Linux-Setup Digest #67, Volume #21 Wed, 18 Apr 01 15:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Masquerading a network using a permanent internet connection (Leo)
HELP!! Disk Partition Problem with Install of Red Hat 6.2.. (Mike)
red hat 7.0 and windows NT ("abderrahim")
burning mandrake .iso for boot ("01nk")
Re: burning mandrake .iso for boot (David)
Re: Authentication failure with Slackware 7.1 and OpenSSH (Abbadon)
Re: Newbie: A few questions (Johnny B)
hardware raid (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: What about 1024 cylinder limitation (Dan Lapine)
Corrupted Profile ("Ed")
cron will not run my binaries, why? (God_Of_Pain)
Re: Kernel 2.4.1 and StarOffice (Colin Pinkney)
Re: sb live help needed (Query_String)
Re: Corrupted Profile (Nathan Nagel)
Re: Corrupted Profile (Ed)
Re: burning mandrake .iso for boot (Rod Smith)
Re: Corrupted Profile (Nathan Nagel)
What are these syslog error messages telling me?? (Jeff Pierce)
Re: What about 1024 cylinder limitation ("XAG")
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From: Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Masquerading a network using a permanent internet connection
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:14:03 -0300
Hello readers:
I currenly am trying to setup IP Masquarading...
I have REDHAT 6.0 installed and TWO NICs:
eth0 is a RT8139
eth1 is another RT8139
eth0 has address 192.168.2.5 (invalid)
eth1 has address 200.230.147.136 (valid)
Our network in assigned invalid addresses and currently is under an NT
domain. We use a proxy which is located on an NT Server to access the
OUTSIDE.
I am experimenting with a masquarading internet to users within the
network. During such attempt I uninstall the proxy client to insure
the proxy is not functioning.
our default gateway is set 200.230.147.129 (a cisco router)
route -n outputs the following:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
200.230.147.136 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth1
192.168.2.5 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
200.230.147.128 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0
eth1
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
0.0.0.0 200.230.147.129 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth1
I use IPCHAINS to setup MASQ with the following commands
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.2.0/24 -i eth0 -j MASQ
The system is set up to forward packets...
And lastly my DNS in Caching Only at the moment.
I install my linux machine (pawn) as the gateway for the Win98 client
(192.168.2.9) but somehow I am not able to connect...
Is masquarading for PPP/slip connections only? If not how do I...
Thanks in advance,
Leo Cambilariu
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!! Disk Partition Problem with Install of Red Hat 6.2..
Date: 18 Apr 2001 06:54:57 -0700
I have an TYAN MB LX chip Set, that won't recognize my 30Gig hard drive. I put
in a Promise ATA100 pci contoller which does recognise the hard drive. Problem
now is that trying to install Red Hat 6.2 it doesn't appear to see the hard
drive via the Promise controller. When I get to the point of setting up my file
systems I get error messages that indicates no valid devices. Suggestions??
Will I yield the same results if I install a SCSI controller and drive??
Mike
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From: "abderrahim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: red hat 7.0 and windows NT
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:18:58 -0000
he,
I'd like to installe windows NT (NTFS) and linux redhat 7.0 but i'd like to
configure LILO for two systems (linux & windows NT)?
thanks!
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From: "01nk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: burning mandrake .iso for boot
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:29:38 +0100
hello,
i have downloaded linux mandrake 7.2 and extracted it, but i'm confused as
to how i should burn the extracted files so it's possible to boot from the
CD to start installation. I'm using Nero, so i'm assuming i start a "BOOT
CD" compilation and copy the extracted files from the .iso image to it but
what file would be the boot image?
thanks in advance
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: burning mandrake .iso for boot
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:49:49 GMT
01nk wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i have downloaded linux mandrake 7.2 and extracted it, but i'm confused as
> to how i should burn the extracted files so it's possible to boot from the
> CD to start installation. I'm using Nero, so i'm assuming i start a "BOOT
> CD" compilation and copy the extracted files from the .iso image to it but
> what file would be the boot image?
>
> thanks in advance
images/boot.img
But I think you need a CDR program that will write the .iso to disk as
an image and not a file.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.166% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abbadon)
Subject: Re: Authentication failure with Slackware 7.1 and OpenSSH
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:56:56 GMT
You have to pass --with-md5-passwords to the configure script. Slack
uses md5 passwords. Do that, recomplile and reinstall and it should
work fine.
Mike Ruskai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The OpenSSH daemon was compiled and installed without error, and runs
> without complaint.
>
> However, it is unable to authenticate any users. All I've found so far is
> a reference to linking with libcrypt, which was done during the build.
>
> Anyone know what the source of the problem is?
>
>
> --
> - Mike
>
> Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.
>
>
PJ
--
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also
looks into you.
-- Nietzsche
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Subject: Re: Newbie: A few questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnny B)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:56:35 GMT
"Nathan Woodhull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<89pp3d$l8n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
<snip some nice info from Herman, except for...>
>> RTFM !!
>
>Not Nice. Please treat the newbies with respect. They have just moved rum
>windows and don't know about this mystery called "Multiuser"
>
>Create a user account using the adduser script in /usr/sbin/adduser (atleast
>on my slackware system in Redhat I suspect they added it to your path, so
>just adduser. Or you could use linuxconf. It is helpful for newbies like you
>who can't remember all those pesky commands or that the /etc folder holder
>config docs.)
>
>
>all the rest seems right to me
>
>
>Nathan Woodhull
>
Thanks Nathan. This is actually one of the reasons some people don't turn to
Linux. There just isn't any need to be snappy like that. Although Herman had
put down some good info, if he got tired of the questions, he could have just
said so and stopped answering for a while.
I don't have Linux...Yet?...but I am trying to garner as much info as
possible before making the choice. I really didn't need to see a informed
Linux user telling someone who has obviously tried hard and asked some very
good questions to RTFM...not everyone gets everything as well from a manual
as they might from a persons response to a question.
Anyway, keep up the good work Nathan, and you too Herman, but if you don't
like to help out Herman, just don't answer, okay?
John
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hardware raid
Date: 18 Apr 2001 19:29:52 +0200
Hi,
I am trying to set up a Dell PowerEdge 4400 with slackware linux.
I have been successful in making a custom bootdisk with support for
the RAID controller, which seems to be detected ok. I can see it in
/proc/scsi/aac/0 (or something similar).
The RAID configuration shoule be a RAID 1 with two hd's. I understood
hardware RAID should be completely transparent to the OS, but I still
see two hard disks as sda and sdb.
So before making any mistakes I thought about asking here...
Thanks,
--
Stefano - Hodie decimo quarto Kalendas Maias MMI est
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From: Dan Lapine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What about 1024 cylinder limitation
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:49:49 -0500
latest lilo has option "lba32" to allow boots from anywhere on disk if:
1)have reasonably new hardware
2) modify /etc/lilo.conf and add option lba32
3) run /sbin/lilo to use new command
XAG wrote:
> I try to install linux and windows on the same disk and I have a problem
> with LILO.
> My HD is 20 Go and depending on where is the linux partition I have a
> message about the 1024 cylinder limitation.
> During one of my tries, I had the 'L' of LILO at boot time but nothing else.
> I have heard about a problem between bios config of the HD and LILO. As I
> have two disks and I 've changed the master switch (the original was a 15
> Go), have I to reconfigure the Bios.
> Thanks.
--
Daniel LaPine
Student at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 217-244-9294
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From: "Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corrupted Profile
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:06:30 GMT
When installing Qt2.3 I entered path to Qt in my etc/profile. Upon
restarting X I realized this was not a good thing. Can only get to level 3
and cannot login to GUI. How can I edit this file to remove errant entries?
The only thing I can manage to do with VI is to create a new file.
Thanks
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From: God_Of_Pain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cron will not run my binaries, why?
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:11:49 GMT
I wrote a simple program in C. When I try to have cron run it cron says
that it is running it but it does not actualy run it.
I wrote a bash script and had cron run the script and the script run the
binary. cron runs the script just fine but the binary still does not run.
The permissions on the binary are 755 and it is in the /usr/local/bin
directory. I can run the binary just fine my self but cron does not. cron
is setup to run it as root, root can run it from the command line just fine.
I can find any errors in my log files about this. Every thing looks fine
excet that I know the app does not get run.
How do I find what is wrong?
Any ideas as to why it would not run?
Any ideas why there is no error reported in the logs?
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From: Colin Pinkney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.1 and StarOffice
Date: 18 Apr 2001 18:19:50 GMT
Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2001 16:47:16 GMT in article
> <9bhs2k$5cl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Pinkney
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does anyone know of any StarOffice mailing lists or whatever that I may
>> be able to contact about this?
> Sun's own (public-facing) news server carries them: starnews.sun.com
Aha, thanks!
It seems there are other people with the same problem:
Someone wrote on staroffice.com.support.misc:
...
> In Linux 2.4.x the handling of fat partitions
> is changed (truncate is no more allowed),
> and StarOffice 5.2, using truncate(), cannot
> any more save to vfat partitions....
Though someone else said they've saved to a FAT partion with StarOffice
under 2.4.x. Is it possible to use the 2.2.x FAT modules with 2.4.x?
--
Colin Pinkney
======== 3rd Year Warwick University Computer Science Undergraduate =========
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
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From: Query_String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sb live help needed
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:24:55 GMT
Dave Csercsics wrote:
>
> Yep I figured out how to get some sound and I did read through the docs and
> did manage to get everything to work. I don't suppose that there is any way
> to make use of the audio environments and things that are on the emu chip is
> there? You can under windows but creative's audiohq uses directx so I doubt
> that all them funky sound effects would work under linux. But then I still
You're right, I only use 2 speakers so I never noticed.
In windows I can plug extensions into the rear output
jack but only now tried that in Linux, in vain.
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From: Nathan Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corrupted Profile
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:28:34 GMT
type:
vi etc/profile
that should get you going. Incidentally I do not know how to open a
file from within vi but then again my vi skills suck, to put it mildly.
nate
Ed wrote:
>
> When installing Qt2.3 I entered path to Qt in my etc/profile. Upon
> restarting X I realized this was not a good thing. Can only get to level 3
> and cannot login to GUI. How can I edit this file to remove errant entries?
> The only thing I can manage to do with VI is to create a new file.
>
> Thanks
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From: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corrupted Profile
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:49:41 GMT
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:28:34 GMT, Nathan Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> type:
>
> vi etc/profile
>
> that should get you going. Incidentally I do not know how to open a
> file from within vi but then again my vi skills suck, to put it mildly.
>
> nate
>
> Ed wrote:
> >
> > When installing Qt2.3 I entered path to Qt in my etc/profile. Upon
> > restarting X I realized this was not a good thing. Can only get to level 3
> > and cannot login to GUI. How can I edit this file to remove errant entries?
> > The only thing I can manage to do with VI is to create a new file.
> >
> > Thanks
This is my problem. I can open the file but I need to know how to edit it. Have been
through --help and the
documentation that I have and have not been able to put the commands together.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: burning mandrake .iso for boot
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:57:26 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <9bkfev$ea2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"01nk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello,
>
> i have downloaded linux mandrake 7.2 and extracted it, but i'm confused as
> to how i should burn the extracted files so it's possible to boot from the
> CD to start installation. I'm using Nero, so i'm assuming i start a "BOOT
> CD" compilation and copy the extracted files from the .iso image to it but
> what file would be the boot image?
I hope you didn't erase the original .iso file, because THAT'S what you
need. You *DO NOT* need to extract files from this; you need to burn it
to the CD-R with an option that's called "burn CD-R from image file,"
"create disc from image," or something similar (I don't know precisely
what it's called in Nero). I believe Nero expects these files to have
some extension other than .iso, but it should work once you rename the
file. The .iso file has the complete filesystem, including all the
information it needs to be bootable (assuming the file you've got was
set up for that, which most are these days); it just needs to be
written "raw" to the disc.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Nathan Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corrupted Profile
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:59:23 GMT
Ed wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:28:34 GMT, Nathan Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > type:
> >
> > vi etc/profile
> >
> > that should get you going. Incidentally I do not know how to open a
> > file from within vi but then again my vi skills suck, to put it mildly.
> >
> > nate
> >
> > Ed wrote:
> > >
> > > When installing Qt2.3 I entered path to Qt in my etc/profile. Upon
> > > restarting X I realized this was not a good thing. Can only get to level 3
> > > and cannot login to GUI. How can I edit this file to remove errant entries?
> > > The only thing I can manage to do with VI is to create a new file.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> This is my problem. I can open the file but I need to know how to edit it. Have
>been through --help and the
> documentation that I have and have not been able to put the commands together.
hit "a" to get to insert (editing) mode and then "esc" to get back to
command line. :w writes the file. there, i've just told you 50% of
what I know about vi (and hopefully enough to get your file edited)
nate
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:02:12 -0400
From: Jeff Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What are these syslog error messages telling me??
I get the following in my /var/adm/syslog file at boot:
Apr 18 14:09:22 penny kernel: Symbol table has incorrect version number.
Apr 18 14:09:22 penny kernel: request_module[parport_lowlevel]: Root fs
not mounted
Can anyboddy explain how to get rid of them?
--
Jeff Pierce
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From: "XAG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What about 1024 cylinder limitation
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:03:42 +0200
I think the problem I had was a problem with the switch to make the second
disk master on the IDE bus (after having disconnect the first one).
My first problem was a partition problem. I had the message from lilo to use
lba32 but when I read the man I did not find anything about it.
I've seen in the newsgroup messages about the lba32 option but not how to
use this option.
An other problem I have encountered is the use of linuxConfig to configure
lilo. I think it does not work properly.
Bye.
XAG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
9bi1n7$2ml3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I try to install linux and windows on the same disk and I have a problem
> with LILO.
> My HD is 20 Go and depending on where is the linux partition I have a
> message about the 1024 cylinder limitation.
> During one of my tries, I had the 'L' of LILO at boot time but nothing
else.
> I have heard about a problem between bios config of the HD and LILO. As I
> have two disks and I 've changed the master switch (the original was a 15
> Go), have I to reconfigure the Bios.
> Thanks.
>
>
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