Linux-Setup Digest #50, Volume #19 Sat, 1 Jul 00 20:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: junkbuster isn't working (Andreas Tretow)
Re: XFree86 4.0 desktop size (Draco Ravenloft)
Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Fetchmail Question (Colin Watson)
test of new news server (Chad Whitten)
Re: help with ip masq. (David Efflandt)
ATAPI Tape drives??? ("K. Crane")
Re: yamaha 724
Re: Desktop Icon Text (Gnome 1.2) ("David M. Carney")
Boot Options ("David M. Carney")
Re: junkbuster isn't working ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. (Colin Watson)
Re: Fetchmail Question ("Jeffrey Lacy")
Re: Need help Please!! with Linux and pppoe dsl ("Dark Coder")
Help : How can i generate glibconfing.h on my system ("C�dric Chausson")
Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue (Robert Jones)
supermount in Mandrake 7.1 ("Shippy!")
Re: 1024 cylinder limit info please? (CoryJ)
Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue ("Robert Jones")
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From: Andreas Tretow <"tretow(spamalamadingdong)"@snafu.de>
Subject: Re: junkbuster isn't working
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 22:13:40 +0200
Hi G.,
you have to start junkbuster. Have a look at the manual pages at
http://www.junkbuster.com/ijbman.html
Easiest way is to start the junkbuster daemon at boot time and have it
start junkbuster when it detects a connection. Works fine with me.
I hope this helps.
--
Andreas Tretow
tretow(spamalamadingdong)@snafu.de
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From: Draco Ravenloft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 desktop size
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 15:23:52 -0500
~jumping up and down excitedly~
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
It works!!
mike burrell wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.help Draco Ravenloft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > but could someone do me a favor and tell me how to change the settings
> > so that it will stop having a physical res of 1024x768 and a desktop
> > that's drawn to1280x1024?
>
> the desktop size will be equal to the largest resolution given on the Modes
> line in the appropriate Display subsection. find the appropriate Display
> subsection and get rid of any reference to 1280x1024. you might also be
> able to override it with a Virtual line, though i've not tried it:
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "accel"
> Device "my video card"
> Monitor "my monitor"
> DefaultColorDepth 16
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600" "1280x1024"
> Virtual 1024 768
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> though just getting rid of the "1280x1024" makes a lot more sense to me:
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "accel"
> Device "my video card"
> Monitor "my monitor"
> DefaultColorDepth 16
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> --
> /"\ m i k e b u r r e l l
> \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X AGAINST HTML MAIL,
> / \ AND NEWS TOO, dammit
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 16:54:29 -0400
> MAKEDEV was my first thought, too, but the command isn't available in rescue.
> Back in my normal mode, I find that 'ls -l /dev/st0 yields:
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/st0
> so I booted rescue again and entered 'mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 b 9 0
> and got something that resembles the above except for the date AND
> group/owner. It shows 0 0 in whatever shell is used. Since chown is also
> not available in rescue mode, that presents another obstacle.
So, does it work? "Rescue mode" should be the same as "single user
mode", which makes you root, so ownership shouldn't be a problem.
> Maybe some other vendor's idea of a rescue image includes /dev/st* and/or the
> MAKEDEV command....
If I recall right, MAKEDEV is just a script that calls mknod with the
right device numbers. So mknod should work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Fetchmail Question
Date: 1 Jul 2000 21:07:07 GMT
Tom Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 1 Jul 2000 10:58:23 GMT, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I've found fetchmail's daemon mode to be unreliable; every so often it
>>encountered some kind of transient networking error and decided to die
>>with a SIGTERM. Since the only record of this was in the logfile it
>>wrote (otherwise it just looked like I was getting no mail), it reached
>>the point where I had to write a cron job which mailed me if the last
>>line of the logfile was "Terminated with signal 15" or whatever. This
>>all seemed rather silly, so I switched to using cron for fetchmail
>>itself.
>>
>>After all, as a friend of mine put it, cron is the bit of your system
>>that's *designed* to run processes at regular intervals.
>
>And daemons are the bit of your system that are *designed* to "run"
>continuosly waiting for some event.
But this isn't a normal event-driven situation (e.g. listening on a
socket), it's a time-driven situation.
>I've never heard of anyone else having the problem you mentioned w/
>fetchmail. Maybe it's the symptom of another problem.
It was quite common at my university at one stage; several people
complained about something similar, but we could never track it down
because it happened irregularly. We eventually decided cron jobs were
the only reliable workaround.
If fetchmail spawned a separate process each time when in daemon mode,
it might be OK - or maybe it does and the signals aren't being caught
properly. I've never had the time to work out how to reproduce the
problem and investigate.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Saint Jean le Desincarne, priez pour nous! But please - let us not
have to follow your example for at least another million years."
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 16:18:47 -0500
From: Chad Whitten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test of new news server
test of new suse news server
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: help with ip masq.
Date: 1 Jul 2000 21:33:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:12:36 GMT, choyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm tying to install ip masq. with RH6.2 can get eth0 to see internet.i
>can get computers to on privet lan to ping gateway,eth1 but not see
>internet. what do i ned to do to to see internet?
Start with the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. If you have your routing set up properly a
simple 3 liner should get it working. Just use eth0 for the MASQ
interface instead of ppp0 in the example.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: "K. Crane" <kcrane@kcsaturn(dot)dyndns(org)org>
Subject: ATAPI Tape drives???
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 21:36:09 GMT
Is there ANY information out there on on how to setup, install and use an
ATAPI tape drive. All the howto's focus on SCSI and Ftape neither of which
helps me out much here.
I have a Linux 2.2.16 system with an HP Colorado 8GB ATAPI tape drive. The
kernel has support for ATAPI tapes compiled into it. I just can't seem to
find much info on this type of drive.
Any help would be appeciated
Kyle
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: yamaha 724
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 22:30:04 GMT
Finally!!! ALSA (www.alsa-project.org) has released a driver that works
with the Yamaha DS-XG. I have a Micron Millennia MAX 500 with a SE440BX2
motherboard. I downloaded the drivers, did a little configuration, and now
I have sound in Linux. =) My only problem is MIDI... for some reason when I
configure the correct IRQ, it tells me that resource is busy, and none of
the other available IRQs produce any sound. I'll bet that can be fixed
with a little more configuration though.
Slight note... the ALSA drivers turn all of the settings in your mixer to
the muted state whenever they start up. As you can expect this gets a
little annoying. Make sure that you turn the volume up before you try to
test it with a sound file or something.
Hope that works for you!
Timothy D. Prime wrote:
>
> I have been playing with the soundcard that is built into the Dell
> XPS1450 motherboard.
>
> I was able to get some recognition of the device (Yamaha 724) in its
> SoundBlasterPro compatibility mode. But, still don't have any sound.
>
> I would really appreciate hearing from anybody who has gotten sound out
> of a similar Dell, or out of a YMF724. BTW, I am using RedHat 6.0
> (kernel 2.2.5).
>
> The bulk of my "success" is due to a message posted by somebody with
> card based on the same chipset. They used setpci to set registers
> 40/41, 48/49, and 54/55.
>
> I downloaded the datasheet for the YMF724F and I have decided on the
> following pci register settings:
>
> 00.w = 1073
> 02.w = 000d
> * 04.w = 0100
> 06.w = 0210
> 08 = 03
> 09 = 00
> 0a = 01
> 0b = 04
> 0d = 40
> 0e = 00
> 10.l = f4000000
> 2c.w = 8086
> 2e.w = 5345
> 34 = 50
> * 3c = 00
> 3d = 01
> 3e = 05
> 3f = 19
> * 40.w = 107f
> * 42.w = 0000
> 44.w = 8086
> 46.w = 5345
> * 48.w = 0000
> 4a.w = 0000
> 4c.w = 0000
> 50 = 01
> 51 = 00
> 52.w = 0401
> * 54.w = 0003
> 58.w = 0000
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "David M. Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Desktop Icon Text (Gnome 1.2)
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:47:57 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David .."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "David M. Carney" wrote:
>>
>> Hello all, and thanks for reading.
>>
>> When I used KDE, it had an option to set the background for the desktop
>> icon text to transparent. When I first installed Gnome 1.2, the icon
>> text background was also transparent.
>>
>> Well, I must have fiddled around with this and that and now the text
>> has these ugly gray boxes around it.
>>
>> What does it take to get the transparent icon text background back?
>>
>> David
>
> In the file manager window click on settings/preferences/desktop and
> choose "use shaped text"
>
Thanks! That did the trick. Don't know when I clicked it before,
but....Well, I'm the only user.
David
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From: "David M. Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Options
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:51:40 -0500
Hello, and thanks for reading!
If I normally boot Linux init 5 (via /etc/inittab), but at some point I
want to boot it text only mode (init 3), how can I do this from the
beginning, ie, from LILO?
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: junkbuster isn't working
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 22:53:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Tretow <"tretow(spamalamadingdong)"@snafu.de> wrote:
> you have to start junkbuster. Have a look at the manual pages at
> http://www.junkbuster.com/ijbman.html
The junkbuster program is running; still, nothing is trapped by it.
> Easiest way is to start the junkbuster daemon at boot time and have it
> start junkbuster when it detects a connection. Works fine with me.
Hm... I haven't tried a full reboot. Thanks for the info; I'll work on
that right now. So far I've been starting junkbuster from my home
directory.
I'll let you know if this does/doesn't work.
Cheers!
Gena
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Date: 1 Jul 2000 22:49:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>You use of the term "peecee" for the common computer term "PC" (Personal
>Computer) this may be the result of lack of experince in the computer field,
>OR you are attempting to present yourself as different persona then your
>true identity.
Note that the term "peecee" is often used as a term of mild derision by
old-timers; see alt.sysadmin.recovery, for example.
(Otherwise, agreed.)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what
mnemonic means, you've got a problem." - perlstyle(1p)
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From: "Jeffrey Lacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fetchmail Question
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:12:35 GMT
What would I do if I was connected continuously and had a mail server that
has a long history of timing out? Thanks a lot!
:-D
"Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8jlmhr$4bu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Tom Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 1 Jul 2000 10:58:23 GMT, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I've found fetchmail's daemon mode to be unreliable; every so often it
> >>encountered some kind of transient networking error and decided to die
> >>with a SIGTERM. Since the only record of this was in the logfile it
> >>wrote (otherwise it just looked like I was getting no mail), it reached
> >>the point where I had to write a cron job which mailed me if the last
> >>line of the logfile was "Terminated with signal 15" or whatever. This
> >>all seemed rather silly, so I switched to using cron for fetchmail
> >>itself.
> >>
> >>After all, as a friend of mine put it, cron is the bit of your system
> >>that's *designed* to run processes at regular intervals.
> >
> >And daemons are the bit of your system that are *designed* to "run"
> >continuosly waiting for some event.
>
> But this isn't a normal event-driven situation (e.g. listening on a
> socket), it's a time-driven situation.
>
> >I've never heard of anyone else having the problem you mentioned w/
> >fetchmail. Maybe it's the symptom of another problem.
>
> It was quite common at my university at one stage; several people
> complained about something similar, but we could never track it down
> because it happened irregularly. We eventually decided cron jobs were
> the only reliable workaround.
>
> If fetchmail spawned a separate process each time when in daemon mode,
> it might be OK - or maybe it does and the signals aren't being caught
> properly. I've never had the time to work out how to reproduce the
> problem and investigate.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "Saint Jean le Desincarne, priez pour nous! But please - let us not
> have to follow your example for at least another million years."
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From: "Dark Coder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need help Please!! with Linux and pppoe dsl
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:23:09 GMT
Your posting is better served in the linux-ppp newsgroup.
Steve
Damon Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8m745.23762$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok i've tried and can't get it going. :( I'm new to linux anyway
> just got it installed and I got the roaring peguin pppoe for linux
> if anyone could give me a step my step on getting pppoe working with
caldera
> open linux 2.4 I'd give them my first born :) I'm totally lost I
downloaded
> the rmp file from windows machine and burned it to cd and clicked on it
in
> linux and I think I installed it but I have no idea how do get pppoe
working
> with linux. I'm a master at it in a windows environment but need an
experts
> help here.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> p.s I've gone to the suse site etc but couldn't get it to work.
>
>
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From: "C�dric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help : How can i generate glibconfing.h on my system
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:24:50 +0100
Hello all,
I tried to compile glitter using make after running ./configure on my
RH5.2 (22.16 kernel) and i got this message :
/usr/include/glib:66: glibconfig.h : No such file or directory
I made some searches on the Internet and found this problem could be due
to :
_ glib-devel not installed but I have them installed
_ glibconfig.h not being in the right directory but I dont even
have glibconfig.h on my system. I did a find on the whole sys
and I cant find it.
So my question is how do I generate glibconfig.h. I thought I could do
that by using glib-config --cflags or glib-config --libs but that has not
worked.
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:35:51 -0500
"Andrew E. Schulman" wrote:
> > MAKEDEV was my first thought, too, but the command isn't available in rescue.
> > Back in my normal mode, I find that 'ls -l /dev/st0 yields:
> > crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/st0
> > so I booted rescue again and entered 'mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 b 9 0
> > and got something that resembles the above except for the date AND
> > group/owner. It shows 0 0 in whatever shell is used. Since chown is also
> > not available in rescue mode, that presents another obstacle.
>
> So, does it work? "Rescue mode" should be the same as "single user
> mode", which makes you root, so ownership shouldn't be a problem.
>
> > Maybe some other vendor's idea of a rescue image includes /dev/st* and/or the
> > MAKEDEV command....
>
> If I recall right, MAKEDEV is just a script that calls mknod with the
> right device numbers. So mknod should work.
Unfortunately, it did not work. I wasn't worried about the ownership, either,
until I tried to access the tape drive and couldn't. You're correct about
MAKEDEV. It is a script in the /dev directory. Hmmm. I just noticed in the man
page for MAKEDEV :
Tape Devices
st[0-7]
SCSI tapes. This creates the rewinding tape device
stx and the non-rewinding tape device nstx.
So that makes me wonder if maybe I don't need to do both
mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 b 9 0
and
mknod -m 660 /dev/nst0 b 9 128 .
Weirder things exist in this system, so I'm gonna give it a try as soon as I send
this.
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From: "Shippy!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: supermount in Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:52:31 -0600
I'm currently running Linux Mandrake 7.1. It came
with some version of 2.2.14, I think, and I always
compile my own kernel and after I did compiled 2.2.16,
I lost my supermount ability. It says it's not recognized
by the kernel. Is there a special option in the kernel
I'm missing or is there a patch I need to download?
--
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| Jeff "Shippy" Shipman E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Computer Science Major ICQ: 1786493 |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
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From: CoryJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 1024 cylinder limit info please?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:36:36 GMT
> Can someone explain this Linux 1024 cylinder limit to me? My HD
> has, as far as I can read the number on the installed unit,
Just create a /boot partition (Native Linux partition of about 10-20Mb)
that is somewhere below the 1024 limit. Then do what you like with your
other partitions.
For example, one of my systems at work has 20Gb hard drive and shows
2482 cylinders. This puts the 1024th one at around the 8Gb mark.
My actual partitions look like this:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 392 3148708+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 393 397 40162+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 398 430 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 431 2482 16482690 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 431 692 2104483+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda6 693 2482 14378143+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda1 is my NT partition, hda2 is my /boot partition, hda3
(obviously) is my swap partition. hda4 is an extended primary partition
(because you only get 4 primary partitions) which holds logical
partitions hda5 (a 500Mb FAT partition to copy files from/to) and hda6
(my / parition for linux of 14Gb.)
One note I'll make is that Disk Druid from RedHat v6.1 had real fits
with this whole thing. It wouldn't allow me to make any partitions that
started after the 1024 mark, or that even crossed it.
I'm assuming (though I'm not certain) that any OS you want to boot with
LILO must have it's partition start under the 1024th partition.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Robert Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:53:36 -0600
On Saturday, July 1, 2000 6:35 PM, Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
scribed in article
> So that makes me wonder if maybe I don't need to do both mknod -m 660
> /dev/st0 b 9 0 and mknod -m 660 /dev/nst0 b 9 128 . Weirder things exist
> in this system, so I'm gonna give it a try as soon as I send this.
That doesn't work either. :-(
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