Linux-Setup Digest #166, Volume #20 Tue, 5 Dec 00 16:13:06 EST
Contents:
disabling ftp/rlogin/telnet to use SSH (Greg Trafton)
Linux Configuration snapshot utility ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CDROM and LILO Problems (Keith)
Mandrake 7.1 + Audio CUV4x-M ("Stefano Zen")
Re: Kernel Modules or not? (Andreas Tretow)
Linux on two disk system ("Rene")
Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: disabling ftp/rlogin/telnet to use SSH ("S. Umar")
Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 -- screen won't go off! (Andrey Shipsha)
Init.d stops after a given number of started services (Pierre-Philippe Ravier)
Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 -- screen won't go off! (Michael Naef)
unstalling - unistalling packages ("Peter Tselios")
Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation (Roy Goodman)
Re: fuzzy cirrus logic (C. L. Lewis)
Re: Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation (James Richard Tyrer)
adding linux servers to a solaris network ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Redhat 6.2 installation (Matthew David Pickard)
Re: Kernel Modules or not? (Oliver D. Bedford)
java compiler and suse 7 (signor)
environment variables problem (Robert Stia)
Re: Upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0 (Yidao Cai)
Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services (Bill Unruh)
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From: Greg Trafton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disabling ftp/rlogin/telnet to use SSH
Date: 05 Dec 2000 11:13:23 -0500
Hi, All. I do not want others to be able to login to my system by
using rlogin or telnet or ftp or (are there others?) and instead use
SSH to login. but I'd like to be able to stil have access to rlogin ,
telnet, and ftp. what's the best way to do this?
thanks!
greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Configuration snapshot utility
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 16:22:15 GMT
Is there a utility that will take a snapshot of a Linux configuration so
it can copied to a new system? My hard drive is having problems, so I
need install a new one and I want to easily copy all configuration files
such as sendmail.cw, sendmail.cf, virtusertable, httpd.conf, etc. to
the new drive. I guess I could just copy them myself, but I'm sure I'll
forget some.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith)
Subject: Re: CDROM and LILO Problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 17:01:08 GMT
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:23:18 +0000, david close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am installing a Mandrake 7.0 distribution onto a Celeron 433 / 64 MB.
> I am having problems with the CDROM and LILO. If anyone could help,
> please get in touch on the list.
man mount
mount /mnt/cdrom
mount /mnt/cdrom2
>
> CDROM Problem:
>
> There are /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 entries, but when I access these
> mount points with a CD in the drive, I cannot read them. Drives are
> Technics and another unknown drive. I think they are IDE.
>
> LILO Problem:
>
> I have got a Windows option in LILO, but when I type windows at LILO:,
> Windows does not boot, and just repeats the LILO prompt.
LILO: dos
>
> Sorry if I these are silly questions as I am a beginner.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ziggy
>
>
>
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From: "Stefano Zen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 + Audio CUV4x-M
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 18:06:11 +0100
How to set up the sound card with Mandrake 7.1 ?
I have Mother Board Asus CUV 4X-M with an integrated Audio Card. Mandrake
find it but not as sound card, but as something else.
Every help is accept
Sorry for my english
Stefano
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From: Andreas Tretow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Modules or not?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 17:18:02 +0000
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
You will find further information at www.linuxdoc.org
Advantages of modules (as I understand it):
- more flexibility
- smaller kernel (probably runs faster, especially on systems with not
much RAM), which means that drivers you rarely use will not occupy
valuable RAM all the time.
- a badly implemented driver which is not compiled into the kernel will
not crash the whole system (debugging is also much easier)
There are probably many more points, which you might be able to find at
the mentioned links.
Andreas
Michael wrote:
> Hello again boy's and girl's
> When compiling a new kernel what are the advantages or disadvantages
> to using modules?
> Thanks Michael
>
>
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From: "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on two disk system
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:18:49 +0100
Hi,
which is the probably most "intelligent" way to install Linux on two
harddisks one of which is slower than the other one?
Ren�
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 05 Dec 2000 12:24:38 -0500
Followups set to colh, which is where I am.
"w_h_lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I install linux on I815 system. The kernel is 2.2.16 which include the
> module agpgart.o. The XFree86 is 4.0.1 which support the I810 chipset. There
> is an error "device is busy" when I do "modprobe agpgart" and the module is
> not loaded. I use the agpgart.o from the intel support web and it work. Then
> I run startx after config the XF86Config and it fail. The XFCom_i810 Xserver
> is work under XFree86 3.3.6 and can not work with the XF86Config file in
> 4.0.1 format. The logfile and config files are in the attachment. Please
> help me to let it work. Thanks.
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I'm on a 100BTX to my news server, but for someone on a modem it
might take as long to download your one article as to download _the
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From: "S. Umar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disabling ftp/rlogin/telnet to use SSH
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:30:41 -0600
You have to edit either the /etc/inetd.conf or files in /etc/xinetd.d
directory. In the first case just comment the lines that contain the
services you don't want and restart your computer or do killall -HUP
inetd.
If you are using xinetd then there is a saperate file for each service
in
the above directory. Add a line "disable = yes" to the
end
and restart. You can always use telnet, ftp etc to go out yourself.
These
only control the server daemons for people coming in.
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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
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From: Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 -- screen won't go off!
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:23:56 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"B.Y." wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron which works fine under Linux and XFree86,
> using the stuff from Steve's Beautiful Inspiron Homepage (tm). Alas, I
> was unable to achieve something that seems very simple with a desktop:
>
> After a certain amount of time, the screen of the Inspiron goes
> blank, however, it is still backlit. Clearly, this is not so great for
> the bulb behind the LCD, its active-ness notwithstanding.
>
> Is it possible to turn the backlitness of the LCD completely,
> totally off and have it come back on when I touch it again? I have for
> now resorted to suspending to RAM when I leave the premises, but ...
>
> Thanks for any help.
I would recommend you to post to DELL laptops newsgroup:
http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-dell-laptops
You will get quicker answer. I am a user of 5000e model. I don't know
the answer to your question but I am interested in it as well.
Cheers,
Andrey.
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From: Pierre-Philippe Ravier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Init.d stops after a given number of started services
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:39:28 GMT
Hello,
I have updated my Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2 and can't finish the boot anymore.
It stops while doing the init.d sequence. I can go to maintenance mode
and update config file as I wish (fortunately). Seeing that the
computers stopped during init.d I began to remove services one by one.
Doing that I removed amd, sybase, nfslockd, xfs because they were the
different services for which the computer stopped. But it looks like
whatever I do, Linux stops to work when it has started a specific
number of services. Now it fails at SMB and I am sure that if I remove
this service it will fail at the next one.
If I press CTRL-ALT-DEL it tries to stop the service before the last
one, and hang there. IF I press CLTR-ALT-DEL again I hear a little disk
activity bu nothing more displays. Further presses do the same noise
and that's all. The message I see is :
Stopping rwho services:
I had similar messages, with a different service name, when I gradually
removed services from init.d .
Do you have an idea what is this strange behaviour ? The PC did not
have this problem with Mandrake 7.1 ! Mandrake is a distribution based
on RedHat.
Thank you
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From: Michael Naef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 -- screen won't go off!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.portable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:17:39 +0100
B.Y. wrote:
> Hello,
[..]
> After a certain amount of time, the screen of the Inspiron goes
> blank, however, it is still backlit. Clearly, this is not so great for
> the bulb behind the LCD, its active-ness notwithstanding.
>
> Is it possible to turn the backlitness of the LCD completely,
> totally off and have it come back on when I touch it again?
[..]
I think to turn off the backlight is the higher stress for the "bulb".
Turnig it off makes only sense for longer times, some hours.
The ON/OFF Cylcle, like a neon light, is one of the main
factors determining the lifetime of such a thing.
Michael
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unstalling - unistalling packages
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:22:20 +0200
Hallo,
I have tow strange(?) questions.
a) How can I unistall a tar.gz package? For example, I have istalled
apach 1.3.9 + mod_ssl and I want to upgrade it. The obvious solution is to
install the new package in the same directory as the old one. But, I want to
make a "clean" installation.
b) I have download a few srpms and I want to compile them (and install them
at the same time?). The use of rpm --rebuild xxx.srpm or rpm --recompile
xxx.srpm does not work. Any ideas?
Thank you,
Peter Tselios
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Unix kernel was to get better interactive performance from the computer to
play a game called Space Travel."
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From: Roy Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:19:56 -0500
I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I upgraded from 6.0 to 6.2 from a
CD-Rom. After doing this, my computer started doing weird things. I
usually don't power down, but I do close the cover to put it to sleep.
The first time I reopened it, it crashed, and i was forced to reboot. It
demanded i run fsck manually, and then found lots and lots of errors, and
once I rebooted it I found it could no longer mount several devices, and
the power management was screwy, so I copied my home directory onto the
Windows partition and decided to reinstall from scratch.
The reinstall got 99% of the way through the "Installing Packages" section
of the graphical install, and then died. Now if I turn on the computer,
I no longer get Linux Loader (actually, after the Dell Splash screen I get
the letters LI and nothing else, which may be a remnant of linux loader).
I assume I need to put the installation disk back in, and do "Linux
Rescue" mode, but once I get there, I have no idea what to do, and can't
access either the Windows or Linux sides.
Thanks,
Roy
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From: C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fuzzy cirrus logic
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:19:19 GMT
My apologies, I thought I effectively explained that you are probably
not going to get that particular card to work with a graphical install.
TEXT mode install than TEXT mode xf86config and then you with have a
working XFConfig file that you can run X with at maybe a 640x480 or
800x600 8 bpp resolution.
It's card number 98 in the database of the xf86config utility I have on
this machine. I checked my notes and I have used ansd have the exact
same card in my junk bin(You may have one built into your MB)
It's a last century chip set. 1993 or earlier. Only one meg of video
memory.
You're money would have served you better being spent on upgrading
equipment rather than operating systems.
Charles
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> Thanks Charles. On the assumption that a later version
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:31:02 GMT
Roy Goodman wrote:
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I upgraded from 6.0 to 6.2 from a
> CD-Rom. After doing this, my computer started doing weird things. I
> usually don't power down, but I do close the cover to put it to sleep.
> The first time I reopened it, it crashed, and i was forced to reboot. It
> demanded i run fsck manually, and then found lots and lots of errors, and
> once I rebooted it I found it could no longer mount several devices, and
> the power management was screwy, so I copied my home directory onto the
> Windows partition and decided to reinstall from scratch.
>
> The reinstall got 99% of the way through the "Installing Packages" section
> of the graphical install, and then died. Now if I turn on the computer,
> I no longer get Linux Loader (actually, after the Dell Splash screen I get
> the letters LI and nothing else, which may be a remnant of linux loader).
> I assume I need to put the installation disk back in, and do "Linux
> Rescue" mode, but once I get there, I have no idea what to do, and can't
> access either the Windows or Linux sides.
>
Did you format the disk partition when you reinstalled?
If you don't know, you might try the text install.
The common wisdom is that the text install works better.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: adding linux servers to a solaris network
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:34:43 GMT
Hi
I plan to intergrate some linux servers into a solaris network.
where can I find information on doing this, from naming the servers
to allowing access to user accounts.
The main area I need help is NIS and NFS.
Thanks
Zar
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From: Matthew David Pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 installation
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:32:24 -0700
I am trying to share my @home Cable modem with three other computers.
Redhat 6.2 always locks up during installation when it starts to install
the packages (when I press NEXT on the Selecting package groups screen).
I have a Diamond Stealth II S220 video card. That is all that is in my
computer right now and it still locks up.
Any suggestions?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver D. Bedford)
Subject: Re: Kernel Modules or not?
Date: 05 Dec 2000 21:07:11 +0100
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When compiling a new kernel what are the advantages or disadvantages
> to using modules?
If security is a top priority you should not be using modules.
Oliver
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From: signor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: java compiler and suse 7
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:30:04 -0000
I did installed SUSE Professional version 7.
It is cool and easy compare to Redhat 7.
I need information on Java in SUSE Linux 7.0 Professional version. It
supposed to have JAVA 2 with it , which I can see when I search file (all
essential file is there) but I think I need to configure or set path or
do something before I start compiling code! Can you give me any
suggestion ! I'm very new to Linux so I'm lost!
IS there any IDE for java which comes with SUSE 7.
I don't have connection to web in my Linex os. How can I connect to AOL ?
or any other free ISP! which support LINUX!
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Stia)
Subject: environment variables problem
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:42:02 GMT
Hello all,
I am evidently missing something here. I really hope that
somebody can set me straight. I also hope that I am in the
right newsgroup for this question.
Attempting to intall qt-x11-2.2.1 over an older version
of qt installed with RH 6. Untarred and put it in /usr/local
which created a /qt folder in /usr/local. qt install then says
to check environment variables in the file .profile in the home
directory, and if there was none, to create it, and that
it should have the following lines:
QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Then went looking for.profile and found only the following;
/root/autosave/#\!home\!.profile This is what was in that file
for the environment variables:
QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$/usr/local/qt
MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I made a copy of that and placed it in /home and rebooted.
Now, when I try to do a ./configure, I get the following complaint:
The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is
currently set to "", but it should be set to this directory,
which is "/usr/local/qt".
I then went back and edited .profile to exactly the same as the qt
example. Got the same complaint.
Can somebody please help me out here?
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:36:47 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Graham Daniell wrote:
>
> I am wondering if I can upgrade RH6.2 to RH 7 without incurring any
> problems. Can anyone confirm if this is possible / likely to cause no
> major dramas? Anyone have experience with this?
>
I did not incur any major problem from 6.1 to 7.0.
cai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services
Date: 5 Dec 2000 20:54:43 GMT
In <90jcov$gid$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pierre-Philippe Ravier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I suspect you are running into DNS timeouts. Why are you running smb?
GEt rid of smb, sendmail.
I doubt that those were the services for which it quit. I suspect rather that they
quit on the service AFTER those services.
]I have updated my Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2 and can't finish the boot anymore.
]It stops while doing the init.d sequence. I can go to maintenance mode
]and update config file as I wish (fortunately). Seeing that the
]computers stopped during init.d I began to remove services one by one.
]Doing that I removed amd, sybase, nfslockd, xfs because they were the
]different services for which the computer stopped. But it looks like
]whatever I do, Linux stops to work when it has started a specific
]number of services. Now it fails at SMB and I am sure that if I remove
]this service it will fail at the next one.
]If I press CTRL-ALT-DEL it tries to stop the service before the last
]one, and hang there. IF I press CLTR-ALT-DEL again I hear a little disk
]activity bu nothing more displays. Further presses do the same noise
]and that's all. The message I see is :
]Stopping rwho services:
]I had similar messages, with a different service name, when I gradually
]removed services from init.d .
]Do you have an idea what is this strange behaviour ? The PC did not
]have this problem with Mandrake 7.1 ! Mandrake is a distribution based
]on RedHat.
]Thank you
]Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
]Before you buy.
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