Linux-Setup Digest #422, Volume #20 Sun, 14 Jan 01 20:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: 2.4 kernel messages (Steve Martin)
Re: Setup Question: I want to know the best way to setup an SMTP spooler for
Exchange ("Rich Matheisen [MVP]")
Re: Write permissions (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: I tried 2.4.0 -> Re: Compiling Kernels on RH 7.0? (Steve Martin)
Re: Write permissions (Rajiv Srinivasa)
Re: 2.4 kernel messages (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: When I boot RH 7 only 'L' on boot (E J)
kickstart etc. (Tom Peters)
Re: Write permissions (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
PPP problem (Mike Schwartz)
unsupported command in que LM 7.2 (Don Hinds)
Re: PPP,Netscape,Red Hat 6.1 (John Todd)
moving subdirs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Red Hat 6 video problem ("Shanti Miller")
no joysticks in kernel 2.4.0 (ken pile)
Sound Blaster Live on Redhat 7 (John MacDonald)
Re: When I boot RH 7 only 'L' on boot ("Brian Morrison")
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4 kernel messages
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:10:23 GMT
"Christopher C. Stump" wrote:
> I recently installed the 2.4 kernel on my Red Hat 6.2 machine. The
> kernel seems to boot fine, but there are a few bugs I need to work out.
Yep, same scenario here. Best advice I can give is to read
Documentation/Changes
in the kernel source. There are some pieces of software you have to
update
for 2.4 to work, including modutils. Your 2.4 kernel will never find its
modules using the modutils that came with RH6.2 (same thing happened
here).
Hope this helps.
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From: "Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup Question: I want to know the best way to setup an SMTP spooler for
Exchange
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:10:08 -0500
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,microsoft.public.exchange.admin,microsoft.public.exchange.applications,microsoft.public.exchange.misc,microsoft.public.exchange.setup
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sorry about the large cross-posting, but I didn't want to miss getting my
>questions out to any helpful souls out there. My boss tossed out a copy of
>linux to me and asked me to make a secondary mail spooler for our
>NT/Exchange 5.5 environment (for free, of course - I can't spend no $$$$).
>Something that will accept SMTP mail (IF our primary SMTP mail server is
>down) , and just spool it to our bridgehead server. And if it cannot send
>it over, it will keep retrying until it can send the queue on over.
That's what every SMPT server will do. Unless you have some reason to
believe the Exchange server will be down for days there's probably no
reason to have a secondary MX.
>Questions:
>
>1) What product running under Redhat Linux would be good for this?
Sendmail.
>2) Do you know of any how-to docs available for the product that you
>recommend?
Get the "Bat Book" from O'Reilly & Associates. The first couple of
sections will probably be all you need to read to get things working.
==================
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write permissions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:13:58 +0100
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Rajiv wrote:
> Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Rajiv wrote:
> >
> > > When I log onto my SuSE 7.0 box as user, I have read but not write
> > > ("access denied") permissions on the other mounted partitions. The only
> > > write permissions I have are my user and /tmp directories. However, when
> >
> > What partition types is it? msdos or vfat? ext2?
>
> It doesn't matter what type (vfat/ext2) - I do not have write permission other
> than /home/'user' and /tmp directories.
Who owns the files/directories? What does your /etc/fstab look like
(what mount options do you use)?
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I tried 2.4.0 -> Re: Compiling Kernels on RH 7.0?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:20:48 GMT
Steve Withers wrote:
> > > Anyway.....when I booted it, it came up fine except it is clearly
> > > missing some files it expects to find in the
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.0/dependencies directory.....which doesn't exist. I
> > > have the 2.2.16-22 modules directory.......so either the kernel has the
> > > wrong name, or I have to go find whatever it is that is supposed to be
> > > in that directory....
> >
> > You did do a 'make modules_install'? Or do you use modules at all?
> >
> > Rasmus B�g Hansen
>
> Ah......No.
>
> I am using the kernel install/compile docs pointed to by RedHat and there is
> NO mention made of this. But given what happened, it seemed pretty ovbious to
> me that there was a step missing that I neede to know about. :-)
The normal sequence is: make the kernel, then "make modules", then
"make modules_install", then boot the new kernel (making sure you
have the old one stashed so you can boot it if something went
wrong ;). "make modules_install" creates the directory
/lib/modules/2.4.0/ and copies the modules into that directory.
Normally, the system performs a "depmod -a" on reboot to create
the modules.dep file in the modules directory.
By the way, you have to upgrade your modutils to at least 2.4.0
for use with the 2.4 kernel, or your new kernel won't be able to
find your modules. See Documentation/Changes in the kernel source
tree for details.
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From: Rajiv Srinivasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write permissions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:19:05 +0000
Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Rajiv wrote:
>
> > Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Rajiv wrote:
> > >
> > > > When I log onto my SuSE 7.0 box as user, I have read but not write
> > > > ("access denied") permissions on the other mounted partitions. The only
> > > > write permissions I have are my user and /tmp directories. However, when
> > >
> > > What partition types is it? msdos or vfat? ext2?
> >
> > It doesn't matter what type (vfat/ext2) - I do not have write permission other
> > than /home/'user' and /tmp directories.
>
> Who owns the files/directories? What does your /etc/fstab look like
> (what mount options do you use)?
The directories are owned by root.
My mount options are: rw,auto,exec,user
>
>
> Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4 kernel messages
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:22:47 +0100
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Christopher C. Stump wrote:
> However, I am still getting the following error messages in /var/log/messages:
>
> Jan 13 18:49:09 Taltos sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag' is an unknown
> key
> Jan 13 18:49:09 Taltos sysctl: error: 'kernel.sysrq' is an unknown key
>
> The top reply to my original post says not to copile sysrq support in the
> kernel. That option is under the xconfig "Kernel hacking" menu. I never had
> this selected in my configuration. Is it safe to assume that 'sysctl' is looking
> for this 'key' and can't find it because it isn't compiled in the kernel?
> Therefore, I don't need to worry about it? Or am I missing some sort of kernel
> configuration? I have no idea what the 'defrag' error is...
SysRQ is for making some rescue work on a crashed machine. If you do not
know what it is, you probably do not want it. And in that case, the
error is harmless (it is anyway).
The defrag is about some networking. No need to worry about that either.
> Jan 13 18:49:42 Taltos kernel: No module symbols loaded.
Did you configure modules?
> Another reply to one of my posts said not to worry about this error...should I go
> with this idea?
>
>
> Jan 13 18:49:10 Taltos modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module nls_iso8859-1
> Jan 13 18:49:10 Taltos modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module nls_iso8859-1
>
> Again, another reply said not to worry about this 'nls' (native language support)
> error...any comments?
nls is used by some filesystems (vfat, msdos, iso9660) to translate
character sets from the filesystems format to the kernel format. You
could compile the relevant ones.
> Jan 13 18:49:45 Taltos modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14
>
> I was informed that char-major-14 relates to sound. I don't have sound drivers
> compiled into my kernel because I use OSS drivers. Can safely I ignore this?
It tries to load the modules for your soundcard, but cannot find them in
the default way. You could put 'alias char-major-14 off' in
/etc/modules.conf; but this would disable sound, which is probably not
what you want. Or you could pu 'alias char-major-14 <your sound module
here>' in /etc/modules.conf.
> Once again, any insight into these error would be helpful...
>
> Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When I boot RH 7 only 'L' on boot
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:27:20 GMT
Does it boot up properly using the linux boot floppy created during the lilo
process?
Brian Donaldson wrote:
> Computer is a 600 MHZ, 18GB, 133MB ram. When I installed with custom it
> don't boot up only showed 'L'. How should I install my system so it boot
> correctly. I have been to RH web page and tried what it suggested but no
> luck.
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From: Tom Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kickstart etc.
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:52:41 +0100
Red Hat offers the opportunity to quickly install their distribution
with the CD, and a boot floppy that contains a file (ks.cfg) with list
of pre-selected packages to install, in addition to some other install
specifics. I could find no information, except what is in the Install
Manual (in print and on their website), and that leaves many questions
unanswered:
1) You are supposed to create a ks.cfg on your current configured system
(that works), and put that on a boot floppy, which is mentioned to be in
MS-DOS format. Now the boot floppy you get during the installation is a
kernel and some files on an ext2fs, which tries to mount the root
partition on your hard disk. Using the command "mkbootdsk" (or
whatever) generates a very similar floppy. Of course neither of these
kickstart an installation.
I now assume that I need to extract an installation boot floppy image
from the installation CD, which happens to be MS-DOS, put ks.cfg on it,
and use that.
- Is that the proper procedure? (If so, RH really messes up with having
two very different kind of boot floppies and not be specific which one
they are talking about).
2) So what is that kickstart mechanism anyway? You have to trigger it
as a kernel option. Alan Cox wrote it about 2 years ago.
- Is it a standard Linux kernel feature,
- or is it specific for the Red Hat Linux installation kernels?
- If RH-specific, how can you build your own kernel with KS support?
3) Mandrake apparently uses a different mechanism: the ks.cfg file is
empty, and they have some other script, which actually seems to use more
data, matched to their install program.
- How does their clone-installation mechanism work?
Thanx for any information,
--
#>!$!%(@^%#%*(&(#@#*$^@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)^@*^@)
Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters
NL-1062 KD nr 149 tel. +31-204080204
Amsterdam e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write permissions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:59:54 +0100
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Rajiv Srinivasa wrote:
> > > > > When I log onto my SuSE 7.0 box as user, I have read but not write
> > > > > ("access denied") permissions on the other mounted partitions. The only
> > > > > write permissions I have are my user and /tmp directories. However, when
> > > >
> > > > What partition types is it? msdos or vfat? ext2?
> > >
> > > It doesn't matter what type (vfat/ext2) - I do not have write permission other
> > > than /home/'user' and /tmp directories.
> >
> > Who owns the files/directories? What does your /etc/fstab look like
> > (what mount options do you use)?
>
> The directories are owned by root.
> My mount options are: rw,auto,exec,user
Hmm.. What filesystem do you use? What does an ls -l show in a dir with
unwritable files? Could the disk be marked as 'read-only'?
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: Mike Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: PPP problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:02:07 -0800
hi,
I have not been able to get ppp (as a client) working on my RedHat 7
system. I
went through the ppp HOWTO, I used /bin/setserial to set the IRQ and
port settings for /dev/ttyS1 to correspond with the settings I use for
my modem under Win98, and then I used the following pppd/chat command to
try to start up ppp:
pppd connect 'chat -v ATDT5551212 CONNECT "" ogin: MYLOGIN word:
MYPSWD' defaultroute noipdefault /dev/ttyS1 56000 debug kdebug 1
(but replacing with the actual phone #, login, and password)
I see the following in /var/log/messages:
Jan 14 12:12:14 ibm pppd[1419]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jan 14 12:12:15 ibm chat[1420]: Can't get terminal parameters:
Input/output error
Jan 14 12:12:15 ibm pppd[1419]: Connect script failed
Jan 14 12:12:16 ibm pppd[1419]: Exit.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong/how to fix it?
Please email me at the address below (remembering to replace the "-at-"
spamguard below with "@"), as I don't read news regularly.
Thanks
- Mike Schwartz
schwartz-at-CodeOnTheRoad.com
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Subject: unsupported command in que LM 7.2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:11:01 GMT
Mandrake 7.2, iit inmstalled fine.
When I boot it shows ATAPI 4x4x24 R/RW CDROM. I can only mount the
cdrom with supermount enabled. When I 'cd /mnt/cdrom' I get an
unsupported command in que error and 3 more lines of errors. When
supermount is diabled I get the same error when I 'mount /mnt/cdrom'.
Don
--
Don Hinds
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: PPP,Netscape,Red Hat 6.1
Date: 14 Jan 2001 21:51:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you're using KDE and PPP, why log in manually?
It looks like you are not starting ppp at your end.
Instead, go to Internet on the Kde menu tree and
start kppp; you can enter your settings and you're away.
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:52:48 GMT, Dennis Fenton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've just setup RH 6.1 and I'm using KDE. I have a shell account at my
>ISP. I can get connected and logon. PPP is choice 1 on their menu which
>I select manually in a terminal window. After doing so a stream of
>gibberish scrolls by on the screen. I'm used to hitting F7 at this point
>(in Windows 98) to continue. This has no effect in my Linux installation
>and Netscape starts but won't pick up the connection. The connection
>then times out. Can anyone please suggest a solution? Thanks.
>
>Dennis Fenton
>
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: moving subdirs
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:02:00 GMT
Greetings!
I know this has been discussed before and must be something of a
FAQ. It would suffice simply to send me to the relevant HOW-TO.
I am planning to rearrange my linux setup to something a bit more
rational. I'd like to put some subdirs like /usr and /home on
another partition. I'm not sure what needs to be done to retain
path sanity.
I'll take a look at deja.com but I thought someone might have a
quick (and useful) response here (or a ready reference).
Thanks!
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: "Shanti Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 6 video problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:20:28 -0800
I have a compaq with onboard video and a PCI voodoo3. In Windows, all I
have to do to use my voodoo is disable the display adapter for the onboard
video. Is there a way to do this in linux. When I try to set up X using
XConfigurator or XF86Setup, It doesn't work. I tried to use SuperProbe and
all it found was my onboard SIS display adapter. When I try to start X, I
get the Gnome screen briefly then a blank screen with a mouse pointer. It
doesn't do anything for a while then exits X and gives me a bunch of error
messages. Any help would be great. Other than X, everything else is setup
and works fine.
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From: ken pile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux
Subject: no joysticks in kernel 2.4.0
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:25:47 +0000
I have downloaded kernel 2.4.0 for one reason, for the joystick support
on the soundblaster live! soundcard. However, when I came to select the
joystick in xconfig, they were all blanked out. Can anyone guide me on
this please?
Thanks in advance,
Ken Pile
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From: John MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster Live on Redhat 7
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:21:55 GMT
I have tried several times to configure my Soundblaster Live card on
RedHat 7 with a PIII 600 on a ASUS CUV4X board.
When I run the sound configuration both in Gnome and in a shell I get
the same problem.
It says I have a VIA Technologies VT 82C 686
Apallo Super AC/Audio
If I try to test the configuration the systems locks up solid.
I have to pres the reset button to get anywhere.
Ifr I try to load Linux again it locks up trying to load the sound
modual. The reset button is need again.
Anyone have any ideas how to fix this and how about a way to get linux
running without loading the sound modual.
Thanks John
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From: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When I boot RH 7 only 'L' on boot
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:42:34 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:00:03 -0800, Brian Donaldson wrote:
>Computer is a 600 MHZ, 18GB, 133MB ram. When I installed with custom it
>don't boot up only showed 'L'. How should I install my system so it boot
>correctly. I have been to RH web page and tried what it suggested but no
>luck.
When this happened to me it was due to having my hard disk set to ATA66
when the stock 2.2 kernels support only ATA33 and below.
Try forcing UDMA mode 2 in the BIOS, if you have this setting.
--
Brian Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to reply, change address from 'news' to 'bdm'
...Grim faced, cold as fishwife's fingers, he snatched from the wall
the sickle-sharp boar tusks he used for defacing Readers' Digest....
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