Linux-Misc Digest #936, Volume #27 Thu, 24 May 01 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: LILO limit still there? (Leonard Evens)
Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why? (J�rgen Diez)
adsl and ppp ("MrEye")
Re: Mount a Windows printer in Linux with Samba. (Michael Heiming)
Re: Sort of urgent: Recreating boot disk ("Michael Pye")
Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts ("KW")
Re: XWindows desktop not fully coming up. Please help? (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: @Home setup SO SLOW (Neil Cherry)
Re: automatic raising of X windows in RHL 7.1 w/ GNOME (John Hunter)
rpm package building problems ("jim")
Re: ls won't diplay filenames of files d/l'ed with Netscape (Kwan Lowe)
Re: IPSec SWAN? (Dragan Colak)
Re: Mount a Windows printer in Linux with Samba. ("Jay")
Re: XTerm Question ("Jay")
Re: cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel (Roger Lindmark)
Re: @Home setup SO SLOW (LRW)
Translation ("JFL")
Re: LILO limit still there? (John in SD)
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO limit still there?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:11:20 -0500
Glitch wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Vladimir Florinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I was installing RH7.1 for someone who has some version of Windows (60GB
> > disk) and the installer would not go past the partitioning step, saying
> > / is above 1024 cylinders, etc., you know the routine. My understanding
> > is that in LILO this limit was lifted quite a while ago. Is Red Hat so
> > far behind the times? Or is there another reason?
> >
>
> i don't think *any* distro is including the version of LILO that has this
> fixed but I could be wrong.
You are wrong. RedHat has included it since RH7.0. But in some
cases, the lilo.conf file created during installation doesn't work,
so one must boot from the boot floppy created during installation
fix lilo.conf and rerun /sbin/lilo. The fix is usually done by
replacing the linear option with lba32.
> Find a way to install linux and then download a
> new version of LILO....or download LILO, compile it on a different PC and
> bring it over possibly to the PC u are installing Linux on now.
>
> why not rearrange the partitions so that a small 10-15 meg partition is
> at the beginning of the drive and can be used as a /boot partition for
> linux?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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Subject: Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J�rgen Diez)
Date: 24 May 2001 16:06:11 GMT
I've no old qt installation on my system.
i've a symlink /usr/local/qt -> /usr/local/qt-2.3.0
libqt.so points to /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.2.3.0
and $QTDIR is also set correctly
--
*** email: replace '-antispam-' by 'uni' ***
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From: "MrEye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: adsl and ppp
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:24:16 -0400
I have an adsl modem as well as a 56k modem. I can connect both of them at
the same time. But when browsing it always seem to download the data from
the 56K modem. Is it possible to have it first search the adsl connection
then the 56K connection.
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:12:54 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mount a Windows printer in Linux with Samba.
Eric Chow wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a dummy in using Samba.
Then get some good book about samba and stop posting the same questions
to different ng, if you don't like the answer you get in one.
I.e. there is no step by step instruction for you.
This is usenet, no help desk were you pay for help,
others are willing to help you, but you have to
do your homework on your own.
Michael Heiming
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From: "Michael Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sort of urgent: Recreating boot disk
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:17:41 +0100
"michael james obrien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Get the redhat install disk. Put it in the machine you need a boot disk
> for. at the LILO prompt type
> linux root=/dev/hda2 ro
The install disk goes straight into the install process no matter what I
type (it is a floppy, the CD can't boot on my system, it was downloaded and
burned as packages...)
I tried it with the other lilo disk and it got a kernel panic when it tried
to mount it, failed because of incorrect or unsupported options...
I'm guessing the 2.0.x kernel used to create the old lilo disk was missing
some improvements to the filing system...
Any other ideas?
Thanks for your help
MP
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:54:54 -0500
I've noticed this and confirmed with two other users... If you have an
acer 40X CD-ROM model 640A-272 you probably WON'T get RH7.1 to install
without a factory pressed CD.
--
KW
In article <9eh7u4$guf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "alik blochin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i am going just crazy... guys :
>
> i am trying to install rh 7.1 for god knows what time and still without
> success :
>
> the installation gets stacked at the point of : "transferring install
> image to harddrive"
>
> and it gives the error
> "it was an error, maybe you haven't got enough free space" or something
> like that but that's not true:
>
> i have a 14 GB allocated just for linux 512MB swap
> / 7GB
> /usr all the rest
>
>
> i tried all the option available :
> disk druid
> fdisk
> with all options with those tools
>
> nothing just helps
> the system hangs on the point of
> "transferring install image to harddrive"
>
> it's driving me nuts....
> what the hell i am suppose to do to get it work !!!!?????????
>
> I know that if i turn to Red Hat
> god knows when i'll get an answer....
>
> if somebody knows something please help.. i need to install it...
>
> and i don't want to mess with mandrake mandrake just freezes on my
> machine...
>
> Configuration:
>
> 900mHZ AMD
> Chaintech motherboard 7AJA
> 20GB WD +
> 30GB Quantum : 14GB for linux
>
>
>
>
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: XWindows desktop not fully coming up. Please help?
Date: 24 May 2001 17:10:46 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, and one other question, how will "ps wux" help? I tried it on my working
> Linux box and it comes up with (among a lot of other things)
> [startx]
> [xinit]
> /etc/X11/X :0 -auth /root/.Xauthority
> kwm
> and so on. What's this supposed to telle me?
It's supposed to tell you what window manager is running, if you
know how to read it. I'm guessing you do to some extent, because you were
able to pick out some relevant lines. See that "kwm"? That's, well, KWM,
the K Window Manager that comes with KDE, so that's the window manager
that's running.
JDW
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: @Home setup SO SLOW
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:35:57 GMT
On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:26:38 -0500, LRW wrote:
>I'd ask the @Home newsgroups, unfortunately you have to be connected to
>@Home to access their newsgroups, and the following problem is
>preventing me from doing so. =P
>
>I can get connected to the @Home service, and can even ping out and
>resolve addresses, etc, but my x-fer rate is no more than about 2kbps!
>And stalls out constantly.
>
>There's a GREAT reference page at
>http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html
>which I followed, but it doesn't help.
>No change in performance from when all I had was a host name a default
>gateway to when I put in all the rest of the info.
>
>Can anyone who has a good connection using cable modem give me some
>pointers?
>Like for Host, go ahead and use the full c123456-a.xxxx.mo.home.com or
>just use c123456-a, use DHCP or BOOTP, etc.
>There are some odd discrepancies too. My IPCOFIG /ALL under WIndows
>(before Windows crashed) gave me my default gateway etc...and it ends in
>a .1. But the network settings has my domain set as ending in .0 and no
>way to change it.
I'm using RH 6.x (upgraded over 10 years from Slackware 1.x, don't
ask).
Here's my /etc/resolv.conf
search x.xx.home.com
nameserver 01.2.3.4
nameserver 01.2.3.3
and here is my nsswitch.conf
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files
#hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
hosts: files
services: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
networks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
protocols: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
rpc: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
netmasks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
bootparams: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
netgroup: files
publickey: files
I also have a firewall in place (which is why I dont' clean my junk up
a little better) and TCPD and IP Chains.
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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Subject: Re: automatic raising of X windows in RHL 7.1 w/ GNOME
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 May 2001 11:50:09 -0500
>>>>> "J" == J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> Hello, Run Control Center then look under Sawfish window
J> manager/focus behavior or click on window manager, select
J> sawfish, select run configuration tool for sawfish, select
J> focus. Or from the Gnome menu, Programs/Setting/Sawfish window
J> manager/Focus behavior.
I did both of these things and could not find the setting for
autoraise. What is the mystery phrase that I am looking for?
Thanks for the response,
JDH
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm package building problems
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:00:43 -0400
I'm trying to build an RPM package. I have 2 library files (e.g. libabc.a
and libxyz.a) that are required by the executables (in addition to system
libraries), so when rpm -bb runs the find-requires script, it determines
these files are required.
The build works and creates the rpm package file.
Then when I do the rpm --install of the package file, I get the message:
error: failed dependencies:
libabc.a is needed by XXX-2.0-0
libxyz.a is needed by XXX-2.0-0
If I put "AutoReqProv: no" in my spec file, it works OK. This would be
fine, except this also disables dependency checking for system libraries
also.
I've even tried copying the libabc.a and libxyz.a files into /usr/lib before
running the install. Same error.
If I do a ldd on one of the executables I get this:
ldd /opt/xxxprod/myexecutable
/home/build/lib/libabc.a => /home/build/lib/libabc.a (0x40018000)
/home/build/lib/libxyz.a => /home/build/lib/libxyz.a (0x40145000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40164000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40289000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
This is also puzzling. Can this "hard-coded" path (/home/build) be causing
the problem. I think not because I am installing on the same machine I
built on and this path and files are still there. I copy the executable
images from /home/dbuild to /opt/xxxprod before running the rpm -bb on it.
In my makefile, I use -L/home/build/lib -labc.a so I'm not sure why this
"hard-coded" path is showing up.
Is there a way to do this without modifying the find-requires script?
Thanks,
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ls won't diplay filenames of files d/l'ed with Netscape
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:05:43 GMT
Andrew Nesbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all, I am having a slight problem here in that I have a few files I
> downloaded using Netscape 4.77. I used 'save as' etc etc and they get
> saved properly, it's jsut that when I use 'ls' or 'ls -la', the actual
> name of the file is missing from the display!
> if i pipe the output thru 'less' then I can see the names, but this
> gets really annoying. How can I see these filenames? And how do I
> prevent this from happening in the future.
Weird... It sounds like you might have the color option turned on for ls. Piping
it through less might remove the esc codes for the colors.
Try:
unalias ls
and then do your ls.
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IPSec SWAN?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:17:08 +0200
> Can a Linux-box use Free S/WAN and conventional networking
> simultaneously?
Yes, assuming your network device is eth0 there will be added one
more network device called ipsec0, which is an alias to your eth0.
You then have the free choice which "network device" you want
to use for your connections, eth0 for standard communication or
ipsec0 for encrypted transmissions.
Dragan
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From: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mount a Windows printer in Linux with Samba.
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:20:30 GMT
Use the Printtool to map the SMB printer.
"Eric Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ej2di$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I am a dummy in using Samba.
>
> I want to map a Windows Printer to use in Linux. How can I do this with
> Samba ?
>
> My Simple home network is like following :
>
>
> LinuxBox(192.168.0.1) (Samba Server)
> |
> |
> --------------------------------------------------
-
> |
> |
> |
> |
> Windows98 Windows 2000
> Professonal
> (192.168.0.100)
> (192.168.0.101)
>
>
> Would you please to teach me how I can map both printers connect in
> 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.101 ?
>
> I want to map the Printer in 192.168.0.100 to LinuxBox with identity
> PRINTER_100 and map the Printer in 192.168.0.101 to LinuxBox with identity
> PRINTER_101.
>
>
> So that in the LinuxBox, I can use "lpr __file_name_ PRINTER_100" or "lpr
> __file_name_ PRINTER_101" to print files to different printers that mount
in
> the LinuxBox ?
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XTerm Question
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:20:30 GMT
Also, there's X-Win32 from downloadable from StarNet, which is much easier
to work with than Exceed. If you are talking from a corporate supported
perspective get Exceed which includes FTP and Telnet sessions.
"Robert A. Uhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 00:21:59 GMT,
> Buck Turgidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry if this is a dumb question. Is there a way to run Xterm on a
> > MS Windows machine, so I can access a linux machine running X, kinda
> > like PC Anywhere or Reachout?
>
> Not a dumb question. There is a product called exceed (which doesn't)
> which provides this fuctionality. It's not the most fun to get
> working, but it does work. If all you need is simple access, though,
> SSH works great.
>
> --
> Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> One could spend *all day* customizing the title bar. Believe me. I speak
> from experience. --Matt Welsh
>
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From: Roger Lindmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails only with 2.4.x kernel
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:30:45 +0200
Chris Sherman wrote:
I have an AHA-1542B SCSI-card with a scanner connected and an IDE-CDRW
Philips CDD 3610. I have compiled a 2.4.4 kernel with the SCSI-card and
SCSI-emulation driver integrated. The scanner works very well with XSane,
but the IDE-CDRW with CDRToaster and compiled CDRecord results always in a
lockup of the system after burn and I have to reboot. XCDRoast is not
usable at all due to permission problems and probably a bug in this program.
Sincerely Yours
Roger
--
Roger Lindmark
OS/2 Warp 4.06
RedHat 7.1
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From: LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: @Home setup SO SLOW
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:32:24 -0500
Obviously the IP and the x's in domain are changed and I'll use mine,
but where you have "files" it actually says "files"?
I'm not in front of the machine in question to look at it, but shouldn't
there be more under hosts at least? Or whatabout where you put in your
host name (c12345-a) or IP? Don't you need the host name somewhere
whether you're static or DHCP?
Oh I'm still going to give this a try when I get home! I'll try anything
that doesn't involve small woodland creatures.
I'm just thinking that there's so much more that might be needed...but
then, that might be part of my problem.
(But I still can't imagine that you don't have to tell it the gateway at
least.)
Thanks for your help!! =)
Liam
Neil Cherry wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:26:38 -0500, LRW wrote:
> >I'd ask the @Home newsgroups, unfortunately you have to be connected to
> >@Home to access their newsgroups, and the following problem is
> >preventing me from doing so. =P
> >
> >I can get connected to the @Home service, and can even ping out and
> >resolve addresses, etc, but my x-fer rate is no more than about 2kbps!
> >And stalls out constantly.
> >
> >There's a GREAT reference page at
> >http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html
> >which I followed, but it doesn't help.
> >No change in performance from when all I had was a host name a default
> >gateway to when I put in all the rest of the info.
> >
> >Can anyone who has a good connection using cable modem give me some
> >pointers?
> >Like for Host, go ahead and use the full c123456-a.xxxx.mo.home.com or
> >just use c123456-a, use DHCP or BOOTP, etc.
> >There are some odd discrepancies too. My IPCOFIG /ALL under WIndows
> >(before Windows crashed) gave me my default gateway etc...and it ends in
> >a .1. But the network settings has my domain set as ending in .0 and no
> >way to change it.
>
> I'm using RH 6.x (upgraded over 10 years from Slackware 1.x, don't
> ask).
>
> Here's my /etc/resolv.conf
>
> search x.xx.home.com
> nameserver 01.2.3.4
> nameserver 01.2.3.3
>
> and here is my nsswitch.conf
>
> passwd: files
> shadow: files
> group: files
>
> #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
> hosts: files
>
> services: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> networks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> protocols: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> rpc: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> ethers: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> netmasks: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
> bootparams: files [NOTFOUND=return] files
>
> netgroup: files
>
> publickey: files
>
> I also have a firewall in place (which is why I dont' clean my junk up
> a little better) and TCPD and IP Chains.
>
> --
> Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
> http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: "JFL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Translation
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:45:59 +0200
Does anyone know of a program or website which enables me to translate a
Danish text string to English ?
Best regards Jacob
--
[ www.eksperten.dk ] Scandinavias biggest IT forum.
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO limit still there?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:53:04 GMT
On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:11:20 -0500, Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Glitch wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> "Vladimir Florinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I was installing RH7.1 for someone who has some version of Windows (60GB
>> > disk) and the installer would not go past the partitioning step, saying
>> > / is above 1024 cylinders, etc., you know the routine. My understanding
>> > is that in LILO this limit was lifted quite a while ago. Is Red Hat so
>> > far behind the times? Or is there another reason?
>> >
>>
>> i don't think *any* distro is including the version of LILO that has this
>> fixed but I could be wrong.
>
>You are wrong. RedHat has included it since RH7.0. But in some
>cases, the lilo.conf file created during installation doesn't work,
>so one must boot from the boot floppy created during installation
>fix lilo.conf and rerun /sbin/lilo. The fix is usually done by
>replacing the linear option with lba32.
Leonard has the answer.
RH is distributing a version of lilo derived from 21.4.4; however, their
installation procedures do not allow you to include the "lba32" option at the
start of 'lilo.conf'. This is the option which enables the 32-bit sector
addressing.
Your BIOS must support this addressing; but if your system is recent enough to
support a 60Gb disk, then you should be okay.
--John
LILO version 21.7 (24-Feb-2001) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches to -2 at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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