Linux-Misc Digest #952, Volume #18 Mon, 8 Feb 99 12:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Annoying problem trying to make boot disks with yard... (Tom Fawcett)
Multi IP addresses on one NIC question (Stormie Nelson)
Re: Connecting to the Internet (Gary Momarison)
notes to split an existing partition (Tim Moore)
Boot/Rescue problem. (Alexander Dukhon)
Linux People ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CS4236 support? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DELL XPICD with ES1688 (root)
Re: Can't log in as 'root' all of a sudden... (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Bob Nelson)
Re: Linux 2.2.1 problems on SMP machine 020899 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE is a Memory Hog. ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
Where can I find an (redhat 5.2) rpm for qmail? ("Richard Hitchell")
Re: BIOS settings for PnP (Mark Bratcher)
Re: securing a linux box (Raymond Doetjes)
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Annoying problem trying to make boot disks with yard...
Date: 08 Feb 1999 09:36:28 -0500
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been trying to make some boot disks for my new machine
> using yard but it just won't go. I managed this on my old
> machine, so I think I know what I'm doing but yard refuses
> to recognize my kernel image. I get errors like this:
>
> Error: Kernel image ( /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage)
> is not a plain file
>
> Or this:
>
> Error: Kernel image file (/boot/vmlinuz) is not a linux
> kernel
Several hints for dealing with problems in open source software, John:
- Before reporting a bug, check to make sure you're running the latest
version. I'll bet you didn't do this.
- It's usually more efficient to ask the program author rather than a
newsgroup.
-Tom
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From: Stormie Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Multi IP addresses on one NIC question
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:16:35 -0600
Howdy from Texas -
I am trying to set up a masquerading firewall. I have done this before
with no real problems, but I am doing something a little weird at a
customer's request. It has a legal address assigned by the ISP, and
they want me to assign a private address for ipmasq to the same NIC, so
the same physical interface is configured for the public and the private
network.
In rc.inet1 I am doing
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 201.20.99.2 broadcast 201.20.99.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
/sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.200.1 broadcast 192.168.200.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
/sbin/route add default gw 201.20.99.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.200.0 gw 192.168.200.1
In a file I created called rc.masq I am doing
/sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_cuseeme.o
/sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o
/sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_irc.o
/sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_quake.o
/sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_raudio.o
/sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_vdolive.o
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p accept
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -f
/sbin/ipfwadm -I -f
/sbin/ipfwadm -O -f
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.200.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
I know, I have not yet locked down the firewalling portion, I just want
to get connectivity squared away before I start shutting services down.
I am getting kind of weird results, like _intermittent_ ability to get
out to the Internet from within the private network, especially from
folks dialing in to the >cringe< WinNT RAS server.
I am running Slackware 3.6, kernel 2.0.36, and an Intel Ether Express
Pro 100b. Is this just not a good thing to do, running two logical
networks on one physical interface? I am starting to believe it is not,
but I was just looking for anyone who had any input.
If convenient, please respond via e-mail as well as post.
Thanks!
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet
Date: 08 Feb 1999 07:21:35 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard W. Edwards) writes:
> Recently loaded Red Hat 5.2 and am trying to configure dial up. I can
> connect to my ISP but the PPP connection is not going thru, I get all
> those swigly characters but ALT-Q does nothing. I have done the
> resolve.conf file, ppp options file, I get a login prompt so I don't
> need PAP or CHAP. Have I missed configuring a file? Any replies
> would be appreciated via e-mail or to this newsgroup is fine. I am
> able to get on the net from Win98.
I just did this with 5.2 using the linuxconf gizmo RH supplies. Worked
fine (except I don't know how to fix my old buttons to control it).
Try moving the files you configured to /var/tmp and try using linuxconf.
Actually it is a button on the "control-panel" tool.
Also ensure that /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS?, where ? is for your modem.
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 01:12:39 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: notes to split an existing partition
split an existing partition
===========================
Feb. 1999
No claims or formality, definitely not a beginner experiment.
CAUTION: Splitting partitions on a live, mounted file system
can result in the loss of the entire file structure.
Be prepared to reinstall from scratch at all times.
Initial Conditions
==================
This particular session was RH5.2 (2.0.36-3 kernel), mixed FAT16 and ext2 on a single
6.4
EIDE drive that is set up for dual boot via LILO.
Goal: consolidate swap and create new linux space.
Raw materials: a 1 GB FAT16 partition.
Things that changed: /etc/fstab, partition table entries.
Tools: fdisk or try cfdisk(8), /sbin/lilo.
Easy part first. Move and consolidate on the DOS side to free up the partition, which
can
be done completely from the comfort and safety of linux. Here's the form I use in
/etc/fstab for user-mountable, non-linux partitions. Substitute your favorite file
system
type if not vfat:
/dev/hda1 /C vfat defaults,rw,user,noauto,suid 0 0
Here's the partition table as it was. /dev/hda6 will be split.
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 64 514048+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 65 783 5775367+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 65 192 1028128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 193 320 1028096+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda7 321 329 72261 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 330 334 40131 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 335 411 618471 83 Linux native
/dev/hda10 412 416 40131 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda11 417 429 104391 83 Linux native
/dev/hda12 430 506 618471 83 Linux native
/dev/hda13 507 645 1116486 83 Linux native
/dev/hda14 646 783 1108453+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
As you can see my swap space was in two small partitions. I had been trying an
experiment
mounting them with equal priority
/dev/hda8 none swap pri=1 0 0
/dev/hda10 none swap pri=1 0 0
which causes round robin paging. In my case this caused excessive head seek and poor
performance. Swap partitions across multiple physical drives and controllers are more
suited to this swapping policy. I decide to split hda6 into a single 128 MB swap with
the
rest reserved for /home expansion.
Procedures and Results
======================
1. Delete the existing partition.
2. Create new partition(s) from the deleted space.
3. Change partition types.
4. Adjust fstab adjust device names to partitions and add the new.
5. Run /sbin/lilo*.
6. Run mkswap(8) or mke2fs(8) on the new partition(s).
7. reboot.
I want to end up with this partition table:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 64 514048+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 65 783 5775367+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 65 192 1028128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 193 208 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 209 320 899608+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 321 329 72261 83 Linux native
/dev/hda9 330 334 40131 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda10 335 411 618471 83 Linux native
/dev/hda11 412 416 40131 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda12 417 429 104391 83 Linux native
/dev/hda13 430 506 618471 83 Linux native
/dev/hda14 507 645 1116486 83 Linux native
/dev/hda15 646 783 1108453+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Note a 128 MB swap space (hda6) and new ext2 space (hda7) where the old 1 GB FAT16
partition used to be. Notice all partition numbers below /dev/hda6 are one greater
than
they were. /etc/fstab must be reconciled to match these new device mappings. For
example
my previous small swap spaces now become
/dev/hda9 none swap pri=1 0 0
/dev/hda11 none swap pri=0 0 0
The new large swap space is
/dev/hda6 none swap pri=2 0 0
Larger numbers get used first. See swapon(2).
* I've not yet found a good explanation why lilo needed to be rerun. Although the
device
name did change from hda7 to hda8, the disk location of the kernel did not change, nor
did
any of the root=/dev/xxxx entries in /etc/lilo.conf. Symptoms were fdisk messages
about
not being able to reread the partition table after writing, and on reboot the kernel
died
horribly spewing disk geometry just after 'Partition check:' which should be just where
the file system kicks in. I suspect splitting a partition above (disk geometry
speaking)
root is trickier than below.
Suggestions, questions, corrections welcomed at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
[Replies: remove the D]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: Alexander Dukhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Alexander Dukhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot/Rescue problem.
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:08:00 -0500
I'm looking for the disk image of Red Hat 4.1 boot/rescue disk. If someone
knows where I can get one of the HTTP or FTP site or some can e-mail the
image to me, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex Dukhon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.misc
Subject: Linux People
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:07:05 GMT
Hi,
I'm carrying out PhD research into Linux and Open Source Software. Does anyone
know where I can find a who's-who of Linux?
I appreciate there are literally thousands of people who have played an
important role in developing Linux, but a list of some of the more prominent
of these developers would help to add a personal element to the research.
Thanks very much in advance,
Rob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CS4236 support?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 14:00:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grand Poobah of PRAM) wrote:
>
> Is there a module out there for this chip set?
>
> --
Just reconfigure the kernel and then the sound section, select OSS/Drivers
and then select the CS4232 chip, fill out the IO-address (0x534) IRQ 5, DMA
1, DMA2 0, Midi 0x330, IRQ 9 and all should work fine. Recompile the kernel
and the soundcard should be initializing (try dmesg for confirmation). May be
you need other settings.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: DELL XPICD with ES1688
Date: 8 Feb 1999 14:47:25 GMT
[ Article crossposted from linux.dev.sound ]
[ Author was root ]
[ Posted on 2 Feb 1999 14:29:27 GMT ]
Hello everyone,
I have a DELL XPI CD150 running RedHat 5.2. KDE runs beautifully --
in fact, everything works beautifully, EXCEPT sound.
How the heck do I make this happen. I've recompiled my kernel for
sound but to no avail. Here is the output from 'cat /dev/sndstat'.
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
Kernel: Linux mylaptop.nexus.com 2.0.36 #30 Tue Jan 12 22:50:07 EST 1999 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 26: MPU-401 (UART)
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 29: Sound Blaster PnP
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Card config:
(Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 0,5)
(SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 1 drq 0)
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
And that's all it she/he/it wrote. Any ideas. In Windows, my driver
gives up (reluctantly) this information.
ESS1688 Audio Drive
ES1688.VXD
0220-022F
0388-038B
0330-0331
IRQ 5
DMA 0,3
Any suggestions, ideas, would be greatly appreciated.
Marcel (Free Thinker at Large) Gagne
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't log in as 'root' all of a sudden...
Date: 8 Feb 1999 14:26:18 GMT
Ken Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: and (foolishly) started FileRunner (which I think is great). I selected the
: �.� file entry and ran chmod set to change all permissions to read,write,
: execute and to do it recursively.
Hm, weird.
Making everything +rwx is... um... well, I'll be charitable and
say "inadvisable", but I've found that breaking things can be wonderful
learning experience.
Now as for why you can no longer log in, the only thing I can think
of (and this is only a semi-educated guess) is that the login program
protecting the system's security by letting no-one in because the
/etc/passwd file is now world-writable.
: I can�t for the life of me figure out how my root password got
: changed/corrupted, or how to get it all back to the way it was (whats
: a backup?).
I'd suggest a boot floppy. There are prepackaged ones available
from sunsite^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmetalab. Boot, mount your system's root, and
inspect /etc/passwd. If changing the permissions as indicated doesn't work,
the next step I'd try would be removing root's password entirely (but make
sure you set it back once the system is back up!)
If I haven't guessed right, and if you do figure this out, I'd be
interested to know what the exact problem was.
: I�m having to send this via Win95, BTW. Eeeeewww!
Yeah, all your apostrophes are coming through as question marks.
Sigh...
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: Bob Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 29 Jan 1999 00:06:39 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.editors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> FWIW, I like /both/ kinds of music [...]
Me too. Country and and the other kind, western.
--
========================================================================
Bob Nelson -- Dallas, Texas, USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/open-computing.html
``Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.''
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.1 problems on SMP machine 020899
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 08:53:04 GMT
Hi,
Run EISA configuration utility by pressing F10 during boot or through Smart
Start CD. At the selection screen after the Compaq banner page(there is 4
option in a box towards the top left corner of the screen) press Control-a
simultaneously. This will enable Advanced Mode of configuration. Next select
configure hardware option. After the configuration is completed the system
will prompt for 5 different option . Select the Review & Edit Details option.
Go to the APIC option. Place the APIC option to FULL table mode. Save the
option and exit the configuration and then boot linux.
After the system comes up compile your kernel for SMP (i.e. after make config
or make xconfig or what you have) edit the Makefile and delete the "#" before
SMP=1 and SMP_PROF=1(Near the top of the file) and then build the kernel.
Your system will be configured to SMP
Let me know your feed back. If you need any further help mail me back.
Regards
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jacques Oosthuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Help !!!!!
>
> We have a compaq proliant 800 server at work. If I compile the kernel a
> SMP then the machine will run for a while and lock up. I know the docs
> say that on the compaq machines you should set the bios to unixware, but
> this machines bios does not have such a option. If I compile the machine
> for 1 processor there is no problems at all.
>
> Does anyone know what to do. ??
>
>
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:51:46 -0600
Ben Russo wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:
>
>> KDE is more of a hog than Windows 9x or NT!!! It is also very slow. I
>> don't think Qt is ready for performance application development yet.
>>
>
>Do you have any stats to back that up?
>
Nope, no stats. However, if I use Windows NT, 96MB on an UltraDMA drive,
PII-333, fully loaded with software, and it is peppy and responsive and then
I go to Linux and/or FreeBSD and startkde and get this drolling I/O hit and
have everything load much slower under KDE, I would suspect that the human
mind can certainly detect the difference. I suspect this has a lot to do
with a user friendly programming interface and much less to do with
optimized code. So, it is a qualitative judgement I have made and you don't
have to agree with it, but for me I will keep using WindowMaker as it is
MUCH faster.
And if you read closely above, I said, " I don't ****think**** Qt is ready
for performance application development yet.", which is obviously stating an
opinion.
For the rest of it about running Windows on a Unix Kernel and such, you can
leave the sarcasm on your side of the keyboard.
Tom Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Richard Hitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where can I find an (redhat 5.2) rpm for qmail?
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:51:22 -0000
Hi,
Does anybody know where I might find an rpm for qmail - I have tried
searching www.qmail.org and loads of ftp sites but seem to come up with
nothing. The README in the download rpm section at qmail suggests that the
rpm should be in the same directory - but it is not there.
Any help greatly appreciated
Richard
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: BIOS settings for PnP
Date: 8 Feb 1999 13:51:17 GMT
To set up my Hayes modem, I had to:
- Turn off PnP in the BIOS
AND
- Run pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf and edit the file to select my board
options
If I didn't do BOTH, the modem wouldn't run under Linux.
Turning off the PnP in the BIOS did not adversely affect my Win95
running. I didn't have to make any readjustments in Win95 at all.
However, it _might_ be a problem if you tell Win95 to search for new
hardware again. It appears that once you set things up Win95 seems to
remember the settings (at least in most cases).
Mark
Clue wrote:
>
> Hi, I've read that in order to run Linux properly with everything working
> properly, the PnP aware option in the BIOS must be turned off. Would that
> (turning off the OS PnP aware) affect other operating systems on my
> computer? (namely Windows 9x)
> Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: securing a linux box
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:14:43 +0100
Build a firewall and masquerading kernel and only enable these port and
voila it works
Raymond
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