Linux-Setup Digest #432, Volume #20 Tue, 16 Jan 01 09:13:11 EST
Contents:
I can't resolve IP addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape slow (E J)
Re: Setting Serial Port in Mandrake 7.2 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: install linux on win98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
no such device for sound card (Fu)
Re: Mouse freezes when leaving KDE in redhat 7.0 (michael james obrien)
Why no real-support for ext2fs by DriveImage et al. ? (Frederic Faure)
Re: Why no real-support for ext2fs by DriveImage et al. ? ("Cameron Kerr")
Modules (not trivial quest) ("A.Bev")
Printing to a dcucenter 420st ( network printer ). (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem (Donald Becker)
Procmail ("Zayin Krige")
Redhat 6.0 Install on 18GB disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel 2.4.0 and PPP (Steve Martin)
Any good doc about TeX LaTeX ? (Bernard DEBREIL)
Problems mounting patitions (Ignasi Villagrasa)
Re: Any good doc about TeX LaTeX ? (Joerg Ettrich)
Can a vfat partition be exported by samba for RW? ("Trebor")
Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc? (Frederic Faure)
USB-Ethernet kaweth driver compile problem ("Nick de Graeve")
Re: Can a vfat partition be exported by samba for RW? - FOUND ("Trebor")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I can't resolve IP addresses
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:39:59 GMT
I can ping IP addresses OK, but cannot browse with Netscape. It's got
to be something simple, but I just can't sort it out.
The following files are:
resolv.conf
domain localhost
nameserver 192.189.54.17
nameserver 192.189.54.33
hostname
localhost.localdomain
hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
host.conf
order bind, hosts
I'm using Redhat 7 ona standalone machine
Thanks
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape slow
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:55:05 GMT
Just a guess, one or few processes are slowing your system down.
$ top # find out the vampires that are sucking the process.
In my experience I removed slocated and tripwire from the crontab and
execute those programs late at night.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I give up.
> Netscape takes forever (5 minutes) to show the
> first web page after I boot the machine,
> even if it it has an ip address on my local
> network for the webpage to display.
> This makes me think it is not a DNS problem and
> its on the same network (actually apache
> server on the same machine). After the first
> web page, all web pages are fast.
> Any clues??
>
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting Serial Port in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:55:24 GMT
John Scudder wrote:
> How do you reconfigure a serial port in Mandrake. I want to set ttyS3
> to address 0xC400 and IRQ 5. In SuSE 6.3 I manually edited the
> '/etc/rc.d/serial' file to those values. In Mandrake the
> '/etc/init.d/serial' file has no option for manual editing.
>
> John
setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xc400 irq 5 autoconfig
Note: this sets the software, it does not change the hardware.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: install linux on win98
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 06:13:05 GMT
again me..
PLEASE HELP
Pramod
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From: Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: no such device for sound card
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:48:56 -0500
kernel version: 2.4.0
distibution: red hat 6.2
i don't know if linux even thinks my card exists. i see my sb16 pci
listed as ensoniq in /proc/pci.
when i try to run sndconfig, it tells me that my 2.4.0 kernel doesn't
support sound modules. but i enabled the sound support in menuconfig.
when i try to add the module with insmod sb it gives me the no such
device error message. but the sb_lib and uart401 modules loaded
properly.
any and all suggestions are welcome. assume i've never heard of your
idea.
thank you.
--
know Jesus, know peace... no Jesus, no peace.
fu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (michael james obrien)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,thenet.support.linux
Subject: Re: Mouse freezes when leaving KDE in redhat 7.0
Date: 16 Jan 2001 08:01:18 GMT
This can happen sometimes if you have APM enabled in your BIOS. Try
disabling it in the BIOS.
The quick and dirty solution is to just hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart
the xserver each time the mouse goes dead (assuming you are using runlevel
5). I have to do this every once in a while when my wacom pad stops
responding after logging out of KDE.
-Michael
Meron Lavie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Problem with redhat 7.0:
: When I try to leave KDE (logout), and the re-login/logout dialog comes up,
: the mouse sometimes go dead (I must use keys to navigate through the dialog
: to leave).
: What am I doing wrong?
: --
: Meron Lavie
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Why no real-support for ext2fs by DriveImage et al. ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:51:27 GMT
Hi,
Out of curiosity, could someone explain to me why cloning software
like Powerquest DriveImage or Symantec Ghost do not officially support
cloning Linux partitions, and especially are unable to perform
so-called "smart sector copying" by only duplicating sectors that
actually contain data?
I did perform a disk to disk copy of Linux using DImage Pro 3.01, and
it failed around 80%.
FWI, DriveImage says: "Drive Image has limited support for UNIX
and NetWare partitions. Drive Image will copy these partitions
sector by sector, however, it will not resize the partitions.
In addition, internal disk location references are not
modified on the destination drive. This may result in
partitions that will need significant configuration to
boot or even access."
Thx
FF.
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why no real-support for ext2fs by DriveImage et al. ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:21:03 +1300
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Out of curiosity, could someone explain to me why cloning software like
> Powerquest DriveImage or Symantec Ghost do not officially support
> cloning Linux partitions, and especially are unable to perform so-called
> "smart sector copying" by only duplicating sectors that actually contain
> data?
This is particularly stange with PowerQuest, since their excellent
Partition Magic can handle ext2 beutifully (I did it just the other
night), I would suggest using this for copying partitions, too bad
PowerQuest don't merge the two tools, and include support for TCP/IP
(which neither Ghost (NetBIOS), or Drive Image (IPX?) do.
--Cameron Kerr
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From: "A.Bev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modules (not trivial quest)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:38:20 +0100
Hello people,
So I don't understand something with modules, i'd like to ask if you can
help me.
I'm configuring my Bttv card in order to watch TV. I'm working with
Mandrake 7.2
Here is the problem
I have already on my disk /dev/video which links to /dev/video0, and
also video1, video2, viedo3 (unlinked)
in modules.conf i have the following line
alias char-major-81 bttv
then i run depmod -a
but if i run xawtv for example (or kwintv) it says that it didn't find
any /dev/video device
(in fact modules do not load).
So i thought changing the modules.conf to :
alias char-major-81-0 bttv (major 81 minor 0 for /dev/video0)
after depmod -a
it works just fine.
In the other hand, there is this script on startup (rc.modules) wich
uses the /etc/modules file in which Mandrake has writen "bttv" and it
loads bttv on start-up. SO normally i thought it would work if i do the
same thing in modules.conf but apparently not.
I have check for all the different permissiond and it seems ok.
Thank you for your help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Printing to a dcucenter 420st ( network printer ).
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:43:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onsite I'm trying to setup several linux boxs to print to xerox
docucenter 420st network printer using ipp/cups with little success.
I've tried several things, none of which seems to work.
So several questions:
1) Since it is it's own network node ( sorry can't think of a better
phrase ), how do I specify the URI. I've tried both socket:// and
http://.
2) The name of the printer is "xerox 420st". I suspect much of the
problem is the space in the name, how do I handle that?
I expect something like http://"xerox 420st" but that doesn't work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Becker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:45:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James LaSalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can I assume the pre-compiled x86 uniprocessor RPM for Red Hat 7.0
>will also function under Red Hat 6.2?
No, it won't. The reason I don't make binary RPMs is that I would have
to make three or four for each distribution version. The driver binary
depends on the architecture, kernel version, kernel options, and SMP
support.
Red Hat 6.2 isn't a problem. It's a standard and reliable system, and
the driver update source RPM always works correctly.
Red Hat 7.0 turned out to be a huge problem.
Read
http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html#redhat7.0
I made the precompiled uniprocessor i386 RPM for 7.0 just to have a
simple answer to the constant email.
>On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:20:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald
>Becker) wrote:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>Stacy Slocum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I have just installed Redhat 7.0 and it will not recognize my Linksys
>>>Ethernet card. lspci -v shows that it is there but I can't get insmod
>>>to load tulip.
>>
>>You'll need the updated tulip driver from
>> http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
>>
>>There is a pre-compiled x86 uniprocessor RPM for Red Hat 7.0
>>rpm -i ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/netdriver-2.1-2.i386.rpm
>>
>>--
>>Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
>>410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations
>>Annapolis MD 21403
>
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Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations
Annapolis MD 21403
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From: "Zayin Krige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Procmail
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:44:55 +0200
I have a very simple /etc/procmailrc (see below)
When I locally send mail with more than one recipient in the "TO:" line, it
delivers the message X number of times to the first recipient in my
procmailrc file. (X is the number of recipients in the "TO:") line
how the heck do i get around this??
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/*-------------------------------------------
Zayin Krige
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.redpoint.co.za
Redpoint Solutions (Pty) Ltd
Custom Software Solutions
==========================================*/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat 6.0 Install on 18GB disk
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:01:45 GMT
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting redhat 6.0 to install on a Seagate
ST318436LC 18GB disk. (Intel LB440GX motherboard, with onboard adaptec
AIC-7896 scsi controller)
All that happens as I run through the install is that after the scsi
adapter driver is loaded (aic7xxx) I get scsi reset messages:
SCSI: aborting command due to timeout: pid 10, SCSI 0, Channel 0, ID 2,
lun 0, test unit ready 00 00 00 00 00
SCSI: host 0 abort(pid 10) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
If go through the motions of installing redhat 6.1, its the same, but
6.2 seems to work okay. I guess its something to do with the version of
scsi driver, but I'm unsure how to proceed. Is there a way of including
an updated driver somehow?
Unfortunately I need to run 6.0
Any advice would be great
thanks,
Graham
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0 and PPP
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:44:10 GMT
Gene Heskett wrote:
> For some totally unknown to me reason, I had to link my
> /etc/ppp/*-secret files to /etc/sysconf/network-scripts before I could
> make it work. I found that by setting up a seperate debugging log for
> the ppp daemon. Several have said I shouldn't have to, so YMMV.
Hmm... that one beats me. I didn't do anything like that, just used
the same PPP connection I had set up under RH62/2.2.17, and it
worked fine (once I made the aforementioned /dev/ppp). I have
existing secrets files under /etc/ppp, but they're simple files,
not links.
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From: Bernard DEBREIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Any good doc about TeX LaTeX ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:05:04 GMT
Thanks for any advice on web or paper documents about text processing
using LaTeX or/and TeX.
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From: Ignasi Villagrasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems mounting patitions
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:17:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to mount aditional partitions under RH6.2 and it seems to
work fine, but I'm no able to write on them.
What to do ?
What am I going wrong ?
Ignasi Villagrasa.
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From: Joerg Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Any good doc about TeX LaTeX ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:08:27 +0100
Try http://www.dante.de/ , a german TEX site with much of infomation, also
including documentations and stuff
Bernard DEBREIL schrieb:
>
> Thanks for any advice on web or paper documents about text processing
> using LaTeX or/and TeX.
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From: "Trebor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Can a vfat partition be exported by samba for RW?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:48:50 GMT
I have a DOS (vfat) partition mounted rw (I've confirmed that I can read and
write to the mount point). This same partition is a also samba share,
including the "writeable = Yes" option in smb.conf.
I can access the share from my W2K machine for read operations only. Writes
fail.
I follow the same samba configuration procedure for an ext2fs partition and
have no problem - I can write to the partition from W2K.
I suspect the issue may be that all files on my DOS vfat partition are owned
by owner root. I have not been able to change group ownership to the samba
group. Is there any way to change user or group ownership on files from a
DOS partition? What about file permissions as well? How do I make everything
be group-writeable if I can't run the chmod program either?
Thanks,
-Bob
Andover, MA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation?
Date: 16 Jan 2001 12:57:38 GMT
Donald Arseneau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake) writes:
[ > Is there a terminal emulator for X that accurately emulates the VT100
[ > application keypad, including the use of NumLock as the DEC "Gold"
[ > editing key?
Rogg, i don't know if this will help, see if the 'text mode console' can
give you your 'magic' key while in X. I am pasting directly from the
freshmeat.net writeup of twin:
"Each terminal window provides the functions of a text-mode Linux
console. Twin runs on the Linux console, X11, libggi, and itself. It
supports multiple simultaneous displays, and can attach/detach each
display on the fly."
HTH
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:19:22 GMT
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:27:14 +0100,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>When upgrading between patchlevels (e.g. from 2.2-9 to 2.2-12), it is
>normally safe to do while it is running (it worked fine on a server, I
>am running). Between major releases (upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2), there
>could be binary incompatiblities. In this case you would have to upgrade
>all dependent packages at the same time. So what versions did you
>upgrade from and to?
(Previous messages removed from my news client)
Following your advice, I tried to compile glibc 2.2, either from a
src.rpm or tar.gz. Both fail because there's sthing missing in that
brand-new RH 6.2:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/i386/elf
(snip)
checking for gsed... no
checking for sed... sed
checking version of sed... 3.02, ok
configure: error:
*** Some critical program is missing or too old.
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
=> I went through the configure script, but I can't figure out what is
either missing or not up-to-date, and no such thing as ./configure
--verbose.
Grrr..
FF.
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From: "Nick de Graeve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB-Ethernet kaweth driver compile problem
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:40:05 GMT
Hi
I've got an ADSTech USB Ethernet adapter (with a Kawasaki chip). From
http://drivers.rd.ilan.net/kaweth/ I got the driver (version 0.2.1).
Here the problems start. The precompiled driver (kaweth.o) is compiled
for kernel version 2.4.test-1 (I think) and when I try to compile it for
my version (2.2.17) I get errors and compilation fails.
Got any pointers?
Nick de Graeve
ICQ 71563611 (Rotwang)
"Try not! Do... Or do not.
There is no try!"
-- Master Yoda --
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From: "Trebor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Can a vfat partition be exported by samba for RW? - FOUND
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:57:32 GMT
OK, I found the answer to my own question (based on 'man mount'):
I had to change the options in /etc/fstab for the mounted DOS partition from
"defaults" to "rw,gid=501,umask=2" (where gid 501 is the group from which I
will be connecting via Samba). The 'gid=501' causes all files on the DOS
partition to be mounted with group ownership '501', and the 'umask=2' causes
the group file permissions to NOT be masked out (hence making the files and
directories group-writeable).
-Bob
"Trebor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:SqX86.52523$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a DOS (vfat) partition mounted rw (I've confirmed that I can read
and
> write to the mount point). This same partition is a also samba share,
> including the "writeable = Yes" option in smb.conf.
>
> I can access the share from my W2K machine for read operations only.
Writes
> fail.
>
> I follow the same samba configuration procedure for an ext2fs partition
and
> have no problem - I can write to the partition from W2K.
>
> I suspect the issue may be that all files on my DOS vfat partition are
owned
> by owner root. I have not been able to change group ownership to the samba
> group. Is there any way to change user or group ownership on files from a
> DOS partition? What about file permissions as well? How do I make
everything
> be group-writeable if I can't run the chmod program either?
>
> Thanks,
> -Bob
> Andover, MA
>
>
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