Linux-Setup Digest #638, Volume #20 Thu, 15 Feb 01 13:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: PS/2 mouse config under Debian 2.2 ("James Smagala")
Re: Linux Error: 23: Too many open files in system (Mark Hahn)
Re: is it possible to move linux files on C:(msdoss) to hda2 ?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PS/2 mouse config under Debian 2.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I have a problem in boot ("Alan Shepherd")
ATI Xpert2000 graphics card (Tom Brown)
Re: CDR setup (Michal Fikejs)
Re: Sharity on Linux question (Dan Mercer)
Solved - slow xinetd service connection (The Archimage)
Re: ATI Xpert2000 graphics card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Solved - slow xinetd service connection (The Archimage)
Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux ("Sanjay Agrawal")
Re: Trouble with cron ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
Re: Keyboard mapping and sterling symbol... (Jem)
Re: Solved - slow xinetd service connection (Tim Haynes)
Re: Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux (Mark Bratcher)
error: kISDN: No interface for channel 0 found (vitry)
Re: Searching small linux-distribution on diskettes (images) (DeAnn)
Re: Linux Error: 23: Too many open files in system (Vilmos Soti)
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From: "James Smagala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse config under Debian 2.2
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:11:00 -0700
Thanks - that works quite a bit better.
J
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Error: 23: Too many open files in system
Date: 15 Feb 2001 15:12:59 GMT
>> Linux Error: 23: Too many open files in system
...
>> Is the number of open files adjustable? How?
> You can change the limit in /usr/src/linux.../include/linux/limits.h
> file and recompile the kernel. Default in Redhat 6.2 is 256.
on modern kernels, "echo bignumber > /proc/sys/fs/file-max".
on obsolete 2.2 kernels, /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: is it possible to move linux files on C:(msdoss) to hda2 ?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:33:23 GMT
On 15 Feb 2001 11:44:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oldbehr) wrote:
>Help! I loaded Redhat7 onto separate partition. I cannot startx without
>downloading and installing xfree 4.0.2 drivers which I have downloaded using
>Windows etc. But how can I move these files to my Redhat partition so as to
>install them ? is it possible or am I just a dumb twit for even trying to do it
>this way? any help will be much appreciated
If your DOS/Windows partition is /dev/hda1, you need to mount that
partition in order to access it. For example:
mount -tvfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
No guarantees that is going to work, it is just an example. But, if
the mount command doesn't complain (you need to do that as root, by
the way), then you should be able to get a listing of what you call
C:\ by doing 'ls /mnt/'.
Gord
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse config under Debian 2.2
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:29:37 GMT
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:27:12 -0700, "James Smagala"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to get a PS/2 mouse to work under X on a Debian 2.2 system. The
>config program for the X server has an option to support PS/2 mouses. I do
>have some movement of the mouse, though it is sporadic and only left/right.
>
>The only other obvious variable is what device I specify as the mouse input.
>Currently its just /dev/mouse. What other devices might be a mouse
>interface? Any other suggestions as to ways to get it working?
Do you have gpm running as well? I recently brought up a
testing/unstable machine, and had some mouse problems. Gpm had
configured the mouse for use under text mode before any X stuff looked
at the mouse for GUI mode. Gpm had set things up such that it was
reading the "true" device (/dev/psaux), and then making a "repeater"
available on /dev/gpmdata. No matter what I did, I couldn't get X to
behave with the mouse set to /dev/mouse or /dev/gpmdata. However,
telling X that /dev/psaux was the mouse, did work. I don't know if
gpm works under text mode, I don't use it.
Gord
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From: "Alan Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I have a problem in boot
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:47:08 -0000
Fdisk /mbr will get rid of the Lilo boot loader, as to changing the default
boot-up OS, then that has to be done in Linux......
> >I have installed Linux and I want to suppress it from my hard disk, but
> >the bios boot in Linux even if I have installes winnt in the hard disk.
> >
> >if anyone know how to do for access at bios?
>
> do you just want to boot windows by default? or do you want to get rid
> of linux completely?
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:53:55 +0100
From: Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Xpert2000 graphics card
Hi,
I'm setting up a Slackware 7.1 box using an ATI Expert2000 video card.
Using the config programs for graphics cards I can't get a combination
that will run when I execute startx. Either I get a black screen or a
lot ot text followed by a broken x server connection. I'm using
(eventually) the KDE windowing system and the monitor is a Smasung
17GLsi. Can anyone give me a hand or config file for this graphics
card? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Tom
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From: Michal Fikejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDR setup
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:10:04 +0100
I imagine I
> would have to reconfigure the kernel to use ide-scsi for the Sony CRX140
> burner I recently bought.
Good news: Sony CRX140 works fine with cdrecord.
> My questions are should I use a particular patch level for the kernel?
> Secondly, can I enable both EIDE and SCSI support during the kernel
> configuration? Anything else I should know.
It's all described in cdwriting HOWTO, but anyway. You have to
reconfigure the kernel. You disable IDE/ATAPI cdrom and enable SCSI
emulation support. You can't enable both.
Michal
--
___________________________________
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.diorama.cz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Mercer)
Subject: Re: Sharity on Linux question
Date: 15 Feb 2001 16:16:58 GMT
In article <HUGi6.8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Xiaopong Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone has experience with Sharity (www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity.html)?
> It allows to mount shared NT directories on a Linux filesystem, and
> access them like NFS mount.
>
> It looks really cool, except I can't get it to work completely.
> It does mount, except that I can not see files in some directories,
> which I should. There's nothing to do with permission at
> all, all directories are shared with full permission.
>
> The directories are on NT 4, and I'm using Sharity 2.3 on
> Linux RH 7. Anyone would like to share any troubleshooting
> hints?
>
> Thanks
>
> Xiaopong
Why don't you use smbfs?
--
Dan Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: The Archimage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Solved - slow xinetd service connection
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:33:03 -0600
History:
I installed RH7 and activated imap. Checking mail from work (behind a
firewall), imap connections took 45-60 seconds to establish, and then
after a few minutes, dropped. I had to re-establish the connection, and
it again took 45-60 seconds. I thought it was a DNS issue, but all
hosts could resolve each other forward and backwards.
A co-worker was working a similar issue with sendmail, and we discovered
the problem was that the server was trying to do an ident lookup. Since
I was behind a firewall, this took 45-60 seconds to timeout before I
could get to my mail.
The solution is to set up an ipchains rule on the server, blocking
outbound ident lookups:
Kernel 2.2.x with ipchains:
ipchains -A output -p tcp -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 113 -j REJECT
Kernel 2.4.x with iptables:
iptables -i OUTPUT -p tcp -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 113 -j REJECT
Hope this helps.
--
===================================================================
-- Thomas D. Cameron --
Red hat Certified Engineer -- TurboLinux Certified Instructor
-- Certified NetWare Engineer --
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer -- Microsoft Certified Trainer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert2000 graphics card
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:17:56 +0000
Reply-To: no_replyto@oursite
This message has been posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ewart)
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:53:55 +0100, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>I'm setting up a Slackware 7.1 box using an ATI Expert2000 video card.
>Using the config programs for graphics cards I can't get a combination
>that will run when I execute startx. Either I get a black screen or a
>lot ot text followed by a broken x server connection. I'm using
>(eventually) the KDE windowing system and the monitor is a Smasung
>17GLsi. Can anyone give me a hand or config file for this graphics
>card? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I've got that card on my home system. You don't mention which version
of XFree86 you have (not familiar with Slackware). In theory, the ATI
Rage128 cards (that's the chipset on your card) work on XFree86 3.3.6,
but in practice I found that I needed XFree86 4.0.1 for reasonable
success ... Email me privately if you want a config file for that.
Dave.
P.S. Apologies for the spam-trapped headers - they are added by my
outgoing news server and I have no control over them.
--
Dave Ewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Manager
ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK
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From: The Archimage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Solved - slow xinetd service connection
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:46:18 -0600
AACK!! I brain cramped! The correct syntax for iptables is:
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --destination-port 113 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j
REJECT
My most humble apologies!
Thomas
The Archimage wrote:
>
> History:
>
> I installed RH7 and activated imap. Checking mail from work (behind a
> firewall), imap connections took 45-60 seconds to establish, and then
> after a few minutes, dropped. I had to re-establish the connection, and
> it again took 45-60 seconds. I thought it was a DNS issue, but all
> hosts could resolve each other forward and backwards.
>
> A co-worker was working a similar issue with sendmail, and we discovered
> the problem was that the server was trying to do an ident lookup. Since
> I was behind a firewall, this took 45-60 seconds to timeout before I
> could get to my mail.
>
> The solution is to set up an ipchains rule on the server, blocking
> outbound ident lookups:
>
> Kernel 2.2.x with ipchains:
> ipchains -A output -p tcp -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 113 -j REJECT
>
> Kernel 2.4.x with iptables:
> iptables -i OUTPUT -p tcp -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 113 -j REJECT
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Thomas D. Cameron --
> Red hat Certified Engineer -- TurboLinux Certified Instructor
> -- Certified NetWare Engineer --
> Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer -- Microsoft Certified Trainer
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> deja search keywords:
> red hat 7 imap pop3 telnet talk wu-ftpd slow xinetd connection
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From: "Sanjay Agrawal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:30:54 -0500
- I have two hard drives - hda1 and hdb1
hda1 is a single windows partition with win 98 on it.
hdb1 has 4 to 5 odd partitions with one of them being ms-fat. hdb1 has linus
installed on it.
I intend to mount whole of hda1 on linux. And at the same time want to see
the ms-dos partition on hdb1 on win98.
Can somebody tell me what steps I need to take.
Thanks
Sanjay Agrawal
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From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with cron
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:50:13 -0600
Doug Curtis wrote:
> 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
The difference between running in cron and when you run from a login is
that the login has environment variables set. Depending on which shell
you use and I guess the getty used to log you in you pick from various
files. The /etc/profile can be run for all logins and if your are using
bash for your shell it runs .bashrc (don't forget the dot before the
name). Other shells such as sh and ksh use .profile (again a dot before
the name).
Another problem is that cron may be using a different shell than you have
as your default shell. The seventh field of /etc/passwd for your login
has the shell you will be loged into. Run your shell in the cron and use
webalizer as the command for the shell to run to be sure you are getting
the correct shell in the cron.
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From: Jem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.embedded,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Keyboard mapping and sterling symbol...
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:49:39 -0000
OK... I'm going to follow up my own post as noone else seems to have a
clue about it and see if this extra hint helps...
My application is fired up by scripts in rc.d using "open" so as it
opens in a new console window. I have just noticed that pressing the UK
Sterling symbol in this window results in the pound sign being correctly
displayed.
Also if I'm quick enough between typing exit and the next login prompt
appearing I can make a pound symbol appear there too.
BUT As soon as the login prompt appears, and from then on, I cannot get
pound symbols at all (sorry, in case this isn't clear, I can still get
them in the other console windows).
Anyone? Anywhere? Any ideas? What extra processing is performed by the
shell that could possibly be filtering out this single character from
the keymap? I have been using the ash shell and have also tried bash but
neither makes a difference.
Jeremy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Argh! Major hair loss time ;-)
>
> I am trying desperately hard to link up a UK keyboard to my Embedix
> based system. Embedix defaults to a US keyboard (not surprising) and
> doesn't seem to provide any tools (e.g. loadkeys) for configuring as a
> UK keyboard.
>
> Me being a smart-arse took the consoleutils rpm from RedHat 6.2,
> stripped out the documentation and merged the rest into my Embedix
> system and then typed "loadkeys uk"... Yippeee! It all seems to work...
> all of it that is, except the "�" (uk sterling symbol) key. It produces
> nothing. Not a thing.
>
> Why? How do I fix it? what's the matter? I've copied all the files that
> I use on my full RedHat 6.2 system, double checked loads of settings and
> yet nothing, no quid symbol.
>
> Anyone any hints?
>
> Jeremy
>
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Solved - slow xinetd service connection
Date: 15 Feb 2001 17:05:11 +0000
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Archimage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> AACK!! I brain cramped! The correct syntax for iptables is:
>
> iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --destination-port 113 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j
> REJECT
What about `--reject-with tcp-reset' as well? Might be fun...
~Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:13:55 GMT
In article <96h0aa$vl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanjay Agrawal wrote:
>- I have two hard drives - hda1 and hdb1
>
OK, you named two partitions here, not drives. Drives would be
hda and hdb. Is that what you really mean?
>hda1 is a single windows partition with win 98 on it.
Do you mean hda has a single Win98 partition on it (FAT32)
which is hda1?
>
>hdb1 has 4 to 5 odd partitions with one of them being ms-fat.
Do you mean hdb has 4 to 5 partions? What are they and what
are their names (hdb1, hdb4, etc)? Do you mean something specific
by "odd" partitions? Which one has the FAT partition?
Is it FAT or FAT32?
> hdb1 has linus installed on it.
How does Linus feel about this? Doesn't he get dizzy spinning
around at 5400 or more rpm? :-)
>
>I intend to mount whole of hda1 on linux. And at the same time want to see
>the ms-dos partition on hdb1 on win98.
>
>Can somebody tell me what steps I need to take.
>
Once you get the nomenclature in order (what the partitions
are really called) this should be easy.
If you have a properly formatted FAT32 or FAT partition on your
slave drive (which I assume is your hdb), then Win98 should simply
see it when it boots up, probably as drive D:
Under Linux, if you have VFAT support compiled into the kernel,
you should be able to mount your Win98 partition as well as the
FAT or FAT32 partition on the slave drive (hdb) as a VFAT file
system.
If, for example, the VFAT partition is called /dev/hdb5, then the
command would be:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mount_point
Or whatever your "mount_point" is.
HTH
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
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From: vitry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: error: kISDN: No interface for channel 0 found
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:23:34 +0400
Hello,
kisnd 0.73 works great, but when i try kisdn-1.1.0, i got this
repeating
error:
kISDN: No interface for channel 0 found
The connection works but kisdn takes long time before adding the
default
route and the ip adresse.
Any ideas.
Thank.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn)
Subject: Re: Searching small linux-distribution on diskettes (images)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:33:41 GMT
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:44:53 +0100, "Atmosfear"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am searching for a small linux distribution which comes on diskettes (or
>diskette-images ;-), to install on a i386 Notebook with 8MB RAM and 128MB
>HDD. It should come with a nice shell and developing tools like vi (better
>vim), gcc and perl.
>I should be installable to disk (i.e. don't run from diskette into RAM-disk
>ans should run on native ext2fs not UMSDOS).
>
>Someone has an idea where to get such a distribution?
>(to download...)
>
Debian and Slackware both have small basic installations that
can be done from floppies. The CDROM distributions have floppy
images that you can copy to floppy from either linux or windows (using
rawrite). Once you get the basic installation, you can add the other
packages you need (off the net, by PPP or NFS from a machine with a
cdrom, by putting the files on floppies, whatever). Both of these are
very well supported distributions.
Other alternatives are to look for linux on a floppy
distributions (like mulinux or loaf) and adding the programs you want
by hand.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Error: 23: Too many open files in system
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:08:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Tue Feb 13 22:15:16 2001
> Errors in file
> /home/oracle/product/8.1.6/admin/v2qa1/bdump/lgwr_14175.trc:
> ORA-00313: open failed for members of log group 2 of thread 1
> ORA-00312: online log 2 thread 1: '/db03/v2qa1/system/log/redo02.log'
> ORA-27041: unable to open file
> Linux Error: 23: Too many open files in system
> Additional information: 2
> LGWR: terminating instance due to error 313
> Instance terminated by LGWR, pid = 14175
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Is the number of open files adjustable? How?
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt and look for the /proc/fs
stuff. This is part of the kernel source.
Vilmos
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