Linux-Setup Digest #445, Volume #19 Mon, 21 Aug 00 18:13:13 EDT
Contents:
apm problems after 2.2.16 upgrade ("/hda: lost interrupt") (Andrew Jaffe)
XDM : help needed ("Brian Lucas Kaczmarek")
Move/Resize ext2 partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
loopback not being set (Peter Bismuti)
Re: User Crontab ("ne...")
Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script. (blackbird)
My mouse pointer shows a barcode??? ("Brian Lucas Kaczmarek")
Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script. (blackbird)
Re: Toshiba Modem V90 (Edward Lee)
IP address of NIC eth0 ("Darren Welson")
Re: IP address of NIC eth0 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Needing help with Samba (D G)
Modem-ppp-question (Jim Haynes)
Re: Mounting CDROMs (Andrew Overholt)
Re: Mounting CDROMs (Andrew Overholt)
RedHat Annoyance/ide-scsi problems (K. Bruner)
Extra Print Page Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lilo giving me "LIL"...then death at boot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
help: ppp connects but doesnt log on? (Ray Fencey)
Re: Taking Image of Linux Setup ? (Craig Kelley)
Re: /net directory (Craig Kelley)
Re: RedHat Annoyance/ide-scsi problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script. ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Camera Application software run on Linux PC (bill davidsen)
Re: User Crontab (brian)
Re: Lilo giving me "LIL"...then death at boot ("Jim Harback")
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From: Andrew Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: apm problems after 2.2.16 upgrade ("/hda: lost interrupt")
Date: 21 Aug 2000 11:15:51 -0700
Hi All-
I recently upgraded the kernel on my RH6.1 system (on a Gateway 5150) to
2.2.16. Things went relatively smoothly.
However, I've had many problems with apm. I upgraded to the latest apmd
RPMs (3.0final), and this helped a bit.
However, sometimes when I wake up after going to sleep, I find that my
hard disk is completely inaccessible. X works until you try anything
that accesses the disk, at which point it stops. On a console screen, I
get a message that is something like
"hda: lost interrupt"
if I try to login. Again, this implies disk problems.
This didn't happen before, ever! Any ideas?
Andrew
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Andrew Jaffe___________________________________________________________
Center for Particle Astrophysics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of California, 301 LeConte Hall (510) 642-7570
Berkeley, CA 94720 FAX 2-1756
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From: "Brian Lucas Kaczmarek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: XDM : help needed
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:16:30 -0400
Hello, I'm trying to setup my system to allow X sessions from remote
computers on my network. I see that xdm is what I'm looking to use, however,
I don't know what settings to set in rc.start, etc. Any help would be
apprectiated. Thanx!
~~Brian Kaczmarek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Move/Resize ext2 partition
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:25:57 GMT
I need to shrink AND move ext2 partitions on some PC's I admin. Is
there any utility that can do this? I looked at parted but it seems to
only support resizing.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: loopback not being set
Date: 21 Aug 2000 18:35:23 GMT
I keep getting the 'neighbour table overflow' error and I have to do an
ifconfig and route command each time I boot to reset the loopback interface.
How can I fix this?
Thanks!
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User Crontab
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:41:49 GMT
On Aug 21, 2000 at 12:28, brian eloquently wrote:
>I have no problem running crontab from root. Yet, as another user, I
>cannot seem to get crontab going.
>
>Doing the following command does not seem to make it work:
>
>crontab [name of crontab file]
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated to allow a user to use their own
>crontab file.
crontab -e
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2:40pm up 42 days, 17:43, 9 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
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From: blackbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d,omp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:46:51 -0700
"Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, blowfish (Alex Lam) quoth:
>
> ~~ Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:54:05 -0700
> ~~ From: "blowfish (Alex Lam)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ~~ Reply-To: ..
> ~~ Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d, comp.os.linux.setup,
> ~~ omp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security, comp.os.linux.misc
> ~~ Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
> ~~
>
> [ snip post, again ]
>
> Sorry for the second reply, but I have looked through the Perl
> script that is a supposed 'Trojan'. It is not a Trojan Horse, it
> looked like familiar bad code, and it was. It is a 3 line RSA
> encryption program written in Perl. It is also broken and pretty
> much about the worst code I have ever seen (that is taking into
> account the fact that it is obfuscated as well). In other words,
> there is no reason to fear that Perl snippet, and you have just
> wasted a tremendous amount of bandwidth.
>
Sorry for another reply to this, but, the poster can maybe get the
encryption keys to create a faked, signed message.
Alex blowfish blackbird.
> anm
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~ Andrew N. McGuire ~
> ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> ~ "Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. ~
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From: "Brian Lucas Kaczmarek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: My mouse pointer shows a barcode???
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:03:37 -0400
Ok, this one's new... I was reconfiguring the XWin settings to work with a
new monitor. This went fine. However, somewhere along the lines, I messed
something up with the mouse. The mouse works just fine, with the exception
that instead of a pointer, it's a small barcode about an inch in width and
length. Any ideas? I have a feeling that I changed the default path of the
mouse settings, but I wouldn't think the mouse would work at all if that was
the case. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly apprectiated. Thanks!
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From: blackbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:55:10 -0700
NuQ wrote:
>
> x-no-archive: yes
> "blowfish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, blowfish (Alex Lam) quoth:
> > >
> > > ~~ Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:54:05 -0700
> > > ~~ From: "blowfish (Alex Lam)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > ~~ Reply-To: ..
> > > ~~ Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d, comp.os.linux.setup,
> > > ~~ omp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security,
> comp.os.linux.misc
> > > ~~ Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
> > > ~~
> > >
> > > [ snip post, again ]
> > >
> > > Sorry for the second reply, but I have looked through the Perl
> > > script that is a supposed 'Trojan'. It is not a Trojan Horse, it
> > > looked like familiar bad code, and it was. It is a 3 line RSA
> > > encryption program written in Perl. It is also broken and pretty
> > > much about the worst code I have ever seen (that is taking into
> > > account the fact that it is obfuscated as well). In other words,
> > > there is no reason to fear that Perl snippet, and you have just
> > > wasted a tremendous amount of bandwidth.
> > >
> > > anm
> > > --
> > >
> > It's bad code all right. But it did try to install a "new" KDE on my
> > machine.
> >
> > Yes, it even pops up a new window asking me if I wanted to proceed?
> >
>
> So it only affects Linux users? Heheh ;-)
>
Not on a carefully set up box. It got caught *before* it could do any
harm. ;-)
blowfish. blackbird. Alex
> NuQ
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba Modem V90
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:20:16 -0700
Joe Blow wrote:
> >Toshiba V90 is a WinModen and Toshiba itselfs is not clear on their answer.
My Toshiba Satellite 2595XDVD is using a Lucent modem chip, yours might be
similar. I am running Linux 2.2.16 in call back mode, since my home phone is
billed per minute, but not my office.
> I have the same problem...apparently the easiest way to deal with it
> is get an external modem....there are supposedly ways to configure for
The build in jack is much better than any external connectors via serial or
pcmcia. Anyway, I hate carrying external modem and power adaptor with me all
the time.
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From: "Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: IP address of NIC eth0
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:27:16 -0700
At bootup, I get an error 'cannot determine IP addressing information of
device eth0'.
what does this mean? All I know is that I must manually start eth0, even
though all of my configurations tell it to start at bootup. Also, my IP
addressing should be correct because as of now, the PC is not connected to
any others.
darren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: IP address of NIC eth0
Date: 21 Aug 2000 20:14:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:27:16 -0700, Darren Welson wrote:
>At bootup, I get an error 'cannot determine IP addressing information of
>device eth0'.
>what does this mean? All I know is that I must manually start eth0, even
>though all of my configurations tell it to start at bootup. Also, my IP
>addressing should be correct because as of now, the PC is not connected to
>any others.
Most distros have a set of startup scripts in /sbin/init.d/ (That's
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ for RedHat users) that look elsewhere (/etc/rc.config
or /etc/sysconfig/ ) for information about the IP address(es) of various
network devices. If you had said which distro you're using, I'm sure
someone could provide more help, but as it is, I'm shooting in the dark.
Probably one of the files that contains the info the boot script is
looking for is missing or corrupt--fix it.
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Needing help with Samba
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:29:02 -0700
Tim Johnston wrote:
>
> Ok, I have found some interesting stuff out with RH6.2.
>
> If I install RH as "Server" then Samba is installed and everything works great!
> If I install RH as "Workstation using KDE" then Samba is not installed and I
> can't figure out how to install it without problems.
>
> Does anyone know why Samba won't install?
> I type "rpm -UvhF samba*.rpm" and it shows all the hash marks and looks like a
> nice install.
> Then I type "rpm -q samba" and it says "package samba is not installed".
I don't know why you would put U and F at the same time. Are you doing
this:
1) su
2) cd to directory containing samba rpm
3) rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm
Or if you are connected to the net:
1) su
2) rpm -Uvh ftp://some.redhat.ftp.mirror/path_to_samba_rpms/samba*rpm
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Subject: Modem-ppp-question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Haynes)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:55:51 GMT
I have a problem that when I try to download a large file it often hangs
and I get little or nothing. The setup is Actiontec call-waiting internal
modem and PPP under Red Hat 5.2. Wondering if modem initialization
strings need tweaking, or is the kernel too old, or is it my ISP or
my phone line or something about packet sizes.
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From: Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting CDROMs
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:57:25 GMT
But if I only made my one drive (the burner) SCSI, does that affect my
other drive?
> If you have disabled the IDE CD interface, you can't use /dev/hdd to
> refer to your CD Rom, you must use /dev/scd1. Try substitute
> /dev/scd1 in your fstab.
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From: Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting CDROMs
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:58:18 GMT
As per Davide's response:
But if I did SCSI for the burner, does that affect all IDE CDROMs?
> I'm not sure about this, but try mounting it as a scsi device. It is
> seen by the kernel as a scsi device (/dev/sXXX) instead of /dev/hdd.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K. Bruner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: RedHat Annoyance/ide-scsi problems
Date: 21 Aug 2000 21:06:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This probably qualifies as venting, as I realize that I am very
frustrated and impatient, but so be it.
I have a PC. Up until last month, I was running RedHat 6.0, relatively
problem-free. I had purchased an IDE HP CD-RW 8200 series drive, which,
with maybe an hour of tinkering, two at the most, I got working under the
ide-scsi module so I could use cdrecord. Worked wonderfully.
So, I "upgrade" to RH 6.2, and for the life of me, I cannot get the
ide-scsi module to give a damn about the drive. The module loads, but
just ignores the drive. I have tried using the same lilo.conf and
modules.conf as I did before, and have recompiled the kernel with various
permutations of SCSI stuff as modules or compiled into the kernel, but
nada.
That is not the total purpose of my venting, however. I bought the RH
6.2 Standard Edition, and since I hadn't had any trouble with the initial
6.2 installation, I hadn't activated my 90 days installation support. After
spending this past Saturday tearing my hair out, I activated the support
Sunday morning. I "register" and enter my registration number, and it
says, "Hi, K! You have 6.2 Standard Edition..." But it won't let me use
the web access to submit a problem. I run all over the site and finally
see some small print saying that I should wait 45 minutes for the account
to kick in, even though it looked like it had already figured out that I
was logged into the account. So, I wait an hour. Then two. Then
several. Nada.
Then I send mail to the web site support address outlining my quandary.
This was, of course, Sunday, so I knew I had to be a little patient. I
get up this morning and I'd gotten email that my support account was all
set up and working, and, yes, it was! So I enter my problem through the
web page and it seems to take it fine. So, I go to work, and "log" into
the support page to check on the ticket's progress, and it tells me my
ticket it closed because, "once you have recompiled your kernel there
isn't much installation support can do." They also tell me to look at the
CD-RW how-to that I have already looked at, once, successfully under 6.0,
and then, very unsuccessfully, under 6.2. Also, they say this would be a
great problem to take to a newsgroup!
I'm not really looking for hints on getting the drive working at this
point. I am, however, very frustrated and annoyed.
I'm about 5 inches from buying SUSE or Caldera on my way home from work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Extra Print Page Problem
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:08:46 GMT
We have a HP LaserJet 2100TN on the network. The /etc/printcap
file is on my RedHat Linux v6.2 pc is:
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:rm=192.168.1.192:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:rp=text:\
:lp=/dev/null:
Printing works OK but printer prints an extra page (with post
script like garbage) after every print job. The printcap file
was generated by printtool with settings "Laserjet 4/5/6 non
postscript" (*auto* LaserJet 4 in Select field).
How can I prevent this extra page from being printed ?
Thx
Arun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lilo giving me "LIL"...then death at boot
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:17:43 GMT
I recently upgraded to mandrake 7.1. My system is running one
scsi, /dev/sda and one ide, /dev/hda drive. I use the IDE for just
backing stuff up with because they are so cheap now; my entire linux
distribution (including the root partition are on /dev/sda). When I
upgraded to 7.1 /etc/lilo.conf had "boot=/dev/hda" which won't work
because the IDE drive is beyond 1024 cyclinders and pisses lilo off.
When I try to set "boot=/dev/sda" in lilo.conf and then run lilo, I
get "Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk". This makes me wonder
what the heck the "first disk" is??? My bios is not supposed to look
at any ide device for booting (floppy then SCSI).
The IDE and the SCSI had been living in perfect peace and harmony until
I did the 7.1 upgrade. The only way I can boot anymore is from the
boot floppy. I have attached my current (but giving me warnings)
lilo.conf. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux-0
#keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdksmp
label=old_linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdksmp.img
append="mem=255M"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
label=old1_linux-up
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk.img
append="mem=127M"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz.Oracle
label=linux-Oracle
root=/dev/sda1
append="mem=255"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
label=old2_linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-4mdk
label=old3_linux-up
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=old4_failsafe
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/fd0
label=old5_floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
label=linux-0
root=/dev/sda1
append="mem=255"
read-only
Thanks
Brooks
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From: Ray Fencey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: ppp connects but doesnt log on?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:17:21 GMT
hi
trying to get ppp dialup to my isp to work but having a few problems -
i've rebuilt my kernel (2.2.15) with ppp support and have pppd-2.3.10
and testeed my modem and it does indeed dial out (got it to dial my cell
phone)
i exec the following:
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 debug connect \
"/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATD08007317963 CONNECT '' ogin:
myusername word: mypasswd"
also tried substituting ogin with ame but still no joy... heres what i
get back this (tailed output from syslog):
Aug 21 21:45:57 myLinuxBox pppd[465]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
Aug 21 21:45:58 myLinuxBox chat[466]: send (ATD08007317963^M)
Aug 21 21:45:58 myLinuxBox chat[466]: expect (CONNECT)
Aug 21 21:46:21 myLinuxBox chat[466]: ATD08007317963^M^M
Aug 21 21:46:21 myLinuxBox chat[466]: CONNECT
Aug 21 21:46:21 myLinuxBox chat[466]: -- got it
Aug 21 21:46:21 myLinuxBox chat[466]: send (^M)
Aug 21 21:46:21 myLinuxBox chat[466]: expect (ogin:)
Aug 21 21:46:21 myLinuxBox chat[466]: 115200^M
Aug 21 21:46:28 myLinuxBox chat[466]: ~^?}#@!}!$} }9}"}&} }*} }
}#}%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"^]y~~^?}#@!}!%} }9}"}&} }*} } }#}
Aug 21 21:46:32 myLinuxBox chat[466]:
%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"Y"~~^?}#@!}!&} }9}"}&} }*} }
}#}%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"}5O~~^?}
Aug 21 21:46:34 myLinuxBox chat[466]: #@!}!'} }9}"}&} }*} }
}#}%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"Q}4~~^?}#@!}!(} }9}"}&} }*} } }#}%B
Aug 21 21:46:38 myLinuxBox chat[466]:
#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"^^V~~^?}#@!}!)} }9}"}&} }*} }
}#}%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"Z}-~~^?}#@
Aug 21 21:46:40 myLinuxBox chat[466]: !}!*} }9}"}&} }*} }
}#}%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"}6`~~^?}#@!}!+} }9}"}&} }*} } }#}%B#}
Aug 21 21:46:44 myLinuxBox chat[466]: %}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"R;~~^?}#@!}!,}
}9}"}&} }*} } }#}%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"^_3~~^?}#@!}!
Aug 21 21:46:46 myLinuxBox chat[466]: -} }9}"}&} }*} }
}#}%B#}%}%}&^_%W]}'}"}(}"[h~~^?}#@!}!.} }9}"}&} }*} } }#}%B#}%}%}
Aug 21 21:46:49 myLinuxBox chat[466]: &^_%W]}'}"}(}"}7^E~^M
Aug 21 21:46:49 myLinuxBox chat[466]: NO CARRIER^M
Aug 21 21:47:06 myLinuxBox chat[466]: alarm
Aug 21 21:47:06 myLinuxBox pppd[465]: Connect script failed
Aug 21 21:47:06 myLinuxBox chat[466]: Failed
Aug 21 21:47:07 myLinuxBox pppd[465]: Exit.
can anyone see what i've done wrong... any help would be appreciated.
ray
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Subject: Re: Taking Image of Linux Setup ?
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 Aug 2000 15:30:11 -0600
Rob Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd be grateful if anyone can help me with this problem.
>
> I've got Redhat 6.2 setup on one machine and need to take an exact copy of
> this machine's configuration across to another 9 identical machines.
Install the mkkickstart package and read the manpage. All you need is
an NFS server and a couple of hours.
--
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Subject: Re: /net directory
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 Aug 2000 15:31:53 -0600
Eugene Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When doing a fresh install of rh 6.2 I noticed that there is not a /net
> directory. When doing an upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 there is one. Does
> anyone know what this does and why was it droped from 6.1 to 6.2?
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
[root@otc /root]# ls /
boot dev home lost+found opt root usr bin cdrom etc lib
mnt proc sbin tmp var
I don't see it. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RedHat Annoyance/ide-scsi problems
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:28:56 GMT
wow... that really sucks :o(
maybe go back to 6.0 and install 6.2 package by package til you find
out whats wrong?
hehe :o)
get SuSE
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:32:26 -0500
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, blackbird quoth:
~~ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:46:51 -0700
~~ From: blackbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ To: Andrew N. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d, comp.os.linux.setup,
~~ omp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security, comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
~~
~~ "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
~~ >
~~ > On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, blowfish (Alex Lam) quoth:
~~ >
~~ > ~~ Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:54:05 -0700
~~ > ~~ From: "blowfish (Alex Lam)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ > ~~ Reply-To: ..
~~ > ~~ Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d, comp.os.linux.setup,
~~ > ~~ omp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.security, comp.os.linux.misc
~~ > ~~ Subject: Re: WARNING: Somebody is trojaning UseNet with Perl Script.
~~ > ~~
~~ >
~~ > [ snip post, again ]
~~ >
~~ > Sorry for the second reply, but I have looked through the Perl
~~ > script that is a supposed 'Trojan'. It is not a Trojan Horse, it
~~ > looked like familiar bad code, and it was. It is a 3 line RSA
~~ > encryption program written in Perl. It is also broken and pretty
~~ > much about the worst code I have ever seen (that is taking into
~~ > account the fact that it is obfuscated as well). In other words,
~~ > there is no reason to fear that Perl snippet, and you have just
~~ > wasted a tremendous amount of bandwidth.
~~ >
~~
~~ Sorry for another reply to this, but, the poster can maybe get the
~~ encryption keys to create a faked, signed message.
That is not a Trojan though. :-) Also the key must be input to
the program, and is not embedded in the program itself, so there
is no need to worry about that either.
HTH && HAND
anm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Camera Application software run on Linux PC
Date: 21 Aug 2000 22:02:31 GMT
In article <8msmmb$qrt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Is the hardware still available? I have several webcams which I
| ordered only to find that the model had changed, and by the time there
| was Linux support the camera was out of production.
And to answer my own question, no.
Since being able to capture pictures is a solid requirement, and none
of the dozen or so packages for Linux seem to work with a camera which
is still made, I guess MS wins. I can't tell someone to base their
business plan on buying used stuff from eBay.
Thanks for the info, lots of these packages should work for personal
use if you can find the camera at a garage sale near you.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Make the rules? I don't make the rules. I don't even FOLLOW the rules!
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User Crontab
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:48:32 -0500
I need to specify. I can run program listed in my home directory. But, to
use
general system program like, abiword, only root seems able to activate
them.
Good for security because some program in the /usr/bin directory should
only be
run by root. However, I would like to backup and automate some other
chores
for each user.
The man/info pages do not seem to offer suggestions. I already tried the
cron.allow
file. Any other suggestions?
brian
brian wrote:
> I have no problem running crontab from root. Yet, as another user, I
> cannot seem to get crontab going.
>
> Doing the following command does not seem to make it work:
>
> crontab [name of crontab file]
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated to allow a user to use their own
> crontab file.
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From: "Jim Harback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo giving me "LIL"...then death at boot
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:51:51 +0200
In article <8ns691$cin$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently upgraded to mandrake 7.1. My system is running one scsi,
> /dev/sda and one ide, /dev/hda drive. I use the IDE for just backing
> stuff up with because they are so cheap now; my entire linux
> distribution (including the root partition are on /dev/sda). When I
> upgraded to 7.1 /etc/lilo.conf had "boot=/dev/hda" which won't work
> because the IDE drive is beyond 1024 cyclinders and pisses lilo off.
>
> When I try to set "boot=/dev/sda" in lilo.conf and then run lilo, I get
> "Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk". This makes me wonder what
> the heck the "first disk" is??? My bios is not supposed to look at any
> ide device for booting (floppy then SCSI).
====================== cut ============================
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
Are you sure your root is located at /dev/sda1 and not /dev/sda5? You might
also want to check your controllers bios (normally accessed with meta keys during
boot up) to make sure your scsi drive is bootable.
Good Luck,
--
Jim Harback
www.GlobalLinux.com
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