Linux-Setup Digest #783, Volume #20 Thu, 8 Mar 01 08:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: multiboot help ("Ahwa-Chen")
Re: Split incoming emails to the correct users? ("Duane Healing")
Show cd volume labes ("Jacob =?iso-8859-1?b?SWxz+A==?= Christensen")
Re: Newbie Question: Adding HW ("Duane Healing")
Re: Show cd volume labes (Michael Heiming)
Re: Compiling GD on Linux failes test? (Dela Lovecraft)
Re: Adaptec AHA2920 SCSI ("JP")
Re: Show cd volume labes ("Jacob =?iso-8859-1?b?SWxz+A==?= Christensen")
Re: How to find what's in my Kernel ? (Julian Midgley)
Re: Dual Boot Setup: Windows2000 and Redhat Linux 7 (please help) ("Eric")
Re: Relaying email (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: possible reasons for a Kernel Panic: VFS: cannont mount.. ? (Michael Heiming)
Re: Something to chew on.. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: possible reasons for a Kernel Panic: VFS: cannont mount.. ? (Julian Midgley)
Error during creation of swap space ("Rodney Leger")
Re: Error during creation of swap space (Joris Roefs)
Re: Newbie Question: Adding HW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adding WIN98R2 After Linux Install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Ahwa-Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: multiboot help
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:27:42 +0800
"Zilla�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ????? news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Alex Zaslavsky wrote:
> >
> > For college I have been given a simple assignment to set up a multi boot
> > system running. MS-dos 6.22, windows 98, windows NT server 4.0 and any
> > version of linux (i have redhat 5.2 , 7.0 and mandrake 7.2).
>
>
> Maybe not as simple as you thought, eh? :o) I'm struggling with it my
> self, but I believe my problems are more hardware related... so far...
you can try it:
1, Fdisk fat16 format, then install MS-dos 6.22
2,Set up windows 98,
3,Set up windows NT
4,Install linux
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Split incoming emails to the correct users?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 01:49:53 -0800
If you have your machine set up to do valid local mail delivery, you
could try changing your recipe to read something along the lines of:
:0:
* ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]
! gnunn
Then sendmail will do the actual mail delivery job and permissions won't
be an issue.
If sendmail is configured to handle local mail delivery, that should
work.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Nunn"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks again Herman,
>
> I tried to setup Procmail and looked at the tutorials etc, but still
> have a problem.
>
> I have the following .procmailrc file in my home directory
>
> # Environment variables for procmail
> # setup from www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/spamfoil.html
>
> VERBOSE=yes LOGABSTRACT=all
>
> MAILDIR=${HOME}/Mail LOGFILE=${HOME}/Mail/procmail.log
>
> :0:
> * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /var/spool/mail/gnunn
>
> #Lets all other mail in my mailbox
> :0:
> ${DEFAULT}
>
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From: "Jacob =?iso-8859-1?b?SWxz+A==?= Christensen"
<firelake@(**removethis**)mail1.stofanet.dk>
Subject: Show cd volume labes
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:57:45 +0100
Hi.
I'm running Linux Redhat 6.2 with a 2.4.0 kernel. I have a problem with cd
volume labels. How do you see what volume label a cdrom has in Linux? I
have looked for some mount option but could not find any.
Thanks in advance,
Jacob Ils�.
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Adding HW
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 02:00:27 -0800
Hardware this basic will be recognized by the system upon reboot.
The only way it wouldn't was if you did not currently have IDE hd
and cd support built into your kernel, which wouldn't be the case if
you're already using IDE.
In general, hardware recognition and support is dependent on a driver
being available. If you're using the stock kernel of your distro, most
hardware support is modularized and the module must be loaded for a given
device. If you've compiled your own kernel, then a recompile to add in a
driver for a new device type would be necessary. But I figure you haven't
compiled your own kernel or you'd have discovered that on your own :^)
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Unknown"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd want to add an EIDE CDRW and also move over the HDs from my old
> machine when it dies.
>
>
>
> Roy B wrote:
>
>> What kind of hardware will you be adding?
>>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > I'm new to Linux and was wondering when you add hardware, do you have
>> > to re-install your distribution or will it see the new HW on re-boot
>> > (and maybe ask you for a driver CD)?
>> >
>> > Does it vary with the distribution? I'm interested in Corel
>> > specifically but any info will be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:32:38 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Show cd volume labes
Jacob Ils� Christensen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm running Linux Redhat 6.2 with a 2.4.0 kernel. I have a problem with cd
> volume labels. How do you see what volume label a cdrom has in Linux? I
> have looked for some mount option but could not find any.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jacob Ils�.
Hello,
not sure what you want to read, there are
isodetect
Usage: isodetect [OPTIONS]
-h show help (this text)
-V print VOLUME_ID of ISO9660-Image
-p print PREPARER_ID of ISO9660-Image
-P print PUBLISHER_ID of ISO9660-Image
-A print APPLICATION_ID of ISO9660-Image
-d <device>
and
isoinfo
isoinfo: Usage: isoinfo [options]
Options:
-h Print this help
-d Print information from the primary volume descriptor
-f Generate output similar to 'find . -print'
-J Print information from from Joliet extensions
-l Generate output similar to 'ls -lR'
-p Print Path Table
-R Print information from from Rock Ridge extensions
-N sector Sector number where ISO image should start on CD
-T sector Sector number where actual session starts on CD
-i filename Filename to read ISO-9660 image from
-x pathname Extract specified file to stdout
This could be something you are looking for?
man pages are at least on my machine available for isoinfo.
Hope this helps
Michael Heiming
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From: Dela Lovecraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: Re: Compiling GD on Linux failes test?
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:32:04 +0000
Hi Ken,
I think I see your problem:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i586-linux-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 168.
^^^^^^^
While trying to get GD installed on machines, I tried it on a RH 6.1
box, and got this same error. When I did the same thing on a machine
with perl 5.6 I got no errors. I can only think that this is the problem
- try downloading perl 5.6 (it is better anyway, IMHO) and there
shouldn't be so many problems.
HTH
Dela Lovecraft
--
"We are all in the gutter,
But some of us are looking at the stars."
-- Oscar Wilde
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA2920 SCSI
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:38:57 -0000
Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you also try the aix7xxx driver ? AFAIK only a older version of the
> AHA2920 uses the Future Domain SCSI chip. But a more current version (
> IIRC AHA2920C) uses the aic7xxx SCSI chip.
The card is definately FD based but I kept the aix7xxx driver in as a module
as I may be getting one of these cards. I have however, just noticed the
following from cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
<SNIP>
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 48).
Vendor id=10b7. Device id=9800.
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max
Lat=10.
I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4000000 [0xf4000000].
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: Future Domain TMC-18C30 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10.
I/O at 0x6100 [0x6101].
I'm wondering now if it doesn't like sharing the IRQ with the NIC.
Regards,
JP
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From: "Jacob =?iso-8859-1?b?SWxz+A==?= Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Show cd volume labes
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:41:54 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michael Heiming"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> not sure what you want to read, there are isodetect
> Usage: isodetect [OPTIONS]
> -h show help (this text)
> -V print VOLUME_ID of ISO9660-Image -p print
> PREPARER_ID of ISO9660-Image -P print PUBLISHER_ID of
> ISO9660-Image -A print APPLICATION_ID of ISO9660-Image -d
> <device>
> This could be something you are looking for? man pages are at least on
> my machine available for isoinfo. Hope this helps
> Michael Heiming
isodetect does the job.
Thanks a lot.
Jacob Ils�.
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Subject: Re: How to find what's in my Kernel ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Midgley)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:58:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <Tcsp6.1419$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian
>Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>I'm not aware of any tools for extracting the config options from a
>>compiled kernel.
>
>Depressing.
There may yet be a solution - most distributions publish the kernel
source (including .config file) for the kernels they supply - (Debian
drops them in /boot as 'config-<kernel-version>', for example).
Take a look at the appropriate kernel package for your distribution.
All the best,
Julian Midgley
--
Julian Midgley
Principal Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zeus Technology Ltd http://www.zeus.com
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Boot Setup: Windows2000 and Redhat Linux 7 (please help)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:04:03 +0100
> Ok. You asked for it....
> Yes it is possible to use partition magic to boot Linux, However I use
> an alternative method of booting Linux that steers clear of using LILO
> ( linux's most common boot method), mostly because of years of lilo
> trashing my boot record.
lilo doesn't trash it.
You did.
<trimmed a loooooot of info>
> (Yes, Using LILO is a lot easier..... Until Windoze overwrites the MBR
> in attempt to be "helpful" ( after all you really wanted to run
> windoze and nothing else didn't you?)
Lilo doesn't need to be in the MBR.
Use the default DOS MBR and place lilo a primary partition.
(NOT ON A WINDOWS PARTITION!!!: only a linux,
or extended partition can be used!)
If you do place it in the MBR(I always do), all that's needed is to keep
a bootfloppy at hand, so that when windows rewrites the MBR, you
can boot linux from the floppy, and reinstall LILO
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Relaying email
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:32:19 GMT
Kam Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi all,
>I've got my email all working (sendmail and pop), but I need to know how I
>allow people NOT on my network to send email.
You do not want this.
>I looked at the access file, and
>added the ip's of machines allowed to relay, but there is no guarantee that
>they are on a known ip (DHCP).
Use the whole scope of the DHCP server. Note: That's an awful risk
of having your system easily abused by spammers.
>Can I setup sendmail to work with anyone with a
>username and password on my system regardless of the ip???
You can. It is, however, synonymous for shooting yourself.
>What would I need to
>change?
[...]
That's not Linux-related at all. Please read the sendmail docs.
And refer to the sendmail group.
You should NOT do this. Relaying is disabled/denied for good reasons -
the moment you disable this feature, your system can and will be
abused for relaying spam through your machine. There are literally
thousands of spammers out there doing nothing else but looking for
relaying mailservers to pump their junkmail through.
If your system is running an open relay, you'll end up in ORBS
within hours of it having been abused. The result will be that not
only you'll damage your (and possibly your company's) reputation,
but nobody will be able to send mail to you anymore, as the sites
listed there get blocked.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:06:07 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: possible reasons for a Kernel Panic: VFS: cannont mount.. ?
James wrote:
> Ok im upgrading from 2.2.13 kernel to 2.4.2. I compiled in everything I
> thought I needed and got
Did you read Documentation/Changes, that comes with every kernel source
and upgraded your system accordingly?
Michael Heiming
>
>
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Cannot mount root on (3,3)
>
> on reboot
> now i asked around for the common causes and:
> 1) (3,3) is the correct device (/dev/hda3) and Lilo was run after the new
> kernel was in place
> 2) the only filesystems on the disk are ext2 and linux swap, support was
> compiled into the kernel
> 3) the partition table was made with cfdisk that comes with slack 7.0,
> support for that was in the kernel
>
> to be safe i tried a monolithic,
> support-for-all-filesystems-and-partition-tables kernel. no go. the 2.2.13
> kernel still boots fine
>
> I also noticed that on booting, the 2.4.2 kernel sees the drive, but never
> runs a partition check.
>
> anyone have any idea what the possible cause could be?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> -James
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Something to chew on..
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:54:57 +0100
In comp.os.linux.setup Olli Rajala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 02:05:39 +0100, "Markus G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Why 420? What's the "magic" behind that number? It's not 2^n, that's
> why I'm asking this.
What makes you think it's not 2^n? How many hundredths of a second are
there in 420 days anyway?
100 * 3600 * 24 * 420 = hmmmmmmm
(about 7500000 * 420, or about 3 200 000 000, which curiously is
between 2 or 4 times 1024^3, if my envelope calculation is right)
Peter
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Subject: Re: possible reasons for a Kernel Panic: VFS: cannont mount.. ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Midgley)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:31:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Kernel Panic: VFS: Cannot mount root on (3,3)
>>
>> on reboot
>> now i asked around for the common causes and:
>> 1) (3,3) is the correct device (/dev/hda3) and Lilo was run after the new
>> kernel was in place
>> 2) the only filesystems on the disk are ext2 and linux swap, support was
>> compiled into the kernel
>> 3) the partition table was made with cfdisk that comes with slack 7.0,
>> support for that was in the kernel
>>
>> to be safe i tried a monolithic,
>> support-for-all-filesystems-and-partition-tables kernel. no go. the 2.2.13
>> kernel still boots fine
Are you absolutely certain that you've got IDE/SCSI support enabled in
the kernel (if you've copied a .config file from a 2.2.x series
kernel, IDE support will almost certainly be disabled unless you
re-enabled it (they've introduced a new config option).
Julian Midgley
--
Julian Midgley
Principal Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zeus Technology Ltd http://www.zeus.com
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From: "Rodney Leger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error during creation of swap space
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:40:11 GMT
I have encountered an error while trying to add a new swap space partition
to Linux. I created the partition using fdisk and changed the system id on
that partition to 82. I then tried to go into Linux and make the filesystem
recognize the swapspace using the following command.
mkswap /dev/hdd4 395136
the size(395136) being the number of blocks listed for the filesystem in
fdisk.
Unfortunateley I get an error which states -
mkswap:errorr: size 395136 is larger than device size 0
Please tell me what I am missing
Thanks-
Rodney
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From: Joris Roefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error during creation of swap space
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:54:25 +0100
Rodney Leger [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] uttered:
> I have encountered an error while trying to add a new swap space partition
> to Linux. I created the partition using fdisk and changed the system id
> on
> that partition to 82. I then tried to go into Linux and make the
> filesystem recognize the swapspace using the following command.
>
> mkswap /dev/hdd4 395136
>
> the size(395136) being the number of blocks listed for the filesystem in
> fdisk.
>
> Unfortunateley I get an error which states -
> mkswap:errorr: size 395136 is larger than device size 0
>
> Please tell me what I am missing
> Thanks-
> Rodney
Loose that 395136-thing.
mkswap /dev/hdd4 should suffice
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Adding HW
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 08:02:09 -0500
Thanks for the help. It's obviously no secret that I'm the complete beginner
here. :)
Duane Healing wrote:
> Hardware this basic will be recognized by the system upon reboot.
> The only way it wouldn't was if you did not currently have IDE hd
> and cd support built into your kernel, which wouldn't be the case if
> you're already using IDE.
>
> In general, hardware recognition and support is dependent on a driver
> being available. If you're using the stock kernel of your distro, most
> hardware support is modularized and the module must be loaded for a given
> device. If you've compiled your own kernel, then a recompile to add in a
> driver for a new device type would be necessary. But I figure you haven't
> compiled your own kernel or you'd have discovered that on your own :^)
>
> --
> -Duane
> -DNAware SoftLabs.
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Unknown"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'd want to add an EIDE CDRW and also move over the HDs from my old
> > machine when it dies.
> >
> >
> >
> > Roy B wrote:
> >
> >> What kind of hardware will you be adding?
> >>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > I'm new to Linux and was wondering when you add hardware, do you have
> >> > to re-install your distribution or will it see the new HW on re-boot
> >> > (and maybe ask you for a driver CD)?
> >> >
> >> > Does it vary with the distribution? I'm interested in Corel
> >> > specifically but any info will be appreciated.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding WIN98R2 After Linux Install
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 08:04:46 -0500
Ok, thanks for the help. It's nice to know that I have the option if
necessary.
Ralph Miguel Hansen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I thought someone recently said in passing that it was possible to add
> > WIN98 after installing Linux. Did I get that right?
> >
> > How do you do it without WIN trashing the MBR and Linux?
> >
> > Do you then have to use something like System Commander to get a dual
> > boot capability?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> Install Windows, boot Linux from floppy or cd-rom, then make your lilo.conf
> looking like this :
>
> # Start of /etc/lilo.conf
> boot = /dev/hda
> vga = normal
> read-only
> prompt
> timeout = 100 # Time in 1/10 seconds to choose which OS to boot.
> # When over, the first position will boot.
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz # That's my fucking kernel
> label = l # Type l and Linux will boot -great !
> root = /dev/hdb3
> initrd = /boot/initrd
>
> other = /dev/hda2 # This is to boot for have a look on Bluescreens
> label = w # Type w and Win will boot -uarrgh !
> # End of /etc/lilo.conf
>
> Insert your /dev/hd* . After editing /etc/lilo.conf, don't forget to run
> /sbin/lilo.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ralph Miguel Hansen
> Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
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