Linux-Setup Digest #753, Volume #19 Tue, 3 Oct 00 12:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH70: Gnome config tool not available using enlightenment windowmanager?
(Bernhard Mogens Ege)
slow? (Jeph Herrin)
Crackling/Static caused by Ensoniq + Esd? (Mike Moran)
Re: soft reboot? (Eric Strawser)
how to enable ftpd (Mandrake 7 User)
Re: what is the "apxs script", and how do I install it ("John Riddoch")
Re: what is the "apxs script", and how do I install it (Steve Yelvington)
What is fat32x?? (Jim Bisnett)
Re: dual boot with Win2K (not 98 or NT) ?? (Rod Smith)
RTL8139 timeout errors on 2.2.18pre15 SMP i686 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
modem in Redhat 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hard disc problem (Fabrice BAZETOUX)
Re: slow? ("David ..")
Please help with last step before remove windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: BGP 4 w/ DSL? ("pj")
Boot Manager ("Mark Clement")
Re: PPP and routing. (John Hasler)
disabling the X screen saver (Damien Mattei)
Re: Boot Manager (Lew Pitcher)
Confused ("D|Ck")
Re: PPP and routing. (Bill Unruh)
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Subject: Re: RH70: Gnome config tool not available using enlightenment windowmanager?
From: Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:13:43 GMT
I start it by either clicking the icon on the panel or I type gnomecc
in a terminal. Neither works. It just silently quits.
$ gnomecc && echo success
success
$
No window shows up, no disc access.
RedHat 7.0 final
enlightenment-0.16.4-6
control-center-1.2.1-5 (provides gnomecc)
What am I to do/think?
Bernhard
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When you say it won't start, what happens? Is the menu item gone?
> Have you tried running gnomecc from a terminal? I am using RH7 with
> Enlightenment 16.4 and gnomecc works fine.
> bill
>> I was just trying the enlightenment windowmanager but now the Gnome
>> Configuartion Center (gnomecc) wont start anymore.gnomecc is needed to
>> change windowmanager, so I interpret this as a trap (select
>> enlightenment and you will never use another windowmanager anymore).
>>
>> Any ideas to how I can make gnomecc run under the enlightenment
>> windowmanager?
>>
>> I did file a bugreport already for RedHat 7.0 beta
>> (bugzilla.redhat.com) but it was apparently never read.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Bernhard Ege
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From: Jeph Herrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: slow?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:22:20 +0200
i'm a new linux/old unix user who has just installed redhat 6.2
on a cyrix 686/166Hz machine with 64MB ram. it's not
top dollar hardware, but I'm still a bit discouraged by how
slow linux runs. using the Gnome/Enlightenment combination,
it takes palpable seconds to get shell window open, on the order
of a minute for graphical apps. is this normal?
the system monitor shows all the ram, with most of it (~55mb)
in use with no apps running. i don't seem to have any hoggy
processes running in the back, and i've got a 250MB swap file
(which, however, sometimes is flagged as FAILED for shut
down while halting the machine). the video card has 1MB,
not a lot, but it shouldn't make the machine crawl (should it?).
my last unix box was an old sparc with 32mb of ram and solaris 5,
it flew in comparison to this. is there something i should look for?
should i bag the hardware, the os, or both?
addendum: i installed with 32mb of ram, but doubled this shortly
thereafter; do i need to tell the kernel something about this? i figured
since the system monitor tool picked it up, i was set.
thanks for any tips,
jeph
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From: Mike Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Crackling/Static caused by Ensoniq + Esd?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:55:23 +0100
Hi. I've just recompiled my 2.2.17 kernel with support for my Creative
Ensoniq (ES1371, I think) sound card. When I use freeamp or mpg123 to
play the sounds via the esd sound daemon I get background crackling and
static, not too dissimilar in sound to radio interference. It still
occurs when the monitor is off so I doubt it is that. Everything seems
fine when I log out back to gdm and then run mpg123 from the console.
>From a spot of initial listening this morning the interference seems to
correspond to system activity, as viewed via a panel applet. It is not
very loud, but is very noticable.
Does anyone know of any way round this? I'm loathe to start buying new
cables if it is actually the esd sound daemon. I can live without system
sounds quite easily, I just want to play mp3's.
FYI, the system is an AMD Duron with a Microstar 6330 motherboard and
128Mb. The Ensoniq driver is compiled into the kernel. I am running
Redhat 6.2 with Helix Gnome and the latest updates (I think).
A quick look at deja seems to indicate people may have had problems with
buffers and Ensoniq before ie they need to be enlarged to fix some
problems. However, I couldn't find any articles discussing interference.
Any suggestions?
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From: Eric Strawser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soft reboot?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:30:06 -0000
Michal Szymanski wrote:
>
>
> Is there a way to make a Linux system (RH 6.2) do a soft reboot? With
> standard configuration, the reboot is always 'cold'. I think I've seen
> the hint how to do somewhere, some time ago (an option in lilo.conf?)
> but I did not make a note then and I cannot find it any more.
>
> any hints?
>
> regards, Michal.
>
> --
> Michal Szymanski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND
$ su root
# shutdown -r 0
Had you wanted to halt rather than reboot:
$ su root
# shutdown -h 0
The 0 is how many second to wait. BTW, try:
$ man shutdown
For more info.
On most UNIX's, there's a file called /etc/shutdown.allow you
can add non-root users to to allow them to shutdown. I don't
have access to a linux box right now to verify it's in the same
place, though.
And, yes, I'm pretty sure there's a shutdown option somewhere in
linuxconf.
Eric
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: how to enable ftpd
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:51:09 GMT
how do i set up an ftp server? is there any (readable) docu on the
web? searched for hours w/o finding anything useful.
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From: "John Riddoch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: what is the "apxs script", and how do I install it
Date: 3 Oct 2000 12:57:50 GMT
In comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PHP 4.0.2 is complaining that this script must be present for
> install and compiling to take place. (/usr/sbin)
>
> Box is i386 with RH 6.2 custom install/Apache 1.3.12
> Should I ditch Apache and re-install RPM?
You need to compile with DSO support; check the README's.
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an exception for the last one.
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From: Steve Yelvington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is the "apxs script", and how do I install it
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:13:08 GMT
frankie wrote:
> PHP 4.0.2 is complaining that this script must be present for
> install and compiling to take place. (/usr/sbin)
>
> Box is i386 with RH 6.2 custom install/Apache 1.3.12
> Should I ditch Apache and re-install RPM?
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
> FK =-)
>
On most RPM-based systems, you would need to install the apache-devel RPM
in addition to the apache RPM. No need to reinstall the server itself.
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From: Jim Bisnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is fat32x??
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:33:11 GMT
I am in the process of converting my system from win98 to a dual boot
linux and win98. I used Fips successfully and I have two partitions. I
deleted the second one since I own partition magic 3.0. (It needs some
free space to move things.) After deleting the new partition I attempted
to move it, but for some reason partition magic says that the win98
partition is other not fat32. When I requested the info on the partition
it listed it as fat32x. What is fat32x. fdisk says the partion is a
fat32 partition.
I have been trying to reformat everything so I have been going this more
complicated path. I have moved partitions in the past with this software
and have had no problem.
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: dual boot with Win2K (not 98 or NT) ??
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:47:45 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8ram46$q7m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards) writes:
> Lots of information out there about dual-booting with 98 or NT, but I don't
> see anything about using Lose2K. Other than that people seem to be doing
> it scuccessfully.
>
> And before you say, "You idiot, W2K acts just like Windows<foo> in this
> respect," well, I have zero experience with Win95, Win98, and Win2K.
> All I know about it is that I'm about to be forced to switch to it from NT.
Actually, Win2K is just Windows NT 5.0 with another name, and it's
virtually identical to Windows NT 4.0 in terms of dual-booting with
Linux. I'm pretty sure there's at least one Linux HOWTO document on the
subject. There's also something at http://www.ntfaq.com/. My book, _The
Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/)
may also be useful. My personal preference in this situation is to use
either LILO or a third-party boot loader to select which OS to run,
leaving NT's OS Loader to boot NT/2K alone. It's possible to use OS
Loader as the primary boot loader, but that requires you to take some
extra steps if/when you upgrade your Linux kernel or need to add kernel
options to LILO. Others prefer to use OS Loader as the primary boot
loader.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RTL8139 timeout errors on 2.2.18pre15 SMP i686
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:44:20 GMT
I have a D-Link NIC running on eth1, using the rtl8139 driver from Alan
Cox's prepatch on 2.2.18 kernel (rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker).
I have noticed that the performance of this kernel seems a lot better
NFS performance than the stock 2.2.17 kernel I had been using. I don't
know if it's the NFSv3 or the driver for the rtl8139 though. Anyway, I
am getting wierd errors like this:
Oct 3 08:47:36 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0000
media 00.
Oct 3 08:47:36 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 1998028
dirty entry 1998028.
Oct 3 08:48:51 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0000
media 00.
Oct 3 08:48:51 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 30270
dirty entry 30270.
Oct 3 08:53:26 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0000
media 00.
Oct 3 08:53:26 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 123053
dirty entry 123053.
Oct 3 09:25:26 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0000
media 00.
Oct 3 09:25:26 cr14205-a kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 341802
dirty entry 341802.
A search on dejanews revealed similar problems, but no solutions.
Anything I can do?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: modem in Redhat 7.0
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:47:45 GMT
How to I configure linux to connect to the ISP and to see the web. I
know how to do it for a network in NT network here at work, but I
cannot seem to get it up in running using the dialup connection at
home. I have got an internal us robotics 56 k modem and the redhat dial
up configuration utility detects the modem and connects but I cannot
seem to get it to communicate with the isp.
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From: Fabrice BAZETOUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard disc problem
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:47:49 +0200
Hello
I can't boot with my computer, there is this log :
Attemp to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying
to open /dev/hda7
Could this be a zero-lenght partition ?
There is something to do or not ??
Thanks
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:57:20 -0500
Jeph Herrin wrote:
>
> i'm a new linux/old unix user who has just installed redhat 6.2
> on a cyrix 686/166Hz machine with 64MB ram. it's not
> top dollar hardware, but I'm still a bit discouraged by how
> slow linux runs. using the Gnome/Enlightenment combination,
> it takes palpable seconds to get shell window open, on the order
> of a minute for graphical apps. is this normal?
I would say to upgrade gnome to helixcode it helped my system some.
http://www.helixcode.com/
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please help with last step before remove windows
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:30:42 GMT
Please help with last step before remove windows
I have redhat 7.0 running on my computer and I am happy with it. I
only have you find a way to do the following things before I can remove
windows
1) How can I copy mixed music cd's??
I mean music cds without a dead space on the track changes??
2) I run a design bus. and I need a way to send out bills
something like quickbooks pro.
3) Does anyone know of any DSS card programming software?
IF YOU CAN HELP PLEASE SEND EMAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "pj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: BGP 4 w/ DSL?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:41:03 -0400
Thanks for the input. I'll wait for Jason's TEQL.
PJ
"pj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:VF%B5.1040$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm running RH 6.2 w/ 2 NIC's. One from Bell South w/ DSL and the other
NIC
> is for the internal network. I'd also like to bring in DSL from UUNET.
> Both BellSouth and UUNET would each send their respective DSL lines into
> their respective CPE DSL modem, and from there, into a separate NIC. I'd
> like to add UUNET's xDSL to my current BellSouth DSL connection, and put
it
> into another NIC (NIC 3), in the same RH box, then run BGP4. Is this
> possible? If so, how?
>
> Thanks, PJ
>
>
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From: "Mark Clement" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Manager
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 08:43:55 -0600
I am looking for a boot manager that would allow me to administer a large
number of linux machines remotely. In essence I would like to have two
partitions:
1) an administration partition that the machine could be rebooted onto to
download a new image to the main disk.
2) the main partition where linux would normally run.
I can kind of see doing this with LILO by telneting to the machine and
changing the default boot partition, but this seems kind of crude.
Is there a more elegant approach for upgrading a large number of systems?
Thanks,
Mark
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PPP and routing.
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:21:38 GMT
perl_monkey writes:
> Oct 2 20:39:15 mothra pppd[279]: not replacing existing default route
> to lo [127.0.0.2]
This is your problem. When you installed you told the installer to create
a default route via your ethernet card. Pppd won't replace an existing
default route. Get rid of it: you don't need it anyway. Edit
/etc/init.d/network and comment out every line with the word GATEWAY in it.
The best place to post Debian questions is the debian-user mailing list.
Go to www.debian.org to subscribe.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Damien Mattei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disabling the X screen saver
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:13:00 +0200
i want to disable the blanking screen at login when using xdm or gdm,
the main reason is that newbies come see the blank screen and power off
the cpu thinking that windows is not started (the computer is in free
access in a classroom)
thanks to answer
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Boot Manager
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:13:20 GMT
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 08:43:55 -0600, "Mark Clement" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am looking for a boot manager that would allow me to administer a large
>number of linux machines remotely. In essence I would like to have two
>partitions:
>1) an administration partition that the machine could be rebooted onto to
>download a new image to the main disk.
>2) the main partition where linux would normally run.
>
>I can kind of see doing this with LILO by telneting to the machine and
>changing the default boot partition, but this seems kind of crude.
>
>Is there a more elegant approach for upgrading a large number of systems?
'rdist' or 'sup' or any of that family would do
other options include ftp, http put, DHCP, BOOTP, TFTP
Check freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) for implementations
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: "D|Ck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Confused
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:55:21 -0400
Ok.. i set up KPPP .. everything seemed to be working GREAT.. i am crusing
the web... Got BitchX running in my console.. so i start exploring my new
installation of Mandrake 7.1. I open up some menus.. and click on programs..
and nothing happens. They dont load.. No matter what i click on .. even the
process list.. terminal.. Nothing will open. So i disconnect from the
internet.. waited confused for about 30 seconds and Poof they all worked
again.. click and there was the program.. reconnected to interenet.. nothing
worked again. The only phrase that comes to mind is.. WTF? Anyone know whats
wrong???
Thanx
D|Ck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PPP and routing.
Date: 3 Oct 2000 16:07:38 GMT
In <8rbsd6$2na$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]I think it is a problem with the routing. What happens is that the modem
Yup, it sure is. somehow, and it is completely mysterious how, you have
a default route attached to lo. This is totally weird (and useless). I
have never seen this before.
It should NOT be there, and you need to figure out why it is there.
Check /etc/sysconfig/network for the gateway line. Remove it.
Check the /etc/sysconfig/static-route to see if there is something there
which ccould be setting a default route for lo.
...
]Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
]Iface
]127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
]eth0
]0.0.0.0 127.0.0.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
]lo
See. 0.0.0.0 is the default. It is connected to lo which is completely
and utterly dumb.
Actually, attaching 127.0.0.0 to eth0 is also completely dumb. It
belongs on lo.
Get rid of the 127 route on eth0. Do not use 127,x,x,x as your host IP
address. Look in the above files. Also look in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Something is badly misconfigured.
][root@motrha /root]$ pon myisp
]...Wait about a minute while the modem does its thing...
][root@mothra /root]$ ifconfig
]eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:E5:02:0A
] inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
] UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
] RX packets:0 errors:33 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
] TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
] collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
] Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
]lo Link encap:Local Loopback
] inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
] UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
] RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
] TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
] collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
]ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
] inet addr:207.172.61.159 P-t-P:10.65.1.11
]Mask:255.255.255.255
] UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1
] RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
] TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
] collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
These are all fine except for the eth0 address.
]Oct 2 20:39:15 mothra pppd[279]: not replacing existing default route
]to lo [127.0.0.2]
See. Here it tells you what is wrong.
]Oct 2 20:39:15 mothra pppd[279]: Cannot determine ethernet address for
]proxy ARP
Why do you have proxy-arp? It will not work in your situation.
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