Linux-Setup Digest #667, Volume #20 Mon, 19 Feb 01 18:13:11 EST
Contents:
Need Info on Mandrake mdksecure Kernel... ("msettro")
kernel patch for UDMA 100 card ("Marc Ulrich")
Re: file systems with errors at boot (Francois Taiani)
Linux on a Dell Latitude C600 info ("D. Michael Basinger")
IDE CD-RW setup in Storm Linux (Bernie Yoo)
Re: LILO Boot Problem (Brian Goodyear)
help: fstab, mac/msdos floppies, and mac/pc scsi harddrives (David. E. Goble)
Help: apache access denied...problems (David. E. Goble)
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From: "msettro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Info on Mandrake mdksecure Kernel...
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:29:43 GMT
Hello...
I'm new to the newsgroup, although I've been playing
within linux for 2 years now, focusing on the networking
aspect of it.
But alas I've run into a problem that I cannot solve..
I'm running Mandrake 2.2.15mdksecure kernel...Anyone, familiar
with the this kind of kernel and how its features might
influence a cable modem install? Any resources that identify
how the mdksecure kernel is different than the others?
I've continuously had problems getting timely ping
responses, once an ip assignment was made to the
machine via the dhcpcd client...
I've checked the changes to the route table right after
ip assignment, they appears to be normal. By normal I mean
like a route table looks onces a ppp dialup assignment
occurs...
If you'd like details on my exact config I can provide
them...In particular, I'm not running any excessive
security protections, yet, and just trying to do the
minimum work to get connected to the internet and ping
the gateway and another host on the internet...
But for now, I'm interested in diagnosing that a service
or daemon is not running becuase I installed the mdksecure
kernel..
- M
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From: "Marc Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel patch for UDMA 100 card
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:04:35 -0500
I am confused about how to deal with a patch for linux that will allow me to
use the Promise UDMA 100 controller.
I have determined that it will be easiest to plug the hard drive into the
on-board (ATA66) controller to install linux. From there I should download
the appropriate patch to allow linux to use the PCI ATA100 controller, apply
the patch, switch the hard drive back to the PCI controller & I'm set.
Perhaps I'll have to fix a couple of things in lilo.conf as well.
However, where can I find the right patch. I am installing Redhat 7.0 which
uses kernel 2.2.16. So far I have only located a patch for the 2.4.0 kernel.
Is there a patch for 2.2.16? Should I upgrade the 2.216 kernel to 2.4.0
immediately after installing? If so, where do I find the new kernel? I am
brand new to manipulating kernels.
Thanks,
Marc
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From: Francois Taiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: file systems with errors at boot
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:34:33 +0100
Eric a ecrit :
>
> Don't be too eager to throw that disc out.
> post the output `fdisk -l /dev/hd[ab]`
> Windows(or actually a bad partitiontable) can very well be the cause
> of this.
>
Thanks to Eric for his words of relief. I'll wait a little before I slay
my new disk. And actually, what fdisk -l says about each disk is quite
enlighting:
/dev/hda
========
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 393 1584544+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 394 786 1584576 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 394 786 1584544+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hdb
========
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 7 14 64260 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 15 1230 9767520 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 1025 2488 11759580 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 1025 2488 11759548+ b Win95 FAT32
While everything seems all right for hda, I've serious doubts about the
coherency of hdb: How can hdb3 end at cylinder 1230 and hdb4 start at
1025 ? There's definitely something weird about that !!! Has anyone
already heard of such a bug ?
Francois
--
Francois Taiani Laboratoire d'Analyse et
Ph.D. Student d'Architecture des Systemes
Dependable Computing Group http://www.laas.fr/~ftaiani
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From: "D. Michael Basinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on a Dell Latitude C600 info
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:58:32 -0500
Probably not common machine to run linux on, but in case you need some
info.
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/~dbasinge/latc600.html
Mike
--
D. Michael Basinger: Management Information Specialist
Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cviog.uga.edu
"Speaking for myself and no one else"
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From: Bernie Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE CD-RW setup in Storm Linux
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:45:03 -0800
I'm trying to set up a Philips CDRW800 CD-RW drive (EIDE) on a machine
running Storm Linux 2000. I've tried following the directions in the CD-RW
Howto at http://www.linuxdoc.org, but I'm running into some trouble.
No matter what I do, 'cdrecord -scanbus' returns:
storm:/home/bernie# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
storm:/home/bernie#
I created an /etc/modutils/cdrw file that looks like this:
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
alias scd0 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprode ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
(The CD-RW is master on the secondary IDE. I also have a CD-ROM
as secondary slave. The primary IDE has a single hard drive.)
I ran update-modules and verified that the CDRW entries were added
to /etc/modules.conf.
The Linux entry in my /etc/lilo.conf looks like:
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/boot/root.bin
root=/dev/hda10
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
I ran /sbin/lilo and rebooted after adding the last line to the above entry.
I'm not very familiar with modules, but I tried following the instructions in
the CD-RW HOWTO to the best of my abilities. Any troubleshooting help
would be greatly appreciated. TIA.
Bernie
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From: Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Boot Problem
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:07:59 -0500
John Shaw wrote:
> I already did the extracting the boot record part to get it into a
> file
> for windows. That apparently works because when I choose Linux off the NT
> Loader list it starts to load LILO (gets to the first stage, or "LI"
> mode). LILO is installed on the /boot partition which is /dev/hdg5 and the
> root
> partition is /dev/hdg7. Anyway, its seams as though it can't find
> /dev/hdg5
> or something to get to the second stage boot loader. I have tried doing
> the disk = /dev/hdg
> bios = 0x80
> disk = /dev/hde
> bios = 0x81
> route which should make the bios thing hdk is the bootable drive but that
> doesn't appear to help at all. Any one else have any other insight on
> what the problem might be?
I didn't really see your hard drive configuration but it seems to help if
you actually list the drives at the beginning of the lilo.conf. Here's
mine for example:
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x81
disk = /dev/hdc
bios = 0x82
I have a cdrom as a slave off the first controller. It is NOT considered
in the numbers for the boot chain. This may not pertain to you.
What I was doing in the interim (while waiting for a real solution) was to
copy the image of the Linux I wanted to boot, to /boot partition of another
drive further back in the chain. Lilo happily sucked it in.
--
Thanks,
Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: help: fstab, mac/msdos floppies, and mac/pc scsi harddrives
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:28:04 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi all;
I was hoping to be able to access some mac floppies, with the
following line in my /etc/fstab file;
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
But it gives an error that it tried to find a vfat device.
Yet the line with hfs does work ie;
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy hfs noauto,owner 0 0
How can I get fstab to work with auto, correctly?
also will hfs work on mac formatted scsi drives?
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Help: apache access denied...problems
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:28:05 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi all;
I need help. Iam running redhat 6.2. For some reason my www server
(apache) will not let me have access rights.
Oh and I have just installed netatalk-1_4b2+asun2_1_4-0_i386.rpm.
here are some of the config files...;
####### hosts #############
127.0.0.1 gtech localhost.localdomain localhost
########## access_log #################
127.0.0.1 - - [19/Feb/2001:12:56:05 +1030] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 260
########## httpd.conf #################
ServerType standalone
Port 80
StartServers 8
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
HostnameLookups off
ServerAdmin root@localhost
ServerName gtech
DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/html"
<Location /doc>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from localhost
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Location>
<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
<Directory proxy:*>
Options ExecCgi Includes IncludesNOEXEC MultiViews Indexes
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from gtech
</Directory>
ProxyRequests On
# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.
# ("Full" adds the server version; "Block" removes all outgoing Via:
headers)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block
ProxyVia On
# To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines:
# (no cacheing without CacheRoot)
CacheRoot "/var/cache/httpd"
CacheSize 5
CacheGcInterval 4
CacheMaxExpire 24
CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
CacheDefaultExpire 1
NoCache gtech
</IfModule>
UserDir public_html
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi
# Allow access to local system documentation from localhost/gtech
Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/httpd/html">
Options Includes Indexes FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Options IncludesNOEXEC MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
</Directory>
<Files ~>
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
<Directory "/home/httpd/icons">
Options MultiViews Indexes
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/httpd/cgi-bin">
Options ExecCgi
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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