Linux-Setup Digest #376, Volume #19 Fri, 11 Aug 00 15:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Apache vs. IIS 5 ("ced")
Re: Bootup Hangs at Sendmail (RJ)
Re: (Rant) Installing RPMs: Endless fun... (Frederic Faure)
Re: localtime and zoneinfo (Michael Nadler)
Re: Lilo strikes again ! (Colin Watson)
Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5 (Colin Watson)
Re: Help? Corel Linux + Win2k + Win98, Cant boot linux. ("SoudBoy0")
Re: Remove autoindent on vim (Michael Nadler)
Re: Bootup Hangs at Sendmail (Michael Nadler)
Can't start X windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Misterious Hangs in my network ("Andres Tarallo")
Re: Apache vs. IIS 5 (www.c0r3dump.com)
font size in Netscape menu (Andrey Shipsha)
Re: ISDN 128K modem ("David ..")
Re: Thinkpad 760CD Video Qestion... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "ced" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Apache vs. IIS 5
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:19:54 +0200
Hi,
Simple question: how to serve ASP pages with Apache?
Thanks for help,
ced
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From: RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bootup Hangs at Sendmail
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:29:56 GMT
Hi Cindy,
You can boot your machine into single user mode to grab what you need or to
fix the problem by typing "linux single" at the LILO: prompt. You'll get a
root shell and then you can do what you need to do. You may have to type
"mount -a" to make your filesystems accessible.
As for moving files to a windows machine and then back to Linux... You may
have problems if you have a long file names. Windows doesn't do so well
with them. It won't trash your files but it may wreck the names of those
files. I normally tar a directory structure into a single file and then
save that on some other machine until I can get it back to the target Linux
box. Something like "tar cvf mytarball.tar myDirOfFiles/".
Good Luck,
RJ
Cindy Bartorillo wrote:
>
>
> After Linuxconf crashed in the middle of setting up networking, my bootup
> (of my RedHat 6.1 system) hangs at the sendmail startup. I have a
bootdisk
> which the man page said could be used as a rescue disk, just type
'rescue'
> at the LILO prompt. I did this, but a 'root disk' is also asked for.
Hitting
> enter at this point didn't work.
>
> Any suggestions about how I can get into my system to at least copy off a
> few files before I install a new linux? I've ordered Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe.
> Also, will a linux file, copied onto a Windows disk, be usable later
(copied
> back to the new linux system)? In other words, will the Windows file
system
> hose the files?
>
> I've done considerable research on this, and nothing seems to fit my
case:
>
> Loadlin just bypasses LILO, which is not my problem. My problem is the
linux
> boot itself.
>
> I've looked for a 'root disk' on at least half a dozen linux ftp sites,
but
> haven't found anything that looks right.
>
> I found a program called Explore2fs, but that is apparently unusable. My
> linux is on a separate hard drive not recognized by Windows, and all
drives
> were partitioned with Partition Magic.
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> CindyB
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Re: (Rant) Installing RPMs: Endless fun...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:34:10 GMT
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:13:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A transfinite
number of monkeys) wrote:
>perl -MCPAN -e shell
>> install Bundle::DBI
>> quit
>
>???
>
>Then install the MySQL modules. I'm kind of an RPM-nazi, but I don't
>bother with RPMs to install perl modules.
Precisely. Because I don't want to bypass RPM since it's the only
quick, reliable, and easy way to know what software is installed on a
host, and what version.
FF.
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: localtime and zoneinfo
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:43:10 -0700
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You probably have the "TZ" environment variable set to your default
timezone. If you unset this variable, your timezone changes will appear
as you expect. Read `man tzset` for further explanation.
Fran�ois Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I try to set my clock using the symlink /etc/localtime and nothing
> happens: I only get the hour of bios.
>
> /etc/localtime --> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris
>
> or
>
> /etc/localtime --> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta
>
> return the same hour!!
>
> Who could help me?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Fran�ois Patte. UFR de math�matiques et informatique.
> 45 rue des St P�res. 75270 Paris Cedex 06
> Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Lilo strikes again !
Date: 11 Aug 2000 16:07:39 GMT
DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am not sure from your description, but you may have run into the
>problem that windows does not handle a disk which is entirely devoted to
>a non-microsoft OS. Windows on C: (hda) will be happy, and will stay
>happy with an empty hdb. But if you make hdb ext2, etc. (no fat, NTFS,
>etc), then windows will die in an infinite hang.
What version of Windows is this? When I still had Windows on hda, I had
hdb full of various Linux and Linux swap partitions (well, they were all
inside an extended partition too), and never had a problem. That was
Windows 95, so maybe the situation for dual-booters has got worse since
then.
> If this does turn out to be your problem, you can "fix" it by
>putting a tiny fat partition on hdb so that windows has something to
>"find" on the disk. Note, this tiny partition will become drive D: and
>may thereby mess up your registry. Magic Mover in the Partition Magic
>package can correct this problem.
A useful hint for putting Windows partitions on two drives is that the
drive ordering for two disks is as follows (my information's a few years
old, so I suppose this may have changed):
1) Primary partitions on first hard disk
2) Primary partitions on second hard disk
3) Logical partitions on first hard disk
4) Logical partitions on second hard disk
However, the only reason you need a primary partition under Windows is
to get booting to work. So if you want to add the sort of partition you
mention above, just create an extended partition and drop a small FAT
logical partition into it, and it'll come after all the partitions on
your first hard disk in Windows' drive lettering scheme.
An appropriate .sig, I suppose ...
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"DRIVE LETTERS SUCK ROTTING WALRUSES THROUGH A LEAKY OIL PIPELINE!"
- Peter da Silva, scary.devil.monastery
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5
Date: 11 Aug 2000 16:12:32 GMT
Rick Goyette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
What error message(s) do you see?
>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.
You could still try, as the latter is probably only listed because it's
in a #! line in a script.
Any package referring to /usr/local is a very badly made package, and if
possible a bug should be filed. :(
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"*BEEP* Troll Detected. Killfile, Ignore, Flame?"
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From: "SoudBoy0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help? Corel Linux + Win2k + Win98, Cant boot linux.
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:46:29 GMT
"D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> SoudBoy0 wrote:
> >
> > I can sure use some help. I would like to eventualy get involved with
> > helping dev linux, but first I ned to get It to boot and learn a few
(many)
> > things. Like getting it to boot.
> >
> > I have a p6set-ml board with 56m (64-8 for video) and a 433 celron. hda
is
> > 14g hdb is 2g, both maxtor udma66 and a smart & frendly cd-rw on second
ide,
> > master.
> >
> > I have the falowing already setup on my drives...
> >
> > hda1 win2k 6g ntfs
> > hda2 win98 6g fat32 act.
> > hda3 2g fat32
> > hda4 500m fat16
> >
> > hdb1 / ? e2fs
> > hdb2 /swap ? ?
> > hdb3 120m fat32 <----windows swap
> >
> > I have inatall cd for all and also storm, if aney will help.
> >
> > Win 2k & 98 dule boot fine but i cant figure how to boot linux. I had it
set
> > up before w/o win2k and used loadlin16 to boot linux on hdb2 but with
this
> > setup i get...
> > kernal panic no /initrd.....
>
> A lot of bootsector loaders have a problem with anything past the first
> 8 GB. Your two Win* partitions do OK because the system code is below
> that magic point, but the EXT2 is too far out.
>
> What I do:
>
> Set up a small (~12 MB) /boot partition at the beginning of the disk.
> Install LILO to the beginning of that partition, NOT to the bootsector.
> From LILO you can boot any of the other OS images no problemo, and the
> main part of your Linux install can also be wherever you like. Since
> the WinPuppis are kinda inflexible about drive letter numbering and
> since they get very cranky if you reorder the drive letters, be careful
> how you set them up. Linux, OTOH, doesn't give a rip.
>
> Have fun!
>
> --
> | Bogus as it might seem, people, this really is a deliverable |
> | e-mail address. Of course, there isn't REALLY a lumber cartel. |
> | There isn't really a tooth fairy, but whois toothfairy.com works. |
> +----------- D. C. & M. V. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------+
I have two hard drives.
Win2K on first HD first Partition
Win98 on first HD second Partition
Linux is on the Second HD first Partition
Your replay to my post sayed "Set up a small (~12 MB) /boot partition at the
beginning of the disk." Do you mean I have to reload Win2K, witch is at the
begining of the first disk?
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remove autoindent on vim
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:50:02 -0700
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:set noai
has worked for me.
samuel-wk sum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using Mandrake 7.1
>
> By default, vim has autoindent set (Must be a programmer's decision).
>
> Anyway, how do I disable it?
> It's getting annoying and driving me nuts.
>
> I tried :se noautoindent and it doesn't work.
> I also tried putting :se noautoindent in .vimrc
> and it also didn't work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> Samuel W Sum
> Agilent Technologies
> Tel (Office): 1(970)288-1336
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bootup Hangs at Sendmail
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:54:36 -0700
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If your system hangs while starting sendmail, it may be due to the networking
not being set up as you have said. sendmail's attempts to do its name
resolutions will eventually time out & the system should come up. It may take
a few minutes, but it should eventually finish the boot up.
RJ wrote:
> Hi Cindy,
>
> You can boot your machine into single user mode to grab what you need or to
> fix the problem by typing "linux single" at the LILO: prompt. You'll get a
> root shell and then you can do what you need to do. You may have to type
> "mount -a" to make your filesystems accessible.
>
> As for moving files to a windows machine and then back to Linux... You may
> have problems if you have a long file names. Windows doesn't do so well
> with them. It won't trash your files but it may wreck the names of those
> files. I normally tar a directory structure into a single file and then
> save that on some other machine until I can get it back to the target Linux
> box. Something like "tar cvf mytarball.tar myDirOfFiles/".
>
> Good Luck,
> RJ
>
> Cindy Bartorillo wrote:
> >
> >
> > After Linuxconf crashed in the middle of setting up networking, my bootup
> > (of my RedHat 6.1 system) hangs at the sendmail startup. I have a
> bootdisk
> > which the man page said could be used as a rescue disk, just type
> 'rescue'
> > at the LILO prompt. I did this, but a 'root disk' is also asked for.
> Hitting
> > enter at this point didn't work.
> >
> > Any suggestions about how I can get into my system to at least copy off a
> > few files before I install a new linux? I've ordered Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe.
> > Also, will a linux file, copied onto a Windows disk, be usable later
> (copied
> > back to the new linux system)? In other words, will the Windows file
> system
> > hose the files?
> >
> > I've done considerable research on this, and nothing seems to fit my
> case:
> >
> > Loadlin just bypasses LILO, which is not my problem. My problem is the
> linux
> > boot itself.
> >
> > I've looked for a 'root disk' on at least half a dozen linux ftp sites,
> but
> > haven't found anything that looks right.
> >
> > I found a program called Explore2fs, but that is apparently unusable. My
> > linux is on a separate hard drive not recognized by Windows, and all
> drives
> > were partitioned with Partition Magic.
> >
> > Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> >
> > CindyB
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't start X windows
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:47:34 GMT
Hi,
installed linux but when i go to start xwindows i get an error message:
None of the configured devices were detected
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Does anyone know what i should do? It's probably a rather detailed
problem but if you could point me in the direction of some resources i
would greatly appreciate it!
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Before you buy.
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From: "Andres Tarallo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Misterious Hangs in my network
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:08:35 -0300
I have made the following installation for a high school were i work for and
i play the role of a System Administrator.
I have a Pentium MMX @ 166 Mhz with 64 MB RAM acting as NIS Server and NFS
server. I'm exporting the users home directories to the Computer LAB; In the
computer lab I have workstations ranging from K5 to Celeron @433 Mhz; with
an average of 32 Mb of RAM at least (Many have 64 Mb of RAM).
During some clases we had a misterious hang that all the network frezeed, we
rebooted and then we continued working without problem. WE don't have
harware problem; we even changed a disk that seems to be faulty; but the
problem persists.
We're currently working with SuSE 6.4 both in server and workstations; the
server si running kernel NFS; I'm aware of that this is still under
development but I hva e to run on the workstations StarOffice and this was
the only solution I've found
Thanks for any advice
Andres Tarallo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: www.c0r3dump.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Apache vs. IIS 5
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:12:27 GMT
> Simple question: how to serve ASP pages with Apache?
Simple Answer: Get Chili Soft's plugin for unix.
http://www.chilisoft.com/
--
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http://www.aikia.com/LDP Linux Documentation Project
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Before you buy.
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From: Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: font size in Netscape menu
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:20:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know how to change the font size in the Netscape menu?
I am using Netscape 4.74. The font size in the menus and personal
ToolBar is a bit large to me. I'd like to decrease it.
Thanks for your replies.
Andrey.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ISDN 128K modem
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:36:46 -0500
sideband wrote:
>
>
> I've had good luck with the NETGEAR XM128 and a high speed serial card.
> The modem's serial port is capable of 460.8Kbps, so get a serial card
> capable of at least that. The cost is nice too... $169 for the modem, and
> $30 for a decent serial card that will handle the thruput.
>
> HTH.
>
> -SSB
Thanks for your reply. What I am actually trying to do is, start a small
ISP in a small country town which at present only has ISDN available for
a fast connection to the internet. I admit I'm not familiar with ISDN
and the new cards which are out. I have found a card which has 24
digital modems for the dial-in connections so now what I am looking for
is a ISDN PRI/T1 capable card or modem that I can increase bandwidth for
future growth when needed. I ran accross www.spellcast.com which has a
dual ISDN PRI/T1 card and am waiting to hear from them on it.
Any help on hardware to start an ISP would be appreciated.
Thanks.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 760CD Video Qestion...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:50:01 GMT
Hi,
I have the same machine, TP760CD. I got the display to work 800x600
and 16bit color under SUSE Linux 6.4. The trick was to put
Option "linear"
in Section "Device" of XF86Config. I did that using the sax X-config
tool of Suse�s linux. Works fine now.
Hope that helps.
BTW: Do you have any idea how to get the mpeg hw of the TP760CD to
work with linux ?
Lutz Schuermann, Germany
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:00:25 -0500, "Timothy H. Schilbach"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I have a Thinkpad 760CD with a trident Cyber 9320 chipset that has 1MB of
>DRAM. The monitor is a TFT standard IBM monitor (active matrix). I can
>configure the system for 8bit (256 color) fo X-Windows at 640 x 480 or 800 x
>600 resolutions. I cannot go any higher than that. In order to get it to
>work at 800 x 600 I had to manually use xf86config to put in the refresh
>rates.
>
> When I was using windows NT or 98 on this laptop I was able to goto 800 x
>600 at 16bit color (65,535 colors). Does anyone know how to make the TP760CD
>goto that resolution and color rate? If so I would greatly appreciate any
>help anoyhone can render.
>
>
>
>--
>Timothy H. Schilbach
>Alpha Omega Design Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>1-877-263-7094
>Visit our website at www.aodinc.com
>
>Web server hosting and dialup access for the future.
>
>
>
>
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