Linux-Misc Digest #185, Volume #26 Mon, 30 Oct 00 12:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Which mail server (Robert Clayton)
Re: after recompiling kernel boot errors (Neil)
Re: Suddenly, no Inet... ("Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS")
Recompiling the kernel for a 386 machine (mike)
Re: Newbie can connect to ISP but not browse... (jeff)
Installing Mandrake 7.1 with Windows ME (John)
squid (walter)
Re: Installing Linux in 4Mb RAM?? (mike)
Re: Win98 shutting down screen ("Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS")
Re: daylight savings. (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Newbie: Upgrading RPM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: INIT: No more process left in this runlevel (Eric)
htpasswd and password validation (Evelio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?=)
Text console on serial port ??? ("Falcon")
Re: raidstop ?? (Benoit Patry)
SuSE Terminal Emulator hangs ("gina")
Re: boot sector virus after installation?!? (Derek Jolly)
Corporate email help ("Phil Labonte")
Re: Linux SMP Lock at boot with Epox KP6-BS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: silly question: clock (Stephen Marotta)
How to find empty directories? ("Retro Grouch")
Re: Corporate email help ("Diehard Duck")
Re: How to find empty directories? (Warren Jones)
Re: How to find empty directories? (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
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From: Robert Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which mail server
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:58:24 -0500
Thanks,
Robert
John Thompson wrote:
>
> Robert Clayton wrote:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a good mail server for linux? It should provide
> > both IMAP and POP services. Any experiences you can relate to the
> > software would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Go to http://freshmeat.net and search for "imap." This package
> supports virtually all available mail protocols, not merely imap.
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
Robert Clayton - System Administrator - ACTiX
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be
happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: after recompiling kernel boot errors
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:12:58 +0000
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 03:47:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:06: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
>dev 03:06 blksize-1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
>EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
>FAT bread failed
yuck. Sounds horribly like you didn't compile ext2 fs into your kernel.
Basically it can't find and or read /boot
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From: "Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suddenly, no Inet...
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:20:14 -0600
You need to set the default route to the IP address of the Pipeline and add
your ISP's DNS servers to your DNS search list. If you are using RedHat you
can use linuxconfig and set the DNS under name server specifacations and you
default route under Sets Default.
"Ross M. Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The LAN is connected to an ISDN Pipeline which provides the access.
Again,
> when the dual boot is running WIN98, no probs -- so I know the hardware
> works....
>
> "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Does the LAN include some kind of a gateway (firewall, IP masquerade
> > configuration, etc) that connects to the Internet? If not, does the
machine
> > in question have an eth1 that connects?
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:26:45 -0500,
> > Ross M. Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I had a hard disk crash, got a new disk, reinstalled Corel Linux and
all
> is
> > > back together, except no Internet access.
> > >
> > > I can ping within my network but I can't seem to go out to the Inet;
no
> pings
> > > go off it. Dual Boot machine with Win98 and through it, no probs:
only on
> the
> > > Linux side of things. I do an ifconfig eth0 192.168.100.5 on startup,
but
> I
> > > simply can't figure out where to go from here.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? What am I forgetting?
> > >
> > > (DNS and gateways set properly)
> > >
> > > TIA..
> > >
> > > Ross
> > >
> > >
>
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recompiling the kernel for a 386 machine
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:26:58 GMT
Hi
I installed Redhat 6.1 on a Pentium 166 machine and I moved the hard
drive to a machine that has a NexGen "586" chip in it. The Linux won't
run on it.
I got kernel panic. I forget the exact message, but it gave me the
impression that the Linux Redhat 6.1 would run, if I recompiled the
kernel for a 386 type machine.
I am not sure what has to be done. Do I just have to recompile the
kernel and copy the kernel into the /boot directory of the NexGen
machine or do I have to recompile all the modules also
and copy them in to the appropriate directories ?
Somewhere I heard that the way Redhat installs a system, is that it
detects the processor and has copys of different kernels on the cd that
are optimized for that processor which
it installs in the particular system. Is that true. If so then it wold
make sense that the Linux version that was installed on my Pentium 166
would not work on a machine with a 386 like chip.
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Subject: Re: Newbie can connect to ISP but not browse...
Date: 30 Oct 2000 15:28:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:05:32 GMT, zakath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recently completed the RH6.2 install (semi) successfully. During the
> installation process I chose the server install because I want to be able to
> use this machine as an FTP server and such and as far as I could tell from
> the documentation the Workstation install left out some networking
> capability which I may want. My problem is I can connect to my ISP via KPPP
> (I have KDE installed) with no problems but when I bring up Netscape or any
> mail client I just get an error message stating some like 'can't resolve
> hostname' or something to that effect (I'm not at that PC now so I'm not
> sure of the exact working of the message). During the installation I chose
> DHCP and didn't specify any IP/Gateway/DNS entries so I'm assuming this is
> likely part of my problem. Can anyone point me to some good info on the
> RH6.2 server install and network configuration?
You need to specify DNS adresses - get 'em from your ISP. You may also need
to include a gateway address. Your ISP can tell you that also.
> In addition - where do I configure my user priveleges, the non-root user I
> created during the install process doesn't have privelege to do much. Where
> can I find some 'standard' settings for non-root admin? I'm doing most of
> the package installations/configuration as root but I would like to use
> another user if possible.
Investigate the "su" and "sudo" commands.
> Sorry if these questions are vague - I'm new to Linux...but having a good
> time learning.
Good luck!
-jeff
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Mandrake 7.1 with Windows ME
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:30:03 -0000
I am running Windows Millennium Edition.
When I tried to install Mandrake 7.1 I got the message :-
This program runs in MS-DOS mode (real mode) which this version of Windows
does not support. You can attempt to run this program in MS-DOS windows as
follows:-
Right-click the icon for the program, click Properties, click OK, and then
click YES in the dialog that appears
I tried this but got another message saying that there was some kind of
error in the file.
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From: walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: squid
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:30:04 -0000
I have just been through a 9 month dual with my Suse linux system
to dial the internet. Now I want to proxy. Squid appears to
be on my system but my books instructions weren't very good and
it doesn't appear to be working. Anyone have a step by step
proc on this?
--
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux in 4Mb RAM??
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:31:07 GMT
Hi All,
I put "Pygmy" Linux on a 4mb 486 Compaq laptop.
It comes on maybe 7 floppys. So far I have not got the
X windows function to work. On laptops I understand that
it could be a more difficult problem because of their internal
graphics chip. It does, so far, work well in the Bash shell.
It is available at http://pygmy.penguin.cz
Mike
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From: "Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 shutting down screen
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:29:49 -0600
Goto the windows update site download all the fixes. One of the fixes is for
drive map and shut down problem that will fix your problem.
In the future post Windows questions to Windows News groups, they will be
more tolerant of Windows questions.
"George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Windows 98 SE the screen that comes up & says "windows is shuting down",
> well that screen never goes to "it is safe to turn off computer" I've
> changed HD, Memory & also reloaded win98, that fixed it for a day. I left
> it on all night with screen saver and it was locked in morning then did
> hard power off and back on, ran scandisk (no problems found) but now this
> shutdown screen doesn't go out. If I turn it off and back on it seems like
> it was shut off properly because it does not come up and run scandisk.
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: daylight savings.
Date: 30 Oct 2000 16:37:15 +0100
In article <8tk0qo$5ud$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Samuel Irlapati wrote:
>Is there a way to change the time automatically for daylight savings for
>Linux? I had to swallow my pride and boot into windoze98 to get the right
>time. I know there is also a Unix command to change time. Does anyone know
>what is that command?
>
>
Install a NTP (Network Time Protocol) deamon. It updates/corrects your
clock as soon as you are on-line.
/A
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Andreas K�h�ri, Uppsala University, Sweden
========================================================================
"If you leave now, you're going to miss the real experience."
-- Richard M. Stallman, Stockholm 1986. Visit www.gnu.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Newbie: Upgrading RPM
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:27:26 GMT
Hi,
I am relatively new to Linux and need help upgrading RPM on Red Hat 6.1
I currently have 3.0.4 and want to upgrade because I get a message that
I can't install rpm's with major version numbers over 3. So, I guess I
can't use RPM itself to upgrade to RPM 4.0, so I downloaded the tar.gz
verison. When I try to install these I get a new message every time
about some other library, tool I need - e.g., shared libraries,
something called db3, which in turn asks me for 5 other things I
need, a couple other tools....
Granted, I'm new to Linux, but this seems ridiculously complicated just
to upgrade from 3 to 4. Am I missing something here?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Sebatien
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: INIT: No more process left in this runlevel
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:43:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jack wrote:
>
> I found out that few lines were missing from /etc/inittab
> 1:2345:respawn ...........mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn ...........mingetty tty2
> .....................................................
> 6:2345:respawn ...........mingetty tty6
>
> Editing the /etc/inittab file and adding the above worked.
> However each time I ran Xconfigurator, the system fails.
> Just before restart I will check /etc/inittab only to find that
> the above have been deleted again. If I don't run Xconfigurator,
> my linux is fine (INIT 3). Later on I was getting errors such as
> the system is full. ie I couldn't append /etc/inittab anymore
> "df" command revealed that my root dir / had 141MB used
> out of a total of 141MB. Under normal circumstance its 17MB
> out of 141MB used. What's caused it to grow to this size?
>
> My 2.5GB Linux partition consists of /, /var, /usr, /users and
> 120MB SWAP.
>
> -- > Jack wrote:
> > >
> > > After an unsuccessful attempt to configure X on my Toshiba laptop X
> > > using Xconfigutor, I now have: (and the system stops at this error)
> > >
> > > INIT: No more process left in this runlevel
> > >
> > > Rebooting with Linux 2, 3, 4 and 5 produce the same result.
> > > The system stops at the above error without a login prompt.
> > > I can boot with linux 1, what can I do from here.
> > > If its the /etc/inittab what need to edited or corrected.
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance
> >
> > post the content of /etc/inittab
> >
> > Eric
It's really bizarre that Xconfigurator does this to your inittab!!
I would not use it anymore
I really can't tell from here why / is filled.
What does du / show? (If it's a lot, go in steps: du -bks /* shows
largest dir, proceed from there)
Eric
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From: Evelio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: htpasswd and password validation
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:47:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I have configured apache to use .htaccess.
I use htpasswd to create users and passwd.
Now I want the user to change his/her password.
How can I validate the passwd string against the encrypted passwd
in .htaccess file ?
Any suggestion,HOWTO, FAQ?
Thanks in advance
Evelio
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From: "Falcon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Text console on serial port ???
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:22:45 +0100
Hi ,
I'm traing to put a text console attached to serial port , I'm traing to
use lilo.conf parameters and kernel command line , but it don't work .
Any suggestion
Thanks
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From: Benoit Patry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: raidstop ??
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:03:58 -0500
Benoit Patry wrote:
> Hi ! (sorry for ny english)
>
> I work with RAID on multiple partition.
> I use two disks ide and redhat 7.0
>
> They are my partition config
>
> md0 for /boot (hda1,hdc1)
> md1 for /swap (hda6,hdc6)
> md2 for /var (hda5,hdc5)
> md3 for / (hda7,hdc7)
>
> I would like stop my raid on comand line ( not with shotdown )
> But when i use command (raidstop /dev/mdx)
> I have wrong message device are busy
>
> I use umount command and i have similar message.
>
> Is-it possible stop my raid ?
>
> What are good methode ?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "gina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SuSE Terminal Emulator hangs
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:21:59 +0800
Hi all,
I have just installed the SuSE Personal. Problem is, whenever I activated
the Terminal emulator, the system hangs. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Gina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Jolly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: boot sector virus after installation?!?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:21:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (gina), in message
<8th6s1$r3v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
>Hi,
>
>I'm a newbie in Linux, pls help.
>
>I have just installed SuSE Linux on a partition in my WINNT4.0 Server
>harddisk. LILO was installed on a floopy to boot Linux from there.
>Installation has completed successfully.
>
>However, when I tried to boot to Linux for the first time, the system
>prompted a boot sector virus and prevented me from going further. No
>virus information was provided. I'm not sure if this is a CMOS message
>or Linux message, but a funny sound was played from the system.
It's a false alarm. What's happened here is that when installing Linux
you installed LILO to the master boot record of your hard disc (which is
fine, and what you want to do). Your BIOS, in its stupidity, has
detected this as a boot-sector virus.
Switch off virus warnings in your BIOS.
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From: "Phil Labonte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Corporate email help
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:31:51 GMT
Hello all,
I work for a small company of approx 70 employees, we plan to grow to about
200 in the next year.
What kind of linux solutions are there for email? We want to host our own
email internally, right now we use our isp.
I checked and for Microsoft Exchange it would cost us about 10000$ in
licenses and hardware. What are some Linux solutions that would work with
our small company?
Thanks for your help.
Phil Labonte
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux SMP Lock at boot with Epox KP6-BS
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:18:51 -0600
Dan Smith wrote:
>
> I never had this problem before I installed two i550MHz Coppermines in
> my Rev 2 KP6-BS board. Now during bootup of the Linux kernel, it hangs
> at certain places, saying it's waiting on CPU#0. It hangs during
> init'ing my NCR53c8xx card (among other things.) If it doesn't lock
> during boot, the /proc/cpuinfo shows CPU#1 as 0Hz, no info. If I take
> out the second RAM chip (SIEMENS PC100), it will work ok 99% of the
> time. It only happens during boot. If I make it thru kernel load with
> no probs, then I'm fine until the next boot. Is it a card, RAM, CPU, or
> what?
>
> Linux Mandrake 7.1 Kernel 2.2.15
>
> Thanks!
I know that there were problems with the 2.2.15 kernel. Try moving to
the latest 2.2.17 and see what happens. It seems to be rock stable in
almost any situation. I've been using it for a dual PPro for as long as
it has been availble. Also, you might want to check for the latest BIOS
update for your board. That may solve some problems too.
--
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Pete Buelow
-- True believer in any OS other than MS!
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From: Stephen Marotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: silly question: clock
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:45:21 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry if this question is extremely stupid. I have started with linux a
> week ago, and i am very new in this operqative system. The guy that
> helped me is now gone and the clock did not change las saturda with the
> change hour, how can i reset the clock in my desktop?
What I usually do is synchronize my system clock with a local time
server. There are time servers such as time.nist.gov, but I would advise
against using that, as it's one of the big ones and many many machines
much more important than ours are using it to keep the right time. If you
know of a local machine on your network that's got the correct time, you
can run (as root): "rdate -s <server_name>". Hope that helps...
/* Steve */
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From: "Retro Grouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to find empty directories?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:53:09 +0500
I have an automated file cleaner that deletes files older than 3 days in
my network scratch directory. I'm using find -type f -mtime +3 to find
the files; this works great.
My problem is that directories get left behind. I am having a problem
finding empty directories.
Any ideas? I have not found any magical combination of commands that
would produce a list of empty directories.
TIA
--Yan
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From: "Diehard Duck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Corporate email help
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:52:29 -0000
I'm not an advanced user but I think a basic machine such as a standard
pentium with decent memory would do the job. You would need to run
sendmail/exim/equivalent and a pop3 daemon such as GnuPop3d. Then just set
up each user and get DNS pointed to your IP of the server and away you go.
Russ
"Phil Labonte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:XnhL5.19767$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
>
> I work for a small company of approx 70 employees, we plan to grow to
about
> 200 in the next year.
>
> What kind of linux solutions are there for email? We want to host our own
> email internally, right now we use our isp.
>
> I checked and for Microsoft Exchange it would cost us about 10000$ in
> licenses and hardware. What are some Linux solutions that would work with
> our small company?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Phil Labonte
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren Jones)
Subject: Re: How to find empty directories?
Date: 30 Oct 2000 08:53:49 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren Jones)
"Retro Grouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an automated file cleaner that deletes files older than 3 days in
> my network scratch directory. I'm using find -type f -mtime +3 to find
> the files; this works great.
>
> My problem is that directories get left behind. I am having a problem
> finding empty directories.
find . -type d -links 2
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Fluke Corporation | precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Everett, Washington, USA | -- Aldo Leopold
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Subject: Re: How to find empty directories?
Date: 30 Oct 2000 18:03:04 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Retro Grouch wrote:
>I have an automated file cleaner that deletes files older than 3 days in
>my network scratch directory. I'm using find -type f -mtime +3 to find
>the files; this works great.
>
>My problem is that directories get left behind. I am having a problem
>finding empty directories.
>
>Any ideas? I have not found any magical combination of commands that
>would produce a list of empty directories.
>
>TIA
>
>--Yan
$ find / -type d -empty -print
/A
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