Linux-Setup Digest #458, Volume #19 Wed, 23 Aug 00 13:13:14 EDT
Contents:
XF86Config file for Latitude CPx H ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
BIOS-->hdb-->LILO-->{linux(hdb);windows(hda)} ("Dan Jacobson")
Mandrake 7.0 install script loops unless one yanks out SCSI card ("Dan Jacobson")
X windows set up 'is this OK screen' not ok ("Dan Jacobson")
FAT32 under Corel Linux SE ("RollerSkater")
RedHat 6.2 GNOME: "No response from command 'Save Yourself'" (Tito Costa)
WU-FTPD ("J.E.J. op den Brouw")
Re: Dual Processors ("David ..")
Copying system disk(s) for multiple machines???. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lilo Installing ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive (Paul Lew)
Re: Copying system disk(s) for multiple machines???. (Mickey Stein)
Re: XTerm vs. Gnome (Devin_Wala)
modem connection rate is not stable (Andrey Shipsha)
Tell Debian AHA2940 ist there - how? (Martin Bless)
how to change my CLASSPATH ? ("Daniel Pfuhl")
Re: Lotus Mail ("Russell Uman")
Re: Firewall for Linux ("Sjoerd Langkemper")
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive (James Lothian)
Re: X windows set up 'is this OK screen' not ok (moonie;))
Re: X windows set up 'is this OK screen' not ok ("Steve Bradley")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: XF86Config file for Latitude CPx H
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:01:05 GMT
I'm trying to get my new Dell working, but running
xstart on it just results in a blank screen, which
doesn't respond to any action but removing all
electricity. The problem is probably located in my
XF86Config file, but I have no idea what it is. I
could really do with some help.
//Niklas
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BIOS-->hdb-->LILO-->{linux(hdb);windows(hda)}
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:53:33 +0800
OK, I now have BIOS set to boot from IDE Primary slave (hdb), where I have
a Linux native disk drive with Linux MBR where I'm hoping to have it ask
me the windows or Linux choice, (using "delay" or "timeout"
[difference=?]) the problem is I don't know how to word LILO to make the
transfer of control, when selected, to hda's MBR where I have the original
windows98 drive where I don't want to mess with anything, e.g., its MBR,
etc. {Distro: Mandrake 7.0}. Must I reconfigure BIOS to start from IDE
Primary Master each time I still want to use windows?
By the way its too bad the LILO person decided to make, e.g., "150" equal
15 seconds, "15.0" would have been more intuitive...
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Mandrake 7.0 install script loops unless one yanks out SCSI card
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:22:57 +0800
Unimpressed with Mandrake 7.0 install script: when it gets to the testing
SCSI stuff, it loops with an unknown error. Had to remove my
AEC6710D(V.3) SCSI card [for ACER 620 scanner] before able to successfully
run install script.
By the way, many Linux install instructions don't tell you if you are
supposed to power up printer, modem, scanner, etc. before running the
script... or do the authors assume an environment where these things are
left on 24 hours a day? I have mine all off.
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: X windows set up 'is this OK screen' not ok
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:21:55 +0800
Unimpressed with Mandrake 7.0 install script: when it gets to the testing
X windows screen occupation area, there is a big white square covering
most of the screen with an "is this OK?" box with a time out. Fundamental
flaw: lets say the box exceeds the screen edges, this would look the same
as an exact match with the screen edges... therefore there needs to be a
scale bar added so one can see if indeed they are at 0 -----50----- 0
[correct], or at 33 ----- 50 ------33 etc. or various other screw ups, use
your imagination to implement. Scale bar should be two: vert. & horiz..
And, OK, it wasn't OK, it was slightly shifted to the left of center and
there was a 1/2 inch of wasted blackness around the edges [or is that the
new aesthetic style?]... but the script doesn't have any easy adjustment
buttons.
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From: "RollerSkater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: FAT32 under Corel Linux SE
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:17:48 GMT
Hi everybody,
I'm using Corel Linux 1.2 Second Edition (Based on Debian kernel 2.2.16 /
glibc 2.1).
I heard that with this version of Linux, Has a built-in patch and I can have
immediate access to my second HD wich is formated 40GB FAT32. I don't see
the FAT32 partition anywhere.
Can someone help me on this issue. I need read/write access.
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From: Tito Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: it.comp.os.linux.sys,it.comp.os.linux.iniziare
Subject: RedHat 6.2 GNOME: "No response from command 'Save Yourself'"
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:10:00 +0200
My GNOME environment (Distribution RedHat 6.2), both with Enlightenment
and Sawmill window managers, is extremely slow.
At startup I got the message:
> gmc
> No response from the command 'Save Yourself'
> The program could be slow, interrupted or misfunctioning.
Hardware configuration:
AMD K7 700 MHz
128 MB RAM; 128 MB swap partition
Hard Disk EIDE 15 GB 7200 rpm
I partitioned my hard disk with fips; linux partition and swap partition
are both allocated beyond the 10 GB limit.
Reply also to costati!tin.it, please.
Thank you in advance.
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From: "J.E.J. op den Brouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WU-FTPD
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:21:11 +0200
Hi,
Does anyone know if the wu-ftp-2.6.0-14.6x package suffers from the
vulnerability that was in version 2.6.0 (SITE EXEC buffer overflow
exploit) or did redhat patch it with a fix?
--
--jesse
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Haagse Hogeschool 2521 EN DEN HAAG
Sector Techniek The Netherlands
Opleiding Elektrotechniek +31-70-4458936
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Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processors
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:42:54 -0500
Bon Homme Richard wrote:
>
> I'm going to install 6.2 on my Tyan Tomcat 4, running dual PII 200's. Will
> the install program autodetect and configure both processors, or will I have
> to recompile an SMP kernel?
It should install the SMP kernel though you will probably want to
recompile the kernel for your system once you get it installed and also
upgate the kernel to 2.2.16 due to security issues in the 2.2.15 and
older kernels.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Copying system disk(s) for multiple machines???.
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:35:40 GMT
I have a project coming up where I will be setting up several linux
systems. All will be on basically the same hardware, and all will have
basically the same setup.
The systems will be used as firewall/vpn systems.
I would like to not have to run through the entire "setup/build
kernel/install vpn(freeswan)/build kernel" process for each system. I
know I can copy the kernel over, but that is just a small part of the
setup.
Once I have the first system set up, is there an easy way to copy the
contents of the hard drive over to the new systems.
Would it be as easy as installing the blank hard drive in the first
system as a second drive (hdb) and copying over the contents. I just
doubt this would work with all the process files and such.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lilo Installing
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:56:27 GMT
Hi
Thanks very much for your suggestions. I finally got lilo to work on my
computer. My /sbin directory also had the latest version of lilo. I used
/sbin/lilo and removed the "linear" from lilo.conf and specified -L
option(my hard disk is 20GB and linux starts after 13GB). And lilo
started working.
Bye
Vikram
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
,
"ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2000 at 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] eloquently wrote:
>
> >I didn't install it into /sbin. I unpacked the tar file in my home
> >directory and compiled the stuff to get the lilo executable. I tried
to
> >run it from the same directory. Is that problem?
> It could be. I am not sure what else lilo depends on
> that should be installed. It looks like it is trying
> to use the olde stuff you have installed instead of the
> new stuff you have _not_ installed.
> [...]
>
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> For 20 dollars, I'll give you a good fortune next time ...
> 9:12am up 44 days, 12:14, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:10:11 GMT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:23:08 GMT, M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew) writes:
>
>[...]
>
>>Don't need to. I have linux on the 2nd ide drive with nt4 on the 1st ide
>>drive; I got the nearly the same msg "hdb5 is not on the 1st drive".
>>Lilo still works as the "warning" is an annoyance.
>
>Yup, but if that happens on a mixed IDE/SCSI system, LILO may not
>be installed properly after that. Disconnecting the IDE drives would
>be one way to do it; adding the
>
>"disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x81"
>
Wrong, my installation had /dev/hda as nt4 and a scsi, /dev/sda, as my
linux; recently, I got a new drive, ide, where I moved the linux to and
kept the scsi as use for the IBM DB2 only. So, it is 2 ide drives and
1 scsi with 2 scsi cdroms (internal) and a cdwriter, tape, and scanner
external and all working together without problems. Wellll, not the
scanner really as haven't gotten around to set it up and use it in linux.
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From: Mickey Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copying system disk(s) for multiple machines???.
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:13:01 -0700
driveimage (from partitionquest, I think) v2 or v3 will do this without a
hitch. If you've got a pure linux system, then you'll have to boot it from
a double-diskette (dos-based) floppy set but I've used it many times to
backup my full linux system before updates and have restored from floppy
(and of course the driveimage which I put on another disk). It's like
ghost, no doubt, but I've no experience with ghost.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a project coming up where I will be setting up several linux
> systems. All will be on basically the same hardware, and all will have
> basically the same setup.
>
> The systems will be used as firewall/vpn systems.
>
> I would like to not have to run through the entire "setup/build
> kernel/install vpn(freeswan)/build kernel" process for each system. I
> know I can copy the kernel over, but that is just a small part of the
> setup.
>
> Once I have the first system set up, is there an easy way to copy the
> contents of the hard drive over to the new systems.
>
> Would it be as easy as installing the blank hard drive in the first
> system as a second drive (hdb) and copying over the contents. I just
> doubt this would work with all the process files and such.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Ed
>
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> Before you buy.
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From: Devin_Wala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XTerm vs. Gnome
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:22:52 -0700
I'm not really clear if you are talking about Xterm vs gnometerm, an xdm which
does not give you a choice of desktops, or KDE under Xwindows vs standard term
without Xwindows.
Assuming the later, you might try the standard approch (assuming that X is all
correctly set up on your system) and that your linux distribution has installed
xdm or similar.
login as root.
type in "init 5"
If this gives you what you are looking for edit your /etc/inittab to set the
initdefault runlevel to 5:
id:5:initdefault
Good luck in getting your problem resolved,
-Devin
Michael wrote:
> Thanks to all that helped when I thought I was using KDE...turns out I was
> actually using XTerm. So...I want gnome to come up when I log on...I've
> tried putting "exec gnome-session" in my .xinitrc, and I've tried putting in
> "PREFERRED=gnome session" in my Xclients file...but it still comes up with
> Xterm.
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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From: Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem connection rate is not stable
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:06:31 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I'm wonder why the modem connection rate is not stable under my Redhat
6.2. I mean that it can be high rate connection for about 10 seconds,
then it drops to zerol for 30 sec, or so, and then it increases again
for another 10 to 15 sec. and drops again and so on....
What's annoying, if I boot to Win98 and connect to the same modem pool,
the connection is very stable and at the high rate all the time.
I use RedHat 6.2 and ppp-2.3 RPM. I have PCMCIA Xircom RealPort
Ethernet10/100 + Modem56k card in my laptop.
cheers,
Andrey.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bless)
Subject: Tell Debian AHA2940 ist there - how?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:07:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Suse-Linux 6.3 works fine. The Suse Setup contains an
option of extra loading drivers, including SCSI. Thereafter my Adaptec
2940 ist recognized, making cd-drives and hard disks available.
How is it done with Debian?
For some reasons the Adaptec 2940 adapter isn't recognized, though it
should and the kernel has build-in support.
The two boot-parameter i know of won't help either:
<linux aic7xxx=no_reset, extended>
How can I make my AHA2940-scsi bus available?
Thank you very much,
Martin
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From: "Daniel Pfuhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to change my CLASSPATH ?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:48:07 +0200
Hi
Can somebody tell me how to update my CLASSPATH var in
SuSE 6.3 ?
thanxs daniel
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From: "Russell Uman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lotus Mail
Date: 23 Aug 2000 16:50:56 GMT
there is a linux version of domino...
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russell uman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"someone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8o0iqm$9nd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> My company uses lotus mail server for their internal email needs. My
problem
> is this :- I'll be setting up a internet gateway on a linux box. Is there
> anyway to setup a linux web-base email server to interface to the lotus
> server so that I can read my mails anywhere in the world ?
>
>
> Thanks a million in advance.
>
>
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From: "Sjoerd Langkemper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall for Linux
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:54:34 GMT
"Jason Ng" wrote:
> I would like to install a firewall on my Linux box. Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
You can use ipchains (ipfwadm in 2.0 kernels, again renamed in kernels later
as 2.2) to build a basic firewall, altough you need some knowledge about
networking. Read the ipchains howto for more information at
www.linuxdoc.org.
Sjoerd
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From: James Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:56:26 +0100
Paul Lew wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:23:08 GMT, M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew) writes:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>Don't need to. I have linux on the 2nd ide drive with nt4 on the 1st ide
> >>drive; I got the nearly the same msg "hdb5 is not on the 1st drive".
> >>Lilo still works as the "warning" is an annoyance.
> >
> >Yup, but if that happens on a mixed IDE/SCSI system, LILO may not
> >be installed properly after that. Disconnecting the IDE drives would
> >be one way to do it; adding the
> >
> >"disk=/dev/sda
> > bios=0x80
> > disk=/dev/hda
> > bios=0x81"
> >
>
> Wrong, my installation had /dev/hda as nt4 and a scsi, /dev/sda, as my
> linux; recently, I got a new drive, ide, where I moved the linux to and
> kept the scsi as use for the IBM DB2 only. So, it is 2 ide drives and
> 1 scsi with 2 scsi cdroms (internal) and a cdwriter, tape, and scanner
> external and all working together without problems. Wellll, not the
> scanner really as haven't gotten around to set it up and use it in linux.
But note that if you've got a mixed scsi/ide system, and you're trying
to install
the bootstrap onto a scsi disk rather than an ide one, you *will* need
to either disconnect the ide drive when running lilo, or (preferably)
use the
lilo.conf file to tell lilo that the machine boots from the scsi disk.
If you
don't do this, then lilo will complain that the disk you're trying to
install
the bootstrap on isn't the first disk, and it won't boot. I've been
there and
done this, and it took me a long time to figure out what was going on,
because
at that time this stuff wasn't in the lilo man page. Thankfully, it is
now.
James
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: X windows set up 'is this OK screen' not ok
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:03:00 -0400
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>Unimpressed with Mandrake 7.0 install script: when it gets to the testing
>X windows screen occupation area, there is a big white square covering
>most of the screen with an "is this OK?" box with a time out. Fundamental
>flaw: lets say the box exceeds the screen edges, this would look the same
>as an exact match with the screen edges... therefore there needs to be a
>scale bar added so one can see if indeed they are at 0 -----50----- 0
>[correct], or at 33 ----- 50 ------33 etc. or various other screw ups, use
>your imagination to implement. Scale bar should be two: vert. & horiz..
>
>And, OK, it wasn't OK, it was slightly shifted to the left of center and
>there was a 1/2 inch of wasted blackness around the edges [or is that the
>new aesthetic style?]... but the script doesn't have any easy adjustment
>buttons.
You have to adjust this with your monitor, just as you would in windows after
changing refresh rate.
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Registered Linux User #175104
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KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
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Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: "Steve Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X windows set up 'is this OK screen' not ok
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:06:15 GMT
I might be waaay off base with this, but I thought that screen was just to
show you the monitor and vidcard running at that resolution. Presumably,
if the resolution settings you chose were unsupported (most likely by your
monitor, but maybe also your card) you'd get shit on the screen instead of
that little OK box. If you don't reply in the timeout period, it assumes
it was bad (that you probably couldn't read the screen) and reverts back
to it's original settings. Windows does the same thing when you are
trying a new resolution out for the first time, that way you don't get
stuck with your OS set into a resolution that you can't view on your
monitor and no way to get back into the GUI to fix it.
.
Of course, this isn't a problem with Linux since you can always init3 and
fix it by hand...
.
As for the SIZE and PLACEMENT of the screen - those adjustments are best
made on the monitor itself (my video card supports making them via
software, but it doesn't work well...)
Steve
In article <8o0psk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dan Jacobson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unimpressed with Mandrake 7.0 install script: when it gets to the
> testing X windows screen occupation area, there is a big white square
> covering most of the screen with an "is this OK?" box with a time out.
> Fundamental flaw: lets say the box exceeds the screen edges, this would
> look the same as an exact match with the screen edges... therefore there
> needs to be a scale bar added so one can see if indeed they are at 0
> -----50----- 0
> [correct], or at 33 ----- 50 ------33 etc. or various other screw ups,
> use your imagination to implement. Scale bar should be two: vert. &
> horiz..
>
> And, OK, it wasn't OK, it was slightly shifted to the left of center and
> there was a 1/2 inch of wasted blackness around the edges [or is that
> the new aesthetic style?]... but the script doesn't have any easy
> adjustment buttons.
> --
> www.geocities.com/jidanni ... fix e-mail address to reply; �n����
> Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting in year 2001: +886-4-25854780
>
>
>
>
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