Linux-Setup Digest #471, Volume #19 Fri, 25 Aug 00 01:13:06 EDT
Contents:
mandrake v.7.1 congifure X error (Gregory)
modem install (Chuck Collins)
Re: Lotus Mail ("D. C. & M. V. Sessions")
Re: Lotus Mail ("D. C. & M. V. Sessions")
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
modconf fails in Corel Linux Second Ed. (Joseph Osborn)
Re: mirroring an hd (hac)
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows (Craig Kelley)
Re: CD writer setup question (Dale Pontius)
Re: SendMail "catch-all" alias? (Claus Assmann)
Re: SOHO ISA card (Cannon Fodder)
TkRat Leaving Mail System Internal Message (Cory Phillips)
Re: Installing COREL Linux Standard Edition (Rich Buckner)
Routing OSPF with Gated ! ("bob")
SOX error? (Don Belmore)
Win98, WinNT and Linux on system: setup & partitioning (Jem Berkes)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory)
Subject: mandrake v.7.1 congifure X error
Date: 24 Aug 2000 15:45:36 GMT
I'm trying to install Mandrake v.7.1. Get all done to the "configure X" and I
get the following error:
"An error occurred: server SVGA is not available (should be in
/mnt/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA)".
I've tried to install in both gui and text mode and wind up with this same
error. System is:
AMD Athlon 750
ASUS K7M mb
Matrox Millennium G400 AGP
Adaptec 2940u2w SCSI
Viewsonic P815 monitor
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live MP3+
3Com 3905 NIC
Any help is appreciated
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From: Chuck Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem install
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:36:48 -0700
I have a LAN with a windoze 95 box and a SGI machine with irix 6.5. The
server is a 486 with red hat 6.0. I want to know how to configure a new
modem on the 486 red hat as the old one died.
Is there a on line manual I could refer to?
Thanks, Chuck
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lotus Mail
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:55:16 -0700
someone wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> Is there a mail connector I can use with sendmail/qmail/fetchmail, etc..
> that allows me to get mails from the server if the server is not configured
> for pop/imap due to whatever reasons ?
Basically, no. Believe me, I've tried.
There's a Windows API to access the Lotus database but
it's strictly for Win*. The *nix clients are strictly
interactive and there isn't one for Linux anyway. So
you and I (thanks to IT decisions to close off IMAP, POP,
and HTTP access) are pretty much stuck using Windows boxes
to read mail.
Which would majorly suck even if I *had* a Win box.
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8o0khd$rvv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In comp.os.linux.help someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : 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 ?
> >
> > ?? If the lotus mail server supports pop or imap you can get email from
> > it anywhere anyway. Maybe lotus mail isn't mail. Doesn't it have a web
> > interface too? Just curious.
> >
> > Peter
--
| Engineers solve problems -- it's what we do. |
| Do you want to be a problem? |
| D. C. Sessions === [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lotus Mail
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:56:37 -0700
Russell Uman wrote:
>
> there is a linux version of domino...
Nice if you're the IT department running a server, but
not much help if all you want is to get your mail.
> "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.
> >
> >
--
| Engineers solve problems -- it's what we do. |
| Do you want to be a problem? |
| D. C. Sessions === [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:57:33 -0700
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Joseph T. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8o4ina$daf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : This who XML hysteria worries me. We have people thinking that it is
> : something other than a very inefficient text based file format. Example:
As a a data storage format XML is no better than any other file format and
it does not prevent creating none portable private data format.
Remember this example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE RESULTSET SYSTEM "http://fubar.com/fubar.dtd">
<RESULTSET>
<RESULT ID="0" >
<MATCHES>0</MATCHES>
<TIME>0.1605</TIME>
<RATINGS>0</RATINGS>
<MAXSCORE>2510</MAXSCORE>
<SCORE>6947</SCORE>
<SIZE>6536</SIZE>
<LANGUAGE>_LANG1_</LANGUAGE>
<DATE>957148708</DATE>
<FORMAT>0</FORMAT>
<MODDATE>0</MODDATE>
</RESULT>
</RESULTSET>
How portable would this version of it be?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE RST "http://localhost/fubar.dtd>
<RST>
<R ID="0" >
<F0>A</F0>
<F1>q20e3</F1>
<F2>e</F2>
<F3>lsm2</F3>
<F4>928l</F4>
<F5>pqke</F5>
<F6>2ksnfui</F6>
<F7>mpqw395hg</F6>
<F7>2</F7>
<F8>5</F8>
</R>
</RST>
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From: Joseph Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modconf fails in Corel Linux Second Ed.
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:11:47 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
I'm running into a problem intalling the 3com 509 driver under Corel
Linux Second Edition (download version). When I select the line for
this card (or any other for that matter) instead of the confirmation
to install I get flipped out to the top level modconf screen. Corel
Linux original edition works just fine on this system, so I'm thinking
something's screwy in the new package. I downloaded the compressed
version of the ISO. Just for comparison, my file is 364,080,949 bytes
downloaded with getright. Did anyone else get the same file size?
Thanks,
Joseph
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mirroring an hd
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 03:26:23 GMT
The Contact wrote:
>
> jeff wrote:
> > There may be a problem if the two disks have different geomtries -
> > /boot/boot.d seems to be sensitive. Worst case is that lilo won't boot from
> > harddisk. If so, just boot to new system via floppy, and issue lilo
> > command.
>
> True, true.
>
> > Not sure about this, but dd _may_ be problematic if either hard disk has bad
> > sectors. Of course, rsync, cp, and whatever else, may also have problems -
> > but they're "higher level" so may shield from some problems.
>
> Also correct, dd just copies the bits. If the bits are wrongly set,
> it'll copy the bad bits. rsync and cp will do just the same, I suppose,
> but the main reason I presented dd was because it copies bitwise, while
> cp and rsync etc... will have problems with certain directories (/dev,
> /proc). Maybe excluding these directories will help, but I'm not sure. A
> good backup-utility for Linux (and published under the GPL-license) is
> something I'm searching after since the first day I installed Linux
> (good back-up meaning something like Norton Ghost, thus working with
> images - like dd).
>
cpio is your friend. Use the pass-through mode.
Boot from a rescue floppy/CD.
Create partitions on the new disk with cfdisk.
Mkfs those partitions.
Mount the old and new partitions. All at once, or as pairs.
"find /mnt/old1 | cpio -dmpv /mnt/new1"
Lather, rinse, repeat.
You can use the "a" flag if you want to preserve the access time field
for the files; I haven't found a reason to care. The "d" flag creates
directories as needed. The "m" flag preserves the modification time.
The "p" flag is the key; the "pass-through" or "copy/pass" mode. The
"v" (verbose) flag lets you see what's happening.
The "--sparse" flag will preserve sparse files, which you might have
if you run certain applications. If you don't know about sparse
files, you probably don't need to.
I sometimes pipe find through sort and then on to cpio, but I'm weird.
I fail to see why another program is needed. Linux is not Windows; it
doesn't break if files end up in different blocks. Image copies
preserve fragmentation, and have problems with bad blocks. Why is
this desirable? Copying filesystems as filesystems works much better,
whether you use tar, cpio, or dump & restore. You can change
partition sizes, and tune filesystem parameters like block size.
There are broken tar, cpio, and dump programs out there. GNU tar and
cpio have worked for me.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 Aug 2000 21:27:46 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus) writes:
> It was the 24 Aug 2000 10:43:56 -0600...
> ...and Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Take a look at MacOS X Bundles:
> [schnipp]
> > Linux is halfway there already with RPM and deb; but the ultimate goal
> > is to just get rid of them.
>
> Uh-oh, I feel another flamewar coming up on NeXTish .app encapsulation
> vs. the classic Unix way of spreading an application out over bin,
> lib, share etc...
They both do what they are supposed to do but one method requires
significantly more everyday work than the other. The other method
requires a more sophisticated operating system.
NeXT bundles are very cool; there are no drawbacks that do not also
apply to conventional packages, but there are significant benefits
both for novice and power users. One method uses files and standard
operating system tools; the other requires complicated packaging
systems which must duplicate OS features (network installs,
versioning, architecture detection, etc.).
Hopefully, some sort of bundle+dependency checking could be
implemented under Linux. You could then install things by just
dragging (or cp, of course) them to wherever you want to keep them;
the system notes everything about it and can keep track of it from
then on.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: CD writer setup question
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:06:42 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yikes !!! Thanks for all that. I tried it but it isn't working, loads upas ide
> drive instead. Does this have anything to do with generic scsi? I have all the
> sg0, sg1, should I link to them .
>
> I'm using caldera, I think I might do Mandrake or RH, might work then.
>
I have the same CD-Writer, running on RedHat 6.2. When I first plugged
it in, it came right up as IDE. It took me a few iterations, but I got
the SCSI emulation running, also. It mounts perfectly well now as a
SCSI CDROM. I ended up going through /etc/conf.modules gyrations, as
well, but by the time all is said and done, the only special flag I
have left is 'append="hdc=ide-scsi"' in /etc/lilo.conf, the rest is now
commented out. The CDROM just mounts.
To be perfectly truthful, I haven't burned a CD, yet. I haven't decided
exactly what I want to burn. A big reason was to get some of my old
vinyl onto CD, but my turntable is still stashed in the basement, and
I haven't gotten around to digging it out. I expect it will work.
Dale Pontius
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From: Claus Assmann <ca+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@mine.informatik.uni-kiel.de>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: SendMail "catch-all" alias?
Date: 25 Aug 2000 03:49:14 GMT
djmiller wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand (pardon the newbie); how is this command run? Is
> this an entry in the aliases directory, <> included?
See cf/README, look for LUSER_RELAY.
define(LUSER_RELAY, local:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
If you feel the urgent wish to send me a courtesy copy of a Usenet
posting, then make sure it's recognizable as such!
The FAQ: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/ Before you ask.
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From: Cannon Fodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SOHO ISA card
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 04:12:35 GMT
Holy cow! I checked out the ISA NICs at
http://st14.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=sohoware&query=NIC+ISA&.autodone=http%3A%2F%2Fstore.yahoo.com%2Fsohoware%2Fnsearch.html
and whoa nelly! The price$! $189 USD. That just
can't be U.S. currency. What currency is 'USD'?
Must be a real shitpot of a country, if you pay
that much...move to Canada! <grin> $30 buckaroos
tops the price of a brand new modern 32-bit PCI
NIC here in Canuckland. The penguins like it here
too...
I have no idea if your ISA NIC will run
with Linux. Your best bet is to try it out with
the 'ne' module--if the card is NE 2000
compatible. If it isn't...*plop* or run down the
street yelling 'Sale! sale! One cool NIC going
dirt cheap!...$200, it's a steal!'
You'll have to try to determine how the jumpers on
the card are configured: the I/O address setting,
the Interrupt Number setting, and sometimes the
Enable/Disable Plug N' Play setting. Make sure
that if a Plug N' Play setting is present, that it
is disabled. If the jumper pins aren't explicitly
labeled and you don't have the NIC's manual,
you'll have to email the SOHOware company for the
specs.
Once you have determined the hardware settings and
are ready to begin, try the command
modprobe ne #as root
then re-run netconfig
I'm sorry if none of this helps much,
Luke
NOTE: Due to an overwhelming avalanche of spam,
my email address is valid. Please post replies
back to this newsgroup.
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Blaine wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing my SOHOware ISA ethernet card on my old 486.
> When I run the netconfig setup program that comes w/ the slackware distro,
> it seems to detect it. However, it doesn't show up when i type
> "ifconfig -a". Was soho a bad choice for a network card? Is it compatible?
>
> I'm kind of a newbie, so any help would be great.
> Blaine
>
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:20:21 -0500
From: Cory Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: TkRat Leaving Mail System Internal Message
I've tried to use TkRat on my Linux box, but it puts this weird "Mail
System Internal Message" in each of my mail folders (mbox).
Does anyone know why it's doing this or how I can get it to stop? I've
included a sample of the message below.
======
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:55:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mail System Internal Data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
X-IMAP: 0967175689 0000000091
This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system
software.
If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be
re-created
with the data reset to initial values.
--
Cory Phillips
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rich Buckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing COREL Linux Standard Edition
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 03:58:14 GMT
I had the same problem when I used System Commander (I think it's made
by the same company as Partition Commander) to set up my hard drive
for installation of Linux. Here's what I did to install Corel Linux,
and it worked. After having exactly the same problem, I went back
into System Commander and used its partitioning function to delete the
partition I had created for Linux. When I did that, what had been my
planned Linux partition simply showed up in System Commander as "free
space." I left it that way and then tried to install Corel Linux.
That time, the "Use free disk space" option was available, I selected
it, and Corel Linux installed just fine.
Hope it works for you.
Rich
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:29:21 GMT, Chris Tusk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>To Corel Linux
>
>I am trying to install Corel Linux OS (Retail Version). I'm having
>problems though. I have created a 2GB partition on my 8.4GB hard drive as
>a Linux partition, using the tool called Partition Commander 6.0 from V
>Communications (WWW.V-COM.COM). The hard drive already hosts Windows 98
>on another partition FAT32.
>
>Corel Linux allows me to through the following steps:
>- Creation of a username
>- Selection of Options to install (Standard / Advanced)
>- Then I get to the where I have to decide which of the partitions to use
>for my installation:
>* Take Over Disk
>* Use free disk space (DISABLED)
>* Edit Partition table
>* Install in DOS/Windows partition
>The "Use free disk space" option is disabled.
>
>After selecting Edit Partition table, I get to the volumes. At the top
>there's /dev/hda. Below that there are two volumes. One is /dev/hda1(Type
>Fat32), while the other is /dev/hda2 (Type Linux). I select /dev/hda2 and
>that becomes the end of my journey. An error message comes that
>says "Choose root partition - There is no root partition defined. You
>must create a root partition to continue". That's how far I am able to go.
>
>Please help me guys. I do need to have both the Linux and Windows
>Operating Systems on my desktop. Thanks in advance.
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From: "bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Routing OSPF with Gated !
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 04:23:23 GMT
Hi all !
Does anyone have experience configuring Gated to route Ospf ?
I have 2 linux servers (RedHat 6.2), the first server L1 is connected to
the internet via an ISDN line, the second L2 via ADSL, the 2 servers are
link together with a cross over cable. L2 is setup as a kind of backup
server in case L1's connection drops and also as bandwith regulator ( a
packet arriving on L1 will choose the best route if L1 is too busy)
I would like to configure Gated on the 2 servers to exchange the routing
tables.
I've been able to get the route of L1 transfered to L2 but I cannot get L2
in L1's routing table.
I've gone through the gated.conf configuration file but can't find the
problem.
Internet
Internet
|
|
| ISDN line
| ADSL
|
|
198.168.42.41 L1 eth0 ------------------ eth0- L2 198.168.42.42
|
|
|eth1
|
|192.168.1.11
| 192.168.1.12
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Users
Any help would be greatly appreciated ;-)
Please answer to that message or email directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bwalem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Belmore)
Subject: SOX error?
Date: 25 Aug 2000 04:14:57 GMT
Ok, to further my dilema with getting sound to work, I have RH 5.2
that has an executable called 'play'. If I use this file to play the
'sample.au' I get :
sox: Unable to set the sample size to 16
I will assume that the 'play' binary has some internal setting
that will not work with the sample file(sample file works just fine with
sndconfig), does anyone have any experience in tweaking this file so that
it can set whatever size it needs to work properly?
--
Dragon Don
The Dragon's Claw - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad095/Claw.html
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From: Jem Berkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc
Subject: Win98, WinNT and Linux on system: setup & partitioning
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:07:57 -0500
I thought I'd quickly share some pitfalls I encountered when trying to
install Windows 98, Windows NT and Linux on a huge hard drive. I thought
I'd share my partitioning experience with you people:
- Bootable portion of operating system must be within first 1024
cylinders of disk.
- Win98 (DOS) must come first on the disk
- With linux you can just make a small (e.g. 10 MB) partition and assign
it to /boot, then use that to jump to the main linux system
- Only the first primary partition is visible from DOS
- Linux seems to have trouble if extended partition has more than 12
logical drives within
- Start by installing win98, as its fdisk can deal with a huge hard
disk. The partitioner that comes in Windows NT install CAN NOT handle
very large disks (need SP4 for improved partitioner)
On my large drive (> 20 GB) here is what I ended up doing:
Primary 1 Win98 (DOS)
Primary 2(ext) logical 1, Linux /boot
logical 2, Windows NT
logical 3
logical 4
...
logical 12
Primary 3 linux swap
Primary 4 Linux system
This works great. Every operating system's FDISK fully recognizes the
entire partition table. DOS can't access primary 3 or 4, but that
doesn't matter ;)
- Jem Berkes
http://www.pc-tools.net/
DOS, Windows, Linux tools
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