Linux-Setup Digest #187, Volume #21 Tue, 8 May 01 12:13:24 EDT
Contents:
serial port problem (Luca Zancan)
RH 7.1 and filesystem > 1 Tbyte (Mark Keever)
potato with reiserfs..... (Pun Kuan Tou)
Re: Whats is the real minimum install size for RH 6.2 ? (Drew Bentley)
Re: Newbie problems partitioning (Drew Bentley)
Re: Best Distributions? (Kevin Croxen)
Re: Partition Suggestions and Help (Drew Bentley)
Re: Partition Suggestions and Help (Drew Bentley)
Re: Help me get scsi working? (SammyTheSnake)
Help newbie-Mandrake 8.0 setup (Joe Janecka)
Re: 2.2.18 -> 2.2.19 panic ("Ketil Klepsvik")
SULOG equivalent on RH Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Oh no! /proc is missing. (Villy Kruse)
Re: SULOG equivalent on RH Linux (H.Bruijn)
Re: Linux reads only first session from a multi session CD ("John Pfaff")
RedHat Enterprise Install ("MLynn")
kernel 2.2.16->19 nfs/rpc error (Silvio Luis Leite Santana)
Machine name and Sendmail always sends from localhost.localdomain problem. (John
Beardmore)
Re: gtkam/gphoto2 library not found
Re: Moved HD, Now can't boot (bill g)
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From: Luca Zancan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial port problem
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 16:08:35 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody,
I'm testing PPP on a RedHat 7 system (kernel version 2.2.19) with a
serial external modem (Multitech 2834ZDX) attached to /dev/ttyS0.
Everything worked well: then, suddenly, my serial port stopped working
properly.
I can see from /var/log/ppp that the serial port does not respond
(anymore) to the "AT commands" that I was sending to the modem (I can
see some blinking on the modem's leds, but it does not answer and
obviously does not dial... it seems that the serial port is active only
in outgoing direction and does not receive the response in the ingoing
direction...)
I've tried with "setserial" "stty" ("cread" and "clocal" are both
present...) but nothing works...
Here are the outputs:
setserial /dev/ttyS0 -a:
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a:
speed 9600 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase =
^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon
-ixoff
-iuclc -ixany imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0
vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten -echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop
-echoprt
echoctl echoke
dmesg | grep tty:
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Do you know how can I test the serial port???
How can I directly send the control commands indicated by stty (intr =
^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 =
<undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O) directly to the serial port???
Another question: what procedure should I follow to add a PCI serial
board with 2 serial ports (is there something similar to "mkdev serial"
of SCO???). Linux Serial HOWTO is a little criptic on this subject...
Thank you very much,
bye
Luca
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Luca Zancan
Logica S.r.l.
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URL http://www.logicaonline.com
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From: Mark Keever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux
Subject: RH 7.1 and filesystem > 1 Tbyte
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 10:15:14 -0400
I am having problems with RedHat 7.1 and the creation of a filesystem
greater than 1 Terabyte. I recall reading that the 2.4 kernel had
support changed from 1 to 4 Terabytes for filesystems, but I can't
create one that large without erroring out. Here are the messages that
I get when I try:
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
420773888 inodes, 841539613 blocks
42076980 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
25682 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632,
2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616,
78675968,
102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544
Writing inode tables: done
ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
read while creating root dir
The kernel also gives errors:
May 7 16:00:43 drs kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
May 7 16:00:43 drs kernel: 08:01: rw=1, want=2147355436,
limit=-928808845
May 7 16:00:43 drs kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
May 7 16:00:43 drs kernel: 08:01: rw=1, want=2147355437,
limit=-928808845
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pun Kuan Tou)
Subject: potato with reiserfs.....
Date: 8 May 2001 13:35:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi...all...
I update my kernel 2.2.19 to support reiserfs now!
but I want to rebuild my "/" directory ...
can I do it? and how??
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From: Drew Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Whats is the real minimum install size for RH 6.2 ?
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:30:08 -0000
Well, if you want a minimum install or a very small install of Linux I can
suggest trying or checking out Peanut Linux or maybe ThinLinux. Peanut
Linux is about 55 MB total in space. Distros like these however load only
what you need like with all the essentials.
Cedric Chausson wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to recycle an old 486 for use as router and firewall. I only have
> a HD of 127 Mo. After deselecting almost all the packages I get a size
> for all packages of 109 Mo. But the install stills says i'm missing 8 Mo
> on the disk.
>
> I chose Networking station and Utilities only for package selection. Then
> I manually deselected all packages.
>
> Can I get rid of the Utilities package or is it really needed ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
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From: Drew Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie problems partitioning
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:30:09 -0000
Sounds to me that if the hard drive won't read past 2 GB unless its Fat32,
then your out of luck. Linux uses the ext2 file system and can't use fat
for its own partitioning and filesystem. You should be able though to use
2 gig of space for Mandrake though with plenty of space there after.
Jif wrote:
>
>
> Hi, I'm new to the world of Linux -- or, rather, I'd like to be.
> I'm trying to install, but Mandrake isn't recognizing all of my hard
drive
> space. It only sees just shy of 2GB instead of the entire 8. I wonder
if
> this is a bios issue (they're so old there's no option to boot from CD)
or
> if there are utilities that will help me to get around this? I have
tried
> everything I could think of, which albeit probably isn't much. I've
looked
> online, I'm out of ideas and would really appreciate some help or even a
> nudge in the right direction. Here's what I've done so far:
> I tried to upgrade my bios, but apparently they are some Tiawanese
beta
> version and there's no info to be found.
> I went to the Maxtor site (it's a Maxtor hd) and got something that
will
> help me partition it, but it will only see more than 2 gb if I choose
FAT32.
> When I choose FAT32 the Mandrake install it has a problem reading that.
It
> reads the FAT16 2GB just fine though -- figures. I've tried using that
> partition utility every which way to no avail.
> I thought I would try an end run and initially install muLinux since
I
> read that that will use UMSDOS and I could have it recognize my existing
> Maxtor partition, but the img is too large (by 40kb argh) to fit on a
floppy
> so I can transfer it from this computer to the one I'm trying to install
> Linux on.
>
> There will be nothing else on this system but Linux, but I would
still
> like a bit more than 2 gb of space. Is there something out there that
can
> help or do I need to get a new mb or am I just stuck? Or am I just
missing
> something really obvious?
>
> Thanks for any and all ideas
> Jif
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Best Distributions?
Date: 8 May 2001 14:26:02 GMT
In article <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105072329200.21299-100000@
staff3.cso.uiuc.edu>, Errol Dunlap wrote:
>
>I'm thinking about starting a linux server, which is the better of the
>distributions? I want to setup a network of about 3-4 machines.
>
>i like Suse, but want to be sure before i go and buy the software.
>
>thanks.
>ed
>
Any of them will work, including SuSE. You want to be sure? You can do
everything server-related from the 1-CD "eval edition". Download it or
spend $5 to have someplace like cheapbytes or Linux Central send it to
you. After you set up your server and run it for a while, if you like it,
shell out the cash for the commercial edition to support the SuSE folks.
Or if the cheap CD meets all your server needs, which actually is quite
likely, just keep using that.
--Kevin
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From: Drew Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Suggestions and Help
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:30:08 -0000
My suggestion would be to make your partitions like follow.
64MB swap
16MB /boot - boot information
200MB /home - for your home directories for users
Rest for / - use the rest of the space for the root directory.
Mike Martin wrote:
>
>
> I'm just about to move onto a new hard drive and need some advice on
> partitioning schemes. It is RedHat 6.2 used by a handful of users for
> mail and two users for surfing and learning Linux. It will be going
> onto a 2 Gig drive.
>
> Any advice or pointers to FAQs and web sites are greatly appreciated.
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From: Drew Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Suggestions and Help
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:30:10 -0000
Try this or I recommend something like follows:
64MB swap
16MB /boot
200MB /home
What's left for /
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help me get scsi working?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 13:12:29 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SammyTheSnake wrote:
>In article <NsqH6.5789$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>haven't set the aha125x line propperly, what did you put after the =? I'm
^^ oopps ;)
while I'm at it, sorry if that post sounded a little patronising, I often
come over less friendly than I really am :)
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
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From: Joe Janecka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help newbie-Mandrake 8.0 setup
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:41:16 -0500
Where does a 'newbie' go for info about Linux? I've been using
Windows for years and thought I'd finally try Linux. I know
absolutely nothing about it though.
I picked up the dual CD-ROM package of Mandrake 8.0 and have been
trying to install it for two days now. The docs are pretty skimpy.
They just say follow the instructions on the screen. I do just that,
only trouble is, I keep winding up in the 'Command' mode instead of
the KDE GUI mode. (I think!). How do I get into the KDE2 GUI mode? The
commands make no sense to me without a guide. Is there a
troubleshooting FAQ somewhere? There seems to be an over abundance of
information for Linux experts. Sorting through it on the internet
leaves me completely confused. I can't find anything that I need.
I install most of the packages and all seems well. When I re-boot, I
wind up with the computer frozen right after the "Detecting USB
interface........(OK)" with a blinking cursor on the next line. If I
hit "Enter", I'm at the 'localhost login:' prompt. I login with my
user name "joe", and I get the " [joe@localhost joe]$_". How do I get
out of this into a GUI environment? I've tried the 'help' and 'help
help' commands to no avail.
Where do I go from here? Thanks in advance for any help for this
newbie.
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From: "Ketil Klepsvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.18 -> 2.2.19 panic
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 16:35:37 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dirk Emmermacher"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> after upgrade to 2.2.19 on Suse-Linux firewall, I've following message
> on booting: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 03:01
>
> What can I do? The System.map file was already copied to /boot...
Is this by any chance a scsi system? And have you compiled the scsi
drivers as modules?
K.
> Best regards.
>
> Dirk Emmermacher
> Lowersaxony gymnastics federation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SULOG equivalent on RH Linux
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 15:02:09 GMT
HPUX creates an sulog file to audit who is using the su command. I am
not able to find the equivalent functionality on my RH 7.1 system. Is
this included in some other log file, or does this logging need to be
turned on ?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Oh no! /proc is missing.
Date: 8 May 2001 15:13:54 GMT
On 8 May 2001 13:49:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> the /proc mount point not existing. And just about everything after that
>> point does not work. Oh NO!
>
>Try boot in rescue mode or with a boot disk and check that /proc
>exists. Since proc is a 'phony' filesystem you need only the
>mount point. Check the fstab also.
>
In other words, /proc must exist as an empty directory. It gets
contents as soon as the /proc file system is mounted on that directory.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: SULOG equivalent on RH Linux
Date: 8 May 2001 15:21:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 08 May 2001 15:02:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] allegedly wrote:
>HPUX creates an sulog file to audit who is using the su command. I am
>not able to find the equivalent functionality on my RH 7.1 system. Is
>this included in some other log file, or does this logging need to be
>turned on ?
On most linux systems usage of the su command is logged to the file
/var/log/auth.log. The name of the file is specified by the syslogd
config file, /etc/syslog.conf.
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From: "John Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.support
Subject: Re: Linux reads only first session from a multi session CD
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:20:32 -0400
I had this problem too. Try cdfs (I don't remember where I got it, but it
did the trick). Do a google search on cdfs.
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> Hi there,
>
> After reading a few articles I understand that Linux (in my case
> Mandrake 8.0, kernel 2.4.3) STILL reads the first session from a
> multi-session CD in stead of the last session (indeed it does after
> testing). This means I can't read my CD-R I made containing two
> sessions, because only the file-listing of the first session is shown.
> Using the -o session=xx only gives me an error message that the session
> does not exists, but it does, because in Windows the CD is read in full
> (all files in both sessions). So it's not a hardware issue, but
> typically a Linux problem.
>
> I don't want to burn CD's at this point, I only want to read the entire
> content of the multi-session CD (i.e. using gtktalog). What can I do to
> accomplish this, or can't I ?
>
> Greetings,
> Gerhald Lukken
>
> +++ A simple gesture says more than many words can tell +++
>
>
>
>
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From: "MLynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat Enterprise Install
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:29:34 -0400
Has anyone had experience with building an Enterprise install server for
Redhat? I am preparing for the possibility of MANY production servers to be
implemented and I need the ability to automate the build and install
process. I am looking for the functionality that is offered in Sun's
Jumpstart.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Regards,
Mike
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From: Silvio Luis Leite Santana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.2.16->19 nfs/rpc error
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 12:41:14 -0300
Hi all
I use Red Hat 7.0 and
I have just done the upgrade of the kernel,
from 2.2.16 to 2.2.19 in one of our machines.
Everything went fine, but with the new kernel,
when I try to mount a remote NFS disk,
I get "RPC error 5", although the partition
is then mounted, and seems to work correctly.
When booting the previous kernel, I get no
error message if I try to mount it.
Any guess?
TIA
Silvio
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine name and Sendmail always sends from localhost.localdomain problem.
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:35:01 +0100
I don't use sendmail as a demon, but I'm using it from a shell scrip to
do batch mailings. ( Return mail, mail to postmaster etc is redirected
to another machine ! )
The only change I have made to sendmail.cf is via Linixconf. Although
Linuxconf doesn't seem too stable, (RH6.2), it has managed to set up an
aliased domain so that my mail appears to come
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but other parts of the header contain references to
localhost.localdomain etc. The lines from the header are individually
reproduced below:
Received: from localhost.localdomain [158.152.11.56]
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mail.totalise.co.uk; Tue, 8 May 2001
2:35:51 +0100 Received: (from DATA@localhost)
by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) id CAA12403
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 8 May 2001 02:22:35 +0100
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 02:22:35 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DATA: Announcing the new web site.
This causes problems as some recipients sites are rejecting the mail as
localhost.localdomain doesn't exist. ( Those recipients who get through
can all reply OK. )
Now the sending machine is running sendmail on an RH6.2 box which during
the installation I called Alpha, although from my ISPs DNS point of view
it's wookie.demon.co.uk !.
The questions are
1) why do we give a simple name like 'Alpha' during the install when
DNS
will almost certainly require a name of the form domain.isp.whatever
?
2) how many different types of name can a box have, and where are they
configured ? ( The only time I want to use the name Alpha is with
Samba ! )
3) how do I configure my machine so that mail originates from
wookie.demon.co.uk rather than localhost.localdomain ? I can't see
anything that looks appropriate in /etc/sendmail or /etc/hosts.
Cheers, J/.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: gtkam/gphoto2 library not found
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 15:55:44 GMT
On Tue, 08 May 2001 02:10:02 -0000, Frank Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 06 May 2001 23:28:13 GMT,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 May 2001 22:54:24 GMT,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I've installed gphoto2 (and the required libgpio) and when I try
>>>to run the gtkam front end, I get:
>>>
>>>gtkam: error while loading shared libraries: libgphoto2.so.0: cannot load
>>>shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>libgphoto2.so.0 is in /usr/local/lib and points to libgphoto2.so.0.0.0 which
>>>is there.
>>
>> I looked at man pages for keywords "shared" and "library" and saw ldd.
>>
>> I did $ ldd /usr/local/lib/libgphoto2.so.0
>> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40079000)
>> libgphoto2_port.so.0 => not found
>> libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x4007d000)
>> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2aaaa000)
>>
>> However libgphoto2_port.so.0 is there in /usr/local/lib and points to version
>> 0.0.3
>>
>Did you run the command ldconfig to tell the system about a new library
>file?
I just did. Still no joy.
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From: bill g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved HD, Now can't boot
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:05:06 -0500
Well I tried rdev as suggested in the man pages and some previous posts,
using rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdd1 and I screwed up the tomstart floppy to where
it panics too. How does one know where the /root is? It's somewhere on hdd.
thanks again,
bill g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> bill g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I added a HD and switched my linux drive from being a slave on the ide1
> > cable to ide2 cable as a slave. Now, of course, my boot floppy won't
> > work. The linux drive shows up in the boot as hdd hdd1 hdd2 <hdd5> but I
> > get the kernel panic thing. Is there a way to fix this w/o reinstalling
> > linux?
>
> Use rdev to fix the root partition in your kernel image.
> Davide
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