Linux-Setup Digest #552, Volume #19 Tue, 5 Sep 00 03:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lost my graphic login (Mike Walsted)
host name on dhcp adapter? ("Devon Harding")
server hangs (Allan Greenier)
Re: cd writer? (Lyndon)
Re: Lost my graphic login
dselect help ("Cooper")
New B Question (jorge)
Floppy trouble ("b k g")
Re: My Lan card can't determinie IP information (Karl Heyes)
Re: Floppy trouble (myself)
Re: /dev/audio in 2.2.x (myself)
Redhat 6.2 NFS install RPC error (Devon Caines)
How to Setup "Super Mount"? ("Tiger Gao")
Re: GTK & LIBSIGC install on redhat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C? (Raymond Blum)
Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO (jeff)
Re: LILO Problems getting 01 01 01 01 (Arnaud Wylie)
Re: Floppy trouble ("grep")
no telnet from outside world ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A tale of two computers (Colin Watson)
Re: dselect help (Nicolas Iselin)
Re: Floppy trouble (Eric)
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From: Mike Walsted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost my graphic login
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 02:08:42 GMT
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, David Stafford wrote:
>After successfully installing Mandrake 7.0 last week and
>having fun learning Gnome and KDE, I goofed something up
>after using Xconfigurator. Now, bootup presents a text
>only screen.
Now, I can login in as a user but I haven't
>figured out how to login as root so I can use Xconfigurator
>again. What am I doing wrong?
If you know your root password, you can log on as a normal user, and once
logged on type
su
You will be prompted for the root password. Enter it, and then you will be
able to access all of the root commands. Or, if your security was set low
enough on the install, you can just type root as the user name and enter the
root password when asked. As root, draksec changes the security level
Hope this helps
mikewalsted
>
>Dave
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: host name on dhcp adapter?
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:18:25 -0400
I have two nic's in my Linux box (one static and one dhcp). I can assign a
host name to the static one but not the dhcp one....
How can I do this?
-Devon
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From: Allan Greenier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: server hangs
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:24:10 -0400
Hi,
I'm a linux newbie whose learned a lot in the last month and a half. But
my problem is a real puzzler.
My ftp server as well as my cvs server choke on sending any file bigger
than 2k or so. Smaller files get serrved as expected.
Fetch on my mac shows itself trying to serve the file in ever smaller increments..
from 1024 k a second to 512 to 255 on down to 1 k asecond.
What might be causing this behaviour?
A direct cc is very appreciated
Allan Greenier
AutoScript Applications
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lyndon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: cd writer?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 19:26:49 -0700
Go to /etc/fstab
Go to line that deals with your cdrw
change 'hdc' to 'scd0'
Hope this helps.
Have a nice day.
Bob R wrote:
>
> I just loaded Mandrake 7.0 from CD. Everything seemed okay, but now when i
> log on as user or root
> I cannot access the CD. The CD is a HP 8250i CD Writer. Mandrake sees it
> as an IDE/HDC
> I tried changing the properties of the device, but that did not help. If I
> try to view the files through KDE Explorer
> it says it cannot open them. It is mounted, although it says it is a locked
> directory.
>
> Any assistance will be appreciated. I would like to install some more
> software that I have, but I need to access
> the CD.
>
> My system is an K6-2/350mhz
> 96 megs of ram
> 2 HD
> Windows on first HD
> Linux on 2nd.
> HP-CD Burner (only CD on system)(IDE type on second IDE channel as Master)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Lost my graphic login
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 02:36:04 GMT
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:41:09 -0700, David Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>After successfully installing Mandrake 7.0 last week and
>having fun learning Gnome and KDE, I goofed something up
>after using Xconfigurator. Now, bootup presents a text
>only screen. Now, I can login in as a user but I haven't
>figured out how to login as root so I can use Xconfigurator
>again. What am I doing wrong?
I had some goofyness when I installed Xfree86 4.0.1; I lost gnome and
got stuck with a really primative desktop, TVM I think.
I downloaded the latest'n'greatest distribution of gnome and the install
fixed everything.
I'm back to X 3.3.6 (no hw acceleration for my matrox g400 w/ 4.0.1), but
have kept my gnome instalation.
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From: "Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dselect help
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:59:51 -0400
I have all my packages on a hard known as /dev/sda1. I can mount it to the
/tmp directory. However, when I use the dselect program, I tell the it to
find the necessary files on file:/tmp. It keeps telling me that it can't
find the necessary files. I have tried several combinations with specifying
files with dist, stable, potato, main - all to no avail. All I really need
to do is get the DHCP client. Suggestions, please!
TIA
Cooper
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From: jorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New B Question
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 03:20:42 GMT
Does anybody here know what are the files that are fired up at boot up time?
The only file I know that is ran at boot up time is '/etc/profile'. However,
the variables declared in this file are not available after the box is up and
running. For instance, I have set up Java as follows:
######## Java1.2.2 #########
JAVADIR=/usr/lib/java
PATH=$JAVADIR/bin:$PATH
export JAVA_COMPILER=javacomp
echo "3a.) JAVADIR: " $JAVADIR
echo "3b.) PATH: "$PATH
####### END #########
I don't see any of the 'echo' statements when the machine is booting up. And
once the machine has booted up I try running the java compiler but the
command 'javac' is never found by the system.
The same happens to me with TMAKE ( QT handy make utility) or the QT library.
For some reason, as I have a feeling, the '/etc/profile' is not ran at boot
time.
Any help will be most appreciated.
Corel (Debian) Linux
root user
Thanks in advance
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From: "b k g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Floppy trouble
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:38:02 -0500
I used chmod to ... chmod go+x mount -also- chmod go+x umount
I also used chmod to ... chmod go+rw fd0
So, why can't I access my floppy unless I am logged as root ???? This is
real frustrating.
Maybe I am missing something real simple? Does anyone know what is going
on?
As root I can mount -a /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
I can so this for ext2 and msdos floppy. However if not loggd as root then
I get an
error saying specify filesystem, or bad block device. If I try the mount
command I get
a message saying that only root can mount.
So what now?
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From: Karl Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: My Lan card can't determinie IP information
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 04:37:41 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> When I use ifup to call my ethernet card, the error message is shown. What
> can I do?
>
you are using DHCP or bootp you get the IP address and you are either on a
network without a DHCP server or there is one on the network but doens't know
about the MAC address on the networkd card.
If you are on a LAN without DHCP, determine what ip your machine is. or if you
are on a home network use the 192.168.x.x numbers.
karl.
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From: myself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Floppy trouble
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:27:01 -0500
b k g wrote:
> As root I can mount -a /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> I can so this for ext2 and msdos floppy. However if not loggd as root then
> I get an
> error saying specify filesystem, or bad block device.
I am not sure if I have your problem right, but if what I left
unsnipped
above is the real question, it's the same thing I asked about
here just last
week.
try going
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0/ /mnt/floppy
If it says specify filesystem and you are using the regular
Linux ext2
filesystem on the floppy that should satisfy it. If you are
using another
filesystem put it following the -t flag instead.
Works for me. Be sure you have previously created the directory
/mnt/floppy
so it has someplace to connect to.
Mary P
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From: myself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/audio in 2.2.x
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:33:58 -0500
Judah Milgram wrote:
>
> Just did a kernel upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.2.16. No hardware change.
>
> Compiled in sound support. It's a soundblaster and I specified same
> isp, port, dma, etc as with the old system. Sound seems to initialize
> (per syslog and /dev/sndstat) but I get "/dev/audio: No such device".
> Or any other device. Yet in kernel config (xconfig), there was no place
> to specify /dev/audio support (like there used to be in previous kernels).
I just did the same upgrade and I am having the same problem
which I haven't
resolved either, but have you got a symlink from /dev/audio to
/dev/whatever
is the location of your Soundblaster?
I know it's supposed to be better for the kernel structure, but
for now I
am not all happy about the way the newer kernels handle sound
cards. The
old way was so easy.
Mary P.
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From: Devon Caines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Redhat 6.2 NFS install RPC error
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 19:03:06 -0500
Hi guys:
I'm trying to do an NFS install of Linux and getting the following error
"mount: RPC: portmapper failure: RPC timed out
I could not mount that directory from the server"
--observations---
/etc/exports on the server contains the following line
/mnt/cdrom (ro)
(Of course we have mounted this first then done an
exportfs -a .. then stopped and restarted the nfs services
rpcinfo -p shows that portmapper, mountd and nfs (udp) running.
"ps -ef | grep nfs" shows nfs daemons are running.
I can even mount this directory from a solaris box.
-On looking at tcpdump I can see the new machine asking "who has IP of
server...
and the server answering back.. but thats all.
-using static IP .. with no name server
Any ideas what is going wrong here?
Thanks
Devon_C
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From: "Tiger Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to Setup "Super Mount"?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:07:07 +0800
Hello,
Could you tell me how to setup "super mount" function in Red Hat?
Thanks!
A baby Linuxer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GTK & LIBSIGC install on redhat 6.2
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 05:03:13 GMT
In article <8oqj36$s9v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
> Daniel D. Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am trying to install GTK++, and was directed to install LIBSIGC
> >first. This I did and ran all of the test to check the LIBsigc
> >installation and they passed. Then I ran the configure program for
> >GTK++ and it said LIBsigcc was not found.
You need to either set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of set up your
ld to look in /usr/local/lib. This is the most frequent mistake
when a developer first starts installing local libraries.
For further info read the FAQ in the doc directory.
> You probably just installed the runtime library; you also need the
> development package (probably called something like libsigc-devel) if
> you want to compile things against libsigc.
I would recomend just using the Helix code rpms. Using the rpms from
Helix will solve that.
--Karl
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From: Raymond Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 01:13:35 -0400
Based on people's advice here and some links that were provided I
decided on Debian. I'm probably going to try KDE just to see how bad it
can be and plan on falling back to a more lightweight windows mgr.
Thanks all
---Raymond
Raymond Blum wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have a thinkpad 701C (the "Butterfly") with 24 MB of RAM and a 500
> MB HD. I have finally gotten the floppy drive for it and would welcome
> any advice as to a good distribution to do an NFS install of onto this
> machine. My goal is to set this up as a machine to run KDE, Organize, a
> word processsor, etc. Obviously the more disk space left for the
> applications the better. I can not easily get a CD-ROM hooked up
> directly to the machine. I have tried the RedHat and Suse boot disks and
> both recognize the Ethernet card, hence my determination to use an NFS
> install.
>
> --
> Thank you,
>
> Raymond Blum
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From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 05:28:56 GMT
I'm extremely new to Linux; therefore, I'm not quite sure how to resolve
the problem I have created. My problem goes like this...
I have a Dell Latitude CPi R400GT with a Neomagic video card. Anyways, I
was unable to load the Xserver properly (it was stuck in a baaaaad
resolution, something like 320x200).
Anyhow, after doing a lot of research, I found out about XFree86. Ran
that... got more confused and was still stuck in the same resolution.
I then found a site where a person said to change a line in the LILO file.
This line was the vga line. I changed it from:
vga=normal to vga=791 <-----------------
The site indicated that this was a key factor in getting the resolution to
work. After I rebooted, I got my LILO prompt, only once linux began to
load, the screen turned black. I have reinstalled the Linux OS (Mandrake
7.0) and the same problem occurs. I am not interested in formatting (I have
some text files I created on the drive), so if anyone could help me, I'd
appriciate it very much!
I now have the correct settings (video) for my XF86Config file; however, I
am unable to get into the command line (the screen is blank!!). Please help
me! Thanks!!!
- Jeff
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From: Arnaud Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Problems getting 01 01 01 01
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:43:58 +1200
Andrew Lee Stubbs wrote:
> I have tried loading several different versions of linux and each time the
> lilo gives me nothing but 1's and 0's on the screen. I have tried several
> different methods of installing linux and none of them work, even off of
> the floppy. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Andrew Lee Stubbs
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something you have to watch with lilo is that the geometry for your boot
partition is the same as the geometry
reported by BIOS. This problem had me stopped for quite a while....
Arnaud Wylie
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Reply-To: "grep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "grep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Floppy trouble
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 05:49:16 GMT
Well chmod go+x gives execute privleges to group and owner. who is the
owner? root or the user your logged in as. The obvious solution is either
add the user to the group or chmod goa+x this gives all users execute
privleges.
"b k g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:l2Zs5.22249$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I used chmod to ... chmod go+x mount -also- chmod go+x umount
>
> I also used chmod to ... chmod go+rw fd0
>
> So, why can't I access my floppy unless I am logged as root ???? This is
> real frustrating.
> Maybe I am missing something real simple? Does anyone know what is going
> on?
>
> As root I can mount -a /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> I can so this for ext2 and msdos floppy. However if not loggd as root
then
> I get an
> error saying specify filesystem, or bad block device. If I try the mount
> command I get
> a message saying that only root can mount.
>
> So what now?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: no telnet from outside world
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 05:43:39 GMT
Can someone give me a hand at this? I have basic IP_masq setup and all
of the internal boxes can telnet to the server. no one from the outside
can telnet in though. i have checked /etc/hosts.allow and deny and
there is nothing there at all. I tried to add ALL:ALL to hosts.allow
with no sucess. I have also checked the xinetd.conf and there is
nothing there.
Please help if you can.
Quick.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: A tale of two computers
Date: 4 Sep 2000 22:01:44 GMT
astorwilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have Linux MANDRAKE 7.1 installed in my main computer and have made
>Norton Ghost image files of all my Linux partitions in my main computer
>except the swap and /tmp partition. Now the Celeron is going to have a
>different graphics card, sound card and modem card but I will be using
>the same Taxan monitor on both computers.
Good - having the same monitor simplifies things from the point of view
of worry about hardware damage.
Make sure that the partition structure is the same on both computers, or
you'll run into problems when /etc/fstab is out of sync (and perhaps
/etc/lilo.conf too).
>After I dump the image files of my LINUX partitions onto the Celeron
>computer's hard drive, how do I SAFELY configure Linux to the different
>hardware of the standby computer. I am assuming that I can do this from
>the multi user or console mode [ where the pixelled penguin comes up on
>the left side] when I boot up Linux on the standby computer.
If something can't be done from the console, it's broken. :)
However, your mention of a graphical penguin logo suggests your
distribution's kernel has framebuffer support compiled into it, which is
a little more than plain text mode. Now, this is most likely OK; it will
fall back to plainer text mode if it can't detect the appropriate
hardware to use the framebuffer, and I doubt that Mandrake would have
included this support if it was likely to cause hardware damage!
Still, if you're really paranoid then you could disable this before
making the ghost image, by recompiling your kernel with "Support for
frame buffer devices" turned off (it's in the "Console drivers" section
of the kernel configuration menu). If you're not used to compiling
kernels, Mandrake should have some advice somewhere in their
documentation.
>I have read that the wrong drivers can damage the Taxan monitor. PLEASE
>send me full console commands to type in so that I may be able to test
>them on my main computer before proceeding.
I'm not familiar enough with Mandrake to do that, really, but you
shouldn't have any problems. The real thing that can cause hardware
damage on older monitors is setting the horizontal and vertical
frequencies in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or wherever XF86Config is kept)
outside the ranges it can handle. I've never heard of the wrong graphics
card driver damaging a monitor, and I'd think that would be a very
strange thing to happen.
You may need to select a new X server, and Mandrake's X configuration
tool (does it have XF86Setup, say?) should help you here. Your old X
server may still support the new graphics card, particularly if you've
been using the SVGA server, in which case stay with it. You may want to
look at the "Device" and "Screen" sections of /etc/X11/XF86Config (or
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config, perhaps) and make sure they match the
Celeron's hardware.
The sound card and internal modem can be sorted out at your leisure, and
you won't damage anything by playing around. This sort of thing often
involves fiddling with kernel modules, and I can't really give you any
more precise directions with no idea what sort of hardware you have.
Again, though, if you're not sure about what you're doing, use whatever
setup tools Mandrake provides (and consult its documentation) and you
should get by OK.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Ah, young webmaster ... Java leads to Shockwave. Shockwave leads to
RealAudio, and RealAudio leads to suffering." - Peter da Silva, ASR
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dselect help
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 08:39:31 +0200
Cooper wrote:
>
> I have all my packages on a hard known as /dev/sda1. I can mount it to the
> /tmp directory. However, when I use the dselect program, I tell the it to
> find the necessary files on file:/tmp. It keeps telling me that it can't
> find the necessary files. I have tried several combinations with specifying
> files with dist, stable, potato, main - all to no avail. All I really need
> to do is get the DHCP client. Suggestions, please!
Basically, it should not be that difficult to set that up. But I suggest
to drop dselect and simply use the command line apt-get. If you can't make
that work (yes, it needs some setup too ;-), go for dpkg. First you will
have to find out the exact name of the .deb file, and then you can use
dpkg. Read the man-pages first, then try it.
Nicolas
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Floppy trouble
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 08:45:59 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
b k g wrote:
>
> I used chmod to ... chmod go+x mount -also- chmod go+x umount
>
> I also used chmod to ... chmod go+rw fd0
>
> So, why can't I access my floppy unless I am logged as root ???? This is
> real frustrating.
> Maybe I am missing something real simple? Does anyone know what is going
> on?
>
> As root I can mount -a /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> I can so this for ext2 and msdos floppy. However if not loggd as root then
> I get an
> error saying specify filesystem, or bad block device. If I try the mount
> command I get
> a message saying that only root can mount.
>
> So what now?
Try one of the following commands to mount:
mount /mnt/floppy
or
mount /dev/fd0
If you issue the mount command like this the entry from the fstab is
used to mount the floppy, if you use more than one argument with the
mount command, th fstab entry is not used, and therefor only root is
allowed.
Eric
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