Linux-Misc Digest #7, Volume #28 Sat, 2 Jun 01 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Weird Lilo error (was Re: can't install 2.2.19 kernel) (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Re: advise for hardware raid. ("Chuck Chargin Jr.")
how to create .forward file to redirect my email ... (sakthi vadivel)
Re: remotely changing OS (Lew Pitcher)
Re: 2GB File size limitation (Aniartia)
Re: bind - could I use something less complicated (Dean Thompson)
Mklinux installer troubles. "bunzip2: couldn't allocate enough (Jeffrey Regier)
Re: bind - could I use something less complicated (None)
Re: remotely changing OS (D. Birchall)
Re: System hang under heavy I/O (Bob)
Re: Security issues (Federico Bravo)
Re: help compiling (parse error) (Federico Bravo)
Re: sshd - slow initializing connection (Michael Heiming)
Re: ncurses error on make menuconfig ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: killall with perl-scripts. how? ("Marc Beck")
Re: 2GB File size limitation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't boot from SCSI if IDE is on (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: 2GB File size limitation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Weird Lilo error (was Re: can't install 2.2.19 kernel)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 05:14:43 GMT
Raymond Miecznik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ok, I downloaded the source code, 2.2.19 put it into
>
>/usr/src/linux
>
>cd /usr/src/linux
>
>make mrproper
>make xconfig
>make dep
>make clean
>make bzImage
>make modules
>make modules_install
>cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
>
>up to this point everything works
>
>then I do lilo
>
>and I get this error:
>
>bash-2.04# lilo
>Fatal: Map segment is too big.
>[. . .]
I don't know how to solve your problem, but I have seen the same (or
almost the same) error message from Lilo when trying to run it under Tom's
Root Boot Disk (I forget the version number, but it was a May 2001 release).
This error occurs despite having a 125 Mbyte /boot partition as /dev/hda1,
and occurs with both the version of Lilo supplied on Tom's Root Boot Disk and
that supplied with Red Hat Linux 7.0. This error goes away if I run Lilo
under either Red Hat Linux 7.0 or the rescue mode of its installation CD.
Bizarre . . . anyone know what this error means, or a more intelligent way
to fix it?
--
Lucius Chiaraviglio
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From: "Chuck Chargin Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: advise for hardware raid.
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 05:25:16 GMT
Hi,
I am using an Adaptec 2100S with 6 Western digital drives in a raid-5.
It works great! You can find white box packages (no cables etc..) for
around
$345!
I have a dual boot system windows 2000 and Redhat 7.0 and
have had no problems. If you have Redhat 6.x be sure to read the
information
at the Adaptec web. It has important information on how to patch the OS
to avoid a data corruption problem. Redhat 7.x does not have this problem.
The only downside is that it uses a very high density connector interface
(VHDCI)
for external devices. Finding an inexpensive VHDCI cable is a pain!
Chuck Chargin Jr.
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Frank de Bot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to get a raid scsi card for my linux PC. I want to apply
> raid-5 with 3 disks (ultra160 ofcourse). Can anyone give me some advise
> which Raid controller to get?
>
> thanks in advanced,
>
> Frank de Bot!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sakthi vadivel)
Subject: how to create .forward file to redirect my email ...
Date: 1 Jun 2001 22:31:39 -0700
hi!
i want to clarify doubts with your e-mail group.i am a sys admin .we
have just switched over to linux network from win.we are facing a lot
of problems.i want to share my problems with other linux lovers.
we have hosted our website in C.A. based linux web server.we have
UTILISED just 1 MB for our web site against 5MB space.we want to
redirect our e-mail to our website.we have already one e-mail id in
bplnet.we want to redirect that e-mail box to our website.can i get
any idea about this,.?
for ex i have to forward the mails which are coming to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(our website name www.antarescorp.com)
please snd your views / suggestions to my e-mail id
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: remotely changing OS
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 05:44:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Two questions:
>
> - Is this do-able, or is it suicidal?
Is _what_ doable?
> -Where can I begin researching this?
Researching _what_?
> Thanks.
> --
>
> Dave
At best, you've given us a phrase in the Subject line ("remotely
changing OS") that's meaningless without some explanation. At worst,
you've asked two questions that each have no referants. In either case,
you are going to have to explain what it is you want to do, and ask your
questions again.
Sorry, but we're neither mind-readers, nor clairvoyant. :-(
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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From: Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 06:54:02 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My advice: just don't. Why do you need big files, anyway?
An audio enginer that uses a lot of computerised equipment.
2Gb = ~7:17 min of 32 channel audio
So when recording say a 2 hour session I expect to eat the greater part of
a 40Gb hard drive.
Ani
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.questions,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: bind - could I use something less complicated
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 16:03:54 +1000
Hi!,
[...]
>
> As a first attempt I just started bind and the clients automatically
> started working. I did no extra configuration whatsoever. I feel
> that running this may be a bit more overhead than I really need, but
> am still unsure, hence this post. Is there another way to forward dns
> request to your upstream provider even if your provider changes
> sometime midstream?
You just need to use the "forwarders" keyword in your /etc/named.conf file to
list the IP addresses of domain name servers that you want to use. Also be
aware that you don't need to use your own ISP's DNS servers to make DNS work,
you can use other IP address for other DNS's around the net. With this being
the case, you can set your forwarders to be a certain number for a ISP and
then even if you shift to another ISP company you should be able to still use
the same DNS addresses as you were before.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: Jeffrey Regier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mklinux installer troubles. "bunzip2: couldn't allocate enough
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 02:41:43 -0400
I'm trying to install mklinux DR3 on a 6100 PowerMac 60 mhz with 16 megs of
RAM. Repartioning with pdisk running on Mac OS 7.5 was successful. The drive
now has 3 partitions: 1 mac standard and 2 A/UX. After changing the
lilo.conf file to indicate that the cd-rom drive has a scsi interface, the
red hat installer sucessfully begins. However, after language and keyboard
are selected, and I have indicated that my installation cd is indeed in the
drive, I get the following error message repeatedly:
bunzip2: couldn't allocate enough memory
input file = (stdin ), output file = (stdout)
I am totally stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much.
Jeff
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.questions,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (None)
Subject: Re: bind - could I use something less complicated
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 07:09:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
inetquestion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm runing redhat 7.1 x86 and have this box setup to masq my internal
> network. Before I was running winroute with the dhcp server to set
> the clients dns server to the nat machine so that if the dns numbers
> of my provider changed, then the clients would continue to work as
> normal. Upon setting up my linux box to replace winroute I was a bit
> unsure of how to get the same effect.
>
> As a first attempt I just started bind and the clients automatically
> started working. I did no extra configuration whatsoever. I feel
> that running this may be a bit more overhead than I really need, but
> am still unsure, hence this post. Is there another way to forward dns
> request to your upstream provider even if your provider changes
> sometime midstream?
>
> Thanks,
>
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNRD is what I use....
http://members.home.com/garsh/dnrd/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. Birchall)
Subject: Re: remotely changing OS
Date: 2 Jun 2001 07:16:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> - Is this do-able, or is it suicidal?
For some definitions of "this" it is doable. Specifically:
You have multiple drive partitions with different OSes (or versions
of OSes) on them.
All of the OSes are remotely accessible via SSH or whatever.
All of the OSes are booted via a single bootloader. Say, LILO.
All of them provide you access (as root) to reconfigure the
bootloader.
So you log in, su, set the OS (or version) you're *not* using as
the "default" in the bootloader, then reboot the box. It comes
back up, you log in again, su, set the first OS to be the "default"
again, reboot again...
If this isn't what you were trying to ask, I'll vote for suicidal
instead. :)
-Dan
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From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System hang under heavy I/O
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:27:54 +1000
if its totaly freezing up in linux, then it is most likely hardware.
disable dma for all drives with /sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hd? and try again-
sometimes this fixes it.
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From: Federico Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Security issues
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 07:54:05 GMT
Have a look at comp.os.linux.security
Federico
Victor Dods wrote:
> Is there a good comprehensive online information source for linux
> security? I've just set up my computer with telnetd and wu-ftpd, and
> now I'm concerned about security.
>
> Thanks
>
> Victor Dods
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From: Federico Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help compiling (parse error)
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 08:06:35 GMT
Sometimes it's just a simple sintax error, like a forgotten bracket or
semicolon. Then all the other errors are a consequence.
Federico.
hannes achleitner wrote:
> hello, i tried to compile a programm, but I get this error:
> I cnt't solve the problem by mayself, maybe someone can helf me
> thx
> hannes
>
> cc -I.. -O -I/usr/X11/include -c -o dialog.o dialog.c
> In file included from ulib.h:16,
> from dialog.c:12:
> ../firewall.h:34: parse error before `FWTK_VERSION'
> In file included from /usr/X11/include/X11/Xaw/Paned.h:69,
> from dialog.c:20:
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Constraint.h:57: parse error before `WidgetClass'
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Constraint.h:57: warning: data definition has no
> type or storage class
> In file included from /usr/X11/include/X11/Xaw/Paned.h:70,
> from dialog.c:20:
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Xmu/Converters.h:53: parse error before `*'
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Xmu/Converters.h:73: parse error before `*'
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Xmu/Converters.h:86: parse error before `*'
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Xmu/Converters.h:92: parse error before
> `XmuCvtStringToColorCursor'
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Xmu/Converters.h:95: parse error before `XrmValue'
> /usr/X11/include/X11/Xmu/Converters.h:101: warning: data definition has
> no type or storage class
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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 10:50:27 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: sshd - slow initializing connection
[removed some (for me) not existing ng]
inetquestion wrote:
>
> I'm running redhat 7.1 and was reading an article about different
> methods of starting sshd. One problem I noticed is that the
> connection to the server is very slow. The article mentioned
> that this could be because the services is restarting evertime a
> connection is attemped instead of running all the time.
You're not running sshd from (x)inetd, are you?
> Can anyone one offer an performance tuning to sshd or maybe
> some other areas I should look into.
Mostly those problems are due to wrong/missing DNS config, try
connecting
with IP, setup /etc/hosts on both machines and check /etc/nsswitch.conf
for the right resolution order.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ncurses error on make menuconfig
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 10:36:48 +0200
S.C.H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am attempting to upgrade my RH 7.1 system kernel.
> downloading, untaring the new kernel files is fine however when i try to
> run make menuconfig i get the error :
> /usr/bin/ld - cannot find -lncurses
> collect 2: Id returned 1 exit status
> stating that it cannot find -lncurses,
> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries...
> I do have ncurses-5.2-8 installed in /usr/lib
No you don't. You have ncurses (dynamic libraries) installed, yes,
and some of the package may go in /usr/lib. But that is not enough.
Install de -devel package if you plan to compile! You need to
have libncurses.so and/or libncurses.a, plus headers. If you
check, you'll find you don't have those.
> I have run ldconfig
So? It's not relevant.
Peter
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From: "Marc Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: killall with perl-scripts. how?
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:33:16 +0200
> > I'm running a perl-script /home/user/bin/test_kill/test_kill.pl.
> >
> > When I try to kill it with the killall command like that:
> > killall test_kill.pl
> > or killall /home/user/bin/test_kill/test_kill.pl
> >
> > killall always reports that no process was killed. How can I kill
that
> > script?
> >
>
> use the PID
>
> kill PID
>
Okay, but I thought that's what killall is doing. It searches the process
table and kills all processes that are matching the search string.
Is there a simple shell script that does this for me.
cu Marc
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 02 Jun 2001 06:19:24 -0400
Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> My advice: just don't. Why do you need big files, anyway?
>
> 2Gb = ~7:17 min of 32 channel audio So when recording say a 2 hour
> session I expect to eat the greater part of a 40Gb hard drive.
Wow--impressive! Do you do that with Linux? Using what sort of software?
Len.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Can't boot from SCSI if IDE is on
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 06:09:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) writes:
[...]
>Booting from a floppy works. And also, I go into the BIOS setup, turn
>off everything it knows about IDE, boot again (from sda): works.
>So, how can I boot the machine from sda without losing access to the
>IDE drive and the ATAPI CD-ROM in it?
[...]
Short version: You can't.
Long version: Unless your BIOS offers an option to boot from
SCSI first, there's no way to do that. You could, however, set
all IDE drives in the BIOS to "none" and try whether Linux
detects your IDE drives nonetheless. This trick will AFAIK
only work with Linux and NT on the IDE drives, though.
The best way is probably hunting for a BIOS update - or a
new board.
Michael
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 02 Jun 2001 06:27:31 -0400
David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> No, I'm being serious. I was, in fact, unable to unzip the zone file
> for 'com' and had to pipe the unzip to split.
Eek. unzip must be one of the programs which won't handle 64-bit file
offsets. FTP, Samba and gunzip are also unable to cope with such large
files.
When I received a customer database almost 10GB in size, I spent several
days upgrading glibc, the kernel, and various utilities--but in the
end, the only way to copy it to my machine was to run it through a
Win32 split utility on the source box, and copy the pieces.
(Win32 can handle big files--but many Win32 utilities can't. The situation
is just as grim in M$ country.)
I suspect it'll take years to sort out, because (1) few people bother with
big files, (2) integers as file offsets are *everywhere*, and (3) there are
*almost always* alternatives to giant files, and intelligent designers will
avoid them by not encoding open-ended data stores as single files.
Len.
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