Linux-Setup Digest #624, Volume #19 Thu, 14 Sep 00 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
dump problems (James Bilitski)
loadlin problem (boot fails when / mounted ro) (Elliott Martin)
Re: HELP logon as root ("gregf")
Re: ACCESS TO THE INTERNET THROUGH WINDOWS 98
Re: loadlin problem (boot fails when / mounted ro) (Mickey Stein)
Lynx Help (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
Re: Lynx Help (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
Re: KDE problem ("gregf")
glibc compilation - what about the compile directory? ("Alexander Lindhorst")
Re: KDE problem ("SevDaX")
Re: dump problems (WOOD DAVID M)
Re: tape problem - Cannot detect End of Tape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP4500 print driver (Rod Smith)
Re: SWAP partition size? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Corel Linux installation probs (sdc)
Re: monitor frequency out of range (MaryP)
Modem/COM setting problems ("Neil Castle")
Re: suexec wrapper (David Efflandt)
Printer Help (james montoya)
Re: KDE problem (Thomas)
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From: James Bilitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dump problems
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:30:58 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having problems with dump command backing up to a Seagate SCSI
Travan Tape Drive.
I typed the following command:
$ /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/nst0 /home
and got this result:
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Sep 14 18:13:47 2000
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda6 (/home) to /dev/nst0
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 1262381 tape blocks on 32.41 tape(s).
DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Thu Sep 14 18:13:48 2000
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Thu Sep 14 18:14:28 2000
DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:40
DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 958 KB/s
DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no")
What does this mean? It only took about 30 seconds. How do I backup
/home up using the dump command?
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From: Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: loadlin problem (boot fails when / mounted ro)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:44:49 -0700
I am having trouble getting loadlin.exe to work properly and I have
looked all over the place trying to fix this one. Here's the problem,
if I use the command
shell=c:\boot\loadlin.exe c:\boot\2217 root=/dev/sdb1 ro vga=771
in the config.sys loadlin will load the kernel, but when it gets to the
point of re-mounting the root device rw it comes up with a whole bunch
of messages similar to
/etc/rc.d/rc.S:/bin/uname: Permission denied
for each of the commands in in rc.S and as a result will not boot
linux. So, I tried booting linux with the command
shell=c:\boot\loadlin.exe c:\boot\2217 root=/dev/sdb1 rw vga=771
and now it boots, but cannot check the root device on boot plus it does
not shutdown properly because when it umounts the root dev. it then
re-mounts it ro and tries to run /sbin/sync and reboot but gets the
whole Permission denied thing again. Anyway, any help here would rule.
BTW, I have linux on sdb1, dos/win on sda1, swap on sda5 and then two
sr's, no IDE stuff, and an Adaptec 2930 controller...
-Elliott
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From: "gregf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: HELP logon as root
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:38:45 -0500
OKAY thanks for your responses. This is how we fixed it.
We booted into lilo from the hard-drive, and at the LILO prompt typed:
boot: linux -s -init=/bin/sh
This allowed us to log in single-user mode, and run the 'sh' shell and fix /etc/passwd.
THANKS AGAIN!!
gregf
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Durusau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You boot the emergency disk which he cleverly made when installing
> linux. Then, the root disk can be mounted, fix the password file, and
> NEVER AGAIN modify
> /etc/passwd manually.
>
> Speaking only for myself,
>
> Joe Durusau
>
> PS for entertainment, read the humongous thread(s) on deja in the NG
> comp.unix.solaris entitled 'root shell disease'.
>
>
>
> gregf wrote:
>>
>> My friend at work has linux Mandrake 7.0 installed.
>>
>> He wanted to change the shell which runs as root, so he edited his
>> /etc/passwd file to have the shell be /bin/ksh.
>>
>> unfortunately, this is not a valid file on his file system, and he
>> cannot log into root anymore (get's message that file is not there when
>> he tries to login, or tried 'su')
>>
>> so he's totally hosed himself! I tried helping; tried using
>> 'kdesu', still no luck.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to somehow recover, and be able to somehow
>> log in as root (or at least edit the /etc/passwd file) ??
>> 'su' doesn't work.
>>
>> greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: ACCESS TO THE INTERNET THROUGH WINDOWS 98
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:38:39 GMT
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:50:03 -0400, Sany Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had 2 computers. One of them has windows 98 installed and has access
>to the internet through modem-cable. Another one has redhat linux 6.1
>installed and want to connect to windows 98 and want to have access to
>the internet through windows 98. I tried to make it work for the last 3
>days. Any help or hint for this problem will be very appreciated.
My setup is kind of lazy.
Main linux box, on 24x7
I have my ISP supplied IP on eth0
I have another IP 192.168.1.1 on eth0:0 (netcfg makes this easy)
junkbuster is set to work w/ 192.168.1.1 instead of the standard 127.0.0.1
Windoze box, pretty much only used for printing
The windoze box is 192.168.1.2 and netscape is set to use
192.168.1.1 as the proxy.
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From: Mickey Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: loadlin problem (boot fails when / mounted ro)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:50:56 -0700
I use nearly the identical command (aside from the "shell=" part) and I use
the command from a file "linux.bat" that's called via a standard vanilla
config/autoexec/dos triple-boot menu setup which doesn't execute any other
commands at all. Here's the command:
c:\loadlin\loadlin d:\redhat\kernels\vmlinuz.dvd mem=256M root=/dev/hdb3
ro vga=3
I'm not sure what effect using "shell=" has when launching anything other
than command.exe, but on the off-chance that it *does have some effect,
it's probably worth a shot at trying just your command from a "safe dos
prompt". (no config or autoexec executed at boot). I can't imagine that the
"ro" parm is anything but correct considering the linux boot sequence.
I was just modifying some params on my ext2 file system having booted from
a floppy and mounted /dev/hdb3 ro. I used a util suggested by someone in
here called "tune2fs" which can only be used on filesystems mounted ro. You
might take a look at the output of "tune2fs -l" since it lists the params
of the superblock and the -l command is pretty much benign so can be used
while the filesystem is up and running. Also take a look at /etc/fstab
since that's where it figures out how to remount that fs rw. Just some
thoughts.
Elliott Martin wrote:
> I am having trouble getting loadlin.exe to work properly and I have
> looked all over the place trying to fix this one. Here's the problem,
> if I use the command
> shell=c:\boot\loadlin.exe c:\boot\2217 root=/dev/sdb1 ro vga=771
> in the config.sys loadlin will load the kernel, but when it gets to the
> point of re-mounting the root device rw it comes up with a whole bunch
> of messages similar to
> /etc/rc.d/rc.S:/bin/uname: Permission denied
> for each of the commands in in rc.S and as a result will not boot
> linux. So, I tried booting linux with the command
> shell=c:\boot\loadlin.exe c:\boot\2217 root=/dev/sdb1 rw vga=771
> and now it boots, but cannot check the root device on boot plus it does
> not shutdown properly because when it umounts the root dev. it then
> re-mounts it ro and tries to run /sbin/sync and reboot but gets the
> whole Permission denied thing again. Anyway, any help here would rule.
> BTW, I have linux on sdb1, dos/win on sda1, swap on sda5 and then two
> sr's, no IDE stuff, and an Adaptec 2930 controller...
> -Elliott
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From: Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lynx Help
Date: 14 Sep 2000 22:55:07 GMT
I'm trying lynx on a machine for the first time, and I am getting an error:
metamail: Can't open temporary file!
Can someone suggest a solution to this?
Thanks.
Greg
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http://www.uwm.edu/News/ FAX:414/229-6443
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From: Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lynx Help
Date: 14 Sep 2000 23:03:48 GMT
Add'l info (sorry):
- this is a Mandrake 7.1 box
- only the superuser has this problem. (I'm trying to install Helix
gnome.)
Thanks again.
Greg
Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm trying lynx on a machine for the first time, and I am getting an error:
: metamail: Can't open temporary file!
: Can someone suggest a solution to this?
: Thanks.
: Greg
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UWM University Communications 414/229-4454
: http://www.uwm.edu/News/ FAX:414/229-6443
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http://www.uwm.edu/News/ FAX:414/229-6443
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From: "gregf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: KDE problem
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:05:22 -0500
Repo: THANKS for the info!
gregf
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, repo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thomas wrote:
>>
>> After conneting on the Internet and launching Netscape, I cannot launch
>> any other applications. Can anyone tell what's wrong with this? My
>> computer is a toshiba 4100CDT notebook with slackware7.1, XF86(3.36),
>> Xircom(10/100 + 56k) and KDE installed.
>>
>> Also, can anyone tell me how to netvigate web page by using keyboard
>> only?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Thomas
> Thomas, this happens when your provider changes your host name.
> standard its local host, and its changed to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Then X
> can not connect to the new host and start any application. edit
> /etc/sysconfig/network change localhost into a name you like (eq
> mymachine) edit/etc/hosts be sure it contains at least
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 127.0.0.1 mymachine.linuxfan mymachine
> where linuxfan is a name you choose. be sure /etc/host.conf contains
> at least:
> order hosts,bind
> reboot your machine
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Reply-To: "Alexander Lindhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Alexander Lindhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: glibc compilation - what about the compile directory?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:11:35 +0200
Hi there,
could anyone please tell me if it's safe to remove the compilation directory
after having compiled glibc? There's a lot of documentation about how to do
it, what to do and what not to do, but I couldn't find any notes talking
about what's supposed to happen with the directory in which compilation took
place.
Can I remove it? If not why? What do I have to do in order to be able to
remove it (takes up a lot of space that I could use in other ways)?
I have an Intel Pentium 133 MHz
Kernel 2.2.16
glibc 2.1.3
system.
Thanks for any advice
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From: "SevDaX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: KDE problem
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:19:36 +0200
That's right.
regards
"1stFlight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If you're using kppp to connect, there's an options "configure hostname
> from this address" I believe.. if it's selected your machine will (appear)
> lock because X Windows now thinks you're not coming from the console.
>
>
> DArryl
>
> Thomas wrote:
>
> > After conneting on the Internet and launching Netscape, I cannot launch
> > any other applications.
> > Can anyone tell what's wrong with this?
> > My computer is a toshiba 4100CDT notebook with slackware7.1, XF86(3.36),
> > Xircom(10/100 + 56k) and KDE installed.
> >
> > Also, can anyone tell me how to netvigate web page by using keyboard
> > only?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Thomas
>
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From: WOOD DAVID M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dump problems
Date: 15 Sep 2000 03:12:22 GMT
James Bilitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having problems with dump command backing up to a Seagate SCSI
> Travan Tape Drive.
> I typed the following command:
> $ /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/nst0 /home
> and got this result:
...
> DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
> DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Thu Sep 14 18:14:28 2000
> DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:40
> DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 958 KB/s
> DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
> DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no")
> What does this mean? It only took about 30 seconds. How do I backup
> /home up using the dump command?
I'd guess dump can't figure out the capacity of the tape. Try
/sbin/dump 0ufs /dev/nst0 800000 /dev/nst0
The trailing s indicates you're going to specify a tape size, in some
units I forget. (In my experience the 800000 appears to work fine for
me, but I should do what I advise below.)
(Note that the options may be lumped together as shown.) If this appears
to work (i.e., dump reports estimated remaining times which look quasi-
reasonable---say an hour or more, depending on the size of the partition
being dumped), things are probably OK. Then look at the man page for dump
for some more sophisticated ways of having the tape capacity deduced.
Good luck.
--
David M. Wood
Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
Phone: (303) 273-3853; Fax: (303) 273-3840
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; NeXTMail welcome
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tape problem - Cannot detect End of Tape
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:12:03 GMT
I cannot kill the task. Using Alt-F2, I can get another login
window and issue commands from there. Ctrl-Z does'nt suspend the
task either. "ps" shows the status of the task as "D".
Arun
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aaron Beckstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > We have Linux Redhat v6.2 on a Dell machine. It has a Python SCSI
> > tape drive which is detected OK. I can write to the tape with "tar
> > cvf /dev/st0 etc". Then when I rewind it and read it back in /tmp,
the
> > data (directory etc) is read back OK but the tar task does not
> > terminate. It cannot be killed either. Tried ctrl-c & kill -9.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> > Thx in advance
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> I have noticed with my SCSI tape drive Ctrl-C does not always
work,
> but Ctrl-Z suspends it just fine. From there you can kill the process.
> This may be a little different then what you are describing. Do you
mean
> you cannot kill the job itself, or you just cannot get back to the
shell
> to issue commands again?
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: HP4500 print driver
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:58:46 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Samuel McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I just got a new HP4500 color laser and would REALLY like to print to it
> from Linux. Does anybody know where I can get an appropriate driver?
According to HP
(http://www.pandi.hp.com/pandi-db/prodinfo.product_specs?product=laserjet4500,
to be precise), this product understands PostScript directly, so you
don't need any special drivers.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SWAP partition size?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:29:25 GMT
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:25:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>My computer has a P166 processor, 32 MB of RAM and a 3g HD. I want to
>Install Redhat's Linux 6.2 and the manual says to create a swap
>partition at the same size as the RAM. Now I only have 32mb, so why wont
>I make a larger swap partition, like 128mb or so? Will it improve/hurt
>the system performance?
>I have also thought about creating only one large partition of what left
>of the HD (after creating the swap and the boot partitions). Does it
>have any disadvantages?
=============
Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:06:45
I have a 128M swap partition and 24M ram on my P-166, it has swapped
merrily away for six months, the rule I read, said double your ram or
128M...I just stuck in 128. I think the later versions now, have no
128 limit.
On your large partition..my opinion is, although your outline
above is the easy way, and it will work....however, if your system
gets pranged and you must reformat, you will lose all your custom
work you have done in your home partition, so I make home a partition
of its own...ok ,now when you format you will lose all your mail
spools and stuff in var....so I make that a separate
partition...extend this idea until you are in a position to reinstall
without great loss and you are at your optimum 8-)
Olly P
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From: sdc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux installation probs
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:30:55 GMT
I recently installed Corel Linux (2nd ed.) on my computer. It said the
installation was successful. It never asked to create a boot disk. Now I
dont know how to get to Linux. My computer automatically loads Windows
when it is turned on. Can someone help me? Please email me or reply to
this post.
Thanks
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MaryP)
Subject: Re: monitor frequency out of range
Date: 15 Sep 2000 02:06:14 GMT
In article <8pqs2a$vp2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I set my monitor frequency too high in Xconfigurator and now all I get
> is a message from my monitor telling me that it is out of range. I
> can't change anything because my monitor won't show anything but this
> message. Is there anyway out of this?
What (if anything) happens when you go cntrl-alt-backspace? Or
cntrl-alt-delete? (that one is often trapped and does nothing, but
you might get lucky.) I did that once to my monitor but cntrl-alt-
backspace still worked and I was able to back out of it.
If you are able to get it to reboot watch the bootup messages and
type "linux single" (or whatever works on your machine) when it pauses
at the prompt. Then you can get in to your files and fix them by hand.
Good luck,
MP
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From: "Neil Castle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem/COM setting problems
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:13:33 -0400
Hi
I have recently loaded Mandrake 7.1 onto a separate partition of my PIII 866
with Win 98 as the other OS. My modem is hooked up to Com 5. There is no
obvious
equivalent to this COM setting in the configuration of M7.1. Is it possible
to configure a com5 setting using Konsole or by other means? Since I am a
newbie at Linux any help would be appreciated.
Finally, my modem is a US robotics 56K Voice PCI. Is there any known
problems using this modem with Linux?
Thanks in advance
Neil A. Castle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: suexec wrapper
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 02:20:23 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Thorsten Ha�iepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Having compiled the apache server with the suexec wrapper, now I have the
>following problem:
>
>whenever I put a "User ..." and "Group ..." into any virtual host directive,
>any cgi-script only returns an 500 internal error.
And what does suexec_log say?
>as soon as I remove that directive ("User...") the script runs just perfect.
>
>What do I have to do to change/fix this ?
Read apache doc "Using SetUserID Execution for CGI". Virtual hosts have
to be below the main DocumentRoot in order for suexec to work.
>My homepage-dirs are under /usr/home/[username] where under www/ the scripts
>shall be executed ...
That could work for /~username/ URLs, but not suexec virtual hosts.
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From: james montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer Help
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:33:39 -0700
Can some direct me or give some info on setting up a windows only
printer, HP Deskjet 932c. I'm running redhat 6.1. Any suggestions?
All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: KDE problem
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:56:44 +0000
Thank you very much 1stFight and repo
It works!
Thomas
1stFlight wrote:
> If you're using kppp to connect, there's an options "configure hostname
> from this address" I believe.. if it's selected your machine will (appear)
> lock because X Windows now thinks you're not coming from the console.
>
> DArryl
>
> Thomas wrote:
>
> > After conneting on the Internet and launching Netscape, I cannot launch
> > any other applications.
> > Can anyone tell what's wrong with this?
> > My computer is a toshiba 4100CDT notebook with slackware7.1, XF86(3.36),
> > Xircom(10/100 + 56k) and KDE installed.
> >
> > Also, can anyone tell me how to netvigate web page by using keyboard
> > only?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Thomas
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