Linux-Setup Digest #162, Volume #19 Sat, 15 Jul 00 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Local Printer Drama - Help Please (David Efflandt)
Re: need printer install help (E J)
Re: Monitorless setup (Prasanth A. Kumar)
NIS+ setup problem (Fung Wai Keung)
Performance ? ("icq69")
Re: Performance ? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: newbie question - no sound ("David ..")
Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error) ("David ..")
Re: Which package is most easily supported? ("David ..")
Re: Local Printer Drama - Help Please ("David ..")
White Screen while setup X-windows on my notebook ("C. S. Arvid, Poon")
resizing partitions in linux (Craig A Lebowitz)
Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus. (Peter R. Schmitt)
Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus. (Peter R. Schmitt)
Re: Monitorless setup (Valentin Guillen)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Local Printer Drama - Help Please
Date: 15 Jul 2000 04:22:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:52:32 +1000, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm using Redhat 6.1 and only recently got around to installing a
>printer. I started with Redhat's printtool which didn't detect a
>parrallel port. I read the documentation and searched the newsgroups. I
>got the port up and happening using -
>
>insmod parport
>insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
>insmod parport_probe
>insmod lp parport=0
>
>I set up the printer in Redhat printtool, I was able to print a
>postscript test page, no worries but I can't print from any application,
>
>the lpr command returns "unknown printer", gnotepad does gnothing,
>gnumeric crashes.
>
>How do I actually print something now that I have the printer setup!
What name did you call it when you set it up? The default printer is the
one called 'lp', so if you called it something else you will need to
include that after -P in the lpr commandline, like:
lpr -Pprintername file
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need printer install help
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:25:08 -0700
$ su -
password: <secret>
# printtool
oneal nichols wrote:
> I don't know what or wher to install my printer. I got Red Hat running
> and I'm working on getting my resolution better, but am not doing well
> trying to get the printer going. Any help appreciated
> Oneal
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Subject: Re: Monitorless setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:25:23 GMT
"Brooks Hagenow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After upgrading one of my two computers I ended up with enough spare parts
> to build a third computer from my collection of spare parts.
>
> I would like to setup my third system, a Pentium 233 MMX with 64 MB of RAM
> as a Web server and a dedicated Half-Life server for the bi-monthly LAN
> parties a friend and I host.
>
> Because I do not have a monitor on this system, I would like to be able to
> shut it down remotely when telnetting into it. It does not let me do that.
> Is it possible to allow a shutdown for halt from a remote system?
Yes, telnet in as a regular user and then become root (use 'su') and
shutdown. You can also use CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot.
>
> Please give me as detailed instructions as possible if it is possible to
> have it allow that. I have used Windows since version 3.0 and am just
> starting to get into Linux. I can see I have been in the windows world way
> too long. Many people that know me consider me a computer genius but after
> starting to mess with Linux about two weeks ago I am feeling pretty
> ignorant.
>
> Two additional questions:
>
> What is a good Linux beginners linux book? I bought a 900+ page book on
> Linux and am about ready to throw it out. The book talks a lot but says
> very little. The problem I have come accross is that so many Linux books
> assume you know something already. For instance, the very first day I
> started with Linux my book told me to open a file with my favorite text
> editor. "Excuse me? I don't even know what text editors are available.
> How the heck can I have a favorite?"
Yes, those bloated books tend to ramble on and say little. I suggest
you look at some of the O'Reilly's books though most don't directly
cover Linux.
>
> I was also wondering if there was a GUI front end that allows you to run the
> front end on a Windows machine and connect to the linux machine remotely.
> Right now if I want to use the GUI in Linux I have to move one of my two
> monitors to that machine. I would like to be able to do everything remotely
> and just let the Linux machine sit in the corner under the desk without any
> display and have everything done over the network.
Get a X Windows server package for Windows. There is a free Java one
on the net somewhere (search Slashdot for a past article). The other
option is a VNC program which runs in a browser. There is also a free
one for that.
>
> The remote shutdown is the main thing right now. I currently type blindly
> and hope I get it right. I will try to telnet into it after a minute or so
> of doing the command. If I can't connect, I assume it is shut down.
After you telnet, use 'su' to be come root before shutdown.
>
> Thank you,
> Brooks Hagenow
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Prasanth Kumar
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From: Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIS+ setup problem
Date: 15 Jul 2000 04:28:44 GMT
Hi,
I encounter the problem of "Domain not bound" error when I use ypbind in
the local PC running Mandrake 7.1. My NISDOMAIN is
root@acaepc53:/etc>domainname
ACAE_RCL
and my ypserver is running,
root@acaepc53:/etc>rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100004 2 udp 977 ypserv
100004 1 udp 977 ypserv
100004 2 tcp 980 ypserv
100004 1 tcp 980 ypserv
100011 1 udp 654 rquotad
100011 2 udp 654 rquotad
100005 1 udp 661 mountd
100005 1 tcp 663 mountd
100005 2 udp 666 mountd
100005 2 tcp 668 mountd
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100009 1 udp 691 yppasswdd
root@acaepc53:/etc>
Here is my /etc/yp.conf
# /etc/yp.conf - ypbind configuration file
# Valid entries are
#
#domain NISDOMAIN server HOSTNAME
# Use server HOSTNAME for the domain NISDOMAIN.
#
#domain NISDOMAIN broadcast
# Use broadcast on the local net for domain NISDOMAIN
#
#ypserver HOSTNAME
# Use server HOSTNAME for the local domain. The
# IP-address of server must be listed in /etc/hosts.
#
domain ACAE_RCL server 137.189.101.53 <-- my local PC IP address
#ypserver acaepc53.mae.cuhk.edu.hk
when I run ypbind in debug mode, I get
root@acaepc53:/etc>ypbind -debug
cleared entry for domain ACAE_RCL: server 0.0.0.0, port 0
parsing config file
Trying entry: domain ACAE_RCL server 137.189.101.53
parsed domain ACAE_RCL server 137.189.101.53
bindto_server: domain ACAE_RCL, host 137.189.101.53
domain ACAE_RCL not served by 137.189.101.53
I don't knwo what I have missed in NIS+ setup. Please help.
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong.
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
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From: "icq69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Performance ?
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:56:41 GMT
Can someone reply to me and tell me how to check my linux box to see about
increasing performance ? I am not an idiot, but I am new to linux and
learning the commands and such. I have a quake server running and it seems
to steal most of the CPU and I am just wondering if there are any settings
on the system that would improve performance any.
Thanks
Nick
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Subject: Re: Performance ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 05:00:48 GMT
"icq69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone reply to me and tell me how to check my linux box to see about
> increasing performance ? I am not an idiot, but I am new to linux and
> learning the commands and such. I have a quake server running and it seems
> to steal most of the CPU and I am just wondering if there are any settings
> on the system that would improve performance any.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
Here is a good start:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/gawlso/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-1_3.pdf
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Prasanth Kumar
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question - no sound
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:54:09 -0500
Jeff Hummer wrote:
>
> I've just installed Gentus Linux 6.2 last night (I'm a total Linux newbie).
> There's no sound at all. According to the friend that helped me install, my
> sound card isn't supported by this distribution. It's a Soundblaster Live!
> 256 on an Abit BE6-2 motherboard. Would anyone happen to know where I can
> find drivers for this card, or ideas on how to get around this problem?
> Thanks in advance
> Jeff
http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
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ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:57:39 -0500
Clyde Spencer wrote:
>
> Jesus,
> Not surprisingly, I have exactly the same Error 1 problem when trying to
> "make bzdisk." Could you be a bit more specific on exactly how to create
> the missing links?
> Thank You,
> Clyde Spencer
This step is to setup links to files which are needed to compile
programs and the kernel.
cd /usr/include
rm -rf asm linux scsi
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
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ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which package is most easily supported?
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 00:01:55 -0500
"Gary L. Elinoff" wrote:
>
> I just installed LINUX, and I'm running into the typical newbie problems
> and issues. When I email my vendor for help, I don't get any answers, so
> I guess I'm on my own, except for groups like this. My question is,
> which commercially available LINUX is the most popular, the most easy to
> get help with from forums such as comp.os.linux.setup?
Probably RedHat or Mandrake
There is a lot of information available by doing a search at:
http://www.google.com/linux
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ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Local Printer Drama - Help Please
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 00:05:25 -0500
David Efflandt wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:52:32 +1000, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm using Redhat 6.1 and only recently got around to installing a
> >printer. I started with Redhat's printtool which didn't detect a
> >parrallel port. I read the documentation and searched the newsgroups. I
> >got the port up and happening using -
> >
> >insmod parport
> >insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
> >insmod parport_probe
> >insmod lp parport=0
> >
> >I set up the printer in Redhat printtool, I was able to print a
> >postscript test page, no worries but I can't print from any application,
> >
> >the lpr command returns "unknown printer", gnotepad does gnothing,
> >gnumeric crashes.
> >
> >How do I actually print something now that I have the printer setup!
Add this line to /etc/conf.modules then try printtool
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
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ID # 123538
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From: "C. S. Arvid, Poon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: White Screen while setup X-windows on my notebook
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:22:07 +0800
I'm new in Linux. My notebook is Mitac 5033, running Pentinum 233MMX =
with 64MB RAM. Setup screen is OK. When I tried to configure the =
X-windows, it appeared the whole white screen. At the console mode, I =
run the SuperProbe, it showed my display card is Trident Cyber9386 w 2MB =
RAM. LCD size is 12.1". How can I config the X-Windows ? Thank a lots.
Arvid Poon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.gohip.com/free_video/
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 01:34:02 -0400
From: Craig A Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: resizing partitions in linux
I'm running Red Hat 6.2 and I'd like to get rid of Windows and resizem
my linux partition. Can anyone suggest the best way to do this? I
really don't want to mess up my config at this point.
Also - what is a good way to see where HD space is being used on my
filesystem? I haven't found an easy way to do this. I have KDE and
GNOME available. TIA.
craig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter R. Schmitt)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.turbolinux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus.
Date: 15 Jul 2000 04:10:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On or about Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:42:29 -0700,
Mike Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>TurboShitzu is a mess. Have any of you installed a minumum software set
>and then gone in and tried to do the REAL install using turbopkg? Have
>you noticed that
>
>1. There is no way to select EVERYTHING? That you have to go down the
>entire f--king list, checking the packages one at a time? Have you
[snip much possibly valid rantage]
>
>-- If you can't give a WRITTEN GUARANTEE that your distro will NOT
>NEGATIVELY IMPACT the current state of your box, then get out of the
>game. You got no business in it. You're a piss-ant. You can't run with
>the Big Dogs. You're a Tech Shitzu. Get off my leg.
>
>Mike
You've been reading *way* too much ASR, right?
You're getting there. You'd be laughed out of the ASR academy, though.
Laser like precision is required for a quality rant. Seeing red, being
extremely overtorqued on caffeine, and liberal doses of various
complex carbon compounds really help to focus the sensibilities.
You need a tad more practice. There was something a bit errmmm... flaccid
going on there. I wasn't moved as much as I should have been.
ObSpellingFlame: It's copascetic, you fool =^D
Style suggestion: Turboshitzu? Please!
Rant on, d00d!
Pete.
--
- Nobody moves very much in a Hanna Barbera cartoon! - Zorak
- Kids! Lusers! If I context switch any faster, my brain is gonna burn up!
- Prschmitt at yahoo dot com .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter R. Schmitt)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.turbolinux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus.
Date: 15 Jul 2000 04:51:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On or about Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:03:19 GMT,
Jeffrey Gudmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>Thomas
>
>I accept and agree with the points you raise.
Ye GODS! Get the fscking chain saw!
>
>In my youth (!!!) I enjoyed fixing and tuning my old bomb of a car so that
>it would get
>me to University for 4 years. Looking back I think it was a "good" thing
>that I scraped my knuckles in this fashion, cos I learnt a great deal about
>motor vehicles. But I swore back then that when I could afford it I would
>buy a car that just "worked" and didn't need constant mothering to keep it
>alive.
Ok. I gotta challenge this.
I am CONSTANTLY approached by people that know that I understand
machinery to fix their stuff for them. What do I do? I tell them to
RTFM! (shop manual) If I DO work on their shit, I charge them right up
the ol' wazoo as a severe disincentive for them ever to ask me again. I
do better work than most shops because I *care* about what I do, and
people realize this.
I do NOT enjoy being used in this manner. If you utilise a piece
of hardware, you should have SOME clue about how it works. Period.
Leave me the fsck alone. Educate yourself. I have a life. I am most
emphatically NOT your defacto or for hire servant. I learned this stuff.
That learning inconvenienced me. You are not exempt from incovenience
in life. Deal with it.
>By comparison, my son (21) wouldn't know the difference between a
>distributor and a differential because nowadays we want something that just
>works out of the box. In addition, if you opened the hood of a current model
>vehicle then 1) you wouldn't know where to start because its all
>"computerised" and b) if you altered anything you would probably bugger it
>up. But you accept this because it just "works" - until something does go
>wrong and then you're really up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
So sorry about your son. I have a nephew like this (23). He's never been
absolutely stranded on occasion like I have. He expects assistance on trivial
issues. I could provide it, but I choose not to. So far, the strategy
has worked rather well. He's clued himself up >< this much about
computing, and knows M$ to some degree. He's 'administrating' NT boxen,
whatever that actually means...
Still.. The point is this: I let him know in no uncertain terms
that I fully expected him to educate himself, as I did. I would help,
but there would be no cheating.
He's gotten the message ( and thinks he's hot stuff LOL!) and is
learning on his own.
Find your son a classic car of some sort, and see how he deals
with that. Dwell angles and advance curves are very cool!
Sorry I couldn't retain the rest of the article. I grew impatient
about editing it.
You should trim extraneous context from any usenet followup.
Huge inclusions from previous posts are verboten. Don't do that.
Play with us. Our rules are very accomodating!
Pete.
--
- Nobody moves very much in a Hanna Barbera cartoon! - Zorak
- Kids! Lusers! If I context switch any faster, my brain is gonna burn up!
- Prschmitt at yahoo dot com .
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitorless setup
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:47:41 -0600
Brooks,
Here's a copy of a recent post I sent someone. It'll help, I hope.
Gus,
You're just a bit confused about how to go about setting up the
connection, as I was before I learned. You don't startx!!
Here's a rundown of how I do this manually. Keep in mind that his is OK
for a home network, but telnet is not secure, so you don't want to make
a practice of using this method over the internet, for security
reasons.
Start the X session on windoz. If your windoz X session has previously
been configured to accept X data from your remote host, then the host is
now ready. If not, you would issue a command like
xhost remote-host-IP (example: xhost 192.168.0.21) or
xhost remote-host-FQDN (xhost oldtower.valathome.org
Then, you could use something like Alt-Tab in windoz to get to the menu
again to start a DOS window. In the dos window, type
telnet remote-host-IP or
telnet remote-host-FQDN
Log in as root, or as a normal user and then su to root level access and
issue this command
export DISPLAY=remote-host-IP:0.0 or
export DISPLAY=remote-host-FQDN:0.0
At this point, you can proceed in several ways, but here's the easiest,
maybe!
I issue the command to start a console window on the remote linux
machine with this command konsole or kvt or xterm, etc. I'm now
in a shell window on the remote linux box. You'll notice that the
konsole or kvt or xterm shell window opened up in the Xsession
running on the windoz box. It doesn't matter whether X is running on
the remote Linux box or not. But YOU DON'T issue the startx command for
the remote linux box, because you used the export display command to
send all X information which you want to display, over to the windoz
machine.
At this point, keep in mind that you could issue a command like kppp
which would open up the dialer on the linux box, BUT, now you can't
issue anymore commands in this shell window until you close the kppp.
That means that if you used kppp to dial the internet, but hadn't
already started netscape, you would have to close down kppp in order to
start the browser. The way not to get stuck like this is to always
issue X commands like this kppp & or netscape & or kfmsu &
This way, the command will execute, and will release the prompt back to
you to issue further commands with. When you're done with the remote
session, you can logout, which will terminate the telnet session.
One other thing: If I try to export my entire KDE environment, the
icons get all mixed up, the colors get strange, etc. It may be that I
simply don't know how to do this. Start learning the commands which
start all the programs you will use remotely, because unless you figure
out how to export the entire environment with icons and Kmenus, etc,
you're not going to have any icons in the remote X session to click on
to launch any programs.
Hope it helps you somewhat. Write back with any questions, removing the
anti-spam crap in address!
So now the X client I use in windoz is called MIX, a free program which
you can download and which ships with /dosutils on some versions of
SuSE. The versions which don't ship with MIX ship with an
EVAL copy of Hummingbird's Exceed program. One sweet program....:-)
Then, here's a link to a lot of good X resources of all kinds:
http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html#XMicrosoft
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
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