Linux-Setup Digest #626, Volume #19 Fri, 15 Sep 00 10:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Apache and Samba on Redhat Linux 6.2 (Harry Lewis)
File Server Setup - Redhat 6.1 ("Colin Griffiths")
Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Broken Gnu-make.... (Eric)
Re: via82cxxx won't load or configure - RH6.2 ("Frederik Tilkin")
Re: WU-FTP help needed (Kenny A. Chaffin)
linux message: eth0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Please help. ("Steve")
Speed of loading large applications ("Rich Birch")
Re: More help. ("Steve")
PLIP Errors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
'ESC' does not working?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Redhat 6.2 and compiling the Tulip driver (Pietro Cagnoni)
Epson USB scanner trouble
Re: linux message: eth0 ("caniedringhaus")
Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus! (Buschman)
fdisk problems with large disks (255 heads, 63 sectors/track) ? ("Thomas Eisenzopf")
Re: Lynx Help (Bill Pringlemeir)
DRMON17 monitor (Bill Pringlemeir)
Re: Broken Gnu-make.... (Josef Oswald)
Re: Speed of loading large applications ("ne...")
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache and Samba on Redhat Linux 6.2
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:24:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you get any messages on startup? When the list of services being
initiated comes up on boot, do httpd, smb, and nbd show up as failed?
Also, what do the respective log files show? Finally, what steps have
you taken to configure these services (including configuring their startup)?
Harry
Venkat wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> We have just added a powerful brand new pIII machine to our NT network to
> try Linux, then we have successfully installed Redhat Linux 6.2 with custom
> installation and carefully chosen Apache Webserver and Samba server and
> configured to work as a web server as well as file server. But, to our
> surprise, it runs only FTP server, the rest 2 are not working
>
> Can anyone of you help me as how to configure Samba and Apache on this
> machine
>
> Thanx
>
> Venkat
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From: "Colin Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: File Server Setup - Redhat 6.1
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:26:17 +0100
Earlier this year "PC Magazine" undertook performance testing of Redhat 6.1
against NT and Win2000. The results for Linux performance were not that
favourable straight out of the box. However suggestions were made by
experts at Redhat to enhance the performance.
Suggestions were:
Ensure NIC was running in full duplex mode
Increasing tag queueing depth for SCSI drive
Adjusting 'noatime' option to reducesystem write backs
Buffer-cache set to grow freely using 'bdflush' the exact option was
'echo 100 5000 640 2560 150 30000 5000 1884 2>/proc/sys/vm/bdflush'
My questions are as follows:
Should the 'noatime' option be added to all volumes on all disks in the
system, or just to volumes where the majority of the data will be kept?
With regard to bdflush what are the figures after 'echo' and will this
option be permanantly kept after a system reset?
Any comments would be welcomed
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus!
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:43:31 GMT
[Please note FollowUp-To: header]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman) writes:
[...]
>I am having a network problem and used your netstat -rn command and
>something interesting came up:
And your problem is - what?
>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags ... Iface
>209.221.101.49 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH eth0
>209.221.101.32 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U eth0
>127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U lo
>0.0.0.0 209.221.101.33 0.0.0.0 UG eth0
Looks fine.
>Let me tell you how this is supposed to look.
>IP: 209.221.101.49
>Gateway: 209.221.101.33
>Netmask: 255.255.255.224
>Interface: eth0
That's how it is.
>Now I do have an eth1 installed but I have disabled it in linuxconf.
>Eventually this machine will ipmasquerade, but first things, first.
>What do the U, UH, and UG flags mean? The man file doesn't seem to
>say.
Up , Host, Gateway (IIRC).
>Why do I have two IP Addresses
You have two of them because one is the interface address, the
other one is the network defined by the IP address/netmask combo.
With the given settings , your IP range is
209.221.101.32 network address
209.221.101.33 - 62 useable IP addresses
209.221.101.63 broadcast address
See RFC1878 for details on subnetting.
>and why is it picking .32?
Because that is the network address.
>That's not even in my IP range.
[...]
It is. It's just not a usable IP address.
Now , where is your problem ?
Michael
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Broken Gnu-make....
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:29:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Josef Oswald wrote:
>
> Hi:-)
>
> A couple of Days I am trying to compile a new kernel, and the weird
> thing is that vfat support is never compiled into it. I used all three
> possibilities for make config with the same result, each kernel lacks
> vfat support.... also some modules are not created either.....
>
> kernel versions are 2.2.14, 2.2.17 as well as 2.4-testXX
>
> any clues?
>
> thanks
> --
> Josef Oswald -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http:// counter.li.org
I'm not sure if you are new at this, but have you read the howto on
kernel compiling? If not, do so (RTFM). Else give us some more info, on
what you did precisely (which steps you took (example): make clean &&
make dep && make xconfig && make modules && make modules_install)
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From: "Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: via82cxxx won't load or configure - RH6.2
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:43:57 GMT
"Dexter N Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all
>
> Newbie here, have just installed RedHat 6.2, and can't get sound to
> work. Module via82cxxx reports "in use or busy" and fails to load -
> what's up? It works fine under Win98se.
> BIOS settings have "Legacy sound" and "SB" both enabled, IRQ set at
> 10, and IRQ10 set at "Legacy ISA" (thius from memory, as I am not at
> that machine at the moment - it's 55km away :^)
>
> Hopefully...
>
> Dex
I know about alot of people having trouble with this chipset (including me).
According to others it only works when you install the ALSA sound drivers
http://www.alsa-project.org/.
I didn't install these yet so I don't know.
May I suggest that you read what's written about this chip at the
comp.os.linux.hardware newsgroup (and if you don't find your solution, post
your question there also).
Frederik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Subject: Re: WU-FTP help needed
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 05:34:04 -0600
In article <7lMv5.2604$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I have installed wu-ftp on my linux box. I have run rpm -qa | grep ftp and
> verified it is installed. What I don't know is how to start it! It is
> installed, but not running. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arthur
>
>
>
It's really inetd that does it, make sure it is starting (started) up.
KAC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: linux message: eth0
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:56:06 GMT
Hello all,
I run linux mandrake 7.1, and have samba and netatalk working...
I got this message on the shell:
eth0: card reports no resources
why that message...
could anyone give me advice.
Thanks in advance.
vuru
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From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:27:50 GMT
Back to win 98 ics. I can ping any ip# i wan but am not getting name
resolution. I can input the ip address and access a website but not the
name. ie www.yahoo.com does not work but 216.32.74.52 works. The next
problem is, when I finally figured out I could get to the web with the
address, no graphics were displayed only text. I am fairly sure I have my
video card properly installed. Any Ideas on either one will be greatly
appreciated.
I will learn this OS as soon as I am finished with school. I think I like it
enough to give it time to learn and implement.
Steve
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From: "Rich Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Speed of loading large applications
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:34:51 +0100
I have a PIII 500, 128Mb, 8.4Gb 5400rpm hd and have noticed that large
programs like netscape 6 and staroffice take ages to load. When I say ages I
mean in the region of 15 to maybe 20 seconds. Netscape 6 is obviously still
in the development stage, but I'm sure that in the dark old days of me using
win9x an equivilent sized program would not take so long. I'm not sure what
the
status of my swap partition is, but would it help at all to make sure it's
128Mb or so? I've also used hdparm to set some supposedly safe settings that
should speed it up slightly. However the new settings don't seem to make
much of a difference, if any at all. If I read up on hdparm would it be
possible to tweek it so as to make some noticeable difference?
Maybe I'm just being too fussy! Any pointers would be appreciated
Rich
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From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More help.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:35:49 GMT
Thanks Lew, It will help a lot knowing how to access them. I want to learn
Linux, but right now I am taking 4 college classes and working 2 part time
jobs. That doesn't leave much research time. After December I will probably
put a lot more time into learning it.
Thanks again.
Steve
"Lew Pitcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Steve wrote:
> >
> > Where can I get my hands on these how-to files?
>
> They are all available from the Linux Documentation Project at
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/
>
>
> --
> Lew Pitcher
>
> Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PLIP Errors
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:26:48 GMT
PLIP Errors
After doing a full installed of redhat 6.2, if I try to install the
plip module but using the following command I get errors
command:
'insmod plip'
error:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
parport_claim_R46138e04
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
parport_register_device_Ra78805aa
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
parport_unregister_device_R857406d1
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
parport_release_Re207d4f8
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 'ESC' does not working??
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:28:55 GMT
'ESC' does not working??
After install redhat 6.2 my 'ESC' key does not bring me into linedit
mode. I set -o vi but stil each time I hit the 'ESC' the bell sounds.
please email me is you could help
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From: Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 and compiling the Tulip driver
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:41:34 +0200
> I don't think I can just copy them from another computer
> without causing some problems, can I??
Yes you can! And if you type
# cd /usr/src ; ln -s linux-2.2.14 linux
you should be able to recompile the kernel.
Maybe the real problem is that the rpm with the kernel source has never
been installed.
Hope this helps.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson USB scanner trouble
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: 15 Sep 2000 07:50:52 -0500
I'm having trouble installing my EPSON Perfection 636U USB scanner.
I did all of the things I think I'm supposed to:
1) Updated my 2.2.16 kernel with the backport patch, set USB options, recompiled,
installed usbcore, etc. I tried using 2.4.0-test7 but it keeps panicking on me.
Here are the installed modules (of importance):
scanner 4788 0 (unused)
uhci 20148 0 (unused)
usbcore 48008 0 [scanner uhci]
2) The /proc filesystem has the info on my scanner:
14 % cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI-alt Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=e400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=0101 Rev= 1.04
S: Manufacturer=EPSON
S: Product=Perfection636
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=usbscanner
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
I also got sane-1.0.1, patched it for USB (off a USB page), set
/usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf:
15 % cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf
usb /dev/usb/scanner0
Of course, having made the device:
18 % ls -la /dev/usb/scanner0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 180, 48 Sep 13 19:25 /dev/usb/scanner0
Every tool I use tells me the scanner is there, but scanimage can't find it:
19 % scanimage -L
20 %
Any ideas? Sometimes scanimage would hang- now it just replies with nothing.
Thanks,
Roger
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From: "caniedringhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: linux message: eth0
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:29:32 -0500
Ethernet card probably not working
cn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8pt2oh$gi8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
>
> I run linux mandrake 7.1, and have samba and netatalk working...
> I got this message on the shell:
>
> eth0: card reports no resources
>
> why that message...
> could anyone give me advice.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> vuru
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus!
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:37:20 GMT
>]>
>]>]Destination Gateway Genmask Flags ... Iface
>]>]209.221.101.49 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH eth0
>]>]209.221.101.32 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U eth0
>]>
>]>As I understand it, an address is
>]>bitwise ANDed with the Netmask. This is then compared with the
>]>"destination" address and if they agree, then this is a matching route.
>]>The U on that line says that this is supposed to be a subnet (rather
>]>than UH for host and UG for gateway) Your netmask has the 1 2 4 8 and 16
>]>bits 0 in the last byte, so any address in the range 32-63 should match
>]>this and be sent out on the eth0 interface.
>]>
OK I have been reading up on this stuff and I understand what you guys
are talking about here. Although I am still a little fuzzy when you
guys say "bitwise AND" Basically I have 32 IPs, 29 useable after you
take out .32(the network), .63(braodcast), and .33(router). I
understand the concepts of ANDing, due to my C++ background. I also
understand that as the number on my subnet mask goes down, my IP
addresses on my subnet increase. I don't quite understand the
difference between class A, B, and C networks just yet. I orignally
thought that it had to octet(like 209.x.x.x is a class A and
209.221.x.x is a class B and 209.221.101.x is a class C) but now I'm
not so sure.
>The protocol always chooses the most specific route, so stuff on your
>subnet will not get sent to the gateway, even though they fall under the
>default criterion, because you have a more specific (netmask has fewer
>zeros) route (the second one) to those systems.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>]>]Finally how can I fix this problem?
>]>
>]>What problem?
>]>
>
>]I have no networking. I can only ping myself. I previously had a 6.1
>]mandrake install that worked fine. I now am using Mandrake 7.1 and
>]the install was totally different. But I basically copied all my
>
>Ah. OK, now we can try to narrow things down.
>What happens when you do
>ping 209.221.101.33
just sits there. The only thing thing I can ping is .49, .63, and
32. I can't even ping my router which is .33. I can also resolve my
own hostname buschman.net.
I have called my host to verify that my numbers are correct and they
are. My DNS, gateway, subnetmask, and ip addresses are all right on
target.
Someone mentioned a problem with the firewall. Now eventhough I
haven't touched the firewall software is it possible that this is the
problem? I mean Mandrake 7.1 has a lot more RPM's and a much larger
install than did 6.1. I eventually want firewall and IP masquerading
on this machine so I believe the packages are installed, but I have to
have the machine up and running before I can consider getting knee
deep into those major headaches. So do you guys think either of these
packages could be causing me problems? If so how can I see if they
are effecting my networking? How can I disable them?
>do you get a response. If so, do you get a response when you ping that
>machine by name? If not then you have problems with your dns lookup
>(look at your resolv.conf file for entries for nameservers.)
>
Thanks so much for you very thorough reply.
Buschman
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From: "Thomas Eisenzopf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fdisk problems with large disks (255 heads, 63 sectors/track) ?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:44:56 GMT
Hi!
I use a RAID Array (Promise FastTrak66) with ca. 60GB. There I have
installed an ext2 Partition, beginning at 3 GB and 3 GB size.
If I use a DOS tool to make a partition (i.e. efdisk oder fdisk), FAT32/NTFS
oder ext2, then the partition ends at head 254 and sector 63. Using Linux
fdisk the partition ends at head 63 und sector 32. All other partitions
(with partition end at head 254 and sector 63) are displayed with "incorrect
end of partition" by Linux fdisk.
Using DOS/Windows I see the reverse situation: PartitionMagic shows the ext2
partition faulty, because it doesn�t end at head 254 and sector 63, but head
63 and sector 32 ...
I�d appreciate any advice, what could be the problem and how to solve it
(without installing new).
Regards,
Thomas.
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Subject: Re: Lynx Help
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:45:39 GMT
Greg> I'm trying lynx on a machine for the first time, and I am
Greg> getting an error: metamail: Can't open temporary file!
Greg> Can someone suggest a solution to this?
I had a similar problem. Check the permissions on your tmp
directory and any links that it may have (/var/tmp). Also
examine the path that `metamail' is on. Does root have access
to this? Try a `set | grep tmp' from a user and root account
to see if there are differences.
hth,
Bill
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Subject: DRMON17 monitor
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:49:10 GMT
Hello,
I have a DRMON17 monitor. I searched the internet for the manufacture
`Momenta Technologies'. I could not find a URL. I lost the docs
(stupid me) for the monitor and cann't find the supported frequency
ranges and modes or more importantly the recommended modes.
I just discovered that XF86Setup allows you to change the X11
resolution. I am use to 1028x1296 (or whatever) mode and would like
to use it.
tia,
Bill
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Broken Gnu-make....
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:53:38 GMT
Eric wrote:
> I'm not sure if you are new at this, but have you read the howto on
> kernel compiling? If not, do so (RTFM). Else give us some more info, on
> what you did precisely (which steps you took (example): make clean &&
> make dep && make xconfig && make modules && make modules_install)
Hi, Eric :-)
Of course I compiled my kernels several times starting with 2.2.10,
2.2.14 also I did _read_ and print out the Manual :-)
OK my steps
make clean
make menuconfig
make bzImage ( since my kernel turns out to be rather large :-( )
make modules
make modules install
make bzdisk ( since I still boot from a floppy)
copy the new kernel to /boot/vmlinuz
and updated lilo..... :-)
so what could be the reason.... should I delete the
/lib/moduls/<version> directory and then compile the kernel again?
thanks :-)
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Speed of loading large applications
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:54:21 GMT
On Sep 15, 2000 at 13:34, Rich Birch eloquently wrote:
>I have a PIII 500, 128Mb, 8.4Gb 5400rpm hd and have noticed that large
>programs like netscape 6 and staroffice take ages to load. When I say ages I
>mean in the region of 15 to maybe 20 seconds. Netscape 6 is obviously still
>in the development stage, but I'm sure that in the dark old days of me using
>win9x an equivilent sized program would not take so long. I'm not sure what
>the
>status of my swap partition is, but would it help at all to make sure it's
>128Mb or so? I've also used hdparm to set some supposedly safe settings that
>should speed it up slightly. However the new settings don't seem to make
>much of a difference, if any at all. If I read up on hdparm would it be
>possible to tweek it so as to make some noticeable difference?
>
>Maybe I'm just being too fussy! Any pointers would be appreciated
Well I have an AMD K7 800MHz 192MB ram and a 20Gb 7200rpm hd
and StarOffice takes about 15secs to start up. So I guess you
are in the same boat we all are in. I would say you have done
all you could do.
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