Linux-Setup Digest #246, Volume #21 Thu, 17 May 01 06:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Disk Druid -- What does "No Free Primary" mean? ("Eric")
X Screen Adjustment (Kevin Reeder)
Re: syslogd / maillog problem (Michael Heiming)
Re: change LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Glenn Hutchings)
Re: Newbie question on X-windows in Mandrake 8.0 (Mike)
Re: OPENSSH sftp HELP PLEaSE!!! (Juan Meneses)
when linux is booted before the windows 2000 server in the LAN......! ("v.naga
srinivas")
Re: Raid A0 patch with Kernel 2.2.17 and ReiserFS ("peter.katzmann")
Re: Strange X-crash (Nils Holland)
Re: LILO no boot .. says "LIL-" then just hangs there ("Bernadette and Warren
McRobie")
Re: HP DDS-2 DAT + Autoloader ("JP")
Re: Redhat 7.1: How to change device for swap? (Alexander Martinez)
Re: IDS9.21UC2/Redhat 7.1: share library libncurses.so.4 not found (Alexander
Martinez)
Re: Redhat 7.1: Whay linuxconf not run on KDE? ("JP")
Re: Raid A0 patch with Kernel 2.2.17 and ReiserFS (Thomas Steffen)
Re: Just thick (Gavin McCord)
backup + repartitioning (Alexander Martinez)
Re: I get an error when loading SSL with Apache web server! (Glitch)
Re: Raid A0 patch with Kernel 2.2.17 and ReiserFS ("peter.katzmann")
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk Druid -- What does "No Free Primary" mean?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:31:26 +0200
> Okay, I'm using Disk Druid b/c for some reason when installing Linux, I
> can use the automatic partitioning feature. So now that I have figured
> out how to use Disk Druid, there is still a little problem. First I
> create my boot and swap partitions. Then I create the boot partition
> using the remaining space. However, I keep getting a "No Free Primary"
> error with the swap partition. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
Then don't use the automatic partitioning.
swap can just as well be a logical partition.
DiskDruid always forces weird demands on your system.
I'd use fdisk if I were you, and skip DiskDruid altogether.
Eric
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From: Kevin Reeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X Screen Adjustment
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 06:33:36 GMT
How can I adjust my virtual screen to lock to the size of my actual=20
display? I've looked at xvidtune and tested some configurations but tha=
t=20
doesn't address this problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Kevin
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:37:36 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: syslogd / maillog problem
Tim Mallardi wrote:
>
> I have stumbled into a small problem on my RH Linux 6 server and was curious
> to know if anyone has seen this before?
>
> I have discovered that sometimes my maillog file does not get written to
> properly.
>
> More specificaly, it appears that when the rotation scripts run, syslogd
> continues writing to the same maillog file. In this case /varl/log/maillog.1
> rather than /var/log/maillog.
>
> If I restart syslogd, then everything is fine until the next time the
> rotation scripts run.
>
> Thank you,
> Tim Mallardi
Hello,
don't know how RH handles this, but it shouldn't be that different than
SuSE,
which has a file /etc/logfiles:
#
# This file tells cron.daily, which log files have to be watched
#
# File max size mode ownership service
# (reload if
changed)
/var/log/mail +4096k 640 root.root
# apache
/var/log/httpd/access_log +4096k 644 root.root apache
Perhaps, your MTA, whatever you use has to be reloaded in case of
logrotaiting. Mine, doesn't.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Glenn Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: change LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 06:50:42 GMT
On Wed, 16 May 2001 12:00:41 -0600, Otto Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to make temporary changes in
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH var, for the current
> login.
>
> I have done the:
>
> set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/mydir/lib
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> to no effect.
The order of directories matters in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. The way it's set
here,
your library will be searched last -- try putting /mydir/lib *before* the old value.
HTH,
Glenn
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Newbie question on X-windows in Mandrake 8.0
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:02:39 +0400
Thanks a lot for the reply.
I did try to install using text and followed your advise and the installation went
as far as "Successfully installed and reboot". But when it initialized and went
as far as "Checking new Harware" it came back with "<0>Kernel Panic: Aiee,
killing interrupt handler! Interrupt handler not syncing". I tried removing my
PCMCIA cards and installing it again but I get the same message. Any clue on what
is happening? Maybe Mandrake 8.0 is not for notebooks?
Angry Bob wrote:
> What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
> this is a Mike scroll! it says:
>
> > I tried to install Mandrake 8.0 but when it comes to Configuring X menu,
> > I got this message "Preparing X-Window configuration", then an error
> > message that says "An error occurred, Can't use an undefined value as an
> > ARRAY reference". What could be the problem? I have a Toshiba notebook
> > with 64mb ram.
>
> try doing a text install, and run a frame-buffer-driver (fbdev) without
> testing it during the install. hope and pray when you finish the
> install and reboot. I've had to do this with toshibas before, it's
> worth a shot. <smile>
>
> --
> AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
> I'm a cynical son of a bitch. compred to me, beaker
> is puppy dogs and ice cream. :-)
> -Trey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan Meneses)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: OPENSSH sftp HELP PLEaSE!!!
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:20:33 GMT
On 17 May 2001 01:24:38 GMT, Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in message <9dv98m$ald$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>also look into putty.... it's free, and comes with pscp, as a windows
>command line scp program.
Also, there's a development version of psftp available. Last time I
checked, it supported at least cd, ls, get and put.
<URL:http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: when linux is booted before the windows 2000 server in the LAN......!
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:41:34 +0000 (UTC)
Hi,
I just observed a quite interesting problem.
I have one Linux and Windows 2000 Servers and Windows NT workstation machines.
Whats my problem is, when i start my linux machine before windows 2000 servers..
I could't able to see the work group ( can't open the network neighbour hood to
see all the machines in the network). Its giving an error.. I openened the
event viewer,
I have the message, " The Master Browser has received a server
announcement from the computer 'mycomputername' that believes that it is the
master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip {23303003-9330..}
The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced."
But i can able to see the network neighbour hood of Windows98 and WindowsNT
workstations . Why the windows2000 is not? When I start 1st the windows2000
servers and then Linux, its OK.. No error.
What could be the possible reason, every time am i have to whether windows2000
servers started or not to start my linux...........
Could any one help me out........
thanks in advance,
regards
srinivas.
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From: "peter.katzmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Raid A0 patch with Kernel 2.2.17 and ReiserFS
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:30:11 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cristov wrote:
>
> Does the Raid A0 patch for the 2.2.17 kernel fix whether or not ReiserFS
> will work with Raid5?
When you also will acces the data with nfs, no !
peter
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange X-crash
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:43:40 +0200
Gene Heskett wrote:
> FWIW, I just got a message from xig.com pursuant to my inability to make
> a Rage Fury Pro 32mb card work, even with the commercial drivers from
> xig.
>
> It turns out that ATI, in their infinite wisdom, have re-used at least
> one card name, but when the card is queried with a 'scanpci -v' command,
> the data it returns is nothing like a Rage Fury Pro 32mb card, so of
> course the drivers take an exit, stage right...
>
> I also did a --force install of 4.0.3 on my machine, and watched the log
> show that it loaded every driver in the directory looking for one that
> recognized that card, faling miserably.
>
> Maybe the same situation exists with your '215' version card?
Well, my card is actually somewhat older. I bought it in 1998, and it has
only 4 MB of RAM (somehow I've never felt that I needed more). Since the
card is already a little old, I can confirm that I have never had any
problems using it with XFree86 4.0.x so far. So I don't think that suddenly
my card can be causing the problems.
Greetings
Nils
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From: "Bernadette and Warren McRobie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: dc.org.linux-users,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: LILO no boot .. says "LIL-" then just hangs there
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:13:38 +1200
I found that having the drive linux is installed on a slave with no master,
then this error occurs - yes I know it should be the master - but I did not
set up this machine hardware wise ;P
HTH
Warre
"rider web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ds2af$d5v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> this might help
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/faqs/rhl_general_faq/FAQ-5.html
>
>
> "Counts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9dc3ut$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I installed everything successfully (Slackware 4.1), recompiled a
kernel,
> > rebooted, everything worked as expected. Then, not long afterwards on
> > another reboot, LILO just hangs. I have to boot using a floppy now.
Any
> > suggestions on how to fix this?
> >
> > Should I uninstall LILO and then re-install?
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DDS-2 DAT + Autoloader
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:16:33 +0100
"JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:UUCM6.20986$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What distro are you using? I can't find mtx anywhere!!
>
> Was it installed as part of an application?
I know this is a bit sad when you reply to your own post but I just found
the package at http://mtx.sourceforge.net/
Thanks Gene for letting me know the utility existed!
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From: Alexander Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1: How to change device for swap?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:20:38 +0200
Huy Vu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The default swap file in /etc/fstab after the installation is /dev/hda12.
>
> After using fdisk to remove/dev/hda12 and add /dev/hda11 for swap file
> (Linux swap type partition), I 'vi /etc/fstab' and replace /dev/hda12 with
> /dev/hda11 and reboot my PC linux but the command 'swapon -a' complaint
> '/dev/hda11 invalid argument'.
did you a mkswap /dev/hda11? Without this you can't use this partition as
swap..
>
>
> How can I add /dev/hda11 with swapon as default swap file?
>
> The 'linuxconf' on my PC's Redhat 7.1 still not working.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> DH.
Greetings
Alex
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From: Alexander Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.informix
Subject: Re: IDS9.21UC2/Redhat 7.1: share library libncurses.so.4 not found
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:22:21 +0200
Hello,
Huy Vu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying IDS2000 9.21.UC2 on Redhat 7.1 today.
>
> After successful to initialize the engine with oninit -iv, I realize
> onspaces and onmonitor not working even though onstat and oninit working.
>
> Here is the error when executing onspaces/onmonitor command:
>
> onspaces: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot load
> shared object file: No such file or directory
install ncurses4, this should fix the problem
> glibc 2.1, egcc.. compatible packages are installed
has nothing to do with ncurses.
> Does someone see this problem before?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> DH.
Greetings
Alex
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1: Whay linuxconf not run on KDE?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:33:14 +0100
"Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying Redhat 7.1 and setup KDE as default desktop and reset Firewall
> level to no FireWall.
>
> After startup KDE control-panel, I tried to click on linuxconf icon but
not
> thing come up.
>
> Nothing happen in running linuxconf from run command menu or from kconsole
> terminal.
>
> Does someone see this problem before?
According to RedHat, linuxconf is depricated (something like that!) in this
release so it's not part of the install which I found a bit annoying as I
don't run X and there are no other real admin tools (except vi!).
If you want Linuxconf you'll have to download it from
http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
HTH,
JP
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From: Thomas Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Raid A0 patch with Kernel 2.2.17 and ReiserFS
Date: 17 May 2001 10:51:17 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'll add another question to the thread. 2 of the developers I work
> with say that reiserFS should be used for development because it is
> more robust then ext2 and in the embedded system we are developed,
> the power frequently is removed from the target system running
> Linux.
As far as I can see ReiserFS is more advanced than ext2 in a few ways:
* more efficient with small files
* no inode-limit
* journal -> no fsck
> As a consequence of the fact that power can be removed at any time,
> there is no graceful shutdown of this system.
ReiserFS might have a slight advantage there, at least the recovery is
faster (not necessarily safer or even safe). And even if the
filesystem is in a consistent state after recovery, your data may not
be :-(
But: ReiserFS is really complex. Source and code is rather large,
computation complexity, too, I think. And it takes about 50 MB of
every partition just for administration (and journaling).
Thomas
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From: Gavin McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Just thick
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:53:16 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the command for copying a file to a floppy disc (mounted). I am
> opening the file in VI and writing to floppy from there at the moment but
> that seems a very long way round. Can't find the command in either of my
> two Linux books oddly enough. Thanks. Harry.
>
>
> Net-Tamer V 1.10.1 - Registered
>
man cp
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From: Alexander Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: backup + repartitioning
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:32:14 +0200
Hello there,
I'm totally finished with that M$ crap. Win2k killed itself when I
changed monitor refresh rate from 100 to 85Hz. Because I am a long-time
Linux-user I decided to replace it with Linux, which lies already on
some partitions on the same harddisk.
following configuration:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3315 26627706 7 HPFS/NTFS (win2k)
/dev/hda2 3316 3339 192780 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3340 3355 128520 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 3356 3649 2361555 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 3356 3373 144553+ 83 Linux (/home)
/dev/hda6 3374 3385 96358+ 83 Linux (/var)
/dev/hda7 3386 3391 48163+ 83 Linux (/root)
/dev/hda8 3392 3649 2072353+ 83 Linux (/usr)
I also have a 8 Gig drive as secondary ide (master), which I use als
extra space for downloads or backups:
/dev/hdc1 5708.35 (FAT32: wintrash space)
/dev/hdc2 2739.02 (ext2: linux space)
It took me several days to optimize my existing linux installation and I
don't want to throw it away. Is there an easy way to clone my existing
installation?
After reinstallation I like to use /dev/hda entirely for Linux. I also
intend to use Oracle 8i Enterprise Server on my Linux box, which has
following disk space requirements:
swap: at least 400MB
server: up to 800MB
client: up to 400MB
additional space for database
can I use more than 1 swap device?
I'd like to use separated partitions for /boot, /home, /root, /var,
/tmp, /usr/src, /usr/local etc., but I have no idea about recommended
partition sizes. Has anyone a idea? Any suggestions are welcome.
Greetings
Alex
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 03:46:05 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I get an error when loading SSL with Apache web server!
Chris Just wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to get Apache working on RedHat 6.1 using both HTTP and
> HTTPS, but so far all I can get is HTTP.
>
> I downloaded and installed: open_ssl, mod_ssl and mm and installed them,
> but when I run: /etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl I get errors when
> loading 2 of the modules.
> The 2 lines in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf that give me errors are:
>
> LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
> LoadModule db_auth_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so
>
> The error I get when I run Apache with the 'startssl' option is:
>
> "Syntax error on line 153 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load
> /etc/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so: undefines symbol: dbm_fetch
> /etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl: httpd could not be started."
>
even though i'm familiar with Apache i'm not familiar with compiling it.
WIth that said I would guess that you are trying to use the rewrite and
auth_dbm modules but you either don't have them or didn't tell Apache to
use them when it was compiled...so I would comment out those the lines
you list above that start with 'LoadModule'. Then try restarting Apache
and see how things go.
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From: "peter.katzmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Raid A0 patch with Kernel 2.2.17 and ReiserFS
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:50:53 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'll add another question to the thread. 2 of the developers I work with say
> that reiserFS should be used for development because it is more robust then
> ext2 and in the embedded system we are developed, the power frequently is
> removed from the target system running Linux. As a consequence of the fact
> that power can be removed at any time, there is no graceful shutdown of this
> system. I am told by one of the developers that reiserFS will be the new
> default file system in the next release of Linux. I wonder what some of the
> developers here have to say about reiserFS and its reliability in a
> situation where power can and will be removed frequently from an embedded
> system.
Well i would say: Let your developers rethink their design!I think they
refer to the journaled feature of reiser. They are thinking thet they
will never have a chance to get a corrupted filesystems and speed up in
power up.
To say it simple, yes you will have a speed up in filesystem check
No you will have also a chance to get a corrupted filesystem, especially
in an embedded design where power loss doesnt mean complete power loss !
there is anything in between possible
peter
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