Linux-Setup Digest #169, Volume #21 Fri, 4 May 01 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: A $PATH for all to see... ("ne...")
Linux Laptop (Jamil Khatib)
Re: RedHat7.1 on 2nd physical hard drive (Francois van Doorneveld)
Insert new Davicom 9102 network card driver module (LeopoldCFan)
Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it (John Hong)
Re: Partionless installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Xfree86 and Presario 1600 (Dave Uhring)
Re: A $PATH for all to see... (DV8)
Re: Java SDK 1.3/RedHat 7.1 ("Andreas Gerhard")
Linux PPC installation/setup troubles! (epd)
FTP??? ("dubcaller")
Re: Remove Linux from HD (Ciao)
Re: Linux Laptop ("Charlie Gibbs")
squid and accepting cookies? and cache? ("AS")
samba - unknown parameter? ("AS")
Re: FTP??? (Leonard R. Budney)
Re: Strange bash problem in RH7 ("Giles Hjort-Tyson")
mount: has wrong mayor or minor number ("Sandro Weiser")
Re: AIX Green screen font on Linux ("Len Philpot")
Re: DEC PDP-11/73 (Roger Blake)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A $PATH for all to see...
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:29:48 GMT
On May 4, 2001 at 20:09, Lance Miller eloquently wrote:
>Mark Semsel wrote:
>>
>> I've been fortunate enough to be able to successfully download and install
>> Java 2 version 1.3 beta on my LinuxPPC2000 machine - and the demos even run
>> correctly. I'd like to update the PATH environment variable on my system so
>> all the Java programmers who log in to my box (actually me, using a
>> different ID than root) will be able to compile and run their Java apps
>> using the "javac" and "java" tools found in my java install's /bin
>> directory.
>>
>> I'm not quite sure which initialization script this should go in - I'm only
>> 72-hours down the Linux admin learning path.
>>
>> Any cogent suggestions, or informative links, would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Mark Semsel
>> Weaning away from Windows
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>dammit my fingers have a mind of their own any how
>
>login as root
>bring up dsl (adsl-start)
>the startup either gdm or kdm and login in as a user...if it does not work
>do a startx as root and a linuxconf from the command line in X from
>there go to the interface type (eth0 should already be there) and set it
>for allow user to up/shutdown ethernet
>then log out log in as a user and it should work nicely
It seems this must be another Black Friday......
You should be able to set the path in /etc/profile.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
-- Joe Walsh
4:26pm up 5 days, 22:21, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: Jamil Khatib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Laptop
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:39:03 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any Linux compatible Laptop PC?
Thanks
Jamil Khatib
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From: Francois van Doorneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: RedHat7.1 on 2nd physical hard drive
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 22:46:48 +0200
Eric wrote:
>
> > Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk.
> > Warning: device 0X0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit.
>
> Hmm.... I justs noticed now
> 0x0302 is hda2!
>
I had that problem too. LILO attempted to address the wrong HD and
wouldn't boot because of that.
My solution:
add a line to lilo.conf
disk=/dev/hdd
bios=0x81
Where hdd is my Linux disk, and the bios option tells it where it is.
It tried to access 0x83 I think it was, without it.
Good luck,
Francois.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LeopoldCFan)
Date: 04 May 2001 20:55:06 GMT
Subject: Insert new Davicom 9102 network card driver module
Hi, everyone,
I am trying to buid Linux driver for the DAVICOM 9102 onboard LANinterface on
M598LMR motherboard. I am running RedHat Linux 7.0 with kernelversion
2.2.16-21.I followed instructions given with the manual that came with the
motherboard. I did have to add an include parameter to get the compilation to
run. The compilation gave the following results:
[root@linuxsvr temp]# gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__
-I/usr/src/linux/net-I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict -prototypes
-odmfe.o -c dmfe.c
/tmp/ccbwfzep.s:Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccbwfzep.s:9:Warning:Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo
Then, I try to insert the module; but it gave me the folloing message:
[root@linuxsvr temp]# insmod dmfe.o
dmfe.o:unresolve symbol inb
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol inl
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol inw
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol virt_to_phys
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol skb_put
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol __memcpy
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol init_timer
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol mark_bh
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol kfree_skb
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol __constant_c_and_count_memset
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol outl
dmfe.o: unresolve symbol outw
Can you tell me what I have done wrong?
Thanks,
Leo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 21:19:30 +0000 (UTC)
William Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am using kernel 2.4.3 and I have attached a USB-IDE harddisk to my
>thinkpad 600.
How did you get your USB hard drive going? I've been trying to
get mine up and running, but so far nadda. Did you get this working under
the 2.4.2 kernel? That is what I'm running with Red Hat 7.1. What
distribution are you running?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Partionless installation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:34:26 +0100
On Fri, 4 May 2001 01:08:22 +0100, Alberto Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone got any experience with the Red Hat partitionless
>installation? Is it really slow?
>
> Would it be even under a 933MHz computer (I suppose that if it makes it
>access the drive a lot, the processor speed wouldn't help ...)
>
No, but I've got a SuSE 7.0 installation on a 933MHz machine with only a small
boot partition and everything else under root (/). Seems pretty fast to me,
but then I don't play games on it using high end graphics and sound.
Chris Ward.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xfree86 and Presario 1600
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:59:39 -0500
miege wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Compaq presario laptop 1600 and I can't configure X.
> I have XFree86 4.01.
>
> I have tried a lot of configuration but I always obtain a white screen.
> I have been said that the file on
> http://www.unm.edu/~tdropps/xconfig.htm, but it did not worked.
>
> If any one has a suggestion .... ?
>
> thanks a lot
>
> alex
>
>
>
>
As root, execute the command
# XFree86 -configure
This will place a new XF86Config file in your root directory. Edit the
mouse section to make it look like the one at the URL you mentioned. Then
test it like the screen said to do. You did write down that instruction,
didn't you?
When you have it working, copy the file to /etc/X11/XF86Config
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From: DV8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: A $PATH for all to see...
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:29:31 GMT
"ne..." wrote:
> On May 4, 2001 at 20:09, Lance Miller eloquently wrote:
>
> >Mark Semsel wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been fortunate enough to be able to successfully download and install
> >> Java 2 version 1.3 beta on my LinuxPPC2000 machine - and the demos even run
> >> correctly. I'd like to update the PATH environment variable on my system so
> >> all the Java programmers who log in to my box (actually me, using a
> >> different ID than root) will be able to compile and run their Java apps
> >> using the "javac" and "java" tools found in my java install's /bin
> >> directory.
> >>
> >> I'm not quite sure which initialization script this should go in - I'm only
> >> 72-hours down the Linux admin learning path.
> >>
> >> Any cogent suggestions, or informative links, would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Mark Semsel
> >> Weaning away from Windows
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >dammit my fingers have a mind of their own any how
> >
> >login as root
> >bring up dsl (adsl-start)
> >the startup either gdm or kdm and login in as a user...if it does not work
> >do a startx as root and a linuxconf from the command line in X from
> >there go to the interface type (eth0 should already be there) and set it
> >for allow user to up/shutdown ethernet
> >then log out log in as a user and it should work nicely
> It seems this must be another Black Friday......
>
> You should be able to set the path in /etc/profile.
>
> --
> Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
> I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
> -- Joe Walsh
> 4:26pm up 5 days, 22:21, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
apologies about the previous reply....my mind was OUT OF IT...I was also at
work...
-DV8
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From: "Andreas Gerhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java SDK 1.3/RedHat 7.1
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 01:39:06 +0200
> This is a known problem.
>
> The workaround is to edit /etc/profile and add the following line:
>
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
>
> There's something else about the script $JAVA_HOME/bin/.java_wrapper
> that is referencing /usr/sbin/cut so you might also need to do this:
>
> ln -sf /sbin/cut /usr/sbin/cut
>
> HTH,
>
> Mike
Hey, Danke...�hh... Thank you!!!
Andreas
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From: epd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux PPC installation/setup troubles!
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:30:05 -0000
Hey all you Linux peoples...
I have been trying to install Linux PPC on my G4 450,128ram box...
I have partitioned the drives exactly how the instructions said:
/ (root)
swap
/home
/boot
And i setup a fifth partition to boot the installation of linuxPPC...
I got to the installer and i mounted ONLY ROOT (was that where i
went wrong?)
Then i selected the packages and some of them installed, and some
didn't: it gave me an error message saying that "NAME OF PACKAGE
could not be installed. Continue?" I pressed continue and went
along my merry way...then i set a password and all the network
settings. and rebooted. I got to the boot up screen and the linux
install loader comes up and goes to 14%....then it stopped and gave
me an error.......
could anyone give me some insight into this matter????
Thanks alot and send responses to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks again...
P.S. please excuse my stupidity on this matter...i am just beginning to
join the linux revolution!
EPD
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From: "dubcaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: FTP???
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:46:06 GMT
Hi All,
I have a linux ipchains router connecting to dsl. Red Hat 7.0
I've been able to setup a FTP server using port 21 using IPCHAINS and
ip_masq_ftp... works great
However, using different ports provides better security.
Has anyone had any sucess w/ this type of setup??
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From: Ciao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remove Linux from HD
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:56:38 GMT
Try this:
lilo -u /dev/hda
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From: "Charlie Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Laptop
Date: 04 May 01 17:28:29 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamil Khatib)
writes:
>Is there any Linux compatible Laptop PC?
Sure. Just about any of them. I bought a second-hand AcerNote 370C
(P133, 48MB RAM, 1.3GB hard drive), popped a Slackware CD-ROM into it,
and it booted right up. A quick exorcism removed all traces of Windows
95, and Linux slid in clean as a whistle. It's now happily talking to
my network through a PCMCIA NIC.
If a laptop can run Windoze, it can easily run Linux. Just treat
it like any other machine (which means that setting up X isn't any
easier... :-).
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Gibbs)
Remove the first period after the "at" sign to reply.
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From: "AS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: squid and accepting cookies? and cache?
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:50:20 GMT
Hi,
I am running squid server at 3128 port in my debian box, even though I
have accept cookies set up in netscape, I cannot receive the cookies (I
need it for some site to login). How can I set up squid to accept
cookies?
And also read somewhere that I shoud leave the memory and disk caches at
0 KBytes. If I do that, it takes longer to load the pages. I have
/home/x/.netscape/cache/ as the cache folter. Do I need to change this
folder? If so, to what?
Thanks, AS
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From: "AS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba - unknown parameter?
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:52:00 GMT
Hi all,
I have trying to set up the samba between my debian box and win98. From
debian, I can get to win98 fine. But from win98, I get "Unable to browse
the nerwork' in network neigbourhood, but if I map a drive with
\\debian\user_name, it works fine, \\debian\tmp doesn't work by the way.
I installed the network printer in win98 but nothing prints!
Whenever mapping a drive or sending something to print, I get the
following:
tcplogd: netbios-ssn connection attempt from eth0 [a.b.c.d] smbd[14484]:
[2001/04/29 19:12:16, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(2549)
smbd[14484]: Ignoring unknown parameter "revalidate" tcplogd: printer
connection attempt from debian [127.0.0.1]
How can I fix this printing problem first? Following is smb.conf. Thanks.
[global]
path = /tmp
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
printing = bsd
allow hosts = a.b.c.d, 127.
dns proxy = no
syslog only = no
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast encrypt passwords = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_
SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
short preserve case = yes
wins support = true
printcap name = /etc/printcap
invalid users = root
revalidate = yes
max log size = 1000
interfaces = a.b.c.1/255.255.255.0
printer = lp
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . preserve case = yes
security = user
unix password sync = false
message command = /usr/bin/linpopup
workgroup = HGROUP
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
syslog = 0;
comment = debian lp printer
print command = lpr -r -oraw -P%p %s
netbios name = debian
load printers = yes
guest account =
default = global
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /tmp
browseable = no
create mode = 0700
printable = yes
[debian_lp]
path = /tmp
printable = yes
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: FTP???
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonard R. Budney)
Date: 04 May 2001 21:55:35 -0400
"dubcaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I've been able to setup a FTP server using port 21...However, using
> different ports provides better security.
Why does it provide better security? Is this server intended for some
private use--and the change in ports meant to block out the public? If
so:
1. Consider using SSH instead. It provides genuine security, because
channels are encrypted. See <http://www.openssh.com/>.
2. If the intended users come from predictable IP addresses, then use
IPCHAINS to drop all packets between port 21 and any other addresses.
3. If the files to be downloaded are not secret, then consider using
publicfile. It's a strictly anonymous FTP server which is small, fast,
and secure. See <http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html>. (Note that it uses
EPLF-formatted directory listings. That may or may not be a problem for
your purposes.)
Changing ports doesn't add any actual security, because if you are
trying to keep something from somebody, that somebody now knows to
scan your server for ports which answer FTP requests. Which means that
you are entirely dependent on having a secure FTP server after all.
Len.
--
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man tired and grumpy.
-- Dan Bernstein
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From: "Giles Hjort-Tyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Strange bash problem in RH7
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 02:05:22 GMT
shutdown isn't in your path, you need to instead type
/sbin/shutdown
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I installed RH7 on my computer from a CD that came with a book, and
> created a user account besides root.
>
> Then, I found a strange problem while I was logging in as the user:
>
> The user account should be able to "shutdown", but when I type the
> command, bash can't find it.
>
> Moreover, even when I issue "su" and try -as root- to "shutdown", bash
> won't find it. The "setup" command presents the same problem.
>
> I tried changing shell, but it didn't help.
>
> If I log in as root, then there is no problem.
>
> The strange thing is that I had RH7 installed before from a different CD
> (I don't have it anymore) and this problem didn't occurr.
>
> Can someone help me to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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From: "Sandro Weiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mount: has wrong mayor or minor number
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 04:27:38 +0200
I cannot mount my reiserfs-partition. I think logical informations in FAT
are wrong, but physical are right.
How can I correct this circumstance?
Sandro Weiser
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From: "Len Philpot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AIX Green screen font on Linux
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 21:51:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Norman Levin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Juergen Sauer wrote:
>>
>> Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Wed, 02 May 2001
>> 07:41:03 -0500 in comp.os.linux.setup:
>>
>> > Anybody know what directory and what file, AIX uses to load the
>> > 'green screen font'. It is nice and clear and I want to see if I can
>> > move it to my linux system.
I've done the same thing with Sun's "Screen" font on every Linux system
I've setup. The 12pt-bold version of Screen is so much more readable (IMO)
than anything that comes (at least) with any of the RH distros I've seen.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: DEC PDP-11/73
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 02:56:04 GMT
On Fri, 4 May 2001 11:41:19 +0100, John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has Linux been ported to the DEC PDP-11/73 ?
It's hard to imagine porting Linux to a 16-bit architecture with 64K
address space, no demand paging, etc. It would probably be more reasonable
to look for an early Unix. Years ago (actually decades at this point) I used
to use Unix Sixth and Seventh editions on PDP-11 systems, as well as a
variant called "Venix" that ran on the DEC PRO-350 and 380. I think there
were some Berkeley releases for the PDP as well. Some of this should still
be out there.
>If not, what are the OS options available ?
DEC sold off the PDP-11 business to Mentec (www.mentec.com) some years ago,
they're the current caretakers of the 11's original commercial OSes such
as RSX11M+ and RSTS. I don't think they have any Unix-type offerings.
Have you checked with DECUS, or whatever they're calling themselves
these days?
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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