Linux-Setup Digest #815, Volume #19 Thu, 12 Oct 00 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lilo not found in MBR Dell Poweredge RAID (Rob Carlson)
DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: logout ("John Horne")
Redhat 7.0 + ApplixWare 4.37 (Anders Nilsson)
Re: Fast Track Raid 66 Controller (Carlos Dominguez)
Re: permissions, so confused
Re: Bizarre shell problem. Please help ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
RH raid1.o module and signal 11 (Anthony Glaser)
Problems with RH7 LILO and Win2K (Carlos Dominguez)
Re: compiler errors (Paul Kimoto)
Re: XDM can't convert network address ??? ("David ..")
Re: permissions, so confused (Black Dragon)
Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Robert Kiesling)
Re: Where is /ect/inetd.conf on RH 7.0 :-) (Daouda Mbaye)
Re: promise controller / RH 6.0 problems (John)
RH7 wont compile ("havesum2")
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:17:06 -0400
From: Rob Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lilo not found in MBR Dell Poweredge RAID
Oops
Active partition was not set. This always worked automatically for me in the
past. Lesson learned.
I toggled /boot to active and voila! Now it works.
Red hat support said and active partion is set ...?(Wait a minute ...)
Kudos to Redhat.
Eric wrote:
> Rob Carlson wrote:
> >
> > This is a tough one. Sorry for the length. It is necessary.
> >
> > I have a Dell Poweredge 4400 w 6 36bb drives configured RAID 5
> > (actually two identical machines). The machine originally had RedHat
> > 6.2 preloaded on it. When I received the machines, the partitions were
> > out of whack, so I decided to reinstall. I remade the container and
> > scrubbed the disks and proceeded with the install. Note that this is
> > hardware RAID, so there should be no issues with raidtab, etc.
> >
> > Once I acquired the proper controller (Dell Percraid) I was able to do
> > an expert install, fdisk, and load everything. The only trouble came
> > when the machine rebooted. Instead of going into LILO, I received the
> > Hit F1 to retry boot or F2 to enter setup message. At this point I can
> > boot with the boot floppy I created, and can traverse the entire
> > filesystem, run commands, etc. this leads me to believe the problem
> > lies entriely with MBR. Here are some of the things I have tried:
> >
> > In bios/Raid configuration I created a non-RAID volume during one
> > attempt, on which to place /boot. This didn't work, and Dell and Red
> > Hat both told me I should be able to use the entire RAID array.
>
> Still I suspect this to be the problem. I've seen these same messages
> far to often on my DELL machine. They tend to occur here when I put an
> extra drive on the IDE controller but haven't jumpered it correctly. On
> a known good system this will make it unbootable (ofcourse :-) ). It has
> nothing to do with lilo, which is probably perfectly written in the MBR,
> and everything with your hardware configuration. The BIOS cannot find
> the HDD/RAID array for some reason. Which reason it is, I cannot tell
> you, I don't have any expierience with RAID arrays, but i suggest you
> either check jumpers/connections or fix the BIOS settings if they are
> wrong for whatever reason.
>
> Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:25:14 GMT
Hi all,
I am having problems using my Linux box in an NT network.
System administrator complains that my machines tries to
act as DNS server so I am forbidden to use it :-(
Does anyone know how to avoid this? And have Linux
live peacefully together with NT (I know it is a nonsense;-)
or at least make me live peacefully together with my sysadmin
and enjoy using a real operating system?
Thanks in advance
Bye
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From: "John Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: logout
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:42:21 +0100
In article <8s4ih9$8ga$04$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martin Schmidt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to start a script when logging out ?
> (I use Suse 7.0) .
>
Using the bash shell it will execute the '.bash_logout' file if it exists
in your home directory when you logout. Look at 'man bash' for details.
John.
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From: andersn@//no-spam//isy.liu.se (Anders Nilsson)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.applixware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Redhat 7.0 + ApplixWare 4.37
Date: 12 Oct 2000 16:43:50 GMT
Hi There!
I have just made a fresh install of Redhat 7.0 and then added ApplixWare 4.37,
but when I run applix it says the following and then exits:
/usr/bin/ldd: /opt/applix/applix: No such file or directory
/bin/applix: /opt/applix/applix: No such file or directory
/bin/applix: /opt/applix/applix: No such file or directory
However the file /opt/applix/applix does indeed exist.
Running 'strace applix' from the command shell yields a long printout but
basically says the same thing that the file does not exist.
Since I've hade the same kind of problem with some of my other "older"
programs it feels like there is something new (or missing) in Redhat 7.0
that causes this, because I had no such problems when running Redhat 6.2.
Any ideas?
/Anders
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From: Carlos Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fast Track Raid 66 Controller
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:35:27 GMT
In article <8s2lam$p8p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Peter Aagaard Kristensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> setup 2x60mb harddrives as a raid drive. When I connected the
> controller to my computer Linux would'nt boot. It said that it
> could'nt find the irq
Hello,
Check the promise web site for more info.
http:///www.promise.com
They provide a loadable kernel module, but I don't think they have any
installation support yet.
regards,
carlos
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: permissions, so confused
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:10:04 -0000
Let me get this straight, you are upset because your computer is secure
agains unauthorized people running programs as root??? Just set it up to
start the service automatically everytime you start up the system. The
easy way to do this is to use the run level editor.
dja13 wrote:
>
>
> Okay, look. You can't run samba if you can't start it. If I am not
> root, I can't start it...so I am a little screwed here unless I want
> to su everything...
>
> if I run
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
>
> I get "must have user ID of 0 to run" What is that...I mean, why do I
> have to be root (ID of 0) to run smb???? I can do sharing, but I just
> have to su the terminal to start smb servies and I have to su samba or
> KDE explorer to get to the shares on teh windoze machine.
>
> How do I give myself access...this is ridiculous, I am just going to
> login as root all the time!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Allen
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From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizarre shell problem. Please help
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:11:18 -0500
Vilmos Soti wrote:
> Servet Ahmet Cizmeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [root@seawifs etc]# /usr/local/matlab5/etc/lnx86/lmhostid
> > bash: /usr/local/matlab5/etc/lnx86/lmhostid: No such file or directory
> >
> > however the file exists with correct execution permissions
> >
> > [root@seawifs etc]# ls -l /usr/local/matlab5/etc/lnx86/lmhostid
> > -rwxr-xr-x 10 acizmeli users 219264 Oct 31 1997
> > /usr/local/matlab5/etc/lnx86/lmhostid
> >
> > I AM COMPLETELY STUCK. WHY WOULD THE SHELL NOT FIND THIS FILE TO RUN
>
> Check with ldd which libraries this program uses. There is a good
> chance the loader cannot find one library.
>
> Also, you can use strace on the binary to check out what file it
> doesn't find, but first, use the ldd command. That is much simpler
> to decipher than strace's output.
>
> Vilmos
Also check the permissions of the directories under lmhostid. They must be
r_x for each of the appropriate users (user, group and other).
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From: Anthony Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH raid1.o module and signal 11
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:27:25 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to install RH6.2 on my P133 which is also running dos.
I have 48 M ram and a 2 gig HD, half of which is free for RH.
Here is the offending messages when I try to install:
=========================
running install...
running /sbin/loader
/tmp/raid1.o: a module named raid1 already exists
install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems...
/mnt/source
/dev/pts
/proc
ejecting cdrom
you may safely reboot your system
===================================
I've looked at the signal 11 faq, but I'm hoping it's a raid1.o problem
instead. I don't like the suggestions on the signal 11 faq. (eg: use 1
gig of swap space)
I would be very grateful for any help, I'm frustrated beyond silly.
Thank you
Tony
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From: Carlos Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with RH7 LILO and Win2K
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:22:38 GMT
Hello,
I have a friend with a PC configured as follows
Intel SE440BX Mainboard
Iomega ZipCD 12x4x32 ATAPI CDR/CDRW
Promise FastTrak 66 RAID controller (1.30b12)
2 x IBM 30GB Deskstar 7200RPM drives
Adaptec 2940UW (1.35.4)
2 x IBM 4GB Wide SCSI drives
Since Promise has not released source yet for the FT66, the RH7 install
only sees the 2940, and the ATAPI CDROM. RH7 installed with no problems,
and only needed minor tweaking to recognize a AHA1505 SCSI card used to
attach a ZIP drive and HP scanner that is used occasionally.
We then installed Win2K onto the Promise RAID array with no problems.
We then tried to get the NT boot loader to load linux by following
the NT-Boot-Loader MINI-HowTo. But no matter what we do, we only see
"LI" whenever the NT boot loader tries to load linux. This means that
the 1st stage has loaded, but the 2nd stage failed, indicating perhaps a
geometry problem. Since the disk geometry hasn't changed, perhaps
Micro$oft has changed the NTLDR code to prevent it from boot-strapping
LILO?
I can boot my RH7 install by using a boot floppy, a custom el-torito
boot CD that I burned, or by going into my SE440BX BIOS, and placing
the /dev/sda drive (aka ID 0) as the first bootable hard-drive before
the Promise RAID controlled drives. All are kludgy and a chore.
I may be forced to backup the partitions on the RAID array, destroy
them, create a 100MB FAT16 primary partition, recreate the other
partitions and restore the backup images, then install my copy of System
Commander on the FAT16 partition and let that take of my booting
problems. This would be a time-consuming chore, and the virtual
equivalent of using a sledge hammer to kill a mosquito. ;)
If anyone knows how to get the Win2k's NTLDR to bootstrap LILO
I would appreciate it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: compiler errors
Date: 12 Oct 2000 13:31:09 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Davis wrote:
> I am trying to compile tulip.c and pci-scan.c and neither will compile.
> I use both gcc and cc in Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE. I get about 5 or
> 6 screens of internal errors referencing linking and parsing and gobs of
> other stuff I don't understand. I use the command to compile in the end
> of each *.c file.
Please post the (first few, perhaps) errors.
You may get some errors because you need to install more packages.
Some internal compiler errors, though, are hardware related:
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XDM can't convert network address ???
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:32:26 -0500
Ed Bras wrote:
>
> Hellu
>
> Ok, I had some problems with upgrading Redhat 6.2 -> RH 7.0 and almost solve
> them all, except this last one:
>
> I logon to the limix machine with an xclient (XWinPro).
> I do get the chooser, but when I click on the RH 7.0 machine to logon, it
> disappears and comes back.
> In the /var/log/xdm-errors files appears:
> Cannot convert internet address 10.0.0.2228 to a host name
>
> What is this ??? I don't want him to do this.
> How can I solve this ??
>
> Please some help, as I am already looking ... looking ...
> Ed Bras
10.0.0.2228 is not a valid IP.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: permissions, so confused
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:06:12 GMT
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:10:04 -0000 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
>Let me get this straight, you are upset because your computer is secure
>agains unauthorized people running programs as root??? Just set it up to
>start the service automatically everytime you start up the system. The
>easy way to do this is to use the run level editor.
Or from the command line: "chkconfig smb on"
>dja13 wrote:
>>
>>
>> Okay, look. You can't run samba if you can't start it. If I am not
>> root, I can't start it...so I am a little screwed here unless I want
>> to su everything...
>>
>> if I run
>>
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
>>
>> I get "must have user ID of 0 to run" What is that...I mean, why do I
>> have to be root (ID of 0) to run smb???? I can do sharing, but I just
>> have to su the terminal to start smb servies and I have to su samba or
>> KDE explorer to get to the shares on teh windoze machine.
>>
>> How do I give myself access...this is ridiculous, I am just going to
>> login as root all the time!
Calm down, take a deep breath, inhaling through your nose, and exhaling through
your mouth. . . Feel better now? The smb service is intended to be started
when Linux is booted, which will be done with root privileges. It's explained
above how to do it -- with a gui run level editor, chkconfig, or the hard way
which is renaming the symbolic links in the /etc/rc.d/rc*.d sub dirs. (* = run
level, 3 = console, 5 = X11, etc.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kiesling)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 Oct 2000 14:08:24 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Thanks for all the replies. I went with what many of you said and did an
>amazingly painless compile from the 21.1.12 source. Unfortunately, not all
>things work (most notably, I couldn't get cc-mode to work properly yet) but
>I have the most basic functionality. I have a somewhat stupid question -
>what is the difference between installing a lisp package in the default
>place (/usr/local/lib/xemacs*/xemacs-packages) versus installing it anywhere
>and using (setq load-path (cons "/dir/of/cc-mode/" load-path)) in the .emacs
>file. For eg, can I install the lisp package in /mydir/cc-mode* and use the
>above in .emacs ?
If it's a standard package, then I would install it in the system
/usr/local/lib directory, if only for your own sanity and so that it
gets upgraded with the rest of the distribution packages, because it
might also depend on other files in that location... I'm not sure, but
GNU Emacs doesn't have that library packaging, which is what I use,
but if the file(s) are not part of the standard Xemacs packages then,
they should be installable in any directory..., and if the package
depends on other files' locations, then that should be mentioned
somewhere in the documentation, or resolved if the .el files are byte
compiled during installation.
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From: Daouda Mbaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is /ect/inetd.conf on RH 7.0 :-)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:23:17 -0400
You need to go under /etc/xinetd.d and then edit the individual files for
each service. In the definition, you need to add a line that says "
disable = yes "
Note that some of the services are disabled by default. See man pages for
xinetd.conf and xinetd for more info.
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Daouda Mbaye
Networking and Information Technologies
George Washington University
Ole Morten Fureli wrote:
> Ugh!
>
> Can anyone please tell me how to disable telnet, rlogin, ... on a RH
> 7.0-box?
>
> The file /ect/inetd.conf did this on 6.2, but I'm not able to find this
> file on my new install.
>
> Newbie? ... Yes...
>
> Ole Morten
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: promise controller / RH 6.0 problems
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: 13 Oct 2000 02:01:16 +0800
In comp.os.linux.hardware Ken Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to install RH 6.1 (so I can use my promise controller), but
> I don't like 6.1, as it behaves strangely with our software. In the
> past, I've used the RH 6.2 boot image so I can pass the ide2 location,
> but I can't get the 6.2 boot image (or the 6.1 boot image for that
> matter) to recognize the 6.0 CD as a RH CD. Ultimately, I've decided
> I can install 6.1, then downgrade to 6.0. Can I be sure that all of 6.1
> will be wiped out in such a downgrade? Anybody have any better ideas?
> Thanks,
Installing 6.1 and then downgrading to 6.0 won't be easy (the installer won't
do it), and is likely to result in a system that will be even worse.
I don't know what your reall problem is, but it's more likely to be fixed
poperly by mobing forward, perhaps by upgrading to the lates 2.4 kernel.
If you want to try that, download the tarball from ftp.kernel.org or a mirror,
unpack the source and read Documentation/Changes.
Check that you have the right versions of the packages it mentions (they're all
available as rpms) (ignore those you're not using; if it says you need fred-5.3
and you're not using fred at all, skip fred).
Follow the instructions included with the source for configuring, compiling and
installing the kernel.
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From: "havesum2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: RH7 wont compile
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:01:50 -0500
i have a news server i am building abit kt7 raid it uses hardware raid
in RH6.2 it still sees the 2 - 45GB ibms as 2 drives.
I upgraded to RH7 and it wont compile the kernel that it came with.
So i still have no raid. anyone have any ideas how i can get raid to work in
any version with the kt7.
TIA,
havesum2
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