Linux-Misc Digest #684, Volume #26 Mon, 1 Jan 01 22:13:02 EST
Contents:
troubles with lilo from rescuedisk (dont know how to handle device 0x00...) (peter
pilsl)
Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (Seth Rothberg)
Re: automatic DNS server detction when connecting to the internet via dialup (John
Hasler)
Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (David)
Re: DIAMOND:STEALTH III 540, 32MB, AGP, SAVAGE4 CHIPSET (John Hanson)
StarOffice 5.2 & JRE 1.3 (J.W. Sargent)
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (Seth Rothberg)
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (Michael Heiming)
Re: 2.4.x supports UDF? (Glitch)
I have trouble mounting CD-ROM again in my Thinkpad! (YY Lee)
Re: Gtk lib location (* Tong *)
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (Seth Rothberg)
unable to mount drive (Sean)
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't get 'rename' command to work! ("Leon Bourassa")
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (Seth Rothberg)
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (Bill Unruh)
Re: unable to mount drive (David)
Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18 (David)
Is nfs incompatible with proper use of a UPS? ("Elliot Gingold")
Problem with suse.com (Joseph Zieniewicz)
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From: peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: troubles with lilo from rescuedisk (dont know how to handle device 0x00...)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:22:39 +0100
I ran into a strange lilo-problem:
I want to dual-boot a win2000 and w98-installation (each on its own
harddisk) and this seems to be unpossible with ms-tools, so I decided to
use lilo. After booting the system with a rescue-disk (suse7.0 and I also
tried suse6.0) I tried to install lilo from a proper lilo.conf to a
formated and mounted minix-floppy and test it.
But I couldnt write lilo.conf, because whenever executing
lilo -C /tmp/lilo.conf
I received the following error:
Sorry, dont know how to handle device 0x001020
(I'm not sure about the exact last 4 digits)
First I thought, my floppy or my harddisks are not recognized or such
thing. I checked the mounts, I checked the boot-messages .. no problem.
So I disabled the 'other'-sections and also the 'boot' and 'map'-line so
there should be no access to all these devices, but the error continues.
I could figure out, which device lilo means, but in my opinion the only
possible explanation is a problem with the ramdisk, where the rescuesystem
is booting from.
Any idea ?
thanx,
peter
ps: my /tmp/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/mnt/lilo.map
linear
delay=50
timeout=50
ramdisk=0
prompt
other=/dev/hda
label=w2k-1
table=/dev/hda
loader=/boot/chain.b
other=/dev/hdc
label=w98
table=/dev/hdc
loader=/boot/chain.b
--
pilsl@
goldfisch.at
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From: Seth Rothberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 22:37:28 GMT
I've been trying to upgrade kernels from 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.18 on a RedHat
6.2 system and have run into 2 problems. One is not a big deal but the
other is a showstopper.
The simple problem first:
2.2.18 does not load my scsi card driver (the aic7xxx) during boot even
though the module is in /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi and modules.conf has the
line "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx". It's not a major deal because insmod
aic7xxx works fine. But it would be nice to have it load automatically so I
could avoid the RedHat New Hardware screen everytime I reboot, which is
happening fairly often as I'm dealing with:
The showstopper:
Trying to load the Roaring Penquin pppoe client causes a very impressive
freeze. I have to reset the machine. I'm using the 2.5 version compiled
from the tar ball. Any clues as to what is going here? Are there fixes
available?
Thanks,
Seth
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: automatic DNS server detction when connecting to the internet via dialup
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:35:36 GMT
Charles M writes:
> Does anyone know if Linux can auto assign DNS address like it does an
> auto IP assignment? You can do it under freeBSD (and Windows), but I've
> never seen it done under Linux.
You mean "dynamic dns", where the ISP sends the DNS numbers during LCP?
Pppd supports this. If you are using Debian just run pppconfig and select
"Dynamic" in the "Configure Nameservers" screen. With other distributions
you may need to write the scripts yourself.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "no space left on disk" .. but there is
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:15:06 GMT
Daniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, that was DEFINITELY the problem. I have millions of files in there.
> Now when I try to do "rm * -f" it tells me "rm: Argument list too long".
> What should I do??
man xargs or man rm (-r).
Peter
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:11:34 GMT
Seth Rothberg wrote:
>
> The simple problem first:
>
> 2.2.18 does not load my scsi card driver (the aic7xxx) during boot even
> though the module is in /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi and modules.conf has the
> line "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx". It's not a major deal because insmod
> aic7xxx works fine. But it would be nice to have it load automatically so I
> could avoid the RedHat New Hardware screen everytime I reboot, which is
> happening fairly often as I'm dealing with:
Not a problem compile the "aic7xxx" support into the kernel instead of
as a module. Then remove or comment out the "initrd=" line in the
"lilo.conf" file, You won't even need to make an initrd image to place
in /boot. Then remove the "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" from the
modules.conf file so that it doesn't tell it to use a module that won't
exist since it is included in the kernel. Run lilo to update the MBR and
your all set at least for your first problem.
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From: John Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DIAMOND:STEALTH III 540, 32MB, AGP, SAVAGE4 CHIPSET
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:26:49 GMT
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 04:07:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>Hi John,
>>
>>Hope you or others are still watching this space.<g> I'm currently
>>trying to install Linux Red Hat 6.1 with this driver without much
>>luck. I was wondering if you (John) managed to get it installed, and
>>what settings you chose to do this?
>>If anyone else has successfully installed Linux with this Graphics card
>>could you pass this information along please.
>>
>>Cheers
>>Peter
>>
Actually I wasn't watching it anymore but now I'm trying to configure
it in FreeBSD without much luck. Yes, I did get it working in Linux.
I installed xfree86 4.0.2 for libc2.2 from binaries (no rpms). I used
the driver on diamond's site www.diamondmm.com. I had to link X in
/usr/X11R6/bin to XF86_SVGA. I changed a lot more than this but don't
remember what all I did.
After reading the docs on www.xfree.org website, I see that the
savage4 module is only supported for linux on Intel. I wonder if I'm
sol.
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From: J.W. Sargent <jwsarge(no-spam)@pacbell.net>
Subject: StarOffice 5.2 & JRE 1.3
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 15:41:15 -0800
Good afternoon and Happy New Year. I recently installed StarOffice 5.2 that
came on a Storm 2000 disk. After that I downloaded JRE 1.3 (tar ball) from
Sun's site and following their instructions set it up in /usr/local. When I
go to the Java bookmark in 5.2 as a user and point the Java set-up to
/usr/local/jre1.3 I get a msg that there is no java runtime enviroment. I
think this is so to some configuration issue that I'm not aware of. Any
assistance that anyone may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
System info:
Debian 2.2 w/2.2.18 - smp kernel
Regards.............................................John Sargent
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From: Seth Rothberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:54:49 GMT
Thanks, David, I may end up compiling it into the kernel as you suggest,
but would actually rather not if I don't need to.
David wrote:
> Seth Rothberg wrote:
>>
>> The simple problem first:
>>
>> 2.2.18 does not load my scsi card driver (the aic7xxx) during boot even
>> though the module is in /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi and modules.conf has the
>> line "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx". It's not a major deal because
>> insmod aic7xxx works fine. But it would be nice to have it load
>> automatically so I could avoid the RedHat New Hardware screen everytime I
>> reboot, which is happening fairly often as I'm dealing with:
>
> Not a problem compile the "aic7xxx" support into the kernel instead of
> as a module. Then remove or comment out the "initrd=" line in the
> "lilo.conf" file, You won't even need to make an initrd image to place
> in /boot. Then remove the "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" from the
> modules.conf file so that it doesn't tell it to use a module that won't
> exist since it is included in the kernel. Run lilo to update the MBR and
> your all set at least for your first problem.
>
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:01:34 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Seth Rothberg wrote:
> I've been trying to upgrade kernels from 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.18 on a RedHat
> 6.2 system and have run into 2 problems. One is not a big deal but the
> other is a showstopper.
>
> The simple problem first:
>
> 2.2.18 does not load my scsi card driver (the aic7xxx) during boot even
> though the module is in /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi and modules.conf has the
> line "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx". It's not a major deal because insmod
> aic7xxx works fine. But it would be nice to have it load automatically so I
> could avoid the RedHat New Hardware screen everytime I reboot, which is
> happening fairly often as I'm dealing with:
>
> The showstopper:
>
> Trying to load the Roaring Penquin pppoe client causes a very impressive
> freeze. I have to reset the machine. I'm using the 2.5 version compiled
> from the tar ball. Any clues as to what is going here? Are there fixes
> available?
>
> Thanks,
> Seth
Hello,
have you read and does your system meet the requierments:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
Can't comment on your scsi, try to build it in the kernel, I have / on scsi,
module is
not an option for me.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:17:24 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.x supports UDF?
it sure does, it recognizes my dvds just fine.
have fun
Kheng-Swee Goh wrote:
>
> hi, i'd like to know if kernel 2.4.x supports UDF. thanx
>
> -User61
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From: YY Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I have trouble mounting CD-ROM again in my Thinkpad!
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 16:13:03 -0800
Almost a year ago I got my IBM Thinkpad 390 with first partition Windows
98, second empty partition with 2.8GB so I installed Linux Mandrake 7.1
Since I have another work's super laptop, a Toshiba Tectra, I always run
Linux in the Thinkpad without shut down but has feature to go to sleep
mode after X minutes of inactivity. Six months ago I had trouble
mounting CD-ROM with either 98 or Linux. I was about to clean up the
second partition then ship to IBM for repair when sudenly it was able to
read CD-ROM again. This time it kaput again with similar error. I
wonder if anyone has similar experience and any suggestion?
~ # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was:
"1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was:
"1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was:
"1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
mount: No medium found
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Gtk lib location
Date: 01 Jan 2001 20:28:35 -0400
Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John David Bowden wrote:
> >
> > * Tong * ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : When I launch any program that use gtk+ library, I got the following
> > : error:
> >
> > : Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",
> >
> > Try removing your .gtkrc -- xfce has its own gtk engine, and your gtk
> > settings are still trying to use it.
> >
> > ---
> > John Bowden
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I had the same problem after installing xfce, rathing than wasting
> too much time on tracking down why, I just copied those files from
> /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines to
> /usr/local/lib/gtk/themes/engines...
Zed, John's method really works and is much simpler than copying
files... Thanks John.
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From: Seth Rothberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:38:42 GMT
Hi Michael,
Thanks for responding.
As far as I can tell my system does meet the requirements listed in the
Documentation/Changes for 2.2.18. I wonder how much good the info there is,
though. The last time it was updated was 1999.
Seth
Michael Heiming wrote:
> Seth Rothberg wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to upgrade kernels from 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.18 on a RedHat
>> 6.2 system and have run into 2 problems. One is not a big deal but the
>> other is a showstopper.
>>
>> The simple problem first:
>>
>> 2.2.18 does not load my scsi card driver (the aic7xxx) during boot even
>> though the module is in /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi and modules.conf has the
>> line "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx". It's not a major deal because
>> insmod aic7xxx works fine. But it would be nice to have it load
>> automatically so I could avoid the RedHat New Hardware screen everytime I
>> reboot, which is happening fairly often as I'm dealing with:
>>
>> The showstopper:
>>
>> Trying to load the Roaring Penquin pppoe client causes a very impressive
>> freeze. I have to reset the machine. I'm using the 2.5 version compiled
>> from the tar ball. Any clues as to what is going here? Are there fixes
>> available?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Seth
>
> Hello,
>
> have you read and does your system meet the requierments:
>
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
>
>
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unable to mount drive
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:16:07 +0000
I recently seem to be having problems accessing my floppy drive.
Enclosed is the results of an attempt. Any suggestions as to what the
problem is are welcome!
Thanks,
Sean
[sean@mrbenn sean]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat
sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap_upgrade swap defaults 0 0
[sean@mrbenn sean]$ mount /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems
[sean@mrbenn sean]$ mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:23:24 GMT
Seth Rothberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, David, I may end up compiling it into the kernel as you suggest,
> but would actually rather not if I don't need to.
You could recreate the initrd, forcing it to include the aic7xxx
driver... Then make sure that you have an initrd specified in your
lilo.conf file. I think this should force the kernel to load the driver
when booting up.
Adam
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From: "Leon Bourassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get 'rename' command to work!
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 02:08:25 GMT
First i have never heard of the rename command in linux (mostly because i
find the mv command works just fine.)
you could use
mv splash_active_bar.png splash_active_bar.png-old
or a number of other variations.
Leon Bourassa
Network Admin
Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to rename a few files and cannot figure out how to do
> it using 'rename'. The first file I have tried is called
> 'splash_active_bar.png' and I would like to call it
> 'splash_active_bar.png-old'.
> I have tried: rename *.png *.png-old
> rename .png .png-old
> rename .png *.png-old
> rename from *.png to *.png-old
> rename from to *.png *.png-old
> rename *_*_*.png *_*_*.png-old
> rename ??????_??????_???.png
> ??????_??????_???.png-old
> rename *.png from to *.png-old
> rename -from *.png -to *.png-old
> ...you get the picture!
> Is my 'rename' command not working? Not installed? What
> gives??????????? Yes, I am root. The man entry is typically fucking
> useless...
> TIA.
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From: Seth Rothberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 02:11:39 GMT
Thanks Adam. I had no idea that I needed to specify the initrd. I bet
creating a new one for the new kernel will do the trick.
Seth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Seth Rothberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thanks, David, I may end up compiling it into the kernel as you suggest,
>> but would actually rather not if I don't need to.
>
> You could recreate the initrd, forcing it to include the aic7xxx
> driver... Then make sure that you have an initrd specified in your
> lilo.conf file. I think this should force the kernel to load the driver
> when booting up.
>
> Adam
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Date: 2 Jan 2001 02:13:39 GMT
In <g4a46.16039$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]Seth Rothberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]> Thanks, David, I may end up compiling it into the kernel as you suggest,
]> but would actually rather not if I don't need to.
]You could recreate the initrd, forcing it to include the aic7xxx
]driver... Then make sure that you have an initrd specified in your
]lilo.conf file. I think this should force the kernel to load the driver
]when booting up.
Or just stick
modprobe aic7xxx
into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unable to mount drive
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 02:19:32 GMT
Sean wrote:
>
> I recently seem to be having problems accessing my floppy drive.
> Enclosed is the results of an attempt. Any suggestions as to what the
> problem is are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> [sean@mrbenn sean]$ cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
> ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat
> sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide0 0
> /dev/hda8 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap_upgrade swap defaults 0 0
>
> [sean@mrbenn sean]$ mount /mnt/floppy
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
> or too many mounted file systems
Here is what my /etc/fstab uses for the floppy and CD-rom on a redhat
system.
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Roaring Pengquin a showstopper in kernel 2.2.18
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 02:27:42 GMT
Seth Rothberg wrote:
>
> Thanks, David, I may end up compiling it into the kernel as you suggest,
> but would actually rather not if I don't need to.
>
It works great by doing it that way. None of my 4 systems have an
initrd-image in /boot
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From: "Elliot Gingold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is nfs incompatible with proper use of a UPS?
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:47:37 +1100
Hi all,
I have a problem that I thought would have a simple solution. However,
asking people who normally know has left me none the wiser.
Basically, we have a network with 3 central linux (RH 6.2) servers (samba,
printing, mail, web etc) and a small number of more local unix/linux
machines. Each of the 3 central servers has a number of nfs mounted drives,
both from the other central servers, and in some cases, the local machines.
For various reasons this setup suits as well.
Recently I have been trying out using a UPS to protect the most important of
the servers, with plans to extend this to all 3. But I don't see how it will
work. The main thing we want is for the server to undergo a clean shutdown
if there is a power outage. However, the machines supplying the nfs mounts
will go down first. I cannot this see how we can organise a clean shutdown
of the central server. It will hang when it trys to umount the nfs shares.
I have already found this to be a problem when an nfs server dies for some
reason. I have not been able to break the connection from its clients. We
had an nfs server go down semi-permanently and the only way I found to get
the other machines to stop trying to connect was to alter fstab, then try
toshutdown and finally press the HW reset when they hung! I hope I have
eliminated this sort of thing by including intr in the fstab options - not
needed to test this yet! But I cannot see this helping in the power outage
situation, I am unlikely to be around at the time to press crtl C!
I am sure that both nfs and UPSs are used together in many medium and large
installations. But how?
Elliot
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From: Joseph Zieniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Problem with suse.com
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:55:20 -0500
Has anyone in this newsgroup tried to access www.suse.com?
They have a list server "suse-linux-e" which is an English
server that is part of suse.com and I cannot get.
I can access the German site "www.suse.de" and the UK
site with no problems. Is suse.com down?
jozien
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