Linux-Setup Digest #467, Volume #20 Sun, 21 Jan 01 18:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0 (Mike Loiterman)
Re: Is ppp multi-user? (David)
Re: Configuring Mail (David)
Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0 (David)
Re: RH 6.2 Setup on e250 ("eric")
Re: signal 15 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Need help with DLink DFE-530TX (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Rachel,this is it (Anonymous)
Re: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stupid directory permission question (Noble Pepper)
Weird problems with Nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.0 (Saad Kadhi)
Re: Help: setting up ntp-4.0.99k.rpm (Jeff Silverman)
Re: kickstart etc. (Tom Peters)
Re: Mandrake Installation Problems (Noble Pepper)
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From: Mike Loiterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:02:34 GMT
Oh yeah...
What about the drivers from the 3com page? Do I need those?
In article <94fdpl$u48$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for the help David. I did what you said and everything checks
> out ok. BUT, I'm still not getting the eth0 line in my dmesg, which
> AFAIK is a clear sign that the network card recognized... I tried
> pinging myself and it just goes on forever which I thought was a good
> thing, but maybe not. WHat, if any, is the definitive sign that a
> network card has been recognized?
>
> Thanks
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Brian Donaldson wrote:
> > >
> > > I have installed Red hat 7.0 about 5 times now and it still
doesn't
> detect
> > > ethier of my nic cards. The cards are 3com 3c905b-tx or D-Link -
> 538TX. Is
> > > there alway to probe for them after installing my OS?
> >
> > Check to see if there is a line like this in /etc/modules.conf
> >
> > alias eth0 3c59x # this is for the 3com 905b
> >
> > If it isn't there then look in /lib/modules/x.x.xx/net I think and
see
> > if the module exists. If it does then add the line above to
> modules.conf
> > and configure and restart the network.
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
> >
> > You can use "netcfg" to configure the network if you are running X
or
> > "ifconfig" from a text console or X.
> >
> > --
> > 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 99.005% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
> >
>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is ppp multi-user?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:19:05 GMT
John Roberts wrote:
>
> Greetings all:
>
> I have ppp dial up working (as root) in KDE and by typing ppp-go (
> using slackware 7.0). I have tried using ppp as another user (non root)
> and it does not seem to work. All of the docs talk about using the
> SAME files i.e.; chat, ppp-options...etc. After reading and thinking
> about it, it dawned on me that ppp might not be multi-user. I am on a
> stand a lone box with no network card; only a dial-up connection. Just
> wondering...
> John Roberts
On a redhat 6.2 system you can allow user control by editing
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and adding this line just
below the "PAPNAME=" or the "PEERDNS=" line.
USERCTL=true
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuring Mail
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:25:55 GMT
Bentley wrote:
>
> Newbie question !!!!
>
> I am trying to configure mail such that I can execute a command like:
>
> ifconfig | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I am setting my my linux machine as an FTP server and would like to have the
> the current IP address when ever I re-boot. I dont have a static IP
> address. I configured the GUI mail client in KDE and it sends and recives
> mail with no problems. When I use the command line version of mail (see
> line above), nothing happens. The command retruns, but no mail is ever
> sent. I am guess thing there is an config file or something where I must
> record my ISP mail servers address.
>
> OS: Read Hat 7.0
>
> Thanks
Try: /sbin/ifconfig | cat | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:32:28 GMT
Mike Loiterman wrote:
>
> Oh yeah...
> What about the drivers from the 3com page? Do I need those?
Well for 6.2 no you would use the 3c59x module which included withthe
kernel source. But for 7.0 ??? Who knows????
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From: "eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 Setup on e250
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:33:52 GMT
Some of the applications I use won't run on Solaris correctly (we have
tried). Or at least very stable. So, I need the power of a Sun box but the
flexibility of the Linux OS (at least until everything is ported).
eric.
"Rich Teer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, eric wrote:
>
> > Hey all. I have an Sun e250 for home that I want to setup RH 6.2 on.
So
> > far so good. But, I noticed that the maintenance light stays on solid
> > amber. Is there something that causes this? If I load Solaris on it,
the
> > light will not be on. Otherwise RH is running nicely.
>
> MY guess is that RH knows nothing about the maintenance light, so doesn't
> know how to drive it ptoperly...
>
> > Machine:
> > UltraSparc e250
> > 2 x 400mhz processors
> > 1 gb Ram
> > 4 x 9gb drives
> > 1 onboard nic (hme0)
> > Quad Ethernet board
> >
> > Please make any suggestions. I have poked around in the logs but
haven't
> > noticed really anything that jumps out.
>
> No flame intended, but you're using some decent hardware, so why not use
the
> real OS that was designed for it?
>
> --
> Rich Teer
>
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> Rite Online Inc.
>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: signal 15
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:51:20 +0100
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Thomas Hinnenberg wrote:
> Whenever I try to install Redhat 7.0 on my old 486 (8MB Ram, 240 MB Disk), I
> get a message: "Abnormal termination: install received signal 15". Does
> anybody know what this means?
The RedHat 7.0 installer requires 16Mb RAM. So you're out of luck here.
Btw. a minimal install uses a little above 200Mb disk space - so you
would fill up you HD too.
Try an older one. I think 6.2 requires 16Mb RAM too, so perhaps you will
need to go to 5.2 or non-RedHat.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Need help with DLink DFE-530TX
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:52:59 +0100
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Jerry Segers, Jr. wrote:
> alias eth0 rtl8139 # note rtL _not_ rt1
Hmm... A lot of DFE530TX's use the via-rhine driver.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:34:13 -0700
From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rachel,this is it
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:31:51 GMT
Thanks for the input so far.
I have more information. I had removed this drive( so I could get into
the internet to post the original question). After I read the messages
I though I remembered that when I had booted into a win boot floppy, I
was not able to see the C: drive.
So I reinstalled the drive as a slave to this ome and it looks like
Windows does not see that partition(slave c:, which would now be d:).
the only place I had seen the contents of that partition was in a linux
command prompt
So, can I do Fdisk /MBR if I cant get to that partition? If I make it
the primary drive again and boot to the floppy, will it know there is a
C: partition even though I cant cd to it?
finally, would a better approach be to use something like partition
magic? I have not used that program but I was wondering if it had
repair tools?
Thanks again,
Noel
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid directory permission question
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:49:30 -0600
Ian Pilcher wrote:
> I'm sure this is an incredibly stupid (or at least frequently asked)
> question, but I can't figure out why this isn't working.
>
> I am working on setting up a fax server, which will accept print jobs
> via lpd and let users manage them with a web interface. I have created
> a directory, /var/spool/fax/outqueue, which needs to be writeable by
> both my lpd filter (which runs as lp) and my CGI program (which runs as
> apache).
>
> I've created a new group, faxserv, and made both apache and lp members
> of faxserv. Here are the permissions of the directory tree:
>
> [root@localhost /]# ls -ld /var /var/spool /var/spool/fax
> /var/spool/fax/outqueue
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Oct 19 10:06 /var
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Sep 28 19:14 /var/spool
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Jan 19 19:17 /var/spool/fax
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root faxserv 1024 Jan 21 14:16
> /var/spool/fax/outqueue
>
> Despite all this, I still get a "permission denied" error when my lpd
> filter attempts to write to /var/spool/fax/outqueue.
>
> What am I missing? Thanks!
Is your lpd filter a member of the faxserv group?
The totally insecure solution of course is chmod a+w
/var/spoot/fax/outqueue, what holes this opens up depends on your fax stuff.
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From: Saad Kadhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Weird problems with Nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:53:06 +0100
Hi there,
I am experiencing very weird problems with Nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.0
& I have tried everything I know of.
short description:
whether using, NVAGP, AGPGART or no AGP (thru the NvAgp option) I can
start an X session but when I quit it and start another one, the display
goes kind of blue and weird red lines appear @ the top of the screen.
The box is not pingable, keyboard doesn't respond. only solution is to
reboot. This doesn't happen with 2.2.18 !
long description:
I have tried this on two systems.
System 1:
ASUS A7Pro MoBo which has a VIA KT133 chipset,
TBird 1Ghz,
System 2:
MSI 6167 MoBo with AMD IronGate chipset,
Athlon 500Mhz
Both systems have 384M of SDRAM PC100 memory, a Diamond Viper 770 TNT2
Ultra video card, An Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 (A901HT) screen, 3Com
NIC, SBLive!, Adaptec 29160 SCSI card, SCSI CDROM, SCSI CD-Burner, IBM
SCSI HD (18G). They are running Debian 2.2r2 & two different kernels
2.2.18 & 2.4.0. Each kernel patched with reiserfs patch. No reiserfs
partition yet. Nvidia driver is 0.9.6. Xfree is 4.0.1.
When using 2.2.18, everything goes rather well on both systems (rather
because sometimes I have 3D screensaver lockups) when using kernel 2.2.18.
Using 2.4.0, the first X session (whatever account in used) runs fine.
After exiting this session, I wait for a random period of time between 2
& 30 secs. then I start another X session. A Blue/Purple screen is
displayed with red lines on top of screen. keyboard doesn't answer.
Boxes not pingable. I even waited for about an hour. The only solution I
found is to reboot :-(
I have tried with different settings, different amount of RAM, AGP
Aperture size, AGPGART compiled in, AGPGART no compiled in, AGPGART as a
module, no framebuffer, with framebuffer, Fast writes, no fast writes
...etc but the problem remains the same.
Any clues ? this pb is kind of driving me crazy :-( Any help will be
greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance,
Saad.
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From: Jeff Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Help: setting up ntp-4.0.99k.rpm
Date: 21 Jan 2001 22:55:32 GMT
"David. E. Goble" wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I have no idea what Iam doing so please bare with me.
I can bear with you. Everything you wrote is irrelevant (of course, you didn't know
that ) until
you get to here:
> Jan 19 09:01:30 gtech ntpd[563]: time error 43198 over 1000 seconds;
> set clock manually
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: ntpd 4.0.99k Wed Oct 25 10:39:20 EDT
> 2000 (1)
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: signal_no_reset: signal 13 had flags
> 4000000
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: set_process_priority: priority_done
> is <2>
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: precision = 13 usec
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: kern_enable is 1
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0001
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: frequency initialized -0.763 from
> /etc/ntp/drift
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0041
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123,
> addr 224.0.1.1, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use
> Jan 19 09:39:59 gtech ntpd[1932]: ...multicast address 224.0.1.1 using
> wildcard socket
> Jan 19 09:44:19 gtech ntpd[1932]: time error 43198 over 1000 seconds;
> set clock manually
> Jan 19 09:51:52 gtech ntpd[2218]: ntpd 4.0.99k Wed Oct 25 10:39:20 EDT
> 2000 (1)
> Jan 19 09:51:52 gtech ntpd[2218]: signal_no_reset: signal 13 had flags
> 4000000
> Jan 19 09:51:52 gtech ntpd[2218]: set_process_priority: priority_done
> is <2>
> Jan 19 09:51:52 gtech ntpd[2218]: precision = 12 usec
> Jan 19 09:51:52 gtech ntpd[2218]: kern_enable is 1
> Jan 19 09:51:52 gtech ntpd[2218]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0041
> Jan 19 09:51:52 gtech ntpd[2218]: frequency initialized -0.763 from
> /etc/ntp/drift
> Jan 19 09:51:53 gtech ntpd[2218]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0041
> Jan 19 09:51:53 gtech ntpd[2218]: bind() fd 10, family 2, port 123,
> addr 224.0.1.1, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use
> Jan 19 09:51:53 gtech ntpd[2218]: ...multicast address 224.0.1.1 using
> wildcard socket
> Jan 19 09:56:59 gtech ntpd[2218]: time error 43198 over 1000 seconds;
> set clock manually
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: ntpd 4.0.99k Wed Oct 25 10:39:20 EDT
> 2000 (1)
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: signal_no_reset: signal 13 had flags
> 4000000
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: set_process_priority: priority_done
> is <2>
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: precision = 12 usec
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: kern_enable is 1
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0001
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: frequency initialized -0.763 from
> /etc/ntp/drift
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0041
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123,
> addr 224.0.1.1, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use
> Jan 19 09:57:43 gtech ntpd[2355]: ...multicast address 224.0.1.1 using
> wildcard socket
> Jan 19 10:02:49 gtech ntpd[2355]: time error 43198 over 1000 seconds;
> set clock manually
> Jan 19 10:18:58 gtech pppd[770]: Terminating on signal 15.
And everything after here is irrelevant, too.
The problem is the error "time error 43198 over 1000 seconds; set clock manually".
NTP won't start
if the time error is greater than a certain threshold, in your version, 1000 seconds
or 16 min 40
sec. The reason why is that the NTP works by gently speeding up or slowing down your
system clock
until synchronization is acheived. NTP assumes that if the error is greater than 1000
second, then
it will take too long to synch.
There are a couple of things you can do. Probably the easiest is to populate the file
/etc/ntp/step-tickers with a list of time servers, all on one line and separated by a
space. If
that doesn't work, then you will have to put an invokation of ntpdate in your time
startup file.
ntpdate sets the date in one jump. This is considered A Bad Thing because it disrupts
everything
else that relies on time. On the other hand, it may be the best you can do.
Time, it turns out, is very complicated.
I hope this helps
Jeff
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From: Tom Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kickstart etc.
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:57:37 +0100
Todd Sargent wrote:
> Red Hat has fairly complete instructions for performing a kickstart installation in
> the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide, Appendix F. It explains how to setup
> your kickstart configuration (ks.cfg) file, install it on a floppy, and make the
> packages you want available for installation. The documentation focuses entirely
> on starting the install from a floppy, so if you want to do it from the PROM/BIOS
> level you're going to have to do a bit more research. And if you can find out how,
> please let me know!
Yes, but when I follow the manual it doesn't work! Apparantly a script
bails out because some variable has no value. See my original posting
for details:
>
> Tom Peters wrote:
>
> > 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,
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake Installation Problems
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:10:50 -0600
Scott L wrote:
> I downloaded Mandrake, and installed it. When I reach the last stage
> of configuring X, it freezes and I have to reboot. I reboot and get to
> the Linux command prompt, log in, and try typing "gnome" and "kde" but
> it doesn't load into it. I also try "xconf" out of curiosity to see
> what happens, which is nothing.
>
> I'm a total newbie to Linux, so I don't know what to do next. Can
> anyone help? Thanks.
>
>
Well at least you got a command prompt.
startx is the command to start your default gui. give it a try and see what
you get. Xconfigurator is the X setup tool for the 6.x series of mandrake,
I don't know if it is still there in the 7.x series. You should also have
XF86Setup and xf86config. They are less user friendly setup tools but may
work on hardware that others don't.
Remember that in most real OS's case matters.
If you get "locked up" you can probably switch to a different virtual
terminal with <alt> Fkey, and log in. Then run top, find the PID of the
process that is not responding, q will quit top, use kill -s9 PID to abort
it.
kdm and gdm are login/display manager, if they work you can select which
gui you run.
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