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Re: [Wlug] Permissions on a file

by ccb＠acm.org

> Check out the 'stat' command and 'stat -t'. Unfortunately it gives full modes in HEX! Some shell hackery: set -- $(ls -l foo) OCTMODE=$(echo "ibase=2;obase=8;$(echo $1 | tr -- '-drlwcxb' '0 1 1 1 ')" | bc) Season to taste. Tweak for hex to octal conversion. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

July 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Permissions on a file

by Charles R . Anderson

Check out the 'stat' command and 'stat -t'.

July 19, 2001

Permissions on a file

by Gary J. Hanley

Hello all, Does anyone know how I would go about listing the permissions of a file in octal format instead of symbolic? I need to pass that value to a script somehow, and although I could write a script to do that I didn't want to waste my time if there was already a command to do that. Thanks! -- Gary

July 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] REMINDER: Meeting Wednesday, July 18th, 7 PM

by Brian J. Conway

> I want to come, and I think I can get to Worcester. Could you please post > directions on how to find WPI/Kinnicutt Hall/<room>? http://wlug.org -b

July 17, 2001

Re: [Wlug] REMINDER: Meeting Wednesday, July 18th, 7 PM

by Skip Gaede

Andy Stewart wrote: > HI everybody, > > This is a reminder of the upcoming WLUG meeting to be held this Wednesday, > July 18th, at 7:00 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI in Worcester, MA. > > The topic for this meeting will be "Using Digital Cameras with Linux". > Marc Hughes will do a presentation / demo with his digital camera. I will > then do a quick demo of gimp-print to print the images which Marc takes > with his camera. I'll be bringing my Epson Stylus Color Photo 870 printer > to the meeting with some 4x6 photo paper. > > After the meeting, a bunch of us will probably go to the Boynton > Restaurant for pizza and beer. > > See ya there! > > Andy > -- > Andy Stewart > Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA, USA > http://www.wlug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Hi Andy, I want to come, and I think I can get to Worcester. Could you please post directions on how to find WPI/Kinnicutt Hall/<room>? Thanks, Skip

July 17, 2001

REMINDER: Meeting Wednesday, July 18th, 7 PM

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, This is a reminder of the upcoming WLUG meeting to be held this Wednesday, July 18th, at 7:00 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI in Worcester, MA. The topic for this meeting will be "Using Digital Cameras with Linux". Marc Hughes will do a presentation / demo with his digital camera. I will then do a quick demo of gimp-print to print the images which Marc takes with his camera. I'll be bringing my Epson Stylus Color Photo 870 printer to the meeting with some 4x6 photo paper. After the meeting, a bunch of us will probably go to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer. See ya there! Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

July 17, 2001

Re: [Wlug] USB hangs system - requires reboot

by John Stoffel

Andy> I just installed SuSE 7.2 Professional and upgraded to the 2.4.6 Andy> kernel (SMP). For the very first time, I'm attempting to enable Andy> the USB controller on my motherboard to talk to my Epson 870 Andy> printer (which has both parallel and USB interfaces). The Andy> onboard controller is an 82371AB. What's you're motherboard? What kind of CPUs/memory do you have? Andy> I looked and noticed the following kernel modules loaded: Andy> usbcore Andy> printer Andy> usb-uhci This looks ok, but you might want to use the usb-ohci module instead. There are some issues. Andy> I think this is correct. I've enabled verbose debugging Andy> messages in the kernel. I looked at /var/log/messages, and it Andy> is detecting my printer. Also, I ran a program called usbview Andy> and saw the printer there as well. OK so far. This output would help us here. Andy> I get about 1 line of output and then my entire system hangs (it Andy> completely ignores any keyboard input, mouse movements don't Andy> cause cursor movement, and the machine is unaccessible from the Andy> network). I end up reaching for the reset button and waiting Andy> forever for my disks to fsck (yes, Tim K. I'm seriously Andy> considering Reiser fs). :-) Do you have MagicSysReq Key enabled in your kernel? I'd suggest you enable that (and make sure SUSE doesn't disable it like redhat does) and when the system locks, you can try and get a traceback to see what's up. Andy> I'm not sure I know how to go about debugging this...any Andy> suggestions? Oh, by the way, I did insure that there were no Andy> parallel port modules in place that might somehow interfere. That shouldn't matter, esp if you don't have your printer hooked up to both interfaces at the same time. As for your fsck woes, I'd get the latest version of ext3 instead, since you can enable/disable it without having to do a dump/restore conversion like you would for reiserfs. It's not in 2.4.6 by default, but it's easy to patch your kernel with it. Here's the URL: http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ I'm running 2.4.6 with ext3 on SMP and it seems to work pretty well so far. No real stress testing yet tough. John

July 16, 2001

Re: [Wlug] What is shmfs?

by ccb＠acm.org

Hi Andy - The SystemV shared memory subsystem is now available as a filesystem under Linux. Fire up your choice of kernel config editor tool and check out the help for "File Systems/Virtual Memory file system support" ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

July 16, 2001

Re: [Wlug] What is shmfs?

by Steve Freitag

Well, here's what I know about it... shmfs = "Shared Memory File System" - contents sit in RAM and swap partitions - used to implement POSIX.4 shared memory support. Here is an early announce of it: http://lwn.net/1998/0409/a/shmfs.html Code can be found here: http://www.users.qwest.net/~ebiederman/files/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Stewart" <andystewart(a)mediaone.net> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:40 PM Subject: [Wlug] What is shmfs? > > HI gang, > > After upgrading to a 2.4 kernel, I now see a mounted device thus: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > shmfs 76220 0 76220 0% /dev/shm > > I can't find anything written that says what this is. I seem to be able > to put files there. Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Andy > -- > Andy Stewart > Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA, USA > http://www.wlug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

July 16, 2001

New IIS Exploit??

by Doctor Orbitz

Hey, I have recently been gettign a BUTTLOAD of hits on my web server that look like this: "GET /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" I've just recntly had a ton of requests liek that, is this a new exploit or what?? Orbitz

July 15, 2001

What is shmfs?

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, After upgrading to a 2.4 kernel, I now see a mounted device thus: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on shmfs 76220 0 76220 0% /dev/shm I can't find anything written that says what this is. I seem to be able to put files there. Any thoughts? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

July 15, 2001

Re: [Wlug] USB hangs system - requires reboot

by ccb＠acm.org

Hi Andy - Try the VALinux beta 2.4.5 kernel: ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/kernel/beta USB hasn't been a priority for VA but one of the usb-linux developers is inside the VA kernel group and tends to plug in a bunch of stuff with each of the kernels. Ain't tried it. Let me know what you think. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

July 15, 2001

Re: [Wlug] USB hangs system - requires reboot

by Andy Stewart

HI Charlie et al, I completely blew away my modules directory and rebuilt my kernel to use uniprocessor (I never did like those canned kernels and canned modules - call me old fashioned but they generally cause me grief). Now, USB works like a champ! I've just printed several docs using CUPS and gimp-print - sweet! Bummer that this doesn't work under SMP...is this a known problem? I doubt my computer is *that* unique. I really would like my SMP back. :-) I did notice one thing - eth0 and usb-uhci are sharing an interrupt. The motherboard magically assigns this and I believe that I can't override it. I wonder if this is causing the problem in SMP mode. I guess I'll keep my eyes open for kernel rev 2.4.7. Later, and thanks, Andy On Saturday 14 July 2001 23:43, ccb(a)acm.org wrote: > Hi Andy - > > Long time no see. > > 2 things: > > That kernel comes with EXT3 already integrated in the source. Once > you have an ext3 kernel you can enable it by changing fstab. Disable > it by changing fstab. The on-disk structure is the same. > > Start debugging by booting with the second CPU turned off. You > could be locking on MP bug. Used to happen with me and my HP720 > OfficeJet until they get their MP act together. > > > ccb > > -- > Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems > Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 > +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 > ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

July 15, 2001

Re: [Wlug] USB hangs system - requires reboot

by ccb＠acm.org

Hi Andy - Long time no see. 2 things: That kernel comes with EXT3 already integrated in the source. Once you have an ext3 kernel you can enable it by changing fstab. Disable it by changing fstab. The on-disk structure is the same. Start debugging by booting with the second CPU turned off. You could be locking on MP bug. Used to happen with me and my HP720 OfficeJet until they get their MP act together. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

July 15, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems?

by Michael Long

It is my understanding that a crossover cable is needed when connecting two similar devices such as 2 switches or 2 routers. Maybe your cable modem has some builtin router functionality?! On Saturday 14 July 2001 08:49, you wrote: > Aaron Haviland wrote: > > doug waud said: > > > A trip to > > > the website of the cable modem manufacturer indicated a related model > > > liked a crossover ethernet cable between the modem and a router. I > > > tried that and the system has been running fine without any > > > intervention on my part since then. > > > > After they left, I rewired a bit. But I got away with a plain cable from > > the modem to a hub, not a crossover. > > I was not implying a crossover cable was a general solution, just > that it was one more thing to try when desperate :-) > Frankly I was surprised it worked and still am not sure why :-) > > doug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

July 15, 2001

USB hangs system - requires reboot

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, I just installed SuSE 7.2 Professional and upgraded to the 2.4.6 kernel (SMP). For the very first time, I'm attempting to enable the USB controller on my motherboard to talk to my Epson 870 printer (which has both parallel and USB interfaces). The onboard controller is an 82371AB. I looked and noticed the following kernel modules loaded: usbcore printer usb-uhci I think this is correct. I've enabled verbose debugging messages in the kernel. I looked at /var/log/messages, and it is detecting my printer. Also, I ran a program called usbview and saw the printer there as well. OK so far. I tried: cat some_file > /dev/usblp0 I get about 1 line of output and then my entire system hangs (it completely ignores any keyboard input, mouse movements don't cause cursor movement, and the machine is unaccessible from the network). I end up reaching for the reset button and waiting forever for my disks to fsck (yes, Tim K. I'm seriously considering Reiser fs). :-) I'm not sure I know how to go about debugging this...any suggestions? Oh, by the way, I did insure that there were no parallel port modules in place that might somehow interfere. Thanks in advance, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

July 15, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems?

by doug waud

Aaron Haviland wrote: > > doug waud said: > > A trip to > > the website of the cable modem manufacturer indicated a related model > > liked a crossover ethernet cable between the modem and a router. I > > tried that and the system has been running fine without any > > intervention on my part since then. > After they left, I rewired a bit. But I got away with a plain cable from > the modem to a hub, not a crossover. I was not implying a crossover cable was a general solution, just that it was one more thing to try when desperate :-) Frankly I was surprised it worked and still am not sure why :-) doug

July 14, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems?

by Aaron Haviland

Kingsbury, Michael said: > Just wondering if anybody here has had any problems/complaints about the > Charter cable modem services? It's kinda disturbing to use an ISP that's run by one of the big bigwigs from M$, then turn around and use the OS that they target as being satanic -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org <insert file="~.signature" type="random" />

July 12, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems?

by Aaron Haviland

doug waud said: > > hi Just wondering if anybody here has had any problems/complaints > > about the Charter cable modem services? > My daughter in Southboro has Charter and I set up a router to her two > (win98/linux) boxes. When Charter came, I provided my notebook running > win98 for them to use to confirm the connection worked and then, the > moment they went out the door, I disconnected the notebook and switche > the cable modem to each of her computers and confirmed they both > worked. Then I tried the router and lost the connection. A trip to > the website of the cable modem manufacturer indicated a related model > liked a crossover ethernet cable between the modem and a router. I > tried that and the system has been running fine without any > intervention on my part since then. I haven't used Charter for very long (2 months at the most) for net access, but I only had a problem once. When I eventually got through on the telephone, they were as stumped as I was (although there had apparantly been a surge of problems that morning in my area) ... modem would shut off whenever the activity LED first blinked. We eventually agreed that a tech would come out and look at it. 15 minutes after I hung up, it was working again. As far as setting it up: when the techs came, I let them mess with my father's Win98 computer. They even ran a new line to the house for better reception. After they left, I rewired a bit. But I got away with a plain cable from the modem to a hub, not a crossover. (on another note... I see they've finally synced chartercom.com and After they left, I rewired a bit. But I got away with a plain cable from the modem to a hub, not a crossover. I'd detail my home network setup, but I'm not entirely sure I totally understand it anymore, after all the changes it's gone through. -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org Dudley, MA 01571 <jannie> those poor bastards in dimension eyestickjabbing have it worse than all of us (4/3/2001)

July 12, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Problem with network card

by doug waud

Hi > am having problems connecting to the network. "problems' is a tad vague. Can you ping another computer on the network by ip address (dotted quad)? (see specifics below) > I think that the problem is related to > the speed that the NIC is trying to use when connected to the LAN. I suspect > this because the little green speed indicator for 100mb is illuminated (on > the NIC) when the workstation is connected to the network jack. I interpret that the opposite way. I believe the card is telling you that it has been able to touch base with the network and the two of them have agreed to use 100 mb. Thus I think the hardware is fine. > ifconfig -a > > elxl0 flags=100843<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 > index 2 > inet 172.17.24.76 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.17.24.255 > ether 0:1:3:68:1b:f3 It looks like the card thinks it has a valid ip address so again I'd like to know if a ping works as the next step. > netstat -rn > > Routing Table: > Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface > -------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ --------- > 172.17.24.0 172.17.24.76 U 1 2 elxl0 > 224.0.0.0 172.17.24.76 U 1 0 elxl0 > default 172.17.24.3 UG 1 0 > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 29 1897 lo0 I'd try a ping 172.17.24.3 since that seems to be an outside computer on your network. You may already have this solved. I did not see this from the back and forth messages. Just got back to town so decided to put my two-bits worth in just in case I might actually have got the right answer :-) doug -- Douglas R Waud 17 Lantern Lane, Shrewsbury, MA, 01545-2006 http://www.ummed.edu/pub/d/drw/

July 11, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems?

by doug waud

hi> Just wondering if anybody here has had any problems/complaints about the > Charter cable modem services? My daughter in Southboro has Charter and I set up a router to her two (win98/linux) boxes. When Charter came, I provided my notebook running win98 for them to use to confirm the connection worked and then, the moment they went out the door, I disconnected the notebook and switche the cable modem to each of her computers and confirmed they both worked. Then I tried the router and lost the connection. A trip to the website of the cable modem manufacturer indicated a related model liked a crossover ethernet cable between the modem and a router. I tried that and the system has been running fine without any intervention on my part since then. doug -- Douglas R Waud 17 Lantern Lane, Shrewsbury, MA, 01545-2006 http://www.ummed.edu/pub/d/drw/

July 11, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Determining speed of device...

by Theo Van Dinter

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:57:12PM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: > Other than looking in dmesg for what the driver reported the speed of the > cable of the network device, does anybody know what utility or place in > /proc that'll tell you what the speed of the cable connected to your machine > is. There is no guaranteed way of doing this from the OS since each driver is different (kind of annoying). You can look at mii-tool which should be able to get/set the network settings if the driver supports it. Otherwise it's dmesg or another driver specific method. If you just want to know the speed, your card may have a 10/100 mbit LED/set of LEDs on the back which will tell you. (My Kingston KNE111's at home have "100mbit" and "Full Duplex" LEDs, which will handle the 4 possibilities. (10hdx/10fdx/100hdx/100fdx)) With the Intel EEPro cards I have at work, you can cat /proc/net/PRO_LAN_Adapters/eth#.info and get a whole bunch of information including the speed/duplex: [...] System_Device_Name eth0 Current_HWaddr 00:D0:B7:7F:19:CC Permanent_HWaddr 00:D0:B7:7F:19:CC Part_Number 721383-009 Link up Speed 100 Duplex full State up Rx_Packets 733794920 Tx_Packets 828391473 [...] -- Randomly Generated Tagline: After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or speaker of intuitive likes". (Bruce Ediger, bediger(a)teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X the intuitiveness of a Mac interface.)

July 11, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Problem with network card

by Theo Van Dinter

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:57:32PM -0400, Simoncini, Matthew wrote: > have recently installed Solaris 8 (for Intel) on a PC at work and am having > problems connecting to the network. I think that the problem is related to > the speed that the NIC is trying to use when connected to the LAN. I suspect > this because the little green speed indicator for 100mb is illuminated (on > the NIC) when the workstation is connected to the network jack. Is the network not 100mbit? If the speed is mismatched, you won't be on the network at all. If the duplex is mismatched, you'll just get bad performance when doing certain operations (namely quick read/writes). You can determine this (usually) via "netstat -in" and looking for I/O errors and collisions on a FD network. > If anyone can help or has similar experience, please give me a shout. I > think I remember reading somewhere about a device driver file that can be > changed to force the speed of the NIC. Anyone else ?? Hmmm. I know relatively nothing about the Intel version of Solaris (I touched it once about 4 years ago), but on Solaris SPARC you would either use ndd to get/set the net driver settings (ala "ndd /dev/hme link_speed") or set the driver's settings via /etc/system: set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0 set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap=0 set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1 set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0 set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap=0 set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0 As I said, I don't know if this is valid for Solaris Intel, but ... -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "... so people can't look up your skirt I guess... Not that I wear one..." - Prof. Brown about "Modesty Skirts".

July 11, 2001

Determining speed of device...

by Keller, Tim

Got a quick question... Other than looking in dmesg for what the driver reported the speed of the cable of the network device, does anybody know what utility or place in /proc that'll tell you what the speed of the cable connected to your machine is. Thanks, Tim.

July 11, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems?

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Kingsbury, Michael wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:59:11 -0400 > From: "Kingsbury, Michael" <mkingsbury(a)avayactc.com> > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > To: "'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org'" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Subject: [Wlug] Any complaints about Charter cable modems? > > Just wondering if anybody here has had any problems/complaints about the > Charter cable modem services? > > -mike > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > Well, the network is acceptable. I've seen some outages -- the recent thunderstorms put them off the air for over a day, but I'm not running anything mission critical. I really like the bandwidth. Their support is another matter. They rarely respond to email, and then after a couple of days. Their frontline support is clueless. They claimed one problem was because my email address was case sensitive. It wasn't (I tested), and when I informed them of that fact, their email communication stopped. They like you to call their phone line rather than use email, but the wait on the line is inexcusable. They claim that the wait is short, but I've never experience a short wait. Bill

July 9, 2001