Linux-Setup Digest #558, Volume #19 Tue, 5 Sep 00 20:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I launch Star Office applications? (brian)
Re: How to print with HP Deskjet (brian)
Re: no telnet from outside world ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installation hangs at end (RedHat 6.2) ("Bob Nemeth")
Re: FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 for Linux.... (Dirk Frieborg)
Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions (Jon Noring)
Re: /dev/audio in 2.2.x (Judah Milgram)
SSI question ("ortius")
Help: mail server behind a NAT box ("D & S")
Re: Panel + Menu Icons Gone?? ("Kevin Vandersloot")
Re: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs? ("Rob Battle")
Re: Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions (Peter Kadau)
Re: How to configure root to be used remotely? ("Thelonious Georgia")
how to make a boost disk md 7.0 (andrew cool)
Re: Linux for Windows 7.1 Help (Orest Zarowsky)
Re: Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions (Jon Noring)
RHL 6.2 Kickstarting a sparc 20 / kernel compile ("Chad M. Stewart")
Renaming mount points...possible?? ("John Mravunac")
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I launch Star Office applications?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:05:46 -0500
As you noted, Star Office does not setup the menu in Gnome. There are two ways
to do this as the root user.
1. Go to the Gnome menu and select the Menu Editor under the Settings menu.
Insert your own start up menu for Star Office. This can also be done as a user
other than root! Under "Favorites (user menus)" select a new Submenu. Type a
name you would like to use, such as: Star Office Suite. Press the "Save"
button. then, select "New Item" button. Type name, such as: Star Office.
Under the command entry the Star Office script that starts the Star Office
program, such as:
/home/user/office52/soffice
Then, choose an icon from a gnome option or another icon subdirectory (found in
either the kde icon subdirectory or the Star Office subdirectory). Then, press
the "Save" button. That's it!
For the more ambitious:
2. Using a text editor, edit the gnome menu files in Red Hat's Gnome
directories:
As root, you could use the following directory:
/usr/share/gnome/apps
As a user, you should use the user's home directory for gnome:
/home/user/.gnome/apps
Create an entry with the file name as follows:
StarOffice.desktop
Use a text editor to include the following:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=StarOffice
Exec=/home/user/office52/soffice
Icon=user/share/pixmaps/so52.xpm
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
The next thing you want to do, is make sure the "xpm" icon file is correct, it
will probably be in your StarOffice subdirectory somewhere, although I believe
it is also ported over to the kde subdirectory, by the StarOffice setup
program, where the kde pixmaps/icons are stored.
If you use a special font scheme for your desktop, you may need to modify the
"[Desktop Entry]" file.
Creating a sub-directory for Gnome is not that hard either.
Easiest to use the menu editor and then modify by hand if needed.
Good luck!
Brian
Examine the entries for other
Jack Kessler wrote:
> I learned how to mount the second CDROM, located Setup on it, and set up
> Star Office using Gnome. As it exited, it told me that it had opened a line
> in KDE from which to run it. Red Hat's default is Gnome, which has a menu
> category for applications. None of the Star Office applications appear on
> it. What do I do to invoke / launch it?
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to print with HP Deskjet
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:15:32 -0500
Use the "printtool" program. Select "Add" button to install the "HP
DeskJet 550C/560C/6xxC series" printer. Read the RedHat installation
manual for help. Then, press the "Select" button on the "Edit Local
Printer Entry" dialog box." You might want to select, under the "Printing
Options", "Send EOF after job to eject page?" and "Fix stair-stepping
text?". You might also add the following option in the "Extra GS options:"
fill-in box:
-dDepletion=2
This will use less ink and help save you money.
Brian
"T. Bundies" 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?
>
> CU,
> Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: no telnet from outside world
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 21:13:11 GMT
Here is an update. I have recently found that my new ISP is filtering
big time. Here is a print out:
Starting nmap V. 2.3BETA10 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED],
www.insecure.org/nmap/)
Interesting ports on (207.270.12.205):
Port State Protocol Service
21 open tcp ftp
23 filtered tcp telnet
43 filtered tcp whois
67 filtered tcp bootps
79 filtered tcp finger
80 open tcp http
87 filtered tcp priv-term-l
95 filtered tcp supdup
109 filtered tcp pop-2
111 filtered tcp sunrpc
113 open tcp auth
119 filtered tcp nntp
137 filtered tcp netbios-ns
138 filtered tcp netbios-dgm
144 filtered tcp news
512 filtered tcp exec
513 filtered tcp login
514 filtered tcp shell
515 filtered tcp printer
540 filtered tcp uucp
624 open tcp unknown
901 open tcp unknown
1025 filtered tcp listen
2000 filtered tcp callbook
2766 filtered tcp listen
6666 filtered tcp irc-serv
6667 filtered tcp irc
6668 filtered tcp irc
6969 filtered tcp acmsoda
7000 filtered tcp afs3-fileserver
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 16 seconds
That would explain it!
Time to go to ssh i guess.
Quick
In article <8p2169$kar$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: "Bob Nemeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation hangs at end (RedHat 6.2)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:01:57 -0400
That seemed to do the trick.
I suppose I should've tried that first.
Thanks.
"The Contact" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bob Nemeth wrote:
> > I'm installing RedHat on a couple of old machines laying around the
office
> > (Pentium 100's). On one of the machines, the installation goes fine,
except
> > that at the end, after all the packages are installed, it hangs while
> > "Performing post install configuration...".
>
> Try the text-only installation. Could be the Xserver hanging.
>
> --
> The Contact
> "Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
> They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Frieborg)
Subject: Re: FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 for Linux....
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:45:16
> I'd recommend...
...that you stop that *full* quote. :-I
--
That's it/95...
... Dirk Frieborg ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Interested in kerosene lanterns by Petromax[R], Geniol[R], AIDA[R]
and Aladdin[R]?
-> www.petroleumstarklicht.de
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Noring)
Subject: Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions
Date: 5 Sep 2000 22:16:24 GMT
Hello,
My wife is interested in installing Linux on one of our pc's (we will
continue to run Windows on it), and came home yesterday with Mandrake 7.1.
Since I am a newbie to installing Linux on pc boxes, I'd like to be directed
to Web sites that go over all the basic things I need to know in order to be
successful at this (it must cover running multiple OS as well).
Of course, topics of interest to me include:
1) Booting harddisk. Our pc has two hard disks. Can we put all of Linux
on the "D" drive and boot from that, or do I have to partition our master
"C" drive and install Linux there? Maybe a more general question is one
of multiple-harddisk management with multiple OS. Note that I do have
Partition Magic.
2) Multiple OS Management. I'm interested in running up to three or four
OS on our pc, including Windows 98, Linux, DOS 6, and Windows 2000.
It would be nice to be able to manage all of these at start up, say using
some sort of menu. Any pointers here? It'd be nice when the computer
is turned on, a menu appears early on, I pick the one I want, and there
I go.
Thanks.
Jon Noring
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana *** Perfumed Garden of Sheik Nefzaoui
http://www.aros.net/~noring/omnimedia/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Judah Milgram)
Subject: Re: /dev/audio in 2.2.x
Date: 5 Sep 2000 18:18:41 -0400
>> 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,
Problem solved.
Just run isapnp from boot script then load driver as module.
You know the line about not forgetting to uncomment "(ACT Y)" ?
They mean it.
Why this was necessary I don't know. After all, was the same hardware
that was cold- and warm-booted hundreds of times.
I also forgot that the /dev/sndstat info in parentheses means the
driver was configured but device not found.
Judah
--
Judah Milgram milgram at eng umd edu
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From: "ortius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SSI question
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:25:05 -0400
Hi:
When setting up ssi on a RHLinux 6.2/Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/0.1
PHP/4.0RC1 mod_attach/0.9 mod_frontpage/3.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.6.2 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
in access.conf , do I add THIS
<Directory /home/blah/blah>
Options +Includes
</Directory>
or this...
<Directory /home/blah/blah>
Options +Includes
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
It's for Cliff's banner rotater cgi / perl script...... located here
http://www.shavenferret.com/scripts/ads/
Thanx...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese .
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From: "D & S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Help: mail server behind a NAT box
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:36:00 GMT
Hi,
I have recently reconfigured our network to use Network Address Translation
via a Netgear RT314 router. Since that time, we have not received external
mail on our mail server. Can someone explain to me the guidelines for
moving an internet mail server behind a NAT box?
I have reconfigured the server with an internal IP address (192.168.0.26)
and have setup the router to pass traffic through port 25 (SMTP) and the POP
and IMAP ports to the internal server address. Everything else (http, etc.)
appears to be working.
By the way, the mail server is a PC running Red Hat Linux 6.2 and using
sendmail. We had no problems until I tried the NAT reconfiguration. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
- Doug -
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From: "Kevin Vandersloot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Panel + Menu Icons Gone??
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:34:25 -0500
In article <8p2e13$ifk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Greg Gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all I don't know what I have done, but
> all the icons on my Gnome panel and menus have
> dissappeared. I have looked through the Global
> properties but cannot find any reference to the
> icons. Everything works fine in KDE but I am
> trying out the new Helix Gnome for a while and
> would like to have the icons back. Does anyone
> know where the setting is to get them back.
>
> TIA....Greg
>
>
To add items to the panel just right click and
choose 'add to panel' and add whatever you want.
If you want to restore the default icons you could
delete the ~/.gnome/panel.d directory. You could
also delete the whole ~/.gnome directory to
restore the default Helix setup
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From: "Rob Battle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:31:04 -0400
how do you tell it to use the root file system from the hard drive when
going into rescue mode?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kadau)
Subject: Re: Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions
Date: 5 Sep 2000 22:59:37 GMT
Jon Noring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: 1) Booting harddisk. Our pc has two hard disks. Can we put all of Linux
: on the "D" drive and boot from that, or do I have to partition our master
: "C" drive and install Linux there? Maybe a more general question is one
: of multiple-harddisk management with multiple OS. Note that I do have
: Partition Magic.
the boot-cd recognizes your win-partition.
you may even install from windows - read the instructions on the cd.
the presence of Partition Magic makes your job very easy
(if you install from windows - it's treated as "default")
mandrake (like many others) ships with INSTALL.EXE for that reason.
:
: 2) Multiple OS Management.
: ...Any pointers here? It'd be nice when the computer
: is turned on, a menu appears early on, I pick the one I want, and there
: I go.
:
there are many bootloaders, which do the job.
as far as i know, you may use Partition Magic for that task as well,
but i have no first-hand-experience.
a good place to look for FAQs and HOWTOs is
http://www.linuxdoc.org
ciao cheers salut
peter
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From: "Thelonious Georgia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure root to be used remotely?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:41:03 -0400
Ah, stupid me forgot all about "su" ... that's what you get for living in an
NT world too long :(.
Thanks, solved my problem, and keeps my security confidence high.
"Leejay Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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.
> --
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
> |--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
> | #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andrew cool)
Subject: how to make a boost disk md 7.0
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:05:21 -0400 (EDT)
using mandrake 7.0 and was wondering about how to make the boot up disk
2000
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From: Orest Zarowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for Windows 7.1 Help
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:28:44 -0400
Scott
You will need to replace your modem with a hardware modem. The reason the
horrid little device that you have is called a "Winmodem" is because it is
able to work under Windows only. It is missing a couple of chips, making it
absolutely dependent on the computer CPU to function. Unfortunately, this
type of of modem requires specific hardware calls that are available ONLY
under Windows 9x. These devices also won't work under DOS or Windows 3.x.
Why, exactly, did you think you were able to get a modem for between 1/3 and
1/2 the price of a real modem anyway? You get what you pay for.
By the way, why would you even consider Linux for Windows? I appreciate
that you wish to avoid some of the installation headaches, but given how
unstable Windows is, you are very likely not going to see just how stable
and fast Linux really is.
Orest Zarowsky
Scott Metz wrote:
> Can some one please help me. I just got Linux 7.1 for Windows but I
> have no Idea on how to get it to recognize my Winmodem. Have any of you
> guys ran into this before?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Noring)
Subject: Re: Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions
Date: 5 Sep 2000 23:49:46 GMT
In article Peter Kadau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jon Noring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>1) Booting harddisk. Our pc has two hard disks. Can we put all of Linux
>> on the "D" drive and boot from that, or do I have to partition our master
>> "C" drive and install Linux there? Maybe a more general question is one
>> of multiple-harddisk management with multiple OS. Note that I do have
>> Partition Magic.
> the boot-cd recognizes your win-partition.
Can I install Linux, or any OS, on the D drive (with Windows on the C drive)
or must it be installed on a partition on the C drive?
>>2) Multiple OS Management.
>> ...Any pointers here? It'd be nice when the computer
>> is turned on, a menu appears early on, I pick the one I want, and there
>> I go.
>there are many bootloaders, which do the job.
>as far as i know, you may use Partition Magic for that task as well,
>but i have no first-hand-experience.
What bootloaders are most recommended for ease-of-implementation and
ease-of-use? Is Partition Magic good for that?
Thanks for your feedback. Hopefully others will provide further feedback.
Jon Noring
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http://www.aros.net/~noring/omnimedia/index.html
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From: "Chad M. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RHL 6.2 Kickstarting a sparc 20 / kernel compile
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 23:57:22 GMT
I want to install RedHat Linux on a sparc station 20 using kickstart. I'm
having problems with SILO. I can not seem to find any documentation on the
sparc specific stuff, everything is x86 based.
Another topic... If anyone knows how to compile a kernel on a sparc 20 I'd
like to hear. I've done
make menuconfig
make dep
make vmlinux (per the faq at www.ultralinux.org, which is good since make
bzImage fails)
make modules
make modules_install
This is all I get in /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/boot/
-rw-r--r-- 1 1046 101 1334 Feb 26 2000 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21856 Sep 5 23:51 btfix.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26106 Sep 5 23:51 btfix.s
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21616 Sep 5 23:51 btfixupprep
-rw-r--r-- 1 1046 101 11458 Oct 4 1998 btfixupprep.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 1046 101 3777 Mar 12 22:11 piggyback.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2930523 Sep 5 23:51 vmlinux.o
I've used kickstart and compiled a kernel before on x86, just the sparc
specific stuff is giving me trouble.
TIA,
Chad
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Reply-To: "John Mravunac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "John Mravunac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Renaming mount points...possible??
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:59:45 +1100
Hi,
I've run into some trouble here at work...one of our proxy machines had run
out of inodes. This seemed strange, so after some investigation I noticed
that the person who had originally set up this machine had make a small
slip, which is now causing many troubles.
This is how the system should have been set up:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 1.7G 991M 646M 61% /
/dev/hdc1 4.0G 1.7G 2.1G 45% /cache
/dev/hda7 200M 152M 25M 86% /cache-nntp
/dev/md1 194M 11M 173M 6% /var/log
But instead this is how it actually was:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 1.7G 991M 646M 61% /
/dev/hdc1 200M 1.7G 2.1G 45% /cache
/dev/hda7 4.0G 152M 25M 86% /cache-nntp
/dev/md1 194M 11M 173M 6% /var/log
The size of the two cache partitions have been swapped by accident (I'm
assuming).
Now it is my job to go and rectify this situation. I've come up with a
couple of plans, but I'm sure there are some better ways out there.
Is it possible and how would I be able to switch the mount point labels?
Perferably without losing any information?
BTW this machine is not in the same country as myself, so it makes it
difficult to rerun the installation procedure, even if I didn't mind wiping
the partitions completely. Everything I do on this machine is done using
OpenSSH.
The machine runs RedHat 6.1
Any help would be greatlt appreciated!!!
Thanks,
John :^)
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