Linux-Setup Digest #174, Volume #20 Wed, 6 Dec 00 17:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: acpi won't power off 'puter (Phil Reynolds)
Re: Loading kernel modules for scsi tape with RH 7.0 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Telnet connections refused (J. Robert Buchanan)
KFM Error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00 (David V Bowen)
Re: Motherboard upgrade (2nd posting) (C. L. Lewis)
Re: Linmodem woes! minicom=ok kppp=crashes.
Re: What is this message??How to solve??thanks!! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Motherboard upgrade (2nd posting) ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: changing link (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Egcs or cpp (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: another newbie, trouble getting started ("Mark")
XFree86 Confusion ("Joseph Dobransky")
Re: How to fix bad sectors on HD? (julian wells)
Re: Sendmail question (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: another newbie, trouble getting started (James Richard Tyrer)
Helix Gnome Window Manager not working (Rupert Heesom)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Reynolds)
Subject: Re: acpi won't power off 'puter
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:12:01 GMT
In article <3a2cd5e6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Allan West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> "Arthur J. Yarwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Small annoying little problem. Just got kernel 2.4.0-test9 up and
>> running. Started using the acpi stuff instead of the apm stuff. Grabbed
>> the deamons and pmtools as it said in Documentation/pm.txt. However my
>> computer won't power off now, when you shut it down?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Arthur.
>
> I still have to make APM Calls to shutdown on my Abit BE6r2v2
I too have a BEE6 and cannot get linux-2.4.0-test10 to shut it down (or
indeed any 2.3.99/2.4.0-test kernel).
--
Phil Reynolds
o ____ Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|L_ \ / Web: http://www.hedgford.demon.co.uk/phil/
(_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Loading kernel modules for scsi tape with RH 7.0
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:56:06 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Linux documentation is driving me nuts (or the lack of)! I've been
But there's huge amounts out there. If you think there isn't enough,
write some more!"
> From what I can determine, I will need to add some information into
> /etc/modules.conf but some things are unclear. The scsi controller is
> an old Future Domain tmc-1660 that has been working just fine in other
> os environments. It uses i/o base 0xca00 and irq 11. From what I can
> tell I need something like "alias scsi fdomain" added to /etc/modules
Something like that. What is your driver? You just want the driver to
be loaded when the scsi system is launched. I'd go for
alias block-major-8 blah rather than what you have, just in case
the modprobe you use doesn't know what "scsi" is supposed to mean.
> .conf, but how do I add the necessary i/o and irq parameters? It also
In an options line for your driver. Read the driver code (or the
BootPrompt-HOWTO) to see what they might be. A rough guess would be
options blah irq=11 io=0xca00, but that's for you to check and us
to nod at.
> appears that the st.o module needs to be added, but I'm somewhat
Sure.
> clueless regarding what this alias line will require and how to handle
What alias line? Just add the module. "modprobe st".
> the obvious dependency with the scsi controller module. I don't want
Dependencies are handled automatically. That's the point.
> to recompile the kernel and the modules. My preference is to create a
> new /etc/rc.d/init.d script to handle the loading during bootup. I
Eh? There should be a prepared script for modules you want to launch
like that. Probably rc.modules.
> looked at the lilo docs, but from what I can determine, there are some
> issues with attempting to pass the fdomain parameters into a module
> with lilo where the driver is not compiled into the full kernel.
Eh? It's impossible. You can't pass params to a thing that isn't there!
Your kernel is compiled without the driver.
> the tape drive. Will /dev/st0 automatically cause hardware
> compression on an HP Surestore 6000 (DDS2) tape drive to be used, or
> do I have to use some other device in /dev?
It's up to the HP what it chooses to do. Hardware compression is just
that.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Robert Buchanan)
Subject: Telnet connections refused
Date: 06 Dec 2000 15:32:53 -0500
Hello,
After upgrading to RedHat 7.0 I noticed that telnet attempts into my
system are now refused. Connections to the web server running on my
machine are also refused. However, ftp connections work
fine. Everything used to work fine under 6.2. I believe that RH 7.0 is
using xinetd whereas RH 6.2 was using inetd. A quick examination of
the xinetd.conf files did not reveal a problem. Is there some
configuration file which has changed? What do I need to reset?
Thanks in advance.
--
Bob Buchanan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Phone: 717-872-3659, FAX: 717-871-2320, http://www.millersville.edu/~jbuchana
Mathematics Dept. Millersville University
P.O. Box 1002, Millersville, PA 17551-0302
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: KFM Error
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:09:56 -0500 (EST)
My FDD crapped out just before I installed Mandrake 7.1, so I could not
do the boot disc then, during the install.
My new FDD came today. I had a useless FD {from AOL 8-)} which I
decided to use for my boot disc. I inserted this FD and tried to list
the directory. No problem.
Then using KDE went in under the root password and created the boot
disc. No problems.
After finishing creation of the boot disc I wanted to look at its
directory. Problem.
I get this message:
KFM Error
! Could not list directory contents
file/mnt/floppy/
This is probably an obvious error on my part 'cause I'm new to this.
All help/hints appreciated.
Thanks.
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From: David V Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:18:27 -0500
Eric wrote:
> I don't know how serious this is, but I'd run a fsck on the partitions
> you resized.
> Did you make the partitions larger, or smaller (check their filling with
> df)
>
Thanks for the message. I actually made the root partion 500MB smaller than
it was before. Is that significant? Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to run
fsck on the root partition (since you can't umount it), although I thought
fsck was run on boot anyway? It detects no errors at that time.
Dave
====================================================================
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Peyton Hall, Princeton University, NJ 08544-1001
Ph (609) 258 3822, FAX (609) 258 1020
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From: C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motherboard upgrade (2nd posting)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:51:27 GMT
Only my own experiences. ;-)
I have swapped disks out of a 486ers with a RH 5.1 and also with a RH
6.1 and have done it with Win95 & Win98 with no major difficulties to
an Intel Pentium 233. Main thing is the bios settings on the new MB for
your drives. Depending how your old system was set up. LBA, large,
normal, etc.
Swap up to an AMD K-6 2/550 killed Win95 for me, but I'd been warned
about that previously so no big deal.
The kernel compilation from the i386 arch should be okay, but you will
probably want to recompile or upgrade anyway for maximum performance.
I know Mandrake, or at least my Mandrake 7.2 is maximized for i586, but
I haven't tried a disk swap with it yet.
As I said, the main thing on getting it to boot up and run is going to
make sure all your bios settings jive with the previous setup.
Good luck.
Charles
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Rloc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone please give me a hand here!
>
> I have a Mandrake 7 machine which was built up on a Pentium 100
platform.
--
Laughter is the best laxative there is for a constipated mind. Humor is
an ideal spoon to dose it.
--Chronocidal Charlie, 1995-2000, RIP--
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linmodem woes! minicom=ok kppp=crashes.
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:14:25 GMT
Linmodem568 will not work with kernel versions after 2.2.14.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 12/3/00, 11:35:31 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"=20
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Linmodem woes! minicom=3D=
ok=20
kppp=3Dcrashes.:
> I'm running Mandrake 7.1 on a Compaq Presario 3060 with a winmodem.
> I downloaded linmodem568 from Lucent and loaded it. It works fine with=
> Minicom but when I set up kppp with AT&T Worldnet, following the
> instructions I got from WURD I get the message that the kppp daemon
> failed unexpectedly.
> Does anyone have any experience fixing this type of thing?
> Thanks,
> Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: What is this message??How to solve??thanks!!
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:14:51 GMT
"kitty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>HELLO
> I HAVE A QUESTION.
>
Great.
> MY LINUX(MAIL-SERVER) TO APPEAR : "Unable to load
>interpreter".
You're stuck with a machine that needs to be rebooted.
> WHAT IS THIS ERROR-MESSAGE ? HOW TO SOLVE IT THAT I DO'T KNOW ?
Your server has been running out of memory.
> SO IF ANYONE COULD HELP PLEASE COULD YOU E-MAIL ME AT
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Certainly not. You post here, you read here.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motherboard upgrade (2nd posting)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:23:23 -0600
If your moving from a PCI based hard disk host controller, to another, there
should not be any problems with the migration. The only exception to this is
you need to check and make sure the new machine has the same settings for
the hardware. Usually this is not a problem as most of them use LBA mode but
some folks tune them differently and as such, those settings have to move
with the hard drive or things won't work.
--
Jeff Kline
(ripped from the keyboard at my day job!)
Reach out and touch: jskline [at] mediaone.net
Fix email name to contact me. Spam helper
c/o The Gass Can Productions
Columbia Heights, MN 55421
"C. L. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:90m8sc$sjl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Only my own experiences. ;-)
>
> I have swapped disks out of a 486ers with a RH 5.1 and also with a RH
> 6.1 and have done it with Win95 & Win98 with no major difficulties to
> an Intel Pentium 233. Main thing is the bios settings on the new MB for
> your drives. Depending how your old system was set up. LBA, large,
> normal, etc.
>
> Swap up to an AMD K-6 2/550 killed Win95 for me, but I'd been warned
> about that previously so no big deal.
>
> The kernel compilation from the i386 arch should be okay, but you will
> probably want to recompile or upgrade anyway for maximum performance.
>
> I know Mandrake, or at least my Mandrake 7.2 is maximized for i586, but
> I haven't tried a disk swap with it yet.
>
> As I said, the main thing on getting it to boot up and run is going to
> make sure all your bios settings jive with the previous setup.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Charles
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Rloc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Someone please give me a hand here!
> >
> > I have a Mandrake 7 machine which was built up on a Pentium 100
> platform.
>
>
> --
> Laughter is the best laxative there is for a constipated mind. Humor is
> an ideal spoon to dose it.
> --Chronocidal Charlie, 1995-2000, RIP--
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing link
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:33:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am trying to get my modem working and so far the most success I've
> had has been in getting modemtool to assign it to /dev/tts2. Setserial
> just gives me an input/output error with every set of options I've read
> to try. I notice there is a link from /dev/ttys2 to modem or vice
> versa. I've read the man page for link, but I'm lost. How do I change
> the link to get my modem to be ttys4? Tia
>
You do not mention what type of modem you have. Internal PCI?
Perhaps I should explain that changing the "/dev/modem" link will not
configure your modem. All it accomplishes is that a program that has
been told the the modem is "/dev/modem" is then aware of which "ttyS?"
device that the modem is actually assigned to.
Setserial, on the other hand, assigns serial drivers (ttyS?) to
hardware.
Have you somehow determined that you modem (hardware) has been assigned
to ttyS4? Or, if your modem has been assigned to any "ttyS?"?
Be a little more specific.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Egcs or cpp
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:37:19 GMT
Davide wrote:
>
> I downloaded Mandrake 7.2 and on the installation disk there are both the
> egcs packages and the cpp packages.
>
> Which are the main differences between them?
>
One is a compiler: Enhanced GNU Compiler System, and the other is the C
PreProcessor.
>
> Which one is better?
>
There is no answer to the second question.
Note, other possible names for the C compiler are "cc" and "gcc".
JRT
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another newbie, trouble getting started
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:37:28 -0800
bite me. I looked all fucking day. This is why people hate geeks.
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> system. you will find answers much faster than begging people for help
> >> on newsgroups.
> > Thanks for chastising me. I really appreciate that. And I think
"begging"
> > was a bit of an unecessary embellishment. It was a simple question from
my
> > simple mind. Sorry to bother you.
>
> And beggars also say that it's a simple request from a simple person
> who is unable, through no fault of their own, to do work like everyone
> else.
>
> Peter
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From: "Joseph Dobransky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFree86 Confusion
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:39:37 GMT
Ok, I read the manuals, surfed the web etc, and either I'm brain dead, which
is possible, or I have no idea what they are babbling about. I can start an
x proggie from a term window in lets say gnome with lets say netcfg &.
However when I try that from a command line, I get no display, tcl, python
errors. Most frustrating. I use to be able to do that from a command line, x
would start, and then the proggie would start. Now nadda. Ideas, ridicule,
and suggestions welcome!
--
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear.
It annoys them very much. --
Reverend Joseph Dobransky, "Night Owl"
Rockford, IL
http://skeeter1.dyndns.org
Herbs, Oils, and More
AOL Instant Messenger: skeeter1jd
ICQ Number: 21228143
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From: julian wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to fix bad sectors on HD?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:43:29 GMT
Jc wrote:
> I currently have RH 6.2 installed and recently I have been getting some
> problems and these seem to be caused by bad sectors on my HD since I
> keep getting read errors poping up on my console ...
>
> How to I go about cchecking my HD for bad sectors, fixing them and then
> marking the sectors as bad?
>
> Jc
>
Jc, have you tried fsck? usage> fsck /dev/hda1 or whatever the
device......hope it helps>
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:53:45 GMT
root wrote:
>
> Sendmail question
> I am running RedHat Linux 6.2. As my system boots up it loads Sendmail
> just fine and gives an [OK] status. When I log onto the system I can
> send out e-mail to friends and family fine. But when they send e-mail
> back to me they get the following bounce back:
>
> "This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
>
> Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> each recipient was rejected.
>
> Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reason: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> if you feel this message to be in error."
>
I am guessing that you have dial up ISP service, and people are sending
you mail at your local mail address. This, basically doesn't work. The
"Relaying denied" is not coming from your system, it is coming from a
server (MLNOVPS0142.nacio.com) that can't find your system because it
doesn't have your address on a DNS somewhere.
They need to use the e-mail address assigned to you by the ISP. Then it
will get to your system. You could probably configure Sendmail to then
forward it to you local mail address, but what is the point. Just set
up your e-mail program correctly and it should work.
Then again, I have a bad cold and could be totally wrong about all of
this.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another newbie, trouble getting started
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:56:55 GMT
Mark wrote:
>
> I downloaded the two RH7.0 iso images off of a redhat mirror. I burned the
> first one to CD using EasyCD creator 4.0... i was under the impression that
> it was a bootable. That .iso file is the only thing on the cd, however no
> system will boot off the CD. If I put my Win2K Pro CD in, those systems
> boot fine off the CD.
>
> What did I miss?
>
What do I keep missing. Many people have posted their problems using
the ISO images to reinstall their system when they already have one
running.
Why didn't you just down load the individual files you needed to up
grade your system. You do have a system running -- you were able to
down load the ISO images.
JRT
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From: Rupert Heesom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Helix Gnome Window Manager not working
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:03:09 -0500
I have a problem where after installing some new software from RPMs
(SANE software for scanners), my Gnome desktop ground to a halt (not the
1st time). When I restarted X windows with <Cntl><Alt><Backspace>,
suddently the window manager (Enlightenment) didn't work anymore, so
what GUI programs I can load aren't manageable on the screen anymore.
I've looked around at the Gnome files, the only file that seems to make
some sense to me is the .gnomerc-errors file.
"Gdk-WARNING: locale not supported by C library."
"Root window clicks will not work as no GNOME-compliant window manager
could be found."
Now, I'm not very good on Linux, but is GDK anything to do with the
GTK libraries??
Something is not configured, or has been overwritten here. How can
I try to verify the Gnome installation to find out what's wrong???
I can load the Gnome RPM package, but can also use the command line to
find the info out .
Any ideas???
regs
rupert
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