Linux-Setup Digest #1, Volume #20 Thu, 9 Nov 00 01:13:08 EST
Contents:
Mouse trouble ("The Dude")
Re: Get rid of all those .twm files (Colin Watson)
Re: baffling kernel problem (Colin Watson)
Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please (Michel Catudal)
Re: XWindows startup (Sean)
help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Tony Ewell)
Re: mail servers behind firewall (Black Dragon)
Re: mail servers behind firewall (Jem Berkes)
NEWBIE QUESTIONS! (sort of!)
Re: video card problems (bullwinkle)
Re: video card problems (bullwinkle)
How to copy/backup a machine? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X-windows install problem (Stephen Franklin)
Re: how to set man path? (Nevin Wong)
Simple help with network. Can't get outside the box ("Christian Bongiorno")
Re: Mandrake 7.2 login screen (Chem-R-Us)
Re: NEWBIE QUESTIONS! (sort of!) (cfish)
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Reply-To: "The Dude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "The Dude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse trouble
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:15:01 -0800
I have a mini dinn mouse and keyboard and Linux detected my keyboard but not
my mouse. The mouse works on win98 but not on Linux. Does anyone know what
is wrong or can anyone help out?
send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you know anything.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Get rid of all those .twm files
Date: 9 Nov 2000 02:46:24 GMT
w.m.boeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Black Dragon wrote:
>
>>>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).
>
>>You just answered the question of why you should not delete the twm
>>"dot" files, yourself.
>
>I was thinking about some intelligent clean-up utility. You are not
>going to tell me that I will have to live with all those files
>cluttering my hard disk, don't you? I feel like drowning ...
Sorry, I don't understand you. You say that the files are used at
startup, yet you want to clean them up - either they're used or they're
not. :)
Besides, they're only dotfiles. ls won't display them by default, and I
imagine most file managers can be configured to hide them, so I never
regard too many of them as a problem.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"The game is on again / A lover or a friend
A big thing or a small / The winner takes it all" - Abba
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: baffling kernel problem
Date: 9 Nov 2000 02:54:16 GMT
Dr. Jason Hogan-O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Dr. Jason Hogan-O'Neill" wrote:
>> 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!
>
>OK its just as well no one responded. Literally 5 seconds after posting
>this I did 'lilo -v' and hey presto it all worked. But I stil ldont know
>why the system crashed like that and I had to rerun that lilo -v thing. And
>people say LINUX is stable .. yeah right (ok lets wait for it)
Not being able to boot was nothing to do with Linux, then. Your boot
sector somehow managed to get corrupted in the crash, and you had to run
'lilo -v' to put it back.
As for the crashes - is there anything in /var/log/messages from just
before the crash? Or do you have any other signs of hardware problems
(like random segfaults when compiling things)? Your system shouldn't
just freeze for no reason. Sometimes X can be the culprit here too.
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Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"On Usenet, pedantry is not in the service of beauty. It's not even
in the service of truth. It's in the service of EVEN MORE PEDANTRY."
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From: Michel Catudal <[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
Date: 8 Nov 2000 20:57:10 -0600
Jacques Guy a �crit :
>
> 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,
> 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).
This is all bullshit!
If you use ONLY partition magic to do the partitioning you will
have no problem. I have partitioned a lot of hard disks and not
once I have ever had partition magic fuck up on my systems.
I had two problems related to partioning in the past couple of years
1- When Corel Linux got installed it blew my partition table and neither
OS/2 nor partiton magic were able to read, I don't remember the error
number, perhaps 104 or 105. It turned out that Corel seemed to have
written over a partition boundary. I did the hard fix, I booted from diskette
under SuSE and saved my dat onto another hard disk, I then proceeded
to recreate a dos partition table and reinstall OS/2 as well as SuSE Linux.
2-Win NT 4.0 was installed onto the first partition of around 2G on an
8G partition (1027 cylinders in LBA).
When running NT fdisk it put his mark which turned out that that mark was
the zapping of a 3G linux partition sitting on the end of the drive.
I wiped winblows NT and used the CD as a coaster.
The partition table was blown.
Please stop the nonsense about PM. It may not be a perfect software package
but by experience I found it to be one of the very best such software on
the market as it supports several operation systems. Unlike the fdisk of
Linux I don't have any weird surprises with OS/2 or DOS. I can do basically
what I want with PM.
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindows startup
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:53:55 -0800
If someone got in to your box (a hacker I take it) then the only thing
you should do is a complete reinstall. The hacker could have left prgs
and stuff that you will not beable to find!!
john slimick wrote:
> Good morning.
>
> A villain penetrated one of our
> Linux machines over the weekend,
> and I have most of it working again.
> The immediate problem is getting ordinary
> users to bring up XWindows. Root
> can do a "startx" but ordinary users
> get the following message:
>
> Authentication failed: cannot start x server
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>
> X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect error=111
> Xinit: connect refused(errno 111)
> unable to connect to x server
>
> xinit: No such process (errno 3) server error
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance
> john slimick
> university of pittsburgh at bradford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:00:38 -0800
From: Tony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Hi,
HELP! I am trying to upgrade a Red Hat 5.1 server
to Red Hat 7.0. And panic! No EATA driver for my
DPT Smart RAID IV controller. The install stops at
the screen where it wants to know my controller or F2
for a controller on floppy. It has everything listed but EATA.
Does anyone know how to cope with this? Is there
an EATA floppy out there? Or, did Red Hat just
decide to drop the EATA driver (I looked and it was still
in V 6.2).
If you are replying, I would sincerely appreciate you eMailing me
as well as replying to the newsgroups: my nntp server is aging
everything off in three days. (I have complained).
Many thanks,
--Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: mail servers behind firewall
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:57:14 GMT
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:53:02 -0600 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Jem Berkes' said:
>> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P {protocol} -L {external_ip} {external_port} -R \
>> {ip_to_forward_to} {port_to_forward_to}
>
>And you have to actually use the REAL external_ip, you won't get away
>with using 0.0.0.0 or something :)
Yeah, that's a major bummer too. I would sure like to be able to use a
device instead of an ip address. Something to this effect would be sweet:
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L -i eth1 80 -R {web_server_ip} 80
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From: Jem Berkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: mail servers behind firewall
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 21:14:44 -0600
> >> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P {protocol} -L {external_ip} {external_port} -R \
> >> {ip_to_forward_to} {port_to_forward_to}
> >
> >And you have to actually use the REAL external_ip, you won't get away
> >with using 0.0.0.0 or something :)
>
> Yeah, that's a major bummer too. I would sure like to be able to use a
> device instead of an ip address. Something to this effect would be sweet:
>
> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L -i eth1 80 -R {web_server_ip} 80
Yeah, I know :-) I wish the same thing (apparently IPAUTOFW, which
preceded portfw but which was less stable, did allow that). But here's a
one-line script somebody sent me a while back:
MYIP=$(/sbin/ifconfig | /bin/grep P-t-P | /usr/bin/cut -c 21-35)
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DOS, Win32, Linux software
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEWBIE QUESTIONS! (sort of!)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 03:30:06 -0000
I m using Winlinux 2000
1. When i go and try to install some programs that I have on maximum linux
cd, it gives me an error that says something similiar to this: ......can
only be executed on local disk only. Whats that mean?
2. How do I set up my modem? (a total newbie question). I mean, when i
click on the dial up, it just shows me how to make a dial up, and stuff,
but where is the control panel or something that i can change my modem
setting?
3. Also xfree86 4.0, when i tried to install it, i believe i got the same
error message as it is in question 1.
4. How do i set up my sound card? (ok, here i go again, same reasons as
number 2)
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video card problems
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 03:30:07 -0000
Eric wrote:
>
> 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
Eric, did you want Riyaz's file or mine?
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video card problems
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 03:30:06 -0000
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
>
>
I am using XFree86 3.3.5, resolution is 800x600, server is SVGA.
I can't find where X chooses the server when it starts. I will
get back to you if i do find it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to copy/backup a machine?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 03:53:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a linux box setup and running. I would like to make a backup/copy
machine to use in case this one goes down. The backup machine has
similar but not identical hardware.
How can I make a backup/copy? Do I just use dd and copy the main
machine's HD to the backup? (What about the MBR?)
Jc
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Before you buy.
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From: Stephen Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: X-windows install problem
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:57:10 -0800
Xconfigurator will ask for your video card, if you go to the bottom of the list you
can select Unknown card (I think that is what it says) the program will then ask
for the server to use The servers all start with XF86_. Try the XF86_VGA or
XF86_SVGA as a starting point. Pick 640X480 8bit resolution to keep things simple.
It's called a server because it is the server of the graphics to your terminal.
Fr�re Orph�e wrote:
> Fr�re Orph�e wrote:
>
> > How do you choose the server you will use
> > what is a "server", why is called like that??
>
> I got my graphics but anybody knows what means server in this context?
> (I'm french you see...)
>
> >
> >
> > Rich Andrews wrote:
> >
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > Did you try the generic vga X server? Try that and then run Xconfigurator.
> > > rich
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm installing RH6.1 on an old Intergraph TD-4 workstation.
> > > > It's a P5-100 with 128MB RAM and 4GB SCSI disk.
> > > >
> > > > Everything works _except_ X-windows.
> > > >
> > > > Every time I try to either probe or start X, the system locks up solid
> > > > and needs a cold boot.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried 5 different graphics cards using chipsets from Matrox, Orchid,
> > > > Tseng, and S3 with the same results every time. Using a different PCI
> > > > slot doesn't eliminate the lockups either.
> > > >
> > > > I now believe it must be a setting in CMOS that is causing the lockup,
> > > > but I have no idea what to look for or to change. I don't like making
> > > > random changes, or trial-and-error troubleshooting.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > (Win95 and NT4 install and run fine so I KNOW the hardware is okay.)
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> >
> > --
> > Lex legis
> > Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
> >
> > En ce moment
> > Orph�e - Johanne
> > http://www.491.org/projets/mmm/rphee-jo
>
> --
> Lex legis
> Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
>
> En ce moment
> Orph�e - Johanne
> http://www.491.org/projets/mmm/rphee-jo
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From: Nevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to set man path?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:06:06 +0800
Daryl Fonseca-Holt wrote:
> Check your /etc/man.config. It should look something like this, minus my
> directory customizations. Also, check the /usr/man, etc. directories to make
> sure you haven't wiped them out:
>
I have checked it, everything in /etc/man.conf seems to be okay. The MANPATH settings
seems to be okay, and all the man files are there in the man path. I have not wiped
out anything.
But man is still not working.
What could go wrong? Is there some reason that /etc/man.config is not used by the
system?
Yours,
Nev
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From: "Christian Bongiorno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Simple help with network. Can't get outside the box
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 04:20:55 GMT
Ok, I am a rookie at unix admin. I have my cable modem plugged into the
ethernet card in my mandrake 7.0 box. I can't get outside the box. A ping
result in a "Network unreachable" and obviously web and ftp are just out of
the question.
I used netconf and set it to use DHCP (eventhough it didn't ask for the ip
of the DHCP server), and I gave it dns server entries.
Question 1 is, how do I set this up correctly, and question 2 is, how do I
force it to renew or release an IP address?
direct email would be great
Chris
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 21:38:47 -0800
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 login screen
Julian Bordas wrote:
>
> Hello
> How do I add additional users to the login screen?
adduser or useradd
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NEWBIE QUESTIONS! (sort of!)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 06:09:24 GMT
I don't answer quetions frequently enough to ignore this post.
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 03:30:06 -0000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I m using Winlinux 2000
Not many people use that. certainly not many seasoned linux people use
it. So we cannot tell you anything that's specific to winlinux2000.
But we can tell you things that are generally true to all
distributions.
>
>
>1. When i go and try to install some programs that I have on maximum linux
>cd, it gives me an error that says something similiar to this: ......can
>only be executed on local disk only. Whats that mean?
It probably was caused by something that needs to be run on a hard
disk, not a CD. The reason can be that the CD is mounted that way.
(what is mount, you ask. read Linux installation and configuration
guide. it's free online.)
You can try to fix the mount table (/etc/fstab) and maybe it will let
you execute a program on CD. Or, you can simply copy the file you want
to run to a temp directory in local hard disk and run it. usually
that is directory /tmp
>
>
>2. How do I set up my modem? (a total newbie question). I mean, when i
>click on the dial up, it just shows me how to make a dial up, and stuff,
>but where is the control panel or something that i can change my modem
>setting?
not all modems will work in linux. If you got a crappy winmodem, then
you will go through hell. if you got a real modem, then it shouldn't
be hard.. most of the time that it will be automatically detected.
to know how to setup modem. read the following documentations, and
report back : go to linuxdoc.org and find the "HowTo"s. read the
following howto.
ISP-hookup howto
linmodem howto and winmodem-and-linux howto (only if you have a
winmodem)
modem howto
if things are not working after ISP-hookup howto, then read PPP howto,
Net howto
>
>3. Also xfree86 4.0, when i tried to install it, i believe i got the same
>error message as it is in question 1.
same ansswer.
>
>4. How do i set up my sound card? (ok, here i go again, same reasons as
>number 2)
again, to do that, you wanna know exactly what your soundcard is. Step
one is figure out exactly what sound card and what chipset you are
dealing with. Usually you can read the chipset on the physical card.
read sound howto may help. However, there are too many sound cards, so
the better way will be to do a search on google.com and deja.com on
your specific sound card and see if anyone got a solution.
if you got further questions, please make sure that you state clearly
what you don't understand, what you have read, and what you have done
to it. please make sure you post to the group, not just an email
account because that increase your chance of getting more anwers.
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