Linux-Setup Digest #777, Volume #19 Fri, 6 Oct 00 14:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Chetan Vora)
Re: Problem with rsh ("Gary Huntress")
Sorry Test (RZB News Reader)
Halt won't power down PC (Scott Twitchell - EWB Support)
Re: dual-boot Linux/Windows from mfg? (Grant Edwards)
Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question (Sean Akers)
Problem installing Redhat 7.0 (Victor S. Miller)
Re: Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question (Dustin Puryear)
Re: ftp setup help - Redhat (Zhihui Zhang)
Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Re: How to multiboot Win98 and Linux? (Rod Smith)
Re: Halt won't power down PC ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kernel configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No setup signature found... ("Scott Sharpe")
How to do autopower off on Linux ("huang")
Re: ftp setup help - Redhat ("ne...")
Re: Kernel configuration ("ne...")
show load of two processors (Miguel Rodriguez Penabad)
Re: Problem installing Redhat 7.0 ("ne...")
Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Charles Sebold)
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From: Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:51:33 -0400
Hi all,
I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my search provided no
such query before. Basically, I installed XEmacs21.1 binaries for Linux
(RPMs which I converted to .deb and then used Corel Update to install
them). It complained it needs libdb.so.3 which for some reason is not
there. So I went and downloaded glibc21 RPM after doing a search on the
web. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to convert that RPM to .deb. Could
someone tell me where I can find a "glibc21 version" for Debian Linux ?
Or am I doing something wrong when doing the RPM->DEB conversion ? I'm
using "alien" command to do the conversion and it gives the following
error:
# alien --to-deb glib...
"alien: error querying RPM file
Only packages with major # <=3 are supported by this version of RPM
query of glib... failed"
Appreciate any help from you,
Chet
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Subject: Re: Problem with rsh
From: "Gary Huntress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:23:40 -0400
For the record....in the event that someone has this exact same
problem....the problem was with PAM configuration...I changed the settings
from "required" to "sufficient" in /etc/pam.d/rsh and now everything works
fine.
Gary
"Gary Huntress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with rsh. Using two very generic user accounts, I
> am trying to get accees to account_A from account_B. If I do:
>
> account_B> rsh -l account_A 10.54.14.17
>
> I am prompted for a password and it works fine ( I get a shell prompt).
But
> if I do:
>
> account_B> rsh -l account_A 10.54.14.17 'echo $PATH'
>
> I get a "permission denied"
>
> I'm sure its something trivial!
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RZB News Reader)
Subject: Sorry Test
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:03:04 GMT
Sorry, this is a Test
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:07:17 -0400
From: Scott Twitchell - EWB Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Halt won't power down PC
Hi,
I recently installed RH 7.0 on a dual boot system (W98). When I went
through the install I selected the text login rather than graphics (x windows).
Since, I've decided to have it start with x windows (Gnome). I changed the boot
option to Graphics/Network. This didn't work. Then I changed the Run Time to 5
and it will start up with Gnome, but when I click logout and 'Halt', linux
shuts down, but stops with a prompt that the system is halted. It doesn't power
down the PC. Is runtime 5 what I want, or is there something else causing the
PC not to power down.
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: dual-boot Linux/Windows from mfg?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:10:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harold Stonebraker wrote:
>You can't get the DVD to work w/ NT because NT doesn't support DVD, 2000
>does.
The odd thing was that it appears to mount it fine, there's a
directory tree there, the initial 'startup screen' shows up,
you can install the lame pc-friendly app that is on DVD, you
can play with all the additional stupid stuff they put on movie
DVDs, you just can't watch the movie.
I figured out that under NT I could play other MPEG files OK,
so it must have something to do with NT vs DVD.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! You must be a CUB
at SCOUT!! Have you made your
visi.com MONEY-DROP today??
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From: Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:37:08 +0100
My company is about to set up a Linux Internet gateway/firewall. We
have a dialup PPP based ISDN connection. We have one static IP address
for our connection to the Internet.
The internal network is M$ based and our e-mail system is Lotus Notes.
Currently our Notes server is our gateway machine and connects to our
ISP's SMTP server to download/send e-mail.
We will be keeping the Notes server but will be putting our Linux
gateway between it and the Internet.
This is the state or our network now:
|
Notes Client Machine
|
Notes Client Machine
|
=======================Notes Server===================Internet
|
Notes Client Machine
|
This is how it will be
|
Notes Client Machine--------------------
| |
Notes Client Machine---------------------
| |
===========Notes Server========Linux gateway===========Internet
| |
Notes Client Machine --------------------
|
My question is how best to deal with our SMTP mail delivery.
Would it be better to:
1) Try and set up sendmail on the Linux box to act as a mail relay
which downloads mail from the ISP and configure Notes to connect to
the Linux box to retrieve mail. (Any sample configs here would be fab)
2) To not have sendmail running on the Linux box and have the Notes
server connect directly to the ISP SMTP server using IP Masquerading.
i.e. the Linux box is transparent to SMTP.
Any suggestions and examples greatly appreciated. It is unlikely that
we'll invest in Domino server for Linux at this point. We need to keep
our NT Notes server and use it through the Linux gateway.
Cheers,
Sean.
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Subject: Problem installing Redhat 7.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:39:40 GMT
I have a Dell M166s (Pentium MMX) which is now running Win 95. I got
redhat 7.0, and am trying to install it. I successfully boots from
the CDROM, and starts running -- correctly detecting most of the
hardware, however, it gets hung up spewing endless copies of the
following line:
hdb: lost interrupt
Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?
--
Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:42:17 GMT
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:37:08 +0100, Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2) To not have sendmail running on the Linux box and have the Notes
>server connect directly to the ISP SMTP server using IP Masquerading.
>i.e. the Linux box is transparent to SMTP.
This is the route to follow.
--
Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:46:34 -0400
From: Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp setup help - Redhat
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, ne... wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2000 at 14:45, Zhihui Zhang eloquently wrote:
>
> >
> >After installation of Redhat 6.2, I do not find /usr/sbin/in.ftpd. So I
> >reinstall it, choosing Anonymous FTP server this time. Now I can use FTP.
> >But I have three problems:
> >
> >(1) Anonymous FTP is not safe, how can I turn in off?
> Uninstall it???
Thanks for your reply. I just find that "userdel ftp" works for this.
> >(3) Do I have to choose "anonymous FTP server" in the Package Group
> >Selection to have FTP installed? I want login-based FTP anyway.
> Nope. Install ncftp for ftp client and proftpd or
> wu-ftpd for server.
Which package group does proftpd belongs to? By file /etc/inetd.conf, I
see in.ftpd is there. So I really want to know which package does in.ftpd
belongs to so that I can select it when installation. Maybe it IS
"anonymous FTP server" group.
-Zhihui
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: 06 Oct 2000 18:48:30 +0200
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Chetan Vora wrote:
> It complained it needs libdb.so.3 which for some reason is not
> there.
Sounds like Berkeley DB.
kai
--
I like BOTH kinds of music.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: How to multiboot Win98 and Linux?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:49:47 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Agnelo de la Crotche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Is Red Hat really so problematic and dangerous (for other OS) to install
> ? I never installed it but I already repared partition tables for other
> people who lost access to their HD after a bad attempt to install Red
> Hat.
In my experience, RH is fairly well-behaved in terms of not trashing
other OSs' partitions -- *IF* you know what you're doing and don't
select the wrong installation options. For instance, IIRC Red Hat has an
option that causes it to wipe out everything and take over the entire
hard disk, but it's also possible to use a less heavy-handed approach to
use existing Linux partitions or to manually repartition, so you can
leave some partitions and modify others.
> Before installing Linux (and many other OS too but not all * ), I simply
> create whatever logical and/or primary partitions I need, either with
> Partion magic or more or less manually (I know you don't like low level
> editing.) The partitions don't need to be formated but only to have the
> correct filesystem ID. Than they will be recognized by the install
> setup, which will ask if you want to use them. It works well with Linux
> (SuSE distribution), SCO, Solaris, Free BSD and Net BSD. That way the
> installation doesn't create or delete partitions nor modify the
> partition table, it just install the operating system and that's finally
> the goal.
This works well with many OSs, including many versions of Linux. Some
versions of Linux (and some other OSs) are much less flexible, though;
they insist on creating their own partitions, so pre-creating Linux
partitions with PartitionMagic or the like won't do you much good.
> Red Hat seems to be a kind of second 'other OS killer', like Windows.
It can be if you select the wrong installation options. I've installed
a lot of Linux distributions (check my web page on the subject,
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/), and they sometimes blur together
in my memory, but I seem to recall Corel Linux being really awful in
this respect. It works pretty well for a Linux/Windows dual boot, but
anything more sophisticated is likely to cause problems with it. I
distinctly recall my last attempt at Corel Linux 1.2 ended with me
screaming at the thing when I discovered that it wiped the MBR and
re-installed LILO there after EVERY boot, thus destroying my System
Commander setup. Once I found that, I wiped the partition immediately
and put something else there (Debian, and then Red Hat for my latest
writing project). I've got half a dozen OSs on that computer at the
moment, so my tolerance for such shenanigans is pretty low. An OS plays
nice with others or it's gone from that system.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Halt won't power down PC
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:40:17 GMT
As far as my knowledge goes, the power is turned off only with ATX
power supplies. For the rest, it just stays at the msg.
I could be wrong. Check/wait for other postings.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel configuration
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:47:06 GMT
How can I find out with what configuration the existing kernel is
compiled of?
Please help a newbie. ThanX.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Scott Sharpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No setup signature found...
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:05:43 GMT
Hello,
Did you ever find the anwser to the "No setup signature found." Iam
basically having the same problem on a rehat6.2 distribution. I looked
through numerous Linux Help websites and did not find any solutions.
Any Help or information you uncovered will be apperciated
ssharpe
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From: "huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to do autopower off on Linux
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:09:32 -0700
I have an HP pavilion 4535(if that info helps) - with windows 98 and linux
loaded on it.
Is there a way to make linux do turn off the hard drives and put the system
in power save mode if it has not been utilised for some time
Thanks
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp setup help - Redhat
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:24:47 GMT
On Oct 6, 2000 at 12:46, Zhihui Zhang eloquently wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, ne... wrote:
>
>> On Oct 5, 2000 at 14:45, Zhihui Zhang eloquently wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >After installation of Redhat 6.2, I do not find /usr/sbin/in.ftpd. So I
>> >reinstall it, choosing Anonymous FTP server this time. Now I can use FTP.
>> >But I have three problems:
>> >
>> >(1) Anonymous FTP is not safe, how can I turn in off?
>> Uninstall it???
>
>Thanks for your reply. I just find that "userdel ftp" works for this.
You would be much better of uninstalling anonftp as the
ftp-server needs the user 'ftp'.
>> >(3) Do I have to choose "anonymous FTP server" in the Package Group
>> >Selection to have FTP installed? I want login-based FTP anyway.
>> Nope. Install ncftp for ftp client and proftpd or
>> wu-ftpd for server.
>
>Which package group does proftpd belongs to? By file /etc/inetd.conf, I
>see in.ftpd is there. So I really want to know which package does in.ftpd
>belongs to so that I can select it when installation. Maybe it IS
>"anonymous FTP server" group.
Not sure whether there is an rpm for proftpd. A search on Rufus[1]
might reveal one. in.ftpd should come from the wu-ftpd rpm.
[1] http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
i'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be
living apart.
-- e. e. cummings
1:16pm up 5 days, 15:03, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.04
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel configuration
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:26:45 GMT
On Oct 6, 2000 at 16:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] eloquently wrote:
>How can I find out with what configuration the existing kernel is
>compiled of?
For RH, install the kernel-headers rpm and look in
/usr/src/linix/config directory.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited by statute in Barber, North
Carolina.
1:25pm up 5 days, 15:12, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Rodriguez Penabad)
Subject: show load of two processors
Date: 6 Oct 2000 20:15:56 GMT
Is there any program (maybe similar to top) that shows the load of two
processors separately? I just installed linux in a dual pentium and
I'd like to know how the load is distributed.
Thanks,
Miguel
--
=========================================================================
Miguel Rodriguez Penabad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem installing Redhat 7.0
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:29:18 GMT
On Oct 6, 2000 at 16:39, Victor S. Miller eloquently wrote:
>I have a Dell M166s (Pentium MMX) which is now running Win 95. I got
>redhat 7.0, and am trying to install it. I successfully boots from
>the CDROM, and starts running -- correctly detecting most of the
>hardware, however, it gets hung up spewing endless copies of the
>following line:
>
>hdb: lost interrupt
>
>Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?
Could be a hardware problem. You'll ahve to make sure
your hardware is okay.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
"Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is]
an interesting role for an actor."
-- Dolph Lundgren, "actor"
1:27pm up 5 days, 15:14, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: Charles Sebold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: 06 Oct 2000 12:12:06 -0500
>>>>> "Chetan" == Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chetan> Hi all, I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my
Chetan> search provided no such query before. Basically, I installed
Chetan> XEmacs21.1 binaries for Linux (RPMs which I converted to .deb
Chetan> and then used Corel Update to install them). It complained it
Chetan> needs libdb.so.3 which for some reason is not there. So I went
Chetan> and downloaded glibc21 RPM after doing a search on the
Chetan> web. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to convert that RPM to
Chetan> .deb.
I'm sure a few people have already chimed in, but in case I'm the first,
DON'T DO THAT! Believe me, upgrading your glibc binaries in
mid-distribution can be hard on you, and I can't imagine the problems
you might have if you successfully converted an RPM glibc to a deb.
If you're not comfortable with compiling the source (and believe me,
it's not hard, assuming you have the compilers etc. installed,
particularly in the case of XEmacs), keep looking for .deb's of XEmacs;
they are almost certain to be out there somewhere. But honestly, you
may want to consider compiling it yourself; it only takes a few steps,
the developers have gone out of their way to make it as painless as
possible.
--
Charles Sebold
--
7th of Tishri, 5761
--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of
Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight monkeys, five minutes.
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