Linux-Setup Digest #526, Volume #19 Thu, 31 Aug 00 12:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't see partitions; can't create partitions. Help! (Huw Lynes)
LILO (or just LI ) (The Black Unicorn)
Access (Larsen)
Re: limiting log file size (Black Dragon)
Re: linux freezes system ("Thorsten G�llner")
Re: Please Help: Problems after recompiling kernel (Black Dragon)
Linux, Windows and huge IDE drives? (Donald Newcomb)
lilo hung (system)
Adding more disk space to Linux (Zhihui Zhang)
so which is the champion Outlook-->Unix mailbox converter? IE cache too ("Dan
Jacobson")
might as well spin down linux disks when in windows, but how? ("Dan Jacobson")
Re: help with designing & implementing linux firewall (Black Dragon)
Re: linux freezes system (Nico Schottelius)
Re: LILO (or just LI ) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
unable to PING using the "hostname" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Installing hdparm utility (and compiling it) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fips and filesystem type 44h (Victor Zandy)
Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux (John Thompson)
Re: so which is the champion Outlook-->Unix mailbox converter? IE cache too
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From: Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't see partitions; can't create partitions. Help!
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:00:20 GMT
In article <8oll1e$ath$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While trying to install Win98SE and RedHat Linux 6.2, I
> partitioned/formatted the drive many times, using fdisk and format.
> After numerous repartitioning/deleting using fdisk, and installing
both
> Win98SE and RedHat 6.2, I got to a point where the system boots to
> RedHat Linux, only, without giving me an option to choose the OS.
> After that, I deleted some partitions, and now the drive may be
damaged.
You probably don't get a choice because lilo is not set up to offer you
another choice. In short you need to set lilo.conf (ususally under /etc)
with the requisite info. the linux documentation project
www.linuxdoc.org has a howto covering setting up lilo. It also has a
howto on installing Win and Linux on the same hard drive. You should
check these out.
>
> There's a primary DOS partition.
> There's an extended partition.
> When I try to delete the extened partition, I get an error saying that
> because there's a logical partition, I can't delete the extended
> partition.
> When I try to delete the logical partition, it says that there is no
> logical partition.
> These two error messages contradict each other.
> When I try to create an additional logical partition, I get an error
> saying that all the available space is used up. However, the
> combination of primary and extended partitions does not add up to
100%!
>
> When I do fips, it shows 4 partitions, and a warning that there's a
> free space between 2 of the partitions.
>
> Is there a DOS program that will clear everything in the drive,
> including the partitions; basically, return the drive to pre-fdisk
> state, as if it came right from the factory.
Partition Magic comes highly reccomended. It sorted out all my problems
when I was trying to install Win98 and Linux on the same machine.
Hope this helps,
Huw Lynes
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From: The Black Unicorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO (or just LI )
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:13:46 GMT
Hi,
I've been trying to get lilo installed properly for two days now,
without any luck. I'm using an Abit A7V/Duron600 system running
Slackware 7.1
No matter where I try to install the lilo loader, it always stops at LI.
I have the same problem with another pc (on which lilo has worked
perfectly with Suse and RedHat)
I don't see where there could be disk geometry errors (as suggested by
the manuals), and the linear option's no good either. any ideas ?
tia
TbU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larsen)
Subject: Access
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:38:47 GMT
Please help me!
I'm setting up a web server, and when accessed via ftp, all files are
accessable also lower than root.
Is there a way to stop this, so that the ftp user only sees what he's
supposed to see?
Appreciate all the help I can get! Thanks...
-=CL=-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: limiting log file size
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:37:49 GMT
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:28:39 -0400 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Marc' said:
>I am using syslog to log events from remote devices. I would like
>to do one of the following (or a mixture of both)
>
>1. Limit the log file size, overwriting, or first in first out
>dumping of data.
>2. Limit log file size, starting new file (i.e. log1, log2,
>log3...) when a particular size is reached (such as limiting to
>files so that they will fit on a floppy)
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks,
>Marc
See the man page for "logrotate", and the file /etc/logrotate.conf.
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From: "Thorsten G�llner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux freezes system
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:46:19 +0200
Hi,
> ...
> - The sysrq key works still.
> ...
What does the sysrq-key? I really don't know this key.
> Do you need more information ? Can you help me to
> find out what's wrong ?
What shows console 10? (Alt+f10)
Thorsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Please Help: Problems after recompiling kernel
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:46:13 GMT
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:24:12 +0800 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Brendan Boyle' said:
>I just recompiled my kernel for the first time and as is to be expected
>I screwed it up somewhere. I followed all the instructions and felt
>pretty proud about it but now I can't find my cd burner anymore. Kudzu
>tells me on startup that it no longer exists. When I compiled the
>SCSI support I included all the Adaptec drivers but mine wasn't in the
>list. I have an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. Does anyone know which part of
>xconfig I need to reset to get my SCSI card back? It is a dual
>SCSI card and my scanner hangs off it as well so I have lost that too.
>I'm running RedHat 6.2
>
>Also I now get an error message at startup that says "fstype devpts not
>supported". I can't spot this fstype in the Kernel Configuration so any
>pointers to that would also be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Brendan Boyle
>Shadowtech
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you configure the kernel scsi drivers as modules? If so, you need to
run depmod and modprobe, or manually load the modules with insmod.
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From: Donald Newcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux, Windows and huge IDE drives?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:41:11 GMT
I know this is a common problem, so a pointer to the appropriate FAQ
would be greatly appreciated.
My present system is built on an old M919 VIP mothercard with an AMI
BIOS dated about 10-10-94. It supports LBA but not huge disks. It has
two integrated IDE interfaces. The bios will allow you to lie to it
about the configuration of the disks on the first IDE interface but the
second interface seems to take whatever the disk tells it. I want to
run both Windows95 and Linux (RH 6.0). I have had a Maxtor 7.2 GB disk
on the first interface and an old WD 1.2GB on the second as my Linux
disk. I recently decided I needed a way to back-up my Windows disk and
figured that these new WD 30+ GB drives were cheaper than tape. So, I
bought one.
This is where the problems start. We (including myself) now understand
the problem of using huge disks with a BIOS that does not support them.
You have to use this program called EZ-BIOS that loads itself onto the
boot sector of the disk. I've been using this on the Maxtor drive for a
while. The problem is that EZ-BIOS does several things I don't
understand. It seems to bootstrap itself into memory where it takes
over the function of the ROM BIOS to permit OSs like Windows to deal
with the big disk. OK, that's good. But it also seems to doctor the
partition table so that only Windows-like OSs can use it. Perhaps I
just don't understand what's going on.
I understand why having a program on the boot sector can screw up LILO.
For the sake of simplicity, let's assume I'M NOT USING LILO. I'll boot
Linux using either loadlin or a boot floppy.
The best thing I've found for it, so far, is to lie to the BIOS and
tell it that the 30 GB slave on the first interface does not exist.
Linux loves it this way. It seems to get the configuration directly
from the drive and reports CHS=59598/16/63. No need to set any jumppers
that tell the disk to misreport its size or anything like that.
However, when I do this the disk becomes invisible to Windows. Not
exaclty what I had in mind. In other configurations (where the disk is
visible to Windows, lies about it's true size and is managed by EZ-
BIOS) Linux can't read or write to the disk.
Right now, I think that a hardware solution would be best. Either a new
mothercard (one that supports huge disks and a somewhat less less
bucolic CPU rate) or a third disk (they're cheap). One main Windows
disk, one Linux drive (Excluded from the BIOS setup) and one Windows
backup drive on the second interface. But I'd actually like a way to
make this thing work the way it is. I think that there has to be a way
to get Linux can access a large disk that set up to be managed by EZ-
BIOS. Perhaps, I can pass an explicit configuration for hdb to Linux at
boot time so that it will ignore what the BIOS and disk are telling it.
Is there any way that the EZ-BIOS on the first (Windows) disk can carry
the configuration of both disks. This way, I could continue to tell the
ROM-BIOS that the second disk doesn't exist. This may permit this disk
to be accessable to both Windows and Linux. Does that make sense?
Comments and suggestions appreciated.
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo hung
Date: 31 Aug 2000 22:58:40 +0800
When i boot my PC, suddenly my lilo hung
it display "li" then hung cant see the next two character "lo"
Any idea How can resolve this, I need to user my computer quick
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System Engineer
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:02:21 -0400
From: Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding more disk space to Linux
I am using RedHat 6.2 on Dell I5000. I want to install staroffice 5.2.
But there is not enough disk space in the extended parititon where Linux
lives. But I have more unused disk space not belonging to any partition.
How can I add these disk space to Linux?
Thanks for your help.
-Zhihui
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: so which is the champion Outlook-->Unix mailbox converter? IE cache too
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:42:30 +0800
So which is the champion Outlook [&Express]-->Unix mailbox converter?
I've seen several, if not missing their header files, or crashing each
time, they would get only half the messages...
It has to deal with today's .pst, .dbx files... with both newsgroup & mail
content. It has to have some documentation, at least about how to invoke
it correctly. Yes, I know once the author has converted their mailboxes,
there is no more interest in maintaining it, but if you all think it would
be a good idea for folks to get off the Microsoft drugs, then there ought
to be a reliable tool out there, indeed, as a standard part of a Linux
distribution, just like M$ provides inward bound one-way converters in its
products. Surely there is a good one out there. Net searches turn up
several, none which work well.
Same thing with the M$IE cache [T.I.F.], what's the best way to take these
many hours of modem $ reading material with one to Linux? I found
www.fureai.or.jp/~nen1/nfatc/indexe.html but...
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: might as well spin down linux disks when in windows, but how?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:28:42 +0800
Since I don't know how to read my Linux files on /dev/hdb from windows [on
/dev/hda], how can I spin down my Linux disk during the several hours a
day I'm still in windows? No point in having it rotating hour after hour
for nothing. Does one have to mess with BIOS or actually yank wires to do
this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: help with designing & implementing linux firewall
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:03:11 GMT
On 31 Aug 2000 04:18:44 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Hung Ngoc Lai' said:
>Hello Everyone,
>
>After a few weeks of reading and trial & error, I have been able to implement IP
>chains
>and IP masq to run on my linux box (RedHat version 6.1 with kernel 2.2.16). Now my
>local network can access the Internet with no problem. Now I would like to take it
>to
>another level. Any suggestions from anyone is greatly appreciated.
>
>I would like to implement two firewalls configuration. The first linux firewall is
>directly
>connected to the Internet. This firewall has two interfaces. The external interface
>IP
>address is 199.0.216.222. The internal interface has an IP address of 192.168.1.1
>(private address range or RFC1918). This internal interface is connected to a
>network which consists of web server, ftp server and mail server. I call the
>192.168.1.0 network the DMZ network. Furthermore, I call the first firewall "choke".
>
>The second linux firewall also has two interfaces. The external interface is
>connected
>to the 192.168.1.0 network. The internal interface is connected to the 172.16.1.0
>network which is a private corporation that has about 100 nodes on this network.
>Behind the second firewall consists of various Microsoft Windows and Linux
>machines running various applications.
>
>I would like to accomplish the following objectives:
>
>1) Allow users from 172.16.1.0/24 network to access the Internet with applications
>such as http, ftp, telnet and smtp,
>
>2) Protect the private network. However, I would like users on the Internet to
>access
>some linux machine in the 172.16.1.0 network with applications such as SSH,
>
>3) Internet users should be able to access both the FTP and WWW servers which
>are sitting behind the first firewall.
>
>My question is this: Can this be done with just one valid IP address? Is it possible
>for the network behind the first firewall to be in private IP address range (RFC1918)?
>What exactly do I need to do on both firewalls?
>
>Before you start telling to read books and figure it out, I would like to say that I
>have
>spent a lot of time at Border and Barnes & Noble to research on this implementation.
>They only provide me with piece-meal solutions... I need someone who can give
>me a general idea with this implementation to jump start my research (again)... Please
>provide me what I have to do.... I need help guy..... Please help me....
>
>Thanks.
>David
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do a [ http://www.google.com ] search for `firewall + linux', and you will find
lots of examples, information, and usable firewall scripts. Here is a url to an
example firewall script on Red Hat's site, for a quick preview:
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/firewall/firewallservice.html
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:11:05 +0200
From: Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux freezes system
Hello!
> > ...
> > - The sysrq key works still.
> > ...
>
> What does the sysrq-key? I really don't know this key.
It 's a debugging Keystroke for kernel hackers.
You can find more in linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
> > Do you need more information ? Can you help me to
> > find out what's wrong ?
>
> What shows console 10? (Alt+f10)
Nothing.
Nico
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LILO (or just LI )
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:22:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
The Black Unicorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to get lilo installed properly for two days now,
> without any luck. I'm using an Abit A7V/Duron600 system running
> Slackware 7.1
> No matter where I try to install the lilo loader, it always stops at
LI.
> I have the same problem with another pc (on which lilo has worked
> perfectly with Suse and RedHat)
>
> I don't see where there could be disk geometry errors (as suggested by
> the manuals), and the linear option's no good either. any ideas ?
>
> tia
> TbU
>
>
hi,
what is your hardisk-capacity?
please specify the partition information.
from
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: unable to PING using the "hostname"
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:39:15 GMT
Hi everybody,
I am unable to ping using the hostname.
* I don't have a net connection.
* I have "computer-1" running RedHat 6.2 & "computer-2" running win95
* IP address of the "computer-1" 193.139.100.1
* IP address of the "computer-2" 193.139.100.2
* /etc/hosts (computer-1)
193.139.100.1 www.gct.com
193.139.100.1 www.psg.com
* /etc/host.conf (computer-1)
hosts ( Iam not using a DNS server)
* If I ping from (computer-2) with the IP address 193.139.100.1
it's pinging perfectly
** If I ping from (computer-2) with the name www.gct.com it hangs **
please help me
from
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installing hdparm utility (and compiling it)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:41:40 GMT
I'w working on COREL LINUX 2.2.12
In order to use hdparm utility (to increase transfert speed on my hard
disk) I've downloaded that tool (from sun site). I've made the "tar"
and it created me a complete directory (/usr/src/hdparm-3.9) with
hdparm.c, hdparm.8, Makefile, etc ...
After that I should process a "make" order but I don't succeed in doing
it (because there seems to be no "make" on my PC).
HOW COULD I BUILD THE BINARY hdparm ? HOW TO USE THE MAKEFILE ?
Thank you for help.
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From: Victor Zandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fips and filesystem type 44h
Date: 31 Aug 2000 10:46:18 -0500
I recently had a problem using fips 2.0 to repartition a Windows98
partition. fips reported:
Error: Unknown file system 44h
Through several deja.com and web searches I found several
instances of other people with the same problem, but no solutions. I
eventually figured it out, so I'm reporting here to hopefully spare
others the same grief.
The problem was a software package installed on the Windows
partition called GoBack. This program lets you take your disk "back
in time". It appears to modify the underlying filesystem, and
accordingly it changes the filesystem type from the standard Windows
type to 44h.
You can fix the problem by DISABLING GoBack before you run fips.
Disabling it will restore the filesystem type to something fips
understands. You can disable GoBack through the GoBack user interface
(there is a button clearly marked "disable" somewhere). It is not
necessary to uninstall GoBack.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:22:42 -0500
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> True, good possibilities, but I still see a lot of postings where lots of
> bad hardware is suddenly discovered upon Linux installations... One would
> wonder why didn't these problems didn't appear before they changed from
> other leading brand OS...
Maybe the "other leading brand OS" doesn't check for these
problems and simply crashes when it runs into them?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: so which is the champion Outlook-->Unix mailbox converter? IE cache too
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:41:08 +0100
Reply-To: no_replyto@oursite
This message has been posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ewart)
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:42:30 +0800, Dan Jacobson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So which is the champion Outlook [&Express]-->Unix mailbox converter?
>I've seen several, if not missing their header files, or crashing each
>time, they would get only half the messages...
>
>It has to deal with today's .pst, .dbx files... with both newsgroup &
>mail content. It has to have some documentation, at least about how to
>invoke it correctly. Yes, I know once the author has converted their
>mailboxes, there is no more interest in maintaining it, but if you all
>think it would be a good idea for folks to get off the Microsoft drugs,
>then there ought to be a reliable tool out there, indeed, as a standard
>part of a Linux distribution, just like M$ provides inward bound
>one-way converters in its products. Surely there is a good one out
>there. Net searches turn up several, none which work well.
As you have done, I tried several before I found one that worked
properly. The one I used successfully was "oe2mbx" - it certainly works
for the mailbox conversion ... not so sure about your other criteria,
though ... I think I found it on http://freshmeat.net/
Dave.
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