Linux-Misc Digest #793, Volume #23 Thu, 9 Mar 00 04:13:03 EST
Contents:
Run Linux on your Laptop... (raman_narayan)
Voyager Networks (Neal Garrabrant)
usb modem working, but... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 135GB too big for fdisk? (Allan M. Wind)
syslog.conf question (Ken Williams)
Re: Linux Boot up Sequence. (Vilmos Soti)
Re: apache and case sensativity (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Linux NICs ("Jason Byrne")
caller id solutions (matthew neil garman)
kBiff / kMail / Netscape configuration... (Brent Marsh)
Which Distribution is best (Robert S. Nasby)
Re: Which Distribution is best (matthew neil garman)
LIL- (LILO boot error) (jianhong)
Re: Voyager Networks (Tim Hockin)
Re: Linux Boot up Sequence. (Tim Hockin)
Red Hat Linux 6.1 Compatibility
Re: New to Linux (Alexander K)
PPP problems, please give me a hint (Pal Dahle)
Re: netscape 4.72 also crashes (Jaap)
Q : What is the max number of logical serial ports on a linux box ? (Franck BALAZOT)
Re: My 'alias' doesnt' work in X windows ?? (Thomas Hommel)
Re: apache and case sensativity (Villy Kruse)
Re: ISDN linux (Thomas Hommel)
WU-FTP 2.6: PAM can't open pam.conf?! HELP!!!! (Odycello)
mkinitrd problem (Nik Jewell)
Re: Audio CD to MP3? (David Vrabel)
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From: raman_narayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Run Linux on your Laptop...
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 20:14:21 -0800
Hi Everyone
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- difficulties in Installation/Configuration
YOU CAN DO IT: YOURSELF!!!
It's FAST!!!, It's EASY!!!, It's Cost Effective.
If this sounds interesting, send email to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with Subject: Linux on Laptop
Please mention your Laptop Make/Model/Processor/available RAM.
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From: Neal Garrabrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voyager Networks
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:14:03 GMT
Sound familiar to anyone?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: usb modem working, but...
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:09:44 GMT
I have compiled the 2.3.48 kernel and applied the 2.3.49 patch. I am
able to insmod usbcore.o, usb-uhci.o, and acm.o. I get modem lights and
it appears to be ready to go. I created a new device under /dev/usb
call ttyACM0 (this was from the HOWTO doc).
Then I've tried to access this device with minicom with no luck. Can
anyone recommend a good comm.package and/or a PPP dialing package?
I've tried to compile Wvdial and it fails. My ultimate goal is to dial
out to an ISP.
Thanks,
Daniel
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan M. Wind)
Subject: Re: 135GB too big for fdisk?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:21:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Reusser Lukas wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a 135GB RAID-Array on a Mylex DAC960PD-3.
>When I start "fdisk /dev/rd/c0d2" and create a new partition, fdisk only
>see 3.6GB!
>
>What is the problem?
Don't know but why not give cfdisk a try?
/Allan
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P.O. Box 2022 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Woburn, MA 01888-0022 ICQ: 44214251
USA Phone: 781.279.4513
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: syslog.conf question
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:35:05 GMT
How do I get syslog to send say all qpopper message to a seperate file, and
all imap messages and all ssh message to they're own file? Right now
everything piles into "messages" and I hate it.
Thanks.
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Subject: Re: Linux Boot up Sequence.
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 05:14:19 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to describe the Boot Up Sequence for a Single User Operating System
> and also praisie it, for an IT lecture, on Operating Systems by the
> 03/10/00. I need help desperately. I have no idea!
Check out http://www.linuxdoc.org. There are the Bootdisk HOWTO,
the Linux-From-Scratch HOWTO, etc. Both deal with this question.
Vilmos
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Subject: Re: apache and case sensativity
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 05:16:14 GMT
Kimo R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is apache case sensative? It seems like it is. Does any one know how to
> make it ignore case in html files and file names. ie: img src="qwe" and
> img src="QWE" would both call qwe
It is not an Apache problem. It is a Windows one since that's
filesystem is case insensitive. The Unix filesystems are case
sensitive. I don't think there is much you can do about it but who knows.
Vilmos
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux NICs
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:18:12 -0800
3com... 3schmom :)
I've never understood people spending $$$$$ for 3com, Intel, USR, etc... for
modems, ethernet, etc...
I think I spent $30 on a D-Link DFE530-TX+ (fast ethernet)
D-Link seems to have pretty decent support (drivers source, etc...)
I had a cheap CNet pnp/jumperless software-configurable card that worked
fine with ne2000 drivers... but it wasn't fast ethernet... so I bought the
D-Link card.
I also have a Davicom9102 fast-ethernet (onboard NIC) that works fine...
usually just takes a little bit of research...
Andy9701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8a6plb$e32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm in the market for a new NIC for my Linux box. The card I'm
> currently looking at is the Netgear FA310TX, and I'm wondering how well
> it works with Linux. After I setup my ip, gateway, etc., does it
> always work without a hitch? Or does it "work" with Linux, only after
> days of playing around with it?
>
> As a side note, if it does work well with Linux, which module does it
> use?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andy
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (matthew neil garman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: caller id solutions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 05:32:30 GMT
Hello:
My roommates and I recently got caller id for our apartment. I'd like to
have caller id functionality on my computer.
I checked freshmeat for available caller id software, and couldn't really
find anything I particularly liked.
Right now I simply have minicom running, and any messages from the modem
are echoed to the screen (in particular, caller id information). The
problem with this "solution" though is that minicom locks the modem. So
to use ppp, I have to quit minicom, then restart minicom after ending ppp.
I was wondering if there is a simple way to use built-in Linux
functionality to monitor caller id. What I would like is to have
something (e.g. syslog) log caller id information from the modem, without
locking the device. Ideally, I would have a log such as
/var/log/caller_id.log, then open up a small xterm and run "tail" on
/var/log/caller_id.log. This way, the most recent caller is always
displayed in the xterm, and I have scrollback history.
Does anyone know if I can implement such a thing relatively simply?
Thanks,
Matt
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From: Brent Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: kBiff / kMail / Netscape configuration...
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 05:29:57 GMT
Hi all-
I'm a relative newbie. I've Redhat 6.1 running with the KDE. I like
the Biff applet that runs on the K panel to notify me when I have mail,
but it's preconfigured to launch kMail when you click on it. After
finding it adequate, I prefer Netscape's e-mail client, Messenger.
The Biff setup dialog box has a place to specify which e-mail client to
launch, but I don't know what command to put there.
I don't know the command to launch Messenger, and I don't know where to
find it. I also don't know if there are any options (like "-check" for
kmail) that I can use with Messenger.
Can someone please help me?
Thanks.
Brent
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From: Robert S. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which Distribution is best
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:50:48 -0600
I'm probably going to start a war here, but I'm gonna ask anyway...
Which distribution of Linux do you guys think is best?? I am setting up
a low volume web server to do personal and (hopefully) small commercial
serving. I am currently running FreeBSD on my webserver, but I think
I'm going to move to Linux, because there is more software available,
and software is ported quicker.
So, do you guys recommend a long time player like Redhat or Slackware,
or is the new player, Corel, worthwhile. I haven't been following Linux
closely for a while, so all comments, suggestions, ideas, etc. are
appreciated.
Thanks!
--
Rob Nasby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Want to earn MONEY while online??
www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=esq523
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (matthew neil garman)
Subject: Re: Which Distribution is best
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 05:58:37 GMT
Robert S. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, do you guys recommend a long time player like Redhat or Slackware,
>or is the new player, Corel, worthwhile. I haven't been following Linux
>closely for a while, so all comments, suggestions, ideas, etc. are
>appreciated.
Ultimately, the best distribution is the one you like the best. Try and
get ahold of a non-production machine and spend a couple weeks playing
with different distributions. They can all be configured to do more or
less the same things, the biggest difference between distributions are
defaults and installation.
Personally, I'm a long time Debian user. I've never had any problems with
the Debian Linux system (well, no problems I didn't create myself).
Debian is usually given pretty high marks for security and stability (from
a defaults perspective).
Have fun,
Matt
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From: jianhong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: LIL- (LILO boot error)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:27:08 -0800
HI Everyone,
Can anyone help me please?
I was playing with ethernet card over last weekend and somehow
got things screwed up and now when I turn on the computer it
would stop at LIL-.
I was playing with a file under /etc/rc.d/rc3.d.
Could this be the cause?
This computer has RedHat Linux 5.2, Win95 and NT4.
NT OS loader is used to load LILO.
Win95 and NT4 work fine.
But it would stop after printing out "LIL-" when linux was selected
from NT OS loader.
Thanks a lot.
Jianhong
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voyager Networks
Date: 9 Mar 2000 07:22:04 GMT
Neal Garrabrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Sound familiar to anyone?
sure - they bought my old ISP, I have a friend who works there..why?
--
Tim Hockin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This program has been brought to you by the language C and the number F.
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Boot up Sequence.
Date: 9 Mar 2000 07:21:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I need to describe the Boot Up Sequence for a Single User Operating System
: and also praisie it, for an IT lecture, on Operating Systems by the
: 03/10/00. I need help desperately. I have no idea!
I have no idea what you are asking...
--
Tim Hockin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This program has been brought to you by the language C and the number F.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat Linux 6.1 Compatibility
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 07:30:03 GMT
Is the Voodoo 3 3000 AGP video board supported by Red Hat Linux 6.1?
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From: Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 22:36:56 +0100
hello!
dunno about tape drives (being a novice myself) but...
add a user with "adduser" or "useradd" commands. like this:
#adduser newuser
then you gotta give them a password using the "passwd" command:
#passwd newuser
you are done.
true you cant log in via telnet as root. security issue i guess (pass
transferred as plain text) BUT... you can log in as normal user an then
use the "su" command to go root.
try manpages for commands to get the specifics.
love to the people / alex
Abid Khan wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I am new to Linux but have 10 yeras of SCO and AIX experience, I was
> able to install Red Hat version 6 on 1 P11, 266 machine, now I need to
> know how to add user(s) and a SCSI tape drive (Adaptec cont and DAT
> drive), later I want to install a DigiBoard, one more thing how come I
> can't login as a root from a Windows machine using Telnet session, it's
> keep saying wrong password, I can login on the console using root with
> same password, do you have to have a different user added in order to
> login from network device. I will appreciate all the help, And I know I
> am going to have more question so sorry in advance.
>
> Thank you very much...
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Pal Dahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP problems, please give me a hint
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:05:28 +0100
Can anyone help me with this,
I'm using Redhat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20 as a server for a small LAN
I have succeeded in establishing a ppp-connection to my ISP a couple of
times. But most of the times I won't succeed.
The funny thing is that it always work when I use a new tty (i.e. with
ctrl-alt-F1 to F6) for the first time. According to the system log
everything is fine.
In my conf.modules host, I have two lines (according to the
README.linux, for the current PPP-release, whatever its number is, I
just downloaded the newest version a few days ago and used the Redhat
Package Manager to install it):
alias zzz-char-108 ppp_something
alias blablabla ppp_generic
(where zzz is something. Can't really remember the details, because I'm
at work now and the machine is at home, but it's checked for spelling
and everything).
Then I disconnect and try to connect again. Looking at the system log,
it says something like:
: modprobe: can't locate module zzz-char-108
Well that didn't occur the first time. Then the log says:
: Serial connection established
and nothing else happens. Eventually there is some time-out somewhere
and I get disconnected.
I use pppd with an options file and chat-script that has been provided
by my ISP, and I think that they are correct.
Am I doing something wrong here? One thing I wonder is if I do something
wrong when I disconnect, so that something does not get restored in a
correct manner. I have used a ppp-off script that (I think) is provided
with the PPP-package.
Please give me any hints.
Pal Dahle
Goteborg, Sweden
please remove the dontspam. from my e-mail address to reply.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:10:36 +0000
From: Jaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape 4.72 also crashes
On 08/03/00,10:14 thomas park wrote:
thomas:This is strange. Netscape 4.72 apparently *does* exhibit the same
thomas:behaviour, just less frequently. Does anybody know why this is
thomas:happening?
What behavior? As for as I can see Netscape 4.72 works fine now. In
the past I had troubles with sites using Java.
Have you followed README exactly?
Grt, Jakob
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From: Franck BALAZOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q : What is the max number of logical serial ports on a linux box ?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 08:22:21 GMT
Hello all,
How many logical serial ports can handle Linux. II know that WinNT can
handle up to 4096 logical serial ports.
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My 'alias' doesnt' work in X windows ??
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:20:57 +0100
Hi there
X normally starts a plain xterm without executing the "profile" file.
You can type "bash -login" or start the xterm with "xterm -e /bin/bash
-login" and your aliases will be there.
Tom
Fredde Andreasson schrieb:
>
> Hello
>
> Is there anyone who knows which file to edit to have aliases in X windows ?
> The one I've got specified in /etc/profile doesn't work when I go into X.
>
> Thanks in advance .. Freddy --> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: apache and case sensativity
Date: 9 Mar 2000 08:25:15 GMT
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 05:16:14 GMT, Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Kimo R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Is apache case sensative? It seems like it is. Does any one know how to
>> make it ignore case in html files and file names. ie: img src="qwe" and
>> img src="QWE" would both call qwe
>
>It is not an Apache problem. It is a Windows one since that's
>filesystem is case insensitive. The Unix filesystems are case
>sensitive. I don't think there is much you can do about it but who knows.
>
>Vilmos
What about these options from smb.conf?
# Case Preservation can be handy - system default is _no_
# NOTE: These can be set on a per share basis
; preserve case = no
; short preserve case = no
# Default case is normally upper case for all DOS files
; default case = lower
# Be very careful with case sensitivity - it can break things!
; case sensitive = no
Check "man smb.conf" for all the gory details.
--
Villy
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN linux
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:27:45 +0100
Hi
>
> I also can't dial from my Linux machine within minicom. He always
> says that the line is busy after the following commands:
>
> ATZ
> OK
> AT&E648
> OK
> AT&B512
> OK
> ATD617
> BUSY
> ATD648
> BUSY
>
I guess your ISDN adapter is waiting for a dialtone which it won�t get.
(You have to dial "0" to get it, right?) Normally you can solve this
with "ATX3".
Good luck
Tom
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From: Odycello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: WU-FTP 2.6: PAM can't open pam.conf?! HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 08:50:09 +0100
My FTPD won't work. I installed wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1 and also anonftp-2.8-1
in RetHat 6.0.
It just won't work!
At every attempt to ftp into the box from anywhere (e.g. local box) and
for every user I get: (in /var/log/messages)
Mar 8 22:27:01 shynergy ftpd[5402]: cannot open pid file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all: No such file or directory
Mar 8 22:27:01 shynergy ftpd[5402]: cannot open pid file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all: No such file or directory
Mar 8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM _pam_init_handlers: could not
open /etc/pam.conf
Mar 8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM pam_start: failed to initialize
handlers
Mar 8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle
passed
Mar 8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM pam_end: NULL pam handle passed
Mar 8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: failed login from 208.251.80.60
[208.251.80.60]
Mar 8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: cannot open pid file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all: No such file or directory
That's a lot of errors.... I tried uninstalling, re-installing, even
upgraded to pam-0.68-10, NO CHANGE!
This seems bizarre because everywhere I look it says that /etc/pam.conf
is not necessary with recent PAM's?! Also, the file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all didn't exist, I created it, even made it
world-read/writable (...): STILL no change!
Telnet, login etc. work just fine and do not generate any authentication
messages, so I assume PAM is working. So what on earth is going on?
More info:
#### /etc/pam.d/ftp:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_listfile.so item=user
sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
auth required /lib/security/pam_shells.so
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
#### ftpd in inetd.conf:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
-r/home/ftp
I guess that in Windows NT, I'd just have reinstalled the entire OS by
now, but....
I'd love to play with the source but I just don't have the time. Thanks
for any pointers.
Ody.
BTW: Is it necessary to stop inetd before upgrading/installing daemons
started in inetd?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nik Jewell)
Subject: mkinitrd problem
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:22:13 +0000 (GMT)
On my TurboLinux Server 6 system:
# mkinitrd initrd-2.2.14.img 2.2.14
Yields:
All of your loopback devices are in use!
I'm completely stuck on how to solve this.
Nik
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From: David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD to MP3?
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:58:19 +0000
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Ivan Martinez wrote:
> Hello, which software can I use to record audio CD songs in MP3 files?.
> Thank you in advance.
I use cdparanoia to rip the CD tracks to WAV files. And bladeenc to
convert the WAVs to MP3s.
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
http://bladeenc.mp3.no/
David Vrabel
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