Linux-Misc Digest #808, Volume #24 Tue, 13 Jun 00 21:13:04 EDT
Contents:
building gcc2.95.2 on RH 6.2 problem (Robert Schweikert)
Re: No Disk space left !?! ("Tom Hoffmann")
Re: Inkjet printer (Ray)
Re: ()()()()FLASHIN' SCREEN()()()() ("Tom Hoffmann")
Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!? (Douglas
E. Mitton)
Re: ldconfig - help needed (Paul Kimoto)
Re: UMOUNTING loopback device..How? (Robie Basak)
Re: cdrecord bug? (or is it my computer!) (Douglas E. Mitton)
Released rpg game for Linux ... group to discuss it? (Jeff Vogel)
Re: Newbie : LILO doubts ??? (Vikram V Asrani)
Re: printer works but prints an extra message (Robie Basak)
Re: Installing Linux past 1024 cylinder (Vikram V Asrani)
Can't log in as root, but can su root ("Derek E.")
Mailman: File permission deny server execution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UMOUNTING loopback device..How? (Equinox)
Re: Getting sound to work on Suse linux 6.3 (Dances With Crows)
Re: PATH (Dances With Crows)
Re: text colors (Dances With Crows)
Re: Can't log in as root, but can su root (Prasanth A. Kumar)
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: building gcc2.95.2 on RH 6.2 problem
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:12:03 -0400
Did anyone build gcc2.95.2 on RH6.2 distro yet?
I have the following problem:
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -I. -I./../include mkstemps.c -o
pic/mkstemps.o
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -I. -I./../include mkstemps.c
cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done
mkstemps.c: In function `mkstemps':
mkstemps.c:72: storage size of `tv' isn't known
make[1]: *** [mkstemps.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/gcc-2.95.2/libiberty'
make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
and could sure use some help in getting it solved.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
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Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Disk space left !?!
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:13:31 GMT
> bugging me with "Maximal mount count reached" messages and checks.
I suggest you go to http://www.google.com/linux and do a search for
"maximal mount count". You will find lots of info. BTW, this message
does *not* mean you are out of space.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: Inkjet printer
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:16:58 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:52:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am about to buy an inkjet printer for my Linux system.
>Can some user please comment on the following printers and
>how well they are supported by current Linux/Ghostscript
>versions?
>Epson Stylus Color 670
>Epson Stylus Color 760
>Canon BJC-3000
>HP Deskjet 610C
>HP Deskjet 840C
>HP Deskjet 930C
I'm not too crazy about recent HP Deskjets (paper feeding problems and the
printer utils. seem to cause Windows even more grief than normal) but I do
have a customer using a 930C under Linux (Debian) and it does work. I
havn't actually seen the output (he's over 100 miles away) but he says it
looks great and I was able to set it up from here without any special
tinkering.
--
Ray
>
>Thanks for any help
> Bernd
>--
>Bernd Schandl
>Tired of spam - use spamcop.net to complain!
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ()()()()FLASHIN' SCREEN()()()()
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:23:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, N/A
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I go to log into Corel Linux Delux for the first time and suddenly the
> screen begins to flash when it asks me to log in, how can i stop
> this?
Boot to a command prompt and run XF86Setup or Xconfigurator. It owuld
seem from your description that X is not configured correctly for your
monitor/video card combination.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:30:02 GMT
I have been compiling the kernel the "old" way until this last weekend
when I grabbed an updated copy of the How-To and tried it the "new"
way ... still no go!
The president of out LUG just posted that he installed a CD-R this
weekend and is using it with kernel V2.2.14 with no problems ... SIGH.
Also, I just saw a new problem reported in comp.os.linux.hardware with
the same problem ... this person reports that it just started failing
after many successful burns with no system changes at all.
This is very confusing! Well, the search continues. Thanks for your
post!
"Andrew Glikman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not that I have a solution for you, but things aren't broken at the kernel level. I've
>patched my way up from 2.2.12 through 2.2.16 and have written CDs all the way.
>I've been using both cdrecord-1.8a29-2 and cdrdao-1.1.3-1 without the funky
>write errors you've reported. And yes, I'm using an IDE CDRW with SCSI
>emulation. Having not looked at the how-tos recently, I don't know what changes
>you're refering to, but they may be related to your problems. Try a kernel recompile
>doing things the "old" way and see if that works.
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas
>E. Mitton) wrote:
>> Well, I just wanted to pass on the news that I've tried the new kernel v2.2.16
>> nad I have the same problem. Also, to ask if anyone has come up with any kind
>> of a solution.
>
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'City of the Thousand Islands'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: ldconfig - help needed
Date: 13 Jun 2000 19:47:53 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <3Cy15.312$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a problem running ldconfig. It's not clear to me what parameters
> I should use. The man page suggests it needs me to specify a directory
Hmm, it does, doesn't it. Well, it is fine to run it without giving a
parameter. Remember that it looks only in the libraries listed in
/etc/ld.so.conf. You can run "ldconfig -v" and look at the verbose output.
> when I try to make slrn I get an error saying that
> slang.h doesn't match the slang library version and did I run ldconfig?
If you have more than one slang.h on your system, do you know which one is
being found (at compile time)? If you have more than one libslang.so.* on
your system, do you know which one is being found (at runtime)?
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: UMOUNTING loopback device..How?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jun 2000 23:48:28 GMT
On 13 Jun 2000 21:25:21 GMT, Ron Gibson said:
>I can't figure how to umount device that is mounted with the loopback
>option...
>
>mount -o loop -t ext2 /file /mnt
>
>This is after dd was used to create /file and ext2 filesystem was
>created. This is the process of making a custom bootdisk that I'm
>working on.
>
>Every time I try umount /mnt it tells me "device busy".
>
>I've looked a losetup and tried different combinations using
>
>losetup -d /file ...etc.
>
>I also get a "device busy"
>
>In all cases /file or /mnt is not being accessed at that time.
>
>So can somebody tell me what is the proper procedure to do this?
>Currently the only way I can do it is to shutdown.
Make sure that you aren't in /mnt at the time you're trying to
unmount; type 'fuser /mnt' to see.
Make sure you haven't mounted anything else in /mnt :-)
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.periph.cdrom
Subject: Re: cdrecord bug? (or is it my computer!)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:49:48 GMT
Hi Don;
I've been searching for a solution to this problem ... or at least one
which is VERY similar, for quite some time now. My symptoms are that
cdrecord generates the "write_g1" and "0x2" codes at some point during
every burn BUT only since I upgraded to kernel v2.2.14, 2.2.15 and
2.2.16. When I go back to V2.2.13 it works just fine for data and
audio tracks.
I don't get the error when I'm blanking the CD-RW's BUT I do notice it
seems to lock up the entire computer until the "erase" is complete. I
can't do anything which accesses the hard drive that shares the CD IDE
channel.
Can you think of any change you have made to your system that
coincided with the error ... kernel upgrade, moveing the CD-R to a new
position in the IDE chain?
Please post any information you find. Thanks in advance.
Don Myroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am having a problem with cdrecord. I have created an audio CD
>that worked properly (on the same system before I started having this
>problem. I don't know what changed), but now I'm getting the following
>error every time I try to write anything (either writing data, audio or
>just blanking a CDRW):
>
>drizzt:~/multimedia/mp3/cd$ cdrecord -scanbus
>Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
>scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'UJDA310 ' '1.32' Removable
>CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) *
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
>
>Starting new track at sector: 0
>Track 01: 0 of 36 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1:
>scsi sendcmd: retryable error
>CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 C0 00 00
>
>I was hoping that maybe someone could tell me what that error means?
>I'm
>using a DELL Inspiron 7500 laptop computer with Redhat Linux v6.2.
>Like I mentioned earlier, it did work for me a couple times before.
>Same system - I don't know what changed. Perhaps it's a
>hardware problem?
>
>I've used about 4 CDRs and two different CDRWs and get the same results.
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Don Myroon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Vogel)
Subject: Released rpg game for Linux ... group to discuss it?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:07:05 -0700
We've just released Exile III: Ruined World, a new fantasy role-playing
game for Linux.
We're looking for a place on USENET where games are discussed, so we have
a place to send people with hint questions, etc. Is there a Linux games
group, and it's just not propagated to my server, or should I just send
people to the pc games newsgroups?
- Jeff Vogel, Keeper of Exile, Spiderweb Software, Inc.
Check out Exile III: Ruined World, the award-winning shareware rpg
for Linux, Windows, and Mac.
Coming soon: Avernum for Windows. http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com
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From: Vikram V Asrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie : LILO doubts ???
Date: 14 Jun 2000 00:02:13 GMT
Reply-To: Vikram.V.Asrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=> An excellent tutorial on LILO operations is contained in Werner Almsberger's
=> documentation, which is part of the LILO source distribution. Read his
=> extensive README file.
or if you have access to a linux box with documentation installed on it,
then check up /usr/doc/lilo. /usr/doc is usually a very good starting place
for such information.
--
Vikram.V.Asrani ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: printer works but prints an extra message
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Jun 2000 00:03:11 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:30:04 GMT, Daniel said:
>I run Redhat linux 6.1 and recently compiled my own kernel from source to
>2.2.16. I then was setting up my printer and got it to work with the bug
>fix and everything that red hat told me to do. Yet, after I restarted the
>computer I tried to print something and it printed a message before it
>printed what I wanted to print in the first place. THe message was made
>such that the words were spelled with their own letters and was made real
>big out of its own letters like the j was made out of many j's and so on.
>the message had my user name in it. it went like this
> justierd
> stdin
> localhost
>
> Job:stdin
> Date:Tude Jun 13 12:36:51 2000
>
>And that was the message and I have no idea what to think of it. I've
>looked all over and don't know what to do so please help me with it.
man printcap
It's called the 'banner', so that multiple people using the printer
can identify their work quickly.
Robie.
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From: Vikram V Asrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Installing Linux past 1024 cylinder
Date: 14 Jun 2000 00:06:37 GMT
Reply-To: Vikram.V.Asrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In comp.os.linux.misc Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=> I am trying to install RedHat Linux 6.2 on a 20 gig drive. I put it on
=> the end of the drive past the 1024th out of 2500 cylinders. LILO
=> doesn't seem to like booting from here, it locks up halfway through the
=> printing of the LILO prompt. I have heard that lilo doesn't work past
=> the 1024th cylinder of the drive.
As far as I know, it is your BIOS which provides this restriction and not
lilo. There is some information about the same in the documentation
file in /usr/doc/lilo.
====> From /usr/doc/lilo/Manual
BIOS restrictions
- - - - - - - - -
Nowadays, an increasing number of systems is equipped with comparably large
disks or even with multiple disks. At the time the disk interface of the
standard PC BIOS has been designed (about 16 years ago), such
configurations were apparently considered to be too unlikely to be worth
supporting.
The most common BIOS restrictions that affect LILO are the limitation to
two hard disks and the inability to access more than 1024 cylinders per
disk. LILO can detect both conditions, but in order to work around the
underlying problems, manual intervention is necessary.
The drive limit does not exist in every BIOS. Some modern motherboards and
disk controllers are equipped with a BIOS that supports more (typically
four) disk drives. When attempting to access the third, fourth, etc. drive,
LILO prints a warning message but continues. Unless the BIOS really
supports more than two drives, the system will _not_ be able to boot in
that case.*
* However, if only "unimportant" parts of the system are located on the
"high" drives, some functionality may be available.
The cylinder limit is a very common problem with IDE disks. There, the
number of cylinders may already exceed 1024 if the drive has a capacity of
more than 504 MB. Many SCSI driver BIOSes present the disk geometry in a
way that makes the limit occur near 1 GB. Modern disk controllers may even
push the limit up to about 8 GB. All cylinders beyond the 1024th are
inaccessible for the BIOS. LILO detects this problem and aborts the
installation (unless the LINEAR option is used, see section "Global
options").
Note that large partitions that only partially extend into the "forbidden
zone" are still in jeopardy even if they appear to work at first, because
the file system does not know about the restrictions and may allocate disk
space from the area beyond the 1024th cylinder when installing new kernels.
LILO therefore prints a warning message but continues as long as no
imminent danger exists.
There are four approaches of how such problems can be solved:
- use of a different partition which is on an accessible disk and which
does not exceed the 1024 cylinder limit. If there is only a DOS
partition which fulfills all the criteria, that partition can be used
to store the relevant files. (See section "/boot on a DOS partition".)
- rearranging partitions and disks. This is typically a destructive
operation, so extra care should be taken to make good backups.
- if the system is running DOS or Windows 95, LOADLIN can be used instead
of LILO.
- if all else fails, installation of a more capable BIOS, a different
controller or a different disk configuration.
LILO depends on the BIOS to load the following items:
- /boot/boot.b
- /boot/map (created when running /sbin/lilo)
- all kernels
- the boot sectors of all other operating systems it boots
- the startup message, if one has been defined
Normally, this implies that the Linux root file system should be in the
"safe" area. However, it is already sufficient to put all kernels into
/boot and to either mount a "good" partition on /boot or to let /boot be a
symbolic link pointing to or into such a partition.
See also /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt (or
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.ide in older kernels) for a detailed
description of problems with large disks.
====>
You possibly will have to use some of the options listed above to solve your
problem.
--
Vikram.V.Asrani ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Derek E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't log in as root, but can su root
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 20:27:01 -0400
I'm trying to set up my linux firewall box. I first got it running with
tcp/ip networking. I then added some packages by putting in my linux
mandrake 6.1 boot disk and selecting upgrade (its a lot easier to
satisfy dependencies). The next time I rebooted, I could not log in as
root. It would simply say "login incorrect." I can log in as my normal
user account, then su root. But I can't log into root directly. This
only happened since I used the bootdisk to upgrade the packages.
Can someone please help, I'm very frustrated. Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mailman: File permission deny server execution
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:27:54 GMT
hi all,
I've installed Mailman 3.0.22 from Endymion on a RH 6.0 with apache
1.3. Everything is ok that is i can send and recieve email from any
browser. But i cant see any gif images on the forms. All gifs are
chmod to 644. The error log file says : Error: file permissions deny
server execution : /home/httpd/cgi-bin/newmail/ummstdod/i_logo.gif
...
Is there any particular location or setting to be made to apache
config files(no modifications has been made)
Thanks
kim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Equinox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: UMOUNTING loopback device..How?
Date: 14 Jun 2000 00:34:56 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:04:34 GMT, "Tom Hoffmann"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can't figure how to umount device that is mounted with the loopback
> > option...
> >
> > mount -o loop -t ext2 /file /mnt
> >
> > This is after dd was used to create /file and ext2 filesystem was
> > created. This is the process of making a custom bootdisk that I'm
> > working on.
> >
> > Every time I try umount /mnt it tells me "device busy".
> ^^^^
>
> Are you really trying to unmount the mount point?
Doesn't matter. If there is a filesystem mounted at /mnt, then
'umount /mnt' will unmount it.
Similarly, filesystems can be mounted by specifying only the mount
point, provided the OS knows what belongs there (which is one reason
we have /etc/fstab).
--Russell
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email (spam-disabled):
rdh *at* dibbs *dot* net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Getting sound to work on Suse linux 6.3
Date: 13 Jun 2000 20:57:41 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:30:04 GMT, WILLO
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have it set up so that I have to use a floppy disk to boot linux. Well
This is suboptimal. Try reading the documentation about LILO; booting
from a hard disk is faster and safer as floppy disks like to die at bad
moments.
>was just to "technical". He said something about using a text editor to
>edit a module or something, and I have no idea how to do anything other
>than point and click.
<fx type="Yoda">You must... unlearn what you have learned. Powerful and
flexible the command line is.</fx>
>I really want to learn how to use linux, but I need
>someone to just take time to teach me the basics.
Your local community college/big university probably has classes on Unix
basics, or you can provide a local Unix geek with beer and pizza in
exchange for knowledge, or you can read the Windoze-to-Linux HOWTO or the
DOS-to-Linux HOWTO available in /usr/doc/howto/en/ or at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ .
>anything text oriented! I know my system has either a Ensoniq audioPCI 64,
>(which Suse needs module es1371) or a Ensoniq Audio PCI,(in which Suse
>needs module es1371), but I don't have a clue as to how to get to, and
>edit this module, or modules. Can you please help? I appreciate anything
0. become root
1. cd /etc
2. pico conf.modules
(pico is a text editor. Though pico is not powerful, it is easy to use
and has the most commonly used commands displayed at the bottom of the
screen.)
3. Around about line 128, you'll see references to the es1371
module. Delete the # sign from the beginning of the line that says "alias
char-major-14 es1371". Save the file (Ctrl-X) and that should be it.
4. Test it out by trying to play a sound using the wavplay command.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "Online
But only Light too dim for us to see\ gender bending going too far?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: PATH
Date: 13 Jun 2000 21:02:32 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:04:26 GMT, Philip
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I am trying to change the PATH variable so that /usr/local comes before
>/usr/bin and apparently I am looking and changing the wrong files. I am
>using RH 6.1 and have attempted to change the files
>.bash_profile and gdm.conf, but there appears to be some other place
>where an earlier default for PATH is initially added. Not only would I
>like to know where this other file is but also which documentation is
>recommended for finding answers to questions like this.
/etc/profile is read before all user-specific .bash_profiles. If you want
to make a global change, that's the place to do it. There is a man page
for bash, but since the man page is so huge, it's a bit difficult to find
what you're looking for. There's also an info page for bash, which may be
organized a little better for your needs-- enter "info bash" and press
Ctrl-H for help if you've never used the info system before.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "Online
But only Light too dim for us to see\ gender bending going too far?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: text colors
Date: 13 Jun 2000 21:09:27 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:33:55 GMT, Jeff Audette
<<nFy15.957$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>How can you configure RH6.2 text colours for the console? In SCO you can
>use the setcolor command.
>I want to set the text to one color, and not change for different file
>types.
...you mean you don't want ls to display in color? Whatever for? Anyway,
the ls colors are stored in /etc/DIR_COLORS and that file has useful
comments embedded in it. Copy this file to ~/.dir_colors and mess with it
to your heart's content. If you want to change the color of ordinary text
on the console, use setterm -foreground COLORNAME. Changing the color of
ordinary text in an xterm/konsole/eterm requires program-specific
settings; you can pull down a menu in konsole/eterm, or modify the X
resource defaults settings for xterm. Those are in ~/.Xdefaults . HTH,
good luck.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "Online
But only Light too dim for us to see\ gender bending going too far?" --/me
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Subject: Re: Can't log in as root, but can su root
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 01:09:53 GMT
"Derek E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to set up my linux firewall box. I first got it running
> with tcp/ip networking. I then added some packages by putting in my
> linux mandrake 6.1 boot disk and selecting upgrade (its a lot easier
> to satisfy dependencies). The next time I rebooted, I could not log
> in as root. It would simply say "login incorrect." I can log in as
> my normal user account, then su root. But I can't log into root
> directly. This only happened since I used the bootdisk to upgrade
> the packages.
>
> Can someone please help, I'm very frustrated. Thanks.
Make sure the terminals you wish to log into are listed in the file
/etc/securetty. If this is the root of your problem, my guess is that
it is due to this feature of Mandrake install where you can specify
security levels during install which enable and disable certain
features. But that is kind of a guess since I don't use Mandrake
personally.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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