Linux-Setup Digest #370, Volume #21 Mon, 4 Jun 01 12:13:10 EDT
Contents:
rh7.1: switching the install drive ("Riyaz Mansoor")
X Windows Clients ("Dave Armbruster")
Linux Server overload problem during peak hours (more info) (Ken Fung)
Redhat Version Question (Rand Simberg)
Re: Linux Server overload problem during peak hours (more info) (Michael Heiming)
Re: kernel version number (Joal Heagney)
send/receive fax on suse linux 7.1 (Thomas Runte)
Re: Redhat Version Question (Joal Heagney)
Re: power up in wee hours, cron jobs run twice ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Enlightenment and Logitech MouseMan ("Georges Heinesch")
Re: Redhat Version Question ("Peter T. Breuer")
Netscape - How Can I Install/Run? (Felix Miata)
Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000. ("daltrix")
problem with cursor (naren)
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From: "Riyaz Mansoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rh7.1: switching the install drive
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:18:47 +1000
is there any way to tell the the installer to let my 'hdb' act as my cdrom
drive which actuall is 'hdd'. maybe passing some parameter during the
install boot thingy ....
riaz
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From: "Dave Armbruster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X Windows Clients
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:28:27 -0400
Good Day,
I have installed Redhat 7 on a new server. Everything works great
except I cannot access the system via an X Client. I can telnet, ftp,
and rlogin no problem. I have network access enabled and even have
run the xhost command to authorize the access. Redhat still refuses the
network connection. Anyone else run into this? Thanks in Advance.
Dave Armbruster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Fung)
Subject: Linux Server overload problem during peak hours (more info)
Date: 4 Jun 2001 07:49:41 -0700
These are the additional information for my situation.
The "top" screen and the "vmstat 2" screen.
"top":
10:48pm up 4:36, 2 users, load average: 76.74, 48.74, 24.40
247 processes: 244 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 2.3% user, 14.3% system, 0.0% nice, 87.4% idle
Mem: 119636K av, 118388K used, 1248K free, 87232K shrd, 252K buff
Swap: 130748K av, 118736K used, 12012K free 2200K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
23378 kenf 18 0 220 204 160 R 0 6.1 0.1 1:43 vmstat
23307 kenf 19 0 520 468 292 R 0 3.5 0.3 2:03 top
23810 nobody 1 0 2356 2016 704 D 0 0.2 1.6 0:22 httpd
26651 nobody 0 0 2328 1980 712 D 0 0.2 1.6 0:01 httpd
26926 nobody 1 0 2416 2244 968 D 0 0.2 1.8 0:00 httpd
24022 nobody 1 0 2316 2028 768 D 0 0.1 1.6 0:25 httpd
25749 nobody 1 0 2412 1828 708 D 0 0.1 1.5 0:07 httpd
25995 nobody 1 0 2304 2016 692 D 0 0.1 1.6 0:04 httpd
24008 nobody 1 0 2380 2080 760 D 0 0.1 1.7 0:19 httpd
23902 nobody 0 0 2412 1972 704 D 0 0.1 1.6 0:16 httpd
26220 nobody 0 0 2100 1772 720 D 0 0.1 1.4 0:02 httpd
26208 nobody 0 0 1924 1548 584 D 0 0.1 1.2 0:03 httpd
26801 nobody 0 0 1856 1400 528 D 0 0.1 1.1 0:00 httpd
26225 nobody 0 0 2052 1748 728 D 0 0.1 1.4 0:03 httpd
26866 nobody 0 0 2072 1576 736 D 0 0.1 1.3 0:00 httpd
26787 nobody 0 0 2184 1888 756 D 0 0.1 1.5 0:00 httpd
"vmstat 2":
procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
6 0 0 4 3008 5912 17076 0 0 9 34 563 342 56 44 0
3 0 0 4 3396 5456 15404 0 0 21 23 435 368 61 39 0
8 0 0 4 4932 5456 15456 0 0 9 0 473 493 55 45 0
3 0 0 4 1304 5208 14796 0 0 173 31 387 379 56 44 0
6 0 0 4 2072 5052 14168 0 0 8 0 315 419 56 44 0
6 0 0 4 4188 5040 14212 0 0 14 25 560 600 50 50 0
7 0 0 4 4816 5084 14416 0 0 77 33 864 696 58 42 0
11 0 0 4 6420 5084 14480 0 0 12 29 591 509 57 43 0
24 3 0 4 5516 5084 14508 0 0 10 38 320 343 49 51 0
16 0 0 4 5828 5148 14684 0 0 47 39 1079 665 58 42 0
13 0 0 4 8032 5148 14736 0 0 6 30 523 475 53 47 0
9 1 0 4 10184 5148 14808 0 0 14 30 561 375 53 47 0
10 0 0 4 8552 5148 14876 0 0 19 0 454 338 59 41 0
11 0 0 4 8732 5148 14952 0 0 18 36 545 370 51 48 2
14 0 0 4 4920 5212 15056 0 0 41 31 633 304 61 39 0
13 0 0 4 3660 5212 15180 0 0 22 47 831 535 48 52 0
4 0 0 4 5012 5212 15196 0 0 3 20 286 181 58 42 0
6 5 0 4 1208 4996 14500 0 0 9 48 511 472 54 46 0
2 0 0 4 2400 4660 12928 0 0 26 0 444 245 52 48 0
11 1 0 4 4588 4060 9332 0 0 84 62 991 605 59 41 0
22 0 0 4 3444 4052 9416 0 0 54 31 694 412 53 47 0
15 1 0 4 2952 3640 7712 0 0 59 35 630 381 54 46 0
6 0 0 4 2232 3324 4596 0 0 91 30 577 356 53 47 0
5 14 0 4 1220 1848 4216 0 0 665 0 617 652 39 61 0
1 24 0 172 1320 468 4012 0 84 245 61 374 637 30 22 48
0 33 1 1000 1200 384 3920 2 416 551 130 683 1389 7 19 74
1 43 0 2080 1204 276 3396 10 544 447 136 624 1206 8 29 62
0 49 0 3136 1260 276 3212 6 530 246 141 406 935 10 33 56
0 48 9 8352 1200 200 2940 8 2614 1481 681 2212 3109 3 19 78
0 51 11 33960 1200 152 2500 236 12848 2360 3229 3944 6599 1 17 82
0 58 10 51480 1200 188 2248 358 8814 1331 2218 2180 4546 2 11 88
0 70 2 56560 1200 188 2228 646 2624 679 660 1052 1796 4 11 86
1 68 2 59872 1204 188 2448 688 1708 612 435 899 1309 4 12 84
0 68 0 60924 1200 196 2484 472 588 319 149 480 853 6 35 59
0 65 0 62728 1200 196 2576 524 936 479 239 690 1165 2 10 88
2 59 0 63532 1200 236 2644 516 768 598 200 958 1450 3 24 73
0 59 0 63812 1872 272 2648 224 266 222 72 329 600 2 18 80
0 66 0 63900 1248 272 2676 258 136 240 35 344 1731 2 17 81
4 62 5 65032 1200 272 2716 422 588 419 153 644 6153 1 21 78
1 67 4 66148 1200 272 2736 350 624 403 156 661 6236 3 22 75
1 72 0 67932 1200 272 2756 540 978 404 248 672 1763 2 15 82
1 73 0 70112 1200 272 2788 766 1204 396 304 675 1456 3 14 83
1 73 0 72476 1200 272 2872 970 1420 462 355 789 1414 4 19 77
1 73 0 74140 1200 272 2880 654 1016 384 268 625 1317 3 22 74
0 69 3 75524 1200 272 2908 468 952 367 238 608 1351 4 10 86
1 68 5 77520 1204 272 2936 438 1078 443 278 739 2179 3 24 74
1 75 0 78272 1200 272 2952 248 572 221 143 404 2196 6 31 63
1 63 10 79460 1200 272 2988 254 734 380 190 670 6044 1 13 86
0 67 9 81048 1200 264 2356 428 960 457 251 770 4582 4 14 82
2 68 4 83000 1200 256 2336 582 1334 693 336 1116 7470 5 23 72
1 64 10 84440 1200 256 2424 308 722 424 186 684 3504 3 14 83
0 66 10 86204 1200 256 2464 470 1068 517 276 877 2415 2 13 85
1 72 5 87364 1200 256 2460 350 792 305 198 548 1894 3 33 64
0 65 9 89132 1204 256 2488 630 1070 531 275 873 4536 3 13 83
0 67 9 91700 1200 256 2352 854 1568 926 405 1499 12568 3 14 83
1 70 9 92996 1200 256 2304 440 818 421 206 731 6099 2 22 76
2 73 2 94444 1200 256 2320 416 908 432 239 735 6617 2 17 81
0 69 10 96516 1200 248 2288 550 1256 471 318 808 3280 4 16 80
1 69 9 98436 1200 248 2344 562 1298 460 330 776 2426 5 18 77
0 72 6 101120 1204 232 2256 808 1696 704 432 1245 4918 5 14 81
1 73 5 102472 1204 220 2220 470 900 315 225 530 1692 7 29 64
2 68 9 104688 1216 268 2232 746 1358 619 348 1047 7488 3 21 76
2 69 9 107768 1200 264 2216 1290 2226 1591 576 2691 37165 2 14 84
2 65 9 109040 1232 264 2260 540 830 696 208 1148 15528 2 14 84
1 65 9 109896 1200 256 2100 374 622 422 165 739 9340 1 14 85
0 69 7 111312 1200 256 2180 620 1072 635 273 1111 9096 2 10 87
0 67 8 113196 1220 252 2188 728 1188 730 297 1172 7907 4 16 80
1 68 10 113672 1204 252 2236 226 308 224 90 352 3978 3 25 72
0 70 9 114892 1200 252 2212 462 756 505 197 812 9236 2 13 85
1 70 10 116500 1200 252 2264 648 1028 755 257 1178 13484 4 15 81
0 70 9 117200 1200 252 2300 216 384 287 100 426 5311 2 21 77
0 68 10 117968 1200 252 2148 268 434 352 119 561 6789 4 18 78
0 69 9 118976 1200 252 2220 384 658 442 166 691 5206 3 15 82
0 67 9 119816 1200 252 2160 262 502 259 129 419 2642 4 17 79
0 105 2 123368 1204 252 2168 1568 2184 1062 556 1868 32312 1 11 88
0 97 10 124752 1204 252 2220 568 776 386 198 644 8953 2 20 78
2 92 9 125776 5736 380 2232 672 790 621 198 1026 12068 3 19 78
0 94 9 125608 4176 508 2328 488 0 244 7 354 6432 3 25 72
2 96 9 125504 1964 636 2392 512 14 236 4 332 5676 6 20 74
0 91 2 126684 1660 764 2732 5432 2734 2429 720 4793 70573 2 7 91
1 89 0 126052 1940 764 2796 520 112 186 29 338 4257 4 21 75
1 87 0 125520 2236 764 2820 592 136 199 36 386 3921 4 21 75
0 87 0 125368 1244 764 2852 552 90 199 24 348 2660 5 19 76
2 109 0 125272 1200 448 1884 578 62 199 24 355 2619 3 25 72
Machine had no response after this line...... :(
Thanks. :)
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Redhat Version Question
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:53:44 GMT
I'm running RH6.2 (I tried 7.0, and it was such a disaster that I blew
it off and went back to 6.2). I've upgraded the kernel (my own build)
to 2.2.19, and I've upgraded to the most recent version of RPM (among
other things). What else is different between 6.2 and 7.x that would
prevent me from using the RPMs for 7.x?
IOW, when I want to do upgrades (like, for instance, I'm doing by
going to Samba 2.2 today), what do I need to do to make the machine
capable of using 7.x RPMs instead of 6.2? I'm wondering because I'm
concerned that at at some point there will no longer be support for
the 6.2 distro.
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:08:01 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Server overload problem during peak hours (more info)
Ken Fung wrote:
>
> These are the additional information for my situation.
> The "top" screen and the "vmstat 2" screen.
>
> "top":
>
> 10:48pm up 4:36, 2 users, load average: 76.74, 48.74, 24.40
> 247 processes: 244 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 2.3% user, 14.3% system, 0.0% nice, 87.4% idle
> Mem: 119636K av, 118388K used, 1248K free, 87232K shrd, 252K buff
> Swap: 130748K av, 118736K used, 12012K free 2200K cached
Ah, that's looks "better", you need to put in more RAM, I would at least
suggest upgrading to 512 MB, then check if it's enough.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Joal Heagney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel version number
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 01:01:30 +1000
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> Why would a vendor want to revise the kernel?
>
> Duane Healing wrote in message ...
> >That number is usually vendor specific and represents their revision of
> >that kernel version. That's why the standard issue kernels don't have it.
> >
> >--
> >-Duane
> >
> >In a feverish moment of semi-lucidity, "ulty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flailed at
> >the keyboard thusly:
> >> As far as kernel versions go, say we have:
> >>
> >> 2.2.12-20
> >>
> >> we have the major number, minor number, and patch level, what does the
> >> -20 represent?
Mandrake grabs patches all over the place to put extra functionality
into theirs, such as reiserfs before it became part of the main kernel
release, supermount, which is still not part of the main release,
probably for good reasons, and for the 2.4.5 kernel, something called
swan*****, which I think has to do with encryption.
Joal Heagney/AncientHart
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From: Thomas Runte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: send/receive fax on suse linux 7.1
Date: 4 Jun 2001 10:13:02 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
after having spent lots of time trying to get hylafax to work together with
my USR 56K message modem (I would still be happy about a working
config.modem) I am starting to wonder, if my ELSA ISDN card can't do the
job. I know that send/receive fax is extremely easy with windows using the
CAPI 2.0 interface so I just can't imagine that there is no such solution
for linux.
Any ideas ?
Regards Thomas
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From: Joal Heagney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Version Question
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 01:08:15 +1000
Rand Simberg wrote:
>
> I'm running RH6.2 (I tried 7.0, and it was such a disaster that I blew
> it off and went back to 6.2). I've upgraded the kernel (my own build)
> to 2.2.19, and I've upgraded to the most recent version of RPM (among
> other things). What else is different between 6.2 and 7.x that would
> prevent me from using the RPMs for 7.x?
The glibc version usually bites me on the bum more times than not. If
you really want a new version of something, you can grab the src.rpms
and
rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm
and then pray that it goes smoothly. If not, you can jump into the
source install on
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/<package>, compile it in there (Getting hints from
the spec file under /usr/src/RPM/SPECS), go to the spec directory and
then do
rpm -bi --short-circuit <package>.spec # install into the temp
directory rpm uses
rpm -bb --short-circuit <package>.spec # package everything under the
temp dir into rpms
Of course you really have to be eager. And every now and again there's
another package you have to update first before you can build. (Eg.
going from Mandrake-7.2 modutils to modutils-2.4 I had to install the
kernel 2.2.19 and header files first. Then modutils built.)
Joal Heagney/AncientHart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: power up in wee hours, cron jobs run twice
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:06:02 GMT
On 01 Jun 2001 05:16:59 +0800, Dan Jacobson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't know it this happens in your linux distribution, but every day
>say I power up at 1:00 AM. and a few minutes later anacron runs the
>appropriate jobs. At about 4AM they get rerun by the main cron, etc.
>Today is the first of the month so it is running the cron.monthly so
>it is even more ridiculous, with about an whole hour of wear and tear
>on my hard disk.
Why are you complaining? Some people power their machines up/down
like light switches, and some leave their machines on for long periods
of time, and some are somewhere in the middle. If you run your
machine like a light switch, anacron will end up doing most of the
scheduled type stuff, and perhaps you should remove cron from your
system. If you leave your system up for days on end, most of the
scheduled work gets done by cron, and the anacron stuff almost never
runs. You could delete/remove anacron then if you wanted to.
But, in general you are more than welcome to adjust the timing of
anacron or cron type jobs to suit your situation. Myself, I often get
up at 5am, and will often find myself online when tripwire starts
doing it's thing, chewing up CPU time crawling through my 6 disks. I
keep meaning to move some of these "night" jobs to a time more like
3am than 7am. Some people are morning people and some are night
people. If the people who set up some kind of default cron schedule
for your system (in your case Mandrake, in mine Debian) are the
opposite sort of night/morning people, you will find time consuming
jobs running when you would rather they didn't. The solution is to
reschedule them yourself. It's not a good thing to just delete them,
as some of these jobs need to get done on a daily/weekly/monthly
basis. For example, fsck probably should get run through cron if you
never shut your machine down.
Just my $0.02.
Gord
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Date: 4 Jun 2001 17:21:29 +0100
From: "Georges Heinesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enlightenment and Logitech MouseMan
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Hi.
My Logitech MouseMan isn't working properly witrh Enlightenment
0.16, I can drag the windows (hence, the button is recognized), but
the E "User Menu" doesn't show up.
What I use now is ...
===== /etc/XF86Config =====
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Wsmouse"
Device "/dev/wsmouse0"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
Buttons 5
EndSection
===== cut here =====
Everything works (even the wheel), except the left mouse button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
--
Cu Georges Heinesch, Luxembourg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geohei.lu
PGP RSA & DH/DSS public key on request and on public servers
... watch your 6 ...
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Version Question
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:24:31 +0200
Rand Simberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running RH6.2 (I tried 7.0, and it was such a disaster that I blew
> it off and went back to 6.2). I've upgraded the kernel (my own build)
> to 2.2.19, and I've upgraded to the most recent version of RPM (among
> other things). What else is different between 6.2 and 7.x that would
> prevent me from using the RPMs for 7.x?
Eevrything. They're binary incompatible. You'd have to use src.rpms.
Peter
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From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Netscape - How Can I Install/Run?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 11:59:11 -0400
hihihi wrote:
> Alexvali wrote:
> > I tried to install Netscape from a CD and it doesn't work. Could somebody
> > please explain me how should I do it?
> Was it a .rpm file ?
> What was the command line that you tried ?
> What where the error messages that you got from it ?
> Where you ROOT when you did this ?
> More details please :-))
Using RHL 5.1 as root, with 4.72 installed:
With wget I downloaded the gz file of Netscape 4.77 because I couldn't
find an RPM of that version. After unzipping I ran ./ns-install from the
temp dir unzipped to. It wanted to know where to install. There was no
MOZILLA_HOME environment variable. The only choices that appeared to be
where it was previously installed were /usr/bin/netscape and
/usr/lib/netscape. I told it to install in /usr/lib/netscape. It claimed
to successfully install, but when I went to Gnome and clicked the
existing icon, I got 4.72 again.
I found the Gnome rpm applet and told it to uninstall Netscape. It
seemed that's what it was doing. Afterward, the startup icon remained. I
clicked it and nothing happened. Then I ran the same ./ns-install as
before. Again it claimed a successful install. This time clicking the
Gnome Netscape icon continues to do nothing. The command line in the app
starter is /usr/bin/netscape, which is a shell script. If I try to
execute that script from a prompt, the message "it does not appear
netscape is installed" displays.
Where should I have told it to install?
What should the MOZILLA_HOME be set to, and from which config file?
What do I have to do to run 4.77?
--
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under
control. Proverbs 29:11 NKJV
Team OS/2
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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From: "daltrix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000.
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:06:11 -0500
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hello,
"Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello,
>
> we have a rh6.2 box with win2000 and win98 clients.
> the win98 clients can see the linux box in network neighbourhood
> but the win2000 cannot.
>
> thank you.
>
>
>
double check that your win2k box is on the same subnet as your linux
box. i have ran into problems with cable companies that use dhcp,
giving out ip addresses that are in 2 and 3 different subnets
sometimes. for a computer running smb to show up in network
neighborhood, they must have the same broadcast address. take these
examples..
65.27.20.0 -- 65.27.21.255 anything in this range would be
considered on the same subnet if the subnet mask was 255.255.254.0
65.27.20.0 -- 65.27.20.255 anything in this range would be
considered on the same sunbnet if the subnet mask was 255.255.255.0
the broadcast on these subnets is the upper limit, 65.27.21.255 and
65.27.20.255 ... so as you can see, if your subnet mask differs, your
broadcasts addresses change and your systems cant talk through
netbios without a router or a wins server on each side.
i think if you would do an "ipconfig /all" on your windoze boxes and
an "ifconfig" on your linux box and copy and paste the output into
this newsgroup we could help you out much more.
good luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (naren)
Subject: problem with cursor
Date: 4 Jun 2001 09:07:20 -0700
Hi,
I have got a problem with my X-windows. When I start an X-session
instead of displaying normal arrow shaped cursor, a square shaped
(approximately 3cmx3cm size) cursor appears. Can any one help me?
I have a redhat6.2 version on a AMDK6-2 system, with S3 trio 3D-2X graphics
card.
thanks in advance,
Naren
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