Linux-Setup Digest #213, Volume #19 Fri, 21 Jul 00 06:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Defraging against LILO? (Vilmos Soti)
how can we make Libc less big ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How To set Virtual Mail by Telnet ? (Zebee Johnstone)
Re: Trident 3DImage975, 4MB: 1024x768? (Sylvia Sotomayor)
Re: Connected Users ("David ..")
lilo to boot from SCSI drive? (George Shapovalov)
Newbie Question: Minimum Specs. ("ThomE")
Re: Help with X windows ("David ..")
Re: /dev/modem not being closed in expect script? (Villy Kruse)
Re: Newbie Question: Minimum Specs. ("David ..")
terminal is not fully functionnal ???? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda)
Can I use Windows fonts? (Dogbert Dilbert)
Re: Windows manager RedHat 6.2 ? ("Ed Bras")
Re: terminal is not fully functionnal ???? (Thomas Hommel)
Directories compare ? ("FreD")
Linux doesn't boot from an extended partition (Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6rz?=)
Re: Route Problem (Thomas Hommel)
Re: Can I use Windows fonts? (Eric Pop)
Re: Help with X windows (Anita Lewis)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Defraging against LILO?
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:49:35 GMT
Kevin Lacquement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had that problem, when Windows decided to over-run its partition. A
> run of Disk Doctor (unfortunately, too late) told me that hda1 & hda2
> were overlapping. Unfortunately, Linux was already gone by then :(
Check out man fdisk and look for the MSDOS 6.x stuff. Maybe that
helps a bit.
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: how can we make Libc less big ?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:19:50 GMT
is there a way to make LibC less big
or
is there a way to compile staticaly and the size of the program is not
too big ?
for example i compile a simple "Hello World" program statically and the
result was a file 980K big .
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: How To set Virtual Mail by Telnet ?
Date: 21 Jul 2000 06:15:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:43:13 +0800
Jeff Tsui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to setup virtual mail in RedHat 6.1, but i don't know how to
>set.
>Any pofessional can help me to solve this problem ?
Possibly, if I knew what you wanted :)
Can you explain in more detail what you want?
What is "virtual mail"?
Zebee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sylvia Sotomayor)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Trident 3DImage975, 4MB: 1024x768?
Date: 21 Jul 2000 06:56:19 GMT
Using lizard, and after much trial, error, and testing, I managed to get it
to like 1280x1024 with 32 bits of color. This was not possible using any
other xconfig program. BTW, I'm running Caldera 2.4.
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:20:14 GMT, Frank Isaacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>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
>
>
--
Sylvia Sotomayor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/
from Caldera 2.4 Linux
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connected Users
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:52:41 -0500
Christian Boesing wrote:
>
>
> Sure, but that does not show Users that are connected by FTP or HTTP....
Ooops my mistake wrong command. I do it with a script that runs a couple
times a day.
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/last | /usr/bin/head -n 20 | (cat <<EOF
This is a list of the "user login's" on the system
hostname.domain.com, generated by cron.
The last 20 users to login on the system include:
EOF
cat
) | /bin/mail -s "Daily Last user login audit report" root
Name it.
Change the "hostname.domain.com" section to point to your system.
chmod 700 it.
then run it with cron.
Hope this helps
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ID # 123538
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From: George Shapovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo to boot from SCSI drive?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:08:01 -0700
Hi
I have two HDD,s , one on IDE interface as /dev/hda and second SCSI as
/dev/sdb. I installed Linux (Mandrake 7.1) with root on /dev/sdb2
(cylinders 639-654, well below 1024). However when I reboot LILO reports
a problem:
L 01 01 01 01 ... with streaming numbers.
According to documetation this represents a problem with BIOS which
cannot boot (more accurately: load second stage bootloader) off this
disk/partition (BIOS is reasonably new (1999), thats probably generic
BIOS problem).
Is there a way to circumwent it? I would really like to keep my boot
(and as much Linux partitions as possible) on SCSI. I would also like
not to use sdb1 as root as I need this for Windows (I do need it and I
expect problems if I use higher partitions for Windows. It usually only
works right when installed on first ones, otherwise starts compalining
and even proposing to format partitions it does not understand. This way
it does not see them at least).
BTW I can get to my Linux installation and do things manually. I just
want to figure out if it is possible to do anything about such
situation. Could upgrading to newver LILO help? I know it works with
more than 1024 cyl, but this is not an issue here.
Any help or thoughts please.
Thanks.
George
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From: "ThomE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Question: Minimum Specs.
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:08:57 GMT
A coworker just gave me a very old Dell NL25 lap top. I am still trying to
get it up and running from a boot disk to see if the hard drive is not
damaged but had a question about installing any version of Linux on it.
The processor is only an 386 at 25Mhz
and it has 2 Megs of Ram expandable to 8mgs.
I'm not sure the HD space as I haven't gotten it running yet as I said but
that would be under a gig I would be almost certain.
256kb Video Ram
640x480 256 color LCD
3.5 inch floppy
I have a feeling it won't take but I am not familiar with all the different
versions of Linux available so I am just hoping there is something else out
there other than winblows 3.1x
Thanks
Thome
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help with X windows
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:57:45 -0500
Paul Wood wrote:
>
> Hey all, I'm pretty new to Linux and I have a little problem that I
> hope
> has a simple solution....I was using my friend's computer, which has
> Red
> Hat on it (6.2 I think, but I'm not exactly sure.) I was in X
> windows
> as the root user, and decided to change from the default window
> manager
> (fwvm or something like that) to one of the others. When I did so, X
> shut down and wouldn't start up again. I'm not exactly sure how to
> fix
> this problem, so it would be a great help if someone could tell me
> how
> to make it switch back to the working window manager, or any other
> way
> to fix this problem.
Confucius say, he who play with root, end up with dead tree.
Working in root is a bad idea.
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ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: /dev/modem not being closed in expect script?
Date: 21 Jul 2000 07:19:47 GMT
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:52:06 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having a strange problem dialing out: I can dial out once just
>fine; after I hang up, though, I can't access the modem again until I
>reboot.
>
> Using RedHat 6.1 & expect 5.28.1.
> Script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/expect -f
> # Expect script to connect to work
> system "stty -F /dev/modem 115200 -echoe -echo raw "
> spawn -open [open /dev/modem "r+"]
> send_user "Dialing..."
> <... snip modem init ...>
> send "ATe0v1x4&c1&d2s2=128s0=0dt {phone#} \r"
> set timeout 45
>
> expect {
> <...snip...>
> }
>
> catch "exec pppd /dev/modem 115200 crtscts modem defaultroute
>usepeerdns debug kdebug 1 domain <x>.com user <x>" pppdval send_user
>$pppdval
> #End of script
>
You should normaly leave the opening of the tty device to pppd and
call the dialer script from pppd as specified in the connect option.
The pppd program knows the trick to open the tty line when there is no
carrier present.
Villy
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Minimum Specs.
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:19:51 -0500
ThomE wrote:
>
> A coworker just gave me a very old Dell NL25 lap top. I am still trying to
> get it up and running from a boot disk to see if the hard drive is not
> damaged but had a question about installing any version of Linux on it.
>
> The processor is only an 386 at 25Mhz
> and it has 2 Megs of Ram expandable to 8mgs.
> I'm not sure the HD space as I haven't gotten it running yet as I said but
> that would be under a gig I would be almost certain.
> 256kb Video Ram
> 640x480 256 color LCD
> 3.5 inch floppy
>
> I have a feeling it won't take but I am not familiar with all the different
> versions of Linux available so I am just hoping there is something else out
> there other than winblows 3.1x
If you can get the system working you should be able to run linux on it
if you can put 8 MB of memory in it. You might take a look at Slackware.
There is some information here:
http://www.slackware.com/install/
There are also other systems like peanut linux or L.O.A.F. (linux on a
floppy) thought I have never used them. You can find several distros at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/
Hope this helps
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ID # 123538
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda
Subject: terminal is not fully functionnal ????
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:48:27 +0200
Hi all,
Each time I want to see manpages or want to "vi" a file, I get such that
message.
It become impossible to vi any file, but concerning manpages, after that
message, I manage to see the man file.
I've a PC Pentium 100 16 Mo mounted as a router with RedHat 6.0 (Minimal
service)
May be I've missed install some package(s) ?
Thanks in advance for any help.
S�bastien
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From: Dogbert Dilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I use Windows fonts?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:14:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear All,
I now have RH6.2 running in all its glory, including (after a mighty
struggle with setserial) mail, newsgroups and internet access. Hurrah!
However, I notice that most of the web pages I browse look different
from when I'm looking at them in Windows98, and I take it that this is
due to some kind of font substitution.
Is there a way that I can use Windows fonts in Linux, or are there
fonts such as Arial, Tahoma, etc available for Linux users?
Many Thanks,
Dogbertd
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows manager RedHat 6.2 ?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:37:48 +0200
Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ed Bras wrote:
> >
> > How can I change the window focus to be "move over" instead of "clicking
on
> > it" ??
> >
> > With my laptop (Linux RH 6.2. workstation installed) I did that through
the
> > Control center of gnome-> window manager and then running the "Run
> > configuration tool for Elightenment" that is the active one.
> >
> > However, with my server (Linux RH 6.2. server installed), this button
for
> > "Run configuration tool for Elightenment" is disables, such that I am
not
> > able to change the acitvde window selection !!
> >
> > Please tell me what to do about that ?
> > BTtw: I am running xdm on the server and gdm on the laptop.
> > Regards,
> > Ed Bras
>
> try e-conf from a term window if you have it. Under Basic Options,
> select Mouse Pointer.
>
> - Scott
> --
> Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
> Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> glaze! |
> 10:45am up 11:15, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 1.10, 1.10
Thanks,
but I haven't got e-conf installed appearantly. I will have a look what it
is and what it does on the net.
Ed
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: terminal is not fully functionnal ????
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:48:52 +0200
What message????
S�bastien Cottalorda wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Each time I want to see manpages or want to "vi" a file, I get such that
> message.
> It become impossible to vi any file, but concerning manpages, after that
> message, I manage to see the man file.
>
> I've a PC Pentium 100 16 Mo mounted as a router with RedHat 6.0 (Minimal
> service)
>
> May be I've missed install some package(s) ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> S�bastien
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From: "FreD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.mandrake,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Directories compare ?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:58:30 +0200
Reply-To: "FreD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all,
I'm looking for a shell command to compare 2 directories ?
Not just the differences between binaries but also the missing files... and
more...
'diff' not seems to do that :-(
On SCO OpenServer, the 'dircmp' command was fine for me !
Is there a source package for a 'dircmp' like ?
Thanks in advance
FreD
(France)
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From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6rz?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux doesn't boot from an extended partition
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:47:57 +0200
Hi,
I installed SuSE Linux 6.4 on my first Computer and it worked without
any porblem (see the partition tables below).
Then I put the Harddisk in a second computer an booting failed.
Lilo stopped with "LI".
All my partitions are inside an extended partition but /boot is below
cyl. 1024
After booting from a bootdisk the system is working fine.
Then I reinstalled lilo with /sbin/lilo (see lilo.conf below) but the
problem remained.
Is the problem, that the boot partition is in an extended partition?
Lilo should be in the MBR.
What could be the problem?
Stefan H�rz
=================================
# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1240.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1240 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Mount-Point
/dev/hda1 * 1 1240 9960268+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1 33 265009+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 34 36 24066 83 Linux /boot
/dev/hda7 37 355 2562336 83 Linux /
/dev/hda8 356 738 3076416 83 Linux /usr
/dev/hda9 739 1240 4032283+ 83 Linux /var
Command (m for help): q
#
================================
Meine Mount-Points sind folgende
# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 2481936 257872 2095948 11% /
/dev/hda8 2979840 996792 1829228 35% /usr
/dev/hda9 3905676 31004 3673060 1% /var
/dev/hda6 22547 2291 19053 11% /boot
#
=================================
/etc/lilo.conf:------------------
# LILO Konfigurations-Datei
# Start LILO global Section
# If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash,
# restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the
option
# restricted.
#password=bootpwd
#restricted
initrd=/boot/initrd
boot=/dev/hda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
vga=normal
read-only
prompt
timeout=100
# End LILO global Section
#
image = /boot/2.2.16
root = /dev/hda7
label = 2.2.16
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda7
label = linux
===============================
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Route Problem
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:11:15 +0200
Hi
You have configured addresses x.x.x.115-121 to be on eth1 and 10.11.5.2
and 3 on eth0.
Your default route is x.x.x.115 (doesn�t make sense, that�s yourself).
To make x.x.x.y your default route, just do the following:
route del default
route add default gw x.x.x.y
or put this into /etc/route.conf
default x.x.x.y
and restart the routing.
Tom
Micky wrote:
>
> On my Linux Server I have two Network Card.
> That one connected to the route it have more of one IP address.
> I'm not able to decided wich IP use for the default route.
> Because Linux take the first address on the route list.
>
> Herebelow is the output of route.
>
> X.X.X.120 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
> X.X.X.121 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
> 10.11.5.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> X.X.X.116 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
> 10.11.5.3 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> X.X.X.117 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
> X.X.X.118 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
> X.X.X.119 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
> X.X.X115 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
> 10.11.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default X.X.X.115 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
>
> Every time the default route is IP X.X.X.120.
>
> You can help me.
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From: Eric Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use Windows fonts?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:20:01 -0700
yes you can. copy your TT fonts from Win98 or get them from the MS
web site: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm
since you're running RH 6.2 you've got xfs which supports TT so you're
good to go. read the Font HOWTO's.
also, i've got a little page w/some tips addressing this (see towards
the bottom of the page): http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/tips.html
-eric
> I now have RH6.2 running in all its glory, including (after a mighty
> struggle with setserial) mail, newsgroups and internet access. Hurrah!
>
> However, I notice that most of the web pages I browse look different
> from when I'm looking at them in Windows98, and I take it that this is
> due to some kind of font substitution.
>
> Is there a way that I can use Windows fonts in Linux, or are there
> fonts such as Arial, Tahoma, etc available for Linux users?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help with X windows
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:06:19 GMT
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:18:51 -0500, Paul Wood wrote:
>Hey all, I'm pretty new to Linux and I have a little problem that I
>hope
>has a simple solution....I was using my friend's computer, which has
>Red
>Hat on it (6.2 I think, but I'm not exactly sure.) I was in X
>windows
>as the root user, and decided to change from the default window
>manager
>(fwvm or something like that) to one of the others. When I did so, X
>shut down and wouldn't start up again. I'm not exactly sure how to
>fix
>this problem, so it would be a great help if someone could tell me
>how
>to make it switch back to the working window manager, or any other
>way
>to fix this problem.
I guess the first step is to look in /root and see what you have as
.Xclients or .Xclients-default. If your friend had not changed anything
from the initial setup, then the .Xclients would have been a copy of
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients. If you used the Desktop switcher to change it,
then you may now have .Xclients-default.
Look in those .Xclients files (there may just be one of them) and see what
it says for exec. If it is a short file with just exec some-window-manager,
then you can change the wm name to AnotherLevel or fvwm2 if that is what it
was.
The problem here is that you don't really know what it was. Try
AnotherLevel and see if it looks right.
I'm surprised your friend let you know the root password actually. Whatever
you do, don't mess with any system files. Try the correction with only
those .Xclients files and not the system Xclients.
You could try changing the name of the .Xclients files to like old.Xclients
and/or old.Xclients-default and then run X. It should start up with the
system Xclients and you can see if that looks like what you had before.
Xclients goes looking for window managers on the system and drops into the
first one in its list that it finds. That Xclients goes into the home
directory, in this case /root, and can be edited by the user. You don't
know if your friend was using the original or had edited it. You may just
have to ask.
Anita
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