Linux-Setup Digest #745, Volume #19 Mon, 2 Oct 00 14:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: Best way to Partition my harddisk ("Ergophobe")
run apache as root (Beggar)
Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Gentus installation into multi-OS disk - help please... (Rod Smith)
Re: Linux Q-Mail Configuration? (Rod Smith)
Re: Modem Problem, Please Help (Rob Blomquist)
Re: Is RedHat 7.0 disk1 iso enough? (Rod Smith)
Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc (Mike Oliver)
Re: run apache as root (Joe Schaefer)
Re: Is RedHat 7.0 disk1 iso enough? (Scott Twitchell - EWB Support)
How I got XFree86 4.0.1 Working! (Daniel Lewis)
Re: What is 'ext2' ? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc ("ne...")
Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??! ("ne...")
Re: Recomended Motherboards for K6-2 and K6-3 ("Scott Rose")
Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc (Mike Oliver)
deXtop CDE gui for Linux by XI? Any good? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: RH6.0 installs, but won't boot ("Murray Alexander")
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From: "Ergophobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best way to Partition my harddisk
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:07:06 -0700
> Thanks a lot, your answers helped me a lot with overcomming my
psychological
> problems against installing Linux.
Cool! I'm glad to hear it and thanks for posting to say it worked, since
someone else (Nick) had disastrous results. I don't htink he quite followed
my directions, or they were ambiguous. Anyway, since I have more experience
with Linux, it was actually the Win2K part that had me stressed out. I find
it ironic - my experience thus far is that Win2K is as good as advertised -
not a single crash in the few weeks I've been running it. That said, with
Linux-like stability, comes great complexity. Ultimately I find Linux
easier to figure out than Win2K - especially if you actually want to
backtrack from some sort of error.
Cheers and have fun,
Tom
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: run apache as root
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 01:00:54 +0800
Hi all,
I want to ask how to run apache server as root. It tell me to recompile
the httpd
and I have already add the line:
EXTRA_CFLAGS= -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE
to the "src/Configuration" , but it still not work and compaint the
same.
I have search through deja.com and saw some other question also saying
cannot make it work.
Any expert can give me a hand ???
Please mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dicky
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:08:57 +0200
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Mike Oliver wrote:
> I recently installed RH6.2 and I wanted to upgrade the c++
> compiler, so I went to
> <ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/linux/redhat/current/i386/en/RedHat/RPMS/>
> and downloaded gcc-2.96-54.i386.rpm and gcc-c++-2.96-54.i386.rpm .
> But when I tried to install them, RPM said it handled major
> version numbers only up to 3. Now naively, these *look* like
> they have a major version number of 2. What's going on here?
> This was the session:
>
> [root@localhost GCC]# rpm -Uvh gcc-2.96-54.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: gcc-2.96-54.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> [root@localhost GCC]# rpm -Uvh gcc-c++-2.96-54.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: gcc-c++-2.96-54.i386.rpm cannot be installed
The version, rpm refers to, is the version of the .rpm file format - not
the version of the package therein.
rpm was upgraded in 7.0 and the .rpm file version went from 2 to 3 - which
means, that it is basically not possible to upgrade to RedHat 7.0
packages.
You do however have another choice:
Download the gcc source (gcc-2.96-54.src.rpm) and recompile it with 'rpm
--rebuild gcc-2.96-54.src.rpm'. Now you have the binary packages in
/usr/src/redhat/i386/RPMS/i386.
Source rpm's do not seem to be affected by the file version upgrade.
Also, you could upgrade to rpm 4 by the same procedure. Thereafter you
will be able to use .rpm-3 packages (if you run rpm --rebuilddb
first). But then you won't be able to change back to the old version.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
---
He has his own opinions
- just like the others.
-- Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Gentus installation into multi-OS disk - help please...
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:08:08 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <01c02c46$d4d5fb20$480a0190@a2b2002x>,
"Iain Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an 20Gb disk with Win95 installed onto the primary FAT partition,
> Win NT4 and a spare logical drive in an extended partition. NT gives me a
> menu to boot between Win NT and Win 95. I want to add an option for Linux
> to this menu,
This is a reasonable way to proceed. There's a HOWTO on the subject, I
believe. I also cover it in my book, _The Multi-Boot Configuration
Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).
> so I'm trying to install Gentus Linux using the Custom option
> so I can install LILO to the linux partition, not the MBR.
Quite honestly, I believe this is the first I've heard of Gentus Linux.
Presumably it's a pretty minor distribution. It's certainly not the
only one that'll let you install LILO on the Linux partition's boot
sector, although some of them are pretty stupid about it and insist on
putting LILO on the MBR. Unfortunately, I don't have a list of which
ones provide which options. I do know that Red Hat lets you put LILO on
either the MBR or the boot partition. I'm pretty sure Debian does, too,
but only if the boot partition is primary (lame, lame, lame) -- but I
believe it lets you put LILO on the extended partition that contains
the boot partition (slightly less lame).
> When I try to install Gentus Linux 3 on the disk, I get to the stage where
> I create the linux partitions, I set the parameters, click the Next button
> then the PC ejects the cd and reboots.
> If I follow the process through again, the partitions haven't been created
> and I'm back to the beginning again.
> What do I do to continue the installation process ?
I've two suggestions:
1) Create your partitions using some other utility. PartitionMagic
(http://www.powerquest.com, and a copy of the previous version also
comes with my book) lets you create Linux partitions directly. You
could also use some Linux micro-distribution or some other
distribution's emergency recovery disk to do the job. OTOH, I don't
know if Gentus would let you use pre-created Linux partitions -- some
distributions positively insist on creating their own partitions
(again, lame, lame, lame).
2) Switch to another distribution. My hunch is you're running into a
Gentus-specific bug, although it's also possible you've got some sort
of hardware problem or Linux driver problem that wouldn't be fixed by
switching to another distribution.
If you try one or both of these and can't get around the problem, post
some more information on your disk system -- what motherboard or EIDE
controller you're using (if you've got EIDE disks) or what SCSI host
adapter you're using (if you've got SCSI disks). You might also want to
post the make, model, and size of your hard disk or disks, and the exact
partition layouts (size and type of each partition).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux Q-Mail Configuration?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:13:05 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <uu1C5.39$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can somebody tell me what files (boot up or system files) needs to be
> changed in order for me to get rid of sendmail and set up q-mail...I have
> been reading the q-mail documentation, and cant figure it out because the
> examples are completely different than the scripts I am working on. I am
> running Redhat 7.0, and q-mail 1.03.
Type the following commands to get rid of sendmail:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
rpm -e sendmail
You should then be able to install qmail by following the instructions
on the qmail Web site.
One caveat: qmail delivers mail in a very different way than does
sendmail, and this will break a lot of mail programs. You'll need to
install updated versions of these programs if you want to use qmail.
You may find it easier to replace sendmail with Postfix
(http://www.postfix.org), which is similar to qmail in its design
theory, but more compatible with sendmail in terms of how it delivers
mail and in its usage options. Mandrake uses Postfix, and chances are
the Mandrake Postfix RPMs will work with Red Hat with few or no
changes, although I've not tried this.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Modem Problem, Please Help
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 22:52:55 -0700
Patrick Snell wrote:
>
> Hi, I have been trying to configure a modem for far to longer than I am
> willing to admit. I have Suse 6.4, I have both a PCI modem, and ISA modem,
> neither from what I can tell are winmodems both pnp. When I execute
> 'lspci -tv' the pci modem is detected, when isadump my isa modem is
> detected. I have tried all possible configurations from docs that I have
> found and I cannot get either of these damn things to work. Comments,
> Suggestions, Criticism, greatly appreciated.
first I would check the Winmodem page at
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, or possibly the Linux
Hardware Database at lhd.zdnet.com for info on these modems. You didn't
specify which modems, so we can help you further. If they are 56k, you
can almost surely bet they are winmodems, not linmodems.
Rob
--
Rob Blomquist
Kirkland, WA
Gone to the penguins...Bye, bye, Billy-boy....
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Is RedHat 7.0 disk1 iso enough?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:14:40 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8radj3$300l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Billy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, everyone!
> Does anybody know if the .iso for disk1 of RedHat 7.0
> is enough to do an installation? I mean, will I be able
> to complete the installation with just the first .iso or
> will the installer keep asking for the second .iso?
When I installed RH 7.0, it didn't ask for the second CD-ROM at all,
although I believe some of the programs I wanted to install afterwards
were on the second CD-ROM. Of course, this might vary depending upon the
installation options you choose, so I can't make any guarantees about
what'll happen when you do the installation.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 10:20:44 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smn wrote:
> You need the latest version of RPM.
Well, it *sounded* like a good idea.
[root@localhost legacy]# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: run apache as root
From: Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Oct 2000 13:23:53 -0400
Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to ask how to run apache server as root. It tell me to recompile
> the httpd
> and I have already add the line:
>
> EXTRA_CFLAGS= -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE
>
[...]
Why would you ever want to do such a thing? Maybe
you want to use Apache+suexec?
--
Joe Schaefer
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:23:44 -0400
From: Scott Twitchell - EWB Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is RedHat 7.0 disk1 iso enough?
Hi,
I believe that the first disk is for the installation (has RPMS / base
directories etc. ) and the second disk is the source code. I don't think the
second disk is needed unless you want the source code.
Scott
Billy wrote:
> Hi, everyone!
> Does anybody know if the .iso for disk1 of RedHat 7.0
> is enough to do an installation? I mean, will I be able
> to complete the installation with just the first .iso or
> will the installer keep asking for the second .iso?
> BTW, how can I find out which rpms are part of the
> first .iso and which for the second?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Billy
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From: Daniel Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How I got XFree86 4.0.1 Working!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:30:06 -0000
Hell all...thought I'd share some good luck/news with you all so you too
can get up and running...
I ran the "XFree86 -configure" command and was left with a bare bones
XF86Config file. That file allowed me to startup in a low res low bit
depth state...Here's what I did to get going:
I added HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges to the "Monitor" section.
I added a DefaultDepth 24 to the "Screen" subsection.
I next added the following line to the 24 bit depth display subsection:
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
I ran startx
I then ran xvidtune in each mode to get the timings right.
(I switched modes using Ctl-Alt-KeyPadPlus)
I then took all that data and added mode blocks in the "Monitor" section.
I now have a flawlessly running xserver. The only problem left is how to
adjust the virtual desktop...good luck!
Dan
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: What is 'ext2' ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:34:34 GMT
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:04:50 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Install Linux to the unpartitioned space. At least with Caldera OL 2.4,
>> just follow the prompts to create your ext2 and swap partitions.
>
>
>I see this 'ext2' about a fair bit in discussions about partitioning.
It stands for "Linux Extended FileSystem, version 2", and is the
standard filesystem for Linux-based systems. Other examples of
filesystems are FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, and ISO9660 (the CDROM fs)
>Anyone care to enlighten me?
>
>Thanks!
>
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:41:25 GMT
On Oct 2, 2000 at 10:20, Mike Oliver eloquently wrote:
>smn wrote:
>
>> You need the latest version of RPM.
>
>Well, it *sounded* like a good idea.
>
>
> [root@localhost legacy]# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
>
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
>
> error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
Try installing rpm-3.0.5 before rpm-4.0. Else follow
Rasmus B�g Hansen's suggestion.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
1:40pm up 1 day, 15:27, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:45:27 GMT
On Oct 2, 2000 at 11:51, Chris Leahy eloquently wrote:
>Someone that calls himself "Arch" anything shouldnt need GUI tools :-)
>Gimme a break with the credentials. As I'm sure that someone with all those
>credentials
>would never just upgrade a production system to an *.0 distribution without
>fully
>testing it first whats the big deal? Keep using 6.2 and wait for 7.1 or
>7.2.
>Incidentally, the C compiler is also broken, I hope you werent planning to
>build a custom kernel.
<flame>
You did see the 'Microsoft Certified Trainer' bit at the
end.... I guess point'n'drool/click is the way to go.
Gimme pico anyday..
>
>The Archimage wrote:
[...]
>> What's up with THAT?!?!
>>
>> The Linux Archimage
>> Austin, Texas
>>
>> Red Hat Certified Engineer
>> TurboLinux Certified Trainer
>> Certified NetWare Engineer
>> Microsoft Certified Trainer
</flame>
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
"Live or die, I'll make a million."
-- Reebus Kneebus, before his jump to the center of the earth, Firesign Theater
1:43pm up 1 day, 15:29, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Scott Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recomended Motherboards for K6-2 and K6-3
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:37:30 -0500
Running RedHat 7.0 on an Asus P5A with a K6-2 450. Runs great, no problems.
I did have some problems initially til I got a proper cooling fan. That was
hardware, not Linux related though.
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 10:47:14 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> Also, you could upgrade to rpm 4 by the same procedure. Thereafter you
> will be able to use .rpm-3 packages (if you run rpm --rebuilddb
> first). But then you won't be able to change back to the old version.
But I will still be able to install .rpm-2 packages, I hope?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: deXtop CDE gui for Linux by XI? Any good?
Date: 2 Oct 2000 17:48:54 GMT
I noticed that Xi graphics has a gui desktop called DeXtop, the CDE
for Linux. It warns that many applications are not compatible.
Anyone have experience with it? What are the advantages/disadvantages
of it?
Thx
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From: "Murray Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0 installs, but won't boot
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:09:10 GMT
The BIOS can use "Normal", "Large", "LBA", or "AUTO" mode to recognize the
disk geometry. The first two give me 1647 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. The
other two give me 823 cyls, 32 heads, 63 sectors. The drive itself is marked
with the first geometry, so I used Win95's fdisk to rewrite the MBR. Then, I
partitioned as follows:
Device Start End Mount Point
============ ======== ====== ================
/dev/hda1 1 131 /
/dev/hda2 132 392 [swap]
/dev/hda3 393 913 /var
/dev/hda4 914 1647 /usr
After formatting, and installing packages, I put LILO in the /dev/hda1
partition, not the MBR. That got me to the situation I'm in now. The BIOS
has PnP disabled, and I've manually configured the 3Com card to use IRQ10
and I/O base 0x300.
The silly machine will boot just fine from the RH6.0 install diskette, just
not from the hard drive. Where do I look?
"Michael Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You need to go into more detail. How did you format the disc, etc. Bios
> settings should have pnp disabled.
>
> Murray Alexander wrote:
>
> > I've been tearing out what little hair I have left. I've got RH6.0, and
I've
> > installed it (several times, now) on an older box I bought just for this
> > purpose (no other operating system on the machine, no dual-booting,...).
> >
> > It's a Pentium MMX 200MHz, on a GA-586AT motherboard (can't find doc
> > _anywhere_) with 32MB of RAM, a 850MB Quantum drive, a Trident 8900CL
VGA
> > card, a 3Com 3C509 combo card, and your basic 3.5" floppy.
> >
> > After sorting out the disk geometry problems (another story in itself),
LILO
> > now seems to work. So, when I boot, I get this:
> >
> > LILO boot:
> > Loading linux
> >
> > ...and then it freezes. I've disabled PnP on the 3C509, which didn't
help at
> > all.
> >
> > Any ideas, anyone? I haven't found any documentation that seems to apply
to
> > this situation.
>
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