Linux-Setup Digest #205, Volume #21 Thu, 10 May 01 23:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux? (Michael B)
network woes (Me)
Windoze Dialup into my Linux box? (Me)
Re: inetd ("Peter T. Breuer")
Checking for new hardware? ("Joel")
word perfect 8.0 in RH 7.0 stopped working after upgrade ("drw")
Duel boot with disk overlay (John Hong)
Redhat 7.1 Apache "ServerName" Question ("Scott Jones")
SSL configuration for pop3 and imap v/s SSH on client (Sunil Shukla)
Re: which linux version support my soundcard? (E J)
Re: word perfect 8.0 in RH 7.0 stopped working after upgrade (E J)
PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel) ("David Hawkins")
Re: Checking for new hardware? (Dave Uhring)
Re: Redhat 7.1 Apache "ServerName" Question (David Schwartz)
Failover with 2 NIC's ? (Michael B)
Re: fetchmail cron job is echoing on Slackware (Blackberry)
Re: Moonlighter needed - Orange County California (David Schwartz)
Re: Windoze Dialup into my Linux box? (David Efflandt)
Re: Unresolved Symbol error configuring PCTel modem (cicrano)
xdm not gdm in RH7.0 (Steve Connet)
Re: HELP! Kamakazi Shell Script Whacks System To Death! /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
function ("Bill Marcum")
Re: Writing a little script (help with sed) (3FE)
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From: Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mirroring IDE DRives under Linux?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:36:31 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the reply - I had also had a look at the RAID howto - The kernel
patches only seem to go to 2.2.10 (Are they compatible with 2.2.19?)
Regards,
MB
Angry Bob wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: network woes
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:44:42 +0000 (UTC)
Hi. I have had a system running redhat 6.2 for a while with no trouble.
Recently, I had a crash and some files were removed from my disk during the
recovery cycle. (I don't know if that is important, or not.)
Anyway, when the system boots, my network card no longer works. And, programs
which run over the network (even to the local machine-no, not the localhost
interface, it's ok) fail. The log /var/log/messages contains the following:
insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/net/via-rhine.o: init-module: Device or
resource busy <27>
insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/net/via-rhine.o: insmod eth0 failed.
What do I do about this? Where would I begin to learn more about what this
means?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: Windoze Dialup into my Linux box?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:46:23 +0000 (UTC)
Hi. Where would I learn about how to configure my linux box to allow dialup
access from a Windoze system? Would this involve SAMBA?
Thanks,
Mike
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: inetd
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:32:06 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
Boiled down to "incorporates tcpwrapper-like access controls" (for udp
as well as tcp, not that that's of much interest, since there are no
interesting udp services because if there were nobody would mind if they
mostly didn't work, by definition, so they couldn't be interesting).
It also does logging. Useful, but I already have tcplogger and friends.
The disadvantage of course is:
a) it's new, hence buggy.
b) it uses millions of separate little files instead of one single
nice human-editable file.
Peter
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Checking for new hardware?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:44:14 -0500
How can I make linux to not check for new hardware? It just slows down the
startup. When I first installed RedHat 7.1, I hadn't set up NE2000, or
Sound Blaster, and it didn't do anything for them. What is it exactly
doing? BTW, those cards are PnP. Kernel 2.2 didn't do this, but 2.4 does.
Thanks in advance.
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From: "drw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,corel.support.wordperfect8suite.wordperfect,corelsupport.linux.corellinux,corelsupport.linux.wordperfectoffice,linux.redhat.install
Subject: word perfect 8.0 in RH 7.0 stopped working after upgrade
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:53:10 -0700
how can I get WP8 for Linux to work in Red Hat 7.0? All of the libraries
have been updated and now it does not seem to work?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Duel boot with disk overlay
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 00:30:08 +0000 (UTC)
Anyone in a situation where they have to use disk overlay software
(e.g. EZ Drive) and run Windows and Linux? If so, how easy/hard was the
install procedure? Any sites dedicated towards this?
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From: "Scott Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 7.1 Apache "ServerName" Question
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:10:53 -0700
Hello,
I've got three different Redhat 7.1 boxes that I'm trying to get to use the
"ServerName" directive in httpd.conf for Apache.
It's really bizzare, because all of these machines are behaving as if I
haven't put in the servername directive at all (it just keeps whatever
hostname the user has typed in).
This happens even with a virgin system that has simply turned on Apache and
has put in the ServerName directive.
For example, I just put in:
ServerName [my ip address here]
Then, I made an entry into my /etc/hosts file that gives my server a name.
Then if I type in http://[servername] in my browser, I end up keeping the
same servername that I typed in. This is NOT the behavior that I got with
earlier versions of Apache that came bundled with Redhat 7.0 and 6.2. Is
there another directive that I don't know about?
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
-Scott
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From: Sunil Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,at.linux,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.list,alt.comp.linux.isp
Subject: SSL configuration for pop3 and imap v/s SSH on client
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:15:06 GMT
Hi,
I am primarily looking to provide Secure services for POP3 and
IMAP the
idea behind it is that communication between server and client is
encrypted. One
of the way is using SSL services for POP3 and IMAP and was wondering if
anybody had successfully implemented it.
I have also heard that POP3 and IMAP communication can be secured
using
SSH and was wondering anybody has any idea about it.
Thanks,
Sunil.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which linux version support my soundcard?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:20:13 GMT
If you check the source /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/sb_ess.c, ESS 1868 is
supported
$ su -
password: <secret>
# sndconfig # select your sound chip and hopefully your sound card will work
Geert wrote:
> i checked it and i have a ES 1868. Maybe there's something wrong with my
> configuration?
>
> g
>
> E J schreef:
>
> > RH7.0 does support ESS sound card. I have an ESS 1788 chip which is
> > supported after RH6.0. It plays very slow audio, but it is easily
> > corrected with a small modification. What ESS chip do you have?
> >
> > Geert wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > i have installed Red Hat 7.0 but apparently they do not support my "ESS
> > > Audiodrive" soundcard. Can someone tell me which Linux distribution
> > > supports this?
> > >
> > > thanx,
> > >
> > > g
> > >
> > > --
> > > "The angels said it is God's creation.
> > > The Gods said it was a coincidence."
> > >
> > > http://dertaschenrechner.tux.nu
> >
> > _________________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
>
> --
> "The angels said it is God's creation.
> The Gods said it was a coincidence."
>
> http://dertaschenrechner.tux.nu
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,corel.support.wordperfect8suite.wordperfect,corelsupport.linux.corellinux,corelsupport.linux.wordperfectoffice,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: word perfect 8.0 in RH 7.0 stopped working after upgrade
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:26:43 GMT
Install libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm from Redhat 6.2
CD.
You can download only those two rpms from the redhat mirror ftp site.
Reinstall WP8 and it should be happy.
drw wrote:
> how can I get WP8 for Linux to work in Red Hat 7.0? All of the libraries
> have been updated and now it does not seem to work?
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From: "David Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:35:46 -0700
Hi,
I'd like some suggestions as to the cause and fix of a problem I am
having with Linux 2.4 freezing up on me. My system is
- Winbook XL
- Red Hat 7.1 (2.4.2-2 kernel)
The mouse is a PS/2 device (the Winbook has a keyboard 'nipple'
and touchpad), and this is what Win95 sees it as. When installing RH, it
didn't recognize the mouse, so I used the text install. On first boot, the
mouse was recognized by the hardware detection and assigned as
a generic ps/2 mouse. The first time I booted into X, the system froze.
Booting next time and staying in text mode, I tried gpm and mev,
the laptop froze both times. (/dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux so thats ok)
Looking under /proc/interrupts I see that the PS/2 interrupt is being
shared with the TI PCI1131 PCMCIA cardbus controller.
Several documents indicate the the PS/2 must use IRQ12, so the
1131 IRQ may need to be changed. However, looking at
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts lists IRQ12 as being excluded - so how
come the controller claimed it? (perhaps the exclude only applies
to devices in the PCMCIA slots...?). Under Win95 the 1131 uses
IRQ15.
Thinking that maybe the interrupts from the TI1131 were the
cause of the problem I performed:
/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop
This removed PCMCIA services and /proc/interrupts shows only
the PS/2 mouse on IRQ12. However, booting into X still freezes and
so does mev. Actually, I just ran mev (with PCMCIA
services off), and could type text, however, as soon as I touched the
mouse, the system freezes.
This system has had RH 6.2 working fine in the past, and booting
into Win95 shows all is well there.
dmesg and /var/log/messages don't contain any interesting info on
why the system may be crashing. Although there is the comment
that the serial driver is 5.02 and that SHARE_IRQ is enabled.
I deleted /etc/sysconfig/mouse and ran mouseconfig ... and receved
a segmentation fault while probing for the mouse, and then the
system was frozen. Hmmm, is there a bug here?
(or perhaps the missing file is the cause of that)
I had to run 'mouseconfig --noprobe' to regenerate
the /etc/sysconfig/mouse file. I selected the Generic PS/2
mouse, as that looked to be the only correct one. I did
try the Microsoft Intellimouse (PS/2), however when the
system was booted, I no longer had use of the keyboard
and had to use the boot CD to rescue the system.
Anyway, some suggestions would be helpful.
If no one can think of a cause for this problem,
then I'll have a look at compiling a newer
version of the kernel.
Please HELP!
Regards,
Dave Hawkins
Caltech
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Checking for new hardware?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:40:07 -0500
Joel wrote:
> How can I make linux to not check for new hardware? It just slows down
> the
> startup. When I first installed RedHat 7.1, I hadn't set up NE2000, or
> Sound Blaster, and it didn't do anything for them. What is it exactly
> doing? BTW, those cards are PnP. Kernel 2.2 didn't do this, but 2.4
> does. Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
# cd /etc/rc.d
# rm -rf *kudzu
OR
# rpm -qa | grep kudzu
# rpm -e <result_of_previous_command>
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From: David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 Apache "ServerName" Question
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:33:46 -0700
Scott Jones wrote:
> Then, I made an entry into my /etc/hosts file that gives my server a name.
> Then if I type in http://[servername] in my browser, I end up keeping the
> same servername that I typed in. This is NOT the behavior that I got with
> earlier versions of Apache that came bundled with Redhat 7.0 and 6.2. Is
> there another directive that I don't know about?
What exactly are you expecting the 'ServerName' directive to do? And
are you using the 'ServerName' directive outside of any other
configuration elements or inside a '<VirtualHost>' statement?
DS
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From: Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Failover with 2 NIC's ?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:44:03 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible with two nics (In the same linux box), to have them both
connected to the same switch (Only one sending/receiving data), then if
the primary nic dies, the other nic takes over (takes the other nics IP
and/or mac address)?
HA network cards ?
Thanks for any suggestions/help,
Regards,
MB
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From: Blackberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail cron job is echoing on Slackware
Date: 10 May 2001 17:42:48 -0700
On Thu, 10 May 2001 16:02:58 -0500, Dave wrote:
>
>fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
I tried that. It did exactly the same thing, echoed all text to the screen.
What is "2>&1" supposed to be doing?
====================
"It's enough to make you wonder sometimes if you're on the right planet."
-- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- remove "NOSPAM"
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From: David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moonlighter needed - Orange County California
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:41:44 -0700
Michael Perry wrote:
> If you are interested in finding some talent for this, why not offer
> something for it? A bunch of paper is not worth anything and I don't think
> you will find some shell scripters that will take this on for that promise.
You would think that a company that's planning on going public would at
least have enough money to pay its consultants. Sheesh.
DS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Windoze Dialup into my Linux box?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:59:15 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 May 2001 23:46:23 +0000 (UTC), Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. Where would I learn about how to configure my linux box to allow dialup
> access from a Windoze system? Would this involve SAMBA?
No, you need mgetty. It can be set up to either allow a direct shell
login, or auto ppp (where you just enter Linux username and password in
Win DUN with no script). Just beware of examples that show +pap pppd
option, you do not want to use +pap or require-pap since that asks the
other machine to authenticate itself. The auth and login pppd options
take care of the user login (with properly configured pap-secrets).
--
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: cicrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unresolved Symbol error configuring PCTel modem
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:14:22 -0300
Hi Dean,
I have checked some things, and I think that the error
should be on the PCTel driver AND some bug on the
2.2.17 kernel too. That are the tried combinations and
the result:
Kernel Driver Result
2.2.14 old ok
2.2.14 new fail
2.2.17 old fail
2.2.17 new fail
The shows that main symbol are missing. If they really
was missing on the libraries, nothing on Linux was
working.
There are another thing: the error only occour when I
change the value of HAL on Makefiles to HAL_VIA686A
(that are my motherboard). Problably the error are a
missing 'include <linux/kernel.h>' on the file
via686ahal.a, but I don't access to the source code.
[]'s Felipe
Dean Thompson wrote:
>
> Hi!,
>
> > I'm trying to configure my PCTel modem on Mandrake 7.2
> > and I'm having
> > too much trouble with that. It worked
> > before on a Conectiva Linux 5.0 (2.2.14 kernel I
> > guess). I've followed
(...)
--
Felipe Machado Cardoso
Lotus Notes & Linux consult
Gaia Informatica: http://www.gaia.inf.br
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Subject: xdm not gdm in RH7.0
From: Steve Connet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 02:27:09 GMT
I have my run level set to 5 so that when my RH7.0 machines boots up,
it boots into X. However, by default, it always run gdm (gnome display
manager?) I want it to run xdm by default, because I log onto my
machine using Exceed from my W2K machine.
I've stared at the startup scripts many times and can't seem to figure
out how to get it to run xdm, not gdm on start. I've particularly
stared at /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but am
not sure if those are the files I need to be tweaking.
In run level 5, how do I get xdm to come up instead of gdm?
--
Steve Connet Remove USENET to reply via email
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From: "Bill Marcum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: HELP! Kamakazi Shell Script Whacks System To Death! /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
function
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 22:53:49 -0500
Brian Wildasinn wrote in message <9dd76f$4ee$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I hazard to guess that the system bootup scripts are failing due to a
>non-fscked, >>> non-mounted /proc read-only filesystem <<<. dup2 errors
/proc is not a physical filesystem, it does not need to be fscked.
Running
>top and df fails as well since these programs depend on pulling information
>from the /proc directory, stating "Error: /proc must be mounted To
>mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like: /proc /proc proc
>defaults In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
>
Try adding the recommended line to /etc/fstab, if it isn't already there.
If the above fails, perhaps you could change the
action "Mounting /proc filesystem" mount yada yada
to a naked "mount" command.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (3FE)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Writing a little script (help with sed)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:08:52 GMT
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:51:27 -0500, Mojo Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insisted:
>
> Michael Pye wrote:
>
> > OK, I have a problem with a machine which likes to remember the year as 1994
> > when I turn it on. I am looking for a way to automate the change from 94 to
> > 2001.
> >
> > So far I have a script looking a bit like this:
> >
> > date > /tmp/olddate
> > sed s/"1994"/"2001"/ /tmp/olddate > /tmp/today
> >
> > now, that works fine, but how can I get it back into the date command?
> >
> > I have tried
> >
> > date -s < /tmp/today
> >
> > and
> >
> > sed s/"1994"/"2001"/ /tmp/olddate | date -s (instead of the above one)
> >
> > but neither work. Date just complains about a lack of arguments. How can I
>
> /bin/sh
> date | sed s/"1994"/"2001"/ | read new_date
> date -s="$new_date"
> EOF
>
> will work. There must be a better way of getting the machine to not lose time
> though, I have a similar problem except that my time is off by about 8 hours,
> so everytime I reboot I have to reset the clock. Does anybody now the
> "correct" way to solve this problem? Thanks
Define "correct". Your battery's dead, or you've a BIOS that's
problemmatic post y2k. That's going to be a problem to fix with
software.
My favourite way of dealing with Linux time is:
hwclock --set --date="Sat ... UTC 2001" --utc
hwclock --hctosys --utc
You'll have to set some GMT/UTC-ish variable somewhere for it to work
at boot up. "egrep 'GMT|UTC' /etc/init.d/*" # or /etc/rc.d/init.d?
With a broken bios and/or dead battery, I don't know how useful this
will be.
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
TopQuark Software & Serv. Contract programmer, server bum.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Give up Spammers; I use procmail.
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