Linux-Setup Digest #628, Volume #19 Fri, 15 Sep 00 17:13:18 EDT
Contents:
All better now - Better Error Messages and UtilitiesNeeded? (Duncan Cameron)
Updating libc.so.5 (Jens-Peter Konrath)
Re: Specific ppp problem (Peter Bloomfield)
Re: Hardware RAID - Cannot update Linux kernel (Aaron Beckstrom)
Re: tape problem - Cannot detect End of Tape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
GCC 2.95.2 ("Victor")
Package list (Jaro Melgr)
How to copy data to DAT tapes ("K.M. Gnanaratne")
How to copy data to DAT tapes ("K.M. Gnanaratne")
Does anyone run RedHat 6.2 Sparc Linux using Solaris emulation? (Alex Yung)
Re: HP4500 print driver (mst)
Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus! (Buschman)
rh62 and openssh ("Darren Welson")
HELP: My partition table got roached. (Reneltje Morrison)
Re: GCC 2.95.2 (Colin Watson)
Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus! (Buschman)
Re: rh62 and openssh (Chris Ahlstrom)
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From: Duncan Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: All better now - Better Error Messages and UtilitiesNeeded?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:57:00 GMT
I had neglected to mkswap when I had recreated the partition, which I
have done, and things are working fine. On the off chance there are any
gurus watching the antics of the mortals in here, a more informative
error message than "invalid argument" or the entirely misleading "fs
type swap not supported by kernel" might have been helpful here. Even,
dare I suggest, a partitioning utility that would prompt for and handle
the formatting? Sometimes I wonder if somebody is deliberately keeping
even simple things in Linux obscure enough to drive non-programmers
away.
Anyway, thanks moffe for your suggestion and I'm off to try and impose
some order on my hopelessly buggy window management (enlightment/Gnome -
pretty look, but dreadful instability). Maybe if I can figure out all
the buried files necessary to try unhang enlightment and get Icewm
running....
In article <8pl3rd$4i7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The swap partition won't load at boot ("invalid argument"), and
returns
> the msg above when I try to mount it manually. cat /proc/filesystems
> confirms that there is no swap fs supported. This problem seems to
date
> from a hard drive crash (which is now ok), but I have done nothing to
> the kernel to cause a change. Because of this, I am reluctant to
> re-compile, at least until I get some feedback on other possible
reasons
> why this is happening.
> I have deleted and recreated the swap partition, just in case.
> My fstab entry looks ok to me:
> /dev/hda3 none swap sw 1 1
> The distribution is RH 6.0
> My best guesses so far are that:
> ?the swap fs support needs to be loaded as a module and the module is
> either not loading or is missing
> ?this distribution uses a different name for the swap filesystem
> and/or needs a different fstab entry
>
> Any help is appreciated, since the system definitely needs a swap
file.
> It is acting like Windows, hanging and crashing when I have
> memory-intensive apps running! e-mail replies are fine with me, as my
> newsgroup access is a bit slow - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks
>
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> Before you buy.
>
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From: Jens-Peter Konrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Updating libc.so.5
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:42:08 +0200
Maybe this is kinda stupid, but I have the followin question:
A few days ago, I updated (or at least, tried to) update libc.so.5 and
glibc using the .tga-files of the newest Slackware-distribution (since
the system is slackware). So I copied the files , untarred them and run
ldconfig. Unfortunately, the was a X session running while I did this.
So when I swithed back to rthe X session, X died and crashed my machine.
My problem now is that I can't boot anymore because initd won't start. I
suspect that the libc.so.5 wasnt properly updated. But even setting new
links using a rescue disk won't solve the problem. Do I have to
reinstall? Or is there another way of getting the linux box running?
TIA
Jens
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From: Peter Bloomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Specific ppp problem
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:51:19 -0400
Add ``noauth'' to /etc/ppp/options. The default is to require the host
to authenticate itself, and you need to turn that off.
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From: Aaron Beckstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID - Cannot update Linux kernel
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:04:27 -0400
Solved. I got sick of messing with it so I just compiled DAC960 and my SCSI
support ito ther kernel.... Who knows why it does not work, not work
wasting time with it.
Aaron Beckstrom wrote:
> I have a RAID level 5 system (hardware) that has the entire file
> system on it. I did a install using Redhat 6.2 and the RAID controller
> was set up correctly and intializes fine. The problem came later in the
> day when I started applying patches. Default Redhat 6.2 has kernel
> 2.2.14 included, since it has a root vulneribility in it, I attempted to
> upgrade to kernel 2.2.16. I got through that just fine, until I issued
> the mkinitrd command. At that point mkinitrd reported "all of your
> loopback devices are in use". Any idea where this is coming from or how
> to work around it?
> One thing I did get from redhat is that using software RAID
> (raidtools) you cannot upgrade the kernel if /boot is installed on the
> RAID partition. I see no other documentation that indicates the same
> applies to hardware RAID, but though it was worth mentioning. Also I
> have the latest Firmware on the DAC960.
>
> -Aaron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tape problem - Cannot detect End of Tape
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:08:11 GMT
In article <8ptgu3$1tu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might try 'ps -AH' to list the processes in hierarchical order and
> kill -9 the parent process of tar.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Thx. I tried that. Its parent was "bash" which I could kill. But the
tar task is still there (no parents). Output of ps -AH | grep tar
11380 ? 00:00:00 tar
Arun
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From: "Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GCC 2.95.2
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:52:43 GMT
I am trying to add a gcc RPM package. I added it and g++. However the
include header files aren't installed. What package installs those?
I am using TurboLinux 6 and the RPM from their CD.
Please advise
Thanks
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From: Jaro Melgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Package list
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:54:01 -0600
Okay, I'm relatively new to this. I've installed linux before, but
usually through the guided process. This time I have a box with a
limited space and need to do a custom install and manually select
packages, it's a RH 6.2 and I'd like it to be a network and web server,
running PHP and MySQL, email,... the basics. There are packages that
are obvious but I'm not sure what all I need, don't want to leave
anything out.
thanks,
jaro
--
Jaro Melgr (801) 371-2739
Internet = Freedom of Choice
...anyone, anywhere, anytime, any platform, any device
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against
every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -- Thomas Jefferson
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From: "K.M. Gnanaratne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to copy data to DAT tapes
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:12:04 -0500
HI:
I have a DAT drive and trying find the command to copy
data files to DAT tapes and read them back. Is there any FAQ
on this available?
The linux PC can detect drive which is wangDAT 2600.
Thanks.
k.gnanaratne
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "K.M. Gnanaratne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to copy data to DAT tapes
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:12:14 -0500
HI:
I have a DAT drive and trying find the command to copy
data files to DAT tapes and read them back. Is there any FAQ
on this available?
The linux PC can detect drive which is wangDAT 2600.
Thanks.
k.gnanaratne
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Does anyone run RedHat 6.2 Sparc Linux using Solaris emulation?
Date: 15 Sep 2000 19:57:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got all of the Solaris libraries installed. According to the
README, I just need to run "insmod solaris". But it did not come with
such module. Do I have to rebuild the kernel to obtain such module?
If anyone can have some pointer to reading materials, I appreciate
very much. Thanks.
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP4500 print driver
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:09:15 -0400
Samuel McClure wrote:
>
> 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?
> Or if not, is it possible to print to it through my Win2000 machine? Or
> is there any way to get the appropriate specs so I can hack a driver
> myself?
>
It's a postscript printer, you don't need anything special for it. You
can send it PS directly, and it will print it. I use one as a network
printer - you can use its "raw" queue which understands PS.
MST
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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 20:29:28 GMT
I have noticed that in /etc/conf.modules it lists my driver
incorrectly.
It says:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 3c59x
However both cards are 3Com 3c905b-tx NIC's. I remember when I had
6.1 installed with a single 3c905b-tx, it did the same thing. It
detected and installed a 3c59x driver however with 6.1 it worked fine.
Is there a 3c90x driver and if so how do I change it????
thanks for your help.
Buschman
On 14 Sep 2000 17:19:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
>writes:
>
>
>]Once again I turn to the linux guru's! God bless all you fine
>]individuals who take time out of your day to help a poor newbie like
>]myself.
>
>]I am having a network problem and used your netstat -rn command and
>]something interesting came up:
>
>]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.
>
>Yu
>]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
>
>
>]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
>
>So, all of this looks fine.
>The lastline says to send all packets not otherwise matched (since this
>matches all packets) to the gateway machine 33.
>
>]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. Why do I have two IP Addresses and why is it picking .32?
>
>You don't. This is the subnet address. Any address which when ANDed with
>the netmask and gives this result is to be sent out over the eth0
>interface.
>
>]That's not even in my IP range.
>Actually it is the base of your IP range. (I do not know if you could
>actually give a machine that address however)
>
>
>]Using ifconfig gives me this:
>
>]eth0
>]Link encap:Ethernet
>]inet addr:209.221.101.49
>]Bcast:209.221.101.63
>]Mask:255.255.255.224
>
>The broadcast address is the subnet with all of the final bits set to 1
>(your address AND Netmask)+(NOT Netmask), where NOT is the bitwise NOT.
> 142.103.234.32 + 31
>This is fine.
>
>
>]Now what is a broadcast??? Why has it choosen the last address in my
>]IP range(.33 - .63)? I have tried changing it by typing ifconfig
>]broadcast 209.221.101.33, but it never works. Sometimes it changes to
>]209.221.101.255, sometime it changes the inet addr. But no matter
>]what, whenever I reboot the machine it always resets to the numbers
>]above.
>
>The broadcast gives the machines to whom the broadcast is directed a
>hint as to which machines it is destined for. Ie, Broadcast AND machineIP=machineIP
>tells the machine it should pay attention to the broadcast. (broadcasts
>are IP messages which are usually general queries-- eg arp queries--
>could the machine with some IP address please tell me its ethernet MAC
>number.)
>
>]Finally how can I fix this problem?
>
>What problem?
>
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From: "Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: rh62 and openssh
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:45:55 -0700
I am trying to install openssh for Linux and cannot complete the RPM
install. When I install the RPMs, I get an
'rpmlib (version discrepency) <= 3.0.3 - ...'
or something like this. I am not sure what rpmlib means, is it the
rpmbuild, or somthing else?
If anyone has successfully installed openssh 2.2.0 I would like to know if
you have had any trouble like this.
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:51:07 -0700
From: Reneltje Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: HELP: My partition table got roached.
Hello,
Don't know how it happened, but my partition table got slammed.
I'm running a RH 6.0 system with 2.2.12 kernel.
I had a number of partitions setup roughly like this:
/dev/sda1 / 1GB
/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sda3 /home 8GB
/dev/sda4 /usr 8GB
I have an 18G drive, and my root partition was 1 gig,
with the rest of the drive carved up evenly between home
and usr. Now, my home and user partitions are gone
and I'm left with an intact root partition and another
"Extended" partition which has the rest of the disk.
I can boot the system because my root partition is happy,
but now all my files that lived under /home are stranded.
So now it looks like:
/dev/sda1 / 1GB
/dev/sda2 16GB
So... is there any way to get back my partitions?
I used that RH disk druid tool to set up my partitions.
Does anyone know if that tool makes a backup of my partition settings
anywhere?
Is there a backup partition table stored anywhere on disk?
Any ideas I can try before I go and reinstall thus losing
my data.
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: GCC 2.95.2
Date: 15 Sep 2000 20:37:24 GMT
Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to add a gcc RPM package. I added it and g++. However the
>include header files aren't installed. What package installs those?
On RPM-based distributions, probably glibc-devel.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Alas, alas poor Willie, we'll hear his voice no more.
What he took for H2O was H2SO4" - Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes
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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 20:50:34 GMT
OK removing the second NIC fixed the problem. But it doesn't
neccessarily explain what the problem was. Now how do I get a second
NIC card back into the machine to run IP Masquerading?
Buschman
thanks for the help fellas.
On 14 Sep 2000 17:19:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
>writes:
>
>
>]Once again I turn to the linux guru's! God bless all you fine
>]individuals who take time out of your day to help a poor newbie like
>]myself.
>
>]I am having a network problem and used your netstat -rn command and
>]something interesting came up:
>
>]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.
>
>Yu
>]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
>
>
>]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
>
>So, all of this looks fine.
>The lastline says to send all packets not otherwise matched (since this
>matches all packets) to the gateway machine 33.
>
>]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. Why do I have two IP Addresses and why is it picking .32?
>
>You don't. This is the subnet address. Any address which when ANDed with
>the netmask and gives this result is to be sent out over the eth0
>interface.
>
>]That's not even in my IP range.
>Actually it is the base of your IP range. (I do not know if you could
>actually give a machine that address however)
>
>
>]Using ifconfig gives me this:
>
>]eth0
>]Link encap:Ethernet
>]inet addr:209.221.101.49
>]Bcast:209.221.101.63
>]Mask:255.255.255.224
>
>The broadcast address is the subnet with all of the final bits set to 1
>(your address AND Netmask)+(NOT Netmask), where NOT is the bitwise NOT.
> 142.103.234.32 + 31
>This is fine.
>
>
>]Now what is a broadcast??? Why has it choosen the last address in my
>]IP range(.33 - .63)? I have tried changing it by typing ifconfig
>]broadcast 209.221.101.33, but it never works. Sometimes it changes to
>]209.221.101.255, sometime it changes the inet addr. But no matter
>]what, whenever I reboot the machine it always resets to the numbers
>]above.
>
>The broadcast gives the machines to whom the broadcast is directed a
>hint as to which machines it is destined for. Ie, Broadcast AND machineIP=machineIP
>tells the machine it should pay attention to the broadcast. (broadcasts
>are IP messages which are usually general queries-- eg arp queries--
>could the machine with some IP address please tell me its ethernet MAC
>number.)
>
>]Finally how can I fix this problem?
>
>What problem?
>
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: rh62 and openssh
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:54:38 GMT
Darren Welson wrote:
>
> I am trying to install openssh for Linux and cannot complete the RPM
> install. When I install the RPMs, I get an
>
> 'rpmlib (version discrepency) <= 3.0.3 - ...'
> or something like this. I am not sure what rpmlib means, is it the
> rpmbuild, or somthing else?
>
> If anyone has successfully installed openssh 2.2.0 I would like to know if
> you have had any trouble like this.
Download the tar.gz version instead. If you have your C compiler installed
(RH does it by default), then you just become root and do
tar -xzf filenameofpackage.tar.gz
cd filenameofpackage
./configure
make
make install
and then become your normal user self again. It actually is pretty
fast and easy in most cases.
Chris
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