Linux-Misc Digest #921, Volume #26 Fri, 26 Jan 01 01:13:02 EST
Contents:
any problems with matrox g400 + Abit kt7-raid? (the Everrambling and MultiSyllabic
Sean DEE)
automount /var/spool/mail problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: unable to use net services from some hosts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux *Really* Takes Off Beginning May 2001 (Steve Withers)
Re: automount /var/spool/mail problem (Timothy J. Lee)
I NEED TO BOOT W/OUT A FLOPPY (Ryan)
Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help (Steve Ackman)
Re: I NEED TO BOOT W/OUT A FLOPPY (Warren Bell)
Re: Need help with Linux and DSL (MH)
Re: Linux not free anymore? (Steve)
Re: YALE (yet another LILO error...) (John in SD)
Re: YALE (yet another LILO error...) (John in SD)
iptables & 2.4.0 ("Christopher C. Stump")
Re: Ramen .Worm virus and SuSE 7.0 (David)
Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem (Bill Unruh)
Re: What way to backup ? (David)
Re: Can't play video CD at Mandrake (E J)
Re: Problems with archiving to tape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: the Everrambling and MultiSyllabic Sean DEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: any problems with matrox g400 + Abit kt7-raid?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:14:47 -0800
I have previously posted a very similar message in
comp.os.linux.hardware, so forgive me if you have read this already.
I will now post this question to general linux sites, in quest of the
caveats that may be overlooked when browsing the manufacturers'
websites.
Has any one experienced any issues regarding this combination?
I have several distros lying around here, so there is no
preference other than supporting sound and 3d applications
and maybe the second monitor out put to T.V.
(currently I am writing this from a win32 partition due to a cisco 605
dsl card- patiently waiting on the alternative o.s. friendly cisco
675)
some additional hardware that will go in is:
ram: at least 2 (Micron/ST 128M PC100 8ns)
Soundblaster pci128 + interact propad 6
3com etherlink 3c905b ethernet card
possibly a scsi card with symbios 53C875 chip, the kouwell 801v75
usb(?) devices: 1. efilm reader-4 (for smartmedia cards from camera)
2. Wacom Graphire 4x5 tablet (pen&mouse)
serial devices: 1. camera's uplink should the usb reader
fail- a
FUJI MX1200 model digital camera
2. a management port for the cisco 675
parallel devices: hp deskjet 600c printer
I realize that the camera may not really be an integrated device, but
I use it quite often.
the scsi card is listed as a "possible" because my server will be
using it, but ya never know...
this will be my "play" machine with multiple oses installed
namely:
Amiga dev hosted on linux
Amiga dev hosted on Win32
BeOs 5 personal edition
Freedos and bad seal interface
Gnu/linux with gnome interface
QNX RTP
ide devices are probably not important to list but they are:
a teac cdW54e with firmware 1.0x 4x4x32
a 36.5 gb hard drive - Maxtor 93652u8 (udma 66)
another hard drive, the model number escapes me at the moment
in the near future I may add some more hard drives (ata 100) to deal
with video and multimedia output using Broadcast2000 when it matures a
little bit more
--
"We are Microsoft, of Borg. General Protection Fault in module
assimilate.exe : Resistance izkx GPF 0x56548820 Application RESIST.EXE
has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: automount /var/spool/mail problem
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:41:22 GMT
i'd like to automount my mail server's /var/spool/mail to a local
machine's /var/spool/mail and i have my auto.master setup
as:
/var/spool auto.mail --timeout 60
and my auto.mail as
mail -rw,soft,bg mail:/var/spool/mail
and it does mount /var/spool/mail, however all the other directories
under /var/spool disappear. ie, lpd etc do not show
up.
Is there a way to correct this very undesirable behaviour?
cheers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: unable to use net services from some hosts
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:54:14 GMT
YES YES YES YES !!!!!
thank you very much :) :) :)
i had 4 months trying to solve it ( i compiled the kernel without ipv6.
ipchains, etc, etc but i never thinked on this option ).
The problem is solved disabling the INET_ECN
Thanks a lot kimoto :) :)
Regards
Alejandro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <94qkfg$jn1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > i upgraded to linux 2.4.0 and from then i cant access the net
services
> > from some servers like hotmail.com or micronpc.com, i can
> > access all the services of other servers.
>
> Do you have CONFIG_INET_ECN set? Documentation/Changes says:
>
> : CONFIG_INET_ECN
> : Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) allows routers to notify
> : clients about network congestion, resulting in fewer dropped
packets
> : and increased network performance. This option adds ECN support to
the
> : Linux kernel, as well as a sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn)
which
> : allows ECN support to be disabled at runtime.
> :
> : Note that, on the Internet, there are many broken firewalls which
> : refuse connections from ECN-enabled machines, and it may be a
while
> : before these firewalls are fixed. Until then, to access a site
behind
> : such a firewall (some of which are major sites, at the time of
this
> : writing) you will have to disable this option, either by saying N
now
> : or by using the sysctl.
> :
> : If in doubt, say N.
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto
> This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any
images,
> hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
> and may be a violation of international copyright law.
>
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux *Really* Takes Off Beginning May 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:54:31 +1300
>From May 2001 all new Microsoft products will REQUIRE registration or
they won't work.
Clamping down on the casual piracy that most of the world's Windows PC
rely upon. Enforcing the monopoly.
Go Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: automount /var/spool/mail problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this is a valid address for a limited time)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:57:43 GMT
In article <94qrl1$poh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i'd like to automount my mail server's /var/spool/mail to a local
>machine's /var/spool/mail and i have my auto.master setup
> as:
> /var/spool auto.mail --timeout 60
> and my auto.mail as
> mail -rw,soft,bg mail:/var/spool/mail
> and it does mount /var/spool/mail, however all the other directories
>under /var/spool disappear. ie, lpd etc do not show
> up.
> Is there a way to correct this very undesirable behaviour?
> cheers.
Yes, mount it somewhere else and make /var/spool/mail a symbolic link
to the mount point.
Be aware that NFS mounted mail spools aren't the safest things in the
world; at the very least, Sun suggests using noac or actimeo=0 in the
NFS options (see /etc/init.d/sendmail -- this script issues a critical
syslog message if it is NFS mounted without one of these options).
IMAP and POP may be worth looking into.
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From: Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I NEED TO BOOT W/OUT A FLOPPY
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:30:13 -0000
I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 and everything works fine except
LILO. I can boot fine from a floppy but I can't see the LILO boot without
the floppy. I tried to reinstall LILO in the MBR but I don't think I did
it correctly. Please help me and info would be appreciated...
ryan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Ackman)
Subject: Re: Far too big image for my screen, PLEASE help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:44:30 -0500
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:29:34 GMT, Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>To day I tried Linux for the first time, first Storm 2000 but as I got som
>problems I tried Red Hat 6.0 instead but got the same problem.
>
>When i start Linux I get an image that's far too big for my screen, that is I
>only see the top left corner of the Linux "desktop" (if that�s what it's
>called in Linux). Does anybody know what the problem is, and especially how I
>solve it?
>
>Please help as I�ve been looking forward to finally try out Linux
This is my preferred usage. My desktop size is 1152x864 while
my screen resolution is normally at 640x480... though I often use
512x384 to "zoom in" to make an xterm full screen size.
(some games force me to "zoom out" to 1024x768)
Why anyone would want his desktop limited to screen size is
incomprehensible to me.
One way to "fix" it is to edit the appropriate screen section
of your XF86Config file to put your maximum resolution first
in the "Modes" line. Then when you startx, that resolution,
1024x768 will be come up as your default, and also having a
desktop size of 1024x768 will mean your entire desktop will fit
within the confines of your screen. Of course, everything will
be tiny.
Another approach is to try <alt><ctrl><keypad +> until you
get to the screen resolution you like.
--
Steve Ackman
http://twovoyagers.com
Registered Linux User #79430
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From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I NEED TO BOOT W/OUT A FLOPPY
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:48:47 -0800
Ryan wrote:
>
> I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 and everything works fine except
> LILO. I can boot fine from a floppy but I can't see the LILO boot without
> the floppy. I tried to reinstall LILO in the MBR but I don't think I did
> it correctly. Please help me and info would be appreciated...
>
> ryan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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I did the same thing when I installed a new hard drive one time. It
wouldn't boot without a floppy. What it was was I forgot to go into the
bios and detect the new hard drive. After that it booted up fine.
HTH
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with Linux and DSL
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:56:47 +0000
Warren Bell wrote:
> I'm going to be getting Pac Bell DSL and running it on Mandrake 7.2.
> When I signed up they said they don't support Linux but it should work.
> They also said you need their software to connect and they don't have
> software for Linux.
>
> My questin is, how do you get DSL working on Linux? With my 56k
> connection I use ppp0 and the chat script that was created through
> linuxconf. They say you need the software but usually with a regular ISP
> you can just enter in the DNS numbers and other info yourself and chuck
> the software. Can you do the same thing with DSL? It will be an
> external modem connected through an ethernet card. I'm just not sure if
> it needs a chat script and how I set it up to dial like ppp0.
>
> I'm fairly familliar with Linux but don't know anything about how DSL
> works.
>
> Thanks for any info on this.
If you have an external DSL "modem", there's nothing to it. The "modem" is
nothing more than a router. Normally, the default settings on the router
should be fine, though you may have to configure it. As far as Linux is
concerned, there is no configuration whatever, except for DNS and gateway
addresses which should be supplied by your ISP.
The real issue is security. You will want to set up your Linux box as a
firewall. There are pre-packaged firewalls available, or you can roll your
own. I recommend the former, unless you have substantial experience with
ipchains and firewalling.
If your ISP actually "requires" you to use their software, then they are
not providing you with direct Internet access, but a path to the Internet
through their proprietary "portal". If this is the case, I suggest you
find another ISP.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:16:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>| >>>>> "JCA" == JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>|
>| JCA> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>| >> but one thing bugs me about all this: so if the commies are
>| >> still in power and doing commie things, what was all that 1989
>| >> stuff?
>|
>| JCA> Are you so gullible that you think all the people that
>| JCA> were in positions of power and social influence in the former
>| JCA> Iron Curtain countries have been brushed aside for good? Or
>| JCA> to believe that whole generations that have been subjected to
>| JCA> relentless indoctrination are going to change their ways just
>| JCA> like that?
>|
>| are you so gullible that you think that NO COMMIES reached the highest
>| levels of gummint in america? are you so gullible that you believe
>| that they DID NOT cover their tracks, making it seem as if your
>| 'mmurican heritage was unsullied when in fact, it was riddled through
>| and through with goddam commie rats? sheesh, wake up.
>|
>| i'll sell ya a commie swatter for a quarter. how bout it?
What the hell does this sh*t have to do with Linux? Comeon boys and
girls - take this discussion elsewhere, as to an advocacy or alt.
politics ng.
--
Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764
Powered by Caldera Open Linux
11:14am up 1 day, 22:38, 9 users, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.08
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YALE (yet another LILO error...)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:18:00 GMT
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:44:01 -0600, Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Ok, I really hate to ask another LILO error question on Usenet, because
>it's such a FAQ, but I have never seen this one before, and I don't see
>references to it in the docs.
>
>I have a diamond fireport 40 host adapter, and a 9 gig IBM hard drive.
>I recently put RH 7.0 on this disk.
>
>With the linear option passed to LILO, I get this at boot:
>
>L
>L
>L
>L
>
>and nothing else. ?! Anybody seen this before?
>
>I noticed that the lilo shipped with RH7 has been tweaked a bit -
>perhaps that's the problem?
>
>Other details - the / partition (which contains /boot) is from cylinder
>1 to cylinder 151 on a primary partition:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/sda1 * 1 151 154608 83 Linux
>
>Also, the host adapter bios thinks the drive has 1024 cylinders, which I
>assume is a limitation of the host adapter. It's now an unsupported
>product, so I'm probably out of luck if that's the problem.
>
The 'L' is from the first stage loader. When it finishes, it puts out 'I'.
So the first stage loader never completed loading the second stage loader.
Does your disk have BIOS support? What device code is it on? (0x80, 0x81).
I am not familiar with your controller; so I can only tell you what the series
of 'L' s mean. (The first stage loader would be re-trying with each 'L'.)
Not sure what the ultimate cause might be.
--John
LILO version 21.6.1 (16-Dec-2000) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YALE (yet another LILO error...)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:22:17 GMT
Eric,
Second thoughts.
Eliminate 'linear'. Let LILO do the mapping of disk geometry. And be sure
the BIOS and LILO report the same Cylinders/Heads/Sectors.
The utility diskette with the LILO distribution ("make floppy") will help with
this diagnosis. Get more information from the boot installation with:
/sbin/lilo -v <n> n = 1.. 5
--John
LILO version 21.6.1 (16-Dec-2000) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: "Christopher C. Stump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: iptables & 2.4.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:29:23 -0600
Greetings,
I've run into a problem with firewalling under the 2.4.0 kernel on Red
Hat 6.2 .
My build of the kernel went smoothly. I compiled in the option for
NetFilter so that I could use iptables. Under the NetFilter
configuration options, I selected everything as modules except ipchains
and ipfwdm(?) support. After kernel installation I downloaded the
iptables package and installed it.
>From what I understand, that is all I need to do. However, when I try
to test iptables with a rule specified towards the loopback device
(iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DROP...test as seen in the
iptables HOWTO), I get the following error message:
"iptables v1.2: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who?
(do you need to insmod?)Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be
upgraded."
Now, I have checked and double checked my kernel configuration to make
sure it is correct--I've recompliled the kernel at least twice since
encountering this problem. And like I said, all the proper options for
NetFilter support seem to be in place. The 'support for NetFilter'
option under "networking" in xconfig is set to 'Y' and all NetFilter
config options (expcept the 2 specified above) were selected as
modules. Of course, all modules were built and installed after 'make
bzImage' at kernel compilation.
One interesting thing to note is that when I run the 'lsmod' command, I
see no modules loaded that seem to relate to packet filtering. Are
there modules that I need to manually install in order to get iptables
to work? If so, what are they? The error message seems to indicate that
some modules need to be loaded, but I thought the modules made for the
kernel were "loaded on demand" and that I didn't need to do anything.
I've searched newsgroups, read the iptables HOWTO, etc. but I've had no
luck figuring this problem out. I would very much appreciate any advice
on this issue.
Thanks in advance to all who reply
--
Christopher C. Stump
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage: http://www.thestump.net
Registered with the Linux counter, ID#183377
"Computers are like air conditioners...Once you open
Windows, they stop working correctly" -Unknown Linux User
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ramen .Worm virus and SuSE 7.0
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:33:54 GMT
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> >I may be wrong but it isn't so much redhat as it is wu-ftpd, rpc.statd,
> >and LPRng which are being exploited. Get any updates that Suse has and
> >block port 111 if you don't need it. Also disable wu-ftpd & LPRng if you
> >aren't using them and use a firewall.
>
> The story I read said that the worm checked to see if the OS was
> RedHat and that it didn't exploit non-RedHat systems.
True, but if you are running the same version of the programs it is
exploiting then it could possibly be turned on other distro's as well if
the code was changed. Even a CRACKER might exploit it which would be
worse yet.
Care to risk it??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: No space left on device for /var filesystem
Date: 26 Jan 2001 05:38:25 GMT
In <94qeii$96i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bhaskar Bose) writes:
]For some strange reason I cannot write to /var anymore.
]It complains that "No space left on device". However,
]there is plenty of free space left on the device .
]According to df, it says that there is 800Megs free.
]I am running Redhat 6.1.
Look in /var/log/* directoies for a whole whole mass of files. You have
probely set up logrotate.d files improperly. Do NOT use
/var/log/blab.*
as a directive. This will rotate all files, including rotations of
previous files. This fills u pthe inodes of a disk rather rapidly.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What way to backup ?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:40:13 GMT
Wong Sai-kee wrote:
>
> Currently, I'm using tar. I tried dump, and studied cpio, etc. But it
> seems using tar with tape device is simple and serve the purpose.
>
> But the tar basically doesn't support incremental backup, so I have
> to do total backup every time. Even the r and u keys need to go
> through the whole tape from the beginning, so its time consuming.
>
> Any better approach for incremental backup / synchronization across
> archive / file systems ?
>
> SK
You might find these scripts to be helpful. They also include
incremental backups.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/backup/backup-1.03.tar.gz
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't play video CD at Mandrake
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:29:24 GMT
Try http://xine.sourceforge.net/ for VCD player.
Carfield Yim wrote:
> As title, when I use XMMS smpeg plugin to play, it just skip the file. Then I
> try to copy the file to local disk, it reply: I/O error. I mount the cdrom
> as iso 9660, anything wrong?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with archiving to tape
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:51:20 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am using a SCSI tape drive that uses standard data cartidges (DC6525).
>
> I created an archive on the tape using tar with the -W option to verify the
> archive. It streams along, gets to the end of the tape, then streams back
> the other way. When it gets to the last file, it "shoe shines" for a few
> minutes. It then begins to verify the files and streams along. When it gets
> to the last file it says "tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: Input/Output error"
> and repeats this several times. Then it says "tar: too many errors, quitting"
> and "tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now".
>
> The cartridge is new. I retensioned it a couple of times before I used it
> and also made some small test archives on the tape and had no problems.
> After having problems with the large archive, I erased the tape, retensioned
> it a couple of more times, and wrote the archive to the tape over again
> and I still had the same problem as before.
>
> Does the "shoe shining" indicate a problem writing to the tape or is this
> normal behaviour? Is it possible that after retensioning a tape several times
> that it still could be too loose? Any ideas on possible defects in the tape
> or the drive?
>
> TIA
The last file of the archive was truncated. The archive was made from the
contents
of a directory. I added one file to the directory, which became the new last
file.
I recreated the archive. This time it got past the orignal last file, but
reported
I/O errors when it got to the new last file which was truncated. The previous
last
file extracted okay, but the current last file did not.
This second attempt should have caused the tape to run past the spot where it
had
stopped last time. This appears to indicate that it wasn't a bad spot on the
tape.
I made a third attempt to make the archive, but this time I changed the blocking
factor. On previous attempts, I had used the default which, according the the
info
pages is 20. On this last attempt I used a blocking factor of 128 and tar
reported
no errors when creating the archive, but it still "shoe shines" for a few
minutes
when it gets to the last file before verifying.
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