Linux-Setup Digest #996, Volume #19 Wed, 8 Nov 00 11:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: redhat 7.1 or higher ("ne...")
Re: printer setup problem ("Andrew E. Schulman")
boot disk with pcmcia support-help required please ("ky_chiang")
Installation woes - no valid devices?? ("ky_chiang")
How to turn off FTP server (Mark Farey)
hang up while booting with "L020202020.." and "LI..." ("Jing-Hsien CHIANG")
Re: How to turn off FTP server (Tux)
Printing over Samba (Tux)
Get rid of all those .twm files ("w.m.boeke")
Re: Tried but it does not work(Linux freezes at (Eric)
Linux hangs after writing to the /dev/st0 port ?? ("Ed Bras")
Re: Linux hangs after writing to the /dev/st0 port ?? (Harald Wagener)
Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!! (Eric)
Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!! (Eric)
Re: PPP problem ("Jacklal Jack")
Re: hacker...beware ("jdm")
Re: mail server (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: video card problems (Eric)
Re: Disk Woes, Limitations? (Eric)
Re: Not all ram seen by linux but is by BIOS check (Hal Burgiss)
Help! set X server Color Depth (smilemonkey)
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 7.1 or higher
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:30:32 GMT
On Nov 8, 2000 at 04:13, Timothy Murphy eloquently wrote:
>Dave Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)kgcc <<<-----------
>
>>As well as the change from gcc to kgcc do the make mrproper prior to the
>>make xconfig etc.
>
>As a matter of interest, is kgcc the same as egcs ?
>If so, why invent a new name (which seems specific to RedHat)?
The original poster has RH7. This comes with gcc-2.96
and kgcc which is gcc-2.95 I believe. U'll have to ask
RH why the new name.
>I compiled kernel-2,4,0-test10 with egcs and it seems to work perfectly well.
On what distribution?
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Never give an inch!
8:28am up 17 days, 16:20, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer setup problem
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 08:50:20 -0500
> I am running mandrak 7.0 on an HP 8760c I need help getting my printer
> running. The printer is a Brother hl 1240 laser printer. Any and all
> help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!
Start with the Printing HOWTO. It will serve as an introduction and should
help you to get at least plain text output.
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From: "ky_chiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot disk with pcmcia support-help required please
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:08:24 +0800
Reply-To: "ky_chiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Ian :
You must include the special drivers into your bootdisk.
Try to make your kernel to supportting the special driver. ( you should
buit-in the new driver)
Best regards.
Teachme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8u9dgf$pg7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi folks,
> I'm in need of some help please. I have created a bootdisk and I now want
to
> include my pcmcia drivers so I can do a network/pcmcia installation using
> the cdrom on my main machine. Problem is I follow the HOWTO but it doesn't
> tell you how to include specific drivers? Any help appreciated.
> TIA
>
> Ian Turnbull
> 0961 931941
> mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
>
>
>
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From: "ky_chiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation woes - no valid devices??
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:14:08 +0800
Reply-To: "ky_chiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That's because Red-Hat 6.2 doesn't recognize the controller.
you can ask the Compaq to support for you.
Of course, you can create a installation disk & bootdisk to support and
install Linux by yourself. ( I always do it when the Linux doesn't recognize
the chipset.).
John Mravunac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wV7O5.102$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm attempting to install RH6.2 on a Compaq Proliant 1500 with a Compaq
> Smart2/E array controller. The problem I get is that when I run the
> installation...it gets up to the point where you select what type of
> installation you need (Gnome Workstation, Server...) and then fails. The
> next screen reads "An error has occured - no valid devices were found on
> which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause
of
> this problem"
> But there does not appear to be any hardware problems because Windows NT
> Server had no troubles installing on it.
> Please....if you have any advice to offer please do, as I am in serious
need
> of help here! :)
>
> Thanks very much,
> John :^)
>
>
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From: Mark Farey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to turn off FTP server
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 14:22:45 GMT
I'm running RH 6.2 on my home server and have just installed Xitami web
server and FTP server. Now I want to disable the web server (Apache) and
FTP server that came with RH. I've had no problem turning off the Apache
web server (using Linuxconf) but I can see how to disable the FTP
server. There's no mention of ftpd or similar in Linuxconf. How's it
done?
A quick direct response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be very much
appreciated.
Thanks!
Mark
Ottawa, Canada.
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From: "Jing-Hsien CHIANG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hang up while booting with "L020202020.." and "LI..."
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:19:56 +0800
Hi, I've encountered a problem that my new installed turbolinux server 6.1
doesn't boot.
The following two error message were given in the screen while I boot it
with either SystemCommander ver.2.5 and/or NTloader:
Case 1. L02020202020202020202020202.........(no ending)
Case 2. LI
LI
LI (three lines of "LI" showed up, and then hanged up.)
The case 1 happened to that the turbolinux has been installed in a partition
where comes after a partition whose partition was NTFS.
On the other hand, case 2 only happened when I installed turbolinux into the
first partition.
Note that HDD/OS in the PC having above-mentioned troubles are :
an SCSI-2(2G) has been assigned as drive 0 and has a DOS6.2 (FAT16) and a
NT4.0 (NTFS) operating system installed.
an IDE/ATA66(8G) has been assign as drive 1 and has been used as a DATA
storage drive so far (NTFS, no OS).
The troubled turboxlinux can be booted with a boot-floppy and/or from DOS6.2
by using the "loadlin" utility as follows:
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc1 ro
(vmlinuz is the kernel turbolinux used and hdc1 is the partition it
installed)
Has anybody there encountered the same things?
Any help would be appreciated.
Ken
--
Dr. Ken J.-H. Chiang
JANUS Co., Ltd.
Tel: +886-2-2834-5895
Fax: +886-2-8145-1310
(Home address)
3F, No.3, Ln.85, Sec.2, Zhiyu Rd.,
Shihlin Dist., Taipei 11148, TAIWAN
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From: Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn off FTP server
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:46:36 +0100
Mark Farey wrote:
>
> I'm running RH 6.2 on my home server and have just installed Xitami web
> server and FTP server. Now I want to disable the web server (Apache) and
> FTP server that came with RH. I've had no problem turning off the Apache
> web server (using Linuxconf) but I can see how to disable the FTP
> server. There's no mention of ftpd or similar in Linuxconf. How's it
> done?
>
> A quick direct response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be very much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
> Ottawa, Canada.
Are you running the inetd? Have a look at /etc/inetd.conf
Tux
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From: Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing over Samba
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:47:37 +0100
hi!
Im trying to enable printing with Samba on my SuSE 7.0, but Yast tells
it's deactivated. Which packets do I have to install? Any other
suggestions?
Tux
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From: "w.m.boeke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Get rid of all those .twm files
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:03:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm using the twm window manager (with Gnome, Redhat 6.2),
because I like it. However, a whole bunch of .twmxxx files
has been created in my home directory. How can I get rid of
these? (S.v.p no jokes like "rm .twm*", the files appear to
be used at startup).
Wouter Boeke
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tried but it does not work(Linux freezes at
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:57:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sean wrote:
>
> Thanks so much for your help. but "linux 3" can not resolve my problem.
>
> I think it is because I did not describe my problem clearly. In my linux,
> default mode is console text mode. linux freezes when boot. At that
> time, it is initializing my system, mounting file system, and executing
> those applications installed in my computer. Just like this:
>
> starting httpd:
>
> starting font server: (stop here, not response to any keys
> except "ctrl+alt+del")
>
With RH you can enter the interactive start-up mode (hit i when asked
for)
Then you can manually choose NOT to start xfs
Eric
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux hangs after writing to the /dev/st0 port ??
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:03:01 +0100
Hellu,
Linux hangs when I write something to the /dev/st0 port.
How can I debug/solve this ??
What I do/did ?
I type for example: tar -cvf /dev/st0 <some file>
and it hangs, I really have to reset it by reset the computer itself. It
doesn't listen to any keyboard command anymore.
Since when this happens ?
I installed the PowerChutPlus, version 4.5.2-1 to control my UPS from APC.
During installation it complained that the com port wasn't configured
correctly (it has to be configured for local use instead as for modem use),
and the installation was interrupted.
Since that day, I am not able to make a backup anymore by using tar, which
happens as a cronjob.
Any ideas ??
Ed Bras
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From: Harald Wagener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux hangs after writing to the /dev/st0 port ??
Date: 08 Nov 2000 16:09:21 +0100
"Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hellu,
>
> Linux hangs when I write something to the /dev/st0 port.
> How can I debug/solve this ??
>
> What I do/did ?
>
> I type for example: tar -cvf /dev/st0 <some file>
> and it hangs, I really have to reset it by reset the computer itself. It
> doesn't listen to any keyboard command anymore.
> Since when this happens ?
The -f switch is only used when making tar files. You should omit it
when writing directly to a tape drive.
HTH,
H.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
system engineer innominate AG
the linux architects
tel: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!!
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:10:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> You might be able to find the actual partition table by using gpart. Then
> you could use fdisk to rewrite the partition table. I don't think it will
> work to use linux fdisk to rewrite the table to extend it for windows,
> because windows will not recognize it unless you use dos fdisk which wipes
What do you mean with that? Windows will recognize partitions created
with linux (c)fdisk just fine. Ofcourse the partition ID must be one of
the types that windows knows of.
> out the data. Hopefully if you use gpart you will find what the table
> should be and fix the mess PM made.
Did PM make this mess? That's not very likely. I suppose the original
poster used the mandrake (re)partitioner. They should put a serious
warning on the screen before anyone can use it, 'cause it's notorious in
(corrupting) partition tables.
Perhaps the original poster can use GNU's parted to resize the
partitions, so they will start at cylinder boundary's again.
After that, don't use any other partitioning tool than PM. If you have
this tool, use it. It may not be free (so if you haven't bought it yet,
try parted first), but it's the best piece of non-free software you can
get (IMO).
>
> http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/7620/gpart
>
> You will need to get the binary version to put on a floppy and also get
> Tom's linux to run a mini linux to use gpart. The url for tom's is on the
> gpart page. On tom's there is also rescuept which gives you info on the
> partition table, but I find it harder to use than what gpart gives. You can
> try both and compare.
The partition table is probably not corrupt, but PM is very strict on
what it does allow. I suppose mainly for compatability reasons (DOS
FDISK can only start/end a partition on a cylinder boundary)
So maybe the table is corrupt (but I couldn't tell from what I've seen),
could the original poster post the result of linux `fdisk -l /dev/hda`
please?
Eric
> Anita
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!!
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:23:03 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jacques Guy wrote:
>
> Nataraj Dasgupta wrote:
>
> > Forget Partition Magic.
> [...]
>
> Follow Nataraj's advice. Partition Magic is a useless
> piece of software. Time and again (how many? four
> times I think) I have been plagued by similar
> problems. Always, always, Partition Magic gave
> me horrendous error messages, no help whatsoever,
Yeah right. I know PM can abort with these error messages,
(I've had them myself too) but that doesn't make it bad software.
(I agree the error message aren't very clear)
But partitiontable's aren't easy. Every single OS on the market
that claim's to understand a PC's partitiontable has it's own
gotcha's in handling these tables. PM's tries to be so generic
in the table it creates/handles due to these (in)compatabilities.
If you would have used PM to create your table from start,
and not mess with the fdisk's from any OS, PM will resize, create
and delete all entries just fine. But if you have used an fdisk,
that's is more rich-featured than DOS fdisk (like the linux one)
PM may find it impossible to deal with your table.
If you would obey all the rules PM does (and they are too stringent, I
know)
you would never have any partition table problem to begin with.
Eric
> the prize going to an error message which was not
> in the manual! Boot from a Linux diskette, run
> Linux fdisk, go on from there. Avoid MS fdisk
> like the plague, unless you are keen to lose all
> your data. Once, 4-5 years ago, MS-DOS decided that
> I had no F: disk. The Norton Utilities (what a piece
> of shit!) told me to do a low-level formatting.
> So, stuffed for stuffed, I booted from a Linux
> diskette (I knew bugger all about Linux, just
> a little bit of Unix). Eventually, having found
> the right /dev/hdax to mount, I could read, edit,
> and copy the DOS files on my "lost" disk F:!
> From Linux. I eventually managed, all through
> Linux, to re-enable F: (forgot how, posted it
> on comp.linux.advocacy, but DejaNews no longer
> goes that far back).
Was your partition table correct?
The fact that you think it was, doesn't mean that it really was.
(You can use a partition from an incorrect table just fine
(depends on the error there is in the table) but that doesn't make it
correct
You will on the other hand have absolutely *no* guarantee that the data
on such a partition (and in fact on the entire disc!) will stay
uncorrupted
over time.
I suspect that at least 10% of every PC user out there that has more
than
one OS on his/her PC has an incorrect partition table. (I've seen it far
too often)
Eric
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From: "Jacklal Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: PPP problem
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:29:51 +0800
Why not suid of kppp?
As root,
type: chmod u+s kppp
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From: "jdm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.lang.basic,alt.permaculture,alt.surfing,alt.surfing.europe.uk,aus.computers.linux,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: hacker...beware
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:33:53 GMT
The only time I even get mildly annoyed by firewall alerts any more is
when I see a service like Netbus, Sun/RPC Portmap, Telnet, or
"Unknown". Then I just click the Block button and forget about it.
John M.
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:29:22 +0100
Goto my site at http://www.phonax.com it will tell you about setting up SMTP.
Setting up pop is as trivial as editting /etc/inetd.conf file search for pop3
and remove the "#" save the file and type killall -1 inetd
(ONLY WHEN YOU USE LINUX!!!)
My site has been down this whole morning due to the fact that the ISP is
merging two giant networks. So if you can't connect keep trying later.
Raymond
findo wrote:
> May I ask about that how to setup a mail server in linux redhat 6.2?Please
> please tell me how to do that!
> Thanks alots
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video card problems
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:40:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Riyaz Mansoor wrote:
>
> > I have a Diamond Speedstar A50 (SiS 6326, 8 meg, AGP) working with Rh6.1.
> > I added options "no_accel" and "no_bitblt" to /etc/X11/XFConfig in the
> > "Device' section. Different cards with the SiS 6326 may need different
> > options. See http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/SiS.html for more options.
>
> could u tell me what version of XFree86 u have?
>
> since u didn't say u get better resolution than 480x640, do u get anything
> better than that?
>
> and how do i know which server the XFConfig file is using? the version of
> XFree86, v4.0.1, uses the "sis" server but it just would not go over 256
> colors or 480x640 res.
>
> thanx.
>
> riyaz
Could you post the content of your XF86Config file please?
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk Woes, Limitations?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:37:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a Dell Dimension with a 42GB IDE hard disk. I have had linux
> loaded on this disk for sometime, and have had no problems. My disk,
> prior to the problems was partitioned as so:
>
> /dev/hda1 = linux
> /dev/hda2 = swap
> /dev/hda3 = BeOS
> /dev/hda4 = Win2K
>
> I do not remember how these were distributed in size on the disk, but
> linux had the smaller of the partitions.
>
> I have started over. I want to give linux the bulk of the disk so I
> tried a config like this:
>
> /dev/hda1 = linux 37Gb
> /dev/hda2 = swap 64Mb
> /dev/hda3 = win2k 5Gb
>
> ....roughly. I could not get linux to load. I consistantly got disk
> errors "...inode out of bounds..." and the like. I am not aware of any
> disk limitation within the linux kernel, tho I am sure there *is* one.
> I tried giving linux / as low as 8Gb again, and mounting /usr/local for
> the rest of the disk. Or splitting it up similarly to how I had it
> prior to these problems. No luck.
>
> I *can* load Win2k to the full disk with no problem. In addition, to
> test whether Win2k could actually use the disk, a friend of mine wrote
> a program that slowly created a text file that consumed the entire
> drive. No problem. I believe my drive is fine. Someone please
> enlighten me!
>
> Best,
>
> Kurtis Minder
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Anyway, partition that large partition into pieces.
(/usr /usr/local /var /tmp /home /boot)
I most certainly wouldn't like to wait on a FS check on that large
partition.
besides, partitioning it, would be safer for your data too. If one FS
got corrupted, all the others would (most likely) still be intact.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Not all ram seen by linux but is by BIOS check
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:47:44 GMT
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:46:58 +0800, Nevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>add to /etc/lilo.conf
>append="mem=96M"
>and then running /sbin/lilo to allow the kernel to use the additional
>memory.
I wonder how many drives google has filled up with this question and the
answers?
--
Hal B
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From: smilemonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! set X server Color Depth
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:39:31 GMT
Hi!
For some graphic software, I need to change my color depth from 16 to
8. Does any one know how to do it? System: Mandrake 7.0
Sam
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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