Linux-Setup Digest #694, Volume #20 Fri, 23 Feb 01 19:13:11 EST
Contents:
autofs (Ean WS)
Re: Please visit my 3D graphics site (Jeff Silverman)
Re: IPv6 with linux....help ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Where to d/l SuSE 7.1? ("Brian Kang")
boot problems from floppy ("Caglar Tukel")
rh7 & wu-ftp2.6.1 ("Scot Mc Pherson")
gligc upgrade on RH 6.2? (Michal Fikejs)
Re: Can't get dot matrix printer to print (Omar Stoltzfus)
Re: View booting messages after login... ("julius")
Newbie needs help with Qmail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs and startx - or lack thereof (none)
2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage ("Samuel A. Rogers")
Implications of kernel upgrade ? (John Beardmore)
Re: Problem with Mandrake 7.2 and Sound [lack thereof] ("Reg Ervin")
CFLAGS environment variable (Rob Waller)
Re: Hard Drive Installation problem (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (Rob Windgassen)
Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage (Mark Bratcher)
Re: CFLAGS environment variable (Mark Bratcher)
Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage ("Philip Jones")
Re: gligc upgrade on RH 6.2? (Peter B. Steiger)
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From: Ean WS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: autofs
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:20:24 -0300
Hi
I have been having problems with autofs. Here is a description of the
problem,
1. I have two RH7.0 systems. One the server and one the client. The
server serves NFS/automount and NIS.
2. On the client machine everything works fine
3. On the server machine the NIS works fine. But the automounter will
not work properly. If I su to a user from root, it does not find the
home account, then if I exit the user, then try again, it logs in, with
a link put in /home to the real location of the user account.
Does anybody have experience with this problem?
Laters
Ean
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From: Jeff Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Please visit my 3D graphics site
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:11:50 -0800
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Robert Francois wrote:
> http://www.geocities.com/bernardfrancois_1999
>
> --
> Greetz,
>
> Bernard Fran�ois - http://www.geocities.com/bernardfrancois_1999
It doesn't work properly with Netscape 4.74 under Linux 2.2.17.
Jeff
--
Jeff Silverman, sysadmin for the Research Computing Systems (RCS)
University of Washington, School of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Dept.
Box 352500, Seattle, WA, 98125-2500 FAX: (206) 221-5264 Phone (206) 543-9378
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/~jeffs
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Robert Francois wrote:
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<p>--
<br>Greetz,
<p>Bernard François - <a
href="http://www.geocities.com/bernardfrancois_1999">http://www.geocities.com/bernardfrancois_1999</a></blockquote>
It doesn't work properly with Netscape 4.74 under Linux 2.2.17.
<p>Jeff
<br>
<pre>--
Jeff Silverman, sysadmin for the Research Computing Systems (RCS)
University of Washington, School of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Dept.
Box 352500, Seattle, WA, 98125-2500 FAX: (206) 221-5264 Phone (206)
543-9378
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <A
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IPv6 with linux....help
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:43:42 GMT
best places to go for this information are the ipv6 resources...Start with
www.ipv6.org and www.ipng.org website. They'll direct your to information
and resources specifically for ipv6.
--
Scot Mc Pherson
http://www.behomet.net
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"fail006" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:975599$l45$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I would like to know how do i go about implementing IPv6 on my linux PCs.
> I have too PCs that have Rehat 7.0 running. Is there a tool that i can use
> to watch IPv6 Packets, such as TCP dump...
>
> Thanks allot
>
>
>
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From: "Brian Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to d/l SuSE 7.1?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:48:02 GMT
Hi,
I tried to find the latest SuSE 7.1 on SuSE's web site but nothing came up.
Can someone point to me where I can find SuSE 7.1 ISO?
TIA
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From: "Caglar Tukel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot problems from floppy
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:32:51 -0500
I recenty installed RedHat 7. I normaly use win ME and I used to use a boot
disk for LINUX. Recently there is problem wtih boot disk. When I boot up,
the screen reads L 04 10 02 04 04 04 04 and it goes on and on and nothing
happens. I reinstalled linux but nothing happenned. I try to create a boot
disk but it didn't help
any idea?
caglar
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rh7 & wu-ftp2.6.1
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:58:36 GMT
I have recently upgraded my machine from rh6.2 to rh7. File structure is
very apparently different. I am trying figure out how to change the root
directory of the wu-ftp anon public folders. In the older version of rh6.2 I
knew how to do it, but I cannot find any information on redhat's or wu-ftp's
site about the new configuration setup regarding wu-ftp file structure.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
--
Scot Mc Pherson
http://www.behomet.net
N27� 19' 56"
W82� 30' 39"
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From: Michal Fikejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gligc upgrade on RH 6.2?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:32:40 +0100
Hallo,
I wonder if there is any way to upgrade glibc library to 2.2 version on
my RH 6.2 box.
I tried to install a package glibc-2.2.i386.rpm from Rawhide but it
needs glibc > 2.1.3. RH 6.2 uses just that version (2.1.3).
Any hints what I should do? Or just keep using glibc-2.1.3?
Thans
Michal
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MICHAL F I K E J S, f o t o g r a f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.diorama.cz
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From: Omar Stoltzfus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get dot matrix printer to print
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:42:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried your suggestion and it worked. I get the printout ok at the
> end of the job. Now I get a header first and each character is 8
> lines high. Looks like the test page from printtool. How do I get
> rid of that? Thanx.
Do you mean a page header (top of same page) or a banner page (seperate
page)?
Adding ":sh=0:\" in the /etc/printcap file and restarting lpd will
supress all banner printing.
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From: "julius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: View booting messages after login...
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:51:23 -0000
"Michael Heiming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu na mensagem
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Cameron Kerr wrote:
>
[...]
> So I expect that the OP wanted to know what he asked, howto scroll up his
> screen.
>
> Michael Heiming
>
Yes. That was what I wanted to do. Thank's for your info!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie needs help with Qmail
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:02:15 -0600
This is the first time I have ever used Linux.
It is RedHat 7 and I have the KDE interface working.
Now, I am trying to setup Qmail to be our mail server.
I have worked in IT for about 12 years and this stuff is a PIA.
Maybe I don't understand. But it seems to me there should be an easy
installation process for qmal and a Gui based setup for the users
etc...
Am I wrong. Half the time I can't tell if I actually have it
installed right and if it is actually running.
I have read the "life with qmail" But I don't even see where you put
in the usernames and passwords.
Please help if you can. And sorry if this is a stupid problem
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From: none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: devfs and startx - or lack thereof
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:13:15 -0800
I am using RH7 with 2.4.0. I have setup devfs and evedrything appears to
be fine - I have to change some links and configuration but it seems ok.
The problem is, whenever I try to login as a non-root user and type
startx I get "Authentication failed, perhaps you do not own the
console?" and thats it. I have checked the docs/devfs/readme - it says
X4.0.1 should be ok with it. I checked the console.perms and
modification (using devfs hints for 3.3.6 because is hase non-root
issues as well) prevents non-root login entirely. What am I missing?
Thank you for any help.
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From: "Samuel A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:15:07 -0800
I am running a K6 450 processor on RH 7.0 in which I have tried 2.4.0,
2.4.1 and 2.4.2 kernels and all of them hang when it gets to the
uncompressing stage of booting. I have to press the hard reset button to
get it to reboot as the ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work. I am currently
running 2.2.16-22
I build the kernel with:
make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install
make install
I can seem to build 2.2.x kernels with the above methoed, but not 2.4.x.
I would like to use the 2.4.x kernel but can seem to get it to boot?
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Implications of kernel upgrade ?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:23:32 +0000
I have RH 6.2 for Alpha with out-of-the-box uni-processor kernel
2.2.14-6.0.
I want to get a kernel that has the latest support for my Eicon ISDN
card and multi-processor support.
Are these available pre built anywhere ?
Assuming I can't get what I want pre built, and in the interest of
having more control over the kernel in the long run, I was thinking of
upgrading to 2.4.2 and am in the process of downloading
linux-2.4.2.tar.gz
from
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4
which I assume will be an archive of the sources I need. I've also got
the README from www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel.
Can anybody confirm that this readme is up to date ? I remember some
recent discussion about what directory tree the kernel ought to be built
in.
Next, I've heard that some kernel upgrades require glibc upgrades which
in turn can require the recompilation of all sorts of things, so how do
I find out if upgrading from
2.2.14-6.0 to 2.4.2
will require a glibc change that may knacker the rest of the system ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "Reg Ervin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Problem with Mandrake 7.2 and Sound [lack thereof]
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:29:09 GMT
Have you tried running sndconfig from the console? This took care of my
problem.
"michael s. jessop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Cgsl6.408$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> I just installed Mandrake 7.2. Very nice. But, no sound. It thinks it
> has discovered my sound card and enabled sound for it, as far as I can
> tell via drakconf, but it really hasn't. What confuses me is my old
> Redhat 6.0 picked it up and configured for it just fine!! I thought
> Mandrake was based off of Redhat?
>
> I have a Genius SoundMaker 3DJ sound card [Crystal CS4237].
>
> Can anyone help me figure this one out? OH! And when I try to switch
> the sound card from its selection to other Crystal options, it says "that
> option is not supported yet".
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mike
>
> PS - Yes, I checked the "supported hardware list", I sort of assumed it
> was incomplete and listed the most well-known cards. I guess I also
> assumed that it would apply the driver that best suited the "generic"
> card.
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From: Rob Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: CFLAGS environment variable
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:51:19 -0800
I'm trying to optimize my Redhat 6.2 install by adding some lines to my
/etc/profile file. I'm adding the CFLAGS environment variable so that
subsequent compiles on this machine are optimized to this machine using
the -O9 flag.
When I exit and log in again as root this variable is not recognized, I
get the following error upon login:
bash: CFLAGS: command not found
Also, one of the parameters of the CFLAGS declaration in /etc/profile
is: -mcpu=pentiumpro. Any idea what this value should be for a Celeron
chip based machine?
Thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(posted in comp.os.linux.setup and linux.redhat)
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Installation problem
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 10:31:56 +1100
Could you post the partitioning info of your drive/s.
In DOS lingo D: means
a) Logical drive in extended partition.
b) Another hard disk.
So where are we?
Stanislaw.
Stephen wrote:
> A Linux 7.0 installation question. I've downloaded the RPMS and base
> directories to my D: drive. In a directory named RedHat with subdirectories
> of RPMS and base. During the install I select hard drive as the software
> source. I get to the Select Partition screen. When I specify the source of
> the software I get an error saying that the it cannot be found.
> Device /dev/hda5 does not appear to contain a RedHat installation tree.
> At the "Directory holding RedHat:" prompt I specify the directory holding
> the RPMS and base directory. I've tried every path I can think of that it
> may recognize with no success. Examples: d:/RedHat d:/RedHat/RPMS /RedHat
> etc. I suspect that I'm giving it a path that Linux doesn't understand.
> Help!
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From: Rob Windgassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:08:38 +0100
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Mark Bratcher wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Windgassen wrote:
>>On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Mun Sing wrote:
>>
>>Unix and linux are operating systems that run on a hardware platform, i.e.
>>NOT on another operating system.
>>
>>For example:
>>- Linux can run on Intel machines (x86)
>>- Windows can run on intel machines too
>
>And Windows can run on Linux. (eg, Lin4win) :-)
>And Windows 3.11 can run on OS/2.
That's not the whole truth (in my opinion:-): these are environments within
Linux and OS/2 that allow you to run Windows executables, i.e. _individual_
programs. This is pretty different from running a whole operating system, e.g.
including task, memory and filesystem management.
And the OP was asking how to run Linux, that is not an individual app, on a Unix
system.
>
--
Rob Windgassen
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed.
-- Thomas Wolfe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:27:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Samuel A. Rogers wrote:
>
>I am running a K6 450 processor on RH 7.0 in which I have tried 2.4.0,
>2.4.1 and 2.4.2 kernels and all of them hang when it gets to the
>uncompressing stage of booting. I have to press the hard reset button to
>get it to reboot as the ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work. I am currently
>running 2.2.16-22
>
>I build the kernel with:
>
>make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install
>make install
>
>I can seem to build 2.2.x kernels with the above methoed, but not 2.4.x.
>I would like to use the 2.4.x kernel but can seem to get it to boot?
>
Are you using lilo? Did you run lilo after the 'make install'?
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===============================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Re: CFLAGS environment variable
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:31:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Waller wrote:
>I'm trying to optimize my Redhat 6.2 install by adding some lines to my
>/etc/profile file. I'm adding the CFLAGS environment variable so that
>subsequent compiles on this machine are optimized to this machine using
>the -O9 flag.
>
>When I exit and log in again as root this variable is not recognized, I
>get the following error upon login:
>
>bash: CFLAGS: command not found
>
>Also, one of the parameters of the CFLAGS declaration in /etc/profile
>is: -mcpu=pentiumpro. Any idea what this value should be for a Celeron
>chip based machine?
>
The error is occurring because of the syntax of how your are setting
the variable (you didn't show us how you did it).
But... a bigger problem is that if you are counting on Makefiles picking
up the environment variable, this won't work. Makefiles use a make macro
not environment variable.
So, it's looking for "make CFLAGS=-O9 ..." to set CFLAGS, not a shell
environment variable called CFLAGS.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===============================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Philip Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:42:57 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Samuel A. Rogers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running a K6 450 processor on RH 7.0 in which I have tried 2.4.0,
> 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 kernels and all of them hang when it gets to the
> uncompressing stage of booting. I have to press the hard reset button to
> get it to reboot as the ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work. I am currently
> running 2.2.16-22
>
> I build the kernel with:
>
> make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install make install
>
> I can seem to build 2.2.x kernels with the above methoed, but not 2.4.x.
> I would like to use the 2.4.x kernel but can seem to get it to boot?
Have you read Changes in the source Documentation Directory.
Phil Jones
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: Re: gligc upgrade on RH 6.2?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:45:59 GMT
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:32:40 +0100, Michal Fikejs sez:
>I tried to install a package glibc-2.2.i386.rpm from Rawhide but it
>needs glibc > 2.1.3. RH 6.2 uses just that version (2.1.3).
>
>Any hints what I should do? Or just keep using glibc-2.1.3?
Ahoj, Michal. In the US, we have a proverb that answers
your question: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
In other words, unless you have an urgent need to upgrade
glibc, you are better off using the version that is required by
the compiler.
If you have a package that requires a different version of
glibc than the one used by the kernel, try to find an older
version of that package that uses the older library... or
install the source and see if you can recompile that
package to use the older library.
I have shed many tears on my keyboard not following
my own advice, which resulted in breaking the kernel
by trying to force it to use an incompatible library. Oh,
the pain!
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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canada (or vice-versa). All advertisements will be
returned to your postmaster, eh!
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