Linux-Setup Digest #227, Volume #21 Tue, 15 May 01 03:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install ("Anthony DeRobertis")
Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install ("Anthony DeRobertis")
Re: Using fetchmail/procmail with Outlook Express (H.Bruijn)
Plesk and a second HD ("Harison Phinizy")
Re: ident daemon (David Efflandt)
Re: newbie help: Backpack CD-RW support + other hardware problems (David Efflandt)
Re: SUSE (David Efflandt)
Re: X stratup failure (David Efflandt)
Does anybody have Tripwire working on RH 7.1? ("Kamil E")
Open Source Desktop Application Setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem mounting vfat partition (charles anderson)
Datachute-PCI Slimscsi 1480 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes ("Benoit Cosandey")
Re: tri boot linux,win95,& NON-MS dos <DrDos> [how????] ("Eric")
Re: changing resolution with XFree.4... (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Patte)
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From: "Anthony DeRobertis" <[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: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:10:49 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tim Haynes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.)
*shrug* Guess I'm spoiled from doing it over T1. Not so painful at
300+K/sec.
>
> Oh, and you'll totally trample on your kernel if you do this.
Yes, you'll have to do a mkinitrd, lilo, and whatnot. I guess I forgot
this since I don't use RPM to mange my kernels.
> And RPM
> itself won't thank you.
I've never had problems of that sort, even going from RPM 3->4.
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From: "Anthony DeRobertis" <[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: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:11:57 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tim Haynes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is this flamebait?
Because it won't run on the OP's system?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Using fetchmail/procmail with Outlook Express
Date: 15 May 2001 03:14:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 15 May 2001 02:08:35 GMT, Mark Johnson allegedly wrote:
> My wife's company (15 people in all) asked me if I would try to help them
> to build a local email server (only because I have been toying around with
> linux). I told them that I would try to do some research on what is
> feasible but I'm very much a newbie.
If you are more confortable using MS products you could use Exchange...
> What they want:
>
> * to send email localy without having
> to have the email addressed to another
> employee go out to the ISP and back in.
>
> (procmail?)
Not procmail; the linux machine will need to run a MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
commonly used are sendmail, postfix and qmail. The MTA takes an incoming
message and delivers it to the correct destination. That destination can
either be the mail-server of your internet provider, which then delivers
the message to it's final destination, or a local mailbox.
> * transparently retrieve email from the
> local email server and the ISP email server
> using Outlook Express.
>
> (fetchmail?)
>
> My research has shown the I would need to install procmail and fetchmail on
> the linux box to get this to work. Do I understand this correctly?
Yes. fetchmail would be used to "fetch email" from the server at your
ISP and deliver it to the local linux machine. Procmail is generally
used as a mailfilter, so not directly needed.
Once the mail is delivered to the local mailbox on the linux machine,
you'll need to configure OE to get the mail from there to the users
machine. This requiers that the linux machine either runs a POP3 daemon,
or an IMAP server.
> If so, it seems that fetchmail requires the user's password written to the
> .fetchmailrc or the .netrc files.
Yes indeed,
> * How do I configure fetchmail with these passwords
> without strickly asking for them from the users.
> Unfortunately, I can't expect the users to login
> into the linux machine and configure fetmailconf
> even with my guidance. This whole cut over needs
> to be fairly transparent.
You can't really, but why can't your users simply have a local account
on the intranet, for localmail, and a second account from your ISP?
Surely OE can handle two accounts...
> * How does the "out of office" type of auto-reponder get
> configured for the OE clients. I have read the procmail
> provides auto-responding and forwarding, but again this
> type of thing needs to be configured with minimal user
> intervention if at all possible. Is it at all possible?
The vacation program may be what you need.
--
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: "Harison Phinizy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plesk and a second HD
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 03:18:50 GMT
I added a 20 GB hard drive to a RH 7.0 box running Plesk. I mounted the
drive and everything seems ok in command line but plesk does not see the
drive... Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Harison Phinizy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: ident daemon
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 03:26:53 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 May 2001 19:28:10 GMT, Professor Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ Article crossposted from linux.redhat ]
> [ Author was Professor Bruno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ]
> [ Posted on 14 May 2001 17:59:19 GMT ]
Apparently you do not know what crossposting is (comma separated list of
newsgroups), because you did not crosspost, you posted each separately.
> What's this service used for? Is it necessary to have running on a webserver?
The only thing identd is useful for is if you connect to IRC servers that
require it. Otherwise it is not really needed.
--
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: newbie help: Backpack CD-RW support + other hardware problems
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 03:50:49 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 May 2001 00:33:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm at the point now where I'm ready to switch to linux, but I have
> some concerns.
>
> Has anybody been able to get a MicroSolutions Backpack CD-RW to work
> on linux? I don't see it on any compatiblity list. I know you're not
> supposed to be able to get software driven hardware (which I think it
> may be) such as WinModems to work in Linux, but I know of people who
> have gotten WinModems to work so I'm hoping something similar can be
> done with my Backpack.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt says in part:
The document describes the support in Linux for parallel port IDE
devices. It does not cover parallel port SCSI devices, "ditto" tape
drives or scanners. Many different devices are supported by the
parallel port IDE subsystem, including:
MicroSolutions backpack CD-ROM
MicroSolutions backpack PD/CD
MicroSolutions backpack hard-drives
MicroSolutions backpack 8000t tape drive
> Also, I have no idea what some of my hardware is. Some of it is
> pretty old. Any tips in determining just what some of them are?
Older is generally better, because it means it is likely supported by
Linux. My main box is an old P100 box, which has gone through some CPU
upgrades (P180 MMX and now K6-2/400, not much faster), S3 Trio64 video
(not known for speed), SB 16 ISA sound, etc. It all works fine in Linux.
The install will probably identify most of your hardware. Or if you have
windows on it now, go through the System device list in Control Panel and
make a note of resources used for devices (port and irq).
--
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: SUSE
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 04:16:54 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 May 2001 16:41:44 -0400, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to update the Kernel on SuSe 7.1 and found out
> that SuSe
> doesn't provide makefiles or a .config file. I have done RH,
> and Mandrake
> patches, and not had the "No rule to make target" error
> which is the
> error I'm getting.
The makefiles come with the kernel sources and if the .config does not
exist, it will after you 'make config' (or menuconfig or xconfig). Are
you trying to compile one of the included kernels or a new kernel version.
If the former, did you install kernel source from the CD?
> I have the replacement Kernel and or a patch, that I want to
> upgrade to, is there any way to get this distro to use my kernel?
Certainly: Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.1 (i586) - Kernel 2.4.3 (3).
Check /etc/lilo.conf first to see if you might want to change anything to
be able to boot to your old or new kernel (in case your new one does not
work).
Same as most other distros:
cd /usr/src
rm linux
mkdir linux-<version>
ln -s linux-<version> linux
(untar kernel source)
cd linux
make mrproper
(edit Makefile to uncomment line that installs in /boot)
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean
make install
make modules
make modules_install
If it is a laptop do not chose any kernel pcmcia options unless it does
"everything" you need. Better to install pcmcia source rpm instead then
after booting with new kernel:
rpm -bi /usr/src/packages/SPECS/pcmcia.spec (or something similar)
I have only used kernel sound modules. Compiling Alsa modules would
require other sources besides alsa source rpm (gdk and gtk?).
--
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: X stratup failure
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 04:36:09 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Slawomir Tomaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I boot up my Red Hat 6.2 box and login as a regular user, the X will
> not start, displaying message:
>
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>
> This happens even if I am an only user logged in. root (and only root)
> can start X normally.
> When I upgraded to RH 6.2, initially the sustem worked properly, and
> suddenly failed without me having changed anything in its configuration!
> Can anybody help me with this?
Check permission and ownership of X related files in the user's home dir.
It sounds like you may have done an 'su' then startx as root, but with the
user's environment. You should use 'su -' instead if doing something as
root so you have root's env.
--
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: "Kamil E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Does anybody have Tripwire working on RH 7.1?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 04:38:25 GMT
I have been trying to use Tripwire 2.3.0.50 on RH 7.1
I have set everything up to a point where I can run the tripwire check and
view the reports locally, but the report is never sent out to the email
address specified for each rule in the policy file, even though the email
test works fine, and there are violations in the report that should trigger
the emails.
Second problem is the fact that I have specified GLOBALEMAIL parameter in
the configuration file, and reports are sent out, (like the one below) but
they are reporting no violations even though the email subject indicates 2
violations in the shorthand format, and there are indeed violations in the
original report files.
Does anybody have Tripwire with email reporting working in RH 7.1, who has
encountered similar problems?
Any suggestions?
Kamil
>Subject: TWReport web1 20010514135240 V:2 S:100 A:0 R:0 C:2
>
>
>
> Tripwire(R) 2.3.0 Integrity Check Report
>
> Report generated by: root
> Report created on: Mon 14 May 2001 01:52:40 PM PDT
> Database last updated on: Mon 14 May 2001 01:23:23 PM PDT
>
>
============================================================================
===
> Report Summary:
>
============================================================================
===
>
> Host name: web1
> Host IP address: 127.0.0.1
> Host ID: None
> Policy file used: /etc/tripwire/tw.pol
> Configuration file used: /etc/tripwire/tw.cfg
> Database file used: /var/lib/tripwire/web1.twd
> Command line used: tripwire --check --email-report
>
>
============================================================================
===
> Rule Summary:
>
============================================================================
===
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
=====
> Section: Unix File System
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
=====
>
> Rule Name Severity Level Added Removed
Modified
> --------- -------------- ----- ------- ----
----
>
> Total objects scanned: 35990
> Total violations found: 0
>
>
============================================================================
===
> Object Detail:
>
============================================================================
===
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
=====
> Section: Unix File System
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
=====
>
> No violations.
>
>
============================================================================
===
> Error Report:
>
============================================================================
===
>
> No Errors
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
=====
> *** End of report ***
>
> Tripwire 2.3 Portions copyright 2000 Tripwire, Inc. Tripwire is a
registered
> trademark of Tripwire, Inc. This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY;
> for details use --version. This is free software which may be
redistributed
> or modified only under certain conditions; see COPYING for details.
> All rights reserved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Open Source Desktop Application Setup
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 05:11:08 GMT
There is a lot of Open-Source products out there. Some are easy to
use, Some more difficult. Open Country http://www.opencountry.org
is trying to build a new delivery mechanism by simplfying installation
and launch of these applications. As one of our engineers said
recently: What I am trying to do now within the [open-source]
movement is:
1. Expand the range and depth of development. Opening the doors of
Open Source to even more participants.
2. Create incentive to inovate.
3. Promote Open Source OS's as desktop/office/handheld OS of choice.
4. Take the best that the Cathedral has to offer and install it into
the bazaar.
5. Give business the "warm fuzzy" that it needs to promote the use of
Open Source software in thier day to day work (ie the desktop in the
cubicle)
6. Move the ability to use Open Source software from the geek to the
meek, in other words make it simple enough for my mother to use.
7. Create an organization that is as resposive to the community of
users as possible.
Did we succeed?
Use the feedback forms at http://www.opencountry.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charles anderson)
Subject: Problem mounting vfat partition
Date: 14 May 2001 23:31:18 -0600
I have an IDE and a SCSI disk. I installed win98 on the IDE drive and
it booted and ran fine. Then I installed RedHat 7.0 on the SCSI drive
and, after lots of trial and error, was able to get Linux to boot, but
can no longer boot to win98. When booting win98, I get through LI of
LILO before it hangs. I can boot from a win98 floppy and see the
win98 contents of the IDE drive, though.
I'd like to try reinstalling win98 on the IDE drive (and then run lilo
again), but first I want to copy some data from the win98 drive to my
LInux SCSI drive. But, I cannot mount it. When I do
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
I get the message about bad type, bad options, bad superblock, or too
many fs mounted.
Can anyone suggest what I could try next or what I could do to figure
out what my problem is? Thanks.
Here is my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=win
#lba32
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x80
sectors = 63
heads = 255
cylinders = 3649
#image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-14smp
# label=linux
# initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.17-14smp.img
# read-only
# root=/dev/sda7
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-14
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.17-14.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda7
other=/dev/hda1
label=win
Chuck Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Datachute-PCI Slimscsi 1480
Date: 14 May 2001 21:50:22 -0700
I got linux to recongize my datachute-pci card adatper. When I insert my adaptec
Slimscsi card I get the following error.
initializing socket 0
unsupported card in socket 0
cs: no valid ROM images found!
That is weird because when I check the /etc/pcmcia/config file I see the device
listed
card "Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI Host Adapter"
manfid 0x012f, 0xcb01
bind "apa1480_cb"
There is a
apa1480_cb later on in the file
device "apa1480_cb"
class "scsi" module "cb_enabler", "apa1480_cb"
Is there a special .dat file that I need in
/etc/pcmcia/cis ?
At least linux did not reboot in a infinit boot loop like windows 2000
professional did. Folks said 2000 was stable, they are wrong. The first day I
installed it, I got a machine check, system info (without a network device)
locked up the machine.
info_man
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From: "Benoit Cosandey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:16:53 +0200
Hi,
take a lokk at /etc/dhcp/dhcp-eth0.info or something like that. That's where
dhcpcd stores the data it collected.
This will tell you if dhcpcd got all required data (it does for me). Just to
see if you get everything, or if the problem is already on the communication
side.
Ben
grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
hXjL6.6777$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> SuSE 7.0 (2.2.16)
>
>
> At home I run Linux connected to my ISP getting an IP from them via DHCP.
> Sometimes it works great and when I look in the resolv.conf there is my
DNS
> server, search and domain all gotten via DHCP (not in rc.config). However
> sometimes when I've booted I'll start X or something and go to browse and
I
> can't get anywhere. I can ping an IP address but no name resolution. When
I
> look in resolv.conf there is nothing but the domain that I put in
rc.config
> at install. Therefore the ISP info wasn't written for some reason. Any
> ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
>
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tri boot linux,win95,& NON-MS dos <DrDos> [how????]
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:53:21 +0200
> 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???
You can try, but I'm not sure you'll succeed. The BIOS must support booting
from a certain disc, for it to work at all.
To try this :
It depends on what OS is where.
But basically, you should use the map-drive=
command in lilo.conf
You must also take care where to put LILO.
Descriptions are in `man lilo` `man lilo.conf` and very extensive
information is in the User_Guide.ps (use `locate User_Guide.ps` to find it)
If you're unsure if you got everything right, set up a preliminary
lilo.conf,
(No, I'm not going to do all the work for you :-) )
and post it together with the output of `/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]` and
the ouput of `mount`. I'll check/correct what you made then, so at least you
won't destroy anything by running /sbin/lilo with an incorrect lilo.conf
But as I said, I can't give you a 100% guarantee that it'll work at all.
I suspect though, that if the second HDD is connected as hdb,
it will be bootable (If it is connected as hdc, the situation is different).
Eric
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Patte
Subject: Re: changing resolution with XFree.4...
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:52:00 +0200
Dave Uhring a �crit :
> Fran�ois Patte wrote:
>
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > I would like to know how to change the resolution of my screen, using
> > Ctrl Alt +/-, with XFree.4.0.3?
> > What are the lines to add to the file XF86Config-4?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -- Fran�ois Patte. UFR de math�matiques et informatique.
> >
> >
> >
>
> You probably can do it with this:
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x640" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
Yes, it works, thank you. But with lowest resolutions than the first one,
the desk is too big for the screen, is there a way to change the
resolution and the geometry of the screen without changing the settings on
the monitor?
Thanks again.
-- Fran�ois Patte. UFR de math�matiques et informatique.
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