Linux-Misc Digest #816, Volume #26 Sun, 14 Jan 01 19:13:01 EST
Contents:
Another view: functions ("Christian Axelsson")
Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!! (Tim Haynes)
BIOS woes ("Ross S")
semaphore problem (Dennis J Perkins)
Absolute File Size (Jim Pogras)
Re: forbid console login (Ed Blackman)
Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!! (Tim Haynes)
Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com ("Zenry")
NIC shut down automatically ("Londonboy")
Re: fetchmail (Sean)
Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!! (Juha Laiho)
bad superblock but no problem mounting? (Mat)
How to stop auto GNOME boot (Arctic Storm)
Re: Another view: functions (Dave Brown)
Help: New SCSI Card, Old can still scanned (George)
Re: How do I access an old linux drive?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RedHat linux 7 Ftp install (Dan W)
Re: Can't get X working properly (Dave Brown)
Re: kernel 2.2.18: problem connecting to ISP (Michael Heiming)
Re: NIC shut down automatically ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NIC shut down automatically (Jean-David Beyer)
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From: "Christian Axelsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another view: functions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:08:16 +0100
>From another view of this, Netscape doesn't support far as many stylesheets
and other scriptlanguages (you know what I mean?) as IE do.
I work as a webdesigner and often I have to make two totally different pages
for Netscape
and IE. Now THAT sucks! It costs me alot of time - time is money =(
"John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Dun get me wrong.
>
> I'm a big fan of Linux and have been following Linux since Version 1.x
time.
> (Yeah, Linux refers to Kernel --I knew I knew)
>
> I like Linux cos I it make me feel closer to the system and help me learn
> alot how an OS function and I enjoy making things work.
>
> Somehow, there just isn't a robust enough browser for Linux.
> (Linux = Internet??? where's the browser?)
>
> What ever version and whatever distribution, NETSCAPE will somehow crash
> when u are unexpected. You just can use NETSCAPE for a long period of time
> somehow. Konqueror is stilol young and doesn't render page as good as
> NETSCAPE and java support is still baby.
>
> Long before Microsoft, Unix has been dominating the Internet world and
> NETSCAPE was once the prefered choice of browser before IE3.
>
> For so many years. NETSCAPE just could mantain it's lead to be a leader
and
> keep letting IE having big leap.
>
> Yeah, NETSCAPE Windows sucks big time too!
>
> Sad to say most o the time to enjoy long hour surfing, I have to use
> StarOffice which is never intend to be a browser and yet still robust
> compare to NETSCAPE!
>
> SUCK SUCK SUCK! Anyone like to defend that?
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!!
Date: 14 Jan 2001 22:09:32 +0000
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >chmod -R 000 /lib would do that...
>
> Uhm, but that wouldtn crop the files to 0 bytes :)
Why TF?
~Tim
--
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http://piglet.is.dreaming.org |refrigeration unit?', he asked.
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From: "Ross S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BIOS woes
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:15:26 GMT
I'm trying to install a DPT pci scsi card into my compaq computer running
Red Hat 6.2. Here's my problem: I can't get the bios to give the scsi card
an irq! It always says in the bios while booting up, "Error, no irq assigned
to device..." I've gone through all the bios pages, and I've also looked for
bios updates with no sucess. Another weird thing is that the first time I
installed the card, Red Hat's hardware program found it and configured it.
However, I'm not getting any response out of the card. Any thouhts?
-Ross
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Dennis J Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: semaphore problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:56:28 -0700
I'm trying to port a set of programs from SCO to Linux. They use
semaphores to control access to shared memory. I am having a problem
with Linux semaphores, however. The first program to terminate deletes
all of the semaphores. What is the correct way to handle this?
--
Dennis
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From: Jim Pogras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Absolute File Size
Date: 14 Jan 2001 22:24:19 GMT
I use a 30gig IDE drive to back up my Linux partitions and the Windows
drives on my home network. I have upgraded to V2.4.0 and now I can only
create a file with a max size of 107780391 bytes. Has anyone seen this?
I've looked throught the Linux Docs BUT have not had any luck.
Thanks.
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James Pogras Cleveland, Ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Blackman)
Subject: Re: forbid console login
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:25:44 GMT
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:57:49 GMT, Payam Poursaied wrote:
>wher can i define who can login to the server from console(tty)
>and who can not?
man login, look in the section on /etc/usertty under "SPECIAL ACCESS
RESTRICTIONS"
Ed
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!!
Date: 14 Jan 2001 22:17:51 +0000
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Michael Erskine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Erskine wrote:
>
> > I go with the fellow who says that you should run fsck... but unless
> > you are familiar enough with it that you understand you should only run
> > it in singe user mode, it might be best read up on it before you try to
> > run it.
>
> Actually now that I am starting to read some new material... I think the
> FSCK is a bad idea. First discover whether you've been cracked.
Yep. Find out whether the `?' is due to corruption or a breached _ls_
binary, by having a look with e.g. Tom's Root & Boot or your install media
in rescue mode. *Then* consider the fsck. More to the point, consider
e2fsck -f to press the point.
~Tim
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Came the tranquil and the calm, |http://piglet.is.dreaming.org
On the ridge of the mighty Atlantic. |
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From: "Zenry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:39:41 GMT
Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93olac$ol3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> pamela wrote:
>
> > "Jan. 12, 2001 | Since geek glamour is an idea whose time has come, it
> > shouldn't be impossible to make an intelligent and beguiling thriller
> about
> > the open-source software movement. Peter Howitt's "AntiTrust" just isn't
> > it."
> >
> > http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/01/12/antitrust/
> >
> >
>
> Since Salon is owned lock, stock and barrel by Gates would you expect a
> different review?
>
??? You must be thinking of Slate.com, Salon is independent as far as I
know.
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From: "Londonboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: NIC shut down automatically
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:51:51 GMT
I am running RedHat 7.0 with 1 NIC connecting to the internet by cable
modem. I use DHCP client, so DNS and IP address information are assigned by
the cable company.
One day, the cable service was down for 4-5 hours, and after a while the
cable service was up again (I have another server running NT, so I know the
cable service was back to normal).
The problem with RedHat : No more internet connection! When I type
"ifconfig", the eth0 has gone!!!! Only loopback interface was there. So, I
went to /etc/init.d/network restart and everything worked again.
This is BAD!!!!!!!!!! How come RedHat shut down the interface itself? Isn't
it suppose to reconnect until the service backup? Is there a timeout value I
can set??
Please help. Thanks a lot.
N.B.
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:55:47 +0000
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
==============6D6710C43B2084A7E6333295
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Enclosed is a startup script to put in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or whatever the
appropriate directory is on your system
just move your ~/.fetchmailrc file into /etc/fetchmailrc and change the
permissions so that noone can read it.
If you don't know how to use startup scripts, give me a shout and I'll
see if I can help.
Sean
Steve Connet wrote:
>
> When I run fetchmail as user blix it works great. User blix as a
> ~/.fetchmailrc file.
>
> But I want fetchmail to automatically start when I boot up the
> machine. If I put fetchmail in my rc.local will it run as root? And
> won't that look for a .fetchmailrc for root? And if I tell fetchmail
> where blix's .fetchmailrc file is, won't it send all mail fetched to
> root?
>
> How do I get fetchmail to start on bootup and fetchmail for user
> 'blix'?
> --
> Steve Connet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;
name="fetchmail"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="fetchmail"
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 91 35
# description: Starts and stops the fetchmail daemon used to retrive mail \
# via various protocols (such as POP3 and IMAP4).
#
# config: /etc/fetchmailrc
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
# Check that fetchmailrc exists.
[ -s /etc/fetchmailrc ] || exit 0
RETVAL=0
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/fetchmail ]; then
echo -n "Starting Fechmail services: "
daemon fetchmail -d 60 -f /etc/fetchmailrc
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/fetchmail
else
RETVAL=1
fi
;;
stop)
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/fetchmail ]; then
echo -n "Shutting Fechmail services: "
killproc fetchmail
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1
RETVAL=$?
echo
else
RETVAL=1
fi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
RETVAL=$?
;;
reload)
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/fetchmail ]; then
echo -n "Reloading fetchmailrc file: "
killproc fetchmail -HUP
RETVAL=$?
echo
else
RETVAL=1
fi
;;
status)
status fetchmail
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
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From: Juha Laiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: file permissions suddenly changed!!!!!!
Date: 14 Jan 2001 10:07:04 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>suddenly, some of my library permissions in /usr/lib (and perhaps some
>others, i havent checked yet) have been changed from their original
>perms (eg. -rwxr-xr-x) to this: "?---------". also, the number of links
>to the file are reported as being 0!!!!!. typical entries look like
>this:
>
>?--------- 0 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 libncurses_p.a
One possibility is that you've been cracked.
The other is that your filesystem is corrupting, either due to a kernel bug
or your hardware going bad.
It looks like reinstall time, in any case -- but you should try to find
out whether it's the hardware (or kernel), or having been cracked; reinstall
on a bad hardware (or with a buggy kernel) won't help for a long time.
Reinstall after being cracked requires to close the lid tighter -- keep
up with the security patches for your particular distribution, and from
the beginning not to provide unnecessary services to the Internet at large.
--
Wolf a.k.a. Juha Laiho Espoo, Finland
(GC 3.0) GIT d- s+: a- C++ UH++++$ UL++++ P+@ L+++ E(-) W+$@ N++ !K w !O
!M V PS(+) PE Y+ PGP(+) t- 5? !X R tv--- b+ DI? D G e+ h--- r+++ y+
"...cancel my subscription to the resurrection!" (Jim Morrison)
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From: Mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bad superblock but no problem mounting?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:12:44 GMT
even though hdb is giving me no problems i went to run e2fsck the other
day and got the following
<output>
[root@weyland /root]# e2fsck /dev/hdb
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
</output>
*********************
tried it on /dev/hda and got the same, but for now am only talking about
/dev/hdb
to check my blocksize before using e2fsck -b i ran dumpe2fs and got the
following...
<output>
[root@weyland /root]# dumpe2fs /dev/hdb
dumpe2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: b03d299a-5a69-11d4-9f12-e51180f8c152
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 0 (original)
Filesystem features: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 5017600
Block count: 20066251
Reserved block count: 1003312
Free blocks: 19243037
Free inodes: 5017589
First block: 1
Block size: 1024
Fragment size: 1024
Blocks per group: 8192
Fragments per group: 8192
Inodes per group: 2048
Inode blocks per group: 256
Last mount time: Sat Jul 15 16:56:15 2000
Last write time: Sat Jul 15 16:56:41 2000
Mount count: 3
Maximum mount count: 20
Last checked: Sun Jul 16 02:29:20 2000
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Fri Jan 12 03:29:20 2001
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
ext2fs_read_bb_inode: Illegal indirect block found
</output>
and don't like the look of the last line :(
*********************
anyway, with the blocksize of 1024 i gave e2fsck another go with alt
superblock
<output>
[root@weyland /root]# e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
</output>
also tried alternate superblocks 16386, 24579, 32772... 65544 but i have
the
feeling this is not the problem
*********************
fdisk list gives
<output>
[root@weyland /root]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 779 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 229 923296+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 230 779 2217600 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 230 737 2048224+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 738 763 104800+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 764 779 64480+ 82 Linux swap
Disk /dev/hdb: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 19906 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 19906 20065216+ 83 Linux
</output>
*********************
does anyone have any clues as to what is wrong with my superblock(s)? as
i said the drive is functioning ok apart from this....
mat
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to stop auto GNOME boot
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:17:12 GMT
How to stop auto GNOME boot
I recently upgrade to XFree86 4.0.2, or at least I think I did.
Now, there seems to be a problem.
I used to be able to enter runlevel 3 by typing Linux 3 at LILO prompt.
Now, it doesn't work. I get GNOME automatically.
How can I enter runlevel 3 when I boot up?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Another view: functions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Jan 2001 18:24:06 -0600
In article <jup86.535$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Axelsson wrote:
>From another view of this, Netscape doesn't support far as many stylesheets
>and other scriptlanguages (you know what I mean?) as IE do.
>I work as a webdesigner and often I have to make two totally different pages
>for Netscape
>and IE. Now THAT sucks! It costs me alot of time - time is money =(
Perhaps I don't know what I'm missing by viewing web pages which only
display properly on IE. Since I look to web pages for 1) information
and 2) functionality (banking, purchases, etc.), but not entertainment,
I simply pass up web pages that don't load properly.
I'm sorry if it stifles your "creativity", but I might suggest that you
skip the IE version, and simply do the Netscape version. That way your
pages are usable by the largest possible audiences. You'll save yourself
some work. And you'll probably save bandwidth by simply producing
readable web pages.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: New SCSI Card, Old can still scanned
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:15:36 GMT
Help
System
RedHat 7.0, P200, 132 Ram, 1 Gig IDE, SCSI CDROM and HardDrives
Removed Future Domain SCSI Card (seagate driver).
Installed a BusLogic SCSI Card
With KDE setup for BusLogic Card, deleted seagate
On boot it still looks for the seagate card
On boot NEVER looks for the BusLogic card
???? How can I fix this ????
I booted the system off an install floppy disk, used the driver disk
and indicated that I had a local CDROM, selected BusLogic SCSI and
Anaconda came right up. Indicated that I wanted an upgrade using
the Buslogic SCSI driver for my CDROM. When the process completed
I thought that it would fix the problem.
On boot still uses the seagate and never the BusLogic.
Suggestions !!!!
George
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I access an old linux drive??
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:23:51 GMT
Thanks! I didn't even think about that....it worked!
In article <Pum86.234388$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I have installed a new harddrive in my computer and set up RH7 on
> > it. I would like to get the inforamtion off my old drive but how do
> > I do this?
>
> > I have mounted the old drive as /old but when I cd into that
> > directory, I get a bunch of System.map, boot.b, vmlinuz files and
> > only one dir...lost+found. I would have exected to see /old/bin,
> > /old/home, /old/usr etc....
>
> > Is is possible to get at my data in this fashion? Please let me
> > know.
>
> It _should_ be; it sounds as if the old drive has multiple partitions
> and that all you are mounting is what used to be the /boot partition.
>
> You might run:
> # fdisk -l
>
> which will list all the partitions on your drives. You may need to be
> more specific, and do:
> # fdisk -l /dev/hda
> or
> # fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> This is likely to list multiple partitions, perhaps something like
> the following:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 3 385 3076447+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 386 516 1052257+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 * 517 4865 34933342+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 517 601 682731 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 602 686 682731 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 687 1069 3076416 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 1070 1154 682731 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 1155 1239 682731 83 Linux
> /dev/hda10 1240 1622 3076416 83 Linux
> /dev/hda11 1623 1707 682731 83 Linux
> /dev/hda12 1708 2090 3076416 83 Linux
> /dev/hda13 2091 2473 3076416 83 Linux
>
> You would then mount several of the partitions individually under your
> favorite mount points.
>
> Perhaps something like:
>
> # mount -t /old /dev/hda1
> # mount -t /old/usr /dev/hda2
> # mount -t /old/home /dev/hda3
> # mount -t /old/boot /dev/hda4
> .. and so on ...
>
> Precisely what to mount where depends on how the old drive was
> partitioned, and how you arranged the partitions.
>
> You may add entries to /etc/fstab to allow these partitions to be
> mounted by default at boot time, if you so desire; you'd create
> entries analagous to the ones already there for the RH7 partitions.
> --
> (concatenate 'string "aa454" "@freenet.carleton.ca")
> <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/>
> "Starting a project in C/C++ is a premature optimization."
> -- Peter Jensen
>
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From: Dan W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat linux 7 Ftp install
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:30:08 -0000
I am having trouble installing Redhat Linux 7 over ftp.
It does not seem to have my tulip.o network driver on it's boot disk or
driver disk. How can i get a driver disk with tulip.o driver on it, or how
can i make a driver disk?
Thanks in advance,
Dan W
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Can't get X working properly
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Jan 2001 18:33:15 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Christian wrote:
>
>My monitor shuts down so I can't actually see anything ...
>
>I've also tried to put the output of startx into a file to see what
>happens but since the only way I can get the machine to rebot is to
>cycle the power, the file is always empty ...
If you're trying to capture the X startup messages, simply "probe".
X -probeonly 2>&1 | more
The startup messages are sent to stderr, hence the redirection.
(Your monitor won't actually be thrown into the graphics mode.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:26:28 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.18: problem connecting to ISP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michael, According to the Documents/Changes my installation meets all
> criteria. And, the changes are given for all 2.2 kernels, including the
> 2.2.14 kernel which works with this respect. The reason why I upgraded was
> that the Suse 7.0 distribution contains the 2.2.17pre kernel. I assumed that
> the reason of my problem was a bug in the 'pre' release. It seems that
> upgrading other packages does not solve the problem. FOr additional info, I
> add the .config file of my kernel. Hope this gives more clues. Thanks
>
> Mike
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > When I try to connect to my ISP I get the following errors:
> > >
> > > ---------------------- Jan 13 13:38:01 truus pppd[607]: LCP:
>
> -- CUT ----
>
> > >
> > > When I use my previous kernel (2.2.14) the connection is built up without any
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > I have Suse 7.0 distribution
> > > Kernel 2.2.18 and 2.2.14
> > > ppp version 2.3.11
> > >
> > > Please help me??
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > did you read Documentation/Changes (2.2.18) and does your system meet all the
> > requierd parts?
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
>
> -------------------------
> .config file of the 2.2.18 kernel:
>
> #
Hello,
kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000
I have only seen this kernel messages on a machine, I'm currently typing this
message on..:-(
But this machine has something (Mobo) broken...
But your problem sounds strange if you don't get these messages with 2.2.14, have
you tried the same .config?
Use diff to find differences.
Without knowing the exact hardware combo you use, the posting of you .config doesn't
help much.
I would suggest trying to compile, sure you have to update/compile a few things, the
2.4.0 version.
I have it running on a Sony Picturebook (the one with this Transmeta CPU), starting
from SuSE 7.0 and
it was not "rocket sience" getting it running.
Kudos to Linus and all others by this way...
It really flys, and has many new options...:-)
Hope this helps
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: NIC shut down automatically
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:32:39 GMT
Londonboy,
No it is not that your NIC shuts itself down. The cable cos assigned
an IP address to you dynamically thru DHCP as a "lease". When the
connection shuts down, the lease has expired, so you have to "renew"
the lease. The behaviour is the same in Windoze.
//V
In article <b4q86.221214$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Londonboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running RedHat 7.0 with 1 NIC connecting to the internet by cable
> modem. I use DHCP client, so DNS and IP address information are
assigned by
> the cable company.
>
> One day, the cable service was down for 4-5 hours, and after a while
the
> cable service was up again (I have another server running NT, so I
know the
> cable service was back to normal).
>
> The problem with RedHat : No more internet connection! When I type
> "ifconfig", the eth0 has gone!!!! Only loopback interface was there.
So, I
> went to /etc/init.d/network restart and everything worked again.
>
> This is BAD!!!!!!!!!! How come RedHat shut down the interface
itself? Isn't
> it suppose to reconnect until the service backup? Is there a timeout
value I
> can set??
>
> Please help. Thanks a lot.
>
> N.B.
>
>
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: NIC shut down automatically
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:46:01 -0500
Londonboy wrote:
>
> I am running RedHat 7.0 with 1 NIC connecting to the internet by cable
> modem. I use DHCP client, so DNS and IP address information are assigned by
> the cable company.
>
> One day, the cable service was down for 4-5 hours, and after a while the
> cable service was up again (I have another server running NT, so I know the
> cable service was back to normal).
>
> The problem with RedHat : No more internet connection! When I type
> "ifconfig", the eth0 has gone!!!! Only loopback interface was there. So, I
> went to /etc/init.d/network restart and everything worked again.
>
> This is BAD!!!!!!!!!! How come RedHat shut down the interface itself? Isn't
> it suppose to reconnect until the service backup? Is there a timeout value I
> can set??
>
If Red Hat Linux 7.0 is like R.H.L.6.0, be root, run control-panel in X
and get to
Config->Networking->ClientTasks->PPP/SLIP/PLIP
Check "restart link when connection fails" and put a time in "No
connection" of something like 10 (seconds). I picked 10 seconds, since
mine is a dial-up connection and if I do not get in, it is normally
busy, and I want to wait 10 seconds to give the peak user a chance to
get out.
You might put something into the "Broken connection". I left mine blank
because when my line drops, I find I can immediately re-dial and it will
normally go through right away.
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