Linux-Setup Digest #963, Volume #20 Sun, 1 Apr 01 18:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: help with .profile ("Bob Comire")
Re: SuSe 7.0 - can't mount remote filesystems (Michael Heiming)
Re: help with .profile (Chris Coyle)
how to share HD with windows in PC ("sprint")
Re: How can I install RebHat to a PC with WinME? (E J)
Re: printing in star office ("Len Philpot")
Re: how to share HD with windows in PC (Michael Heiming)
Partioning problem during install (Carl Wick)
Re: Partioning problem during install ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: ISO image install problem... (steve)
Re: LILO splash screen. -- NEW QUESTION ("Natman")
Help! System freeze or normal processing time? ("Joseph Gallagher")
Re: How to remove the colors of dir/files in RH7.0 when in xterm? (Daniel Rall)
Re: undelete testing (Norman Levin)
Re: BASH error: invalid character 47 in exportstr for /usr (Norman Levin)
Re: Define the X Desktop for "StartX" command ("-G-")
Re: Partioning problem during install (Carl Wick)
Re: Need help: ftp btwn 2 ppps and 1 eth on same PC (James Carlson)
Help w/ ISDN: Ascend Pipeline (Richard Everhart)
linksys lne100tx - on Mandrake 7.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dial-up Internet Service Providers (Abdur-Rahman Morgan)
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From: "Bob Comire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with .profile
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 16:12:55 GMT
On Solaris you should be able to do this
set -o vi
EDITOR=vi
As long as ksh is your startup shell
"Tim Cuthbertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:xNFx6.30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> That is a very good question. I have the same problem with my ksh on one
Sun
> Solaris 2.6 host. I hope we will get a good answer.
>
> Tim
>
> "Bob Comire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:Jnxx6.76773$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi, I am running RedHat 7. When I try to override the emacs line editor
> with
> > set -o vi it will not work when I login. If I type it on the command
line
> it
> > will work just fine. If I place it into the .profile then type .
.profile
> it
> > will work just fine. But if I leave it in the .profile and logout then
> login
> > it will not work. How is this set for login?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > PS - also tried /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc,
> > ~/.bash_profile
> >
> >
>
>
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 18:38:44 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe 7.0 - can't mount remote filesystems
Brian O'Halloran wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I've installed SuSe 7.0, and wish to mount filesystems on other
> computers in the local network. Having edited /etc/exports on each of
> the required machines, along with the /etc/fstab file on the new
> computer, when the computer tries to mount the remote filesystems, all I
> get is 'Permission denied'. The other machines are using Debian 2.0 or
> 2.2 - any advice???
Hm, did you check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny?
Is the nfsd running on those machines?
"rcnfsserver status" should show if the other boxes are SuSE too.
You may want to check this man page, it contains info about the
hosts.allow and hosts.deny file and the setup:
man 5 hosts_access
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Chris Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with .profile
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 12:41:28 -0400
Bob Comire wrote:
>
> Hi, I am running RedHat 7. When I try to override the emacs line editor with
> set -o vi it will not work when I login. If I type it on the command line it
> will work just fine. If I place it into the .profile then type . .profile it
> will work just fine. But if I leave it in the .profile and logout then login
> it will not work. How is this set for login?
>
> Thanks
>
> PS - also tried /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc,
> ~/.bash_profile
Bob,
I too struggled with this for a while (with RH6.2).
The solution I came up with was to create a file in my home directory
called ".inputrc", containing just one line:
set editing-mode vi
The presence of this file in your home dir overrides the system-wide
default
file, "/etc/inputrc". The explanations for this stuff are in
man bash
and
man readline
HTH
Chris Coyle
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From: "sprint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to share HD with windows in PC
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:31:51 -0400
Hello, everyone,
I have installed both windows98 and linux7.0 on my PC and both of them works
fine. but I can't see the files of each other. I mean to have windows98 and
linux to share the same files in the same computer. I know there are some
system can do it(I once see window2000 share files with linux6.0). But I
don't know how to make the configuration. or I just need some other
softwares to support this function?
Please help if anyone knows it.
Thanks,
clark
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I install RebHat to a PC with WinME?
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 17:32:29 GMT
"�w����" wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm new to Linux. Could you please tell me how to install Linux(RedHat) to
RTFM on http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7-Manual/install-guide or
on the separate documentation CD as background.
BACK UP WINDOWS just in case.
>
> 1.Dual Boot with 2 partitions within 1 harddisk (using PowerQuest Boot
> Magic)
> 2.Another harddisk with 2 partitions also.
>
If you are using PowerQuest, you must be using Partition Magic. also RTFM on
how to create linux and
linux swap partition.
>
> Does they(WinME and Linux) alive at the same time?? Please help!
>
No, you need to purchase vmware or dos4lin to have WinMe or Linux on at the
same time.
>
> Rgds,
>
> Chris
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From: "Len Philpot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing in star office
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 12:55:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dave Uhring"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Using spadmin, set up your printer as HP Laser Jet 4 Plus. Make that
> your default printer.
>
> This assumes, of course, that you have properly configured your print
> system to print PostScript out of the default printer.
How (or where) do you configure the printer so that the specified margins
match what's on paper? I remember eons ago, in WordPerfect for DOS you
could specify and offset X,Y that would adjust for individual
printer/driver differences. Right now, printing from SO is useless for
me, as everything is flush top/left, no matter what I setup in spadmin
for a margin.
Thanks.
--
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:54:02 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to share HD with windows in PC
sprint wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone,
>
> I have installed both windows98 and linux7.0 on my PC and both of them works
> fine. but I can't see the files of each other. I mean to have windows98 and
> linux to share the same files in the same computer. I know there are some
> system can do it(I once see window2000 share files with linux6.0). But I
> don't know how to make the configuration. or I just need some other
> softwares to support this function?
For WIN there is a tool called explore2fs, search with you favorite
search engine.
In Linux you need to set it up in /etc/fstab to get
it mounted on every boot like this:
/dev/hda? /mnt vfat defaults 0 0
This may need a little tuning, depending on you setup,
try to mount first from the commandline:
mount -t auto /dev/hda? /mnt
Check with "mount" (without any options) what filesystem was detected,
if it's working fine
you should edit /etc/fstab.
For more info:
man mount
man fstab
Good luck
Michael Heiming
PS.: You can create (mkdir) a directory where you want to mount the WIN
partition,
I just choosed /tmp cause I knew it should be on your system.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
Subject: Partioning problem during install
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 18:27:39 GMT
Currently have a 30gig slave disk.../dev/hdb that I am trying to
install RH7 on. Disk Druid will not let me create / on it no matter
what the size, keeps saying not enough free space, even though the
disk shows 0% utilized. It does let me create /usr /var etc but not
/. I keep getting some unallocated partition error, and not enough
free space. And...if I try to use fdisk instead of D.D. I get kicked
out of the install and the system reboots? WTF??
Any ideas?
Remove the numbers to email
Carl
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partioning problem during install
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:55:37 +0200
> Currently have a 30gig slave disk.../dev/hdb that I am trying to
> install RH7 on. Disk Druid will not let me create / on it no matter
> what the size, keeps saying not enough free space, even though the
> disk shows 0% utilized. It does let me create /usr /var etc but not
> /. I keep getting some unallocated partition error, and not enough
> free space. And...if I try to use fdisk instead of D.D. I get kicked
> out of the install and the system reboots? WTF??
This used to be caused by not making a /boot below cylinder 1024
But that was with 6.x releases. Still try to make /boot (16 MB ~ 1 Cylinder)
the first partition on that disc. Can you proceed if you do that.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: ISO image install problem...
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:24:37 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tauno Voipio):
>|
>| "Hiawatha Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>| news:9a599n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>| > I downloaded Red Hat 7 as an ISO image and burned it onto CDs. Each CD
>| has
>| > just one big file on it. How do I "open" them so I can install the
>| > software? Thanks
>| >
>|
>| Sorry to say - your CD burning needs to be re-done. The ISO image is an
>| image of the whole CD, including the file system control data. If you burned
>| it as a normal file, you have now two file systems inside each other.
>|
>| You should have the ISO image back on the hard disk of the burner machine
>| and make a new CD with 'Make CD from image' option in the burner program.
What I usually do is mount the image then burn to cd. Works everytime.
--
Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764
Powered by GNU/Linux
1:23pm up 7 days, 13:45, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.04
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From: "Natman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO splash screen. -- NEW QUESTION
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:06:35 GMT
It is a .pcx file. (I renamed it and opened it with Corel Photopaint).
Natman
"Jeremy Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99t90u$2dn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Henrik Farre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Btw. What format is the message file, if I what to replace it?
> >
>
> the "message" file is a data file (binary?), similar to "boot.b".
>
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>
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From: "Joseph Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! System freeze or normal processing time?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:08:25 -0700
Hello.
When installing RH 7 for the first time, I get all the way to the Performing
Post Install Configuration progress bar, then the whole thing appears to
lock up. The progress bar moves maybe one eighth of the way, then stops.
I have tried leaving at that point for several hours, but it does not
recover. Am I being too impatient? Or should it sit there for longer?
And what is the way to get out of this lockup? I have to turn the computer
off to restart.
System details if they help:
AMD K6 II 450
8GB windows HD primary master
1.2GB drive secondary slave for Linux, partitions deleted during disk druid
and the using automatic partitioning
Installer saw and correctly identified mouse, keyboard, vid card, monitor
SMC Etherpower 10/100 (Probably to be the topic of another post, if I ever
get that far)
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.development,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: How to remove the colors of dir/files in RH7.0 when in xterm?
From: Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:10:48 GMT
"Jeffrey Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got RH7.0 installed and access it from my NT box using Exceed.
> When I do "ls -l", directories, flat files, scripts, etc, are shown in their
> own
> color. When I had this problem in RH6.1, I edited the .Xdefaults and got
> the color scheme removed.
>
> In RH7.0, the setting must be saved in elsewhere as altering .Xdefaults
> would make any difference. Please help!
This has absolutely nothing to do with X.
`man ls`
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 11:11:05 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: undelete testing
Check out the text version of "mc" it has undelete built in.
SolarisCert wrote:
>
> I am implementing undelete testing according to ext2 undelete howto.
> But it seems that the testing fails, here are the steps I took:
>
> 1) echo > "testing" > /boot/testing
> 2) rm /boot/testing
> 3) umount /boot (do it immediately after removing file)
> 4) debugfs /dev/hda7
> debug: lsdel
> 1 deleted inodes found.
> Inode Owner Mode Size Blocks Time deleted
> 25 0 100644 5 1/ 1 Fri Mar 30 19:37:53 2001
>
> debug: dump <25> /root/testing.dump
>
> But finally I find that the content of the file testing.dump does not
> contain any "testing"
> This situation continues after I tried again many times.
--
Norman Levin
"In 1555, Nostradamus wrote: 'Come the millennium, month 12, in the home of
greatest power, the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the
leader.'"
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 11:32:33 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BASH error: invalid character 47 in exportstr for /usr
Matthew David Pickard wrote:
>
> Whenever I become superuser I get this error. It also appears when I run
> ./configure and make. Does anybody have any idea what could cause this?
>
Every time you su, you open a subshell. Many commands run in subshells.
Look at your .bashrc file (or whatever echo $BASH_ENV says)
--
Norman Levin
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From: "-G-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Define the X Desktop for "StartX" command
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:24:11 -0700
I have RH 7 and if i need to switch i run "switchdesk" from the console...
hope it helps, i alaso hope that i ddint confuse the command with soemthing
else
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
Subject: Re: Partioning problem during install
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:28:10 GMT
Will give that a try.
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:55:37 +0200, "Eric en Jolanda"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Currently have a 30gig slave disk.../dev/hdb that I am trying to
>> install RH7 on. Disk Druid will not let me create / on it no matter
>> what the size, keeps saying not enough free space, even though the
>> disk shows 0% utilized. It does let me create /usr /var etc but not
>> /. I keep getting some unallocated partition error, and not enough
>> free space. And...if I try to use fdisk instead of D.D. I get kicked
>> out of the install and the system reboots? WTF??
>
>This used to be caused by not making a /boot below cylinder 1024
>But that was with 6.x releases. Still try to make /boot (16 MB ~ 1 Cylinder)
>the first partition on that disc. Can you proceed if you do that.
>
>Eric
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Need help: ftp btwn 2 ppps and 1 eth on same PC
From: James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 20:00:16 GMT
"Wu, Simon [WDLN2:2X38:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I read about linux advanced routing based on userid. If that is
> possible, I can create a local userid, one for each ppp connection.
> However, I couldn't file the details on "> ip route add ???? userid dev
> ppp#". Any idea?
>
> Thanks for your time again.
Why would you do this? It's complicated and likely to lead to
inexplicable errors.
Just do normal IP routing instead. Give the two remote machines
different IP addresses, and you'll be able to contact the machines
separately using those addresses. This is the way IP was designed to
work.
If you insist on using this strange Linicism, you're certainly on your
own. Good luck.
--
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"PPP Design and Debugging" --- http://people.ne.mediaone.net/carlson/ppp
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From: Richard Everhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help w/ ISDN: Ascend Pipeline
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 20:03:23 GMT
I'm trying to get my ISDN set up on my Linux installation but I seem to
be stuck. The manual only addresses Windows and not Linux. I'm at the
point where I have the Pipeline box hooked up to my machine and I think
the ethernet card is configured and working (I can assign it an IP
address and ping it).
Okay, but now what? The installation instructions say that I need to
connect the Pipeline box to my machine's serial port. Done. But now
how do I proceed from here? I suppose I need to configure the serial
port now, right?
Questions:
1) How do I use setserial to set up the serial port to communicate with
the Pipeline box?
2) How do I set up my ethernet card so that upon start up it is visible
when using the route command (I don't want to use ifconfig everytime I
start my machine)?
Thanks!
My system:
AMD Athelon 800mhz, dual-boot win98 and SuSe 6.4 2.2.14, Kingston EtheRx
KNE110TX, Lucent (Ascend) Pipeline ISDN router.
Rich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linksys lne100tx - on Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 21:43:48 GMT
I have had this card working on RH 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12) using the rpm
and instructions provided at http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
The card works fine, and the install goes smoothly.
When I try the same thing on Mandrake 7.1 (kernel 2.2.15-4mdk) it
fails to work, with an error reporting the inability to find the file
'spec-helper'.
I'd like to use the mandrake, but can't if I can't find a way to get
my card working. Does anybody know of a workaround for this problem?
andi
____________________________________
"A Single Open Mind,
can open any door"
Sonia Rutstein
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From: Abdur-Rahman Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dial-up Internet Service Providers
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:41:09 -0400
Does anyone know of any Internet Serice Providers that alternatives(i.e
AOL, Earthlink, Juno) for a dial up connection for Linux in Western New
York. If there are no average dialup service providers what provdiers do
you recommend for DSL or Cable Modem.
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