Linux-Setup Digest #582, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Feb 01 07:13:10 EST
Contents:
Glibc upgrade on Debian 2.2 Potato (jerome Moliere)
Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record? ("coolwonder")
Re: How can I denying users to access ("Damien Mangin")
RPC with windows and modem ("stef")
Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record? (Eric)
Linux Undertaking ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk (Juergen Sauer)
gnucash/g-wrap/guile problem (Glitch)
Re: pppd SNK Challenge from server (Glitch)
IWILL RAID Controlloer ("Zayin Krige")
Re: xf86config (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record? (Paul Colquhoun)
Norwegian keyboard ("David Durham")
Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk ("Peter T. Breuer")
monitor won't switch off after screensaver timeout (Nevin Wong)
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner ("Tauno Voipio")
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From: jerome Moliere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Glibc upgrade on Debian 2.2 Potato
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:26:53 +0100
Hi all Linux Gurus,
I've got a web server hosted by an ISP, this linux box runs Debian 2.2
r0 Potato.
This linux box must be a server for my Java/CORBA application, so I must
upgrade the JDK from 1.1.8 to 1.2.2 or 1.3. Using debian packages (.deb)
I would be obliged to upgrade my libc from glibc 2.1.13 to 2.2.1. I'm a
little bit afraid !!!!
So is it possible to install this library release keeping my old version
? Or have you done such process ? With which results ?
Thanks for all tricks
Take care
Jerome
PS:
excuse me for my poor english written
--
Jerome MOLIERE - World Wide Report
GNU/Linux addict
"I don't fear computers , I fear lack of them" Isaac Asimov
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From: "coolwonder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record?
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 03:22:16 -0600
I know in windows 2000, there is a command (recovery console) called fixMBR.
I think it should be similar to what you said fdisk /MBR. But I don't know
whether it will recover the harddrive based on current partition or some old
information. Any of you know which is the case?
Another question, Can I put saved MBR linux info (file) to other hard
drives? How can I do this?
thanks,
coolwonder
"Alex Zu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95qvnu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Use the fdisk of windows, try "fdisk /mbr" .
>
> "coolwonder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:95qu1o$pf3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi guys,
> > I have installed my linux 7.0 on a seperate drive from Windows 2000.
> Based
> > on installation guide, it may have overwrite my windows 2000 Master Boot
> > Record. Is there any easy way to get it back? reinstall Windows2000
(which
> > will destroy LILO, I guess) or any other good ways?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Coolwonder
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Damien Mangin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I denying users to access
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:33:07 +0100
Hi,
You must edit the /etc/ftpaccess file and add your user to the
restricted-uid line. This sould prevent him from going UP his home dir with
ftp.
avi wrote in message <95mmti$rrq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>How can I denying users to access to other files in my server.
>
>I notice that when they use ftp, then they can go around any dir and file
in
>the server.
>
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
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From: "stef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPC with windows and modem
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:36:22 +0100
Hello,
My server suse 7.0 has a modem. I want to access to the serveur by a windows
98 client ( hyperterminal or telnet ? ) with a modem to the server. How can
I do to configure the server. I don't understand the man page.
Thanks
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:42:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
coolwonder wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Why would you want to restore it?
I assume win2k on hda and linux on hdb, although is not really relevant
If you are unsure on what to do, post `fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]` and `cat
/etc/lilo.conf`
add to lilo.conf:
others=/dev/hda1
label=win2k
table=/dev/hda
and run /sbin/lilo -v
reboot and at the liloprompt choose win2k.
Or if you insist on having the NT loader as the main bootloader,
try /sbin/lilo -u (read the manpage)
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Undertaking
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:27:10 GMT
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Date: 7 Feb 2001 08:10:55 GMT
Pavan Burbure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:52:27 +0530 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
> I think this is the best way.
I certainly not.
> 1.Mount the new partition say on /mnt/newsys
Ok.
> 2.Execute the following
> $ tar cf - /bin | tar xf - -C /mnt/newsys
No, not as good. Tar Handles File Acess|Modify times not good,
Tar has got problems with special Files (dev, proc, pipes, fifo, etc)
Better is to use find & cpio like this:
find / -not -ipath '/mnt/newsys' | cpio -pdmv /mnt/newsys
"-not -ipath '/mnt/newsys'" makes sure not to copy it's destination.
mfG
Jojo
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:21:19 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: gnucash/g-wrap/guile problem
hello,
does anyone have a filed called require.scm that belongs to the
slib/guile 1.4 package?
I downloaded gnucash. I had to end up downloading g-wrap as well. Then I
got errors
during 'make' for g-wrap about a .scm file. I thought i had to get a new
version of guile as that's the package that has other scm files. I
downloaded guile 1.4 but I
still don't have the file I need to 'make' g-wrap which is needed by
gnucash.
Can someone send the file to my email or tell me where I can get it
since it wasn't included with guile? I got other scm files in the ice-9
directory, which is where slib is but not require.scm.
Thanks
Brandon
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:27:07 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd SNK Challenge from server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have read throught many documents on setting up
> the ppp connection to my ISP provider which is a
> Window NT. The best one I could follow was How
> to hook up PPP by W.G. Unruh,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> As you can see from the ppp.log everything goes
> fairly smoothly after executing this at the
> command line. pppd /dev/ttyS3 57600 debug
> connect " /usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATD5555551212
> CONNECT CLIENT ogin: mylogin assword: mypassword
> ppp"
>
> That problem exist when it wants the SNK
> Challenge. Somehow the chat script knows to send
> my password, I don't know why. Regardless, it
> does not want that and I do not know what it
> wants.
>
> I tried asking the people who are in charge of
> the Windows NT server box but they can not give
> me any information (they play stupid and say we
> only support Windows, like they can't tell me
> what authenication protocal they use).
>
> I messed with the pap-secrets and the chap-
> secrets to no avail.
>
> I also installed dhcp so it should automatically
> place the remote ip address into resolv.conf.
> That seems to work.
uh well first I don't think you are supposed to use DHCP with PPP. They
are 2 different protocols. When and if you connect with PPP you will
automatically get an IP from your ISP w/o needing to have DHCP handle
that for you and why would you place that IP in resolv.conf anyway? The
only things that need to go in that file are the IPs of your DNS
server(s).
As for the actual connection problem try using minicom from the console
to see what strings are sent from your ISP so that you can tell chat
what to expect/send in response.
It looks like u are sending your password at the wrong time and b/c of
that the remote server thinks it's the incorrect response based on the
prompt it provides you at that time...but i could be reading your output
incorrectly.
HTH
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From: "Zayin Krige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IWILL RAID Controlloer
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:20:45 +0200
I've got 2x20giggers on an IWILL RAID Controller, usings RAID LEVEL 1. The
iwill has an hpt366 chipset.
Now linux detects each drive individually, on the hpt366 ide controller, but
its not meant to. I can seem to get it to detect on single 40gig drive...
any ideas?
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xf86config
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:35:30 +1100
Just a reminder: changing resolutions is done by <ctrl+alt+numpad+/->
Numpad=little square on right side of keyboard with numbers.
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
Dave 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?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: Does RH Linux 7.0 overwrite my windwos2000 Master Boot Record?
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:47:53 GMT
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 03:22:16 -0600, coolwonder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|I know in windows 2000, there is a command (recovery console) called fixMBR.
|I think it should be similar to what you said fdisk /MBR. But I don't know
|whether it will recover the harddrive based on current partition or some old
|information. Any of you know which is the case?
| Another question, Can I put saved MBR linux info (file) to other hard
|drives? How can I do this?
|
|thanks,
|coolwonder
|
|"Alex Zu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
|news:95qvnu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
|> Use the fdisk of windows, try "fdisk /mbr" .
|>
|> "coolwonder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
|> news:95qu1o$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?
OK.
Step 1) Edit /etc/lilo.conf
Look for the line like "boot=/dev/hda"
Change the "hda" part to the partiton where your linux
root partition is, somethinf like "boot=/dev/hda6" for example
2) Rerun lilo to put the boot sector in place.
3) Using some windows boot disks, run "fdisk /mbr" to put
the MS boot sector back
4) Boot into Win2000. Get on the net and hunt for a program
called "bootpart". This is the easy way to add an entry
for Linux to your Win2000 boot menu.
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From: "David Durham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Norwegian keyboard
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:46:13 GMT
Hi,
I have just installed Mandrake 7.2, however, the keyboard mapping is wrong
(no '@' keystroke).
Does anyone have a dgood idea on how to correct this problem?
Thanks in anticipation.
-David
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:49:34 +0100
In comp.os.linux.hardware Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pavan Burbure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
>> $ tar cf - /bin | tar xf - -C /mnt/newsys
> No, not as good. Tar Handles File Acess|Modify times not good,
Try the "p" option to tar.
> Tar has got problems with special Files (dev, proc, pipes, fifo, etc)
It does not. I promise you .. I do all my machine copies this way.
> Better is to use find & cpio like this:
> find / -not -ipath '/mnt/newsys' | cpio -pdmv /mnt/newsys
To be frank, this maybe will work but it is a bit of overkill, and the
cpio options as always are incomprehensible. Don't you need to take
them into, and the out of, cpio format somewhere in taht pipe!
> "-not -ipath '/mnt/newsys'" makes sure not to copy it's destination.
> mfG
Why would one? Oh, I see.
Anyway, the canonical incantation for tar is
tar cpvlfC - / . | tar xpvlfC - /mnt
but there was noting wrong with "cp" or "rsync" either!
Peter
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From: Nevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: monitor won't switch off after screensaver timeout
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:14:24 +0800
Hi
I've posted before on this topic. I am using GNOME, and I am setting my
screensaver properties using its control center. My monitor won't power
off after the screensaver timeout, what can I do?
I have tried xset and also adding DPMS in Monitor section of
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but my monitor still won't power off.
Yours,
Nev
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[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 11:54:38 GMT
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[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.
>
The Red Hat installer is not the best there is. I use to do:
1. Boot Red Hat with 'text expert'
2. Select 'Custom' installation
3. Select fdisk as the partitioning tool
4. On an empty disk, create a small (8 - 16 MB) Linux partition for /boot
5. If needed, create a FAT primary partition for Windows C:
6. Create an extended partition
7. Create other Linux partitions as logical disks inside ext partition
(swap, /, maybe a separate for /var and another for /home)
There is a catch in the extended partition: if it is intended to place
Windows FAT32 logical disks in it, change the type to 0x0f (Extended FAT32).
After writing the partition table, abort the installation.
If Windows is to be installed, boot with a Windows boot diskette (you have
one?) and format the Windows C: partition (otherwise the Windows installer
tends to destroy the work just done). Install Windows.
Boot Red Hat installation and install the system you like. Remember to tell
the installer the proper partition configuration and mount points and
remember to format the new partitions. You should make a boot disk: if
something goes awry with LILO the boot disk is worth its weight in gold.
Include the Windows partition in the LILO configuration so you can select
whether to boot Linux or Windows.
Good luck!
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[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, 07 Feb 2001 12:08:00 GMT
"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".
> >
If you have an access to another computer running Linux and which you can
set up a LAN connection with, you could use the network installation: set
the ISO image in the helper computer using the loop option in mount and give
it out as a NFS network disk share.
The only limitation is to have a friend with a running Linux and the network
connections.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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