Linux-Setup Digest #149, Volume #19 Thu, 13 Jul 00 11:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: big ass partitiions ("Steven Farlie")
Re: Linux networking Tools ("David")
Re: 3com3c509 woes (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Another RH/monitor install problem (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh! (Dale Pontius)
Re: Hot Webcams FREE - GRATIS (Rasputin)
Re: How many ethernet card can i set on a PC? (Kevin Croxen)
Re: Installed Linux OS on CD-R to boot? (Corne Beerse)
Re: big ass partitiions (Alex Chu)
Re: RH 6.1 Won't install (Alex Chu)
Re: Samba/Domain Woes !! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: apache_server config (Joachim Feise)
Re: Can't make sshd work with inetd (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: how to install rpm packages under kde ("Hor Jiun Shyong")
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh! ("Rex Dieter")
RE: Help again... ("greenplasticman")
RE: apache_server config ("greenplasticman")
Re: RPM's and what to do.... (Peter Gantner)
Re: RPM's and what to do.... (Peter Gantner)
IPOP3D setup problem (Vincenzo Ciminelli)
Need help with MS-6182 Motherboard issues... (Chris Ivanovich)
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From: "Steven Farlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: big ass partitiions
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:11:25 +1000
> There is no 1 Gig limit. Are you talking about the 1024 cylinder
> BIOS/Lilo limit? The FS limit is much larger -- over a Terabyte IIRC.
Thanks for that. No, I'm not talking about the Lilo limit, it is just that
from my experience I can never get Red Hat's installation partition
gui to accept over 1 gig.
So you can understand that I would rather find out if this 1 gig limit
actually applied when creating the partition myself (I have nothing
to test on here), then buying a 20 gig drive thinking I may need 20
or so partitions to put my data in.
Thanks
Steven
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Linux networking Tools
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:13:58 GMT
Hi Guy
Thanks for replaying my question.
Is traffic shaping, the tools name ? or a program in Linux installation CD,
or a separate program ? I tried to find it on the net, but couldn�t manage
it.
Is it possible to point me to their web site.
Thanks David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: 3com3c509 woes
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:13:46 GMT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:52:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>DeAnn Iwan wrote:
>>
>> I have a 3com509 card that works fine under RH 5.0, but that is not
>> recognized by Suse 6.1, Suse 6.4 or Debian 2.1. These new
>> distributions require putting in the io and irq (which I can get from
>> the RH re-install as 0x300 and 10)....but the modules still won't
>> load! I am very FRUSTRATED! Does anyone have a clue as to what
>> is going on that one distribution (RH 5.0) will recognize the card
>> just fine, but the others cannot find it?
>
>First, disable Plug 'n' Pray from bios.
>3C509 NIC works fine with SuSE since SuSE 6.0. With SuSE 6.4, just start
>YaST and you'll be done in no time.
>
>FYI. 3C509 works fine under SuSE Linux, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
>NetBSD. I've tried these without any problem.
>
>-blowfish.
The BIOS is pre-plug and play. I have installed SUSE on
several other of these old machines (with different NICs)....but
cannot get SuSe to recognize the 3c509.....even when I type in the io
and irq that I read off the RH install. Sigh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Another RH/monitor install problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:16:08 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:30:03 GMT, Rayster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm trying to install Red Hat Linux v6.2. It failed with the 6.0 install
>and I thought it might be an issue with the VGA adaptor, but the 6.2
>install recognizes my video card chipset and RAM (Rage 128/16Mb) fine,
>just not the monitor (Proview/EMC Multisystems 768M). Since the specific
>montor isn't listed, I'm choosing generic, with the default refresh
>settings of 31.5 hz horizontal, 60 hz vertical. I've tweaked with the
>setting, knocked the refresh down to the minimum the manufacturer says the
>monitor will do, and the best I get is either a black screen or an
>extremely distorted screen when I attempt to test the video settings.
>Obviously it CAN work since the graphical install screen runs OK. Anyone
>have any success with this particular monitor or know what the correct
>settings should be?
>
>--
I have luck checking with the manufacturer to get their
refresh rates.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh!
Date: 13 Jul 2000 12:23:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrew Ellington wrote:
>
>> I am having some trouble getting my CD writer to go. I'm a relative newbie
>> so have some patience.
>>
...
>
> Here is my conf.modules
>
> alias scd0 sr_mod
> alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
> options ide-cd ignore=hdc
...
I'm going through the same process on my home system, with RedHat 6.2.
All of this is pretty much stock, right from the CD-RW How-To, except
for the "alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi" line. That one is missing
from the instructions.
Without that line, modprobes are needed to get the modules autoloaded.
With that line, it all works.
Unfortunately, once I started fiddling with building all of these
things as modules, it seems as if timing problems cropped up with
the IDE section of the MVP3 chipset on my motherboard. There would be
errors showing up in /var/log/messages, and in some instances the
system just wouldn't start up cleanly.
So I scratched all that, and built all of that stuff into the kernel,
instead of as modules. Not only are the timing problems gone, but
the CDROM is recognized under SCSI emulation at boot time. Even better,
Kudzu recognizes it during boot, and offers to configure for it.
(Probably amounts to moving the cdrom->hdac symlink to cdrom->scd0.)
A note for the road ahead...
I partitioned up 700MB of unused disk space, (Newly onto a larger
disk, so I haven't fully expanded into it, yet.) formatted it as
ext2, and tried to mount it as /tmp. I figuree that way it was usable
for other purposes besides CD images, and skulker would keep it clean
for me. Big mistake. There are boot sequence dependent issues with
trying to do that. It can be made to work, but not by simply changing
an entry in /etc/fstab.
OTOH, I've been assured that mkisofs can write to and cdrecord can
read from a raw partition, and that in fact, that's more reliable
and thus preferable to using a file in a filesystem. So I've put the
mount point for /mnt/cdimage in /etc/fstab, and set the fstype as
iso9660. That way I can directly mount the image to test it, though
loopback isn't really an issue. I have not yet tested this, but will
get to it, soon.
Dale Pontius
NOT speaking for IBM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hot Webcams FREE - GRATIS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:55:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Robbie Pickering> wrote:
>ghgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Sexo Gratis - Free Sex
>
>Come on. These are Linux groups. No one here is interested in sex.
There speaks a dedicated sysadmin :)
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: How many ethernet card can i set on a PC?
Date: 13 Jul 2000 12:53:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TurboLinux User wrote:
>
>
How many expansion slots & IRQs do you have available? There's your
answer.
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From: Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.corel,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Installed Linux OS on CD-R to boot?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:01:47 +0200
Darren Welson wrote:
>
> Is it possible to install a Linux distribution to a CD-R and boot to the
> CD-ROM? How about copy and existing install to a CD-R and boot from this?
> I know that the OS needs to access certain files that would be now rendered
> unchangeable, but is it feasable to get around this?
> I want to burn these to CDs so I can use this like a removable HD.
>
This is called a 'live' system (strange, I cannot see it live in rom..)
Suse (the 6.1 I have at least) offers some support for this. I bet the
latest does too.
CB
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From: Alex Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: big ass partitiions
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 05:38:39 -0400
Steven Farlie wrote:
>
> > There is no 1 Gig limit. Are you talking about the 1024 cylinder
> > BIOS/Lilo limit? The FS limit is much larger -- over a Terabyte IIRC.
>
> Thanks for that. No, I'm not talking about the Lilo limit, it is just that
> from my experience I can never get Red Hat's installation partition
> gui to accept over 1 gig.
> So you can understand that I would rather find out if this 1 gig limit
> actually applied when creating the partition myself (I have nothing
> to test on here), then buying a 20 gig drive thinking I may need 20
> or so partitions to put my data in.
>
There *shouldn't* be any limitation like that... I have installed RH
5.2, 6.0, and 6.1. I have never encounted anything like that. I have 2
hd running right now. One is 6.4g and the other is 8.4g (I think)...
Most of my partitions are about 2-3gig.
Alex.
> Thanks
> Steven
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From: Alex Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 Won't install
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 05:43:31 -0400
Stan wrote:
>
> I amhaving an amazing amount of bad luck trying to install Linux on my
> AMD k6-2 system.
>
> Finally got it to the point where it has accepted my video card, then go
> to monitor selection, and nothing works. Whether I probe or don't probe
> the video card, even when I try the lowest possible resolution on my
> monitor 640*480 (monitor will do 1024*768)
>
What brand is your video card?
Did you try to install it in text mode?
Just type "text" when boot up (no quotes).
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong here.
>
> I am using RH 6.1 I got with a Dummies book; the dummies book is pretty
> much a waste of time - not enough help whjen I got into trouble, though
> the Linux docs on CD1 heleped me get a little farther along.
>
> I am using a 540mg HD with a 50 meg partition used for dos (no windows)
> and the rest assigned to linux partitions.
>
You have got a pretty small hard drive. If you want to run GUI stuff,
you might need a bigger hd.
> Any help would be great! Thanks in advance
Alex.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba/Domain Woes !!
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:59:21 +0200
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello All
> I'm trying to get my linux machine to join an NT Domain with no
> success so far. The machine boots up fine and gets an IP address from a
> DHCP server and that's it. If I try to do am smbstatus, I get a message
> saying "Could not open file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK
>
> Any pointers are greatly appreciated
First make sure, that samba is running at all (ps ax| grep smbd) - it
usually creates the STATUS..LCK file. Have you tried connecting to your
machine yourself?
Also samba does not get any information from DHCP. If you are using WINS
or so, you will have to configure it manually. Try using linuxconf - it
simplifies the process a lot.
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: apache_server config
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 06:55:03 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone
>
> i recently installed redhat Linux 6.2 with squid and Apache server ver
> 1.3.12.
> From windows Pc i am unable to connect to Apache web server ,it is not
> even showing "It worked". I am wetting error message "403 forbidden you
> dont have permission to access on this server.
This usually means that the permissions on the htdocs directory are wrong.
Do a chmod o+x on the directory.
-Joe
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't make sshd work with inetd
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:03:36 +0200
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running RH 6.1, and I can't get my ssh daemon
> to work with inetd.
>
> And now /etc/inetd.conf
> ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/sshd2 -i
That is really strange. I had the same problem, and having no more hair at
last, I began doing strange things. Then I changed it from a tcp service
to udp, although ssh is a tcp service:
ssh stream udp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/sshd2 -i
And it suddenly worked! And when i have a running connection, it tells me,
that it is a tcp connection - it may have some udp handshaking...
However I hope this helps.
> When I SIGHUP inetd and try to make an SSH
> connection using SecureCRT on a Windows box, it
> just sits there forever. However, starting sshd at
> the command line causes everything to work fine.
The eternal wait is ssh's (rather) strange way to tell, that it could not
establish a connection...
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: "Hor Jiun Shyong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux
Subject: Re: how to install rpm packages under kde
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:05:11 +0800
thanks a million. i think i'll use kpackage.
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From: "Rex Dieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh!
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:18:55 -0500
"E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Andrew Ellington wrote:
>
> > I am having some trouble getting my CD writer to go. I'm a relative
newbie
> > so have some patience.
>From the IDE-SCSI HOWTO:
1. Enter the line
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
in /etc/conf.modules
2. Create an init root dir with
mkinitrd --image-version /boot/initrd 2.2.14-5.0
(or replace 2.2.14-5.0 with the kernel version you're using)
NOTE: Must run intrd only *after* doing step 1.
3. Include the lines
append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0
in lilo.conf entry for the kernel and run lilo
this has worked for me (and collegues) on several occasions.
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Administrator
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
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From: "greenplasticman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: RE: Help again...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:32:07 -0400
Jérôme Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Now, I will starting to install first Windows98 and second Linux on my
> PC!
> After installing Windows98, how could I install Linux without erase
> Windows98?
> should I change the cylinder for the first Partition with a higer
> number?
> How should I configure my Linux's patitions? What must I pay
> attention...?
>
you can use Partition Magic to build partitions and install Linux
without erase Win98
--
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Fono : +56-2-6986671
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 67102514
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RADIOHEAD : did u hear a sound like this?
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From: "greenplasticman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: RE: apache_server config
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:34:31 -0400
Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everyone
> >
> > i recently installed redhat Linux 6.2 with squid and Apache server ver
> > 1.3.12.
> > From windows Pc i am unable to connect to Apache web server ,it is not
> > even showing "It worked". I am wetting error message "403 forbidden you
> > dont have permission to access on this server.
>
> This usually means that the permissions on the htdocs directory are wrong.
> Do a chmod o+x on the directory.
>
Or verify the Directory Index, may be don't have asociated your initial page
or DirectoryRoot is not set correctly.
--
Rodrigo Henriquez M.
Fono : +56-2-6986671
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 67102514
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RADIOHEAD : did u hear a sound like this?
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:56:17 +0200
From: Peter Gantner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM's and what to do....
> how about using the tab completion built into bash??
> assuming gftp is probably in your path
if "whereis gftp" finds anything, it is.
if not, try "locate gftp".
locate will find you any file on your system if you run "updatedb"
frequently.
put the dir (which is likely to be /usr/local/bin, which in turn might
_not_ be in your path) in your path:
either with "export PATH=$PATH:/the/dir/in/question", which will only
work for the one console/xterm you type it in in, or, more permanently,
by adding it to the PATH variable in /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc or
/~/.bashrc
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:56:32 +0200
From: Peter Gantner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM's and what to do....
> how about using the tab completion built into bash??
> assuming gftp is probably in your path
if "whereis gftp" finds anything, it is.
if not, try "locate gftp".
locate will find you any file on your system if you run "updatedb"
frequently.
put the dir (which is likely to be /usr/local/bin, which in turn might
_not_ be in your path) in your path:
either with "export PATH=$PATH:/the/dir/in/question", which will only
work for the one console/xterm you type it in in, or, more permanently,
by adding it to the PATH variable in /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc or
/~/.bashrc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincenzo Ciminelli)
Subject: IPOP3D setup problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:15:33 GMT
Hi,
I have installed the RedHat 6.2 distribution of Linux for an e-mail
server (Sendmail 8.10.2).
When an user log in for downloading his e-mail with the pop3 protocol,
I see in the file /var/log/maillog this message:
ipop3d[6128]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have
1777 protection.
What means this, and what can I do to solve the problem.
Thank You in advance.
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From: Chris Ivanovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Need help with MS-6182 Motherboard issues...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:08:15 -0500
Hey, gang!
I'm having some install/configuration problems, and was wondering if
anyone out there might be able to help.
I'm trying to install Linux (I've tried the most current versions of
both Red Hat and Debian) on a kludged-together box. It's a 450MHz
Celeron processor on a MS-6182 Motherboard. It's the motherboard that
is the problem.
I'd like to set up X, but in order to do so I need answers to a few
questions. Questions like, "How much video RAM does it have?" I've
scoured the manuals, as well as the Micro Star International web site to
get more info for this puppy. All that they say about the video is that
video is a GMCH chipset integrated with the board with "onboard 4MB
Display Cache (optional)."
I can't tell if the 4MB display cache is there or not.
As I said, I'm having a deuce of a time setting up X without the ability
to answer this question, and there doesn't seem to be any way to ask MSI
this directly (and no mention of anything useful on the web site).
So would any of you know if there is Linux support for this board?
Any ideas?
Grateful for whatever bones you might be able to toss my way,
Chris
--
"The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullwinkle."
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