Linux-Misc Digest #887, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Jul 99 00:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't reach Internet through PPP connection (Michel Catudal)
Re: Please Help Resolution Change In KDE (John Clarke)
Re: Can I use Linux as a server to a Windows based calendar/scheduling application?
(Timothy J. Lee)
Re: Resizing linux partition (Adrian Hands)
Re: Please Help Resolution Change In KDE (Allin Cottrell)
Re: LILO hangs on LI (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Linux and Suspend To Hard Drive feature ("David Pereira")
Syncronizing Passwd Files (An even MORE lost user)
Re: SANE OUTPUT ("Scott Simpson")
Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1 (Adrian Hands)
Re: Syncronizing Passwd Files (Adrian Hands)
Re: first/second/third world (Jacob Ratkiewicz)
Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1 (John Hong)
Re: Howto Erase CD-RW media? (Carl Fink)
mail problem : please help (Chhabra)
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't reach Internet through PPP connection
Date: 1 Jul 1999 21:11:04 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've been experimenting with Mandrake 6.0 to use as a dial-on-demand
> proxy server for a small LAN. (This would be to replace our current
> Wingate 3.0 setup which, while easy to configure, has been too unreliable.)
>
> It seems that whenever I work on the various individual aspects of getting
> this thing to work, something else breaks. :-) There does not seem to be a
> comprehensive guide to doing the entire job, although it's a pretty common
> one these days. (Dial on demand PPP, proxy server, local caching DNS,
> and Samba on an NT-based network that already uses TCP/IP, DHCP, and WINS.)
>
> Although my PPP dialup (invoked manually) *was* working fine and allowing
> access to the Net, suddenly it is not. It dials out and connects to
> the ISP with no apparent problem, and successfully negotiates a network
> connection. However I can only ping the server on the other end and
> can go no further. Any attempt at using ftp or a web browser to an external
> site just yields a "can't connect to server" type diagnostic. (Some kind of
> routing problem? There is no diagnostic in the system log complaining
> of trouble replacing the default route.)
>
> I've done some poking around on Deja News but haven't found a solution yet.
> Also just printed out the 122 page "NET-3-HOWTO" and 349 page "Linux
> Network Administrators' Guide" to accompany the 1000 or so pages of other
> docs I've accumulated so far in trying to get this thing to work.
>
> Presumably the answer lies therein, but I thought I'd see if anyone here
> has run into this sort of (frustrating) problem and found a solution.
> Thanks in advance for any helpful info...
>
> --
> Roger Blake
> (remove second "g" from address for email)
You setup is probably messed up. Try using control-panel to
setup your modem and network. It has always worked for me.
Or you can download wvdial. Read the info though before using it.
--
use OS/2 for a crash proof work environment
use Linux for safe and quick internet access
use Winblows to test the latest viruses
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: John Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.2600,linux.redhat.announce,linux.redhat.development,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Please Help Resolution Change In KDE
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 20:55:43 -0500
I have the same problem and Ctrl + Alt + "+" ("-") does nothing. Any
ideas?
John
Jim Porter wrote:
>
> Ctrl + Alt + "+" or
> Ctrl + Alt + "+"
>
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:48:03 GMT, "Intro Technologies"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have installed Linux for the 1st time in my life, it boots into something
> >called KDE...after I login I see a nice pretty screen but the fonts are HUGE
> >and all the windows are HUGE not allowing me to do anything, can someone
> >please tell me how I could change the resolution easily, I have a Viper V550
> >16MB AGP Card and Panasonic P110 (21inch) monitor. Again, when Linux boots
> >all I see is a login screen and after I login everything is HUGE.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Can I use Linux as a server to a Windows based calendar/scheduling
application?
Date: 2 Jul 1999 02:11:21 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
"Steve Hiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|I am now in charge of the network at a Chuch. One of the first goals they
|set is email for everyone. It wasn't difficult at all for me to convince
|them to let me build a Linux email server (Red Hat 6.0). I haven't done it
|before but it should be educational.
|
|I have a question though. I would like to give them the ability to have a
|group calendar and group schedule.
There is a commercial product called CyberScheduler from Crosswind
(www.xwind.com) that offers group scheduling to web browser clients.
You also need a web server for it to use, but it claims to work with
Apache (which is free).
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resizing linux partition
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:17:19 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Tuthill wrote:
>
> When I installed linux I set up a 128 meg swap partition and a approx.
> 800 meg root partition. I'm quickly running out of space on the root
> partition and wonder if I can increase the size with Partition Magic
> and not have linux go screwy on me when I boot up.
I assume you want to decrease the size of the swap partition and
increase the size of the root partition. It would probably be
easiest/safest to blow away the swap partition and create two partitions
in it's place - a smaller swap and a linux native. Then mount the new
linux native partition onto a point on your root partition and move a
bunch of stuff over there, thereby freeing space on the root partition.
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From: Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Please Help Resolution Change In KDE
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:55:15 -0400
John Clarke wrote:
>
> I have the same problem and Ctrl + Alt + "+" ("-") does nothing. Any
> ideas?
Are you using the "+" and "-" on the number pad? That is required.
If that does nothing, you probably need to get into your XF86Config
file and see what resolutions are defined.
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: LILO hangs on LI
Date: 2 Jul 1999 02:19:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, imsk wrote:
>I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to configure my system
>to run linux. I must have gone through the RH 5.2 install 50 times. I
>am loading linux on my second hard drive, with Win 98 on my first and
>primary drive. When i switch the BIOS to my second drive,
Don't do that. Leave Win98 on the first drive. Leave the BIOS alone.
Linux can be installed on any drive, no BIOS fiddling is needed.
BIOS fiddling is probably what is causing your problem.
>LILO stops
>and hangs after LI.
That indicates the geometry of your disk drives is not now what it was
when LILO was installed. Leave BIOS alone! Don't try to install
LILO on /dev/hdb.
> Every time I run the install, it won't allow me to
>make a boot disk when it ask me.
Red Hat doesn't understand your setup. Don't worry about that,
you can still install.
Just boot the initial install disk and run the install, with
root and swap and whatever on /dev/hdb[1-7].
> I have tried booting from the install
>cd with vmlinuz root =/dev/hdb1
What is this "vmlinuz" file, anyway? I've been running Linux since
1992 and I can't remember ever needing it for anything.
(I know, it's the .o file, and the old ps command needed it so
the kernel build would move it somewhere... Ignore vmlinuz.)
After you have installed, you can compile a kernel for your machine
and it will be /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
and you can copy it (with cp or dd or cat) to /dev/fd0
and that floppy will boot your system.
*THEN* you can decide whether you want to install LILO, and how.
Meanwhile, if you have a base system on /dev/hdb1, things are good,
you can complete the install. Every install disk has a menu of things
you can boot and ways to give a command line argument.
The bootimage (we keep saying bzImage is a "kernel" but the correct
term is "bootimage") is usually named "linux". So the command to give
the loader prompt at the beginning of the install disk is usually
linux root=/dev/hdb1
or whatever your root partition is. If the Red Hat boot disk won't
do it, use Debian Rescue 2.1 or the SuSE install disk.
Remember, the goal here is to make your machine self-sufficient,
then you can worry about making it beautiful. Install the compiler
and binutils and make a kernel. Then you don't have to fool with
boot commands any more.
> at the boot prompt. Hdb1 is the active
>partition on the second drive, which also includes a swap and another
>linux partition that I set aside for apps. After two pages of test and
>set up, my last two messages are:
>
>VFS: cannot open root device 08:22
>Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root FS on 08:22
0x22 = 34 decimal.
According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt (Thank you, Peter!)
block device 8 is SCSI. If I'm reading that right, it's trying to mount
/dev/sdc2. I think your Red Hat boot disk is playing tricks
on you.
$ ls -l /dev | grep '8, *34'
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 34 Jul 21 1998 sdc2
Cameron
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From: "David Pereira" <davidp att wwg d0t c0m>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux and Suspend To Hard Drive feature
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:37:29 -0700
Hello all,
I'm interested in setting up a computer running Linux with the "Suspend To
Hard Drive" feature. Has anyone attempted to use the "Suspend To Hard
Drive" feature found in many AOpen and Intel motherboards (i.e. AX6BC, MX3L,
BI440ZX, etc.) with Linux and a VESA compatible VGA device and an audio
card? If so, what were your experiences? Any comments would be
appreciated.
TIA,
->David
--
_________________________
David Pereira
Systems/Network Administrator
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From: An even MORE lost user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Syncronizing Passwd Files
Date: 2 Jul 1999 02:30:56 GMT
Does anyone know of where I can find any good scripts/how to on
syncronzizing my passwd files between multiple Linux Boxes? (Red Hat 6.0).
While I know that I can use NIS to do this, and have used it in the past
for this, it doesn't actually propogate the passwd and shadow files to the
other system.
Not all of my programs are able to properly handle NIS. Furthermore, I
want to be able to cd ~username on my 2nd machine and hit the home
directory which is automounted via autofs.
While on that line of questioning, is there any way to indicate ALL home
directories should be Automounted using Autofs or do I have to add each
user to auto.home as I currently do?
Thanks,
Stephanie
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From: "Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SANE OUTPUT
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:38:59 -0700
The efix program that comes with efax can do it. Redhat linux comes with
efax.
/
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:46:55 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerald Willmann wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Warren Bell wrote:
>
> > I've been running RedHat 5.2 and am wondering how SuSE Linux is. It
> > seems to have a lot of the same features and RPM format. Is it just as
> > good as RH? Better?
> > I just want to make sure SuSE is a good OS and works well. It seems to
> > be packed with features and apps for about half the price of RH 6.0.
>
> Suse is not an OS. Linux is the OS - no matter which distro you use.
> Don't think it's worth reinstalling Linux w/o specific reasons. Or would
> you simply reinstall because the new distro might have a better
> installation procedure ???
> Gerald
Ok Gerald, SuSE is not an OS. Well, I guess you could also say even
Linux isn't an OS - Linux is a kernel; GNU/Linux is an OS!
I too have been running RH, but my wife brought home a copy of SuSE 6.1
and I installed it on her Thinkpad for her. I haven't played with it
much but it does look pretty nice.
I'll go ahead and make some comments and invite and expect SuSE people
to correct my mistakes!
It's a 2.2.5 kernel, came with lots of CDs, defaulted to KDE, seemed to
install with nary a hitch on the Thinkpad, though I did manage to screw
up LILO (my fault, and easily corrected because the boot CD allowed me
to boot the already installed hd).
It took a couple of tries to get X going, but that's to be expected - I
may have been hindered by my RH experience here because SuSE has it's
own XF86 config tool (SaX - I guess mixed-case commands is kind of a
SuSE trademark ?) that's said to be really good, and I was screwing
around with XF86Setup / XF86Config instead.
Configuring X seems to be a frustrating ordeal for many Linux newbies.
An easier X install would be a great asset to the Linux community.
Maybe SaX is the answer ? It would be interesting to see if Linux
newbies have greater success with installing through SaX. An
out-of-the-box, no fiddling install/config of X, ppp and LILO for
partitions above cyl 1024 would make a huge difference in converting the
masses to Linux.
The full version includes about six CDs. I noticed VNC is on one of
the CDs - I don't think that's included in the RH6.0 distro. Not that
that's a big deal, but it's just nice to have cool stuff like VNC on a
CD especially when you're installing without a fast internet
connection. I think when I ran YaST it checked the first CD and gave me
an index of all the packages on all the CDs so I didn't have to dig
through the CDs to find what I was after.
SuSE does include both Yast and RPM, but it looks to me like if I didn't
install a given package with RPM, rpm won't know about that package. I
suppose this would be the case with RH too, but since RH doesn't have
yast...
The result is, for example, I can't do things like "rpm -q emacs" to
find out what version of emacs I have installed.
Seeing "package kernel is not installed" looks kind of funny to an
RH-bie like me.
YaST is curses based as opposed to RPM's command line-interface.
I don't know if yast also has a command-line interface - I didn't find a
yast man page.
rpm -q libc reports 99.4.14
99 ???
The box says it includes StarOffice (Personal Edition) and WordPerfect
8, but the manual makes no mention of these. StarOffice sells Personal
Edition for about $ 30 with the manuals - no SO manual include with
SuSE. A friend of mine who bought SuSE said he thinks he got a "trial"
eddition of soffice, but that might not be right...
Both distros include perl 5.005. I think RH installs python as well by
default because a lot of their tools are written in python. SuSE didn't
seem to install python by default, but I'm sure it must be included on
one of the six CDs.
I'm still trying to get my 3com 589 pcmcia etherlink card working. I
did modprobe pcmcia_core and that seemed to work but modprobe 3c589_cs
still says "ds.o: init_module: Device or resource busy" and ifconfig
eth0 still says "eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not
found".
-Adrian
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: Syncronizing Passwd Files
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:55:09 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An even MORE lost user wrote:
(snip)
> While on that line of questioning, is there any way to indicate ALL home
> directories should be Automounted using Autofs or do I have to add each
> user to auto.home as I currently do?
Who don't you just NFS mount the /home directory instead of /home/xxx ?
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From: Jacob Ratkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:44:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hey, can you dudes carry out this discussion somewhere
else? You're clogging four (4) newsgroups with an
exchange that is totally irrelevant to any of them.
Thanks.
Jacob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1
Date: 2 Jul 1999 03:37:27 GMT
Warren Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I've been running RedHat 5.2 and am wondering how SuSE Linux is. It
: seems to have a lot of the same features and RPM format. Is it just as
: good as RH? Better?
I've toyed with a lot of the distributions (ie. Slackware, Red
Hat, TurboLinux, OpenLinux, SuSE, and Debian), and the end result for me
is that it is SuSE that is the one I've latched on to the most.
: I just want to make sure SuSE is a good OS and works well. It seems to
: be packed with features and apps for about half the price of RH 6.0.
SuSE is definately worth the money it is being asked for. If you
don't want to spend $30 odd dollars than you can get the $1.95 version at
anyone of the various Linux houses (Linux Central, CheapBytes, etc).
SaX is really nice, it really does do the job nicer than
XF86Setup, IMO, in configuring X.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Howto Erase CD-RW media?
Date: 2 Jul 1999 03:16:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:48:41 -0400 Bunbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an Acer CD-RW-6206A and am using xcdroast-0.96+cdrecord-1.6. I am
>able to burn copy, as well as master the CD. However, I would like to find
>out how to erase a non-empty CD-RW media before I can re-use the CD-RW. I
>tried to use cdrecord to blank the non-empty CD-RW to no avail, i.e.:
>
> cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom blank=track
Using blank=track would only blank (as I understand things) a *single
music track*. Try blank=all, which should leave you with a
completely blank disk.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: Chhabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mail problem : please help
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:07:00 +0400
Hi !
I am in need of some help with regards to something that I wish to
implement. Please attempt to answer it.
Let me first state the facts of the case. I have a TCP-IP dial up connection
to the internet with a local ISP here. I am currently using kmail (the mail
client that comes packaged with KDE). I think that it is
prudent to configure sendmail to get and send my mail. One reason is that I am
right now somewhat bored with KDE and want to shift to WindowMaker(which I
already have). Therefore, I will not have to configure and reconfigure each
time I move my GUI if can get pine (really the best mail client that I have
used) working. I do not mind the absence of graphics frills : it is robust and
"portable"). Accordingly, I configured my sendmail.cf file. (I am using the
domain name of my ISP (ch1.dot.net.in) in the sendmail.cw
file._
Details of what I want to realise :
I have a single email account ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
and multiple user accounts on the local machine. My dream is to set up a mail
system that will will accept mail from each user and queue it (something that
it does imperfectly right now.) and when using fetchmail, it uses some filters
to redirect all the messages to respective users. Currently, the DM entry is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and the DS entry is ch1.dot.net.in (in the sendmail.cf
file). This gives rise to malformed email addresses :
user root becomes root@[EMAIL PROTECTED] and lately after a
change that I made in pine config that I have currently made (and forgotten !!)
it even becomes kchhabra@kchhabra@[EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such
gibberish.
How do I fix this ?
Related problem : whenever I do a mailrun (see the file
attached as an addendum), I connect to the mailservers of the people that I am
sending emails to . This is extremely wasteful of my time. Is there some way
that I can dump these to the local SMTP server of my ISP (ch1.dot.net.in 25) ?
(the way kmail does). Fetchmail works OK though the filtering is not yet in
place.
Please guide me about the way it can be done.
Thanks in advance,
Madhusudan Singh.
PS: Later, I would like to configure tin in a similar manner.
==============================================================================================
#!/bin/sh
echo Sending out all mail waiting in the mail spool .......
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q $*
echo Picking up all mail from remote host ......
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 0 -N $*
echo Done !
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