Linux-Setup Digest #223, Volume #20 Thu, 14 Dec 00 16:13:08 EST
Contents:
Killing a port ? ("Ed Bras")
Re: 64M instead of 128M with suze7.0 (Lutz Heermann)
Re: Is there a SuSe linux news group? ("Michael Perry")
Re: Kernel won't mount raid0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to setup a modem in Redhat? (Jorge L. Rivas)
Fixing a screwed up theme in Enlightenment. (Dennis McLaughlin)
Problem with samba printer in Mandrake 7.2 (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with samba printer in Mandrake 7.2 (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
GNU C++ Compiler (cuma)
GNU C++ Compiler (cuma)
Install redhat 6.2 whit 2.3.3 kernel ("Luke")
GNU C++ Compiler (cuma)
How to start gpm ?
Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot (Tom Szczesniak)
Paging feezes machine ANNOYING (James Knowles)
e-smith server and gateway ("Leonie")
e-smith server and gateway ("Leonie")
Problems with RedHat (root)
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Killing a port ?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:36:25 +0100
Hellu there,
I have an application that says that port 1099 is busy, but when I look with
netstat, it doesn't appear!!!
How can solve this ??
Regards,
Ed Bras
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From: Lutz Heermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 64M instead of 128M with suze7.0
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:54:42 +0100
Stef wrote:
> Hello,
> My suze 7.0 recognize only 64M instead of 128M. Why ?
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
I can't tell you why, but put a line like
append = "mem=128M"
into your lilo.conf to avoid this problem.
Lutz
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From: "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a SuSe linux news group?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:50:34 +0800
In article <wKQZ5.12084$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Szatmari"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed that there are several SuSe 7.0 -related inquieries here. I
> cannot find any SuSe users group anywhere. But that's hard to believe,
> SuSe being the RedHat of Germany. I'd love to see what SuSe users are
> complaining about before I purchase that distro. I really got burned
> with RedHat and Mandrake and they're supposed to be so wonderful.
>
> Peter
>
>
There is also a good mailing list you can subscribe to. This list has a
lot of posts to it everyday, and I always found it a great place to get
some help. I tend to use debian primarily now but still have a system
here that boots SuSE 7.0.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: Kernel won't mount raid0
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I boot Software Raid1 (mirroring) and it works well.
Support for this included setting the partition types as fd (Raid
Autodetect) with fdisk, Compiling ALL raid support in the kernel,
including boot support, and Following the instructions here:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html
It took me over 72 hours to figure stuff out, but I am comfortable
with it now. I will be going into production with bootable Raid 1.
It wasn't the setup that was difficult, it was recovering from
simulated failures that was time consuming.
I am still looking into ide, vm and raid patches as I am not sure
which is the most reliable kernel/patch configuration, but I know that
I haven't had any problems with 2.2.17-21.
I have found the simplest and quickest way to react to a single drive
failure in bootable Raid 1 is to do the following:
SWITCHING FROM RAID 1 TO NON-RAID
--Note, this procedure includes a dos-bootdisk with loadlin.exe and a
functional kernel that works with your hardware. It also assumes that
you are familiar with partitioning, and have knowledge of the linux
boot process. It also assumes use of the ext2 filesystem.
1) convert raid partitions to 83 with fdisk
2) remove /etc/raidtab
3) modify /etc/fstab to mount non-raid partitions
4) modify /etc/lilo.conf to non-raid bootable configuration and
execute lilo
5) reboot
If you cannot access your filesystems since your bootable raid device
is busy, or you are in maintenance mode and the filesystem is read
only, you can use the rescue option of the distro cd, or a
root-bootdisk to mount the filesystems. I do not recommend the use of
Tom's root-bootdisk to do any of this with because of the older
libraries and filesystem versions.
I realize that linux raid has hot add and hot remove features, but I
do not have hot swap hardware and I also have not been able to
overcome the issue of /dev/md0 being busy when trying to do a raidstop
or a partition table modification, so inevitably, a reboot is
necessary, IMO, with bootable raid 1.
My current configuration is Mandrake-7.2 with the Mandrake kernel
2.2.17-21.
Tyan Tiger 133 VIA Chipset
Dual PII-400 in SMP mode
640MB PC-133
(2) 3Com905c 10/100's
(1) Dec21040 Tulip
(2) Western Digial 20GB hard disks (ATA-33) Raid 1
(1) Adaptec 2940U
(2) Seagate Baracuda 4GB hard disks Raid 1 (Boot)
Nvidia TNT2 AGP v.95 driver
Voodoo II PCI
Sound Blaster 32 ISA w/IDE
48x Cd-Rom
Zip drive
My best suggestion is if you are going to play with Software Raid on
Linux, then backup all of your directories to a separate drive that
you can restore from. Ideally, be doing this with a test box and not a
production machine.
Best regards and many thanks to Michael Robinton for a well written
HOWTO.
Charles Wilkins MCNE MCP A+
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:33:06 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> In comp.os.linux.misc Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> > /dev/md0 raid0,16k,0,802eab69 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdc2
>>> > oo Kernel 2.2.18pre23 and Kernel 2.2.17pre6 (both tried), with the
>>> > necessary RAID options (raid0, boot) enabled. Not as modules of course.
>>> > image = /vmlinuz
>>> > label = Orlok_Kernel
>>> > root = /dev/md0
>>> > read-only
>>> > vga=4
>>> > append="md=0,0,16,0,/dev/hda3,/dev/hdc2"
>>>
>>> waaaaaaaaaaah. Raid mirror root. Bad bad bad. Can you really do this?
>
>> No! Good (tm) idea! ;) However, I never talked of mirror mode.
>
>Oh, raid0 isn't mirror? What is it then? Oh, I see, raid1 is simple
>mirroring and raid0 is striping. Sorry, I really only use linear mode
>in earnest, so I forgot.
>
>> There is support to boot linear and striped (raid0) arrays since
>> 2.2.x. I can really do this. Or, that is, I should really ought to be
>> able to be doing this ;).
>
>Yes, I know. However, very few people are doing so, and I doubt if
>anyone is doing so on a pre-release kernel. Go back and try it on some
>other kernels.
>
>>> > ---
>>> > EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group
>64 not
>>> > in group (block 3670038)!
>
>That block is very far upstream for a root device! Your root is at
>least 60MB in size. Well, I suppose that's OK.
>
>>> > EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
>>> > ---
>>>
>>> Yes, well, not surprised. Go find a kernel that is guaranteed to do
>>> raid mirror root,
>
>> As said above. All kernels >=2.2.0. There is only the uncertainty of
>> me being able to read or not.
>
>And whether or not it's been messed up in the pre-release you are
>looking at.
>
>>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
>>> CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=y
>>> CONFIG_MD_BOOT=y
>
>> I don't need MD_MIRRORING (raid0 only), although I actually have it in
>> the kernel. As for the rest, I have it all of course.
>
>> Imho, there must be some slight difference in creating the /dev/md0
>> device between doing it from userspace via raidtools, or directly in
>
>Well, did you say you chunked at 16? 1KB chunks would be normal if the
>device file system has 1KB blocksize.
>
>> the kernel via boot options. The second imho most likely thing is that
>> I give the wrong chunk size factor. Kernel's md.txt isn't really clear
>> about that.
>
>It shouldn't matter, provided your whole device size is a multiple, of
>course.
>
>Why are you striping root? I can't think of an advantage. Root is
>essentially only read once for daemons and libs and stays in memory
>thereafter, so you don't get a speed up. There would be an advantage
>(robustness) in having a mirrored root.
>
>Peter
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From: Jorge L. Rivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to setup a modem in Redhat?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:30:09 -0000
First of all read the "Linux Modem HOWTO" and your modem manual
For specify the IRQ, I/O Adress and UART you should use setserial.
For example if your modem is in /dev/ttyS2 you can find information using
setserial -v /dev/ttyS2
Information on using setserial can be found in the same HOWTO.
If you need more help just let me know.
Jorge
--
Bruce W.1 wrote:
>
> Uncle! I give up. Can someone please help me make my modem work?
>
> This is my first Linux install. My Diamond 2070 ISA modem is on the HCL
> so it should work. Before I attempt a PPP connection I need to get
> Redhat 7.0 to recognize the existence of the modem. So far as I can
> tell it doesn't know it exists.
>
> Can someone tell me how to set this up? Do I need to specify the IRQ,
> I/O address and all that? Are there tools included that handle this?
>
> Thanks.
--
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From: Dennis McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fixing a screwed up theme in Enlightenment.
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:32:01 -0500
Hi,
I'm pretty new to the Linux scene and I'm loving it. I got Slackware 7
(2.2.14) running with Gnome and Enlightenment v16.x.
I've been trying real hard to put in new themes into this thing without
much success. Now, I put a theme in there that screwed up everything for
the root user. :) When I get into Enlightenment, all I have is an X
mouse pointer and the Enlightenment 'titlebar' at the top. I left or
right-clicking doesn't do anything and I can't call up any programs.
Which config file should I modify to get this back to the Clean theme?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Problem with samba printer in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:08:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So let's see:
lpr-0.50-7mdki586.rpm
cups-1.1.4-3mdki586.rpm
cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdki586.rpm
samba-2.0.7-18mdki586.rpm
samba-client-18mdki586.rpm
samba-common-18mdki586.rpm
installed ( Mandrake 7.2 ).
I have a printer installed on another Linux box ( Mandrake 7.1 ).
The printer is accessible from an NT box ( but I have to do Find
Computer to see the computer, Network neighborhood can't find
the computer, only thing shared is printer ). I can't find it from
a Win98 box ( but I haven't tried hard, it's a junk/game box ).
LinNeighborhood sees the printer.
But print jobs don't get printed.
( BTW lpc doesn't support restart anymore ).
Any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:57:38 GMT
I was trying to run the setup program as the user... The docs seemed to
reccomend that the following be done:
1) soffice_binary.bin /net
2) /usr/local/office52/setup <-- as user to copy the needed 1-2 megs
over
3) ~username/office52/soffice <-- to start star office after step 2
This works properly if all 3 are done for root. As soon as #2 and #3
are done as a user, all I can get in the case of #3 is the same setup
program as #2 yeilds.... (ie, it wants to copy the files to my user
directory again).
I've tried /net and -net.... I'm choosing the default install and
sticking it in /usr/local/office52. The user specific files do get
copied into user (or root) directories, but only root can actually start
star office.
Hope that clarifies..... Symlinking /usr/local/bin/soffice -->
/usr/local/soffice/program/soffice doesn't really help.
Thanks for the help...... I swear I'd gotten this to work in whatever
the latest release was before Sun took over, but it's been awhile....
> If you install it as root using the /net switch and then try to run it
> as a user it still has to install the user files it doesn't do a
> complete install again.
>
> Once installed as root just make a symlink from
> "/usr/local/office52/soffice" to "/usr/bin/soffice" then as a user
just
> enter "soffice" at the command line.
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more work units than 98.897% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with samba printer in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I forgot. I've tried both the web version of the cups
configuration tool, and printtool, both don't fix things.
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:08:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L
Olczyk) wrote:
>So let's see:
>lpr-0.50-7mdki586.rpm
>cups-1.1.4-3mdki586.rpm
>cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdki586.rpm
>samba-2.0.7-18mdki586.rpm
>samba-client-18mdki586.rpm
>samba-common-18mdki586.rpm
>installed ( Mandrake 7.2 ).
>I have a printer installed on another Linux box ( Mandrake 7.1 ).
>The printer is accessible from an NT box ( but I have to do Find
>Computer to see the computer, Network neighborhood can't find
>the computer, only thing shared is printer ). I can't find it from
>a Win98 box ( but I haven't tried hard, it's a junk/game box ).
>LinNeighborhood sees the printer.
>But print jobs don't get printed.
>( BTW lpc doesn't support restart anymore ).
>Any ideas?
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From: cuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GNU C++ Compiler
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:28:44 +0100
Hi folks,
is the GNU C++ Compiler integrated
in the Red Hat 6.2 Release??
Don't think so.
1.Where can I get it?
2.Which components are to be downloaded?
3.How can I install them??
Thanx in advance
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From: cuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GNU C++ Compiler
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:28:44 +0100
Hi folks,
is the GNU C++ Compiler integrated
in the Red Hat 6.2 Release??
Don't think so.
1.Where can I get it?
2.Which components are to be downloaded?
3.How can I install them??
Thanx in advance
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From: "Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install redhat 6.2 whit 2.3.3 kernel
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:31:37 GMT
I have a PC whit ASUS P3BF motherboard and a UltraDMA66 13 GB hard-disk
connected to the board whit a UltraDMA PCI card. I'm not able to install
Linux
(Redhat 6.2). Linux couldn't recognize my Promise TechnologyUltraDMA card
and conseguently the hard-disk.
I've heard that kernel 2.3.3 supports this card. How can I get it and how
can I install Redhat 6.2 whit it?
Thanks in advance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: cuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GNU C++ Compiler
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:28:44 +0100
Hi folks,
is the GNU C++ Compiler integrated
in the Red Hat 6.2 Release??
Don't think so.
1.Where can I get it?
2.Which components are to be downloaded?
3.How can I install them??
Thanx in advance
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Subject: How to start gpm ?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:32:52 -0500
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is about a Synaptics TouchPad on a DELL I7500.
When I issue the command
ps ax | less
I see that gpm has been started by issuing the command
gpm -t ps/2
But I have a Synaptics TouchPad and want to start gpm
by issuing the command
gpm -t synps2
so I can set the TouchPad parameters in /usr/local/gpm-syn.conf
and control the features of the TouchPad.
How and Where is the "gpm -t ps/2" command issued? I have been
studying the Red Hat Reference Guide's "Boot Process", but have
yet to discover the secret. If you know how, please post the
answer. Thanks.
g.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Szczesniak)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:31:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you ever heard of DiskDrake or FIPS not recognizing a file
system? A third party program (Presizer) called it "Unrecognized file
system: 44h". My Win98 properties show it as fat32, any idea why I
can't repartition my existing windows partition? (I just received
Mandrake 7.2 and am trying to install it - it doesn't come with
Partition Magic or Boot Magic anymore).
Partion costs $60! Yikes!
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:28:11 +0100, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>You can always get a root/boot floppy combination, and mount a floppy
>which contains the parted tool.
>If you think you cannot handle it -Don't underestimate yourself- ,you
>can ofcourse buy PowerQuest's Partition Magic.
I don't have a clue how to do that. I've never use linux before.
Just once in class we used Caldera, which came with PM and BM to
resize. I don't know if PM will work if I have something wierd on my
system. Or is PM $60 because it'll do what all these others can't?
_______________________
Tom Szc....
at thomasz@jef(nospamminallowed)fnet.org
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Paging feezes machine ANNOYING
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:53:54 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have RedHat 7 with updates installed on an Athlon (ASUS K7V mobo) with an
annoying behaviour.
Everytime the machine pages it freezes until paging is done. This is *highly*
annoying and don't remember this happening on any of my other machines. This
machine has an IDE drive with DMA enabled. The other machines are SCSI and don't
seem to have this problem. Is it an IDE thing?
Paging doens't happen a lot as I have 320MB RAM in the machine, but it still
happens when I'm pushing it hard.
--
A leader...is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He
maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to
a mob.
- Stilgar ("Dune")
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From: "Leonie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: e-smith server and gateway
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:57:02 +1100
Wondering if anyone can help me.
I am trying to install e-smith server and gateway v4, which is based on
RedHat v6.1. It's supposed to set up a network server automatically.
I have installed it on an AMD Duron 600 machine with no worries, but I
really want to put it on an old 100MHz machine and adminster it through the
Duron machine.
I looked for the system requirements on redhat and e-smith's websites and
had no luck. During the installation on the 486 it says "received siganl 7"
and terminates.
Any suggestions?
Leonie
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From: "Leonie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: e-smith server and gateway
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:59:42 +1100
Wondering if anyone can help me.
I am trying to install e-smith server and gateway v4, which is based on
RedHat v6.1. It's supposed to set up a network server automatically.
I have installed it on an AMD Duron 600 machine with no worries, but I
really want to put it on an old 100MHz machine and adminster it through the
Duron machine.
I looked for the system requirements on redhat and e-smith's websites and
had no luck. During the installation on the 486 it says "received siganl 7"
and terminates.
Any suggestions?
Leonie
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with RedHat
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:03:20 -0500
I recently installed Red Hat Linux, and am having some problems with
networking. I can't connect to any of the xinetd services from another
computer, I always get the error "No Socket". Also, how do you disable
the shutdown option in Gnome? Thirdly, xdm always tries to run Gnome,
despite adding a custom .xinitrc file to a user's home directory. Is
there some way to change this? It is Red Hat 7.
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