Linux-Setup Digest #449, Volume #19 Tue, 22 Aug 00 09:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound Config? (Don Belmore)
Re: can't set PATH (Don Belmore)
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive (Devin Null)
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive (Charlie Bendler)
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive ("Devin Null")
Re: SendMail "catch-all" alias? ("J.E.J. op den Brouw")
Re: help: ppp connects but doesnt log on? (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Multi Distribution Lilo Question (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Need X11, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw libraries (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: problem in creating root partition (M. Buchenrieder)
Sendmail ("TJ O Connor")
Re: How to run WM on remote display? (Dave Skolnick)
SuSE 6.4: yast2 :-) - X :-( ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: My mouse pointer shows a barcode??? (ray)
wu-ftpd: How to show dot files (Bernie)
Re: User Crontab ("ne...")
How do I upgrade my glibc ("James Kimble")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Belmore)
Subject: Re: Sound Config?
Date: 22 Aug 2000 06:59:46 GMT
Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Don Belmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Ok, I run sndconfig and it runs fine, plays the sample.au(but it
: >does sound quite muffled).
: Is it just that the volume's set very low, or is there a quality
: problem? If it's the former, then aumix or some other mixer will do the
: job for you. Can't help much with the latter; I usually try to do black
: magic with the sound configuration here until it works and then leave it
: well alone. :)
:) I don't know about quality problem. I have played many sound
files through this card but rarely any .au ones. If I recall correctly,
anytime I have played them, they never came out right. My problem right
now is just getting it to work.
: > Specs: SB Pro clone card (yes it does work fine with many other
: >programs, including my DOS CD-player one).
: Beware of clones. A lot of them aren't really, and the Linux sound
: people don't always get the full specifications. :(
Ever heard of 'Golden Soundcard, Pro Delux"? That's what it says,
I jsut, dare I say it, assumed it was a SB-Pro copy. Any other DOS
software seemed to believe me :)
I did forget to mention an important piece of info. When I type
'play sample.au' The error I get is :
sox: Unable to set the sample size to 16
I looked at the 'play' file and can't understand all of it's sytax
but nothing there seems to suggest '16' but then again, I can't say I
understand a whole lot of Linux yet either :). I can post the file here
if you wish.
: >io=0x220
: >irq=7
: >dma=1
: If you had those wrong, then you wouldn't get any sound at all, so that
: sort of thing must be all right.
That's what I figured. The problem isn't there, it's with the
'play' binary(I do hope I am using the term right, play is the executable
as in 'play sample.au').
--
Dragon Don
The Dragon's Claw - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad095/Claw.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Belmore)
Subject: Re: can't set PATH
Date: 22 Aug 2000 06:52:24 GMT
Don Belmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: export command) and it simply appended it to the end. My question is how
: do I put '/etc/XR11' _before_ '/usr/X11R6/bin' when I can't even find out
: how my system gets all those other directories in the PATH? I have been
: hunting all over my system to find out where it defines '/sbin:/bin:...'
Thank you all for your help. Guess what, no sooner did I post
this that I ran across the files that listed the original PATH names where
I could edit the files.
As for adding users....yet another part of my system to learn. I
added a user and am, of course, having a few difficulties with it. One
step at a time :)
--
Don
The Dragon's Claw - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad095/Claw.html
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From: Devin Null <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:14:24 -0700
Yessir.
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Charlie Bendler wrote:
>Are you sure you have the ASUS BIOS set to boot SCSI before IDE?
>
>Devin Null wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install RH 6.2 on a mixed SCSI/IDE system. The motherboard is
>> an Asus P2B-S with the built-in Adaptec SCSI controller (78xx). My boot
>> drive is a 4.5GB Seagate Cheetah on the Adaptec and it is backed by two UDMA
>> IDE drives, one on each IDE channel. The system also has two CD-ROM's and a
>> tape drive on the narrow channel of the onboard SCSI.
>>
>> On installing lilo during setup there is a warning that "sd2a is not the
>> first drive" even though it is indeed SCSI ID 0 and I boot from it fine
>> under MS-Windows. When I reboot after install I just get the old "LI..." and
>> it hangs. Redhat seems to be having a hard time with this configuration. If
>> I make a boot disk and use that everything works properly but I don't want
>> to have to use a boot floppy to run Linux if I can avoid it.
>>
>> Any ideas besides disabling booting from my snazzy Cheetah drive?
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From: Charlie Bendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 02:59:32 -0500
The only comment I have is that I'm running 2-18gb Cheetahs on a P2B-DS with no
problem (Slackware 7.1). No further ideas. :<(
Devin Null wrote:
> Yessir.
>
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Charlie Bendler wrote:
> >Are you sure you have the ASUS BIOS set to boot SCSI before IDE?
> >
> >Devin Null wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to install RH 6.2 on a mixed SCSI/IDE system. The motherboard is
> >> an Asus P2B-S with the built-in Adaptec SCSI controller (78xx). My boot
> >> drive is a 4.5GB Seagate Cheetah on the Adaptec and it is backed by two UDMA
> >> IDE drives, one on each IDE channel. The system also has two CD-ROM's and a
> >> tape drive on the narrow channel of the onboard SCSI.
> >>
> >> On installing lilo during setup there is a warning that "sd2a is not the
> >> first drive" even though it is indeed SCSI ID 0 and I boot from it fine
> >> under MS-Windows. When I reboot after install I just get the old "LI..." and
> >> it hangs. Redhat seems to be having a hard time with this configuration. If
> >> I make a boot disk and use that everything works properly but I don't want
> >> to have to use a boot floppy to run Linux if I can avoid it.
> >>
> >> Any ideas besides disabling booting from my snazzy Cheetah drive?
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From: "Devin Null" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:35:50 -0700
Any IDE's in the mix?
"Charlie Bendler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The only comment I have is that I'm running 2-18gb Cheetahs on a P2B-DS
with no
> problem (Slackware 7.1). No further ideas. :<(
>
> Devin Null wrote:
>
> > Yessir.
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Charlie Bendler wrote:
> > >Are you sure you have the ASUS BIOS set to boot SCSI before IDE?
> > >
> > >Devin Null wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm trying to install RH 6.2 on a mixed SCSI/IDE system. The
motherboard is
> > >> an Asus P2B-S with the built-in Adaptec SCSI controller (78xx). My
boot
> > >> drive is a 4.5GB Seagate Cheetah on the Adaptec and it is backed by
two UDMA
> > >> IDE drives, one on each IDE channel. The system also has two CD-ROM's
and a
> > >> tape drive on the narrow channel of the onboard SCSI.
> > >>
> > >> On installing lilo during setup there is a warning that "sd2a is not
the
> > >> first drive" even though it is indeed SCSI ID 0 and I boot from it
fine
> > >> under MS-Windows. When I reboot after install I just get the old
"LI..." and
> > >> it hangs. Redhat seems to be having a hard time with this
configuration. If
> > >> I make a boot disk and use that everything works properly but I don't
want
> > >> to have to use a boot floppy to run Linux if I can avoid it.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas besides disabling booting from my snazzy Cheetah drive?
>
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From: "J.E.J. op den Brouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SendMail "catch-all" alias?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:47:41 +0200
Really, this should be asked at the comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup.
# place to which unknown users should be forwarded
Kuser user -m -a<>
DLlocal:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is for the main domain name, not for virtual domains (AFAIK).
djmiller wrote:
>
> Is there any way to set up the aliases so that all mail goes to one mailbox,
> no matter who it's for? Or rather, some "default" alias so that when
> someone sends e-mail to an undefined user name or alias, it goes to a
> mailbox instead of getting bounced?
--
--jesse
======================================================================
J. op den brouw Johanna Westerdijkplein 75
Haagse Hogeschool 2521 EN DEN HAAG
Sector Techniek The Netherlands
Opleiding Elektrotechniek +31-70-4458936
======================================================================
Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes
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Subject: Re: help: ppp connects but doesnt log on?
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Aug 2000 10:58:18 +0200
Ray Fencey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 debug connect \
> "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATD08007317963 CONNECT '' ogin:
> myusername word: mypasswd"
[...]
> 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}"}&} }*} } }#}
[...]
The remote side goes into PPP mode immediately after the modems
CONNECT, while your chat script tries to login into a unix box.
(These strange characters you are receiving come from the remote pppd
trying to contact yours. But since your chat script is still waiting
for the login: prompt, it never answers. Finally, the remote computer
gives up and terminates the modem connection.)
Put your username and password in /etc/ppp/{chap,pap}-secrets.
Then call ppp as follows:
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 debug connect \
"/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATD08007317963 CONNECT"
(I.e. leave out the login attempt.)
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Subject: Re: Multi Distribution Lilo Question
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Aug 2000 11:12:46 +0200
"Jason Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Mandrake install on /dev/hdc1 right now. I'm trying to install
> TurboLinux on /dev/sda1. Since the sda drive is on a SCSI controller I
> need to load an initrd image for it. How can I tell lilo I need an initrd
> for that boot, but not the Mandrake boot? If I put the initrd= option in
> under the TurboLinux entry, it looks for it in the current /boot, not in
> the /boot of the /dev/sda1 drive.
If you need modules to access your SCSI drive, you cannot load them
from a partition on that same SCSI disk.
I would suggest to put everything you need for access to /dev/sda1
into /boot on your main hard drive. Use subdirectories to avoid file
name conflicts. The /boot partition might look like this:
lost+found/
mandrake/
vmlinuz
System.map
turbolinux/
vmlinuz
System.map
boot.b
chain.b
..
When you install a new distribution, you let it use this shared
partition as /boot, but do not allow it to make a file system (i.e.
erase the partition prior to writing to it). It should then add its
files to /boot/, leaving the existing subdirectories intact. After
installation is complete, copy the contents of /boot to
/boot/distributionname. Adjust your lilo.conf and re-run lilo.
HTH.
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Subject: Re: Need X11, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw libraries
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Aug 2000 11:15:13 +0200
Jason Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to install an application that requires the libraries X11,
> Xt, Xmu, and Xaw. The configure script complains that I don't have
> them, so can anyone point me to an RPM that would contain any or all of
> these?
For Red Hat: XFree86-devel, to be found on your installation cd.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: problem in creating root partition
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:07:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
> * 8.4 GB Quantum Harddisk
> * partition details
> * primary 3 GB (win 95)
> *extended
> * I logical 1.5 GB (win95)
> * II logical 1.5 GB (win95)
... which means that your Linux partition will be located "after"
6 GB of diskspace already taken.
[...]
>tried to create the / (1400 MB) partition it says "partition to big"
[...]
Diskdruid isn't really complaining about the size but the location
of the / partition. Older LILO versions would not work with boot
partitions behind the magic 1024th cylinder, only the newest one
does - and since diskdruid assumes that you want to use LILO it will
therefor deny creating a boot partition beyond the bootable area.
Solution: Use Linux' "fdisk" for partitioning instead of diskdruid,
install Linux and use "loadlin.exe" to boot Linux from out of DOS.
Then get the newest LILO version , recompile and install that.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "TJ O Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Sendmail
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:53:27 +0100
Hi all,
I need to setup my sendmail so that it can route internal mail.
If our outside internet connection is down i still want to be able
to sendmail
internally.
If anyone has suggestions could you please reply
cheers
TJ
--
TJ O'Connor 2200 Cork Airport Business Park,
Sys Admin. Kinsale Rd., Cork, Ireland.
Comnitel Technologies Ph: +353 21 7305620
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +353 21 7305624
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From: Dave Skolnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: How to run WM on remote display?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:58:52 GMT
Hmmm. I think you are making life difficult for yourself. We use Exceed a lot
at work and don't have any complaints about speed.
Let's go back to basics: startx launches your x-server, which provides display
services to the x-client, the application running on your computer. The
distinction isn't very important when you are running on a single machine. On a
network, the remote machine (which may be a file, print, and/or application
*server*) is the display *client*. Your local machine (running Exceed) is the
display server. Exceed gives you a choice of window managers (three at least
out of the box if I recall) and desktop configurations. I don't believe any of
them look like GNOME (we use the one that looks like DEC Unix for familiarity
reasons).
I would speculate that your approach fired up an x-window, (managed by your
local, Exceed window manager), then launched the linux window manager and GNOME
desktop within that window. If I am correct you have a whole extra layer of
overhead; it shouldn't be a surprise that it is slow.
I would suggest diving back into the Exceed manuals and reading up on the
window manager and desktop environment options there.
Good luck,
Dave
Mike Castle wrote:
> In article <WVco5.122228$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jon Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >.. which worked, but veeerry slooooowwly .... I think that running the WM
> >in Hummingbird might not be such a good idea after all... :(
>
> I've heard complaints about Hummingbird being slow. Period. WM or no.
> There are other, better Win32 X servers.
>
> mrc
> --
> Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all
> www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
> We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SuSE 6.4: yast2 :-) - X :-(
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:52:29 GMT
hello
i installed SuSE 6.4 (evaluation version from chip magazine). Yast2
started perfektly: it showed colored graphics (propably 640x480) and
also detected my USB mouse (Microsoft Intelli Explorer). Everything
went smoothly until the end, when Yast2 tried to configure the X-
Server: the mouse is not used (mouse cursor doesn't move) and after a
few seconds, the whole screen get corrupt. I also tried to configure it
with yast1 (XFreesetup, xf86setup), but never succeeded.
The question is: if yast2 itself works great (mouse and graphics) this
should mean that X should work with my video card (ELSA Gladiac -
GeForce GTS). is this a bug in SuSE 6.4?
Martin
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: Re: My mouse pointer shows a barcode???
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:35:27 GMT
Dave Brondsema wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Brian Lucas Kaczmarek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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!
>
> That happened to me when testing different resolution and bits of color
> for my monitor. Try selecting lower bits/resolution.
>
> >
> >
>
> --
> Dave Brondsema
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
ALSO, make SURE in xf86config, you do NOT have hardware cursor set, I had
that issue when i tried it.
This is somewhere toward the bottom of the file, i think. It's something
like SW cursor, HW cursor, and is commented.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: wu-ftpd: How to show dot files
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:43:40 +1200
Hi all,
I have wu-ftpd 2.6.1 running on Mandrake 6.1.
The setup is dialin, not connected to the internet.
root has access as a real user, for the purpose of system maintenance.
By the way there is a good how-to on setting up a machine for dial-in
at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ISP-Setup-RedHat.html
All works well except I cannot see dot-files e.g. .htaccess.
Recursive delete is forbidden (that's what the ftp client shows, could
be related to not seeing dot files).
Uploading of hidden dot files works.
I tried the lsplain and lslong options but no luck.
Do you have any ideas how to do this?
Many thanks in advance,
Bernie
Here is the ftpaccess file:
class dataload guest 123.456.789.*
#The master class is used by the local or remote root user for
class master real 123.456.789.*
guestuser foo
realuser root
loginfails 2
limit dataload 10 Any /etc/msgs/msg.toomany
limit master 10 Any /etc/msgs/msg.toomany
log commands guest real
log transfers guest real inbound,outbound
delete no guest # delete permission?
overwrite no guest # overwrite permission?
rename no guest # rename permission?
chmod no guest # chmod permission?
umask no guest # umask permission?
upload class=dataload /somedir * yes * * 0644 nodirs
upload class=master / * yes * * 0747
path-filter guest /etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9_\.]*$ ^\. ^-
lsplain ls -a
lslong ls -a
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User Crontab
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:51:33 GMT
On Aug 21, 2000 at 16:48, brian eloquently wrote:
>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.
Then your system is broken. Abiword should be readable
and executable by everyone.
>Good for security because some program in the /usr/bin directory should
>only be run by root.
WRONG. Programs in /usr/bin should be runable by everyone.
If they need to be run by root only, put them in /root/bin.
>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?
Then you cron was not setup for use by everyone on your system.
Which in itself is strange. crontab -u user -f file should install
'file' for 'user'. Could it be that the 'user' does not have
write permission to the directory??
[...]
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
share, n.:
To give in, endure humiliation.
8:43am up 43 days, 11:45, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "James Kimble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I upgrade my glibc
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:40:24 -0400
I'm running RH 6.0 and need to upgrade my glibc
libraries to something more recent for jkd1.2. I've
never done this before. Anyone willing to walk me
through it?? Please....
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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