Linux-Misc Digest #357
Linux-Misc Digest #357, Volume #27 Wed, 14 Mar 01 08:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: HOW TO: XWindows Client? (Martin Gregorie)
Re: Help! partitioning woes with RH 6.1 ("Eric")
Bizarre message ("Dennis")
To set the date of files (Baogao)
Re: To set the date of files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Bizarre message ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ping, syslogd, startx woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: QRPFF Source Code (Samuel Hocevar)
Re: Help! partitioning woes with RH 6.1 (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: magicfilter vs apsfilter (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: ping, syslogd, startx woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Bizarre message (Carl Fink)
Re: Help! partitioning woes with RH 6.1 ("Eric")
Re: No swap being used (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: waitpid() for a non parent process (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: ping, syslogd, startx woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Start X Windows (Jean-David Beyer)
modprobe: cannot locate ("Darren Davison")
Re: Bizarre message (Christopher Albert)
Re: Books on Unix Kernel for non-programmer. (Martin Jost)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: HOW TO: XWindows Client?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:23:47 GMT
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:49:55 +0100, "Eric" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So look for a X server for NT.
I use Exceed at the office (not-free), but there are free alternatives IIRC
I've been looking at NetSarang. Its not free but its a lot cheaper
than Exceed.
PuTTY is free but probably not whats needed as it only provides a text
window - rather like a tarted up telnet. It does work welland has
built in ssh support.
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gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: "Eric" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help! partitioning woes with RH 6.1
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:23:54 +0100
: You must reboot first.
: fdisk told you to do this.
: mke2fs gets it's information form /proc/partitions and this is not yet
: updated
I see. It works now. A side note on linux fdisk. I find the
output of fdisk confusing (compared to the old BSD fdisk) since
it lists hard disk devices (/dev/hdax) instead of partition numbers.
No it lists partition numbers, but it is the one tool that doesn't read
/proc for it's information. It directly reads the table from HDD.
Later fdisk asks for a partition number but you have no idea but guessing
which partition number you want to choose.
four primary partitions: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
one of these can be an extended partition.
The logical partitions inside this extended partition, are numbered hda5 and
up
There's no confusion if you ask me, but I may not have understood your
question
Eric
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4 5005 40178565 85 Linux extended
/dev/hda5 469530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda670 477 3277228+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 478 5005 36371128+ 83 Linux
# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 3225252 2129720931672 70% /
/dev/hda123302 5964 16135 27% /boot
/dev/hda7 3579936820 33980792 0% /mnt/data_xxx29
xxx04:/mnt/home/xxx04
19180932 10106452 8100140 56% /mnt/home/xxx04/
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From: "Dennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bizarre message
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:10:26 +0400
Hi
A friend of mine phoned and said he is having a message on his RedHat 6.0
Linux server.
His Linux guru has left the country a few weeks ago and now he is facing
this error message on his server :
Exec : /usr/man/man4/squid : cannot execute : No such file or directory
This message appears at least 10 times, then he gets this :
INIT : Id "pa" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes
Since I am also new to Linux I asked him to reboot his server.
However the same message appears after the reboot.
What is this squid? I found in /etc/passwd an account with this same name..
But my friend tells me no one uses this account.
Can this be a hacker?
Thanks in advance for your help for tracking this bizarre message
Regards
Dennis
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From: Baogao [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: To set the date of files
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:25:21 +0100
Hi
Any info how to set/modify the date of a file is greatly appreciated
Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: To set the date of files
Date: 14 Mar 2001 11:40:48 GMT
Baogao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any info how to set/modify the date of a file is greatly appreciated
Linux-Misc Digest #357
Linux-Misc Digest #357, Volume #26 Mon, 20 Nov 00 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
information about modules vs. devices (David A. Rogers)
Re: Undelete a file in Linux (Jason)
Re: Set environment variable in bsh script and effect another program. ("Joe
(mvjap3) Philbrook III")
Re: cdrecord and multi-session ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LILO boor menu - 2 boots for Linux ("Jeff Chandler")
Re: file is not found - but I know it exists! (Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8._S=F8rensen?=)
Adobe Acrobat XKeysymDB (Chris Shepard)
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. ("Thomas Petz")
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (bob_more)
Re: SMP system with AMD micros (Cokey de Percin)
Handy - PC put through - somewhere else (Ekkard Gerlach)
Ok I tried the kdeconfig ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where can I learn what "rpm" means? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Netscape 6 (Carter Brey)
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (Lenny Leblanc)
Re: X-Windows trys to start and then crashes ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: Which Linux to try? (Colin Watson)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it.
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:00:24 GMT
Sorry guys I forgot to put in the 's (joelwebb)
did you use the kdeconfig rpm if --nodeps and --force flagged, it
overwrites the login manager painlessly and offers you both kde and
kde2. I had it running in thirty minutes.
I looked for kdeconfig. Where is that rpm?? There is no tool on the
machine right now labeled kdeconfig nor an rpm on www.rpmfind.net.
The logon screen it offers kde1 and kde2. The kde2 craps out completely
and comes back to the logon screen. KDE1 goes into the new KDE mode
with a grey screen and bombs out, shows a KDE error:
The application KNotify (knotify) crashed and caused the signal 11
(SIGSEGV)
then brings up Kandall's useful tips.
I think the $PATH statement might be one of the problems, but I am
sorry I don't know the syntax of exporting the path of KDE which is I
AM GUESSING
/usr/local/kde/bin
Guys
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Rogers)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: information about modules vs. devices
Date: 20 Nov 2000 17:03:35 GMT
Assuming that a call is made for /dev/foo ex.(/dev/midi00). Is there any
documentation on what module name will be requested (via request_module) if
any?
dar
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From: Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Undelete a file in Linux
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:32:38 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
when you run the undelete from mc, it asks you what device you want to look
at. The reason why you unmount the file system as soon as possible is
because, lets say you trashed your mp3's in your home directory. No big
deal, you just fire up mc and head to the undelete function. But you screw
up and manage to start editing a file in mc instead, mc writes out its
cache file and boom, you could have just trashed Tom Jones best hits. Its
always a good practice to unmount the file system that you just deleted the
file from as soon as you know you made a boo boo. It just prevents the
file from being overwritten and gives you a chance.
If you are only a user, you need to get ahold of the admin real fast and
see if this is something that he will even consider doing. Unmounting home
is never a happy thing during a production day. Tends to get BOFH's cranky
and most will just say hope you had a backup, leave me be.
I dont have any hard numbers on odds for recovery before and after
mounting, but I would be willing to say that it would be VERY difficult to
overwrite a sector on an unmounted disc, baring great big magnets and a few
straight pins.
--
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
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From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Set environment variable in bsh script and effect another program.
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:39:08 -0500
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok I'm not sure if this is what your looking for... But here goes.
If you mean you want to run a script that will set some environmental
variables or any variable for that matter then when that script
terminates and you return to the command prompt, you want those variables
to still equal what your script just set them to???
Then there is a workaround... lets say your script is named fix_env
then instead of calling it with
$ fix_env
try calling it with
$ . fix_env
the preceding dot causes the shell to execute t
Linux-Misc Digest #357
Linux-Misc Digest #357, Volume #25Sun, 6 Aug 00 08:13:02 EDT Contents: Re: Changing LILO in Mandrake? (Jim Richardson) color display (jason) reclaiming the master boot record? (Peter Bismuti) Re: reclaiming the master boot record? (Prasanth A. Kumar) Re: Config.sys parameters is my Question. What is it or are they? (Lew Pitcher) Re: *Virtual Desktops* (Valentin Guillen) Re: Configuration file in xconfig (SeLmux) Re: changing distributions (SeLmux) Re: Linux sees only 64 M of RAM ??? (SeLmux) Re: color display (SeLmux) Re: Alpha vs Intel (Patrick Vogt) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Changing LILO in Mandrake? Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 10:58:21 -0700 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 31 Jul 2000 07:44:55 -0500, Tim Palmer, in the persona of [EMAIL PROTECTED], brought forth the following words...: Cap'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll admit I'm somewhat of a newbie to Mandrake Linux, and this is probably a stupid question...but, I need the answer. I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my system in a dual boot with Win98. My hard drive is in four partitions: Partition 1: Win98 system files (1.5 GB) - hdc1 Partition 2: Win98 programs (8 GB) - hdc2 Partition 3: Linux Swap (133 MB) - hdc6 Partition 4: Linux Native: Mandrake Distro (2.3 GB) - hdc7 After I installed Mandrake and LILO, Linux is the first boot option and loads Mandrake after 10 seconds, unless I type Windows. I want to set it up so that Windows boots after 10 seconds, unless I type Linux. What's the easiest way to change this in Mandrake? Or if someone could point me to a Mandrake HOWTO Web link for this, I would appreciate it. Thanks! *** The Cap'n Eddit a text fial and recompial kernal. Despite Tim's (poorly spelt) hyperbole, you can change the boot order in one of 3 ways. Edit /etc/lilo.conf to put the entry you want first in line and rerun lilo Edit /etc/lilo.conf to add the line default=windows (or whatever the windows entry is called) at the top of the file in the global variables section, and rerun lilo. Or IIRC using Drake, the mandrake config tool, you can do this, but I don't use mandrake so I can't be sure there. Note that Tim was either incorrect, or simply lying about recompiling the kernel. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS. -- From: jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: color display Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 05:30:03 GMT hi im using slakware 7 currently. my video card is S3 Trio64 with 2 mb memory. i was wondering how i can start x window straight away to 16 bit color without typing startx -- -bpp 16 in the command line. thanks for helping. -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) Subject: reclaiming the master boot record? Date: 6 Aug 2000 05:37:47 GMT I accidently wrote over the master boot record, I can still boot but only from a floppy. How can I place lilo back in the MBR? Thanks -- Subject: Re: reclaiming the master boot record? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar) Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 05:50:10 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) writes: I accidently wrote over the master boot record, I can still boot but only from a floppy. How can I place lilo back in the MBR? Thanks Run the 'lilo' command after you boot in using the floppy. -- Prasanth Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Lew Pitcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Config.sys parameters is my Question. What is it or are they? Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 02:10:21 -0400 "G. Eugene Mitchell" wrote: I am practicing on a pentium pci/isa. Can't seem to boot up from dos. too many unknowns. Thanks in advance. P.S. I am using Windows 95, upgrade. Funny, we're using Linux. Why don't you ask one of those comp.os.ms-windows newsgroups? -- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training -- From: Valentin Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: *Virtual Desktops* Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 00:50:14 -0600 Object of my Desire, X is a program which requires a configuration file to operate properly. This file is called XF86Config, and is usually located at /etc or another similar directory related to X, like maybe /etc/X11 . This can and does vary among the different distros. For most users, this file is created by a video configuration utility which us usually run at linux installation time. The contents of this file determine if and when a virtual desktop resolution is used in X. There are to ways you can result with virtual desktops. You could have explicitly requested it, conciously or inadvertently, during the X con
Linux-Misc Digest #357
Linux-Misc Digest #357, Volume #24Thu, 4 May 00 05:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Can anyone clarify boot sequence? (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Re: Can anyone clarify boot sequence? (brian moore)
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive (Bill Unruh)
Re: Newbie need help - Upgrade RAM ("Peter T. Breuer")
ViaVoice (roger smith)
Re: Software Automation Tool. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Please help a Swede in need, logging in gone berserk! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Any FreeBSD books for a Linux user? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: sed: find 2nd last occurrence (Vilmos Soti)
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive (Neil Koozer)
Re: Can anyone clarify boot sequence? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: best location to load parport.o and parport_pc.o (marc_badel)
Re: Please help a Swede in need, logging in gone berserk! (Eric)
libcrypto.so libssl.so (Donald West)
Ideas for an extra box (Jonathan Mendez)
Playing sound from program (Janos LICHTENBERGER)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Subject: Can anyone clarify boot sequence?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 06:19:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok so the kernel starts.
First how do you know where the kernel is ( OK it's in
the /boot partition, but it's (supposedly) not mounted untill
the kernel loads.
Next the kernel calls init.
Well maybe. How does the kernel know where init is?
How does it get to it if the /etc filesystem is not yet mounted?
Init may require several shared objects, how does it find those
objects?
Part of the point is that it seems like after the kernel starts
/boot, /, /etc, /usr are accessible ( if not mounted ). So how do you
tell the kernel where they are?
What if you want a seperate partition for /usr/lib for example?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Can anyone clarify boot sequence?
Date: 4 May 2000 06:34:38 GMT
On Thu, 04 May 2000 06:19:49 GMT,
Thaddeus L. Olczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok so the kernel starts.
First how do you know where the kernel is ( OK it's in
the /boot partition, but it's (supposedly) not mounted untill
the kernel loads.
That's right. The boot loader (LILO) doesn't know a thing about
"/boot", though. It just knows "the kernel starts at track 17, sector
2, head 3" or whatever and reads that. That's why you have to rerun
lilo when you change kernels, even if you keep the same name -- it won't
be in the same spot on the disk.
Next the kernel calls init.
Well maybe. How does the kernel know where init is?
The same way anything else does. The kernel knows about file systems,
and it knows what the root file system is (which you can change with
'rdev').
How does it get to it if the /etc filesystem is not yet mounted?
Init may require several shared objects, how does it find those
objects?
Again, by the time init is running the root file system is mounted
(though read only).
Part of the point is that it seems like after the kernel starts
/boot, /, /etc, /usr are accessible ( if not mounted ). So how do you
tell the kernel where they are?
'rdev'.
What if you want a seperate partition for /usr/lib for example?
It doesn't matter. Init's libraries are in /lib, not /usr/lib,
which should be the same for anything else run up until /usr is mounted
(obvious ones are e2fsck and mount, but there are a bunch of others like
/bin/sh that should have all their needed parts on the root partition).
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive
Date: 4 May 2000 06:42:17 GMT
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Koozer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
](3) Try the nuni boot loader (which I wrote:). It avoids bios problems
]by not using the bios. It can boot from anyplace up to 137gb on any IDE
]drive, including drives attached to add-on cards such as ata66 cards.
]It can be downloaded from
]ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/
Interesting. What is its downside? Why is it not the default loader in
Linux?
(And what does nuni stand for? Or for that matter what does lilo stand
for?)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie need help - Upgrade RAM
Date: 4 May 2000 07:23:25 GMT
To Tran Tung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Can you tell me how can I tell Linux that I've just upgraded my RAM? I
You can read the FAQ. Go to c.o.l.m (oops, you're already there) and
read the weekly/monthly posting. I quote section 1.8
A number of people have asked how to address more than 64 MB of
memory, which is th
Linux-Misc Digest #357
Linux-Misc Digest #357, Volume #21 Tue, 10 Aug 99 22:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Cyrus, Procmail, and Postfix ("Tobias Knowles")
Diamond G460 AGP HELP Please! (MattCero)
Graphics Library for C/C++ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: using setserial to change irq on serial port (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
Re: Cant get Viper770 to work in X-Windows (Gnome) (steve blakeway)
Re: HELP: Samba with domain authentication? (John Carter)
Re: CIA assassinations (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Can't log in (Gergo Barany)
RE: Server Chat Web forum software for Linux? ("Sam Sim")
Re: How do I tell RH sees a second CPU? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: vmlinux and module-info (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Kernel RECOMPILE (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Cyrus, Procmail, and Postfix--HELP!! (Matthew Vanecek)
Re: Graphics Library for C/C++ (Gary Momarison)
Re: lower to upper case? (Joseph Crowe)
Re: DVD Movies (brian moore)
Hauppauge WinTV video frame grabbing? (James A. Stockel)
Re: help (Chris Mahmood)
From: "Tobias Knowles" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.mail.imap
Subject: Re: Cyrus, Procmail, and Postfix
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:40:44 -0700
Im not familiar with postfix, but using exim I was able to get this to work.
The key is exim changes to a given user depending on certain factors.
I've setup a procmail.generic file under /home/cyrus that is called by exim
/usr/bin/procmail -p procmail.generic. Then you can do your
delivery/filtering from procmail.
/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -a USER -m user.USER
Here's a link to an article that goes into this a bit further.
http://www.idg.net/gomail.cgi?id=19699
Tobias Knowles
Matthew Vanecek wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I have cyrus-imapd 1.5.19, procmail, and postfix 19990317 build. I have
just changed to cyrus from wu imapd.
How do I get procmail to work with cyrus? I've tried a short progie
called "deliver-wrapper" as the action line in my .procmailrc, but it
doesn't work if the mail is handled by the MTA. And you can't call the
cyrus deliver program directly
The .procmailrc works properly, if I run procmail directly, e.g.,
procmail testmsg.txt
but when mail comes in through postfix, it doesn't get distributed
through the system.
I also looked at a page on getting this to work with sendmail, but
sendmail and postfix don't exactly configure the same way.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Matthew Vanecek
Course of Study: http://www.unt.edu/bcis
Visit my Website at http://people.unt.edu/~mev0003
For answers type: perl -e 'print
$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
*
For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow
except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero)
Subject: Diamond G460 AGP HELP Please!
Date: 10 Aug 1999 22:20:34 GMT
Could someone please tell me how to get my Diamond G460 AGP video card to work
with Linux 5.2 or atleast point me in the right direction? Thanks, Matt Cero
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.hacking,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Graphics Library for C/C++
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:03:31 GMT
I'm looking any available graphics library for C/C++. I've looked on
the net and can't seem to find any. I found reference to a library
called gpc-graphics++.h but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Any help
would be appreciated. Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: using setserial to change irq on serial port
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:12:45 +0300
Jan Cernohorsky wrote:
I have a SuSE 6.2 Linux installation on a dual processor PII 300 box. The
modem is ISA and on COM3. In the standard setting the irq on the port in
question would like to be irq 4. It needs to be 5. I have tried to use
setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5
(as root), but it comes back with
"Operation not permitted"
Could it be because /dev/ttyS2 is in use by some other process? See if
"setserial /dev/ttyS3" works. "ps axw | grep tty" or "ls /var/lock"
could help.
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu[ aramazanoglu AT demirbank DOT com DOT tr ]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve blakeway)
Subject: Re: Cant get Viper770 to work in X-Windows (Gnome)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:58:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 18:53:23 -0600, "JMNugent" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Anybody gotten the Diamond Viper770 to work in X-Windows. I got XF86Setup
installed via the RPM,...but I've
Linux-Misc Digest #357
Linux-Misc Digest #357, Volume #19Sun, 7 Mar 99 23:13:11 EST
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 3 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best value in CPU for linux (Rod Roark)
KDE 1.1 and GIMP 1.1.2 - very strange behaviour (Rob Fisher)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 3 of 6)
Date: 8 Mar 1999 00:36:57 GMT
[Roderich Schupp]
Zlibc is a program that allows existing applications to read
compressed (GNU gzip'ed) files as if they were not compressed. Look on
metalab.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/libs/. The author is Alain Knuff.
There is also a compressing block device driver, "DouBle," by
Jean-Marc Verbavatz, which can provide on-the-fly disk compression in
the kernel. The source-only distribution is located at metalab.unc.edu
in the directory /pub/Linux/patches/diskdrives/. This driver
compresses inodes and directory information as well as files, so any
corruption of the file system is likely to be serious.
There is also a package called tcx (Transparently Compressed
Executables), which allows you to keep infrequently compressed
executables compressed and only uncompress them temporarily when in
use. It is located on metalab.unc.edu in the directory
/pub/Linux/utils/compress/.
3.4 Can I use my Stacked/DBLSPC/etc. DOS drive?
Until recently, not very easily. You can access DOS 6.X volumes from
the DOS emulator ("What software does Linux support?"), but
it's harder than accessing a normal DOS volume via the DOS kernel
option, a module, or mtools.
There is a recently added package, dmsdos, that reads and writes
compressed file systems like DoubleSpace/DriveSpace in MS-DOS 6.x and
Win95, as well as Stacker versions 3 and 4. It is a loadable kernel
module. Look at
metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/.
3.5 Can I access OS/2 HPFS partitions from Linux?
Yes, but Linux access to HPFS partitions is read-only. HPFS file
system access is available as an option when compiling the kernel or
as a module. See the Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt file in the
kernel source distribution. ("How do I upgrade/recompile my
kernel?") Then you can mount HPFS partition, using, for example:
$ mkdir /hpfs
$ mount -t hpfs /dev/hda5 /hpfs
3.6 Can Linux access Amiga file systems?
The Linux kernel has support for the Amiga Fast File System (AFFS)
version 1.3 and later, both as a compile-time option and as a module.
The file Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt in the Linux kernel source
distribution has more information.
See "How do I upgrade/recompile my kernel?".
Linux supports AFFS hard-drive partitions only. Floppy access is not
supported due to incompatibilities between Amiga floppy controllers
and PC and workstation controllers. The AFFS driver can also mount
disk partitions used by the Un*x Amiga Emulator, by Bernd Schmidt.
3.7 Can Linux access BSD, SysV, etc. UFS?
Recent kernels can mount (read only) the UFS file system used by
System V; Coherent; Xenix; BSD; and derivatives like SunOS, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, and NeXTStep. UFS support is available as a kernel
compile-time option and a module.
See, "How do I upgrade/recompile my kernel?"
3.8 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?" in this FAQ.
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/.
There is a SMB Web site at samba.anu.edu.au/samba/.
3.9 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.
3.10 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
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 (a DOS program to load a Linux, or other OS, kernel is
one way to make Linux co-exist with DOS. LOADLIN 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 existin
