Linux-Setup Digest #95, Volume #21 Mon, 23 Apr 01 08:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: I'm Impressed! (Rand Simberg)
Disabling core dumps ("Peet Grobler")
Re: I'm Impressed! ("michael.fengler")
Re: I'm Impressed! (Faux_Pseudo)
Re: Linux Router (210.177.149.33 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]])
'Help, I need to repartition a full HDD from win 95' ("Mal Stainkey")
AX88190 PCMCIA NIC and 2.4 kernel ("Patrice Fabre")
basic setup question
Re: Should I still be running xfs? (John Thompson)
What builds /boot/kernel.h ?? (Luigi Cavallo)
Re: Any way to set up Linux so that changing the IDE channel of the HD doesn't
require surgery? ("Glitch")
Re: Modem trouble (M. Buchenrieder)
Max Open: max_fd 27 old max_fd 4 ("David McCormack")
which is the better linux distribution? ("edwin")
Re: which is the better linux distribution? (Faux_Pseudo)
help ("Anne")
Setting up a Syslog Server. (Christian Celecia)
Re: 'Help, I need to repartition a full HDD from win 95' (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues (Bob Koss)
Re: which is the better linux distribution? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?) (Steve Martin)
Re: Should I still be running xfs? (Steve Martin)
Re: What builds /boot/kernel.h ?? (Steve Martin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 07:28:10 GMT
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:40:29 GMT, in a place far, far away,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>Now the question is, should I put up with the slow speed of the
>system?
>
>It's just a firewall, and the performance will be more than adequate
>for that task.
As a follow up, and on further reflection, is the performance really
adequate to the task?
I'm running an ADSL connection that can run up to several hundred
megabits per second. Can an 8MHz machine really investigate and pass
along packets, with a fairly large set of IPchains, as fast as it
needs to without being a bottleneck?
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disabling core dumps
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:56:21 +0200
I remember there is a way to disable core dumps in Linux.
How do you do it?
DISTRO->Mandrake 7.0 with a bunch of re-compiles from source, upgrades, etc.
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From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:38:17 +0200
Reply-To: Michael Fengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Rand Simberg wrote:
-- much snipped --
>Now the question is, should I put up with the slow speed of the
>system?
>
>It's just a firewall, and the performance will be more than adequate
>for that task. But it will be a PITA to do kernel upgrades and such,
>and I really don't have any other pressing task for the Pentium
>system, so it could do the job.
You could compile kernels etc on a faster machine and transfer
the results via network. It#s been a long time since my 486 had to
compile its own kernel... though that gave me the time to read
a good book :)
- mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faux_Pseudo)
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:14:43 GMT
speeking of drive swaping.
I had a laptop. It died |(
But the drive lives!
The drive will be droped into my next laptop.
or sence it is 300 mg larger than the drive i am on now i might buy
one of those 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch drive converters and add it to this
system.
it will be fun to diff some of the rc files and see whats changed.
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- Andrew Jackson
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Subject: Re: Linux Router
From: 210.177.149.33 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:33:54 GMT
Thanks everybody helped me before. With your help, my router can work
now. Thanks very much.
Page
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am setting up a Linux router that connects my LAN workstations to
> the ISP.
>
> I have installed and configured the programs "diald", "pppd" and
> "chat" in the router. Therefore, when any LAN workstation requests
> for the internet access, my router can automatically dial-up and make
> a PPP connection with my ISP.
>
> However, the problem I am facing is that, after the PPP connection
> made, my router can ping machines on the Internet, but the LAN
> workstations cannot.
>
> For this, would anybody tell me what the problem is? A routing
> problem? Besides, would you mind telling me the way to solve it?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best wishes,
> Page
>
> ==================================
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From: "Mal Stainkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 'Help, I need to repartition a full HDD from win 95'
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:15:32 +1000
Hi all,
I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.0 on my old Pentium 120, 32 MB ram, 2GB hdd.
As you can see I don't have a lot of HDD space. I have managed to delete
enough stuff to get about 1mb free. But I can't get win95's defrag program
to properly compact the files. I have lots of little unmovable files
scattered over my 1GB of free space, so I can only get Presizer (which I am
using to resize my existing partition) to free up 1.6 MB :(
I have tried using a program to reset the attributes on my files changing
all the read only, system and hidden files I could find, but I suspect these
unmovable
file may not be able to be moved because windows is using them. I think I
need a better defragemting program. Just to make things more fun my 1.44FDD
is stuffed so I can only boot from the CDRW.
Any help would be great.
--
bye for now
Mal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Don't think..... feel" Bruce Lee
"Feel......don't think" Qui-Gon Jinn
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From: "Patrice Fabre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: AX88190 PCMCIA NIC and 2.4 kernel
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:27:00 +0100
Hi,
I have a Pcmcia NIC based on the AX88190 chipset - it's branded Sitecom, but
uses the same chipset as the Billionton Lna100, Unex MD011, and others.
This chip is currently unsupported by pcnet_cs, but a driver exists from the
manufacturer that works with the 2.2.x kernels.
Unfortunately, it doesn't compile with a 2.4.x kernel (RH 7.1 or SuSE 7.1
for what I tried).
I am looking for some help on this matter - I really need a 2.4 kernel, and
a network card !
Thanks.
Patrice Fabre
- Inspired Technologist
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: basic setup question
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:28:45 +0100
hi,
i installed linux on a win98 box expecting the 98 installation to be
completely wipedin favour of linux and after several hours of installation
when i rebooted all i got was windows with a .img file in the root of c:\
it was rh7.
then I tried booting from the floppy and it comes up boot: and when I press
enter I get an error (something like 0X10 or so).
Any pointers?
Thanks,
Sean
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I still be running xfs?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:35:32 -0500
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> John Scudder wrote:
> If you don't want to run the font server, then you need some
> FontPath entries. I'm not knowledgeable enough about the font
> server to know why it's preferable to just hard-coding the
> FontPath entries, maybe someone else can enlighten?
My understanding is that the font server can serve fonts to other
hosts so the font's don't need to reside on the remote machines
and the font server can provide support for font types that may
not be supported natively by X (eg TrueType).
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Luigi Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What builds /boot/kernel.h ??
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:37:07 +0200
Hi,
I need to compile a program which requires the /boot/kernel.h file.
However, it is not there...
If I am right, it should be created at boot, by some init script.
I have the initscripts rpm installed, and this is my box
AMD Athlon RH 7.0 Kernel 2.4.3
I compiled the kernel on a different box, and I just put it on /boot.
Don't know if it could be related to that.
Of course, I re-run lilo...
Thanx
gg
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way to set up Linux so that changing the IDE channel of the HD
doesn't require surgery?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:30:31 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lucius Chiaraviglio"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Lucius Chiaraviglio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I would like to know how to prepare a Linux installation so that if
>>> the hard drive is moved from the primary IDE channel to the secondary
>>> IDE channel doesn't require surgery to re-enable the operating system.
>>> The reason for
>>
>>Nothings required except editing fstab and lilo.conf once you're done
>>with the move (and rerunning lilo).
>
> Um, that's what I was talking about. I have to do this every time I
> move the hard disk to a machine of different configuration. Does any
> way exist to fix this once and for all, so that I never have to worry
> about it on subsequent moves? I would like for both Lilo and the
> operating system to be able to find the boot disk and work without any
> further interference.
>
When you have the freedom to put the OS on any partition you like you are
given more complexity in that you have to do more configuration. LILO
isn't going to know automatically where to look for your boot image if
you keep changing the drive configuration. Since the number of possible
configurations is very high LILO just can't check all of them and know
where the kernel is so it can be loaded.
With Windows it has to be on the 1st partition of a drive if I'm not
mistaken. Because of this you don't have to configure anything b/c there
is nothing ot configure; you have no options.
With Linux you do but you got the complexity along with that.
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Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:57:56 GMT
"Roy Bamford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Keith,
>I think you are being a bit harsh on Krstanovics' modem. As its ISA, it's
>unlikely to be a winmodem - you would really struggle to get the bandwidth
>down the ISA bus. I go along with the 'upgrade' instructions for winmodems
>though.
[...]
Argh. No. 8 MHz are more than enough to keep up with modem-to-modem
communications. And there are _plenty_ of ISA Winmodems out there.
But that's not the point here. If it works in DOS, it's not a winmodem.
Michael
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From: "David McCormack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Max Open: max_fd 27 old max_fd 4
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:26:02 +0100
We are getting the 'Max Open: max_fd 27 old max_fd 4' error message when we
try to print from a script.
The printer works fine when we use lp at the bash shell, but doesn't print
though the script (program).
Is there a way of increasing the max settings? I found a message on Deja
(Google) regarding echoing values in to a couple of files but that had no
effect :-(
Many thanks in advance
David McCormack
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From: "edwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: which is the better linux distribution?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:33:49 +0800
i'm currently using win98. i would like to switch to a linux platform, i
may not want to have dual boot ie i may not want to install win98 on my
machine.
i'm choosing between mandrake 8.0 or redhat 7.1
please advise. i'm using for development purposes eg c++ and java.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faux_Pseudo)
Subject: Re: which is the better linux distribution?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:06:28 GMT
for those comming from a win system
i recomend mandrake
but until you get everything up and running like networking
then i would not remove windows
doing so could leave you stranded if you run in to problems
--(Once apon a time, in comp.os.linux.setup,)--
--(edwin said it like only they can.)--
> i'm currently using win98. i would like to switch to a linux platform, i
> may not want to have dual boot ie i may not want to install win98 on my
> machine.
> i'm choosing between mandrake 8.0 or redhat 7.1
> please advise. i'm using for development purposes eg c++ and java.
>
>
>
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GUI's are for slackers. ibpconf.sh 6.1 on freshmeat.net
The easiest way to customize the command line. By Faux_Pseudo
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
- Andrew Jackson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Anne")
Subject: help
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:30:32 +0000 (UTC)
I need to setup a mailserver using rh7, what is the best way to do so???
Anne
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From: Christian Celecia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up a Syslog Server.
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:29:50 +0200
Hi,
I am trying to set-up a single server that will consolidate all of my
system logs on three servers and a router 'cisco'. I know that it can be
down although I can find enough or good solid information on it. I have
reached a point where I cannot log anything remotely on the syslog's yet
on the local server itself their is no problem.
Any suggestions or pointers.
Thanks
Christian
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'Help, I need to repartition a full HDD from win 95'
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:51:08 +1000
Hi!
Files that cannot be moved are used by the OS. Any programm that will do it will
muck-up the system properly and you will have to reinstall.
So either prepare youself to this possibility or get another drive, hang it
someplace in the box and
Have fun
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
Mal Stainkey wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.0 on my old Pentium 120, 32 MB ram, 2GB hdd.
>
> As you can see I don't have a lot of HDD space. I have managed to delete
> enough stuff to get about 1mb free. But I can't get win95's defrag program
> to properly compact the files. I have lots of little unmovable files
> scattered over my 1GB of free space, so I can only get Presizer (which I am
> using to resize my existing partition) to free up 1.6 MB :(
>
> I have tried using a program to reset the attributes on my files changing
> all the read only, system and hidden files I could find, but I suspect these
> unmovable
> file may not be able to be moved because windows is using them. I think I
> need a better defragemting program. Just to make things more fun my 1.44FDD
> is stuffed so I can only boot from the CDRW.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> --
> bye for now
> Mal
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Don't think..... feel" Bruce Lee
> "Feel......don't think" Qui-Gon Jinn
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux.redhat,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues
From: Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:40:02 GMT
>>>>> "grooveman" == grooveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
grooveman> Hello. I am running Redhat 6.2, and I am tying to use
grooveman> it with Mediaone (Now ATT) Road Runner service in the
grooveman> Detroit Metro area.
grooveman> My problem is that my machine would not lease from the
grooveman> DHCP server. Of course, the customer support was
grooveman> useless in this issue: "we don't support Line-ucks".
I wonder if this is the same problem that I'm having when I use the
STSN "high-speed" internet access used in Marriott hotels.
I run Redhat 6.2 on my IBM Thinkpad laptop. Networking works fine both
at home and in the office, so I know my hardware and software is
working. But I can't seem to get an address from STSN. Customer
service claims they don't support Linux :-(
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Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design, C++, Java
www.objectmentor.com | Extreme Programming
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which is the better linux distribution?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:00:43 +1000
edwin wrote:
> i'm currently using win98. i would like to switch to a linux platform, i
> may not want to have dual boot ie i may not want to install win98 on my
> machine.
> i'm choosing between mandrake 8.0 or redhat 7.1
> please advise. i'm using for development purposes eg c++ and java.
As the other poster suggested don't burn the bridges as yet.
For serious compiling work I would suggest a distribution which has better
quality control than Red/Hat and its cousin Mandrake. Those are showy and you
need something that has checked libraries and compilers.
Just a suggestion. (No names)
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:51:50 -0400
Rand Simberg wrote:
>
> I've been trying to build a Linux system for a couple of days, and am
> pulling hair. My latest attempt is with a Pentium MMX 200 system,
> with a 1.2G Maxtor drive. I've attempted several installs of RH6.2,
> and RH7.0, but it continually hangs in the process of copying
> packages. I finally managed to get successfully through an install by
> running a minimum 6.2 installation in text-only mode.
It's unclear from your message whether this is a purchased machine
or one you built. Some things I'd check on the hardware level are
(1) is the drive the only drive in the system, and is the drive
jumpered properly according to its status (master, slave, only);
(2) is the cable seated securely on each end; and (3) are you sure
there is nothing else using the same IRQ as the controller? IRQs
are usually 14 for the primary IDE controller and 15 for the
secondary; if something else is using the IRQ that your controller
is using, it'll cause fits when accessing the disk.
Of course, this assumes the drive is IDE. If it's SCSI, are you
sure the end of the SCSI cable is terminated (either with a
separate termination or with the drive's built-in termination)?
If a SCSI chain is not terminated, then you'll have no end of
grief.
Hope this helps.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Should I still be running xfs?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:59:00 -0400
John Thompson wrote:
> > If you don't want to run the font server, then you need some
> > FontPath entries. I'm not knowledgeable enough about the font
> > server to know why it's preferable to just hard-coding the
> > FontPath entries, maybe someone else can enlighten?
>
> My understanding is that the font server can serve fonts to other
> hosts so the font's don't need to reside on the remote machines
> and the font server can provide support for font types that may
> not be supported natively by X (eg TrueType).
Ah yes. Of course. That had never occurred to me, as I only
run Linux in a standalone environment at home. Indeed, the
font server can serve fonts over a network.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What builds /boot/kernel.h ??
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:05:49 -0400
Luigi Cavallo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to compile a program which requires the /boot/kernel.h file.
> However, it is not there...
> If I am right, it should be created at boot, by some init script.
On my Red Hat system, it's done by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit at boot time.
YMMV.
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