Linux-Setup Digest #206, Volume #21 Fri, 11 May 01 03:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mail and news client (cathy gramze)
Re: Connect script timed out (Michael Meissner)
Re: SSL configuration for pop3 and imap v/s SSH on client (Remo Mattei)
Re: SSL configuration for pop3 and imap v/s SSH on client ("Robert Buecker")
Re: Checking for new hardware? (J Hayward)
Can anyone help with interrupts (aervir)
X problems ("MooseBoy")
error of gettext in glibc2.2 (Tsoi Kuen Hung)
Re: harddisk wierdness ... failed to respond for 5 minutes (Eric)
Re: no xdm/kdm after upgrade to 4.0.2? (James Richard Tyrer)
General questions ("Peet Grobler")
NYC RR cable modem in Linux problem ("Andrew Hon")
Re: Failover with 2 NIC's ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Custom kernel build fails on RedHat 7.1 ("Matthias Haase")
Re: PCI modem 3COM/USR 2977 ("arthur")
Re: network woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Failover with 2 NIC's ? (H.Bruijn)
Re: partition type 0x54 (Linux SuSE 7.1) ("Eric")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cathy gramze)
Subject: Re: Mail and news client
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:15:54 GMT
In article <9deqao$e9a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"John Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I thought Pine stood for Pine Is Not Elm :)
>
> --
> John Pfaff - KA3RVE
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Registered with the Linux Counter.
> http://counter.li.org
> ID # 39256
>
> "Simon Lemieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > Pine will read news as well. Just set it up in configuration...
>>
>> Indeed, from the man page on pine " pine - a Program for Internet News and
>> Email"
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Simon
>>
>> --
>> +--------------------------------+---------------------------+
>> | Simon Lemieux | http://666Mhz.myip.org/ |
>> | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Povray and OpenGL Gallery |
>> +--------------------------------+---------------------------+
>
>
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Subject: Re: Connect script timed out
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 May 2001 23:28:35 -0400
Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
Umm, the message 'diald: Connect script timed out' means that the script diald
uses to connect to the internet doesn't give the correct response (maybe the
modem in the wrong mode, or the remote system's logon prompt is different than
what was configured, or the wrong tty device is being used). What you need to
do is enable the diald debug option, and then trace the messages in your syslog
file.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Remo Mattei <[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: Re: SSL configuration for pop3 and imap v/s SSH on client
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:32:54 GMT
Sunil Shukla wrote:
> 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.
Courier-IMAP will work for you.
Great program.
REMO
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From: "Robert Buecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,at.linux,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.list,alt.comp.linux.isp
Subject: Re: SSL configuration for pop3 and imap v/s SSH on client
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:43:04 -1000
Look for sslwrap.
"Remo Mattei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sunil Shukla wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Courier-IMAP will work for you.
>
> Great program.
>
> REMO
>
>
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Checking for new hardware?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:45:14 -0700
Hello,
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.
>
/sbin/chkconfig kudzu off
or
/usr/sbin/ntsysv and unselect kudzu
You must be root to make these changes. If you are logged in as root you
don't need the full path. If you just "su" you will need the full path.
Regards,
Jim H
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From: aervir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can anyone help with interrupts
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 02:53:02 +0000
My video and sound card are sharing interrupt 11. Is there any thing i can do to make
both of these cards work correctly.
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From: "MooseBoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X problems
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:53:08 GMT
I just got the latest version of Ximian (Helix Gnome) X and now I can't get
my xdmcp X windows sessions working. Does anybody know how to turn on X for
remote connections like I was able to do by editing the
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file?
Thanks
MooseBoy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tsoi Kuen Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: error of gettext in glibc2.2
Date: 11 May 2001 03:58:02 GMT
Hi,
I have newly installed a Debian on x86 and
want to upgrade the library to glibc-2.2.
I can config and compile it without error but
the 'make check' failed. The error is:
msgfmt: ../iconv/skeleton.c:304: gconv: Assertion 'outbutstart == ((void *)0)' failed.
tst-gettext.sh: line 55: 23215 Aborted msgfmt -o
{$objpfx}domaindir/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/existing-domain.mo ../po/de.po
I have donwloaded and installed the gettext-0.10.37 but still failed.
Does it has anything related to the i18l setting? Thanks in advance!
---- Brittle
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: harddisk wierdness ... failed to respond for 5 minutes
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 04:47:10 GMT
Backup everything you can if you have reported messages then you have
already lost some data. Unless your using the Error correction raid
mode. You can try to fix the drive by writing 0's or low-level
formatting it and then checking for bad blocks but it's been my
experience even if this works and it recharges the bad blocks they
just eventually come back in other places. If I were you I would
replace the drive.
If you understand the theory of half-life you'll understand why this
is.
On 9 May 2001 18:30:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Professor Bruno)
wrote:
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>Today I encountered something out of my realm in the /var/log/messages file.
>At first, I thought that our server was hacked and we were
>experiencing a denial of service attack. However, once the server
>started responding and having done a few checks of our trips it
>didn't appear to be the case.
>
>Then looking at the /var/log/messages file I saw some things
>which I've never seen. Any guidance with respect to this
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Details: RH6.2 Linux with latest patches, 2 20GB IDE HD's, 512 MB RAM,
>2 P3-800 CPUs, running primarily as a web server w/ 1.5 mill hits per month;
>also running sendmail, MySQL, PostgreSQL, et cetera.
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>Max Pyziur
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>###########################################
>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
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>May 9 13:49:29 brama kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:49:59 brama kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
>May 9 13:49:59 brama kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
>May 9 13:56:18 brama kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:56:18 brama kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
>May 9 13:56:18 brama kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>May 9 13:56:19 brama telnetd[12728]: ttloop: peer died: EOF
>May 9 13:56:19 brama inetd[459]: pid 12728: exit status 1
>May 9 13:56:19 brama kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:56:19 brama kernel:
>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
>May 9 13:56:20 brama kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>May 9 13:56:20 brama kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:56:20 brama kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>May 9 13:56:20 brama kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
>May 9 13:56:20 brama kernel: ide0: reset: success
>
>
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no xdm/kdm after upgrade to 4.0.2?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 04:52:34 GMT
Gregory Davis wrote:
> I was bored and curious, so I finally upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2 and then
> did the 4.0.3 upgrade. I had a fun time getting my X server configured by
> hand using info in the 3.3.6 config file, but I have a strange problem.
> XDM (which on my machine is an init script that calls KDM) will not load on
> boot like it is supposed to. I had KDM working fine under XFree 3.3.6 and
> I can get into 4.0.3 by calling startx. With this I don't even get an
> error message, KDM just won't load. What happened to KDM?
Did you upgrade with the tarbals from XFree86.org.
If so, did you save the "/etc/X11" directory like it said to.
If so, just restore the directory: "/etc/X11/xdm"
If you installed a binary, or possibly any how, Init needs to call KDM.
It is the file: "/etc/inittab" that configures this. The last line should
refer either to KDM or a script:
x:5:once:/usr/bin/kdm
x:5:once:/etc/X11/Xstart
If it refers to a script and you didn't write it. Check there. Or, change it
to refer to KDM and see if it works.
KDM calls two scripts:
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
The first as root needs to bring up the login.
The second as user needs to start KDE.
JRT
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: General questions
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 07:49:21 +0200
This is questions that's been bothering me. Please comment if you can.
1) I've found a modem in a box. I can determine whether it's a winmodem by
issuing "AT" from minicom, and checking for the "OK" response. Great. How do
I go about to find out the speed of the modem? 14K? 28K? 56K?
2) Swap space. Is it better having 1x 64MB swap partition or 2x 32MB
partitions? If the machine has 32MB memory? (This might be a rethorical
question, but give me comments anyway)
3) How do I shield a box from giving off RF signals? My box interferes with
the TV quite badly, I've got it grounded beyond belief (cables running from
chassis to ps to ground wire), but this didn't improve it much.
Your advice will be valued,
Peet Grobler.
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From: "Andrew Hon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: NYC RR cable modem in Linux problem
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 05:45:03 GMT
I have the NYC Road Runner Cable modem service running in my Win98 box,
but I like to setup the service over on my Linux box. However, I just
couldn't get it to work. I followed exactly what
"http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Cable-Modem/index.html"; suggested,
but I just couldn't get it to work.
Can anyone who is using Time Warner NYC cable modem service give me some
hint on configureing my Linux box?
After modifying /sbin/ifup script as the HOW-TO mention, I saw the system
couldn't bring up eth0 and eth1 interface. When I tried to issue the
command "/sbin/ifup eth1", it instantly tells "failed".
If anyone can help, please send me information to my
email: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Thanks in advance
andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Failover with 2 NIC's ?
Date: 11 May 2001 06:08:03 GMT
Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the primary nic dies, the other nic takes over (takes the other nics IP
> and/or mac address)?
The Mac address is hard-wired inside the Nic, so it's quite difficult
to have it moved from one NIC to the other... beside this, you can
have one NIC inside the machine but not activated (no IP address
configured), then design a 'watchdog' program that monitor the
status of the first nic and (in case) fire-up the second one...
but in my experience I've never saw a nic failing without the
entire pc destroyed by accident...
Davide
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From: "Matthias Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Custom kernel build fails on RedHat 7.1
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:14:23 +0200
Hi AngryBob...
> 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.
It's kernel 2.4.2.
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text.init+0x3727): undefined reference to
`noautodma'.
I think - this code should fix the hardware-bug in vt8363 chips, but the
source is broken with an simple small error inside.
I will remove the reference to noautodma at this time, because our box is pure
SCSI and in result this isn't used, have send a bug-report yet, you can
see this on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40123
--
regards
Matthias
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From: "arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: PCI modem 3COM/USR 2977
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:16:49 -0700
I had some IRQ sharing problems with the 2977. It won't work with
a USB on my machine so I switched PCI slots with my sound card.
Don't try to use the auto configure options with setserial. Here is
what I ended up with in my /etc/rc.serial file:
setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 3 port 0xa000 uart 16550A
setserial -b /dev/ttyS3
Change yours to match your port and irq.
Arthur ( remove .remove)
==============================================
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mark Slagell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: network woes
Date: 11 May 2001 06:24:21 GMT
Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Check the configuration of the interface (ifconfig, route). Try to
pull up the interface manually (using ifconfig). If nothing work and
you have it, try the diagnostic program of the network card itself.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Failover with 2 NIC's ?
Date: 11 May 2001 06:30:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11 May 2001 06:08:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] allegedly wrote:
>Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> the primary nic dies, the other nic takes over (takes the other nics IP
>> and/or mac address)?
>
>The Mac address is hard-wired inside the Nic, so it's quite difficult
>to have it moved from one NIC to the other... beside this, you can
>have one NIC inside the machine but not activated (no IP address
>configured), then design a 'watchdog' program that monitor the
>status of the first nic and (in case) fire-up the second one...
>but in my experience I've never saw a nic failing without the
>entire pc destroyed by accident...
On a large number of NIC you can set a MAC-address manually to override
the build-in one. This is quite usefull for those have two or more NIC's
with (by cheap design, or a flaw in the production process) identical
mac-adresses in the same subnet, or if you have fi a cable modem where
part of the login authorisation comes from matching MAC adresses to a
database of known customers.
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition type 0x54 (Linux SuSE 7.1)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:42:10 +0200
> The problem that drives me nuts is the following,
> I installed Linux Suse 7.1 on a third HDD in my system, set as Master
> on controller 2 ( /dev/hdc) The problem is that this HDD was once
> used under WinXX and at that time I had to use a IBM Disk manger,
> because I could not use more then 8 Gig.
>
> I was able to install a couple of Linux distributions ( for testing)
> on it, and used mostly a floppy to start.
>
> Now I would like to keep it for SuSE.7.1, but I have a very hard
> time getting Grub or XOSL ( which boots fine a caldera version :-))
> to boot that partition, every time I installed I used the option
> to let the install routine format the disk, but some thing is still
> not working.
>
> Even LILO will not boot it, when I create a boot disk I get the error
> that the swap!! partition is unreachable....
>
> When I wanted to use XSOL, it did not boot that partition, instead it
> told me that this problem could be caused by a virus..... I am not
> sure since I use this HDD a long time for experiments with Linux..
>
> The other problem is that my other Linux installation was screwed too
> and I have need access to it from a working Linux from my third HDD
> drive.
show the partition table(s).
I cannot help until I can see what is wrong.
`/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]`
(If your linux's won't boot: use a linux rescue system)
Eric
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