Linux-Setup Digest #712, Volume #19 Wed, 27 Sep 00 17:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: will my new Athlon build work with linux ok? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wordnet-1.6 Any Users Under RH6.1 (Chronocidal Charlie)
newbie, problem launching gnome, installing lilo ("Matt Burton")
Re: Cannot connect with FTP (Gernot Fink)
Re: Problem trying to mount a new partition (Gernot Fink)
HELP !!! Need to Remount NTFS partition on WIndows NT ("Rakendu Devdhar")
Re: Redhat Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT WS ("Matt Burton")
Re: Error writing to CDRW (Johannes Rest)
Enlightenment installation (Dylan)
dpkg install error - ldso (Tom Bebee)
Re: questions regarding IPCHAINS, IP MASQUERADING & SQUID
Re: My Linux box won't power down itself... ("Alexander Eckloff")
execvp input/output error? (Leonard Hardy)
How can I hide printers? ("Jonathan Burgin")
Re: newbie, problem launching gnome, installing lilo ("Matt Burton")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: will my new Athlon build work with linux ok?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:01:08 GMT
Thanks James! :)
I didnt want to start planning a selfbuild machine around an Athlon
without making sure.
Joe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Hedgespeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed Redhat 6.1 on a Gateway Athon without any problems.
>
> >
>
>
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:24:40 -0500
From: Chronocidal Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wordnet-1.6 Any Users Under RH6.1
I've used the WordNet lexical reference system several times in the past
with an earlier RedHat, FreeBSD, and also currently have a copy of it
installed on a Debian 2.2 system, on which it works quite well. I was
wondering if anyone has installed it and made the changes in, or
installed the required Tcl 7.6p2 Tk 4.2p2 over or around the versions
that are default with RedHat 6.1. to get the GUI portion of it to work,
and if so what changes you had to make and how did you go about doing
it? I've tried several things that I can't actually document offhand,
but have had no success with it other than getting it to run console or
command line. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
System is AMD K-6 2/550, RH 6.1 running 2.4.0-test8 kernel. None of the
default RH libs have been upgraded or changed other than XF86 4.01
installed. Default Gnome and KDE DT environment.
Thanks in advance.
Charlie
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From: "Matt Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie, problem launching gnome, installing lilo
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:37:18 -0400
i'm trying to install rh 6.2. i thought i had everything straight until i
launched for the first time. it launched into the command line, i logged in,
and it just kept me there. i couldn't figure out how to get into gnome.
after i thought about it, i realized that the install program never asked
about lilo, and on the launch, it never asked me which OS i wanted to run
(i'm running win98 on the first partition).
i think the problem lies in the install option. i chose gnome workstation.
in the manual, it says that workstations and servers don't need lilo. i'm on
a stand-alone system, but i don't seen any other option suitable for me.
it's not a server. i don't want to upgrade.
thanks for any help
you can email me at msb13 at duke.edu
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gernot Fink)
Subject: Re: Cannot connect with FTP
Date: 27 Sep 2000 19:41:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeffrey Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well thanks again...but I think I have some other problem. I renamed the
> resolv.conf file to resolv.conf.bak, rebooted (what the heck), and there was no
> difference (note my 'connection closed' message only takes about 5 seconds vs
> your couple minutes). There are 3 nameservers in that file, all of which seem
> to be known by the network as DNS servers...makes sense to me. I can FTP from
> the linux box, so I suspect the linux box is known to the network...plus I am
> telneting to it without a problem.
In your last post in this treat you posted a line from /erc/intd.conf
'ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a'
My in.ftpd does not know the -a option .
garfield@gar:~ > /usr/sbin/in.ftpd -a
/usr/sbin/in.ftpd: Ung�ltige Option -- �a�
ftpd: unknown flag -a ignored
garfield@gar:~ >
Check this with your manualpage.
>
> The hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty.
>
> Any other ideas?? Anybody?
>
> Jeff
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Michael wrote:
>
>> It looks like the resolv.conf file was the guilty party...I removed it and
>> the problem went away. Thanks!
>>
>> "Gernot Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:8qt0vj$5jq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > In article <0JmA5.2266$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > 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...
>> >
>> > Check the files /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
>> > Because the long delay for a local ftp check
>> > /etc/resolv.conf
>> > (looks like there is a Nameserver which is not responding(for internet?))
>> >
>
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MFG G.Fink
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gernot Fink)
Subject: Re: Problem trying to mount a new partition
Date: 27 Sep 2000 19:41:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ignasi Villagrasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to mount a new partition, I get the following message:
>
> /bin/mount -t ext2 -o exec,dev,suid,rw /dev/hda9 /disco2
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,9)
> * mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda9, or
> too many mounted file systems.
> * returns 32.
Have you a filesystem (man mke2fs) on your new partition ?
>
> I'm using fsconf utility.
>
> If I try fdisk, I can see the following information:
>
> Device Boot Start End
> Blocks Id System
>
> /dev/hda1 1 75
> 566968+ 16 Hidden FAT16
> /dev/hda2 * 76 76
> 7560 a OS/2 Boot Manager
> /dev/hda3 77 151
> 567000 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda4 152 629
> 3613680 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 * 152 287
> 1028128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda6 * 288 423
> 1028128+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda7 * 424 559
> 1028128+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 * 560 573
> 105808+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda9 574 629
> 423328+ 83 Linux
>
>
>
> I'm not an experienced Linux user, and would be glad if someone could
> help me.
>
> Ignasi Villagrasa. GRI S.L.
>
>
>
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MFG G.Fink
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From: "Rakendu Devdhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: HELP !!! Need to Remount NTFS partition on WIndows NT
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:49:32 -0700
Hello Everybody,
I'm a linux newbie.
I recently decided to install linux on my desktop. I had lot of space on my
NTFS partition, so I decided to resize NTFS. I installed on Linux Mandrake
in the resulting empty size.
But something has gone wrong after that. Now when I boot back to windows NT
I cant find my NTFS partition ( which used to D: ) at all. However, I
verified with few disk partition software that NTFS partition still exists.
Can anybody please tell me how can I mount this NTFS partition back in
Windows ?? I have some important stuff in that partition. NT Disk
Administrator shows that partition as Unknow type, but the exact size.
Thanks in Advance,
-rakendu
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From: "Matt Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT WS
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:01:03 -0400
I'm in (kind of) the same boat you are. I finally got the partitioning
figured out today after doing lots and lots of reading, so here's my
opinion:
the best way is to use a program called FIPS. It's on your linux install CD
under the dosutils folder. copy the fips, restrorrb (very important) and
error files to a windows boot disk. boot with the floppy and run fips. it
will ask you if you want to backup your current partition scheme. do it. it
will save you later.
this is what they don't tell you: you have to set your linux boot partition
below the 1024th cylinder. this made absolutely no sense to me a few days
ago, but basically, 1024 cylinders=8.1 gigs, or about that much. If you
partition so that your linux partition has all of the remaining space (12
gigs) you should be fine.
after it repartitions, reboot with the redhat cd. when it comes to
partitioning again, you'll have to DELETE that new partition you just made
(because it's fat 32). you'll then want to ADD about four more partitions.
i've read many opinions about how many partitions linux should have. make
sure of one thing: the /boot partition should be the first one (so that it
fits below the 1024th cylinder). 10 megs for that should be enough. then,
you need a swap partition, root, and usr. to be honest, this is my latest
snag, so i'll just stop here. good luck.
Peter van Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qsj65$cg0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I need to install Redhat Linux 6.2, Windows 98 and
> Windows NT WS on a single machine with a single 20 GB disk.
>
> Windows 98 and Windows NT WS are installed already and use
> 4 partitions of 2 GB so 12 GB should still be available for
> Linux. But how the *** do I install it?
>
> Disk Druid shows the 4 partitions and below shows 12 GB
> free. How do I create the Linux partitions on the 12 GB?
> I am lost. There are some FAQs on the subject but they
> all asume you are familiar with fdisk and other utilities.
>
> Please help!
>
> -peter
>
>
>
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From: Johannes Rest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error writing to CDRW
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:09:20 +0200
E J wrote:
>
> Is your speed too fast for CD-RW?
> I have a 4x2x24 CD Writer.
> When I write onto CD-RW using the xcdroast, I set the speed to 2 x
> When I write onto CD-R using the xcdroast, I set the speed to 4 x
>
I've set mine to 4x speed. I'll try to reduce the speed of my
xcdroast configuration and let you know...
Thanks!
Johannes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dylan)
Subject: Enlightenment installation
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:21:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have installed Enlightenment DR 16 on my suse 6.1 system, get error
message when trying to start enlighenment
/usr/bin/enlightenment: error in loading shared libararies:
libjpeg.so.62:cannot open shared object file: no such file or
directory.
could this be that the rpm that i used has installed into different
directory than suse expects.
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From: Tom Bebee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dpkg install error - ldso
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:19:17 GMT
Would like to install NTP on a couple of Debian servers we are using and
found that I need to update the version of libc6 and ldso before I can
install NTP. The ldso upgrade is required first, so I have downloaded
the .deb file and run the following command:
dpkg -i ldso_1.9.11-9.deb
The following error is generated:
dpkg: regarding ldso_1.9.11-9.deb containing libc6, pre-dependency
problem:
libc6 pre-depends on ldso (>= 1.9.11-2.1)
ldso is installed, but is version 1.9.10-1.
dpkg: error processing ldso_1.9.11-9.deb (--install):
pre-dependency problem - not installing libc6
Errors were encountered while processing:
ldso_1.9.11-9.deb
I did not see that ldso had any dependencies, so I cannot understand the
reference to libc6.
Can anyone explain, what the error is telling me.
TIA
--
Tom Bebee
Welch Allyn Inc.
Skaneateles, Falls NY
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: questions regarding IPCHAINS, IP MASQUERADING & SQUID
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:30:05 -0000
In order to configure your ipchains, all you really need to do is read the
man pages on ipchains and use the switches accordingly. Ipchains are uses
to allow deny regect and things like that for specific IP addresses on
your network. By using the switches you can configure your ipchains and it
really should not be all that difficult, however, I am still in class to
attain my LCA and I am not completely knowledgable I still have 2 tests to
go before I am done so please take this with a grain of salt.........Is
there any way, that you could explain to me, in a real "layman way how to
subnet"? It is confusing even though I have some knowledge of
networking.......
mrispro
Hung Ngoc Lai wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am having dilemma and I am wondering if you can help me with
> regarding configuring Linux firewall. Let me apologize if the
> post is long; however, I would like to be as specific as possible.
>
> My background comes from NT and have been working on it for 4 yr.
> I've done work on Checkpoint Firewall and Microsoft Proxy Server
> Version 2. My opinion is that everything running on Microsoft
> Windows is a piece of shit (pardon my language, but it's true.) I
> am not an expert on firewall by any means but windows NT has so
> many holes in there that my firewall was essentially useless.
> Please don't get me wrong, Checkpoint is a very good product;
> however, NT is so buggy that it boils down to not having a firewall
> at all.
>
> I understand that checkpoint is shipping out with a new version
> that will support Linux platform. However, in the mean time, I am
> looking at implementing ipchains and squid on my linux machine.
> Here is what understand from my intial research:
>
> Ipchains is simply a packet filtering firewall. It is similar to
> Cisco access-list. It works at network of the OSI layer.
>
> Ip masquerading is, in another word, a NAT (Network Address
> Translation). This allows your private network (i.e. 10.0.0.0,
> 172.16.0.0-172.31.0.0, 192.168.0.0) to access the Internet with
> a single valid IP address.
>
> Squid is a proxy server that enables http web-caching proxy
> server that conserves the bandwith of your network (i.e. let
> say that userA goes to www.yahoo.com and sometimes later
> userB goes to the same site, squid will provide the userB with
> information that it caches previously thus saving the bandwith).
>
> Now here is my problem:
> Let say that I have a small network with a network ID of
> 192.168.1.0/24 (private IP address) that consists of win98,
> WinNT and Linux machines with the Linux machine having
> two NICs. The first NIC on the linux machine belongs to the
> private network with an address of 192.168.1.1. The second
> NIC on the linux machine is connected to the Internet with
> a valid IP address of 199.0.216.222. This linux machines
> serves as a gateway to the Internet. Furthermore, I've
> successfully implemented SSH on the linux machine so that
> remote users can safely login from the Internet. I really
> love SSH.
>
> From my win98 and winNT machines, I can ping the address
> of the linux machine (i.e. 192.168.1.1) with no problem. From
> the linux machine, I can get to the Internet with no problem
> (i.e. http, ftp, telnet). Here are my questions:
>
> 1) I would like to implement IPCHAINS on the linux gateway
> machine to prevent unwanted traffic coming into and out of
> my private network. How do I go about doing that? What
> exactly do I have to do? I've read a lot of books regarding
> this topic but they only provide piece-meal answer or they
> assume that you are an expert in Linux which I am not.
> How do I configure ipchains? Which directory? Please
> provide me with specific instructions on how about doing
> this? Please do not leave out details even when you think
> it is not important. Furthermore, if you have a ipchains
> template, I would love to have it.
>
> 2) I would like users from win98 and winNT machines to
> access the Internet to using services such as TELNET, FTP
> and HTTP services. For example, let say I am at a front of
> a win98 machine in my private network and I would like
> to telnet to George Mason University. So, from the command
> prompt, I start telnet mason.gmu.edu.
>
> I understand that I have to implement IP masquerading for
> this to work. Again, how do I go about doing this? As I
> already mentioned above, lot of books provide piece-meal
> solutions but it doesn't help me. Please help me with
> specific instructions and please don't leave anything out
> even if you think it is not important.
>
> 3) Assuming that I have IP masquerading work, do I
> really need squid proxy server? I understand that squid
> is a web-caching proxy server? Does it mean that in order
> to utilize squid, I have to configure all the browsers (i.e.
> netscape & Internet Explorer) to use squid? Please help
> me on this one. Does it mean that I have to configure
> the browsers to connect to the linux machine that runs
> squid? Please help
>
> I really appreciate everyone help and efforts. Thanks.
> LONG LIVE LINUX. TRASH WINDOWS.
>
> Sincerely,
> David
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "Alexander Eckloff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Linux box won't power down itself...
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:26:34 +0200
> Recently I've compiled myself the 2.2.17 Kernel on my RedHat6.2 machine
and
> ended up
> with a fine-working box but the shutdown process which now ask me to
> manually power down the machine after shutting down its processes.
> The process was always automatic before, of course.
> Any suggestions ?
Maybe You did not enabled APM in your kernelsetup.
when using "make xconfig" see in section "General setup" and set
"Advanced Power Management" to "Y". Then compile again and test.
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From: Leonard Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: execvp input/output error?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:38:15 +0000 (UTC)
Here's the specifics:
Mandrake 6.0, v2.2.9-19
486, 8 meg ram, 515 meg hard drive
I successfully installed Mandrake on this PC, it will ultimately be used
as a firewall and a DSL gateway for a home network. The initial boot
after the install is successful,
although I do get a message that says "hard drive optimisation for hda [
FAILED ]". I am able to log on, finish setting up the network, ping other
machines etc. Everything
seems to be working fine.
Subsequent re-boots, however, are a different story. Now the "hard drive
optimisation for hda" is OK, but the next step fails, badly:
Creating /mnt/disk
execvp: input/output error
and the boot process stops there. Rebooting again shows all sorts of
disk corruption and file system problems.
Is it possible that the hard drive optimisation, when it didn't fail,
somehow hosed my disk? It is possible to turn off this optimisation?
BTW, I re-installed from scratch a second time with the exact same
results.
Regards,
===========================================================================
Len Hardy Bartlett, IL USA
You talkin to me like that?
http://www.xnet.com/~ljhardy/blog/blogger.html
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From: "Jonathan Burgin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I hide printers?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:43:46 +0100
I have a school network, WIN2k server, fibre gigabit backbone with 5
classrooms each with 30 Win9x clients. The classrooms are not in the same
building - 2 of them are 600 yards apart! Each classroom has a network
printer, running off a JetDirect card.
Students can 'see' all the printers and so, of course, they sometimes print
to the wrong one (not always by accident, I guess!!). I've been told that
the only way to hide printers is to run WIN2k clients - that means 150 WIN2k
licences plus more RAM in each pc. (So that's how Gates got so rich!!).
If I install a Linux server with Samba, can I configure it so that each
classroom is a group and can see only the printer in that room? Or is there
anohter way....
TIA
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From: "Matt Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie, problem launching gnome, installing lilo
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:50:46 -0400
half of the problem is solved. i did the custom install and have lilo
loaded. however, i still can't get to the gui.
Matt Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qti8g$7uk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i'm trying to install rh 6.2. i thought i had everything straight until i
> launched for the first time. it launched into the command line, i logged
in,
> and it just kept me there. i couldn't figure out how to get into gnome.
>
> after i thought about it, i realized that the install program never asked
> about lilo, and on the launch, it never asked me which OS i wanted to run
> (i'm running win98 on the first partition).
>
> i think the problem lies in the install option. i chose gnome workstation.
> in the manual, it says that workstations and servers don't need lilo. i'm
on
> a stand-alone system, but i don't seen any other option suitable for me.
> it's not a server. i don't want to upgrade.
>
> thanks for any help
> you can email me at msb13 at duke.edu
> Matt
>
>
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