Linux-Setup Digest #851, Volume #20 Sun, 18 Mar 01 08:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: partition blues ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger? ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Monitor (David)
Re: Lilo with RH 7.0 Won't Enter Linux Automatically Anymore ("Meron Lavie")
Re: Installing linux WITHOUT a distribution. (David)
Re: Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!! (David)
Re: lockd question ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: changing fstab ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help for sound in KDE2.1? (Mumit Khan)
Can not reboot on Compaq Deskpro 4000 ("paulk93")
Configuring Grub to boot DOS ("Norman McFarlane")
Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips fuer Anfaenger? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Modem Probs. ("Aaron Oberholzer")
Newbie question: Problem on starting up X Window ("Roose")
Need help on installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP ("unknown")
ISDN cards and SMP - 2.2.14 (John Beardmore)
Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP ("Chau Chee Yang")
Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP ("Chau Chee Yang")
Re: Newbie question: Problem on starting up X Window ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Is it really worth it ? (Julian T. J. Midgley)
Re: cdrdao and cd-reading (Nils Holland)
Re: Should I install rh6.2 or 7.0??? (John Beardmore)
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition blues
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:39:08 +0100
Damn you.
DO NOT MULTIPOST. (see col.misc)
Eric
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:46:04 +0100
> > I doubt that more than 10 percent here can read german.
>
> So?? I doubt less than 1% of people here pay attention to posts like
> "I have an ABC card on an XYZ system and and it fail to boot when I
> dial into my local ISP?". Yet people aren't admonished only to post
> about things that most people are interested in.
>
> Just ignore the posts.
I do when I can't read them.
I wasn't talking to anyone else but the OP when I first wrote this.
He should simply be made aware, that his chances in this NG to get help
are minimal if he doesn't conform to the language most people speak.
How I tell him that, is up to me, if you don't like the way I tell him that,
too bad. If you disagree, and wish to clarify things more for the OP,
please be my guest.
> > I know. Postings in international groups should better
> > be in english though.
>
> Well either ignore the international languages, or stick to US/UK only
> groups!
I will do neither of these options.
I will try to read those, try to help, and tell them that they
should post in english, if they like to get some help.
Eric
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 07:56:11 GMT
Aaron Oberholzer wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have just linux working, when I was installing it, it needed my monitor
> and video card details. The video card was right but my monitor was set to a
> generic setting. I changed it to my real monitor (ViewSonic 4E) but it came
> up with a error thing so I went back to the monitor list and the generic
> setting came up ok. Now that linux is set up when I log into linux colours
> are ok but I get like colour marks and it is hard to read is there anyway
> from within linux I can change my monitor? (I am running Mandrake 7.2).
>
> -Aaron :D
You should be able to run: Xconfigurator
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Lilo with RH 7.0 Won't Enter Linux Automatically Anymore
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:57:54 +0200
Thanks to all for the suggestions.
It turns out that the problem was...
...the "0" key on my keyboard was sticking, and therefore at boot-up LILO
tought it was getting recurrent, irrelevant input and simply ignored it and
"waited" for legitimate input (i.e., pressing ENTER).
:)
--
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)
"Sebastian Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Kenneth Lafond schrieb:
> >
> > Look in your /etc/lilo.conf file. make sure the values timeout=XX and
> > default=label are correct and present, where XX is the number of secs to
> > timeout to the default, and label is the label for the image you want to
be
> > default.
>
> Set timeout to zero or quote it out to make Lilo boot linux without
> waiting!
>
> Wastl
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing linux WITHOUT a distribution.
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:01:52 GMT
Netfuge Info wrote:
>
> OK but how do I even make the first step to get a blank hard drive ready. I
> see some distributions install some dos utilities... am I to start with a
> partitioning program that will format (and btw what type of format does
> linux create). and does x free86 need to be installed prior to anything
> else? thanks
You might want to look at Slackware. You can install a base system from
floppy and go from there. As for how to do a Linux from scratch you can
find help here.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Hope this helps.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!!
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:09:43 GMT
Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Turns out that Netscape Mail Reader expects the following
> as PART OF the email-header, else it will treat the msg as plain text.
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0A9FF.718881A0"
>
> Any ideas on how to send email with custom headers -- or more
> complex, are there any other email programs that are better in this SPECIFIC
> respect
> when compared to '/bin/Mail'?
>
> Remember. this email program will run within a script by CRON.
> No DISPLAY variable, and no HOME variable set, etc...
>
> [end]
It's nothing fancy but I use something like this for my cron mail
scripts.
#------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# Gets List of Un-Owned Files on the system
# and emails it to postmaster.
#
(
echo "To: postmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
echo "From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
echo "Subject: Weekly Un-Owned files audit report"
echo
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:
export PATH
echo "List of Un-Owned Files on the system twinscrew include:"
echo
/usr/bin/find / -nouser -o -nogroup
) 2>&1 | /usr/lib/sendmail -t
exit 0
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lockd question
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:31:37 +0100
Christopher W. Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On one of our office machines (running Linux) we have 6 nfs
> mounted file servers. the /var/log/messages file (and the system
> console) is full of the following errors:
> Mar 14 05:46:37 linux64 kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 10.3.11.10
> Mar 14 05:46:37 linux64 kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 10.3.11.10
> Any clue as to what that error is? Why only the server "10.3.11.10"
Presumably its a non-matching nfs version. Cease worrying.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing fstab
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:34:40 +0100
Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Denis wrote:
>> Now I have partitioned hdb to have another 150 megs available for Slackware.
>> Only I tried to copy /usr to hdb and I ran out of space. How can this be?
Presumably he copied the copy also.
Either that or the source fs was compressed.
>> The second partition has the same size and /usr exists with all the rest on
>> hda!
>> (type ext2, native Linux)
>> Next, I'll want to change fstab.conf to account for the new location of the
>> directory on hbd2, in fact. Do I copy /usr before or after changing fstab?
Nobody cares, since it isn't in /usr itself.
> First you mount the second disk to /mnt, then you copy the content of
> /usr to /mnt umount the second hd, now you move (mv) /usr to /usr-old.
> Create /usr and mount the second hd to /usr. Now you can change fstab, that
> your second disk will be mount proper in case of reboot. Case
> Don't forget to use the -p switch cp has...
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mumit Khan)
Subject: Re: Help for sound in KDE2.1?
Date: 18 Mar 2001 08:46:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There is some compilation problem in the redhat 6.x rpms from kde.org.
>It cannot recognize oss or alsa sound drivers.
>You need to download the kdesupport and kdelibs src.rpms to compile the
>kdesupport, kdelibs, kdelibs-sound and arts rpms for yourself.
>Then apply these newly generated rpms again.
This was a very good hint, thanks! Fyi, I rebuilt kdelibs from 2.1 source
RPM, and installed *just* arts RPM (it's one of packages that gets built)
and sound worked just fine after that.
Regards,
Mumit
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From: "paulk93" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can not reboot on Compaq Deskpro 4000
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:51:55 GMT
Dear linux experts,
I have installed RedHat Linux 7.0 on my Compaq Deskpro 4000 and I am having
trouble rebooting the system with "reboot" command.
When I try to reboot, it shuts down (killing all the processes), but then,
it goes into black screen and does not restart the system. Only way to
restart the system is to push the power button to power down and restart.
I also had Windows NT 4.0 installed before on the same machine and it
rebooted (Shutdown and Restart) fine without any problems. It does appear
to be Linux issue (possible related to Compaqs).
Has anyone had this problem on Compaq?
I have talked to Compaq tech support without success.
Can someone help?
Thank you
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From: "Norman McFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring Grub to boot DOS
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:08:48 +0200
I am a new Linux user and need help setting up Grub to boot Linx,
Windows2000 and DOS. I already have it booting Linux and win2000, I now need
to add a DOS boot partition. I have already created the DOS boot partition.
I
have formated it as FAT and plan to install DOS 6.22. This poses no problem,
as I can do this from a DOS boot disc.
The problem comes in when I have to set up grub to handle this boot as well.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regard,
Norman
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips fuer Anfaenger?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 10:27:54 +0100
Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I doubt that more than 10 percent here can read german.
> So?? I doubt less than 1% of people here pay attention to posts like
> "I have an ABC card on an XYZ system and and it fail to boot when I
> dial into my local ISP?". Yet people aren't admonished only to post
> about things that most people are interested in.
> Just ignore the posts.
No. Postings are in english for the same reason that all non-national
communications between pilots and between pilots and ground are in
english. So that everyone can understand everyone else.
You really do not want an n**2 - way conversation in one group.
Form your own newsgroup in a national hierarchy if you want to talk
in swahili.
> Well either ignore the international languages, or stick to US/UK only
The comp hierarchy is in english.
I even had to maltreat the subject line to get it back into ANSI so
that I could post this!
Peter
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From: "Aaron Oberholzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Probs.
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:50:45 +0800
I have Conexant SoftK56 modem (It's a WINMODEM).
I have downloaded from olitec but have no idea how to apply it. Does anyone
know how? (I am very new to Linux - I am running Mandrake 7.2) if you know
how to get a parallel scanner working to that would be great
-Aaron :D
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From: "Roose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie question: Problem on starting up X Window
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:29:53 +0800
I have installed my RH Linux 7.0. However, I am getting problem on starting
up my X Window. Here is what I have done so far:
1. Re-install my PC with RH 7.0
2. Switch to version XFree86 v 4.0.1 by using these commands (per Matrox
G450 driver installation manual):
cd /etx/X11
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 ./X
3. Copy the mga_drv.o (beta 1.00.004) to the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
(per Matrox G450 installation manual)
4. Start X windows by typing startx
However, everytime the I start this, my screen seems to be "shaking" and I
can only see about 1/4 of my screen. I have to move my mouse so that I could
see the other parts of the screen. When I try to do CTRL+ALT plus +, I get
an error message that I am already out of sync.
Questions:
1. How would I know if I am already running under XFree86 v4.0.1?
2. Was the command I used in step # 2 above correct so that I could now
start using XFree86 v4.0.1?
3. Lastly, in the Matrox G450 update manual, they said that all I had to do
was copy the mga_drv.o file to a specific directory. However, they did not
mention what else I had to do after this. Do I have to run Xconfigurator
again? When I did this, RH was still seeing a MATROX G400 driver. How would
I tell Linux to use the new mga_drv.o driver?
BTW, my monitor is an HP p700, model# D8906A (17 inch).
Thanks,
Roose
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From: "unknown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help on installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:11:58 +0800
Hi,
I have a RedHat 7 installed on a PC "A". Currently I need to setup another
RedHat PC "B" via FTP. I copy all files in RedHat CD files into PC "A".
And then I make a bootnet.img to floppy disk, and use this disk to book up
in PC "B". I then choose FTP to installation method. The installation is
running fine and it can retrieve a file "base/netstg1.img" from PC "A" 's
FTP server. After receiving this file, the screen prompt "Loading
/mnt/runtime ramdisk..." and the installation process stuck there. What's
wrong with the FTP installation? I have tried HTTP method as well and I got
the same situation.
Please help. Thank you.
--
--
Best Regards,
Chau Chee Yang
Business Component Enterprise Sdn. Bhd. ---> www.bce.com.my
Phone: 03-3372 5717 Fax: 03-3372 5719
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN cards and SMP - 2.2.14
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:11:38 +0000
I've hear it said that ISDN cards aren't supported with SMP kernels.
If I compile a kernel with SMP and ISDN support I get a whole bunch of
messages of the form:
depmod: *** Unresolved Symbols in /lob/modules/2.2.14-6.0/misc/isdn.o
and also for
isdnloop.o, isdn_bsdcomp.o, hisax.o, eicon.o
but also
wtd.o, wavefront.o, sound.o, soundcore.o, sb.o and loads of others.
Can I take to suggest that multi-processor machines will not only fail
with isdn, but won't do sound and a shed load of other stuff because of
broken drivers ?
If I try and load an isdn driver after booting with:
modprobe -v hisax id=SedlbauerSC type=15 protocol=2 irq=11 io=0x278
it fails saying:
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-6.0/net/slhc.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-6.0/net/slhc.o: unresolved symbol
printk_Rdd132261
and in addition to printk, gives similar responses for memcmp, kmalloc,
kfree and ip_fast_csum. It finishes by reporting:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-6.0/net/slhc.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14-6.0/net/slhc.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.14-6.0/net/slhc.o: insmod hisax failed.
Is SMP support still developing ? It seems a bit odd that SMP support
in drivers isn't routine. Does it really make driver development much
more difficult ? Is the situation any better in RH7 or kernel 2.4 ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "Chau Chee Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:19:23 +0800
Hi,
I have a RedHat 7 installed on a PC "A". Currently I need to setup another
RedHat PC "B" via FTP. I copy all files in RedHat CD files into PC "A".
And then I make a bootnet.img to floppy disk, and use this disk to book up
in PC "B". I then choose FTP to installation method. The installation is
running fine and it can retrieve a file "base/netstg1.img" from PC "A" 's
FTP server. After receiving this file, the screen prompt "Loading
/mnt/runtime ramdisk..." and the installation process stuck there. What's
wrong with the FTP installation? I have tried HTTP method as well and I got
the same situation.
Please help. Thank you.
--
Best Regards,
Chau Chee Yang
Business Component Enterprise Sdn. Bhd. ---> www.bce.com.my
Phone: 03-3372 5717 Fax: 03-3372 5719
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From: "Chau Chee Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:21:24 +0800
Reply-To: "Chau Chee Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I have a RedHat 7 installed on a PC "A". Currently I need to setup another
RedHat PC "B" via FTP. I copy all files in RedHat CD files into PC "A".
And then I make a bootnet.img to floppy disk, and use this disk to book up
in PC "B". I then choose FTP to installation method. The installation is
running fine and it can retrieve a file "base/netstg1.img" from PC "A" 's
FTP server. After receiving this file, the screen prompt "Loading
/mnt/runtime ramdisk..." and the installation process stuck there. What's
wrong with the FTP installation? I have tried HTTP method as well and I got
the same situation.
Please help. Thank you.
--
Best Regards,
Chau Chee Yang
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Problem on starting up X Window
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:18:36 +0100
Roose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. How would I know if I am already running under XFree86 v4.0.1?
This is like asking "how do I know which country I am in". Read the
sign at the airport! Start the X server, and see what version it
says it is. When you ask it, with -version, what does it say? Etc.
Peter
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Subject: Re: Is it really worth it ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian T. J. Midgley)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:51:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian T. J. Midgley) writes:
>
>>> How many virus programs are there for Linux?
>>> None. You can't give Linux a virus unless you go out on the
>>> net as root.
>>
>> Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Rampant naivety.
>>
>> Ever heard of the Ramen worm, or vulnerabilities in setuid binaries?
>> It's really not very difficult to write a worm/virus which exploits the
>> latter and spreads either by a Ramen like attack on network services
>> with known exploits (Bind, wu-ftpd, proftpd...) or with user assistance.
>
>These exploit a bug in a specific software. Once you plug that hole
>the threat is gone for that specific hole. It is not like an email
>virus which you just have to recode so the virus scanners won't find it.
I don't dispute this. But that's a world away from the original claim
that "you can't give Linux a virus unless you go out on the net as
root'.
Arguably, it is within Microsoft's power to fix the flaws in their OS
and applications that make virus propagation under Windows so
trivial. But perhaps they don't want to upset McAffee and friends.
--
Julian T. J. Midgley http://www.xenoclast.org
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrdao and cd-reading
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:30:15 +0100
David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What doesn't work (hang, error message)? What happens when you do the
> following (or sg1 if that is your cdrom):
> cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/sg0 --driver generic-mmc -v 1 test.toc
Here's what I get when using that command:
Script started on Sun Mar 18 13:24:41 2001
root@anne-meike:/home/nils > cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/sg0 --driver generic-mmc -v
1 test.toc
Cdrdao version 1.1.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
L-EC encoding library - (C) Heiko Eissfeldt
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
/dev/sg0: E-IDE CD-ROM 52X/AKH Rev: A60
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x0000)
Reading toc and track data...
INTERNAL ERROR: Found bogus toc data (no lead-out entry in raw data). Please report!
root@anne-meike:/home/nils > exit
Script done on Sun Mar 18 13:25:45 2001
Note that I can specify any of the other drivers using the --driver
argument and the same happens. When I take the CD out of the CD-ROM drive
and put it into the CD-Recorder and issue the same command as shown above
(of course with --device pointing to the recorder) everything works fine.
Any suggestions?
Greetings,
Nils
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I install rh6.2 or 7.0???
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:01:22 +0000
In article <98tln7$3sr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Pfaff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>You can download it from Red Hat (ftp.redhat.com) and probably the mirrors.
>Look around and you should be able to find the .iso image.
No, I can't see any isos of upgrade disks at all, just loads of rpms
e.g. ftp://priority.redhat.com/updatres/6.2/alpha/.
Am I being thick, or are scripts to automate loads of upgrades
impossible to find on line ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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