Linux-Misc Digest #394, Volume #24 Sun, 7 May 00 19:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: mail server (Gerald Willmann)
email help (Anthony Pleace)
Re: Fetchmail Make Problem (Claudio Bley)
Modules (lanbaba)
Re: can't get SLAB working (Mitsch)
Abit BP6 motherboard
Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - (Andrew Ebling)
Re: Modules (Dances With Crows)
Re: Abit BP6 motherboard (Hal Burgiss)
Re: mail server (Rod Smith)
Re: redhat 6.1 install woes (Leonard Evens)
Re: redhat 6.1 install woes (Leonard Evens)
Help on inittab file ... (Peter Buijsman)
Re: Where are the Module Utilities? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Modules ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Those distributions are stupid (Adam Schuetze)
configuration for iomega zip 100M parallel port drive (kwl)
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 14:18:35 -0700
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
> I want to setup a little mail server on my machine (running Mandrake
> 7.0). There's a need for only four or five mail accounts. I want to
> know which server to use and how to set this up.
> I already have a web server with a domain name, if it helps... I want
> these email addresses to be @domainname.com.
check out www.qmail.org - works great for us.
Gerald
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From: Anthony Pleace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: email help
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 22:23:30 +0100
I am a newbie running RH6.2 on a stand alone pentium PC. I would like to
be able to send and receive emails. I have managed to connect to my
internet provider with my modem. I have read several complementary
articles about qmail but cannot tell if this program will send and
receive emails. As far as I can tell qmail and mutt would work together
but is this enough to send and receive email?
Can anyone help please?
--
Anthony Pleace
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Fetchmail Make Problem
From: Claudio Bley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 May 2000 23:57:30 +0200
Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> When I try to make Fetchmail I get the following error:
>
> gcc -L/usr/kerberos/lib -L/usr/kerberos/lib -s rcfile_y.o rcfile_l.o
> socket.o ge
> tpass.o pop2.o pop3.o imap.o etrn.o fetchmail.o idle.o env.o options.o
> daemon.o
> driver.o sink.o rfc822.o smtp.o xmalloc.o uid.o mxget.o md5ify.o rpa.o
> interface
> .o netrc.o base64.o error.o unmime.o conf.o checkalias.o smbdes.o
> smbencrypt.o s
> mbmd4.o smbutil.o ipv6-connect.o md5c.o -lkrb4 -ldes425 -lcrypt
> -lresolv -lkrb
> 5 -lcrypto -lcom_err -lfl -o fetchmail
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
This basically means the linker could not find the library named
'libcrypto.so' or 'libcrypto.a'. If it is somewhere in your system,
make sure that the linker would find it (e.g. by adding the path to your
LD_LOADPATH variable).
Otherwise, you got to get the krb5-libs-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm or newer version
for example at rpmfind.net. (you may also download the source package
krb5-1.0.5-1.src.rpm from there).
BTW, there are also precompiled rpms of fetchmail at this server; try
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/fetchmail-5.3.8-1.i386.rpm
well, let me know...
claudio.
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From: lanbaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modules
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 18:25:46 -0400
Can someone provide answers to the following two questions:
1. How can I find out which module is compiled into kernel?
2. Will the settings in conf.modules override the default module
settings?
Thanks
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From: Mitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't get SLAB working
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 00:31:30 +0200
mugu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having terrible nightmares trying to get slab working on my
> SuSE 6.2 box. it just isn't starting. could anyone help !!!
>
> thanks a lot !
>
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Hi! At last someone with the same error (starting with startSLab.bash the only
comment on the screen is "terminated", isn't it?). Let's exchange some data to
see if it's a hardware problem or whatever?!
O.K...
My System:
AMD K6II 3Dnow!/350Mhz / 64MB of memory / nearly 15 GB of free harddisk-memory
AWE 64 Value, runs with simple SB 16 kernel-module (as I used the oss, SLab
didn't work either)
My X-Server is running on SVGA-Mode, 800*600 with 24bit colordepth
I'm using SuSE Linux 6.2, but also on 6.1 I didn't get SLab running.
I downloaded another slab version (3.0.22.i) but it does the same bullshit as
the suse's 6.2 version.
It's your turn!
Mitsch
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit BP6 motherboard
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 22:30:03 GMT
Here's the problem. I have recently purchased the Abit BP6 motherboard.
It uses ATA66 (meaning I have 4 IDE ports). The problem is that my
harddrive and cdrom are on the first 2 (that still use ATA33). My burner
therefore has to be on the ATA66 side.
Apparently, RedHat 6.1 doesn't support ATA66 by default. Either one of 2
fixes (in my mind) should work. Either the linux driver for the burner
should help the burner (cause I'm not sure whether its the lack of a
driver, or the OS itself), or I need whatever patch red hat has.
I have emailed red hat twice now in the last 2 weeks with nothing but
automated responses. If any one has had this problem before, and knows
what to do, I'd really appreciate it.
Also, on a related topic, my sound card is not working. I most likely need
drivers, but have been unable to find any.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Andrew Ebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) -
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 23:38:57 +0100
"Douglas E. Mitton" wrote:
> I have done several searches for this issue, there seem to be a lot of
> people experiencing it BUT I have not been able to find a solution
> yet.
>
> In kernels V2.2.14 and .15 I get random cdrecord failures such as:
> (Sorry, it wraps a little.)
>
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> Track 01: 175 of 311 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output
> error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB: 2A 00 00 01 5E C0 00 00 10 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: F1 00 05 00 01 5E C0 0C 00 00 00 00 10 02 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x02 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching
> qualifier] Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 89792 (valid)
> cmd finished after 3.168s timeout 40s
>
> write track data: error after 183894016 bytes
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Writing time: 310.268s
> Fixating...
> Fixating time: 76.473s
> cdrecord: fifo had 5740 puts and 5613 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 5206 times full, min fill was
> 95%.
>
> This all works perfectly in kernel V2.2.13. I always use the same
> config for each kernel upgrade/compile and use the "make oldconfig"
> to incorporate it.
>
> The other things I've tried are:
> - Searching deja news
> - reading the links off of the cdrecord home page.
> - recompiling cdrecord on my system (V1.8a29)
> - Installing the newest cdrecord (v1.8.1)
>
> Does any one have any other experience to throw at this problem? My
> next tact is to start comparing the SCSI source between 2.2.13 and
> 2.2.14/15. I don't hold out a lot of hope on this. The modules I've
> read so far have revision dates well before this problem showed up.
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Doug Mitton - Brockville, Ontario, Canada
> 'City of the Thousand Islands'
> EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cybertap.com/dmitton
> Other: mitton.dyndns.org
> SPAM Reduction: Remove "x." from my domain.
> ------------------------------------------------
What brand/model of CDR are you using? All we have to go on is it is IDE
based...
What do you get if you type "cdrecord -scanbus" ?
That should be a start....
Did you set the kernel version number on the modules you compiled for
2.2.13? If not, have you tried using those old modules instead?
It isn't a hardware problem that has developed co-incidentally with your
kernel upgrade?? (just guessing out loud here!)
Do you have other cd-rom driver on the same controller? Do the "random"
errors coincide with access of that drive?
Sometimes I have had problems in the past if I have not moved the orginal
modules to a different directory when rebuilding a kernel/modules...
Sorry not to be much use, just trying to ask some questions that might
inspire and answer from someone else...
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Modules
Date: 07 May 2000 18:38:57 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 07 May 2000 18:25:46 -0400, lanbaba
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>
>Can someone provide answers to the following two questions:
>1. How can I find out which module is compiled into kernel?
If a particular driver is compiled into the kernel, it isn't a module. If
that driver is compiled as a module, it isn't compiled into the kernel. I
think you meant, "How do I find out which drivers are compiled into the
kernel?" and the answer to that question is usually found in
/usr/src/linux/.config . Or if /boot/System.map is current, you could
look there too.
>2. Will the settings in conf.modules override the default module
>settings?
They *ARE* the default module settings.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 motherboard
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 22:40:43 GMT
On Sun, 07 May 2000 22:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here's the problem. I have recently purchased the Abit BP6
>motherboard. It uses ATA66 (meaning I have 4 IDE ports). The problem
>is that my harddrive and cdrom are on the first 2 (that still use
>ATA33). My burner therefore has to be on the ATA66 side.
I don't think so. Nothing is going to work there except real ATA66
devices. The std controller supports a total of 4 devices (master and
slave on each connection), so stick it there as a slave.
>Also, on a related topic, my sound card is not working. I most likely
>need drivers, but have been unable to find any.
You need to supply more info here. What soundcard? What have you tried?
sndconfig? Any errors anywhere along the way?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 22:48:34 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I want to setup a little mail server on my machine (running Mandrake
> 7.0). There's a need for only four or five mail accounts. I want to
> know which server to use and how to set this up.
> I already have a web server with a domain name, if it helps... I want
> these email addresses to be @domainname.com.
Mandrake since 6.1 comes with Postfix, and it's probably already installed
and working on your system. You may need to tweak a few entries in the
/etc/postfix/main.cf or other configuration files, though. There's
probably a GUI front-end in Mandrake's linuxconf, but I've never used it.
The text configuration file is pretty well-commented, and there's more
documentation at http://www.postfix.org. If you need more specific advice,
post with a more specific question, or better yet, ask it on the Postfix
mailing list.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.1 install woes
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 17:08:55 -0500
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> :>
> :> I tried to install RH 6.1 on a P90 ASUS PCI/P54SP4 board, 64MB,
> :> 2 IDE (M-2.2 GB Maxtor, S-2.1 GB Quantum FB), ELSA Victory Erazor,
> :> Intel Etherexpress NIC.
> :>
> :> Nothing fancy, as one can see.
> :>
> :> Installing runs fine, I install a minimum system, on root
> :> partition of 2192 MB (or something like that), 350 MB swap on second IDE.
> :>
> :> But when I reboot first time I just can see the letters LI
> :> (obviously from LILO) and then stop. Nothing anymore. I can only
> :> CTRL-ALT-DEL.
> :>
> :> Tried this now three times, even with IDE Normal mode.
> :>
> :> --
> :> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> : In principle, the installation should have created a boot
> : floppy for you. (If it didn't, reinstall but use the
> : upgraded Anaconda installation floppy images from the RedHat
>
> I have the 6.1 distribution. Does Anaconda apply for me here?
> Just want to be sure to not run into a mess when I start to overwrite my
> 6.1 installation with a 6.2 kernel.
There is an update for the installer explicitly for RedHat 6.1.
You download two floppy images and copy them to floppies.
When you boot for installation or upgrade, you enter
linux updates
at the boot prompt and later in the process you are asked
to insert the updates floppy. The RedHat web page explains
in detail how to make the floppies and how to use them.
There are some similar updates for the installer under RedHat 6.2,
but they are not so crucial.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.1 install woes
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 17:12:56 -0500
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> :>
> :> I tried to install RH 6.1 on a P90 ASUS PCI/P54SP4 board, 64MB,
> :> 2 IDE (M-2.2 GB Maxtor, S-2.1 GB Quantum FB), ELSA Victory Erazor,
> :> Intel Etherexpress NIC.
> :>
> :> Nothing fancy, as one can see.
> :>
> :> Installing runs fine, I install a minimum system, on root
> :> partition of 2192 MB (or something like that), 350 MB swap on second IDE.
> :>
> :> But when I reboot first time I just can see the letters LI
> :> (obviously from LILO) and then stop. Nothing anymore. I can only
> :> CTRL-ALT-DEL.
> :>
> :> Tried this now three times, even with IDE Normal mode.
> :>
> :> --
> :> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> : In principle, the installation should have created a boot
> : floppy for you. (If it didn't, reinstall but use the
> : upgraded Anaconda installation floppy images from the RedHat
> : Errata or a mirror site. Actually, you could probably just
> : choose the upgrade option if you have already installed.)
> : Boot from that and use fdisk to
> : show your partitioning. For IDE disks,
> : fdisk -l /dev/hda
> : fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> : will exhibit the partitioning information. That way we can
> : tell if you have encountered the 1024 cylinder limit.
>
> It's working! I had adjusted the disk types once again in the BIOS and
> found that if I chose LBA mode with the same geometry as the dmesg probe
> output said (523/128/63) it suddenly worked. Phew, strange.
It is not really strange. What was true was that there was
an inconsistency between what the BIOS reported the geometry
to be for the purpose of running lilo and what lilo expected.
Changing the setting in the BIOS fixed that.
>
> Anyway, I don't need a boot floppy and can now turn to kernel compilation.
Make a boot floppy anyway (if you don't have one) with mkbootdisk.
And are you sure your really need to compile your own kernel.
We used to do that, but since RH5.0, we haven't bothered.
It makes upgrades easier if you don't. Purists will often
recommend that you compile your own kernel, but I wouldn't
advise it unless you have some problem that needs to be addressed
that way.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> : --
>
> : Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> : Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Peter Buijsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on inittab file ...
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 00:51:12 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
This will probably be a very simple question for all you die-hards out
there.
In my default inittab, there's a list of mingetty's that get started:
# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
.....
I noticed they appear in my 'ps -aux' list like this (line might be
truncated):
root 429 0.0 1.2 1060 380 tty1 S May07 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty1
What is the purpose of all this? Why are there 6 of these started, and
what is their task??
--
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where are the Module Utilities?
Date: 7 May 2000 22:46:51 GMT
Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: When reading the "HOWTO" document regarding building a new
: kernel, I read the following:
:> 9.1. Installing the module utilities
:>
:> The module utilities are available from wherever you got your kernel
:> source as modutils-x.y.z.tar.gz; choose the highest patchlevel x.y.z
:> that is equal to or below that of your current kernel.
: This is about as clear as it gets. I am getting my source
: from ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel and I have had no
: trouble finding and getting kernel sources. Where is the module
: source? I am sure I am missing something obvious, but I don't see
Already on your disk, or on the achives of your distroi. And on
ftp.kernel.org. I see it clearly in /pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils.
Problem?
: modutils or module anything for that matter.
Wash eyes.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modules
Date: 7 May 2000 22:58:03 GMT
lanbaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can someone provide answers to the following two questions:
: 1. How can I find out which module is compiled into kernel?
You can't, unless you are clever with symbols. Or you could use my
proconfig patch. Go to www.freshmeat.net and search for proconfig.
ftp://oboe.it.uc3m.es/pub/Programs/
: 2. Will the settings in conf.modules override the default module
: settings?
Given that that's what they're for, and that that's what the manpage
says, yes. What use would conf.modules be if they didn't? What do you
mean?
Peter
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From: Adam Schuetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ch.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Those distributions are stupid
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 23:05:36 GMT
charlie wrote:
> Let's swap then all to FreeBSD or even back to windoze.
I think you've been watching too many M$ adverts. It's this lamer
attitude which has helped perpetuate the microsloth monopoly.
Adam
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Subject: configuration for iomega zip 100M parallel port drive
From: kwl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 16:05:12 -0700
I am a newbie on Linux and recently installed Redhat 6.2 on my PC
I wonder if someone can help and advise how to configure the
Iomega Zip 100M parallel port drive. Is there any file/driver
to be installed? Many thanks!
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