Linux-Setup Digest #311, Volume #19 Thu, 3 Aug 00 08:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: HOW? do I copy passwd file? (Villy Kruse)
Error during File ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
network adress translation (NAT) ("E. Stumpp")
Bigpond satelite interface with Linux (Stanley)
Re: Installing software in Linux. (gLiTcH)
Re: network adress translation (NAT) (Nicolas Iselin)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Christopher Browne)
Re: ttyS0: <X> input overrun(s) message!!! (M. Buchenrieder)
PROftp I keep getting 'service' unavailble. ("Bruce D. Meyer")
how to remove linux and install win2000 instead ("pascal")
Re: Good Free VCD/DVD Player & Questions about the "mount /cdrom" (Marc D. Williams)
NTFS FileSystem ("Jos� Pedro")
Re: Windows 2000 and RedHat 6.2 ("pascal")
Re: NTFS FileSystem ("pascal")
Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released (Matthias Nutt)
Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ntfs support in RH 6.2? ("Kent Bergelin")
Re: Linex integrity test - how? (Rob McMillin)
Re: ip info for eth0 failed (Rob McMillin)
NFS server fails: [nfssvc: Function not implemented] (Nicolas Anquetil)
PXE port (Tim Hurman)
Re: TrueType in /var/share/default/e? ("Gene Heskett")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: HOW? do I copy passwd file?
Date: 3 Aug 2000 08:13:39 GMT
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:54:48 -0700, Daniel Waites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>However, the passwd file itself should still be valid. It contains data
>about all the users on your system and what groups they belong to, where
>their home directory is, etc. However, if you copy the passwd file, you
>will need to create their home directories by hand (unless you're copying
>those, too). My recommendation is simply to recreate your users. RedHat
>6.2 adds some additional dummy users to the userlist for security reasons,
>and you'll want to keep those.
Note that the value from the password field of the old password file can
be passed as argument to the -p option when using useradd. The -p option
does not take the clear text password as one might expect, but only the
encrypted form as might be found in another passwd or shadow file.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Error during File
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:50:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I was rebooting I received an error during the filesystem check -
"Mounting proc filesystem dup2: bad file descriptor, Configuring kernel
parameters dup2: bad file descriptor, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:/dev/null:is
a directory; Activating swap partition dup2: bad file descriptor". Then
I get dumped into a read only shell so i cant even edit fstab. The
shell tells me i should put '/proc /proc proc defaults' in fstab but I
cant edit the file. I think I might have screwed things up before I
rebooted by killing the portmap daemon.
I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and my filesystem for all my partitions
except for /boot is reiserfs. When i do 'df' i only see /dev/hda4
mounted which is my root partition but nothing else. I can do 'mount
/proc /proc -t proc' and I can mount my windows partitions to copy over
logs but I don't know what else to do.
Anyone know where I go from here?
-- Alex
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Before you buy.
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From: "E. Stumpp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network adress translation (NAT)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:23:17 +0200
Hi,
I have a Linux server with 2 network interfaces. Each of them has it's own
segment.
Segment 1: 160.4.x.y subnet mask 255.255.0.0
Segment 2: 192.168.x.y subnet mask 255.255.0.0
I search a program which does the network adress translation for me like
winroute on PC's.
It is necessary to access computers from the first segment via FTP in the
second segment.
Does somebody know a program which supports NAT on Linux systems.
Thanks a lot
Ernst
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From: Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bigpond satelite interface with Linux
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:18:48 +1000
Living in remote area using Redhat Mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16
compiled and am fedup with average download speed of stalled from ISP.
Have checked web page on Bigpond satellite service, please point me to
info on Linux interface with this service..
Is downloading a movie to watch later video-streaming ?
Stan.
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 02:57:13 -0500
From: gLiTcH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing software in Linux.
E J wrote:
> A common problem is that the web browser thinks a *.rpm is a real player
> application and tries to play a sound.
> For Netscape (I think it also works with Internet Explorer), right click on the
> *.rpm file and it should download to your machine.
>
the problem isn't saving the rpms, its *installing* them
>
> Rob Sturgess wrote:
>
> > Hello friendly linux group!
> >
> > I've recently installed linux on my PC, on a spare hard drive ; but it's
> > only got 400 Mb. No problem , I thought, because linux knows how to read and
> > write to the Windows drive. But even when I use RPM, I never get asked where
> > I want the program to be installed to. I'm sure there must be a way to plonk
> > linux stuff onto my FAT32 system; but how ?
> >
> > Should I learn to do my installs manally instead ???
> >
> > Rob Sturgess.
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: network adress translation (NAT)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:46:19 +0200
E. Stumpp wrote:
> I search a program which does the network adress translation for me like
> winroute on PC's.
You really mean NAT and not simply routing ?? If yes, just read through
http://www.linas.org/linux/load.html
It explains what's it all about and leads you to further links. AFAIK, you
will have to build a custom kernel (applying patches, compiling, installing,
...)
to do NAT.
> It is necessary to access computers from the first segment via FTP in the
> second segment.
This works also with routing, you don't need NAT...
Nicolas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 09:54:18 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
>Christopher Browne wrote:
>>
>> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
>> >John Hasler wrote:
>> >> blowfish writes:
>> >> > Sure. *BSD are making money too. But they do allow the developers to keep
>> >> > their codes proprietary; just a tiny bit more option for the
>> >> > contributors- in my fscking opinion.
>> >>
>> >> I retain the right to license my code to any one I choose under any terms I
>> >> choose whether I release it under the GPL or the BSD license or any other
>> >> free software license. The terms of the license do not bind the author.
>> >>
>> >> > I'll re-read the GNU-GPL again.
>> >>
>> >> First go study up a bit on copyright.
>> >
>> >I will. I did have many of my work copyrighted (not computer related,
>> >but in arts.)
>>
>> You, as author, automatically have rights to copy the material as you
>> please.
>
>Yes. But still you have to file for copyrights before you can be legally
>protected under the law.
>
>Write to your local government printing office, get the booklet, it'll
>costs you a few dollars for the booklet on how to do it.
Automatic copyright protection has been in place in the United States
since January 1, 1978, before which time statutory copyright protection
required either:
a) Publishing a work, or
b) Registering it with the US Copyright Office
in order to have any protection under US law.
Under the present law, you only need to register the work before
initiating the lawsuit. Thus, if someone rips off your Great Software
Work, it suffices to take a copy of the work over to the Copyright
Office before heading off to court.
The law already protects you, but you need to register before _going
to court_.
>> The critical point is that the GPL does not make any claim to apply to
>> the author.
>No. I'm *not* talking about GNU-GPL here.
The discussion was about the GPL, and its effects.
>> The way that the GPL _would_ apply to you would be if you transferred
>> exclusive copyright over to, let's say, the FSF.
>I'm talking about pure commercial work.
Fine.
>> <http://gcc.gnu.org/fsf-forms/assignment-instructions.html> describes
>> this process; while the default assignment _is_ of exclusive
>> copyright, the grantor has the right to get back a non-exclusive
>> copyright given written notice:
>>
>> "Upon thirty days' prior written notice, the Foundation agrees to
>> grant me non-exclusive rights to use the Work (i.e. my changes and
>> enhancements, not the program which I enhanced) as I see fit; (and
>> the Foundation's rights shall otherwise continue unchanged)."
>>
>> Note that the _as I see fit_ part is what specifically allows you to,
>> even after the assignment, do _whatever you want_ with the software,
>> except, of course, for taking back the copy rights that were assigned
>> to the FSF.
>
>I'm talking about pure commercial work, where I, as the creator and the
>copyrights owner, have the *absolute* sayings, in what can, and what not
>can be use with my work, and not without my specific permission, and/or
>additional payments to me.
>
>ANY changes *must* be approved by me before anything can be carry out.
>
>And any additional usage, regardless of media, or longer than the time
>frame, the geographical location, or even translated to a different
>language, as specified in the original contract, are all require
>additional payment.
>
>And any delay of payments are subjected to additional interests charges.
>
>Sorry. There's *no free beer or free lunch* in reality.
Again, who else said anything about there being a free lunch, aside
from yourself? You're projecting some belief that you want to think
that others have. Some _are_ foolish enough to believe that there
is such a thing as a "truly free lunch." Reality is otherwise.
--
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"For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control
graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node."
-- Alan Perlis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: ttyS0: <X> input overrun(s) message!!!
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:24:59 GMT
Ilya Malinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>After installing a new hard drive (though it might be just a
>coincidence), the following message appears on the screen every minute:
>ttyS0: <X> input overrun(s)
[...]
It means that either you do have a getty program running on ttyS0
which fails , or the serial cable is having contact somewhere.
Are you sure you didn't accidentally damage the pins of your
serial port?
Another possible reason: Your serial port is using the same
IRQ as your IDE controller (though unlikely, because this should not
result in "input overrun" but instead in "respawning too fast" or similar).
Michael
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From: "Bruce D. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PROftp I keep getting 'service' unavailble.
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:36:04 -0400
Reply-To: "Bruce D. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have tried this on two machines, therefore I screwed up twice.
I am using the latest version of ProFTP. (inetd)
I can set the config file to standalone, and it work fine. When I try
to
do it with inetd, I get service unavailable, and the logs only show
that it refused service to me. (logging in from a separate tty on the
same machine.
I am using the RPM version of the program which seems to set up
pam.d/ftp, and inetd.conf
automatically. I noticed that their is no ftpusers file, nor any
reference to it. also no ftpaccess or ftphosts file. I 'assume' since I
so far haven't found it in the docs, this is because of the proftp.conf
file, and how it works.
I found a reference when running it in standalone mode with debug, that
it wanted to get hold of a file called /misc/.ftpaccess which I could
find no reference to in the pam.d/ftp file or inetd.conf, or
proftp.conf.
I am not clear what mechanism is stopping me, nor how do uncover it. I
tried changing the inetd.conf file to run in the recommended debug mode
as I did in standalone mode (where everything worked perfectly)
I should mention both machines are running portsentry and bastille for
those who may be familiar with it.
Bruce Meyer
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From: "pascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to remove linux and install win2000 instead
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:50:57 +0100
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q247/8/04.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=g
n&FR=0
the krosoft method.
It's funny. They have a very good sence of humour
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Good Free VCD/DVD Player & Questions about the "mount /cdrom"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:09:27 GMT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:30:19 -0500, Nathaniel Jay Lee wrote:
>
>I'm not 100% certain on this, but I thought when VCDs were released they
>were just regular CDs (ISO format) with a big MPEG file on them for the
>movie. At least, that is what I remember of it.
>
That's correct. Just mount it and take a look around, you might find
directories, too. For instance this one vcd I have has one directory with
the large .dat file (the mpeg movie) but there's also a CDI directory.
I can use either xreadvcd or xreadcdi to play the contents.
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
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From: "Jos� Pedro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NTFS FileSystem
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:06:32 +0100
How can I mount an NTFS partition ?
If you have any idea please let me know.
Thanks.
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From: "pascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 and RedHat 6.2
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:10:14 +0100
I dont' understand why you have this problem
I used to use lilo to dualboot linux/ms operating systems
I installed win2k and lilo was still there
is installing lilo on the hd mbr didn't fixed it ?
just send me your partition table and lilo.conf file
I'll have a look
Regards,
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Daniel Waites wrote:
>>
>> I've just upgraded to Windows 2000 and now I can only boot Linux from a
>> floppy. These are the previous and current setups:
>>
>> Previously:
>> Windows 98 is installed on the first hard drive.
>> RedHat 6.2 is installed on the second hard drive. LILO is installed in
the
>> superblock of the root partiton, not in the MBR.
>> PQ Bootmagic is installed on a small primary partition on the first hard
>> drive, which selects which OS to load.
>>
>> Currently:
>> Windows 2000 is installed on the first hard drive.
>> As far as I know, Bootmagic is still there, but its partition is no
longer
>> marked active in the partition table.
>> RedHat 6.2 is still on the second hard drive.
>>
>> I am using Bootmagic from the 4.0 release of PartitionMagic. As I
>> understand, there was no Windows 2000 support in that release. To make
>> matters worse, PowerQuest no longer will support 4.0.
>>
>> How do I get Bootmagic working again? Or is there an alternate way to
get
>> Windows 2000 and Redhat 6.2 to dual-boot? I can't use LILO in the MBR,
>> since it's incompatible with the Win2000 boot loader and it can't mount a
>> boot partition from the second hard drive.
>>
>> Thanks is advance.
>> Daniel Waites
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>My only solution, before I found that Linux did everything I needed
>and I deleted Win2k last week, was to boot Linux from floppy and
>Win2k from the hard disk. I tried everything else, including
>handing WIn2k the linux boot sector to boot.ini - nothing worked.
>
>If you had installed Win2k's file system as FAT32 bootmagic would
>have worked. I found that out the hard way.
>--
>Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
>Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
>U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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From: "pascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NTFS FileSystem
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:12:22 +0100
You need to recompile and add read (and write , but read the help note
before ) support to your kernel to be able to mount ntfs partitions.
Regards
Jos� Pedro wrote in message <8mbis1$ct$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>How can I mount an NTFS partition ?
>
>If you have any idea please let me know.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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From: Matthias Nutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:20:09 +0200
there are rumours that it takes up to a week until SuSE answers
your question. So you will not gain much support time.
But your are right. SuSE is good and cool. But I am not willing to
pay this price. Its too expensive.
Bye Matthias
remove _ANTISPAM_ from email address to contact me.
http://feiern.freepage.de/messias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening!
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:19:48 GMT
Hi,
As i really don't solve that probeme and noone has help until now, i'm
trying again....
The system don't boot !
I want to install linux RedHat 6.0 on a 486 DX2 66 Mhz with only ISA
slots and 16 M0 of memory.
I had an old 450 Mo harddisk in it and added a 1 Gb disk too.
I reached to install Win95 on it as a test for the configuration.
It seems to work properly.
When i'm trying to install the RedHat 6.0, I can boot with the install
disk, do the partitionning and format each partition (No pb with the LBA
mode for example).
Than i can install everything and make a boot disk too, following the
normal process.
The problem is that when i reboot, the system starts and uncompress the
kernel correctly.
Firts boot messages seem correct (except "keyboard not fournd" but it
is'nt a PS/2 type keyboard so i suppose it's normal as it works anyway).
Then is have something like theses:
Ram disk driver initialized : 16 RAM disks of 4096 Kb
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080 .... drive
hdb: ST34... XR drive
then the system hangs ....
This is really strange. With the boot disk it's the same problem. I just
can boot with the install disk.
On an other hand i tried to remove the second disk but it hangs anyway
(when detecting the first one).
I also tried the LILO noprobe option and neally all HD option possible
but it hangs anyway.
Could it be a memory problem ?
Do i have to reinstall linux each time i'm trying to remove one of the
harware boards to tests if it's a problem with it, or is'nt it necessary
to be sure that the kernel is no more looking for it?
Is the line "RAM Disk Drive initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096 " normal
as this PC only have 16 Mo of RAM (45 Mo of SWAP)?
Thanks a lot for anything that could help !!
Christophe
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From: "Kent Bergelin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ntfs support in RH 6.2?
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:22:10 +0200
I've just installed RH6.2 with kernel 2.2.14 but when trying to mount two NT
partitions on the same local drive I get the error "no ntfs support included
in kernel".
I tried to install a promising patch found on www.penguin.cz but it
complains:
"Can't find /usr/src/linux/.config".
What is the problem? The system is a fresh ftp install from tonight.
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From: Rob McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linex integrity test - how?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:30:35 -0700
Yuval Yohai wrote:
> Hello
>
> Can any of you friend think of the best way to do a full Linux box
> integrity tests, in terms of libraries, environment and system
> variables, RPM db, boot/shutdown, hardware performance and integrity,
> and all whatever else I couldn't think about or which I don't know.
> I'm not talking about Security which is a hole deferent big issue.
rpm -qa | xargs -l10 rpm -V
It's not perfect, as it will catch some stupid stuff (/etc/hosts has
changed? Alert the media!), but it should also give you a good idea of
what's changed once you know what to ignore.
--
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From: Rob McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ip info for eth0 failed
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:31:53 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am using @home. I set my NIC card (recognized) to DHCP but when
> booting I get the message ... bringing up interface for eth0
> determining IP info for eth0 - failed.
Is @home using DHCP or PPP-over-Ethernet?
--
http://www.pricegrabber.com | Dog is my co-pilot.
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From: Nicolas Anquetil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: NFS server fails: [nfssvc: Function not implemented]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:31:19 -0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HI,
I am trying to setup a NFS server. I installed knfsd-1.2.2-4 on my
RedHat 6.0 box (kernel 2.2.16).
However, when I boot or try to run rpc.nfsd I get the message:
nfssvc: Function not implemented
The NFS-HOWTO says very little about how to setup the server.
Any hint would be appreciated
nicolas
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From: Tim Hurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,alt.os.linux.slackware,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: PXE port
Date: 3 Aug 2000 11:45:16 GMT
Hi,
I have been using the Redhat/Intel PXE daemon under x86 Linux and have had
great success at creating automated installs and booting. However I already
have a Solaris boot server, and instead of installing another, it would be
useful to use the existing boot server.
The only problem is that the PXE daemon seems to have a large endian problem
when compiling under SPARC Solaris. I have managed to fix most of theses
however some still exist. I have contacted Intel and Redhat over this and
neither seem to be able to correct it.
The real question is has anyone tried this before and got it working, or
better is there a port for other OSes?
Tim.
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Date: 3 Aug 2000 7:21:16 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TrueType in /var/share/default/e?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Michael Coulter;
MC> What RPM has the directory TrueType that resides under
MC> /var/share/default/??/TrueType
MC> My TrueType subdir is gone and I cannot find it in any of the
MC> RPM's.
You didn't say what distro. On my RH system, the only TT fonts are in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype.
I've added the xfstt package, mainly for netscape, and of course the
latest ghostscript, xpdf 0.9, and AcroRead4.0. I can't think of any other
potential TT sources on my system ATM.
I don't even have a /var/share directory, which is why I asked about the
distro.
Cheers, Gene
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