Linux-Misc Digest #822, Volume #26 Mon, 15 Jan 01 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: message Log entry help! (Jean-David Beyer)
default permissions ("Sasha Voznesensky")
Re: Add a user to a group? (Linux User)
How do I correct the time on my system? (Don)
Re: Softball newbie question(s) (James Silverton)
GUI issues ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I correct the time on my system? (David)
Re: Another view: functions (Matt Haley)
Re: backup for NT and linux over the network (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Help, newbie cannot boot up RH 6.2 ("Chip Piller")
lower case text command (Anthony Ewell)
login gone after glibc upgrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to stop auto GNOME boot ("Chip Piller")
Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM ("Anthony")
Re: Linux on Athlon
Re: How to I set ipchains live with ICQ? ("Anthony")
Re: How to I set ipchains live with ICQ? ("Anthony")
vmware (Brian Moore)
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: message Log entry help!
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:13:14 -0500
David Morris wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me what this message means and how to resolve it? I
> log the message every 10 minutes.
>
> inetd[658]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>
Sometimes when I boot my machine, I get that. It seems to be the result
of a bad bootup and rebooting fixes it. I have the following in my
/etc/inetd.conf file:
# Authentication
#
#auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -l -e -o
# I have tcpd supervise this and give out ident only to named
# (in hosts.allow) users.
ident stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.identd
My conjecture is that inetd is listening on the port (113) and someone
else is listening too. Something is clearly wrong, but I do not know
what. This should come up correctly each time you boot.
For my machine, I have not yet discovered if I have a hardware,
software, or configuration problem. I propose to re-install everything
as soon as I get a new CD-ROM from my machine's vendor (VA Linux
Systems) with their version of Red Hat Linux 6.2.3 on it. If the problem
goes away, it is probably a software problem: I have about a year's
supply of RPMs installed, and they sometimes go in only with difficulty
(cascading numbers of other RPMs required that Red Hat do not supply, or
that I cannot find). If I go to rpmfind (or whatever their name is, I
can often get them, but sometimes they are so incopatible that when I
load them, the system crashes, so I mistrust getting RPMs from other
than Red Hat or VA Linux.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:00am up 2 days, 16:23, 2 users, load average: 2.14, 2.12, 2.09
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From: "Sasha Voznesensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: default permissions
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:12:11 +0200
Hello all,
Our company runs a Mandrake 6.1 server with Samba and AppleTalk. When one of
the users creates a directory on the share, it is by default has group write
rights disabled (rwxr-xr-x). This is a pain, because often other people need
to work in that directory. Is there a way to have rwxrwxr-x by default when
the directory is created? This happens to both PC and Mac users.
thanks in advance
Sasha Voznesensky
Technical Assistant
Delapse
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add a user to a group?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:17:08 -0800
Hello,
LOL. My fault I should have known you wanted to modify an existing user.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> usermod -G `id -Gn user | tr ' ' ,`,group user
usermod -G group user
Should do the same thing.
Cheers,
Jim H
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Is there a shell utility to add a user to a group? I know usmod -G
> > almost does the job, but instead of adding the user to a group, it
> > modifies the user's group settings.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
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From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: How do I correct the time on my system?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:39:30 -0500
Hello,
Simple question I hope. Using RedHat 6.2
The time on my system reads 5 hours too slow yet the time in my BIOS is
correct. I'll assume that the system time is kept seperately from the
BIOS time. How do I correct it please?
Thanks,
Don
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From: James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Softball newbie question(s)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:38:52 -0500
Steve wrote:
>
> John Hanson wrote:
>
> > I'm an American and I pronounce Linux lin' ux. It seems only newbies
> > and Windows users pronounce it lie' nux. At least that is my
> > experience.
>
> I've been using LYE-nix since '97... and I've NEVER owned
> Windoze of any flavor.
>
> I've only heard newbies and Windoze users call it lin-ucks.
> (Illiterates too, of course)
>
> However you say Linus in whatever language you speak is
> the same way you should say Linux. The two words rhyme.
>
> Even Lee-noos himself rhymes the OS name with his own name.
> He's even pronounced it LYE-nix when speaking to an English-speaking
> television audience.
>
> - Steve (amazed at all the furor such a simple issue can cause)
Thanks for repeating Linus' comments on pronunciation. I have tried
several times to switch to "linnux" but I have always pronounced Linus
(as in Linus Pauling) as "Lienus" and I invariably revert to "lienux".
Jim.
--
James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GUI issues
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:25:20 GMT
I am running Redhat 7.0 and I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2 and I am having
some GUI issues if you can help me please email me back at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Issues
1) How can I install True Type Fonts?
2) I setup my screen saver to turn off the monitor but the monitor does
not tunr off??
3) If I start the server in mode 5 (GUI) gnome does not start you from
my users, but if I start the server in mode 3 (text) and then login and
run startx gui will start!!
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How do I correct the time on my system?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:07:19 -0600
Don wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Simple question I hope. Using RedHat 6.2
> The time on my system reads 5 hours too slow yet the time in my BIOS is
> correct. I'll assume that the system time is kept seperately from the
> BIOS time. How do I correct it please?
To check to see if this could be the problem:
cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
This will show you the clock file. If this could be causing the problem
it will probably look like the one shown.
ZONE="US/Central"
UTC=true
ARC=false
It should look similar to this with the correct country and timezone in
the first line. The second line tells Linux to assume the BIOS clock is
set to the UTC or GMT timezone. If this is what yours looks like then
you should change the UTC line to correct it as shown below.
vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
UTC=false
Be sure to save the change when done then reset the correct time.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.002% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: Another view: functions
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:17:24 -0000
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:08:16 +0100,
Christian Axelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 =(
So it's impossible to make a page that works in both?
--
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: backup for NT and linux over the network
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:22:05 GMT
On 15 Jan 2001 13:45:30 GMT, Christoph Kukulies
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm seeking for a network backup system allowing to
>backup NT, Win2k and Linux systems to a DLT tape.
Believe it or not the best solution that I've found is Backup Exec. It will
backup NT and Linux. The nice thing is that any non-NT backup agent is free for
Backup Agent.
Regards, Dustin
--
Dustin Puryear <$email = "dpuryear"."@usa.net";>
Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network
- http://www.prima-tech.com/integrate-linux
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From: "Chip Piller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, newbie cannot boot up RH 6.2
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:22:33 -0500
So you originally tried to do the install just from the CD and you got this
error message.
Then you got the boot.img install floppy and the install seems to have
worked.
Q. Did the install work completely, you partitioned, formatted,
selected/installed packages, you setup for X windows graphical display, you
made a boot floppy, you created user?
Q. I'm wondering why you could not install from the cdrom, what CDROM are
you using, do you have your system bios configured to boot from the cdrom?
Q. Did you create a boot floppy when asked during the install?
Q. Did you install lilo on the master boot record, is it /dev/hda?
Q. How did you setup your disk partitions? Do you have a swap partition?
The message you are getting comes from the kernel/panic.c file which
indicates a major problem probably in filesystem.
Sounds like you have a pretty nice machine. Perhaps you have a conflict
with your hard drive and cdrom. Is the harddrive configured as
master/slave? Primary ide or secondary ide? Perhaps your system bios
settings need adjusting. Or it could be that you did not properly
partition/format the hard drive, but the installer should not have proceeded
if that was the case.
Anyway, these are some suggestions. Hope this helps, email me with more
info and I will be glad to help.
Chip
"Jon Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:#TR4eDpfAHA.273@cpmsnbbsa07...
> I just installed Redhat 6.2 on a new machine and it will not boot. Lilo
> comes up and starts to load linux, but then it halts and spits out this
> message:
>
> killing interrupt handler >Kernel panic: Attempted to
> kill the idle task >In swapper task - not syncing
>
> I had this happen when I tried to initially install booting from cd, but
> then I downloaded boot.img from redhat lastnight and got the install to
> work.
>
> PC is stripped, only trident video card, kb and mouse.
> AMD 1000 Athlon, Abit MB, IBM 46GB hd, 128MB RAM, Floppy, IDE Cdrom drive.
>
> Any ideas? suggestions? Thanks in advance
>
> Jon Cook
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:27:02 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: lower case text command
Hi,
Does anyone now of a perl, awk, sed or other command that
will let me change upper case letter to lower case letters?
Before: ABCDE
After: abcde
Many thanks,
--Tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: login gone after glibc upgrade
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:17:22 GMT
Hi-
I am running RH 6.2 which had glibc 2.1 and I was using gnome as my GUI.
I wanted to use a java lib which required glibc 2.1.2. So, I found the
rpm for it and upgraded my glibc. Things were fine, the java lib
worked, etc.. After a reboot the RedHat login at the console disappeared
and all I get is a gray screen with an "x" mouse cursor. What happened?
Did glibc upgrade screw up gnome? I can't get into the server via the
console anymore. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Mike
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From: "Chip Piller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to stop auto GNOME boot
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:33:04 -0500
I have not tried XFree86 4.0.2 myself so I am not exactly sure what it did.
To get runlevel 3 by default when you boot you want to edit your
/etc/inittab file. There are comments at the top of the file (at least on
my RedHat 7.0 system) that describe the runlevels. I have the following
line:
"id:3:initdefault:"
which will boot my system up into runlevel 3 by default. It is possible
that your machine is booting by default into runlevel 5. Or, perhaps XFree
added something to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file which is being run at
startup.
Hope this helps,
Chip
"Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:44:07 +0800
In article <0W286.6424$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Arctic Storm"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, use -i instead of -U
>>
>> it means that your old kernel will remain intact, just in case the new
>> one doesn't work.
>>
>> Sean
>
> Hello, When I issued the command rpm -i kernel-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm I got the
> this error message.
>
> var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32498: geninitrd: command not found Added linux * Added
> dos
>
> Any suggestions?
Obviously the kernel rpm you downloaded is not for your distribution. It
tried to run a script but it wasn't there.
First, there is no point to try to fix this: compiling the kernel and
install it manually would be easier than trying to fix the above rpm. You
should either wait or spend some time learn how to compile a kernel and
install it.
Besides, you need to update modutils to 2.4.1 and get the latest binutils
installed as well right after kernel is in place and ready to boot.
--
Linux 2.4.0 #2 Mon Jan 8 19:33:20 CST 2001 i686
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:44:50 -0500
Thanks to Intel and their "Internet Enhancing" P3 processors with the serial
numbers , kernels compiled for a P3 will have an option now to disable the
cpuid instruction on boot up. When a kernel with such an option is booted on
an amd processor, it hangs, because the amd processors do not have such
"Enhancements" on them.
Solution:
a) Compile your own kernel ( use an older distro to install linux ( 6.0 is
what I use )
b) I think there is a boot up option you pass to prevent the kernel from
doing the "disable cpuid" thing.
With my Thunderbird 700, I do not need any enhancements . I'm still
overwhelmed by the eyecandy the main processor is able to handle . ( Agreed,
I am using a geforce 2 MX , and a V2 )
You may have to tell the kernel how much memory you have . Seems to be a
funny thing with certain main boards , and keeps reoccuring in new messages
.
My experience :
I had w2k, 98 and linux installed on an 8 gig hdd ( P2 350, intel chipset)
Moved it to my current system ( tbird 700, amd 750 chipset ). I unplugged
hdd from one comp, put it into the new one.
w2k : Inaccessable boot devide
win98 : hung when it brought it's ide controller ( protected mode ) on line
.
linux ( rh6.0 2.2.5-15 kernel ) : came up in run level 3 ( that;s what it's
set to do ), I did "startx" , and used netscape to download the updates for
win98, and win2k.
Made the fat32 partitions, and copied the install files to the hdd because
when winXX comes up , it can't see the cdrom on the amd eide controller -
one has to apply the "patch" , and the "patch" was on the frickin' cd ,
which was only acessable from linux at the time.
After installing them, I made ghost images of the partitions, and again used
linux to store the image files on my samba server . Why didn't I use
windows to put the files there ? I was not interested in setting up
networking when it was already working from linux.
Eric Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93un0b$5nv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am thinking of buying a new machine with an Athlon chip instead of a
> Pentium 4. Are there any problems with running Linux on Athlon ?
>
> Eric Headley
>
>
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to I set ipchains live with ICQ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:49:19 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martin Bock"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>After I setup my ipchains rule, everything fine except ICQ client. I find
>>that every Linux icq client can't connect to ICQ server, even I allow all
>>request from the server ip, but icq still can't connect. How can I set
>>it??
>
> Hello,
>
> AFAIK ICQ-Servers send an ident-request to clients. It goes to port 113
> (auth) on your machine, where identd listens. If this request is denied
> or rejected by your ipchains based flitering rules, you aren't allowed to
> connect to the server.
Are you sure??? I have never seen ident request from any icq server no
matter which client or platform I use. This is strange.
--
Linux 2.4.0 #2 Mon Jan 8 19:33:20 CST 2001 i686
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to I set ipchains live with ICQ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:03:04 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Edwin Johnson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been looking at Seattle Firewall to use in the future with a stand
> alone system and perhaps a LAN. They talk about using icq in their
> documentation, so it might help to look at that.
>
> ...Edwin
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:39:07 +0800, Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>After I setup my ipchains rule, everything fine except ICQ client. I find
>>that every Linux icq client can't connect to ICQ server, even I allow all
>>request from the server ip, but icq still can't connect. How can I set
>>it??
First, with a standalone machine without a gateway/firewall, the only
problem with icq is that you have to allow tcp connection to port
1024-65095 because you cannot know which random port that your icq client
will try to open. Otherwise, incoming connection like peer-to-peer chat
and file transfer will be blocked. Now, this is a big security risk.
With a firewall on the gateway, you are either using ip-masq/nat or Socks5
proxy. You can basically allow non-syn tcp packets to 1024-4999 and allow
only tcp connection to 60200-65095. Then everything else not in the above
range can be blocked by the default deny policy.
Seattle Firewall has preset policy to deal with icq's incoming connection,
you need to tell the config file that you are using which setup:
ip_masq_icq module or port forwarding. Read the manual.
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Linux 2.4.0 #2 Mon Jan 8 19:33:20 CST 2001 i686
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Moore)
Subject: vmware
Date: 15 Jan 2001 12:02:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have any experience with vmware's products? I find
myself running more and more Windows stuff and I either have to
get another computer in my office or be able to run Windows
on my linux system. I've tried dual boot before and using
StarOffice, but both of those create problems in one way or
another; and from what I hear wine is still a problem with respect
to some of the latest Windows apps and not necessarily that
easy to get up and going.
--
Brian G. Moore, School of Science, Penn State Erie--The Behrend College
[EMAIL PROTECTED] , (814)-898-6334
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