Linux-Setup Digest #371, Volume #19 Thu, 10 Aug 00 18:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Problems with cable modem connection ("Bill Haushalter")
Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem. ("Anthony J.
Gabrielson")
Re: boot partition is too big (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: ssl and mail (imap) (jtoy)
Re: ssl and mail (imap) (jtoy)
Re: ssl and mail (imap) (jtoy)
compatibility (Frank McMurray)
Re: ??amount of swap space in relation to memory (Vid Strpic)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Sound card doesn't initialize (Opti 931) (Mr. Mister)
Re: Linux on AMD (GW)
Linux AFTER Win2000 is installed ??? ("Torbj�rn Morka")
Firewall?-Is this the reason I can't get a ping to Linux from W98SE - my last
attempt for an answer? ("Ian Turnbui")
Re: kernel panic - yes or no Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5 (Rick Goyette)
Access to FAT32 file systems ("Anthony Fooks")
Re: Configuring Kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
starting ftpd during bootup (Peter Bismuti)
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:37:41 -0700
John Hasler wrote:
>
> blowfish writes:
> > Anyway. You have sold your code for profit.
>
> For there to have been a sale there would have to have been a contract
> which obligated me to deliver the code and my customer to pay me. None of
> my Debian work has involved such a contract (some of my other work has).
>
Then, please enlighten me in how to make $25k for no reason.
I don't mind to have that happen to me a few times a year. :-)
> > Because you know the whole idea of GNU-GPL, FSF and profit takings are
> > contradictory to one another.
>
> Wrong.
Right!
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
(c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000.
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From: "Bill Haushalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with cable modem connection
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:35:48 -0500
I have a working internet sharing network with a cable modem to win98
machine running NAT1000 hooked up to other pcs and a linux box. I can access
internet on all boxes including the linux box. I would like to use the linux
box as a server with MASQ. Problem is when I try to hook up the cable modem
to the linux box eth0 fails. Eth0 is set up for dhcp and works fine off the
win98 machine. I have redhat 6.1.
Any help would be appriciated.
Bill
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From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem.
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:44:17 -0400
Hello,
Have you checked your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Verify that its
setup for file dns for networks: & hosts:
Anthony
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Buschman wrote:
>
> My linux machine itself can telnet to other established linux/unix
> servers, but I can not telnet to my linux machine. I know my windows
> machine is fully functional and it too can telnet to linux/unix
> servers with no problem. The name of my server, let's call it
> whatever.com, can be resolved but it just sits there and times out.
> In other words, in windows if you go to run and type telnet
> whatever.com it will resolve the name but that's it. The telnet
> screen is blank and after a matter of seconds it times out. It's like
> the windows machine sees where my linux server is, but my linux server
> refuses to talk. Damn snobby linux servers! I have no fire wall at
> this time and have a static IP so neither of these are a
> consideration. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Buschman
>
>
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:34:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> Buschman wrote:
> >>
> >> > I really don't know why telnet is not working. Everything I have
> >> > looked at seems to be configured properly. My inetd entries look
> >like
> >> > this:
> >> >
> >> > ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftp -l -a
> >> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
> >> > pop-3 stream tcp nowait uucp /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
> >> >
> >> > If you telnet from an outside machine it is able to resolve the
> >name,
> >> > but you get a blank screen and after 5-10 seconds windows says "the
> >> > connection to host lost". The machine is a new install and I have
> >> > installed most services, modules and deamons. Or so I think.
> >> > Sendmail and all e-mail services are working fine. Telnet, Ftp, and
> >> > Pop-3 are not working. I want to concentrate on telnet first. Once
> >I
> >> > figure that one out I have a feel the other two will follow suit.
> >Do
> >> > any linux gods out there have an idea??? Thanks in advance.
> >> >
> >> > Buschman
> >
> >
> >dont you know natives on this planet are not really friendly
> >towards gods?
> >(they killed at least one).
> >i'd try the localhost-option first:
> >can you telnet localhost?
> >can you telnet (networknameoflocalmachine), like telnet mylinux1?
> >
> >
> >--
> >'...' said the joker to the thief
> >'there's too much confusion, i cant get no relief...
> >so let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late'
> >(robert zimmermann)
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Before you buy.
>
>
>
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot partition is too big
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:48:11 -0400
I have read elsewhere that this message is misleading--that the
actual cause is that you have exceded the 1024 cylinder limit for the
boot partition. Older BIOS and older versions of LILO only support
booting within the first 1024 cylinders on one of the first two IDE
drives (hda, hdb).
Raju Chidambaram wrote:
>
> I am trying to install linux on a 15G hd where I left 7GB unpartioned for
> linux and rest of It partitioned
> for DOS(4 partitions of 2GB each ). When I create / or /boot I always get an
> error message that the /boot partition is too big. I am stuck with the
> installation process and I couldn' go beyond this.
> Could someone please help me on this error. .. This is a second HD and first
> one(4Gb) pretty much full by win95.apps..
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> raja
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From: jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.imap,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ssl and mail (imap)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:16:36 -0400
Hi, Thats exactly what I needed. I have a couple more questions
though. When I made my certificate, I needed to give it a FQDN(I think
thats how you speel it, its your hostname) I could only give it one.
The way we have our clients connecting is via regular ip (192.168.0.x
and 192.168.1.x) I could use my machines name instead, but sometimes the
lookups don't always work. We aren't using DNS, but Netbios/SMB. And
as you noticed we have 2 different subnets (192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x)
whcih cant be on the same subnet because they use 2 different
topologies(ethernet and VGAnyLAN). Do you have any suggestions or is
there a way to put multiple FQDNs? And my other question is what should
have been my encryption have been with the setup I described to you? I
thought it would come out as 128-bit seeing as I was using OpenSSL, but
it came out as 56-bit. Thanks for the help.
Jason Toy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://toy.eyep.net
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From: jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.imap,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ssl and mail (imap)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:17:06 -0400
Hi, Thats exactly what I needed. I have a couple more questions
though. When I made my certificate, I needed to give it a FQDN(I think
thats how you speel it, its your hostname) I could only give it one.
The way we have our clients connecting is via regular ip (192.168.0.x
and 192.168.1.x) I could use my machines name instead, but sometimes the
lookups don't always work. We aren't using DNS, but Netbios/SMB. And
as you noticed we have 2 different subnets (192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x)
whcih cant be on the same subnet because they use 2 different
topologies(ethernet and VGAnyLAN). Do you have any suggestions or is
there a way to put multiple FQDNs? And my other question is what should
have been my encryption have been with the setup I described to you? I
thought it would come out as 128-bit seeing as I was using OpenSSL, but
it came out as 56-bit. Thanks for the help.
Jason Toy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://toy.eyep.net
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From: jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.imap,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ssl and mail (imap)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:19:29 -0400
1 more question, what port will netscape use if I choose the option to use
SSL for outgoing mail(SMTP)? use port 25? Does this mean I need to use
stunnel with SMTP or......?
jtoy wrote:
> Hi, Thats exactly what I needed. I have a couple more questions
> though. When I made my certificate, I needed to give it a FQDN(I think
> thats how you speel it, its your hostname) I could only give it one.
> The way we have our clients connecting is via regular ip (192.168.0.x
> and 192.168.1.x) I could use my machines name instead, but sometimes the
> lookups don't always work. We aren't using DNS, but Netbios/SMB. And
> as you noticed we have 2 different subnets (192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x)
> whcih cant be on the same subnet because they use 2 different
> topologies(ethernet and VGAnyLAN). Do you have any suggestions or is
> there a way to put multiple FQDNs? And my other question is what should
> have been my encryption have been with the setup I described to you? I
> thought it would come out as 128-bit seeing as I was using OpenSSL, but
> it came out as 56-bit. Thanks for the help.
> Jason Toy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://toy.eyep.net
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From: Frank McMurray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compatibility
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:08:13 -0700
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I want to buy a machine that I know I'll be able to run Linux on.
I've given up trying to get the hp pavillion I have to work
(too many problems).
Can anyone suggest a machine that will run Redhat 6.2 out of the box..
- Success is simply the ability to outrun failure -
Frank McMurray - Software Engineer
Cisco Systems - Aggregation BU
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<pre>(too many problems).</pre>
<pre>Can anyone suggest a machine that will run Redhat 6.2 out of the box..
- Success is simply the ability to outrun failure
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Cisco Systems - Aggregation BU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vid Strpic)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: ??amount of swap space in relation to memory
Date: 10 Aug 2000 19:04:23 GMT
Tyler Mitchell said unto us in comp.unix.admin :
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Vid Strpic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Linux lorien 2.2.16 #1 Mon Jul 10 20:38:17 CEST 2000 i586 unknown
>Heh, VERY cool. =) I named one of the first Linux boxes I ever set up
>"lorien".
I like to name my boxen after people and places from Tolkien's books :-)
My other home boxen are gondor and bilbo, and box @work is luthien.
--
)) Vid Strpic, also known as Martin. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(( (I don't speak for my employer, just for myself.)
C|~~|
`--' UNIX fundamentalist - and an average chauvinistic male.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 10 Aug 2000 20:14:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: John Hasler wrote:
:> blowfish writes:
: Then, please enlighten me in how to make $25k for no reason.
: I don't mind to have that happen to me a few times a year. :-)
What's your problem? Invest in some shares at pre IPO prices. Sell them
post IPO.
To get offered shares at pre IPO prices, contribute free software
that is packaged by said IPOco.
Peter
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From: Mr. Mister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card doesn't initialize (Opti 931)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:17:32 GMT
It is plug and play actually. I don't follow you regarding setting the
IRQ. The setup string(s) that modprobe uses in conf.modules has a parm
in there for the IRQ already. Doesn't modprobe do the init?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:51:02 GMT, Mr. Mister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >My sound card only seems to work under Linux if I start the computer
in
> >Windows first. If I do a cold boot directly into Linux the sound card
> >doesn't work, i.e. cat /dev/sndstat gives an error rather than the
nice
> >list of devices. By the behavior is suspect that Windows is
> >initializing something on the card that Linux for some reason isn't.
> >
> >I'm using Suse 6.2, the sound card is a a Sound Blaster compatible
Bravo
> >card with the Opti 931 chip set.
>
> Maybe the card is P&P, so is waiting to receive the correct "init"
> for IRQ and DMA... try set the IRQ manually.
> Davide
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GW)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:56:52 GMT
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 01:29:59 GMT, shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am thinking of setting up Linux on an AMD machine. Did you have any
>problem with the install or after the install?
>
>Shook
>
When I first tried to setup Mandrake 7.0 on my K6 233, it froze at the
checking 'hlt' instruction . . . . . . .
point. Solved it by typing "linux no-hlt".
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From: "Torbj�rn Morka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux AFTER Win2000 is installed ???
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:04:25 +0200
I have originally used FDISK to create 3 partitions, and C: is FAT32, D: is
NTFS and
by using Part.Magic i created E: to Linux EXT partition.
Now is win98 on C: and Win2000 on D:
E: is empty now.
Is there an easy way to a big smile ???
T.
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From: "Ian Turnbui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Firewall?-Is this the reason I can't get a ping to Linux from W98SE - my
last attempt for an answer?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:24:37 +0100
Could it be that the firewall running on my Linux box is preveting W98SE
from getting through?
Could someone help please - I'll go mad if I have to read another 1,00 pages
for the answer to a simple Q - sorry
TIA
Ian Turnbull
0961 931941
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel panic - yes or no Question
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:20:00 GMT
Well yes and no. They are both in /sbin/init, but /sbin/init for the
original instance of linux is on hdb1 and /sbin/init for the second,
experimental instance of linux is on hda6. I am anxious to try your
suggestions when I get home. Thanks for the info.
In article <8muehb$huq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gernot Fink) wrote:
> You can use lilo to select the rootdevice.
> The other way is to use the rdev command which change the kernelimage.
> Or try the lilo bootoption root=hdxx.
>
> Is the init command on both partitions on the same path? (/sbin/init)
>
> --
> MFG G.Fink
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Goyette)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:29:10 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Goyette) wrote:
> what is the difference between /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl5, and
> where do I get /usr/local/bin/perl5?
I am trying to get apache-ssl running. I tried a sym link to
/usr/bin/perl, but that does not work. I was going to modify the spurce
code for the rpm, but both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl5 are
listed in the files required for apache-ssl.
--
R. J. Goyette
Argonne National Laboratory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Anthony Fooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Access to FAT32 file systems
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 05:32:48 +0800
Hi folks
Hoping someone can help me. I am running RedHat 6.2 using Gnome as my
interface. All runs well but I have been unable to set up to access My
Windows drive when it is set up with a FAT32 filesystem. It can access it
fine if I use a FAT16 file system for Windows, but if it is set up as a FAT
32, Linuxconfig in Gnome does not find the drives.
The drives are all recognised in the bootup text when Linux starts even when
using FAT32 as the filesystem, just not in the Linuxconfig .
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Configuring Kernel
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:30:44 -0500
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Warren Cundy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It says:
>
> bash: make: command not found
>
> The book I have says I need to install the following RPMs, which I did:
>
> linux-source-common
> linux-source-i386
> linux-kernel-include
> linux-kernel-doc
>
>
> -Thanks
either you don't have 'make' installed, or else it's not in your path.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: starting ftpd during bootup
Date: 10 Aug 2000 21:59:48 GMT
I can't FTP into my machine:
[myname@mymachine myname]$ ftp 127.0.0.1
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp>
I don't see ftpd running:
myname@mymachine myname ]$ ps axuw | grep ftp
peterb 9045 0.0 0.2 1360 516 pts/9 S 14:50 0:00 grep ftp
In the /etc/inetd.conf (I'm using RedHat 6.2) file it seems as if it should
be set to start running when booting:
# These are standard services.
#
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
What file do I need to modify in order to fire up ftpd automatically??
Thanks
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