Linux-Setup Digest #183, Volume #20 Fri, 8 Dec 00 12:13:11 EST
Contents:
How to install KDE on RH 7 server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP !!! Lots of setup problems!!! (Huw Lynes)
Alt, Meta X and RH7 (Mark Charsley)
Re: Grub goes glug... (Peter Kadau)
Re: Windows 2000 + Large Disk Multiboot? ("Bruce W.1")
Re: How to install KDE on RH 7 server ("Daniel Ma")
Re: Apache on Linux - Error on scripts called thru browser ("Peter Tselios")
Re: Windows 2000 + Large Disk Multiboot? (Rod Smith)
Re: Windows 2000 + Large Disk Multiboot? (Rod Smith)
Re: Changing X resolutions with the startx command ? (H Dziardziel)
Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services (Wayne Pollock)
Wierd Linux User Login problem (Jim)
Font problem under XFree86 3.3.5 & RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A script in /etc/init.d doesn't execute at all ! (Mandrake 7.2) (Pierre-Philippe
Ravier)
How do I make my PC dual-boot? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linmodem woes! minicom=ok kppp=crashes. (Winfried Kresse)
no shell or login ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
at home firewall setup ("Mike Walker")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to install KDE on RH 7 server
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:13:24 GMT
I am new to Linux. I am installing RH 7 server in HP LH6000, however
after installation, I could not find any reference manual on how to
install GUI on server platform. And I need to install Arcserve backup
on Linux, am I right that the installation needs GUI as well?
Thanks
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From: Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP !!! Lots of setup problems!!!
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:47:22 GMT
> I did that, but it's a PCI-card (IRQ 10) and I found its address in the
> PCI-file (it's 0xb400), but it still won't browse the network... (the
> mod won't even load properly :(
>
And you are definately trying to load the ne2000-pci module,
i.e. insmod ne2k-pci io=0xb400 irq=10
if you are then I think you've just hit the limit of my experience. The
only things I can suggest are to check /proc/ioports and /proc interrupts
to see if any of your other hardware is using the same set of resources.
If that is the case there may be a utility to change the io and irq
settings of your card to prevent the conflict.
Sorry I can't be of more help,
Huw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Charsley)
Subject: Alt, Meta X and RH7
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:53 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Outside of X my redhat 7 machine reconises my left-hand Alt key as Meta
(e.g. in emacs, alt-F moves forward one word). Inside X (using Gnome and
Sawfish), however it's recognised as Alt (e.g. I have to rebind sawfish's
cycle windows from Meta-tab to alt-tab and alt-F no longer works in emacs
so I have to use Esc,f instead).
I've spent a day or so checking out various how-to's, man pages and
searching red-hat's site, but have drawn a blank on the two following
questions
- how do I convince XFree86 v4, Sawfish and/or Gnome that my left Alt key
is the Meta key?
- is it a good idea to do so, or is there a good reason why the default
setup is how it is?
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kadau)
Subject: Re: Grub goes glug...
Date: 8 Dec 2000 12:59:53 GMT
Philo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: my menu.lst looks like this:
:
: title Linux 2.2.17-21mdk
: kernel /boot/vmlinuz 2.2.17-21mdk
======================^============
hopefully just a typo in your post
well, if you're using mandrake ...
try DrakConf and the boot-option
but if your system was setup during installation
to use LILO that might not work.
last method: run /sbin/grub as root
and play with the built-in help, especially
"help install"
i don't remember exactly the necessary commands, but i found
out in decent time - so you should be able as well
HTH
peter
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 08:45:48 -0500
From: "Bruce W.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 + Large Disk Multiboot?
Windows 2000 will not dual-boot with Linux, at least not with LILO.
==================================================
Groman wrote:
>
> Hi. I have a 13 GB IDE disk and one large FAT32 partition
> that covers the whole disk. I need Linux for some minor things
> and mainly will be using Windows 2000 (please don't hit me)
> I am thinking that I need about 9 gb for Windows and 3-4 GB for
> Linux should be enough. I have Redhat 6.0 CDs and don't want
> to get anything else for now.
>
> I was thinking of reducing my FAT partition using Fips or Partition
> Magic, but I do not know how to solve the "LILO can't reach past
> 1024" problem. I don't want to mess up or move my FAT partition
> and I don't want it to be less than 8 gigs.
>
> What the hell do I do to install linux???? I have GRUB and I have
> some experience using it, but that experience is not a pleasant one.
> Can I chain load GRUB from the Windows 2000 Loader????
> GRUB should not have the 1024 problem, right?
>
> Thanx for your answers.
>
> Groman.
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From: "Daniel Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install KDE on RH 7 server
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:25:01 +0800
I just read some material, it said that you had to install X window first
before install KDE. Then, may I know how could I install GNOME, e.g., what
RPMs should I install, and in which sequence.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:90qj93$akv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am new to Linux. I am installing RH 7 server in HP LH6000, however
> after installation, I could not find any reference manual on how to
> install GUI on server platform. And I need to install Arcserve backup
> on Linux, am I right that the installation needs GUI as well?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache on Linux - Error on scripts called thru browser
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:46:47 +0200
If you wrote the programs in win9x machines, you have either to cenvert them
in Unix format, or to use the perl perlscript.pl in order to execute the
script.
Peter
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:90okm3$8gj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> CM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am running Perl on Apache .My scripts are running OK when called from
> >the command prompt.
>
> How did you call them? I'm guessing 'perl test.pl' rather than marking
> the script executable with 'chmod +x test.pl' and running it with
> './test.pl', which would (if my diagnosis below is right) have caught
> the errors you're seeing.
>
> >However when I call them thru the browser I get these *two* messages on
> >the error_log .
> >
> >
> >[Thu Dec 7 04:42:31 2000] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec
> >of /home/httpd/cgi-bin/test.pl failed
> >
> >[Thu Dec 7 04:42:31 2000] [error] [client 192.168.100.132] Premature
> >end of script headers: /home/httpd/cgi-bin/test.pl
> >
> >
> >To clarify
> >
> >For the first error--> the file *does* exist in the specified
> >directory. Forthe second error--> The Perl file does start with
> >#!/usr/bin/perl.
>
> ('#!/usr/bin/perl -w'? :))
>
> Well, firstly, I'll explain those errors. "No such file or directory"
> can refer either to the file itself (/home/httpd/cgi-bin/test.pl) or its
> interpreter (/usr/bin/perl, in your case). "Premature end of script
> headers" isn't talking about the #! line, but rather about the HTTP
> headers that a CGI is supposed to output - naturally if your script
> can't run then it won't output the required headers.
>
> >Since I am used to Perl on Windows I am finding it difficult to grasp
> >the other parameters that are involved in Linux.
>
> For the most part, they're the same. However, if you've copied the Perl
> script over from Windows, then you may well have been bitten by a
> seemingly unrelated problem: the conventional line ending in Windows is
> a carriage return followed by a line feed, while in Unix it's just a
> line feed. If your #! line is really '#!/usr/bin/perl\r' (i.e. ending in
> a carriage return), then it won't work.
>
> Get hold of the program 'dos2unix' - or run something like this:
>
> perl -pi -e 's/\r$//' test.pl
>
> (Note that this modifies test.pl in place - run it without the -i option
> and redirect the output somewhere if you're not sure about it.)
>
> My guess is that you'll have more luck then.
>
> >[yawn] Thank you very much!!
>
> Hope you can get some sleep. :)
>
> --
> Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what
> mnemonic means, you've got a problem." - perlstyle(1p)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 + Large Disk Multiboot?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:05:25 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <YbZX5.626$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Groman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I have a 13 GB IDE disk and one large FAT32 partition
> that covers the whole disk. I need Linux for some minor things
> and mainly will be using Windows 2000 (please don't hit me)
> I am thinking that I need about 9 gb for Windows and 3-4 GB for
> Linux should be enough. I have Redhat 6.0 CDs and don't want
> to get anything else for now.
>
> I was thinking of reducing my FAT partition using Fips or Partition
> Magic, but I do not know how to solve the "LILO can't reach past
> 1024" problem. I don't want to mess up or move my FAT partition
> and I don't want it to be less than 8 gigs.
>
> What the hell do I do to install linux???? I have GRUB and I have
> some experience using it, but that experience is not a pleasant one.
> Can I chain load GRUB from the Windows 2000 Loader????
> GRUB should not have the 1024 problem, right?
You can use GRUB, or you can use a more recent version of LILO.
(Versions since about six months ago can boot past the 1024th cylinder.)
Installing either of these in RH 6.0 that's installed past the 1024th
cylinder initially could present some problems. Chances are you could
get it to work by creating a boot floppy, using that to boot the first
time, and then updating/replacing LILO.
Another option would be to create a layout that looks like this:
10MB primary ext2 Linux /boot partition
9GB primary FAT-32 Windows 2000
4GB logical ext2 Linux / and additional Linux partitions
This way, the Linux kernel (stored in /boot) goes entirely below the
1024th cylinder, no matter what. If you've got PartitionMagic, this
shouldn't be difficult to set up; just shrink/move the Windows partition
and create appropriate ext2 partitions. I can make no guarantees of how
Win2K would react to having its partitions changed in this way, though.
WinNT 4.0 is certainly quite finicky, but I've less experience with
Win2K in this respect.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 + Large Disk Multiboot?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:06:40 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <3a30e5fa$0$20858$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bruce W.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Windows 2000 will not dual-boot with Linux, at least not with LILO.
I'm pleased to say this is just plain wrong. I've done it. It works. Of
course, there are plenty of things that can make it NOT work, so I'm
sure you ran into one of them.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Changing X resolutions with the startx command ?
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:47:35 GMT
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 01:29:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
wrote:
>On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:01:14 -0800, peter wrote:
>>I need to change my X res.
>>
>>What the command to do it from the command line, like
>>
>>startx ....
>>
>>for 800x600 and up,
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>peter
>
>I have not heard of a way to do it with startx. After X has started, you
>can toggle between resolutions by doing 'Ctrl Alt +' The default resolution
>is the first one listed in the Modes in the Screen Section of
>/etc/X11/XF86Config. The toggle goes to the second one in the list and so
>on.
>
>Anita
Hi, for the various command line options etc.,
man startx and man xinit may be worth looking at. One easy trick is
to use different color depths for different resolutions- if you can
live with the depth difference and the chip supports it of course.
This is handy for external monitor usage.
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:36:52 -0500
"michael.fengler" wrote:
> ...
> That's true, smbclient works standalone. IIRC it *does* look into
> smb.conf, however.
What does "IIRC" stand for?
-Wayne Pollock
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wierd Linux User Login problem
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:53:26 GMT
Ok, I'm a newbie here so hopefully this isn't to dumb of a question.
A buddy of mine setup a Email server for our company. Actually it was a
rebuild. We are running Red Hat 6.1 and any new user we add doesn't
seem to be able to login to their email account.
I add a user via ADDUSER "Username". It doesn't prompt me for a
password, so I use PASSWD "Username" to change it. But then, it never
lets this user log in.
We cannot figure out why this is happening.
Any suggestions?
TIA
Jim Fox
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Font problem under XFree86 3.3.5 & RedHat 5.2
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:53:27 GMT
I upgraded my XFree86 3.3.2 that came with Red Hat 5.2 to XFree86
3.3.5. I am currently experiencing a problem where any console-based
application under X shows only colored blocks where the text fonts
should be. In addition, I receive the following error message when
starting X:
X Error of failed request: Bad Drawable (invalid Pixmap or window
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource id in failed request: 0x1800010
Serial number of failed request: 227
Current serial number in output stream: 230
I don't know where to begin figuring out a solution to this problem. I
don't even know where to begin figuring out the problem!
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From: Pierre-Philippe Ravier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A script in /etc/init.d doesn't execute at all ! (Mandrake 7.2)
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:00:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure) wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:02:33 GMT, Pierre-Philippe Ravier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I can execute this script by hand and it works.
> >But it seems not to execute during the start-up of the machine.
> >
> >The file is executable by everyone.
>
> Try
> chkconfig --add network on, or add a link manually in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
>
> FF.
>
Thank you very much. It works now !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I make my PC dual-boot?
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:10:46 GMT
I'm a complete Linux newbie who installed RH 7.0 at work and at home,
both on PCs with Windows. At work the machine boots up with the RH
dual-boot option (linux, dos) which is what I want, but at home it just
boots Windows. The main difference between the machines is that the
work machine has two hard drives, with Linux on the second one, while
at home I just have one HD. What's the trick to getting the home
machine to be dual boot?
BTW, is there any way to change the default boot from Linux to DOS?
Thanks for any guidance,
Mike
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From: Winfried Kresse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linmodem woes! minicom=ok kppp=crashes.
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:46:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:14:25 GMT wurde von <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gepostet:
>Linmodem568 will not work with kernel versions after 2.2.14.
>
>
It's not true. It worked for me with kernel 2.2.16 - but with a
special /lib/modules/2.2.16/ppp.o
Take it from http://www.heby.de/computer/ltmodem
My softwodem works in Dell Latitude LSt.
Good luck
Winfried
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: no shell or login
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:36:51 GMT
I beleive our server has been hacked. The logs have
been cleared, so I can't get any info from them,
but we no longer have shell access.
I can't login in to the server thru telnet, nor can
I login directly from the console. When I type in
my username on the console, the name disappears,
and I am immediately returned to the Login prompt.
It never asks for the password.
I can still Ftp to the server, and the ftp, web and
mail services are still running.
Is there any way I can get back shell access
without having to completely reinstall Linux?
We are using RedHat 6.2.
Thanks. if possible, please reply directly at
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From: "Mike Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.security.firewalls,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,austin.internet,alt.os.linux
Subject: at home firewall setup
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:53:59 -0600
I have recently gotten RoadRunner (got sick of slow downloads, can't get
DSL, not moving anytime soon) service from my local TV cable company. I want
to set up a Linux firewall. I have a firewall that comes with its own
version of Linux in mind. The version is called Storm Firewall. My setup is
I have an extra laptop with two PCMCIA card slots with two LinkSys PCMCIA
cards. Currently I know that it is capable of running Linux because it is
running Mandrake. I was wondering if someone can either
A:
Walk me through the entire process of making sure Linux sees both cards,
getting the cable modem to talk to my Windows ME PC through Linux and then
setup the firewall. I need to be able to have some customization as I find
myself on EverQuest and other client/server type games. I also need the
freedom to play Unreal Tournament with computers outside my own network once
in a while.
OR
B:
Point me somewhere that can tell what I am looking for. I have been to
several sites that talk about setting up firewalls but they don't seem to
have exact procedures for the entire process.
I am computer literate as I am a tech writer. The problem with most of the
stuff out there is that it wasn't written by someone who makes the
assumption that the person looking for the information doesn't know anything
about it. This is the case for me. I know very little about Linux and
nothing about command line stuff. I know even less about firewalls and all
the buzzwords associated with firewalls (ipchains, proxies, etc..). All I
know is that I want to leave my system connected, I want to leave it
protected, and I want to be about to connect to EverQuest and Battle.net
(Diablo 2).
Thank you,
Mike
mwalker at tkg Dot (you know, the cute one) com
If cross posting is a foe-pah, please forgive me but I am looking for
answers and this is one of the few resources I can go to at work.
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