Linux-Misc Digest #906, Volume #19 Tue, 20 Apr 99 02:13:17 EDT
Contents:
Re: Redhat Issue ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
Re: Help choosing distribution (Chris Costello)
Old version of linux? (Matthew King)
Re: Linux Book Recommendations please?? (Jeremy Lunn)
Re: GNOME, kde and kppp ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Telnetd checking hostname (Paul Kimoto)
ppp problems (MJ)
Re: ***** Creating a type 82 swap partition (Paul Sherwin)
Re: Citizen Swift 240 Printer (nails)
disable telnet access ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 5.2! (I am sending this to multiple NGs) ("Tim
McDonough")
Re: Help Debugging Crashes :-( (jason)
Re: MAILER DEAMON problem (brian moore)
modprobe boot error (MegaSurge)
Re: The Best Linux distribution? (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux) (Don Martin)
Re: Auto mount floppy?? (Albert Hurd)
NFS ("martin")
Does Redhat Linux support CL 5446 with 4MB of RAM? ("Patrick Lam")
Mounting windows NTFS drive (Donovan Young)
Re: Remote boot in linux (Miguel Lastra)
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Issue
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:54:03 -0500
Sounds to me like Windows may have hosed your partition information. You
aren't running a WindowNT dual-boot are you? Always say no to the question
when asked if it can save partition information to each disk. Although I
haven't had much of a problem with that, I have read that many people do.
Tom Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Heasley wrote in message <7fdarb$a7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Some more info ---
>
>Tried to boot from the boot disk, and got the following:
>
>attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:45: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
>EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
>attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:45: rw0, want=1, limit=0
>FAT bread failed
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:45
>
>Thanks again for any help in advance.
>Bill Heasley wrote in message <7fd5gc$9du$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>I have been trying to install Redhat 5.2 for a couple days now. I get it
>>installed and it appears to run fine. But after about 1 hour it begins to
>>act funny. Usually I need to reboot (power off and on) and then during
the
>>boot process it tells me :
>>
>> /dev/hdb1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
>>
>>an expected error. Then after a few seconds it says:
>>
>> Problem: block on freelist at 018fe090 is not free.
>>
>>Then it will do nothing.
>>
>>System specs:
>>
>> Pentium 200
>> 64M ram
>> Mach 64 video card - 1M memory
>> Primary HD 6.1g Western Digital Single Partition Fat 32 Windows 98
>> Secondary HD 1.5g Quantum Fireball for linux(200mb linux swap
>partition)
>>
>>Can anybody help me?
>>
>>Thanks in advance!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Help choosing distribution
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:54:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jik- wrote:
> David M. Cook wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:04:04 -0400, Nathan Ranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >For me, however, a 15 year UNIX veteran, Slakware Rulez. RedHat and
> > >Debian do to much for me. *I* want to write those rc.local files. *I*
> > >can do *MY OWN* kill -9s and kill -1s!!!
> >
> > How does Redhat or Debian prevent you from doing this?
>
>
> Well, why install all the extra crap if you don't want to use it?
> Besides, both RedHat and Debian use that idiotic SysV style (or
> whatever) rc setup with those insideous start/stop scripts which are 10
> times slower then simple runlevel files like Slackware has.
If you want to use a BSD-style system, why not go all the way
and use FreeBSD? Its general organization is the best I've seen
out of any OS ever. It doesn't mix local packages with system
packages, it has the ports system (http://www.freebsd.org/ports),
which is, IMO, one of the neatest things since writable media.
Flame all you want...
--
Chris Costello
Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used.
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From: Matthew King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Old version of linux?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:05:36 +0100
(please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Does anyone, preferably in Britain, have an old version of linux they
would be prepared to give - or sell :( - me. I do not mind which
distribution, but I would prefer it to be pre-RPM.
Many thanks,
Matthew King,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeremy Lunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Book Recommendations please??
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:11:50 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> BTW Slackware 3.5 uses egcs as the default c compiler, which will mess things
> up bad if you recomplile a 2.0 kernel with it.
Must be fixed in 3.6 cuz it used gcc by defualt. But I am gonna replace
slackwarez with debian cuz it is so broken. XFree86 in slackwarez has
some major bug where whenever I am switching between X and other virtual
consoles a lot it displays this windows that has the title "Windows" and
a list of X apps that are open, and if I put the mouse over that list it
highlights them, but I can't do anything else in X.. usually meaning I
have to terminate it. I have also found problems with X libs not being
thread safe and have not been able to fix that.
--
Jeremy Lunn
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ: 19255837
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: GNOME, kde and kppp
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 02:56:40 +0000
"M.V. Ramana" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed GNOME 1.0 on my laptop (RH 5.2). Gnome seems to be an
> awesome desktop (http://www.gnome.org). I am now considering unistalling
> kde 1.0, but would like to keep kppp. What files/folders do I need to
> keep for kppp to work (I have all the kde files in /home/opt, which is
> linked to /opt/kde. If I keep the link, then kppp work under gnome, but
> if I remove the link, and run kppp executable from a different
> directory, it seems to dial, but not communicate with the ISP's modem).
>
> I know the manual way of setting up an ISP connection and have used
> it in past, but I'd prefer using kppp-like client (it makes ISP hookup a
> piece of cake!).
>
> Will appreciate any pointers.
What's wrong with Gnome-PPP? (It's on the menu under internet.) It's
basically the same thing.
--
Gary Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada http://www.interlog.com/~grwalsh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Telnetd checking hostname
Date: 19 Apr 1999 22:00:49 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a way to turn off this feature...I have to sit and wait for
> a minute or 2 waiting for the DNS query to timeout.
Is there something wrong with your DNS setup?
You can bypass the DNS lookup by providing the appropriate hostnames
in /etc/hosts (and configuring /etc/host.conf or /etc/nsswitch.conf
or both to look there before consulting the servers).
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: MJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp problems
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:04:23 GMT
I have tried everything to get my linux ppp to 'talk' to my isp, but to no
avail. It seems as though when I use minicom to login first then send the
ppp -d -detach commands it won't connect to my isp. I then type ifconfig
ppp0 and I can see that the link is not established. Also I have gone
through X to get in using Netcfg, and things don't get connected using that
route either. I have been working on this for about a week, and am getting
very frustrated at this point. I basically believe that something is wrong
with ppp, since I am able to dial out to the isp w/ minicom, but ppp won't
communicate with my isp. I don't know. Please send any help / responses in
e-mail if possible.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sherwin)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: ***** Creating a type 82 swap partition
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:03:31 GMT
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:37:46 +1200, Lloyd Weehuizen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hmm sounds like you where using a RH varient of fdisk
No such thing friend.
> use the normal linux
>fdisk, it will allow you to do ANYTHING, very powerful.
>
Indeed, I use it all the time, but I understand how hard disk
partitioning works! Fdisk can be very scary for a Linux newbie and can
do a great deal of damage with very little warning. The moral is -
make sure you know what you're doing when you change anything!
BTW, cfdisk is easier to use than fdisk, and does pretty much the same
things.
Best regards, Paul
Paul Sherwin Consulting 22 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK
Phone +44 (0)1865 721438 http://www.telinco.co.uk/psherwin/index.htm
Fax +44 (0)1865 434331 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pager +44 (0)7666 797228
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nails)
Subject: Re: Citizen Swift 240 Printer
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:37:29 GMT
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:15:17 +0100, mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>nails <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>>I have the above dot matrix printer which does not appear to be in the
>>list of printers on configuration!
>>does this mean i cannot print at all or is there a way round this
>>problem??
>
>Use the driver for the BJ200 (b&w) or one of the BJC 400 or something
>for colour. I don't use colour so I don't know which one exactly.
>
>>Please feel free to e-mail me direct if you can help!!
>
>PITN, RITN.
Thanks for that! I`ll give it a try!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: disable telnet access
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 03:14:26 GMT
Hi.
I'm a bigenner and would like to know how can I disable telnet access for all
accounts except 2 or 3 (say, root/user2/user2).
Thanks.
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From: "Tim McDonough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 5.2! (I am sending this to multiple NGs)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:54:53 -0500
If it's the M$ IntelliMouse, you might try this:
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Good luck.
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help Debugging Crashes :-(
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:00:43 -0400
Sounds like bad memory. If you can, download, compile and install memtest86:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/memtest86-1.4a.tar.gz
It's installed just like a kernel, i.e. booted from lilo or a boot disk. Run it
and see what it has to say about your memory.
Good luck,
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: MAILER DEAMON problem
Date: 20 Apr 1999 00:09:22 GMT
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 03:16:20 +0200,
benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello ,
> I am runing Linux Kernel 2.2.4 (Redhat 5.1 kernel upgraded).
> I use FETCHMAIL to get my mails, and PINE to read and send them.
> I have got a problem: i very often receive this e-mail:
You're using something other than PINE to read mail, then.
The 'DO NOT DELETE' item is inserted by the UW IMAP and POP3 servers
in order to save state about your mailbox.
The current PINE will hide that message from you.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: MegaSurge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modprobe boot error
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 07:19:11 -0700
I'm getting the following error every time I boot up on one of my
particular machines.
"modprobe: can't locate module char-major-4"
It doesn't seem to be causing any problems with normal system operations.
It started happening after I recompiled the 2.2.5 kernel on my system.
Does anyone know where this comes from? I found a reference in the
conf.modules file but remarking the line didn't make it go away so it must
be coming from somewhere else. Please let me know if you know where this
is. Thank you.
"If there is a *quintessential zone of human privacy* it is the mind."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Martin)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Best Linux distribution? (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:34:24 GMT
Well as an experienced Slackware user perhaps you could advise me.
Whenever I tried to configure XF86 I got a final window with Netscape
Buttons, etc at the bottom of the screen. The best part of it alll is
both my mouse and keyboard would freeze and I was unable to resolve
this problem. I do not have similar situation with Red Hat. Also with
Slackware I noticed it uses ttyS0 for modems and tty00 for mouse ...
could these variations have caused my mouse and keyboard to freeze?
I am using a microsoft compatible two-button mouse and Microsoft
Natural Keyboard. I would love to run Slackware if I can unfreeze my
mouse and keyboard. Would appreciate your advise on how to resolve
these problems. problem. Like you I too like Slackware but was put off
by the frozen mouse and keyboard.
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:21:33 -0400, Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Leahy wrote:
>
>> Regards to Donn, I'm not familiar with Debian or Slackware so I cant really
>> compare. I use RedHat 5.2
>> (as well as FreeBSD 3.1) I'm not sure why he is recommending against RedHat. I find
>> it to be stable and easy to set up. The accompanying software is extensive and
>> RPM's are readily available and easy to install. Compiling and installing from
>> source is also relatively simple. As I say though, I have not tried the other
>> Linuxes.
>> Donn, can you tell me why you recommend against RedHat? I'm not being smart, I'm
>> genuinely curious.
>
>Well, I've tried both Slackware and Debian. My first encounter with
>Linux was with the Slackware distribution, back in May-June 1995. I
>ran that until about Oct 1996 (the same distribution with no kernel
>upgrades). Then, I switched to FreeBSD in Nov. 1996, and I'm still
>running it now.
>
>I tried the free Solaris promo. (Summer 1998) on my second HD, which
>is what I used previously to download packages and such. After
>finding out that Solaris wouldn't work with my CDROM, I basically said
>the heck with it, and decided I can put Linux as my "third" OS, on my
>spare HD. Well, I started out with Debian. I found the package
>management system frustrating. From reading a lot of posts on Debian
>(on DejaNews, and on my news server), I found that a lot of people
>liked it's package management system, and denounced Red Hat as being
>too "graphical" with its administration tools. People were also
>saying that Red Hat installations tend to put config files in
>"strange" directories. Actually, this is just from hearsay from
>reading DejaNews posts, so I'm basing my recommendations on that.
>
>I scrapped my Debian system, as it was causing me some headaches.
>Seeing as to how I started out on Slackware, I replaced my Debian with
>Slack. I like Slack because, well, it was my first exposure to
>Linux. So familiarity was the key decision here; I figured why try
>to force myself to like Debian, when I feel most comfortable with
>Slack?
>
>Actually, you'll find people getting kind of personal over what Linux
>distro. to use. Like, "Slackware is the most BSD-like, but it's not
>as secure as Debian, and the package management system is sloppy".
>Or, Slackware fanatics (especially those who use FreeBSD also) will
>like the fact that it is more BSD-like than the other distros. I like
>Slackware the best, since I can just download the whole distribution
>with a command like:
>
>get slakware.tar
>
>And the distribution size, minus the packages, seems smaller than the
>other Linux distros. So for me, Slackware is best, because of 1.)
>familiarity, 2.) I find it easiest to download 3.) I like the
>simplicity of its set-up programs. I like Debian too, but I found it
>hard to find out which packages I needed, and I didn't like it's
>package management system. Slackware seemed to be very good at giving
>you the packages you needed, without hunting around all over the
>place. Plus, I find that Slackware does a lot of hand holding when
>installing the system for the first time.
>
>There are many Linux distributions. I found out going from Slackware
>--> Debian required a certain learning curve, and basically, I figured
>why deal with learning a new system when I can just stick with Slack,
>which is what I am most familiar with. People in this NG have tried
>to talk me out of using Slackware, and into using Debian, and I
>listened. It's no use! I'm "old school", like slackware, so it's
>what I use. In the end, though, it matters little what distribution
>you use; the Linux kernel is what matters the most. The differences
>will be mainly: 1. package management, 2. configuration tools, 3.)
>directory structure, 4.) start-up script functionality.
>
>So I'm going to recant my recommendation on which Linux distro. to
>use, as there are so many of them. Some of them excel in areas that
>others don't. For example: Slackware is the easiest to download, but
>its package management sucks. Well, it's not too bad, but it doesn't
>do any dependency checking the way Debian does. From what I've read,
>Red Hat has the most GUI-oriented administration tools, and a lot of
>people on DejaNews didn't like that.
>
>If you praise one Linux distro. and condemn the others, people will
>make it a religious issue and get pissed off. So now, if someone
>wants a recommendation on which is better, FreeBSD or Linux, I'll just
>say (if Linux is better suited to the task) "Linux, but try to pick
>out which distribution suits you the best." And that's the way it
>should be; if people want to run Linux, just, as they say, "Do it!"
>and just use whatever distribution you find most comfortable with.
>
>Actually, I was basing my previous recommendation of Debian, Slackware
>over Red Hat on what I've read from DejaNews. That's wrong; people
>should just try each one out for size, so to speak, and just so which
>one fits the best. ;-)
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From: Albert Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Auto mount floppy??
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:59:10 GMT
jik- wrote:
> Albert Hurd wrote:
> >
> > The Next OS has the capability of automatically recognizing when a
> > floppy is inserted, and mounting it so that the files appear in the file
> > manager under the directory given by fsab (and presumably unmounting
> > when the floppy is removed. Is there anything like this available for
> > Linux.
>
> automount will mount when you cd into and out of the directory. I think
> it works on floppies but I have never used it.
Thanks for turning me on to automount. I'll try it.
Albert
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From: "martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:44:35 +0200
Hallo,
could someone help me with my small problem?
I need to find some NFS client for Win 95/98/NT/2000 to conect to my Linux
file server. I'd be glad, if this NFS client will be free of charge.
Thanks for your help Martin Dvorak CZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Patrick Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Does Redhat Linux support CL 5446 with 4MB of RAM?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:51:14 -0700
Sorry that I have posted this question in a few other NGs and hope that I
will get a quicker answer. If you have already read this somewhere else,
please ignore.
Hi all:
startx runs to a point that shows me nothing but a blank screen. What might
be the problem?
I tried Xconfigurator a few times and tried even with stardard VGA mode, but
still getting the same blank screen.
I read somewhere from the web that CL 5446 is only supported up to 2MB of
RAM. I doubt it if 4MB will cause the problem, but that's what I have on my
machine.
Any suggestions?
Patrick.
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From: Donovan Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting windows NTFS drive
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:52:54 GMT
Running redhat 5.1, when I try to mount my 2 gig drive with a single
2 gig NTFS partition on it from windows NT 4.0 I get a segmentation
fault. I use "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mountpoint". Anybody know
anything on this?
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From: Miguel Lastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remote boot in linux
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:32:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"F. Paulin" wrote:
>
> I am a student, and for a school work I wanted to submit a theoretical
> network using Linux. For the network, I wanted to use about 30 computers
> without floppy (the network being for a class room, no floppy means no virus
> form students) and because I needed to run several softwares on win95, I
> wanted to make windoze remote-boot on the Linux server to avoid the nightmare
Using Netboot I got 16 computers to boot DOS remotely. I had to use a
bootdisk bacause my ethernet cards did not have a bootrom. However the
boot disk was the same for all compuers. If you have a bootrom
possibility you don't need any disks. Haven't trid with WinXX
One problem I had is that inetd could not handle so many bootp
connections at the same time, but I got a standalone bootp daemon,
recompiled it for Linux and worked flawlessly.
Miguel
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