Linux-Setup Digest #198, Volume #21 Thu, 10 May 01 00:13:10 EDT
Contents:
SCSI not working! HELP! (Dave Anderson)
Red Hat 7.1/2.4.4 'su -' problems and messages oddities ("Christopher C. Stump")
sendmail config ("Andy Thompson")
Re: inetd (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: sendmail config (David Schwartz)
RedHat 7.1 upgrade installer can't find partition (David Schwartz)
Re: sendmail config (Dave Uhring)
Re: Help I have a winmodem (Gary Dolan)
Re: harddisk wierdness ... failed to respond for 5 minutes (Dances With Crows)
Re: Netfilter, IPtables... what the heck is going on? (grooveman)
Dual boot on already setup machine. ("Earth")
Re: SCSI not working! HELP! (Markus Kossmann)
Re: GRUB really is better than LILO! (Was: Re: GRUB: How to install to (Frank
Ranner)
Re: Adding DNS causes slow telnet (David Efflandt)
Re: Dual boot on already setup machine. (David Efflandt)
Re: help with dual boot, dual drive setup? (David Efflandt)
Re: sendmail config (David Efflandt)
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From: Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI not working! HELP!
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 20:29:39 -0400
Installed Suse 7.1. Trying to compile in SCSI support into the kernel
itself (not modules). Have a SCSI CD-RW and a SCSI scanne I want to use.
Added in SCSI support, general support, and SCSI CD-ROM support. After
loading the new kernel here is what I get on boot:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
Any ideas?
Thanks!
--
David W. Anderson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster - www.horrordvds.com
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From: "Christopher C. Stump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 7.1/2.4.4 'su -' problems and messages oddities
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 19:45:52 -0500
Greetings fellow Linux heads,
I recently hooked-up a fresh install of Red Hat 7.1 and I am now running it
with a newly rolled 2.4.4
kernel. All is good except for the following error messages and a weird
problem I am having with
the 'su -' command. If anyone can shed some light on these problems, I would
very much
appreciate your input.
1.Command 'su -' does not work if it is issued after I already 'su'ed from
user to root. The command
line just freezes, and the process gets stuck in memory even after I kill
the terminal. Is this a
problem with sudo? pam?
'su -' works fine if I issue it as a regular user.
2. Oddities found in /var/log/messages:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module nls_iso8859-1
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module nls_iso8859-1
# I know "nls" means "national language support" and that
# this message is no big deal (I encountered it, and lived
# with it trouble-free with previous installs of Red Hat),
# but what can stop modprobe from looking for this module?
# Can commands 'chkconfig' and/or 'modprobe' fix
# this?
ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
pumpd[360]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:00:23) Mon May 7 13:52:50 2001
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB product 4e6/101/200
ifup: Operation failed.
ifup: done.
network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
# What fails? My cable internet connection works fine and I # do not seem to
be having trouble
# with eth0
gconfd (stump-979): starting (version 1.0.0), pid 979 user 'stump'
gconfd (stump-979): No configuration files found, trying to use the default
config source `xml:readwrite:/home/stump/.gconf'
gconfd (stump-979): Initializing XML backend module
gconfd (stump-979): Directory/file permissions for XML source at root
/home/stump/.gconf are: 700/600
gconfd (stump-979): Failed to notify listener 3607101444, removing:
IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
gconfd (stump-979): Failed to notify listener 3573547010, removing:
IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
# This is just strange, but I'm pretty sure it has to do
# with Nautilus (I'm running Ximian Gnome 1.4). I've seen # other posts
concerning this error but I
# never found an explanation. Nautilus runs find, but I'm afraid this
# can be problematic.
Once again, any insight would be appreciated!
Thank you for your time and in advance for your reply.
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From: "Andy Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendmail config
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 19:51:19 -0500
I have sendmail setup w/ a smart host pointed to my main mail server. Email
sent from forms on my web server comes thru as [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
user@domain which causes the relay on my mail server to bounce the mail.
All of my config looks correct... using Linuxconf to configure sendmail and
I even tried to configure masquerading to replace the domain correctly which
does not work either for some reason. What do I need to configure in order
for mail to be addressed correctly?
tia
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: inetd
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 20:56:03 -0400
Angry Bob wrote:
>
> What would you like to read? [comp.os.linux.setup or *?]
> This is a Norman Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scroll! it says:
> > I'm using Linux Mandrake 8.0. But I can't seem to be able to find inetd on
> > the distribution CDs. All I see is xinetd. Has inetd being removed? Where
> > can I find inetd? I search www.rpmfind.net, and there seems to be one for
> > RedHat 6.2.
>
> xinetd replaces inetd because inetd is crappy.
>
Would you explain what is crappy about inetd, and how xinetd has fixed
it?
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 8:55pm up 8 days, 12:06, 3 users, load average: 2.09, 2.07, 2.07
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From: David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail config
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:55:54 -0700
Andy Thompson wrote:
> I have sendmail setup w/ a smart host pointed to my main mail server. Email
> sent from forms on my web server comes thru as [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
> user@domain which causes the relay on my mail server to bounce the mail.
> All of my config looks correct... using Linuxconf to configure sendmail and
> I even tried to configure masquerading to replace the domain correctly which
> does not work either for some reason. What do I need to configure in order
> for mail to be addressed correctly?
How does your form lead to an email being sent? The problem is
somewhere in that path.
DS
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From: David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 7.1 upgrade installer can't find partition
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:55:04 -0700
I have a RedHat 7.0 system that's been upgraded many times before.
Today I tried to upgrade it to 7.1 and the upgrade installer says it
can't find any Linux partitions. If I do a 'mknod' for /dev/hda and
/dev/hda1, I can 'mount' my root filesystem without any problem, but the
installer can't find it.
Are there any other reasons the installer might fail to find a
partition? And is there some place I can mount the root filesystem to
help the installer find it?
DS
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail config
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 20:06:27 -0500
Andy Thompson wrote:
> I have sendmail setup w/ a smart host pointed to my main mail server.
> Email sent from forms on my web server comes thru as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> instead of user@domain which causes the relay on my mail server to bounce
> the mail. All of my config looks correct... using Linuxconf to configure
> sendmail and I even tried to configure masquerading to replace the domain
> correctly which
> does not work either for some reason. What do I need to configure in
> order for mail to be addressed correctly?
>
> tia
>
>
>
>
>
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/offline_mailing.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Dolan)
Subject: Re: Help I have a winmodem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:09:02 GMT
On Wed, 9 May , Deanne Maree Fowke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I have a winmodem, from windoze control panel (Conexant HCF V90 56K Data Fax
>PCI) So I can't get it set up with red hat 7.0
Do a search on the term linmodem, read the linmodem Howto, and you can determine
how to get your winmodem to work, if it can. I have in the past had several
winmodems that worked just fine, after some tweaking, so before you run out and
spend some money, look into this a bit.
--
Gary Dolan
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, Kernel 2.4.4
FreeBSD 4.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: harddisk wierdness ... failed to respond for 5 minutes
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 May 2001 01:26:54 GMT
On 9 May 2001 18:30:07 GMT, Professor Bruno staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>Today I encountered something out of my realm in the /var/log/messages file.
>Details: RH6.2 Linux with latest patches, 2 20GB IDE HD's, 512 MB RAM,
>
>May 9 13:48:59 brama kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
[snip]
>May 9 13:56:19 brama kernel: wait_on_bh, CPU 1:
>May 9 13:56:19 brama kernel: irq: 0 [0 0]
>May 9 13:56:19 brama kernel: bh: 1 [1 0]
>May 9 13:56:19 brama kernel: <[c010bf0d]> <[c016aaf9]> <[c016b0ce]>
><[c017a100
>
>and then eventually
>
>May 9 13:56:20 brama kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)):
>ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=588985,
>block=1179661
/dev/hdb is screaming, "I'm about to experience a mechanical failure!
Back everything up *NOW* and seriously consider replacing me!" You may
just have inadequate cooling in/near this drive; if the drive runs
appreciably hotter than /dev/hda then consider another case fan. Disks
can and will crap out at the least convenient times. If uptime is
critical for this box, consider RAID-1 so you can schedule downtime
instead of having to panic.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: grooveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux.redhat,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Netfilter, IPtables... what the heck is going on?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:14:10 GMT
Wanted to extend a special "thanks" to everyone who has offered me their
help.
I hope that one day I can repay this gesture.
I will poke around with all of your input, and you can bet I'll be back with
some more specific questions as soon as I have the time to explore!
Thanks again!
Chris
grooveman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have been struggling with this for several days now.
>
> I installed RH 7.1 to act as my gateway/router using IP masq for my
> internal machines.
>
> Low and behold, what do I find -- RH 7.1 kernel 2.4.x does not like to
> support ipchains! Now, I know, I know... It has legacy support for
> this, however, I could not get ip_always_defrag and ip_masq_ftp going on
> it. I have tried the stock kernel, and even recompiled my own -- and I
> configured just about every networking option as a module, and these did
> not show up anywhere on my system.
>
> Ipchains is not much use to me if I can't use ftp! I looked around on
> the web and lurked in groups and found people with the same problem --
> but no real solutions were offered.
>
> So I made it my mission to learn iptables --which IS natively supported
> by 2.4.x. After going nuts looking for ipnatctl (which is referenced in
> the iptables-howto), I finally found out that it has been incorporated
> into iptables (only lost a day or two there!) So, how do I masq with
> iptables? I looked around some more and found that the homesite of
> NETFILTER doesn't appear to be functioning (at least in the last few
> days) http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org .
>
> So -- My question is this: How the heck are we supposed to know what to
> do with iptables? The man page is almost useless here... it is simply
> too complex to contain in one man.
>
> Also: Can anyone tell me how to get my machine to masq without having a
> forward policy of ACCEPT?
>
> Also: What is the equivalent in IPTABLES of ipchains with a -y flag?
>
> IS THERE ANYWHERE A PERSON CAN GO TO ON THE WEB, OR IN THE BOOKSTORE TO
> LEARN HOW TO USE THIS TOOL?
>
> I know that I cannot be the only one frustrated with this.
>
> Thank you all! (I feel a litte better now :0) )
>
> Chris
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From: "Earth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual boot on already setup machine.
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:38:01 GMT
Hi,
I currently run win98se, and would like to learn Linux. I will need to keep
win98 until I know how to use Linux, so I will need a dual boot. How can I
setup a dual boot without reformatting, or losing any win98 data ect?
Thanks for your time.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI not working! HELP!
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 04:20:22 +0200
Dave Anderson wrote:
>
> Installed Suse 7.1. Trying to compile in SCSI support into the kernel
> itself (not modules). Have a SCSI CD-RW and a SCSI scanne I want to use.
> Added in SCSI support, general support, and SCSI CD-ROM support.
The "SCSI low-level driver" for your SCSI hostadapter is missing in your
list.
And you should also check, if you are using a initrd and if you still
need it with your new kernel.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: GRUB really is better than LILO! (Was: Re: GRUB: How to install to
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:03:03 +1000
Kenny McCormack wrote:
>
> In article <9db0dn$mbk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Kenny McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >...
> >>> And, to get to the real point, can I create a small ext2fs partition on the
> >>> disk, and put the stuff from the floppy there (doing all this from a Linux
> >>> boot/rescue floppy) - without installing Linux on the machine - and have
> >>> GRUB find the stuff there and work (w/o the floppy being present) ?
> >
> >>you can have grub on a fat disk, in \boot\grub
> >>From memory you point to it using
> >>root (hd0,0)
> >>setup (hd0)
> >
> >Glad to hear it. I'll give it a shot.
>
> Worked a treat. No need to install Linux or any EXT2FS file systems. I
> highly reccomment this to anyone having troubles with LILO.
>
> One thing about it, though, that I found "hinkey". You have to copy the
> contents of the /boot/grub directory from the floppy to /boot/grub on the
> (FAT) hard disk. This works just fine, but the funny things is this: You
> can put it into /grub instead and the installer will find it (You can tell
> from the error messages that it looks in both dirs), but the glitch is that
> it won't fine the "menu.lst" file in /grub - that *has* to be in /boot/grub.
>
> That's what I find weird - that it lets you install from /grub, but silently
> ignores the "menu.lst" file if you do.
Setup is a simplified front-end to install, which allows you to specify
the
location of the menu.lst. However 'install' is a fairly hostile command,
so it
is probably better to arrange things the way 'setup' wants, and avoid
having to
run install.
Regards, Frank Ranner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Adding DNS causes slow telnet
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:35:42 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 09 May 2001, Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> charadeur wrote:
>>
>> When I add enteries for my DNS servers I get a slow connection to a
>> telent session into the box. It even slows down pop3 and smtp and
>> times out tring to connect. If I remove the DNS server entries it is
>> fast. The OS is caldera. Any ideas?
>
> When you telnet etc. in it tries to resolve the address of the client
> into a host name. Clearly it can't. When you don't have any DNS enabled
> it has nowhere to go so fails instantly. When you do it has the whole
> Internet to ask so it does, and waits for a while (typically ~90s)
> before giving up.
>
> Ensure that the server can resolve its clients' addresses, either via
> DNS or /etc/hosts. The latter is probably easier if you don't want to
> set up a local DNS. I'm not sure what Caldera uses to define resolution
> order, it's often /etc/nsswitch.conf or /etc/host.conf. Check your
> documentation. Put "files" or "hosts" before "dns".
I always thought that /etc/hosts would be sufficient (it is with no
default route) until I stopped running named and now have my ISP's
nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf and a default route to another box
that connects to the internet. Apparently it still tries DNS if it has
what it thinks is a route to it and that gateway is not connected to the
internet. ssh does not have that problem since it relies on its own
authentication without tcpwrappers.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Dual boot on already setup machine.
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:51:02 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 May 2001 02:38:01 GMT, Earth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I currently run win98se, and would like to learn Linux. I will need to keep
> win98 until I know how to use Linux, so I will need a dual boot. How can I
> setup a dual boot without reformatting, or losing any win98 data ect?
Make sure that you have a Win98 rescue disk.
If you need to resize your Win partition to make room for Linux, make sure
that you back up anything essential. Temporarily turn off virtual memory
in Win98 (to minimize hidden files at the far end) and fully defrag your
hard drive.
Linux comes with a boot loader (LILO) that can install in the MBR (master
boot record at beginning of drive) to boot Windows or Linux. If your
installation offers to make a Linux boot floppy do it (a perfectly DOS
formatted floppy with NO bad sectors). If not, learn how to make one
after installing Linux. You will need it if (when) Windows overwrites
your MBR.
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Linux+Win95/index.html
Gives more info that applies equally to Win98.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: help with dual boot, dual drive setup?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 04:00:04 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9 May 2001 20:15:38 GMT, Kuenley Chiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, can anyone offer some advice about this problem:
>
> I just installed a second hard drive, with linux on it. My first hard drive
> was windows 98, and they're both IDE. I set the linux drive to be primary and
> the windows drive to be slave.
>
> I was hoping to set up lilo so that I could choose either one to boot from
> -- but now, when I do "df" in linux, I only see the linux drive. The windows
> boot can only see its drive also (actually it sees a new hard drive, but can't
> open it).
>
> Any advice or comments on what I need to do?
Do 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' and see what partitions
there are. You will not see any Windows partitions with df unless you
have them mounted.
But Windows likes to boot from the first drive, and you now have it
second. There is supposed to be a way to get LILO to do that, but I have
not been able to. I have booted to Win95 on /dev/hdb when I set my BIOS
(CMOS setup) to boot that drive.
On the box I am using now, I simply put LILO on the MBR of /dev/hda which
contains Win98 and bought a different /dev/hdb that I use for Linux. But
keep a Linux boot floppy handy for if/when Windows overwrites your MBR
during any updates.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: sendmail config
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 04:06:07 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 9 May 2001 19:51:19 -0500, Andy Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have sendmail setup w/ a smart host pointed to my main mail server. Email
> sent from forms on my web server comes thru as [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
> user@domain which causes the relay on my mail server to bounce the mail.
> All of my config looks correct... using Linuxconf to configure sendmail and
> I even tried to configure masquerading to replace the domain correctly which
> does not work either for some reason. What do I need to configure in order
> for mail to be addressed correctly?
You probably need to set up something on your main mail server to relay
mail from host.domain and masquerade that as domain.
Or assuming that your main mail server is set up to allow relaying from
host.domain, you could set up the Perl Mail::Sendmail module to send it
out directly through your main mail server (see the beginning of
Sendmail.pm to change its default) without having to use a local mail
server.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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