Linux-Setup Digest #443, Volume #20 Thu, 18 Jan 01 00:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: ls command and .dir_colours (Linux User)
Re: scsi emulation problem... (BIANCO ROBERTO)
Re: RH6.2 install from FTP (ozetechnology)
Re: Install tracking? ("Vigil")
RH7 routing problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setup Question: I want to know the best way to setup an SMTP spooler for
Exchange ("Rich Matheisen [MVP]")
XF86Config problems (Aaron)
Re: samba ("Dave Fitches")
Re: xhost problem (Michael Heiming)
Kernel 2.4 Compiling under RH7 (Fulton B. Gonzalez)
Re: process monitor script (Marek)
Re: valid installation partition? (Murray Eisenberg)
Configuring RH6.1 to use Cyrillic/Russian fonts (Thomas Hedden)
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ls command and .dir_colours
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:10:35 -0800
Hello,
Add this to your .bashrc file in your home directory:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
logout, log back in for the change to take effect. If you want to this work
for all users you can add it too /etc/bashrc.
Cheers,
Jim H
James wrote:
> Hi,
> I remember reading somewhere that you can set up the "ls" command to
> always use the "--colour" option by default but I can't remember how to do
> it.
> I tried putting the .dir_colours file in my home /root directory but
> that didn't work, and niether did giving the "ls --color=always" command.
> Does anyone know what I have to do, I seem to remember it involving
> editing a config file for bash or something like that.
> Thanks for your help.
> JL
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BIANCO ROBERTO)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: scsi emulation problem...
Date: 17 Jan 2001 23:15:47 GMT
check out
www.guug.de:8080/cgi-bin/winni/lsc-orig.pl
to find out what hardware goes with which version of cdrecord and with
which version of the kernel.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ben Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to set up scsi emulation on my dell inspiron 5000e with a
>SONY CD-RW CRX700E. I have compiled in emulation support, scsi support,
>and scsi generic support. I am running redhat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.18.
>In my lilo.conf I tell linux to ignore my cdrom as an ide device:
>append="hdc=ide-scsi". I have moved the cdrom link from /dev/hdc to
>/dev/scd0. When I run cdrecord -scanbus I get,
>
>{root@taiga}->cdrecord -scanbus
>Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
>Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
>scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX700E ' '1.4h' Removable
>CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) *
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
>
>which seems fine. However, I am unable to mount the cdrom drive. When
>I try I get,
>
>{root@taiga}->mount /cdrom
>mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
>
>Am I missing a module? Or have I forgotten something. By the way, the
>cdrom works fine if I treat it as an ide drive.
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From: ozetechnology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 install from FTP
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:18:49 GMT
Would like to use NFS install for this one, but the owner of the system I am
using for the source will not let me configure NFS.
All this is in the aim of getting Linux onto a laptop that has no CD and only
a USB floppy.
Thanks for the help.
--
site: http://www.ozetechnology.com
+++ New Images in the gallery +++
In article <BTg96.3092$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"mattd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've done it loads of times... haven't encountered any problems as of yet.
> have you considered an NFS install?
>
> Matt
>
> "ozetechnology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:94415c$lqp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Has anyone used this?
> > Is there anything I need to look out for?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > site: http://www.ozetechnology.com
> > +++ New Images in the gallery +++
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
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>
>
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From: "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install tracking?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:00:52 +0000
Go to freshmeat.net and search for 'checkinstall'.
"JIm Linch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
> This is an obvious "newbie question" , but is there a way to know what
> directories and files are changed when running software "install" files?
>
> A log file of some kind being generated? or a system file image table that can
> be snapshot berfore and then after a new program install?
>
> Basically I want to be sure I am not leaving "ORPHANS" behind when removing
> trial software.
--
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH7 routing problem
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:42:19 GMT
Hello folks,
I'm having a nightmare of a time geting routing to work right on my
RH7 box. Here's the story: I have a single 3c509-TP0 PnP cart (eth0)
that, after some careful config'ing, seems to load up fine. I added
routes for the eth0 interface, as well as the default gateway (see
below). I can ping my card, but when i try to ping outside, I get
the "network unreachable" error. The funny thing is, I can see my LAN
light on my DSL modem blinks (it lit solid in windows) with each
packet. Please note, this is not the DATA light, so it seems that the
packet make it to the modem but can't find anywhere to go after
that?!? Below is some of my data config, any help would be greatly
appreciated!
dmesg | tail:
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 28M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af cf 86 2e,
IRQ 10.
3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
hdc: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 768kB Cache
ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:CF:86:2E
inet addr:XXX.YY.91.212 Bcast:XXX.YY.95.255
Mask:255.255.248.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
XXX.YY.88.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
default XXX.YY.88.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0
eth0
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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: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:07:59 -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
"John Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No problem. The diversity of solutions is what makes newsgroups invaluable.
>A solution for a small company like ours may not work for a larger company.
>Here's why this solution worked for us.
>
>If the T1 goes down, sometimes it could take hours to a day to bring it back
>up, depending on the cause. We are not staffed 24/7, so an outage over the
>weekend spells trouble for us.
"Normal" priority SMTP messages don't usually time out in that short a
period of time. "Urgent" messages might, but if they're urgent, why
would the originator want them to sit on a secondary MX until you get
around to getting your server back on line.
>If we reported it Mon am, it is possible that our mailserver has been
>unavailable for several days (Fri eve- Mon afternoon, assuming a quick fix
>to the T1 problem). A second server wouldn't help in this situation.
I think I'd be looking for another provider if that happened more than
once. Of course, if e-mail is that important, a second connection from
another provider would fix the problem and give you nice warm feeling
of redundancy.
>Our AV solution wouldn't have helped with the luv virus. It took several
>hours for Symantec to release a definition, and a good portion of our
>customer base (gov't) was spewing propagation messages wildly.
We all suffer from these problems, occasionally. Stopping the MTA
would have prevented any outbound leakage. Inbound mail could have
waited a few hours on the originator's servers until you had the new
signatures.
>Our ISP is very helpful and provides a number of addon services to
>compliment our own. They are happy to do it, and less overhead for us. For
>example, we host our website with the ISP instead of internally. No DMZ
>issues, no outage headaches, and most importantly, reduced cost.
HTTP and SMTP are pretty different. Letting someone else host your web
site is usually not a bad idea since they've already spent the money
to harden (you hope) their servers.
>The cost of
>a high bandwidth connection to support a website and all your corporate
>traffic vs the cost of having a high bandwidth ISP host your site, and not
>worrying about the Sat am calls because the mission critical website is down
>is heavily weighted towards using the service of the ISP.
Mission critical and outsourced don't usually go well together.
>I started and operated an ISP years ago. I sold it when the market was hot.
>The early am and weekend troubleshooting gets old really fast :-)
I spend over 20 years in tech support. Tell me about it.
>Bounced email happens. It depends upon the resend settings on the sending
>server, and the weekend scenario I mentioned could definitely exceed the
>typical 48hr threshold.
>
>You are correct in saying that unanswered emails can cause a similar poor
>impression. It's sort of like calling a business' telephone number and not
>getting an answer. That's bad. But it's worse to call and hear, "...number's
>been disconnected..." Lesser of two evils, I guess.
But your server being offline would be the equivilent of "all our
circuits are busy", not a disconnected number. :)
>People like you with lots of knowledge and probably lots of resources can
>setup redundant solutions and creative configurations, and that's great.
Well, it's the company with the resources, not me. :)
>It
>probably works better. But I get the impression from reading many of the
>postings that there are a lot of people here who don't have you degree of
>knowledge and are looking for easy, cheap solutions.
If you find that combination, let me know. Most are hard and
expensive.
>Call your ISP and in
>about 5 minutes you're finished. They'll most likely have it up within a
>day. Doesn't get much easier :-)
I guess you haven't been reading all the problems /caused/ by ISP's,
then? I'll quote someone else: "All ISP's suck. Some just suck less
than others."
>Our ISP charges $25/month for the backup MX. In my book that's a nobrainer.
>Saves cost of server, hassle of outages, etc, etc.
Most folks here can't even find an ISP that'll handle SMTP at all!
>Basically, if you've got the extra server and resources, build a better
>solution. Else, some of us operating on a tight budget are looking for
>inexpensive and simple solutions.
An even cheaper solution is to find another company (or whatever)
that's willing to provide that service to you if you'll provide it to
them.
>BTW, I look forward to reading ALL solutions and suggestions for issues,
>even though it may not fit my situation. Keep the alternatives coming!
Always.
==================
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
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From: Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XF86Config problems
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:30:06 -0000
I have Debian 2.2 installed on a Sun SparcStation10. after doing a clean
install, I tried to run my Xserver. well, it sorta started it up, but it
was just a white screen. I check the XF86Config file, and it was blank. I
tried running the CF86Config app, but it doesn't seem to be installed so I
tried manually configuring it with the example file that they include. no
luck. so I'm stuck unless I try to uninstall and manually reinstalling
without going through apt-get. can anyone give any advice or tell me what
to do? please respond because I have no computer right now except this one
(don't ask) and its driving me nuts having to use lynx all the time. cause
I can't check hotmail with it and I can't log onto ICQ or AIM without
XWindows. feel free to email me if you want.
--
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From: "Dave Fitches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:32:54 +1100
Reply-To: "Dave Fitches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
best advice I can give you is to get SWAT up and running and go through the
options in the config and read the help text for each as you go. It really
DOES help alot!!
To get SWAT working you need to edit the /etc/xinitd.d/swat file and enable
SWAT... I had to reboot to get xinitd to recognise the change. There is
probably a much easier way of refreshing xinitd, but i'm still a relative
newbie and while I know how to do alot of hard things, some of the easy
things sometimes escape me...
Then http://host.domain:901 to your linux box using your web browser, either
over your LAN or locally from within Gnome or KDE and you SHOULD have SWAT
access - you'll need to log into SWAT using your root account/password. Once
you've done that, READ the offered documentation, go through the options one
at a time and READ the help text for each option. SWAT and the other editing
about MUST be done using the root account (until you reconfigure SWAT to
allow access from other accounts I guess...)
Happy Samba-ing!
= Dave =
"jahu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:944lhj$1hc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anybody know how to configure, starting from scratch, SAMBA daemon
> (started with xinetd) so that:
> a cathalog /VAR/SAMBA was accessible for reading and writting,
> and for users 1 and 2 without the necessity of providing the password.
> (so the others would need to provide the password)
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:39:23 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xhost problem
magnus eriksson wrote:
> Hi
> I have a problem i want to run applications on a server (running digital
> unix os) and display it on my linux machine.(running Redhat 7.0)
> therefore i use xhost + command to allow the server to display on my
> computer.
> when a i then log into the digital server with telnet the keyboard
> configuration changes, for example the "enter" key becomes e and all other
> keys are different then before.
> if i turn down the terminalwindow and open up another the problem is still
> there.
> The only thing i can do is to restart the Xserver to make the problem
> disappear.
>
> If i have xhost set to - and login to the system with telnet and then opens
> up a new terminal window and there do the xhost + command it works, so i
> have to be logged in to the system before i do the xhost command.
> I want it to work withot doing this way.
>
> I have another machine running best linux2000 and then it works.
>
> Has anyone seen the same problem, Does anyone know how i can solve this
> problem.?
> I would really like to know what the problem can be.
>
> Grateful for all answers / Magnus
Hello,
I only had problems like that with the wrong TERM, what says:
env | grep KEY
and
env | grep TERM
maybe the differ local/remote, then export them or set them system wide and
permanent in /etc/profile.
Hope this helps
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fulton B. Gonzalez)
Subject: Kernel 2.4 Compiling under RH7
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:01:00 GMT
I'm having a whale of a time trying to compile kernel
2.4 properly on a Red Hat 7 system. I've installed the latest
version of modutils (2.4.1). Everything proceeds well
until I do a make modules_install, upon which I get the error
message below:
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
make -C arch/i386/math-emu modules_install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/math-emu'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/math-emu'
cd /lib/modules/2.4.0; \
mkdir -p pcmcia; \
find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.0; fi
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.o
depmod: __bad_udelay
I've compiled kernels before according to the standard recipes,
so this leaves me scratching my head. Am I missing something
obvious? What do I need to do in order to be able to compile
this kernel properly?
--
Fulton B. Gonzalez
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
USA
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From: Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: process monitor script
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:35:06 -0600
David Efflandt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:15:10 GMT, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi, Im a newbie to unix but I seem to have been thrown into being a
> >script writer. My question is, can someone tell me how to monitor my
> >company's pop mail server. if it is down then it needs to alert by
> >email. (im wondering how it will alert if its down, but thats my
> >instructions)
> >any help will be appricated.
> >steve
>
> A mail server should not normally go down unless there is something
> drastically wrong with your system. Following is a simple example of a
> Perl script that checks the response from an smtp server. But you
> probably want to do a subroutine instead of die if if does not connect or
> if the beginning of the reply is something other than 220:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use IO::Socket;
> my $host = 'localhost';
> my $remote = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => "$host:smtp(25)");
> unless ($remote) { die "Can't connect to smtp server on $host" }
> $remote->autoflush(1);
> if(defined($_ = <$remote>)) { print }
> close $remote;
>
The question was about pop server (???)..... so port 110 not 25
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: valid installation partition?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 04:00:34 GMT
Yes it can work -- I'm doing it (because I couldn't get both Linux and
Win 2k on the same one HD without having Linux filesystem corruption --
due, apparently, to trying to put Linux AND Windows logical partitions
in the same extended partition on my first HD).
I have /boot as a primary partition on my 2nd HD (below the 1024
cylinder limit, of course) and then swapspace, /, /usr/local, /var, and
/home as logical partitions within an extended partition on that same,
2nd HD.
My 1st HD is IDE, the 2nd happens to be SCSI.
If you follow the instructions in the NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,
you should be able to get the dual-boot configuration you want. Do be
sure during the Linux installation that you specify lilo to go on the
/boot partition and NOT on the MBR.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am installing linux on a friend's computer and had two questions I was
> hoping somebody could answer. The first question is if it is possible
> to put all of the Linux files on a different physical drive, in my case,
> I have the three linux partitions (root,swap, and boot) all on the slave
> drive and was wondering if this would work. My second question is, with
> my previous setup, is it possible to use the Windows 2k boot loader to
> load Linux in this configuration? Thanks for any help!
>
> Douglas Yung
>
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--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:56:25 -0500
From: Thomas Hedden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Configuring RH6.1 to use Cyrillic/Russian fonts
Hello,
I want to configure RH6.1 so that I can use
Cyrillic (Russian) fonts.
There is a HOWTO floating around by Belikoff;
however it seems to be really out of date.
The paths of some of the files are wrong;
some of the files I can't even find using a
`find / -name ...'.
I'm pretty sure that RH6.1 has the Cyrillic
fonts installed, since I can already read
Russian web pages in Russian. But I want to
be able to TYPE in Russian as well, so I do
have to do some configuration.
Is anyone aware of an up-to-date HOWTO or
FAQ out there?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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