Linux-Setup Digest #6, Volume #19 Tue, 27 Jun 00 04:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lost LILO after installed new window. (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
Re: setting up loopback problem (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
Re: Gateway/Proxy server (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
Re: phpMyAdmin error (Carsten Huettl)
ppp setup (Bob Holtzman)
Re: Cable TV Montgomery Expressnet problems (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
Re: Color telnet and other confusions (C Sanjayan Rosenmund)
plink in SuSE (Chris Hegan)
Re: Remote X login to linux server ??? ("X-Static")
Re: Cant create a partition with disk druid?? (newbie (Eric)
Re: Linux install #38....Still blinky video (Eric)
Re: Lilo & memory ("Ozetechnology")
Re: HELP!!!!! I'm at my wits end! ("Ozetechnology")
Re: does linux work with windows 98 (Villy Kruse)
Re: Lost LILO after installed new window. (Villy Kruse)
Re: What is this message???????? (Villy Kruse)
Postscript printing using serial port (Koenraad Van Nieuwenhove)
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost LILO after installed new window.
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:12:42 -0700
Villy Kruse wrote:
>
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:39:51 GMT, Kevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Lost LILO after installed new window.
> >I am recently installed new window.
> >I originally have been installed win 98 and Linux RH.
> >but I recently installed winNT.
> >the problem is:
> >after I installed window, I afraid I will lost LILO.
> >Because I encounter this problem before.
> >So is there a way that I can call the LILO back?
> >or boot into Linux Redhat?
> >Thank You Very Much.
> >
> >P.S.: How do I make linux boot disk in linux?
> >I am using RH 6.0.
> >Thank You.
>
> Install lilo on the first lilo partition. Then it is a simple matter
> to make this linux partition active using DOS fdisk to get lilo back.
>
> Villy
Actually, he *seems* to have lilo already set up. so he just needs to
run
/sbin/lilo and all _should_ be well. . . .
--
Sanjay
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up loopback problem
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:13:34 -0700
Denis Sevee wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for the reply. When I enter "insmod lo" I get the message
> "no module found by that name". Does this mean I have to recompile
> my kernel (I'm using Mandrake 6.1).
>
> Thanks again,
> denis sevee
yes.
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Sanjay
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gateway/Proxy server
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:30:44 -0700
Sciamachy wrote:
>
> Now, for the next step, what I want to do is this: Say my
> wife is sat at her machine, doing her thing, and she wants
> to get on the internet. At the moment, all she can do (she
> doesn't have her own modem) is, assuming I'm already dialled
> in from my Linux box, telnet into her account on my machine,
> and fire up lynx, pine, BitchX or whatever. What I want is
> for her to be able to click on Internet Explorer in Win95,
> and it fire up in such a way that it'll try to route all its
> requests for web pages, ftp, etc, through my Linux box. When
> it does that, I need it to check to see if it has ppp up,
> and if so use it, and if not, dial my ISP - all without her
> having to telnet in or anything. Also, I want to be able to
> share files between the two computers and OSs.
All of this can be done, easily (relitivly)
> Now, I realise that's a fairly tall order, but I'm patient,
> and have been at this internet thing a few years so I know
> at least the basic theory. What programs/daemons etc would
> be involved in the above, on my Linux box? What HOWTOs
> should I read? Are there any really good books that cover
> what I want to do?
It is not really that tall of an order at all. Many of us are doing
that now. Look into IP Masquerade (to allow your wife's computer to
use *your* IP address), diald or PPP (demand dialing) (to allow your
computer to automaticaly dial your ISP when there is a request for
"outside information") and samba (to allow easy file/printer sharing
with your wife's computer)
These are places to start (that *is* what you asked for. . .) and I
_believe_ there is a howto for each. Check http://www.linuxdoc.org
for more info.
Good luck!
--
Sanjay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carsten Huettl)
Subject: Re: phpMyAdmin error
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:34:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 00:38:06 +0800, "badduck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>You may need to activate mysql support for your php3 installation.
>php3 comes with many many useful interface, by default, not all of them are
>activated.
>
Postgresql support is enabled/activated as my phpinfo shows.
C.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Holtzman)
Subject: ppp setup
Date: 27 Jun 2000 05:39:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-No Archive-yes
After setting up ppp with linuxconf it worked well with Gnome's usernet
applet. Next I decided to set it up so I could use it from the command
line. I configured /etc/chat and ppp-on but when I tried to connect it
failed with the following log message:
Jun 26 15:57:22 localhost pppd[651]: pppd 2.3.11 started by bholtzm,
uid 500
Jun 26 15:57:22 localhost pppd[651]: Failed to open /dev/modem:
Permission denied
Jun 26 15:57:22 localhost pppd[651]: Exit.
What I don't understand is why it opens /dev/modem, which is of course
just a link to ttyS1, using usernet but not ppp-on? Both ppp-on and chat
are user executable and ttyS1 is the same for usernet and ppp-on.
I'm missing something. Anyone have an answer? Thanks in advance
--
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
...check the price of the beer!"
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable TV Montgomery Expressnet problems
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:43:08 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I live in Montgomery County and have been unsuccessful in getting it to
> work. I got one hint from the LDP
> (http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html) but,
> that didn?t work. I followed all the instructions about PAP, adding
> routes (except when I execute route add -net 10.0.0.0 I get a SICOATTR
> error), etc. I have logged all I can and the most I can figure is that
> after my username and password is entered (and pppd reports and serial
> connection established) Ex-pressnet comes with ?Backup Authentication?
> at which point pppd reports ?alarm? and sends two ?^M? and a modem hang
> up occurs. I know this has to do with PAP however, I don?t know how Ex-
> pressnet expects the PAP stuff or if a second Authentication is
> occurring because after ?Backup authentication? Ex-pressnet gives that
> gibberish (~&^$%&) that you get just before making a proper PPP
> connection, except it just hangs up. Please, is there any help you can
> offer me?
> I am running RedHat 6.1 on a Pentium 100mhz with a Tulip based Ethernet
> card, and a ZOOM ISA PNP modem (fully functional on non cable modem PPP
> connections). Hey I just want my cable modem up so I can use my linux
> box as a firewall like I did when I used Earthlink. Having a win98
> machine be my front gate just makes me uncomfortable.
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Well, here are a few starting places:
why are you using pppd? Does your cable-modem-ISP require it? Or do
they use DHCP (or a static IP)? If they require (for whatever reason)
a ppp connection, you need to get PPPoE (the one I use is from Raging
Penguin) and configure that. Your connection to your cable-modem-ISP
is through your *ethernet* card, not through your modem. That is how
they get the extra speed. I have not heard of cable-modem-ISPs using
PPPoE, however, so your most likely path is DHCP or static IP.
Contact your cable-modem-ISP to see if IP addresses are dynamic (DHCP)
or static. Then mail me and I will help you set it up. If you need
dynamic IP, you need to get dhcpcd from the install CD. I can help
you with this as well. . ..
--
Sanjay
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From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Color telnet and other confusions
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:51:59 -0700
Draco Ravenloft wrote:
>
> I;ve been using linux for awhile now, and have figured out most every
> little funky quirk and bug, at least as far as RH and Mandrake are
> concerned.... save 2.
>
> The one that annoys me the most is that when I remotely telnet to my
> system it doesn't broadcast color ANSI.. it does a bit more of a raw,
> b/w text thing. Is there no way to change this? I'd like to telnet
> into my machine and see both color, and things like midnight commander
> and all that.
First you need a terminal program that is *capable* of ANSI color.
(most are *not*)
> The other confusion is that, I've heard Winderz32 can actually manage to
> somehow run an Xwindows session remotely through telnet or something.
> Some people have said they doing simply by putting in the config.sys
> DISPLAY=24 others say it involves various x commands...... I guess I
> just need to know 1) is it possible. 2) how is it accomplished with
> Mandrake 7.0?
In order to do this you need to have an X server running on the
windows box. Hummingbird's Exceed is one such application (and also
comes with the aforementioned color capable term.) There are others,
but Exceed is the one that I used. . .
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From: Chris Hegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: plink in SuSE
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:00:27 +1200
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Trying to make jpilot work in SuSE, I have installed the 'plink'
package, which is extravagantly described as a really cool package to
synchronise with your Palm pilot. Well, it isn't.
However I do prefer SuSE over Red Hat, although on RH making pilot-link
work is a no-brainer.
When I try to sync my palm device via jpilot, I get an error message:
pi_bind Input/output error
Check your serial port and settings.
I have searched the files in the plink package but cannot find any
reference to pi-bind.
I have placed a symlink in /dev linking /dev/pilot to /dev/ttys0.
No dice.
Any suggestions?
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From: "X-Static" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,sg.linux
Subject: Re: Remote X login to linux server ???
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:45:26 +0800
Try Xmanager32 from tucows... It's pretty damn easy to setup... Install it,
start it, do a rlogin to ya linux box.open xterm type whatever you type to
start your X window manager...
"Jeremy Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anyone has any idea how I may do a remote X login to a linux server from a
> windoz box. I wish to see the same X login display like I am in front of a
> linux terminal presenting to me an X login.
>
> thanx there :-)
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant create a partition with disk druid?? (newbie
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 06:28:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Trent,
I'm making a guess here, and I'm not sure if it's the cause of you're
problems, but is the 5G drive connected as /dev/hdc?. IIRC (some/all?)
bios'es cannot boot from anything but hda and hdb, so it might be so
that diskdruid
-in order to prevent you from making an unbootable system- doesn't allow
you to create a /boot on /dev/hdc. Connect the HDD as /dev/hdb and see
if that resolves the problem.
In case you don't know this yet:
primary IDE controller : master = /dev/hda
slave = /dev/hdb
secondary IDE controller: master = /dev/hdc
slave = /dev/hdd
Eric
Trent Cook wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> I figured the best way to get out of my linux mess, was a complete fresh
> install. Guess not, cause here is my problem:
>
> I have 2 hard drives: one 13gig cut up for windows and one 5gig cut up for
> linux.
>
> The problem is that I can only create a swap partion on my 5 gig drive. I
> have deleted all partitions in fdisk, disk druid, linux fdisk, delpart etc
> etc and every time I come to disk druid in the setup. It says that I have
> 100% free space on my 5 gig drive, but when I try to create a /boot or a /
> root drive it says there isnt enough space.
>
> Oddly enough I can create swap files (as many , or as big as I want with the
> 5 gig drive?)
>
> Why cant I make any other drives? I tried creating them with fdisk and
> converting to linux but no go.
>
> I did an Fdisk /mbr as well (just cause i ran out of things to try) but
> nothing.
>
> So I guess Linux doesnt want to go on my machine, but I am sure that there
> must be something I can do.....isnt there?
>
> Please Help!
>
> Trent (newbie)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux install #38....Still blinky video
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:17:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tony Vining wrote:
>
> I have a Blinking login screen. Linux loads video device KLM or KEM or
> something....THen the screen starts blinking.
>
> How can I load Linux without loading the video device driver, since that is
> the LAST thing to load. I can troubleshoot from there....
>
> TONY
I'm not sure if I understand the question correctly, but if it's a
problem with X (I think it's KDM) (crash/respawn) try entering "linux 3"
at the lilo prompt if it's a RH system, I don't know for other distro's,
they might have the initnr's different, strange that there's no standard
for this.
I believe "linux single" is generic, so you can also try that.
Eric
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From: "Ozetechnology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo & memory
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:34:26 +1000
And then run lilo to refresh, or the new lines ignored. I found this the
hard way :-)
David
Site: www.ozetechnology.com
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David .."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Grunewalds wrote:
>>
>> I thought I had read that you need to tell Lilo you have more than (64M
>> I think?), but I can't find it. I'm running RH 6.1 without problems,
>> but this is naughing at me! Am I right and how do I tell Lilo I have
>> 128M? Thanks, Jim
>
> Add a line like this to lilo.conf
>
> append="mem=128M"
>
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From: "Ozetechnology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!! I'm at my wits end!
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:39:18 +1000
How did you install the update? Binary or Source tarball?
>From the source tarball you will get this unless you specifiy the
following with the configure
./configure --prefix=/usr
Then all works without problems. This one drove me beyond my wits end.
BTW I use redhat 6.2, and had to apply the update for a spruce update, had
zero problems since the update.
Hope this helps.
David
Site: www.ozetechnology.com
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Griffin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just installed the glib 1.2.8 on my machine. The GTK++ that I am
> trying to install next gives me the following....
>
> 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.8 but GLIB (1.2.5)
> was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best to remove the
> old version of GLIB. You may also be able to fix the error by modifying
> your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable GLIB-CONFIG to point to the
> correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file config.cache before
> re-running configure.
>
> Now, I did everything to track down and remove an old version (couldn't
> find any) so I deleted /usr/local/lib/glib and re-installed the library.
> deleted the config.cache file from the GTK++ library and keep getting
> the same thing! I have no clue what to do to modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> variable. I'm trying to learn this stuff but the learning curve is
> killing me!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> \
> Ron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: does linux work with windows 98
Date: 27 Jun 2000 07:47:47 GMT
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:18:49 +0100,
Sciamachy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>greg smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> i would like to no how i can make windows 98 work with
>linux, linux is the
>> server and and windows 98 are the workstations.
>
>I think what you need to look at is Samba, if it's file and
>print services you're wanting to share. I'm doing something
>similar with my peer-to-peer network. Win98 needs a registry
>hack though to work properly with Samba - something to do
>with SMB encryption or suchlike?
>
Just enable 'encrypt passwords' in /etc/smb.conf, and you can forget
about that registry hack. Then create a password for each user using
the command 'smbpasswd -a <user>'.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Lost LILO after installed new window.
Date: 27 Jun 2000 07:56:47 GMT
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:12:42 -0700,
C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Install lilo on the first lilo partition. Then it is a simple matter
>> to make this linux partition active using DOS fdisk to get lilo back.
>>
>> Villy
>Actually, he *seems* to have lilo already set up. so he just needs to
>run
>/sbin/lilo and all _should_ be well. . . .
Of course, but to install lilo into the linux partition is something
you do *before* you attempt to install windows. After the damage is
done and you can't boot linux it becomes a tricky thing to run
/sbin/lilo. Then you will need the linux boot floppy, boot from the
install CD, or something similar to recover, and you would need to
have these things available.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: What is this message????????
Date: 27 Jun 2000 08:01:51 GMT
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:38:39 GMT,
andrewkennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi People,
>
> I am running RH 6.1 as a gateway machine from a 56k
>connection & ,,am getting there SLOWLY. The logging below doesnt seem to be
>causing any serious problems,at least that i can see.
>Its just that it shows up all the time & would love to know what it means &
>secondly how to fix it.
>
>I have looked on friends machines & they dont have these entries..
>
>
>Jun 18 06:58:13 Echelon inetd[487]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>Jun 18 07:08:13 Echelon inetd[487]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>Jun 18 07:18:13 Echelon inetd[487]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>Jun 18 07:28:13 Echelon inetd[487]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>Jun 18 07:38:13 Echelon inetd[487]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>
>
You enabled identd as a deamon. When you do that you should comment out
the identd entry in /etc/inetd.conf. You can also run
'chkconfig --del identd' and the message won't occur next time you boot.
Villy
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:07:41 +0200
From: Koenraad Van Nieuwenhove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Postscript printing using serial port
Hello,
I have troubles printing on a Apple Personal Laserwriter NT (postscript
level 1) under SuSE 6.4 using the serial port (ttyS0)
I got it working up to the point that it prints the first page of a
document (most of the time I'm using emacs). But I don't succeed to
print more than one page. After the first page the led blinks for about
one minute (lpc says that the queues are empty) and then just stops
blinking, so the remaining pages never got printed. Printing very simple
postscriptcode or more difficult postscriptcode (different type of fonts
and graphics) works, but only for one page... (fyi, when I go back to
Windows 98 I can print multiple pages).
I tried with long and short documents with always the same results. Only
the first page is printed, the others never come out.
I tried Xon/Xoff and hardware flow control (both supported by the
LaserWriter).
I tried to change a lot of the parameters in printcap (especially :ty:
parameters).
I tried to change the timeout settings using setserial without success.
My system is a Pentium III/667 MHz, 128MByte RAM, 20 GByte harddisk.
The serial ports are at the standard addresses/IRQs and have a build in
FiFo (16550 type of UART)
Is there a tried and ready printcap(?) to get my printer printing all
the pages?
Thanks,
Koenraad Van Nieuwenhove
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