Linux-Setup Digest #634, Volume #20 Wed, 14 Feb 01 21:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network (Jim Wallis)
No Desktop Icons in KDE 2.0.1 (Rohan Beckles)
login not responding ("Mark MacGregor")
pseudocolor ("Dominic T. Cheng")
Help: NFS and Input/output error (Xiaoqin Qiu)
Re: DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Re: PPP not working with kernel 2.4.0 ("William C. Mount")
Newbie question: Printing to Red Hat Server (Edwin Humphries)
Re: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner ("Anthony Purcell")
Re: Getting Redhat 7.0 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner ("Jeremia d.")
Re: start NTP (Victor S. Miller)
Will upgrading my glibc rpm hose my system? (William Knight)
Trouble with cron (Doug Curtis)
Re: Read man pages (redhat 6.2) (Mark Bratcher)
Re: RH 7 hangs on boot (Mark Bratcher)
Zip100/lp - no device found.
Re: Can LILO boot windows MBR on /dev/hdb? (Steve Martin)
Re: Will upgrading my glibc rpm hose my system? (Steve Martin)
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From: Jim Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:05:10 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If the P166 machine is not being used for anything,
> use that as the router/firewall. Get a second NIC
> for it, connect one to the hub and one to the cable
> modem. Connect the other two computers to the hub.
> I don't know if your printer has ethernet networking
> capability. If so, then connect that to the hub too,
> if not, then connect it to the AMD K6 workstation.
>
> If you are using the P166 machine, then get another
> computer for the router/firewall. A 386 with 8MB
> RAM should be more than enough. You can probably
> pick one up for about $25 or find one someone is
> throwing out and get it for free. Install Linux
> and 2 NIC's, connect one to the hub and the other
> to the cable modem. Connect the other three
> computers to the hub.
Sound advice, I'm looking for a reasonably priced 486 or low end pentium
to set up as a firewall/router.
The essentials are:
2 Networking cards
IP-Masquerading, IP-Forwarding and IP-chains support in the kernel
Look on the LDP homepage for the firewall Howto, it has the minimum spec
for a firewall and a lot of info on how to configure IP-chains as a
firewall. IPchains isn't very easy to get the hang of but you could
always make use of one of the floppy based router/firewall distributions
available - it should be fairly simple with one of them! Look under
software and routers on http://www.cable-modems.co.uk/ for several!
The setup would be CM -> router -> hub -> Other machines
You can either run a DHCP server on the router or more simply use
private IP addresses on your LAN - with the latter arrangement there
should be no chance of the router mistaking local and internet packets!
Good Luck,
JIM
PS: your message was not related to m68k so I uncrossposted from there!
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From: Rohan Beckles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No Desktop Icons in KDE 2.0.1
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:31:58 -0500
Hello --
I recently downloaded KDE 2.0.1 and compiled it from source. Whenever it=
=20
starts up, none of the desktop icons appear, and none of the local files=20
appear in my home directory in Konqueror.
The same software compiles on my laptop computer perfectly well, with=20
desktop icons and Konqueror behaving properly (i.e. actually showing)
My system is a RedHat 6.1 install with the following upgraded software.
Kernel 2.4.0 release
XFree86 4.0.2
GLibC 2.1.3
QT-2.2.2
Any ideas?
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From: "Mark MacGregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: login not responding
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:34:44 -0600
I cannot get into my system. When I try to login at the console, I type my
user name and press enter and the cursor moves to the next line but nothing
happens. When I try to connect via telnet I get the system id, but no
prompt for user name. When I type my user name and press enter, the cursor
moves to the next line but nothing happens.
Has this happened to anybody out there? Essentially, I am locked out of my
system. Is there another way in by doing interactive startup or something
like that? What should I try next to resolve this problem? Thanks in
advance for any help. Could you copy response to my e-mail address?
Thanks.
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
Kernel 2.2.14-5.0 on an i586
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From: "Dominic T. Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pseudocolor
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:45:54 -0600
I'm running Redhat 6.2 w/KDE and have an app that needs to be run in
pseudocolor. Can someone tell me how to change my settings to accomodate
this?
thanks
dominic
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From: Xiaoqin Qiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Help: NFS and Input/output error
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:43:11 -0800
Hi everyone,
I just installed a RedHat Linux 7 with kernel 2.2.16-22 on a HP omnibook
6000 laptop. This machine is a NIS client in our network and I installed
amd on it. Now I got several problems for it.
1) I keep getting the following error messages for NFS mount directories
in the /var/log/messages file:
nfs_statfs: statfs error = 5
nfs_stat_to_errno: bad nfs status return value: 116
2) amd is not working.
3) All the NIS users cann't login with no error message. (I think maybe
it is because the home directory is on NFS server and amd doesn't work.)
How to set up system so that user can login even if the home directory
cann't be mounted correctly? I know telnet can allow it. But how about
Gnome and KDE login?
3) reboot of the Linux cann't come up all the way. Actually it looks
like it got halted.
Thank you very much!
Xiaoqin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server
Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:53:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
In <96e1nn$hfm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Doug Forbush" wrote:
> I put together a linux box at work here, it has the DPT smartRaid VI.. It
> also has 2G of RAM on it.. The install was great, simple kernel patch,
> compile and install.. The RAID works great IF I tell linux that there is
> only 900M RAM.. I'm not sure exactly how high I can go, but at 960M, the
> RAID initialization fails and /dev/sdc is not there..
>
> Any ideas on why this happens and how to get back over a gig of RAM?
>
> doug
>
That is very strange. At what point does initialization fail, as you put it ?
Do you
actually see 'DPT RAIDx' ( where x is the raid number ) on the DPT
banner ( in place of the brand name and model number of the
your SCSI drives ) when you boot the machine ? How did you build the array ?
--
"NeXTMail" OK at this address only.
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From: "William C. Mount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP not working with kernel 2.4.0
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:45:42 -0600
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Dedicated to all Manson Fans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Michal Fikejs schrieb:
>
> >> I compiled a new kernel 2.4.0 from the source, I compiled the PPP
> >> support (first as a module, then directly in the kernel) but when I try
> >> to connect to internet the pppd dies with a code 4 - no PPP kernel support.
> >>
> >> When I compiled PPP as a module no module named ppp.o was made.
> >>
> >> Any Idea what could be wrong?
> -
> maybe its called:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 8592 Feb 3 14:44 ppp_synctty.o
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 27900 Feb 3 14:44 ppp_generic.o
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 38644 Feb 3 14:44 ppp_deflate.o
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 10224 Feb 3 14:44 ppp_async.o
>
> Peter
You have to download the newest version of PPP and compile it. PPP was
completely rewritten for 2.4 do a search at yahoo for linux ppp and you'll find
it. If not, e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I"ll send it to you.
William C. Mount RHCE
PIII 850
1024MG RAM
240GB RAID 1
DSL
RedHat 7.2 Beta
Kernel 2.4.1
KDE 2.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Humphries)
Subject: Newbie question: Printing to Red Hat Server
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:27:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Mandrake 7.2 workstation (experimental at this stage: one
more challenge to meet!)
It's on a network with 2 NT workstations and a Red Hat server, which
is the main print server, running SAMBA (and successfully, for the NT
boxes).
However, whilst I can run Kups and configure the network printer
(using SAMBA or direct) and even print test pages, I can't see it from
within applications. StarOffice cn see it's there, but cn't seem to
print to it - when i try, I get a message in the printer status that
says "ERRDOS - ERRfilexists opening remote file (stdin)"
Can anyone shed a light on this? Have I made a rash assumption that,
like other GUIs, once you configure a printer, the applications should
be able to see it?
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From: "Anthony Purcell" <[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, 14 Feb 2001 23:56:32 GMT
You can download and install at the same time! Download the net bootdisk and
when it prompts for installation method choose ftp and point it to sunsite
or freesoftware.com. I use this method all the time why waste cds and or
disk space downloading iso's when you can just do it from the net. Im
assuming you have broadband connectivity if you are downloading iso images
:o)
Anthony
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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: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting Redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:27:06 GMT
Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> I want to get Redhat 7.0 with the new kernel 2.4. But a friend tell me
> that the original Redhat 7.0 CD won't compile kernel after installation.
> Have they fix this problem? Where should I down load the latest ISO
> images?
Since RedHat 7.0 doesn't come with Kernel 2.4.1, the first question is
where did he obtain the Kernel that wouldn't compile?
If you down load the tarball from kernel.org then you need to install the
RedHat RPM: KGCC.
And edit the file: "/usr/src/linux/Makefile"
Replace both instances of "gcc" with "kgcc".
Then the Kernel should compile.
JRT
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From: "Jeremia d." <[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, 14 Feb 2001 23:35:14 GMT
He could just download the iso image and mount it like a regular cd.
Anthony Purcell wrote:
> You can download and install at the same time! Download the net bootdisk and
> when it prompts for installation method choose ftp and point it to sunsite
> or freesoftware.com. I use this method all the time why waste cds and or
> disk space downloading iso's when you can just do it from the net. Im
> assuming you have broadband connectivity if you are downloading iso images
> :o)
>
> Anthony
>
> --
> "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.
--
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
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Subject: Re: start NTP
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:38:46 GMT
>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Yung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alex> Judging by the location of your startup script, you are not
Alex> using RedHat nor Mandrake. You can use "update-rc.d" to
Alex> automate the ntpd startup and shutdown.
Alex, I should have said that I'm running RH 7.0, so I'm puzzled by
your comment. How can I do this on RH?
Victor
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From: William Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Will upgrading my glibc rpm hose my system?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:08:45 -0700
I'm running Redhat 5.2 and am trying to install the java jdk1.3 sdk.
When trying to install the rpm, I get the message
"failed dependecies: glibc >= 2.1.2-11 is needed by jdk-1.3-fcs
I've found a higher version of the glibc on the Redhat web page, but
before I install it, I want to know the consequences. If I install, say
'glibc2.1.92-14', is this going to break my existing programs or require
me to do a complete upgrade?
thanks,
William Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Doug Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trouble with cron
Date: 14 Feb 2001 19:14:13 -0600
I am running RH7 with 2.2.18 kernel. I am trying to run webalizer at
the top and hlafway through the hour. Here is what is in my crontab:
0,30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/webalizer
It doesn't seem to be running though. If I manually run webalizer, it
works fine. I have been running this on another RH7 machine and cron
has been working fine.
Is there something I should be looking for? (and yes, crond is
running)
Thanks,
Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Read man pages (redhat 6.2)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:05:52 GMT
In article <Pine.GSO.BU-L4.10.10102121657290.4754-100000@bingsun2>, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
>I have a text file that is obviously used to prepare man pages:
>
>.TH mkfs.jfs 8 "November 6, 2000" " " "JFS file system creation"
>
>.SH NAME
>.B mkfs.jfs
>\- create a JFS formatted partition
>
>.SH SYNOPSIS
>.B mkfs.jfs
>[options]
>.I device
>
>.SH DESCRIPTION
>.PP
>.B mkfs.jfs
>is used to create (format) a JFS partition.
>.B mkfs.jfs
>must be run as root.
>
>Which command (and options) should I use to convert it into a man page
>that can be used by man command. How is this text file created in the
>first place?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Zhihui
>
It's already in the format that man will display for you.
Just put the file in a directory that your manpath knows,
or type "man -M . file_name".
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7 hangs on boot
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:20:44 GMT
In article <tkpi6.7857$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cameron Kerr wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Geoff Prosser"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[snip]
>This is probably because your kernel (which lives in /boot (Currently in
>your "2GB linux native" partition, which is certainly NOT withing the
>1024 cylinders (this equates to the first 540MB)
This is not necessarily so.
I had a 6GB drive with Linux installed _after_ 4GB and the /boot was still
within 1024 cylinders. Where the cylinders are can vary.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip100/lp - no device found.
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:30:06 -0000
Any help is appreciated.
I have both as mountable in kernel.
commented out both in Rc.local.
#lsmod:
Module Size Used by
sg 15832 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 7400 0
isdn 67072 0 (unused)
dummy 964 0 (unused)
ppp 21344 0 (unused)
input 2908 0 (unused)
audio 35144 0 (unused)
parport_probe 3492 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport 7456 0 [parport_probe]
#cdrecord -scanbus:
Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW CRW6206A' '1.3A' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
#dmesg:
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW CRW6206A Rev: 1.3A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW CRW6206A Rev: 1.3A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW CRW6206A Rev: 1.3A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW CRW6206A Rev: 1.3A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
ppa: parport reports no devices.
scsi : 1 host.
3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
usb.c: registered new driver audio
usb.c: error registering usblp driver
usb.c: error registering usbscanner driver
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.100/1.84/1.114/none/none/1.4 loaded
imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
imm: parport reports no devices.
scsi : 1 host.
ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
ppa: parport reports no devices.
scsi : 1 host.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 2 hosts.
ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
ppa: parport reports no devices.
scsi : 2 hosts.
lp: no devices found
#insmod ppa:
Device or resource busy.
Can some one help me out, please.
Rgds.
myint
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can LILO boot windows MBR on /dev/hdb?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:05:36 GMT
Duane Healing wrote:
> Lilo's boot screen is determined by the file written to the boot sector
> pointed to in /etc/lilo.conf under the "install=" line. Usually this
> reads simply "install=boot.b", but I've seen other configurations as
> well. Look in that file and see what it's pointing too, then look in
> /boot and see if a standard boot.b is there. Change the lilo.conf to
> point to it, rerun lilo and you should be set.
Unforunately, my lilo.conf file already points to /boot/boot.b
with the "install=" line. Looks like maybe Red Hat might have
come up with a custom boot loader??
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will upgrading my glibc rpm hose my system?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:09:29 GMT
William Knight wrote:
> I'm running Redhat 5.2 and am trying to install the java jdk1.3 sdk.
> When trying to install the rpm, I get the message
>
> "failed dependecies: glibc >= 2.1.2-11 is needed by jdk-1.3-fcs
>
> I've found a higher version of the glibc on the Redhat web page, but
> before I install it, I want to know the consequences. If I install, say
> 'glibc2.1.92-14', is this going to break my existing programs or require
> me to do a complete upgrade?
Can't say about upgrading from your current version to glibc 2.1, but
I hosed my system pretty well trying to upgrade a Red Hat 6.2 install
to glibc 2.2, so I'd be careful.
Since your distro is pretty old (as these things are measured), I'd
advise you to go ahead and upgrade the whole thing. I had pretty good
luck with Red Hat 6.2, so you might try that... it's got glibc 2.1,
so your jdk should install.
You can get RH6.2 for $5 at www.cheapbytes.com.
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