Linux-Setup Digest #144, Volume #20 Fri, 1 Dec 00 19:13:12 EST
Contents:
Making your own ISO Image. and updating Gentus to RH7 (or any other rpm based
distro) ("Beavis Christ")
RedHat Linux 7.0: LILO hangs ("Doug Grosso")
Re: scie emulation / cd burners (Villy Kruse)
Re: I am confident you will help me with "LI" from LILO; I'm one answer away from
the Linux promised land ("Bracy")
Help: Loading AHA1542 module @ boot time (root)
Re: can't instal LILO on Mandrake 6.0 (Kevin Gallagher)
Re: RedHat Linux 7.0: LILO hangs (Kevin Gallagher)
Re: Need DHCP Help ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Printer port not found ("Robin Hyman")
Installing Linux on IBM THINKPAD i 1250 ("Sherif Kamel")
MoneyDance Install error message (Michael Larsen)
Re: Printer port not found (Noble Pepper)
RH 6.2 and LG CED-8080B CD-RW ("L. Ma")
Re: How come paths not working? (Cliff Sarginson)
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? (Cliff Sarginson)
Re: Needed Monitor Specs -- Pls (Cliff Sarginson)
Re: suid (Cliff Sarginson)
Re: root password changed, need help (Cliff Sarginson)
Re: problem with sendmail! (Tom Hoffmann)
Telenet would not work from Win98 ---> Linux (Ming Fai LI)
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From: "Beavis Christ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making your own ISO Image. and updating Gentus to RH7 (or any other rpm based
distro)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:02:36 -0600
Hi folks, hate to be a bother, but I'm not exactly sure where to look on
this.
Here's my problem.
abit bp6, w/ ATA66.
'nuff said?..hehe
Anyway, what I want to do is this.
I'm running dual-boot, Winblows2000, Gentus (RH 6.2). What I want to do is
make a new ISO image with the Gentus ATA66 driver, but use the RH 7
packages, and I'm not 100% sure how to do all the various kernel recompiles
and the constructing of the boot images that I would need to do.
I tried updating to the RPM version on the rh7 cd and updating everything
and removing the dependancy checks, but that met with disasterous results.
(well not really disasterous, but I got a "too many files open" error
message, and kpackage, and few other utilities would no longer work, so I
was stuck with an X session that would only browse the internet, get mail,
unless I wanted to rpm -Fvh everything by hand....pain in the butt, as I had
270 rpm's to go).
Mandrake 7 would install just fine, but they required a boot disk to
continue the install, (to access ide2 and 3 as they called it), but Mandrake
7 doesn't support the GeForce 256DDR out of the box, and right now my Linux
and 2000 partitions can't see eachother yet.
Also, and I know newbies ask this all the time, so don't flame me too hard.
(I've been away from Linux for about 6 months, so I don't rememer
everything.). When I'm mounting fat32 partitions, do I add the label name
for the mount point in fstab and mtab? (and is it vfat or fat32 I'm supposed
to point the partition type to?)
something like:
/dev/hde4 /mnt/bizkit002 vfat defaults 0 0 ?
(I don't remember what the trailing 0's 1's and 2's represent, and I'm
having a devil of a time trying to find it in the HOW-TO's)
Thanks in advance, and you may reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to
answer directly.
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From: "Doug Grosso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat Linux 7.0: LILO hangs
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:46:01 -0500
On a system that has successfully handled past full installs (not upgrades)
of RedHat Linux 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2, a fresh install of 7.0 always fails at
boot time. The "L" in "LILO" appears and then the system hangs. I've
reinstalled a few times, no other OS lives on this machine, and it does boot
fine (albeit slowly) from a floppy. This is a fairly generic homebuilt
Pentium 133, 64MB RAM, 8.5 GB Western Digital IDE drive, but nothing exotic
attached. Thoughts?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: scie emulation / cd burners
Date: 1 Dec 2000 21:11:09 GMT
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:59:33 -0500, Tim Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>In the kernel config, you need to remove the IDE/ATAPI CDROM support, and
>add SCSI emulation support in the block devices section. Then under SCSI
>configuration, you need to add generic scsi support, and scsi cdrom support.
>Once you recompile the kernel, you'll need to change the symbolic link
>between /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdx where x being the drive it used to be.
>Change the symbolic link to point to /scd0 (I think that's what it is..).
>
>I was confused at first, but the above worked for me.
>
So am I, mainly because there are instructions floating around that
says you can do it without removing the ide-cd support from the kernel.
Tried that, never worked for me.
Villy
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From: "Bracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I am confident you will help me with "LI" from LILO; I'm one answer away
from the Linux promised land
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 21:08:13 GMT
When you select the partition to boot from during the install, select hdb1, not hdb.
Bracy
In article <9088ed$348$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dan Jacobson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear sirs, I am able to boot Mandrake 7.2 by floppy, however from hard
> disk I am stuck at lilo's "LI", which I use as it is better documented
> than grub (stuck too). I have windows on hda and boot linux on hdb.
> Apparantly hdb's geometry is not properly autodetected in BIOS. I
> suppose the strategy is to enter the manufacturer's specs into BIOS and
> lilo.conf rather than put wrong info found in BIOS into lilo.conf.
> Below are excerpts.
> # dmesg
> Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000 SiS5597
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6
> on irq 14 hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, 28629MB w/418kB Cache,
> CHS=58168/16/63, UDMA(33)
> ***58168/16/63 aparantly has the number of cylenders upped to
> agree with the true size instead of the artificially low 16383 specified
> by Quantum. I wonder how the kernal gets this number. Partition check:
> hdb: [PTBL] [8191/32/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 >
> ***is the wrong 8191/32/63 now imprinted into my kernal from what the
> bios said that day I installed mandrake? Shall I worry about this even
> though I can boot by floppy? Shall I reinstall mandrake after manually
> editing bios cmos settings? If I say yes to LBA in my bios it forces
> heads=255. Would just using "normal" instead of "lba" be ok when
> configuring bios?
>
> my bios: BIOS Date: 01/22/98 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG BIOS
> ID: 01/22/98-SiS-5598-<SP97_V>C-00
>
> # hdparm -g /dev/hdb
> geometry = 8191/32/63, sectors = 58633344, start = 0
> ***ok, these incorrect values are spread far and wide
> in my computer, but i thought it doesn't matter at least to linux...
> # hdparm -i /dev/hdb
> Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, FwRev=A01.0F00, SerialNo=614019446573
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=58633344
> ***yes, 16383/16/63 is what the quantum docs say
> I assume the number of cylinders are delibrately kept below a barrier.
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO
> modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0
> udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
> # hdparm -I /dev/hdb
> RawCHS=16/21298/0, TrkSize=63, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=12590
> (maybe): CurCHS=63/64528/251, CurSects=-1400897264, LBA=yes,
> LBAsects=458752
> ***could these two rawly reported lines give me a clue as to how hdb
> actually
> talks to my computer?
> # fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> Disk /dev/hdb: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 29084 cylinders Units = cylinders
> of 2016 * 512 bytes
> ****again, wrong values branded into place...
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 507 511024+ 83 Linux
> ***well, one puts /boot on a low cylinder
> I assume lilo doesn't need to read "/" to know where /boot is.
> /dev/hdb2 508 11194 10772496 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 508 760 254992+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb6 761 1774 1022080+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb7 1775 5837 4095472+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb8 5838 9222 3412048+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb9 9223 10236 1022080+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb10 10237 11194 965632+ 83 Linux
>
> # cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hdb map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal
> default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt
> #lba32
> #linear
> prompt timeout=150 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> # get the numbers from your drive's docs:
> disk=/dev/hdb
> # bios=0x81
> sectors=63 heads=16 cylinders=16383
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux root=/dev/hdb6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="
> hdc=ide-scsi"
> # append=" hdc=ide-scsi hd=16383,16,63" ***i have a lilo problem
> not a kernal problem, so no need to pass this line?
> read-only
>
> # lilo -v -v -v
> Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Secondary loader: 11 sectors. Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads,
> 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Mapping message file /boot/message Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16
> heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Message: 1 sector. Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz Device 0x0341: BIOS drive
> 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Setup length is 7 sectors. Mapped 1301 sectors. Mapping RAM disk
> /boot/initrd.img Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383
> cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> RAM disk: 748 sectors. Added linux *
> <dev=0x81,hd=2,cyl=3,sct=46>
> "ro root=346 hdc=ide-scsi"
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads,
> 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Setup length is 7 sectors. Mapped 1301 sectors.
>
> By the way, to those who plan to tinker,
> http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~robn/linux-docs/chs-translation-how-it-works
> though dated, says:
> "Read this so that you understand the possible data integrity
> problem that a WD EIDE type BIOS creates. Any BIOS that has a
> "LBA mode" in the BIOS setup could be a WD EIDE BIOS. Be very
> careful and NEVER chage the "LBA mode" setting after you have
> partitioned and installed your software."
> --
> www.geocities.com/jidanni E-mail: restore ".com." �n����
> Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting in year 2001: +886-4-25854780
>
>
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Loading AHA1542 module @ boot time
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 09:04:04 -1200
Can anyone tell me how to modifiy the conf.modules file so that
aha1542.o is loaded at boot time with the options "aha1542=0x230". I've
tried to do this but with no success.
e.g
alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542 aha1542=0x230
or
alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542
options aha1542 aha1542=0x230
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Graeme Woollett
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From: Kevin Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't instal LILO on Mandrake 6.0
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 16:10:33 -0600
I recall that the Linux root partition must lie within the first 1024
cylinders of the drive on which you install it in order for LILO to be
able to find it.
I have Linux installed on its own 3 gig drive installed as a slave drive
on the primary ide channel. LILO boots it up just fine. You might
consider buying a cheap second drive and install the root partition on the
second drive.
Kevin
David wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've picked up an older copy of Mandrake Linux 6.0, and am having
> trouble completing the instalation. The instal goes fine until LILO
> needs to be configured, and then aborts with an error. ("can't proceed
> with instal: LILO configuration" or something like that - no reason).
> I've tried to put LILO on the MBR and on the bootable root partition.
> No can do. The only way to complete the install is to skip the LILO
> install.
>
> Setup:
>
> HD = 30GB Maxtor # Large drive geometry a problem?
> Chip = PII 700
>
> First 20GB = W2k server and w2k pro on one primary partition.
>
> Last 10GB =
> 2x128MB linux swap partitions
> 500 MB linux "/" partition (bootable)
> 5GB linux "/usr" partition
> 1GB linux "/home" partition
> 1GB linux "/usr/local" partition
> 500 MB linux "/temp" partition
> 500 MB linux "/var" partition
>
> I suspect the trouble might lie in the drive size. Fdisk gives a
> warning about possible LILO install problems due to drive size.
> During setup, DiskDruid can't create a root partition (of any size),
> it complains that the root partition is too big (I've tried several
> different sizes from (1MB to 5GB). I only managed to get a root
> partition by creating one in fdisk, making it bootable, then naming it
> in DiskDruid. I suspect the root partition needs to be installed
> under a certain cylinder, as does LILO.
>
> I would like to install LILO, and then use a boot manager (I've always
> used xosl -www.xosl.org-, but I'm open to suggestions) to choose which
> of the 3 os's to boot at startup. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David.
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From: Kevin Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat Linux 7.0: LILO hangs
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 16:14:09 -0600
How big did you make the root partition this time? It needs to stay within the
first 1024 cylinders of the drive in order for LILO to boot properly.
Doug Grosso wrote:
> On a system that has successfully handled past full installs (not upgrades)
> of RedHat Linux 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2, a fresh install of 7.0 always fails at
> boot time. The "L" in "LILO" appears and then the system hangs. I've
> reinstalled a few times, no other OS lives on this machine, and it does boot
> fine (albeit slowly) from a floppy. This is a fairly generic homebuilt
> Pentium 133, 64MB RAM, 8.5 GB Western Digital IDE drive, but nothing exotic
> attached. Thoughts?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need DHCP Help !
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 22:13:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jdunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a debian 2.2 system on an intel machine. It was working
> with static ips but now I need to move it to a new site where
> the network uses DHCP. How can I manually reconfigure the
> network on this machine to use DHCP without re-installing .
> (no linuxconfig utility) I have the .deb files for
> dhcpcd as well as dhcp-client but no instructions.
> The How-To DHCP sems to be missing and the
> man pages aren't enough.
>
> Is the dhcpcd the daemon ? Then what is dhcp-client ?
> What configuration files are needed ?
Here is what you are looking for:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/x74.html#DEBIAN
Bluster
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From: "Robin Hyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer port not found
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 22:29:11 -0000
Help,
I'm a newbie who's just installed RH 6.1 onto my PC and can't get linux to
see my parallel printer (an Epson Stylus Colour 440). I've tried turning off
PnP in my BIOS, but this doesn't change anything.
Can anyone help?
Tks
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From: "Sherif Kamel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux on IBM THINKPAD i 1250
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:50:44 -0500
Hi i installed Turbo Linux Work station V 6.0 on IBM THINK PAD i 1250
however i cant get x server to run a decent colour detph or resolution
anyone
please can anyone help ?
thanks
S.Kamel
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From: Michael Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MoneyDance Install error message
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 06:05:23 +0000
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Hi all,
Upon attempting to install MoneyDance, I received the following error
messages:
error: failed dependencies
unicODBC is needed by jre-blackdown-1.2.2-0.4mdk
libodbc.so is needed by jre-blackdown-1.2.2-0.4mdk
libodbcinst.so is needed by jre-blackdown-1.2.2-0.4mdk
What does all this mean and how can I fix it? I thought that I could
try installing MoneyDance the --nodeps option but that didn't do me any
good either.
The command I used to install MoneyDance was rpm -i *.rpm
The program is on one of my application CDs that came with Mandrake
7.2.
Do I need to install a Java Virtual Machine for this software as well?
I would greatly appreciate your help.
Thanks everyone! I am learning a lot from all of you.
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer port not found
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:09:26 -0600
Robin Hyman wrote:
> Help,
> I'm a newbie who's just installed RH 6.1 onto my PC and can't get linux to
> see my parallel printer (an Epson Stylus Colour 440). I've tried turning
> off PnP in my BIOS, but this doesn't change anything.
> Can anyone help?
> Tks
>
>
>
First, have you looked at www.linuxprinting.org? lots of good info there
next a couple of low level things
Do you have a /dev/lp0?
ls -l /dev/lp0
should show you something like:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root daemon 6, May 5 1998 /dev/lp0
if that is there then you should be able to:
echo "test" > /dev/lp0 and get some response at the printer, actually it
should print test on the printer, you may have to form feed to get it
actually printed.
If all this works then you problem is in the spooling setup, otherwise
probably kernel config. If you are a real newbie you may want to just
reinstall and try to find where to enable your printer. Otherwise dive into
kernel compilation and module configuration.
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From: "L. Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: RH 6.2 and LG CED-8080B CD-RW
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:41:17 GMT
Hi there,
I got a new PIII 800 with LG CED-8080B. The OS is Redhat 6.2
with kernel upgraded to 2.2.16-3. The problem is that I couldn't
make the LG CD-RW work with cdrecord 1.9.
This is what I did:
1. Kernel config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDSCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
2. Load moduls at boot time
Added
options ide-cd ignore=hdb
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scd1 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
in /etc/conf.module.
Added
append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
in /etc/lilo.conf.
3. After boot, I checked all modules scsi_mod, sg,
sr_mod, loop, iso9660, and ide-scsi are loaded.
Also all devices /dev/loop0-7 and /dev/sg0-7 are
created by following script provided in CD writing HOWTO
umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o-rwx
[ -f loop0 ] \
|| ./MAKEDEV loop \
|| for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod loop$i b 7 $i; done
[ -f sg0 -o -f sga ] \
|| ./MAKEDEV sg \
|| for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod sg$i c 21 $i; done
4. Then run "cdrecord -scanbus" by root always gives me
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
root.
5. Check with dmesg, it seems the cd-rw is alway configured as hdc,
even if I disabled parameter ide-cd in the kernel.
Here is what I saw from dmesg:
hda: SAMSUNG SV2044D, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-ROM 50X L, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: LG CD-RW CED-8080B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: SAMSUNG SV2044D, 19464MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=2481/255/63
hdb: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 1773.555 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1863.090 MB/sec
8regs : 1369.695 MB/sec
32regs : 778.383 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (1863.090 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
......
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
registered device ppp0
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
I have searched for helpful information on Internet all along, it seems
nothing gives me more than the CD writing HOWTO. Has anyone
configured the LG CD-RW successfully? Please help me. Any input
will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Liang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How come paths not working?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:59:07 +0100
Rand Simberg posited:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:54:08 GMT, in a place far, far away,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) made the phosphor on my monitor
> glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>
> >How are trying to start programs: through the console, in an xterm, or
> >what?
>
> I think I figured the problem out. I was running as root from a
> user's (mine) xterm. When you "su" do you not launch root's bash
> profile? I noticed that when I went to a new terminal (not X) and
> logged in as root everything was fine.
>
was just about to tell you :)
su changes yout to root user, it does not log you on as root so to speak
to do that you use "su -" which is like logging on directly as root
Cliff
--
no NAUGHTYSPAM if you email me :)
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:05:11 +0100
Dances With Crows posited:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:32:28 GMT, ne... wrote:
> >On Nov 29, 2000 at 13:44, Chet Vora eloquently wrote:
> >
> >>Mem 30M 29M .7M
> >>Swap: 68M 3.5M 64M
> >>Is a 68M swap size
> >>right or will I be benefitted by increasing it ?
> >/boot is when the kernel is stored. This is not the swap partition.
The swap device will not be seen as a mounted file system because it isn;t
one.. to view the swap devices/files use ...
swapon -s
> >
> >>THis is a 32M RAM,180 MHz Pentium machine. Would also appreciate
> >>feedback about how to resolve the "Virtual Mem exhaust" problem. I'm
> >>trying to compile a protocol stack which in turn uses flex and yacc. Any
> >>pointers will be welcome.
> >Due to the amount of ram you have, it would seem you need more swap.
> >The swap initially allocated would have been ok if you weren't
> >compiling stuff. I
I agree with this analysis..compilations lurrv memory...
t more seems you need more hardware. If you have
> >unformatted space on /dev/hda, I would format this for swap. Else, if
> >you have a spare harddrive, this could be used for swap also.
>
> Spare harddrive? Heck with that; if you have *any* spare space on the
> root partition, you can get more swap space. Like so: (must be done as
> root, natch.)
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=64
> sync
> sync
> mkswap /swapfile
> swapon /swapfile
>
> Add /swapfile to /etc/fstab to enable the extra swap space at boot time.
> HTH,
>
Adding a new spaw device as in the first suggestion is a *much* better idea.
Swap files will be very very slow compared to swap devices 'cos of the way
they are accessed by the kernel. Since you are doomed to swapping might
as well do it properly ! Swapfiles are a hack for emergency use only...
Cliff
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Needed Monitor Specs -- Pls
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:14:38 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] posited:
> Hello all Gurus or people with the same product and still have the
> manual!!
>
> I need to get the specs for this particular monitor to be setup for X
>
> It is an older Dell Made in 1995
> 17" DELL
> Model - D1728D-LS
>
> Basically I need the Vert and Hor Settings and all pertinent info for X
> Thanks to all that'll respond
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It i always worth trying the web site for a manafacturer, even for older
model specs. Sometimes there is an email address for spec questions.
They can be surprisingly helpful (and sometimes unsurprisinhly not helpful
at all)
Cliff
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suid
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:11:28 +0100
Joe Terry posited:
> I am writing a backup script that unloads a database, tars the tables and
> then copies the tar file to a zip drive. I want to be able to
> mount/unmount
> the zip drive and have different users access the script. I have tried to
> set the script up using suid chmod 4755 script, but it does not seem to
> run in suid mode. I want to create temporary files and mount/unmount the
> zip drive -- this requires superuser permission.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing improperly?
>
Only your mother knows what you are doing improperly ..tee hee.
You can't suid scripts to forcome all sorts of terrible problems that would
bring down on you (security for example).
Use "sudo" at appropriate places in the script to do the mount/mounts.
Or, make the drive mountable by mere mortals.
You dont need su permission to create temporary files (if you mean files in
/tmp in this case) .. if you do something is TOO strict with permissions.
Seems to me if the database allows unload the data by whatever user is
logged onto it, and you have user mount permissions on the drive, and
you make sure temporary space is available to mortals, you shouldnt need
su permission at all for this.
Cliff
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: root password changed, need help
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:17:51 +0100
Bulent Sarinc posited:
> i finally fixed it
>
> i had trouble with e2fsck and read-only system
>
> i begin really to hate computers nomatter OS :)
>
>
Maybe you should be a bit fussier who let know your root password.
> thanx for the help
>
> Eric wrote:
>
> > Bulent Sarinc wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > somebody has changed root password and i cant get into my linux box on
> > > i386
> > > debian version
> > >
> >
> > at the lilo bootprompt try:
> > linux 1
> > if that fails:
> > linux root=/bin/sh
> > else use a boot/root flop and remove the newly created root password
> > from the passwd file
> >
> > Eric
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: problem with sendmail!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 23:26:52 GMT
On 1 Dec 2000 10:10:08 GMT, Isaac Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>dear all :
>
>Today, I have come cross a big heahache. In the office, I use linux(redhat
>6.0) as the smtp server to send email. And I have installed the linux
>for hald year already. Before everything is ok! can send email out!
>
>But today, it can not send out any messages. I try to see the log files.
>But can not find any reason why it can not send.
>
>Can anyone here know why and how to solve it?
I would suggest you tail the /var/log/maillog file, then try to send a
message. Post the new maillog entries back here and we will try to
help. If your messages are not being sent, they are erroring out or
being queued for future delivery by design or some problem. Either way,
the maillog should tell us what is going on.
>
>Regards,
>Isaac
>
>
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From: Ming Fai LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Telenet would not work from Win98 ---> Linux
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 06:53:03 +0800
I am trying to update and change the configuration files of my linux
box via telnet from another window 98 machine inside my home LAN.
For all the telnet client programs that I've downloaded, the F10 key
just doesn't work.
So:
1. How can I make F10 key work in my telnet client program?
2. Is there any recommended telnet client program for Win 98 machines?
3. What is the other way that i can remotely change the configuration
files and do installations form Window 98 machines to my Linux box?
I am using Suse Linux 6.2 F10 is important because after choosing a
package from the CD ROM, it need F10 to confirm the selection to
continue the selection. The scenerio now is pressing F10 will give an
equivalent ESC effect and installation cannot be continued.
Thank You.
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