Linux-Setup Digest #4, Volume #21 Sat, 7 Apr 01 03:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: high-volume sendmail replacement? (Blue System)
Re: Lilo probelm ("Duane Healing")
Freeciv permissions server/client (Mark)
Configuration Transfer!? HOW TO?? ("Zoran Baric")
I can't hear you! (Mark)
Re: Configuration Transfer!? HOW TO?? (E J)
Laptop w/ pcmcia cdrom problems (Demondognet)
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? (E J)
Re: BIND insecure? replacement? (E J)
Re: How to change Display configuration for X? (E J)
EPSX3 MULTI-PORT PRINT SERVER PROBLEMS (Mike McCann)
Re: BIND insecure? replacement? (David)
Re: Lilo probelm (David)
Re: Linux boot disk? (David)
Re: EPSX3 MULTI-PORT PRINT SERVER PROBLEMS (Dean Thompson)
Re: ethernet card problem (David Efflandt)
What file do I edit to make 'switchdesk' see a newly-installed KDE 2?? (Guy Parry)
Re: lpd stopped working error = 'connection refused' (David Efflandt)
SiS6326 and XFree86-4.0.2? (OrangeDino)
Mounting vfat rw for all users (Daniel Kowalewski)
HELP.. Cannot install RH7.0 (Noe Nieto)
kernel upgrade - yikes!! ("ekkis")
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? ("James Tonsager")
RH 7 on an Intel 66 MHz ("Scott Hendrick")
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From: Blue System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: high-volume sendmail replacement?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 03:30:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> postfix? qmail?
>
> Any better than the other for large volumes of mail?
>
>
qmail will do an excelent job.
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo probelm
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 20:25:19 -0700
What version of lilo are you running and how old is your BIOS?
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <iptz6.11026$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sebastien
Askenazy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am unable to boot linux using Lilo. I have a 30 gig hard drive and the
> /boot partition starts at around the 15th gig, but I thought this
> limitation was corrected. I installed the very very latest version of
> Linux and when I try to run it it still says its beyond the cylinder
> range. Is anyone experiencing this with the latest version, or can
> someone give me suggestions?
> Thanks for your help.
> -Sebastien
>
>
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Freeciv permissions server/client
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 23:46:15 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can only play Freeciv as root user. Client accounts are denied
connection to the civserver. I've chgrp'd to 'users' every file related
to Freeciv that I could find - including source libraries but users
cannot log in!! Any clues??
email replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Zoran Baric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuration Transfer!? HOW TO??
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:05:43 GMT
I have a problem with every Linux OS recognizing my Ethernet D-Link DE-220
ISA
adapter - except Winlinux 2000.
Would somebody know if there is a way to transfer configuration from
Winlinux to Mandrake, Red Hat etc.?
PLEASE HELP !!! I'd like to keep Linux on my PC!!!!
ZorBa
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: I can't hear you!
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 00:26:17 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've installed Slackware and Caldera (latest distros) now on a new box I
picked up and I can't get sound out of it after many many recompiles and
re-installs. MAKEDEV audio fails to produce a working mixer, sequencer
or audio device in every case - although no errors are reported. The
box has the Crystal xx36 audio chip (uses the xx32 driver - I forgot the
first two digits but the probe finds the correct chip just fine when I
do the instal) and I've tried building it as modular and kernel.. What
*precisely* does this kernel/system need to find my onboard sound chip??
Any ideas at all?
Thanks!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuration Transfer!? HOW TO??
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:27:38 GMT
Check your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules
Zoran Baric wrote:
> I have a problem with every Linux OS recognizing my Ethernet D-Link DE-220
> ISA
> adapter - except Winlinux 2000.
>
> Would somebody know if there is a way to transfer configuration from
> Winlinux to Mandrake, Red Hat etc.?
>
> PLEASE HELP !!! I'd like to keep Linux on my PC!!!!
>
> ZorBa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Demondognet)
Date: 07 Apr 2001 04:29:25 GMT
Subject: Laptop w/ pcmcia cdrom problems
I'm trying to set up rh 7.0 on my compac laptop with a exp-940 pcmcia cdrom and
I need to find out where I can get the correct drives to get the install
program to see the cdrom. I've tried loading the install file to the harddrive
and load from there but can't seem to get that to work either. Any help would
be great.
Thanks,
DD
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:38:24 GMT
What are you doing with it? If it is for a heavy duty server, sounds
fine.
For personal use, I got the A7V133A, because the 266Mhz DDR memories are
4 times more expensive than
133Mhz SDRAM.
Jeffrey Yu wrote:
> Yes, the question is whether it is worth to have RH7.0 installed on a
> A7M266 motherboard, the CPU in mind is the 1.33G, and 512MB RAM.
>
> The alternative is the A7V133A, any comment at all? TIA.
>
> J.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIND insecure? replacement?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:41:36 GMT
There are worms lurking out on the internet looking and exploiting the
BIND weakness. I would recommend getting the latest BIND.
Rithban wrote:
> Is BIND insecurity overblown?
>
> If not, what alternatives are there?
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to change Display configuration for X?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:44:29 GMT
Get the latest Xfree (4.02 patched to 4.03) from www.xfree86.org. You
will have to configure the card manually.
Afonso Sam wrote:
> My TNT2 display adapter on my linux box(RH7) dead, I replaced it with
> spare Matrox G200. That is ok to start up the linux box. but fail to
> start up the X. I did tried to reconfigure the X display with
> Xconfigurator. but it prompted that there was no module for the
> detected MGA G200.
> What can I do to reactive the X?
>
> Afonso Sam
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From: Mike McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: EPSX3 MULTI-PORT PRINT SERVER PROBLEMS
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:48:10 GMT
HI
Could use some help and guidance to get printing through the LINKsys
EPSX3 print server that provides three printer parallel ports. I'm
using SuSE 7.1 Yast 2 print configurator which apparantly uses
apsfilters. I'm trying to print to hp720c, epson 660, and hp laser
series II in that order on the print server. YAST 2 configured hp720c
correctly, except the color may be off a little. However I can't seem
to get the other two printers to respond. Does anyone have all ports of
their EPSX3 working?
If so how do I get the other printers configured.
Thanks ahead.
Mike
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIND insecure? replacement?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:56:06 GMT
Rithban wrote:
>
> Is BIND insecurity overblown?
>
> If not, what alternatives are there?
There is also "djbdns"
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo probelm
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:59:48 GMT
Sebastien Askenazy wrote:
>
> I am unable to boot linux using Lilo. I have a 30 gig hard drive and the
> /boot partition starts at around the 15th gig, but I thought this limitation
> was corrected. I installed the very very latest version of Linux and when I
> try to run it it still says its beyond the cylinder range.
> Is anyone experiencing this with the latest version, or can someone give me
> suggestions?
> Thanks for your help.
> -Sebastien
If you can boot into linux with a bootdisk then you can upgrade "lilo"
to version 21.7.3 which should fix the problem.
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/lilo-21.7.3.tar.gz
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux boot disk?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 05:01:25 GMT
pekke wrote:
>
> I have Red Hat 6.2 and tried different Linux distrubitions, but i am
> still wondering how to create a boot disk from inside the existing
> linuxconfiguration i have made working?
/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 x.x.xx
# where x.x.xx is kernel version.
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: EPSX3 MULTI-PORT PRINT SERVER PROBLEMS
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 15:11:42 +1000
Hi Mike,
> Could use some help and guidance to get printing through the LINKsys
> EPSX3 print server that provides three printer parallel ports. I'm
> using SuSE 7.1 Yast 2 print configurator which apparantly uses
> apsfilters. I'm trying to print to hp720c, epson 660, and hp laser
> series II in that order on the print server. YAST 2 configured hp720c
> correctly, except the color may be off a little. However I can't seem
> to get the other two printers to respond. Does anyone have all ports of
> their EPSX3 working?
I am not sure how your printer servers operates, but I know that with the HP
units which support more than one printer port, they manage to get the other
ports to work by changing the RAW queue name. I know that for one system
supporting a LPD print spooler you can refer to it by the queue name of: RAW.
In cases where there are more, I think the queue names can change to be
something like: RAW1, RAW2 or RAW_1, RAW_2 to specify the various printer
ports on the side of the print server.
I am not sure whether this is the case for the EPSX3 system.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: ethernet card problem
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 05:27:10 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ahmad Taufik Jamil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm new in linux. I've install linux in my laptop. However it detect and
>recognized my ethernet card wrongly. It recognized it as
>"PCMCIA""100base"(using cardctl ident). But my card is actually Compex
>linkPort TX16A 10/100 Fast Ethernet. Anybody know how to change it?
It could be using a generic module based on the chip on the card. Maybe
pcmcia just doesn't recognize that particular model.
Does pcmcia give 2 high beeps when you boot with it in or when you insert
it. If it does, did you try setting up eth0 (dhcp or IP, etc.)?
Otherwise maybe you need a newer pcmcia-cs version.
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What file do I edit to make 'switchdesk' see a newly-installed KDE 2??
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 15:37:54 +1000
Could someone who has installed KDE 2 on a RH 7.0 distro please give
me a little help? I've gotten all the required rpm's on my HDD
without any hassles, but I've since found 3 differing posts on how to
do the rest to get it to run.
One says to edit .xinitrc, but of course, RH 7 uses .Xclients
instead. I would like to do it so I can change from Gnome to KDE
using good ol' Switchdesk at the console(!)...rather than having to
edit a file/s manually every time I want to change managers...
tia...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: lpd stopped working error = 'connection refused'
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:00:32 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 19:24:19 GMT, Stephen W Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an SuSE system. I had a number successfully installed and
>working. All of a sudden the spooling has quit.
>
>Here is what I have found out so far.
>
>lpd is running
>lpq returns the error 'unknown printer lp'
>lpc start all returns the error 'Could not connect to daemon:
>Connection refused'.
>You stop and restart lpd all day long with no effect.
>There are no errors is syslog.
>/dev/printer is a link to a non-existent file.
>
>I suspect that the latter is my problem. From looking at another,
>working, system I discover that /dev/printer should be a special file
>with permissions srw-------. A named socket I think.
/dev/printer should symlink to /var/run/printer, but I am not sure what
that is or does.
>Is this the likely source of my problem? If so how do I fix it?
>If not, where do I look next?
First make sure that there is an IP for your hostname in /etc/hosts or
DNS. Although, I would think localhost would be sufficient for local
printing.
Does your printer show up in /etc/printcap? You might check the printer
configuration in YaST2 or just go though that to the finish to see if it
re-establishes the printer.
Have you done anything lately with hosts.lpd, hosts.equiv, or any
firewall?
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From: OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS6326 and XFree86-4.0.2?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:47:02 +0800
Anyone know that whether the "sis" driver of XFree86-4.0.2 support
XVideoExtension or not? If it does, how and I configure XFree86 to have
it function?
Thank a lot for your concern!
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From: Daniel Kowalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting vfat rw for all users
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 02:08:06 -0400
How do I mount a vfat partition (/dev/hda5) so that users can read write
to them without having them to remount them on startup? The way it is
now, only root can read and write to them but if I log in with a user
they can only read them. However since I have the users option, I can
unmount the partition and remount it. Then the user can write to it.
The layout is hda1 swap
hda2 ext2
hda3 vfat
hda4 (the weird dos thing)
hda5 vfat
options in fstab for hda5 defaults,rw,users
Is this possible?
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From: Noe Nieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP.. Cannot install RH7.0
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 06:30:09 -0000
I Downloades RH7.0 the instalation procces seems to be correct but whe
checking RPMS i get this messagege, it has something to do with anaconda
or cobra or something like that..
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 438, in ?
intf.run(todo, test = test)
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in
run
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py",
line 33, in __call__
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 539, in
getCompsList
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 43,
in readComps
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459, in
__init__
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 428, in
readCompsFile
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in
__getitem__
KeyError: linuxconf
Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <comps.HeaderList instance at 825cd18>
item: linuxconf
ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iharddrive
HardDriveInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'fstype'
p6
S'vfat'
p7
sS'isMounted'
p8
I1
sS'fnames'
p9
(dp10
<failed>
HELP PLEASE... I dont want to give up....
Since i downloaded all from my thelepfone line at 33.6 KBPS....PLEASE... -
MERCY
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From: "ekkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.kernel.general,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: kernel upgrade - yikes!!
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 23:58:02 -0700
ran up2date on RH7 and was confused by the "excluded" list... it upgraded my
kernel rpms to 2.2.17... after rebooting the box I have no network! troulbe
is uname says I'm still on 2.2.16 but the modules directory under /usr/lib
says 17 and there's no 16... yikes!
can anyone suggest what I can do, especially given that I have no access to
the net since the NICs won't come up?
1k tia - erick
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From: "James Tonsager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 07:04:50 GMT
>266Mhz DDR memories are
4 times more expensive than
133Mhz SDRAM<
And not that much faster. You'll see it in benchmarks, but subjectively . .
. not. .
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"E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What are you doing with it? If it is for a heavy duty server, sounds
> fine.
> For personal use, I got the A7V133A, because the 266Mhz DDR memories are
> 4 times more expensive than
> 133Mhz SDRAM.
>
> Jeffrey Yu wrote:
>
> > Yes, the question is whether it is worth to have RH7.0 installed on a
> > A7M266 motherboard, the CPU in mind is the 1.33G, and 512MB RAM.
> >
> > The alternative is the A7V133A, any comment at all? TIA.
> >
> > J.
>
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From: "Scott Hendrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7 on an Intel 66 MHz
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 03:07:17 -0400
I have an old Intel 66 MHz box. I tried to install RH 7 but it gives me a
Kernel Panic because the box isn't at least Pentium level. Can I change this
so that I can install RH 7 on it?
Thanks for any help.
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