Linux-Setup Digest #204, Volume #21 Thu, 10 May 01 19:13:19 EDT
Contents:
Re: inetd (Angry Bob)
redhat 7.1/2.4.4 Apache problems ("Andrew Harp")
Re: no init found (Angry Bob)
Re: rsync transfer issues (Angry Bob)
Re: Connect script timed out (Angry Bob)
Re: VGA prob with RH Linux 6.2 on emachines 633 (Angry Bob)
Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux? (Michael B)
Re: Custom kernel build fails on RedHat 7.1 (Angry Bob)
Re: ip_always_defrag missing in RH7.1 (kernel 2.4)? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Can't get past log on screen in Caldera 2.4 (Angry Bob)
Re: FAT16 Drive file modified times read wrong: RH 6.2 (Angry Bob)
Re: PCI modem 3COM/USR 2977 ("Robert Morelli")
Re: installing tar.gz packages on mandrake 8.0 (Angry Bob)
Re: Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux? (Angry Bob)
Re: redhat 7.1/2.4.4 Apache problems (David Schwartz)
Re: Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux? (Angry Bob)
Re: redhat 7.1/2.4.4 Apache problems (Angry Bob)
Re: Drive Partitions (Robert Pearce)
Re: Drive Partitions (Robert Pearce)
Re: Drive Partitions (pip)
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: inetd
Date: 10 May 2001 22:06:10 GMT
What would you like to read? [comp.os.linux.setup or *?]
This is a Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scroll! it says:
> Would you explain what is crappy about inetd, and how xinetd has fixed
> it?
I'm sure the authors do a much better job than I:
http://www.xinetd.org/faq.html#why
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
Somebody set up us the bomb!
-- Operator
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From: "Andrew Harp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat 7.1/2.4.4 Apache problems
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:13:27 -0400
hi,
I just compiled the 2.4.4 kernel last night on my linux box. It works
great, except now apache won't start. I am using the version of apache
that came with redhat 7.1.
[root@rabidllama /root]# /etc/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd: Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, "/var/run/httpd.mm.1929")
failed
Error: MM: mm:core: failed to acquire shared memory segment (Function
not implemented): OS: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
It was working great before the new kernel. Anybody have any ideas?
Maybe I left something out of the kernel that I needed?
thanks,
Andrew Harp
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no init found
Date: 10 May 2001 22:09:26 GMT
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this is a sam scroll! it says:
> There are some message appeared when boot RH7.0.
> Kernel panic : No init found.
> Try passing init = option to kernel
http://www.google.com/search?q=Kernel+panic+%3A+No+init+found&btnG=Google+Search
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
"I gave speeches while president on topics like climate change
until I was blue in the face, but they were not deemed
newsworthy by you." -- Bill Clinton addressing the press
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: rsync transfer issues
Date: 10 May 2001 22:12:03 GMT
What would you like to read? [comp.os.linux.setup or *?]
This is a dirac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scroll! it says:
> time, it displays the error "Neighbor table overflow" which no one has
> heard of. I am not entirely sure what the problem is, I have only been
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Neighbor+table+overflow&btnG=Google+Search
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
You've never eaten a packing peanut?
--Nick Black
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connect script timed out
Date: 10 May 2001 22:18:04 GMT
What would you like to read? [210.177.149.33 or ?*]
this is a 210.177.149.33 scroll! it says:
> While I am trying to dial-up using "diald", it fails. By checking the
> log message, an error message is given:
> diald: Connect script timed out. Killing script.
> Would anybody tell me what's the problem and how I can solve it?
I haven't used a dial-up for years and years, so I'm just taking a
guess.... To keep activity goign on across the line, try a script like
this:
while true
do
echo '.'
sleep 150
done
if it works, then make it a script that echoes a null character and
background it when you log on.
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I want to know God's thoughts.... the rest are details.
-Albert Einstein
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VGA prob with RH Linux 6.2 on emachines 633
Date: 10 May 2001 22:21:37 GMT
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this is a Glenn Elliott scroll! it says:
> I'm trying to load RedHat Linux 6.2 on a virgin (no o/s installed)
> e-machines celeron 633Mhz (64MB/20GB). This has graphics and sound built
> into the motherboard using an Intel chipset. On Boot, BIOS says Intel 8xx
> Chipset Video Bios - 1MB, VGA memory is shared with regular RAM.
I'm just taking a guess, but I'd suggest you look into compiling a
kernel with a framebuffer, probably fbdev, since it's pretty generic. I
had this problem on a laptop, and though I was unable to test the setup
during the install, it worked when I finally booted into it.
It will probably take some playing around with.
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
Somebody set up us the bomb!
-- Operator
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From: Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:26:56 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone successfully (And how stable is it!), mirrored IDE HD under
Linux? (Debian).
I've had a quick look at Yoke - Are there any alternatives ?
Regards,
MB
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Custom kernel build fails on RedHat 7.1
Date: 10 May 2001 22:28:55 GMT
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this is a Matthias Haase scroll! it says:
> 'make bzImage' fails on our server (PIII 750, SCSI) always with:.
> arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o: In function `pci_fixup_vt8363':
> arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text.init+0x3727): undefined reference to
> `noautodma'
> Of course, I do 'make rmpoper' 'make clean' and 'make dep' bevor,
> same error comes up with kgcc instead of RH 7.1 own gcc.
> What's that? Never seen this before... Please, please, one hint for me...
what version of the kernel are you using? I did a source grep through
2.4.4 and didn't find any mention of 'noautodma'....
you're having a linking problem somewhere I expect, but you didn't give
much detail.
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
Somebody set up us the bomb!
-- Operator
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ip_always_defrag missing in RH7.1 (kernel 2.4)?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 May 2001 18:32:49 -0400
On Thu, 10 May 2001 10:57:07 -0500, James Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Do you have any idea what 'reasonable' settings for these parameters
>are?
I would think the defaults would be 'reasonable'.
>What should I set to mimic, as closely as possible, the behavior of
>ip_always_defrag?
Reading between the lines, I'd say this is on by default now. It's is
just tunable. Other than that, I am clueless...sorry. Myself, I am just
leaving as is, until I find a reason to mess with it.
>Hal Burgiss wrote:
>>
>> I think this is changed with 2.4 kernels. This is what I find from
>> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt:
>>
>> IP Fragmentation:
>>
>> ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER Maximum memory used to reassemble IP
>> fragments. When
>> ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
>> the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
>> is reached.
>>
>> ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
>> See ipfrag_high_thresh
>>
>> ipfrag_time - INTEGER
>> Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
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Hal B
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.newbie
Subject: Re: Can't get past log on screen in Caldera 2.4
Date: 10 May 2001 22:32:17 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a terry scroll! it says:
> Yes, if one of your partitions has become full, that could very well be
> the problem. Go to console mode, if you can, and see what df tells you.
yeah, one of our sysadmins was having problems installing mandrake....
so I took a look at it.... <sigh> 50M for /.... I told him that hd
space is so cheap that he should never make less than a 300M partition,
regardless of what it's going to be used for.
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"F--- off Gates, I'm in a meeting."
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAT16 Drive file modified times read wrong: RH 6.2
Date: 10 May 2001 22:33:44 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Clark L. Coleman scroll! it says:
> I have RH 6.2 with 2.2.17 kernel. AFter daylight savings time
> occurred, all is fine except my FAT16 partition. I have a multiboot
> system with DOS, NT 4.0, Win95, and Linux. I edit files sometimes in
> NT that are later compiled in Linux. The Linux make complains of clock
> skew being detected and files having modified times in the future; it
> is an hour off in its calculations. The Linux "date" command shows the
> correct time; it adjusted for daylight savings time and is not an hour
> off.
sounds like your windows clock is off.
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"Our relation to the universe certainly depends
on what's in it."
--Ben Oppenheimer of the University of California-Berkeley
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From: "Robert Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modem 3COM/USR 2977
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:41:08 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mark Slagell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have the same modem working under Red Hat 6.2. I also had it
working under Caldera Open Desktop 2.4. The company that
sold me my PC gave me a hard copy of installation instructions.
The same instructions are found at:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/tp390e/rnelson.txt
but I think this is information you already know. They also gave
me and addendum that stated:
"The 5610 modems are not winmodems. However, the default installation
will only have 4 COM ports and this particular modem will only work on
ttyS4. You will need to make a device in your /dev/ directory. The
syntax is below:
makedev ttyS4
This will create the new device. You can then configure minicom to use
..."
I followed these directions exactly under Caldera and it worked. It
didn't work under Red Hat. What finally did work for me under Red Hat
was to disregard the instructions that the modem only works on ttyS4.
In fact, it's been working fine on ttyS3. All I did was put the line
setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A port 0xd400 irq 11
in rc.local. (Of course, you'd need to change the I/O address and irq.)
I forced the card to use irq11 in the bios. My motherboard allows me
to assign a specific irq to each slot.
> I've been surfing around for the world's collected wisdom on making this
> modem work but am coming up empty so far. Possibly relevant info is
> below. Can anybody shed light?
>
> TIA
>
> -- Mark
>
> ---------------------------
>>uname -a
> Linux pc5053 2.2.18 #4 Mon Apr 9 14:58:16 CDT 2001 i686 unknown
> ---------------------------
>>lspci -v
> [...]
> 01:0b.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev
> 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
> Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com USR 56k Internal FAX Modem
> (Model 2977)
> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
> I/O ports at dff0
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>
> ---------------------------
>>cat /proc/pci
> [...]
> Bus 1, device 11, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 3.
> I/O at 0xdff0 [0xdff1].
> ---------------------------
>>cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0
> 0: 247814 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 4923 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC
> cascade 3: 32587 XT-PIC eth0
> 9: 12746 XT-PIC Intel ICH 82801AA
> 12: 69297 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1
> XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 961293 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 7 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
> ---------------------------
>>setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xdff0 autoconfig auto_irq setserial -g
>>/dev/ttyS3
> /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0xdff0, IRQ: 3
>>minicom
> [unresponsive on /dev/ttyS3]
> ---------------------------
>>[tried setserial with uart as 16550A, 16450, etc, no difference] [tried
>>setserial options: ^fourport, skip_test. no difference] [tried changing
>>IRQ with setpci, managed to lock up the machine a few times]
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing tar.gz packages on mandrake 8.0
Date: 10 May 2001 22:44:32 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a herwig verbeke scroll! it says:
> During ./configure I got several error messages which I managed to solve one
> by one by installing additional packages (XFree86-devel, zlib1 and
> zlib1-devel, libjpeg62-devel, libqt2-devel).
> However I finally got stopped by following error message:
> giflib30 required - install the kdesupport package
> The problem is that kdesupport-2.1.1-3mdk is installed, but it does not
> include giflib30.
> What is wrong here?
man urpmi
man urpmi.addmedia
urpmi kdesupport-devel
you kind of need to install the header files if you want to compile
things manually.
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
Somebody set up us the bomb!
-- Operator
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux?
Date: 10 May 2001 22:49:14 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Michael B scroll! it says:
> Has anyone successfully (And how stable is it!), mirrored IDE HD under
> Linux? (Debian).
> I've had a quick look at Yoke - Are there any alternatives ?
raid-1?
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
"F--- off Gates, I'm in a meeting."
-- http://www.ghetto-prostitute.com/lalala/23.html
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From: David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 7.1/2.4.4 Apache problems
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:43:37 -0700
Andrew Harp wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I just compiled the 2.4.4 kernel last night on my linux box. It works
> great, except now apache won't start. I am using the version of apache
> that came with redhat 7.1.
>
> [root@rabidllama /root]# /etc/init.d/httpd start
> Starting httpd: Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, "/var/run/httpd.mm.1929")
> failed
> Error: MM: mm:core: failed to acquire shared memory segment (Function
> not implemented): OS: No such file or directory
> [FAILED]
>
> It was working great before the new kernel. Anybody have any ideas?
> Maybe I left something out of the kernel that I needed?
Looks like you forgot to mount the 'shm' file system. Read the
documentation that came with the kernel.
DS
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux?
Date: 10 May 2001 22:51:02 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Michael B scroll! it says:
> Has anyone successfully (And how stable is it!), mirrored IDE HD under
> Linux? (Debian).
> I've had a quick look at Yoke - Are there any alternatives ?
raid-1?
http://linas.org/linux/raid.html
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"F--- off Gates, I'm in a meeting."
-- http://www.ghetto-prostitute.com/lalala/23.html
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 7.1/2.4.4 Apache problems
Date: 10 May 2001 22:55:36 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Andrew Harp scroll! it says:
> It was working great before the new kernel. Anybody have any ideas?
> Maybe I left something out of the kernel that I needed?
you seem to have already gotten the answer you were looking for, but for
the newsgroup, sysV needs to be compiled in. <smile>
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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
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From: Robert Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Drive Partitions
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:32:11 +0100
Reply-To: Robert Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dean Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>You might like to either try and find another 16Mb of memory, or possibly
>install an earlier version of Redhat or Mandrake. Increasing your swap space
>size during the install might also help you out. For 16Mb of memory, you will
>want at least 32Mb of swap space (I would even go higher).
I don't know about RH7, but I installed RH6.0 on a PC with 12MB RAM and
(IIRC) 20MB swap, and had no problems at all.
--
Rob Pearce
The "from" must be wrong, nothing that helpful ever comes from the TAN team!
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From: Robert Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Drive Partitions
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:34:09 +0100
Reply-To: Robert Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
pip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>You could make your life easier by buying 128MB extra at least. If RAM
>is as cheap where you live as where I live at the moment then that would
>be on my shopping list.
Can you tell me then, where I can get 16 cheap 8MB 30 pin SIMMs for my
small machine ?
Some people really are trying to run Linux on equipment you would
consider laughably obsolete. Don't assume otherwise.
--
Rob Pearce
The "from" must be wrong, nothing that helpful ever comes from the TAN team!
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From: pip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Drive Partitions
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 00:13:07 +0100
Robert Pearce wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> pip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >
> >You could make your life easier by buying 128MB extra at least. If RAM
> >is as cheap where you live as where I live at the moment then that would
> >be on my shopping list.
>
> Can you tell me then, where I can get 16 cheap 8MB 30 pin SIMMs for my
> small machine ?
>
> Some people really are trying to run Linux on equipment you would
> consider laughably obsolete. Don't assume otherwise.
Car boot sales, local papers etc. You can always dig them up. Anyway, it
was only a suggestion to make your life easier.
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