Linux-Misc Digest #286, Volume #21 Wed, 4 Aug 99 13:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: VACATION program for sendmail 8.9.3 (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: RedHat and Nowell Netware (Philipp Maier)
Re: helping the Third World (MK)
Lilo Problems ("sj grevett")
DAQ-801 ("stephen.")
Crack50 on Linux(RH 5.2) (Sean)
Re: pls help: umount2: Devices or resource busy (S.T. Wong)
Simple command won't run in Crontab script (Tim Little)
Re: helping the Third World (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: CIA assassinations ("A.T.Z.")
Re: Learning the ways of the Penguin (Kari Pahula)
Re: Learning the ways of the Penguin (Floyd Davidson)
Re: helping the Third World (Phillip Lord)
WinFrame and German keyboard (Uwe Eckardt)
correct margins on printing (Uwe Eckardt)
samba disappears (Jens Schwepe)
Red Hat Cable Modem (Mediaone) Probs ("Pat Duczyminski")
Re: Netscape 4.61 Question. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: can't find module st, also 9Gig SCSI disks? OK? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Adding an Ethernet adapter (Cameron L. Spitzer)
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VACATION program for sendmail 8.9.3
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:25:26 +0200
It is in the SuSE distro
Perhaps you can find it at ftp.suse.com
then SuSE6.1 or 6.0 and the in the directory n1 or n2 perhaps even in a
but it's a matter of loooking I'm afraid.
Have you tried yahoo or altavista yet? by the way It has nothing to do
with the sendmail version .
Raymond
Nick Sturge wrote:
> Can anyone point me to where I can get hold of this tool?
>
> TIA,
> Nick.
>
> --
> *** Nick Sturge ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> *** The Videophone Company
> *** Motion Media Technology Ltd. Horton Hall, Bristol, UK, BS37 6QN
> *** Tel: +44-1454-313444 (switchboard) or +44-1454-338508 (direct)
> *** H320 Video: +44-1454-338555 or +44-1454-338541 (direct)
> *** Fax: +44-1454-313678 Mobile: +44-7050-60-3308
> *** WWW: http://www.motionmedia.co.uk
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat and Nowell Netware
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:24:43 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>
> Do you use marsnwe???
> Or plain ncpmount?
>
> In either case all the users that are on the netware machine should also
> be enterred in the Linuxbox and given the same passwords.
>
> Raymond
>
> Torben Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have installed RedHat 6.0 and configured a netware printer for my
> > linux box.
> >
> > It works fine as root, but when I log in as an ordinary user I cannot
> > print before root has logged in and typed "slist -S server -U username
> > -P mypasswd" - but after this there are no problems!!!
> >
> > If I run the "printtool" program (as root) then the ordinary user can
> > print as well.
Hi,
since I had difficulties in accessing our network, I wrote a short
section about accessing files (ncpfs) and printing under a Novell
network on my homepage. It's easy stuff, Linux experts will probably
laugh at it, but a poor newbie might find it useful... Hope it helps.
The URLs are:
http://www.eco.rug.nl/medewerk/maier/Recreation/html/ncpfs.htm
http://www.eco.rug.nl/medewerk/maier/Recreation/html/printing.htm
PM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MK)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:36:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:03:26 GMT, "Mark Christensen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It was. Consult Nobel winning economist, Milton Friedman.
>> Education in US was much better and cost effective when it was run
>> locally or by states.
>Not quite what you want to say is it? Are you advocating
>decentralization or the removal of wealth redistrobution? It seems to
>me that you are interested in the latter, which is not supported by
>the (true) claim that most local school boards do a better job running
>their schools than the relivant state and federal legislative bodies.
Local or state run schools are still better, though not ideal
in that regard. That's just sign of compromise. Like libertarian
standard, vouchers. Vouchers are not perfectly libertarian,
they are kind of compromise.
Marcin Krol
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you cease believing in it - VALIS, Philip K. Dick
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From: "sj grevett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo Problems
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:59:10 +0100
Please could you tell me how to get rid of lilo? I have tried formating the
hd but that has failed along with fdisk. It has sent one of my systems into
an internal loop as linux is no longer installed on it but lilo is left.
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From: "stephen." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DAQ-801
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 22:54:17 +0800
I was planning to purchase an ISA bus ADQ-801 ADC data aquiisition
board.
and write a LINUX loadable module driver for it
It has 8 ADC channels 2 DAC channels & 32 Digital I/O lines.
If there is allready a LINUX driver please let me know ?
Or If anyone Is interested in Helping or providing advise on this
let me know
I have - am reading LINUX DEVICE DRIVERS as a reference.( the book).
The website for the Manufacturer Quatech is www.quatech.com
they have PDF manuals on line.
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Crack50 on Linux(RH 5.2)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 06:54:37 -0800
I'm having trouble getting result with Crack50 on my home
Linux machine. The following messages are echoed to the
terminal after what seems to be a successful build of the
binaries and dictionaries(no error msgs):
mkgecosd: making non-permuted words dictionary mkgecosd:
making permuted words dictionary
Crack: launching: cracker -kill run/Kjedi.31124 Done
after this I check 'ps' and there are zombie processed for
'kickdict' and I also get no cracks for simple dictionary
words. Output in D****.pid looks like below:
I:933527404:LoadDictionary: loaded 0 words into memory
I:933527404:OpenDictStream: trying: kickdict 571: loaded 0
words into memory
I:933527404:OpenDictStream: status: /ok/ stat=1 look=587
genset='conf/rules.perm3' rule='lsl1/oso0/hsh41'
dgrp='gperm' prog='smartcat run/dict/gcperm.*'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.T. Wong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pls help: umount2: Devices or resource busy
Date: 4 Aug 1999 14:25:10 GMT
Chris Mahmood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.T. Wong) writes:
: > We upgraded our PIIs from RH 5.0 to RH 6.0 (kernel 2.2.10) recently. One of
: > them is NFS server that exports filesystems to the rest of RH PCs. However,
: > the NFS server hangs up on shutdown each time with following error :
: >
: > Unmounting file systems umount2: Devices or resource busy
: > umount: /dev/pts: device is busy
: Is the filesystem busy? Are you using hard or soft mounts?
: -ckm
The filesystem is not busy at all. I just disabled Unix98 pty file system in
kernel and comment out the line for /dev/pts. The error is gone now.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
/ST
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From: Tim Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Simple command won't run in Crontab script
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:46:29 +0000
This one has me stumped.
I've installed a Linux file and print server for a client. The server
also runs Informix SE. All seems to be working normally. There is a
printer on lp1 which functions normally - - i.e., one can cat a file to
the device or do "lpr filename" with no problem. The client wishes to
run a simple script out of crontab which prints a report.
Running the script ("test1") from root from within cron returns the
error message, "/usr/bin/lpr: lp: unknown printer".
We have run the script out of bash and it executes properly. It is a
very simple script. Crontab and the script contents are as follows:
**************************************************************************************************
#Cron command file
0 0 * * * cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages
1 0 * * * cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp
00 23 * * 1-5 /usr/Local/backup_usr >>
/usr/Local/Backup/cronlog
00 13 1 * * /usr/Local/data.ck >
/usr/agency/y.datack
00 5 * * * /usr/Local/run.report >>
/usr/Local/Backup/cronlog
00 14 * * * /usr/Local/test1 >
/usr/Local/ytest1
# test1 commands:
DBPATH=::/usr/agency:/usr/tracnet:/usr/gl:
INFORMIXDIR=/usr/informix
INFORMIXSERVER=agency
PATH="/usr/informix/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:::/opt/kde/b
in:/
usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/Local:/usr/agency"
export PATH INFORMIXDIR INFORMIXSERVER DBPATH
cd /usr/agency
/usr/bin/lpr yfileupd.sql
******************************************************************************************************
Any ideas? By the way, we can run "cat yfileupd.sql > /dev/lp1"
successfully from within cron. It is not acceptable to the client,
however, as redirecting to the printer in that way leaves the printer
unusable for subsequent jobs. It seems our problem is with the lpr
command. We've tried "lpr -P /dev/lp1 yfileupd.sql" with no luck.
TIA,
Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Date: 4 Aug 1999 11:49:14 -0400
On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 12:26:11 GMT, MK wrote:
>On 3 Aug 1999 12:15:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan
>Rebbechi) wrote:
>>>Yeah, you're doing good job. You've already ruined US education.
>
>>Nonsense. The US education system has been ruined by an inequitable
>>school financing system.
>
>Or rather by bureaucratized "progressives", who stop all attempts
>of reforming it.
We're going around in circles. The rest of the world is doing better than
the USA on high school education with more "beaurocratized progrssiveness".
Why are you blaming the "progressives" when they are doing a better job
in their countries than the rightists are in the US ?
--
Donovan
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From: "A.T.Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:09:27 +0200
MK schreef:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:50:40 +0200, "A.T.Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> > If you decide to go to the US good luck there. I may even move
> >> > there myself. If I do I shall take my lfet wing, socialist (communist
> >> > if you like) views with me....
> >>
> >> Please stay in Europe and keep your socialist views there. I don't want
> >> the left to ruin American like it has done to so many other parts of the
> >> world.
> >
> >
> >Worst part is that socialism gets more power in The Netherlands, France
> >(always has), UK, Germany. Most of our own socialists are becoming normal
> >people. Not the kind of santa socialist.
>
> This has to do with sixties generation. They are in power as
> politicians and as lots of voters. But they will pass soon. The
> question is, what's next. What Europe will emerge from this.
This question is irrelevant. In the last 300 years we've managed, the future
will have the answers.
>
>
> Marcin Krol
>
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>
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From: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Learning the ways of the Penguin
Date: 4 Aug 1999 13:16:00 GMT
Scott Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1. How do I display file sizes within linux? Using dir or ls presents a nice
>color coded display of the directory, but I want to see a "dos-style" list
>of the files, with date, and file size in kilobytes when I list the files.
ls -l
>2. Is there a CHMOD 'HOWTO' ? Is there a page/site that someone can point me
>to that explains more information about the CHMOD and perhaps CHOWN
>commands?
Not really more than what can be found on the man pages. I think there's
enough info there. Maybe there's something in the LDP documents, too.
Basically typing
chmod root:root file
will change file's owner and group to root.
>3. I'm interested in performing scheduled backups on my linux machine, using
>TAR, but the MAN pages are greek to me, and not much assistance. Is there a
>page/site that can help me set up a script to perform backups of my network
>to file/disk/tape using TAR, or some other form of utility?
I think there's /etc/cron.daily directory in Redhat, from where all scripts
are run daily. There's other /etc/cron.* directories too.
A script there would look something like this:
#!/bin/sh
tar zcfv /backup/backup.tar.gz /home/foo/work/
Don't forget to set the executable bit for the script.
For a finer precision on the timing of the backups, you really have to read
cron's man page.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Learning the ways of the Penguin
Date: 4 Aug 1999 12:22:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Checked the man pages, and searched on the web, and HOWTO's, but didn't find
>what I was looking for, so I'm posting my questions here.
Eventually you will come to love man pages as detailed reference
material, but... man pages are technical reference manuals, not
tutorials. HOWTO's are tutorials, but of course they generally
exist for subjects where Linux distributions are unique among
unix varieties.
What you have to do is buy a good book on running Linux. There
are several of them out there, and certainly some of them are
specific to Red Hat distributions. Almost any good bookstore
will have one or more, and even a horrible bookstore can order
one. Check out Amazon.com on the net too.
>Recently became a Linux RH 5.2 user, and after some trial and
>error, and alot of reading, I have my Redhat machine on the
>network, sharing with my Windows 98 machines.
>
>Now for some questions:
>
>1. How do I display file sizes within linux? Using dir or ls
>presents a nice color coded display of the directory, but I
>want to see a "dos-style" list of the files, with date, and
>file size in kilobytes when I list the files.
It is hard to believe that you have actually "Checked the man
pages" as you said above, because in the case of ls it is very
easy to get this information from the man page. What is not so
clear is what best to do with the information. The -l option to
ls gives a long form printout. Originally the ls command on
UNIX was linked to several different filenames, and each caused
a different set of options to be the default. The "l" in "ls"
is for "list" (as in list the directory contents). The "s" is
for "short", "ll" would give a long form, and "la" would give
all files, even files beginning with a dot. Since the concept
of using an alias to redefine commands was introduced to the
UNIX shells the ls command has not been linked to different
names, but instead users commonly use a series of aliases,
defined in their ~/.bashrc file, to accomplish the same thing.
Here are the ones that I use:
alias ll='/bin/ls --color -lF'
alias la='/bin/ls --color -axF'
alias ls='/bin/ls --color -xF'
Those are the formats that I want to see 99.99% of the times
when I use the ls command, and on the other occassions I have to
suffer using "/bin/ls -options" to get something different.
>2. Is there a CHMOD 'HOWTO' ? Is there a page/site that someone can point me
>to that explains more information about the CHMOD and perhaps CHOWN
>commands?
Read the man page for chown. I believe that adding even two more words
would be wasted effort!
However, to use chmod requires that you understand permissions. Indeed,
probably in three different ways too! You will see things like,
chmod o+w fname # set write permission for "other" users
and
chmod 0644 fname # set all permissions to 0644
and
ls -l fname # see what the permissions are
All of which reference permissions in different ways. Rather
than asking anyone to write a chapter for a book to explain
that... you need a book on UNIX (almost any book on UNIX will
explain that part).
>3. I'm interested in performing scheduled backups on my linux
>machine, using TAR, but the MAN pages are greek to me, and not
>much assistance. Is there a page/site that can help me set up a
>script to perform backups of my network to file/disk/tape using
>TAR, or some other form of utility?
That is indeed a complex subject because there are about as many
ways to do backups as there are system admin people doing it! Any
good book on UNIX systems administration will provide you with at
least the basics. Clearly a book on Red Hat 5.2 will be more
useful than a 1984 book on System V R2.0 though! (But a 15 year old
book would indeed have a great deal of interesting information
in it, because it's all unix.)
>Thank you in advance for you understanding,
>
>A student in Linux,
>Hawkwynd
>
>http://hawkwynd.tzo.com
Whoa, man... I just took a quick peek at your web site. Let me
revise slightly my comments about books. Go buy at least two or
three books on systems admin, and every book you can find on
security for 1) the Internet and 2) unix and 3) linux.
You *definitely* want to visit with the folks at O'Reilly, at
www.oreilly.com. On the left side, click on "linux", "unix"
and "security" (not necessarily in that order). They have
the absolutely *best* books available.
Floyd
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Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: helping the Third World
Date: 04 Aug 1999 14:00:30 +0100
>>>>> "MK" == MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MK> It was. Consult Nobel winning economist, Milton Friedman.
MK> Education in US was much better and cost effective when it was
MK> run locally or by states.
MK> You might check Adam Smith. He discovered the thing long time
MK> ago.
MK> Marx deserves no credit whatsoever. He created belief system
MK> consistent and closed philosophically. Aka religion.
I think that I would like to make a general comment here
about the tenor of your argument. You are very happy to continually
throw out left right and centre references to Adam Smith, and Milton
Friedman. There are two major points here. One this kind of reference
does very little to enhance your argument. Friedman got a nobel prize
so therefore he must be right? Well no. If you want to use Adam Smiths
arguments go ahead, but present them, dont just refer to them as holy
script. Also it is clear that Adam Smith, Friedman (and Marx for that
matter) were placing their own spin on things, that what their
writings are, are an interpretation of what they see, from their moral
viewpoint which they constructed for themselves.
The second point is that you have written a lot about what
Marx said, and I am starting to think from your constant
misrepresentation of his works that you have in fact never read any
Marx. You may disagree with everything that he says, but to say that
he "created belief system consistent and closed philospically" is
really such an abrogation of what Marx wrote.
>It has happened. Redistribution of wealth and unionization have
>prevented the `revolution of the proletariat' envisioned by Marx.
MK> Oh please...
MK> There was no freaking revolution. There was not even the
MK> potential.
Which again makes the point. There have been a number of
revolutions in this and the previous century, although you may argue
over their character if you wish. If you think there was not even the
potential then you need to study the history of the luddites, the
corresponding societies, the tolpuddle martyrs, or even the general
strike, and yarrow if you want examples from this century. And thats
just in my country. Others have their own history.
What Kenneth says (hope Im attributed this to the correct
person. If not sorry) about unionisation and redestribution, or in a
nutshell reformism is I think very true. Im not sure on which side I
fall yet in deciding whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but
none the less it has managed to temper many of the socially
disasterous affects that occured during the industrial
revolution. From a software point of view (wow relevance to the
group!) GNU and linux are interesting, in that most people who support
the idea can be split into either the revolutionairy or reformist
camps. It seems to me to be a fascinating microcosm of the social
processes that we have seem in earlier history. Which way will it turn
out? I dont know.
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Eckardt)
Subject: WinFrame and German keyboard
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:22:39 GMT
Hello,
after installation of Winframe client for Linux, I have problems with
my german keyboard.
The options of the client-software does not help.
How has solved this kind of Problems of WinFrame?
Thanks for your help.
Uwe Eckardt
IT Service
RKS Kabel-Service Berlin GmbH
http://www.kabel-tv.de
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Eckardt)
Subject: correct margins on printing
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:33:26 GMT
Hello,
by printing ascii as landscape on a4 papersize, the left margins is
not correct.
So I miss 0.5 mm on the left.
I was looking on different howtos and found a solution for my suse6.1.
Now I m preload margins.ps in aspfilterrc with different values, but
nothing change. Whats wrong?
What else can I do, to solve my Problems?
Which other file is controlling the margins of GS?
Bye.
Uwe Eckardt
IT Service
RKS Kabel-Service Berlin GmbH
http://www.kabel-tv.de
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jens Schwepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba disappears
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:31:43 +0200
Hi,
I've set up a samba server with the normal values (added wins-support)
and it shows up well when I start '98.
However, the time I add a share to my '98-drives (e.g. <home> as H:\),
the samba server disappears from the network browsing list in '98.
Why ?
thnx in advance
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From: "Pat Duczyminski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat Cable Modem (Mediaone) Probs
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 09:44:06 -0400
I've tried almost everything I can think of to get my cable modem (Mediaone
Express) to work with my Red Hat 5.0, I've also tried 6.0 with no luck. I
have gone to every web page possible for configuring a cable modem for
Mediaone Express but nothing works.
During boot I see my NIC (3com 3c509) initialize and when i dmesg I see it
with the hardware address, it is set up DHCP but will not get an address no
matter what I do. On 6.0 it won't even find my card. with ifconfig on 5.0
I see eth0 but no matter how I use DHCP I never get an address.
Has anyone else had major problmes getting getting Red Hat configured with a
cable modem that has fixed it. I'm willing to try anything. I've thought
of re-compiling the kernel but I've never done it before and I don't know
where to start.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.61 Question.
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:12:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jarve, Jorgen (Jay)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to change the font size in the Messenger preview pane
> without changing the default font in Navigator but
> View|Increase/Decrease Font is disabled.
>
> Is there a way of getting Messager to start at the top of the message
> when replying or forwarding rather than at the botton. (The signature
as
> well).
>
> I've checked the Nescape FAQ but I could not find answers to any of
> these questons.
>
> Also, my Delete key works the same way as the backspace key. I'm
running
> Caldera 2.2, kernal 2.2.5.
> --
> Regards,
> Jorgen Jarve (Jay)
> Do you know how to make Netscape Messenger make a sound alert when a
new message arrives? I have a checkmark in make sound alert, but nothing
happens.
--
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Date: 04 Aug 99 10:36:02 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't find module st, also 9Gig SCSI disks? OK?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Bob Surenko;
I have a similar problem in that if the tape is turned on, its
recognised during the boot, AND I get that message later. If its not
turned on during the boiot, then there is no way to access it later, st
simply can't be found by modprobe. Or mt for that matter. Its a PITA to
have to reboot to do a backup. Somebody? Kernel 2.2.10-ac12 BTW.
BS> In comp.os.linux.hardware Lyndon F. Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BS> wrote:
BS>: Hello,
BS>: I have the following hardware/software setup.
BS>: Intel P-II 350 CPU.
BS>: 192 Meg Ram.
BS>: S3 Virge video card
BS>: 3C509 ethernet card
BS>: Adaptec 2940UW controller.
BS>: 2 4.5G hard drives.
BS>: Adaptec 2910 SCSI controller
BS>: SCSI CD-ROM
BS>: Exabyte 8200 tape drive.
BS>: RedHat 6.0 Linux. As yet, with no updates.
BS>: 2.2-5-15 kernel.
BS>: When I boot the system, I get the following error message.
BS>: Enabling Swap Space [OK]
BS>: can't locate module st
BS>: INIT: Entering run level 3 yadda yadda yadda.
BS>: I'm assuming this has something to do with the tape drive? Any obviously
BS>: simple answers?
BS>: Also, I'm planning on adding 2 9G drives to this system for data
BS>: storage. I have the OS and httpd server setup on the existing 4.5s. I'm
BS>: merely adding the 9Giggers. I read somewhere that either Adaptec
BS>: doesn't like drives larger that 8Gig, or that Linux doesn't. What's the
BS>: skinny? Am I doomed?
BS>: Thanks in advance,
BS>: Lyndon
BS> I've been having a similar problem. It seems Red Hat ships with SCSI Tape
BS> support already in the kernel, but right at the end of
BS> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit it has a if statment and attempts to load the SCSI
BS> tape Module!
BS> Anyway, Does your tape drive work? If so, just comment that stuff out in
BS> rc.sysinit.
BS> I haven't fully tested this out yet because I think my tape drive is bad.
BS> (Didn't work in Win98 either)
BS> --
BS> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
BS> -----
BS> - Bob Surenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BS> - http://www.fred.net/surenko/ finger for PGP key
BS> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
BS> -----
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Adding an Ethernet adapter
Date: 4 Aug 1999 15:38:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan van den Brink wrote:
>The Dude wrote:
>
>> Hey guys...
>> I have a Linux 6.0 RedHat indtalled on my machine.
>> I got a new 3Com Ehernet card and wanted to install it.
>> What do I do? How do I make my linux recognize it?
>> How do I configure the card?
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> The Dude
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
>#activate Ethernet interface
>/sbin/ifconfig eth0 $IPADDRESS broadcast $BROADCAST \
> netmask $NETMASK
In order for that to work, you'll need a driver for the particular card.
If it's a 3C509B, compile 3c509.o into the kernel. I.e., answer "yes"
to 3C509 support in make [x]config. This particular driver probes around
on the ISA bus for 3Com's unique self-location mechanism. It's safer
to do that at boot time than to use this driver as a runtime loadable module.
If it's a 3C59x (Vortex), 3C90x (Boomerang), or 3C90xB (Cyclone, Hurricane)
compile 3c59x.c as a module or link it in. This one is safe either way,
being a PCI device. Answer yes or module to Vortex support.
(Is 3Com shipping Tornado yet? It might be 3C905D or something.
It's got the fancy wake-on-LAN router keepalive gadget in it.)
In linux-1.2 and -2.0 kernels, 3c509 was on by default. In -2.2, 3Com is
out and Intel is in. However, your installation kernel probably has them
all.
>#set routes
>/sbin/route add -net $NETWORK netmask $METMASK
>#default route via gateway
>/sbin/route add default gw $GATEWAY metric 1
For that to work, you'll need TCP/IP in the kernel. But that's on
by default anyway.
>for further info look for:
>
>http://www.linux.com/howto/Ethernet-HOWTO.html and
>NET-3-HOWTO.html
You may have those on your Linux system. Look in /usr/doc/howto/.
Maybe even /usr/doc/howto/html/.
Cameron
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