Linux-Setup Digest #800, Volume #19 Tue, 10 Oct 00 09:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: My .forward causes "Service unavailable" (Villy Kruse)
Re: Monitor Settings (Eric)
Setting up a linux router + firewall ("Koen Van Impe")
Re: a most mysterious modem problem (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Boot Partition too Big!!! ?! ("Gary Leung")
Re: RedHat 7.0 installing probs!!! ("Martin Tegner")
simple question: how to disable user loggin? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin? (Eric)
LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Proxy Server Development (Francis)
Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin? (Nicolas Iselin)
Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions (Eric)
Re: xntpd errors and "RSN" (ray)
Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin? (Eric)
Re: Problems compiling tulip module on RH 7.0 (msume97)
Re: Linux Proxy Server Development ("Micke Sandstrom")
Re: Setting amount of RAM in lilo/grub ("Alan Pettigrew")
Re: Newbie: How do you setup 2 PC's using Rhat Linux 6.2? (Chris Sherlock)
How to force the rpm database to know about a manual kernel upgrade ("Christian
DELAIR")
Kernel Panic ("Bryan Lee")
Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin? (Fantod)
Re: 2.2.12-20 on ASUS P3V4X (Steve Withers)
Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions ("Jack")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: My .forward causes "Service unavailable"
Date: 10 Oct 2000 08:50:51 GMT
On 09 Oct 2000 19:53:53 -0300, * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My .forward & .procmailrc work on Solaris. When I tried the same
>file on my linux (RH 6.2), The mail was always bounced with "Service
>unavailable" error.
>
Note that RH6.2 already uses procmail to deliver mail, so you just
need ~/.procmailrc to custumize it for your purpose.
Also, RH6.2 uses smrsh, which means that all commands you specify
in a .forward file must have a symbolic link from the /etc/smrsh
directory. This can be prety difficult if you have a series of
commands instead of just one. Better pack all that into a shell
program and call that shell program instead.
Villy
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Settings
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:58:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Renalds wrote:
>
> I have tried and tried but I cannot get X up and running for my Red Hat
> 6.2 installation. The problem is that I have a Philips 109S monitor.
> They have a configuration for the 107S (the 17" monitor) but not the
> 109S (the 19" counterpart). I have tried to use Xconfigurator choosing
> almost every permutation of settings including "Generic Monitor" but I
> still get errors when X tries to start. Does anyone have the settings
> for this monitor? Please cc responses to my e-mail address. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> - Andrew
take a look at:
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#MONITORS
Eric
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From: "Koen Van Impe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up a linux router + firewall
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:03:21 +0200
Hello,
I want to set up my Linux-machine as an internet-router with firewall. Does
anyone has a clue wich HOWTO's and other information is usefull for getting
it running?
(one Linux machine connected to the internet and internetting from the other
machines - Win98 - in the private network)
Best Regards,
Koen Van Impe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: a most mysterious modem problem
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 06:52:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (god-eater) writes:
[...]
>I connect the external modem to the Sony machine.
>I try to repeat this exact same procedure on the Sony machine with no luck.
>netcfg never successfully
>activates the PPP interface.
First, check the configuration of the serial port you're connecting
the modem to. Don't try PPP; use a simple terminal program like
minicom for this task. Check whether you can successfully send AT
commands to the modem using minicom to eliminate imminent PPP
configuration problems. If even the AT strings don't get an
answer from the modem, then looking at PPP won't help you, anyways.
>The Sony machine uses the same modem (and others) just fine under Windows
>95/98.
[...]
Things to check:
- the output of "dmesg"
- the settings of the serial port in the system's CMOS
- make sure PNP-OS is turned off
- make sure that the IRQ of the serial ports are not used
by any other PCI or ISA device; set them to "Legacy ISA"
- the output of "setserial -b /dev/ttyS?" (replace ? with correct number)
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Gary Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Partition too Big!!! ?!
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:37:39 +0100
Reply-To: "Gary Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thank you for your help, I will go there and see if I can get anything in
detail, and try understand the fact more clearly, because I am a very neew
user in Linux, and I don't even understand how that LILO, /???, what 1024
cyl works... (and I don't know what is distro??!!) Thanks alot, sorry for
being annoyed...
Gary
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Gary Leung wrote:
> >
> > I got 10G HD, I made partition 8G and 2G, I have my Windows 98 on 8G
(c:)
> > then I boot up with the RedHat6.1 CD, and try to install (on my 2G
drive),
> > when I go up to the partition, I can't set up the "Linux Native" drive,
it
> > give reason "boot partition too big". Can anyone know why is that, and
tell
> > me how to make it?
>
> Yes I can, but I won't.
> Search deja.com. This question has been asked so often, you can very
> easily find an answer in previous posts/replies.
>
> Eric
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From: "Martin Tegner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 installing probs!!!
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:49:37 +0200
Well thanx for the info..... I've played around with it for a couple of
hours and got it to boot once!! But only when i upgrade from a 6.2
installation. Then second time it boots it finds my USB controller and even
if don't configure it, it won't boot again. stops dead at the same place!!!
regards
Martin
"Mark Mellin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:O9iXPTTUtRJe-pn2-hiQquJq8rM78@localhost...
> Hiya Martin,
>
> FWIW, I'm seeing exactly the same problem here on a
> Unisys 7200 Server, Dual Pentium III's @ 600 MHz, 256 ECC,
> 18.5Gb SCSI-U2W, Root is 17Gb, 512Mb for Swap & for Boot
> partitions (each).
>
> RH6.2 SMP installs/runs fine on this config... I'm unable to
> affect any other "I"nteractive boot mode as loading INIT is
> where/when the crash occurs. Running in either "Linux SMP" or
> "Linux UP" modes made no difference (same thing with changing
> the runlevels).
>
> After several installs/varations, a poke through bugzilla (which
> could learn a lesson or 2 from Deja !!) - IMO I see no other
> recourse at this time then to backlevel to RH-6.1 or 6.2 and
> wait for Redhat to complete 7.0 and release it as as 7.1
>
> Good luck and let me know if you find a solution.
> Mark
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:42:51, "Martin Tegner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have problem getting RedHat 7.0 to boot after a succesfull
> > installation(clean inst,) on my HP4150 omnibook. It worked fine with
RH6.2,
> > but not with 7.0.
> > It stops dead just after Enabling Swap Space [OK]
> >
> > Doesn't respond to any keypresses(not even ctrl-alt delete).!
> >
> > Any suggestions... before i install 6.2 again?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: simple question: how to disable user loggin?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:18:40 GMT
sorry guys
i've got a user account on my box that i want to temporalily disable and
i cant remember how this can be done and was hoping someone could help
me out.
i seem to recall sometime ago that someone told me that all i needed to
do was to mark one of the fields in either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow
and that would disable the account.
thanks
paul
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:38:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> sorry guys
>
> i've got a user account on my box that i want to temporalily disable and
> i cant remember how this can be done and was hoping someone could help
> me out.
>
> i seem to recall sometime ago that someone told me that all i needed to
> do was to mark one of the fields in either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow
> and that would disable the account.
>
> thanks
> paul
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
extract from passwd manpage:
PASSWD(1) User utilities PASSWD(1)
NAME
passwd - update a user's authentication tokens(s)
SYNOPSIS
passwd [-k] [-l] [-u [-f]] [-d] [-S] [username]
DESCRIPTION
<stuff skipped for clarity>
-d This is a quick way to disable a password for an
account. It will set the named account password-
less. Available to root only.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:35:00 GMT
This might be a FAQ.
I have installed RH5.2 (dual boot with Win95) and recently I moved all
my LINUX partition with PartitionMagic. When I rebooted the PC
The first tragedy struck.
Lilo did not run and the screen stuck on 'LI' as if LILO cannot find
the rest of itself. I have a boot disk
but, it seems that I needed an image from the CD to create a rescue
disk.
The second tragedy struck.
I had originally installed my RH5.2 with the help of my earstwhile
mentor. He had the original installation images downloaded and burned
on to a CD. He is nowhere to be found, having resigned a month ago....
On the other hand, I have Michael Kofler's book with 2 RH6.0 CD (?).
Well, I know the latest is 6.2 but am not willing to go out of my way to
purchase it.... :-)
Now any advice will be appreciated.
I am planing to boot the RH Installation CD. Question is that : Will it
go into rescue mode? I am plaing to mount the LINUX partition with
something like...
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda/mnt/disk
and then attempt to run lilo (as root ?)
lilo -r /mnt/disk
and then attempt to reboot.
Please advise. I am a novice on how to restore LILO, being new at this
kind of thing, anything is better than nothing.
Thanks in advance.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Linux Proxy Server Development
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:43:48 GMT
Hi all,
I am now going to develop a web proxy server for mobile user, such as
palm or some narrow band user. The proxy is going to decrease the
colour depth or size of some large objects. Acutally, I am new to
linux and now looking for some existing simple proxy server to modify.
Anyone can kindly give me some ideas. Thanks for all your helps.
Francis
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:02:40 +0200
Eric wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > sorry guys
> >
> > i've got a user account on my box that i want to temporalily disable and
> > i cant remember how this can be done and was hoping someone could help
> > me out.
> >
> [from passwd manpage]
> -d This is a quick way to disable a password for an
> account. It will set the named account password-
> less. Available to root only.
>
> Eric
Don't ! this enables logging in without password. The original poster was
asking to disable log in. I would do it as follows: Edit the /etc/shadow
by prepending a * to the password string. This makes it impossible to ever
match the password, but you (as superuser) can reactivate that account to
the same password as before by removing the * - without knowing the users
password.
Nicolas
PS: If you don't have/use /etc/shadow, do it in /etc/passwd
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:11:37 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> This might be a FAQ.
> I have installed RH5.2 (dual boot with Win95) and recently I moved all
> my LINUX partition with PartitionMagic. When I rebooted the PC
>
Not so odd that it doesn't work, LILO stores sector addresses on the
disc, so if you move the location....
Anyway, you can download a rescue image etc. from the redhat site (I
listed a mirror in my country, but you can search for another)
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/old-releases/redhat-5.2/i386/images
Eric
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: xntpd errors and "RSN"
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:12:07 GMT
Larry Barnett wrote:
> Group,
>
> My platform: SuSE 6.3 i386
>
> I just installed the network time protocol package, xntp-4.0.98d-9.rpm
> from the SuSE site. I have it installed and it appears to be running. At
> least, ntpd did reset my system clock after awhile; however the ntp log
> reports an error soon after startup:
>
> 9 Oct 13:03:16 xntpd[2940]: kernel pll status change 41
> 9 Oct 13:03:16 xntpd[2940]: synchronisation lost
>
> In the documentation, there is this lone cryptic comment:
>
> The kernel PLL interface is broken, I know.
> Update RSN.
>
> Before I bother the authors, does anyone know what an "RSN" is (and how
> it can be updated)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Yes, Real Soon Now, but don't panic. I often get that, too, on RH6.2. It's
basically meaningless. It's just saying that it's contact with that
particular time server got lost. It will recover quickly, find another
server from your ntp.conf file and press on. If you want to watch this
happen, ntpq -p will show you exactly what servers are acceptable,
rejected, and the one it is using, along with polling frequencies and lots
of other stuff of interest.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://raymondjones.net
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:14:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nicolas Iselin wrote:
>
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > sorry guys
> > >
> > > i've got a user account on my box that i want to temporalily disable and
> > > i cant remember how this can be done and was hoping someone could help
> > > me out.
> > >
> > [from passwd manpage]
> > -d This is a quick way to disable a password for an
> > account. It will set the named account password-
> > less. Available to root only.
> >
> > Eric
>
> Don't ! this enables logging in without password. The original poster was
> asking to disable log in. I would do it as follows: Edit the /etc/shadow
> by prepending a * to the password string. This makes it impossible to ever
> match the password, but you (as superuser) can reactivate that account to
> the same password as before by removing the * - without knowing the users
> password.
>
> Nicolas
>
> PS: If you don't have/use /etc/shadow, do it in /etc/passwd
Oops, I entirely overlooked it. You're right ofcourse.
Eric
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From: msume97 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling tulip module on RH 7.0
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:30:02 -0000
David .. wrote:
>
> msume97 wrote:
> >
> > I am having problems compiling the tulip.o module for my linksys
etherfast
> > card. I have a fresh install of redhat 7.0 and have downloaded all of
the
> > files from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.html (pci-scan.h
> > pci-scan.c, kern_compat.h, and tulip.c). The pci-scan.o module seems
to
> > compile OK, but when I try to compile the tulip.c file I get the
> > following errors:
> >
> > [root@localhost modules]# gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c
> >
> > I have compiled this module under redhat 6.2 with out a problem. Any
> > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> This work on 6.2 not sure about 7.0
>
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/path/to/module -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo
> -DMODVERSIONS`
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
Thanks David.
Your post gave me some ideas and I finally solved the problem. Here's my
solution.
After 3 days and 5-6 re-installs these are the steps that were finally
successful in installing the tulip.o module needed for my Linksys
Etherfast NIC. By the way, I did have the card working under RH6.2 and
tried to upgrade to 7.0 but that didn�t work. I initially tried to re-
compile the tulip module in that scenario without luck. So I went with
the shotgun approach and did a fresh install of RH 7.0 and this is the
procedure that worked for me.
Download the netdrivers.tgz package from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network
Untar the file in some dir. I used /usr/src/modules but you can pick your
own.
tar �xvzf netdrivers.tgz
Make sure you�re in the directory that you untared the netdrivers.tgz
file. Compile the source files, .c files, with the make command, i.e.
type make in the same terminal window you typed the tar command.
make
You should then see some interesting text scroll by. When it�s finished
you�ll see the command prompt again. Do a ls to see what files are now in
the directory. You should see that a bunch of new .o files have been
added. These are your new network modules.
Next check to see if the new tulip.o module works by using the insmod
command. Note you must insmod the pci-scan.o module before the tulip.o
module or you�ll get an error.
insmod pci-scan.o
insmod tulip.o
Install the tulip.o and pci-scan.o modules into the /lib/modules/`uname �
r`/net dir.
Note you may want to rename the old tulip.o module before you do this, or
you can simply overwrite it.
mv /lib/modules/`uname �r`/net/tulip.o /lib/modules/`uname �
r`/net/tulip.old
install �m 644 pci-scan.o tulip.o /lib/modules/`uname �r`/net/
Now modify the /etc/modules.conf file as follows:
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=1
After this you can use netcfg to set up your ip address and gateway
settings.
Finally restart your network with the following command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
Well, that�s it. I hope this helps.
--
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From: "Micke Sandstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Proxy Server Development
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:29:44 +0200
You could take a look at RabbIT:
http://www.nada.kth.se/projects/prup98/web_proxy/
> I am now going to develop a web proxy server for mobile user, such as
> palm or some narrow band user. The proxy is going to decrease the
> colour depth or size of some large objects. Acutally, I am new to
> linux and now looking for some existing simple proxy server to modify.
> Anyone can kindly give me some ideas. Thanks for all your helps.
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From: "Alan Pettigrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Setting amount of RAM in lilo/grub
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:35:30 +0100
This is a common problem mentioned often in the newsgroups.
There are 3 solutions:
1) Upgrade your BIOS. You can download new versions from the web for your
board and flash the BIOS.
2) Amend the BIOS settings. On my K7M Athlon board with AMI BIOS it is
ACPI Aware O/S
Set this to No to get Linux to use > 64M memory
3) Add a line to /etc/lilo.conf (assuming you use lilo) in the section for
the Linux
you are loading
append="mem=128M"
and re-run lilo to update its tables
Be careful here - lilo takes what you type here as true. If you say you
have
more than you actually have you will get strange crashes.
Good luck
Alan
"James Luongo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am using grub/lilo as a bootloader. I really can't tell which one it
> is. There is a GUI when I startup to choose the OS to boot to yet it
> uses /etc/lilo.conf. But anyway, how do I set the amount of RAM? I
> have 384M but its only seeing 66M.
>
> thanks
>
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:45:37 +1000
From: Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Newbie: How do you setup 2 PC's using Rhat Linux 6.2?
You're saying that comp.os.linux.advocacy is *nice*?
Nice - if you're a troll.
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just like to thank you *all* who are out there to
> help out. This group is truly nice!
>
> Much thanks to people who gave me lot of explicit
> answers versus people referring me general HOWTO websites
> that I have to find my way through. Tsk, tsk, bad suggestion...
>
> Blaster pointed me at specific website where I can
> really learn and follows steps. Also, thank to the person
> who commented some specifics on the DNS issue. Thank, you all!
>
> Leo
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Christian DELAIR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to force the rpm database to know about a manual kernel upgrade
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:01:58 +0200
Reply-To: "Christian DELAIR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
My config is Linux RedHat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5
After a manual kernel upgrade to 2.2.16 using a tar.bz2 kernel source file
all is working.
Now I just want to upgrade Util-linux (using rpm) from version 2.9n to 2.10
but the rpm database /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm doesn't know about my manual
kernel upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.2.16 so a command like:
# rpm -U util-linux-2.10f-7.i386.rpm
give the error:
failed dependencies:
kernel >= 2.2.12-7 is needed by util-linux-2.10f-7
My question is How to force the rpm database to know that the kernel is now
2.2.16
Thank in advance for your help
--
Christian DELAIR mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cognition France 1 Allee Jean Image 77200 TORCY
Tel:(33) 1 64 62 99 33 Fax:(33) 1 64 62 10 20
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From: "Bryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Kernel Panic
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:58:02 +0800
I managed to install RedHat Linux 6.2 on my PC which run on AMD Athlon
600MHZ with 128MB RAM.
I never managed to go into Linux. The PC hang during the boot up (after the
LILO prompt) and gave the following error messages:
==========
....... (some checking on system configuration)
CPU: AMD AMD Athlon (tm) processor stepping 00
Enabling extended fast FPU and restore ... done
Disabling CPUID serial number ... general protection fault: 000
:
: < some error data>
:
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idel task!
In swapper taksk - not syncing
==========
That's the end of the screen output and the system hang there.
Anybody can point me to the right direction to resolve this problem? Does
Linux run on AMD processor?
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Subject: Re: simple question: how to disable user loggin?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fantod)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:05:42 GMT
[Nicolas Iselin]:
>I would do it as follows:
>Edit the /etc/shadow by prepending a * to the password string.
>This makes it impossible to ever match the password, but you (as
>superuser) can reactivate that account to the same password as
>before by removing the * - without knowing the users password.
>
>Nicolas
>
>PS: If you don't have/use /etc/shadow, do it in /etc/passwd
You can also change the shell to any program. This is most useful if
you have supended someone's account without being able to contact
him. When he logs in: "Your account has been suspended. Press Enter
to continue." (You may also have to add the "shell" to /etc/shells. I
have never done that on Linux, so they may be other issues.)
--
Patrick Phelan
w____\\W//___w Te Hupenui
Make Bulba-sore!
http://copeland.choicelogic.com/~phelan/
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.12-20 on ASUS P3V4X
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:08:05 +1300
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> I couldn't get my sound card (Diamond MX400) and SCSI adapter (TEKRAM)
> with CD-ROM (on SCSI) work.
>
> Besides, the ATAPI CD-ROM won't mount once I get into X. Before getting
> into X, I can mount it.
>
> Too much going on with the system. I guess I need to recompile the
> Kernel. BTW, I installed RH6.1 dist ($1.95).
>
> Any suggestions, thanx.
>
I only use genuine SoundBlaster cards......almost anything else either
doesn't have drivers or gets flakey just when you don't want it to. Though
the chips that run licensed SB code tend to do well.....on Windows. Linux
likes SoundBlasters........
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Regards,
Steve Withers
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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:05:37 +0100
When you boot with the rescue CD, type "rescue" at the boot prompt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> I am planing to boot the RH Installation CD. Question is that : Will it
> go into rescue mode? I am plaing to mount the LINUX partition with
> something like...
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hda/mnt/disk
>
> and then attempt to run lilo (as root ?)
>
> lilo -r /mnt/disk
>
> and then attempt to reboot.
>
> Please advise. I am a novice on how to restore LILO, being new at this
> kind of thing, anything is better than nothing.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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