Linux-Setup Digest #592, Volume #19 Sun, 10 Sep 00 07:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Downloading POP mail into a Linux account? (Adam Schuetze)
Q: "Can not allocate colormap entry..." (Swapnajit Mittra)
Q: Why only the CD player works but not the realplayer ? (Swapnajit Mittra)
Re: What are all these daemons in run level? ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: a newbie question before installing linux, please help... (E J)
GDM returns to LOGIN, doesnt start Gnome ... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ipchains setup ("Brad Hein")
Re: help ppp sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <... (David. E. Goble)
Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login ("Max")
Linux - What Do I Need To Know? (Marty P. A.)
Re: NE2000 and 486 (Glitch)
Re: :~( i think am gonna cry 5GB mp3es gone (Glitch)
Re: @home cable modem setup (Glitch)
Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login (John Thompson)
Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98 (Fubar X.)
Re: Q: "Can not allocate colormap entry..." (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Q: Why only the CD player works but not the realplayer ? (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Linux - What Do I Need To Know? (ray)
Re: Kernel options (Colin Watson)
Re: GDM returns to LOGIN, doesnt start Gnome ... (Colin Watson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Schuetze)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.dev.config
Subject: Re: Downloading POP mail into a Linux account?
Reply-To: adam at adam-schuetze dot org
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 05:31:49 GMT
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:35:48 GMT, Philip Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try the fetchmail package. That's what you need to poll different POP servers
> for email.
Fetchmail downloads mail from pop servers, and then dumps it to
port 25, so you need sendmail (or something similar, like
postfix, etc..) running.
Also, if you intend to have your mail put in separate mbox files
(rather than all into one huge one) you'll need to use procmail.
Procmail sorts mail depending on a simple ruleset that you
configure. It's really slick. You can combine this with X
tools such as gbuffy, which keep an eye on your various
mailboxes, and tell you when mail arrives (handy!). Plus,
gbuffy can keep an eye on newsgroups (handy!!).
There's also a way to configure your system so that it will tell
you if mail has arrived, even if you are running as console, and
not using X. I can't remember how I did this, but I'm sure I
could dig it up if need be.
I configured something similar on my home machine a few months
ago, using fetchmail, sendmail, procmail, gbuffy, and mutt. So
if you are interested in doing this sort of thing, email me,
and I'll dig up the links that I used.
later,
--
Adam Schuetze <adam at adam-schuetze dot org>
Get my pgp keys at http://www.adam-schuetze.org
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From: Swapnajit Mittra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: "Can not allocate colormap entry..."
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 05:28:49 GMT
Hello all,
I get the message "Can not allocate colormap
entry..." in spite of the fact that
I have an SVGA monitor and SVGA driver loaded (at
least that's what I see as installed). What could
be the problem ? I am using RH 6.1 on a machine which
has SVGA support (i.e. graphics card).
Thanks in advance.
- Swapnajit.
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From: Swapnajit Mittra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Why only the CD player works but not the realplayer ?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 05:40:24 GMT
Hello all,
My question is regarding the audio support
in RH 6.1. I can play a CD using the CD
player that GNOME provides and listen to it
from the audio port of my sound card. However,
when I try to run realplayer, it complains that
"Another device is using the audio device",
though no other device possibly could lock that
resource at that time(no, I was not using the
CD player).
Does this mean that somehow the audio support
did not get compiled when I built the kernel ?
Otherwise what could be the problem ?
Thanks in advance,
- Swapnajit.
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Principles of Verilog PLI -By- Swapnajit Mittra
Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN: 0-7923-8477-6
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are all these daemons in run level?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 06:06:20 GMT
Well, I really didn't want to hassle anyone with that...rather I was hoping for
URL's/HOWTO's/etc specifically geared to runlevel daemons (geared for newbies).
Jerry Jaskierny wrote:
> i think it might be a little easier if you just list all the daemons that
> are starting up in your runlevel. that way somebody can just take quick
> look and give you a quick rundown. later. jer
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew P. Billyard wrote:
> >Forgive this extremely nebulous question....but....
> >
> >I recently upgraded to Red Hat 6.2 (from 6.1) on my ADM K6-2/500 (128
> >Megs of RAM) and noticed that the bootup sequence shows quite a number
> >of daemons starting up. Being a Linux Novice I just stare at it with
> >the same level of understanding as a cat has when the owner is screaming
> >at it to stop scratching the furniture.
> >
> >I examined the scripts in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory and read the
> >some of the corresponding man's and although some of the processes seem
> >necessary, I can't figure out why I need others. If someone could list
> >all of the possible services that can be brought up at boot up, along
> >with why you'd need them....just kidding. However, if there is a really
> >good website geared for Newbies describing what things you need at
> >bootup, etc., I'd appreciate the location.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 06:08:15 GMT
I'm not sure if this is correct, but you may be able to set it up in your
/etc/security/console.perms
file. Can anyone back me up on this?
Max wrote:
> Everytime a user logs in the ownership of the /dev/floppy & /dev/cdrom
> devices is set to the user & group the user belongs to. In my system I
> also have a CD-RW & ZIP drive. How do I get the system to change the
> ownership of these devices to the user & group that the user who's logging
> in belongs to?
>
> Max
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a newbie question before installing linux, please help...
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 23:39:06 -0700
If you wipe out the primary slave drive, all your drive letters would change. C
and D (formerlyE unless you lock it down to E).
You cannot access the linux drive on windows 98 unless you get some third party
software.
You can access windows 98 from linux.
Yes, it is safe to install linux with Windows 98, but you should alway back up.
glico wrote:
> hello I have 2 HD, the primary master drive has got windows98 on it and i am
> planning to install linux on my primary slave drive. But both hard drive are
> split in 2. Primary master drive letters C and E, Primary slave drive
> letters D and F. If I install my Redhat linux 6.2 on the primary slave
> drive, will I be able to access my slave drive on windows98 at all????? and
> what will happen to the drive letters appear in windows after I installed
> linux????? Is it actually safe to install linux with Windows98?????? please
> help...
>
> -HAns
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GDM returns to LOGIN, doesnt start Gnome ...
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 06:56:26 GMT
Hi there,
I'm using Suse 6.4 together with Helix Gnome. When I start Gnome using
startx, everything is fine. Now I tried to configure GDM to have a
graphical login. I see the login window, but when I try to login the
screen briefly flashes and then I am back in the login window. This
happens for root and other users. If I am using KDM or XDM everything
works.
Any suggestions ?
Thanx.
mEyErS&-}
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From: "Brad Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ipchains setup
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 03:33:29 -0400
What is the ipchains command to forward incoming connections on port 80 to a
different computer on my lan? yes, i have searched faqs and websites, but
they are all too hazy when it comes to this issue.
Also, What could be causing my internet connection speeds to drop
dramatically when routed through my linux server? Could it be that its a
60mhz computer? or is it a different problem?
thank you
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help ppp sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <...
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 08:37:49 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
On 8 Sep 2000 16:40:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>
>This is fine. You have a default route through ppp. Try the novj option
>to pppd (put it into /etc/ppp/options).
>Sometimes broken VJ implimentations on the ISP can cause problems
>Befor you do so, see if you can get to some machine outside.
>ping 142.103.234.11
>say. It may be that your ISP has disabled pings to alltheir machines for
>some reason.
>
Hi;
Thanks for your reply and your suggestions. I will check out the pppd
man page and try out the novj option.
As I have already tried ping other ips. Namely 137.82.43.58 and
www.excite.com. With the same results.
--Regards David. E. Goble
goble [AT] kin.net.au
http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223
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From: "Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:38:47 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew P. Billyard"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is correct, but you may be able to set it up in
> your
>
> /etc/security/console.perms
>
> file. Can anyone back me up on this?
Yes. You're right. I've just tested it & it works! Thanks for the help.
Max
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marty P. A.)
Subject: Linux - What Do I Need To Know?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 08:12:45 GMT
I know a few things about computers - but not Unix or
Linux.
What is it that I need to know to install Linux?
I am currently reading the RUTE guide but without Linux
installed it is not as rigorous - On the other hand this guide
gives a good description of the Linux landscape.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions as to what
might be helpful reading for someone like me?
Marty
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 02:34:14 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NE2000 and 486
most likely jumpers on the board would do this if the card is ISA (which
if it is going in a 486 i'd think it would have to be)
The Black Unicorn wrote:
>
> Arturo C wrote:
>
> > In the past i've had to disable PNP on the NIC and set the io, and IRQ manually
> > to use it in my old 486's.
>
> maybe a stupid question, but how does one go about disabling pnp on a
> nic ?
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 02:37:14 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: :~( i think am gonna cry 5GB mp3es gone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> i realy didnt make any think unordinary i were using a partition table
> like this
> 6gb fat32
> 10mb boot
> 3gb ex2 debian potato
> 250mb swap
> again 5gb fat32
>
> then i set-up mandrake with same partision table and formated linux
> related partisions.After reboot mandrake said "couldnt mount
> hda4"(which was my second fat partision full of mp3's).Then i swich
> windows and windows said "disk d: is not formated or been bloked by
> another application"
> Fdisk didn't start either said "there is an corraption" or some
> thing like that
> After all i setup potato again on first installatin it gived fatal
> error and want to format hda4!! i said
> -NO NO NO dont do it iwant them back please
> on secand try potato couldnt mount hda4 again but after setup of
> debian fdisk on dos worked and showed 5gb fat as primary dos .
> Am i loseing my favorite mp3's because i try to set up linux between
> two fat partision?i think this cant be a reason to lose all my philip
> glass , micheal nyman songs and also cakewalk 9 pro and other important
> sound programs that realy cant be abandoned.
> one of my friens said try fdisk -mbr but Infact there is really no
> command called fdisk -mbr .
that is true, the command is fdisk /mbr note the / not the -
i cant help with the rest as you didnt speak clear enough english nor
just plain clear enough to explain the problem, maybe someone else could
help though.
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 02:32:48 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home cable modem setup
I would think the same. The computers on each end would talk the same
protocols therefore the OS being used on the client side shoudln't
matter, right?
"Andrew P. Billyard" wrote:
>
> That's not necessarily true. I had no such trouble with my @home DHCP server....
>
> Craig Kelley wrote:
>
> > I have @home as well, and their Windows DHCP servers won't talk to
> > linux machines for some reason... All you need to do is run winipcfg
> > http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
>
> --
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 21:23:13 -0500
Max wrote:
>
> Everytime a user logs in the ownership of the /dev/floppy & /dev/cdrom
> devices is set to the user & group the user belongs to. In my system I
> also have a CD-RW & ZIP drive. How do I get the system to change the
> ownership of these devices to the user & group that the user who's logging
> in belongs to?
This is controlled by the pam program. Check out:
man pam_console
man console.perms
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Fubar X. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:00:22 +0300
Thanks a lot. I will retry the installation using Eric's suggestions.
I will post an update when I have one.
One question though - what caused Windoze to see the Linux partition?
As I said, it didn't happen in RH 6.0.
Thanks.
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:31:47 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Fubar X. wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:59:28 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >Fubar X. wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >> On my primary 10 GB disk, I set aside 3 GB for Linux and installed
>> >> WIn98 on the other 7GB. I now installed RH 6.2 w/o any problems.
>> >> Installation was done for 'workstation', meaning the install program
>> >> automatically selected the partitioning. Linux runs w/o any problems.
>> >> However, when I start Win98, all of a sudden I have a new partition,
>> >> which, from Win98's perspective, is unformatted. Therefore, Win98
>> >> slows down terribly for almost any operation. And another bad
>> >> side-effect is that many programs don't run anymore, since they were
>> >> on drive E:, but now they're on F:, because the new drive was inserted
>> >> in the middle. This problem did not happen in RH 6.0.
>> >> I reinstalled RH 6.2 in custom mode, and selected the main Linux
>> >> partition as 'Linux native' (I assume it means ext2), but the problem
>> >> persists.
>> >> I searched the HOWTOs, but didn't find an answer.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >
>> >Thjis isn't really a big problem, all you need to do is make sure that
>> >windows is unaware of the linux partition.
>> >This means change the partition ID of the extended partition linux is in
>> >to linux extended(this can be done without danger) It now probably has
>> >the ID extended, and windows sees this partition, and then will assign a
>> >drive letter to it. Change this, and your windows system is back in the
>> >old state.
>> >
>> >Eric
>>
>> With help from a Linux guru, the problem was solved:
>> a) Use FDISK to partition the 3GB partition, using 'linux native'
>> only, since the 'extended' is seen by Windoze.
>
>could have been linux extended just fine, windows wouldn't see it
>either.
>
>> b) After that, LILO would hang. Running FDISK again, I noticed that it
>> displays a warning that my HD has 1232 cylinders, but anything above
>> 1024 might cause problems, for example (surprise!) to LILO.
>
>NOT A LILO PROBLEM.
>answered this many times before, search deja for more info
>
>> c) So I assigned 128MB for the swap, and the rest up to cyl #1024 to /
>> and everything is cool now.
>
>Then the linux guru should have given you a better advise, only /boot
>needs to be below cyl. 1024 (that's where the kernel image is stored).
>So make a separate /boot partition below cyl. 1024, the remaining part
>of / will very happily reside far above cyl. 1024.
>
>> Downside - unused 1.5 BG on my 10GB disk.
>
>You're problem, no reason why you cannot use it. Either as a separate
>partition under /mnt, or as part of the normal directory structure, like
>/usr /home or even / as I mentioned before
>
>Eric
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Subject: Re: Q: "Can not allocate colormap entry..."
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Sep 2000 12:17:20 +0200
Swapnajit Mittra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I get the message "Can not allocate colormap
> entry..." in spite of the fact that
> I have an SVGA monitor and SVGA driver loaded (at
> least that's what I see as installed).
Enable 16, 24 or 32 bpp mode for X. When starting X from text mode,
try "startx -- -bpp 32". If X is started automatically, reconfigure
for a higher number of colours by re-running Xconfigurator. You could
also just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and set the variable "Depth" in
section "Screen" (all of them!), subsection "Display", to 16, 24, or
32.
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Subject: Re: Q: Why only the CD player works but not the realplayer ?
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Sep 2000 12:19:44 +0200
Swapnajit Mittra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My question is regarding the audio support
> in RH 6.1. I can play a CD using the CD
> player that GNOME provides and listen to it
> from the audio port of my sound card. However,
> when I try to run realplayer, it complains that
> "Another device is using the audio device",
Check whether you have esd running. This a sort of mixer process; it
allows several processes to access your sound hardware at the same
time, as long as they do so through esd. Of course, while esd is
running, no process can access the sound card through "normal" means,
i.e. without going through esd. So, if realplayer does not know about
esd, they cannot both run at the same time.
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux - What Do I Need To Know?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:55:41 GMT
"Marty P. A." wrote:
> I know a few things about computers - but not Unix or
> Linux.
>
> What is it that I need to know to install Linux?
>
> I am currently reading the RUTE guide but without Linux
> installed it is not as rigorous - On the other hand this guide
> gives a good description of the Linux landscape.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions as to what
> might be helpful reading for someone like me?
>
> Marty
Buy a "distribution" of linux. These come with install guides, users
guides, etc. and the information covered is,
of course, exactly what is needed to insure success for most of the
people, most of the time. Don't worry a
lot about which distro, they all result in putting linux on the machine.
After you've got it running, the 'net is a
marvelous resource.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Kernel options
Date: 10 Sep 2000 10:54:59 GMT
Ronnie Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I tell what has been compiled into my kernel? I know that I can
>modules.conf to see what modules are loaded, but I would like to know if
>things like SCSI emulation, support for Athlon processor extentions etc. are
>in the kernel.
I answered your previous one, but to answer this more specifically ...
:)
Although there isn't quite a general way at the moment, a lot of kernel
options cause entries to be created in the virtual /proc filesystem. If
you have SCSI emulation, you will have /proc/scsi/ide-scsi (I think -
I'm working this out from the kernel source, so I might be wrong).
I can't see an easy way to find out about what processor type your
kernel's compiled for, though.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: GDM returns to LOGIN, doesnt start Gnome ...
Date: 10 Sep 2000 11:00:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm using Suse 6.4 together with Helix Gnome. When I start Gnome using
>startx, everything is fine. Now I tried to configure GDM to have a
>graphical login. I see the login window, but when I try to login the
>screen briefly flashes and then I am back in the login window. This
>happens for root and other users. If I am using KDM or XDM everything
>works.
Have a look in gdm's log files; they should be somewhere like
/var/log/gdm. There may be something useful in your syslog too
(/var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, I'm not sure exactly where SuSE
puts it).
I've had random problems with display manager authentication before that
I never managed to track down; in the end I just switched to one of the
other display managers and figured life was too short.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Give us a chance. We grow on you. Like fungus." - sjk25 on ucam.chat
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