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re-partitioning a hard disk
by David Crease 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Hello, I've been running a dual boot system (Win98 & Linux RedHat) for a couple of years. The system has a single hdd of 30Gb which I partitioned using FIPS when I installed Linux. I created two partitions for the Linux, one small for boot and one other, totalling about 5Gb. The Windows partition has never used more than 7 of the 25ish Gb allocated to it and I thought it would be a good idea to claim more for Linux use. Accordingly I ran FIPS this afternoon and created another 5Gb partition. Everything seems to function well with the original Windows and Linux partitions but when I tried to run cfdisk in Linux to format the new partition I got a fatal error. I tried fdisk and got something similar. They were unable to open hda. A careful re-reading of the FIPS documentation drew my attention to the following sentence :- "If you want to use the new partition under Linux, you may now change the system indicator byte with Linux' fdisk, then use MKFS." Clearly I cannot do that since fdisk and his brother will not run. Can I change the system indicator byte by editing a file, and if so will this get (c)fdisk working? Is there another route to formatting and pressing the new partition into service? Have I missed something very elementary? Should I go back to the abacus and master that before playing with big boys toys? On another but obviously not unrelated matter. I am very much in favour of some form of structured introduction to Linux and its many facets as proposed in recent communications to this list. I say that as one who is not an IT professional but a casual user. I am strongly attracted to the Free Software movement on philosophical grounds and because it provides an alternative to the highly unpalatable antics of the major players in the SOHO* industry. The rapid development of Linux is both exciting and overwhelming for people such as myself, and I suspect that it is people such as myself who will need to feel that Linux is not only a good thing but a straight forward thing to use, before it provides a major challenge to the present giants of the industry. But more of than anon if anyone wishes to pursue the matter with a mere foot soldier. The important thing is my poor marooned partition. Cheers Dave Crease PS * Isn't it odd how time changes the meaning of words. In the 1960s the anything related to SOHO was not for discussion in polite company! D

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Welcome to Linux sessions
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

MJRay wrote: >The next meeting is pencilled in for King's Lynn on 1 December, if that's OK >for people? After Christmas, I'd like to try to run "Welcome to Linux" >sessions, but there's no replies to the thread on the main list yet... 1 Dec is fine for me. Will it be in the same venue as last time? Is it okay to bring kit? Re. the Welcome to Linux sessions: http://linuxclub.il.eu.org/newcomers/timetable.html I wonder how many would turn up to the lectures? - it would be quite a lot of work and preparation if no-one were to show up. Wouldn't it basically mean just making the meetings more organised - we already have the meeting, the website advertising them, and informal talks. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Synergy?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Keith Watson wrote: >Anyone on the list ever used Synergy < http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/doc-user.html> ? I've just read a short >write up <URL tba - >sorry> on it and it looks interesting. I've just installed this and am impressing people with the mouse moving from one screen to the other. I'm not entirely sure of its usefulness in daily life, I'll let you know if I have a "eureka, how did I live without this!" moment. My brother uses x2vnc, which is a similar project, and says it is the cat's bollocks; one keyboard, one mouse, and copy & paste between computers. Jenny.

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psDoom - kill processes via Doom
by Ashley T. Howes PhD 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Just read about using Doom as a user interface to killing processes on your Linux box, and thought I would share this cool app with the group. Check it out at: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net Note: * wounding a process monster is equivalent to renicing it * keep shooting and you will kill the process Hmm, I wonder what the affect of the BFG as root would have ;) -- Ashley T. Howes Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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Saving /var/log/dmesg
by Paul 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Hi Folks Having fun and games here trying to track down a bug that is causing my kernel to crash and do a cold boot. Much of the information I need is in the /var/log/dmesg (oops reports, etc), but this is overwritten on the next boot - Question: Is there any way of saving an old dmesg log at the next boot ? I've tried adding a "mv -f /var/log/dmesg /var/log/old-dmesg" to the end of rc.sysinit, but it copies the current dmesg log. Regards, Paul.

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LF January 2002
by John Sherman 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

Thanks to Ian,Syd and Adam for your replies will contact you soon with details or to let you know if I have obtained a copy Kind Regards John

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Samba 2.2.3a-6 not showing files
by N3tw0rkAng31B0y 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

I have a local guest account called winguest. winguest has a password via linux passwd and smbpasswd. I wish to share a directory called /home/ricardo/mp3 , and all the files and directories below it. At first, the directories and files were owned by ricardo, group ricardo and chmod'd 700. So... I created a group called winguest, added my normal linux user to it, and also the winguest account. I: chgrp -R winguest mp3/ chmod -R 770 mp3/ I can "see" the shares using gnomba on the local machine, but they are empty (i.e. reports as 0 files). The appropriate lines in my smb.conf are: [mp3] comment = mp3 files writable = yes path = /home/ricardo/mp3/ public = yes I suspect I have done something silly with file permissions, because in the /var/log/samba/log.pixiedust file (pixiedust being the samba server) I have: [2002/11/14 17:13:35, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(589) pixiedust (192.168.0.2) Can't change directory to /home/ricardo/mp3 (Permission denied) Using gnomba on my laptop, I get a different problem. When trying to access these files I get the following error: mounted on:>/tmp/PIXIEDUST_mp3< Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 There is no mention of the laptop being denied access in log.pixiedust. Any ideas?

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Linux Format January 2002 DVD
by John Sherman 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Hi Has anyone an original copy of this DVD for sale as it is no longer available as a back issue. Thanks in hope John

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cuckoo's egg book loan
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Hi list, I lent my copy of Cuckoo's Egg to someone at an alug meeting a while back, but can't remember who. Could you mail me off-list if you have it gathering dust on your shelf? Thanks, Jenny.

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Fwd: 88Mhz an' still chuggin via Syleham
by MJ Ray 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Sent to wrong address. Please use main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:46:06 GMT From: fluff <fluff(a)zetnet.co.uk> Subject: 88Mhz an' still chuggin via Syleham Dear Egg Spurts - herewith the Debian3 installation saga, Episode 97. Despite successful restrarts with lilo/linux s/dselect/install, the process seems to fail when it gets to the request to acces the web to get the ibm.jdk files. I respond "no+return" but get the same loop. I have d/l the tgz files and burned to CD but can't get install process to look at cd-rom and since system doesn't seem to look at cd-rom, can't copy tgz file to /tmp! Have I invented perpetual emotion? Or as Chef Fourwalls says, "If we 'ad some eggs, we could have eggs and bacon, if we had some bacon." All help gratefully received -- David White in Norfolk, UK surrounding the Suffolk peninsula ô¿ô Zippily created with Zimacs 2.14

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