Linux-Setup Digest #802, Volume #19 Tue, 10 Oct 00 18:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Redhat 6.2 PPP (Zhihui Zhang)
Re: Kernel Panic (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Linux Swap File ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Storm Linux 2000, Xfree86 4.0.1, fonttastic server? (Paul Lew)
lilo <-> graphic boot prompt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie: Password forgot (Bill Unruh)
Re: problem mapping to network drive on linux box (waif)
Re: lilo <-> graphic boot prompt ("ne...")
Re: HP Deskjet 720c printer drivers ("pl")
Re: HP Deskjet 720c printer drivers (Markus Kossmann)
Re: mounting 2 floppy drives (Philippe Rousselot)
Re: mounting 2 floppy drives (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Can't compile xchat-1.5.7 (Sven Mascheck)
Resolution (Rachel Rumsey)
Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 AGP RH 6.1 ("Inge Inker Andersen")
Re: Secure copy (Scott Smith)
Re: Kernel Panic (Jim McDonald)
Weird system log messages (J.D. Silvester)
trouble compiling a kernel RH7 ("havesum2")
Server refused ftp (Henry W Meyerding)
Re: trouble compiling a kernel RH7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to force the rpm database to know about a manual kernel upgrade (mst)
Re: Weird system log messages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Stephen Chadfield)
Re: Weird system log messages (Bill Unruh)
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:12:32 -0400
From: Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 PPP
I use linuxconf to connect PPP successfully. How to prevent it from
automatically re-connect when the line is hung up? Thanks.
-Zhihui
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:16:37 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
Bryan Lee wrote:
>
> 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?
Yes, that's a problem. The default RH 6.2 kernel has "Disable CPUID"
compiled in, and AMD's T-Birds panic when they see that. So, you need a
different kernel to boot (a boot disk, loadlin), and then recompile your
main kernel without said option.
--
Best regards,
Bartek Kostrzewa - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< http://technoage.web.lu >>>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Swap File
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:18:26 GMT
Great, thanks for the reply. I think I do need more swap space. So
could you (or someone) explain how i go about doing that?
Sorry i'm still a newbie at Linux so bare with me =)
Thanks in advance,
Wayne
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <8rlj9g$54$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi, I was wondering what the optimal swap file space for linux
should
> > be? My computer currently has Red Hat Linux version 6.2 on it, and
it's
> > getting quite slow when I run any hardware intensive apps.
>
> Run "free" or "top" or "cat /proc/meminfo" or your favorite
> memory-information program, and see whether you are running short on
swap
> space. The slowness may just be that you are needing to use the swap
space
> (because more memory is wanted).
>
> > The swap
> > file size as it stands now is 74 mb's. I have a 128mb's of ram
> > installed on my machine. I read somewhere that my swap file should
be
> > at least twice the size of my ram?
>
> No, this is not a _requirement_ on Linux (although apparently it is
on some
> old-fashioned unixes). It's to be a rule of thumb, however, for
_many_
> people using a _typical_ mix of programs.
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: Storm Linux 2000, Xfree86 4.0.1, fonttastic server?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:35:40 GMT
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:13:29 -0700, Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I pretty much had to upgrade Storm 2000 Linux to Xfree86 4.0.1 due to some
>extreme video dislay issues. I have it working except for the fonttastic
>server. Now even when it runs and I see it running, corel wp refuses to
>start saying there is no font server running. When I had this problem with
>redhat 6.2, I had to change the xfs font server. Anybody gone this route
>before that can help a bit? It does not seem that corel wp thinks there is
>a font server running but it is.
>
XFree86 4.0.1 has its own built-in fontserver and neither xfs or xfstt
(for truetype) is needed; however, look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config for
the loading of the font modules for the different fonts, e.g. truetype,
speedo, type1. The area is in the beginning as in Section "Module"; I
had a problem with Speedo until I added the Speedo module and then added
the TrueType module as well as changing the font path statements.
WP 8 didn't do well in 24 bit resolution in 3.3.x but now works quite well
in 24 bit mode even if it still won't xlate the "standard" RTF files from
word 2000 (older word versions work tho).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: lilo <-> graphic boot prompt
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:38:47 -0400
I recently upgraded to redhat 7.0 when rebooting i found a ugly-as-can-be
graphic redhat boot prompt instead of the usual "lilo boot:"
the displayed image is stored in /boot/message
question1: how can i get rid of that logo and have the old-style lilo
prompt?
question2: what format is the logo file? the file command identifies
/boot/message (correctly) as "data", but I chan view (ee, gqview) and edit
(gimp) it easily.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Password forgot
Date: 10 Oct 2000 16:46:23 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jerome Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have forgot my root password....!
>Do I have a possibility to change it or do I should reinstall the whole
>software?
>I use Linux Suse 6.4
At the LILO: prompt on bootup, try
linux 1
This may drop you into a single user root shell.
Then do
passwd
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From: waif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem mapping to network drive on linux box
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:56:07 GMT
It looks like the version issue is the problem. I still have problems
though, but they seem to be in my configuration though. Thanks.
In article <8rv9hj$5nu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some of the older versions of Samba have issues with Win2000. I am
not sure
> if this is your problem, but I would check it out.
>
> Nisi
> www.mindlessmayhem.com
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo <-> graphic boot prompt
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:21:00 GMT
On Oct 10, 2000 at 18:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] eloquently wrote:
>I recently upgraded to redhat 7.0 when rebooting i found a ugly-as-can-be
>graphic redhat boot prompt instead of the usual "lilo boot:"
>
>the displayed image is stored in /boot/message
>
>question1: how can i get rid of that logo and have the old-style lilo
>prompt?
So did I but the graphic was kool. Edit /etc/lilo.conf
and comment out the 'message=/boot/message' line. Save,
rerun lilo and reboot.
>
>question2: what format is the logo file? the file command identifies
>/boot/message (correctly) as "data", but I chan view (ee, gqview) and edit
>(gimp) it easily.
Cleuless in B'More.
--
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"What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager
asked her mother.
"Encouragement, dear," she replied.
1:18pm up 9 days, 15:04, 11 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 720c printer drivers
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:36:05 GMT
> I recently installed red hat ver. 6 on my pc only to find that I could not set
> up my printer. A trip to the hewlettpackard website in search of drivers and I
> discovered that hp doesn't support the linux environment. Moreover it looks as
> if the information required to write drivers for this printer has only been
> released to microsoft.
>
> Has anybody had the same problem and found a way round it?
There is a driver available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa/
They have done a pretty good job too. There are rpms available of which you
will need the pnm2ppa package as well as the modified print filters.
HTH...
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 720c printer drivers
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:54:12 +0200
ELLIS wrote:
>
> I recently installed red hat ver. 6 on my pc only to find that I could not
> set up my printer. A trip to the hewlettpackard website in search of drivers
> and I discovered that hp doesn't support the linux environment. Moreover it
> looks as if the information required to write drivers for this printer has
> only been released to microsoft.
>
> Has anybody had the same problem and found a way round it?
>
Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa/
--
Markus Kossmann
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From: Philippe Rousselot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting 2 floppy drives
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:05:30 -0700
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Hi Vilmos,
No, it does not work.
Here is what I do
being in root,
first I create a folder
mkdir /mnt/floppy2
second I mount the drive
mount -t auto/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2
when I check from the GUI the folder floppy2 is there but empty, ame problem
from the terminal.
I have the same problem when I try to mount my zip drive (mkdir /mnt/zip,
and then mount -t auto/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip).
Thanks for your help
Vilmos Soti wrote:
> Philippe Rousselot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have two floppy drives (5.25 and 3.5) only the 5.25 is mounted on my
> > comfig.
> >
> > How can I install the 2nd one?
>
> Try /dev/fd1 for the second floppy drive.
>
> Vilmos
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Subject: Re: mounting 2 floppy drives
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:26:53 GMT
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Please turn this off.
> being in root,
> first I create a folder
> mkdir /mnt/floppy2
> second I mount the drive
> mount -t auto/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2
Put a space between auto and /de/fd1. (Unfortunately I can't check /dev/fd1
since I don't have access to any ocmputer with two floppy drives.)
> when I check from the GUI the folder floppy2 is there but empty, ame problem
> from the terminal.
After mounting, just do a "df" to see if it was mounted.
> I have the same problem when I try to mount my zip drive (mkdir /mnt/zip,
> and then mount -t auto/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip).
Again, did you put a space between auto and /dev/hdc4? Also, /dev/hdc4
has to do with an IDE disk. Does the zip drive use the IDE disk naming
scheme? (I do not use this, so I ask.)
Vilmos
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From: Sven Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't compile xchat-1.5.7
Date: 10 Oct 2000 20:49:40 +0200
jruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm SuSE linux 6.4; kernel 2.2.14; glib 1.2.8; gtk+ 1.2.8. I'm trying
> to install xchat-1.5.7. I get xchat-1.5.7 "./configure" to run
> correctly. However it fails when I attempt "make".
> make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/X-Chat/xchat-1.5.7/po'
> file=./`echo cs | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
> && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH no -o $file cs.po
> /bin/sh: no: command not found
> 2)piece of Makefile where the command is being given:
> GMSGFMT = PATH=../src:$$PATH no
> MSGFMT = no
'no' is no general command. I guess, either configure made faults when
producing this Makefile or xchat should provide that command itself.
'po/'-directory is usually 'native language support'.
configure often has a switch '--disable-nls' to get rid of that.
If there's ever no such configure option, i'd try to switch off
compiling in that directory (if i couldn't find out more from the
'configure' script itself and the according 'Makefile.in', the Makefile
prototype for configure)
- Removing the directory from the list in the Makefile in the parent
directory (which calls this Makefile). Usually there's a variable
named like 'SUBDIRS'.
- or making the 'all:' target empty, in po/Makefile
A bug report to the maintainer of xchat would help both sides, too.
Sven
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From: Rachel Rumsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resolution
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:22:22 -0400
How do you change the resolution using Linux Redhat 6.2?
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From: "Inge Inker Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux
Subject: Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 AGP RH 6.1
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:26:18 +0200
"Dramen Mendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en meddelelse
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> does agp work under redhat 6.1?
> dramen
>
> Elliott wrote:
>
> > linux.3dfx.com should have the drivrs you need. I have the same card,
> > only its PCI, and it works great. BTW, after you install the drivers,
> > don't run the X configurator. Edit your XF86Config file instead.
> >
> > Rodney Loisel wrote:
> >
> > > 3dfx Voodoo3 AGP distr: RH 6.1
> > > System p2mmx 96MB
> > > Is this card supported in Linux
> > > If so where might I start getting info for it.
> > > Thanks
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure copy
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:27:23 -0500
It asks for the passphrase...then seems like it's loggin me in, but then closes the
session without any warning...
I will look into the killall thing...I don't have my laptop (linux) available at the
moment.
David Efflandt wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:01:59 -0500, Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm currently using ssh ver 2.6 on my Mandrake 7.1 linux. I can ssh to
> >another linux box and it can ssh to me. We are wanting to secure copy
> >files back and forth in the same manor. I have the client setup on my
> >Win98 machine and I can SSh to both linux boxes, but when I try and do a
> >secure copy it logs in and then kicks me right off...what are we
> >missing???
> >
> >Could you please be a specific as possible...newbie on this ssh stuff...
>
> When you use ssh does it just ask you for your passphrase or does it also
> ask for your system password?
>
> If it is falling back to rhost configuration instead of an RSA key maybe
> you could get it to work by uncommenting the rsh line in /etc/inetd.conf
> and then do 'killall -HUP inetd'.
>
> --
> David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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Network Engineering Services
Southern Illinois University
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From: Jim McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:48:34 -0700
Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
>
> Bryan Lee wrote:
> >
> > Anybody can point me to the right direction to resolve this problem? Does
> > Linux run on AMD processor?
>
> Yes, that's a problem. The default RH 6.2 kernel has "Disable CPUID"
> compiled in, and AMD's T-Birds panic when they see that. So, you need a
> different kernel to boot (a boot disk, loadlin), and then recompile your
> main kernel without said option.
>
Or type "linux x86_serial_nr=1" at the lilo prompt; you should be able
to append it in lilo.conf, too.
--
Jim McDonald
htttp://www.stanford.edu/~mcduck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.D. Silvester)
Subject: Weird system log messages
Date: 10 Oct 2000 20:54:02 GMT
I'm running SuSE 6.2 and I am seeing alot of weird entries in
/var/log/messages. About every 20 minutes there is an entry that looks
like this -- MARK --
These stupid things are unneccessarily filling my log file. There are no
cron jobs set to run (I have checked cron.hourly, cron.daily, and
cron.weekly) along with checking the crontab for root, which reports no
scheduled cron jobs. So, where is this crap coming from?
John
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From: "havesum2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trouble compiling a kernel RH7
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:59:38 -0500
im using an abit kt7 750 thunderbird and i cant get it to compile a kernel
with RH7 it works fine with 6.2 anyone else have this problem.
kernel ver. 2.2.17
thanks in advance for any help,
havesum2
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From: Henry W Meyerding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Server refused ftp
Date: 10 Oct 2000 14:01:18 -0700
On RedHat 6.2... When I anonymously ftp to the box and try to send a
file, it says permission refused by server (upload). How do i configure
it so that I can send files as well as serve them?
Thanks
HWM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: trouble compiling a kernel RH7
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:32:34 -0400
In article <8s0015$ncg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "havesum2"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> im using an abit kt7 750 thunderbird and i cant get it to compile a
> kernel with RH7 it works fine with 6.2 anyone else have this problem.
> kernel ver. 2.2.17 thanks in advance for any help, havesum2
I guess every RH7.0 user has.
AFAIK its got something to do wirth the new gcc (etc) version.
uninstalling the mysterious kgcc rpm and replacing the kernel source rpm
with a tarball version helpes a bit.
You still get warnings but the kernel compiles and runs.
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to force the rpm database to know about a manual kernel upgrade
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:37:13 -0400
Christian DELAIR wrote:
>
> My question is How to force the rpm database to know that the kernel is now
> 2.2.16
>
You may want to search freshmeat.net for "installwatch". It makes
installing from source much easier on various distributions, and keeping
the package database updated in the process.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Weird system log messages
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:34:55 -0400
In article <8rvvla$e6r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J.D. Silvester"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm running SuSE 6.2 and I am seeing alot of weird entries in
> /var/log/messages. About every 20 minutes there is an entry that looks
> like this -- MARK -- These stupid things are unneccessarily filling
> my log file. There are no cron jobs set to run (I have checked
> cron.hourly, cron.daily, and cron.weekly) along with checking the
> crontab for root, which reports no scheduled cron jobs. So, where is
> this crap coming from?
>
>
> John
>
start syslogd with the option -m 0
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From: Stephen Chadfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:52:13 +0100
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:51:33 -0400, Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>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 have always found XEmacs to be an easy compile for Linux/Unix and
always compile from source.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Weird system log messages
Date: 10 Oct 2000 21:54:44 GMT
]> I'm running SuSE 6.2 and I am seeing alot of weird entries in
]> /var/log/messages. About every 20 minutes there is an entry that looks
]> like this -- MARK -- These stupid things are unneccessarily filling
]> my log file. There are no cron jobs set to run (I have checked
It is syslogd letting you know it is still running.
man syslogd
Look for the -m option.
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