Linux-Setup Digest #729, Volume #20 Thu, 1 Mar 01 10:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: linux on a notebook (Linux Student)
Re: Samba 2.0.7/RH7.0 and W2K ("Meron Lavie")
Re: Can't change permissions on vfat partitions ! ("Duane Healing")
Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7 (A. Khan)
Sendmail setup (#TAN LEK GAN#)
Re: linux changes active partition ("Eric")
Re: Hard Drive problem (RH6.0 and SuSE 6.4) ("Eric")
Re: Linux partitioning question ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: mpg123: Can't rewind stream (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: can't get redhat linux to recognize network ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to make RAID card work in 2.4.2 after it worked in 2.2? ("Gene Heskett")
SiS630S, no display? (Hans Mittelmann)
Making a second video card work (Martin Lemenu)
Re: suidperl - where the hell is it? ("m i n i m a l")
IPMASQ, Net Games, and Mandrake 7.2 (Ninja X)
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Subject: Re: linux on a notebook
From: linux_student@NyOSPaAMYhOUFoUCKoINGWHORES!!.com (Linux Student)
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 07:41:35 GMT
Hi,
I too have an Omnibook XE2; Its the DD version, running RH 7.0 w/ Xfree
4.0.1, Helix Gnome and kernel 2.2.16... the only Issue that I have run into
is that redhat (oddly enough) only works with the Win2k BIOS upgrade, which
is somewhat buggy (halts properly but doesn't reboot, just hangs and beeps
at me)...I've also used Mandrake 7.1 & 7.2 as well as Slackware 7.1 and
these don't require the BIOS upgrade...also, you will need to compile the
ALSA sound package if you want to use sound (the maestro 3 sound card is
supported is version 0.5.10 and later - no sequencer support though)...
as for the pcmcia enet card, I know nothing about it...
Hope this helps,
Neil aka Linux Student
(to mail remove offending message from addy)
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Samba 2.0.7/RH7.0 and W2K
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:39:46 +0200
I get the exact same symptoms after installing 2.2.0 alpha.
Anyone have any ideas?
--
Meron Lavie
www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOTE: THERE ARE NO DIGITS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS (ANTI-SPAM)
"Hartmut Berghoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> Olivier Clavel schrieb:
>
> > Meron Lavie wrote:
> > >
> > > I have Samba 2.0.7 running on RH7.0.
> > >
> > > I have a dual-boot (W2K/WinMe) PC on the same LAN. I gave each OS its
own
> > > computer name and IP. Both OS's and the Linux have both IPs and host
names
> > > appearing in their HOSTS file.
> > >
> > > Both W2K and WinMe can see and access shared directories on the Linux
via
> > > Samba wioth no problem (I enabled un-encrypted passwords on both).
> > >
> > > However, only the WinMe can succesfully logon to the domain.
> > >
> > > I get the following error messages: "Failed due to process number out
of
> > > range" or "credentials already exist".
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Nothing. You just need samba 2.2alpha. 2.0.7 does not support win2k
> > domain logon.
> > --
>
> That's it. With 2.0.7 I configured my w2k as workgroup with workgroupname
as in
> smb.conf. So there is not domain logon, but I can share all networkshares
defined
> by samba.
>
> Users of course must be defined both on w2k box and samba.
>
> Hartmut
>
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't change permissions on vfat partitions !
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:36:22 -0800
Mount them as a specific UID and GID of whoever you want to access them.
e.g., An example from my /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda2 /mnt/c vfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
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-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <97k09a$mqg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cedric Chausson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED](halteauspam)> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I noticed I was unable to write files on vfat partitions under user
> accounts while I was able to do it under root. I checked fstab and made
> sure I had set the option rw for those partitions. Then I checked the
> file permissions on those partitions :
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 151 avr 20 2000 liprefs.js
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 32768 f�v 3 13:12 mIRC
>
> The write permission is missing. So I tried to change those using chmod
> under root but it had no effect !
>
> Anybody have an idea ?
>
> thanks in advance,
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From: A. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:22:49 -0600
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:43:09 +0100 syco wrote:
> [...]
> > Yes, it works.
> > using : modprobe aha1542 aha1542=0x230
> > ( that is the syntax I needed, indeed )
> >
> > Now, I have to find an automatic way to make it when Linux start :-(
... snip ...
> > >gives some info how loadable modules work/setup.
... snip ...
In /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf put the following lines
alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542
options aha1542 aha1542=0x230 <- not sure if this how the I/O option is
specified in the file.
--
A. Khan (email: knura at yahoo dot com)
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From: #TAN LEK GAN# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail setup
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:09:19 +0800
Hi!
I did a fresh installation of Mandrake 7.2 to power my web server.
Sendmail was installed using default config and has no problem sending
out mails.
However, I have a perl script downloaded from the net (FormMail.pl from
Matt's cgi scripts), which cannot send out mails. Everything works fine
and the redirection of webpage was perfect but it simply refused to send
out mail. I've checked the script config settings and everything is
fine.
Anybody knows whats going on here and how can I solve this problem?
Thanks in advance!
Victor
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux changes active partition
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:37:09 +0100
> believe. it's true.
Definitely not.
Unless you run a script that does this for you, it will NOT touch the
Partition Table.
I'm not sure if you can setup LILO to do this, but even then it's in
lilo.conf, and you enabled it
No way it is changed on its own.
Eric
> > You claim that each boot to linux, alters the partitiontable?
> > I cannot believe that.
> >
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive problem (RH6.0 and SuSE 6.4)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:43:24 +0100
What do you mean by missing?
fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]
will show the entire disk
Eric
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:24:27 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Greg H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> EExcept that /var will be on your /root and/or /home partition, which
>> is an error of truly monumental proportions in either case.
> Maybe I should have put more emphasis on the "newbie" although I hate the
> associated stigma(s). How many will know what to do when partitions are
> truly fscked? And even then, how many will pass up a super-easy clean
> install?
We knew what to do the first time it happened. Why should they be any
different? Are they different in some qualatative or quantative way?
The machine said to fsck the partition so I did.
>> Which is not the situation EVER in a multitasking o/s. Don't try and
>> apply dos/windows logic. You are NOT the only user on your disk, even
>> if you are the only user in your house.
> I can see this if your arguments included things like search time and disk
> spanning, but the argument assumes one, maybe two, harddisks where speed
The argument is over compartmentalization. I say it's good
housekeeping. You say that good housekeeping is not important if you
have a throw-away house. I say, OK, but I don't want to throwaway my
house everytime I lose the breadknife.
> is dictated by your hardware -- IDE/SCSI, RPM, etc -- and are increasingly
> less of a problem.
>> Why would they back up anything else except that and /etc and parts of /var?
>> I don't! The rest just comes from a distro, which is replacable. This
>> is not the problem. The problem is when your machine breaks, which it
>> will do at frequencies of about once every three months to once every
>> two years, depending on luck or circumstance.
> But you're just proving my point. Why back up anything other than that?
No reason. I do it because I don't want to go to the trouble of
refinding all those hard to get utilities, or refixing all the authors
errors I corrected once. Someone who has invested no effort need not
protect it. They'll lose about 2days work. I'd lose several years
worth.
> If any other sorts of partitions such as /usr get hosed and you're going
> to replace via the distro., then why have many partitions in this setting?
You want /usr on a separate partition just so you CAN easily replace it
from the distro. If you kept a list of yoru installed packages, it
should be easy. If the /usr and / partitions are mixed in with /home,
then what happens when you get to the bit about "do you want to
reformat the partition"?
> OK, granted, but IMO, we're not talking about the stable, functional, high
> usage home that we want to take good care of. We're talking about the vacation
But I am. I live here.
> home that gets used when you have free time. Unless you've got money to burn,
> that one room shack does just fine. Little maintenance, no worries, gets the
> job done, and is functional for it's primary purpose given the time spent there.
If you don't care, then you don't care.
> To me, backups serve two purposes: (1) save unreplaceable data, and (2) cut
> way down on restoration time in the event of data corruption or loss. We
These are two major functionalities yes. They also importantly serve as
"version control". You can restore a change. But I am not too much
bothered by backups here. That's only one thing that partitioning helps
in particular.
> take care of #1 by backing up /home, /etc and maybe /var. #2 is taken care
> of via the multitudes of slick, fast and easy installations care of our vast
> selection of distros. Now, couple on the partition argument at hand. Your
I agree.
> precious data in /home, /etc, and /var are isolated from the corruption of
> other partitions (or partition in my view). You said yourself the rest is
> taken care of by the distro. Hence, why break up what's left? Remember, I'm
Because of what's discussed in the howto. You want as small a root
partition as possible, thus decreasing its chances of damage in ANY
circumstance. You may think it's easy reinstalling a distro, but belive
me, it's miles easier reBOOTING you root partition and selecting
"update" or "check and fix" from your distros setup utility.
That implies separate / and /usr. (a 64MB / is way big enough if
/opt is somewhere else). Then we get to /usr/local which will
contain your "extra" software - the stuff that didn't come with your
distro. If no haveee, then no worree.
> not talking about servers and multi-user (as in humans, not daemons and other
> processes) systems; I'm concentrating on Joe Linux.
Oh, puhleez. The average person is not as dumb as the man on the
clapham omnibus. I hope.
> Phew! Have I gone completely OT on this thread or what? I hope I didn't make
> the poster who started this thread regret it :-)
His request for an abortion licence was turned down.
Peter
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mpg123: Can't rewind stream
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:41:41 +0100
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got this message while running mpg123:
>
> > mpg123 http://my-shout-station:8000/
>
> High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
> Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
> Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
> THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
>
> Directory: http://my-shout-station:8000/
> Playing MPEG stream from ...
> MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
> mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 362 bits!
> big_values too large!
> Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x1886509b at offset 0xfffffffb.
> Skipped 352 bytes in input.
> Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x2cd7ab49 at offset 0xfffffffb.
> Skipped 194 bytes in input.
> ......
> Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x2cd7ab49 at offset 0xfffffffb.
> Skipped 194 bytes in input.
>
> [0:07] Decoding of finished.
>
>
> The speaker has periodically short sharp noise. Does anybody know
> what's going on?
Yes. You got errors in the mp3. You could try to find some more tolerant
program to decode and reencode it.
Rasmus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can't get redhat linux to recognize network
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 13:03:26 GMT
It is NOT correct. That IP under gateway should not be 0.0.0.0 it should be
205.152.95.x
where x is the IP of the gateway on your network. Your IP address is not valid
either. It should NOT be 205.152.95.0. There should be a number between 1 and
254. You have either config'ed your networking improperly, or your
administrator is really screwing up his network with DHCP or the like. Read the
Networking-HOWTO and you should be ready to get everything started.
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:47:59 -0600, "eric gregory"
<eric"youknowwhatyoucandowithyourspam"@clarksville.com> wrote:
>it is correct, I have actually checked and double checked that.
>"inon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:977cl0$2u9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Check IP of "Default Gateway"
>>
>>
>
>
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Date: 1 Mar 2001 8:28:5 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to make RAID card work in 2.4.2 after it worked in 2.2?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Ray Abbitt;
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Scott Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Well, I got my linux books yesterday (Running Linux and RH 7.0
>>Unleashed), and have been playing around. I've managed to
>>upgrade the kernel from 2.2 to 2.4.2, and it seemed to go pretty
>>well. I have two questions, one relatively minor and one that's
>troubling me.
>>
>>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
Wrong compiler. For kernel building, use either kgcc, egcs (latest) or
gcc-2.95-2, no newer.
>I haven't tried 2.4.x kernels yet, so have no answer oon this one.
>>
>>Now the buggaboo. When I initially installed RH 7.0, I used the
>>"expert text" function, and provided a device driver disk for my
>>Promise FasTrak IDE RAID controller card, which was successfully
>>recognized as /dev/sda under 2.2. When I compiled 2.4.2, I didn't
>>see any option for providing a driver disk, and when I boot up
>That's because the driver disk is an option to RedHat's installer
>program and not part of the kernal.
It should be built as a module, and insmod'd to bring it in in the boot
cycle.
>>under 2.4.2, it doesn't recognize the RAID card, so of course the
>>MOUNT of /dev/sda fails. This is no big deal, since linux is
>>installed on a different (non-RAIDed) hard drive, so all this means
>>is that I can't mount my Windows partition after I've booted. What
>>I suspect happened is that when I originally loaded 2.2, the
>>functionality for the RAID card was loaded into the kernel via my
>>driver disk. Since I didn't do anything like that when I compiled
>>2.4.2, the support obviously isn't there.
>When you loaded 2.2 support (loaded from the Promise driver disk)
>for the RAID card was provided by a module. On my systems this is
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/ft.o and I have successfully used this
>module to add Promise RAID support to other systems that used the
>2.2.16-22 kernal.
>>How do I add the device support for the RAID card into the 2.4.2
>>kernel? I would prefer to add the support into the kernel directly,
>>rather than as a loadable module, since I spend a LOT of time in the
>>windows partition.
>The 2.4.2 kernel has support for the Promise ATA100 cards. (You
>probably didn't see it when you configured your kernel--you have
>to have some other options on before you are presented with the
>option.) Look in the Documentation subdirectory of your kernel
>source tree for the file Configure.help and search for the first
>occurence of the string "promise"
Or 'PDC', I have the non-raid version myself.
><snip>
>>The README.TXT file only gives the instructions for using the driver
>>disk in conjunction with the "Expert text" function as part of an
>>initial RH install, nothing about using it when you compile a new kernel.
>Actually at one time there was a note either on Promise's website or
>in some of the documentation with the driver that said it could only
>be used with RH6.2 or RH7.0 (They don't supply the source, just the
>pre-compiled object module).
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think I may need to find a
>>"dumber book" than "Running Linux" until I really get a grasp on things.
>>On the other hand, since I just installed linux a few days ago, and
>>just got the books yesterday, I'm happy with the progress I'm making
>>(compiled and booted from a new kernel, learned how to edit LILO, mount
>>devices, configure a printer under KDE, etc..) Learning this is almost
>>as much fun as when I got my first computer!
>>
>Sounds like you are doing very well for a beginner. You've done most of
>the things that beginners seem to have trouble with. Dealing with new/
>or experimental drivers is beyond a lot of Linux users.
>(And your last line brings a real grin to my face. If you have enjoyed
>it that much so far, it just gets better.
>-ray
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 500mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
<http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto>
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material,
is � 2001 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: Hans Mittelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: SiS630S, no display?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:42:26 -0700
Hi,
we have here a brandnew laptop with Slackware-current, kernel 2.4.2 and
a SiS630 chipset. We have set up
the sis framebuffer driver. It shows everything as expected if we
connect a second LCD display, but on the
one in the laptop it shows a gray frozen screen in the moment the fb
driver is called. The logfiles show
no error messages and the display works under Windows.
Hans Mittelmann
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From: Martin Lemenu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making a second video card work
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:33:09 -0500
Hi there,
I have an integrated AGP video card built in my motherboard. This works
fine in Linux. I have recently installed a new Creative Labs 3D Blaster
Annihilator2 MX PCI video card in my computer. I have disabled my AGP
integrated card in my BIOS and told it to use the PCI card as the first
initial video card. So my new card works fine under Windows. In Linux, I
can boot in text mode fine, but when I try to configure XFree86 with
xconfig it detects my integrated card and not my Annihilator2 MX card.
How can I force it to look at my PCI Annihilator2 MX card and not the
integrated AGP one? Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Martin
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From: "m i n i m a l" <m a i l @ m a i l . m a i l>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: suidperl - where the hell is it?
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:43:32 +0100
"Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: I've looked eveywhere, I do not have suidperl on my system, freshmeat,
osdn,
: etc all do not have anything. Where can I get this?
You don't mean perl for squid by any chance ? This is standard perl5 binary,
you can get it almost everywhere. If not, sorry, I cannot help you here.
Good luck !
Serv
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From: Ninja X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPMASQ, Net Games, and Mandrake 7.2
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:50:06 GMT
Hi.
First, I was using the RedHat 6.2 with ipMasq in order to play my games
(counterstrike, starcraft, etc...) on the net.
Now, I have installed the Mandrake 7.2, with ipmasq.
BUT : Games are unplayable with Mandrake 7.2, has if the kernel or anything
else was verifying each routed packet or if I was connected via a 28.8k old
modem !
What can I do ??
Thx
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