Linux-Setup Digest #51, Volume #19 Sun, 2 Jul 00 02:13:10 EDT
Contents:
??perl scripts for Unix system administration ("!! Tonnere de Brest")
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? ("Karl E. Jorgensen")
Re: Help : How can i generate glibconfing.h on my system (Colin Watson)
Mandrake 7.1 ("james")
Re: configuring HTTP and FTP acesss (Herb Stein)
Re: Boot Options (Colin Watson)
How do I upgrade rpm to version 4.0 ? ("C�dric Chausson")
Weird problem with Red Hat & Storm setup - text displays black on black background
(Christopher Adams)
Kernel Panic mounting root ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help Please!! with Linux and pppoe dsl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound Problem (Newbie) (John T Pogue)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 ("Philo")
Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue (B'ichela)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 ("james")
Moving /home ("Jeffrey Lacy")
Re: How to uninstall boot manager (DarBag)
Re: Q: Which distributions support partitionless installations? (Cyberneo)
RH 6.2 - confusing Apache 'Forbidden' messages (Anthony Brinton)
Re: Moving /home (Craig Kelley)
Does everyone know how can I use a shadow in order to protect the password !
("Daniel Pope")
Re: Does everyone know how can I use a shadow in order to protect the password !
(Prasanth A. Kumar)
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From: "!! Tonnere de Brest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: sii@bilow
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: ??perl scripts for Unix system administration
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 00:23:33 GMT
Are there any good web sites or ftp sites where I can find perl scripts that do
things like create new user accounts etc. (I would like eventually to be able
to make them accessible via a cgi script). Is that feasible and how safe it
is?
Thank you very much.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Thanks, Ghaouar Camij Toschian,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 510 5408013, 2500 Durant # 310, Bk, CA 94704
http://www.domainmart.net/InternetAccess/buildings.htm
http://www.istanbulexpress.com/oldsite/sweetener.html
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Visualize that peoples' civic duties do NOT include having to breathe the
smoke from cigarettes.
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palm readers are Crooks, Fools or Both.
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From: "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:46:15 +0100
Nathaniel Jay Lee wrote:
> C Sanjayan Rosenmund wrote:
> >
> > Nathaniel Jay Lee wrote:
> >
> > > Although, I'm not going to dispute you that Debian and Slack have a lot
> > > of merit on an older/smaller machine. I'm planning on doing a Debian
> > > install on one of the aforementioned machines when the next version is
> > > "stable" released. Hopefully soon.
> > >
> >
> > Debian (Potato) is available as a downloadable iso image (used to burn
> > CDs) for testing. Potato is *quite* stable and the CDs should work
> > fine. Otherwise, you can download the floppies (9 of them) and do a
> > network install. Why wait, upgrade to Debian *now*
> >
> > <grin>
> > --
> > Sanjay
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer.
> > Press any key to reboot.
>
> I tend to wait for "official" releases of Debian. It just seems easier
> to wait for the official release than wait for a three day download. (I
> can't wait for my DSL connection, maybe then I'll change my mind.) As
> it is right now I can order a CD from LSL or Cheapbytes and have it
> shipped faster than I can download the ISO of any distribution.
>
> Nathaniel Jay Lee
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got Debian Potato (using kernel 2.2.17) running on one of my ancient
66Mhz 486DXs. Runs without any problems whatsoerver. And it only has a 240Mb
disk - and no cd-rom drive. I managed to get it installed over NFS - turned
out to be easy, once I stumbled on the right IO address for the network card
(no plug-and-pray here).
In theory you should only need:
* Rescue Floppy
* Root image floppy
* 2 x driver floppy disk
* Network card (that you know the make/model/IO & IRQ of)
* NFS access to the cd (or 'bout 12 floppies) to get the base
* Internet access to retrieve any other packages you might want, e.g. X,
Perl, you-name-it.
For whatever it's worth
Karl E. Jorgensen
k a r l @ j o r g e n s e n . c o m
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Help : How can i generate glibconfing.h on my system
Date: 2 Jul 2000 00:59:55 GMT
C�dric Chausson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
What version of glib-devel do you have installed? Looking at Red Hat's
FTP site, all of the following contain
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:
* glib-devel-1.1.3-1.i386.rpm (Red Hat 5.2 PowerTools)
* glib-devel-1.2.1-2.i386.rpm (Red Hat 6.0)
* glib-devel-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm (Red Hat 6.1)
* glib-devel-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm (contrib)
* glib-devel-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm (contrib)
To search the whole system, try 'locate glibconfig.h' or 'find / -name
glibconfig.h'.
Perhaps the glitter configure script simply isn't finding the right
paths for the GNOME include files. Looking at the glitter distribution,
to set GNOME_INCLUDEDIR it first calls 'gnome-config --cflags gnorba
gnomeui' (you should see 'checking if gnome-config works' during this),
then, if that doesn't work, it sources gnomeConf.sh (probably in
/usr/lib). You should check what these do, and if it's gnomeConf.sh
that's broken you could probably fix it by hand (adding
-I/usr/lib/glib/include to the GNOME_INCLUDEDIR= line).
Alternatively, as a quick fix, try the following:
./configure --with-gnome-includes=/usr/lib/glib/include
>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.
No, those generate the *path* to glibconfig.h, not the file itself.
While it is indeed automatically generated, you'd need to build the
glib-devel package from source to do this, and you're probably better
off with one of the fixes suggested above. If it's really not in
/usr/lib/glib/include, try upgrading to one of the versions of
glib-devel I gave above, if possible.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Is this legal?"
"That question is OFF-TOPIC here." - alt.binaries.cracks FAQ
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From: "james" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:10:49 GMT
Anyone know if Mandrake 7.1 supports partitionless installation? (opinions
on this kind of install would be good too)
thanks,
james.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: configuring HTTP and FTP acesss
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:05:26 GMT
Is this a serious post? ipchains and wrappers are so much better.
In article <8jkdfm$jlm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "ed johnson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>get a copy of proftpd and scrap the wu-ftp its much better and VERY easy to
>ristrict users.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>http://www.softalk.co.uk
>
>
>Paulo Nogueira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Some simple questions, hopefully:
>>
>> How can I configure /etc/ftpaccess in order that
>> anonymous ftp is restricted to a network x.y.z.*
>> but non-anonymous ftp is unrestricted?
>> What if I want x.y.z.a to x.y.z.b instead of the
>> full x.y.z.* ?
>>
>>
>> Now, for httpd, how can I do that (from x.y.z.a
>> to x.y.z.b) without listing all (b-a+1) IPs?
>>
>>
>> TYVMIA,
>> Paulo
>>
>>
>> PS OS = RH6.x
>
>
--
Herb Stein
The Herb Stein Group
www.herbstein.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Boot Options
Date: 2 Jul 2000 01:02:46 GMT
David M. Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?
If 'linux' is the default choice at the LILO prompt, then I believe
'linux 3' will do this. See the BootPrompt-HOWTO for more information.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
If I had mayonnaise I'd be dangerous.
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From: "C�dric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I upgrade rpm to version 4.0 ?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 03:13:12 +0100
Hello all,
I want to upgrade my RPM package to version 4.0-0.33. I currently have
version 3.0-8. So I dowload version 4.0-0.33 and I do rpm -Uvvh --test
rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm but I get this error message :
D: counting packages to install D: found 1 packages D: looking for
packages to download D: retrieved 0 packages only packages with major
numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM error:
rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm cannot be installed D: found 0 source and 0 binary
packages
So what gives ? How do I upgrade to 4.0-0.33 if I cant use my current rpm
package ?
Thanks in advance,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Adams)
Subject: Weird problem with Red Hat & Storm setup - text displays black on black
background
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:36:40 GMT
Help!
I've decided to try another set of distributions in order to get a
working Linux system. Whenever I try to install Linux in graphics
mode, I get black text on a black background. All other icons, etc,
seem to display properly.....
What's wrong, and is there anything I can do about it? My video is
on the motherboard, and it is a SIS 5798 (I can double check this
later), and I have no problems with display in either the Caldera
distribution or in Windows (aargh!) environments.
I can't afford to keep playing with new distributions - I want
something that will work! I know Linux is a great o/s - I've seen it
in action on other computers. All I want is to get it working on my
system. Can anyone help?
Thanks....
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel Panic mounting root
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:28:05 GMT
I tried running hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -c3 -
m16 /dev/hda originally on my system to improve
my HDD performance, everything seemed to be
working ok when I did this in single-user mode,
so then I rebooted.
Now, whenever I try and boot I get the message:
VFS: Kernel panic, could not mount root
filesystem on. ...
I've tried making a rescue disk and and a root
disk and tried to mount the root from the floppy,
but it also complains about that.
Any ideas?
Some of the data is important on this drive..
Thanks,
James
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [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: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:54:45 GMT
Damon,
I'm no expert, but I do have pppoe setup and running on Linux Mandrake
6.1. It is also a squid proxy server and IP MASQ box for my clients.
What does your /var/log/messages log say after you try to execute pppoe?
Jamie
In article <x3v75.3570$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dark Coder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your posting is better served in the linux-ppp newsgroup.
>
> Steve
>
> Damon Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8m745.23762$[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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Before you buy.
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 21:44:04 -0500
From: John T Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Problem (Newbie)
YamYam wrote:
> Which linux distribution do u have? If u have a redhat-like distribution redhat,
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
I have the same problem , Please advise. I am using Linux-Mandrake 7.0 my
system is a Dual Pentium II 400mhz, with 512MB Ram running Raid 1 and a Sound
Blaster
Ensoniq sound card. Everything else works great!!
Thanks;
John
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:44:04 -0500
Mandrake requires a minimum of three partitions
/boot
/
swap
but the installation is not difficult
there are some distributions that can be run from a dos formatted drive but
it is my understanding that they are not as efficient...so i've never tried
them...i think one variety was called 'monkey linux' sorry i dont recall
the details
Philo
james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:tEw75.5098$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anyone know if Mandrake 7.1 supports partitionless installation? (opinions
> on this kind of install would be good too)
> thanks,
> james.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 23:22:26 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:35:51 -0500, Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So that makes me wonder if maybe I don't need to do both
>mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 b 9 0
First /dev/st0 is a Character device! Heres my settings for
your persual.
crw-r----- 1 root disk 9, 0 Jul 18 1994 /dev/st0
try mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0
This device is NOT a block system, its just a basic character device
like a ttyS1 entry.
--
B'ichela
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From: "james" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 04:12:35 GMT
RH 6.2 can install on a FAT/FAT32 partition, so that in windows it appears
to be a single file. nice way to do it if you don't like to partition (or if
you are just testing the linux waters). see, i'm using an ABIT BE6 mobo,
with my HDDs plugged into a HPT366 (ata66) controller. i've tried linux in
the past on these drives, to no avail. now i wanna try again with Mandrake
7.1, but i wanna avoid partitioning, cause i only wanna see if i can get it
to work - then i will think about partitioning...
-james.
"Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:395eba8e$0$147$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Mandrake requires a minimum of three partitions
>
>
> /boot
> /
> swap
>
> but the installation is not difficult
>
> there are some distributions that can be run from a dos formatted drive
but
> it is my understanding that they are not as efficient...so i've never
tried
> them...i think one variety was called 'monkey linux' sorry i dont recall
> the details
> Philo
>
>
>
>
> james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:tEw75.5098$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Anyone know if Mandrake 7.1 supports partitionless installation?
(opinions
> > on this kind of install would be good too)
> > thanks,
> > james.
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Jeffrey Lacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moving /home
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 04:17:31 GMT
Hi. I am running Redhat 6.2. I will be upgrading my harddrive soon, and I
need to know how to move /home to my new harddrive. How can I do this?
Thanks in advance!
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From: DarBag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to uninstall boot manager
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 04:09:01 GMT
Thanks DeAnn
DarBag
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use windows/dos fdisk: "fdisk /mbr". That will reset the master
> boot record.
>
> DarBag wrote:
> >
> > I just installed Caldera Openlinux on my companies IBM Thinkpad
600e.
> > I am only trying it out and now need to uninstall linux. I placed
the
> > Boot Manager in the Master boot location (if you know what I mean)
and
> > I assume it will still be there when I get rid of the Linux
partition.
> >
> > How do I get rid of the Boot Manager to that it will boot into
windows
> > automatically?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > DarBag
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Cyberneo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Which distributions support partitionless installations?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 04:30:03 GMT
I can't try anyone of these because my f***** motherboard is not
compatible, but I know there is winlinux and armed linux, they can be
download at www.download.com
gonzo wrote:
>
>
> From: "Gonzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I know that RH 6.2 can be installed partitionless but I have no idea
> which
> other (if any) distributions also support partitionless installs.
> Anybody
> know of any another?
>
> T.I.A.
>
>
>
>
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Subject: RH 6.2 - confusing Apache 'Forbidden' messages
From: Anthony Brinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 22:19:12 -0700
I have a PC with a DSL connection running RedHat 6.2. I am trying to use it
as a web server running Apache but I'm encountering some problems. I'm still
a novice (newbie more like it) at web/network administration - I come from a
creative design background. I have been able to successfully install,
configure and start Apache, but when I try to access the Apache default html
test page by simply inputting the IP Address for the machine in a web
browser, I get the following error messages:
===========================================
ERROR MESSAGE IN BROWSER WINDOW:
===========================================
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.12 Server at 64.13.120.50 Port 80
===========================================
ERROR MESSAGE IN APACHE'S ERROR LOG FILE:
===========================================
client denied by server configuration: /home/httpd/html
I dont understand what the problem is exactly. The document root in the
Apache config file is set to:
/home/httpd/html
The file system permissions for this directory are set to 0755. The access
permissions for the same directory in the Apache configuration file are
specified as follows:
<Directory /home/httpd/html>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
============================================================
Here is the only relevant Apache FAQ I could find for this problem:
============================================================
FAQ # E14
Q. Why do I get a "Forbidden" message whenever I try to access a particular
directory?
A. This message is generally caused because either
* The underlying file system permissions do not allow the User/Group
under which Apache is running to access the necessary files; or
* The Apache configuration has some access restrictions in place which
forbid access to the files.
You can determine which case applies to your situation by checking the error
log.
In the case where file system permission are at fault, remember that not
only must the directory and files in question be readable, but also all
parent directories must be at least searchable by the web server in order
for the content to be accessible.
Any Ideas???
--
Tony Brinton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Moving /home
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 Jul 2000 23:20:45 -0600
"Jeffrey Lacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I am running Redhat 6.2. I will be upgrading my harddrive soon, and I
> need to know how to move /home to my new harddrive. How can I do this?
> Thanks in advance!
mnt /dev/hdblah /mnt/newdisk
cd /home
cp -a * /mnt/newdisk
cd /
umount /home
umount /mnt/newdisk
mount /dev/hdblah /home
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Daniel Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does everyone know how can I use a shadow in order to protect the password !
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:01:36 -0700
Hello,
I'm trying to use an encrypted password (shadow) and I don't know how to
proceed.
Can anybody help me !
Thank you !!!!!!
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Subject: Re: Does everyone know how can I use a shadow in order to protect the
password !
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 06:07:56 GMT
"Daniel Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to use an encrypted password (shadow) and I don't know how to
> proceed.
> Can anybody help me !
> Thank you !!!!!!
The program 'pwconv' converts back and forth between shadow and
regular password schemes.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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