Linux-Setup Digest #714, Volume #20 Mon, 26 Feb 01 23:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Dhcp Declaration Problem Help!!! ("Mike Wilcox")
Configuration of National Instrument PXI Box (Garry Herzberg)
Re: Pls Help a Linux Newbie (Steve Bradley)
Re: How to install multiple distros ("Mark L. Kahnt")
Re: Boot choices -- RedHat 7 ("Patrick Fisher")
Re: ssh on Debian, not connecting to OpenBSD 2.7 ["Disconnecting: Bad packet length
1349676916"] (Richard E. Silverman)
Re: Boot choices -- RedHat 7 (H.Bruijn)
problem with a samsung syncmaster ("Hiriam Gonz�lez S.")
Re: Couple newbie questions (Paul Folbrecht)
12 minutes to load sendmail??? ("ERix")
Adding apps to panel menu in Gnome (RH7) (Paul Folbrecht)
Fork a compile into the background ? ("Christopher H")
Re: dual boot ("ERix")
Re: how to make RAID card work in 2.4.2 after it worked in 2.2? (Scott Gardner)
Re: Boot choices -- RedHat 7 ("David")
Re: Connecting to a W2K network. ("ERix")
Re: dual boot ("Paul R. Woods")
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From: "Mike Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dhcp Declaration Problem Help!!!
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:14:28 -0800
I recently added dhcpd to my box and the wisdom of the 'net said I needed
to put a declaration in for the internat side of the box WITHOUT specifying
a range of addresses to give out.
HTH,
Mike
"Charles Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi could someone help me out,
> I have Redhat 7.0 running on a computer with two NIC's. One is for the
> internet eth0, and the other is local eth1. I have Dhcp running on
> this server also but when i start the demon i get a message saying "no
> declaration for eth0, please add a declaration for eth0". Could
> someone please explain to me what that is and how to do this.
>
> BTW
> the dhcp server is running and it is giving out addresses.
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.lang.labview
From: Garry Herzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuration of National Instrument PXI Box
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:51:22 GMT
I have a National Instruments PXI chassis w/ an 8156B controller I am
trying to load SUSE Linux 7.1 on. We are experiencing difficulty in
configuring the network adapter for the controller. National said it is
a SMC 91C92 chip on the controller. SUSE supports in their driver
database a SMC 9143 drver but it seems to be not configuring properly.
Does anyone have a better driver to install or an alternate driver that
one should try?
Garry Herzberg
206-544-1567
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Associate Technical Fellow
Manufacturing R&D
Boeing Company
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From: Steve Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pls Help a Linux Newbie
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:04:37 GMT
Everything you need to know is here:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/index.html
I don't know if your GeForce 2 is supported, although I think it is, but
follow the instructions, and if you have trouble you should post *detailed*
questions, complete with error descriptions from log files if possible.
('Hardware X doesn't work' is not very helpful!).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Linux and I'm already having problems. I cant get my X
> Windows system to work. I'm using a GeForce 2 (3D Phropthet 2) and it
> won't work. I was looking around and I found I should update my XFREE86 to
> 4.0.2. There's just one problem. I don't exactly know how... If anyone
> could just give me a simple anwser on how to install XFree86 or how to fix
> my problem I would be forever greatful.
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
--
Steve Bradley
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From: "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: How to install multiple distros
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:05:26 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anita Lewis wrote:
>
> 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
I presumed that, yes, you were putting everything other than /home in
one partition. Offhand, I'd guess that /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr/src and
/usr/local are probably the only things that can certainly be safely
shared, although /var/spool might also be safe if the same mta and news
servers and such similar packages are running under the different
distributions. I'm honestly not sure if /boot could be shared, but I
wouldn't dare to think of sharing /etc, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin,
/usr/sbin, /usr/lib, or /usr/X11R6 between distributions.
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From: "Patrick Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot choices -- RedHat 7
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:33:58 -0500
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:MxBm6.5188$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Has anyone got any info on how to change the default boot in RedHat 7?
>
> I edited the Lilo.conf for Dos bootup default and it doesn't work.
> I even earlier tried changing the word dos to Windows and that didn't
> change.
You need to run lilo after changing your lilo.conf file for the changes to
take effect.
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Crossposted-To: comp.security.ssh,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ssh on Debian, not connecting to OpenBSD 2.7 ["Disconnecting: Bad packet
length 1349676916"]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 26 Feb 2001 21:06:35 -0500
> Disconnecting: Bad packet length 1349676916
1349676916 decimal = 50726F74 hex = "Prot" ASCII
Looks suspiciously like some sort of text message, perhaps beginning
"Protocol" or "Protection"? What do the syslog messages on the server
say? How about if you try the connection with the server in debug mode?
--
Richard Silverman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Boot choices -- RedHat 7
Date: 27 Feb 2001 02:27:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:33:58 -0500, Patrick Fisher allegedly wrote:
>
>"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:MxBm6.5188$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> 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.
>
>You need to run lilo after changing your lilo.conf file for the changes to
>take effect.
use the -v option to /sbin/lilo, to make sure that the boot options are
actually updated, and that you don't have any typos in /etc/lilo.conf
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: "Hiriam Gonz�lez S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with a samsung syncmaster
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:37:23 -0400
I have a problem with the configuration of my monitor samsung syncmaster
400b when I try to change the resolution I am hung the computer like I can
get the drivers of this monitor or to solve this problem. ah!!!! and another
question where I can find the drivers of the voodoo 3 for linux and the
linux that I use it is mandrake 7.2
thank you
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From: Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Couple newbie questions
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:04:34 GMT
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I need a little more detail on the second
item- hope you can bear with me. I added the line to etc/fstab as instructed-
I had to do a su to save it, though. I then created /mnt/hd2 as instructed.
And that's the first part I'm unsure about- do I create a dev/hd2 dir also?
(You said "create the mount point"- I believe that's /mnt/hd2.)
But, the main thing I did not follow was your discussion of the meaning of
guid and uid, and what values I'm supposed to use for them. I know enough
about Unix to know that these must mean "group id" and "user id", and I
suppose you're saying I should change them to the values of the account I'm
using, but I don't know where do get that info (though I'm sure it's right
under my nose).
Thanks again.
"H.Bruijn" wrote:
> >- Is there a simple way with Gnome File Manager to see your FAT32
> >partitions on the drive? (I previously used Corel Linux a bit which did
> >this by default.)
>
> edit /etc/fstab and add a line like:
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/win vfat auto,uid=1001,guid=501,exec,umask=002 0 0
>
> create the mount point, with the mkdir command
> * /dev/hda5 is the partition.
> * /mnt/win the mount point, created with the "mkdir /mnt/win" command
> * vfat is the partitiion type FAT32 with long file names
> * auto, the device is mounted at boot time
> * uid,guid First I would assume that you work as a user other then root,
> when running linux. My suggestion would thus be to make /mnt/win completely
> owned by that user, by adding the options uid=user,guid=group where
> you substitute hilde with the correct (g)uid.
> * umask=002, The default permissions are set with umask variable,
> umask=002 (read-write for user and group, others read-only) is pretty
> standard. Remember that vfat doesn't have native pemissions so that
> trying to change them, whith chmod, or using chown is impossible.
>
> For more information take a look at the manual page "man mount"
> especially the sections "Mount options for fat" and "Mount options for
> vfat" and the man page "man fstab".
>
> Good luck.
> --
> If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: "ERix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 12 minutes to load sendmail???
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:05:32 -0800
Hi, I'm a novitiate, but am working on improving. Here's a question for
which I have been unable to locate an answer. Whenever I boot Linux (RH6.0)
everything loads fine, but when I get to sendmail, it literally takes 12-15
minutes to load--it just sits there--I don't even here processor activity.
What is it doing? The LinuxBox is attached to a hub, and the hub is
attached to another workstation that acts as a server. This "server" has a
WinProxy via ADSL connection to the Internet. LinuxBox is set to
192.168.1.9/24, with a gateway of 192.168.1.1/24, and the server is set to
192.168.1.1/24. Could someone offer a suggestion as to how to fix this?
Thank you much.
Erix
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From: Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding apps to panel menu in Gnome (RH7)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:10:44 GMT
Ok, as a long-time Windoze user attempting to come to terms with Linux,
one thing I find inconvenient is that when you install an application it
does not create an entry for it in the panel's starter menu. Not only
that, but there doesn't seem to be a simple way to do it manually with
Gnome's file manager. Dragging-and dropping to the menu doesn't work-
this bring up a menu offerering to add an icon to the panel itself, but
that's not what I want.
In looking at /desktop under my home directory, I see that this isn't
structured similarly to the Windows Start Menu (not that it should be).
There is not a directory structure containing shortcuts (er, links)
corresponding to the menu items. So, it seems that I can't just edit
this structure to create links to what I want. How do I do it?
Thanks! I am working my way through Red Hat Linux Unleashed but a
little help is nice too.
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From: "Christopher H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fork a compile into the background ?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:16:42 GMT
Hello,
I have a slow 486/DX2 80mhz with 32meg of ram. Compiling something like the
kernel can be a real pain in the ass for me. What I usually do is ssh into
the box, run the make commands and go to work. But this solution requires my
machine to be connected to the linux box.
My question is, Is there anyway to fork the "./configure, make, make
install" commands into the background ? So when I log off the box the jobs
won't be terminated.
Thanks.
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From: "ERix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:30:24 -0800
Always install Windows (no matter which version) before Linux. From my
experience, it will not work vice versa. Also put Lilo in the master boot
record when given the option in the install process.
"Javier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:97en4p$gir$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: [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: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:34:49 GMT
>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.
Tried it--no go. I didn't really expect it to, because if that were
the case, then the drivers for the Fastrak and the Ultra (the non-RAID
version of the card) would be the same for all operating systems.
>>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
I tried that, too, but the PDC202XX chipsets you mentioned are all for
Promise chipsets that are installed on third-party motherboards, and
difffer significantly from the add-on Fastrak cards both in BIOS and
implementation. I discovered this the hard way when I had to re-flash
the BIOS on my Fastrak and mistakenly chose the BIOS for one of the
motherboard-base implementations.
Lastly, If I'm going to configure the drives for a non-RAID
configuration, I'll just do it with the onboard IDE controllers.
They're only ATA-66, but even ATA-100 drives can't saturate an ATA-66
interface just yet--at least not in real-world cases.
I appreciate the help, and your earlier post inspired me to
try things that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. They didn't
work, but the experience was worth it.
Scott Gardner
LT US Navy
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot choices -- RedHat 7
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:50:50 GMT
Thank guys, I didn't know that I need to run lilo. I thought the lilo.conf
was the file that was read to show the boot options and that was all that
needed done. I will try this. Thanks.
I was trying so hard to get my sound card to work that I didn't look into
this as deeply.
Sound card works now so I move on to this.
Dave
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From: "ERix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connecting to a W2K network.
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:54:06 -0800
It is possible, and I am doing it now. It does not involve anything more
than having a proper IP address scheme, and telling your Linux machine that
the default gateway is the IP address of the computer with the Internet
connection, and telling your Linux machine that the DNS is likewise the IP
address of the computer with the Internet connection. If these settings are
correct, it should work. At the command propmt, type "linuxconfig" and make
sure everything is correct.
"WB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Paul R. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dual boot
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:06:41 GMT
Javier wrote:
>
> 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
Why? Do you like unreliability? Sorry. I actually have to dual-boot,
too, but only because my kids already had some games on CDROM. If this
machine were as fast as what I have at work I would be running VMWare.
I use it at work. The nice thing about it is that you don't have to
re-boot to get to Windows, and when (not if) Windows goes feet up, it
doesn't take down the whole machine, just the bit you permitted it to
tarnish when you configured VMWare. Check it out at www.vmware.com.
--
Paul R. Woods This machine powered by Linux!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org
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