Linux-Setup Digest #556, Volume #19 Tue, 5 Sep 00 15:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to configure root to be used remotely? (Leejay Wu)
netinstall failed (Silviu-Alin Bacanu)
Re: X configuration (Richard Anggono)
Token ring net card (wired)
Re: Monitor blinks when running X ("Craig A. Lebowitz")
Re: Syslog problem ("Kart")
Re: ppp failure (Bill Unruh)
Re: ppp failure (Bill Unruh)
How to setup qmail? (Beggar)
Re: Need help restoring Windows (Victor Zandy)
PS1 & PWD, .profile ("GreatFree")
Re: i386, i586... (D G)
Raid 1 install & e2fsck problems on RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.16-3 (Patrick McMahon)
Re: Syslog problem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How to print with HP Deskjet (D G)
module loading failure at boot time. (depmod) (Harring Figueiredo)
Re: Newbie: what to do with server now? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title ("Andrew P. Billyard")
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure root to be used remotely?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:09:08 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.setup: 5-Sep-100 How to configure
root to be.. by "Thelonious Georgia"@hot
> I have a red hat linux box that I want to use as a firewall,
> but I only have the one monitor and keyboard/mouse setup from
> my regular machine, so the linux box will have to live without
> any direct way to access it. Problem is, I need to have root
> access to it for kernel upgrades, etc. Out of the box, it does
> not allow root access remotely, and I cannot figure out how to
> enable it. Any ideas?
You mean via a direct root telnet? Or that it even bars a
normal telnet followed by an su? (Neither of which are
particularly good ideas...)
It might be good to get a SSH server, plus clients. You can
ssh in as a normal user, and then su. That way you won't have
to send the password in clear (one reason why direct root telnet
is usually prohibited; plus, su usually sends messages to a
system log, which redirected to a printer or other system can
leave a trail listing compromised accounts. The latter
reason suggests that allowing a direct root-login with
ssh can still be a bad idea).
http://www.openssh.com/
for an open version. They mention RHAT RPMs on their site.
They don't seem to list non-'nix clients, but there are
implementations (at least of the 1.x protocols) like a TeraTerm
module for Windows, and so forth. I've also seen CLI versions
of ssh and scp (ssh'd version of copy; quite nifty for
non-interactive file transfer) for NT.
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From: Silviu-Alin Bacanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netinstall failed
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:17:44 -0400
Hi!
I have a problem installing from an NFS image residing on the server's
CDROM.
The server exports to 7 other machines the / and /cdrom directories and
the
7 machines are also in /etc/hosts.equiv.
I mounted the /cdrom on the server but I still have an error message
when trying
to install over the network:
mount: RPC: Program not registered
Any ideea?
Thanks!
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From: Richard Anggono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: X configuration
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 03:24:56 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My PC runs win98 and Redhat6.0. The Icons on the desktop and the panel
> at its bottom are very big; the width of the panel is about 3cm. I
> thought the problem is to do with one of the settings on the
> XF86config; but which one and how?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
The problem is *not* in XF86Config. This file is used to set the keyboard
type, mouse settings (number of buttons, scrolling, baud rate, etc),
monitor type and your screen resolution (+Xserver type).
The icons on your desktop will depend on the window manager you used,
KDE, Gnome, AfterStep, etc.
Hope this helps.
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From: wired <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Token ring net card
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:42:31 +0200
I have problems getting my Token ring card to work in linux ( mandrake
7.1 )
the card is an IBM lanstreamer ( PCI )
The linux pc is the only non windows pc on the Token ring based LAN
I'm kind of a newbie with linux so I've tried anything I could think of
to get it to work, but it doesn't help. In the detection utility the
card is found, but in I/O an IRQ it has -1, could it be that it is
conflicting with the soundcard, which by the way works fine. I've setup
the needed tcp/ip addresses (at least I think I have)..
Any suggestions to what I can do to get it to work
-
Rasmus
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From: "Craig A. Lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor blinks when running X
Date: 05 Sep 2000 17:06:07 GMT
I have the same problem with a Redhat-6.2-installed XFree86. I have a
feeling that I misdefined my monitor in the XF68Config. Does anyone know
about a generic CyberMax monitor? It came with my CyberMax system this
time last year. Thanks.
craig
Clive Bostock <cbostock@=antispamremove=btinternet.com> wrote:
> The problem is that that periodically, possibly anywhere between 30
> seconds to several minutes, my screen blinks. That is it goes blank
> for about a second after which the desktop display returns. I have
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From: "Kart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Syslog problem
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:24:56 +0200
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8p2don$m1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.misc Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Note : I boot the system with a read-only root fs and a ramdisk over
/var.
>
> A read only root fs is a neat trick. How do you make /dev/console
> writable?
>
> : Kernel is 2.2.16 patched with devfs. When rebooting with a read-write
root
> : fs, I have no problem at all !!
>
> Yeah, well, somehow I'm not entirely surprised.
>
> The few occasions I've tried to make / readonly, I've regretted it.
> Needs mods to mount and umount for one thing. It probably is feasible
> if you start off rw and ro and some later stage, after replacing
> /etc/mtab, /etc/motd, /etc/issue and friends with symlinks to /var.
> The real stinker is /dev.
This is not really helpful ... Perhaps could give ideas as which files or
services could be involved in this problem ??
>
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ppp failure
Date: 5 Sep 2000 17:28:27 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]but it fails to reach the connect phase. I have been monitoring the chat
]progress and it fails on an alarm whilst waiting for CONNECT.
For some reason your modem is not sending back "CONNECT" It is probably
some modem options that is misset. If nothing else replace CONNECT with
CARRIER
since that IS sent.
Actually you have worse problems. You do not have your IRQ set up
properly Not the absurdly long time (19 sec) between ATZ and receiving
OK. Finally do not use ATZ. Its only advantage is that it is short. Its
disadvantage is taht it often totally missets the modem.
Use AT&F or AT&F1 for sportsters and then set up the individual features
of the modem separately.
]Sep 1 21:08:15 linux chat[17146]: send (ATZ^M)
]Sep 1 21:08:15 linux chat[17146]: expect (OK)
]Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: ^M
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ppp failure
Date: 5 Sep 2000 17:31:20 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: send (ATZ^M)
]Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: expect (OK)
]Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: ^M
]Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: OK
]Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: -- got it
Note the immediate response not 20 sec delay. On upgrading you messed up
the irq assignment to the serial ports/modem. You have to fix that.
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: How to setup qmail?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 01:25:42 +0800
Hi all,
As title, I am using Redhat 6.2 with sendmail. I have tried to follow
the www.qmail.org but does not success. Don't know what step I have
missed.
Can anyone give the a hand with the steps and some useful artical for
this ??
And what is the minimal files should I need??
Thanks a lot!!
Dicky
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From: Victor Zandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help restoring Windows
Date: 05 Sep 2000 12:56:32 -0500
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Victor Zandy wrote:
> > Igor Mercier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Thanks Igor, but unfortunately this will not work in my case. The
> > standard MBR does not boot Windows. I think Goback uses an
>
> Are you sure? Perhaps you just need to make the win partition active?
> If not, when installing linux, lilo makes a backup of the previous MBR
> and stores it in /boot as boot.0300 (the numbers describe the device, in
> this case /dev/hda)
Thanks, but I'm sure. No matter what partition is active, Windows
does not boot. I also restored the LILO backup "boot.0300", but it
did not help.
Here are the relevant things I did to the disk (in order).
Windows Linux
------- -----
1 Disable Goback
2 Repartition with fips
3 Install Redhat 6.2, LILO dual boot
4 Enable Goback
5 Change LILO boot device default
Both Windows and Linux booted fine through step 4. However, after
I changed the default boot device (step 5), Windows failed to boot.
Unfortunately (in this case), LILO by default does not make a
backup MBR when a backup already exists. A backup taken at step 3
existed when I ran LILO again in step 5, so I don't have a backup MBR
for when Goback is enabled. I suspect the step 3 backup doesn't work
because Goback tampers with the MBR.
Since my earlier post I found documentation for this problem on
the Goback support pages (www.goback.com/support.cfm). I will try
their solution tonight and try to remember to report my experience to
this group.
Vic
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From: "GreatFree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS1 & PWD, .profile
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:15:34 -0700
Dear All,
How to display PATH anytime instead of just a "$' in RedHat ksh? I remember
PS1 and PWD should be used. But I can't get the exact expression of that.
By the way, I can't find .profile under my home directory. Why? Someone told
me I need to write the profile by myself. Is it the same as the one on
Solaris?
Thanks,
Bing
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i386, i586...
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 11:02:33 -0700
Terence Chan wrote:
>
> It's my first time to upgrade kernel. To make it simple, I will use rpm
> packages from redhat. I read information from
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html.
> I still don't know do I need all kernel* rpm? or only need rpm for
> packages I have installed only.
>
> kernel
> kernel-headers
> kernel-utils
That should be fine (assuming they are all the same version). Now just
update /etc/lilo.conf to point to your new kernel, run lilo (do both as
root) and reboot.
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DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick McMahon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Raid 1 install & e2fsck problems on RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.16-3
Date: 5 Sep 2000 18:14:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone had experience setting up a Raid 1 device after RH6.2 is
installed to the first drive?
e2fsck craps out with superblock/partition table errors on /dev/md5
after mkraid is successful.
I'm tring to setup Raid 1 between 2 ide disks: hda8 & hdc8.
The hard drives are identical, partitioned the same.
hda has a working RedHat 6.2 install, upgraded to the 2.2.16 kernel.
with kernel custom compiled to include Raid 1.
I used the RedHat "linux rescue" CD boot & copied my raidtab into /etc
from a floppy (saved the raidtab from an initial install done to these
drives).
did a:
dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/dev/hdc8
then
issued mkraid /dev/md5 (for hda8 & hdc8)
after 15 min (1 gig partition), /proc/mdstat showed a functional md5
mount -t ext2 /dev/md5 /mnt/test
Worked! - Data was intact from hda8 !
BUT.......
umount /mnt/test
e2fsck /dev/md5 won't work!
Craps out with:
"The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 257032 blocks.
The physical size of the device is 257008 blocks.
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!"
I also tried:
mkraid --really-force /dev/md5
good md5 - e2fsck still gives the same message!
Can anyone tell me how to get /dev/md5's superblock to work with
e2fsck?
raidtab:
[snip md1 to md4 - all same as md5 - all md's are problem with e2fsck]
raiddev /dev/md5
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
#nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/hda8
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc8
raid-disk 1
TIA
Pat McMahon
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Syslog problem
Date: 5 Sep 2000 18:12:03 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Kart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:8p2don$m1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> In comp.os.linux.misc Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : Note : I boot the system with a read-only root fs and a ramdisk over /var.
:>
:> A read only root fs is a neat trick. How do you make /dev/console
:> writable?
:>
:> : Kernel is 2.2.16 patched with devfs. When rebooting with a read-write root
:> : fs, I have no problem at all !!
:>
:> Yeah, well, somehow I'm not entirely surprised.
:>
:> The few occasions I've tried to make / readonly, I've regretted it.
:> Needs mods to mount and umount for one thing. It probably is feasible
:> if you start off rw and ro and some later stage, after replacing
:> /etc/mtab, /etc/motd, /etc/issue and friends with symlinks to /var.
:> The real stinker is /dev.
: This is not really helpful ... Perhaps could give ideas as which files or
: services could be involved in this problem ??
ls -lrt /etc | tail
Somone already noted that using devfs allevaites most symptoms!
Peter
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to print with HP Deskjet
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 11:18:51 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:32:19 +0200, T. Bundies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I installed Red Linux V.8 and I am nearly satisfied. But there is still
> >one problem: my HP Deskjet 895Cxi is not working. Somewhere I read that
> >it is possible to print with, but how to I do not know. Can someone
> >give me a hint?
>
> I believe that the program that you are looking for is pnm2ppa.
No, the 895C is a PCL3 compatible printer, and as such should work with
any of the PCL3 drivers. A good driver to try is cdj890, but even the
standard Deskjet 550C driver should work fine (although with lower
quality).
pnm2ppa works with the PPA printers, such as the Deskjet 700 series, 820
or 1100.
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DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: Harring Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: module loading failure at boot time. (depmod)
Date: 5 Sep 2000 14:45:10 -0400
Thank you in advance for reading this and helping me.
I am running into the follwoing problem:
When booting my machine (kernel 2.2.5.15 version - RedHat 6.0
build) it stops on the "Finding modules dependencies" , then it gives
me the following error:
" conf:6: missing module argument
can't open "
Then the boot process continues.
I have noticed that one of the modules that I cannot use once it
is booted is the ppp.o (kppp fails). Right now, I have to MANUALLY
insmod slhr.o and then ismod ppp.o for it to work.
I have had the machine running on and off for about 3 months
without a problem and now it is having this problem. Any suggestions
how to fix it ?
I also have noticed that when I try to manually run "depmod -a"
on the command line, it gives me the same error. ( conf:6: module
missing agument) , Also I have tried using "depmod -a 2.2.5-15 " on the
command line and I get the error: "conf:6: module missing argument.
can't open /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/modules.dep").; however, when I do a
" l s-al /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/modules.dep" I can see that the file is
there. (I have even chmod to 777 on it to see if it was reading perm.
problem. Could not get results.
I have not upgraded or built a new kernel nor installed any
major packages (other than ymessenger -yahoo messenger).
I have also noticed that the NFS fails with the error
"nfsvc function not implemented. "
What have I done wrong ?
Thanks for all the help.
Harring
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie: what to do with server now?
Date: 5 Sep 2000 18:45:28 GMT
I have a brand new care bones computer setup with latest Redhat. I want
to eventually use it as a server for my 2 PCs running Windows 98 and
Windows 2k. I want the server to act as a file server, firewall, ftp
sever, web server etc. I also want to us IP masquerading.
I did a barebones install with basically no software installed because I
heard that the best way to setup a server is to only install stuff as
needed. Also, I have no GUI as I didn't see a need for it.
so right now I'm sitting here with a barebones computer with no idea what
to do now and in what order to do it in. Any tips/advice/help/guidance
would be appreciated.
I have some experience using Linux as a user, but not an administrator. I
have beginner-to-intermediate level of experience.
--
-T.
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:09:03 GMT
I have the same thing using Window Maker. I don't think its window manager, per
se. Sorry this doesn't exactly help....I gave up trying....
Peter Croyden wrote:
> I've just installed RedHat 6.2 and use KDE. Everything seems fine
> except for windows titles for "xterms". I give a command like :-
>
> xterm -Tmywindowtitle
>
> In previous versions (6.0/6.1) the name in the windows titlebar and
> the KDE taskbar would be "mywindowtitle". In 6.2, I now get :-
>
> username@hostname: working directory
>
> Initially the text is "mywindowtitle", but something then overwrites
> it almost immediately.
>
> I've gone through all the sections of the KDE Control Center, but
> can't find anything. Any pointers on where to look would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
> --
>
> --
> Peter Croyden,Computing Service,University of Sussex,BRIGHTON BN1 9QJ,UK
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Tel: +44 (0) 1273 606755 x2964 FAX: +44 (0) 1273 271956
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