Linux-Misc Digest #333, Volume #26 Fri, 17 Nov 00 22:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Identd Problems (Mark Post)
User identification problem
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Henry_Barta)
Re: Configuring printer from text UI - RH6.1 (TopQuark)
Re: errors in /var/log/messages (TopQuark)
Re: Bloatware (John Hasler)
What's up with Red Hat online? (Christopher Wong)
dosemu: can't exit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
two mice with linux? (Giuseppe Milicia)
Re: Bloatware (Kevin Croxen)
Mount ufs (Solaris) Hard Disk on Storm Linux 2000 Server ("news.telus.net")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Christopher Friesen)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Identd Problems
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:16:22 GMT
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:28:01 -0500, "Nate Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> This is a problem that plagues me during my IRC sessions. I cannot
>connect to particular irc servers (particularly EFnet servers.) I get the
>infamous (~[EMAIL PROTECTED] - please install identd) error from the
>server. I'm running RH7, using DHCP, and I've installed identd 3 again to
>make sure it's there. EFnet has been one of the most worthless irc n'works
>out there lately (thanks to the script kiddies) - and the only server I can
>get a connection on is irc.emory.edu, and that's usually lagged for some
>reason. Anyone with insight, your advice will be appreciated greatly, tnx.
Are you running behind an IP masqueraded firewall? If so, you will need to
run a version of identd that supports that. There are several that can be
found at http://freshmeat.net.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: User identification problem
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:19:02 GMT
I'm using Mandrake, a distribution with which I've had no real problems, until
now. For some reason, when i log in as a user other than root, the shell
prompt cannot get that user's name, and substitutes 'I have no name!' instead.
'whoami' gets the response 'Cannot find username for UID 505'.
I recently cleared some services from runlevel 3 that were unnecessary (I
hope), something I've done before with no problems. I get the same response
in runlevel 5. I've been doing a few other things with config scripts round
and about, so it's difficult for me to lock down exactly where I've brought
this upon myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Chris
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From: Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 18 Nov 2000 00:28:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (I agree that if 'ping' works, then everuything else should
> too. After I get through with this, I'll put the old card back
> in and see if things still work.)
'Old' card still works. results from 'netstat -rn' and 'ifconfig' are:
[root@pswin /root]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.100.100 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
[root@pswin /root]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:30:63:D6
inet addr:192.168.100.100 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:15 Base address:0xe000
> [hbarta@pswin hbarta]$ netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
> 207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 192.168.100.100 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 lo
> 192.168.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 207.229.129.252 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
> [hbarta@pswin hbarta]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 45:C4:45:C4:45:C4
> inet addr:192.168.100.100 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:15 Base address:0x9000
I have another question. I have vague recollections about having
to specify exactly which Ethernet was being used. These were
(if my fading memery serves...) 802.3, DIX ??? Are these
relavent? I suspect that everything is 802.3 these days.
Anyway, the difference between these two setups is the cards
and the driver. With the old card, the default driver loads
and works. With the new card, the driver (tulip.o) fails to
load at boot time and I load pci-scan and tulip modules by hand
and then start the network by running:
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start'
And the old card works.
--
Hank Barta White Oak Software Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Predictable Systems by Design.(tm)
Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TopQuark)
Subject: Re: Configuring printer from text UI - RH6.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:42:15 GMT
Do you have Magicfilter or apsfilter installed? Ghostscript?
Try adding something like this into /etc/lilo.conf:
append="lp=0x378,0"
and re-run lilo! What lp related messages are there on boot-up?
(dmesg, and /var/log/messages)
Can you cat a file directly as root?
Is lpd running? (lpq)
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:18:20 -0500, Sylvain Drapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way...
>
> I'm trying to cat a file directly to the parallel port and it does not do a
> thing. Maybe that helps.
>
> "Sylvain Drapeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
> HrdR5.1250$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Thanks for responding...
> >
> > lsmod tells me parport-probe, parport and lp are loaded, but still can't
> do
> > a thing with this printer (IBM QW2) using lp0 or lp1.
> >
> > What kind of other details do you need?
> >
> > Sylvain Drapeau
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > "TopQuark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:00:59 -0500, Sylvain Drapeau
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to configure a dot matrix printer on a RH6.1 machine from
> the
> > > > text UI (no GUI installed). My printcap's OK, my parallel port is
> > working
> > > > (tried from DOS) but Linux gives me a "lpr: connect: Connection
> refused"
> > > > message...
> > > > I heard somewhere I could insmod the parallel port... is this a usual
> > > > practice or should I look elsewhere?
> > >
> > > Assuming it's not a Winprinter ...
> > >
> > > My system loads modules automatically when I try to use a device. Are
> > > you sure your's isn't already loaded? lsmod lists the modules
> > > curently installed. insmod lp ought to load the parallel module,
> > > assuming it's not already installed or compiled into the kernel.
> > >
> > > Try both /dev/lp0 and lp1; it seems to be a toss-up as to which gets
> > > used.
> > >
> > > It would help us to help you if you told us some more details.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TopQuark)
Subject: Re: errors in /var/log/messages
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:49:59 GMT
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:54:04 +0100, Claus Atzenbeck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was watching my /var/log/messages after startup. I recognized that there
> are some problems. This is the part of it:
>
> kdm[1212]: can't execute "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup" (err 2)
> PAM_unix[1209]: (system-auth) session opened for user one by (uid=0)
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000
If you don't use that stuff, alias it to "off". /etc/modules.conf
(conf.modules?):
# Uncomment the network protocols you don't want loaded:
# alias net-pf-2 off # IPv4
alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-4 off # IPX
alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk
alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bloatware
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:29:15 GMT
Harlan Grove writes:
> Are the application CDs included with many distros really part of the
> distros?
In the case of Debian, yes. Everything in main is part of the
distribution.
> Since it's possible to get a single CD for most distros from Linux Mall
> or similar sites, and these single CDs include enough to install workable
> systems, I'd say the application CDs aren't really part of the distro.
You can get the Debian base system onto ten floppies, but that doesn't mean
that all the other thousands of Debian packages are not part of Debian.
Single Debian CD's are subsets.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Wong)
Subject: What's up with Red Hat online?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:53:25 GMT
I've not had much luck with Red Hat's web nor news server recently. I
went to their solutions database form at
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/
but could not get any hits from their search engine. Throughout the
week, I tried obvious terms like "eide", "gcc" and "kernel": every time,
I got back a "no hits on <term>" message. I emailed Red Hat's webmaster
and also posted a question on news.redhat.com, but got no response. The
redhat.* newsgroups do not even seem to have any traffic.
Does anyone know what's going on at Red Hat?
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dosemu: can't exit
Date: 18 Nov 2000 01:28:45 GMT
I've started trying to get dosemu working under
RH6.1, a dual-boot box with Win95 OSR2. (dosemu-0.99.13). From info in
the howto, I set up /var/lib/dosemu/bootdir with:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 17 10:11 acad -> /Windows_95/acad10/acad.exe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 221 Nov 17 09:49 bootlog.prv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 221 Nov 17 10:12 bootlog.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 17 09:22 comman.com -> /Windows_95/command.com
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 17 09:26 command.com -> /Windows_95/command.com
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 17 09:29 dos -> /Windows_95/windows/command
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 17 09:26 io.sys -> /Windows_95/io.sys
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 17 09:27 msdos.sys -> /Windows_95/msdos.sys
Typing 'dos' from a "Kolsole" prompt brings up a dos window, in
this case the Win95 boot menu; I press '6' (command prompt only), don't
know what would happen if it was let go through the 30 second countdown
toward booting Win95. Typing 'exit' or exitemu' has no effect (other than
"Bad command or file name". Has anyone set up dosemu this way, and got
exit or exitemu to work instead of having to kill the process?
I still haven't got much working beyond this, for example the link
to acad doesn't work at all, gives the same result as 'exitemu'. 'path'
gives:
C:\>path
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
although to get a 'command' directory command to work requires typing the
full path, i.e., dos\edit runs 'edit' ok.
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From: Giuseppe Milicia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: two mice with linux?
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:31:22 +0100
Hi everyone,
Is it actually possible to have to working mice with Linux?
I've got a laptop and I'd like to have both external mouse (serial) and
trackpoint (seen as a Ps/2 mouse) to work at the same time...
Normally I have /dev/mouse pointing to either of them.
Any ideas?
-- Giuseppe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Bloatware
Date: 18 Nov 2000 01:41:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler wrote:
>Kevin Croxen writes:
>> Or if not, he may decide to switch to one of the much leaner distros like
>> Debian, Slack, Peanut,...
>
>If by 'lean' you mean 'offers fewer packages', you need to take Debian off
>that list. We presently have more than 5000 packages.
>--
>John Hasler
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Dancing Horse Hill
>Elmwood, Wisconsin
No, actually by "lean" I mean "can keep the disk footprint of the install
trimmed down to a reduced size if necessary without having to slog
package-by-package through an install configurator that is determined to
provide a default minimum installation of somewhere between 2 Gigabytes
and the total disk capacity of the state of Wyoming, mostly of stuff that
the newer user is likely to be completely unaware of and probably won't
need for some time, if at all." :) (Okay, maybe slightly exaggerated...)
I certainly did not intend to imply, nor do I believe for a moment that a
distro like Debian lacks packages or is not as feature-rich as other
distros; only that it may be easier to keep Debian or Slack or similar
installations small by default or when the user wishes to than it is with
some of the other distros, and that the user may then quite easily add
what he needs later, when he figures out what it actually is that he
needs, and why he needs it.
All the best,
--Kevin
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From: "news.telus.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mount ufs (Solaris) Hard Disk on Storm Linux 2000 Server
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:30:56 -0800
Help!
Can anyone shed some light on a problem I have. I just recently bought a
copy of Storm Linux 2000 (and love it!) in order to replace a Solaris box
that had been hacked into.
My question is: how can I mount the old Solaris disk in the new server? The
new machine is all setup, including TCP_Wrappers for security :), and I've
installed the old SCSI hard disk into the new machine on it's own SCSI card
(the new machine is using IDE). The old SCSI disk is recognized by the Storm
Linux 2000 OS but when I try mounting it, using the following command:
mount -t ufstype=sunx86 /dev/sda1 /mnt/old
I get the following error:
"fs type ufstype=sunx86 not supported by kernel"
I've also tried various versions of the command, including adding the
following line to the /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/old ufs defaults 1 1
but I get the same error message. I was told by Stormix Tech Support that
Storm Linux 2000 supports the Solaris file system (ufs), but where do I go
from here? Any help would be greatly appreciated as we need to get to the
old hard disk to copy crucial files onto the new hard disk.
BTW, the following server bootup info shows that the SCSI controller card
(AHA-294x) and hard disk (Seagate ST39173LW) are actually recognized by the
OS and assigned to device sda1:
============
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>found at PCI 0/16/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO)
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 422 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173LW Rev: 6246
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783240 [8683 MB] [8.7
GB]
sda: sda1
============
Thanks.
Steve
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From: Christopher Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:29:12 -0500
Henry_Barta wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Christopher Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [... excellent description]
>
> > Basically, that should do it.
>
> But what if it doesn't? At that point, I can ping other hosts
> on the LAN but inbound and outbound TCP connections (ftp and
> telnet) simply hang.
This is not a driver issue, but rather a configuration issue. I have
had this exact problem, but for the life of me I can't remember what it
was.
It is simply a matter of exactly what is being set up for the old card
by the kernel on startup versus what is being set up for the new one
manually. The two configurations are obviously slightly different,
enough to cause problems.
Some possibilities:
-DNS isn't working properly and ftp/telnet are blocking on hostname
lookup
-the extra "lo" interface when comparing the old to the new outputs from
ifconfig is causing problems
-can you telnet to localhost and 127.0.0.1? if not, this further points
to a configuration problem
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