linux
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From: John English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Responsiveness under X
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:50:00 +
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:14:01 +, John English wrote:
> >On my system (PIII 450MHz, 512M RAM, Red Hat 6.2), when I run
> >something CPU-intensive like gzipping a couple of hundred megs,
> >the responsiveness goes way down -- the response to pressing a
> >key or clicking the mouse on a menu takes a couple of seconds.
> >Looking at what's happening, I see gzip is using about 96% of
> >the processor time, everything's in memory and there's no swapping.
> >
> >Can anyone suggest how I can fix this? I would have expected that
> >X would be handling incoming interrupts at a fairly high priority
> >since the X server is presumably I/O bound, but it doesn't seem
> >to be happening!
>
> If you check with ps or top, you'll most likely find that X is running
> at priority 0, same as most normal processes.[0] This is deliberate.
> Unix is a multi-user system, so one process cannot hog the entire
> machine, but the scheduler tries to distribute process time evenly.
> Trouble is, yanking the mouse around and moving/updating windows tends
> to be a "bursty" operation, where X needs the processor a lot for one
> timeslice and hardly at all for the next N timeslices.
Yup -- but since it's bursty, how come it has so much trouble taking
over from long-running CPU-bound jobs? I would have thought that the
scheduler would give priority to restarting an idle job over one that's
been busy using its timeslices to the full... I don't know what the
scheduling algorithm is on Linux, but I thought that most systems work
by gradually dropping the priority of compute-bound jobs or raising the
instantaneous priority of idle jobs that suddenly wake up?
> I'd take the aforementioned priority level and try to use it to your
> advantage. It *is* possible to run X at priority -10, giving greater
> responsiveness in all cases, but don't do that if there are other users
> on your machine! A better option would
Linux-Misc Digest #330
Linux-Misc Digest #330, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 13:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Is this hard drive dead? (Frank Miles)
Re: Linux freezes totally (Claus Atzenbeck)
The case of the fizzling fonts (Cindy Huyser)
Re: The case of the fizzling fonts (Bob Tennent)
Re: The case of the fizzling fonts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How migrating Win-Favorites to Netscape-Bookmarks? (Radu Serban)
Re: Linux freezes totally (Claus Atzenbeck)
allow,deny permissions and apache (Evelio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?=)
Problems with Linux DHCP-Server (Peter Buzanits)
Re: Configuring printer from text UI - RH6.1 ("Sylvain Drapeau")
Re: The case of the fizzling fonts (Cindy Huyser)
Lilo Li... problem. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI Model CT4810? (fred smith)
Re: ?start and stop logrotate (-ljl-)
Re: Need some suggestions... (Robert Clayton)
Re: Weird problem. (Gero Marten)
Re: xmms playing CDs? (Gero Marten)
errors in /var/log/messages (Claus Atzenbeck)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: Is this hard drive dead?
Date: 17 Nov 2000 15:41:46 GMT
In article <8v1in7$7ji$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 16 Nov 2000 13:25:49 GMT, LuisMiguel
>Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>I have an old 486 I use for my play
>>>computer. Tonight when I went to boot it
>>>up, it claims there's no hard drive
>>>installed. (there is)
>
>>Go to the BIOS and make an autodetection.
>
>Thanks for the idea --
>I went in to the BIOS and set it to use the
>autoconfiguration with power-on defaults;
>
>later set it to use the autoconfiguration
>with bios defaults;
>
>both resulted in the same DRIVE NOT READY
>ERROR (it asks for the floppy again).
>
>then having little to lose I entered the
>BIOS hard disk utility and had it do a
>media analysis and later a hard drive format
>(there was no data on there except a little
>bit of DOS). During the format, it ran
>through all the cylinder numbers pretending
>to format something, but there were no
>sounds from the hard drive. I can only
>conclude it's not communicating with the
>hard drive at all, but how the hd managed to
>fail without any warning (it worked fine
>before, no weird behavior) I don't understand.
>
>I also tried entering the hd parameters
>into the BIOS manually, but that doesn't
>change anything.
>
>thanks for the suggestion, anybody else is
>welcome to put in their two cents as well.
Go to the manufacturer's website. They almost certainly
have a diagnostic routine that you can run, once you
boot DOS from a floppy. If it's still under warrantee
(probably not if it was original with the 486) they
might even give you a new drive if it fails their
diagnostics.
Good luck!
-frank
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From: Claus Atzenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux freezes totally
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:10:43 +0100
Sandy Drobic wrote on 17 Nov 2000 13:26:00 +0100:
> I had a similar problem with a Realtek 8029 netboard. Sometimes the
> computer just froze completely, not only under Linux, but also under
> Novell and Windows.
> The solution was to put the Realtek in another PCI slot, so it got
> another IRQ. You can also check, if your Bios can assign IRQs to your
> PCI slots and set the correct IRQ.
I have a Realtek RTL-8139 which I use for eth0.
It is strange that I have an entry in /etc/module.conf saying:
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 rtl8139
But I don't use eth1 at all. This is what Mandrake was configurating. Could
this be the problem?
Do I just need to delete the eth1 entry and set eth0 to rtl8139?
Thanks for your opinion!
Claus.
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From: Cindy Huyser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The case of the fizzling fonts
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:13:39 -0600
I suspect I'm having a memory problem with one of the machines here. I'm
running RedHat 6.2 on an older 166 MHz MMX machine with 128 MB RAM, and
my terminal fonts (not running X) are deteriorating.
Here's the story: on reboot, all characters check OK. 1 minute after
reboot, a few characters show signs of deterioration -- an extra pixel
in the character space, or one missing. After several minutes, I logged
28 characters that have either been reduced to 1 to 4 pixels, or that
have become almost entirely filled character blocks. The deterioration
appears to happen to contiguous characters, yes, in blocks that are
multiples of four, and appears to have stabilized within the first 10
minutes after reboot.
Has anyone out there seen this kind of thing before? Can someone lend
some insight on font cacheing? As I said, this machine's an older one
and has some other hardware problems (floppy disk controller on
motherboard is bad), so I don't have great expectations for it. But
before I think of ordering replacement memory, if someone knows of
another possible cause for this problem I'd app
Linux-Misc Digest #331
Linux-Misc Digest #331, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Is this hard drive dead? (Paul Floyd)
Re: mounting multi-session CDRom?? (Paul Floyd)
Re: Bloatware (John Hasler)
Re: Configuring printer from text UI - RH6.1 ("Sylvain Drapeau")
Mail Server Setup - From the beginning... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: the relation between Linux and GCC (Snoopy)
Re: Need some suggestions... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
related ppp and rpm problems (Bob Holtzman)
Re: How migrating Win-Favorites to Netscape-Bookmarks? (Matt O'Toole)
Re: good c/c++ debugger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is this hard drive dead? ("Chuck")
Ghostscript & SVGA (John Culleton)
Ctrl-Alt-Delete (Charu)
Re: ppp dialup does not work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is this hard drive dead?
Re: Lilo Li... problem. (Lori Holder-Webb)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Floyd)
Subject: Re: Is this hard drive dead?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:12:52 GMT
On 16 Nov 2000 08:06:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an old 486 I use for my play
>computer. Tonight when I went to boot it
>up, it claims there's no hard drive
>installed. (there is)
>
>I went into the BIOS and the BIOS thinks
>I have no hard drive at all.
It might possibly be that your CMOS battery is dead. If you make any
changes to the BIOS settings, do they get saved when you reboot?
A bientot
Paul
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EMail = URL (after //), replacing first dot with @
What's the point? The sharp bit on the end.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Floyd)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.linux.os,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: mounting multi-session CDRom??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:12:53 GMT
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:24:01 GMT, nf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have created a CDROM in two sessions, without making any kind of links
>from one session to the other.
>
>When I mount the cdrom in Redhat Linux 7 (default kernel), I can only see
>the files from the first session.
>
>How do I read the info from the second session?
>
>Is there something I add to the MOUNT command?
A few obvious questions. Is the CD able to read multisession disks
(really old drives can't, and you don't explicitly state whether
you're using your recorder to read the disk)?
Next, have you been able to read the CD with another OS (Windoze for
instance)? Perfereably with the same drive you're having problems
reading with under linux.
For multisession support, there's a lot a code required in the kernel to
make up for the fact that the drives don't always work correctly. Maybe
your drive is a bit non-standard and has no support in the kernel.
Regards
Paul
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Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr
EMail = URL (after //), replacing first dot with @
What's the point? The sharp bit on the end.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bloatware
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:00:45 GMT
Kevin Croxen writes:
> Or if not, he may decide to switch to one of the much leaner distros like
> Debian, Slack, Peanut,...
If by 'lean' you mean 'offers fewer packages', you need to take Debian off
that list. We presently have more than 5000 packages.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Sylvain Drapeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuring printer from text UI - RH6.1
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:18:20 -0500
By the way...
I'm trying to cat a file directly to the parallel port and it does not do a
thing. Maybe that helps.
"Sylvain Drapeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message news:
HrdR5.1250$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks for responding...
>
> lsmod tells me parport-probe, parport and lp are loaded, but still can't
do
> a thing with this printer (IBM QW2) using lp0 or lp1.
>
> What kind of other details do you need?
>
> Sylvain Drapeau
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "TopQuark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message news:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:00:59 -0500, Sylvain Drapeau
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to configure a dot matrix printer on a RH6.1 machine from
the
> > > text UI (no GUI installed). My printcap's OK, my parallel port is
> working
> > > (tried from DOS) but Linux gives me a "lpr: connect: Connection
refused"
> > > message...
> > > I heard somewhere I could insmod the parallel port... is this a usual
> > > practice or should I look elsewhere?
> >
> > Assuming it's not a Winprinter ...
> >
> > My system loads modules automatically when I try to use a device. Are
> > you sure your's isn't already loaded? lsmod lists the modules
> > curently installed. insmod lp ought to load the parallel module,
> > assuming it's not already installed or compiled into the kernel.
> >
> > Try both /dev/lp0 and lp1; it seems to be a toss-up as
Linux-Misc Digest #332
Linux-Misc Digest #332, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 19:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete (-ljl-)
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hard Drive accessed every few seconds in KDE and Gnome, not Afterstep (mike)
Re: related ppp and rpm problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Really really weird lilo behavior. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: Bloatware (Harlan Grove)
kernal can't find /sbin/init help ("Jerry Segers, Jr.")
Re: How migrating Win-Favorites to Netscape-Bookmarks? ("Dragan Colak")
RedHat 7 eth0 module problems (Doug Angus)
InfoMagic Linux Archives (George Dau)
Re: Debian 2.2, VT320 and screen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on HP workstation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help me keep my Linux! Groupware solutions? (Michael Merideth)
Re: Lilo Li... problem. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Identd Problems ("Nate Fitch")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Henry_Barta)
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete (Bill Unruh)
From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:09:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Charu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear All,
> There is a line in /etc/inittab to trap ctrl-alt-delete
> Now what I want is to trap this command in such a way that
> nothing should happen when I press ctrl-alt-delete.
cat /etc/inittab
...
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
...
A start would be to disable the above line. This can be done by
place a # as the first character in the above line. Like this:
#ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
You'll need root privileges to edit this file
Wouldn't hurt to "man inittab" it's covered there, indirectly.
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Date: 17 Nov 2000 20:30:41 GMT
Have you tried commenting out that line in /etc/inittab ?
Charu wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> There is a line in /etc/inittab to trap ctrl-alt-delete
> Now what I want is to trap this command in such a way that nothing should
> happen when I press ctrl-alt-delete.
>
> pls help
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard Drive accessed every few seconds in KDE and Gnome, not Afterstep
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:33:00 GMT
Hi,
I just noticed my hard drive being accessed every few seconds in
Gnome and KDE, but not Afterstep. It does not happen if I just
run the shell. I don't think that this was happening before. It is not
only annoying, but it puts wear on the hard drive. I am using a P166
with 80 megs of ram and a few GB of hard drive space. The
system is Redhat 6.1.
What could possibly cause this?
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: related ppp and rpm problems
Date: 17 Nov 2000 20:37:39 GMT
You can sometimes get out of rpm problems by rebuilding the rpm database:
rpm --rebuilddb
Then reinstall ppp. If you suspect the .rpm file you can check it:
rpm -K --nogpg --nopgp *.rpm
Did your ISP change their login to chap or pap authentication? You may
have to reconfigure your login. You might try wvdial. I have had that
work when others fail. YMMV.
Good luck...
Bob Holtzman wrote:
>
> After working flawlessly for several months my modem started endlessly
> dialing, connecting, disconnecting, redialing, connecting, ad
> infinitum when I tried to dial into my ISP using Red Hat's Gnome
> usernet application. The log showed it was disconnecting right after it
> sent the password. In addition, it was impossible to kill the process.
> After issuing "kill " the icon would disappear from the desktop but
> the modem would continue dialing, etc. A reboot would be required.
>
> I decided to try the KDE dialer which I had never configured before but
> when I opened it, it said "pppd not properly installed". Running "rpm
> -V ppp" showed a problem with the options file. I thought "what the
> hell" and uninstalled ppp. Big mistake! When I tried to reinstall it
> from the Red Hat app cd, the hashmarks indicated the installation
> completed but when I checked with "rpm -q ppp" it said "ppp package
> not installed" and, in fact, it wasn't. I've never had a problem
> installing rpm packages before, either from the cd or downloaded.
>
> So...here I sit with no way to dial out. Can't even download
> another ppp package in case the one on the cd is bad. Short of
> reinstalling the os, is there a way out of this? Don't say RTFM. I
> have many times without finding anything applicable to this. Any
> help appreciated. Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Really really weird lilo behavior.
Date: Fri, 17 Nov
Linux-Misc Digest #333
Linux-Misc Digest #333, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 22:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Identd Problems (Mark Post)
User identification problem
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Henry_Barta)
Re: Configuring printer from text UI - RH6.1 (TopQuark)
Re: errors in /var/log/messages (TopQuark)
Re: Bloatware (John Hasler)
What's up with Red Hat online? (Christopher Wong)
dosemu: can't exit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
two mice with linux? (Giuseppe Milicia)
Re: Bloatware (Kevin Croxen)
Mount ufs (Solaris) Hard Disk on Storm Linux 2000 Server ("news.telus.net")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Christopher Friesen)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Identd Problems
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:16:22 GMT
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:28:01 -0500, "Nate Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>This is a problem that plagues me during my IRC sessions. I cannot
>connect to particular irc servers (particularly EFnet servers.) I get the
>infamous (~[EMAIL PROTECTED] - please install identd) error from the
>server. I'm running RH7, using DHCP, and I've installed identd 3 again to
>make sure it's there. EFnet has been one of the most worthless irc n'works
>out there lately (thanks to the script kiddies) - and the only server I can
>get a connection on is irc.emory.edu, and that's usually lagged for some
>reason. Anyone with insight, your advice will be appreciated greatly, tnx.
Are you running behind an IP masqueraded firewall? If so, you will need to
run a version of identd that supports that. There are several that can be
found at http://freshmeat.net.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: User identification problem
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:19:02 GMT
I'm using Mandrake, a distribution with which I've had no real problems, until
now. For some reason, when i log in as a user other than root, the shell
prompt cannot get that user's name, and substitutes 'I have no name!' instead.
'whoami' gets the response 'Cannot find username for UID 505'.
I recently cleared some services from runlevel 3 that were unnecessary (I
hope), something I've done before with no problems. I get the same response
in runlevel 5. I've been doing a few other things with config scripts round
and about, so it's difficult for me to lock down exactly where I've brought
this upon myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Chris
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From: Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 18 Nov 2000 00:28:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (I agree that if 'ping' works, then everuything else should
> too. After I get through with this, I'll put the old card back
> in and see if things still work.)
'Old' card still works. results from 'netstat -rn' and 'ifconfig' are:
[root@pswin /root]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.100.100 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 eth0
192.168.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 ppp0
[root@pswin /root]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:30:63:D6
inet addr:192.168.100.100 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:15 Base address:0xe000
> [hbarta@pswin hbarta]$ netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
> 207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0
> 192.168.100.100 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 lo
> 192.168.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 ppp0
> [hbarta@pswin hbarta]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethern
Linux-Misc Digest #334
Linux-Misc Digest #334, Volume #26 Sat, 18 Nov 00 01:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI Model CT4810? (John Scudder)
meditech terminal session under linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IPC's ("suresh")
Re: Is this hard drive dead?
Re: Kernel compilation problem (erich friesen)
Wiping your tracks - bash history (Vivek Narayanamurthy)
Gnome Desktop Status Bar Missing (mike)
Re: Mount ufs (Solaris) Hard Disk on Storm Linux 2000 Server (Dances With Crows)
Re: related ppp and rpm problems (Bob Holtzman)
Re: The case of the fizzling fonts (B'ichela)
Re: Responsiveness under X (Dances With Crows)
Re: pine locally through dialup? (David Efflandt)
Re: How do I display total page count in troff? (Clarke Echols)
Why does linux keep crashing? ("Bob Jones")
From: John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI Model CT4810?
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:20:21 -0500
> is a plug'n'pray card you may need to fool with isapnptools by hand
> if sndconfig doesn't do the trick.
We must be talking about 2 different cards..mine is a PCI not ISA. The es1371
configuration doesn't work for me.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: meditech terminal session under linux
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 03:17:09 GMT
anyone have experiences setting up sessions to Magic server under
linux? currently using windows Meditech client. please advise.
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From: "suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPC's
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:29:40 -0500
Hi,
I am a new bie to Linux and couldnot find answers to the following
questions. So please respond if you know any of them.
Does Linux(RedHat 6.1 or 6.2) have the following IPC's :
1. POSIX Message Queues
2. POSIX Shared Memory
3. POSIX Semaphores.
4. Mutex that can be shared across PROCESSES.
Any help in this direction will be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Suresh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Is this hard drive dead?
Date: 18 Nov 2000 03:39:39 GMT
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:57:11 -0500,
Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>. . . Pull the drive out and give it a good
>thump. Or as I have heard it called
the the six inch drop tool.
>Just my two cents.
>Chuck
OK, I'll take it out on the porch and
hit it with a 2x4 :-)
bought a different drive today, so
you're right, I've got nothing to lose.
(OK, enough chitchat ... sorry gang)
Thx
MP
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From: erich friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel compilation problem
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:47:56 -0600
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No, 2.2.17 is a stable version. The development versions have the
second number odd
(e.g.: 2.3.17)
I would check if /usr/src/linux is a symbolic link that points to
another directory, if that is the case you need to change the symbolic
link to the location of your new kernel and module sources (My SuSE
default installation, /usr/src/linux was a symbolic linnk that pointed
to /usr/src/linux-suse and because the compilation process would always
look for the sources for modules in /usr/src/linux/modules, my
compilation would fail, unless I changed the symbolic link)
Erich
^
/e\
_
Wayne wrote:
>
> Isn't 2.2.17 an "insecure" version of the kernel? Maybe that's it, try going
> for the stable 2.2.16 instead.
>
> "Clifford W. Racz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8u6n92$dvm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have performed a fresh install of Linux Mandrake 7.2 and it has worked
> > well. I am experimenting since Linux is new to me. My system is a
> > P2-350MHz, 128MB PC100, Soundblaster Live! card.
> >
> > I have been trying to compile the 2.2.17 kernel so that I can get sound in
> > the Kernel (it works with the "O-negative" kernel like the kernel How-to
> > calls it) but it doesn't always work.
> >
> > Anyway, I downloaded the kernel tar.gz source from kernel.org and followed
> > the directions as in the Kernel-How-To, my RedHat book (Osbourne complete
> > RedHat reference), the Mandrake manual, the README that comes with the
> > kernel source and checked out some newsgroup archives. I have tried the
> > compilation 6 times and I always get an "Error 2" after a long time of
> > compiling.
> >
> > I have made sure the binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk.i586.rpm was installed (as
> one
> > of the posts said in a newsgroup archive) and I still got the error.
> >
> > Can anyone figure out a solution?
> >
> >
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