Linux-Setup Digest #964, Volume #20 Sun, 1 Apr 01 22:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Please, help me, I'm going nuts (James Hamlin)
Re: linksys lne100tx - on Mandrake 7.1 (Bit Twister)
Re: Dial-up Internet Service Providers (Steve Martin)
Can't get Sound Blaster Live! Value to work, but it seems to be loaded
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: startx (Chris Coyle)
VIA82C686B sound (Kevin Chu)
Re: Bellsouth ADSL ("John")
Re: RPM Update (Chris Coyle)
Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server (David MacKenzie)
Re: Partioning problem during install (Carl Wick)
How do you stop Linux from trying to start sendmail on startup?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partioning problem during install (David)
REDHAT LIUNX 7.0 - SERVER INSTALLATION - GRPHICAL LOGIN - HOW? ("Ferdinand Rey")
Q: running GDM/XDM locks up linux (BP6+RH6.2) (Salman Moghal)
useradd command questions (CHNg)
Soundcard play *.au and *.wav files, but not from CD rom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: useradd command questions (Dean Thompson)
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From: James Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat,redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Please, help me, I'm going nuts
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:01:19 +0100
Hi
If its any use, I had problems on RedHat 7.0 during the graphical
installation. The screen image was corrupt when things moved.
I did however get it installed using the text based installation and then I
found that I needed to add the noaccel and sw_cursor options to
/etc/X11/XF86Config as below, after running Xconfigurator:-
Section "Device"
Identifier "S3 Inc.|86c794 [Savage 3D]"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
VideoRam 8192
Option "noaccel"
Option "sw_cursor"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
If you give some more info about what went wrong then I would expect
someone will be able to help. In particular mention the model of you're
graphics card and monitor.
Hope this helps
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: linksys lne100tx - on Mandrake 7.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 22:19:52 GMT
Hummm, locate spec-helper
/usr/doc/spec-helper-0.2/Howto-spec-helper
Top of Howto-spec-helper
=============================================================
Starting from rpm-3.0.4-0.2mdk, the spec-helper package must be
installed as a dependency of the rpm-build package.
The spec-helper script is called automatically at the end of the
%install section to compress info and man pages, strip files and
remove backup files from the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT dir. The %install section
can be cleaned off this tasks but the %files section about man and
info pages must be specified without the .bz2 extension but with an *
instead. The goal is to have vendor neutral spec files.
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On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 21:43:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dial-up Internet Service Providers
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 17:28:27 -0400
Abdur-Rahman Morgan wrote:
>
> 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.
If you frequently use Usenet newsgroups, stay away from Earthlink.
Their servers are frequently down.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't get Sound Blaster Live! Value to work, but it seems to be loaded
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:31:41 GMT
I've been having all sorts of problems getting my linux box to work
with a Sound Blaster Live! Value card. I finally went and got the
2.2.19 kernel and compiled that and included support for the SB
emu10k1 in it. When I boot up, I don't seem to get any error messages
related to that, and if I look at the interupts used by the system, I
see that the emu10k1 is using 5, as it should, along with the pci usb.
If cat /dev/sound it says it is compiled into kernel. (All of the
options below that are blank, but I think that is ok.)
But, if I try to play a cd, or whatever, no sound comes out from the
speaker. (If I attach headphones to the cdrom, all is ok.)
Does anyone know what the problem might be, or what to do next?
TIA,
Ed
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From: Chris Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: startx
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:31:03 -0400
Michael Heiming wrote:
>
> sw wrote:
> >
> > After typing startx, the desktop comes up and the machine hangs. Any
> > suggestions please?
>
> Check your home directory for some files like:
>
> .X.err
> .xsession-errors
>
> May be they can give a clue what went wrong, if it was possible for
> your X server to write some data, if you have a second machine, try
> to login with ssh, often you can't do anything on the console
> (CTRL-ALT-[F1-Fn] not working), but the kernel is still running fine
> and the machine can be accessed remote.
>
> Michael Heiming
Another thing to try is saving all the console output generated when
you run startx. Try it like this:
startx > startx.out 2>&1 &
The "2>&1" joins error output with standard output in the same file,
startx.out. The final "&" runs the command as a background job,
thus freeing your console for further work. Run this command, and
when (if?) X freezes, press CTRL-ALT-F1 to go back to your console,
and start reading the startx.out file. Perhaps you may find a clue.
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 16:35:14 -0700
From: Kevin Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA82C686B sound
I have an Epox EP-8KTA3 motherboard with the VT82C686B bridge on it.
The board also has a SoundBlaster and MPU-401 built in for legacy
applications.
If I compile the kernel (2.2.18) with CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX,
everything works -- I can cat an .au file to /dev/audio, wavplay
works, I can play audio CDs, etc.. But, whenever I try to run
Sysnaesthesia (http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/synaesthesia.html) it
can't find the dsp:
[kevin@localhost kevin]$ synaesthesia cd
synaesthesia: Error opening dsp device
(reason for error: No such device)
The strace output is not helpful. I have tried many permutations of
options in both the CMOS settings, kernel .config, and I even tried
installing the ALSA drivers and tried many different options. The
closest I got was the same success as with the 2.2.18 kernel, the
worst I got was no sound working at all. I have tried:
- legacy SoundBlaster on/off
- MPU-401 on/off
- ALSA or no ALSA
- modules or monolithic
Normally I would search DejaNews for the answer to my problems, but
since Google has acquired Deja, the search doesn't seem to come up
with anything useful, so I thought I'd post a message.
Does anyone have the sound working on this board, and are you able to
use synaesthesia?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin Chu
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
poster,ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: Bellsouth ADSL
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:31:36 -0400
Is either the pci or the external usb dsl modems superior?
Thanks
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From: Chris Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM Update
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:51:28 -0400
Luke Vogel wrote:
>
> I've had a quick look trough this news group and cant find past post on
> the subject, so here goes.
>
> I have redhat linux 6.2 on my box, and am finding that a lot of upgrade
> packages etc need the later versions of RPM ... usually supplying an
> error message about major version numbers <=3.0
>
> I will need to upgrade; ... can anybody point me in the direction of a
> good HOWTO with respect to upgrading the package?
>
> I have tried in the past and encountered several errors and ultimately
> failed and gave up.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Regards
> Luke
> ------
> On the requirements it said: Windows 98 or better - so I installed Linux
> ------
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> PLEASE NOTE: Spamgard (tm) installed.
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Luke,
I am also using a RH6.2 system, and have recently upgraded my rpm rpms
to version 4.0.2. I have been trying to stay reasonably up-to-date with
redhat's security advisories etc which you can see posted at
www.redhat.com/support/errata/index.html
I have always found the instructions given there to be clear enough
that the installation was very easy (except for new kernels, but thats
another story). You may not be able to DL the rpms directly from redhat
(I can't), but if you rummage around on their web site, you will find
a list of mirror sites whence you can get them by ftp. There's even
a few listed for Australia!
Cheers.
Chris.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David MacKenzie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:53:56 GMT
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:43:08 -0500, David White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, all. Our church has its own RH 6.2 Linux box which serves as a mail
>server, web server, and internet gateway for a handful of Windows 95
>machines.
>
Take a look at <http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html>.
It's a good beginner's guide.
Don't upgrade until at least 7.1 or 7.2, and then only if
you have some real reason to.
--
mac
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
Subject: Re: Partioning problem during install
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:46:12 GMT
No....still can't create /. But I had at one time...long story but I
think creating and removing the Linux partitions on this disk has
fouled it up somehow.
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do you stop Linux from trying to start sendmail on startup??
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 00:22:51 GMT
I keep looking through all of the init files I can find, but I can't
find where the system is being told to start sendmail. Every time I
boot up, it tries, and fails, but it takes an extra minute or two to
boot up because it keeps trying. Since I don't need it, I would just
assume it did not try, but I can't find where it is being told to try
to start it.
TIA,
Ed
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partioning problem during install
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 00:37:33 GMT
Carl Wick 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??
>
> Any ideas?
> Remove the numbers to email
>
> Carl
Is the drive setup as DOS/win partitions?
If the drive is completely used as a DOS/win drive and has no free space
for linux to use then you need to make room for linux to install into.
If you are going to dedicate the whole drive to linux then delete any
partitions that maybe on it, you will make all linux partitions during
the install.
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From: "Ferdinand Rey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: REDHAT LIUNX 7.0 - SERVER INSTALLATION - GRPHICAL LOGIN - HOW?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:41:14 -0700
I'm reallyl new to this stuff... I tried installing the RH7 Workstation and
it works in graphical login but I can't make it in the Server Installation.
On the startup it asked me for login and password... WHAT'S NEXT? lols...
How can I go to graphic/Genome/KDE mode? Please let me know what command am
I gonna use.
Thanks,
Ferdz
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From: Salman Moghal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Q: running GDM/XDM locks up linux (BP6+RH6.2)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 01:03:11 GMT
Hello everyone..
I am running RedHat 6.2 on a BP6 motherboard. It has an ATI Rage IIc
chipset based card in it and I'm using Mach64 server (XFree86
3.3.6-20). This linux box is being used as a local router (i run
ipchains and ipmasq), hence it doesn't have any external devices
attached to it (eg, monitor/keyboard/mouse) except two internal NICs
(both tulip based cards).
gdm/xdm server starts up without any problem. It's when I connect to
the linux machine using XWin32 through XDMCP Query, it locks up the
linux box -- the net routing stops, i can't ping the machine, or
telnet/ssh in. Previously in RH5.2, I did not encouter this lock-up
problem with xdm. Do I need to enable/disable anything special in
RedHat6.2 with xdm/gdm config files to achieve this remote login
functionality? I would like to be able to get the GNOME/Enlightenment
desktop on my windows machine..
The thing which made me believe that it's more of a xdm/gdm problem then
a network/setup issue is that I can run any X programs (xterm, netscape)
by redirecting DISPLAY enviornment variable to my windows machine (which
is running XWin32 or similar X clients). The linux box doesn't lock up
in this case.
If you have any comments or similar experiences with this setup, please
comment. Thanks a lot for your help.
Regards
Salman Moghal
PS: Attached is /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file. I made changes to accept
XDMCP requests.
[daemon]
Chooser=/usr/bin/gdmchooser --disable-sound --disable-crash-dialog
DefaultPath=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin
DisplayInitDir=/etc/X11/gdm/Init
Greeter=/usr/bin/gdmlogin --disable-sound --disable-crash-dialog
Group=gdm
HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now
KillInitClients=1
LogDir=/var/gdm
PidFile=/var/run/gdm.pid
PostSessionScriptDir=/etc/X11/gdm/PostSession/
PreSessionScriptDir=/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/
RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now
RootPath=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin
ServAuthDir=/var/gdm
SessionDir=/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/
User=gdm
UserAuthDir=
UserAuthFBDir=/tmp
UserAuthFile=.Xauthority
[security]
AllowRoot=1
RelaxPermissions=1
RetryDelay=3
UserMaxFile=65536
VerboseAuth=1
[xdmcp]
Enable=1
HonorIndirect=0
MaxPending=4
MaxPendingIndirect=4
MaxSessions=16
MaxWait=30
MaxWaitIndirect=30
Port=177
[gui]
GtkRC=
MaxIconWidth=128
MaxIconHeight=128
[greeter]
Browser=0
DefaultFace=/usr/share/pixmaps/nobody.png
DefaultLocale=english
Exclude=bin,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody
Font=-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*
GlobalFaceDir=/usr/share/faces/
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gdm.xpm
LocaleFile=/etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias
Logo=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-large.png
Quiver=0
SystemMenu=1
Welcome=Welcome to %n
Welcome[de]=Willkommen auf %n
Welcome[fr]=Bienvenue sur %n
Welcome[ja]=%n �ؤ褦����
[chooser]
DefaultHostImg=/usr/share/pixmaps/nohost.png
HostImageDir=/usr/share/hosts/
ScanTime=3
[debug]
Enable=0
[servers]
0=/usr/bin/X11/X
#1=/usr/bin/X11/X
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From: CHNg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: useradd command questions
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 09:25:09 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
i have a 'useradd' problem but not sure how to solve it.
I want to move the 'passwd', 'shadow' and 'group' files to another
location/parition, and then put symbolic links to them. Everything seems
to work. I rebooted the machine and manage to login. I check the
/etc/passwd (and the other 2 files), and the links are there. They are
pointing/linking to the new locations.
But then the problem is, everytime I add a user (useradd <username>),
the passwd, shadow and group files are restored to its original location
(/etc dir) instead of the partition I wanted them to be. The links are
gone and the actual files are back. can someone explain this to me, and
how can i place them into a different dir?
Thanks in advance. Please cc a reply to my mail box too (
[EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Soundcard play *.au and *.wav files, but not from CD rom
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 01:42:53 GMT
I've been trying to get my system to work with sound for a while, now.
I finally compiled 2.2.19 with sound support for SB Live! Value card
(emu10k1). I did not think it was working, for a while, but it gives
no error messages, now, and dmesg says it is loading ok. I tried
playing an au file, and, much to my surprise, it worked. So, then I
tried playing a wav file, and that worked, too. But, if I put an audio
cdrom into the cdrom drive, and try to play it, I get nothing from the
speakers. (If I put earphones into the earphone jack on the cdrom
drive, everything is fine, so I know the cdrom is working.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
TIA,
Ed
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: useradd command questions
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:52:05 +1000
Hi!,
> i have a 'useradd' problem but not sure how to solve it.
> I want to move the 'passwd', 'shadow' and 'group' files to another
> location/parition, and then put symbolic links to them. Everything seems
> to work. I rebooted the machine and manage to login. I check the
> /etc/passwd (and the other 2 files), and the links are there. They are
> pointing/linking to the new locations.
>
> But then the problem is, everytime I add a user (useradd <username>),
> the passwd, shadow and group files are restored to its original location
> (/etc dir) instead of the partition I wanted them to be. The links are
> gone and the actual files are back. can someone explain this to me, and
> how can i place them into a different dir?
I am not exactally sure why anyone would want to change the location of their
/etc files but thats another story. A quick look at the system calls that are
performed when the "useradd" process will reveal that you are fighting a
losing battle.
As part of the user creation process, useradd actually creates a temporary
file in the /etc directory where it basically copies over all the other
password entries and then appends the new user to the end. At the completion
of this step, it then executes a rename command which unlinks the file that
was previously there (your symbolic link) and then plants the /etc/passwd
file. This is the same for your /etc/shadow and /etc/group files as well.
Take a look at the following snippet:
[...]
open("/etc/passwd+", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 6
[...]
rename("/etc/passwd+", "/etc/passwd") = 0
[...]
To get around your problem you are going to have to either write a wrapper
around the useradd program which copies the files back and restores your
symoblic links, or write your own adduser function.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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