Linux-Setup Digest #193, Volume #20 Sun, 10 Dec 00 10:13:10 EST
Contents:
*** F_U_C_K___C_H_R_I_S_T_M_A_S *** ................. SeZ7wq7g ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: need to change .bashrc ("Veronica Morales")
Newbie: Space Left on HD! ("The Chief")
router setup. ("ryan")
Re: Newbie: Space Left on HD! (Bit Twister)
Re: Newbie: Space Left on HD! (Cliff Sarginson)
Re: XFree86, KDE & DPMS (Linux User)
Re: Linux + Solaris + winME: triple boot ok? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
80GB Hard Drive (Steve)
Linux and NTFS ("Woody")
Re: XFree86, KDE & DPMS (C. L. Lewis)
Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ??? (Lodewijk Otto)
Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ??? (Thomas SMETS)
Re: Kppp stops communicating (David Efflandt)
Re: Newbie Question ("Philo")
Re: Linux and NTFS ("Peter Bates")
Infra-red setup - can U help pls ("Linux L driver")
Re: 80GB Hard Drive (Michel Poirier)
Puzzling problem with LILO hanging ("David W. Mikolaitis")
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Subject: *** F_U_C_K___C_H_R_I_S_T_M_A_S *** ................. SeZ7wq7g
Date: 10 Dec 2000 03:53:06 GMT
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From: "Veronica Morales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need to change .bashrc
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:16:07 -0500
You guys have been WAY helpful. I'll try these out tomorrow in the lab.
Thanks!
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Veronica Morales
Smith College
Veronica Morales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:90um1g$aur$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I ran into a Linux problem and was hoping someone could help. Im sure its
> something simple, but Linux tends to not be very intuitive.
>
> I had a bit of a problem with PVM and in the middle of trying various
> things, I added a path to my .bashrc file. Well, that was a big mistake.
> The .bashrc file belongs to the /root directory, hence when I log in as
> 'root', nothing works. I mean nothing, like "ls", "emacs", "vi", "cp".
How
> can I get to that file and edit it again to remove the problem causing
line?
> I can log on as a user but user dont have permission to alter any files in
> "root".
>
> I tried booting to a Linux "boot disk" and after several minutes of
loading,
> I got several error messages, one of which said "Kernel panic".
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> Any help, again, would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Veronica Morales
> Smith College
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Reply-To: "The Chief" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "The Chief" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: Space Left on HD!
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:51:36 GMT
Hi: Iam new to Linux I have the Mandrake 7.1 installed on 2nd HD
What is the Linux Command to see how much room I left!!
Thanx!
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From: "ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: router setup.
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:14:08 GMT
hello. i am looking for easy simple directions on how to set up a mandrake
or redhat system as a router for a @home service. please e-mail me @
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you know of a site which has this information.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Space Left on HD!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:14:20 GMT
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:51:36 GMT, The Chief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi: Iam new to Linux I have the Mandrake 7.1 installed on 2nd HD
>
>What is the Linux Command to see how much room I left!!
try man -k file | grep space
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Space Left on HD!
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 07:59:00 +0100
The Chief posited:
> Hi: Iam new to Linux I have the Mandrake 7.1 installed on 2nd HD
>
> What is the Linux Command to see how much room I left!!
>
> Thanx!
>
>
>
df
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86, KDE & DPMS
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 23:17:24 -0800
Hello,
Try adding this line to the "monitor" section of your XF86Config file:
Option "DPMS"
example:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "ViewSonic"
VendorName "ViewSonic"
ModelName "PS790"
HorizSync 30 - 95
VertRefresh 50 - 180
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Regards,
Jim H
C. L. Lewis wrote:
> Okay, one or some of you youngsters give an old man a hand here. I may
> be overlooking it, but so far in all the extensive documentation on
> XFree86 4.0.1(that's yet to be published) I'm either overlooking
> something or not reading it right. So far, with RH 6.1, Deb Potato, and
> now Mandrake 7.2, using both KDE 1.1.2 and KDE 2, each time I've
> upgraded to the new XF86, it's killed my DPMS in KDE. I've tried every
> conceivable combination of the xset command and switches to no avail.
> Both with the 2.xx series kernels and with 2.4.0-test series from about
> 5 to 11 also.
>
> I can do an (xset dpms force off) and shut the monitor down into green
> mode okay, but for the life of me, I can't get it to work automagically
> with enabling it through KDE.
>
> What am I not doing or doing wrong?
>
> Charles
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux + Solaris + winME: triple boot ok?
Date: 10 Dec 2000 07:06:26 GMT
Chris Spil [N3FWR] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm considering adding Solaris (intel version) to my existing Linux + winME
> system.. Would LILO accept it? Also, btw, what do you think of Solaris
> running on Intel x86 .. I ve heard it's really 'slow'...but I wouldnt be
> installing it for performance; rather be using it for sysadmin learning
> purposes, integration etc.. Good idea? thanks
I'm running Solaris 2.6 on a 166Mhz Pentium and it is just as
fast as Linux on the same machine. I found Solaris boring to
begin with, but as I customised (with GNU utils. etc) have grown
to like it.
I don't know if this is true for post 2.6 Solaris, but it uses
partition Id 82, same as Linux swap partitions. As I had a few
gig of space left over on the machine I installed Solaris on I
decided to install Bughat Linux. Being idiot friendly it didn't
prompt me it I wanted "swap partitions" formatted an prompted
nuked my Solaris partition.
Lilo should work without too much trouble.
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 04:15:37 -0500
From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 80GB Hard Drive
I am thinking of buying an 80GB Diamond Max Hard Drive. Can RedHat 7.0
handle this large of a drive? Is there anything I need to do to make it
work?
Thanks, Steve
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From: "Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux and NTFS
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:42:07 +0100
Can Linux read NTFS files on the same drive and or via Samba?
If so, how.
TIA
Mike
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From: C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86, KDE & DPMS
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:25:44 GMT
Hey, GeeeRdubbleE8. ;-)
Works like a charm. I'd been configuring X with the command line
xf86config and cross breeding it with excerpts from my XFree86 -config
generated file and somehow I was winding up with (Options "Power_Saver")
or something like that. Good to have it working again. My monitor is in
a tight place and generates a lot of heat and it's good to get it to
shut down when I do. ;-)
Appreciate it.
Charles
In article <36GY5.45$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Option "DPMS"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lodewijk Otto)
Date: 10 Dec 2000 09:31:18 GMT
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ???
On Friday December 08 2000 at 22:02 Thomas SMETS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well on slack 7.0,
> I got the following problem ...
> I've two 3COM cards modules 3c59x.o (I think)
> First card is fine (ping telnet http) but the second is
> on the same IRQ (9). The two cards put them selves on the IRQ 9 when
> I look in dmesg or in ifconfig -a.
>
> Do i have to turn PnP off ?
Yes, you do.
> If yes, how
At <http://www.3com.com> you can find all configuration programs. They can
run under DOS [at least, the one I needed about one year ago could]. You
can set the IRQ also with these/this program[s].
Sharing IRQ's is not a good idea under Linux, not good at all.
With lsdev you can see which IRQ's are free [allthough I see that the
parallel ports are given no IRQ's, strange enough].
Lodewijk
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From: Thomas SMETS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ???
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:26:58 GMT
Well the 3Com web site & Linux's HOW-TO seem to avoid speaking over the
problem
(as far as I've read up to now)
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux.htm
& Donald Beckers home site
http://www.scyld.com/linux_network_drivers.html
has not revealed to me anything like that (yet ?).
_Y isn't it a good IDEA to share interrupts under Linux ?_
What's lsdev doing & where can I find it ?
Tools I found :
I saw on Donald site a pci-config
(ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/pci-config.)
finally in my case (Vortex familly cards) there's a program available to
modify the default set up, available at the following
http://www.scyld.com/diag/3c5x9setup.html
Thomas,
Lodewijk Otto wrote:
>
> On Friday December 08 2000 at 22:02 Thomas SMETS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well on slack 7.0,
> > I got the following problem ...
> > I've two 3COM cards modules 3c59x.o (I think)
> > First card is fine (ping telnet http) but the second is
> > on the same IRQ (9). The two cards put them selves on the IRQ 9 when
> > I look in dmesg or in ifconfig -a.
> >
> > Do i have to turn PnP off ?
>
> Yes, you do.
>
> > If yes, how
>
> At <http://www.3com.com> you can find all configuration programs. They can
> run under DOS [at least, the one I needed about one year ago could]. You
> can set the IRQ also with these/this program[s].
>
> Sharing IRQ's is not a good idea under Linux, not good at all.
>
> With lsdev you can see which IRQ's are free [allthough I see that the
> parallel ports are given no IRQ's, strange enough].
>
> Lodewijk
>
> --
> mad cat @ breugel, nl [bbs +31-499-460548]
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~lpotto
> voor Nederlandse diabetes discussies mailing lijst
> e-mail aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Kppp stops communicating
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:52:36 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 21:28:07 GMT, Moonshiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have been researching this problem for a couple of days. It has to do
>with Kppp seeming to stop communications with other sites.
>
>I loaded Slack7.1 kernel 2.2.16. Started KDE as my manager. Got modem
>recognized. Started Kppp, setup DNS addresses, put isp name in, did
>rest of setup and connected on the first try. (A lot easier than 4
>years ago when my ISP hardly new what Linux was.)
>
>Everything seemed fine until I would try to go to another page in
>Browser(Netscape 4.x) then I would get the Contacted message followed by
>Waiting for reply....
>
>The window would seem to hang.
>
>I have added the following to /etc/ppp/options
>noauth
>noipdefault
>usepeerdns
>defaultroute
>
>When running I had the correct nameserver addresses in the
>/etc/ppp/resolv.conf. ( It looks like since I added the four commands
>above the Domain and search lines have been removed from resolv.conf.
>In fact there used to be lines that said things written by kppp, they
>are not there any more.)
Maybe the usepeerdns overrides something that Kppp does with resolv.conf.
>If I Stop Kppp and reconnect I can communicate fine for awhile.
>Then it happens again, so I stop Kppp and reconnect.
When it appears to hang, try pinging your nameservers or something on the
internet by IP. See if /sbin/ifconfig still shows ppp0 up and
'/sbin/route -n' still shows a route and defaultroute to the remote.
And see if /usr/sbin/traceroute can get anywhere (or loops somewhere).
Set up minicom to be able to connect to your modem dev without an init
string (or see 'man minicom' for an option to start without initializing
the modem). After you disconnect ppp connect to it with minicom and see
what modem diagnostics say about your last connection [ATV1 for Rockwell
chipsets or ATI11 (ati11) for Lucent chip].
My ISP was using equipment for awhile (Livingston, now Lucent Portmaster)
that would lock up my pre-V.90 (flashed to V.90) modem so tight that I had
to reboot in Win or Linux to get it going again. Although, that has never
been a problem with my external modem I got after final V.90 standards.
>Do I need to do something with "ipcp-accept-local" or
>"ipcp-accept-remote" commands?
I would think that Kppp would take care of that automatically depending on
what settings you have for your IP in it. The only options I have in
/etc/ppp/options in Mandrake are lock and noauth, but I do my own DNS and
RH based systems have a conf file and scripts for things like setting
usepeerdns.
>Is there something I missed in the Kppp setup routine?
>
>I have not run ppp-setup because it looked like Kppp took care of
>everything. Should I run ppp-setup?
I am not familiar with that, but it probably sets up a connection you can
start from the console. You might want to try that to see if it has the
same problem. You likely should set that up to allow pppd to accept
whatever IP your ISP sets for local and remote (even with my static IP, I
don't specify it, I let my ISP give it to me).
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 23:00:21 -0600
you can do everything from your linux install
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Philo
website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
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From: "Peter Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and NTFS
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:07:35 +0000
In article <90vicr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Woody"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can Linux read NTFS files on the same drive and or via Samba? If so,
> how. TIA Mike
>
Suse 6.4 using kernel 2.2.14 could read ntfs 4 and 5 not sure on Mandrake
as just come over and no longer run Windoze
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From: "Linux L driver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Infra-red setup - can U help pls
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:36:31 -0000
Can anyone give me the correct newsgroup if this is not the correct one
please.
I am trying to get my IR device working. I have set the kernel params and
rebuilt both the kernel and modules as per the HOW-TO's.
When I boot I get the following in my Mandrake 7.0 /var/log/messages:
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
pc87108_probe (), Wrong chip version ff so I need to use the
serial bit instead??
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999)
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11
1999)
Initializing RT netlink socket :::is this part if the IR
???
when I then do a cat /proc/devices I get:
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
36 netlink
60 irnine
But I can't get the IR to work. When I boot Win98 on this machine I can use
the IR port OK so I know it is functioning. I have tried the following to
get it to work:
irmanager -d 1 this gives the following in the /var/log/messages
irmanager: executing: 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery'
irmanager: executing: 'echo n7kyl > /proc/sys/net/irda/devname'
irmanager: + 1.1 Tue Nov 9 15:30:55 1999 Dag Brattli
irmanager: + 1.1 Tue Nov 9 15:30:55 1999 Dag Brattli
irattach: Serial connection established.
irattach: tcsetattr: Input/output error
1.1 Tue Nov 9 15:30:55 1999 Dag Brattli
WHAT have I done wrong, please??!!??
Ian Turnbull
0961 931941
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
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From: Michel Poirier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 80GB Hard Drive
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:19:25 GMT
It works like a charm... I personnaly have it on an IBM 72Mb EIDE drive.
Steve wrote:
> I am thinking of buying an 80GB Diamond Max Hard Drive. Can RedHat 7.0
> handle this large of a drive? Is there anything I need to do to make it
> work?
>
> Thanks, Steve
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From: "David W. Mikolaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Puzzling problem with LILO hanging
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:33:30 -0500
I have RH 7.0 installed on a 8 gig hard drive as master on the second
ide channel of a Promise UltraDMA 100 controller card (ide3). Booting
from floppy is sucessful, but booting off the hard drive fails. Here is
lilo.conf on the floppy:
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
root=/dev/hdg6
append="ide2=0x1400,0x10f6, ide3=0x10f8,0x10f2"
initrd=/initrd.img
The lilo.conf on the hard drive is:
boot=/dev/hdg2
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
root=/dev/hdg6
append="ide2=0x1400,0x10f6 ide3=0x10f8,0x10f2"
boot.b, map, etc are all in their default locations.
A primary FAT partition (where Boot Magic resides) on hde was detected
as a bootable DOS partition and automatically added to lilo.conf at
install, but I editted it out.
/sbin/lilo runs without error and writes the boot sector. Adding
"verbose" to the lilo.conf and running /sbin/lilo -v shows that the
proper lba translations are done. Adding lba32 to lilo.conf and writing
the boot sector doesn't solve the problem.
The following information may be of some use.
hdg is a 8 gig IBM Deskstar with 1027 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors.
It is on the second ide channel on a Promise ata/100 pci controller
(ide3). The hex addresses for the Promise card were found by going to
the console during the early stages of install and reading /proc/pci and
are correct as I can access the entire file system after booting from
floppy. All of /boot (23.5 MB) is well within the 1024 cylinder limit:
First physical sector of hdg2 (where /boot resides) is 63 (Cylinder 0,
Head 1, Sector 1)
Last physical sector of hdg2 is 48,194 (Cylinder 2, Head 254, Sector
63).
In case you want to know why this partition is hdg2 instead of hdg1 I
have the following information:
First physical sector of hdg1 (the extended partition) is 48,195
(Cylinder 3, Head 0, Sector 1)
Last physical sector of hdg1 is 48,194 (Cylinder 1026, Head 254, Sector
63).
The partition table acknowledges that the naming sequence of the
partitons is not in the order of the partitions on the disk. hdg1
contains (in this order) the following logical partitions: 258.5 MB
Linux Swap (hdg5), 2,000.2 MB ext2 (/ , hdg6), 2,000.2 MB ext2 (/usr,
hdg7), 1733.5 ext2 (/home, hdg8), and a 2,039.5 FAT16 (no mount point
set, hdg9). All the partitions were made with Partition Magic 6.0.
Lilo is written to hdg2 so as not to hose the MBR on hde which contains
a NT4.0 installation. hde is a 45 gig/ata100 IBM Deskstar. I've tried
both the usual techniques for using the NT boot loader by writing a copy
of the RH 7.0 boot sector to the C: partition of the NT installation and
editting NT's boot.ini file as well as using Boot Magic to try and boot
RH 7.0. Both hang at "LI".
I'm stumped. I don't mind reinstalling RH 7.0 as I haven't done any
customizations yet. Anyone have a clue for me?
Dave Mikolaitis
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