Linux-Setup Digest #766, Volume #19 Thu, 5 Oct 00 08:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: slow? (Jeph Herrin)
How do I make Gnome (or Enlightenment) forget about me? (Mike Oliver)
Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3 ("Tristan Day")
UPS setup (M I Preston)
Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk) (Daniel Haude)
Re: Can't load Adaptec 1542B driver. (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: RH7 & /etc/fstab (Mogens Kjaer)
Re: Help on NIS, please ("sunnox")
Dual boot Linux & Windows 2000 - large disk (bigbird)
Re: 1)shared drives 2)WINE 3)sound card ("Gene Heskett")
Re: WTF does ^s do in pico? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: WTF does ^s do in pico? (Miguel Rodriguez Penabad)
Re: KDE System Sounds ("Tony Steidler-Dennison")
Re: LILO doesn't boot Win98 ("Tony Steidler-Dennison")
Serial Port Problem ("Tony Steidler-Dennison")
Help! Mail filter program set up? (Moscito)
Re: KDE System Sounds (Chronocidal Charlie)
Re: WTF does ^s do in pico? (Villy Kruse)
Re: telnetd under RedHat7 (100 Linux)
disk partitions ("J. Marquess")
Re: KDE System Sounds (Tony Steidler-Dennison)
Re: How do I make Gnome (or Enlightenment) forget about me? (ray)
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From: Jeph Herrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:09:47 +0200
Hal Burgiss wrote:
> The error message still worries me.
my stupid mistake the error message ("FAILED") was for the prior boot down
item (sound card, which i haven't configured yet). swap dismounts just
fine; i was seeing it wrong as it scrolled past.
>
>
> >Well, this is an open question. the xfree86 website had details for
> >my card (AT24 chipset, Alliance Promotion card), but they didn't
> >work, so i had to finagle a bit to get it to go. i wrote xfree86 about
> >this, but no reply. maybe go back to generic 600x400? i could try to
> >see if it improves performance, but then i can hardly use the thing
> >(and i may never luck into the right configuration again).
>
> I would suspect the answer is here somewhere. You might try different
> color depths. Are you 24 or 32 now? If so drop to 16. Are you running
> the latest X server? Not meaning 4.x, but would at least be 3.3.6.
>
I'm running 3.3.6, and 8 bit color depth; i deleted the 24 & 32 bit
entries. The problem i had was that my card has 1502kb of ram,
which xfree86 would find and reject. so i coded it as 1024kb -
it works, but i have no idea what is happening at the hardware level.
jeph
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I make Gnome (or Enlightenment) forget about me?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:10:28 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something got a little munged somewhere in my filesystem, and
for a while I couldn't start Gnome. I thought I'd have to
reinstall it, but when I tried it as root, it worked fine.
When I added a new user, it worked fine for that user.
So I figured, I just have to delete my Desktop directory
and make it rebuild it. Didn't work. I tried removing myself
as a user (userdel) and readding myself, after cleaning out
my entire home directory (backed up elsewhere). Didn't work.
I userdel'd myself and made a new user whose home directory
was my old one; he could use Gnome.
But when I changed his login ID back to mine, same problem
as before.
So clearly Gnome (or perhaps Enlightenment) has a database
somewhere with corrupt information about me. If I could just
remove that (those?) entries and start over, I should be OK.
But I don't know where the database is. Does anyone?
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From: "Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:38:46 +0100
"Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:JdeB5.4622$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to install, with great difficulty, the above distro. Although
> indicated on and in the box, my video card is not supported (They "forgot"
> to include it ). It would seem all I need is the Xrage.rpm. But the damn
> thing can't be found ! I've looked high and low for it! Can someone
either
> drop me a word or two , or even send me as an attachment? Of course, if
> you have any suggestions or think I am totally of track regarding
installing
> support for the ATI Rage Fury 128, drop me a line at:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephen
>
Look at
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/cg_rage128.html
the files u need.....
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/X/XFCom/xrage/xrage.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/X/XFCom/xrage/xfsetup.rpm
u should be able to work it out from that - the exact keyword search i used
was "rage" on the SuSE SDB.
hth
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From: M I Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPS setup
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:25:41 GMT
Hello,
Does anyone know how to configure the serial ports to communicate
with an APC 3000 Smart-UPS?
I've just taken over the up keep of two machines running RedHat
6.2 and am trying to install APC's UPS monitoring software, powerchute
(apcd-0.5). I have the daemon up and running but the monitoring software
can't communicate with the UPS. According to the APC Config.sh script I
have one machine with the serial port (/dev/ttyS0) configured as a
local port and the other machine has it configured as a modem port.
In both cases the script fails with the error...
============================================================================
WARNING: Serial communications never verified, the installed product may
not work properly. You may want to try the following:
1) Check that specified serial device exists.
2) Check the device configuration is appropriate for your UPS
type
3) Rebuild or create the serial device using the utility
appropriate
for your system.
============================================================================
How do I change the serial port config??
Once configured how do I communicate with the UPS??
Mike.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk)
Date: 5 Oct 2000 09:47:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:39:13 -0700,
RCD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in Msg. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| if anyone knows of a solution I'd like to hear it.
|
| I have (had) a dual boot (with lilo) redhat, win95 and thought I'd
| finally upgrade to win98.
|
| I stupidly forgot to make a bootdisk.
|
| I thought I lost the original MBR, but when I scan the disk with NAV
| 2000 it says I have 2 MBRs.
|
| Can I recover and edit the MBR from windows to restore the lilo
| information?
|
| If I'm screwed, I'll just do another clean install of redhat, but I'd
| really like to know if there's any hope of recovery first.
Other people have already posted useful information, let me just point out
a thing or two:
The MBR is not part of any of the two OSs. Your Linux system is still
perfectly intact. The only problem is to get it to boot. To boot, any
Linux system needs only two things:
1) a kernel and
2) a root filesystem.
At the moment, there is no way to boot the kernel that's on your Linux
partition because you do not have a boot loader that could access it (you
trashed that with win98 -- it always happens). So you have to boot some
other kernel -- from a bootdisk or, easier, with loadlin from the DOS
prompt. That kernel needs to be told where the Linux root partition is, it
will then mount that under / and go on with the normal boot process.
So what do you do?
Copy a Linux kernel and loadlin.exe onto your W98 disk. Go into DOS mode.
Say:
loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2
(replace 'linux 'with the name of your kernel image, and 'dev/hda2' with
the name of your Linux root partition)
The system will boot up (possibly with some warnings due to a different
kernel version). Once the system is up, login as root and type
lilo
and all is like before, except now you have animated menus in Windows.
--Daniel
--
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy
way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Can't load Adaptec 1542B driver.
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:03:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
>/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/aha1542.o
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/aha1542.o: init_module: Device or resource
>busy
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/aha1542.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-
>5.0/scsi/aha1542.o failed
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/aha1542.o: insmod aha1542 failed
Isn't the 1542B the BIOS-less version? If so, you'll have to
tell Linux about the settings of the adapter (IRQ, DMA, I/O)
for to be able to load the module. And even if you have the
1542B with the BIOS chip on it, it won't autodetect all
possible settings.
Michael
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From: Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 & /etc/fstab
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:49:31 +0200
"ne..." wrote:
>
> Everything installed fine by ftp from iBiblo. Kernel
> 2.4.0-test9 compiled and installed fine with devfs.
> Followed the README for devfs and only X as a user
> doesn't work (console permissions). I think I am using
> XFree86 4.0.1. But I'll get on to that later. My problem
> is RH7 uses a different format from preceeding RH's. Not
> all devices/partitions are listed. Instead the line starts
> of with 'LABEL' as shown below. My question is what sets
> this up and how can I do it by hand. Pico is the editor and
> linuxconf is uninstalled.
>
> -----<include /etc/fstab>-------
> LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> LABEL=/home /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
> LABEL=/opt /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
> LABEL=/usr /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/discs/disc0/part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/discs/disc1/part9 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/discs/disc0/part11 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
>
> -----<end include /etc/fstab>-------
What is it that you want to do?
The idea behind using "LABEL=/" instead of "/dev/hda7" is that
you can move the disks between controllers (or change SCSI id's)
without changing the /etc/fstab file. "man fstab" will tell
you more about this. e2label will tell you the label of the
partition.
>
> I did see stuff about raid5 flash by when booting and I
> am not sure whether this has anything to do with it.
dmesg will tell you what it says during boot. It just tests
various ways of calculating the stuff for RAID5 using different
algorithms, taking the fastest.
Mogens
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Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry
Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.crc.dk
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From: "sunnox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on NIS, please
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 13:03:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
This is not a nis problem that's an NFS problem but as is it written on
http://nfs.sourceforge.net, you don't need to care about this message
as it's an error in the NFS code (try to update to new kernel 2.4-test9
NFSv3, don't show this warning)
In article <39daaa14$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "renegade"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with NIS. My clientes was configured to mount their
> /home directories from server. The following message appear in the
> server when the clients logon:
> "fh_verify: home/test permission failure, acc=4, error=13".
> The strange thing is: all clients mount and authenticate normally
> without
> problem. What's matter this message?
>
> Tks,
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: bigbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual boot Linux & Windows 2000 - large disk
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:04:01 GMT
See
http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html
for how I dual booted W2K and Linux
--
Bruce Blackshaw
London, UK
www.enterprisedt.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: 5 Oct 2000 7:3:5 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 1)shared drives 2)WINE 3)sound card
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Jay Ho;
JH> hi.
JH> here are some problems i am having with Red Hat Linux 6.1
JH> 1) I can't get rwx priviledges for anybody but root when I mount
JH> my other hard drives. I tried using chmod and chown and fstab,
JH> but for some reason, it says I am denied permission to change
JH> these settings. I
JH> thought root was superman who could do anything.
JH> 2) I can't get WINE to work.. it says it windows is not located
JH> in c:\windows, even though it is... i changed the wine.conf
JH> settings to point to all the correct drives, but I think the
JH> problem stems from (1).
JH> 3) Anyone know how to get a SBLive! Value card to work on kernel
JH> 2.2.12-20? the linux drivers that Creative has are for 2.2.5-15,
JH> and they don't work... I tried using ASAC or whatever it is
JH> called, but I got confused halfway through the setup process.
Those drivers available from <ftp://opensource.creative.com> do work,
and work very well with any kernel including that one I've ever tried.
The original drivers they put up before they setup the opensource pages
weren't very stable.
With the later kernel sources now having a builtin driver for it, it
always works.
As the basic 6.1 distro has some very well known vulnerabilities, you
really should upgrade to either 6.2 or 7.0 and plug some of the more
famous rootkit holes.
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
# <http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto> #
ISP's please take note: My spam control policy is explicit!
#Any Class C address# involved in spamming me is added to my killfile
never to be seen again. Message will be summarily deleted without dl.
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Date: 5 Oct 2000 7:6:53 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WTF does ^s do in pico?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to t1 ;
> I can't find any info on this and it's royally pissing me off :)
> I keep hitting CTRL+S when in pico and it seems to freeze the
> entire connection and I can't do anythign excep sever my telnet
> connection.
> Can someone stop this madness? How could I disable the CTRL+S key in
> pico?
> 'm so used to CTRL+S from Windows to save files... I'm not use d to
> using CTRL+O in pico.
IIRC a ^s is an xoff command, the next time that happens try a ^w (xon
IIRC) and see if that unfreezes it.
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
# <http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto> #
ISP's please take note: My spam control policy is explicit!
#Any Class C address# involved in spamming me is added to my killfile
never to be seen again. Message will be summarily deleted without dl.
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Rodriguez Penabad)
Subject: Re: WTF does ^s do in pico?
Date: 5 Oct 2000 14:07:30 GMT
In article <8rhf3c$pib$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I can't find any info on this and it's royally pissing me off :)
>
>I keep hitting CTRL+S when in pico and it seems to freeze the
>entire connection and I can't do anythign excep sever my telnet connection.
>
>Can someone stop this madness? How could I disable the CTRL+S key in pico?
>'m so used to CTRL+S from Windows to save files... I'm not use d to using CTRL+O in
>pico.
>
>--
>
>-T.
It's not a pico thing. If you type ctrl+s at the prompt the same happens.
Ctrl-s "locks" the console. Type CTRL+Q to unlock it.
HTH
Miguel
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Laboratorio de Bases de Datos http://emilia.dc.fi.udc.es/labBD
Facultade de Inform�tica Universidade da Coru�a (Spain)
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From: "Tony Steidler-Dennison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE System Sounds
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:17:00 GMT
"Derek Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Have you actually assigned any of the sounds to events? By default
> all the events have no sound associated with them, so you need to select
> which one to map to each event from within the control panel.
Yes, I have. The sounds are assigned, 'enable sounds at startup' is checked,
the soundcard is working, and nothing.
I had this problem with a previous install of RH and got an answer quickly.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the solution. It seems that the problem was
something to do with the combination of KDE and RedHat. Likely, since Gnome
is the default for RH.
Thanks.
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From: "Tony Steidler-Dennison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't boot Win98
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:23:20 GMT
I believe this is because the MBR has to be located on the first physical
drive in the sequence. I had this problem in an earlier install of Linux and
had to swap drive locations to get LILO to boot Win98.
"Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have the following setup:
>
> Linux installed on a SCSI-Disk (/dev/sda, 4GB), Win98
> on secondary IDE (/dev/hdc, 14GB, /dev/hdc1 = c:, 5 GB,
> /dev/hdc5 = d:, 5 GB, /dev/hdc6 = e:, used for
> exchanging data).
>
> In my lilo.conf I have:
>
> other=/dev/hdc1
> label=win
> table=/dev/hdc
>
> but Win98 is not booting, all I get is "L?L?".
>
> If I change the boot sequence in the bios Win98
> boots fine.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated,
> Oliver
>
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From: "Tony Steidler-Dennison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial Port Problem
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:31:56 GMT
I'm having an impossible time getting KPilot/RH 6.2 to see the serial port
on which my Palm's sync cradle is attached. I've tried ln -s'ing
/dev/ttyS0[through 3] to /dev/pilot, and have set permissions on each
ttyS-whatever accordingly. I've also tried the same with each cua device. I
finally tried all this with all the /dev/ttys [lower case] devices. In the
end, KPilot doesn't appear to be recognizing any active serial ports, and
synching simply doesn't work.
As a character device, this shouldn't need a filesystem type, an entry in
fstab, or to be mounted, should it? Is there a command to probe for
recognition by the OS of an active serial port? If Linux finds one active,
I'd know that the problem is with KPilot rather than device assignments or
permissions.
Thanks.
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From: Moscito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Mail filter program set up?
Date: 5 Oct 2000 11:37:22 GMT
Hi folks,
I used Red Hat Linux 6.2 (dual Celeron 300a clocked at 450, 384MB).
I really need a tip. I want to write a rudimentary mail filter.
So I fired up userconf and made an alias "kao", which was supposed to do
"cat >> /tmp/test.log"
and nothing else. Afterwards, the /etc/aliases file has this entry
kao: "| cat >> /tmp/test.log"
which was fine by me. But when I try to send mail to kao, I run into a
problem somehow, can someone point to the catch? Here is the error E.g.
[cut]
This is a MIME-encapsulated message
--KAA25547.970713075/miranda.math.tku.edu.tw
The original message was received at Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:31:15 +0800
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [140.112.50.167]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"| cat >> /tmp/test.log"
(expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: cannot use > in command
554 "| cat >> /tmp/test.log"... Service unavailable
[cut]
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Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 06:45:45 -0500
From: Chronocidal Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE System Sounds
Don't see the original on my server, so I'll tag in here. Try making a
symbolic link: ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
That's usually the problem if sound is working in everything else but
KDE. I usually always forget to do it on a new instal then have to
scratch my head to figure out what is wrong and why I ain't got no sound.
Thanks for giving me something simple to test this new system on also.
Charlie
Tony Steidler-Dennison wrote:
> "Derek Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I had this problem with a previous install of RH and got an answer quickly.
> Unfortunately, I don't remember the solution.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: WTF does ^s do in pico?
Date: 5 Oct 2000 11:51:30 GMT
On 5 Oct 2000 14:07:30 GMT,
Miguel Rodriguez Penabad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>It's not a pico thing. If you type ctrl+s at the prompt the same happens.
>Ctrl-s "locks" the console. Type CTRL+Q to unlock it.
>HTH
> Miguel
Correct.
In pine there is a setup option "preserve-start-stop-characters".
there is also a help description for this if you use the ''?' key.
Villy
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From: 100 Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: telnetd under RedHat7
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:05:33 +0200
"ne..." wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2000 at 12:02, Tommy Harjo eloquently wrote:
> >What happened to telnetd?
> >How do I reconfigure it to start automatically?
> Well after much condemnation by users over the services
> that are run from an initial install of RH, RH have
> decided enough is enough. Now inetd is no longer used.
> Xinetd is it's replacement. Look in /etc/xinetd.d for
> the telnet file. If you don't have one, my default one
> is below.
I understand they want to make things better, they've _improved_ both my Squid
proxy server and my Apache server. Fortunately I was able to recover from their
_improvements_ by myself.
Why the h*** do they _upgrade_ the program files, only. An upgrade usually
involves taking care of the configuration and making it work in the new
environment.
What they do is:
* detect old program
* uninstall old program
* install new program
* optional: mess up a couple of config files
Impressive!!!
My installation has got the mentioned files required for telnet, but still
doesn't work.
> Now made sure you have /usr/sbin/in.telnetd and restart
> xinetd (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart). as root.
When I restart xinetd, Iget this result:
Stopping xinetd: [FAILED]
Starting xinetd: [ OK ]
Linuxconf says it's running, but when I execute a "ps -ef | grep xinet" I get
no result.
-Tommy
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From: "J. Marquess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disk partitions
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:39:49 GMT
could someone please help me.
i am having real problems trying to partition my disk. i have 20 Gb and
tried to partition with partition magic. i messed around so much so that
i have an exteded dos partition with no logical drives present. i also
have a working C: partition of around 7Gb. i tried to delete the
extended dos partition with p.magic but it would not let me (apparently
'cos i have logical drives present). this is probably the real root of
my problem. it will not let me create a logical drive. the result is bad
partitioning with about 12Gb going to waste on my hard drive. also, now
when i try to run p.magic (ver.4) it shows me a big scary yellow bar
saying partition error #116.
i am at my wits end and it is distracting me terribly. could some kind
hearted soul tell me how to fix it.
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From: Tony Steidler-Dennison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE System Sounds
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:05:50 GMT
You the man ... thanks, Charlie. That worked perfectly.
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
> Don't see the original on my server, so I'll tag in here. Try making a
> symbolic link: ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
>
> That's usually the problem if sound is working in everything else but
> KDE. I usually always forget to do it on a new instal then have to
> scratch my head to figure out what is wrong and why I ain't got no sound.
>
> Thanks for giving me something simple to test this new system on also.
>
> Charlie
>
> Tony Steidler-Dennison wrote:
>
> > "Derek Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
>
> > I had this problem with a previous install of RH and got an answer quickly.
> > Unfortunately, I don't remember the solution.
>
>
>
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I make Gnome (or Enlightenment) forget about me?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:08:30 GMT
Mike Oliver wrote:
> Something got a little munged somewhere in my filesystem, and
> for a while I couldn't start Gnome. I thought I'd have to
> reinstall it, but when I tried it as root, it worked fine.
> When I added a new user, it worked fine for that user.
>
> So I figured, I just have to delete my Desktop directory
> and make it rebuild it. Didn't work. I tried removing myself
> as a user (userdel) and readding myself, after cleaning out
> my entire home directory (backed up elsewhere). Didn't work.
> I userdel'd myself and made a new user whose home directory
> was my old one; he could use Gnome.
>
> But when I changed his login ID back to mine, same problem
> as before.
>
> So clearly Gnome (or perhaps Enlightenment) has a database
> somewhere with corrupt information about me. If I could just
> remove that (those?) entries and start over, I should be OK.
> But I don't know where the database is. Does anyone?
Not sure, but look for files like .gnome and friends. There will be
several, and some are directories. If these are simply renamed, gnome
will fall back to all defaults. After that, you can move stuff over from
the renamed places to the new ones it built. Many times, you can recover
most, if not all, of your original setup configs.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
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