Linux-Setup Digest #929, Volume #20 Tue, 27 Mar 01 19:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Sendmail reinstall problem (Craig Kelley)
Re: Matrox G450 with Xfree 4.02 RH 7.0 probs (Craig Kelley)
Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y' (Craig Kelley)
Re: boot failure (Craig Kelley)
Re: Need easiest way to upgrade kernel on RH7 (Craig Kelley)
Re: What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean? (Craig Kelley)
phatlinux installing probem in IBM ThinkPad (jim)
Re: SCSI controller (Michael Heiming)
Re: A7V and onboard Sound with RedHat 7 (Chad Everett)
Re: glibc compiling error with rpcgen and C preprocessor (DVHandorf)
Re: RDRAM + Suse 6.4 + HP XU800 (Intel 840) ? (Philip Barnes)
Re: Linux in NT/2000 domain (Ferdinand Badescu)
Re: How to create a read-only root partition (DVHandorf)
Re: Setting up my own News Server (John Beardmore)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) ("Gary Hallock")
Re: mem and swap problem ("Taavi Hein")
Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version ("Mike Ruskai")
Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version ("Mike Ruskai")
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail reinstall problem
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:13:38 -0700
jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> After recently trying out a mail server demo, I have managed to royally
> hose up my sendmail. I still receive the "You have mail" message at
> login, but when I type "mail" it simply hangs there, indefinitely. My
> configuration is as follows:
>
> Red Hat 7.0
> Kernel 2.2.16-22
> Sendmail 8.11
>
> Well, I would be happy to just reinstall Sendmail, but I can't. Every
> time I attempt to do so, it informs me that the application is already
> installed, then boots me out. I've killed all the processes linked with
> Sendmail, so I don't believe any portion of it is running. Is there a
> way to force a reinstall? Any help would be much appreciated.
1) Mount the RedHat CD:
mount /mnt/cdrom
2) Remove the old sendmail:
rpm --nodeps -e sendmail sendmail-cf sendmail-docs
3) Change to where the sendmail packages are:
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
4) Install the original version:
rpm --nodeps --force -i sendmail*
5) Restart the sendmail service:
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart
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It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox G450 with Xfree 4.02 RH 7.0 probs
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:15:03 -0700
"Rob Somerville" <******[EMAIL PROTECTED]*****> writes:
> I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me with this one.
>
> Have installed the latest mga_driver.o & mga_hal_driver.o as in the Matrox
> readme file, xserver starts but I have a black screen. Can kill it with
> Ctrl Alt BKspace OK.
>
> Matrox will not support this as it is a beta driver. The source will not
> compile, gets about 2/3rd way through then locks the terminal up.
>
> No other mods etc, RH 7.0 clean out the box.
>
> Xserver complains about the server session being killed, but nothing else
> obvious.
>
> Running on a twin PIII 1Gb with an Iiyama vision master pro 451. The
> xf86config-4 file seems ok, display res set to 1024x768 x 24, although I
> could get 1152*864*32 on my Matrox Productiva.
>
> Has anyone managed to get this working, and if so , how ?
Your only options are:
1) Investigate at dri.sourceforge.net (some have had success)
2) Buy a commercial X11 server from xi or matrox that supports it
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Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y'
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:16:03 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |
> | Tony> "Character Devices", about 3/4 of the way down.
> |
> |
> | Thanks, I plowed ahead and did it manually in .config but I'll
> | remember this one for next time.
> |
> | Incidentally, my system did not freeze on the NMI Watchdog after this
> | change.
>
> Gklad you got it going. I generally use menuconfig for kernels.
>
> Question for guru attention: why is this an option? Is there any time
> when you don't want enhanced real time clock? I've been saying yes for
> ages out of habit (I have many SMP systems), but even on decades-old
> 386SX16 systems it works fine. I assume there's a reason to "not want"
> the feature.
>
> bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
> At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
> They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
> there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
> religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
Guru answer: the default kernel config is the way Linus has his
setup. You can watch his hardware change with time. ;)
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot failure
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:16:53 -0700
"Ren� Scheibe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...my linux systems stops booting at the point
> where INIT should start. (The system is a
> board with Ali M1487/89 Chips)
> When I take the harddisk into another everything
> boots fine.
>
> So can yout tell me how to fix this?
You're going to have to be much more specific.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need easiest way to upgrade kernel on RH7
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:18:35 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Knopp) writes:
> I am currently running RedHat 7 using kernel version 2.2.16-22. All
> is running well now that I finally got VMWare installed with much help
> from this group. My current issue is that VMWare machines see the
> host cdrom as an audio cd with version 2.2.16-22 of the kernel. They
> recommend upgrading (or downgrading). I would like to upgrade to
> version 2.2.17-x
>
> I am very fearful of doing a kernel upgrade. Are there rpm's
> available to allow me to do this easily? What would be all of the
> packages needed to do this successfully?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give me with this
> issue,
Actually, compiling from source (www.kernel.org) is much easier than
trying to use RedHat's kernel RPM packages. Compiling a kernel is
very easy.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean?
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:20:20 -0700
Henrik Farre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yello
>
> Davide Bianchi wrote:
>
> > The process 248 is dead but is still listed as a Zombie (Z).
> > Basically it's no more... you can ignore it.
>
> Ok. but why is it there _every_ time I boot?
ps auwxf | less
That will show who the parent of that PID is. The parent must either
reap the child, or die itself (ie, you can kill the parent to get rid
of it).
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It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: phatlinux installing probem in IBM ThinkPad
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:30:10 -0000
I try to install phatlinux 3.3 in my laptop IBM ThinkPad i 1200,
cerelon 500, 32M memory. But when I click the "Setup" file. It says the
computer has already installed PhatLinux, plese click yes to delete it
before installing. If I click yes, the phatlinux files(havn't installed)
were deleted without notice. If I click No, then exit installing. Please
help me solve this problem, Thanks.
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http://www.help.com/
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:39:03 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI controller
Achim Nolcken Lohse wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:30:20 +0200, Michael Heiming
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Vicky Ng wrote:
> >>
> >> Tks for your advice, Michael. To install any Linux distribution is never an
> >> easy task for any newbies. We have to keep try and error, try and error,
> >> read tons of How-to documents on the net..........that's perpahs one of the
> >> reason why winxx is still dominating the market coz it is really "user
> >> friendly".
> >
> >Nope, it's just because it comes pre-installed on almost every machine you buy,
> >it's not harder to install a decent Linux distro, then install WIN XX, it's
> >just much faster, cause you don't have to reboot all time and if it's done,
> >most sw is installed...:-)
> >
> >But no one actually installs WIN XX from scratch and assumes, that it would
> >be much easier, but it isn't, try it out, if you don't believe me....
> >
> Not true. I've installed Windows many times from scratch, and many
> more times over top of a damaged installation. I've never yet been
> unable to install Windows on a functional PC, and always without
> having to go online, post messages for help, consult reams of
> documentation, etc.
That is your experience, mine is different, I started my Linux experience with
SuSE 4.2 about 5 years ago, I had no internet available, it took me about a week
editing, reading man pages and calculating modlines to get the damn X running.
Today with SuSE 7.1 and yast2, it's no problem installing a standard install
in 15-20 min. without any reboot and everything will be ready...:-)
Not long ago I had to instal W2K on a laptop, it took half the day and after
numerous
reboot I only had the OS and Office installed.
Was really funny to discover, after a while, if you take out the laptop of it's
docking
station, your network settings are gone, put it in again and you see them again.
I mean this is a toy, not an OS, if you like systems that hide everything from
you, I don't.
That's what I like most about Linux, if you really want to figure it out, you can,
at least a fast grep through some sourcefiles will show...:-)
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Everett)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: A7V and onboard Sound with RedHat 7
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:45:37 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:21:05 -0500, Larry Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having one heck of a time getting my Asus A7V133 to support onboard
>audio using the onboard audio chip set. Can anyone provide any pointers in
>this area?
>
>Also, I'm able to boot with the onboard Promise FASTRACK RAIO0 controller
>using the stock RedHat 7.0 kernel (using the ft.o driver supplied by
>Promise) but not with any other kernel. (Wolverine, Fisher, 2.4.2, etc.).
>Any ideas or suggestions in this area?
>
>
In order to help, could you tell us what you've tried to get your audio to
work and what, if any, error messages you've seen when you've tried?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DVHandorf)
Date: 27 Mar 2001 22:47:42 GMT
Subject: Re: glibc compiling error with rpcgen and C preprocessor
Do you have the correct permissions? Are you trying to execv a text file
(which, by the way, doesn't work very well.)? Does the file exist. If it
doesnt, that could pose problems for you.
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From: Philip Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RDRAM + Suse 6.4 + HP XU800 (Intel 840) ?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:43:01 -0600
Trawling other sites I came across the solution. Rather simple, once you
know about it.
at the LILO prompt:
linux mem=256M
or in the lilo.conf:
append mem=256M
Philip Barnes wrote:
>
> After installing Suse 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14) on my HP Kayak XU 800, I
> noticed the machine was swapping extensively. After poking around, I
> realized that the OS was trying to make do with only 64 MB of memory
> whereas the box has 256 MB.
>
> Looking into the details of the box, it appears to be using the Intel
> 840 chipset and RDRAM. I spent a bit of time trawling the news groups
> and did not pick up any signals that others have had this problem.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into this? I am more than willing to go out
> and buy some fresh bits (Suse or other) or patch / update kernels if
> that is what it takes, but I'd kind of like to know I am following a
> reasonably well blazed trail.
>
> Thanks in advance if you've got some insight into this. (And please post
> your response directly to my e-mail since I might miss it in the heavy
> traffic on this news group.)
>
> --
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> Philip L. Barnes | Richardson VLSI Lab (RVL)
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hewlett-Packard Company
> phone: (972) 497-4426 | 3000 Waterview Parkway
> FAX: (972) 497-4500 | Richardson, TX
> 75080
> Office: C2E47 |
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E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hewlett-Packard Company
phone: (972) 497-4426 | 3000 Waterview Parkway
FAX: (972) 497-4500 | Richardson, TX
75080
Office: C2E47 |
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From: Ferdinand Badescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux in NT/2000 domain
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:40:10 -0800
Allex Juang wrote:
> Normal nameserver is fine.
> My linux is also Redhat, pump works fine.
> While connecting to internet, no problem found.
> But it just cannot get intranet hosts by name (should be NetBios name)
> except by IP.
> So, is there any way to solve it??
>
I'm not an expert at this but... have you tried Samba? Your Linux box
needs to be able to translate between TCP (Unix protocol) and NetBIOS
(Windows protocol), so all Windows hosts know who they "talk" to. One part
of the Samba package, nmb, does just that: translates NetBIOS names.
I am using a Linux box acting both as a workstation, and a Samba server
for other five Losedoze toasters (sorry, those of you who like Windows, I
just can't stop joking about the guys over in Richmond :-) .
I hope this will help.
Ferdi.
>
> "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
> news:99799d$ijo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > In my company, most computers in our domain are NT/2000 hosts.
> > > And Primary/Backup domain controller are 2000 server.
> > > All hosts' IP/DNS settings are from DHCP service.
> > > Now I set up a Linux host in same domain.
> > > It looks fine while connecting to Internet.
> > > But it cannot access other machines in local domain except by using
> > > explicit IP address.
> >
> > appears that the nameservers are not used.
> >
> > > Is there any way to solve this problem?
> > >
> >
> > Use them :-)
> > Are the nameservers not on a static IP address?
> > (that would be easy, put them in your /etc/resolv.conf)
> >
> > What dhcp client do you use
> > I use RedHat, which comes with pump, others may use dhcpcd
> > I never got dhcpcd working (on an NT domain too), pump works
> > without problems though.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Ferdinand Badescu
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, U.C. Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Tel: 949-824-8094
Fax: 949-824-2174
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DVHandorf)
Date: 27 Mar 2001 22:51:08 GMT
Subject: Re: How to create a read-only root partition
If you want to have thee system able to be shut down, look through the PAM
configuration files for halt, reboot, and poweroff. Delete the password promt
if you have naive users AND YOU HAVE THE SYSTEM UNDER YOUR CONTROL, e.g., you
can monitor the system very easily for ANY security issue. Then, any user can
shut the sysem down.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Setting up my own News Server
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:00:52 +0100
In article <99q3e4$ibg$00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rodger Dusatko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> PS:Please, try not to crosspost so much...
>
>All further discussions are in comp.os.linux.misc
Which is f(all) use to those of use that were interested but don't take
that group !
Cheers, J/.
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John Beardmore
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From: "Gary Hallock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:13:34 +0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"GreyCloud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aye! I've got Lotus Smart Suite also and came bundled with my IBM. Very
> Good package. The one program I really like is the Day Planner. Yes, it
> would be nice... hmmmmm.... I wonder, since IBM is supporting Linux and
> pretty much supports Lotus and the $2billion investments, do you suppose
> that that is happening???
Unfortunately, Lotus seems to have no interest in porting Smart Suite to
Linux. I'd be happy if it would run under Wine. I use Lotus Notes
every day under Wine andit works quite well now. If I only had some
free time I'd take a look at it myself. I have gotten Wordpro and 123 to
come up under Wine, but not much works.
Gary
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From: "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.misc,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.support.commercial,redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: mem and swap problem
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:22:43 +0300
"Gabor Takacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: Instead of trying to set it to 256M try for a few hundres k less.
And why, exactly?
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Taavi Hein - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #209546
Registered Linux machine #97395
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From: "Mike Ruskai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Mike Ruskai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:05:34 GMT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:17:43 -0600, John Thompson wrote:
>Mike Ruskai wrote:
>
>> Thank you for an actual explanation. I never would have guessed that LILO
>> ignores the file system. Not exactly a good design.
>
>How would it work otherwise? When your PC boots, it runs the
>BIOS out of ROM and the BIOS looks to the MBR on the first
>bootable drive. It finds lilo and runs it. Lilo runs and needs
>to find your kernel. At this point there is only direct,
>real-mode access to the HD device. Filesystem support can only
>come later, after the kernel is found and loaded and in turn
>recognizes your filesystems and mounts them. But until the
>kernel is loaded there is no way for your system to recognize,
>let alone use your filesystems.
With OS/2 and HPFS, the boot sector contains a mini-FSD for finding the
relevant system files.
Something similar should be possible (and more desirable) under Linux.
--
- Mike
Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.
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From: "Mike Ruskai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Mike Ruskai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:09:22 GMT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 06:59:54 GMT, M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>"Mike Ruskai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>[...]
>
>>Thank you for an actual explanation. I never would have guessed that LILO
>>ignores the file system. Not exactly a good design.
>
>[...]
>
>A bootloader doesn't know zilch about high-level stuff like
>filesystems etc. It's basically just a piece of assembler code that's
>supposed to know where the kernel is located on the boot
>medium - in abolute figures.
Under OS/2, the boot sector contains enough information to find OS2BOOT,
which itself contains a miniature file system implementation - enough to
find all system files, including the kernel, configuration file, and base
device drivers.
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- Mike
Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.
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