Linux-Setup Digest #997, Volume #19 Wed, 8 Nov 00 15:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Help! set X server Color Depth (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: How to turn off FTP server (Mark Farey)
Re: Linux newbie needs help with dial up internet and sound card with ("John C.
Griggs")
Re: Linux hangs after writing to the /dev/st0 port ?? ("Ed Bras")
Re: no sign of Linux after setup? ("Colin Reinhardt")
ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, Princeton Graphics Ultra 75 - flickering ("Arun Shastry")
Re: Starting multiple x servers, HOW? (Black Dragon)
Re: Get rid of all those .twm files (Black Dragon)
baffling kernel problem ("Dr. Jason Hogan-O'Neill")
Re: How to turn off FTP server (Black Dragon)
Re: dial-up internet from command line? (Black Dragon)
how to set man path? (Nevin Wong)
Re: Floppy drive: how 2 add B:? (Ron Ross)
mail servers behind firewall (Xwindows User)
Re: PPP problem (Bill Unruh)
Themes with music? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: Help! set X server Color Depth
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:20:46 -0600
If your are using startx to start X, then leave X and enter:
startx -- -depth 8
If you don't start X yourself, ie; you use runlevel 5 with X logins, you'll
have to wait for help from someone else, I don't know how to do it.
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:39:31 GMT, smilemonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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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From: Mark Farey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn off FTP server
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:25:04 GMT
I'm sorry, I don't know what inetd is (probably yes I'm running it).
Is it responsible for FTP?
If so, can I disable it with Linuxconf?
If so, does it kill other services in addition to FTP that I might need?
Mark.
Tux wrote:
> 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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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:09:50 -0500
From: "John C. Griggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie needs help with dial up internet and sound card with
>>> SNIP <<<
> To find out if PPP is working properly you can try pinging the DNS server
> (you should be able to get this from your ISP). If this works then it
> would appear that PPP is working properly (which I suspect it is, as you
> said it dials and connects OK). If this in deed the case all you simply
> have to do is add the DNS IP to the nameserver section of the
> /etc/resolv.conf file. There way be a nice graphical way of doing this,
> but i'm unfamiliar with Corel Linux. Hope this helps. Unfortuntly I
> don't know much about getting sound cards working.
There is, in fact a nice graphical app to configure your DNS from the
Corel desktop - it is the Network/TCP-IP/DNS Server page in the Control
Centre. You might also check the Hardware/Audio/Audio Adapter page in
Control Centre to see if your soundcard is at least properly detected.
Unfortunately, like the last poster, it's been far too long since I
configured sound on Linux and I have no experience with your particular
chip, so I can't help you beyond that.
Hope this helps,
John Griggs
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux hangs after writing to the /dev/st0 port ??
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:46:11 +0100
"Harald Wagener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "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.
>
>
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Harald,
Thanks, you are right the -f isn't necessary, and indeed it now works.
But still it worked before and isn't a bit weird that linux hangs ????
Thanks,
Ed
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From: "Colin Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no sign of Linux after setup?
Date: 8 Nov 2000 17:18:15 GMT
Hi Igor,
Thanks for the info. That is quite bizarre that Win2K can do this! I
wonder how they detect the MBR is modified when the OS is not even loaded,
and the POST process jumps directly to the first sector of the harddisk (the
MBR, correct?)...so I would think that would be LILO if we tried to
overwrite NTLoader...hmmm!?! I would love to understand what is going on
here. I will try to do some research and update to this post if I find
anything...
It's nice to know you've experienced the same so I know I'm not crazy!
I did not receive any warning message saying LILO failed to amend MBR. I'm
running RH 6.2 setup from text mode, since GUI mode hangs my laptop
(something wrong with display driver...).
I cant really "kill" Win2K because it's an existing install with a bunch of
stuff in it already, so I'd like to find a workaround... Maybe I can backup
the NT MBR and then run an FDISK /MBR and then install RH?
I'm also curious how LILO knows to delegate to NTLoader when you select you
want DOS from the LILO boot menu... Based on what I've read from the LILO
HOWTO, it looks like there is just an additional stanza added to the
LILO.CONF pointing to the boot partition, but how does it know to get to
NTLoader???
Too much magic going on here for me. :-)
Colin
Igor Belianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ub3vk$189h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi :)))
>
> Yesterday I found the same troubles and had to kill Win 2K because it
> apparently locks MBR for modifications
> (the nature of this phonomemon is not clear to me). When I installed Linux
> on the hard drive which contained pure
> MS DOS installation and then Win 2K was mounted it started working. I
simply
> tell LILO that I want to load dos and after this NTloader appears. (I'm
> using RH Linux 6.1 and its installer told about impossibility to modify
> MBR).
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Igor V. Belianov
> -----------------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Office: +7 (812) 464 44 63
> Home: +7 (812) 172 91 89
>
>
>
> "Colin Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8ua4jk$70s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I just completed the install of RH 6.2 on a harddrive where I already
had
> > Win2K Server and ME.
> > I have Win2K and ME on the C: drive (bootable partition) and I put Linux
> > partitions (swap and native) on partitions behind C: (hda2 and hda3)
> >
> > The install went smoothly and I chose to put LILO in the MBR, hoping to
> then
> > add info to allow LILO to boot into WinDoze. When I reboot it still
goes
> > right into NTLoader, like LILO never got written to the MBR!? Anyone
know
> > what went wrong? Is this some new "smart" feature of Win2K to auto-fix
the
> > "damaged" MBR?
> >
> > How can I fix this and make my system boot to LILO first? I've read the
> > dual-boot HOWTOs but they're all getting pretty obsolete now. Is there
> more
> > current info somewhere?
> >
> > Thanks much for any help!
> >
> > ColinR
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Arun Shastry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, Princeton Graphics Ultra 75 - flickering
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:36:53 -0500
Just installed RH v7 on my dual PII box. Everything's working fine except
the flickering and hazy characters on the monitor issue. When the
resolution is set to 800 X 600 (16 bits and 32 bits both work), it works
fine; but at 1024 X 768 onwards the flickering and haziness starts killing
me.
Any suggestions ideas???
Thanks,
Arun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Starting multiple x servers, HOW?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:36:32 GMT
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:01:27 +0000 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Mark Worsdall' said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Black Dragon
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]?> writes
>>
>>On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 23:17:25 +0000 in comp.os.linux.setup,
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Mark Worsdall' said:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am using vncserver and want to startup multi x server sessions.
>>>
>>>If I have started an X server with startx I cannot use startx again as
>>>another user.
>>>
>>>What should I do?
>>>
>>>M.
>>
>>Look in your $HOME/.vnc directory that was created when running vncserver
>>for the first time. There should be an "xstartup" script in it. Here's mine,
>>which starts Gnome, and the script is executed by vncserver itself.
>>
>>======================
>>#!/bin/sh
>>
>>xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
>>xsetroot -solid grey
>>xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
>>gdm & gnome-session &
>>======================
>>
>>Example using the above configuration:
>>
>>To start multiple sessions of X: startx, vncserver :2, vncserver :3,
>>etc. Note that vncserver will not run X on a tty, IOW you can't switch to
>>it with Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F8. To start X on another tty, startx -- :4, etc.
>>
>
>Oh, your signature is compliant, it did not appear with reply, how
>refreshing (he said, hoping his is)
huh? If my sig did not appear in your news reader, *you* have a news reader
problem.
>So I not in your script that startx is not mentioned at all.
No, it's not. The "vncserver" perl script starts X, and yours may need
to be modified to suite your system. (mine did) The string:
"gdm & gnome-session &"
starts the Gnome login manager and Gnome desktop environment.
>Currently from a terminal logged on as a specific user I start a
>vncserver, but I wanted it to start a new x server session so each user
>can have any X.
That's exactly what "vncserver" does. I've started many X servers with
"vncserver" (enough to bring the system to its knees begging for mercy a
few times too, never went down though :-) and none were displayed on my
screen, but are viewable with the VNC client.
>So before I start the vncserver session I can edit .vnc/xstartup script
>but will this start a new X server session?
Yes, and see above.
>I'm confused.:-(
Please read this thoroughly: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/start.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Get rid of all those .twm files
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:40:22 GMT
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:03:01 +0100 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `w.m.boeke' said:
>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
You just answered the question of why you should not delete the twm
"dot" files, yourself.
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From: "Dr. Jason Hogan-O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: baffling kernel problem
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:43:15 +0200
Ok folks,
Its probably quite simple.
The other day my puter just crashed/froze (happens occasionally) and so
I did what I nromally do - just hit reboot and then have to do fsck.
However on this occassion it got nowhere near that far. AT th elilo
promt it just said 'loading linux..........' (yes it did the dots) but
then it froze and didnt get to the next line 'ok loading kernel'. Just
froze! SO whats going on? It is the 2.2.17 kernel on RH6.1 Luckily
I have the 2.2.12-20 as linux.old. I type that at the lilo prompt and
everything just works dandy - I am able to get the system up and running
as it was before (except with no alsa sound).
Now I didnt change anything and all of a sudden the 2.2.17 seems to have
just stopped. I cant even do 'linux 3' at the lilo prompt as it just
doesnt even anywhere near far enough.
ANy help or ideas are appreciated.
Jas
Nope, I havent recompiled the kernel. I checked lilo.conf and everything
seems to be as it should be. Also checked the vmlinuz img links - all
fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: How to turn off FTP server
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:58:48 GMT
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:25:04 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Mark Farey' said:
>Tux wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>I'm sorry, I don't know what inetd is (probably yes I'm running it).
>Is it responsible for FTP?
>If so, can I disable it with Linuxconf?
>If so, does it kill other services in addition to FTP that I might need?
>
Mark:
Inetd is the "Internet Super Server". It is responsible for starting
a number of daemons (services) when needed. Don't bother with Linuxconf,
it's a buggy piece of junk as far as I'm concerned, and I've seen many
others post that opinion too. Instead, open /etc/inetd.conf (xinetd.conf
on RH 7) in your favorite editor (Emacs ! ;-) and comment out the services
you don't need with a ` # ' sign, like this for example:
# ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd
When done making the changes to inetd.conf, you can make inetd re-read the
config file using this command: "killall -HUP inetd". Use "netstat -ap"
to verify the changes.
And see also: "man inetd".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: dial-up internet from command line?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 18:00:50 GMT
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:58:04 +0100 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `CDM' said:
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8u9235$dml$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I want to create an internet connection from the command line. No GUI. As
>> much as possible, I want to directly edit the the necessary files.
>>
>> The computer recognizes the modem. No winmodem or anything. I am using
>> RedHat 5.0. Pretty sure I have TCP/IP working.
>>
>> I am doing this for educational purposes.
>>
>> I suppose the thing to do is create a pppd script? Do I need to edit
>> resolv.conf? Do I need to do a "route add" ??
>>
>> Any help appreciated, thank you.
>
>pretty sure there's a ppp-HOWTO available somewhere....
>
http://www.linuxdocs.org/PPP-HOWTO.html
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From: Nevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to set man path?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:49:22 +0800
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Hi
I have recently lost access to all man pages. An error is returned when
I go to /usr/local/man and type
bash> whatis man
whatis: manpath is null
Man Path is NULL! Where and how should I set it?
Yours,
Nev
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<p>I have recently lost access to all man pages. An error is returned when
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<p><br>Man Path is NULL! Where and how should I set it?
<p>Yours,
<br>Nev
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From: Ron Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive: how 2 add B:?
Date: 08 Nov 2000 14:21:49 -0500
Dog Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
> > On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:58:36 GMT, Dog Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > >I'm a bit confused on how to create a mount point, and mounting a
> > >device to it. Is it as simple as creating a directory
> > >
> > > mkdir .../dev/fd1 ("fd1", since I already have "fd0")
[...]
> > Actually, you almost have it.
> >
> > You create an empty directory, typically /mount/devicename
> > and then mount the physical device in the /dev directory to it.
>
> I didn't have much time, but I created /mnt/floppy2. I saw that
> /dev/fd1 exists already, along with other /dev/fd1* files.
[...]
> I did try this one, as root, using "mount -t msdos /dev/fd1
> /mnt/floppy2", since the directory I created for it was /mnt/floppy2.
> When I did so, I got an error ".../dev/fd1...not a valid (block?)
> file..."
One newbie to another... you may have overwritten /dev/fd1 when you
created the directory "/dev/fd1" in your initial attempt. In which case
you would have to delete that directory and recreate the device file
/dev/fd1. I think this means using the mknod command and the appropriate
options (major and minor numbers?), for which you would have to read the
appropriate documentation (either 'man mknod' or some device HOWTO or
kernel documentation - I forget where I came across it - perhaps someone
on the list has the info off-hand).
hth,
ron
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From: Xwindows User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: mail servers behind firewall
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 12:18:44 -0800
well I am getting ready to throw up a mail server behind my firewall. I
was told by one person to use ipfwadm to forward ports so the mail gets
forwarded to the mail server behind the firewall. and back. but I am
using kernel 2.2.12-20 and I thought that thery did away with ipfwadm
for ipchains? can't IPCHAINS be made to do the same thing? I thought it
was built in now? yes, I am new...so I sit and reads all day long and
then ask my questions. thanks...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: PPP problem
Date: 8 Nov 2000 20:03:00 GMT
In <8ubrg6$1qp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jacklal Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Why not suid of kppp?
>As root,
>type: chmod u+s kppp
Because suid programs are a huge security hole and they have to be very
very carefully written so that they cannot be used to break into the
system. I think kppp is not carefully written.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Themes with music?
Date: 8 Nov 2000 19:58:57 GMT
I installed the DeepSpace theme from http://www.themes.org and it is a
fantastic theme. However I would like for music to play in the
background. Are there themes which come with an attached music file too?
Thanks,
Ronnie Bell
Red Hat 7.0
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