Linux-Setup Digest #227, Volume #19 Sun, 23 Jul 00 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help~ Problem for RedHat Linux 6.2! ("TC")
Connexion Internet ("G�rard RUAULT")
Re: Application sizing problem in X (Ken Knecht)
Re: Application sizing problem in X (Ken Knecht)
Re: Application sizing problem in X (Ken Knecht)
Re: Can't set up x in Mandrake 7.0 (Ken Knecht)
Virtual display - how to? (Ken Knecht)
Re: A couple NFS questions... (Alan Coopersmith)
Re: Network with Win 2000 (NetworkGod)
Error:<swap partition> No free primary ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file? ("Steve Wolfe")
simpleinit hangs (util-linux-2.10m) (Wes Kaefer)
Re: After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started automatically,it (Jarmo
Pussinen)
Re: Linux on a LS-120 (mkbootdisk & LILO fail) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on a LS-120 (mkbootdisk & LILO fail) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help~ Problem for RedHat Linux 6.2! (The Contact)
NFS problems.., (sylvain hutchison)
epson printer (H Briggs)
Re: Virtual display - how to? (The Contact)
Re: Error:<swap partition> No free primary (The Contact)
Re: RH - Win98 connectivity (Anton Deguet)
FTP denies access to valid users ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "TC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help~ Problem for RedHat Linux 6.2!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:15:18 GMT
It is just a standard ASUS TNT2, using reference board design.
I heard that it's the compatibility problem of P!!! and VIA694X motherboard.
It is solved in kernel 2.3 while current distributions are using 2.2 only. I
want to use RedHat because I am a rookie to Linux.
Anyway to overcome this? Since I can't even bootup. I can do nothing...
Thanks!
TC
"The Contact" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> TC wrote:
> >
> > When I boot from 6.2 CD, there is an error message after I chose Graphic
> > mode.
> > "387 failed : trying to reset"
> > This message keeps repeating and I can't even reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> > Please help me!
>
> What graphic adapter do you use? Maybe that it isn't supported...
>
> --
> The Contact
> "Knowing everything is impossible. Trying to is not."
> [- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -]
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From: "G�rard RUAULT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Connexion Internet
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:06:17 +0200
I can't connect to Internet with an external modem OLITEC SPEED COM 2000.
I have no response when I send it an AT command with minicom,
with wvdialconf and setserial I have the following response:
wvdialconf aa
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
Port Scan<*1>: S0 S1 S2 S3
Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?
setserial /dev/modem -a
/dev/modem, Line 0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
Thank's
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Re: Application sizing problem in X
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:17:39 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ne...) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
home.com>:
>On Jul 22, 2000 at 15:08, Ken Knecht eloquently wrote:
>
>>Using either KDE or Gnome, A lot of the applications are cut
>>off at the bottom when I run them. My monitor is restricted
>>to 640x480. For example, I can't run Netscape because I
>>can't get at the "Accept" and "Not Accept" buttons on the
>>License screen. I can't drag it high enough by the title
>>bar. Same problem with many other programs. Is there a way
>>to resize these application displays? This is with the KDE
>>or Gnome panel at the bottom of the screen moved off the
>>edge of the screen.
>>
>>I had a _great_ deal of difficulty getting X to work on my
>>system, and am _very_ reluctant to solve this size problem
>>by getting a higher resolution monitor as I'm afraid X won't
>>work. I currently have to use
>>
>>Unsupported VGA compatible video card
>>Generic 640x480 60 Hz. monitor
>>
>>This is the only pair of choices that will work with startx.
>>Selecting my real video card gets me errors.
>>
>>Linux distribution is Mandrake 7.0. I just set up the x
>>system so am still learning KDE and Gnome so I may well be
>>missing something obvious.
>>
>>Any ideas on the display size problem? I'll experiment some
>>more with KDE while I'm waiting for a response here. Maybe
>>I'll stumble on the solution.
>We'll need to know what graf card you are using and the
>specs on it. We'll also need to know the version of X
>you are using. Then you'll have to reconfigure X. Oh,
>and while you're at it, please post the specs of your
>monitor as well.
>
How do I tell what version of X I'm using? Whatever comes with
Mandrake 7.0.<g>
STB Horizon VGA, 1 MB RAM, Cirrus Logic GD5429 BIOS
Monitor 640x480, 31.5 KHz, 50-70 Hz.
These settings do not work in XF86Setup or Xconfigurator.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Re: Application sizing problem in X
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:21:05 GMT
I have since found out you can hold down the Alt key and click
and drag a window in KDE and GNOME. I used it to license
Netscape. Then you can fool around with the resize in the
window's lower right corner. Now I'm looking into setting up a
virtual 800x600 or so desktop.
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark David Thomas) wrote in
<8ldn4j$jcf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I was faced with the same problem and I am in the midst
> of working on
>it. If in KDE, I use the "Resize" menu item in the top left
>corner of the app. This will let me bring the botton up. I
>enabled Netscape that way
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Re: Application sizing problem in X
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:25:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark David Thomas) wrote in
<8ldq59$ku4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Another thought from a Newbie
>
> Your problem with setting up X to run correctly may be
> the monitor and
>not the card. In my case I have a card capable of SVGA, but I
>am running through and old IBM VGA. Although I can select my
>video card, the monitor cannot handle it.
> I suspect your monitor will only show VGA 640 x 480. Is
> that possible?
>
>Mark
>
>
Yes. It is a standard VGA and only runs 640x350, 640x480, and
720x400. So 640x480 is the only practical option. In
Xconfigurator the only monitor and video card settings that work
are unsupported VGA card and generic 640x480 60 Hz monitor. Not
even generic VGA card will work.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Re: Can't set up x in Mandrake 7.0
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:30:27 GMT
Did you try Xconfigurator? I had much better luck with it than
XF86Setup. I got X set up fairly quickly using it - compared to
using XF86Setup - but I'd not like to play with it again. I very
carefully saved a copy of the working XF86Config data file and
printed it out.
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly) wrote in
<L7oe5.8284$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I had a similar problem with Mandrake. I could get the
>XServer running and all was good. Then one day while I was
>checking out the resolutions, it some how got forced into
>640x480 mode, yet Xserver still ran. I tried to fix it, yet
>the XFDrake was extremely stubborn and it took several hours
>to get it working correctly again. I got it to work by
>setting all of the settings - monitor, card, resolution -
>manually many times over, until it finally cooperated. I
>hope this helps you.
>
>--
>Mike Kelly
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Virtual display - how to?
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:35:39 GMT
How do I set up a virtual screen/display/desktop (or whatever
the correct term is) for Gnome and/or KDE with Mandrake 7.0?
I have only 640x480 and understand I can make this work like a
800x600, getting the extra screen area by moving the mouse to
the edges of the display.
TIA.
Ken
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From: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: A couple NFS questions...
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:51:32 GMT
Jeff Shipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in comp.protocols.nfs:
|Well, I've got my NFS setup working almost perfectly. I
|only have a couple questions. For the purposes of this
|'millenia' is the server and 'aquarius' is the client.
|
|Anyway, I've got two directories I'm exporting, one is
|/jaz which is my removable Jaz disk and /mp3s which
|is just my mp3 partition (imagine that!).
|
|When it does work, however, after I umount it on aquarius,
|I try and unmount it back on millenia and it says the device
|is busy...and it stays that way until I reboot. What is
|making the device stay thinking that it is busy?
I don't know about Linux NFS, but many other Unix'es consider a
filesystem that is exported/shared to be busy and make you
unexport/unshare it first.
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http://soar.Berkeley.EDU/~alanc/ aka: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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From: NetworkGod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,it.comp.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: Network with Win 2000
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:55:59 -0500
Hi,
Using a program called SAMBA. Samba let's you connect to a
"Windows" netowrk with your Unix machine. You run client for
Microsoft NEtworks on all of your windows machines, the run
"smbd" on your Mandrake machine and voila! - you can see each other's
shares.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:04:36 +0800, �W�t�D�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>How do I setup a network between Mandrake-Linux and Windows 2000?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Error:<swap partition> No free primary
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:43:15 GMT
Hello, Experts.
I just tried to install Linux.
In the part of partition, I got the error
message like the below.
"There are currently unallocated partition
(s) present in the list of requested
: partitions. The unallocated partition
(s) are shown below, along with the
: reason they were not allocated
: <swap partition> No free primary"
If anyone know how can it be fixed, please
give a hand.
I tried several way to changed partition
size at linux setup but it shows me the
same problem..
My condition is as the below.
I have 128M memory & 20G HDD
At the first, my 20G HDD was partitioned
as 10G for C:(win98se), 6G(format for
win), 2G(fortmat for win), 2G(tried for
linux install) -> Then I had problem with
1024Cylinder.. So, I partitioned 10G
(originally Win98se installed) to 8G
(win98se)+ 2G(tried for linux) -> Then
same problem with 1024 Cylinder -> so, I
partitioned again with 8G(win 98se) to 6G
(win98se)+2G(tried for linux) -> Then I
got error message as I mentioned at the
first.
My hard drive condition is right now, with
Primary {6G(C:win 98se installed), 2G(F:),
2G(G:)} and Extended {6G(D:), 4G(E:)}.
I had hard time with several effort to
install Linux on my system with Win98.. it
so difficult to do it.
Please advice me to good partition on 20G
and detailed partition for linux(swap,
root, usr, etc.).
Thanks for reading the above question and
good advice.
Have nice day~~
Bum Suk Han
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:11:40 -0600
> I accidentally deleted my old /usr/src/linux directory (didn't notice
> the softlink), is there any way I can recover the .config file? Perhaps
> there is a command that will generate it given a kernel?
>
> I'm having trouble building a new kernel that works and I'd like to
> try 'make oldconfig' instead.
I'd highly recommend biting the bullet and making a new kernel from
scratch. That way, you avoid bugs from older kernels, but just as
importantly, things will run better for you.
I always dismissed the idea that a kernel with unnecessary features would
significantly slow down your machine, I generally just compiled them to get
the extra features that I wanted. One day I did some informal testing
between a "stock" kernel that came with RH 6.2, and one that I compiled
myself. Just in FTP, I did a full megaBYTE per second more under the one I
compiled than under the stock one - it really opened up my eyes.
steve
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From: Wes Kaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: simpleinit hangs (util-linux-2.10m)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:30:20 GMT
Runs /etc/rc, then user must enter control-C
to continue.
Previous version 2.9? did not have this
problem.
Is anyone else aware of this problem?
Thanks,
W
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarmo Pussinen)
Subject: Re: After reboot, X can start by startx, but when started automatically,it
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:13:30 +0300
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:47:14 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: "Mingyi Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I'm using Redhat6.0. I recently shutdown linux using ctrl-alt-del and
> it
>caused a problem: After the X started up automatically (I configured
> it to
>do so), it hanged at grey screen and only mouse is functional. I got
> kind
>help here and took the suggestion to use ctrl-alt-F1 to go to
> console, after
>which I used Xconfigurator to prevent X start automatically. Then
> after I
>log in through console and try startx, X started without any glitch
> (even
>though my desktop now has a lot of icons that I don't remember I had
>before)! However, I can never let X start automatically (it will hang
> there
>without letting me log in), I can only log in through console and
> start X
>later. Why is that? Is there some loadup script not working, then
> which one
>could it be?
>
I have had similar symptoms sometimes.
In my case there has been couple of reasons.
1. I had to symbolic links named X in different directories
that pointed to different X-servers. xdm (that started my X-login)
used wrong one because some configuration file told it to do so.
startx used link found in PATH that was the correct one.
(e.g. /etc/X11/X and /usr/X11R6/bin/X)
use
% find / -type l -name "X"
to find those links
% ls -l found_path
to check if they point to same files
% ln -s found_incorrect_path correct_path
to fix the incorrect link
2. I had saved a XF86Config file with some configuration application
to my home directory and then copied it to /etc/X11 directory. Then
later I corrupted the default configuration file in /etc/X11. So startx
used my original configuration from home directory and xdm used the
corrupted one.
use
% cp XF86Config /etc/X11
to fix incorrect configuration file
General hints:
During fixing you probably need to have root priviledges so use
% su
When working as root be careful and if in doubt how to use a command use
% man doubtful_command
spelling errors or other mistakes as root may cause you not to
be able run X from startx or worse.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.admin,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on a LS-120 (mkbootdisk & LILO fail)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:36:24 GMT
I've got an LS-120 on my gateway 5150 laptop.
It lives at /dev/hdc and I have the following in /etc/fstab
/dev/hdc /mnt/ls120 auto user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1
I can mount either 1.44M or 120M disks, no problem.
However, I cannot make a boot disk. mkbootdisk runs, but fails at the
end. I have traced the problem to lilo, which gives the following error
message:
mknod /tmp/dev.0: No such file or directory
if I put in lots of of "-v" in the lilo run, this error happens after
the following output
[lots of "Caching device /dev/*** (0x****)]
Caching device /dev/loop7 (0x0707)
Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc
Invalidating cache entry for /dev/hda (0x0300)
mknod /tmp/dev.0: No such file or directory
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.admin,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on a LS-120 (mkbootdisk & LILO fail)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:40:13 GMT
I've got an LS-120 on my gateway 5150 laptop.
It lives at /dev/hdc and I have the following in /etc/fstab
/dev/hdc /mnt/ls120 auto user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1
I can mount either 1.44M or 120M disks, no problem.
However, I cannot make a boot disk. mkbootdisk runs, but fails at the
end. I have traced the problem to lilo, which gives the following error
message:
mknod /tmp/dev.0: No such file or directory
if I put in lots of of "-v" in the lilo run, this error happens after
the following output
[lots of "Caching device /dev/*** (0x****)]
Caching device /dev/loop7 (0x0707)
Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc
Invalidating cache entry for /dev/hda (0x0300)
mknod /tmp/dev.0: No such file or directory
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help~ Problem for RedHat Linux 6.2!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:03:37 GMT
TC wrote:
>
> It is just a standard ASUS TNT2, using reference board design.
>
> I heard that it's the compatibility problem of P!!! and VIA694X motherboard.
> It is solved in kernel 2.3 while current distributions are using 2.2 only. I
> want to use RedHat because I am a rookie to Linux.
> Anyway to overcome this? Since I can't even bootup. I can do nothing...
Maybe you can try to install RH using text-mode. It is certainly not as
easy (and beautiful <snik>) but should help...
--
The Contact
"Knowing everything is impossible. Trying to is not."
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS problems..,
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:11:12 -0700
I rebooted my PC, and it wouldn't start X-windows, it gave me the
following error:
Mounting NFS filesystems mount: can't get address for
elvis..........failure!!
Any idea why, I am trying to configure the NIS ans the NFS client on my
computer, but this is the first I'm doing this and I'm kind of lost...
Thanks,
Sly.
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From: H Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: epson printer
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:24:51 GMT
Hi, iam trying to setup an epson photo 700 in caldera 2.2 with
ghostscript 5.10, i have read and created a filter file as per
instructions on the caldera support pages ( although there is no
mention of the photo printer only the stylus colors). The upp line in
my filter is for a epson stylus color 600 ( stc600pl ) but all i seem
to be able to print is the underlying code, eg operand stack-_k false
%interp_exit runexec2 nostring value oparray_pop etc, can anyone
tell me if its possible to use this printer under linux and if so how
to go about it? should i be trying to configure it as an epson stylus
color? or something other.
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virtual display - how to?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:31:42 GMT
Ken Knecht wrote:
> I have only 640x480 and understand I can make this work like a
> 800x600, getting the extra screen area by moving the mouse to
> the edges of the display.
This could be set in the XF86Config-file (manually), but a more
user-friendly way is by using xf86config. At a certain point it'll as
'Do you want to use Virtual Desktop', so you just say 'y'.
--
The Contact
"Knowing everything is impossible. Trying to is not."
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error:<swap partition> No free primary
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:48:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Error defining the SWAP-space, could be due to the
1024-cilinder-problem]
I don't know how to solve your problem directly, but normally (when you
install Linux) you can select 'Use linear mode' to handle the
1024-cilinder-problem.
Also, make sure you give the SWAP-partition a REAL PARTITION (I didn't
saw one in your posting).
Here what you could do for partitioning:
2.1 Gb FAT32 Windows System
5.9 Gb FAT32 Windows Programs
2.0 Gb FAT32 User Space
0.256 Gb <SWAP> SWAP-partition, selected during installation
2.0 Gb EXT2 Linux: /
3.0 Gb EXT2 Linux: /home
4.744 Gb EXT2 Linux: /usr
Or (even better):
2.1 Gb FAT32 Windows System
5.9 Gb FAT32 Windows Programs
2.0 Gb FAT32 User Space
0.256 Gb <SWAP> SWAP-partition, selected during installation
1.5 Gb EXT2 Linux: /
2.5 Gb EXT2 Linux: /home
0.100 Gb EXT2 Linux: /boot
1.2 Gb EXT2 Linux: /var
4.444 Gb EXT2 Linux: /usr
But take care, partitioning should be thought over! Do you plan to use
lots of kernels (and keep a lot of kernel-backups)? Do you plan on
installing lots of programs? What will you save in you home-directorie?
Do you want to log a lot of things? ...
If you want a good way of partitioning, read LAME (Linux Administrating
Made Easy) or SAG (System Administrators Guide). Both are very good in
handling such questions...
--
The Contact
"Knowing everything is impossible. Trying to is not."
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: RH - Win98 connectivity
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:54:20 GMT
ReVmAn wrote:
>
> Nimbrod wrote:
>
> > Are you able to share the internet through your linux box for you
> > windows computer??
>
> I'm sure you can ... You just need to install a proxy server on your
> linux machine. That way you can connect to the internet through your
> linux machine.
>
> Let the win98 machine connect to the internet by using the linux machine
> as a proxy.
>
> Problem is .. I dont know wich program suites best for this purpes.
>
> ReVmAn
You can use ipchains and ipforward with kernel 2.2.x. There are at
least two web sites with some scripts to create a firewall/forward from
lan according to your configuration. One of them is:
http://packetfilter.dynip.com/. Then you can copy the script on your
hard drive (in /etc for exemple). My ISP uses ppp (over ethernet for
ADSL) and therefore, instead of calling my firewall script in my
rc.local (boot time), I added the call in /etc/ppp/if-ip.local (this
file exists in RedHat 6.2). This way, the firewall/ipforward is started
only when I am connected.
Anton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTP denies access to valid users
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:48:14 GMT
Can anyone help me with this. All of a sudden, I can no longer log into
my server via FTP, it gives me an access denied. I looked in the
message log and a message about user not belonging to any class. I then
checked /etc/ftpaccess and there isn't anything in there about "class".
Could this be my problem? How do I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
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