From austin.kyser at worldnet.att.net Sat Sep 2 18:10:08 2000 From: austin.kyser at worldnet.att.net (Austin M. Kyser) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 18:10:08 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Newbie Questions Message-ID: <39B188D0.B8A654D@worldnet.att.net> Okay, I submit. I have searched the manuals, read the how-to's, scanned the Internet, locked myself in a padded room, etc. I have two questions that are bugging the heck out of me. Could someone please end my torment and answer my two basic questions. Yes I know they are basic. Almost embarrassing that a person who has been into computers for over 20 years has to ask such inane questions. But the male ego is out the window. I can't take it any more. Question #1 - TraceRoute. I found the man pages for this command. But can't find the executable anywhere on my system. Downloaded the RPM's and all they do is give me the man pages. Do I have to compile this? I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't just include a compiled version with the distribution after all these years. Question #2 - chkconfig. Okay. Everything, I read including the Red Hat Reference Guide, says that this is a good little utility for checking what is running on my system at boot up. The only reference that I can find on my system is the man pages. I check my rpm database and it says that it is installed. I ran a rpm query and the only file associated with the rpm is the man page. What am I missing here? Are they in a directory that my Gnome Search Tool is not looking in? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any assistance. -Austin -- Austin - RH6.1 on a Dell Dimension XPS T700L Oconomowoc, WI 53066 From herzog at uhhh.org Sat Sep 2 22:10:38 2000 From: herzog at uhhh.org (herzog at uhhh.org) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:10:38 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] Newbie Questions In-Reply-To: <39B188D0.B8A654D@worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: > Question #1 - TraceRoute. I found the man pages for this command. But > can't find the executable anywhere on my system. Downloaded the RPM's > and all they do is give me the man pages. Do I have to compile this? I > find it hard to believe that they wouldn't just include a compiled > version with the distribution after all these years. Which distribution of linux are you using?? You mention rpm so I will assume redhat....Should be installed in "/usr/sbin" via the traceroute rpm package....This is taken for a fairly standard redhat installation: $ which traceroute /usr/sbin/traceroute $ rpm -qa |grep traceroute traceroute-1.4a5-18 $ rpm -ql traceroute /usr/man/man8/traceroute.8.gz /usr/sbin/traceroute > Question #2 - chkconfig. Okay. Everything, I read including the Red > Hat Reference Guide, says that this is a good little utility for > checking what is running on my system at boot up. The only reference > that I can find on my system is the man pages. I check my rpm database > and it says that it is installed. I ran a rpm query and the only file > associated with the rpm is the man page. Same drill as before.... $ which chkconfig /sbin/chkconfig $ rpm -qa |grep chkconfig chkconfig-1.1.2-1 $ rpm -ql chkconfig /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/rc.d/rc0.d /etc/rc.d/rc1.d /etc/rc.d/rc2.d /etc/rc.d/rc3.d /etc/rc.d/rc4.d /etc/rc.d/rc5.d /etc/rc.d/rc6.d /sbin/chkconfig /usr/man/man8/chkconfig.8.gz /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo > What am I missing here? Are they in a directory that my Gnome Search > Tool is not looking in? Well, these utilities are in "/usr/sbin" and "/sbin", respectively.... _____ Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, ZRXOA #1029 but in humility consider others better than herzog at uhhh.org yourselves." -- Philippians 2:3 From austin.kyser at worldnet.att.net Sat Sep 2 22:39:43 2000 From: austin.kyser at worldnet.att.net (Austin M. Kyser) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:39:43 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Re:Newbie Questions - THANK YOU Message-ID: <39B1C7FF.5C88B6A3@worldnet.att.net> Hello Larry, Thanks for the pointers. I had done those tests, but got different results. For example, when I ran the following command, I got: [austin~]$ which traceroute which: no traceroute in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/austin/bin) [austin~]$ I got the same when I ran to find chkconfig. Since the directories that you referenced in your message were not in my $PATH, I moved to those directories and found them. Thank you for your help. -Austin Austin Oconomowoc, WI Running RH 6.1 on a Dell Dimension XPS T700L From bates at stat.wisc.edu Sun Sep 3 10:03:23 2000 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 03 Sep 2000 10:03:23 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Re:Newbie Questions - THANK YOU In-Reply-To: "Austin M. Kyser"'s message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:39:43 -0500" References: <39B1C7FF.5C88B6A3@worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: <6rn1hpmsas.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> "Austin M. Kyser" writes: > Thanks for the pointers. I had done those tests, but got different > results. For example, when I ran the following command, I got: > > [austin~]$ which traceroute > which: no traceroute in > (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/austin/bin) > [austin~]$ > > I got the same when I ran to find chkconfig. > > Since the directories that you referenced in your message were not in my > $PATH, I moved to those directories and found them. The general approach is to put the /usr/sbin and /sbin directories on the search path for the root login but not for general logins. I imagine that if you login as root or su to root you will find that you get a response to 'which traceroute'. From subb3 at attglobal.net Mon Sep 4 13:00:56 2000 From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:00:56 +0000 Subject: [Madlug] Sound Alerts Message-ID: <20000904180056.A28913@attglobal.net> One of our key systems has been configured to create a sound for an alert on the system. We have setup several alerts on this system. The sound driver used on this system is from OSS. Now, what happens when multiple alerts are set off at the same time? Do the alerts get queued to the driver? When I tested with 2 simulataneous alerts, I got the following message on the console, sox: Unable to set audio speed to 8000 (set to 5512) Now, when I tried to set off 3 alerts at the sametime, I get the following message, sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy Has anyone tried to setup this type of alert system? If you succeeded, please let me know how you did it. I do wish to be notified for each alert on this system. I would like our busy sys admins, know what is happening on this system while they are working on neighbouring systems. Thank you in advance for any ideas. -- Subba Rao subb3 at attglobal.net http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <= http://www.smcinnovations.com From jluscher at yahoo.com Thu Sep 7 10:19:44 2000 From: jluscher at yahoo.com (James Luscher) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Madlug] another attack on the "right to program" Message-ID: <20000907151944.29459.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com> :CluelessCat? Thanks to a (previously) little-known company called "Digital Convergence," we now have our latest attack on the right to program. Digital Convergence came up with an interesting idea. They give away a cheap barcode reader (called the ":CueCat") and some (Windows) software. People plug the reader into their computer, then use it to read a special code printed with advertisements and such. The browser running on the computer will then be directed to a specific web page just waiting to take a credit card number. For added fun, the device can also pick up coded audio signals from a television. If you put an interesting device out there, some Linux hacker somewhere will try to make it work. If the device is free, and relatively simple as well, quite a few hackers will jump in. And, sure enough, :CueCat drivers started appearing on the net. Digital Convergence, as it turns out, didn't like that; it called in its lawyers and set about shutting down sites hosting :CueCat drivers. It seems that such a driver violates the company's "intellectual property," though exactly what that property is has not yet been specified. See, for example, copies of the lawyer letter posted on the FBM Terrorist Conspiracy From Hell, Inc page. The case appears weak, but the company has managed to get the :CueCat drivers pulled down - for now. Why would Digital Convergence do such a thing? While many Linux users may not use their readers to go to advertisers' web pages, some certainly will. So companies that are paying Digital Convergence for the :CueCat referrals should be happy; happy customers are generally good for business. One part of the answer can, perhaps, be found in this issue of Lauren Weinstein's Privacy Digest. Use of the :CueCat, it seems, requires sending in some personal information, along with the serial number of the device. Every code you scan gets tied together with your information, building a nice little profile. According to the Privacy Digest, Digital Convergence is aware of and responsive to privacy issues, which is encouraging. But the commercial value of the data collected by the :CueCat system is obvious. And that is why Digital Convergence doesn't like the Linux driver, and why it is so important that the driver exist. When source is available, users of the device who are concerned about their privacy can do something about it. They need not depend on the promises of a company whose commercial interests clearly lie in the collection and sale of personal information. This is a classic example of what the "free" in free software really means. If we can not write software to work with the things we own, we have lost an important freedom. This case is important, even for those who lack the desire for quicker access to commercial web pages facilitated by a feline-shaped scanner device. ===== -------------------------------------------------------- James Luscher jluscher at yahoo.com Three rules of work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ From mtinberg at securepipe.com Thu Sep 7 18:14:39 2000 From: mtinberg at securepipe.com (Mark Tinberg) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 18:14:39 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Sound Alerts References: <39B81E55.F06E1543@securepipe.com> Message-ID: <39B8215F.A112AE56@securepipe.com> Mark Tinberg wrote: > > I would suggest using a wrapper for /dev/dsp, like ESD (Enlightenment > Sound Daemon), aRtS or YIFF. All three of these can work over TCP/IP > network sockets as well as local UNIX Domain sockets. ESD is the one I > am most familiar with, it includes wrappers that should work with any > program that can access OSS sound devices as well as its own library and > sound player. > > ----------- > > One of our key systems has been configured to create a sound for an > alert > on the system. We have setup several alerts on this system. The sound > driver > used on this system is from OSS. Now, what happens when multiple alerts > are > set off at the same time? Do the alerts get queued to the driver? > > When I tested with 2 simulataneous alerts, I got the following message > on > the console, > > sox: Unable to set audio speed to 8000 (set to 5512) > > Now, when I tried to set off 3 alerts at the sametime, I get the > following > message, > > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy > > Has anyone tried to setup this type of alert system? If you succeeded, > please > let me know how you did it. I do wish to be notified for each alert on > this > system. I would like our busy sys admins, know what is happening on this > system > while they are working on neighbouring systems. > > Thank you in advance for any ideas. > > -- > Mark Tinberg > Network Security Engineer, SecurePipe Communications LLC. > Remember: Wherever you go, there you are! -- Mark Tinberg Network Security Engineer, SecurePipe Communications LLC. Remember: Wherever you go, there you are! From stan.buskus at att.net Fri Sep 8 06:05:13 2000 From: stan.buskus at att.net (Stan Buskus) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:05:13 +0000 Subject: [Madlug] Re:[Madlug]Sound Alerts Message-ID: <39B8C7E9.13C37C5@att.net> I would write a program that would queue the alarms. The alarm traps could be sent to a pipe, and then infinite loop would read the traps from the pipe to produce the alarm. Stan Buskus Mark Tinberg wrote: > Mark Tinberg wrote: > > > > I would suggest using a wrapper for /dev/dsp, like ESD (Enlightenment > > Sound Daemon), aRtS or YIFF. All three of these can work over TCP/IP > > network sockets as well as local UNIX Domain sockets. ESD is the one I > > am most familiar with, it includes wrappers that should work with any > > program that can access OSS sound devices as well as its own library and > > sound player. > > > > ----------- > > > > One of our key systems has been configured to create a sound for an > > alert > > on the system. We have setup several alerts on this system. The sound > > driver > > used on this system is from OSS. Now, what happens when multiple alerts > > are > > set off at the same time? Do the alerts get queued to the driver? > > > > When I tested with 2 simulataneous alerts, I got the following message > > on > > the console, > > > > sox: Unable to set audio speed to 8000 (set to 5512) > > > > Now, when I tried to set off 3 alerts at the sametime, I get the > > following > > message, > > > > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy > > > > Has anyone tried to setup this type of alert system? If you succeeded, > > please > > let me know how you did it. I do wish to be notified for each alert on > > this > > system. I would like our busy sys admins, know what is happening on this > > system > > while they are working on neighbouring systems. > > > > Thank you in advance for any ideas. > > > > -- > > Mark Tinberg > > Network Security Engineer, SecurePipe Communications LLC. > > Remember: Wherever you go, there you are! > > -- > Mark Tinberg > Network Security Engineer, SecurePipe Communications LLC. > Remember: Wherever you go, there you are! From kanouse at chorus.net Fri Sep 8 19:24:37 2000 From: kanouse at chorus.net (Dennis Kanouse) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:24:37 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Internet connection Message-ID: <39B98345.5C7D55D6@chorus.net> Using KDE in Mandrake 7.0 with Kppp as the connection I cannot get the connection to authenticate (using PAP). it will just keep trying to connect. Do I need to select a protocol somewhere? I also have the same problem in Gnome. From mpulliam at chorus.net Fri Sep 8 22:01:28 2000 From: mpulliam at chorus.net (myself) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:01:28 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Internet connection References: <39B98345.5C7D55D6@chorus.net> Message-ID: <39B9A808.7DC0CDE9@chorus.net> Dennis Kanouse wrote: > > Using KDE in Mandrake 7.0 with Kppp as the connection I cannot get the > connection to authenticate (using PAP). it will just keep trying to > connect. Do I need to select a protocol somewhere? This is the best set of diagnostics I have found for connectivity problems: http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html That document will help you figure out if the problem is with your modem, your chat script, or whatever. I am on chorus.net too and they use POP3 and PAP if that helps any. The connect string I derived using the URL above is: /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 user mpulliam connect "usr/sbin/chat '' ATDT2321152 CONNECT '\d\c'" (that goes all on one line - also note the '' marks are not a ") Yours may differ though - you have to work through the whole troubleshooting protocol to locate your problem. There are some situations that routinely cause kppp to hang up prematurely - those are detailed in the document. I gave up on kppp completely and went to the command line instead. Mary P. From derrall at wf.net Mon Sep 11 20:24:23 2000 From: derrall at wf.net (Deadeye) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:24:23 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] membership Message-ID: <000801c01c58$3c5e80e0$94c8140a@wf.net> I am trying to cross over to the other side! Bill Gates can kiss my ass (can I use that language on email?) .I will need to know lots of answers but hope they can be answered on you mailing list. I have just bought the book and tapes from Sam's and hope I will riplace my systems. I am presently a Direct PC dealer and need to know how this will work with satalite systems? Put me on your list: Derrall Morgan pob 4374 Wichita Falls, Tx. 76308 940-586-1221 derrall at wf.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.madisonlinux.org/pipermail/madlug/attachments/20000911/4476d266/attachment.htm From dave at energyfinancesolutions.com Tue Sep 12 10:43:23 2000 From: dave at energyfinancesolutions.com (David W . Jablonski) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:43:23 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Exchange 5.0 --> sendmail conversion... Message-ID: <20000912104323.A2017@opiate> Has anyone had any experience converting from Exchange 5.0 to sendmail? I've seen a few posts in newsgroups about how to get the user list from Exchange and import that into sendmail but what I really want is the messages that are stored. Currently the mail protocol is mapi and I want to convert to imap. The only way I know of so far to do this is to use Exchange 5.5 and covert from mapi to imap - only problem - I don't own 5.5 and don't want to pay for it just to covert it. I know how to set up imap , and sendmail but I don't really know how to do the conversion. I've had mixed results searching for answers so if anyone has a good place to go I would be much appreciated. Thanks... -- David W. Jablonski Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation Systems Administrator RHCE, MCSE www.weccusa.org www.energyfinancesolutions.com From arzamendi at berbee.com Wed Sep 13 15:50:58 2000 From: arzamendi at berbee.com (Peter Arzamendi) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:50:58 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Sendmail ? Message-ID: Hello, Is there a way to restrict users from using sendmail? I'm running Redhat 6.2 with ver 8 of sendmail. Pete From herzog at uhhh.org Wed Sep 13 16:37:21 2000 From: herzog at uhhh.org (Larry Herzog Jr.) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:37:21 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] Sendmail ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Peter Arzamendi wrote: > Hello, > Is there a way to restrict users from using sendmail? I'm running > Redhat 6.2 with ver 8 of sendmail. You mean simply restricting them from running the sendmail binary?? Or resticting them from receiving e-mail? What specifically do you want to restrict?? _____ Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, ZRXOA #1029 but in humility consider others better than herzog at uhhh.org yourselves." -- Philippians 2:3 From TonyH at selectpub.com Wed Sep 13 16:42:22 2000 From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:42:22 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Group Meetings / Web Message-ID: Hello all, Just wondering if anyone has heard about the next meeting dates. I emailed Bill a while back about getting an updated schedule for the web site and got nothing back. Steve, maybe you have this info?? (Is the group even functioning besides this mailing list??) -Tony Anthony C. Herman Chief Web Officer Select Publishing, Inc. Madison, WI tonyh at selectpub.com 608.277.5787 x310 ------------------------------------------ Farm --> http://www.forthefarm.com Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com Web --> http://www.selectpub.com ------------------------------------------ From TonyH at selectpub.com Thu Sep 14 14:30:51 2000 From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:30:51 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Weird Question of the Day... Message-ID: Hey All, Not much activity with this list lately - kinda strange...anyways... How do you find out the size of a directory and all the directories within it? I've tried stuff like ls and df and haven't quite got it. Any clues??? -Tony Anthony C. Herman Chief Web Officer Select Publishing, Inc. Madison, WI tonyh at selectpub.com 608.277.5787 x310 ------------------------------------------ Farm --> http://www.forthefarm.com Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com Web --> http://www.selectpub.com ------------------------------------------ From etler at cs.wisc.edu Thu Sep 14 14:41:36 2000 From: etler at cs.wisc.edu (Sam Etler) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:41:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] Weird Question of the Day... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > How do you find out the size of a directory and all the directories within > it? I've tried stuff like ls and df and haven't quite got it. Any clues??? Try du. sam From will at flabjab.com Thu Sep 14 13:55:26 2000 From: will at flabjab.com (Will Benton) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:55:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Madlug] Weird Question of the Day... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Tony Herman wrote: > Hey All, > > Not much activity with this list lately - kinda strange...anyways... > > How do you find out the size of a directory and all the directories within > it? I've tried stuff like ls and df and haven't quite got it. Any clues??? > > -Tony try "du -m | sort +0n" That will display the size of each directory, sorted. However, each will be inclusive -- e.g., the reported size of /foo will include /foo/bar and /foo/shme, etc. wb From herzog at uhhh.org Thu Sep 14 14:59:01 2000 From: herzog at uhhh.org (Larry Herzog Jr.) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:59:01 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] Weird Question of the Day... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: man du On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Tony Herman wrote: > Hey All, > > Not much activity with this list lately - kinda strange...anyways... > > How do you find out the size of a directory and all the directories within > it? I've tried stuff like ls and df and haven't quite got it. Any clues??? > > -Tony > > > > Anthony C. Herman > Chief Web Officer > Select Publishing, Inc. Madison, WI > tonyh at selectpub.com 608.277.5787 x310 > ------------------------------------------ > Farm --> http://www.forthefarm.com > Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com > Web --> http://www.selectpub.com > ------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Madlug mailing list - Madlug at madisonlinux.org > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug > _____ Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, ZRXOA #1029 but in humility consider others better than herzog at uhhh.org yourselves." -- Philippians 2:3 From proot at cs.und.edu Thu Sep 14 22:53:32 2000 From: proot at cs.und.edu (Root) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:53:32 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] hdparm Message-ID: I was wondering if anybody had some tricks on getting better performance out of an IDE drive using hdparm. Also I was having trouble makeing the settings I have be playing with stay after a re-boot. It seems to be almost random with a re-boot weather or not the settings stay. I don't know if you have to run hdparm in the start-up scripts or what. if anyone has any input on this that would be great. Thanks, Phil Root From bjzolp at students.wisc.edu Wed Sep 20 11:28:32 2000 From: bjzolp at students.wisc.edu (B. J. Zolp) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:28:32 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Shared IRQ's for NICs Message-ID: I am setting up a machine to serve a DSL connection for my house and while waiting for TDS to get the modem to us (TDS is taking over a month just for a phone line) I have been working on getting as many things setup as possible. I have both NIC's working, but they are sharing IRQ's (9), but still seem to work ok when used alone. I can ping either NIC's IP when either one is plugged into the LAN. My question is, will this cause problems when both cards are up and running? My BIOS does not seem to allow per-slot IRQ assignment, and I only have two PCI slots total, so the only other things I could do if this is indeed a problem is to try a different model NIC (they are both the same now) or try an old ISA NIC. What do you think? B. J. Zolp From carder at cae.wisc.edu Wed Sep 20 13:03:20 2000 From: carder at cae.wisc.edu (Dale W. Carder) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:03:20 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Shared IRQ's for NICs In-Reply-To: ; from B. J. Zolp on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:28:32AM -0500 References: Message-ID: <20000920130320.A20009@chaos.cae.wisc.edu> Thus spake B. J. Zolp (bjzolp at students.wisc.edu): > My question is, will this cause problems when both cards are up and running? PCI was designed with IRQ sharing in mind, as long as you are only sharing IRQ's between PCI devices. A serial port and a pci card won't be very happy sharing, nor will sharing work with ISA cards. Sharing amoung good PCI NICs should not be a problem, but i have seen problems sharing between some Creative Labs sound cards and other devices, and this behavior is included in thier documentation. Hope this helps, -Dale -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dale W. Carder carder at cae.wisc.edu CAE Network / Hardware Staff (608) 262-3339 From bjzolp at students.wisc.edu Wed Sep 20 13:40:45 2000 From: bjzolp at students.wisc.edu (B. J. Zolp) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:40:45 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Shared IRQ's for NICs In-Reply-To: <20000920130320.A20009@chaos.cae.wisc.edu> Message-ID: OK, because I have read some documentation that breifly mentioned IRQ sharing as being an issue, but only the two NIC's are sharing the IRQ, nothing else. They are $20 SMC cards, which I have found to be fairly reliable under both Linux and Win9x. B. J. Zolp -----Original Message----- From: Dale W. Carder [mailto:carder at cae.wisc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 1:03 PM To: B. J. Zolp Cc: madlug at madisonlinux.org Subject: Re: [Madlug] Shared IRQ's for NICs Thus spake B. J. Zolp (bjzolp at students.wisc.edu): > My question is, will this cause problems when both cards are up and running? PCI was designed with IRQ sharing in mind, as long as you are only sharing IRQ's between PCI devices. A serial port and a pci card won't be very happy sharing, nor will sharing work with ISA cards. Sharing amoung good PCI NICs should not be a problem, but i have seen problems sharing between some Creative Labs sound cards and other devices, and this behavior is included in thier documentation. Hope this helps, -Dale -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dale W. Carder carder at cae.wisc.edu CAE Network / Hardware Staff (608) 262-3339 From jacob at oreality.com Thu Sep 21 21:32:00 2000 From: jacob at oreality.com (Jacob Beardsley) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:32:00 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] network printing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: i'm trying to print from one redhat 6.2 box to a hp 2100 that is hooked up to another redhat 6.2 box. i used printtool to select the remote queue at the right ip address but no tests go through. someone said something about a file in /etc i need to edit to allow the second linux box to print. i'm sorry i'm not much help beyond that, i usually setup printers using samba for windows boxes. thanks jacob From n1d at gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu Thu Sep 21 23:49:28 2000 From: n1d at gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu (Noah Diewald) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:49:28 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Meeting Times Message-ID: <20000921234928.A2400@gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu> Is the information on the web site correct? Is it the first friday and second to last tuesday? What times are the meetings held at? From n1d at gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu Fri Sep 22 00:41:35 2000 From: n1d at gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu (Noah Diewald) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:41:35 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] linuxce Message-ID: <20000922004135.A2863@gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu> Has anyone on this list ever tried to get linux running on a MIPS based pda? I have a casiopeia E-15, whixh is supposed to be supported. I don't know whether it is the book loader or my own inadequecies but CyaCE hangs when it gets to the point where it is supposed to prepare and execute the kernel. I'm thinking this means either bad boot loader or bad kernel but I've tried both a precompiled and a custome kernel. I haven't asked on the linuxce mailling list because I'm not a developer and the list isn't geared toward helping non-programmers. Besides, I thought it would be an interesting conversation topic on this list. Has anyone on this list seen more than photos of linux on a PDA? I wish I was. From n1d at gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu Fri Sep 22 00:58:06 2000 From: n1d at gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu (Noah Diewald) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:58:06 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] SMTP and IPchains Message-ID: <20000922005806.B2863@gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu> I'm far from being knowledgable about ipchains but I insist on using them anyway. If I leave input and optput for port 25 open and input and output for port 53 tcp and udp open, why can't I send mail? I am not blocking ICMP to and from the mail servers I need to reach. From herzog at uhhh.org Fri Sep 22 08:00:45 2000 From: herzog at uhhh.org (Larry Herzog Jr.) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:00:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] SMTP and IPchains In-Reply-To: <20000922005806.B2863@gabriel.acadsvcs.wisc.edu> Message-ID: Post your exact configuration and also state what you are looking to accomplish....This is the easiest was to diagnose your problem and help you.... Also, if you are just learing ipchains, I suggest you download one of the test 2.4.x kernels and implement iptables instead.... (which is replacing ipchains) On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Noah Diewald wrote: > I'm far from being knowledgable about ipchains but I insist on using them anyway. If I leave input and optput for port 25 open and input and output for port 53 tcp and udp open, why can't I send mail? I am not blocking ICMP to and from the mail servers I need to reach. > > _______________________________________________ > Madlug mailing list - Madlug at madisonlinux.org > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug > -- Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029 conceit, but in humility consider others herzog at uhhh.org better than yourselves." - Philippians 2:3 From carder at cae.wisc.edu Fri Sep 22 10:45:58 2000 From: carder at cae.wisc.edu (Dale W. Carder) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:45:58 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] network printing In-Reply-To: ; from Jacob Beardsley on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:32:00PM -0500 References: Message-ID: <20000922104558.A25262@chaos.cae.wisc.edu> Thus spake Jacob Beardsley (jacob at oreality.com): > i'm trying to print from one redhat 6.2 box to a hp 2100 that is hooked up > to another redhat 6.2 box. Per the lpd manpage: Access control is provided by two means. First, all requests must come from one of the machines listed in the file /etc/hosts.equiv or /etc/hosts.lpd. Second, if the rs capability is specified in the printcap entry for the printer being accessed, lpr requests will only be honored for those users with accounts on the machine with the printer. So, just through a hostname into /etc/hosts.lpd -Dale From subb3 at attglobal.net Sun Sep 24 02:18:35 2000 From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 07:18:35 +0000 Subject: [Madlug] printcap settings and Windows printer Message-ID: <20000924071835.A27574@attglobal.net> Hello, I have installed a HP Deskjet printer on a Windows boxen which is networked to the Linux box. Currently my samba settings do allow Linux disk shares to be accessed from Windows. Before further dwelling into samba settings, the howto docs indicate that I have to complete the printcap settings. I have made the following entries in these files: --------------------------------------------------------------- /etc/printcap =============== # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # @(#)etc.printcap 5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # Remote Deskjet Printer connected to Windows lp|deskjet:\ :lp=:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/indra:\ :rm=windows.mydomain.com:\ :rp=deskjet:\ :sh:sf:mx#0:\ :pl#66:pw#80: /etc/hosts.lpd =============== # # hosts.lpd This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the remote printer services of this # host. This file is used by the LPD subsystem. # windows # End of hosts.lpd. --------------------------------------------------------------- At this point, when I try to print a file to "deskjet" printer on "windows" I get the following output. $ lpr -Pdeskjet profile $ lpq -Pindra -l connection to windows.mydomain.com is down I can connect to the windows.mydomain.com box. It responds to ping requests. What other settings need to be done to be able to print to this deskjet printer connected to the Windows box? I would appreciate, if you could share your configuration information for a similar setup. Thank you in advance. Subba Rao subb3 at attglobal.net http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ From lutzke at tds.net Sun Sep 24 17:11:09 2000 From: lutzke at tds.net (David Lutzke) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:11:09 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Hello! Message-ID: <39CE7BFD.A7502EEB@tds.net> I would like to join your group and attend your next meeting in Madison. Could someone please send me an email regarding the next meeting (date, time, and place). Thanks and I hope to see you all soon. David :-) -- David E. Lutzke, M.S., CPIM Manufacturing Business Improvement Phone: 608-277-1922 From billf at inxpress.net Sun Sep 24 15:31:36 2000 From: billf at inxpress.net (Bill Fredrickson) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 15:31:36 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Hello! References: <39CE7BFD.A7502EEB@tds.net> Message-ID: <39CE64A8.F8B0DB12@inxpress.net> Hi everybody, The next scheduled MadLug meeting is set for October 6, 2000 at the State Street Steep 'N Brew, Madison, Wisconsin. Time 7pm. We usually meet upstairs. Sometimes, weather permitting we meet out side. Hope to see you all there. Bill David Lutzke wrote: > > I would like to join your group and attend your next meeting in Madison. > > Could someone please send me an email regarding the next meeting (date, > time, and place). > > Thanks and I hope to see you all soon. > > David :-) > > -- > David E. Lutzke, M.S., CPIM > Manufacturing Business Improvement > Phone: 608-277-1922 > > _______________________________________________ > Madlug mailing list - Madlug at madisonlinux.org > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug From subb3 at attglobal.net Tue Sep 26 01:38:20 2000 From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:38:20 +0000 Subject: [Madlug] Limits of grep? Message-ID: <20000926063820.A5447@attglobal.net> Hi I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect, "File argument list too long" What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the grep source for this. I did not find any information in the man page. Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of files? Thank you in advance. Subba Rao subb3 at attglobal.net http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Tue Sep 26 07:33:24 2000 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 26 Sep 2000 07:33:24 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Limits of grep? In-Reply-To: Subba Rao's message of "Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:38:20 +0000" References: <20000926063820.A5447@attglobal.net> Message-ID: <6r4s33nxij.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> Subba Rao writes: > I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for > some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an > asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect, > > "File argument list too long" > > What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the grep source > for this. I did not find any information in the man page. > > Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of > files? The usual approach in situations like this is to use xargs to split the list of filenames. Check man xargs From TonyH at selectpub.com Tue Sep 26 08:56:27 2000 From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:56:27 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] RH 7.0 Message-ID: Red Hat 7.0 was just released: New features: OpenSSL with 128-bit encryption for secure webcommunication 2.4 kernel ready USB support for mice and keyboards XFree 4.0.1 for improved video performance Cleaner, faster, more customizable GNOME desktop andSawfish window manager Graphical kernel tuning tool Graphical firewall configuration tool Features for the developer: Upgrade from previous versions of Red Hat Linux as earlyas 3.0.3 Multiple programming languages, including C, C++, FORTRAN, Perl, Python, TCL and GCJ - GNU compiler for Java?. Updated development toolchain with gcc 2.96, gdb 5.0,glibc 2.2 Popular web application development tools like PHP andZope Also includes a preview of GUI development tools including the GTK+ 2.0 widget set, Pango, and Inti. I have a URL to an iso image locally in town (that's not a public mirror). If you want it, email me and I'll tell you - I'd rather not broadcast it to the list. -Tony Anthony C. Herman Chief Web Officer Select Publishing, Inc. Madison, WI tonyh at selectpub.com 608.277.5787 x310 ------------------------------------------ Farm --> http://www.forthefarm.com Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com Web --> http://www.selectpub.com ------------------------------------------ From dave at wxc.com Tue Sep 26 10:46:01 2000 From: dave at wxc.com (dave) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:46:01 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Re: Limits of grep? (Subba Rao) References: Message-ID: <39D0C4B9.8AF34FD0@wxc.com> Hi, The error message and limits come from the shell program not grep. In any cast xargs is designed to circumvent the shell limits on command line expansion. Try something like: ls -1A | xargs grep From: or find . -name \*\\.old -print | xargs grep From: Dave madlug-admin at madisonlinux.org wrote: > > Send Madlug mailing list submissions to > madlug at madisonlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the web, visit > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > madlug-request at madisonlinux.org > You can reach the person managing the list at > madlug-admin at madisonlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than > "Re: Contents of Madlug digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Limits of grep? (Subba Rao) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:38:20 +0000 > From: Subba Rao > To: Madison Linux Users > Reply-To: Subba Rao > Subject: [Madlug] Limits of grep? > > Hi > > I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for > some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an > asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect, > > "File argument list too long" > > What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the grep source > for this. I did not find any information in the man page. > > Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of > files? > > Thank you in advance. > > Subba Rao > subb3 at attglobal.net > http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > Madlug mailing list - Madlug at madisonlinux.org > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug > > End of Madlug Digest -- Dave Erickson | email : dave at wxc.com Weather Central | phone : 608 274-5789 5725 Tokay Blvd. | Madison, WI 53719 | fax. : 608 273-5854 From howland at danenet.wicip.org Tue Sep 26 11:41:55 2000 From: howland at danenet.wicip.org (Eric Howland) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:41:55 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] Limits of grep? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 madlug-admin at madisonlinux.org wrote: > I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for > some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an > asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect, > > "File argument list too long" The problem is in the shell (BASH probably). The shell is trying to create the equivalent of: grep "your_string_here" {10000 names here} The buffer for a command line is not that big. You can get around this by passing the files one at a time to grep. To look for all the lines with #include in my src directory I can type at the BASH command line: for FILEN in `find src -print`; do grep "#include" ${FILEN}; done Those single quotes are back-quotes (below the ~ not below the ") and the semicolons are required. A side effect of this strategy is if you ever decide to divide up your 10000 files into subdirectories find will still get them. > > What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the grep source > for this. I did not find any information in the man page. > > Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of > files? From nculwell at students.wisc.edu Wed Sep 27 00:00:53 2000 From: nculwell at students.wisc.edu (Nate C-K) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:00:53 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Re: Madlug digest, Vol 1 #262 - 1 msg In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000926235515.00a9c500@students.wisc.edu> If I'm not mistaken, the argument list length is limited by the legal command line length (255 characters?). Anyway, what I would try is doing a "cat" on the entire directory... if that doesn't work either, it's probably an issue of the command line length. (I believe bash expands wildcards in the command line before passing them to the process.) One solution would be to write a little script to go through the whole directory and grep each file, or a script that performed grep a*, grep b*, etc. From shoemakerted at yahoo.com Wed Sep 27 17:26:23 2000 From: shoemakerted at yahoo.com (Ted and Robin Shoemaker) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Madlug] free mandrake Message-ID: <20000927222623.10478.qmail@web3105.mail.yahoo.com> Hi all, I was in Menards (by East Towne Mall) today, and saw some boxes of Mandrake 6.5 for $4, with $4 rebate, = free eventually, in case anyone is interested. Ted Shoemaker __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From shoemakerted at yahoo.com Wed Sep 27 17:30:04 2000 From: shoemakerted at yahoo.com (Ted and Robin Shoemaker) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Madlug] Boot Magic Message-ID: <20000927223004.11418.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com> Can someone tell me what features Boot Magic has? How does it compare to LILO, System Commander, etc? (From its name, I'm assuming it's a boot loader. I know nothing about it.) Thanks, Ted Shoemaker shoemakerted at yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From maynord at terracom.net Wed Sep 27 18:39:56 2000 From: maynord at terracom.net (maynord) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:39:56 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] CD doesn't eject during install Message-ID: <00092718522200.00787@localhost.localdomain> Madlug folks: I recently acquired Mandrake 7.1, and have been installing it on machines at the elementary school where I work. Half the time, all goes well with the installation -- there are three CDs used in the installation process. The problem is this: regardless of which CD drive I use (all ATAPI), some computers refuse to eject the CD so that the second install disk can be inserted. Mandrake sits there and tells me to insert the second CD, but the tray doesn't open! I tried opening the drive by hand and inserting the disk, but the machine didn't recognize it. The Pentium 200 ejects the tray, but the Pentium 300 doesn't . Also, the older P90s do not eject. Using "cancel" it is possible to load a minimal version of Mandrake -- but the printer stuff is not loaded, nor are the networking RPMs. Any suggestions for a way around this? I thought of installing through a network -- but surely, there's a reason that some computers open the tray and others do not -- even using the same CD drive. Any thoughts??? Thanks! Robert Maynord From jacob at localhost.localdomain Thu Sep 28 12:18:43 2000 From: jacob at localhost.localdomain (Jacob Beardsley) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:18:43 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] h4x0rz Message-ID: well they got me. some scrip kiddies with portscanners and what ever else did some stuff to my box. the biggest thing, i can run x as a regular user, just as root. this is the message i get when i run "startx" Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership?_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. since i can run x fine as root i figure it's some sort of dumb permissions thing. any help would be great. jacob jacob at oreality.com From TonyH at selectpub.com Fri Sep 29 15:18:04 2000 From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:18:04 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Console Hanging Message-ID: Hey all, I have a machine running RH6.2. I can ssh into it fine, but am having problems logging in at the console. I see the title and get a prompt, I can enter the usename, but it hangs after that and does not allow me to enter a password. I've tried the virtual consoles and they are producing the same result. And I've also rebooted the system and it is doing the same thing still. I have not recompiled the kernel or anything funky like that. I mainly get to this machine via ssh. Any ideas at all?? -Tony Anthony C. Herman Chief Web Officer Select Publishing, Inc. Madison, WI tonyh at selectpub.com 608.277.5787 x310 ------------------------------------------ Farm --> http://www.forthefarm.com Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com Web --> http://www.selectpub.com ------------------------------------------ From herzog at uhhh.org Fri Sep 29 16:01:52 2000 From: herzog at uhhh.org (Larry Herzog Jr.) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:01:52 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Madlug] Console Hanging In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > I have a machine running RH6.2. I can ssh into it fine, but am having > problems logging in at the console. I see the title and get a prompt, I can > enter the usename, but it hangs after that and does not allow me to enter a > password. Have you had this machine up for a while (i.e. this is not a fresh installation)?? The reason I ask is that you say you can ssh in fine, so you must've been able to log in at some point after installation to install ssh (because it is not bundled with 6.2). Unless, of course, you telnetted in to install ssh. :) > I've tried the virtual consoles and they are producing the same result. And > I've also rebooted the system and it is doing the same thing still. I have > not recompiled the kernel or anything funky like that. I mainly get to this > machine via ssh. Can you log in as root? What changes, if any, have you recently made? Anything out-of-the-ordinary in your logs? -- Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029 conceit, but in humility consider others herzog at uhhh.org better than yourselves." - Philippians 2:3 From bjzolp at students.wisc.edu Fri Sep 29 16:10:26 2000 From: bjzolp at students.wisc.edu (B. J. Zolp) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:10:26 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Undeleting files. Message-ID: I somehow managed to delete a large amount of files off of my Software RAID 0 partition. To get the data back I have been looking at various undelete tools that I have found off the internet. The one that looks to work the best is "recover" which does not see my RAID partition -- only the two partitions that make it up. My question is, should I umount the RAID partition, and run recover on each component partition, or should I find a new utility that will undelete from a software RAID partition? Or am I fscked because my lost data was on a RAID 0 to begin with? Thanks in advance. B. J. Zolp From TonyH at selectpub.com Fri Sep 29 16:20:05 2000 From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:20:05 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Console Hanging Message-ID: This is not a new, new system. Is has been up about a month, replacing an earlier system. I can login as root via ssh, not at the terminal. I have also tried to login as other users with no success. I can hit a ctrl-c after it hangs and I get a new prompt. No big changes made at all. Everything looks cool in the bootlog and systemlog. Is this the mingetty daemon? Is there a package a should reinstall? Thanks! -Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Herzog Jr. [SMTP:herzog at uhhh.org] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:02 PM > To: Tony Herman > Cc: Madison Linux User Group (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [Madlug] Console Hanging > > > I have a machine running RH6.2. I can ssh into it fine, but am having > > problems logging in at the console. I see the title and get a prompt, I > can > > enter the usename, but it hangs after that and does not allow me to > enter a > > password. > > Have you had this machine up for a while (i.e. this is not a fresh > installation)?? The reason I ask is that you say you can ssh in fine, so > you must've been able to log in at some point after installation to > install ssh (because it is not bundled with 6.2). Unless, of course, you > telnetted in to install ssh. :) > > > I've tried the virtual consoles and they are producing the same result. > And > > I've also rebooted the system and it is doing the same thing still. I > have > > not recompiled the kernel or anything funky like that. I mainly get to > this > > machine via ssh. > > Can you log in as root? What changes, if any, have you recently > made? Anything out-of-the-ordinary in your logs? > > -- > Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain > ZRXOA #1029 conceit, but in humility consider others > herzog at uhhh.org better than yourselves." - Philippians 2:3 > > > _______________________________________________ > Madlug mailing list - Madlug at madisonlinux.org > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug From bdpeytch at students.wisc.edu Sat Sep 30 02:27:17 2000 From: bdpeytch at students.wisc.edu (Boytcho Dontchev Peytchev) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:27:17 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] USB Scanner Message-ID: <39D595D5.CF62A16B@students.wisc.edu> Greetings, does anybody know anything about using an USB Scanner with Linux? What I've done so far: -> installed the USB backport under 2.2.17 -> mknod /dev/usbscanner0 etc. as per /linux/Documentation/usc/scanner.txt set permitions accordingly -> mounted /proc/bus/usb -> installed SANE and now (x)scanimage cannot find a SANE device ... The situation is such that xopo:~> cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=dc00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=1606 ProdID=0030 Rev= 1.00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbscanner E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl= 1ms xopo:~> cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers 48- 63: usbscanner hub usbdevfs I know for a fact that vendor 1606 prodID 0030 is set in the scanner code... Although I'm trying to get a UMAX Astra2010U to work and the code has 1606/0030 commented as Astra2000U. Any Ideas? have fun B. From subb3 at attglobal.net Sat Sep 30 00:38:43 2000 From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 05:38:43 +0000 Subject: [Madlug] Limits of grep? In-Reply-To: <6r4s33nxij.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu>; from bates@stat.wisc.edu on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:33:24AM -0500 References: <20000926063820.A5447@attglobal.net> <6r4s33nxij.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <20000930053843.N24594@attglobal.net> On 0, Douglas Bates wrote: > Subba Rao writes: > > > I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for > > some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an > > asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect, > > > > "File argument list too long" > > > > What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the grep source > > for this. I did not find any information in the man page. > > > > Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of > > files? > > The usual approach in situations like this is to use xargs to split > the list of filenames. Check > man xargs Thanks for replying. I tried the following solution and works much faster. find -print | xargs -n 500 grep Thanks to everyone who replied with some solution! -- Subba Rao subb3 at attglobal.net http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ From spkraus1 at students.wisc.edu Sat Sep 30 14:55:13 2000 From: spkraus1 at students.wisc.edu (Steve Krause) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:55:13 -0500 Subject: [Madlug] Console Hanging ... my problem with RH 6.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000930131520.00a263d0@students.wisc.edu> I don't have solution to Tony's problem, but I have a similar problem. I, too, am running a RedHat 6.2 system (actually, of couple of them, and they all show this problem, so it's not hardware). Like with Tony's problem, my console freezes/hangs. One thing that is causing the freezes is nfs (the machine that has problems is the one acting as a server). I have my exports file set up, as well as the hosts.allow, deny, etc. The daemons are running properly, and I can locally mount exported filesystems (particularly the CD, which I want to use to install Linux on another machine that doesn't have a CD-rom drive). When I try to mount the filesystem remotely, the system hosting the filesystem hangs at the console. The machine is still up, though, as I can ping it; telnet connections connect, but won't give me a login. X locks up, too. No mouse, etc. Can't switch to other consoles. Is there an issue with RH 6.2 here? Have other people had this same problem, and do you know a solution? I don't know why nfs should cause this problem ...if that's what's causing it. The machines have been running RH 6.2 for a while with no other problems; the installations are pretty clean -- only the packages from RH 6.2. Any help would be appreciated. Steve At 04:20 PM 9/29/00 -0500, you wrote: >This is not a new, new system. Is has been up about a month, replacing an >earlier system. > >I can login as root via ssh, not at the terminal. I have also tried to login >as other users with no success. I can hit a ctrl-c after it hangs and I get >a new prompt. > >No big changes made at all. Everything looks cool in the bootlog and >systemlog. > >Is this the mingetty daemon? > >Is there a package a should reinstall? > >Thanks! >-Tony