Linux-Setup Digest #96, Volume #19 Thu, 6 Jul 00 14:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? (Jim Cameron)
Network Printers on an HP jet Direct Box ("Bruce Acomb")
Re: Apache not logging (Vilmos Soti)
Mandrake 7.1: WOW! (Laura Goodwin)
New hard drive - copying /boot over (Jeffrey M Wolfe)
Position Yourself Now! 9343 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where to do this? ("David ..")
Re: in852.com - 1 ("Tiac News Server")
Re: connectivity issues......... (Robie Basak)
Re: kernel 2.4.0-test2 can't find ppp0 (Gene Heskett)
Mixed IDE/SCSI setup broke with new controller. Why? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IDE Adaptor problem in Rhat 6.2 install (Kasey Genin)
Re: How to re-install windows whithout spoiling Linux (Scott Stembaugh)
Re: Network Printers on an HP jet Direct Box (sylvain hutchison)
Re: newbie (sylvain hutchison)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Cameron)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:40:29 GMT
Choose not replying to USENET messages upside down, would be a start.
In article <8jvq7s$jj1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex DeLarge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hacked every 5 minutes your on the internet. Choose Slack, Choose sleepless
>nights tearing your hair out, Choose Debian, Choose never being able to use
I use Slack, and I have LOTS of hair. 8-)
jim
--
http://madeira.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/people/jim/
"Revenge is an integral part of forgiving and forgetting" -The BOFH
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From: "Bruce Acomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Printers on an HP jet Direct Box
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:31:14 -0500
Hello everyone,
I am running Caldera Open Linux e-Server 2.3 in a production environment, &
I am having trouble printing from network printers on a Jet-Direct box.
I've got 2 HP Laser Jets (one's a 4000N, the other a 4Plus) on one
Jet-Direct box, & 3 Okidata 390 printers on another Jet-Direct box. I've
created the printers using both COAS and the Lisa utility. No matter how I
seem to edit the /etc/printcap entry, whenever I print to any of these
printers, it only prints the last page of the document. Below are the
entries from my /etc/printcap file. FR3 is the HP LaserJet 4000, FR5 is the
HP LaserJet 4Plus (both on the same Jet-Direct box), and FR1 is one of the
Okidatas on a different Jet-Direct box. I've edited these entries many
times, and the result is the same; I only get the last page to print out.
Also, whenever I send different jobs to the same printer, the first job will
print out twice, while the second job won't print at all. I have to stop &
start the LPD daemon several times between print jobs for the 2nd job to
print out. It seems as if the first print job is cached somewhere, so that
when you print the next job, it just reprints the first job from wherever
it's cached.
fr3:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
:lp=131.222.30.3%9100:\
:br#576600:\
:rm=131.222.30.200:\
:rp=text2:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr3:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/fr3/filter:
fr5:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
:lp=131.222.30.200%9100:\
:br#57600:\
:rm=131.222.30.200:\
:rp=text1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr5:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/fr5/filter:
fr1:\
:lp=131.222.30.198:\
:br#57600:\
:rm=131.222.30.198:\
:rp=fr1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr1:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/fr1/printfilter:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've got a case open with Caldera tech support, but so far they haven't been
able to solve the problem. I can print to these printers without a problem
from my main Unix production server (System V - MP-RAS 3.02). As I've said
before, all I'm sending over is text. There's got to be a way for Linux to
handle this kind of problem, without resorting to 3rd party
applications/packages.
Any & all help is appreciated. I'm testing the feasibility of migrating our
main Unix server to Linux; we need to be able to print to these printers.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Bruce Acomb
Database Administrator
Newton Manufacturing Company
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 515-791-4115
Fax: 515-792-6261
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Subject: Re: Apache not logging
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:39:04 GMT
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apache is not logging at all in access_log but does report in
> error_log:
>
> [Thu Jul 6 12:17:01 2000] [crit] (98)Address already in use:
> make_sock:could not bind to port 80
It seems something is already listening on port 80. Try to
telnet to it "telnet localhost 80" and see what's listening
on it.
Vilmos
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From: Laura Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1: WOW!
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:56:27 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What a difference a distribution makes! The graphical installer on
Mandrake is a dream come true. It even had a robust probe to discover
and setup my oddball onboard vid for me. I boot into Gnome, and I can
mount and read my Windows files at once. It was so beautiful at first
boot that I almost cried. I still have a squinched looking display, but
am now much more confident I can solve that myself.
Netscape was right on the desktop where it belonged. All the menus are
easy to understand. This distro even has USB support. Maybe Linux is
ready for prime time after all!
--
Laura Goodwin - Field Researcher for the Institute for the Very
Seriously Scientific Study of Human Sexuality and Bar and
Grill...*Specials Daily!*
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:29:39 -0400
From: Jeffrey M Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New hard drive - copying /boot over
I'm replacing a small 1.2gb drive with a larger 10gb on a Mandrake 7.0
system. Question I have is this: The only thing on the 1.2gb drive is
the /boot partition (and a bogus /other directory). Can I just install
the 10gb temporarily as a 3rd ide drive, format and create file system,
and then just copy the /boot partition over? At shutdown, take the 1.2
out and just replace it with the 10gb? Is life that simple? After I get
the drive installed, I would like to move the /home and perhaps a few
other dir's over to the new space. Any precautions to keep in mind?
I've seen a written document covering this type of operation before but
for the life of me I can't seem to locate it now. Assistance would be
greatly appreciated.
Ciao!
Jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where to do this?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:47:10 -0500
RMB wrote:
>
> I've been playing around recently with my very first Linux
> installation. I was successful at getting Liunx on there. I can
> get to the command line and do everything. I then took a shot at
> configuring X. That hasn't gone so well. First off, I cannot
> find any documentation on my monitor. I thought I knew the
> specs, but I think I was wrong. Anyway, I can't get into X.
>
> Here is my prob-
>
> Everytime I reboot, X loads. I don't want X to load. Where in
> the OS can I tell X to not load. There is no point in starting
> up X when I don't have it configured correctly.
/etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault:
Change the 5 to a 3
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "Tiac News Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: in852.com - 1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: connectivity issues.........
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Jul 2000 17:23:54 GMT
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:46:56 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>ive got a generic modem on ttyS2 set to irq3 that my linux (redhat
>6.1) refuses to connect with.looked up the FCC ID, and it is not a
>winmodem.i get "failed to initalize" error when i try to use dial up.
>i wonder if anyone knows where i can get a generic device driver for
>this modem, as this is the only thing i can think of why it doesn't
>work.
If it is not a winmodem, then you don't need a driver, as all modems
work the same (winmodems aren't modems).
[...]
Robie.
--
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From: Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.0-test2 can't find ppp0
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:30:39 -0400
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Edward Lee wrote:
>You need a /dev/ppp and some changes to conf.modules. Read the info file
>for new changes.
twould be nice if there was an info file. So I grepped the whole Documentation
directory and printed enough to act as roadmap. I can do all that, but is it
still capable of running 2.2.15 when I get done? Thats the lasty one I was
able to make socks5 work with for some reason.
[...]
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, ~ET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 400mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
ISP's please take note: My spam control policy is explicit!
#Any Class C address# involved in spamming me is added to my killfile
never to be seen again. Message will be summarily deleted without dl.
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
copyright 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mixed IDE/SCSI setup broke with new controller. Why?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 17:28:35 GMT
Hello:
Two hard drives, two OS's:
Linux on SCSI /dev/sda
M$ W------ 98 on IDE /dev/hda
I recently changed SCSI controllers:
the old one was an ASUS SC-200 (Symbios 53C810A)
the new one is a Mylex (BusLogic) BT-950
Previously, in order to install LILO on /dev/sda, I had to use
drive-swapping tricks in /etc/lilo.conf, making sure I had set `SCSI'
first in boot order in the motherboard BIOS:
============================================================
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=600
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x81
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16
label=linux-2.2.16
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16.img
append="video=matrox:vesa:287"
read-only
root=/dev/sda1
other=/dev/hda1
label=lose98
table=/dev/hda
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
============================================================
This worked fine with the ASUS controller, but with my new Mylex
controller, it doesn't work anymore. LILO stops at `LI'. I can force
LILO onto /dev/sda if I disconnect the SCSI cable and run /sbin/lilo
with the following /etc/lilo.conf:
============================================================
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=600
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16
label=linux-2.2.16
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16.img
append="video=matrox:vesa:287"
read-only
root=/dev/sda1
============================================================
Then I can reconnect the IDE cable and mount /dev/hda, but of course
can't boot into the OS located there. Moreover, if I re-run /sbin/lilo
with the IDE cable attached (using this second /etc/lilo.conf), then
lilo complains with
Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
even though I've set `SCSI first' in the motherboard BIOS.
When I reboot, LILO again stops at `LI'.
A possible clue to my problem is the following message appearing in
/var/log/messages _every_ time I run /sbin/lilo:
Jul 3 09:30:00 dolphy kernel: scsi0: Warning: Partition Table appears
to have Geometry 67/62 which is not compatible with current BusLogic
Host Adapter Geometry 255/63
But if this geometry mismatch were truly significant, it seems I would
_never_ be able to boot from a LILO on /dev/sda. In fact, I _can_ under
the right circumstances. For what it's worth, the C/H/S specs printed
on the HD are 6536/4/161.
So, at the moment, I'm stuck with LILO on /dev/hda in order to boot into
both OS's, which I really don't want.
Can anybody help me move LILO to /dev/sda in a way that enables dual
booting?
Thanks in advance,
--Alan Vlach
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Kasey Genin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE Adaptor problem in Rhat 6.2 install
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:46:54 -0400
Hello all.
I am trying to install Rhat linux on a secondary 2gig partition on a
12gig drive. I'd boot from the CDROM drive and everything would be fine
but after I select the type of installation it tells me that there is no
valid media to install on. I suspected a IDE adaptor problem. The specs
for my adaptor are;
General
Manufacturer
Promise Technology, Inc.
Model number
Ultra66
Controller type
Bus master Ultra ATA/66 drive
controller
Board controller type
PCI
Included cabling
One (1) Ultra ATA/66 drive cable
ATA Drive Interface
Types supported
Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33, EIDE, Fast
ATA-2
Maximum # of drives supported
4 (2 Ultra ATA/66 drives with single
Ultra ATA/66 cable)
Drive modes
Ultra DMA 4/3/2, PIO 4/3/2, DMA 2/1/0
Data transfer rate
66MB/sec burst transfers with Ultra
ATA/66 drives
# of device channels
2 (supports up to 4 devices)
Device timing
Independent timing for each
drive/device attached to cable
Host Interface
Bus support
PCI local bus spec 2.1 and higher
Bus speed
33MHz
Maximum data transfer rate across bus
133MHz
Bus mastering
32-bit PCI bus mastering with 0-wait
state
DMA operation
Hardware scatter/gather for efficient
command processing
Interrupt request (IRQ) requirement
Uses one shareable IRQ for both data
channels
Onboard BIOS
Drive capacity
Extended Int32 support recognizes
drives up to and larger than
8.4GB each
Device recognition
Automatically identifies & configures
drive type (EIDE or Ultra
DMA mode) without system CMOS setup
Ultra DMA support
Automatically supports Ultra DMA mode
data transfers
Error checking
Supports Cyclical Redundancy Checking
(CRC) of Ultra ATA
drives
Data transfer modes
Supports LBA (Logical Block Address)
or normal CHS data
transfer modes
Bootability
Allows booting from Ultra ATA drives
Upgradeability
Supports Flash BIOS functions
Operating Systems
Compatibility
Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0
Physical
Height
66.7 mm (2.625 inches)
Width
120.7 mm (4.75 inches)
Environmental
Operating temperature (optimum)
0 to 50 �C (32 to 122 �F)
Relative humidity
5% -95% non-condensing
Voltage
5V�5%
I checked the Redhat site and it mentions something about not being
compatible with this adaptor. Any further information/advice would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Kasey Genin
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From: Scott Stembaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to re-install windows whithout spoiling Linux
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:59:36 -0500
Be sure to test booting from the bootdisk BEFORE reinstalling Windoze.
--scott
BO wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thanks a million for the reply. I did create a bootdisk when i installed
> linux. I will try your advice. If iam not able to do it i will probably
> come back to you for more advice!
>
> Thanks again!!
>
> Cheers!!
> Bo
>
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > BO wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Gurus,
> > >
> > > I have Windows98 and Caldera installed in my machine. Now my windows
> got
> > > screewed up because i did a windows update. So i have to re-install
> > > windows. If i re-format my windows partition and re-install windows,
> will
> > > it over-write my LILO and make my Linux un-usable or still i can use
> both
> > > like it is now?
> > > Please give me advice about how to go about it?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > --
> > > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > > http://www.help.com/
> >
> > Installing windows will overwrite the MBR, so if you have lilo installed
> > in the MBR, you will not be able to boot lilo from the HDD. So create a
> > boot disk in linux before you start installing windows (man mkbootdisk).
> > I also advise you to back up any important data, although you'll
> > probably ignore this, because installing windows isn't without a risk
> > for the data on the disc.
> > But in principle it should be possible, without much problems (execpt
> > for the MBR part, so MAKE A BOOTDISC!
> > BTW. you should already have a bootdisc, it's asked during install if
> > one should be created (in RH that is) and you should always say yes.
> > Why? because annoying windows virus scanners tend to detect lilo as a
> > MBR virus, and are really eager in destroying that "virus" , thus
> > leaving you with a non-bootable system. with such a bootdisk you can
> > always boot back into linux and restore the MBR with lilo in it.
> >
> > Eric
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Printers on an HP jet Direct Box
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:06:17 -0700
Hi, I am kind of new to linux, I unfortunately can't help you, but I was
wondering if you could help me with the printer setup, I don't what to change in
the etc/printcap, I'm connected to the server but I can't connect to the printer
itself, it's Xerox DC...., but I don't think it matters too much. So do you
setup new printers in the printcap or elsewhere as in /home/cshrc which was
mentionned to me??
I would be very greatful of any help, thanks a lot,
Sly.
Bruce Acomb wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am running Caldera Open Linux e-Server 2.3 in a production environment, &
> I am having trouble printing from network printers on a Jet-Direct box.
> I've got 2 HP Laser Jets (one's a 4000N, the other a 4Plus) on one
> Jet-Direct box, & 3 Okidata 390 printers on another Jet-Direct box. I've
> created the printers using both COAS and the Lisa utility. No matter how I
> seem to edit the /etc/printcap entry, whenever I print to any of these
> printers, it only prints the last page of the document. Below are the
> entries from my /etc/printcap file. FR3 is the HP LaserJet 4000, FR5 is the
> HP LaserJet 4Plus (both on the same Jet-Direct box), and FR1 is one of the
> Okidatas on a different Jet-Direct box. I've edited these entries many
> times, and the result is the same; I only get the last page to print out.
> Also, whenever I send different jobs to the same printer, the first job will
> print out twice, while the second job won't print at all. I have to stop &
> start the LPD daemon several times between print jobs for the 2nd job to
> print out. It seems as if the first print job is cached somewhere, so that
> when you print the next job, it just reprints the first job from wherever
> it's cached.
> fr3:\
> :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
> :lp=131.222.30.3%9100:\
> :br#576600:\
> :rm=131.222.30.200:\
> :rp=text2:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr3:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/fr3/filter:
> fr5:\
> :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
> :lp=131.222.30.200%9100:\
> :br#57600:\
> :rm=131.222.30.200:\
> :rp=text1:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr5:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/fr5/filter:
> fr1:\
> :lp=131.222.30.198:\
> :br#57600:\
> :rm=131.222.30.198:\
> :rp=fr1:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/fr1:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/fr1/printfilter:\
> :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> I've got a case open with Caldera tech support, but so far they haven't been
> able to solve the problem. I can print to these printers without a problem
> from my main Unix production server (System V - MP-RAS 3.02). As I've said
> before, all I'm sending over is text. There's got to be a way for Linux to
> handle this kind of problem, without resorting to 3rd party
> applications/packages.
>
> Any & all help is appreciated. I'm testing the feasibility of migrating our
> main Unix server to Linux; we need to be able to print to these printers.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Bruce Acomb
> Database Administrator
> Newton Manufacturing Company
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone: 515-791-4115
> Fax: 515-792-6261
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:11:25 -0700
Thanks, etc/hosts worked!!!
Sly.
Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> sylvain hutchison wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I've got a very simple question, but might be simple in practice, I
> > want to change the name of my computer, cuz the guy that installed linux
> >
> > for me entered the wrong name, so the IT guy asked me to change the name
> >
> > of my computer, how do I do that without re-installing linux all over
> > again??
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sly.
> Go to directory etc, find there a file called HOSTNAME (capital letters)
> and edit it to your preferences.
> vi /etc/HOSTNAME
> That's all.
> If networking was configured than the name may appear in few other
> places in network configuration files /etc/hosts and so on.
> Have fun...
>
> --
> ******* Stanislaw ********
> Monolog - one person talking to himself,
> dialog - two people talking to themselves.
> -Shaike Ofir-
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