Linux-Setup Digest #126, Volume #19 Mon, 10 Jul 00 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Looking for the X Servers... (Jianxin Xiong)
Re: How to change the desktop picture at the X-login time ? (Rasputin)
linux gele
Re: wu-ftpd authentication problem ("Gene Heskett")
Re: what is .config of a default RH kernel ? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: smbfs support in 2.2.16 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Brainbench Certifications on your resume? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Configuring Mouse under SuSE 6.4 ("Morten Skaarup Jensen")
RAID1 for RH6.1 : help needed. (Karim AMRANI)
Re: Netscape and kppp (TestPilotUK)
Starting Gnome ("David Stackis")
Re: How to boot from the *second* hard disk? (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA (JoeB)
SuSE 6.3 Network Printing woes (Cindy Huyser)
TurboLinux 6.0 install problems (Ken Knecht)
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From: Jianxin Xiong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for the X Servers...
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:52:03 -0500
goto "http://www.slackware.com/packages/index.php3?version=7.0&series=a" and
get the package "glibcso.tgz".
However, it might still be not enough. I suggest you upgrade to slackware
7.0 or 7.1, including X system.
-J.X.
Scott Weber wrote:
> Seems logical...
>
> Where can I get the glibc2.1 files? I'd rather upgrade.
>
> The older servers don't recognise my VGA card, and go into
> 320X200 mode (ugh!).
>
> This still doesn't explain why the three files of source code
> (45meg+!!) have not actually built a new XF86_... server. Anywhere.
> (remember, the older one has the old date on it, circa 1998)
>
> -Scotty
>
> Jianxin Xiong wrote:
> >
> > It seems that youve already got the X server, so no need to build one.
> > The reason why you got "no such file or directory" is not the server
> > binary didn't exist, but the required libaries could not be found. You
> > need the glibc2.1 libraries, which are not included in Slackware 3.5.
> > You'll have to install these libraries or stick with the X servers from
> > Slackware 3.5 (at least XF86_VGA16 should work).
> >
> > Scott Weber wrote:
> >
> > > 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]
> >
> > --
> > O - O
> > (`Q`)
> > '
--
O - O
(`Q`)
'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: How to change the desktop picture at the X-login time ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:52:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Minh Do-Quang> wrote:
>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
Change the path to the image in
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
to whatever image you want (most types are supported by xsri)
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux gele
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:02:06 -0400
je possede une version linux corel standard et elle plante au milieu de
linstallation
clsxr-481719p315
je possede un amd-k6 -2 400 mghzt
la carte vga est onboard et elle utilise 4 meg de memoire de la ram
jai 64 meg de ram donc 4 pris par la cARTE VGA SUR la carte maire
et un disque dur de 8 gig
un carte de son integre a la carta mere
et un modem integre reconnu pour etre de type connexant
extension sur une carte a part pour usb et ps2
question 1--------
ne reconnais pas ma souris qui est de type ps2 mais avec embout qui le
converti en serie
question 2 ---------------------------------------
plante apres la deuxieme question de lintallation
fais la meme chose lorque je tente dinstaller redhat 6,1 et mandrake 7.0
que doije tester ou modifier y a til quelque chose que je dois modifier
sois dans le bios ou dans la facon de linstaller
ou puis - je avois de linformation et des reponse de preference en francais
newsgroup , corel ?
jaimerais que quelqun se penche sur mon probleme dinstallation pour que je
puisse profiter de mon achat
merci de [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 10 Jul 2000 10:44:21 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd authentication problem
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Jack ;
> 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?
Possibly a known exploit, that daemon was replaced with a new one
patched to defeat an exploit about 2 weeks ago.
In which case the system may have been compromised, take it off line as
soon as you get all the late updates from RH, and reinstall, finishing
up with all the updates.
Good luck.
Cheers, Gene
--
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Date: 10 Jul 2000 10:50:38 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is .config of a default RH kernel ?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Villy Kruse;
VK> On 8 Jul 2000 8:32:1 -0500, Gene Heskett
VK> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>That may be true, in which case whats the poor guy who downloads
>>only the iso of the first disk (on a 56k line yet) supposed to do?
>>Frankly, I've found that deleting or renaming the existing .configs,
>>and running make oldconfig isn't that reliable. As its typically
>>11- 12k, I see no reason to make life difficult for the newbie by
>>not including it in the kernel sources when they have been
>>installed.
>>
>>The .configs, all 3 of them, should be present and accounted for in
>>the base install that includes the kernel source, name suffixes of
>>each being the extended name of the choice of kernel chosen. Like
>>.config.SMP etc.
>>
VK> You will find them in /usr/src/linux/configs if you have the
VK> kernel-source package installed. Not the .src.rpm. but the
VK> .i386.rpm from the RPMS directory on your first install CD.
VK> This directory should contain 7 configurations: one for each of
VK> 386, 586, and 686 in both unitprocessor and multiprocessor
VK> configuration. The last one is the one used to configure the
VK> BOOT kernel used during installation.
And we should copy the correct one out to the base /usr/src/linux
directory. Finding that if they are labeled well shouldn't be a
problem.
Thank you very much, Villy!
VK> This is valid for RH 6.1
And hopefully will remain so for future releases.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 10 Jul 2000 10:46:15 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smbfs support in 2.2.16
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Bartek Rajwa;
BR> Hi,
BR> I have some unexpected difficulties with the 2.2.16 kernel which
BR> I've instaled lately. Smbount does not work correctly with OS/2
BR> Warp shares since I started to use the new kernel. It works OK
BR> with the 2.2.15 and all previous versions, though.
BR> Here is the error message I get:
BR> # mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx //warp/f
BR> /mnt/warp
BR> smbfs: protocols older than NT1 are not suppported mount.smbfs:
BR> ioctl failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mnt/warp: Device or
BR> resource busy
BR> I suspect smbfs support was somehow changed in the new kernel,
BR> but I was unable to track any information confirming this. I
BR> would be grateful for any suggestions...
Samba itself was updated to 2.0.7 not too long ago. You may need that
newer version.
Cheers, Gene
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Subject: Re: Brainbench Certifications on your resume?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:11:03 GMT
"mmm007" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had an interview the other day and the interviewer was impressed with my
> Brainbench certifications in Linux Administrator and Red Hat Administrator.
> I took them for the hell of it but the interviewer had heard of Brainbench
> and took the certificiaitons very seriously. Have you all had any
> experience with these certifications?
Looking through dejanews.com, I get the sneaking suspicion that you
probably work *for* Brainbench certification given the dozens of posts
you have made regarding Brainbench. Let me tell you that those kinds
of tatics only work against Brainbench being taken seriously as a
certification system...
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From: "Morten Skaarup Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuring Mouse under SuSE 6.4
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:26:13 +0200
Thanks,
I fought with it this weekend and got it to work. Apparently Yast didn't
make the necessary changes to /etc/XF86Config, so I had to do them by hand.
I didn't use isapnp or setserial 'cause it looked like it was above my level
of Linux guruship.
Morten
"Kevin Croxen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Run YAST as root. Under "System administration" there is a submenu
> on "Integrate hardware into system" then "Mouse Configuration".
>
> If your 3 button el-cheapo mouse uses a com port, try the standard
> Microsoft Mouse, and supply the crrect comm port (/dev/ttyS0 = com1,
> etc.) If the mouse uses a PS2 connector, try the standard PS2. One of
> these should work fine with cheap "clone" mice. If not, then your
> likely problem will be a serial address conflict, and prepare to
> have some fun with the isapnp utilities and a bit of setserial
> command-line experimentation. Check the man pages and how-to's for
> both, if it comes to that.
>
> --Kevin
>
>
> In article <8k46lc$87o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Morten Skaarup Jensen wrote:
> >I've just bought a SuSE Linux and installed it. Wow, it actually
> >autodetected all my hardware (In Windows 98 I need to manually install
> >drivers for graphics card & sound card) except my cheap mouse (3-button
> >Chic). Is there any way I can install this mouse, or do I have to buy one
> >with a brand name?
> >
> >If I do buy a new mouse, I'd like to be sure it works. I tried borrowing
my
> >mouse from work, but couldn't figure out how to get it to work - the list
of
> >mice to choose from is very short in Yast. If I boot from the CD-rom the
> >installation program autodetects the mouse no problem.
> >
> >Basically, my question is:
> > How do I install a mouse after the installation is complete?
> >
> >N.B. I am not afraid to use an ASCII editor on system files should this
be
> >necessary.
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >Morten
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: Karim AMRANI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID1 for RH6.1 : help needed.
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:18:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi,
I have a RH 6.1 box with 1 disk and I just added another one to
associate it with the first one and make a RAID1 device (20 GB Western
Digital both of them).
The box is used in production and I can't afford to loose the data on it
(or even the configuration of installed progs (Oracle, ...)).
So I have to do that very securely and I'm not experienced in that
stuff...
I created the partitions on the second disk (same as on the first one).
The how-to recommends to check that the actual kernel contains the RAID
stuff built-in (not as modules)...
How do I make sure of that ?
The how-to recommends to declare the #1 disk (full of data) as
'failed-disk' in the /etc/raidtab, make the raid device and then put the
#1 disk back in the raid...
Shouldn't it be the contrary ? The #1 is the reference disk and #2
is the failed one ?
Does it really preserve the data ?
...
Is it worth going to RH 6.2 for that aspect ?
The best for me would be to have some kind of step by step doc....
Any pointers/suggestions,
TIA,
Karim AMRANI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TestPilotUK)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Netscape and kppp
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:29:07 GMT
On 5 Jun 2000 23:29:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy) wrote:
>David Oddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>What happens now is when I use kppp to dial, it connects OK as before
>>but I click on either the Netscape icon or the default mail reader
>>icon absolutely nothing happens.
>
I had the same problem (Mandrake 6.1), when you click on the Netscape
icon after using KPPP to dial-up, the program will not start. I got
around this initially (real newbie solution) by starting Netscape
before using KPPP to dial.
However, I have since installed Mandrake for a 2nd time and almost
everything (see my next post) seems OK now, including the problem with
Netscape and kppp. So there`s a possibility for you...bit drastic but
my experience with Linux is very limited, so that`s all I could come
up with.
btw I am really enjoying using Linux, well just playing at using it at
the moment. Its brought back the fun into computing that I`d lost
after giving up my Amiga for a PC years ago.
Chris
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Chris
<http://www.testpilotuk.townt.com>
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Starting Gnome
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:37:34 -0700
I am new to Linux, but I've been sort of lucky so far....I've wiped Windows
off of my 233 96MB system, and installed Linux. I was even able to configure
my modem, and I now can access the Internet...
Here is my Question...
How can I start Gnome?....I've installed the packages, but I don't know how
to start it....
Do I run a command from the root cmd line, instead of running startx?
TIA!
David Stackis
HighTech Books at
http://www.stackis.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: How to boot from the *second* hard disk?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:40:06 GMT
Paul Hughett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As it happens, I have linux on hda and linux#2/freebsd/whatever on
>*sda* rather than hdb. Is swapping 0x80 and 0x81 still the right
>thing to do?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Paul Hughett
I would rather suggest (after timeout):
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
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Svend Olaf
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From: JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:43:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you do that?
What are the AT commands for tha?
Paul Martin wrote:
> 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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From: Cindy Huyser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.3 Network Printing woes
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:36:34 -0500
Alas, the woes of printing in a mixed environment!
My quest is to print over a network from the command line in SuSE 6.3.
The printer in question, is on a Windows NT network, and I print through
a Samba script. In /etc/printcap there is the entry:
sgdlj|[description]:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/sgdlj:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/sgdlj/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/samba/smbprint:\
:mx=0:\
:sh:
where the input filter line correctly points to the Samba script,
smbprint. The Samba script relies on a .print file in /home/$user/ ,
and it contains:
server=[servername]
service=sgdlj
name=[username]
password=[password]
where name and password are passed as explicit strings (within quotes).
The problem at this point is that I can print from within some
applications, but not from the command line! I can print from both
Netscape mail and Adobe Acrobat by giving the command lpr -Psgdlj.
Using the same command at the command line (followed by the name of the
file) does nothing! Or, rather, information is written to the log file
as if the file had actually been printed -- the location of the .print
file is echoed, the server and service are identified, ip information is
echoed, followed by the correct domain and OS information for the Samba
server, and, finally, the line "putting file - as stdin-### (XXX.XXX
kb/s) (average XXX.XXX kb/s). The output I receive is as if I had sent
the file to /dev/null.
I was informed of the known problem with SuSE 6.3's lprold, and have
replaced it, without a change in print performance. I am something of a
newbie, so perhaps there is something obvious I am overlooking.
Any ideas??
Cindy Huyser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: TurboLinux 6.0 install problems
Date: 10 Jul 2000 15:47:06 GMT
I installed TurboLinux 6.0 on my DOS-only machine yesterday - or
so I thought. Wouldn't install directly from the CD - many
errors; I had to use the included boot floppy first. After
installation it booted ok. Today I tried actually using it.
No swap file, I had to add that to /etc/fstab.
Says it can't find the serial mouse. (It's plugged into Com1 and
works fine in DOS.) The probe says it's a PS/2 - tried that too
and it doesn't work either.
Won't run X with startx. Says it is not configured. In trying to
reconfigure X, I found it had lost all the info I gave it during
the install. When it came time to test X (this wasn't tested
during install for some reason) the screen display was visible
but the system hung. No mouse, no keyboard response to ^-Alt-BS.
I finally had to reboot. On reboot it's testing the HD now.
I'm getting very disgusted. Two previous long-ago installs of
Red Hat (5.0 and 5.1) and one of SuSE (6.0) worked much better.
Even my ancient Slackware did better. Now that I'm getting quite
serious about actually using Linux since StarOffice and Gimp and
Gnome and KDE etc. seem to have matured, this TurboLinux 6 seems
to definitely leave something to be desired. Distributions like
this are going to turn off lots of potential Linux users. It
would me if I were just trying Linux out rather than intending
to replace W9x with it. And the manual made it look so friendly
too.
I bought a copy of Mandrake 7.0 at B&N last Friday, intending to
put it on the second half of my HD. Now I'm very tempted to
install it over TurboLinux. Or maybe reinstall my old SuSE 6.0.
Or wait until I get a copy of a book including an install disk
for Red Hat 6.? that I ordered.
Maybe I should try to fix this and use it as a Linux learning
experience? But I'm still pretty clueless about the Linux guts.
This could take weeks.
What would you do?
Ken
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