Linux-Setup Digest #661, Volume #20 Mon, 19 Feb 01 06:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: pb with make (JM)
Re: recompile distribution & modules make errors at boot time (Jesse Wyant)
Re: GForce2 MX card (Jesse Wyant)
SCSI discs with SUSE 7 ("syco")
Re: Logs telnetd & ftpd (Jeff Moore)
Apache Installation ("free")
Re: Linux, SHMMAX and Oracle (Ville Karaila)
Re: Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots ("Eric")
Re: Help for ATA 100 !! (Kelvin Chow)
Re: Modem -- lights flash but no-ones in... (joe)
Re: Linux, SHMMAX and Oracle (Nuno Souto)
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From: JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pb with make
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:06:20 +0100
> On my system, make and gcc, etc, are installed in /usr/bin.
gcc seems to be in, but no rpm 'make' :
[root@localhost jmlecarp]# rpm -qa | grep make
wmakerconf-2.6.1-5
[root@localhost jmlecarp]# rpm -qa | grep gcc
kgcc-1.1.2-40
> What distribution of Linux are you using? Does it use RPMs for installs?
I have a RedHat7, so yes it uses RPMs.
I got it now. I just installed the make RPm, and it works.
Thank you so much for your help.
JM
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From: Jesse Wyant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recompile distribution & modules make errors at boot time
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:13:05 -0800
I found that I could avoid those errors if I deleted /lib/modules/`uname -r` (or mv it
to a different directory name), and then recompile, rerun lilo. For some reason (I
haven't
investigated it any further, if you have a prior modules dir. there, it can interfere.
Hope it helps...
-jesse
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The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which
covers the floors of movie theaters.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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From: Jesse Wyant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GForce2 MX card
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:22:28 -0800
If you go to www.redhat.com, and look near the middle-to-bottom of the page
under their "RedHat News
and Events" section, they talk about their "Fisher" beta, version 7.0.9 (its
the precursor to 7.1 I presume.)
I chose to try it out, simply because of its use of 4.0.2, and glibc 2.2 (I
really wanted the large file support, so now I can easily create > 2GB files.)
The only trouble I've had with that distro. is that attempting to use the
serial ports (/dev/ttyS0) hangs the system (requiring SYSRQ use to boot.)
Haven't debugged that one yet.
-jesse
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-- Wilson Mizner
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From: "syco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: SCSI discs with SUSE 7
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:31:04 +0100
I can't see my SCSI discs with SUSE 7.
I have a pentium 133 with 3 IDE discs + CDROM, and 2 SCSI discs on Adaptec
AHA1540B card.
Impossible to see my discs SCSI under Linux.
I would like to try to give the params to the demarrage,
because with Loadlin not average to arrive there
- I tried " Loadlin root =aha1542=0x230 " (IO of my card): nothing is seen.
There is not even a message, while booting, about loading aha1542.
Under linux, no success :
- I tried insmod aha1542=0x230 :syntax does not pass, " aha1542=0x230 "
unknown
- I tried insmodaha1542 iobase=0x230: syntax does not pass, param_iobase
unknow
- I tried insmod aha1542 io=0x230: syntax does not pass, param_iounknown
How I can do that cleanly ? ( I am not an expert! )
Thanks.
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Logs telnetd & ftpd
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:53:30 -0600
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I read the Napster howto and found the problem:
I have two clients on my lan that were using the same port and this is not
allowed.
I also had the port set to one that was actively listening on the server, port
23, which is telnetd.
I also read to set port forwarding in the firewall for the two different ports
that you set for the two napster clients.
After changing all these settings and giving two different ports to the clients,
and forwarding the ports to the addresses,
it all worked just fine.
Napster lives!
Free the Internet!
Duh! Just one more broadcast medium.
Jeffrey Moore
Dean Thompson wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> > I am trying to find the connection logs for telnetd and ftpd. I have
> > read the man for syslog, telnetd, and ftpd and I have not seen any
> > reference to the logs. Are there such logs, or do I have to write some
> > script for this?
>
> With the version of Linux that I have, these sorts of connections are logged
> in a number of different log files. /var/log/messages holds information such
> as when a SSH key was generated and when a user logs. I also think that this
> log holds information for ftp connections as well. I also have a log called
> /var/log/secure which holds information on who is making connections to the
> box.
>
> You just have to ensure that you have syslogd loaded and that it is running.
>
> I hope this information at least helps you track down your problem, although
> by the sounds of it, it doesn't sound like you are getting successful logins
> on your ftp daemon, so you may have to look at your /var/log/secure to see
> what the IP address is and work from there.
>
> See ya
>
> Dean Thompson
>
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From: "free" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache Installation
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:29:53 GMT
Hello,
I try to install Apache 1.3.14 on a server but the ./configure command
return the following lines :
Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.14
+ Warning: Configuring Apache with default settings.
+ This is probably not what you really want.
+ Please read the README.configure and INSTALL files
+ first or at least run './configure --help' for
+ a compact summary of available options.
+ using installation path layout: Apache (config.layout)
Creating Makefile
Creating Configuration.apaci in src
Creating Makefile in src
+ configured for Linux platform
+ setting C compiler to gcc
+ setting C pre-processor to gcc -E
+ checking for system header files
+ adding selected modules
+ checking sizeof various data types
+ doing sanity check on compiler and options
** A test compilation with your Makefile configuration
** failed. The below error output from the compilation
** test will give you an idea what is failing. Note that
** Apache requires an ANSI C Compiler, such as gcc.
======== Error Output for sanity check ========
============= End of Error Report =============
Can anyone give me some suggestion? (gcc seams to be installed on the
server)
Thanks in advance!
Emmanuel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ville Karaila)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: Linux, SHMMAX and Oracle
Date: 19 Feb 2001 10:33:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nuno Souto) writes:
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:27:02 +0000, Bill Buchan
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>However the comments in the file /usr/src/linux/include/asm/shmparam.h
>>recomment _not_ changing it, as people rely on it.
>Weird. Im not aware of any requirement anywhere for a default SHMMAX?
>Other than h/w or OS limitations.
I think there is no alternative method to increase size on shared
memory segment.. :(
>>Also, I've never recompiled a kernel before (and it frightens me!) so
>>I'd rather just put Oracle on and come back and do this later if
>>required.
>Which you can do. Get heaps of info on the "recompile the kernel
>bit", then do it once you are confident.
And actually you have to recompile and link the dbms, so compiling
kernel is nothing.. ;) On Oracle 8i (8.1.5) you have to change
location of shm area which is allocated in an assembler file, which
can be generated by tool included.. This was a common procedure on
solaris versions, but I think I was first person (at least in finland)
to do this for linux version above.. I can say I was not quite happy
to do that but don't worry. You can always restore binaries from
backup.. :^)
>>Will I be limiting the maximum size of SGA I can define?
>In theory yes. In practice, no. The OS will allocate as many
>"chunks" of SHMMAX size up to the number in SHMSEG. Which will be a
>larger number than you need.
Only limitation is that the SGA "fragments" while all processes see the
same address space (at least I figured out that way?), so if you
increase the limit, it is more likely that there exists a _large_
enough segment.
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:35:11 +0100
You appear severely mis-informed :-)
> RESOLUTION: I fixed it, but I don't know exactly how, and I don't know why
> it broke in the first place, but here is what I did in case anyone wants
> to know:
>
> My 20 GB drive was originally set up like this:
>
> Windows FAT partition 8000 MB
> Linux /Boot partition 16 MB (LILO installed here)
> Linux Extended Partition
> Linux /Swap 64 MB
> Linux /Root what's left, ~ 9GB
>
> When I tried to upgrade to RH7, I think I unwisely instructed the
> installer to place LILO in the MBR, instead of the /boot partition. After
> that, I started getting the "Verifying VMI Pool Data" hang when booting to
> Windows. This may have screwed up the partition table or something in
> there that Win needs to boot.
Nope, there's nothing crucial in the MBR that windows needs, expect the
partition-table. Luckily LILO tends to leave that in a usable state :-)
> I decided to reinstall RH 7, one last time before totally wiping my drive
> and trying over. This time I installed with the "expert" option instead
> of the regular "workstation" install.
That's always a wise thing to do
> I performed a custom install and
> pretty much put every package that is on the Red Hat CD on my computer.
> But the key thing that I think made Windows boot again was that I re-
> partitioned with FDISK during the RH installation process. Disk Druid
> didn't allow me to specify cylinders, so, in FDISK, I removed one cylinder
> from the end of the Windows partition (down from 1022 to 1021) and moved
Just cut it off??
With fdisk???
You're lucky it even is recoverable.
I would suspect you need to reinstall windows after this.
Anyway, the state you're in now is wrong. The FS on C: no longer fits
in the partition, and will most certainly corrupt the following partition.
It's just a matter of time.
> the linux /boot, /root, /swap partitions down accordingly. I did this
> based on a theory that maybe the RH7 required a larger /boot partition and
> therefore LILO wasn't fully below the 1023rd cylinder. That's probably not
> true- but hey, I was desperate.
make /boot *entirely* below cyl. 1024, or else it's useless.
BTW. RH7.0 doesn't require this, it's equiped with a newer LILO.
If your BIOS is too old, it still is required though.
> Anyhow, during the installation I specified that LILO was to be installed
> in the /boot partition and NOT the Master Boot Record (MBR). This is
> critical, I think, because Windows doesn't like not owning the MBR.
windows is not even aware of this fact.
> After
> I rebooted LILO came up and I was able to boot into both Windows and Linux
> just fine. I think that when I altered the partitions, FDISK must have
re-
> set the partition table in the MBR and that a corrupt partition table was
> the problem in the first place.
Very well possible, but you haven't solved it at all.
> Now I only have one issue- if I set Windows (it actually comes up as DOS
> in LILO but that can be changed in Linuxconf) to be the default boot OS,
> then I get an error.
The I suppose you've made a typo.
> It says something about not finding a disk image or
> something like that. I haven't resolved this yet. Nevertheless, I can
> still boot both OS's just fine, and I can still mount the Windows
> partition from linux. No data appears to have been destroyed from windows
> when I altered the partition, and I consider that to be luck.
You should, but unfortunately your luck will not last very long.
Safest and easiest solution:
make a linux bootfloppy and reinstall windows.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Chow)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help for ATA 100 !!
Date: 19 Feb 2001 10:26:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a A7V user, and getting ATA100 working is not as easy as it
sound. I would have thought that RH7 would be much easier to install
but from the sound of your mail, it seems like you have to face the
same thing as me. I am a Debian user by the way.
Anyways, I had to install the system under ATA66 or ATA33 first. I
then have to download the 2.2.18 kernel and patch it with Hedrick's
patch. After a make bzImage, and booting off a floppy, I got ATA100
running good.
However, the problem was getting the system boot off the hard disk
itself. That I had to tweak a bit on the LILO configuration file.
A good HOWTO is the UDMA66 howto. Setting up the ide3=a,b and
ide4=c,d is detailed in that howto.
Regards.
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:59:03 -0500, Suzanne Dunphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not true at all. I boot linux of an Ultra66 and Ultra100 card from Promise on
>two different systems. You just half to tell the kernel about the other two ide
>channels by booting like this: linux ide2=a,b ide3=c,d where a,b,c, and d are
>memory addresses you get from looking at the /proc/pci file (or lspci).
>
>Rick Duval wrote:
>
>> I've read in other newsgroups that it doesn't support ATA-100 as boot
>>
>> --
>>
>> Rick Duval
>> canoffroad.net
>>
>> "Mark Phalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:ULSj6.2727$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > Are you sure that you have put the hard-drive onto the first IDE channell.
>> > Linux won't be able to detect your hard-drive if it is on the third or
>> > fourth chanells except with a kernel recompile. Also is your board RAID
>> > enabled? If so make sure that you configure the correct harddrive to be
>> your
>> > boot harddrive.
>> >
>> > Ralph H. Stoos Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > > All,
>> > >
>> > > I have recently acquired a Athlon 1 Gigahertz with and ASUS A7V
>> > > motherboard and a half Gig of RAM (and other stuff) in the hopes of
>> > > making a killer Linux box which of course will accomplish any task
>> > > instantly. Last night I sat down to install Redhat 7.1beta with 2.4
>> > > kernel..
>> > >
>> > > The motherboard is set up to use primary and secondary ATA 100
>> > > interfaces (of which I have one connected to a 30 gigger) and also
>> > > another set of interfaces for primary and secondary plain old EIDE
>> > > drives. You would think on the surface that you could connect up to 8
>> > > drives all told.
>> > >
>> > > Here is how I am set up. I have the 30 Gig ATA-100 drive set as primary
>> > > master and there is no ATA-100 secondary drives at all. As the EIDE
>> > > Secondary Slave I have a TDK 16X burner.
>> > >
>> > > When the system boots, I get the standard Award BIOS message as it
>> > > discovers EIDE drives. It does detect the CD-ROM. Then, it launches a
>> > > special ATA-100 detector program and sees the 30 gig as the Primary
>> > Master.
>> > >
>> > > It will not boot the CD to install so I made a boot disk and tried
>> > > that. I get the Install screen from floppy but after all is said and
>> > > done, it reports that it finds no drive to install on in the machine.
>> > >
>> > > Please tell me I just need a special ATA-100 driver on the boot disk or
>> > > a version of Linux supports ATA-100.
>> > >
>> > > Please reply to the group but also:
>> > >
>> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance,
>> > >
>> > > Ralph
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>
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From: joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem -- lights flash but no-ones in...
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:54:44 GMT
> My external "Mr Modem" by Microcomputer Research Ltd (UK)
> http://www.mri.co.uk/ does not appear to be responding. The modem has a
> Rockwell chipset.
I go through an OS/2 box but did setup wvdial one time and recall the command
line version would test the modem when you first ran it. It would probe to get
an "OK" response from the modem. You may want to install wvdial and try it to
see if it can find your modem and get the correct init string. It has been a
while, but even a couple of yearrs ago, wvdial was pretty easy to configure
using the text file and a simple to use editor like mcedit included with mc.
If wvdial finds the correct init string you can use it in YaST.
good luck
joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nuno Souto)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: Linux, SHMMAX and Oracle
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:13:52 GMT
On 19 Feb 2001 10:33:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ville Karaila)
wrote:
>
>>Which you can do. Get heaps of info on the "recompile the kernel
>>bit", then do it once you are confident.
>
>And actually you have to recompile and link the dbms, so compiling
>kernel is nothing.. ;) On Oracle 8i (8.1.5) you have to change
>location of shm area which is allocated in an assembler file, which
>can be generated by tool included.. This was a common procedure on
>solaris versions, but I think I was first person (at least in finland)
>to do this for linux version above.. I can say I was not quite happy
>to do that but don't worry. You can always restore binaries from
>backup.. :^)
>
Not if you just change SHMMAX. That's the max size of a single segment
of shared memory. You don't need to re-link the kernel if that
changes, it will just use it. At least in all the UNIXs I've worked
with, would surprise me if that was the case with Linux?
>
>Only limitation is that the SGA "fragments" while all processes see the
>same address space (at least I figured out that way?), so if you
>increase the limit, it is more likely that there exists a _large_
>enough segment.
Yes. More or less what happens. The more the SGA "fragments" across
segments, the more impact on performance. But we're talking a very
small factor, only relevant in very heavily used systems (although I
once read somewhere that in some versions of Solaris this is a *big*
problem).
Cheers
Nuno Souto
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