Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #27Sun, 1 Apr 01 15:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 6 of 6)
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$ 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 that
contains 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 report to any of the comp.os.linux groups.
If the problem is not repeatable, you may be experiencing memory
corruption. Refer to the answer: ("Make Says, "Error 139."")
10.6. Make Says, "Error 139."
Your compiler (GCC) dumped core. You probably have a corrupted, buggy,
or old version of GCC--get the latest release or EGCS. Alternatively,
you may be running out of swap space. Refer to: ("My Machine Runs Very
Slowly when I Run GCC / X / ...")
If this doesn't fix the problem, you are probably having problems with
memory or disk corruption. Check that the clock rate, wait states, and
refresh timing for your SIMMS and cache are correct (hardware manuals
are sometimes wrong, too). If so, you may have some marginal SIMMS, or
a faulty motherboard or hard disk or controller.
Linux is a very good memory tester--much better than MS-DOS based
memory test programs.
Reportedly, some clone x87 math coprocessors can cause problems. Try
compiling a kernel with math emulation ("How Do I Upgrade/Recompile My
Kernel?") no387 kernel command line flag on the LILO prompt to force
the kernel to use math emulation, or it may be able to work and still
use the '387, with the math emulation compiled in but mainly unused.
More information about this problem is available on the Web at
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/.
10.7. Shell-Init: Permission Denied when I Log In.
Your root directory and all the directories up to your home directory
must be readable and executable by everybody. See the manual page for
chmod or a book on Unix for how to fix the problem.
10.8. No Utmp Entry. You Must Exec ... when Logging In.
Your /var/run/utmp is screwed up. You should have
/var/run/utmp
in your /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/*. See, ("I Have Screwed Up My
System and Can't Log In to Fix It.") Note that the utmp may also be
found in /var/adm/ or /etc/ on some older systems.
10.9. Warning--bdflush Not Running.
Modern kernels use a better strategy for writing cached disk blocks.
In addition to the kernel changes, this involves replacing the old
update program which used to write everything every 30 seconds with a
more subtle daemon (actually a pair), known as bdflush. Get
bdflush-n.n.tar.gz from the same place as the kernel source code ("How
Do I Upgrade/Recompile My Kernel?") and compile and install it.
bdflush should be started before the usual boot-time file system
checks. It will work fine with older kernels as well, so there's no
need to keep the old update around.
10.10. Warning: obsolete routing request made.
This is nothing to worry about. The message means that your version
route is a little out of date, compared to the kernel. You can make
the message go away by getting a new version of route from the same
place as the kernel source code. ("How
Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #26 Sun, 10 Dec 00 05:13:01 EST
Contents:
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 1 of 6)
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Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
This is the list of Frequently Asked Questions for Linux, the free
operating system kernel that runs on many modern computer systems. The
kernel source code documentation says that Linux "aims for POSIX
compliance." Linux uses mostly 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 nearly every hardware platform in existence that is
capable of running it. (Please refer to the question, "What Is Linux?"
below.) 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.")
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. Where Can I Find Application XXX? (Was: Has Anyone
Ported/Compiled/Written XXX for Linux?)
1.5. Does Linux Run on My Computer? What Hardware Is Supported?
1.6. What Ports to Other Processors Are There?
1.7. How Much Hard Disk Space Does Linux Need?
1.8. How Much Memory Does Linux Need?
1.9. How Much Memory Can Linux Use?
1.10. Does Linux Support Universal System Bus Devices?
1.11. Is Linux Public Domain? Copyrighted?
1.12. Is Linux *nix?
2. Topics of Current Interest.
2.1. Should I Use the Red Hat 7.0 kgcc compiler?
2.2. What Resources Are There for Linux DeCSS and Other Open
Source DVD Software?
2.3. Where Is Information About Electronic Privacy Laws that
Affect ISP's?
2.4. 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. Where Can I Find Out About Unmaintained Free Software?
3.12. Are the News Groups Archived Anywhere?
3.13. Where Can I Find Out About Security Related Issues?
3.14. Where Can I Find Linux System Specifications?
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?
5.3. How Do I Make Backups?
5.4. How Do I Resize a Partition (Non-Destructively)?
5.5. Is There a Defragmenter for Ext2fs, Etc.?
5.6. How Do I Format and Create a File System on a Floppy?
5.7. Does Linux Support Virtualized File Systems Like RAID?
5.8. Does Linux Support File System Encryption?
5.9. I Get Nasty Messages about Inodes, Blocks, and the Like.
5.10. My Swap Area Isn't Working.
5.11. How Do I Add Temporary Swap Space?
Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #25 Sun, 20 Aug 00 19:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script. ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Reality Check - NY Times Article (Stewart Honsberger)
Some weird xterm behaviour! ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: burnt iso image (Bob Martin)
Re: LILO re-install question (Juergen Neuhoff)
Re: Upgrading an enternal USR Courier V.Everything *without*MS-Windows... (Bob
Martin)
Re: Severe booting / filesystem problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing 2nd hard disk ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Some weird xterm behaviour! ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Installing 2nd hard disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To:
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:12:22 -0500
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Andrew N. McGuire quoth:
~~ Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:58:10 -0500
~~ From: Andrew N. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d, comp.os.linux.setup,
~~ comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security, comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
~~
~~ On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, NuQ quoth:
~~
~~ ~~ Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:23:24 -0500
~~ ~~ From: NuQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ ~~ Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d, comp.os.linux.setup,
~~ ~~ comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security, comp.os.linux.misc
~~ ~~ Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
~~ ~~
~~ ~~ x-no-archive: yes
~~ ~~ "blowfish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
~~ ~~ news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
~~ ~~ > "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
~~ ~~ > >
~~ ~~ > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, blowfish (Alex Lam) quoth:
~~ ~~ > >
~~ ~~ > > ~~ Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:54:05 -0700
~~ ~~ > > ~~ From: "blowfish (Alex Lam)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ ~~ > > ~~ Reply-To: ..
~~ ~~ > > ~~ Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d, comp.os.linux.setup,
~~ ~~ > > ~~ omp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security,
~~ ~~ comp.os.linux.misc
~~ ~~ > > ~~ Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
~~ ~~ > > ~~
~~ ~~ > >
~~ ~~ > > [ snip post, again ]
~~ ~~ > >
~~ ~~ > > Sorry for the second reply, but I have looked through the Perl
~~ ~~ > > script that is a supposed 'Trojan'. It is not a Trojan Horse, it
~~ ~~ > > looked like familiar bad code, and it was. It is a 3 line RSA
~~ ~~ > > encryption program written in Perl. It is also broken and pretty
~~ ~~ > > much about the worst code I have ever seen (that is taking into
~~ ~~ > > account the fact that it is obfuscated as well). In other words,
~~ ~~ > > there is no reason to fear that Perl snippet, and you have just
~~ ~~ > > wasted a tremendous amount of bandwidth.
~~ ~~ > >
~~ ~~ > > anm
~~ ~~ > > --
~~ ~~ > >
~~ ~~ > It's bad code all right. But it did try to install a "new" KDE on my
~~ ~~ > machine.
~~ ~~ >
~~ ~~ > Yes, it even pops up a new window asking me if I wanted to proceed?
~~ ~~ >
~~ ~~
~~ ~~ So it only affects Linux users? Heheh ;-)
~~
~~ [anm@hawk ~] cat rsa.pl [pts/2]
~~ #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i msg.rsa
That is from the full commented version, found at:
http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/rsa/story2.html
Still a silly program, I guess the only reason that they obfuscated
it so much, is to condense it into a signature size file, as it is
supposedly illegal to export this program out of the U.S.. Still from
my perspective, there should never be a reason to obfuscate a program
that much, unless of course you are in an obfuscation contest, or
writing JAPH's. This is the last bit of bandwidth and time I am
willing to waste on this topic.
Regards,
anm
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~~
~ Andrew N. McGuire ~
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~ "Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. ~
~~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Reality Check - NY Times Article
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:14:42 GMT
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:10:20 GMT, sfcybear wrote:
>and just what does Wall Street really know about technology?
Absolutely nothing. Picking some nits, I've found a few
Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #24 Thu, 18 May 00 01:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: build help please. (Mark Bratcher)
Help with C Library (Yu Lin)
Q: setting up modem and soundcard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WordPerfect (Carl Fink)
virtual email domain hosting ("vincent")
Re: Q: setting up modem and soundcard (Robert Schweikert)
Linux Writers Wanted (rinkjustice)
Re: Making a Linux box authenticate to an NT domain (Robert Schweikert)
Using RedHat Kickstart with Large Second Ide Drive ("Brad Trainham")
Int LS-120? (Casey)
Re: cant get to kde (josh)
Anyone have info on JediKnight through IPCHAINS? (Patrick M Geahan)
Re: Linux Distribution (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Why .bashrc not take effect? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Math software for Linux? ("Dr Huang")
Help with syslogd/syslog.conf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Useful tip (Malcolm)
Re: Why .bashrc not take effect? (Dave Brown)
Re: WordPerfect (Dave Brown)
Mounting drives (Al Warner)
Re: Help!!!..MAKING A NEWSGROUP LIST... (softrat)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Mongoose)
Windows 2000 Address Book to Netscape ("William T. Trotter")
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (softrat)
Re: Help with C Library (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: build help please.
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:08:01 -0400
Robert Schweikert wrote:
>
[snip]
> In file included from /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25,
> from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
> from ../include/xincs.h:40,
> from reswrap.cpp:24:
> /usr/include/linux/errno.h:4: asm/errno.h: Not a directory
[snip]
Sounds like /usr/src/linux/include/asm doesn't exist, or the errno.h in
that directory does not exist.
> I also found the following link:
>
> linux-2.2.14 -> linux-2.2.12
>
> in /usr/src. I found this rather curious.
That's down-right odd. I think I'd start fresh from /usr/src and create
a fresh source directory under it called linux-2.2.14 and go from there.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
--
From: Yu Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with C Library
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:08:41 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anybody give me a hand about C library? I have some questions about
C library.
1. What's difference between libc5 and glibc?
2. Where can I get the source code for libc5?
3. I want to record all C library calls of a program. Currently I have
too different ways to do this. The first one is to modify the source
code of a program. For example, replace printf(..) with my_printf(...)
which records the C library calls. The second one is to modify the
source code of C library, and then rebuild the C library. Now, I wonder
whether there is a common entry to all C library calls so that I can
record all calls after I modify this common entry.
4. Where is the source code for some small applications and commands,
such ps and ls, under Linux/FreeBSD?
5. Please give me some useful links about C library implementation?
Thank you very much,
--Yu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Q: setting up modem and soundcard
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 01:20:26 GMT
Hi, all:
I have installed Linux-Mandrake6.1 from CD, but I can't make my modem
work, don't have a clue, and none is told by the user guide on how to
set modems and dial-up ISP.
Another Q: I tried to set my sound card by /usr/sbin/sndconfig, but the
system always tells me that I have something wrong. I know PNP may not
be good for Linux, but for now I have to rely on my Win95 to connect
with the Internet, so I have to rely on my Win95 PNP settings and won't
change them.
Can someone share his/her expertise with me?
Note: I have an ESS1868 sound card, an Apon 56k PCI modem, and a
3Com509 nic, I don't use the nic currently, but won't want to remove it
from my box.
Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect
Date: 18 May 2000 00:30:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 May 2000 14:31:45 -0400 David R. Klassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, it's been released - Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux.
>Anyone using it and want to give a review?
It's remarkably slow, has the bugs Rod described in his message, and
is nearly unusable in my opinion -- certainly far worse than
WordPerfect 8 for Linux (which was written by SDCorp specifically for
Linux).
--
Carl Fink
Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #21 Sun, 22 Aug 99 18:13:09 EDT
Contents:
SB16 MPU-401 midi (Naito)
man2html (Neil Zanella)
FS hierarchy symbolic '..' (Mike Tuxford)
Strange problem with upgrading to kernel 2.2. (Rajesh Radhakrishnan)
Re: I failed to install XFree86 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
win95 partition ownership? (Doug O'Leary)
Re: LILO for the Linux newbie. . . (Dave Brown)
Re: I failed to install XFree86 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dpms without X? (Gary Momarison)
Re: help needed: Windows 98 and Linux coexistence (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Basic compiler ("Max Reason")
Re: Strange problem with upgrading to kernel 2.2. (Frank v Waveren)
Re: No core file (Chris Butler)
Re: No core file (Chris Butler)
Re: dpms without X? (Todd Knarr)
sendmail: relaying mail ("Olivier Hoarau")
Re: Text Editor (Paul Seelig)
Gnome File Manager (Jim)
Re: Strange problem with upgrading to kernel 2.2.11 (Rajesh Radhakrishnan)
Re: Requesting comments on new strategy. (Mario Miyojim)
From: Naito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.config
Subject: SB16 MPU-401 midi
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:31:01 GMT
How do I configure my linux to play midis thru the MPU-401 port on my SB16?
I am running RedHat 6 with kernel 2.2.11 and the ALSA 0.4.0 sound drivers.
== Posted via CNET Linux Help ==
http://www.searchlinux.com
--
From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: man2html
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:11:01 -0230
Hello,
Has anyone seen a man2html utility that works with all sorts of Linux
as well as Unix man pages?
Thanks,
Neil Zanella
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mike Tuxford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FS hierarchy symbolic '..'
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:39:23 -0700
Something I have always been curious about is why does
the root directory have a symbolic '..' ?
Offhand I can see that some commands might have problems
without it such as `find` which is optimized to expect it
and '.'.
--
_ _
//\/\ike ||uxford
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From: Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Strange problem with upgrading to kernel 2.2.
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:26:19 -0400
Hi,
I have a wierd problem. After compiling the kernel 'make bzImage', I
typed
'make modules' then 'make modules_install'.
Only, /lib/modules/2.2.11/net is created and it has dummy.o inside the
directory. No matter how many times I did 'make mrproper' or 'make
clean' only the above directory is created.
I even delete /usr/src/linux-2.2.11 directory and unpacked the
linux-2.2.11.tar.gz again and followed the same procedure. Again, 'make
modules_install' creates only the /lib/modules/2.2.11/net directory.
What should I do.
I have RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36, gcc-2.7.2).
Thanks
Rajesh
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I failed to install XFree86
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:46:33 +
try X[cC]onfigurator , it is the soft that configure the choice of the
card and screen
or xf86config ( text mode)
or /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup ( under X)
read /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/Monitor ( paramatre configuration of some
screen)
in the bash_profile make shure taht /usr/X11R6 is befor /usrX386 ( older
XFree)
you must have intall
X-free86| | x.y.z.i386.rpm
" |75 dpi -fonts | "
" |VGA16 | "
" |XF86 Setup| "
" |libs | "
and for you " | S3 | "
try rpm ( read html red hat doc with lynx xxx.html )
another application xvidtune ( under X)
try to tape setup
French student
Bruno NICOLAS a écrit :
>
> Hi,
> I failed to install XFree, I try to follow the steps from
> XFreeConfig to params and run X,
> but It doesnt work : I like to find a detailed howTo or web site
> that explains the steps and common mistakes.
> I have HP Vectra 386 with integrated S3 video chipset.
> Where are the good info to get from the computer and
> to tell in set-up ?
> Thanks
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug O'Leary)
Subject: win95 partition ownership?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:58:02 -0500
Hey;
I've got a limited amount of space on my Linux partition and about 800
megs on one of my win95 partitions. What I'd like to do is install
Oracle for Linux via Linux on the win95
Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #20Sat, 5 Jun 99 20:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dead penguin (Scott Lanning)
Re: RealPlayer RealAudio, Cannot locate RealAudio decoder (Michael Powe)
Re: Code! (Scott Lanning)
Re: Help! Netscape 4.51 Segmentation Fault (Michael Powe)
Re: MicrogarfX Designer 4.1 (Dr Vincent C Jones PE)
can i share the monitor between 2 linux box w switch box? (Alex Lam)
Linux or how to build something very complicated?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Connecting iMac to Linux... (Joe Cheung)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: Mounting an HPFS partition (Kaya Imre)
Re: crontab to start PPP (Gerald Jensen)
Postgresql starting problem (Philippe Lê)
Re: My story ("theoddone33")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: Re: Dead penguin
Date: 5 Jun 1999 22:20:55 GMT
One of the Sussmans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: dev/hda3 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced
: dev/hda3 Duplicate or bad blocks in use!
: dev/hda3 Duplicate or bad blocks found...invoking duplicate
: block
: process
Oh my..
: PASS 1B: Rescan for duplicate of bad blocks
: dev/hda3 Duplicate/bad blocks in inode 32855: dev/hda3: 131798
: dev/hda3:
: 131798 dev/hda3: 131798 dev/hda3: 131798
: dev/hda3 PASS 1C: Scan directories for modes with duplicate
: blocks
: dev/hda3 PASS 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks
: dev/hda3 There are 1 inodes containing duplicate blocks
: dev/hda3 File/var/log/messages (inode #32855 mod time Sat Jun 5
: 02:41:57
: 1999) has 4 duplicate blocks, shared without file(s): dev/hda3
: dev/hda3: unexpected inconsistency; Run FSCK manually (i.e.
: without -a
: or -p options
Oh dear... WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?! ACK!!
: *** an error occurred during file system check
: *** dropping you into a shell; the system will reboot
: *** when you leave the shell
: Give root password for maintenance or type Control -D for manual
: startup
:
: Linux is on hda3 & hda4 (/usr). I'm using RH 5.2 (Mandrake 5.3
: distro). Oh, & I'm an idiot when it comes to Linux. I can't
: seem to
: run fsck (or much else) in this mode. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Okay, first, don't panic.. well, okay, panic a little, but not
too much.. Afterall, you have *DUPLICATE* blocks. What's it
gonna hurt to have a spare, eh? :)
Second, a caveat/disclaimer: it's your computer. You do
what you want. I ain't responsible. I'll just explain how I
personally did it; maybe it's not the best way. You might lose
some files. Probably your system isn't totally hosed, but if you
have some precious files, you might want to save those to floppy.
After I explain how to do that, I'll explain how to fsck things up.
-=-=- saving to floppy in fsck'ed mode -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
First, for reference, 'man mount'. (That is, after you're
done, since 'man' probably isn't available, or something. See
LDP homepage for man pages.)
It can be a bit complicated when you're in fsck'ed mode, so
I'll explain how to save to floppy. The problem is it's a read-only
filesystem. You try to edit something, only to get yelled at about
trying to edit something. Also, some of your favorite directories
might not be mounted, so some of your favorite applications might
not be available. Also, when I did this, suddenly I no longer
had a /mnt/floppy directory. So, to mount the floppy, you have to
have a little faith; you have to mount the floppy over an already
existing directory.. Yikes! So pick a directory you don't mind
being deleted, just for your peace of mind, but it will come back
after you umount the directory. I promise, really. (mwuhahaha..)
Remember that mounting a filesystem is just an illusion; the kernel
fools you into thinking you're looking at some ordered filesystem
at some certain place, but it's tricking you.
Anyway, to mount your floppy, say for concreteness you picked
the /tmp directory (if it's available), then from the fsck'ed shell,
after you inserted the floppy disk,
(mount floppy to /tmp directory)
bash$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /tmp
(Hopefully no errors, so type)
bash$ mount
(and it will tell what is mounted. Hopefully something like
"/dev/fd0 on /tmp type msdos (rw)". Now copy whatever files
you want to into the /tmp directory.)
bash$ cp /path/to/precious/files /tmp
(when you're done, unmount the floppy filesystem)
bash$ umount /tmp
Now, everything precious is saved. You might want to check
your floppy just to be safe.
-=-=-=- fsck'ing your filesystem -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Once you've backed up your precious files, you can hoseerm,
I mean, repair your filesystems. For reference, 'man fsck' (but
'man' probably isn't available right now. See LDP webpages for
manpages.)
bash$ fsck -A -V; echo == $? ==
This says
Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #19 Fri, 19 Mar 99 00:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: No-Win Modem Situation ("Rick.MontoyaJr")
Installing Procinfo-16 (Ryan Ho)
Re: hacked login (telnet) (Colin)
Re: Incredibly STUPID linux question - How do I format a floppy disk? (Juergen
Heinzl)
errors on startup ("Peter Strong")
Where is the Video4Linux mailing list? (William Burrow)
Re: is there a "cd jewel case" insert builder package for linux ? (Frank Sweetser)
NEED HELP !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Two single ide cards (Mircea)
Re: 10G disk and fdisk/diskdruid problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: """"""""My SoundBlast 16 pnp isn't up yet"""""""""""" (Jim Richardson)
Re: V.90 ISA Modems!?!?! (Andrew Comech)
Re: hacked login (telnet) ("George Csahanin")
Re: Is there a previewer for Exell and other MS files for Linux? (Rene Malmgren)
Re: How get rid of "hostname:" message from rxvt, xterm? (Michael Powe)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (Scott)
Re: A Question to Expose My Ingnorance of Linux (Frank Riha)
Re: hacked login (telnet) (Sechylmanos)
Re: KDE vs GNOME and what about Enlightenment? (Dan Nguyen)
IP Masq on a Mac PPC ("Levi C. Maaia")
Changing an Ethernet driver ("Joe Cloutier")
thread-safe-xlibs (eric malloy)
From: "Rick.MontoyaJr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:54:37 -0600
==76C5560F5385EB013EA1ADCF
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I've had good luck with USRobotics V.90 modem but make sure it is NOT a
WinModem , AWinmodem is Plug-and-Play only. The modem I refer to is almost
exactly the same except it uses jumpers to set IRQ and may be configured to do
the Plug-and-Play also. I got throughput of about 4000+cps and a good
connection using Zipslack and RedHat 5.2.
Renhao Zhang wrote:
> I'm not sure what Hugh's situation is, but I, too, am in need of a good
> internal modem. It necessary for me because, my onboard I/O controller is
> a bit outdated, so I need something with it's own UART 16550 chip. If
> anyone can reply to Hugh's inquiry, I would be very grateful as well.
> -Ren
>
> Ernie wrote:
>
> > Why do you just for the external modem?
> >
> > Hugh Johnson wrote in message ...
> > >I'm having a hard time trying to find a good internal modem (at a good
> > >price) that will work with RedHat. Today I bought a Viking v.90, which
> > >said nothing on the box about being a WinModem or requiring Windows or
> > >anything of the sort. The techie behind the service counter said it
> > >would work with Linux. So I brought it home, plugged it in, and it was
> > >100% WinModem crap. Now I'm afraid to buy anything else unless I'm
> > >really sure it'll work. Does anybody have any specific suggestions
> > >(make & model)? What about the Zoom 2919? www.zoomtel is no-tell.
> > >Where can I find this info? Thanks.
==76C5560F5385EB013EA1ADCF
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I've had good luck with USRobotics V.90 modem but make sure it is NOT
a WinModem , AWinmodem is Plug-and-Play only. The modem I
refer to is almost exactly the same except it uses jumpers to set IRQ and
may be configured to do the Plug-and-Play also. I got throughput
of about 4000+cps and a good connection using Zipslack and RedHat 5.2.
Renhao Zhang wrote:
I'm not sure what Hugh's situation is, but I, too,
am in need of a good
internal modem. It necessary for me because, my onboard I/O controller
is
a bit outdated, so I need something with it's own UART 16550 chip.
If
anyone can reply to Hugh's inquiry, I would be very grateful as well.
-Ren
Ernie wrote:
> Why do you just for the external modem?
>
> Hugh Johnson wrote in message ...
> >I'm having a hard time trying to find a good internal modem (at
a good
> >price) that will work with RedHat. Today I bought a Viking v.90,
which
> >said nothing on the box about being a WinModem or requiring Windows
or
> >anything of the sort. The techie behind the service counter said
it
> >would work with Linux. So I brought it home, plugged it in, and
it was
> >100% WinModem crap. Now I'm afraid to buy anything else unless I'm
> >really sure it'll work. Does anybody have any specific suggestions
> >(make & model)? What about the Zoom 2919? www.zoomtel
is no-tell.
> >Where can I find this
Linux-Misc Digest #508
Linux-Misc Digest #508, Volume #18Thu, 7 Jan 99 23:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: possible show-stopper? (Marco Anglesio)
Re: 2038 and Linux (Barry Walsh)
Re: Sharing my UMAX Astra 610s scanner w/ UMAX Scan Manager v1.2, using SANE (Redhat
5.2 Linux) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Copying linux system (Jens Reinsberger)
Re: acrobat printing problem ("William H. Pridgen")
Re: Running a program automatically (Bill Unruh)
Re: CGI & Perl Problem (Duncan Simpson)
Re: K6-2 vs. P2 for g77 under Linux (Tein H. Yuan(°K¤ÑÐA))
Re: Can't reboot at root from "xdm" ("Colin F. Caughie")
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (mlw)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (William C. Cheng)
Re: RPM seg faults... any ideas?
Re: shutting down screenless server - when done?? (Geoff Short)
Freebsd 2.2.2 , Linux Compatible? (Rjack2)
ISO encoding in the console (Michael Powe)
Re: Shell scripts (Michael Powe)
From: Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: possible show-stopper?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 23:08:08 GMT
steve mcadams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If a product runs on top of Linux and uses its provided system and X
> interface libraries, is it then considered a derivative work? If it
Under the LGPL, which most libraries provided with Linux use, mere use of
the library or the code required to use the library in an application
doesn't make a work derivative.
If you're writing a proprietary library yourself, rather than an
application, then it becomes rather fuzzy, indeed, and I think it would.
marco
--
Marco AnglesioLike Captain Idiot
mpa at the-wire dot com in Astounding Science comics
http://www.the-wire.com/~mpa (The Manchurian Candidate)
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Walsh)
Subject: Re: 2038 and Linux
Date: 6 Jan 1999 23:27:27 -
On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:31:54 -0500, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Vince Conaway wrote:
>
>> Does Linux have the 2038 bug that will make Unix machines start to go
>> nuts around that time?
>>
>> -Vince Conaway
>
>Yes, Linux does have that bug, the only Unix machine that doesn't is Sun
>Solaris version 6, because they have upgraded to a 64 bit kernel
>
I believe u mean Solaris 7. SCO Unixware 7 is 64bit aware kernel, so this
also is probably OK. There are other 64bit Unices, which also should be OK.
(I expect that the Linux Alpha port is OK to?).
--
I3arry \/\/alsh www.ubix.demon.co.uk
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.scanner,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Sharing my UMAX Astra 610s scanner w/ UMAX Scan Manager v1.2, using SANE
(Redhat 5.2 Linux)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 13:04:10 GMT
In article <01be3a0b$ac2a7ef0$0200a8c0@mycompnt>,
"USB Port" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Doesn't anyone know the answer to this?
>
> SCSI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <01be3366$1f4244b0$0200a8c0@mycompnt>...
> > How do I get SANE on my Linux workstation to be configured to use my UMAX
> > Astra 610s over the network when it is being served by the UMAX Scan
> > Manager v1.2 (part of VistaScan v3.1)?
> >
> > THIS TOPIC HAS STUMPED ME FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW, AND THE SANE
> > DOCUMENTATION SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THIS.
> >
> > How can it be done?
USB Port (or SCSI, or whatever your name is today),
Didn't you get my answer?
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=427543589
If you include your username @san.rr.com in a post,
or reply by e-mail to me, I'll elaborate. Are you
a programmer?
Roy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Reinsberger)
Subject: Re: Copying linux system
Date: 8 Jan 1999 03:42:42 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if it's possible to copy a whole linux partition with
>a recursive cp?
It should be. But you have to adapt the /etc/lilo.conf to the new partition
you are booting from and rerun lilo.
Maybe you have to change the bootable flag on your harddisk.
You may use cfdisk or fdisk for this.
Bye, Jennes
--
LOAD "WIN95",8,1
RUN
$&*!-#/> NO CARRIER
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From: "William H. Pridgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: acrobat printing problem
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:19:23 +
"G. Pollack" wrote:
>
> I'm using acrobat reader 3.0 on a R
