Linux-Setup Digest #709, Volume #19 Wed, 27 Sep 00 10:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Boot from lan (Olivier Thibault)
Re: Kernel panic: No init found. Try the init= option... ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Re: Redhat Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT WS ("Philo")
problem with lpd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: honeypot + syslogd (Rasputin)
second hard disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: The Truth About the Kursk Disaster (John Beardmore)
Re: The Truth About the Kursk Disaster (John Beardmore)
Re: What's the best Linux MP3 encode ? (John Beardmore)
Re: inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use ("Vinson Armstead")
Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2 x RTL 8139 Cards = doesn't work (Joerg Morbitzer)
Re: Implications (NAVARRO LOPEZ)
Re: Telnet (Joerg Morbitzer)
Installing RPMS (smam)
Cannot connect with FTP ("Michael")
Re: linux: how to convert .BIN to .ISO ? (Eric)
Re: Cannot connect with FTP (Jeffrey Scott)
Re: second hard disk (Rootman)
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From: Olivier Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot from lan
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:12:13 +0200
Hello,
I got a problem with net booting.
I have a RH 6.2 installed on a computer, and it works fine.
But i want my computer to boot on the network.
So i put a 3com nic with a flash rom, configure a bootp and tftp server
and made a boot image (with the netboot package).
The computer loads the image properly and loads the kernel, but i have a
message during the boot process :
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= options to kernel.
Can anybody explain me this message and help me ?
Thanks.
Olivier
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: No init found. Try the init= option...
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:31:34 +0000
I have restored the /lib directory now and my linux box at home is back
in business ... without having to reinstall linux.
jmsalvo wrote:
>
> I found out why:
>
> The entire /lib directory is missing!! -- /sbin/init is dynamically
> linked to certain files in /lib.
>
> I'm now slowly putting in all the files that were supposed to be in /lib
> from another linux box (at the office).
>
> Fortunately, the BootDisk-HOWTO proved to be very useful, and I created
> my own boot+root disk.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Salvo
>
> In article <8qn43r$sij$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Kernel 2.2.16
> >
> > Before I rebooted and got the message above, all files seems to have
> > "disappared" (but not really. More on later/below). For example, 'ls'
> or
> > 'sh' gives a "No such file or directory".
> >
> > Unfortunately, I did not try '/bin/sh'.( I am saying this as this has
> > impotance below)
> >
> > However, I can pwd, cd, set.
> >
> > I rebooted, and got the kernel panic specified in the subject of this
> > post. The kernel panic shows after mounting the root fs in read-only
> > mode and after the "Freeing unused kernel memory: 44kb freed" message.
> >
> > To get around the kernel panic, I tried, from within the LILO prompt,
> > like:
> >
> > LILO: linux-latest init=/bin/sh debug root=/dev/hda7 panic=10
> >
> > ...without any luck.
> >
> > Now the strange part:
> >
> > I can mount and see the entire contents of my root partititon (and
> > everything else for that matter), if I:
> >
> > * Boot from CD using the RedHat installation CD, then
> > * Select Install
> > * Tell the installation to use fdisk to partition hda (I did this only
> > so I can mount the root fs), ...
> > * Then while the installation is in fdisk ( but not changing anything
> on
> > the partititon tables ), I switch to a console (Alt+F2) for the bash
> > prompt and I mount the root fs:
> >
> > mount -t ext2 hda7 /tmp/disk1
> >
> > .... and there is my root fs.
> >
> > * sbin/init is there (I tried executing /tmp/disk1/sbin/init to test
> if
> > it is corrupted. It worked so it is not corrupted)
> > * bin/sh is there ( also tried executing /tmp/disk1/bin/sh. Worked. No
> > file corruption )
> > * etc/inittab is there and I can read it using 'cat
> > /tmp/disk1/etc/inittab' )
> >
> > Verified that the root fs specified in the kernel is /dev/hda7, so I
> ran
> > :
> >
> > /tmp/disk1/usr/sbin/rdev /tmp/disk1/boot/vmlinuz-latest
> >
> > and it gave me:
> >
> > Root 0x0307
> >
> > ...which is correct.
> >
> > All in all:
> >
> > * Not a LILO problem
> > Otherwise, the kernel would not have loaded in the first place and the
> > kernel would not have been able to mount the root fs in read-only
> mode.
> >
> > * Not a partition table problem.
> > Otherwise, I would not have been able to mount and read/execute files
> > from my root fs using the procedure above.
> >
> > * Not a kernel problem.
> > Otherwise, rdev would have shown a different value for the root
> > partition
> >
> > Any ideas out there?
> >
> > What is unique about a root partition / fs that allows it to be
> mounted
> > but not have the kernel read or execute anything?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John Salvo
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT WS
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:51:01 -0500
from my limited experience i found that i've always needed to first set
aside a single partition for linux (rather than free space)
then i go to the linux installation,
*delete* the partition to creteate the free space to
*add* my linux partitions.
it has never failed yet
Philo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: problem with lpd
Date: 27 Sep 2000 10:37:38 GMT
I have the following problem with lpd on several machines all
running Redhat 6.1
Printing to a remote queue sometimes fail, and the corresponding
spool directory contains, in addition the the normal ones
(cfxxxx and dfxxxx), files whose name starts with "lpdtemp"
In that case, all queued jobs get actually printed after a lpd
restart, but the lpdtempxxx files remains.
When this occurs, I always get in the "message" log file :
printername: status: Permission denied
This may be related with timeouts (printer not reachable during
a certain time), but I never saw this problem with earlier versions.
Has anybody see the same problem? (and found a better solution than
restarting lpd from time to time)
--
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Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie tel: 01.44.27.15.27
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To:
alt.computer.security,alt.linux,alt.os.security,comp.os.linux.x,comp.security.firewalls,comp.security.misc,comp.security.unix,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: honeypot + syslogd
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:17:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Damian Menscher> wrote:
>In comp.security.misc The Zedi Warrior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>fool the script kiddie in your machine. And I consider it to be
>*much* simpler to modify the startup script than to hexedit the
>syslogd binary.
So just grep the source for syslog.conf, and change the location.
Open Source, remember?
Anyway, we're well off topic here.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: second hard disk
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:21:11 GMT
hello all
i want to add second hard-disk to my existing redhat linux 6.2 harddisk.
this harddisk is having NTFS and FAT32 partitions
How can i add this second harddisk and mount it?
thanks in advance
newlinx
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,redhat.general,alt.linux
Subject: Re: The Truth About the Kursk Disaster
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:00:08 +0100
In article <nS6x5.15962$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I'm glad to see that you find the horrible death of 118 people so amusing.
I take your point, but if you can't take a joke, don't join the navy !
I thought 'the torpedo is low on ink' line was especially good !
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,redhat.general,alt.linux
Subject: Re: The Truth About the Kursk Disaster
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:04:18 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory D. Horne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Can you really trust a battleship built by a news media organisation? We all
>know how accurately they report "news" and check their facts and limit
>themselves to not adding their personal opinion to the "news". Any enemy of
>the US will only need email an "ILOVEYOU" virus to some unsuspecting lonely
>seaman. I know I'll sleep better at night... ;-)
Not to mention the more creative uses of back orifice.
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's the best Linux MP3 encode ?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:38:02 +0100
In article <8qd3tq$bnm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Ruckert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>lame !
Why ? And does it do vbr encoding ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "Vinson Armstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:48:35 GMT
That worked!
Thanks for the assistance
"Villy Kruse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On 25 Sep 2000 10:43:38 GMT, Jan Bredereke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> >Hi Vinson,
> >
> >On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:25:35 GMT, Vinson Armstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >> I have been noticing a large number of the below message in my log
files. I
> >> am not sure but it seem that my system thinks there is another system
on the
> >> network with same IP address it has?!?!?!?!?
> >>
> >> "inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use"
> >
> >No. This message of the "bind" system call means that another
> >process on the *same* machine has already grabbed the port in order
> >to listen to incoming requests. The TCP port appears to be auth,
> >i.e., 113 (see /etc/services). So the inetd process cannot bind to
> >it. Look for another process providing auth services. (Maybe it is
> >spawned by the inet daemon, too?)
> >
>
>
>
> Common problem when upgrading to RH6.1 or RH6.2. The identd is not
> started from /etc/rc.d, and if it is also enabled in /etc/inetd.conf
> you get the bind conflict. Disable it one of the places, probaly
> by commenting out identd in /etc/inetd.conf.
>
>
>
>
> Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:49:34 GMT
FWIW, I am in exactly same situation.
Also, my though was that it was a dud image - though I can mount it on
my other linux box and it looks ok there (i.e. has the usual file
structure etc).
System that I am trying to install it on boots fine into RH 6.2 and
installs all the way without trouble. It's a AMD K2-200, 128 MB RAM,
6GB HD (Master 1st IDE) and one CD-ROM (Master 2nd IDE). The
system also has a PCI network card and a SB Vibra. No SCSI controllers.
I downloaded the images from www.linuxiso.org.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nisi wrote:
>
> > Do you have mutliple IDE CDRoms....???? I knwo that seems like a
stupid
> > question, but if you downloaded the iso and burnt it to CD, then
you most
> > likely have a CDROM and a CD-Writer. If they are both internal,
then try
> > switching the CD to the other drive.......
>
> Na... I burned the two cds (disk 1 sio and disk 2 iso) on another
machine.
> I just have a cdrom on the machine I'm trying to install onto. .. I'm
> booting from the cd and get a fair way into the install (pick
english, us
> key board etc..) but when it's time to get the image off the cd, the
> installer replies, "can't find rehat cd"
>
> >
> >
> > Nisi
> > www.mindlessmayhem.com
> >
> > Kirk R. Wythers wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >I am upgrading to RH 7.0. When the installer get to the point
of "choose
> > >cdrom or hard disk install", I get the error, "can't find redhat
cdrom".
> > >However, I booted from the redhat 7.0 cdrom. Any thoughts on what
is
> > >going on here? COuld I have downloaded a bad iso image?
> > >
> > >Kirk
> > >--
> > >Kirk R. Wythers University of Minnesota
> > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Forest
Resources
> > >Tel: 612.625.22611530 Cleveland Ave. N.
> > >Fax: 612 625.5212 Saint Paul, MN
55108
>
> --
> Kirk R. Wythers University of Minnesota
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Forest Resources
> tel: 612.625.2261 1530 Cleveland Ave. N.
> fax: 612.625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
>
>
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From: Joerg Morbitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 x RTL 8139 Cards = doesn't work
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:57:11 +0200
Paul Sullivan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a PC with 2 100/10 RTL 8139 based cards to recognised
> and configure both correctly.
>
> I currently have the kernel compiled to include support for the '8139,
> it detects both eth0 and eth1 and reports their MAC addresses at
> startup.
>
> My ifcfg-eth0 and 'eth1 scripts are excecuted and if config shows both
> cards to work. If I try to ping a known host on the subnet of eth0 I
> get a situation where the network requests queue up and aren't sent
> *ever*.
>
> I reboot (removing) the 2nd card, all works fine. (eth1's
> initialisation is just delated).
>
> Does anyone have a similar experience or perhaps know why I can't get
> both working simultaneuosly?
>
> Regards
> Paul
I generally had some problems with this chipset, but it workes
fine after I installed the latest kernel (2.4.0 test 8).
Sorry, this is not the solution, but perhaps a hint ;-)
regards, Joerg.
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From: NAVARRO LOPEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.software.config-mgmt
Subject: Re: Implications
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:09:54 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <8qioop$rqk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In comp.os.linux.misc Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:45:25 GMT, paul snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > :>Here is the equation:
> > :>
> > :> X --> P --> E
> >
> > It's not an equation. There is no equals sign.
>
> Equality is only one of a infinite number of concepts that can be
> expressed using equations.
>
To my knowledge 'equation' stays for 'equal'; no equal, no equation. On
the other hand is *usually* noted down 'equation' for both equations and
inequations (that is f(x)[<,>, <=, >=]y.
BUT. I don't find 'equation', even in the wide sense, being the rigth
word. English is not my mother language, but I would say:
Here is the *expression*:
X->P->E
--
SALUD,
Jes�s
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From: Joerg Morbitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:01:21 +0200
PlzBeMine wrote:
>
> What is the command line for sending email using telnet?
> Thanks...
Two examples:
echo "This is the body" | mailx -s "Subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or
mailx -s "Subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < filename_to_send.txt
Regards, Joerg.
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From: smam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RPMS
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:30:24 -0000
I have Linux 6.1. From File Manager I right click on the rpm and choose
install and nothing happens. I go to a terminal and try the rpm -i
command - I get no error messages and yet the rpm does not seem to install.
I am trying to install the kernel source and the make program. When I do a
find on the make program it comes up with nothing.
Can anyone help?
thanks
smam
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot connect with FTP
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:35:56 GMT
Hi there -
I'm using RedHat 6.0. I try to connect from a Win2K box and the connection
takes forever...and then drops the connection. Here's what it looks like
from a Win2K box trying to ftp to my linux box...
C:\>ftp linux
Connected to linux. (long wait here...a couple of minutes)
Connection closed by remote host.
I can ftp to my linux box from my IBM AS/400 and it works fine. I also tried
ftping from the linux box back to itself - it connects (after a very long
time) and then seems to process fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks...
- Michael
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux: how to convert .BIN to .ISO ?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:42:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I got a .BIN file at 770 MB which is not installable,
> how can i convert it to .ISO images? maybe can convert to 2 .ISO images to
> burn to CDR
> thanx for any hellp.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
What is it you want to do? Just copy the file to disc? Then use any CD
burning software you want. Is it supposed to be a disc image? Try to
mount it on a loop-back device then. If it's something else you want, be
more clearly in stating your question.
Eric
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From: Jeffrey Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot connect with FTP
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:45:54 -0500
This is my problem too!
Check to make sure inetd process is running.
Verify your /etc/inet.conf file has a line similar to this:
'ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a'
I have both of those, and the in.ftpd process runs during an attempt to
establish an ftp session to the linux box, but I still have the symptoms below.
Please post and email if you get a solution to this.
Jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael wrote:
> Hi there -
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.0. I try to connect from a Win2K box and the connection
> takes forever...and then drops the connection. Here's what it looks like
> from a Win2K box trying to ftp to my linux box...
>
> C:\>ftp linux
> Connected to linux. (long wait here...a couple of minutes)
> Connection closed by remote host.
>
> I can ftp to my linux box from my IBM AS/400 and it works fine. I also tried
> ftping from the linux box back to itself - it connects (after a very long
> time) and then seems to process fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks...
>
> - Michael
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From: Rootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: second hard disk
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:47:46 GMT
Put it in making sure the jumpers are correctly configured. Next decide
what partition scheme you want to use. If you are simply storing data
on a stand alone machine there is really no reason to make both FAT32
and EXT2 partiions on it, Linux will read the FAT32 just fine - but will
NOT allow extended security attirbutes on it. Use Linux fdisk (or
gfdisk) and mkfs on it. You need to specify which disk it is (probably
/dev/hdb???) and the partition number when formatting with mkfs (maybe
/dev/hdb1 or hdb5???) - it all depends on which IDE channel you put it
on and where it sets in the IDE device chain.
If EXT2 is not important to you then simply fire up a DOS disk (floppy
or dual boot from the other disk if Windows lives there too). Run
DOS FDISK and partition it and then FORMAT it after a reboot with
FORMAT. Windows sees it automagically, Linux will have to mount it.
Create a directory where you would like to mount the drive, say /newdisk
. Regardless of what type you make it you the have to mount the disk,
use this comand: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /newmount , the -t depends on
how you've formatted it, vfat=fat(32), use ext2 for ext2. the /dev/hd?
depends again on what channel it is running on and where it is on the
IDE device chain. If it then reads and writes good either edit
/etc/fstab manually (be carefull, make a backup), or use something like
linuxconf to add it to your system permanently.
GL & HF
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hello all
>
> i want to add second hard-disk to my existing redhat linux 6.2
harddisk.
> this harddisk is having NTFS and FAT32 partitions
> How can i add this second harddisk and mount it?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> newlinx
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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