Linux-Misc Digest #853, Volume #27 Mon, 14 May 01 07:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: configuring sound on debian stable ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: mail sends, but does not receive ("Peter T. Breuer")
passwd file locked ("Powerpro")
Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: eject privilege (Leonard Stiles)
Re: printtool ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Problem with ATA100 disk ("Pierre-Yves Morgantini")
Re: passwd file locked (David)
Recommendation for GUI e-mail client? (Bj�rn T Johansen)
Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install (Tim Haynes)
Re: kgcc, where is it in rh 7.1? ("SilentNight")
rpm - null memory pointer? Help! (Ron Le Blanc)
Re: mail sends, but does not receive ("Peter T. Breuer")
rpm memory alloc error - help! (Ron Le Blanc)
Re: date/year change on Linux (Carl Fink)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuring sound on debian stable
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:33:38 +0200
wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $ modprobe snd
> $ modprobe snd-card-cs4232 snd_port=0x534 snd_irq=5
Do it without the extra options first, to see how things go.
> (same IO & IRQ as with Redhat)
That makes no odds. It's your hardware that you need to take notice of,
not redhat.
> ERROR:
> /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-card-cs4232.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters
Indeed.
> $ dmesg
> isapnp: Card 'LT Win Modem'
> isapnp: Card 'Onboard PnP Audio'
> isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total
> snd: isapnp detection failed and probing for CS4232 is not supported
> snd: CS4232 soundcard #1 not found at 0x534 or device busy
> snd: CS4232 soundcard #2 not found or device busy
Indeed - take isapnp detection out of the kernel. Use pnpdump and
isapnp to configure the isa hardware to the irq and ioport
you desire.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mail sends, but does not receive
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:36:24 +0200
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is what I get after attempting to send a message from my server
> (ATLAS) to my workstation (ZEUS):
> tcpdump port 25
> 17:09:49.652779 eth0 < ATLAS.OAS.1123 > ZEUS.OAS.smtp: S
> 1566321197:1566321197(0) win 32120 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 16336759
> 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF)
> 17:09:49.652817 eth0 > ZEUS.OAS.smtp > ATLAS.OAS.1123: R 0:0(0) ack
> 1566321198 win 0 (DF)
Looks like it's not firewalled. Must be sendmail itself that is
not playing.
> sendmail-8.11.2-14
> According to the RELEASE-NOTES Redhat has reconfigured sendmail to only
> accept mail from the local host. However, the information they provide to
> change this behavior appears to be incorrect--since the problem remains
> (AFTER I made the suggested reconfiguration and restarted sendmail). Hence
> my original post.
> The sendmail NGs have numerous postings on this issue, but the
> recommendations simply refer to the procedure outlined in the RH
> RELEASE-NOTES, which as I've just noted don't seem to have any effect. I
> came across at least one post where the individual is continuing to have
> the same problem AFTER making the suggested changes, just as I have, so
> it's not just me.
> Perhaps it's best that I continue to monitor the sendmail NGs, as sooner or
> later someone is going to figure this one out and post the answer there.
Indeed. Or you could yank out redhats sendmail and put in your own.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Powerpro")
Subject: passwd file locked
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:51:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Hallo guys,
Today i faced a new problem in my PC. When i want to change the =
passwd (anyone's passwd or root passwd), i cann't able to do that even =
if i am logged in as root. Once upon a time, i protected my passwd files =
(both passwd and shadow) with chattr +s option and also I am having the =
/etc/.pwd.lock file.=20
First, i did, chattr to -s to password files. Second i deleted =
/etc/.pwd.lock (i tried in reverse order too). After that i sued to =
username, and tried to changed my password. But the linux never allowed =
me to change it. I tried in different ways, like putting 'passwd =
username', 'userdel -r username', 'useradd newusername' etc. But nothing =
worked out for me.
Everytime when i used the password related commands or user related =
commands, the /etc/.pwd.lock file is created automatically.
I am using Redhat 7.1 with 'no security' in the firewall option =
during setup.
I think i made a big security related mistake. Can any one of you =
tell me how to find out that BIG mistake? Please!
Thanks.
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hallo guys,</FONT></DIV>
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From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:57:51 +0200
"grendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:hXjL6.6777$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> SuSE 7.0 (2.2.16)
>
>
> At home I run Linux connected to my ISP getting an IP from them via DHCP.
> Sometimes it works great and when I look in the resolv.conf there is my
DNS
> server, search and domain all gotten via DHCP (not in rc.config). However
> sometimes when I've booted I'll start X or something and go to browse and
I
> can't get anywhere. I can ping an IP address but no name resolution. When
I
> look in resolv.conf there is nothing but the domain that I put in
rc.config
> at install. Therefore the ISP info wasn't written for some reason. Any
> ideas? Thanks in advance.
The dhcp client(usually pump or dhcpcd) starts in all runlevels?
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: eject privilege
From: Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:18:03 GMT
wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> DanH wrote:
>
> >> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Nov 30 10:22 /dev/hdc
> > chmod 666 /dev/hdc
>
> But how come I could mount /cdrom ?
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 65404 Feb 1 11:17 /bin/mount
^
mount is setuid root.
Also, you may prefer to make /dev/hdc (or whatever) 660, group "cdrom"
and add all users who should be able to access the cdrom to that
group.
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Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: printtool
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:05:31 +0200
"Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_5UK6.813$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello,
> whenever we make a change to the printer setup in the gui printtool the
> changes are not taking effect. when we go back in everything changes back
to
> what it was.
Make sure you restart lpd
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From: "Pierre-Yves Morgantini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.devel,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Problem with ATA100 disk
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:40:02 +0200
Hi,
I have setup up a cluster of 16 PC for doing computational chemistry
calculations.
All PC are built around an ASUS A7V or A7V133 motherboard, 1 GHz AMD
Athlon Thunderbird CPU, 256 MB memory and an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30 GB
UATA100 disk. I have RedHat 7.0 (kernel 2.4.0-0.26) on all the PC.
I have problems with the disks. Sometimes, the IDE light stay on and the
system
try to read on the disk during 10 to 20 seconds. The disk emits some strange
mechanical noise and the following error message is displayed on the console
:
wolf kernel: hde: dma_intr: bad DMA status
wolf kernel: hde: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
Other messages (very similar) are also displayed. Some disks are O.K. but
about half of them have this problem. Sometimes, after a big number of
retries,
the system crash. All the disk are new or have 4 months. I have also try
with
RedHat 7.1 but I observe the same type of problem. I have also try e2fsck -c
on the file system without amelioration.
The disks are connected to the Promise ATA100 controler integrated on the
motherboard and use the following parameters for the disk :
hdparm -v /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
multcount = 16 (on)
I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 59560/16/63, sectors = 60036480, start = 0
hdparm -i /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Model=IBM-DTLA-307030, FwRev=TX4OA50C, SerialNo=YKDYKFY1591
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60036480
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
Any idea or hints ? Is there some others (happy) guys who use the same
couple
motherboard/disk with succes ?
Thank you in advance for you help.
P.-Y. Morgantini
______________________________________________________________________
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University of Geneva / Department of Physical Chemistry
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: passwd file locked
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:57:58 GMT
> Powerpro wrote:
>
> Hallo guys,
>
> Today i faced a new problem in my PC. When i want to change the
> passwd (anyone's passwd or root passwd), i cann't able to do that even
> if i am logged in as root. Once upon a time, i protected my passwd
> files (both passwd and shadow) with chattr +s option and also I am
> having the /etc/.pwd.lock file.
>
> First, i did, chattr to -s to password files. Second i deleted
> /etc/.pwd.lock (i tried in reverse order too). After that i sued to
> username, and tried to changed my password. But the linux never
> allowed me to change it. I tried in different ways, like putting
> 'passwd username', 'userdel -r username', 'useradd newusername' etc.
> But nothing worked out for me.
>
> Everytime when i used the password related commands or user
> related commands, the /etc/.pwd.lock file is created automatically.
>
> I am using Redhat 7.1 with 'no security' in the firewall option
> during setup.
>
> I think i made a big security related mistake. Can any one of you
> tell me how to find out that BIG mistake? Please!
>
> Thanks.
Try "chattr -i" on /etc/passwd and other files needed like /etc/shadow,
group, gshadow
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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Completed more W/U's than 99.200% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Bj�rn T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recommendation for GUI e-mail client?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:18:51 +0200
Does anyone have any recommendation for an e-mail client I can use under
Linux? Preferrably it should be able to show HTML mail and support at
least POP3. And it doesn't matter if it is an ordinary X11 application
or KDE/GNOME application.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
BTJ
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install
Date: 14 May 2001 11:13:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Anthony DeRobertis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Norm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > but I feel it should be
> > possible to create a fully updated system in some sort of systematic
> > manner.
>
> ncftp updates.redhat.com
> ... get update for your distro ...
>
> rpm -Fhv *.rpm
Network required, and a good one at that. Here on ADSL at 40-70K/s it took
me 2.5hrs on Friday afternoon to do this. (And not from updates.redhat.com,
either, but from our colo on a jolly nice link.)
Oh, and you'll totally trample on your kernel if you do this. And RPM
itself won't thank you.
> There is no reason to do them in the order released, or one at a time.
> Let RPM work out the dependencies!
Er. I think if you read the above you'd see that's where he'd gone wrong.
If you really get stuck with these packages, and, worse still, with broken
packages where symbols get redefined in different directions, then you can
always grab the source-RPMs and compile them from there.
~Tim
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From: "SilentNight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kgcc, where is it in rh 7.1?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:26:38 +0900
"Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bluesky wrote:
>
> > I also check, and install all compat*.*, in both cd 1 & 2, they seem
> > to be different, yet the message is that they are already installed.
> >
> > Can I just rename the reference in Makefile from gcc to kgcc,
> > as some gentleman pointed out some time ago ?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > SN
> >
> > ---
> >
> > "Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> John Doe wrote:
> >>
> >> > Can someone tell me how I
> >> > can install kgcc for redhat 7.1?
> >> >
> >> > I looked under RPMS directories
> >> > with cheapbytes cds 1 and 2 and
> >> > cannot find anything named kgcc
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >>
> >> Look under 'compat'
> >>
> >
> >
>
> Here are the compat packages which I have installed
>
> compat-egcs-g77-6.2-1.1.2.14
> compat-egcs-c++-6.2-1.1.2.14
> compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
> compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.14
> compat-libs-6.2-3
> compat-libstdc++-6.2-2.9.0.14
> compat-egcs-objc-6.2-1.1.2.14
>
> If you don't have the compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.14 installed, then you don't
> have kgcc.
>
Thank you very much. It is very helpful for me to check mine.
SN
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From: Ron Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpm - null memory pointer? Help!
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:48:00 GMT
When trying to install various rpm files I keep getting the
following error message:
[root@localhost download]# rpm -ivh acroread-4.05-6.i386.rpm
Preparing... memory alloc (3368454250 bytes) returned NULL.
The above error when trying the install Adobe's acroread program.
It is not the only package that this happens to. Does anyone have
a solution to fix this problem?
Oh, I'm running Redhat 7.1, on a Pentium III @ 733 MHZ, with
128 Mbytes of memory.
Thanks!
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"A very happy Linux advocate!"
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mail sends, but does not receive
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:34:51 +0200
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Weiss wrote:
>> The RH default installation of sendmail now dissallows remote
>> connections. Look in /etc/mail for sendmail.mc and go down to the bottom
>> of that file and you'll see directions for opening it to remote
>> connections. After commenting out the "offending" line, you have to run
>> the command:
>>
>> m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
>>
> That doesn't work. I read the RELEASE-NOTES and checked the sendmail NG.
> NONE of the suggestions/instructions solves the problem. I've tried
> reconfiguring sendmail, editing hosts.allow, etc. The error I get is
> "relaying denied" or something to that effect (I've deleted the messages).
Oh, that's DIFFERENT!
You are trying to relay through the machine to another destination. Don't.
(it's also possible that you are trying to send TO the machine, and
the machine doesn't know its own name because of fouled up dns or
/etc/hosts and the remedy is clear - either way, these are your problems,
not redhat's).
Peter
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From: Ron Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpm memory alloc error - help!
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:52:47 GMT
When trying to install various rpm files I keep getting the
following error message:
[root@localhost download]# rpm -ivh acroread-4.05-6.i386.rpm
Preparing... memory alloc (3368454250 bytes) returned NULL.
The above error when trying the install Adobe's acroread program.
It is not the only package that this happens to. Does anyone have
a solution to fix this problem?
Oh, I'm running Redhat 7.1, on a Pentium III @ 733 MHZ, with
128 Mbytes of memory.
Thanks!
--
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux User #55717
"A very happy Linux advocate!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: date/year change on Linux
Date: 14 May 2001 11:01:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 May 2001 05:34:49 GMT Waldermar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know I can use date to change time/date, but I couldn't find a way to
>only update the year part... Each time I change time I need to put complete
>string for the time/date. Is there a way to do it?
Write a tiny script?
Personally I just use rdate. Others swear by ntp or chrony (and probably
other program I've never heard of.)
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Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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