Linux-Setup Digest #450, Volume #20 Thu, 18 Jan 01 21:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: dual processor support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Gnome, minimised buttons gone! (Jim Maas)
SAMBA not working on RH7 on peer to peer win2k network using DHCP from maxgate
switch/router ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RH setup for Samba Server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
max swap allocation (Andreas)
Re: max swap allocation (H.Bruijn)
Re: root file permission problems (H.Bruijn)
Bus Error Communicator 4.76 (Dave Trahan)
Re: root file permission problems (Dan Simkins)
Re: Gnome, minimised buttons gone! (David)
Re: Bus Error Communicator 4.76 (David)
Small Navigation Buttons in Netscape/Mozilla? (Jason Bond)
Re: Help needed with installing new 2.4 kernel (Steve Withers)
Re: max swap allocation (Steve Withers)
Re: max swap allocation (Andreas Fuchs)
Re: Home and web server.? (Andreas Fuchs)
Re: SuSe 7.0 Install Disappointment (Andreas Fuchs)
Netgear RT311 filters (Karen Chancellor)
partitioning failing during install of RH7.0 ("C. Jarvis")
pppd for non-root??? (Peter Nyhlen)
Re: pppd for non-root??? (Steve Martin)
Is there support for integrated sound and video? (Rich Carreiro)
State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support (Rich Carreiro)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dual processor support
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:55:08 GMT
thanks for the suggestions, with any luck by sunday I'll have dual
penguin power!!!
peace,
raga
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From: Jim Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome, minimised buttons gone!
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:08:38 -0500
I just installed RH 7.0 with the Gnome. I have no idea how I've done it
but when I login as root, buttons appear on the panel when I minimise
something, yet when I login as a user, the buttons do not appear on the
panel. I've tried several things, read all I can find, with not luck.
How can I restore the buttons for minimised applications?
Thanks
Jim
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Jim Maas PhD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SAMBA not working on RH7 on peer to peer win2k network using DHCP from
maxgate switch/router
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:16:14 GMT
I have a small peer to peer network, consisting of 2 win2k machines
and a linux box. The linux box is running RH7.0. I've downloaded the
various updates and loaded them. But, I cannot get any of the win2k
computers to see the linux box. If I do a network neighborhood on the
win2k boxes, they see each other by machine name. They do not see the
machine name for the linux box, or any of its drives. I cannot ping
any of the machines in the network without using their ip address,
which is assigned by the Maxgate ugate 3200 switch/router. (It is
connecting my network to a comcast cable modem.) I can ping all of the
machines, including the linux box, if I ping the ip addresses. The
ugate 3200 has a table that contains the machine names and dynamically
assigned ip addresses, and it is correct.
I think the problem is that there is, and can be (as I understand it)
no DNS for the network, because it is being assigned ip addresses
dyamically by the ugate 3200. I think this may, also be the reason
that I can't get SAMBA to work, but I don't know, for sure. Also, when
I boot up, sendmail and httpd take a long time, and I get error
messages that httpd cannot identify local host name. (This started
after I used netconf to assign a machine name of chinook, rather than
localhost. I don't have qualified domain names, so I don't use
anything more than a single name, with no extra .xxx.com or whatever
on any of my machines. (Is this a problem? Should I just make up a
random name, or do I need to use the domain name of the comcast
network that is in the router? (I suspect I don't need to do this,
because the windows boxes work ok.) I can also telnet or ftp into the
linux box, but I have to use the ip address rather than the name.
I modified the /etc/hosts file to have only one line, which is
127.0.0.1 chinook chinook
Rather than the original file which said
127.0.0.1 localhost.localname localhost
Normally, I would have put in a line after the localhost line like
192.168.0.6 chinook chinook
But, because the ip address may change, due to dhcp, I don't see how I
can do that.
Also, in SWAT, when I try to set up samba, if I put /, or /home in the
drive to share over the network, all looks fine until I go another
screen and come back, when there are now no drives or directories
listed again.
Does anybody know what I need to do to get things working?
Also, I cannot get my linux box to print to a postscript printer that
is on my network at address 192.168.0.10 and driven by one of the
win2k boxes. I suspect all of these problems are related to something
not being set, but I don't know what.
TIA,
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH setup for Samba Server
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:20:25 GMT
I have a box I am setting up so it can run samba server on it. I need to know
what to pick during the install, so it will be able to act as samba server.
Once that is done I am going to make this box a PDC with samba server.
All I need now is some help with these three questions, once I get past the
installation I beleive I will be able to go the distance. Besides that I am
lost, below is my config
*KT7 Socket A KT133 200 ATX Raid
*Amd Duron 800MHZ
*256mb of RAM
*Nic
*video (AGP)
*cd-rom
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From: Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: max swap allocation
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:50:24 +1300
Hi there,
is there a way of addressing more than 2 Gb of swap? Yeah, I know 'what does he
want with that?' I need to convert maps and two gig just appeared to be too
little in combination with 256 Mb of RAM. The result was a memory dump as soon
as it was all in use and the conversion failed.
Any help is strongly appreciated.
Cheers,
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: max swap allocation
Date: 18 Jan 2001 22:41:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:50:24 +1300, Andreas allegedly wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>is there a way of addressing more than 2 Gb of swap? Yeah, I know 'what does he
>want with that?' I need to convert maps and two gig just appeared to be too
>little in combination with 256 Mb of RAM. The result was a memory dump as soon
>as it was all in use and the conversion failed.
>
>Any help is strongly appreciated.
You might try to simply allocate multiple swap partitions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: root file permission problems
Date: 18 Jan 2001 22:48:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18 Jan 2001 12:00:58 -0800, Dan Simkins allegedly wrote:
>Hello, folks. I have a problem/question on a RH6.2 box. Any
>information, or guidance appreciated.
>
>The problem is that root is not able to do anything in the /usr/bin
>directory, e.g., mv, rm, cp, or even create a new file.
>
>I have checked the obvious:
>
>1) yes, I am logged in as root
>
>2) yes, root owns and has permissions on /, /usr, and /usr/bin
>
>So what gives? I thougt that if root owned a file, had rw permissions
>on the file and directory, it could do anything it wanted. Apparently
>not.
You may have had "unclean unmounted partitions" which were not corrected
properly when you last ran fsck. What sometimes happens is that then the
file system attributes get set to immutable.
Try to do a lsattr in the effected directories. Then correct the
problem with chattr. Look at their man pages for instructions.
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From: Dave Trahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.oc.linux.misc
Subject: Bus Error Communicator 4.76
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:00:01 -0500
I am having a problem in that whenever I exit netscape and then try to
restart it, I receive a bus error. The only way to get rid of it is to
reboot the machine. I have KDE 2.0 and linux 2.2.16-3.
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From: Dan Simkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: root file permission problems
Date: 18 Jan 2001 15:22:22 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn) writes:
> >
> >The problem is that root is not able to do anything in the /usr/bin
> >directory, e.g., mv, rm, cp, or even create a new file.
> >
>
> You may have had "unclean unmounted partitions" which were not corrected
> properly when you last ran fsck. What sometimes happens is that then the
> file system attributes get set to immutable.
>
> Try to do a lsattr in the effected directories. Then correct the
> problem with chattr. Look at their man pages for instructions.
That was it! I owe you double thanks, one for fixing my problem, the
other for introducing me to file attributes and the ext2fs, which I
hadn't even heard of before. More fun to be had.
Thanks again,
Dan
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome, minimised buttons gone!
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:21:27 GMT
Jim Maas wrote:
>
> I just installed RH 7.0 with the Gnome. I have no idea how I've done it
> but when I login as root, buttons appear on the panel when I minimise
> something, yet when I login as a user, the buttons do not appear on the
> panel. I've tried several things, read all I can find, with not luck.
> How can I restore the buttons for minimised applications?
In 6.2 you would right click the panel and then choose:
panel/add to panel/applet/utility/tasklist
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.oc.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Bus Error Communicator 4.76
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:27:58 GMT
Dave Trahan wrote:
>
> I am having a problem in that whenever I exit netscape and then try to
> restart it, I receive a bus error. The only way to get rid of it is to
> reboot the machine. I have KDE 2.0 and linux 2.2.16-3.
When I upgraded to 4.76 I had a similar problem so I downlaoded the
src.rpm and rebuilt it on my system and have had no problems since. I
did not make any changes to the src.rpm before rebuilding it and don't
know what rebuilding it would have done.
rpm --rebuild netscape-*
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Small Navigation Buttons in Netscape/Mozilla?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:46:12 -0800
Is there a way to make the back/forward/etc. navigation buttons in
netscape small (without the text) like one can do in Internet Explorer?
I just haven't seen any option so far that lets you do so. Thanks,
Jason
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed with installing new 2.4 kernel
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:47:04 +1300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm always facing problems when upgrading kernel on my linux box right
> now I'm upgrading from 2.2.14 (SuSE6.4) to the new 2.4.0 kernel. Till
> now I haven't found any document describing the exact procedure one
> must follow and which problems one can face doing this.
>
> Most of the time I get stuck with module loading problems for ex.
> depmod looking into the wrong directories on creating the modules.dep
> file. Modules that cannot be found during startup etc. etc.....
>
> My questions are:
>
> Is there a HOWTO describing the exact procedure on how one can upgrade
> and correctly install a new kernel ?
>
> Is there also a reference list where I can find which char-major-xx
> belongs to which device ?
>
> How is the modules.conf file created ?
>
> Anyone some info on this ?
You are asking this question from a deja.com mail address?
search on "kernel", "compile" and "HOWTO".....
Or just go to www.linuxdoc.org and search on "kernel".
Either one will take you 15 seconds.
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: max swap allocation
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:49:36 +1300
Andreas wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> is there a way of addressing more than 2 Gb of swap? Yeah, I know 'what does he
> want with that?' I need to convert maps and two gig just appeared to be too
> little in combination with 256 Mb of RAM. The result was a memory dump as soon
> as it was all in use and the conversion failed.
>
> Any help is strongly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
Maybe use more than one swap partition? Is the limit 2GB per partition?
Or 2GB total?
I know 2GB tends to be a limit of 32-bit addressing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Fuchs)
Subject: Re: max swap allocation
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:07:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe use more than one swap partition? Is the limit 2GB per partition?
> Or 2GB total?
> I know 2GB tends to be a limit of 32-bit addressing.
>
We tried one partition of 5 Gb and it came up with only 2 Gb. So we split it into two
2 Gb partitions and still only 2 Gb show up :-(
Could it be that it requires certain priority settings, e.g. -1 to -3?
Cheers,
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Fuchs)
Subject: Re: Home and web server.?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:10:53 GMT
In article <947fs8$l6f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"avi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just install linux as a webserver as well home server.
> and planing to conect to workstation NT to that server.
> any idea or information how and what's the best way to connect it?
>
What you are looking for is most certainly SAMBA. It is definitly the best way to
connect WinNT to Linux and vice versa.
Cheers,
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Fuchs)
Subject: Re: SuSe 7.0 Install Disappointment
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:35:48 GMT
Hi Steve,
I use SUSE since 5.2 and refer to it as the best dist for my own purpose :-)
However, having a new system myself (Duron 700, GeForceMX, SB PCI128, ASUS A7V) I had
some trouble setting up X, the rest was fine, apart from sound as the alsa version
that comes with it did recognise my SB PCI128 but not support it. A driver update did
the job. The same applies to your SB Live! Get the new Alsa drivers from their ftp
site and it will work.
Even if you had your NIC configured before you went to your printer it could not work!
There is not tool in yast(2) that actually configures your SAMBA network!
I noticed problems with setting up my network in YAST2 as well. YAST1 does it better
and does not like the files created by YAST2 so that is why you should just leave your
NIC alone in YAST2 and set it up later using YAST1.
To get your USB devices running you may want to check in the BIOS for legacy support!
I don't have any such devices consequently do not have any experience with it but in
kernel 2.2.16 there is no real support for USB, well, neither is in 2.4.0 but anyway.
To get your video card running you need to go to the ftp server and download the files
'nv_glx.rpm' and 'nvdriver.rpm' and install those. Then you run 'sax2 -m 0=nvidia' and
it will recognise your card. However, when I tried to update the driver recently to
the latest version it did NOT work so I went back to the second last which is better
on Linux anyway! For 3D support you have to enter a line in the Load Module-section of
your /etc/X11/XF86Config file which is 'load "glx"'. I play very happily Unreal
Tournament and Quake3 on my box.
The thing with the first CD in YAST1 is not a new one, now is it? It has been like
this forever ;-)
Anyway, as mentioned above there is no problems with installing through YAST2 as long
as you don't try to configure ;-)
If you have any more questions send me an email.
Cheers,
Andreas
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From: Karen Chancellor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netgear RT311 filters
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:23:25 GMT
Does anyone have either a Netgear RT311 or RT314 router?
I am having trouble configuring the filter sets. In particular, I can't
block access to the router configuration via telnet. I have read the
entire manual, and Netgear technical support will not give support for
filters.
Any help appreciated. If you could also e-mail me directly, I would
appreciate that.
Thanks.
Karen
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From: "C. Jarvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: partitioning failing during install of RH7.0
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:09:41 -0800
When I try to install RH 7.0, during the partitioning step for a custom
install...
I am given two choices: use DiskDruid or fdisk
When I choose DiskDruid, my harddrive info is displayed. I can make
changes to the displayed info, but when I press 'next' to implement these
changes, the install crashes with a signal 11.
When I choose fdisk, the install crashes right away with a signal 11.
Any ideas? BIOS settings?
I previously had a working install of RH 6.0, but removed it. LILO is
still installed.
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From: Peter Nyhlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppd for non-root???
Date: 19 Jan 2001 01:42:01 GMT
I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and am able to connect to my ISP with pppd only
when I'm root. I can connect with minicom from any non-root account.
I've followed the PPP-HOWTO and made sure that pppd is setuid root, but
it only works from a root account. When I try to start it with:
/usr/sbin/pppd -d -detach
I get the following error message:
/etc/ppp/ISP.chat: /dev/modem: Permission denied
/etc/ppp/ISP.chat: /dev/modem: Permission denied
/etc/ppp/ISP.chat: /dev/modem: Permission denied
Connect script failed
Anyone have any ideas what else I need to set to get pppd to work from
non-root accounts?
Peter
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd for non-root???
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 02:00:01 GMT
Peter Nyhlen wrote:
>
> /etc/ppp/ISP.chat: /dev/modem: Permission denied
> /etc/ppp/ISP.chat: /dev/modem: Permission denied
> /etc/ppp/ISP.chat: /dev/modem: Permission denied
>
> Anyone have any ideas what else I need to set to get pppd to work from
> non-root accounts?
Find out which serial port your modem is on (ls -l /dev/modem)
and change the permissions on that port, i.e. chmod 666 /dev/ttyS1
(or whatever port). I put an entry in the /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
file to do this on bootup, never have a problem.
Hope this helps.
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From: Rich Carreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Is there support for integrated sound and video?
Date: 18 Jan 2001 20:58:44 -0500
I'm looking to at long last replace my 5.7 year old Pentium 100 with
something a bit newer. I still plan for it to be relatively low-end
(Celeron or Duron) because it'll be sitting in Linux virtually all the
time serving as a mail/news/ssh/etc server. I'll be spending more
real money on a flashy Windoze box for finance, gaming, and web
surfing.
I see that places like MicroCenter and Staples are running specials on
low-end Compaq Presarios or HP Pavilions or whatever and they are
tempting.
However, despite that the machine will be primarily a server, it would
be nice for it to be able to support X and sound under Linux. And it
would be nice to not have to pay for video and sound cards if the
stuff integrated on the motherboard is supported.
In the ads they say they come with stuff like:
* Integrated Intel 3d Graphics with Direct AGP
* Integrated 3D Audio
* Soundmax integrated digital audio
* Integrated VIA AC97 Codec
I have looked at the kernel READMEs and at the XFree86 web site, but
it's not clear to me if these are supported, since the docs talk about
specific chipsets and the ads and the salesdroids only know brandings,
not what chipsets they are.
So any ideas?
Thanks!
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From: Rich Carreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support
Date: 18 Jan 2001 21:03:05 -0500
What is the state (both in 2.2.18 and 2.4.x) of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100
support, both in terms of integrated motherboard controllers and
add-on cards (if there is any difference)? I've not been in the
market for new iron in over 5 years, so I've gotten a bit behind on
exactly what Linux is supporting these days. I have gone to
www.linux-ide.org, but didn't find that terribly enlightening - lots
of utilities and patches, but not much clear documentation on what
*is* supported.
And if UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 are not supported, does that mean the
controllers just won't run at those speeds (but will still do
UDMA/33)? Or does it mean Linux won't even see those controllers?
I'm starting to see more machines/motherboards boasting about
UDMA/100 support and I want to make sure I don't buy something
that Linux won't work with.
Thanks!
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