Linux-Setup Digest #120, Volume #19 Sun, 9 Jul 00 18:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't Run Programs as ROOT!! (E J)
No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA (JoeB)
Re: req:ksendfax and sendfax&mgetty step by step (E J)
Re: My Win95 defrag hell. (Jonathan)
Re: FSTAB, accessing a windoze partition ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: CDROM Unrecognized (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: is there a port to windows media player? (Lee Mahan)
Apache+Tomcat on Mandrake 7.1 ("Paul")
Re: FSTAB, accessing a windoze partition (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA (Paul Martin)
Samba help (Wakka Shakka)
Looking for the X Servers... (Scott Weber)
Re: HELP: kernel building / modular kernels (Andrew Gambier)
old computer (David Punsalan)
Newbie: Need help with XF86Setup (James)
Re: FTP, telnet trouble after upgrading to Mandrake 7.1 ("Arne Bohle")
Re: Samba help (Wakka Shakka)
Use FIPS to resize a partition ? (DW)
Re: linux tutor (need one) (Michael V. Ferranti)
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Run Programs as ROOT!!
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:16:57 -0700
"David M. Carney" wrote:
> Help!!!
>
> I had a power outage and when my RH 6.1 system rebooted, I found I could
> no longer run any programs as root. Any attempt to do so only results in a
> segmentation fault. At the reboot, my system said it had found a bad block
> or something and had repaired it.
>
> I tried a complete reboot with no luck.
>
> Any good ideas?
>
> David
At the lilo prompt when starting your system type 'linux 1' to get you into
single user mode.
lilo: linux 1
At the bash prompt, do a linux files system check, to fix it.
bash# fsck /dev/hdaX hdaX-is where you put your linux
lives.
at each prompt, enter the defaults
If the problem is still there, you might have do an reinstall of your Redhat.
(Perform an upgrade, not a fresh install).
Maybe consider doing a Redhat 6.2 package upgrade.
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From: JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:25:49 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello All,
I am using 3COM ISDN Terminal Adaptor (TA), with RH 6.2. I can
communicate with the TA but for some reason I am unable to dial out. I
get an error in /var/log/messages saying "No Carrier". What could
possible be wrong? I can receive calls on the TA and in Windoze I can
make calls. Am I missing something? Any help or pointers will be
appreciated.
Many Thanks.
Joe B.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: req:ksendfax and sendfax&mgetty step by step
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:27:13 -0700
I gave up on Ksendfax and Hylafax, after a week of reading installation
notes. I installed efax, which not gui-based but does a good job of
receiving and sending fax. The man pages for efax is really good for
examples and setting your printcap.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can't seem to grasp how to set up fax programs on RH6.1 from the
> man pages .Is there a simpler man page or how to that will walk a
> person through the configuration stage so that I can send and receive
> fax documents.
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Win95 defrag hell.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:19:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Mongolian Horde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am trying to create a 100mb partition with fips from Win95 dos so
> >that I can install tiny Linux whilst retaining win95 on the system
> >untill I am comfortable with the new os. My HD is 500 MB and the
> >computer is a dell p100 laptop.
> >
> >The problem is, when I run defrag, windows is apparently unwilling to
> >move some types of data, so the maximum partition size that fips will
> >let me create is some 50 mb. Can anyone tell me how I deal with
this,
> >so that I can make a 100mb partition without losing any data.
>
> I have never used FIPS, but I hear that you need to disable virtual
memory
> (memory swap) before defragging and then using fips. This should get
rid
> of the hidden files in the way. After you resize the partition you
can
> re-enable virtual memory.
>
> With only 100MB you will not be able to fully explore Linux. I used
to
> think that Linux required 200 MB for a complete install, but it has
become
> bloated to the point that a recent Mandrake install was over 1 GB.
>
> --
> 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/
>
>
The 1Gb install is an "everything" install and includes all the
development packages, documentation, alternate window managers and tons
of other stuff you don't need for just running the system. However, 100
Mb just is not enough for some distros:
_____________________
>From Redhat FAQ:
Question:
What are the minimum hardware and space requirements for installing Red
Hat Linux on my PC?
Answer:
1620 MB for Server, 450 MB for Workstation , and 120 MB for Custom
Install 16 MB RAM is recommended and can be installed on the Intel 386
to the latest P IIs.
>From Debian site:
You must have at least 4MB of memory and 35MB of hard disk. If you want
to install a reasonable amount of software, including the X Window
System, and some development programs and libraries, you'll need at
least 300MB. For a more or less complete installation, you'll need
around 800MB. To install everything available in Debian, you'll probably
need around 2 GB. Actually, installing everything doesn't even make
sense, since some packages conflict with others.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FSTAB, accessing a windoze partition
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:40:40 -0400
> I dual boot win98 and Caldera's OpenLinux 2.3 with KDE. I
> recently set up access to a win partition following Using the
> July 2000 edition of Linux Magazine (www.linux-mag.com).
>
> I modified /etc/fstab with:
>
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/win vfat auto,user,rw 0 0
>
> Then I created the /mnt/win dir. This works great with one down
> side. I can only change or add files with root. I can't get it to
> allow any groups or users other than that one.
>
> If anyone can point me to what I am doing wrong I would
> appreciate it. If I haven't supplied enough info to go on I
> apologize, I just don't know what other info to give.
man fstab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: CDROM Unrecognized
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:40:33 GMT
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:28:30 GMT, Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After installing Linux I tried to install Windows 95 on my other
>partition I am unable to CD into my CD-ROM. Somehow the drivers/device
>is unrecognized.
>
>I tried using mscdex.exe but could not get it working.
>
>Any clues?.
>
>Thanks!
win95 only wants to install on the C: drive (hda). Could
this be your problem? Also, if your machine won't boot from the
cdrom, you may need a boot disk for Win95.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Mahan)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: is there a port to windows media player?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:50:13 GMT
How did you guess? <g >
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 19:17:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Mike Frisch) wrote:
>>On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 18:14:19 GMT, C.J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Why? The sound quality of .asp sucks seriously.
>>
>>Perhaps, but there are plenty of .asp only sources on the net. My local
>>radio station only supports Windows Media Player which leaves me high and
>>dry in Linux.
>
>Yeah, I have to conceed on that one. My favorite local radio station also
>only uses .asp format. Wonder why so many ppl are using .asp when the sound
>quality is so poor. Is MS giving the .asp server away with IIS now too?
Lee
Technology Consultant
Design West
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From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache+Tomcat on Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:37:43 -0700
I have Mandrake w/ Apache installed, and I am trying to get apache to serve
JSP's using Tomcat (Jakarta) from the Apache group. I can pull static pages
through Apache, but I get a "Document Contained No Data" error when trying
to open a JSP through Apache.
Initially, Tomcat worked if I used http://localhost:8080/<someJSPfile>, but
I disabled this in the Server.XML file (userguide said to disable either the
8080 or 8007 connector - so I disabled the 8080 as I believe that to be the
standalone server option.)
Also in the userguide I saw mention that Tomcat had to start before Apache
on bootup because of the tomcat-apache.conf file created dyncamically, and
Apache is supposed to use that in the httpd.conf file. My httpd.conf file
called for tomcat.conf though, so I backed that file up, and then copied the
tomcat-apache.conf to tomcat.conf - and rebooted. I'm starting to ramble
here, but if Tomcat isn't running already when Apache tries to load, will it
not try to open a connection for the rest of the session?
I would post my current tomcat.conf file, but I'm currently in win95, as my
post last night using the KNews program apparently didn't stick (and it was
way too late - i could have done anything).
Thank you for your time and help,
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: FSTAB, accessing a windoze partition
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:56:52 GMT
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 12:33:49 -0700, snafulife
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I dual boot win98 and Caldera's OpenLinux 2.3 with KDE. I
>recently set up access to a win partition following Using the
>July 2000 edition of Linux Magazine (www.linux-mag.com).
>
>I modified /etc/fstab with:
>
>/dev/hda5 /mnt/win vfat auto,user,rw 0 0
>
>Then I created the /mnt/win dir. This works great with one down
>side. I can only change or add files with root. I can't get it to
>allow any groups or users other than that one.
>
>If anyone can point me to what I am doing wrong I would
>appreciate it. If I haven't supplied enough info to go on I
>apologize, I just don't know what other info to give.
>
>//
You need to use umask to set the permissions of the DOS files.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Martin)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA
Date: 09 Jul 2000 21:13:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
JoeB wrote:
>I am using 3COM ISDN Terminal Adaptor (TA), with RH 6.2. I can
>communicate with the TA but for some reason I am unable to dial out. I
>get an error in /var/log/messages saying "No Carrier". What could
>possible be wrong? I can receive calls on the TA and in Windoze I can
>make calls. Am I missing something? Any help or pointers will be
>appreciated.
Just a thought: you may need to tell your card (using AT commands) that
you're talking to an ESTI (NET5, EuroISDN) type of exchange, and that
you're wanting to call out with a particular protocol type (eg. X.75).
NO CARRIER often means that the other end has rejected your call due to
some incompatibility.
--
Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
at home, swap dash to dot to email.
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Subject: Samba help
From: Wakka Shakka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 14:11:55 -0700
Greetings my friend,
I have just set up a Linux machine on the pooter over there and
am trying to get Samba working so I can share files between my
NT machine here.
On the NT machine, I can see the Linux machine in Network
Neighbourhood. The user name and password I am logging on to NT
with exists on the Linux machine. When I try to access the Linux
machine in Network Neighbourhood it moans at me saying it is an
incorrect password.
Any advice on what to try,
Many thanks in advance,
Stephen
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From: Scott Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Looking for the X Servers...
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:23:38 GMT
I'm tring to get XWindow working, but I've run into
some problems. I've all ready searched the archives, so
I'm getting desperate enough to post my question.
Slackware 3.5, gcc 2.90... I've never ran
XWindows on it. I've haven't ran it since the
1.2.17 kernel! (Yea, it's old. It's just a
file server/ firewall/ web server, test box...)
The original install didn't recognise my AGP card,
so I downloaded the new source, and re-built
everything.
Except, after doing the make install, my XF86_SVGA
file had the same old date on it, as did SuperProbe,
and a bunch of others. I can't figure out why only
some of the 'x...' files were installed.
I downloaded the newer lib 2.1 and lib 2.0 binaries
XF86_SVGA and XF86_S3, and tried to run either of them,
but it says "no such file or directory" now
(yea, I backed up the old ones). I assume
they are not compatible. Yea, they were from the
linux x86 dir on the Xfree site.
I did find a newer SuperProbe burried in the
source tree, and copied it to the XR11 location,
and it properly detected my video card.
So where can I find/build the XF86_S3 server?
How come the make file didn't appear to build ANY
servers?
Please! Any assistance would be appreciated!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrew Gambier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: kernel building / modular kernels
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:23:07 -0400
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gene Heskett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Unrot13 this;
>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Out of interest... why go out of your way to make it seem difficult for
James to reply to you when you include the same address in your "From:"
header, thereby making it dead easy to harvest?
--
andrew
http://www.mp3.com/thelefthandedgun
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: old computer
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:44:26 -0500
Hi,
I've got a old Packard Bell 486 50Mhz w/ 12MB of memory.
I just need something that will run vi or emacs (text mode), gnuplot, and
GNU programming tools, and maybe teTeX. X might be used (seldomly) to
view image files or use Netscape.
The last time I tried installing RH6.1 - it said that I can't install on
anything slower than a 486 66Hz processor.
So I was wondering ... what is the most recent version of Linux that I can
use?
Thanks,
David
UT Austin - Department of Chemical Engineering
Tel: (512) 471-4789 Fax: (413) 215-9854
Office: CPE 3.428
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James)
Subject: Newbie: Need help with XF86Setup
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:46:15 GMT
Installed RH 6.2 but could not configure X.
I have a Gateway CrystalScan 700 monitor, STB Accell 4MB video card,
Microsoft Intellimouse, Microsoft Natural Keyboard.
Could you give some hints on how to enter this info into XF86Setup?
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From: "Arne Bohle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: FTP, telnet trouble after upgrading to Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:04:21 +0100
Jonathan,
I have had a similar problem recently, and I have only figured out why I had
ftp and telnet problems.
I had forgotten to put the remote host in my /etc/hosts file !!! Simple to
forget and not very professional. Should have throught about that straight
away, but since ping and HTTP went through fine and telnet worked after some
minutes and ftp only "hung" I thought it was something wrong with my inetd
config or similar.
It is all resolved now, but I also had a message comming up in the syslog
from my ftpd demon, complaining about "a format error in host access file").
This was caused by a line in /etc/ftpaccess which I had put in. Leaving the
default in "class all real,guest,anonymouns *" resolved that problem.
Regards,
Arne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8jrdbm$er7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <8i8d3b$4do$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Two separate problems happened when I upgraded to
> > Mandrake 7.1 (from 7.0). First, FTP access stopped
> > working, for EVERYONE. I didn't add anyone to
> > /etc/ftpusers, so that's not the problem, and I tried
> > it both with and without /etc/ftpaccess.mdk renamed to
> > /etc/ftpaccess.
>
> What would happen was, I'd get
> 530 Login incorrect.
> each and every time I tried to ftp.
>
> Checking /var/log/syslog, it turned out that ftpd
> was unhappy with /etc/ftpaccess but was equally unhappy
> without it. I had to add the line
>
> class all real *
>
> to /etc/ftpaccess and then life was good.
>
> Still trying to figure out why I can't telnet as root
> even though /etc/securetty allows it, though.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: Samba help
From: Wakka Shakka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 14:50:23 -0700
Dudes,
Don't worry I've sussed it. I had to enable Plain Text passords
on my NT machine.
Thanks for listening,
Stephen
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From: DW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Use FIPS to resize a partition ?
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 17:55:08 -0400
Can FIPS be used to resize an existing FAT32 partition so I can then
create a LINUX partition ?
Here is the scenario:
A 4.5GB harddrive containing:
1 FAT32 partition 2GB in size (650MB free) designated C which has
Win98 installed
1 FAT32 partition 2.5GB in size (1.66GB free) designated D which
contains software that is installed for using under Win98.
Can I use FIPS to resize the D partition "on the fly" so it has only
600MB free and then get FIPS to allocate the remaining 1 gig of free
space to partitions for RedHat installation ? If so, how do I do it ?
Thanks
DW
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux tutor (need one)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 23:12:50 +0100
Here I was, minding my own business, and wouldn't you know it?
"Kraylus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just had to go and say:
>i will pay 10 U.S. dollars/per hour to someone who is willing to teach me
>linux in person, and will walk me through advanced setup.
Essentially, Linux it just UNIX for the PC. Get your hands on a distro
CD, docs, and sourcecode, set aside some drive space on your computer and
install Linux. Any UNIX/Linux user's guide will tell you how to navigate
the keyboard/shell to get the basic things done. A system administrator's
guide will cover the basics of maintaining your system. You should be able
to find these at the Linux Documentation Project website, and/or mirrored
in your distro's documentation. You can find a lot of Linux/UNIX manuals
on the web in HTML, Adobe Acrobat, and PostScript formats. Hands-on is the
only way to go. Read, try the examples, and learn. If you get stuck, post
a question on usenet. Linux tutors here on the net help for free. The
hardest thing about Linux is learning that it was made by and for the
do-it-yourselfer. Linux is a true multi-user OS. It *needs* a system
administrator to control it for others, and that's what you must become.
>it's great that newer distros are doing it for you, but i want to know how
>to do it the "old-fashioned" way.
Get some distro CDs and look through the installation scripts. They're
just automated forms of the old-fashioned method. <winks> It won't matter
if you don't understand it all in the beginning. It's what you'll learn
along the way that will totally blow your mind. It's like watching the
pros at work with a play-by-play score sheet. The better scripts have a
commentator yacking away in the background, telling you everything that's
going on and helping you to understand what you're looking at.
>i don't want to spend 500 dollars on a college course.
You'll spend more than that at $10/Hr if you want to learn Linux to the
extent above. With Windows, everything is pretty-much done for you, and
you can get by with the included tutorial and context-sensitive help files.
With Linux, you have to learn to do everything by yourself, and that's
going to take hundreds of hours to accomplish. Just *use* the computer.
Learn as you go. Learning will come quickly on it's own if you make the
exploration enjoyable. Turn it into a job and it just becomes more work
for you at the end of the day. When you use a new proggy, read the man
page on it. Get a general idea of what it can do. If it's not too
dangerous, play with the options to see what happens and to get a feel for
using it. Generate some errors. Generate some work. Generate some new
neural pathways in the ol' gray matter. Have fun.
- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
GNUke The Planet!
The GNUclear Network�
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