Linux-Setup Digest #581, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Feb 01 03:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: 2>&1 means??? (E J)
xf86config ("Dave")
Re: HOW ABOUT LINUX (newsreader99)
Re: How do I install LILO? (subuno)
howto stop dhclient?? (jmsalvo)
Filesystem transfer to new disk (Jeff Moore)
Re: xf86config (H.Bruijn)
Re: problems installing Netscape 6 (Jay & Shell)
Sendmail problem... ("avi")
Re: problems installing Netscape 6 (Tom Rosso)
Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk ("Pavan Burbure")
Re: apt-get --> seg fault (James Kingston)
Re: Mounting a zip drive throw a network (Shreyas)
Re: newbie uninstall linux ("wilcock")
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Eric)
Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record? ("coolwonder")
Re: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: problems installing Netscape 6 ("Duane Healing")
Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record? ("Alex Zu")
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2>&1 means???
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:01:06 GMT
stdout is 1
stderr is 2
In english combine standard output and standard error into standard output.
John Mravunac wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me what the symbols 2>&1 stand for in cron job for instance?
>
> Thanks,
> John :^)
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From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xf86config
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:26:29 GMT
Could someone tell me where this file should be located to properly
configure xwindows. When I run startx I get the same screen resolution no
matter what settings I put into this file. Is this the file that should be
edited to make the screen resolution changes? Also I can't get cntr-+ or
cntrl-- to do anything and my viewport is larger than the physical screen.
Can I set this to the "virtual" viewport to the same size as my screen?
Thanks for the help.
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (newsreader99)
Subject: Re: HOW ABOUT LINUX
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:05:34
You might want to unlock that caps lock next time you post. It will get more
response that way.
In article <95ebrf$76f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "�p�ʧb"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:>From: "�p�ʧb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Subject:
HOW ABOUT LINUX>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:23:59 +0800
>PLEASE
>ANYBODY CAN TELL ME HOW AOBUT LINUX OS.HOW TO USE.HOW TO SET.HOW TO
>SETUP.FOR FIRST USER...........PLEASE............PLEASE.......TELL ME
>THANKS. FORM TAIWAN.........
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From: subuno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I install LILO?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:39:32 GMT
Log in as root and type lilo and then press enter. First make sure you
have a bootable w2000 disk in case of any problems. When Lilo installs
you will see it go down the screen and tell you your boot options that
are added. Another way is to go into Klilo from the Kde desktop and set
it up from there. You may at some point neet to edit your
/etc/lilo.conf file by hand to get it to do exacly what you want and you
can get plenty of examles by going to deja.com and doing a search. If
you run into really hard problems there are lots of really smart folks
in here to help:-)))
GLuck,
subuno
coolwonder wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
> I just installed my RH Linux 7.0. boot from bios setup or floppy disk
> because I am afraid that LILO may overwrite my win2000 boot record.
> Since everything is setup very well, I start thinking of installing LILO
> for dual boot. Can anybody tell me how to install LILO and what pitpalls
> should I tray to avoid?
>
> Thanks,
> Coolwonder
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From: jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: howto stop dhclient??
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 04:39:43 GMT
I had recently decided to use dhclient instead of pump or dhcpcd because
of all the other options that I can specify in dhclient.conf.
Starting it up is simple, modify /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup,
replace "/sbin/pump" with "/sbin/dhclient" with the required parameters.
My question is what to do with shutting down the network? e.g.: when
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop" is called,
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown is also called. What options do I
have to specify for dhclient during when ifdown is called?
There does not seem to be an option to kill the currently running
dhclient daemon via dhclient ( like you do with dhcpcd -k ).
Any ideas?
Using dhclient-2.0pl5.
Thanks,
John
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.general
Subject: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:52:16 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought a new hard disk and I am wondering how is the best way to
copy my old system to it completely.
I can install the new disk as a second disk and mount the partitions,
but how do I copy the important files to it so they are intact, and in
the right place.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jeff Moore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: xf86config
Date: 7 Feb 2001 04:59:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:26:29 GMT, Dave allegedly wrote:
>Could someone tell me where this file should be located to properly
>configure xwindows. When I run startx I get the same screen resolution no
>matter what settings I put into this file. Is this the file that should be
>edited to make the screen resolution changes? Also I can't get cntr-+ or
>cntrl-- to do anything and my viewport is larger than the physical screen.
>Can I set this to the "virtual" viewport to the same size as my screen?
/etc/X11/XF86Config
Edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config somewhere there will be sections which
look like :
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "640x400"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual "1600x1200"
EndSubsection
This is the section where the settings for your display at a colordepth
of 16 bit are set. In my case the default mode is "1024x768" the other
modes are tried succesively when the default mode doesn't work. Now I
like my desktop to be larger then my display so I have a Virtual desktop
of "1600x1200". In your case simply comment out the virtual line and
then your desktop will always be the size of your physical display.
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "640x400"
ViewPort 0 0
# Virtual "1600x1200"
EndSubsection
Adding a line "DefaultColorDepth 24" will always set the default
colordepth to 24 bit per pixel.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: Jay & Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems installing Netscape 6
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 05:19:33 GMT
Tom Rosso wrote:
> Hello,
> I just finished installing RedHat 7.0. Now, I'm trying to upgrade
> Netscape to version 6. I downloaded the install program and it runs,
> but it only gets partway through before it starts giving me grief. The
> netscape-installer-bin program seems to end right after I choose which
> components to install and click the "install" button, because the
> program closes and in my term window it says:
> "./netscape-installer: line 48: 17453 Broken pipe
> ./netscape-installer-bin --sync"
> Anybody else have this trouble or know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
> -Tom
I know what you're doing wrong! You're trying to install Netscape
6.0..... :)
Forget it, I did and it sucks, sloowowoow, I'm sticking with 4.76, also
why not check out Opera it's excellent and the finished product should be
awesome.
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From: "avi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail problem...
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:50:42 +0200
Hi,
I had install my domain and send mail to my server.
I can send mail but I cann't resive any mail.
is there any setting I need to do or somewhere I can check to solve the
problem?
redhat 7.0
Thanks
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From: Tom Rosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems installing Netscape 6
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:05:31 -0700
Jay & Shell wrote:
> I know what you're doing wrong! You're trying to install Netscape
> 6.0..... :)
> Forget it, I did and it sucks, sloowowoow, I'm sticking with 4.76, also
> why not check out Opera it's excellent and the finished product should be
> awesome.
Yeah, I was running Netscape 6 in Windows and it was pretty slow.
Almost unusable. I was hoping it would be faster in Linux. But, I
think I may have a theory as to what I'm doing wrong. I'm running
through a proxy server, and maybe the install program gets to the part
where it wants to download the files, but it can't find the server, so
it just gives up and exits. I don't know. Anyone know if there's a way
to set up RedHat so everything knows about the proxy? I can't figure
out how to work lynx with the proxy, and I can't make ftp work (the
console prog.).
-Tom
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From: "Pavan Burbure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:52:27 +0530
I think this is the best way.
1.Mount the new partition say on /mnt/newsys
2.Execute the following
$ tar cf - /bin | tar xf - -C /mnt/newsys
3.Do this for each of the directories in / i.e /bin, /etc, /home, /usr,
/sbin, /var, ...anything else I've left out. Don't do this for the /mnt
partition on which the new disk is mounted. It will fail.
4.Of course, if you have multiple partitions, you can mount them under
/mnt/newsys as required.
Pavan
Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just bought a new hard disk and I am wondering how is the best way to
> copy my old system to it completely.
> I can install the new disk as a second disk and mount the partitions,
> but how do I copy the important files to it so they are intact, and in
> the right place.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff Moore
>
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From: James Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apt-get --> seg fault
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 06:26:25 GMT
Thanks for your help but I decided to just grab my precious X
configuration and reinstall back to Redhat. The list of little things
that needed fixing was just adding up too fast, while the only oddity I
noticed with RH was that xf86configure created a file that startx
couldn't read (but luckily I saved a working one from my corel
experiment)
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From: Shreyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting a zip drive throw a network
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 06:30:08 -0000
try using supermount (fs=vfat)... you won't have to manually mount the disk
each time
your users want to access it.
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
>
> FilipeMaia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is it possible to mount a zip drive so that it can be read/written by
> > everyone?
>
> Depends if it's an ext2fs or vfat file system. In principle, the
> question has nothing to do with zip drives (answer is yes to both).
>
> > Or is there an easy way to mount it throw a graphic interface in a win
box
> > connected to the linux box?
>
> eh?
>
> > I have samba installed and i want to share the zip drive in r/w mode,
but i
> > can't do it.
>
> > Can anyone help?
>
> I suspect you are talking about the FAQ of how to make dos filesystems
> read/write for all. Man mount. Option umask.
>
> Peter
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From: "wilcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie uninstall linux
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:59:00 +0800
Duane Healing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:co%f6.415$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Other's have pointed to the uninstall procedure, but I'm going to
> question the larger issue of using this machine for your purposes.
> Doesn't a Quakeworld server take a fair bit of processing power? I would
> wonder if a 486/66 is up to the task, especially if you put X on the
> thing and have it eat up all your CPU and memory.
>
Ive run a dedicated quakeworld lan server on this cpu befor running
win95...pings got
pretty high..50-90ms but i think it was due to ram and hard drive speed..
Since Linux has networking as its core I thought Id try running a dedicated
QW server using Linux to see if the pings would improve..winX OS's arn't
very good at multitasking so a change in OS seemed like a good chance
for me to try Linux and to see for myself what improvements, if any, Linux
has
in this scenario.
I never got to the stage of actually running QW so Im not sure if i would
have
needed to install X or KDE or some other program. Ill try again in the near
future.......I was most impressed with how easy DHCP was to set up on this
project given my virgin state with this OS, and the very low powered system
specs.
BTW..the uninstall went smoothly, I think due to the fact I used the boot
from
floppy option with this install, I took christopher's advice and booted from
a win98 boot disks.
Thanks for all your help.
Foo[ who has now seen the linux light :) ]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:37:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
> In article <95p91j$a7k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy Paiz wrote:
> >okay, so here's my plan: i'm going to configure lilo to boot either windows
> >or linux.
If the partitiontable is simple, it'll automatically set it up for you
> >in redhat linux 6.2 installation, lilo installation immediately
> >follows the partitioning part. i tried partitioning as normal "/",
> >"<swap>", "/usr", "/home" and "/var", along with "/boot" (which appeared in
> >red indicating it failed). when i clicked to move ahead to the lilo
> >installation, the partitioning dialog froze and i was forced to restart.
> >this happened twice more.
That should teach you. :-)
Don't move ahead until a step is finished.
DiskDruid will NOT allow you to make a /boot beyond cyl. 1024
Use the fdisk option to partition (A checkbox in the upper right corner
IIRC)
> >my question now is: do i skip partitioning
> >altogether and proceed with lilo installation? do i leave out the "/boot"
> >partition? is there something else i should do?
> >
> >
>
> Linux cannot run without /boot. You're going to have to get /boot in
> there somewhere.
That's correct, but it doesn't need to be a separate partition.
If / succeeded, just let /boot be a part of it.
> You must be choosing the "custom" or "expert" installation. Why don't
> you pick one of the automatic ones ("Workstation" for example)?
>
Might be less friendly to any other OS on that disc?
Eric
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From: "coolwonder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record?
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:38:25 -0600
Hi guys,
I have installed my linux 7.0 on a seperate drive from Windows 2000. Based
on installation guide, it may have overwrite my windows 2000 Master Boot
Record. Is there any easy way to get it back? reinstall Windows2000 (which
will destroy LILO, I guess) or any other good ways?
Thanks,
Coolwonder
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Reply-To: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:43:39 +0100
You do this.
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -t iso9660 /path/to/thefile.iso /mnt/iso -o loop
Now just cd to /mnt/iso you got your files there , copy them somewhere else
if you like...
"Richard Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I try to download and install Linux on my computer, but I haven't got a
CD
> > burner.
> > The only download methods I can find on the net is iso-images or all the
> > individual files from FTP, which would take me days to download.
> > So I'm wondering if there's any way to unpack or convert the ISO-images
to
> > individual files without having to burn a CD.
> > Or if anyone know of a site to download SuSE Linux 7 as a ZIP or similar
> > archive file.
> > All help appreciated, and please no answers like "buy a CD burner".
> >
> > Audun
>
> try www.cheapbytes.com and order a cd shipped to you. ONly a few
> dollars plus shipping.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:36:52 GMT
try running "sndconfig" at the command line. it
should find your card (and test it for you), but
if it doesn't try visiting the manufacturer's
homepage for support. my guess is, though, that
sndconfig will find it just fine.
good luck
KE
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:37:41 GMT
try running "sndconfig" at the command line. it should find your card
(and test it for you), but if it doesn't try visiting the
manufacturer's homepage for support. my guess is, though, that
sndconfig will find it just fine.
good luck
KE
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems installing Netscape 6
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:56:25 -0800
Lynx can be made to use a proxy server by setting the http_proxy shell
variable. Do a "man lynx" and search for "PROTOCOL_proxy".
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tom Rosso"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jay & Shell wrote:
>> I know what you're doing wrong! You're trying to install Netscape
>> 6.0..... :)
>> Forget it, I did and it sucks, sloowowoow, I'm sticking with 4.76, also
>> why not check out Opera it's excellent and the finished product should
>> be awesome.
>
> Yeah, I was running Netscape 6 in Windows and it was pretty slow.
> Almost unusable. I was hoping it would be faster in Linux. But, I
> think I may have a theory as to what I'm doing wrong. I'm running
> through a proxy server, and maybe the install program gets to the part
> where it wants to download the files, but it can't find the server, so
> it just gives up and exits. I don't know. Anyone know if there's a way
> to set up RedHat so everything knows about the proxy? I can't figure
> out how to work lynx with the proxy, and I can't make ftp work (the
> console prog.).
> -Tom
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From: "Alex Zu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record?
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:07:15 +0800
Use the fdisk of windows, try "fdisk /mbr" .
"coolwonder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95qu1o$pf3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi guys,
> I have installed my linux 7.0 on a seperate drive from Windows 2000.
Based
> on installation guide, it may have overwrite my windows 2000 Master Boot
> Record. Is there any easy way to get it back? reinstall Windows2000 (which
> will destroy LILO, I guess) or any other good ways?
>
> Thanks,
> Coolwonder
>
>
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