Linux-Misc Digest #898, Volume #25 Fri, 29 Sep 00 17:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here (Michael Mitchell)
Re: install modem device? (John Forkosh)
Re: soyo 5EHM eteq chipset: CRAP ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: adding hard disk (John Forkosh)
soyo and linux woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: /dev/rmt directory (-ljl-)
Re: How to use XCDRoast to burn iso's (Dances With Crows)
Re: How to make boot disk on LS120? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Where to put Lilo (John Thompson)
Re: long filenames in RH (andi smart)
Re: Disabling directory browsing/listings in Apache (andi smart)
"Failed to load module" errors after XFree 4.01 upgrade from RH 6.2 to RH 7.0
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Installing RedHat Linux 6.2 ("Martin")
How to install and dual boot 2 Linux distros ? (John Robson)
Linux Advisory Watch - September 29th 2000 (Dave Wreski)
Should I jump into Linux? (Andrew)
Re: Should I jump into Linux? ("Jan Schaumann")
Portmap not reading hosts.allow and hosts.deny? ("Kris Kelley")
Problem on Mylex Acceleraid 250 (Rohan Oberoi)
Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that? (JCA)
networking question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP, DataBook Card reader (futurebots)
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:34:36 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> > speeds (~60MB/s on my 608/128 DSL connection).
> :> I really doubt you got ~60 MB/s on a DSL connection.
> : Why? I was getting 89K from ftp.lame.org on our 784K SDSL link.
>
> 60MB/s would be a 480 megabit connection. That would cost a few hundred
> thousand dollars a month ... not to mention that their FTP server could
> never distribute the data that fast.
>
Enuf already, I misread their 60MB as 60KB and wondered why anyone
thought that not possible.
As you can see from my responses 89K reference it was a simple
typo/misreading.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: Re: install modem device?
Date: 29 Sep 2000 17:48:08 GMT
Wang, Xiaoguang\(Freeman\) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi
: How to set up a modem in Linux?
: The problem is I haven't a /dev/modem entry in my system. How to build it?
: To run minicom, do I just need to create a file with name /dev/modem? Or is
: there a special software?
: I read some HOWTOs, but could find the direct solution.
: Thanks for help.
: Xiaoguang
As root, run
minicom -s
and go to the
Serial port setup
selection on the displayed menu.
Then use /dev/ttyS0 if your modem is on com1,
or /dev/ttyS1 for com2, etc. Or you can
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem
if your modem is on com1, etc. But then make
sure the "Serial port setup" on minicom -s
is actually pointing to /dev/modem.
By the way, the "File transfer protocols" menu
on minicom -s seems to have a spurious -E switch
on choice D (for the rz download option). Remove
that switch, or rz's don't work.
Actually, I should say that this -E has been
an ongoing problem with Slackware. Maybe other
distributions don't suffer from it. I don't know.
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: soyo 5EHM eteq chipset: CRAP !
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:45:22 GMT
Hello:
I also run the same mother board. I am having problems with X
coming up. I have a ATI ALL IN WONDER 128 card, but it just does not
work with X. I dont know why.
I know that the SOYO EHM mother board has VIA chipset and we have to
install the VIA AGP drivers for the good performance on Windows. But
these drivers are officially available thru VIA/SOYO.
Regarding LINUX, I dont know where to find the modules for this.
Similar problems regarding bus mastering exists.
Any luck in getting this to work.
-Narahari.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: Re: adding hard disk
Date: 29 Sep 2000 18:01:59 GMT
Lodo Nicolino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi am nico.
: I am an old unix man but new to linux.
: I would like to add a second ide hdu to a linux box.
: I am thinking to connect the hdu, do "fdisk /dev/hdb1" and use the "mkfs" or
: "fsconf".
: Is all i need or i have to do something else ?.
Well, first of all, it depends on how your cdrom is set up.
If it's an atapi cdrom, it may already be occupying /hdb.
That is, it's the "slave" device on the first ide controller.
In that case, jumper your new drive as the only drive, and
plug it into the 2nd ide controller. Then it will be /dev/hdc.
Reboot, run fdisk to partition it the way you want, and then
run mke2fs to format the partitions you created with fdisk.
Finally, create some mount points and edit /etc/fstab accordingly.
Now, if there's no second drive on your first ide controller,
then your existing ide drive must be jumpered as the only drive.
Re-jumper it as the master, and jumper your new drive as the
slave. And plug the new drive into the free connecter on
that first cable. Then your new drive will be /dev/hdb
as you expected. Run fdisk and mke2fs as above (but against
The above is a little short on details, but as an old unix pro
you probably get the idea.
/dev/hdb), and edit /etc/fstab accordingly.
: I have another question.
: I support scounix and i would like to start and move some customers to
: linux,
: maybe starting with the software product by my company.
: Is the software running under sco compatible with linux or i need the
: special runtimes (cobol, etc.)?
Well, if it's ansi standard C then it'll port real easy.:)
Your parenthetical cobol remark suggests otherwise, and I
have no idea about that.
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: soyo and linux woes
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:10:15 GMT
Hello:
I also run the SOYO EHM mother board. I am having problems with
X coming up. I have a ATI ALL IN WONDER 128 card, but it just does not
work with X. I dont know why. I have K6-2 400 Mhz cpu.
I know that the SOYO EHM mother board has VIA chipset and we have to
install the VIA AGP drivers for the good performance on Windows. But
these drivers are officially available thru VIA/SOYO.
Regarding LINUX, I dont know where to find the modules for this.
Similar problems regarding bus mastering exists.
Any luck in getting this to work.
-Narahari.
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/rmt directory
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:19:59 GMT
In article <8r2h7t$34s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anybody know when the /dev/rmt directory is created? Is this only
> created when a SCSI device is connected to the system. I am setting
> up a SAN solution using Fiber channels, and did not see the /dev/rmt
> directory on the system. I was still able to tar files to the tape
> drives using /dev/nst0, but did not see the link from /dev/rmt/
> pointing to /dev/nst0.
See "man rmt". (rmt - remote magtape protocol module)
...
Odevice\nmode\n
Open the specified device using the indicated mode. Device is
full pathname and mode is an ASCII representation of a decimal
number suitable for passing to open(2). If a device had already
been opened, it is closed before a new open is performed.
...
[root@lou2]# which rmt
/sbin/rmt
There are "/dev/rmt8" and "/dev/rmt16" but that's for QIC-02 tapes.
Looks like your setup is working
OK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How to use XCDRoast to burn iso's
Date: 29 Sep 2000 18:35:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:02:38 -0700, Eusebio Garate wrote:
>Hello,
>I recently downloaded the Redhat-7.0 iso discs. I am trying to burn CD's
>using XCDRoast but I am not quite sure what to do. After reading various
>HOWTO's and comments in the newsgroups I tried mastering an image of the
>iso first then burned this on the CD. What I got on the CD was not the
>Redhat directory tree but rather the file '7.0-i386-disc1.iso' which is
>what I downloaded. Do I just burn directly the iso file rather than
>writing an image file first?
cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sg0 speed=X redhat-7.0.iso
has always worked fine for me. You already have cdrecord if you can get
Xcdroast to work, merely adjust the dev= and speed= parameters for your
particular device.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How to make boot disk on LS120?
Date: 29 Sep 2000 18:35:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:30:03 -0000, caosdelfantasma wrote:
>now since you got linux to utilize your ls-120...could you tell me how you
>did that exactly....i got a gateway solo 9100(linux compatable, minus the
>trackpad) which uses ls120 as standard floppy....linux doesn't really
>acknowledge it's existance and i'd like to back up some files in case i
>have to wipe my drive again
An LS-120 is really an IDE device, and is recognized as such. You need
the ide-floppy module (standard on every distro I know of) and then you
need to find out which device the LS-120 is connected to. "dmesg |
grep 120" will tell you this info; you'll see something like
hdd: LS-120
which tells you that your LS-120 is on hdd. Then, insert a DOS formatted
LS-120 disk, and enter:
mkdir /mnt/ls120
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt/ls120
The ide-floppy module should load automatically, but if it doesn't, you
may have to issue a "modprobe ide-floppy" before doing this.
If it works, you can create an /etc/fstab entry so that anyone can mount
and umount an LS-120 disk, like so:
/dev/hdd /mnt/ls120 vfat noauto,user 0 0
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where to put Lilo
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:54:16 -0500
"Dennis J. Tuchler" wrote:
> In a dual-boot situation, in which OS2 supplies the boot menu and Linux
> occupies the third, fourth and fifth partitions (second, third and
> fourth logical partitions), where do I put LILO? Is there a boot record
> for each partition or do I just store it in the root directory somewhere
> (where?)?
Install lilo into the boot record of the linux "/" partition. The
OS/2 Boot Manager will live in the MBR. When you select "linux"
from the Boot Manager menu, BM will load lilo and lilo will load
linux.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi smart)
Subject: Re: long filenames in RH
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:16:18 GMT
Thanks to all who replied, solved problem perfectly :)
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:45:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi, Running Red Hat 6.1 as an apache intranet server
>
>Copied across some html files from a windows box using an msdos floppy
>
>Found that they've lost most of their filenames if they were over 8
>characters
>
>I thought that Linux supported long file names? If so how do I get it
>to recognise that?
>
>andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi smart)
Subject: Re: Disabling directory browsing/listings in Apache
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:19:53 GMT
I don't know if this helps, but I posted for a similar problem for our
Intranet server and people suggested putting a blank index.htm file in
the folder, that stopped people seeing the directory listing for us
However I don't know if what you are describing is the same problem or
has the same solution :(
andi
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:30:07 -0000, Richard R. Kaufman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am interested in disabling people who visit my website from browsing my
>directories by going to http://my.server.com/myuser/folder and being able
>to view the contents of the folder if there is no default document in it.
>Can someone tell me what modification I have to make to apache's
>configuration to disable this? Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>Richard R. Kaufman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "Failed to load module" errors after XFree 4.01 upgrade from RH 6.2 to RH 7.0
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:24:37 GMT
Hi... I recently completed a pretty happy and successful upgrade from
Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7.0. It seems ALMOST all of it worked, except that
XFree will no longer start. I am doing a dump of the log file below.
Any assistance would be most appreciated, as right now, I am
essentially stuck doing everything in text mode... Also, could you tell
me if XFree 4.01a is the latest version, or is there something newer?
Does the "a" refer to an older alpha version that somehow shipped with
Redhat 7.0?
My System is using a 21 inch Sony 500 PS Monitor, and an ASUS NVIDIA
TNT2 Ultra Card.
Following is the XFree Log:
==================================================================
XFree86 Version 4.0.1a / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
Release Date: 2 August 2000
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.5-22smp i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Sep 29 11:55:58 2000
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown.
(==) ServerLayout "XFree86 Configured"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "GDM-500PS"
(**) | |-->Device "nVidia Corporation|Riva TnT2 Ultra [NV5]"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100"
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(--) using VT number 7
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.2
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.1
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap
(II) UnloadModule: "bitmap"
(EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata
(II) UnloadModule: "pcidata"
(EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0)
Fatal server error:
Unable to load required base modules, Exiting...
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please reports problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==================================================================
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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RedHat Linux 6.2
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:33:35 +0200
Hi.
I'm having a problem installing Linux RedHat 6.2.
In short, all the installation seems to go fine, but afterwards, when the
system is rebooting, it hangs and says:
In swapper mode.
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill idle task.
I have tried doing everything again. I've written over LILO by reinstalling
windows (are there any other way to do this?), and reinstalled RedHat. I've
tried to make patitions with Partition Magic first, then install Linux
again, and I've tried to let the installation program take care of all the
partitions. I've even tried to install the partitionless installation, when
you put the linux files onto a FAT32 disk. Every time the same thing
happens. It comes exactly to the same place every time.
Is it possible that there are a hardware conflikt somewhere?
It seems to me that there is something left over from the first installation
that isn't removed by reinstall... Can this be possible?
I've tried to boot from the boot disk, but the exactly same thing happens.
Can anyone help med with this?
--
Balrog
Hi.
I'm having a problem installing Linux RedHat 6.2.
In short, all the installation seems to go fine, but afterwards, when the
system is rebooting, it hangs and says:
In swapper mode.
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill idle task.
I have tried doing everything again. I've written over LILO by reinstalling
windows (are there any other way to do this?), and reinstalled RedHat. I've
tried to make patitions with Partition Magic first, then install Linux
again, and I've tried to let the installation program take care of all the
partitions. I've even tried to install the partitionless installation, when
you put the linux files onto a FAT32 disk. Every time the same thing
happens. It comes exactly to the same place every time.
Is it possible that there are a hardware conflikt somewhere?
It seems to me that there is something left over from the first installation
that isn't removed by reinstall... Can this be possible?
I've tried to boot from the boot disk, but the exactly same thing happens.
Can anyone help med with this?
--
Balrog
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Robson)
Subject: How to install and dual boot 2 Linux distros ?
Date: 29 Sep 2000 19:48:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Robson)
I have one 20 gb disk partitioned as follows :
1. /boot, 30 mb, Linux, non-dos, boot partition, set active
2. 2 gb primary dos, fat32, for Windows 2000 install
3. 17 gb, extended : 10 gb for Win2k apps, 7 gb for Linux / and /swap
How do I install two different Linux distributions (e.g. Mandrake and Suse)
and add the two to Lilo menu ? (Note: I don't put lilo on mbr but on a
/boot partition).
Should I create two Linux roots, /root1 and /root2, and use the same /swap ?
Then, I would have to tell each distro to install to /root1 and root2
respectively, then install its lilo on the same /boot, and finally after
the second distro is installed, I would have to manually edit lilo.conf
to point each distro to the right root ?
What's the approach to installing two different distributions and dual
booting them ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Wreski)
Subject: Linux Advisory Watch - September 29th 2000
Date: 29 Sep 2000 16:29:22 -0500
Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the
security vulnerabilities that have been announced throughout the week. It
includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each
vulnerability.
This week, advisories were released for esound, lprng, sysklogd, xpdf,
imp/horde, mod_rewrite, and catopen(). The vendors include Apache,
Caldera, Mandrake, FreeBSD, and Conectiva. It is critical that you update
all vulnerable packages. Syslogd continues to be a problem on most
systems. Last week, eight vendors released fixes to this problem. Please
refer to last weeks newsletter for additional information on syslogd.
Perhaps one of the more serious advisories released this week is the LPRng
format string vulnerability outlined by Caldera. In the LPRng printer
daemon there is a format bug that could potentially be exploited to gain
root access. This is particularly severe because it can be exercised
remotely.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/vuln-newsletter.html
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Should I jump into Linux?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:30:03 -0000
I am looking for any advice and wisdom people have about 'an average Joe'
installing Linux on a home machine. I'm an applied math graduate student,
and I use my computer quite a bit. Like most folks I use the web and e-
mail, but I also write papers using Word and use Telnet and FTP to access
and utilize Matlab from home. I don't do any programming, except
mathematical programming using Matlab.
-I've read and watched all the excitement about Linux, and I'm wondering
what advantages installing Linux would offer to someone like me?
-I'm a TA, and I have to use a Unix spreadsheet program called Xess. My
Microsoft spreadsheet program doesn't seem to be compatible. Is there a
Linux equivalent that is freely availble that would be compatible to Xess?
-Is most Linux software free? More specifically, I have to write my
thesis using LaTex. Is there a Linux version of Tex that is free?
The bottom line, is that I'm not a Windows hater or Windows lover.
I use my computer as a tool to get information and get my work done.
Would Linux be a good step for me to take?
Thanks for any help you could give me....Andrew
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I jump into Linux?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:43:07 -0400
In our last episode, "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I am looking for any advice and wisdom people have about 'an average
> Joe' installing Linux on a home machine. I'm an applied math graduate
> student, and I use my computer quite a bit. Like most folks I use the
> web and e- mail, but I also write papers using Word and use Telnet and
> FTP to access and utilize Matlab from home. I don't do any
> programming, except mathematical programming using Matlab.
>
> -I've read and watched all the excitement about Linux, and I'm wondering
>
> what advantages installing Linux would offer to someone like me?
> -I'm a TA, and I have to use a Unix spreadsheet program called Xess. My
>
> Microsoft spreadsheet program doesn't seem to be compatible. Is there a
> Linux equivalent that is freely availble that would be compatible to
> Xess?
Generally, *any* unix-program will also run on Linux. I don't know xess,
but http://freshmeat.net/projects/xess/ tells me it is for Linux as well.
I usually use gnuermic for spreadsheets on Linux, tho.
> -Is most Linux software free? More specifically, I have to write my
> thesis using LaTex. Is there a Linux version of Tex that is free?
>
Almost *all* software for Linux is free. If it isn't, you can most likely
find a program of equal quality that *is* free. And Linux does, of course,
come with LaTeX on most installations, as well as LyX (a graphical
front-end to LaTeX).
> The bottom line, is that I'm not a Windows hater or Windows lover.
>
> I use my computer as a tool to get information and get my work done.
> Would Linux be a good step for me to take?
Linux would be an excellent step for you to take - especially for the
scientific student you will be able to appreciate the way Linux
andLinux-software works.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we
are not the person involved. -- Mark Twain
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From: "Kris Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Portmap not reading hosts.allow and hosts.deny?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:52:22 -0500
I'm trying to prep a linux box to be an NFS server. The machine is running
Red Hat 6.2, so far with little modification; the kernel, version 2.2.14,
hasn't been tampered with at all.
According to the NFS HOWTO, the first step in getting a semi-secure NFS
server up and running is to make sure portmap is running and behaving
itself. Following the HOWTO's instructions, I ran the strings command on
the portmap executable, to see if the names of the host permissions files
turned up. Both "/etc/hosts.allow" and /etc/hosts.deny" show up in the
executable, so I am assuming I have a version of portmap that uses these
files. In fact, the hosts.deny file has a comment about portmap using the
permissions files.
However, when I put "portmap: ALL" in the hosts.deny file, and then ran
"rpcinfo -p" locally, the list of available RPC programs and ports was
displayed. According to the HOWTO, I should have seen nothing at all,
except maybe an error message. Killing and restarting portmap did not help;
neither did rebooting the machine.
Both /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are owned by root:root and have
644 permissions.
I'd like to know why portmap is apparently ignoring the permissions files,
or if there is something else I am overlooking. This will be my first time
setting up an NFS server, and I'm being extremely paranoid about it. Thanks
for any help!
---Kris Kelley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rohan Oberoi)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem on Mylex Acceleraid 250
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:52:00 GMT
If you've run a similar setup and might know why this isn't working,
I'd appreciate hearing from you (if replying by email, please remove
TAKETHISOUT from my address...)
I have a Mylex Acceleraid 250 working very nicely in a Redhat 6.2
system. The problem is that, after installing Linux (/ and /boot
partitions) I installed DOS on the third RAID partition
(/dev/rd/c0d0p3) which I had kept aside for that purpose. I have LILO
configured with:
other=/dev/rd/c0d0p3
label=dos
When I boot the system from a DOS 6.22 floppy, this partition is seen
fine as C:, and I was able to run "format /s" on it without a problem,
and verify that command.com, msdos.sys, and io.sys appeared. I also
ran "fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0" from Linux and verified that the bootable
flag was set on the partition.
However, when I tell LILO: to boot "dos", it says "Loading dos" and
then complains "Non-system disk or disk error". I'm not sure if this
is a Linux, DOS or bios error causing this...
Thanks for any suggestions...
Rohan.
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux,redhat.misc
Subject: Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:37:48 -0700
As other posters have already told you, this is normal. Now
I've got Linux on a laptop that I turn on and off at least twice a
day. Eventually I got fed up with this and increased the maximum
mount count from its default 20 to 100 (or so.)
If you want to do this use the tune2fs tool. Caveat: Read its man
page through before attempting anything.
TM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sometimes getting this kind of error at boot time:
>
> /dev/drive_id has reached maximum mount count check forced
>
> what's that and how do I fix it?
>
> Thanks
>
> TM
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Subject: networking question
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:52:16 GMT
I've got Linux Mandrake running beside my Win98SE box. They are
connected via a hub. The problem is that it takes over a minute to
connect to the linux box, using either FTP or telnet.
This is a new installation, and I don't think my old installation did
that. I think it connected immediately.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? It drives me crazy waiting. I can't
even use the Windows FTP program for a quick transfer of something
because it times out before the the linux box responds.
Thanks for any help.
--Michael
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Subject: HELP, DataBook Card reader
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:04:29 -0700
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I have a DataBook Card reader Part # 9453002, this is a 2 slot unit that
fits a ISA slot, how do I read and write to the
cards? Is there software for this reader?
Thanks !!
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