Linux-Setup Digest #877, Volume #19 Sun, 22 Oct 00 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Virtual email Domains ("Rob")
Duplicate entries in Apache access_log ("Paul A. Steckler")
SBLive and Linux ("Don")
CD Audio, question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition? (Alan Raskin)
Re: Duplicate entries in Apache access_log ("Paul A. Steckler")
LILO append string for ATA 66 ??? ("Charles Sullivan")
RH Update Agent up2date behind a proxy (Didier G)
wacom tablet under linux (erich friesen)
Re: CD Audio, question (Scott Nolde)
Re: insmod problem (Scott Nolde)
Re: Stock RH6.2 recompile buggy...Normal? (Scott Nolde)
Mounting a tape drive (James Moe)
Re: Newbie question: broken ppp (Edwin Humphries)
Re: redhat 6.2 or 7.0? (E J)
MS IntelliMouse PS/2 mouse (Te-Cheng Shen)
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From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Virtual email Domains
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:00:27 GMT
Hi i am trying to set up virtual email domains on RedHat 6.2. I added the
domains to dns and then configured the virtual domains under sendmail. I've
also assigned alias ip's. I can ping the mail domain but when I try to log
in I get bad login password rejected. I know I am using the correct
password can anyone help me??
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From: "Paul A. Steckler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Duplicate entries in Apache access_log
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:16:37 -0500
I'm running Apache 1.3.12 under Red Hat Linux 6.2.
For some reason, every entry in access_log appears twice.
That's not true for error_log entries.
Any idea why this happens?
-- Paul
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From: "Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBLive and Linux
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:15:22 GMT
Hello everyone.
I was hoping that I could get some help with configuring my SB Live Value II
card with Mandrake Linux 7.1. From what I see it work automatically for
most people, but not for me.
My sound card is automatically recognized by linux but the sound doesn't
work. I tried installing the latest driver modules from Open Source
Creative and it still doesn't work. Upon linux bootup or during any attempt
to play or configure my sound card with DrakConf I get a message indicating
that the emu10k1 module/resource is busy or something else that I can't
remember right now.
Has anyone had this problem? Can anyone make suggestions as to how I can
get my soundcard to work?
BTW, my sound card works well in Windows with no faults at all.
Thanks,
Donald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CD Audio, question
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:19:34 GMT
Okay, if you put in a audio CD and explore to
/mnt/cdrom
it says input/output error, even though I can browse a data CD fine
and I can use the CD player to play the CD. Why is that and is there
anyway to explore it??
Thanks!
Dan Allen
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [lilo] please critique this lilo.conf
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:26:02 +1000
observer wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > observer wrote:
> >
> > > "Checking root file system
> > > /dev/hdc2 is mounted. Cannot continue, aborting."
> > >
> > > Then I have to reboot.
> > >
> > > This happens with or without the "unsafe" keyword.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Check that this partition is not "mounted" in any other system.
> > The booting needs full freedom for temporarily mounting "read only",
> > checking and only later freeing to "read-write" conditions.
> > Read your rh6 /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab and delete any mention of this
> > partition.
> > Persist and RTFM, I know that it works in my case, but I use Slackware
> > and administering this animal is second nature after some time.
> > Have fun
> > Stanislaw.
> >
>
> Ok, Stan, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>
> I decided the simplest approach would be to make the lilo.conf files
> for the two setups -- redhat61 on /dev/hda4 and redhat7 on /dev/hdc2 --
> perfectly symmetric, which I did as follows:
>
> ------ redhat61 ------
> boot = /dev/hda4
> install = /boot/boot.b
> map = /boot/map
> message = /boot/message
> # simulate user key-press
> prompt # else user has to press CTRL
> # give user time to think
> #delay = 1800 # seconds = delay/10
> default = redhat61
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = redhat61
> append = "reboot=warm"
> initrd = /boot/initrd
> root = /dev/hda4
> read-only
> vga = ask
> other = /dev/hdc2
> label = redhat7
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = windowsme
> table = /dev/hda
> ------ end redhat61 ------
>
> ------ redhat7 ------
> boot = /dev/hdc2
> install = /boot/boot.b
> map = /boot/map
> message = /boot/message
> # simulate user key-press
> prompt # else user has to press CTRL
> # give user time to think
> #delay = 1800 # seconds = delay/10
> default = redhat7
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = redhat7
> append = "nousb reboot=warm" # back-UPS Pro 500 usb problem!
> initrd = /boot/initrd
> root = /dev/hdc2
> read-only
> vga = ask
> other = /dev/hda4
> label = redhat61
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = windowsme
> table = /dev/hda
> ------ end redhat7 ------
>
> If my understanding of lilo is correct, the symmetry of these two
> lilo.conf files leads me to believe that the resulting boot interfaces
> should work a correspondingly symmetric fashion, which -- given that
> /dev/hda4 is the active partition on /dev/hda -- they appear to do, so
> to that extent at least my understanding seems to be confirmed.
>
> I will try it this way for awhile and keep a watchful eye on it.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
With little editing of both lilo.conf you can have the two LILO's waltzing
together till the end of time. Try it it is fun, just make sure that you
have a booting diskette when the fun gets boring.
On more serious note: The second LILO does not need to display any menu or
have a waiting period, as its ONLY function is to activate the relevant OS
which evidently was chosen after careful deliberation during the menu of
first LILO. And it does not need any choices either, any reboot will present
the menu of primary LILO.
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
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From: Alan Raskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:21:00 -0500
I had a similar problem with the same system and Linux distro/version.
For some unknown reason, the Mandrake 7.1 installation didn't resize the
Windows partition properly on my 12GB drive, so the Windows and Linux
partitions ended up overlapping. When the disk defragmenter ran
automagically every Friday morning, Windows would take back about 200 MB
from the Linux partition. Can you say "Kiss your Linux good-bye"?
Anyway, Partition Magic 5.0 detected the problem immediatley when I ran
it, so I had it delete the Linux partitions, fix the Windows one, and
then recreate the Linux partitions. No more problems after the
re-install (although admittedly I didn't boot into Linux after this
morning's disk defrag... :-).
My advice is to always use a *real* partition utility when playing
around with your hard drive; the versions incorporated as subsystems of
complex installation programs should be avoided if possible. Sometimes
it's better to use a program that does one thing *really well* than one
that does many things half-assed.
Good luck with your Linux re-install.
- Alan
Tony Mountifield wrote:
>
> Hi, this problem has be really baffled, and I wonder if anyone can shed
> any light on it....
>
> Machine is a Dell i5000 laptop with 20G HD. It came with Win98SE, and I
> subsequently installed Mandrake 7.1, using the Mandrake installer to
> resize the Windows partition to 7.6G, using cylinders 1-1015. I created
> a backup Linux boot floppy.
>
> I subsequently reinstalled Windows completely, and have only been using
> Windows on it for quite a while (still only in the 7.6G partition, but
> without having re-activated LILO).
>
> Today I wanted to run the Linux again, so put the boot floppy in,
> intending to boot Linux and run lilo, to re-install the LILO boot.
>
> This is the fdisk layout of my HD:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1015 7673368+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 1016 1018 22680 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 1019 1051 249480 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 1052 2584 11589480 83 Linux
>
> /dev/hda2 is /boot (under cyl 1024) and /dev/hda4 is /
>
> The system started booting from floppy, but when it came to fsck, it
> said that /dev/hda2 was corrupt, and allowed me to enter the root
> password to drop into a single-user shell. /dev/hda4 was mounted on /
> already.
>
> /dev/hda2 looked nothing like an ext2 filesystem. I made a copy of it in
> the /root directory by doing "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image". I wondered
> how it had become corrupt. If Windows thought it could use that area of
> disk, I didn't want to just re-install Linux and corrupt my stuff on
> Windows. Looking through the contents of hda2.image with "less" showed
> up Windowsy-looking things every so often!
>
> So to test this, I went into Windows. First I did a scandisk, which was
> fine. It said the total disk space on C: was 7670423 KB, which looks OK,
> when compared to the fdisk output above. I then did a defrag of C:.
>
> Next, I retried booting Linux from the floppy, dropping to single user
> mode again as above. I did "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.image2".
>
> Now.... comparing hda2.image and hda2.image2 showed that there were
> large areas in which they differed. This indicated the either:
>
> a) Windows had altered tha area, OUTSIDE of its partition, just by my
> booting Windows and defragging, or
>
> b) Linux was actually looking at the wrong part of the disk.
>
> The / partition on /dev/hda4 seems to be perfectly OK. (Just confirmed
> by "fsck -f -n /dev/hda4")
>
> As I said, although there is nothing precious on the Linux filesystem
> yet, I don't just want to re-install Linux until I understand why
> this has occurred, and can fix it. Does anyone have any ideas or
> explanations for this bizarre behaviour?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tony
>
> --
> Tony Mountifield
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: http://www.softins.clara.co.uk
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From: "Paul A. Steckler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Duplicate entries in Apache access_log
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:26:58 -0500
> For some reason, every entry in access_log appears twice.
> That's not true for error_log entries.
>
> Any idea why this happens?
Ummm, to answer my own question: there were two entries
for access_log in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, one for the domain,
another for "CustomLog". Commenting out the latter one results
in no duplicates.
The existence of these two entries is not evident when setting up
Apache from linuxconf.
Sorry for the gratuitous post.
-- Paul
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO append string for ATA 66 ???
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:32:43 GMT
Can someone tell me the full append string in /etc/lilo.conf to be able
to access _all_ drives connected to an add-on ATA 66 controller card, i.e.,
ide2 and ide3? I had this in my notes somewhere but darned if I can
find it.
I originally had only one drive connected to ide2 (primary master) and
am using:
append="ide2=0x1440"
which works fine for that one drive.
Here are the addresses grepped from /proc/ioports:
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0376-0376 : ide1
03f6-03f6 : ide0
10c0-10c7 : ide2
10c8-10cf : ide3
1420-1427 : ide0
1428-142f : ide1
1432-1432 : ide3
1436-1436 : ide2
1438-143f : ide3
1440-1447 : ide2
I got the above using kernel 2.4.0 (which doesn't need an append string) but
want to also boot using kernel 2.2.14.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Charles Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Didier G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: RH Update Agent up2date behind a proxy
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 04:56:02 +0200
I try to use Red Hat Update Agent - up2date - on my Linux box
connected to Internet thru a Wingate proxy.
In this configuration, up2date try to retrieve list of packages but
does ot success.
When I connect my Linux box directly to Internet usink kppp, up2date
works fine.
Default gateway and proxy for browsers (KFM and Netscape) are
configured and work fine.
What is the protocole uses by up2date to connect to RH site ?
Is it possible to configure a proxy for up2date ?
Thanks for your help.
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From: erich friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: wacom tablet under linux
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:17:27 -0500
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Audio, question
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:23:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Okay, if you put in a audio CD and explore to
>
> /mnt/cdrom
>
> it says input/output error, even though I can browse a data CD fine
> and I can use the CD player to play the CD. Why is that and is there
> anyway to explore it??
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan Allen
IIRC, the files system used for audio is different than the iso9660
format for data cds.
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
11:20pm up 26 min, 3 users, load average: 1.04, 1.02, 0.82
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insmod problem
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:25:00 GMT
"Simon@rcn" wrote:
>
> OK, I jsut compiled up a driver for my new NIC and when I load it it, I get
> the message that it was compiled for the PRIOR version???
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
Take a look at the source code... in it I'm sure you'll find where the
kernel version is located.
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
11:20pm up 26 min, 3 users, load average: 1.04, 1.02, 0.82
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stock RH6.2 recompile buggy...Normal?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:26:08 GMT
"Michael V. Ferranti" wrote:
>
> Hi. I just tried to recompile RH6.2, leaving all the settings stock
> except for processor type and MMX support (went from a 386 kernal to a
> Pentium MMX), and now I have 50 or 60 bad modules reported on bootup.
> Haven't tried restoring the backups as yet, and as far as I know, I
> followed the directions to the letter. I got a bunch of unused symbol
> warnings during the compile. Is this kind of thing normal?
>
> -- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
> Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of warning
> labels and public service announcements produce stress and shortens lives.
make sure you read the kernel compiling instructions to the 'T'. Did
you do the 'make mrproper' before compiling, or a 'depmod -a'?
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
11:20pm up 26 min, 3 users, load average: 1.04, 1.02, 0.82
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From: James Moe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting a tape drive
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:31:36 GMT
Hello,
I have a Sony SDT-5200 DDS2 DAT tape drive, scsi internal, RedHat
v6.2.
How do I make the drive available for use? I have tried a variety of
mount command options. The drive shows up in the device lists. The "st"
driver is loaded (according to lsmod). I have a rubber chicken hanging
over the computer.
The KDE archiver program claims there is no tape in the drive when I
try to mount it. I suspect the error message is bogus since there is a
tape and another OS has no trouble whatsoever using the drive, accessing
the tape, reading/writing the tape.
So. What's the magic formula?
--
sma at rtd dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Humphries)
Subject: Re: Newbie question: broken ppp
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:40:00 GMT
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:20:55 -0400, "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hmm... Well the error msg indicates failure to locate
>a specific section ([Dialer Modem]) in wvdial.conf, wvdial
>must be set elswhere to use this modem setup section *only*,
>try renaming your [zipworld] section to [Dialer Modem], or
>entering it as a command line option to wvdial
>(see "man wvdial" first) e.g.
>
>[root@zephyr]# wvdial zipworld
>
>
>Bluster
Bluster,
I'm sitting here with a idiotic grin all over my face, sending this
posting via the network, as the wvdial script now works. I had to
delete the [zipworld] title altogether, and rename the [Dialer
Defaults} section to {Dialer Modem}.
THanks :-}
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.2 or 7.0?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:43:53 -0700
Redhat Linux 7.0 CD fixed a lot of problems, I cannot format the last
20G of my 40G harddrive with RH6.0
Redhat Linux 7.0 broke Word Perfect 8, I cannot run or install Word
Perfect 8 on a brand new install of RH7.0
I installed libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm from
Redhat 6.2 CD and it now works.
I cannot use efax with fax as a entry in /etc/printcap in RH7.0, it
breaks all printing unless I remove the fax entry.
MT wrote:
> You!
>
> I've concidered ordering the Redhat Linux 7.0 cd, but
> i heard, that Redhat 6.2 is better then 7.0... (?) 7.0 soposed
> to have bugs in the X environment and all... and they say,
> that i cant install 6.2 and then select some packages from
> the 7.0 cd... what should i do? I'm working on a i686 work-
> station...
>
> tammx
>
> PS! sorry about the mistakes i probably made, my English is'nt
> too good... ;~)
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From: Te-Cheng Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MS IntelliMouse PS/2 mouse
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:04:12 -0700
Just wonder that can we use the third key on the MS IntelliMouse PS/2
port.
I have tried this
in setup -> mouse configuration -> MS IntelliMouse PS/2 [*] Emulate
3rd key
Anything else I need to do in order to set it up?
Thanks
STC
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