Linux-Setup Digest #211, Volume #19 Thu, 20 Jul 00 23:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: apache_server config ("Tom Jaeger")
Re: ZIP (E J)
Linux for an i 386 ("Jane Seidl")
Re: Email notification problems -- Corel/Debian Linux ("David ..")
Re: wvdial - modem not responding ... (Michel Catudal)
Re: can't boot 98 (Michel Catudal)
Trident 3DImage975, 4MB: 1024x768? ("Frank Isaacs")
via82cxxx fails ("Frank Isaacs")
Caldera eServer POP setup? ("Frank Isaacs")
Re: Apache (Mark)
Re: Redhat 6.2/ATI Rage 128 Pro ("Dermot Harris")
Re: /tmp on unpartitioned device (Michael Nadler)
Re: @Home Cable Modem Setup Problems (2) (Mark)
Re: Linux for an i 386 (Homer Jay)
Re: Newbie IPCHAINS quest ("Aurelien Marchand")
Re: Slow network response time (Mark)
Re: Apache wierdness (Mark)
Re: capture screen output during booting (Craig A Lebowitz)
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From: "Tom Jaeger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: apache_server config
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:19:27 -0400
Please help I have the same issue but cant find the resolution anywhere.
Does anyone have the fix???
Thanks
Tom Jaeger
Tom G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8l3b14$30g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > >From windows Pc i am unable to connect to Apache web server ,it is not
> > >even showing "It worked".
>
> Simon,
> Take a look at this web site. I am pretty new at this Linux stuff myself
> and have been playing around with this stuff at work. (Nice to have lots
of
> toys to learn on and get paid to do it!).
>
> http://www.maximumlinux.com/howtos/howto/2000_04_15/apache.html
>
> I followed it step by step and connected to it and it worked! It was just
> on our internal intranet, but that is what I needed to do.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Tom
> - Another newbie!
>
>
>
>
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: it.comp.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: ZIP
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:25:33 -0700
�W�t�D�� wrote:
> I am using Mandrake Linux 7.0, does it has support for Zip Drives? My
> zip drive is connected through the parallel port. If it has support for
> Zip Drive, how should I configure?
$ su -
password: <secret>
# /sbin/insmod parport
# /sbin/insmod parport_pc
# /sbin/insmod ppa
# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip_drive -t vfat
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:28:09 -0500
From: "Jane Seidl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux for an i 386
Are there any distributions of Linux that I can use on my old IBM PS/1 386sx
2mb RAM 80mb HDD?
If so, where can I download it?
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Email notification problems -- Corel/Debian Linux
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:24:28 -0500
Pat Helles wrote:
>
> I'm just getting started with Linux and am fumbling quite a bit. I
> installed the qmail program, but it's not working the way I expected.
> The email seems to be working -- I can send email from one machine &
> receive it on the Linux box; however, when I go into elm, it says I have
> no messages. The messages are being placed inside the 'mbox' file in
> the user's default directory, but I was always under the assumption that
> messages don't go there UNTIL they've been read. I'm assuming I just
> haven't configured something correctly -- can anyone tell me what needs
> to be done?
This link might help.
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#10a
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wvdial - modem not responding ...
Date: 20 Jul 2000 21:00:27 -0500
Krishnan Sridhar a �crit :
>
> Michel Catudal's reply to my original posting :
>
> : use yast to setup wvdial and then run it as root. After that you
> : should be able to run it as a simple user. You'll have to edit /etc/wvdial.conf
> : to remove the obnoxious line that tells it not to reconnect on line going off
> : by no fault of yours.
>
> This is what I am doing and I am not even able to get the modem to dial
> the number. I have tried editing wvdial.conf and even stuck in the
> init string that minicom was using to initialize the modem, but it still
> didn't do the job.
>
Keep in mind that the first time you must run it as root.
check /dev/ttyS0 or whatever port you have your modem on
If it's not set write for the group you won't be able to dial under a user account.
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Jun 27 12:18 /dev/ttyS0
Try running wwdialconf
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't boot 98
Date: 20 Jul 2000 21:11:07 -0500
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen a �crit :
>
> Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Svend Olaf Mikkelsen a �crit :
> >>
> >> Bob Bolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >kiss 98 goodbye). After getting everything set I decided to boot into
> >> >Windows to make sure it was still in good shape, and am leaving my email
> >> >on 98 for the time being (shared account with my wife, going to ease
> >> >her into Linux). The problem is, when lilo comes up and I type win98 it
> >> >just hangs for an indefinite period. I then ctrl-alt-del to reboot and get
> >>
> >> Change the ID (type) of the extended partition from 05 to 0F, or
> >> better, 85. According to the specifications, an extended partition
> >> type 05 cannot end after cylinder 1023.
> >> --
> >> Svend Olaf
> >
> >How do you explain that it works on my system?
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >/dev/hda1 * 1 1 8001 a OS/2 Boot Manager
> >/dev/hda2 27 119 747022+ 6 FAT16
> >/dev/hda3 2 26 200812+ 16 Hidden FAT16
> >/dev/hda4 120 1027 7293510 5 Extended
> >/dev/hda5 * 120 144 200781 6 FAT16
> >/dev/hda6 145 504 2891668+ 83 Linux
> >/dev/hda7 * 505 670 1333363+ b Win95 FAT32
> >/dev/hda8 * 671 1027 2867571 b Win95 FAT32
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >/dev/hdb1 859 909 409657+ 5 Extended
> >/dev/hdb2 1 858 6891853+ 83 Linux
> >/dev/hdb4 910 1757 6811560 83 Linux
> >/dev/hdb5 859 875 136521 82 Linux swap
> >/dev/hdb6 876 892 136521 82 Linux swap
> >/dev/hdb7 893 909 136521 82 Linux swap
>
> It does not work on your system. Your data is in danger. And due to a
> Windows bug, if one extended partition type 0F exists, all extended
> partitions must be type 0F or 85, even if they end cylinder 1023 or
> below.
> --
> Svend Olaf
I don't have any extended partition 0F. The partitions were created with
partition magic. I haven't had a problem since I removed NT 4.0 that
had trashed my partition table on the second drive. I was still able
to boot to SuSE and managed to copy the stuff over the other drive but
neither OS/2 or dos survived the attack. That virus is gone for good.
As for winblows 98 I never let it run any defragmentation program so I should
be fairly safe. I only use winblows to run Borland C++ or my scanner. I fail
to see what other use I could find for winblows.
If I change the extention I will not be able to do any work with drdos because
it would not see that weird extended partition type.
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From: "Frank Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Trident 3DImage975, 4MB: 1024x768?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:20:14 GMT
Subject pretty much says it all: I am trying to get this card to run in
1024x768 mode on a CTX PL7 monitor, but whenever I run XF86Setup and choose
a mode at that resolution, the monitor doesn't like it (the lights flash on
the front and the screen goes blank). Best I can get is 800x600, at any
chosen color depth through 32 bbp.
I have manually entered the scan rates per the manual, and it doesn't matter
what color depth I choose; even 8bpp doesn't work.
I'm running Caldera OpenLinux eServer 2.4, xfree86 3.3.6, using the SVGA
server.
Should I upgrade to the just-released 4.0 xfree server?
Should I be choosing a different graphics server, even though the SVGA one
is recommended?
Or am I expecting too much?
I am pretty much a clueless Linux newbie, so if you can direct me to
specific instructions, that would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance -
-Frank Isaacs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: e-mail cc: appreciated
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From: "Frank Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: via82cxxx fails
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:22:52 GMT
I'm running Caldera OpenLinux eServer 2.4, on a box with an ABit VA6
motherboard (the Via chipset). On boot, when loading the default modules, it
fails on loading the via82cxxx module.
Is this important? If so, how do I fix it? (Even if it's not important, any
idea why it is happening?
TIA -
-Frank Isaacs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Frank Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Caldera eServer POP setup?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:31:19 GMT
Any pointers to FAQ/HOWTO on setting up SMTP and POP servers on a Caldera
eServer box?
The machine receives mail fine. But when I tried to send mail from it, it
seemed to disappear into the great bitbucket in the sky...plus, I'd like to
be able to access pop mailboxes remotely.
Running eServer 2.4, with kde. (Prefer a GUI answer but I can handle the
command line...)
Eventually, I'd like to use IP aliasing to send/receive mail on this box for
multiple domains. Any pointers to help in that direction would also be
appreciated!
Thanks in advance -
-Frank Isaacs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: e-mail cc: greatly appreciated
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Subject: Re: Apache
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:32:42 GMT
Forbidden access usually only happens to me when there is no valid
start page eg index.html to test if that might be the problem enter
teh full URL eg www.mydom.com/index.html or what not if you get the
page you need to add default extensions to your httpd.conf (i think
they move it around every now and then)
or there is a sym link with different owners at each end (doubt you
have a symlink but hey)
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:03:54 GMT, "Michael"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've got Apache 1.3.12 up and running.
>My DocumentRoot was /www/htdocs
>but i changed it to /home/testuser/public_html
>
>but i keep getting a Forbidden message when going to the website.
>EVerything works fine when I change DocumentRoot back to /www/htdocs
>
>Any suggestions on how to solve this?
>I have Redhat Linux 6.1. I tried some chmod stuff but that didn't seem to
>help much.
>I also have <Directory /home/testuser/public_html> thing in my httpd.conf
>file.
>
>Thanks for help.
>
>Michael B
>
>
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From: "Dermot Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2/ATI Rage 128 Pro
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:34:47 -0400
The version of X that ships with Redhat 6.2 does not support that type of
card. You can upgrade to the newer version of X (I believe it's 4.0) and
the card should be supported.
Ron Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> New computer, a Dell 4100 with an ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP video card w/8MB
> of memory. Dead to linux.
>
> Cannot get the ATI video card to run under X. Has anyone been able to
> get this card configured and running under Redhat 6.2???
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /tmp on unpartitioned device
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:35:42 -0700
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> Thanks Karsten
>
> Do you know if there are any advantages to not partitioning?
>
> IanC
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
It really doesn't matter too much. Except for two cases that I can
think of:
1. You are storing many thousands of files in the single filesystem on
the partition. The filesystem points to the files in a tree structure,
where each leaf is called an inode. I can't remember what the name of
the branch structure is, but it points to a fixed number of inodes. The
branch structure is pointed to via an inode from another branch, up and
up until you reach the root of the tree, which called the superblock.
Whenever, a given branch fills up, an new branch structure is allocated
(pointed to from the current branch) to hold more inodes. As you store
more and more files, the search time begins to increase as the OS has to
walk the filesystem tree. As I recall, there are about 100 inodes in
each branch. And the filesystem logic usually balances inode allocation
between the different branches to make the tree grow evenly. You can
see that it would take a lot of files (a million or so) to cause there
to be even 5 branches to be traversed when finding a file. And most
Unix filesystems cache the branches in memory -- making the whole issue
moot.
2. You want to be able to mirror the filesystem. Putting the filesystem
on a separate partition will generally make administration easier.
Can anybody think of any other cases?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Subject: Re: @Home Cable Modem Setup Problems (2)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:39:34 GMT
Beats me but every @home system Ive set up I just get the IP then hard
assign it with what ever tool is available eg. netconfig or bye
editing the rc.inet1 file. And it works. seems @home uses static IP's
(they keep saying they don't but Ive seen computer that stay up for 3+
months and others that the owner turns off every night and they all
seem to work)
One point thoguh the gateway can be a strange IP and may need to be
checked and set.
If you have or can borow an Win95/98 computer run @home setup then
from start/run run winipcfg , write down all the info and add it to
you config files and test. (remember to uninstall the @home service
from offending M$ computer)
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:18:30 GMT, "Dj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the help. Here's my /etc/resolv.conf:
>
>search rchdsn1.tx.home.com
>nameserver 24.4.48.33
>nameserver 24.4.48.34
>domain rchdsn1.tx.home.com
>
>The problem is that I can't ping IP addresses (even without DNS resolution).
>
>Eth0 is definitely working -- I can see traffic from my pings, etc. but
>nothing gets to my screen. Any ideas guys ? Are you aware of any other
>diagnostic tricks I can do to trouble shoot deeper ?
>
>I would appreciate any help I can get....
>
>
>"Bit Twister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Sounds like /etc/resolv.conf is not set correctly. Fake example:
>>
>> search localdomain grlnd1.tx.home.com
>> nameserver 24.14.82.433
>> nameserver 24.14.28.434
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:32:36 GMT, Dj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Hi there:
>> >
>> >Here's what I have: redhat 6.2 and 3COM 509(b) card. IP assigned by DHCP.
>> >I followed the instructions (used netcfg) to configure eth0, hostnames,
>DNS,
>> >etc.
>> >After I run dhcpcd and ifconfig I can see eth0 interface with assigned IP
>> >address. I can even see the number of RX/TX packets. I also can see
>traffic
>> >going back/forth on gnome network manager.
>> >The weird thing is that I cannot access anything outside -- I can't even
>> >resolve the names.
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> The warranty and liability expired as you read the message.
>> If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
>> Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
>> Do a, man every_command_here, before doing anything or running a script.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: Linux for an i 386
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:47:17 -0600
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:28:09 -0500, Jane Seidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Are there any distributions of Linux that I can use on my old IBM PS/1 386sx
>2mb RAM 80mb HDD?
Yes, most of them, but to run the install tool for most of them will
require far more RAM than you've got. AFAIK, Slackware doesn't have
that problem and is a really, really good distribution. You will need
to have floating point emulation in your kernel, by the way, because
the SX doesn't have a FPU. It'll run, though... slowly.
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From: "Aurelien Marchand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Newbie IPCHAINS quest
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:50:30 GMT
>Can anyone tell me how many users a linux box with IPCHAINS can handle
>without bogging down too much?
>
>We have about 350 clients.
>
Hi,
350 Clients: I suggest using a good i486 and a switch.
I guess even a small-class pentium would make it: Pentium 100 w/ 128Mb Ram.
Of course, a linux-based OS. :)
Salut
Aurelien
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Slow network response time
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:59:40 GMT
I've never run three NIC's but thats your issue. is it posibl;e you
are creating a loop for the IP packets to follow eg.
you have three networks, a b and c
a forwards all packets to b and b forwards all packets to a or a full
circle a -> b-> c -> a etc.
that could build up quit a lot of traffic even with the packets
expiring.
Mark
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:01:11 +0200, "Thierry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On a RH6.1 machine with 3 network cards (2 3com509 and 1 NE-2000), network
>performance become verrrrryyy slow on 2 of them (the 3Com and the NE) so
>that I have to reboot the server.
>
>The logs don't say anything.
>Where should I check then ? Or what would be best than rebooting the server
>?
>
>Thanks,
>Thierry.
>--
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>remove XX from my email address to reply directly to me
>
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Subject: Re: Apache wierdness
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:59:56 GMT
Think I got it
the sample page is probably just a defualt from the install that has
the wrong directory listed in it (from a previous build)
and you probably have httpd.conf overriding the srm.conf (it does in
many versions as httpd.conf is read first and it may or may not point
over to the srm file)
in configdir try cat *.conf | grep DocumentRoot
that sould skip al your back up files but still tel you how many times
and how you have declared the doc root, presumably more than once with
a different directory
Mark
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:15:15 +0100, "Bluefoot"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Okay - I've got Apache 1.0.0 running on my Slackware 96 Linux system - bit
>of an odd one this - I run httpd -f [configpath] and httpd gets up and
>running - I've told it (in srm.conf) that the document root is
>/www/vhtdocs - this directory has a completely blank document in it called
>index.html.
>
>Then I go into X and launch arena web browser and point it at
>http://ns.equaliser.net (me) and it serves up the following page:-
>
>This is /usr/libs/httpd/htdocs/index.html - - a sample HTML page. You'll
>probably want to replace this with the starting page for your web server.
>
>Problem [1] this is not where I told Apache to look
>
>Problem [2] beyond /usr/lib/, the rest of the directory path above doesn't
>even exist on my machine.
>
>
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From: Craig A Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: capture screen output during booting
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: 21 Jul 2000 03:03:43 GMT
FYI -
On my Redhat 6.2 system there's a file, /var/log/dmesg that has the text that
/bin/dmesg displays.
craig
In comp.os.linux.setup Perry Pip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just type 'dmesg' after you have booted and logged in.
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