Linux-Setup Digest #457, Volume #20 Sat, 20 Jan 01 08:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370? ("Igor Fedulov")
Locked file under Mandrake 7.2 - pls help ("Drew")
Re: Debian, no cd..LONG (Michael Perry)
Re: Locked file under Mandrake 7.2 - pls help (David)
Re: iso file not working (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling (root)
Re: Why do I get auto-logged-out of my telnet session? (David Bennion)
CQCAM - No Camera found ("Robert D. Crisco")
Need help with DLink DFE-530TX (Jeremy Bower)
pkgadd, pkginfo, ... (Diether De Praetere)
Re: iso file not working (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
RH7.0 - download of large file stops at 40MB ("Arun K. Khan")
Change Hostname Problems ("David")
Re: pkgadd, pkginfo, ... (ozetechnology)
Re: Which distro has kernel 2.4, XFree86 4.0.2, & KDE 2.0 ? (Noble Pepper)
Re: Kernel 2.4 (Steve Martin)
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From: "Igor Fedulov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:44:03 -0600
> I would like to know if I can use RAID 0 for my machine in Linux.
> My controller is HPT370. When I boot Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD ROM, it
does
> detect my chipset but it fails to detect my Windows 2000 partition which
is
> using RAID 0.
> Can anyone kindly help me solve the problem?
AFAIK HPT370 supports only software raid, thus you probably held with no
support. What I did was kinda lame but it works for my purposes. I installed
REDHAT and then installed VMWARE which running Windows 2000 for me.
Igor
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From: "Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Locked file under Mandrake 7.2 - pls help
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:10:27 -0800
I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on an AMD Duron. After several months of no
problems, I suddenly have a lock symbol on the directories /mnt/cdrom and
/mnt/floppy, and canno mount or otherwise access that directory.
Haven't the slightest idea what caused this and have found no info with
searches of the web using "locked files" or "locked directories" etc. Have
found no info in the Linux books or Mandrake or KDE user guides, including
Konquerer guide.
I noted that if I remark out the cdrom line in /etc/fstab and reboot, the
/mnt/cdrom directory will come up with the lock icon missing that was on top
of the cdrom directory icon, and I can mount the cdrom and see its contents.
But if I " unremark the cdrom line in fstab and reboot, the /mnt/cdrom again
comes up locked with the lock icon showing and I cannot access the cdrom.
Has anyone ever seen this before and know how to clear this lock?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Debian, no cd..LONG
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:30:10 -0800
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:27:01 GMT, Cathy Gramze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry) wrote:
>
>
>>>I'm game. I suppose I need to see if the scsi cd is working, first.
>>>
>> Okay. Glad that got things working. The ide-scsi emulation mode is now
>> easier because we know that the drive works as a regular old cd. Now we can
>> make linux ignore the drive when you first boot the system and not load the
>> hogging ide driver and instead load the ide-scsi emulation driver. This
>> requires a modification to lilo.conf so some care needs to be taken.
>> Basically, you want to tell the system as it boots to ignore the ide cdrw
>> and then load the ide-scsi emulation driver instead. To make the system
>> ignore the ide driver, you need to add an append line in your lilo.conf like
>> this:
>>
>Not a chance that's going to work. I just did a fast apt-get for cdrecord,
and cdrecord -scanbus can't open the driver/see any scsi devices.
My burner IS scsi, and in the boot messages it seems to both find it
and not find it. It recognizes the adapter, and finds a host,
but also complains about the scsi card not being found.
Time for a kernel recompile for sure, to make sure I
have the right SCSI driver installed.
My other cdrom is IDE. But I can play games now!
Still, I desperately need to be able to burn cds for my school
projects. It was the only practical way to hand in our MFC programming
assignments!
>
>cathyy
>
>>
>>
>
>
Ah, gotcha. If you do not see a kernel module loaded or you have already
recompiled the kernel for your scsi adaptor, that would be where things
would have to start. I think if we can get your system seeing the scsi
controller card at first we should be able to make some progress on getting
the cd burner working. For some reason, I incorrectly assumed it was an ide
cdrw. Sorry bout that. Its actually gonna be easier with a scsi cdrw than
a ide one overall. CAn you print out what dmesg says when you boot the
system and post it here? Does the scsi card have a onboard bios? When you
boot the system does it find the scsi cd? On my system, my adaptec 2940u2w
hesitates and finds my scsi devices and the controller bios. It then
reports on what device id each has on the bus. I have another system with a
2940au card and it does the same thing.
At least the ide drive is working now. I have no doubt with some detective
work, you can get the right kernel driver loading for the scsi card. With a
scsi cdrw its easiesr by far to get the cd burner working in linux. I have
a HP ide drive and it took me a little time to figure out what it needed.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Locked file under Mandrake 7.2 - pls help
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 07:25:58 GMT
Drew wrote:
>
-- snip --
>
> I noted that if I remark out the cdrom line in /etc/fstab and reboot, the
> /mnt/cdrom directory will come up with the lock icon missing that was on top
> of the cdrom directory icon, and I can mount the cdrom and see its contents.
> But if I " unremark the cdrom line in fstab and reboot, the /mnt/cdrom again
> comes up locked with the lock icon showing and I cannot access the cdrom.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this before and know how to clear this lock?
What does the cdrom line in fstab look like?
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.004% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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Subject: Re: iso file not working
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:09:44 GMT
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> is the iso file have to be extract?
>
> An iso file cannot be extracted.
What do you mean by that it cannot be extracted? You can always
mount it with the "-o loop" mount option. In fact, once I downloaded
a RH62 ISO image, mounted the image on an ftp server, and installed
it on numerous machines.
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:43:24 +1030
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 18:01:50 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>Hi all;
>
>I am running redhat 6.2. I have a problem with suck and innd
>
Hi all;
I sovlved the problem my self. I pissed off suck and innd and installed
leafnode. Things seem to be working...
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From: David Bennion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Why do I get auto-logged-out of my telnet session?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:14:26 GMT
Are you maybe going through a proxy or a network device that kills long
term in-bound connections?
In article <94a9po$4cm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running RedHat 6.2 on a PIII-700. Whenever I telnet OR ssh into
> that box, then leave the sessions idle for some amount of time (maybe
> 1.5 - 2 hours), I get auto-logged-out.
>
> Actually, maybe that's not quite it. When I return to the ssh/telnet
> window, it doesn't say that I've lost my connection... at least not
> yet. But as soon as I begin to type something, it immediately gives
me
> a "Connection lost" message.
>
> I thought maybe it was a feature of my telnet/ssh client (Tera Term
> Pro), but I get the same result with other clients. So it seems to be
> server-side.
>
> Next I thought maybe there was some shell setting that was doing it.
> But my login shell is tcsh - a version I compiled WITHOUT the auto-
> logout feature. (i.e. "echo $version" does NOT show the two
> character "al" option, which would indicate auto-logout support). To
> be safe, I even "set autologout = 600" (i.e. 10 hours) - but that made
> no difference. So I don't think it's tcsh-related.
>
> What else could it be? And how can I disable it, or at least stretch
> the inactivity time to something much more suitable to me?
>
> Thanks to anyone who can help.
>
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From: "Robert D. Crisco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CQCAM - No Camera found
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:34:48 -0700
I have been trying to setup a webcam on my system and I read the
documentation and setup my bios and have the correct webcam.
I have redhat 6.2 with 0x378 IRQ 7(which is free). I am using the VC Color
Quickcam(BLACK). I have been forcing the port several ways and tried on
different machines. I have even took a windows machine that it worked on
and made it a Linux box with the same problem - No Camera Found.
Any ideas I would be highly appreated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Bower)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Need help with DLink DFE-530TX
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:39:32 GMT
Hi,
This is my first Debian install and I've run into a problem. I'm
installing from a minimal set of files on my Windows partition and I need
to get the NIC up and running to get at the good stuff. The install runs
smoothly untill I get to the network configuration.
At a previous step, I installed the via-rhine module (with no parameters)
for my DFE-530TX. It says the modules was installed successfully. When I
complete the network config, it says the card can't be activated. How do I
get around this issue?
I know the NIC works properly because I've been using it from Windows for
months.
Any help would be great!
Jeremy
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From: Diether De Praetere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: pkgadd, pkginfo, ...
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:28:00 +0100
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Hello,
I've got a question realted to installing packages with pkgadd,
pkginfo, etc... (no (s)rpm's)
We have here shell scripts to install some in-house software and
apparently they use pkgadd. But my Redhat doesn't have these commands
available... I did some searches on the web, but they seem to be hard to
find for linux.
OK, I know Sol. supports this, but I need them on linux.
Thx,
Diether
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iso file not working
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:48:12 +0100
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Vilmos Soti wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> is the iso file have to be extract?
> >
> > An iso file cannot be extracted.
>
> What do you mean by that it cannot be extracted? You can always
> mount it with the "-o loop" mount option. In fact, once I downloaded
> a RH62 ISO image, mounted the image on an ftp server, and installed
> it on numerous machines.
Ah yes, thats correct. What I meant was, that it can not be 'extracted'
for the purpose of burning it on cd (like you cannot unzip and burn it).
Btw. the above method will not work with RedHat 7.0 as it comes on two
cd's; network installs won't work unless all files are in one directory.
Also I think, the querier wanted to know how to burn a cd, so he could
install from cd-rom; perhaps he does not have linux install at all - and
then the -o loop method won't work...
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: "Arun K. Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: RH7.0 - download of large file stops at 40MB
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:01:13 -0600
I have a RH7.0 (enterprise SMP kernel from RH) on Dell PE2100 server.
I have installed the Bastille Linux package. On this server, downloads
of any file > 40MB stops at 40MB. The problem is consistent regardless
of the utility I use e.g. wget, ncftpget. Restarting the download with
the respective append flag does not help.
Whereas, I can specify a bunch of files whose total sum is much greater
than 40MB and they download w/o probs. I do not have any quota set on
the filesystem nor is quota 'on'.
Would appreciate any pointers to what might be the problem.
Thanks for your help.
--
A. Khan
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Change Hostname Problems
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:36:38 +0800
Hi,
I am currently using RedHat 6.2. My comp is connected to an ethernet
network. Some days back, I need to change my hostname from
localhost.localdomain to dave.mymachine. I tried using the Linuxconf program
that comes with RedHat and successfully changed the hostname. But on the
next reboot, while starting Sendmail, the machine hang there for almost a
minute or so. What configuration changes do I have to make to sendmail to
eliminate the hanging problem?
Failing to find a solution, I remove sendmail from starting at boot time.
Then, identd start giving problems. The screen shows: "Starting identd: eth0
is unconnected, incompatible, or link may be down...eth0 is TP.." The error
message is something like that. I couldn't remember exactly the error
message b'cos the computer is in my office while I am now at home.
How can I remove this error message? What is the problem exactly?
Thanks.
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From: ozetechnology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: pkgadd, pkginfo, ...
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:57:22 GMT
Not seen this for anything other than solaris. If the apps use these command
they could be solaris binaries which will not work on your RH box anyway.
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> Hello,
>
> I've got a question realted to installing packages with pkgadd,
> pkginfo, etc... (no (s)rpm's)
>
> We have here shell scripts to install some in-house software and
> apparently they use pkgadd. But my Redhat doesn't have these commands
> available... I did some searches on the web, but they seem to be hard to
> find for linux.
>
> OK, I know Sol. supports this, but I need them on linux.
>
> Thx,
> Diether
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distro has kernel 2.4, XFree86 4.0.2, & KDE 2.0 ?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:47:20 -0600
Arctic Storm wrote:
> Is there a distro out there that comes with kernel 2.4, XFree86 4.0.2, &
> KDE 2.0 ?
>
> -----
>
>
Are we a little impatient?
I will be a while before you find those on a distro.
Mandrake 7.2 has a beta version of KDE2 but I have heard of a cd burn house
that sells a cd downloaded from Mandrake that has newer.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:02:57 GMT
I'm no expert on this, having fiddled not much with kernel
installation, but I believe you also have to copy System.map
to the same directory from whence you boot, in this case
the /boot directory. That will of course cause a problem
because your old System.map file is currently in that
directory, being used by your old kernel.
I'd suggest moving your new kernel to /vmlinuz (the
"make bzlilo" command does this anyway) and putting
your System.map file there. Then put an entry in
lilo.conf with "image=/vmlinuz".
If your existing kernel is in /boot (as it usually is with
default Red Hat installs, don't know about other distros),
then just set up lilo.conf, then go to the kernel source
and do "make bzlilo". It'll copy the kernel to /vmlinuz
and the new System.map file to /System.map.
Hope this helps.
Sri Panyam wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I just compiled version 2.4 of the kernel and was able to create a boot
> iamge successfully :- bzImage. I copied it to the /boot and updated
> lilo.conf to the following (after copying bzImage to /boot/bzImage.myker):
>
> **************
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> default=myker
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> image=/boot/bzImage.myker
> label=myker
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> *****************
>
> However, at the lilo prompt, when i select "myker" as the image, it prints
> the following and hangs up:
>
> **************
> loading myker.....
> Uncompressing linux ... Ok booting ...
> **************
>
> Has any one else come up with this. How can i fix this:
>
> Thanks In Advance
> Sri
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