Linux-Setup Digest #221, Volume #21 Mon, 14 May 01 09:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: printtool ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
Re: How to shut-off on a shut-down? (Jimbob)
Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install (Tim Haynes)
Mouse / ttyS0 does not work after installation (Joerg Velten)
rpm memory alloc error - Help! (Ron Le Blanc)
Re: RedHat7.1 & Win2k dual boot problem ("Eric")
Re: Space Problems ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help, need Plugin for Netscape for Linux! (Chris Ahlstrom)
Re: RedHat7.1 & Win2k dual boot problem ("Eric")
Re: SQUID and ASP? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: How to shut-off on a shut-down? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: mounting floppy drive (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
tri boot linux,win95,& NON-MS dos <DrDos> [how????] ("Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III")
Re: Cannot FTP with root to Redhat 7.1. (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
qmail setup woes... ("none")
Re: mounting floppy drive ("Peet Grobler")
hard drive installation or upgrade (KCmaniac)
Newbie Question. Where is inetd.conf in Red Hat 7.1? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7.1 over RH7.0 ("none")
RCN cable modem and dhcp ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Compile GCC 2.95.3 in RedHat 7.0 failed ("Eric Chow")
why cant i mount? ("Dee-Jon Bryce")
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From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: printtool
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:05:31 +0200
"Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_5UK6.813$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello,
> whenever we make a change to the printer setup in the gui printtool the
> changes are not taking effect. when we go back in everything changes back
to
> what it was.
Make sure you restart lpd
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From: Jimbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to shut-off on a shut-down?
Date: 14 May 2001 19:59:01 +1100
Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm sure it is possible, I've done it before but I've lost my notes on
> the subject: I just installed Suse 6.1 (yes six-dot-one, the old one) on
> a labtob (laptop?) and I cannot find how or where to power down the
> machine automatically on a shutdown. I know it is something in the
> init.d or rc.d directories but I cannot find what or where to configure.
> How can I (automatically) power-down my machine on a shutdown?
Enable APM (Advanced Power Management) in the kernel and then in lilo.conf
(I only know how to do it if you are using lilo) add the line...
append="apm-power-off"
> I don't think it is part of the issue but if it is, my machine is a
> Toshiba Satalite Pro 440.
> Thanks
> CB
> --
> Everything should be as simple as possible but not simpler - A. Einstein
> Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install
Date: 14 May 2001 11:13:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Anthony DeRobertis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Norm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > but I feel it should be
> > possible to create a fully updated system in some sort of systematic
> > manner.
>
> ncftp updates.redhat.com
> ... get update for your distro ...
>
> rpm -Fhv *.rpm
Network required, and a good one at that. Here on ADSL at 40-70K/s it took
me 2.5hrs on Friday afternoon to do this. (And not from updates.redhat.com,
either, but from our colo on a jolly nice link.)
Oh, and you'll totally trample on your kernel if you do this. And RPM
itself won't thank you.
> There is no reason to do them in the order released, or one at a time.
> Let RPM work out the dependencies!
Er. I think if you read the above you'd see that's where he'd gone wrong.
If you really get stuck with these packages, and, worse still, with broken
packages where symbols get redefined in different directions, then you can
always grab the source-RPMs and compile them from there.
~Tim
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Bagpuss gave a big yawn, | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and settled down to sleep. | http://piglet.is.dreaming.org
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From: Joerg Velten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse / ttyS0 does not work after installation
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:24:58 +0200
Hi!
I have a problem concerning my serial mouse. After Installation
of RH 7.1, it doesn't work any more, neitehr under X nor with gpm.
>setserial /dev/ttyS0
leads to the following output:
LSR safety check engaged!
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
and
>cat /dev/ttyS0
results in
LSR safety check engaged!
cat: /dev/ttyS0: Input-/Outputerror
During the installation via ftp in text mode,
the mouse worked during X configuration test.
Who can help me?
Thanks
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From: Ron Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpm memory alloc error - Help!
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:51:14 GMT
When trying to install various rpm files I keep getting the
following error message:
[root@localhost download]# rpm -ivh acroread-4.05-6.i386.rpm
Preparing... memory alloc (3368454250 bytes) returned NULL.
The above error when trying the install Adobe's acroread program.
It is not the only package that this happens to. Does anyone have
a solution to fix this problem?
Oh, I'm running Redhat 7.1, on a Pentium III @ 733 MHZ, with
128 Mbytes of memory.
Thanks!
--
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux User #55717
"A very happy Linux advocate!"
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat7.1 & Win2k dual boot problem
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:15:36 +0200
> > win98 on C: and win2000 on D: on the same hard drive.
<snip>
> map-drive=0x80
> to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81
> to=0x80
> table=/dev/hdb
>
> Note the "map-drive" and "to" parameters. This "fakes" the system
> into letting Windows think it's booting off the primary drive.
> Hope this helps.
Unfortunately it wont.
This is useable for two physical drives. Not two partitions on one drive.
Eric
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Space Problems
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:08:00 +0200
Karthikesh Raju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i created a seperate partition for my /var, found that (when i was
> trying to install Helix Gnome) the /var became full. It seems for the
> moment to be running fine...
and your problem is ... ?
Peter
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help, need Plugin for Netscape for Linux!
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:24:31 GMT
Lamar Thomas wrote:
>
> I am running RH Linux 7.1 and Netscape 4.76. I find that I can not view
>
> video clips (i.e. on ESPN's website). When I click on the video clips I
>
> am told that I need to download a plugin. However, when it takes me to
> Netscapes' website there is no plugin for Linux.
>
> 1. Anyone know where I can get video plugins for Linux?
> 2. What about Apple Quick Time for Linux?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Lamar
Search for "Plugger", that'll get you started.
Chris
--
Free the Software!
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat7.1 & Win2k dual boot problem
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:28:04 +0200
> win98 on C: and win2000 on D: on the same hard drive.
Hmm.
NT installed the NT loader in C: I suppose
> RedHat on what used to be C: and win2000 still on D:
And now that would be gone gone.
> When i installed linux i simply deleted the C: partition and made new ones
> for linux, but first (!!!) i made a boot disk for win2000 by formatting a
> floppy from win2000 and copying these files:
> boot.ini
> bootsect.dos
> ntdetect.com
> ntldr
That last one is probably why you still can boot from floppy.
I don't know NT that well, but what you need to do,
is install the NT loader on the D: partition.
How to do this is another thing. I don't know that.
I can't even find how to make bootdisk in NT :-)
Eric
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SQUID and ASP?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:34:09 +0200
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Nils Holland wrote:
> Anyway, according to my understanding it's clearly the fault of a website
> programmer if his script crashes when encountering some specific browsers.
> As I said, I contacted the webmaster of that site because some of the users
> in the network I manage regularely access pages on that site. I hope that
> they'll fix it, otherwise there's nothing I can do about it...
I would no be much surprised, if it is a standard .asp-function that
does a hey-that's-not-a-Windows-browser-now-we-won't-work... But a
clever programmer can find a way around...
Rasmus
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-- [ Rasmus 'M�ffe' B�g Hansen ] --------------------------------------
I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think
otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is
that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt
feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider
to be a better system.
- Linus Torvalds
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to shut-off on a shut-down?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:13:23 +0200
Jimbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Enable APM (Advanced Power Management) in the kernel and then in lilo.conf
Try "modprobe apm". (for this to work, ACPI must NOT be compiled in
the kernel, or you have to be lucky and have it compiled but not
working - acpi=off is not enough to disable it).
> append="apm-power-off"
>> I don't think it is part of the issue but if it is, my machine is a
>> Toshiba Satalite Pro 440.
Peter
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting floppy drive
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:38:29 +0200
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Me wrote:
> The floppy device is owned by root with group floppy and permissions
> brw-rw----. In fstab, the entry for the device is as follows:
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt auto noauto,users 0 0
^
Shouldn't that just be 'user'?
Rasmus
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From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tri boot linux,win95,& NON-MS dos <DrDos> [how????]
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 07:35:39 -0400
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, I've been using loadlin from DrDos for a while. It worked so well with
a batch file to run loadlin that I never bothered putting lilo on the hard
drive. I just had reason to need to run a win95 educational package for a
course I'm taking, <and so I sacrificed my DrDos installation in favor of
winblows95. From which Loadlin works just fine, And with an menu option to
run it during autoexec.bat execution, I don't have to wait for the full
gui to load before I switch to linux.
But I'd like to be able to Choose to use my preferred Dos as well. It's
still the bootable os on the D: drive but my pentium 1's bios only supports
booting from A: C: and cdrom... And I'm not willing to switch cables to do
it... I suppose I can always fall back on a floppy boot for the DrDos that
sets the path to include D:\drdos, But I was thinking that if lilo can
load DrDos from the drive it's on... Well that would be reason to learn to
use it.
Would one of the lilo experts here be willing to walk me through a SAFE
lilo install and set up to boot three os from 3 Hardrives???
-^- -^-
<?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
^
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot FTP with root to Redhat 7.1.
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:42:04 +0200
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Huy Vu wrote:
> Usually, I've just had to vi /etc/shells and /etc/ftpusers to allow root to
> do ftp into my linux's PC. I've just did that with Redhat 7.0.
Use scp / sftp instead...
Rasmus
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From: "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: qmail setup woes...
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 05:23:33 +0700
I have read all the mans, faqs, life with qmail. and then some..
I cannot send or recieve mail. So far I am stuck at number 5 in the
TEST.deliver section. I watch dumps on my machine and it shows attempts
to connect to yahoo.com (the site the user was located at). I think it
may be a problem with the control files.. But that it just a guess... Any
help?
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting floppy drive
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:21:32 +0200
>
>Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote in message ...
>On Sun, 13 May 2001, Me wrote:
>
>> The floppy device is owned by root with group floppy and permissions
>> brw-rw----. In fstab, the entry for the device is as follows:
>>>
>> /dev/fd0 /mnt auto noauto,users 0 0
> ^
>
>Shouldn't that just be 'user'?
>
>Rasmus
The noauto causes the system not to mount the device /dev/fd0 when mount -a
is run. Which effectively means this device is not mounted at boot time.
(Who says you have a floppy in your drive when you boot?
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From: KCmaniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hard drive installation or upgrade
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:28:01 -0400
Has anyone out there ever successfully installed or upgraded their
RedHat system from a hard drive?
I have followed all instructions in accordance with the RedHat site
explaining how to do this but the install program crashes.
I have downloaded all the packages out of the RPMS directory using
several different FTP sites. I downloaded all the files from the base
directory and copied the boot.img file to a disk. It seems as soon as
the installer gets to a point to where it is going to use these files on
the hard drive, it crashes. It appears it is having a problem with one
or more of these files.
I should also include that there is one particular file out of the base
directory that I continually have had a problem with downloading from
every FTP site I have tried. The file is called stage2.img. It never
seems to ever successfully download for me. It apparently is a huge
file (some 87 MB). Has anyone ever successfully downloaded this file?
Does anyone know what it is?
Thanks for any help, advise or feedback.
RLH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie Question. Where is inetd.conf in Red Hat 7.1?
Date: 10 May 2001 22:04:18 GMT
I have just installed Red Hat 7.1 to build a proxy server and I cannot locate
inetd.conf in /etc. This may be a dumb question but doesn't Red Hat supply a
default
inetd.conf somewhere? I have tried with the firewall and without. I am doing
a
custom installation and maybe I am missing where to check a box.
Thanks for your help.
Greg Donovan
Jeffco Schools
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From: "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.1 over RH7.0
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 05:43:17 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steve Connet"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I currently have RH7.0 installed on a computer in my closet which is
> hooked to my cable modem. I use Windows2K and Exceed to log on to my
> Linux box to do X stuff. And I SSH into it from work to check my email.
> I'm currently using ipchains for a firewall.
RH7.1 ships with a patched 2.4.2 kernel - which (with modules) can run
ipchains firewall scripts with the new iptables.
>
> I just downloaded the 7.1 ISO and burned it to CD. To install it I'll
> have to hook up a monitor to the linux box in the closet.
>
> Was wondering do I first remove 7.0? Should I reparition the HD? Or is
> it easiest to simply install 7.1 on top of 7.0? And if I do it that way,
> are there pitfalls with other apps that I'll need to upgrade or
> recompile?
Pitfalls.. Not really. If you install fresh make sure you have a bootdisk
as 7.1 has an annoying error requireing you to edit lilo.conf after install to
replace linear with lba32 (if you are booting beyond the 8gb limit).
I reccomend backup and fresh install otherwise. Nothing like a nice new
clean system. (helpful if you are messy - program devel for example)
>
> In my experience this is usually an all day, if not all weekend process.
> I know I have to convert my ipchains scripts to iptables. So that'll
> take some time figuring out how to do.
See above. But the scripts are really similar. Example.
(open an http client hole)
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 --protocol tcp ! --syn -s any/0 \
--sport 80 -d my_ip_here --dport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 --protocol tcp -s my_ip_here \
--sport 1024:65535 -d any/0 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Look simple/familiar?
>
> Thanks for any advice you may have.
>
Actually It took about an hour to install, and couple more to configue (I
am very picky) for me. So Unless you are pickier than I or did not adequately
backup anything specific - two hours tops.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: RCN cable modem and dhcp
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:47:43 GMT
I am trying to get Redhat 7.1 to speak dhcp to my RCN cable modem.
Here in Manhattan we have two cable providers, most of the city uses
RoadRunner which I had before and have had working. Downtown in
certain buildings you must use RCN. They use the same RCA modem and
appears to be the same deal. There is no required assigned hostname
or login from RCN either. I have some windows machines and a hardware
router device working on this cable system in another building, but
have not actually seen a linux dhcp connection on this cable system
(of course RCN will not support linux).
A 486 with a 3Com 3c509xx and I've used it before for internal
networking with older linux's. Blew it away and did a brand new
install of Redhat 7.1 VIA FTP (ftp.valinux.com) USING THIS MODEM.
Should work right? So why won't the darned dhcp work now?
These modems bind to the mac address, and I have switched it around to
a few machines successfully (only takes about a 30 second power cycle
to switch between nics) so I'm confident the mac is taking. eth0 is
configured correctly:
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
It has the newest (I assume) pump and dhcpcd. When I try manually
even to run ifup eth0 it says something like finding address1 then
finding address 0. Maybe a couple of times and after one minute
operation failed. All the time I'm watching the lights on the modem.
Has anyone seen linux working on this RCN system? Is there a way to
see the output of the negotiation during the dhcp chat? The output in
/var/log/messages is not much more informative.
Matthew
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From: "Eric Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compile GCC 2.95.3 in RedHat 7.0 failed
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:54:46 +0800
Hello,
Would you please to tell me where I can download the GCC 2.95.2 binaries
version for Linux ?
Since I found that the GCC 2.95.2 within the RedHat 7.0 Linux is different
from the GNU released.
I tried to compile the GCC 2.95.3 (download from www.gnu.org) in RedHat 7.0,
but failed. Is there any body compiling the GCC 2.95.3 in RedHat, please
teach me how to compile it ?
best regards,
Eric
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From: "Dee-Jon Bryce" <__foobar__>
Subject: why cant i mount?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:01:09 +1000
hi, i'm trying to mount my floppy drive and cdrom, but it says
must be superuser to mount
even though in the fstab file, i have 'user' as an option to both the floppy
and cdrom
?
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