Linux-Setup Digest #126, Volume #21 Sat, 28 Apr 01 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Redhat 7.0 install problem, unable to initialize eth0 (Michael Foots)
Re: Setting up Internet on a RH 7 server ("Jeroen Diel")
Re: Setting up Internet on a RH 7 server ("Mike \(gyrate.org\)")
Re: Setting up Internet on a RH 7 server ("Mike \(gyrate.org\)")
problems with X over ssh (openssh-2.3.0 on Mandrake 7.2) (Zsolt Zsoldos)
Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (Matt McDragon)
Re: RedHat7.1 startup & System Commander 2000 ("Anna")
Re: Bizarre cascade of problems. (David)
Epson driver (Steve Kenealy)
Mandrake 8.0 installation freeze (Steve Bradtke)
Power Management in RH 7.1 ("Ric Steinberger")
Re: Power Management in RH 7.1 ("@imon")
Disabling reboot fsck forever (Simon Lemieux)
suck / suckxover / regex (David Nowak)
Re: Disabling reboot fsck forever (Michael Heiming)
LILO problems with RH7.1 and ABit KT7-Raid ("Erik Haardt")
Re: Disabling reboot fsck forever (Simon Lemieux)
Question of copying entire root filesystem using cpio. (Hun)
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From: Michael Foots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 install problem, unable to initialize eth0
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:16:48 GMT
Craig Kelley wrote:
> "Richard Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi folks, TIA for any help you may offer here
> >
> > I have a 2 computer lan, NT laptop and Dell desktop previously running
> > Redhat 6. I upgraded my Dell to Rh 7, and my ethernet device initialization
> > is failing now. When I boot, I get
> >
> > bringing up eth0 interface: delaying eth0 initialization [FAILED]
> >
> > running "ifconfig eth0" results in
> > eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> > "ifconfig -a" only shows loopback device lo
> >
> > So my hardware is not even recognized. Yet if I run
> > Programs->System->Network configuration->Interfaces, there it is, eth0
> > assigned IP 192.168.0.229, proto no, atboot yes, inactive. I am unable to
> > activate it here. Basically if I activate it nothing happens, network still
> > doesn't work.
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart gives same error message as at boot time,
> > i.e. bringing....[FAILED]
> >
> > I am sure my ethernet hardware works as I just booted NT on same computer
> > and ethernet works.
> >
> > It is not an ethernet card, interface is on the Dell motherboard. It is a
> > rather old computer, a Pentium II 450 but was bringing up eth0 fine under RH
> > 6.
> >
> > Here is linuxconf info:
> >
> > Basic Host info
> > Hostname: thor
> > Adapter 1
> > Enabled
> > Manual
> > IP Addr 192.168.0.229
> > Netmask 255.255.255.0
> > Netdev: eth0
> > Kernel mod 3c59x
> >
> > /etc/hosts:
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 192.168.0.229 thor
> > 192.168.0.224 zeus
> >
> > Any ideas how I can further troubleshoot this?
>
> As root run `lsmod` and see if the module is loaded for your card (for
> lack of a better term). Check /etc/modules.conf for this line:
>
> alias eth0 3c59x
>
> --
> It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
try:
pump -i eth0 -h hostname
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From: "Jeroen Diel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Setting up Internet on a RH 7 server
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:28:46 +0200
Hi, you might want to use ipchains (or maybe now iptables....)
Put the following lines in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local - assuming you're using
the private network range 192.168.1.0
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
Goodluck,
Jeroen Diel.
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From: "Mike \(gyrate.org\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Setting up Internet on a RH 7 server
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:40:53 -0400
putting those lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local has become 'obsolete' after rh
7.0. theres an ipchains config file in /etc/sysctrl/ipchains (i think) and,
theres another one for the "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" thing
(and i forget where this one is, but im pretty sure its in /etc/sysctrl
somewhere with another obvious filename).
"Jeroen Diel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:z7DG6.60811$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, you might want to use ipchains (or maybe now iptables....)
>
> Put the following lines in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local - assuming you're using
> the private network range 192.168.1.0
>
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
> /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
>
> Goodluck,
>
> Jeroen Diel.
>
>
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From: "Mike \(gyrate.org\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Setting up Internet on a RH 7 server
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:43:10 -0400
since hes not even connecting to his isp, it sounds to me like the issue is
with pppd. i didnt mean for that to rhyme =P
"Jimi Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9caot3$77v2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'd suggest that you look at running Squid instead of Apache for this type
> of an application. This might resolve your issue.
>
> Joel Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:GiBF6.17$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > OK here is the deal:
> >
> > I have a machine with a fresh install of RH 7 Server, no X windows of
> > anything just Apache, NFS and something else that i cant remember, andf
i
> > would like to set it up as an internet gateway to serve the other
windows
> > machine on my network (which isnt there yet but will be soon), i have
> tried
> > a number of things such as wvdail but to no avail it dials p but then it
> > says something along the lines of cant tell what ther other machine is
> using
> > be it pap, chap or whatever and then disconnect and that is it. i have
> also
> > tried using pppd form this site that my mate told me about that his isp
> has
> > on there page page but the modem doesnt seem dial to dial. soi was
> wondering
> > if anyone would know how to do this.
> >
> > If anyone can please could you reply via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Cheers Joel Fraser
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Zsolt Zsoldos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with X over ssh (openssh-2.3.0 on Mandrake 7.2)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:57:58 GMT
Hi,
I have installed openssh-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk package and as far as I know I did
everything to setup X11 forwarding:
- in /etc/ssh/ssh_config: "ForwardX11 yes " is set
- in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: "X11Forwarding yes" is set and "X11DisplayOffset 10"
When I 'ssh' from one Linux machine to another, the DISPLAY variable is set as
expected: "hostname:10.0", but when I try to run X applications I get the
errors:
channel 0: istate 4 != open
channel 0: ostate 64 != open
X connection to hostname:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
I also installed openssh on an SGI workstation running IRIX 6.5, when I ssh to
that machine from the linux boxen, remote X display works fine when the app is
running on the SGI and displayed on a Linux box. The other way around does not
work either, i.e. if the app is running on Linux and tries to display X over
ssh on the SGI.
>From this it seems, that the ssh client on Linux is OK and the X server on
Linux is OK too, so the problem could be with the sshd on Linux... But I have
no clue how to fix it or even where to look.
Any help or pointer to relevant information would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Zsolt.
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From: Matt McDragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:59:23 GMT
get Linksys PCMLM56!
I am happy with it, and fast!
either RH 6.0, 6.2, or recently MDK 8.0
Omar Lakkis wrote:
> Hi folks, I have a Presario 1700 with Linux RH 7.0 on it and everything
> is working just fine besides the network (and modem) connection.
>
> After some reseach I found out that my ethernet nic is a CONEXANT. I
> browsed through many sites looking for some suitable kernel module as a
> driver. No clue...
>
> I have tried many drivers just randomly without success.
>
> Finally (and sadly) I came to the decision that I need to invest in a
> PCMCIA, plug it in and get hooked up to the net. Now I find myself
> drowned in an ocean of information and don't know what to buy exactly. I
> would like to have a combo Ethernet/Modem with the less painul
> installation, not exactlya a plug and play thing, but something that has
> been tested and is guaranteed by experience to work.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Please CC me the reply as I rarely have the chance to browse through the
> newsgroups.
>
> Greetings, Omar Lakkis
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From: "Anna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat7.1 startup & System Commander 2000
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:35:32 -0700
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
In article <qvCG6.1336$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Alex"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent packets that seemed to say:
> I have successfully installed RedHat7.1 on my second physical HDD.
> SC2000 is my boot loader for Win2K and WinME on my first physical drive.
> RH boots from the floppy. Lilo was not installed during the initial
> setup. What can I do within Gnome (or at the command line) to allow the
> Linux partition on my second HDD to be bootable such that SC2000 can
> detech and load this OS ?
My understanding of boot loaders is limited -- especially commercial ones
like System Commander. But I can give you a general guide that you might
find useful:
If you want to use a boot-loader/selector with Linux, lilo should be
written to the partition on which /boot is installed rather than the
master boot record of the disk. There are at least two exceptions:
loadlin.exe and gujin.exe.
SC is probably (almost certainly IMO) not one of the exceptions; read its
documentation to be sure. If you don't have any, go to their website and
get what info you can.
Loadlin is a DOS/Windows bootloader for Linux. It needs the vmlinuz kernel
copied to a partition it can read (FAT-xx , hard disk or floppy) and it
can be called from autoexec.bat or config.sys so you can write a neat
(text) menu for it. It passes to the kernel parameters similar to lilo,
but does not need lilo to be installed nor activated to work. I have never
had a glitch with it if I started it from a DOS prompt (disk access is
slowed for me if I run it under a Windows VM.)
Gujin is a bootloader for Linux and DOS/Win. It looks in all attached hard
disks for `vmlinuz' and `initrd' and *.sys files and lists them for boot
choices. It can run on any DOS partition, its own (under DOSc or freedos)
or a floppy diskette. The version I tried had a tiny video glitch with my
hardware (S3Virge) on Linux but not DOS. I understand the newest version
has no such issue. Otherwise it worked well for me and I keep it around as
a multi-OS rescue boot disk.
> (can this partition be started without lilo?, I'd also like to avoid
> writing to or using the MBR if possible). I'd very much appreciate a
> step by step guide on doing this.
>
> More details:
> MBR: contains System commander
> 1st HDD: Two Win OSs
> 2nd HDD: 1st primary partition: Linux Swap: 2nd primary partition: Linux
> native:
> 3rd extended logical partition: Fat32 - a data storage
> for
> win apps.
>
> Thanks
> Win defector ... Linux newbie.
>
>
>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizarre cascade of problems.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:35:22 GMT
Jason Kirk wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David wrote:
> >
> > "cat /dev/zero >/dev/hdaX"
> >
> > where hdaX is the partition you want to format. This will wipe the
> > partition with "zero" then use mkfs.ext2 or mke2fs to format it back to
> > ext2 format.
> >
> > man mkfs
> > man mke2fs
> >
> > You might also read "man badblocks" if you want to see what it may find.
>
> Tried the cat command, but it just told me "error writing output No Space
> left on device" which was helpfull so I decided to try a different
> Linux's installer to see if the same thing happened (Mandrake 7.0) and
> crashed out at the same stage reporting:
>
> VPS: Cannot open root device on 08:01
> Kernel panic VPS Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
>
> All of this worked identically before (I know I kept a log book of the
> options I used to install) so I'm beginning to think its a more
> fundimental problem with the hard disc.
If you used the "cat" command above then you will still need to format
the partition back to the "ext2" format since it just wiped the
partition with zero's or you might even use a DOS/windoz boot disk
after the "cat" command to fix the MBR with "fdisk /MBR".
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From: Steve Kenealy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson driver
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:48:27 GMT
Hi, I'm trying to find a Linux driver for an Epson 740 printer, and also
an Epson 1240U scanner, if they exist. Any help appreciated.
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Subject: Mandrake 8.0 installation freeze
From: Steve Bradtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:13:40 GMT
Installation of 8.0 seems to proceed smoothly until I get a
message about drinking eggs and welcome to linux
mandrake. Then the system completely freezes. If I try
installing in expert mode, I can get it to ask about desired
installation mode, but it freezes after I tell it to use the
cdrom. I had no problems at all installing 7.2 on the same
system. I`m using an Abit VP6 dual processor motherboard,
with 2 P-III 800`s, 3 HDD`s (windows installed on 1), a
cdrom, and a cd-rw. Using an SB Live sound card, and an
Asus AGP-7100 graphics card.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Steve
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Steven Bradtke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ric Steinberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Power Management in RH 7.1
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:37:13 -0700
I've just upgraded from RH 7.0 to 7.1. After the upgrade, the power
management of the monitor has stopped functioning. This function is enabled
from the Screensaver submenu of the Gnome Desktop menu. The XF86 config
files are fine, unchanged since before the upgrade. So, now, I see the
screensaver kick in, as expected, but the power management shutdown of
monitor power never happens. Can anyone suggest some things to check? Many
thanks!
[Please CC me on replies to the group.]
Ric Steinberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:33:17 +0200
From: "@imon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Power Management in RH 7.1
Have you installed power management support in your kernel?
Ric Steinberger wrote:
> I've just upgraded from RH 7.0 to 7.1. After the upgrade, the power
> management of the monitor has stopped functioning. This function is enabled
> from the Screensaver submenu of the Gnome Desktop menu. The XF86 config
> files are fine, unchanged since before the upgrade. So, now, I see the
> screensaver kick in, as expected, but the power management shutdown of
> monitor power never happens. Can anyone suggest some things to check? Many
> thanks!
>
> [Please CC me on replies to the group.]
>
> Ric Steinberger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Disabling reboot fsck forever
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:57:08 GMT
Hi,
I really like the way my machine works and I have no problem with what fsck
does to it. But I'm an OpenGL developper and I always program with my video
card memory unprotected (3dfx). Sometimes, it crashes real hard. I have a 6.4G
and a 30G drives, the booting of my computer (celeron433) takes about 10 mins...
Only because of fsck, otherwise it takes about a min... I'm tired of this...
is there a way to disable fsck at reboot time when it has crashed?
I will then have to run fsck manually some times, or I would put it in my cron
deamon weekly...
Thanks in advance,
Simon
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From: David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: suck / suckxover / regex
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:31:40 +0100
Hi,
I am downloading news with suck. I use the suckxover file to filter
messages according to their subject field. I know how to keep (or
delete) messages such that their subject field satisfies a regular
expression.
How can I keep messages with a title containing the string 'Linux' BUT
NOT the string 'Debian'? I guess it is not possible with a single
regular expression as there is no negation in regular expression. Is
there a way to do this with suck? (there should be).
Thanks for your help,
--
David
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:36:34 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disabling reboot fsck forever
Simon Lemieux wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I really like the way my machine works and I have no problem with what fsck
> does to it. But I'm an OpenGL developper and I always program with my video
> card memory unprotected (3dfx). Sometimes, it crashes real hard. I have a 6.4G
> and a 30G drives, the booting of my computer (celeron433) takes about 10 mins...
> Only because of fsck, otherwise it takes about a min... I'm tired of this...
> is there a way to disable fsck at reboot time when it has crashed?
This is probably a very bad idea. I would suggest using some
journalizing
file system like Ie. reiserfs, it's quite amazing, when you expect a
long
e2fsck and reiserfs takes 1/3 sec and tells you it had replayed some
transactions
and everything would be fine, even on HD's 20 times bigger than
yours...:-)
Michael Heiming
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From: "Erik Haardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO problems with RH7.1 and ABit KT7-Raid
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:36:30 +0200
Hello all!
I have the following configuration:
ABit KT7-Raid (1 UDMA66 Controller and 1 Highpoint IDE/Raid Controller
on-board)
1 IBM DTLA 75GB HD - Primary Master on the Highpoint IDE/Raid Controller
1 Maxtor 80GB - Secondary Master on the Highpoint IDE/Raid Controller
1 Pioneer DVD-Rom Pri-Master on the UDMA66 Controller
1 Plextor 12/10/32 Sec-Master on the UDMA66 Controller
I can boot successfully with the RH CD or with the floppy disk created with
the installation routine of RH7.1.
I have Win2k on the first Drive (PriMaster on Highpoint IDE/Raid) and RH7.1
on the second (SecMaster on Highpoint IDE/Raid) -
I am using the Win2k Boot-Manager for both OSs, I already "peeled" the
bootsector onto the PriMaster drive, I have also created
a small boot-partition (at the beginning of the SecMaster drive) and mounted
/boot onto it - it is also marked "active" with Linux fdisk and LILO is
installed in the bootsector of that small boot partition.
So far I have tried linear, lba32 and no option in the lilo.conf, but
everytime I choose Linux at the Win2k Boot-Manager, LILO stops at " LI " -
does LILO
have a problem accessing the SecMaster drive on that "fourth"
IDE-Controller?
I tried to find any documentation on this, but so far I haven't found any
for that particular problem...
Does anyone have a solution for this one - any suggestions?
Thanks a lot...
Erik
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disabling reboot fsck forever
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:46:34 GMT
> This is probably a very bad idea. I would suggest using some
> journalizing
> file system like Ie. reiserfs, it's quite amazing, when you expect a
> long
> e2fsck and reiserfs takes 1/3 sec and tells you it had replayed some
> transactions
> and everything would be fine, even on HD's 20 times bigger than
> yours...:-)
Looked at the official reiserfs website, it seems impressive, although I don't
have time to backup all my stuff and remake the fs...
On the other hand, why is this a so bad idea?
Thanks,
Simon
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| Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Povray and OpenGL Gallery |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hun)
Subject: Question of copying entire root filesystem using cpio.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:08:17 GMT
Hello,
I have two hard disks. The one I use is ext2 file systems and have 5 partitions.
/dev/hda9 / 150M
/dev/hda1 /boot 15M
/dev/hda5 /var 2G
/dev/hda6 /usr 2G
/dev/hda7 /home 2G
If I make three partions in /dev/hdb as below,
/dev/hdb1 /
/dev/hdb2 /boot
/dev/hdb3 /home
and execute the below command line, it will work fine?
# mount /dev/hdb1 /misc
# cd /
# find -print0 -mount | cpio -p -0 -d -m -u /misc
The /misc is new partition for reiserfs. 'cpio -p -0 -d -m -u' copy all the
subdirectories to destination directroy, /misc? If so, I should make a big partition
for it. :-(
Thanks in advance,
Hun
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