Linux-Misc Digest #595, Volume #18 Wed, 13 Jan 99 06:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: LINUS Can Suck My Hairy Cock .. or Newbie Needs Linux Help ... (A. van Dijk)
no ctrl-M in terminal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: g++ (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: GUIDs on UNIX/LINUX? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: no ctrl-M in terminal (Villy Kruse)
Re: RedHat 5.1 and Debian 2.0 sharing /usr ? (Villy Kruse)
Re: DNS in Redhat 5.2 (Mark Ramos)
VPN Client using PPTP ("Donny")
Re-direct all NewBies: Quick steps to re-compile linux kernel (aldev)
Help needed getting latest icewm source ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where is the PATH (Rob Mahurin)
Re: Problems running XFree86 after installing Redhat Linux 5.2 (Peter Cedermark)
Re: Anyone working on a Gimp-like sound app? (Brett W. McCoy)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Con / Tiki)
RH5.0 - StarOffice5.0 - glibc problem (Charles Mulks)
Re: RedHat 5.2 kernel upgrade problems (Frank Hale)
Re: make zImage => goes wrong , make dep clean => goes alright (Paul Lemmens)
Re: StarOffice question (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
Re: [xxx] Can Suck My Hairy Cock (Bill Anderson)
Moving SCSI Targets (Dean Thompson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. van Dijk)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LINUS Can Suck My Hairy Cock .. or Newbie Needs Linux Help ...
Date: 12 Jan 1999 22:41:57 GMT
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:11:25 +1100, Omni� wrote:
>I fuckin LOVED reading that post !!!!!
>esp since I've been using MS products since 1986
>
>ans have only just instaled redhat 5.2
>and cant even get connected to the net
>I dont even know how to create a file
>like the copy con command in dos
What if it was the other way round. What if you'd been VMSing or Unixing all
your computer life. No way you would come up with "copy con" to create a file.
>
>FUCK LINsux !!!
>
>why the hell did I bother?
>I must want to punish myself???
>
>this is like learning chinese
>nothing makes sense
English doesn't make sense either.
>I'm a pretty good dos/win user
>now I'm a major linsux dweeb
>fuck that !
Ahhh so it's the same feeling you got when you moved from kindergarten to
elementry school? Oh I forget you never got that high..
>
>ok linux is free
>so fuckin what
>I've never paid for a MS product either
>so whats the dif???
Well I hope MS cant track you down via your hotmail account, they own hotmail
remember maybe they can charge you for that 13 years of using illegal MS
sofware. Also that [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems interesting.
>
>I'll stick to NT and win98
So? Your not a real loss.
>I can do just as much with a c complier and winsock
>than gnu and linsux
Sure
--
Microsoft: You wanna go WHERE?? TOMORROW???
A. van Dijk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: no ctrl-M in terminal
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:04:46 GMT
Could someone help me with the following problem:
Sometimes, after killing a process or exiting my login shell with ctrl-D,
(I can't tell the exact circumstances, unfortunately),
I get a login: prompt which does not allow me to enter my login simply because
it does not recognize <enter> as a special character. When I type my loginname
(rene) and press <enter>, it just displays rene^M. So I am not able to log
in on that virtual console any more.
When I switch to another virtual console and kill the getty process, a new
getty is respawned but this one suffers from the same problem.
I am running RedHat 5.1 - partially upgraded to 5.2, kernel 2.0.36-1 on an
i586. I also saw the problem once with a friend of mine, who had done a
"fresh" RH 5.1 installation, 2.0.34.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Rene Uittenbogaard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: g++
Date: 13 Jan 1999 08:19:54 GMT
Samuel Bridgeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>/usr/bin/ld: cannon open crt1.o: No such file or directory
You don't have the development files for glibc installed. Install them.
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: GUIDs on UNIX/LINUX?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:52:57 GMT
In article <77g92i$70c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bruce Nehlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about a concatenation of your local MAC address with the date/time (to
> the microsecond) of the function call? (assuming you've got a MAC address
> locally)
That wouldn't necessarily work on multiprocessor machines unless you
somehow serialized it. You'd have to include the process number (and
thread number or declare it not thread-safe) as well.
By the way, am I remembering this incorrectly, or does "rpcgen" generate
universally unique serial numbers?
- Logan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: no ctrl-M in terminal
Date: 13 Jan 1999 10:07:22 +0100
In article <77gdd0$3dg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could someone help me with the following problem:
>
>Sometimes, after killing a process or exiting my login shell with ctrl-D,
>(I can't tell the exact circumstances, unfortunately),
>I get a login: prompt which does not allow me to enter my login simply because
>it does not recognize <enter> as a special character. When I type my loginname
>(rene) and press <enter>, it just displays rene^M. So I am not able to log
>in on that virtual console any more.
>
>When I switch to another virtual console and kill the getty process, a new
>getty is respawned but this one suffers from the same problem.
>
>I am running RedHat 5.1 - partially upgraded to 5.2, kernel 2.0.36-1 on an
>i586. I also saw the problem once with a friend of mine, who had done a
>"fresh" RH 5.1 installation, 2.0.34.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>
>Rene Uittenbogaard
I've seen that too. This is caused by some daemons having the
/dev/console open, and because of that the tty driver does not get reset
when you log off.
You could try: 'stty sane < /dev/tty1' and see if this helps.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.1 and Debian 2.0 sharing /usr ?
Date: 13 Jan 1999 10:12:40 +0100
In short: if you try to run redhat with a debian /usr you are not running
redhat at all but some linux system partly based on redhat, partly
based on debian, but mostly based on debian as most of the utilities
are installed in /usr. If you install a redhat kernel on an otherwise
debian system, will you then be running a redhat or a debian system?
Villy
>
>I doubt this will work. Let's say for the sake of argument that you
>use Debian's /usr. You won't have rpm (unless you install the Debian
>rpm package), but you will have dpkg in Red Hat. This is a little
>weird but not a major problem. The more serious problem is that
>programs have paths to their configuration files hard-coded into them;
>if Red Hat doesn't have an /etc/dosemu directory for DOSemu's
>configuration files, for example, running DOSemu in "Red Hat" won't
>work. Trying to upgrade the one that doesn't have a /usr will also
>break. You'll essentially be running Debian with Red Hat's
>configuration files (or vice versa), not any coherent distribution.
>
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From: Mark Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS in Redhat 5.2
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:36:10 -0800
The domain suffix search order isn't the key. It is apparently timing
out on connecting to the DNS server(s). First of all, try to make sure
that you are picking DNS servers that have the least amount of hops (use
traceroute or something). In other words if you are on a LAN, use DNS
servers that are on the same network (or ISP), don't pick one in Nigeria
if you are in the U.S. Second, try to have 3 different DNS entries in
the resolv.conf (max is 3 by default) so when one times out it will go
to the next. It could also be the way the system is routing. Check
your tables with "netstat -rn". Also the DNS server that you are
pointing to could also be having problems.
Mark
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From: "Donny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VPN Client using PPTP
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:29:48 +0700
Hi, anybody know what software/driver I need to be setup in my Linux box, so
I can access my remote network via public internet?. I heard about PPTP
(from microsoft), but I don't have information, is it possible for my Linux
box using this protocol? Any suggestion is appreciated. Thx
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From: aldev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re-direct all NewBies: Quick steps to re-compile linux kernel
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:58:28 +0000
Please point this URLs to all the "newbies" coming from Windows95/NT and
who do not have
any experience in Unix systems and would like to learn linux.
The URLs have -
1) Quick Install steps to install linux
2) Quick steps to re-compile the linux kernel - which everyone needs
to do at least once
while using linux
3) Microsoft-Linux Analogy list - zillions of linux applications and
packages!!
4) Top features of linux - why Linux is better than windows!!
MS windows users will start appreciating how powerful the linux is -
kernel can be made very
lean and powerful and LOADABLE modules for device drivers etc....
Main site is at : http://members.spree.com/technology/aldev/
Mirror sites are at: http://aldev. 8m. com
http://aldev.webjump.com
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~aldev1/index.html
http://www3.bcity.com/aldev/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help needed getting latest icewm source
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:59:41 GMT
Greetings! I was wondering if someone knew of a mirror site where I can get
the source to the icewm Window manager? Since they moved the homepage to the
"kiss" domain name, my firewall blocks me from accessing the site. If you
can either give me the URL of a mirror where I can get the source or even
e-mail the latest source, that would be great!
Peace.....
Tom Williams
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From: Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is the PATH
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:17:58 +0000
Reply-To: robmATmad.scientist.com
David Goldstein wrote:
>
> Jorge wrote:
> >
> > Guys, and girls of course, can one of you tell me which file I have to
> > use to add a new directory to the path? Like in in the dark time of DOS
> > we used AUTOEXEC.BAT, I know that there is a file in Linux where the
> > path is specified.
> > This Linux thing is really exciting, I just hope that more companies
> > smarten up and start supporting Linux.
> >
> > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a faster response.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> In my SuSE distro's, the PATH can be modified in the /etc/profile file.
> It amy be different on different systems
>
> David
In debian also, the default path in the system is set in /etc/profile.
You can also change your personal settings in your ~/.bash_profile.
Note that sometimes if you set an environment variable from within a
script (like your bash profile) you need to include a line like
export PATH
to make sure that it gets out into the environment. In fact, I think
that csh-derived shells require export to set a variable at all.
Rob
--
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are
indispensable.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:55:57 +0100
From: Peter Cedermark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems running XFree86 after installing Redhat Linux 5.2
Try using xf86config instead of Xconfigurator. It's not as nice to use, but you
get more control over things like scan ranges, video memory etc. It's not really
a problem if you know the specs of the monitor and the card.
/ Pete
Steve Sanyal wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed Redhat Linux 5.2 on my PC which is configured as follows:
>
> Primary Master: Windows NT and DOS
> Primary Slave: Linux
> Secondary Master: CD-ROM
>
> I have 128 MB of RAM, and made my swap file 127 MB.
>
> I made a swap partition and a root partition on my primary slave, and I
> installed all of Linux there. The command shell appears to be okay. I can
> boot and log into the system. However, my problems surface as soon as I run
> my Xfree86 program. The program is unusable for me thus far for two
> reasons:
>
> 1) the mouse pointer moves in a very choppy manner - it only moves once
> every several seconds, and is impossible to control.
> 2) the display appears to be only in 16 or 256 colours ( I can't tell
> which), but the contents of the desktop do not fit the screen. I need to
> scroll (which is difficult to do given that the mouse does not work
> properly).
>
> I set my options to what I believe were correct using Xconfigurator and the
> mouseconfig programs. I have a Logitech 3-button serial mouse, which I
> purchased several years ago when I had a 386. I have tried using the
> following mouse settings:
>
> - Logitech Mouse (3 button, serial, old c7 type)
> - Generic 3 button mouse (serial)
> - Microsoft compatible mouse (serial)
>
> None of these seem to make any difference.
>
> As for the display - I have an ATI Mach 64 PCI PC2TV Rage II, which is
> detected. However, when the card is probed, the amount of memory is not
> detected properly - I get an error. I've set it to 4 megs as that is the
> amount of memory I have on my card.
>
> My monitor is an Acerview 76e, which is not listed in this program. I have
> chosen the custom setting, which says you should be able to set your own
> refresh rates, but I only get a range of rates, which does not exactly match
> that of my monitor. However, I chose rates that fell within my monitor's
> ranges.
>
> Can anyone give me some advice as to how I can get this properly configured?
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Anyone working on a Gimp-like sound app?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:19:32 GMT
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:23:04 GMT, Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have looked in vain for a good sound editor for linux. Some of them
>are at least stable but all are fairly limited and non-modular in
>design. I was wondering if anyone was working on a Gimp type sound
>system for Linux? Something where you could create sound effects as
>plug-ins (hopefully NOT using scheme as the extension language).
As a matter of fact, there's a project called "Audiotechque" that is
trying to be the GIMP of sound. Look at this URL:
http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/%7Ecrichton/at.html
--
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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From: Con / Tiki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 22:44:32 +1300
Reply-To: Con Tiki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Linux will never be popular among most computer users
>
And I can safely say that windows never will either.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Mulks)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: RH5.0 - StarOffice5.0 - glibc problem
Date: 12 Jan 1999 22:44:47 GMT
I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.0 on my Redhat 5.0 system.
SO5.0 requires glibc-2.0.7 (which is included in the SO tarball)
RH5.0 comes with glibc-2.0.5c-10
When I install the 2.0.7 libs as-per-instructions, it breaks
my system - I start getting error messages something like this:
/bin/sh: ls (or cp, or rm, or ???) command not found
(I don't recall the exact error message, but it's something like
the above, and I get it for virtually every command I try.)
It also causes the system to lock up tight during reboot
After reinstalling RH5.0 I tried again, this time installing
the 2.0.7 libs manually (also as-per-instructions), with pretty
much the same results. This time, however, I happened to have
Midnight Commander running (sheer luck - no foresight involved)
and was able to recover without having to reinstall.
After some careful experimentation, the problem looks like this:
RH5.0 has a file, ld-linux.so.2 linked to ld-2.0.5.so
SO5.0 wants ld-linux.so.2 linked to ld-2.0.7.so
ld-2.0.x.so is a dynamic loader (it loads shared .so files)
When I simply copy ld-2.0.7.so to ld-linux.so.2 (thank you MC)
I start getting segmentation fault errors.
When I copy ld-2.0.5.so, everything starts working properly
This seems like an insurmountable dilemma - I don't see how
I can have ld-linux.so.2 linked to 2 different files.
However, just-for-the-hell-of-it, I checked out www.dejanews.com
and came up with the following:
Q: Anyone got SO5.0 working with RH5.0? (paraphrased)
A: Yes (not paraphrased)
So... Anyone know how to do this??
Can I upgrade my glibc-2.0.5c to glibc-2.0.7 (I can get the rpm(s)
at ftp.cdrom.com) without breaking all my RH5.0 stuff?
TIA,
Charlie Mulks
PS: Anybody have a phone number for cheapbytes - I'm beginning
to think it would be quicker & easier to just pop 1.99 +
S&H to upgrade to RH5.2, but my wife hates the idea of
giving out credit card numbers over the internet. :<)
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2 kernel upgrade problems
Date: 12 Jan 1999 22:55:18 GMT
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
>
> Are you running kerneld? It is needed to load the modules.
>
> ps aux|grep kerneld
I assume kerneld is running I just follow the instructions for compiling
and installing a new kernel. I have never seen any specific instruction
to run kerneld manually. Isn't that supposed to be done automatically?
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/frankhale/
Jade: http://jade.netpedia.net/
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From: Paul Lemmens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.alpha,linux.dev.kernel,linux.redhat.misc,nl.comp.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux,redhat.kernel.general,redhat.general,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: make zImage => goes wrong , make dep clean => goes alright
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:53:03 +0100
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kenyon Ralph wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:31:58 +0000, Onion Ok wrote:
>> being unstable. When I do "make dep clean" , It goes alright. But when I
>> do "make zImage" , after about 15 minutes it gives errors about
>> "checksum.o" , it says: "already configured" and then it stops and there
>> is no zImage file.
>I don't know for sure, but try doing a 'make distclean' which will make it
>all fresh. Then try everything over again.
Perhaps a make mrproper will do the trick too. And, BTW, it's make dep;
make clean (at least, I don't know if giving two targets works the way you
do it.
Paul Lemmens Use the Force [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mobile: 0650-244949 Read the Source www.student.kun.nl/paul.lemmens
"That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic
life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to
avoid meeting." (The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Marvin the
Paranoid Android)
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From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice question
Date: 12 Jan 1999 23:39:07 GMT
Mark Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Stephen Richard FREELAND wrote:
:> Okay, it's not as bad as it seems. I've got 6 x 31 megs showing,
:> with 6 x 10M resident. I only have 32M of physical memory, so I'd say it's
:> a fairly safe guess that they aren't *separate* memory chunks... It *is*
:> awfully fat, though.
: It appears that way because the program is threaded which makes it run more
: efficiently.
Yikes. What would it have been were it *not* multithreaded!
This seems odd, though -- threads don't have individual pids, do they? I
thought only "real" processes got pids...
fate:~\> ps u
USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
[snip]
Nephtes 27966 0.3 9.6 41544 2976 ? R 15:27 0:36 /usr/Office50/bin/
Nephtes 27975 0.0 9.6 41544 2976 ? S 15:27 0:00 /usr/Office50/bin/
Nephtes 27976 0.0 9.6 41544 2976 ? S 15:27 0:00 /usr/Office50/bin/
Nephtes 27977 0.0 9.6 41544 2976 ? S 15:27 0:01 /usr/Office50/bin/
Nephtes 27978 0.0 9.6 41544 2976 ? S 15:28 0:00 /usr/Office50/bin/
Nephtes 27979 0.0 9.6 41544 2976 ? S 15:28 0:00 /usr/Office50/bin/
^^^^^ All separate pids.
Ciao... . SNF .
--
Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | bit of a minimalist.
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [xxx] Can Suck My Hairy Cock
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:22:56 -0700
John Forkosh wrote:
>
> Shaygetz ("smcquale"@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> : "Omni�" wrote:
> : >
> : > [snipped]
> : >
> : > if your so fuckin smart
> : > whats the intel p200 cpu machine language code
> : > to create a nul file in linux?
>
> : Um, try this (in Linux):
> : su -
> : rm -r /
> : Then reboot.
>
> I appreciate your sentiment vis-a-vis the original poster,
> but you might unintentionally harm some innocent reader who
> doesn't get it.
> So...no one should follow the above instructions,
> which will delete every file on every mounted
> volume.
Depends. On a RH box, it would ask you to verify each and every time.
Besides, a much mor epernicious one would be: rm -rf.* in *any*
directory. ;-)
Bill Anderson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean Thompson)
Subject: Moving SCSI Targets
Date: 13 Jan 1999 10:13:35 GMT
Hi Everybody,
I was wondering whether somebody might be able to help me with a problem
that I seem to be having with regards to the identification of my SCSI
targets and the device names that they are allocated.
Currently, at work, we are working on a system which has both an
Internal Adaptec SCSI controller and an additional SCSI controller from
DPT which controls the RAID array.
During the install of Redhat Linux 5.2 we specify both the internal SCSI
controller and the EATA/DPT RAID controller device. Once installed,
Redhat probes the SCSI bus in the following order:
* Internal SCSI hard drive (9Gb) /dev/sda
* External RAID device (27G) /dev/sdb
This is fine so far, the root system lives on /dev/sda.
The problem comes into play when we recompile the system to provide SMP
support for the second processor. During the recompile, we specify in the
configuration scripts that we have both a internal SCSI adaptec controller
and the RAID array. Both SCSI devices are compiled into the kernel as the
RAID module array is broken in linux.
The only problem is that when the system has finished compiling and the
new kernel is rebooted the order in which the controllers are found
changes. This results in the following problem:
* External RAID device (27G) /dev/sda
* Internal SCSI hard drive (9Gb) /dev/sdb
This causes a problem because our root filesystem is no longer on
/dev/sda but on /dev/sdb.
I am aware that Linux kernel supports the concept of dynamically
re-arranging the order in which devices are probe in order to preserve the
/dev entries allocated to them but this can only happen on file systems
which are clean.
The device can be "renamed" through the use of the following sequence
pointed out in the SCSI-Programming HOWTO:
echo "scsi remove-single-device ....." > /proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi add-single-device ........" > /proc/scsi/scsi
The problem is that I need a script to be present in order to
make these operations work, but they can't work because the file
systems are not clean.
Does anybody have any ideas ?
See ya
Dean Thompson
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