Linux-Setup Digest #713, Volume #20 Mon, 26 Feb 01 19:13:12 EST
Contents:
Syslog Daemon (Michael Simmons)
Login via serial port (Russ Housley)
Help: Connecting to a W2K network. ("WB")
Re: Severe X problem (Hilkiah Lavinier)
Re: XWindow display problems ("David Pierce")
Talk in RH7 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki?= Quesada)
Re: USB information ("Will")
dual boot ("Javier")
Highpoint-hp370 RAID & linux (Rob Mattson)
ssh on Debian, not connecting to OpenBSD 2.7 ["Disconnecting: Bad packet length
1349676916"] (Darren Wyn Rees)
Re: how to make RAID card work in 2.4.2 after it worked in 2.2? (Scott Gardner)
Boot choices -- RedHat 7 ("David")
Re: How to install multiple distros (Anita Lewis)
Re: Sound Blaster 16 only works as root ("Ahmad Al-rasheedan")
Re: how to make RAID card work in 2.4.2 after it worked in 2.2? (Ray Abbitt)
Re: Implications of kernel upgrade ? (John Beardmore)
Re: Syslog Daemon (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Dual Boot wiped out by Win98 (Mark)
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From: Michael Simmons <msimmons(spam stinks)@apscoinc.com>
Subject: Syslog Daemon
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:06:08 -0500
Reply-To: msimmons(spam stinks)@apscoinc.com
I'm a newbie to Unix, so pardon my ignorance.
I am trying to configure my Router to output it's SYSLOG to my Redhat
7.0 workstation's SYSLOG.
According to CISCO the following commands need to be executed on the
Unix workstation:
touch /var/log/logname
chmod 666 /var/log/logname
kill -HUP \Qcar /etc/syslog.pid
The first two work fine, the third one doesn't because the file does
not exist. I did a find on my entire system and I don't seem to have
a syslog.pid. I checked my log files and information is being posted
to them by the OS.
Also I am unable to open the newly created log in Gnome's log viewer.
I did a search on Redhat's site for syslog.pid and only came up with 1
hit.
Thanks for any help you can lend....
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Housley)
Subject: Login via serial port
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:08:40 GMT
I have Linux (Red Hat 7.0) set up to provide a firewall between my
home network and the Internet (connected via ADSL). I am trying to
avoid buying another monitor since the firewall requires very little
care and feeding. I would like to connect the serial port on the
firewall machine to the serial port on one of the protected machines.
Clearly, I need a null-modem cable. What else do I need to do?
The serial port on the firewall machine is ttyS1. How do I configure
it to allow output the banner and permit login? I thik that the
setserial command will allow me to set the baud rate, parity, and so
forth.
Thanks in advance,
Russ
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From: "WB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Connecting to a W2K network.
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:08:42 -0000
I have a small peer-to-peer LAN with all the machines running Win 2000
Professional. There is a shared ADSL internet connection on one of these.
I am keen to try out Linux but any time I try it I have been unable to link
to the other PCs far less to access the internet connection. Is this
possible and how can I do it? So far I have been unable to locate an
appropriate Howto.
TIA
Willie
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From: Hilkiah Lavinier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Severe X problem
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:12:08 +0000
I'm not sure if this'll help, but I had exactly the same problem today.
Earlier on the system crashed and fsck went through ok (though I had to
run it from runlevel 1). After that I just couldn't get into X windows.
Tonight I discovered a file called:
[hilkiah@assasin] Mon Feb 26 10:07:37
pwd: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
$ l
total 0
brw---s--t 1 60 18 0, 1 Feb 15 1970 12x24.pcf.gz
This is part of the XFree86-4.0.1-1 package. Now I couldn't delete this
file (even posted in a diff group). Therefore I renamed the misc dir to
just m and reinstalled a XFree86-4.0.1-1 rpm. Everything works fine now.
Except the bloody file is still here:
[root@assasin] Mon Feb 26 09:57:14
pwd: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/m
# rm 12x24.pcf.gz
rm: cannot unlink `12x24.pcf.gz': Operation not permitted
Anyone reading this, if they have any ideas on how to get rid of the above
file, pls lemme know.
Hope this helps.
HL
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Peter T. Breuer
wrote:
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:40:51 +0100
> From: Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: redhat.config, redhat.general, comp.os.linux.setup
> Subject: Re: Severe X problem
>
> H.A.J. van Niekerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
>
> Well, remove it from your font path then! (or start up the xfm
> server that is supposed to supply that path component).
>
> This is a faq. Your variant appears to arise in connection with xfree86
> version 4, however, so be sure to check that you are just not failing
> by virtue of trying to apply version 3.6 concepts to version 4 .. I am
> not even certain that there is a font server facility in version 4.
>
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> yeah, well, obviously. Fix your font path.
>
> Peter
>
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From: "David Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindow display problems
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:35:09 GMT
Hello,
I am having similar problems on my Compaq Presario 1200-XL118. I have a
Trident cyberblade i7. My graphical LILO looks just fine but when I go to
use it I get a double image on the left 3/4 of the screen and the right is
black. Why does graphical LILO work and how can I determine what settings it
uses? or can I?
Dave
Thanks in advance.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki?= Quesada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Talk in RH7
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:35:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I had installed the RH7 and talk doesn't work. When I make "talk user" the
system said: conection refused. This is my /etc/xinetd.d/talk file:
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
wait = yes
user = nobody
group = tty
server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
}
in.talkd exist :-). Anybody knows the problem?
thanx
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From: "Will" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB information
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:33:03 -0600
i think www.linux-usb.org is about the best you're going to get.
"Jimmy Snake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:oMtm6.27264$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Where can i find detailed Howto's or docs about USB devices under linux ?
>
> having trouble getting my iFeelMouseMan USB to work and tried nearly all
the
> doc's/Howto's I could find.
>
> tnx
>
>
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From: "Javier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual boot
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:00:25 -0500
I'm planning to install WIN98 and Linux on the same hard drive. How do I go
about creating a dual boot? Also, should I install Windows first?
Thanks,
Javier
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From: Rob Mattson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Highpoint-hp370 RAID & linux
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:40:10 +1100
All,
problem:
bootable Redhat installation fails when trying to detect the HDD
running off the highpoint hp370 RAID controller on an ABIT KT7A-RAID MB.
question:
Does anybody know how to pass instructions to the linux kernel
when booting, so that it detects the HDD.
[i am aware that i can swap the HDD to the non-RAID IDE bus, but this bus
only runs at uATA/33 as VIA have not released a working update for the VIA
IDE bridge. currently the RAID runs the disk at uATA/100]
[i am also aware that highpoint have released a patch for the kernel to
run the hp370 in non raid modes. But this won't help when trying to
install RedHat off a CD]
Comments????????
__________________________________
'Smoking is one of the leading
causes of statistics'
-Fletcher Knebel
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From: Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.ssh,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: ssh on Debian, not connecting to OpenBSD 2.7 ["Disconnecting: Bad packet
length 1349676916"]
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:57:28 +0000
Would somebody please clarify what needs changing to enable me to
ssh into an OpenBSD (2.7) box, using Debian (OpenSSH 1.2.3, protocol
version 1.5). (a) the ssh client on the Debian box, (b) the
ssh daemon on the OpenBSD one, or (please, no) (c) both. *Thnx*
--
Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Gardner)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: how to make RAID card work in 2.4.2 after it worked in 2.2?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:02:37 GMT
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:58:01 -0600, Patrick F Harris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ray Abbitt wrote:
>
>>
>> >First, the easy one. When I compiled the new kernel, the compiler
>> >gave a lot of warnings to the effect of "pasting would not generate
>
>I get the same messages when compiling for K7, but not K6. What processor you
>are targeting.
>
Pentium III. Doesn't seem to have caused any major problems so far.
AS for the RAID card, I've pretty much given up hope until the kernel
supports the FasTrak 100 directly. It seems that the device driver
that Promise provides is limited to working with RedHat's install
program, and not with manual compilations of later kernels. It's no
big deal, because I'm still in the "playing around with it" phase, and
not relying on linux for any serious work. It's just a bummer that my
network card works under 2.4.2 and not 2.2, but my RAID card is the
other way around. Right now, the RAID functionality is more
important. By the time I'm ready to chuck Windows for good, if I
haven't found a solution for the RAID card, I'll just take it out of
the system and run the two 45Gb drives on the on-board IDE controller.
They'll be plenty fast enough that way, and sooner or later I'm sure
FasTrak support will find its way into the kernel.
Scott Gardner
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot choices -- RedHat 7
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:21:16 GMT
Has anyone got any info on how to change the default boot in RedHat 7?
I edited the Lilo.conf for Dos bootup default and it doesn't work.
I even earlier tried changing the word dos to Windows and that didn't
change.
Apparantly it is somewhere else and I am not sure where to look.
I don't really care that much, but I am going to have a cable modem
installed and
you know how they might be if there is any problems. So I would rather it
default to
Windows98 until the modem is installed.
Thanks, Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: How to install multiple distros
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:45:23 GMT
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:48:29 -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
>
>I'd offer another bit of consideration, in case they are on separate
>partitions as well: /var and /usr probably should be distinct for each
>distribution, although /var/spool may well work between distributions.
>/var/log, IMHO, should be distinct if only because it makes it easier
>tracking down problems with a particular package that is in both
>distributions but is slightly different in each.
I agree. I hope I didn't give the impression that I thought these could be
shared. I put the whole installation on one partition, /, and only share
/home after I have checked out how it runs and what it writes in the /home
which is on the one partition where I have installed. I've never tried
sharing /var or /usr. The distros seem a little too different in those
areas. Just make a nice sized / partition and install on that. I would not
make any separate partitions, but do use the same /home among them. And of
course, the same swap.
Anita
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From: "Ahmad Al-rasheedan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 only works as root
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 02:22:07 +0300
In article <977tu3$h8s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric Ho"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have just reinstalled Slackware 7.1, everything is mostly ok, but
> my sound blaster 16 card only works as root. There must be some simple
> way to fix it ..... please help guys. I am using 2.2.18 kernel.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Best Regards, Eric Ho
>
>
Check permissions of /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, etc.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: how to make RAID card work in 2.4.2 after it worked in 2.2?
From: Ray Abbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:32:46 -0800
MAKE SURE YOU READ THE ENTIRE POST!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Scott Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:58:01 -0600, Patrick F Harris
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Ray Abbitt wrote:
>>>
>>> >First, the easy one. When I compiled the new kernel, the compiler
>>> >gave a lot of warnings to the effect of "pasting would not generate
>>
>>I get the same messages when compiling for K7, but not K6. What processor you
>>are targeting.
>>
>Pentium III. Doesn't seem to have caused any major problems so far.
>AS for the RAID card, I've pretty much given up hope until the kernel
>supports the FasTrak 100 directly. It seems that the device driver
Have you tried the Promise ATA100 chipset support in the kernel (like
I suggested in my earlier post). It doesn't state specifically that the
FasTrak is supported, but since the Fastrak does it's own internal
volume translation I suspect that it will work just fine.
>other way around. Right now, the RAID functionality is more
>important. By the time I'm ready to chuck Windows for good, if I
>haven't found a solution for the RAID card, I'll just take it out of
>the system and run the two 45Gb drives on the on-board IDE controller.
>They'll be plenty fast enough that way, and sooner or later I'm sure
>FasTrak support will find its way into the kernel.
>
Go back and find my earlier post. Read the section of the file
Configure.help that refers to Promise PDC20246/PDC20262/PDC20267
support. Recompile your 2.4.x kernel with this configured in. If
it doesn't work with the drives configured for RAID (I suspect it
will), use the Promise configuration to reconfigure them as individual
(non-RAID) drives.
-ray
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Implications of kernel upgrade ?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:32:14 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>John Beardmore wrote:
>
>> 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 ?
>
>Can't speak to the Alpha kernel, but I just upgraded my 2.2.14-50 box
>(stock Red Hat 6.2 install) to kernel 2.4.1 with no need to upgrade
>glibc. There were about a half-dozen *other* things I had to check
>and/or upgrade, though, but none of them were the compiler or glibc.
Oh dear - what were the other things you had to change ?
>As indicated in another response, be darned sure to read the
>Changes file in the Documentation directory of the kernel source;
>it's the gospel. It not only lists changes to the kernel, but
>gives prerequisites for compilation and installation (point
>releases, where to upgrade them if you need to, etc.). Most
>especially pay attention to the info on modutils, shared memory,
>and PPP.
Thanks !
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Syslog Daemon
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:02:25 +0100
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Michael Simmons wrote:
> I am trying to configure my Router to output it's SYSLOG to my Redhat
> 7.0 workstation's SYSLOG.
>
> According to CISCO the following commands need to be executed on the
> Unix workstation:
>
> touch /var/log/logname
> chmod 666 /var/log/logname
> kill -HUP \Qcar /etc/syslog.pid
>
> The first two work fine, the third one doesn't because the file does
> not exist. I did a find on my entire system and I don't seem to have
> a syslog.pid. I checked my log files and information is being posted
> to them by the OS.
That's because, /etc is not where teh pid-file resides on RedHat:
/var/run/syslogd.pid
But:
/etc/init.d/syslog reload
is probably easier.
Rasmus
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Boot wiped out by Win98
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:06:10 GMT
win98 will reset the mbr. stupid of it, but it does.
I just reinstalled 98 and had that happen.
Booted from the floppy to linux and just re-ran lilo.
Just lilo no command options.
reboot, and the menu is back.
Have no idea on grub though.
Patrick F Harris wrote:
> All
>
> I always put LILO on the same partition as the Linux boot partition. This
> is 'usually /dev/hda2' then after fixing a your Win9x installation the
> usually way (reinstall): Go to the DOS prompt and do fsdisk, then set the
> second partition as active. Presto LILO is back works for me every time
> every time.
>
> PS man LILO to find out the syntax.
>
> Patrick
>
>
> Rod Smith wrote:
>
> > In article <cSmm6.3913$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "ERix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> Randy Park wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > This worked fine until I was forced to reinstall
> > >> > Win98 due to Win98 problems.
> > ...
> > > install W98 first, then linux--always this order
> >
> > Apparently you missed this point -- the original poster *DID* install
> > Windows first, but (as is far too common with Windows) had to RE-install
> > it. In point of fact, there are ways to recover from this situation. In
> > fact, it's something of a FAQ. It's basically just necessary to boot
> > with an emergency floppy and re-run LILO or GRUB (whichever you use).
> > The real problem is this:
> >
> > >> > I tried
> > >> > using the drakeboot (or is that bootdrake?) utility
> > >> > but it fails with a message something like 'cylinder
> > >> > is too large'.
> >
> > Personally, I'm not familiar with the Mandrake GUI front-end for LILO or
> > GRUB; I always manually edit /etc/lilo.conf and run the lilo program
> > manually. It sounds like the kernel is above the 1024-cylinder mark.
> > This SHOULDN'T be a problem for GRUB or for recent versions of LILO, but
> > with LILO, I believe an "lba32" line should be present in the
> > /etc/lilo.conf file. Somebody else who's more familiar with the GUI
> > front-ends might be able to provide more help, though; or you could try
> > doing it with command lines and report the errors those tools produce.
> >
> > --
> > Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.rodsbooks.com
> > Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
>
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