Linux-Setup Digest #501, Volume #20 Thu, 25 Jan 01 14:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Seagate ST8000 (David)
Installing RedHat 7 to Hardware RAID drives ("Scott M. Navarre")
Re: x-server / vnc question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Peer not authorized (Ed Champion)
Trust ISDN PCI Communicator 128 ("novalis")
Re: Lilo exceeds 1024! (Mark Bratcher)
Re: parport setup (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbee modem set-up question (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Seagate ST8000 (Mark Bratcher)
Re: FTP SERVER not working in RH 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mgetty eating my modems (bill davidsen)
Re: Linux version of my dos install disk? (DeAnn)
Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to RH6.2 hangs (Clark L. Coleman)
Re: Making a bootable CD. ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Lilo exceeds 1024! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: xinetd, cvs, RH7, & pserver (David Zaroski)
Re: "~" with vim ?? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Lilo exceeds 1024! ("Eric en Jolanda")
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate ST8000
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:12:37 GMT
Markus Feldmann wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I�ve got a fresh installed RH 70, attached to the first IDE Port is a
> Seagate ST8000 4/8GB Steamer (/dev/hda)
> when I try to backup to this device with tar I get the following:
>
> ide-tape hda unsuppoted command in request queue
> endrequest: I/O error, dev 03:00 hda sector 0
>
> can somebody give me a hint to this ???
I have the SCSI version of that drive. I think your using the wrong
device. On the SCSI version I have to use /dev/st0 and I may be wrong
but I think you need to use /dev/ht0 instead of /dev/hda which is the
hard drive.
--
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From: "Scott M. Navarre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Installing RedHat 7 to Hardware RAID drives
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:23:27 GMT
I have RedHat 7 Professional and I am trying to install it to a hardware
RAID (Mylex DAC960). When trying to install, I get an error stating that
there is no writeable media available. The server (DEC Prioris HX6000) also
has two embedded Adaptec AIC7880 SCSI controllers on the motherboard. I
have the embedded controllers' BIOS disabled with only the Mylex BIOS
enabled, and the motherboard BIOS is set to boot from PCI (instead of
embedded controllers). One of the embedded controllers has only the CD-ROM
drive (no hard drives) while the other embedded has nothing.
I suspect that maybe Linux is trying to find a hard drive on the same
controller as the CD drive which is causing the failure. When the
installation program is starting up, I do see a message saying that it is
loading both the "AICXXXX" as well as the "DAC960" drivers. And then it is
also seeing the CD drive on the embedded controller. I even tried to
install from hard drive just to see if it would see the RAID from there, and
it said that no hard drives were available.
So how do you get around this to force it to see the RAID? Is there a way
to specify at the installation "boot:" prompt to where (controller) you
would like the install to go?
As a note: I did try installing SCO Unix on this same system afterwards,
and it installed perfectly fine (seeing both the RAID and the CD drive).
So, it is not a problem with the hardware...
Thanks in advance for any help,
Scott Navarre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: x-server / vnc question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:18:04 GMT
>>I fell in love with the Klicki and the Bunti of kde2 and kde2 does
not run with vnc.<<
It does! I've just set it up. What you might want to do is:
- change the link /usr/X11/bin/startkde auf /opt/kde2/bin/startkde
(supposed you have kde2 in opt -> set it to the kde2 directory)
- include vnc directory in PATH (certainly you have this yet - just to
make sure...)
- have $HOME/xstartup like:
#!/bin/sh
startkde&
so far so good. That's what took my the whole afternoon to find out
vncserver -depth 16
By default vnc starts with 8 bit color depth only. That's fine with kde
1 but not good enough for kde2.
I found out that KDE2 was complaining about color mapping in in the
~/.vnc/dlhg01b9:1.log file so finally I gave the 16bit colors a try. It
worked and saved my day ;-)
Have fun
Conrad
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From: Ed Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Peer not authorized
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:03:21 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I connect to my ISP I get terminated and I get the following
message in my ppp-log file that says Peer is not authorized to use
remote address 208.237.4.7.
My local network address is 192.168.0.1.
Can someone help me with this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Ed
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From: "novalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trust ISDN PCI Communicator 128
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:44:19 +0100
I have a Trust ISDN PCI Communicator 128 adaptator and Suse Linux 7.0.
It's detected by the system (in YaST1) as a NetJet U, and when I select
start in the configuration screen of YaST,it doesn't work.I get a message
who said that there is perhaps an IRQ of I/O error.
I'm a newbie in Linux.
How can I use these adaptater with Linux? Someone can help me?
Thanks
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo exceeds 1024!
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:54:30 -0500
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A few choices:
1) Make a boot partition for Linux that exists inside the 1024 cylinder limit,
or
2) Go to www.freshmeat.net (or similar place), search on lilo, and
download/build the latest which gets rid of the 1024 limit (which works like a
charm, I've done it with my system).
3) Boot linux using a floppy diskette.
Mark
Washington Zhang wrote:
>
> My linux is redhat7.0 , and i want to dual boot with win2k, i run #l
> /sbin/lilo -v and got the following information:
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc3
> Mergin with /boot/boot.h
> Waring: device 0x1603 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1269.1023).
>
> So, how can i copy the boot file to dual boot with win2k?
> Thanks!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parport setup
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:57:30 -0500
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First things first, have you looked at /var/log/messages to be sure the kernel
sees and initializes /dev/lp0?
If it does, then
echo hello world > /dev/lp0
should do something _eventually_ (you may have to also echo a form feed to the
device to get it to print, perhaps using echo -e "\f" > /dev/lp0).
Wesley wrote:
>
> Bottom line is I still can't seem to get any data to my parallel port.
> Pointers, anyone?
>
> David Efflandt wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:32:17 -0500, Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >I'm trying to setup a printer, but can't seem to communicate with the
> > >parallel port. For example:
> > >
> > ># cat "hello world" > /dev/lp0
> > >
> > >yields, nothing, no error message, no response from the printer. Doing
> > >the same thing to /dev/lp1 gives me this message on the console: "su:
> > >/dev/lp1: Device not configured". The Printing-HOWTO and related
> > >documents all seem to assume that this will produce something, however
> > >ugly. Can't find what to do when it doesn't.
> >
> > Do you have a file called 'hello' and another one called 'world'? I think
> > you mean: echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0
>
> Yes, I meant echo. I tried that, got a permissions error, so I went
> root and did:
>
> # chmod 662 /dev/lp0
>
> to enable public write access to the port. Now echoing text to the port
> fails silently, as before.
>
> Other suggestions?
>
>
> > However, that would only work for a real printer that can print ASCII
> > text. When I saw the name Lexmark below, I cringed. Lexmark still has no
> > Linux support for my 5700, but does list models for networking and Unix
> > systems now.
> >
> > Hm, I wonder if that driver would work for my 5700 which is also 1200x1200
> > dpi and uses the same 12A1990 Photo cartridge (black and color cartridges
> > have different part#). I have downloaded the z32 driver and will let you
> > know if I can get it to work on an obsolete printer that hopefully uses
> > the same protocol.
>
> I've seen some people post that the driver also supports the lexmark
> z22, as those two are identical hardware. There's also a z52 driver
> out. Hope one of them works for you.
>
> > >I have printcap set up to print to a lexmarkz32 using lexmark's
> > >proprietary driver. When I try to print a text file using lpr, it
> > >sounds like the ink cartridge resets (so the printer heard SOMETHING),
> > >but that's all. Repeated invocations of lpc status and checking teh
> > >print queue's log indicate that the file goes in and out of the queue
> > >with no errors, but again, nothing gets put on paper.
> > >
> > >Relevant lines from running lsmod read:
> > >Module Size Used by
> > >lp 5924 0
> > >parport_pc 7396 1
> > >parport 6952 1 [lp parport_pc]
> > >
> > >Contents of /proc/parport/0/hardware:
> > >base: 0x378
> > >irq: 7
> > >dma: none
> > >modes: SPP
> > >
> > >PnP is disabled in the bios, and the above base address and irq match
> > >the bios setup.
> >
> > The irq is not normally used for Linux printing anyway. It uses polled
> > mode unless you specify the port and irq as options for the lp module and
> > use 'tunelp' to enable it.
> >
> > >I'm running Slackware 7.1, kernel 2.2.16.
> > >
> > >Specific suggestions or suggested reading both welcome. TIA,
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Wes Sheldahl
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > --
> > David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
> > http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> > http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
>
> --
> Wes Sheldahl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:50:44 GMT
In article <6VXb6.270364$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tyberghein Jorrit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Linux on a laptop that already has Windows NT on
it.
> Since the laptop belongs to my work I am not allowed to mess with the
NT
> installation and I am not able to reinstall it myself I need to find a
way
> to set
> this up without having to reinstall NT. The current NT is installed on
an
> NTFS
> partition which takes 2 Gigabytes. The total HD is 6 Giga. The size of
the
> NT
> partition is ok so I don't want to touch that.
>
> The situation that I want is to have four partitions like this:
> 2 Gig NTFS
> 1.6 Gig FAT (file transfer between NT and Linux)
> 250 Meg Linux Swap
> 2+ Gig Linux ext2fs
>
> Some facts:
> - I'm using Mandrake 7.1 distribution to install stuff.
> - The laptop is a Dell Latitude with 256Megs RAM and an ATI
> display card.
> - I'm system administrator on the NT side.
> - The NT system is WinNT 4 (no control over that).
>
> I already did two efforts to make this work.
>
> Effort 1:
> - First I used the 'windisk' utility that comes with WinNT to
create
> an additional FAT partition of 1.6 Gig like described above.
This
> works
> fine.
> - Then I put in the Mandrake CD-ROM and reboot. Installation
> starts.
> - All seems to go well. I also install Grub booter and everything
works
> just
> fine. I can choose between WindowsNT and Linux at boottime and
both
> start up just fine.
> - However the 1.6Gig FAT partition has gone in Windows NT (but it
is
> still visible in Linux and looks ok). Running 'windisk' on NT
again
> reveals
> that it thinks something has messed with the partition table
(which is
> of course
> true).
> - I let him correct stuff but this doesn't help.
> - At long last I decide to reformat the 1.6Gig partition on the
WinNT
> side.
> - This seems to work but when I then return to Linux the main
linux
> partition (the 2Gig partition) is corrupted!!! Running fdisk
from root
> reveals
> that the partitions are overlapping somehow!!!
> - Ok, so here I had to restart.
>
> Effort 2:
> - I started from scratch (i.e. deleted all partitions except for
the
> NTFS one).
> - Then I installed Linux first (before using Windisk to create the
extra
> FAT
> partition).
> - While installing Linux I let the Mandrake install make a 1.6 Gig
FAT
> partition
> instead of creating it in NT.
> - Install goes perfectly. Again I'm in the good situation of being
able
> to
> boot NT and Linux.
> - The 1.6 Gig FAT partition works fine from Linux but again it
doesn't
> work in
> NT.
> - Opening Windisk (taking care not to make the formatting mistake
of
> above
> again) reveals that Windisk doesn't know anything at all about
the
> partitions
> that were created by linux install. It just sees 2 GIG NTFS and
4 GIG
> empty space!!! (while this empty space is actually three
partitions).
>
> So how can I enable this second partition on Windows NT without
corrupting
> my Linux install?
>
> Greetings and thanks in advance,
>
>
--
Hi Jorrit. Generally you should install a windows partition first and
then use fdisk or another linux product to make the linux partions.
Windows won't recognize anything that it does not create, but linux
does. If you make the linux partitions last it will recognize dos and
linux partitions. Then use lilo to select which os to boot. You should
also NOT use a swap partition over 100M. Check linuxnewbies.org for
information on dual booting and setup of the partitions.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbee modem set-up question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:01:54 -0500
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I'm not looking at a mincom man page at the moment, but I'm not sure what
minicom assumes for the modem port. If it's /dev/modem, then you need to check
to see if /dev/modem is linked to /dev/ttyS0.
Robert Petrillo wrote:
>
> I have a Hayes external modem attached to com1. setserial shows that
> ttyS0 is set to the correct interrupt and buffer address. minicom
> however returns "I/O Error" when run. If I cat /dev/modem I also get
> "I/O Error".
>
> Does this indicate that I do not have a modem driver? If so where can I
> get one and how do I install it? The disks that came with the modem only
> contain win 95/98/2000 and NT things.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> bob petrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate ST8000
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:05:09 -0500
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> I�ve got a fresh installed RH 70, attached to the first IDE Port is a
> Seagate ST8000 4/8GB Steamer (/dev/hda)
Hmm. Do you really mean that it is the slave on the first IDE channel? Or is it
the master on the secondary IDE channel? It would be strange for it to be the
master on the first channel.
> when I try to backup to this device with tar I get the following:
> ide-tape hda unsuppoted command in request queue
> endrequest: I/O error, dev 03:00 hda sector 0
You didn't say how you issued your tar request. The device for an IDE tape drive
should be /dev/ht0 or /dev/nht0
>
> can somebody give me a hint to this ???
HTH :-)
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FTP SERVER not working in RH 7.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:05:50 GMT
In article <94piaj$ieh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
tgraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have RH 7 working but I've used Mandrake quite a bit, you need
> to make sure you've installed both the ftp rpms, I'm in the middle of
a
> move so my box is down but do a search for installed ftp RPMS and look
> at the CD RPMS directory to see if you missed one on the install.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> T
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Eric Corndorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey everybody. Just installed RH 7.0 and all is well for the most
> part.
> > The only thing that really didn't start working is the ftp
> server...I'm not
> > able to ftp into my machine. As I understand it, the name of the
> service
> > is tftp. When I type "service --status-all" I don't see the tftp
> service
> > on the list. I think thats it's not starting...but I'm not sure
> because I
> > cant compair my machine to a working RH 7.0 machine. Can someone
who
> has
> > RH 7.0 running tell me if the above command shows the tftp service?
> If it
> > does, can SOMEBODY tell me why mine is NOT working? Thanks, please
cc
> a
> > copy of your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thnaks
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > --
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> >
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Hi Eric. I have installed a full workstation installation of RH 7.0 and
it has ftp enabled. Look at the /etc/services file with an editor to
see if it is enabled there. Also note that tftp is different than ftp.
I assume that you know whether your nework hardware is working, if not
sure that would be something to check.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: mgetty eating my modems
Date: 25 Jan 2001 18:23:00 GMT
I have a very interesting problem with mgetty, it's init seems to be
sending something to a modem which leaves it in a broken state not
recoverable with &F resets.
Using mgetty 1.1.9 and Zoom Dual-standard or USR Sportster modems.
I was running an old version of mgetty, and reinstalled the machine
for several reasons. I install the current (at that time) mgetty and
configured it.
I tried the first Zoom modem before starting mgetty, and both dial and
answer (S0=1) worked fine. I started mgetty and the modem did not
answer. On trying the modem by hand again, it would neither detect dial
tone nor answer.
Thinking it was a coincidental modem failure, I pulled another Zoom
out of the box and tried the same things, with the same result. Then I
tried a USR SPortster, also with the same result.
Now I have three useless modems and no modem capability.
Does anyone have a clue (a) whay this happens or (b) how to get the
modems going again? I suspect that mgetty is sending some odd init which
causes problems, and which is saved in the CMOS and not reset by &F. But
I'm guessing at that.
--
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return, please ask me to wait." -seen in a doctor's office
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn)
Subject: Re: Linux version of my dos install disk?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:19:04 GMT
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:31:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew
Pitcher) wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:22:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>I have a floppy disk for dos that I've used for the last 5 years
>>whenever I want to install a new system. It's a simple bootable dos
>>floppy disk with several utilitys on it (fdisk, pkzip, edit, etc...)
>>I've recently tried to find a linux equivelent to this. ....
>
>There are several single-floppy Linux distributions suitable (even designed) for
>this use. Try LOAF ("Linux On A Floppy") at http://loaf.ecks.org/ or Toms
>Root/Boot at http://www.toms.net/rb/.
>
Also try mulinux. It boots from a floppy, and for 2-3 floppies you
get x-windows, gcc and other utilities! (Of course, the x-windows is
pretty coarse, but, heh, it fits on a floppy and lets you telnet.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark L. Coleman)
Subject: Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to RH6.2 hangs
Date: 25 Jan 2001 18:17:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I don't see anything wrong there.
>I know when 6.2 first came out there was a problem with the boot disk
>but I thought they had that fixed. I haven't found anything on the error
>your getting anywhere and have not seen that one before.
Guess what? Your hint about problems with the boot disk gave me an
idea : What if the Red Hat mirror site I used (ftp.ou.edu) had the
original boot disk image, bugs and all? Well, I happened to have
bought the RedHat Updates CD-ROM recently, so I used rawrite.exe to
make a boot disk from the boot.img file found on that CD-ROM. BINGO!!
No more problems with the install. Some other odd behavior of the
upgrade path on the boot disk was corrected, also.
Glad the problem is solved. Thanks to everyone for the help. It does
lower my confidence in this system of Red Hat FTP site (almost
impossible to log into all day long) and mirror sites (how do we know
the mirror sites stay up to date and don't pass bugs around?) I will
try to contact the FTP site admin at OU.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making a bootable CD.
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:31:47 +0100
> Since much has happened lately, I think it may be easy to now make a
> bootable CD, which conatins a relatively full Linux installation
> ( not with X, but most basic command line tools etc. ) so that one can
> make a very powerful recovery CD which does not limit one to the
> problems of eing stuck using "cut down" utilities?
You can even download an image of such a rescue CD.
No hassle of figuring out what you need to do.
Search freshmeat for it.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lilo exceeds 1024!
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:30:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My linux is redhat7.0 , and i want to dual boot with win2k, i run #l
> /sbin/lilo -v and got the following information:
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc3
> Mergin with /boot/boot.h
> Waring: device 0x1603 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1269.1023).
>
> So, how can i copy the boot file to dual boot with win2k?
> Thanks!
>
>
--
Hi Washington. If you use linux fdisk to name the partitions it will
recognize both systems, but the reverse is not true. Windows will not
recognize the linux partition. Run fsck with a couple different options
to check and maybe correct a problem with the filesystems. Configure
the lilo.conf file to set up boot options the way you want. You can also
look for detailed dual boot info at a site like linuxnewbie.org .
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From: David Zaroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xinetd, cvs, RH7, & pserver
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:47:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.redhat Michael Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been running CVS on RH 6.2 for many months without problem.
> I use pserver to access the repository from other machines over the LAN.
> After upgrading to RH7 it doesn't work.
> After fumbling around I discovered that the "cvs" command in CVS is
> no longer supported. It appears to be changed to "pserver".
I always have remembered it being just 'pserver', when using the pserver.
> The inetd file used to execute the command:
> cvs cvs --allow-root=<my repository path> pserver
> The new xinetd configuration executes:
> cvs pserver -f --allow-root=<my repository path>
Post how you have the entire service setup. Also check /etc/services to ensure
the cvspserver entries are still intact.
> Is this correct?
> Now when I try to connect from a client, I always get two error
> messages:
> Server configuration missing --allow-root in inetd.conf
^^^^^^^^^^???
Are you using inetd or xinetd?
> cvs login: autorization failed: server <host> rejected access to <my
> repository path>
> What am I doing wrong?
Need to first find out what you are doing first. ;-)
> BTW, the docs on pserver seem to be out of date. Is this feature being
> phased out?
Not sure what you mean. :-(
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.....Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: "~" with vim ??
Date: 25 Jan 2001 18:57:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:15:03 +0100, Ed Bras allegedly wrote:
>Hellu,
>
>Does someone know how to configure vim that it doesn't create a file with
>the same name and the "~" character at the end, when you edit a file ?
>(quite enjoying euhhhh)
it's a backup, to turn that put "set nobackup" in your .vimrc.
--
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The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo exceeds 1024!
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:05:49 +0100
> My linux is redhat7.0 , and i want to dual boot with win2k, i run #l
> /sbin/lilo -v and got the following information:
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc3
> Mergin with /boot/boot.h
> Waring: device 0x1603 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1269.1023).
>
> So, how can i copy the boot file to dual boot with win2k?
Ask the right question. *Why* does it fail.
Trust me, it wouldn't be bootable anyway.
I'll give you a hint:
Use the lba32 keyword.
Search the lilo documentation yourself
Eric
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