Linux-Setup Digest #123, Volume #19 Mon, 10 Jul 00 05:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Newbie: Need help with XF86Setup ("W.D.McKinney")
Re: Help please on fdisk (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: DNS: ping gives "unknown host", but nslookup works (s. keeling)
Re: Help please on fdisk (E J)
Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
("Michael Westerman")
finally! connected! (root)
Re: finally! connected! ("David ..")
Altec-Lansing digital speakers work? (Ignacio Valdes)
Re: Getting a working libg++ on Linux (Nix)
wu-ftpd authentication problem (Jack)
Apache on RedHat 6.2 (Simon Reye)
Re: old computer (Michael Nadler)
Re: Altec-Lansing digital speakers work? (E J)
Re: FTP, telnet trouble after upgrading to Mandrake 7.1 (Roger)
New "super-user" (Jan-Willem Vonk)
How to change the desktop picture at the X-login time ? (Minh Do-Quang)
Re: Books for Linux admin, related topics? ("Patrick Lambe")
smbfs support in 2.2.16 (Bartek Rajwa)
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From: "W.D.McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Need help with XF86Setup
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 19:31:09 -0800
James wrote:
>
> 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?
Easier yet, head to http://www.xig.com/Pages/DemoInstructions.html
grab the demo, and see how easy X is is with a real display server.
--
W.D.McKinney (Dee) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that
he always has good company."
-Charles Evans Hughes
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Subject: Re: Help please on fdisk
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:33:20 GMT
"RS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi i am asking for help to fdisk my quantum 4.0 GB HDD to get linux red hat
> 6.2 uninstalled. I have sold the HDD to someone who wants to put win98 on
> it.
> I know I don't sound very intelligent, so any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks in advance! :)
Go into the Windows 98 fdisk and delete as 'non-dos' partition.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (s. keeling)
Subject: Re: DNS: ping gives "unknown host", but nslookup works
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 03:53:02 GMT
On 21 Jun 2000 07:28:40 GMT, Villy Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:09:24 GMT,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have a configuration problem.
> >
> >Whenever I try to ping, ftp, telnet, etc. to any host, I get
> >an "unknown host" error. But, when I do an nslookup on that host, it
> >returns the IP address quickly and with no problems at all.
> >
> >I'm running redHat Linux 6.1. No local nameserver (I'm using my IPS's).
> >
> >resolve.conf should be configured correct (nslookup works)
> >host.conf is:
> >order hosts, bind
> >multi on
Hmm ... My resolv.conf looks like this (edited slightly):
hostresorder local bind
search spots.ab.ca
nameserver 209.115.174.2
nameserver 209.115.174.3
> resolve.conf has very litle if any say when it comes to specifying
> the order of looking up host names on glibc2 based systems.
> /etc/nsswitch.conf is the authority here, especialy the line:
What? I thought nsswitch.conf was for NIS. Are you running NIS?
> Redhat has been a glibc2 based system fo quite a few releases now,
What does glibc have to do with name server services?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Software & Serv. Enquire within.
[sed 's/NO@SPAM./@/g'] Contract programmer, server bum.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help please on fdisk
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:14:12 -0700
RS wrote:
> Hi i am asking for help to fdisk my quantum 4.0 GB HDD to get linux red hat
> 6.2 uninstalled. I have sold the HDD to someone who wants to put win98 on
> it.
> I know I don't sound very intelligent, so any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks in advance! :)
Convert the partition id from Linux to Windoze.
[root@localhost /root]# fdisk /dev/hdc
Command (m for help): m
Command action
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit bsd disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
d delete a partition
l list known partition types
m print this menu
n add a new partition
o create a new empty DOS partition table
p print the partition table
q quit without saving changes
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
t change a partition's system id
u change display/entry units
v verify the partition table
w write table to disk and exit
x extra functionality (experts only)
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 4
Hex code (type L to list codes): L
0 Empty 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 5c Priam Edisk a6 OpenBSD
1 FAT12 18 AST Windows swa 61 SpeedStor a7 NeXTSTEP
2 XENIX root 1b Hidden Win95 FA 63 GNU HURD or Sys b7 BSDI fs
3 XENIX usr 1c Hidden Win95 FA 64 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap
4 FAT16 <32M 1e Hidden Win95 FA 65 Novell Netware c1 DRDOS/sec
(FAT-
5 Extended 24 NEC DOS 70 DiskSecure Mult c4 DRDOS/sec
(FAT-
6 FAT16 3c PartitionMagic 75 PC/IX c6 DRDOS/sec
(FAT-
7 HPFS/NTFS 40 Venix 80286 80 Old Minix c7 Syrinx
8 AIX 41 PPC PReP Boot 81 Minix / old Lin db CP/M / CTOS /
.
9 AIX bootable 42 SFS 82 Linux swap e1 DOS access
a OS/2 Boot Manag 4d QNX4.x 83 Linux e3 DOS R/O
b Win95 FAT32 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 84 OS/2 hidden C: e4 SpeedStor
c Win95 FAT32 (LB 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 85 Linux extended eb BeOS fs
e Win95 FAT16 (LB 50 OnTrack DM 86 NTFS volume set f1 SpeedStor
f Win95 Ext'd (LB 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 87 NTFS volume set f4 SpeedStor
10 OPUS 52 CP/M 93 Amoeba f2 DOS secondary
11 Hidden FAT12 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT fd Linux raid
auto
12 Compaq diagnost 54 OnTrackDM6 a0 IBM Thinkpad hi fe LANstep
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 55 EZ-Drive a5 BSD/386 ff BBT
16 Hidden FAT16 56 Golden Bow
Hex code (type L to list codes): b
Command (m for help): w
Get out of linux, and boot to DOS or Windoze.
The now unreadable hard disk should now be seen by DOS or Windoze.
Format the hard disk on DOS or Windoze.
The hard disk is ready to install Windoze on it.
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:20:53 +1000
Turbo cluster from turbolinux
is a linux distribution that handles clustering though it costs.
Doug Holtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:39669a16$0$56835$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bert;
>
> You need assistance. Linux is not a clustering solution. A RAID 5
> controller manages a set of 3 disks or more, not 2 servers. I'd suggest
> finding a local reputable network consulting service.
>
> Doug
> Bert [reposted because of HipClone cancel] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message news:0$-_%%_%_$---$_%[email protected]...
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need to set up a mail /web server at where I'm working, and after
> > thinking about it for a while, I thought it better to have a fault
> > tolerant set up. I sort of managed to determine what bits & pieces I'd
> > required... but putting it together is entirely another matter!!
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help, pointers, advice, resources anyone could point
> > me towards.
> >
> > The basic stuff are:
> > 2 linux boxes, built-in dual channel SCSI RAID
> > 1 load balancer
> > 1 external RAID
> > RH Linux 6.2
> > (Mix well....ugghh)
> >
> > What i need to do is to have the 2 Linux boxes to be identical, these 2
> > boxes access 1 set of data on the external raid. ie, there should be
> > only 1 set of mail app, mailboxes etc.
> >
> > So these 2 boxes need to have their own OS? Can they share data?
> >
> > A load balancer will determine which box gets the job etc. for a fault
> > tolerant setup.
> >
> > How can I put everything together? Are there any extra special bits that
> > I require?
> >
> > Is there a better way of doing this? ie, sharing data on 1 RAID
> > subsystem is a no-no?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Bert
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ========= WAS CANCELLED BY =======:
> > Path:
>
news.sol.net!spool0-nwblwi.newsops.execpc.com!newsengine.sol.net!news.execpc
>
.com!newspeer.sol.net!uwm.edu!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.skyca
>
che.com!Cidera!63.211.125.72!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver
> .com!news01!news02.POSTED!not-for-mail
> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Control: cancel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: cmsg cancel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
> > Lines: 1
> > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:39:44 GMT
> > NNTP-Posting-Host: 167.206.118.228
> > X-Trace: news02 962980784 167.206.118.228 (Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:39:44
EDT)
> > NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:39:44 EDT
> > Organization: Optimum Online
> >
> > cancel
>
>
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: finally! connected!
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:42:22 -0700
I cannot belive that I am posting here, right now \using Linux.
I spent the last month suffering with Storm Linux, that came in one of
the recent mags. Heck, what could be better, but a new free OS?
Well, being a newbie, I didn't know much about Linux, except as an early
internet user. Back before WS_FTP, and when Pine was a fine mail reader.
My current ISP does not provide Pine, as they think webmail is better.
Bullshit!
I suffered with trying to get my Lucent modem working, and with getting
my Voodoo3 videocard running properly. XF4.0 was giveing me fits with
Storm, and the Lucent installer was designed around Redhat, not Debian.
Anyway, I went over to CompUSA , and picked up a copy of the standard
edition of Redhat 6.2 and installed it. XF86 3.3.6 included in 6.2
supported my V3 card out of the box, the modem driver installed with
only a little modification to the installer.
There is something to be said for using a distro that is dominant, eh?
Rob
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: finally! connected!
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 23:55:55 -0500
root wrote:
>
> I cannot belive that I am posting here, right now \using Linux.
>
> Rob
Confucius says, He who plays with root, ends up with dead tree.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Ignacio Valdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Altec-Lansing digital speakers work?
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 23:59:42 -0500
Do Altec-Lansing's digital subwoofer that is connected to a PC via USB
port work with Redhat 6.2? Where might I find drivers/docs for this?
Altec-Lansing's site is not helpful about this. Thanks -- IV
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From: Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,gnu.g++.help
Subject: Re: Getting a working libg++ on Linux
Date: 10 Jul 2000 00:40:40 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Kew) writes:
> I'm sure it has something to do with those dire warnings about libio ;-(
No, libio is weird for quite a different reason; basically, to implement
sync_with_stdio and friends in the C++ iostreams library, the stdio and
iostreams have to be tied together. So the one is implmented in terms of
the other --- but this means encoding information about the mangled
names of some iostreams members into libio. So it is sensitive to
details of the mangler.
In GCC-3.0 the mangler is standardized (along with (much of) the rest of
the ABI), so this problem should get less severe.
--
`I can guarantee it's no problem in my network, and if I don't get some
sleep soon, I'll guarantee it will become a problem in your network.'
--- Chris `Saundo' Saunderson deals with a late-night phone call
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From: Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: wu-ftpd authentication problem
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:36:56 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A weird thing happened over the weekend. The wu-ftp daemon on my RH6.2 just
could not seem to authorise users anymore although it was working just fine the day
before. I had no idea what happened so I just removed and re-installed the RPM.
Then it worked. Anyone know what the heck is going on?
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Reye)
Subject: Apache on RedHat 6.2
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:49:37 GMT
I know there have been a few threads discussing similar issues but
none completely answered my following question (I think)
I recently installed RH6.2 and tried to view the default, Apache
provided homepage but was denied access to the file - even when I was
logged in as root. What do I need to do to fix this problem?
TIA
Simon
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: old computer
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:02:44 -0700
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I am running Slackware 7 on a 486/50 just fine. It has 32Mb of memory,
however, which may help a bit. Compiles and the like are a bit slow, but not
awful. I use it mainly as my Internet gateway.
David Punsalan wrote:
> 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: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Altec-Lansing digital speakers work?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:11:35 -0700
I think you have to roll your own coding with the upcoming USB modules
for Kernel 2.4
Email Altec-Lansing to release the control codes and/or tell them to
support Linux.
More manufacturers are feeling the pressure of supporting Linux, but you
must have to speak up first.
Ignacio Valdes wrote:
> Do Altec-Lansing's digital subwoofer that is connected to a PC via USB
> port work with Redhat 6.2? Where might I find drivers/docs for this?
> Altec-Lansing's site is not helpful about this. Thanks -- IV
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From: Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP, telnet trouble after upgrading to Mandrake 7.1
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:22:31 GMT
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Think there's also a /etc/initd (or similarly named "/etc/in*" file)or=20=
something file that you need to edit to add or remove a "#" to allow=20=
telnet/root access thru ftp. Almost positive here. Did it a few times =
here but in windowz now with StarOffice 5.2! <tis' cool!>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 7/9/00, 3:04:21 PM, "Arne Bohle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding =
Re:=20
FTP, telnet trouble after upgrading to Mandrake 7.1:
> Jonathan,
> I have had a similar problem recently, and I have only figured out why=
I=20
had
> ftp and telnet problems.
> I had forgotten to put the remote host in my /etc/hosts file !!! Simp=
le=20
to
> forget and not very professional. Should have throught about that=20=
straight
> away, but since ping and HTTP went through fine and telnet worked afte=
r=20
some
> minutes and ftp only "hung" I thought it was something wrong with my=20=
inetd
> config or similar.
> It is all resolved now, but I also had a message comming up in the sys=
log
> from my ftpd demon, complaining about "a format error in host access=20=
file").
> This was caused by a line in /etc/ftpaccess which I had put in. Leavi=
ng=20
the
> default in "class all real,guest,anonymouns *" resolved that problem.=
> Regards,
> Arne
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8jrdbm$er7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
m...
> > 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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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:08:37 +0800
From: Jan-Willem Vonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New "super-user"
Does someone know how to add a "second root"
I mean is there a way to create a user with exact the same rights as the
'root'?
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From: Minh Do-Quang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: How to change the desktop picture at the X-login time ?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:44:43 +0200
I want to put my owner picture instead of the RedHat logo at
the X-login time. Does anybody can help me ?
Thank a lot
Minh
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From: "Patrick Lambe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Books for Linux admin, related topics?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:52:29 +0100
"Randall Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm looking to round out my library of books related to Linux and Unix
> admin, security, network admin, and related topics. Does anyone have some
> favorite books they'd care to list?
>
OK, not directly sysadmin but 'building linux and openbsd firewalls' has
taught me all I ever need to know about ipchains et al :o)
P.
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From: Bartek Rajwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: smbfs support in 2.2.16
Date: 10 Jul 2000 09:00:13 GMT
Hi,
I have some unexpected difficulties with the 2.2.16 kernel which I've
instaled lately. Smbount does not work correctly with OS/2 Warp shares
since I started to use the new kernel. It works OK with the 2.2.15 and all
previous versions, though.
Here is the error message I get:
# mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx //warp/f /mnt/warp
smbfs: protocols older than NT1 are not suppported mount.smbfs: ioctl
failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mnt/warp: Device or resource busy
I suspect smbfs support was somehow changed in the new kernel, but I was
unable to track any information confirming this. I would be grateful for
any suggestions...
Bartek Rajwa
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
``Does anybody else find irony in the fact that Bill Gates says he's
trying to write a stable OS, and Linus claims he's trying to take over the
world?'' Anonymous
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