Linux-Misc Digest #273, Volume #24 Tue, 25 Apr 00 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: LILO does not boot to Windows98 ("Joseph")
Re: user privileges on msdos/vfat fs (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: I think I have been HACKED!!! (Simon Brooke)
When is ldconfig run? (Leonard Evens)
My LILO tale of woe. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: pine and roadrunner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ati xpert128 video card problem (Danny O'Brien)
Re: About Linux booting? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: VMware newsgroup ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: I think I have been HACKED!!! (Tim Shook)
Re: VMware newsgroup (mst)
Re: My LILO tale of woe. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ati xpert128 video card problem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Dual boot Windoze & Linux (Mat Capel)
Documentation for an *old* ISA SCSI card (1540B) (Robert Heller)
Re: Printer/modem problems in Corel Linux (Ellsworth Toohey)
Re: When is ldconfig run? (Bastian)
Re: My LILO tale of woe. (Leonard Evens)
Re: query about LINUX (brian moore)
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From: "Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO does not boot to Windows98
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:06:47 -0400
Just a question :
Since it return to the LILO prompt, then perhaps the problem is in the LILO
part ?
If lilo had handed over to the partition completely, wouldn't the computer
just hang or smoething ?
I'm just curious sine I've never done this; although I've heard that this
swapping of harddrive id's can be done with NT .
regards,
joseph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <8e3ic0$h3j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a 3GB hard disk with Windows98 installed. I added another 16GB
>hard disk for installing Linux and Windows2000. I gave 4GB of hard disk
>space to Red Hat Linux 6.0 with the following partitions:
>
>/dev/hda1 - 15MB - /boot
>/dev/hda6 - 3.9GB - /
>/dev/hda5 - 128MB - swap
>
>The second hard disk had 3 partitions under Windows98
>/dev/hdb1 - 1GB
>/dev/hdb5 - 1GB
>/dev/hdb6 - 1GB
>
>I installed LILO on MBR of the 17GB hard disk and made it the primary
>disk. When I start my PC, LILO prompts is displayed. If a press TAB, it
>gives thefollowing options:
>
>linux
>win98
>
>I am able to boot to Linux from LILO but when I want to boot to
>Windows98 (by entering win98 on LILO prompt), it gives me the following
>error
>
>'win98
>Error 0x01'
>
>and returns to LILO prompt.
>
>The lilo.conf is
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5015
>label=linux
>root=/dev/hda6
>read-only
>
>other=/dev/hdb1
>label=win98
>table=/dev/hdb
>map-drive=0x80 to 0x81
>map-drive=0x81 to 0x80
>
>To boot from Windows98, I have to first remove the Linux hard disk, make
>the Windows98 hard disk as primary disk and then boot from Windows.
>
>Can anyone please tell me the reason for the error which I get when
>trying to go to Windows98 from LILO and how can it be solved?
>
>Thanks
>A.M.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: user privileges on msdos/vfat fs
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:22:26 +0200
Klaus Bernpaintner wrote:
> I have an msdos and a vfat partition I share between linux and windos. I
> want all users to be able to read/write on these partitions. How do I do
> it?
Have a line like this in your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda1 /C vfat rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0
where /C is the mount point of your windows C drive. Adjust to your needs.
-cu
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Eggert Ehmke
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I think I have been HACKED!!!
From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:35:05 GMT
JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> He/She has deleted the bj.c file.
>
> However this is what I found again:
>
> telnet stmary-04.por.or.bbnow.net 1222
> telnet 34226.south-green.ohiou.edu 1133
> ftp 202.135.7.158
>
> I have since scrapped the mail server and have put in a NEW equipment.
> I have also modified /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to allow and
> disallow certain servers. I am also logging all POP3 + SMTP calls.
>
> I need some pointers on IPCHAINS. Thanks.
Disclaimer: I am not a security expert.
However, I've documented how I set up my own firewalls at
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/bookshelf/papers/instant-firewall/instant-firewall.html>.
This may be helpful; if it isn't, check out
<URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html>; also, get
yourself a copy of _Building Internet Firewalls_
<URL:http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire/> which, although it doesn't
deal with any of the specifics of Linux, does help you to think about
the problems and what policy you want to set up.
But I could not agree more with the person who said scrap that
disk. Don't back anything up anything off it - reinstall from trusted
clean sources.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
'You cannot put "The Internet" into the Recycle Bin.'
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: When is ldconfig run?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:06:23 -0500
In principle /sbin/ldconfig should be run when booting. But
I can't find anywhere in any initialization script where it
is run. Can anyone enlighten me further?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: My LILO tale of woe.
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:33:36 GMT
Chapter 1.
I had one hard disk in my computer. On the hard disk were
four partitions. One was Linux native, one was Linux swap,
one was Windows, and one was DOS.
In those good old days, whenever I powered the machine up,
LILO asked me whether I wanted Windows or Linux. If I
didn't answer within 5 seconds, LILO booted Windows. If I
wanted Linux, I simply said so, and up came Linux.
This situation existed for more than a year. It worked very
well.
Chapter 2.
I ran short on disk space. I obtained a second hard drive,
which I installed in my machine without incident. Neither
DOS nor Windows recognized my new drive, but this didn't
bother me because I intended to use it only for Linux.
Chapter 3.
In order to carry out my intention, I installed Linux on the
new drive. I did this using the ordinary Red Hat
installation program. Part of that program invokes Disk
Druid. I told Disk Druid to make two partitions on the new
drive; i.e., one for Linux native, the other for swap. It
appears to have worked. So far, so good.
Chapter 4.
As part of the Red Hat installation program, I had an
opportunity to re-install LILO. I did reinstall it, because
I knew that things had changed, and that LILO would need to
learn about the new situation. The re-installation appeared
to be successful. However ...
Chapter 5.
When next I powered up the machine, LILO did not function in
the usual way. Instead of displaying its name on the
screen, it displayed only "LI". I looked this up, and it's
listed all right, but the explanation makes no sense to me.
Most of my experience has been on mainframes, and I do not
know all about (or even *much* about) desktop machines. I
have a lot to learn.
I would like to know (1) what is actually wrong with LILO,
and (2) what (if anything) I can do about it. If you know
the answer to either of these questions, please send me an
email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kindly state the answers in
simple terms, because I am very much at sea.
Thank you!
Yours truly,
Fred Theobald
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pine and roadrunner
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:41:51 GMT
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>> I am using roadrunner as the isp and my username for roadrunner
>>> differs from the username (LOGNAME, &c) on my local linux box. I
>>> really don't want to have to change my local username to match
>>> that of RR's arbitrarily created username and I would like to know
>>> how to force pine to use the correct name since I cannot seem to
>>> find a Reply-To: entry for pine.
>>>
>> Reply-to can be set up via "Setup->Config", but pine can also use
>> another username (and domain) - check your ~/.pinerc file...
> To further clarify, this can all be done inside pine. Go to Setup,
> Config, then scroll down to customized-hdrs. There you can add
> any entries you want to appear at the top of your messages.
> You can either add a Reply-To:, or you can change your From:
> by adding the entry 'From: You <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'.
This answers my question perfectly. I don't whether to admit I forgot about
customized-hdrs or just pretend I never saw that option when searching to solve the
problem. I'll blame it on years of Windows use.
Thanks.
KDSmith--Austin
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From: Danny O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ati xpert128 video card problem
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:39:42 -0500
Where do you get xfree86 (any version)? How do you download and install
it under Linux 6.1?
TIA
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph
Szymczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also had probloems with this chip, however Installing v.4.0 of xfree
> was
> easy and it works wonderfully!!
>
> -joe
>
> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>
> > Xfree86 3.3.6 supports the Rage128 line of cards, including the
> > Xpert128.
> > However, the 2D support in XFree86 4.0 is much better, and if your card
> > is
> > agp there is now a beta of the DRI available for 3D support for the
> > card
> > (with PCI support coming soon).
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Parminder Lehal wrote:
> >
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About Linux booting?
Date: 25 Apr 2000 19:33:08 GMT
Grant Edwards <grant@nowhere.> wrote:
: In article <8e4h3u$8c7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
:>Grant Edwards <grant@nowhere.> wrote:
:>: In article <8e4ct0$747$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
:>
:>:>:>: Does Linux still have limitation that the root partition should be
:>:>:>: within 1024 cylinder of a hard disk for bootup from hard disk?
OK, I'll bite ...
:>Then you are agreeing with me, and there is nothing to argue about.
:>What ARE you arguing about?
: I'm not arguing with your statement regarding the facts. I'm
: ripping on you for being intentionally misleading and
: condescending towards a newbie asking a perfectly valid
: question. Instead of answering the intended question in a
: helpful way, you chose to interpret the question literally
: because you know by doing so you could post a misleading
: answer.
Well, you are quite possibly (and in my honest opinion, incorrectly)
atributing intentions to me which I do not and did not have.
: Somebody asked about a linux and 1024 cylinder limit. You knew
: damn well that they were referring to the LILO/BIOS limition.
: You also suspected that the questioner didn't know enough to
: differentiate between the boot loader an Linux itself when he
: posted the question.
Absolutely. And that was WHY I replied with a fact acceptance
of which entails the logical consequence that there IS such a
difference.
(aside: you seem to believe that teaching somebody something
inplies telling them the answer to a question. That is not so.
Teaching, successfully, is the creation of new neural pathways.
To do that you have to cause the other person to grow those
pathways. That implies that they have to make the connection
_themselves_.)
: Rather than explain the situtaion, you attempted to demonstrate
: your self-perceived superiority by making a factual but
: _intentionally_ misleading statement that Linux doesn't and
Nonsense. I have no idea why you consider the statement misleading.
On the contrary, it was intended to lead.
Look, if linux is not the factor that causes the behavior, then
something else is. Thus there IS something else involved, and it
is different from linux. Now it is up to the reader to continue
...
And in any case, I object to your trying to smear linux with
a deficiency that has nothing to do with it. Kindly give the
right answer when asked, please.
: never has had such a limit. You probably walk around kicking
: dogs when the get in your way to demonstrate your intellectual
: and physical prowess, eh?
I don't see what kicking dogs has to do with intellectual prowess,
or why either one or the other of the goals above would be desirable.
:>I believe you think you are helping by trying to tell people
:>that it HAS something to do with linux in the following sense:
:>most linux-based distributions steer you into using lilo as a
:>boot loader, and lilo used to (and still does in the verson on
:>distros) suffer from the bioses limitation to 1024 cylinder max
:>in the standard bios call that it uses.
:>
:>That equates to "nothing to do with linux".
: OK, you are now claiming that LILO (the LInux LOader) which is
: used by "most linux-based distributions" has "nothing to do
: with linux".
No. LILO is intended to boot linux and has something to do with
linux. However, the fact that lilo (v20) cannot boot images
above the 1024 cylinder mark has nothing to do with linux.
"Has to do with" is not transitive. The origins of life have to
do with chemicals and lighting. However, you have had nothing
to do with chemicals and lightning, although you might well
have had something to do with reading a book that has treated
of something to do with the origins of life.
: You _are_ getting incoherent.
I don't think more than usually so!
: I know perfectly well what LILO is and what it's limitations
: are. The original poster didn't, and instead of explaining the
Good. Then perhaps you'll notice that they have nothing to do with
linux. And mention it.
: situtation you just made a snotty, misleading remark. The
: linux community would be better off without characters like you.
Thank you, and regards to your mother.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMware newsgroup
Date: 25 Apr 2000 19:35:02 GMT
Ken Yasuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm trying to help myself by reading up on a couple of the VMWare newsgroups.
: My question is how to set up the news browser to access their
: site, which is listed as news://news.vmware.com.
Usually
setenv NNTPSERVER news://news.vmware.com
is enough (or the bash equivalent).
Peter
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:55:19 -0400
From: Tim Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I think I have been HACKED!!!
"C. Newport" wrote:
>
> JoeB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Hello,
>
> : I think our mail server has been hacked into. These are some traces I
> : saw.
> : Can someone please confirm the fact that we have been hacked into and
> : how to prevent such actions in future:
>
> Take that machine off of the internet IMMEDIATELY.
> Nuke everything, preferably buy a new disk drive and keep the old one
> as evidence only. There are probably a dozen or more sneaky back doors
> into your system, and you will *not* find them all.
>
> Do not trust any other machine on your network, they may all have
> been compromised. You may have to re-install them all.
>
> Now build a new system using the latest patched release from a trusted
> source such as a CD.
> Rip out everything that is not absolutely essential for a mail server
> and install tripwire. Configure IPCHAINS to wall off everything except
> smtp connections.
>
> If you need help from a Unix security consultant give me a shout.
> at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
doing a nslookup on the 203 ip gives the following:(bj.c downloaded)
npk-gw.ibmnet.ad.jp
Tim
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMware newsgroup
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:05:00 -0400
Ken Yasuda wrote:
>
> I'm trying to help myself by reading up on a couple of the VMWare newsgroups.
> My question is how to set up the news browser to access their
> site, which is listed as news://news.vmware.com.
>
> With XRN or the newsgroup option in Netscape navigator and xrn I start a
> contact cycle that just waits forever and never connects. I'm embarrassed
> to ask this question, but how does one configure a news reader to access the
> above server?
>
> In XRN I'm typing: xrn -nntpServer news.vmware.com
> in Netscape I'm setting the newsgroup server as news.vmware.com
>
> Neither works.
>
> Suggestions?
In netscape messenger: file>subscribe>add server. It works for me.
MST
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My LILO tale of woe.
Date: 25 Apr 2000 20:11:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Chapter 2.
: I ran short on disk space. I obtained a second hard drive,
: which I installed in my machine without incident. Neither
: DOS nor Windows recognized my new drive, but this didn't
This is an error situation. It's almost impossible. FDISK.EXE
must see the new drive or you have a broken machine. I don't
believe you. I think you mean that, of course, there were
no dos partitions on the new drive, hence, rightly, dos
and windows don't detect any.
: bother me because I intended to use it only for Linux.
: Chapter 5.
: When next I powered up the machine, LILO did not function in
: the usual way. Instead of displaying its name on the
: screen, it displayed only "LI". I looked this up, and it's
: listed all right, but the explanation makes no sense to me.
It means bad luck, I can't get you there. Are you trying to boot
from a lilo on the first disk to a kernel image on the second
or third disk (i.e. hdb or hdc, respectively being slave on
the first controller and master on the second controller)?
Detail about your setup is required to tell you what to do,
but you have too many things undefined to be able to guide you
further.
Show the entry you made in lilo.conf, and show
the output of fdisk -l.
I would bet that you are trying to boot to an image
on a large (>1024 cylinder) partition on a third disk,
possibly after having changed disks ;.).
: I would like to know (1) what is actually wrong with LILO,
Nothing. It's doing what it's supposed to, in algorithmic
terms. It doesn't coincide with your requirements, however!
You checked the error message ...
... booting may fail in several
ways, typically with a partial ``LILO'' banner message. In this
document, that is called a ``geometry mismatch''.
When \LILO\ loads itself, it displays the word ``LILO''. Each
letter is printed before or after performing some specific action.
If \LILO\ fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be
used to identify the problem. This is described in more detail in
the technical overview.
Note that some hex digits may be inserted after the first ``L'' if a
transient disk problem occurs. Unless LILO stops at that point,
generating an endless stream of error codes, such hex digits do not
indicate a severe problem.
\item[\raw{LI}] The first stage boot loader was able to load the
second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can
either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving
\path{/boot/boot.b} without running the map installer.
Yurr. OK, so we are not able to execute a section of code that we have
already in memory. I.e. attempting to execute it resulted in an error
condition. I do believe we probably just attempted to jump to a
location that the bios doesn't like, but I'm not going to read the
lilo assembler to find out. Could be anything ... a location
on a non-bootable target device, for example.
: and (2) what (if anything) I can do about it. If you know
You have to change your setup to a feasible one. Details
about your system are required to tell you what that is.
Can you post them, please?
: the answer to either of these questions, please send me an
: email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kindly state the answers in
: simple terms, because I am very much at sea.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ati xpert128 video card problem
Date: 25 Apr 2000 20:13:14 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Danny O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Where do you get xfree86 (any version)? How do you download and install
>From your distribution, or direct from www.xfree.org.
: it under Linux 6.1?
Follow the instructions of your distributor, or on the xfree86 pages,
depending on what route you wish to go.
But it should already be on your computer. It's the graphics system.
Peter
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From: Mat Capel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot Windoze & Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:30:12 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:30:14 GMT, Mat Capel
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I've been told that Linux is better than Windoze so i want to try out
> >Linux. However, I have to use MS Office an AutoCAD files for work so i
> >need to be able to read files from Windoze.
> >Does ne1 know of a way for me to choose when i turn on whether to boot
up
> >Windoze or Linux (if at all this is possible)?
>
> Go to http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO and look for "Win95". Every
> box-set distribution comes with a manual that explains how to dual-boot
> your system--LILO, the LInux LOader, is capable of booting many different
> operating systems and gives you a choice at boot time. There might also
> be some useful information at http://www.linuxnewbie.org .
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama
critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
Good links - thank u
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Documentation for an *old* ISA SCSI card (1540B)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:33:30 GMT
I am putting together a 'print server' machine, from a low-profile
'riser' type '486DX2-66. I got (cheap, probably used) an old ISA SCSI
card, a late '80s, early '90 vintage AHA-1540B. 'Zillions' of jumpers,
no ^A BIOS hack like all of the 'modern' Adaptec SCSI cards. This board
has both internal (50-pin header) and external (Cen50) SCSI connectors.
It also has three resistor SIPs, which I am guessing is the controller
board's termination. Normally this machine will only have an internal
SCSI disk (Seagate 4.5gig SCSI-2 disk), which appears to be happily
detected. I will want to attach an external SCSI CD-ROM drive for
purposes of installing Linux. I have no documentation, so I am not sure
how to turn the board's termination off or on. I've sent E-Mail to
Adaptec, but I am not holding my breath -- this is an old board and I
would be expecting Adaptec to be seriously supporting it anymore. I am
hoping that there is someone out there with some old documentation
sitting on their shelf.
The board has these markings:
Large, centrally located chip with a paper sticker:
AHA-1540B 98
444700 C
9025
There are two socketed EPROM chips. One is labeled:
434101-00C
MCODE F3F7
(C) 1990
And the other is labeled:
420417-00 B
BIOS BC00
(C) 1990
The board displays on the console during boot up:
AT/SCSI BIOS
3.10
(C) 1988
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Ellsworth Toohey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer/modem problems in Corel Linux
Date: 25 Apr 2000 15:35:02 -0500
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 18:38:01 +0000, Mark Boulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello! Can anyone possibly e-mail me with the answers to these
>problems I'm having in Corel Linux :
>
>When trying to connect to the internet, just before logging in, I am
>getting the error "the PPPD (i think that's right) daemon died
>unexpectedly", can anyone tell me what's causing this and how I can
>correct it?
[Better late than never]
I used to get dying PPPD msgs when I tried to use the modem when I was
logged in as anyone but root. Never pursued it as I end up doing most of my
work as root anyway.
--
"I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Blue Screen, Blue Screen leads to downtime,
downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the Dark Side."
Ellsworth, one small voice
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: When is ldconfig run?
Date: 25 Apr 2000 20:34:25 GMT
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:06:23 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
>In principle /sbin/ldconfig should be run when booting. But
>I can't find anywhere in any initialization script where it
>is run. Can anyone enlighten me further?
Try
grep -e 'ldconfig' $(find /etc/rc.d -type f)
If it doesn't find the expression "ldconfig" in any of the startup
scripts, ldconfig isn't ran at startup. You can create your own
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/Sxxldconfig file though.
Bastian
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My LILO tale of woe.
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:13:53 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Chapter 1.
>
> I had one hard disk in my computer. On the hard disk were
> four partitions. One was Linux native, one was Linux swap,
> one was Windows, and one was DOS.
>
> In those good old days, whenever I powered the machine up,
> LILO asked me whether I wanted Windows or Linux. If I
> didn't answer within 5 seconds, LILO booted Windows. If I
> wanted Linux, I simply said so, and up came Linux.
>
> This situation existed for more than a year. It worked very
> well.
>
> Chapter 2.
>
> I ran short on disk space. I obtained a second hard drive,
> which I installed in my machine without incident. Neither
> DOS nor Windows recognized my new drive, but this didn't
> bother me because I intended to use it only for Linux.
>
> Chapter 3.
>
> In order to carry out my intention, I installed Linux on the
> new drive. I did this using the ordinary Red Hat
> installation program. Part of that program invokes Disk
> Druid. I told Disk Druid to make two partitions on the new
> drive; i.e., one for Linux native, the other for swap. It
> appears to have worked. So far, so good.
>
> Chapter 4.
>
> As part of the Red Hat installation program, I had an
> opportunity to re-install LILO. I did reinstall it, because
> I knew that things had changed, and that LILO would need to
> learn about the new situation. The re-installation appeared
> to be successful. However ...
>
> Chapter 5.
>
> When next I powered up the machine, LILO did not function in
> the usual way. Instead of displaying its name on the
> screen, it displayed only "LI". I looked this up, and it's
> listed all right, but the explanation makes no sense to me.
> Most of my experience has been on mainframes, and I do not
> know all about (or even *much* about) desktop machines. I
> have a lot to learn.
>
> I would like to know (1) what is actually wrong with LILO,
> and (2) what (if anything) I can do about it. If you know
> the answer to either of these questions, please send me an
> email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kindly state the answers in
> simple terms, because I am very much at sea.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Yours truly,
> Fred Theobald
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
It is hard to know exactly what happened, but one possibility
is that lilo did not get installed properly. If your
installation made a boot floppy during the install, you
may be able to boot from the boot floppy. If so, check
the /etc/lilo.conf reads correctly and then rerun lilo.
One important point. You should have put lilo in the
master boot record of the first disk, not your new disk
if that is your second disk. If you didn't do that, then
lilo will still be trying to boot your old system. If
you have deleted that, then something like what you report
is possible.
Perhaps you can give us some more information such just
what is on which disk right now and where you put lilo.
Then we may be able to help you further.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: query about LINUX
Date: 25 Apr 2000 20:40:38 GMT
On 21 Apr 2000 13:02:20 GMT,
Koos Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21 Apr 2000 08:26:41 -0500, Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Koos Pol wrote:
>
> | > and SuSE for not so technically skilled ones.
> | > What is a fact is that SuSE comes with the largest distribution.
> |
> | Larger than Debian?
>
> SuSe comes on 6 (six!) cdrom's. You don't want to download that :-)
Potato is 4 CD's for just the binaries. The full set with source is 8
CD's. Slink is 3 for binaries, 3 for source, or same size as SuSE.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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