Linux-Setup Digest #393, Volume #21 Thu, 7 Jun 01 15:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: rc.local file. (Lew Pitcher)
Re: How to setup Downloader for X with Firewall? (Wine Development)
Re: ip addresses help... ("john")
mouse problems on new install of mandrake 8 ("Shoot them Later")
Problems with setting up Colorado HP (Phillip Conrad)
Installing Oracle 8i for Linux ("" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Re: monitor resalution (Michael Heiming)
Re: rc.local file. (Markku Kolkka)
Re: Installing Oracle 8i for Linux (Phillip Conrad)
Screen resolution (Mike)
Re: RH7.1 and SoundBlaster Live! ("kyi")
Re: Two file execution problems (Colin Watson)
Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000. ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: phone support for rh linux. ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: rc.local file. (Lew Pitcher)
Re: rc.local file. ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: Could symlinks prevent /mnt/cdrom access ("sleepy")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: rc.local file.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:21:58 GMT
On 07 Jun 2001 19:48:46 +0300, Markku Kolkka
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) writes:
>> >Services are started at boot by scripts in the /etc/rc.d/init.d
>> >directory and symlinks to those scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc[0-6].d
>>
>> Not on all systems. This is a SysV'ism that only _some_ Linux distros
>> have adopted.
>
>The question was specifically about Red Hat 7.0, and the answers apply
>to that distribution.
The message that I was replying to did *not* identify the
distribution, and was posted to one of the generic (not distro
specific) newsgroups. I stand by my statements.
Since the post I replied to did not identify the distro, it _could_ be
(and _was_) taken as applying to _any_ linux distro, and was incorrect
(or at least incomplete) in that state. Had the post identified the
distro under question as RedHat, I would not have replied, knowing
that RedHat is one of those distros that _do_ use SysV-style
initscripts.
Let's remember that there's a wide variety of Linux systems out there,
from embedded systems to full-scale commercial servers. If questions
and answers do not identify _which_ linux implementation is under
discussion, it is assumed that the question (and answer) can apply to
_any_ linux implementation.
Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Wine Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: How to setup Downloader for X with Firewall?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:01:01 +0100
Huy Vu wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to setup Downloader for X under Redhat 7.1 to get through our
> Firewall but still cannot.
>
> When I do ftp ftp.site.com, our firewall will ask me login/password of the
> firewall before connect to ftp.site.com, after that I have to type USER and
> PASS to login to ftp.site.com.
>
> With Downloader for X, our firewall takes the value username/password
> setting to connect to ftp.site.com for firewall's authentication and after
> that it has no more value for authentication to ftp.site.com
>
> Does someone can use Downloader for X under firewall?
>
Have you tried setting it to use passive mode ?
--
Keith Matthews Spam trap - my real account at this
node is keith_m
Frequentous Consultants - Linux Services,
Oracle development & database administration
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From: "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ip addresses help...
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:34:07 -0700
thanks. that answered my question.
"root@localho$t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:giOT6.103$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> john wrote:
>
> > Hello.
>
> Hi
>
> > I'm still kinda a newbie on tcp/ip, linux, etc. This is probably
> > a stupid question, but can one ethernet card have 2 or more ip addresses
> > at
> > once? Thanks.
>
> Sure you can, you can even have more (supposing your card is "eth0" here)
:
>
> # Make sure your primary adr is setup,
> # then....
>
> # Second ip adr
> ifconfig eth0:0 xxx.yyy.zzz.sss
>
> # Third ip adr
> ifconfig eth0:1 vvv.sss.fff.ggg
>
> # Fourth ip adr
> ifconfig eth0:2 ddf.ff.ggg.hh
>
> # etc.....
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From: "Shoot them Later" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mouse problems on new install of mandrake 8
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 18:47:09 -0000
Hi,
I'm trying to instal LM8 into a P3/550 with a BX2000 m/b (via chipset),
128Mb SDRAM and a matrox G400 gfx
The install goes perfectly and I install my chosen options.
on startup however, everything goes smoothly right up until X windows KDE or
Gnome (or any other desktop) finishes loading, upon which my mouse suddenly
behaves erratically and unconrollably jumping between many fixed points and
randomly clicking (menus open, windows maxiimise etc). Throughout the boot
up, whenevre the mouse cursor is visible, it mouse normally in response tpo
the mouse!! and did so all through setup too.
I have an old Logitech serial mouse. I chose the generic 2 button mouse in
setup and it seemed to test ok, I also redid the setup and tried the
logitech specific C7? serial mouse option which again tested fine but has
the same problem in X....
has anyone any idea how to fix this?
MJI
In setup,
--
The most enjoyable way to follow a vegetable diet is to
let the cow eat it, and then eat the cow.
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From: Phillip Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with setting up Colorado HP
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:08:06 GMT
I am trying to use my HP Colorado T4000s under RedHat 7.1, using an
Adaptec 1520B,
without success. It worked fine under Windows, so I'm reasonably
confident of the
hardware, etc.
The drive is seen, and /dev/st0 is in fact recognized as a device.
However, when I
try to do "mt -f /dev/st0 status", the process hangs. It does not
respond to kill -9; the
only way to unhang the process is to reboot.
"mt -f /dev/st0 rewind" produces I/O Error messages.
Here's the output of more /proc/scsi/scsi
# more /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: T4000s Rev: 1.07
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Does anyone have any suggestions?
If the solution is to "throw out this ancient piece of
junk" can anyone report success under Linux with
some specific combination of SCSI card/tape drive
(or for that matter, a non-SCSI tape drive, if it works)
that can in the range of >= 4-8GB... preferably for
under $900?
Thanks,
Phill Conrad
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From: "<toor>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.databases.oracle,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Installing Oracle 8i for Linux
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:17:13 -0400
I am trying to install Oracle 8i for Linux, and I am having problems. I have
set up the users and groups fine, but running the installation program is
giving me problems.
when I try to install it, I get this error.
oracle@linux:/cdrom > ./runInstaller
bash: ./runInstaller: Permission denied
Thanks
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:17:13 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor resalution
"I.M.Sanders" wrote:
>
> when setting up rh7.1 I chose a res of 800 x 600 and I want to change
> this to 640 x 480.
> In Windows I would just right click on the screen and go to settings.
> How do I do this in Linux?
> TIA
Hello,
if other resolutions are setup, just press [CTRL][ALT][+]/[-] to change
on the fly. If it doesn't work, shutdown X and start the configuration
tool that came with your distro, don't know about RH, SuSE uses
sax/sax2,
check the docs that came with your distro.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: rc.local file.
Date: 07 Jun 2001 21:09:10 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) writes:
> The message that I was replying to did *not* identify the
> distribution,
Read the thread from start before replying, don't start from the
middle. If you don't have the full background information, don't
reply at all.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Phillip Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle
Subject: Re: Installing Oracle 8i for Linux
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:34:41 GMT
Here are some suggestions that are not "Oracle" specific, but pertain to the
error message "Permission denied".
(1) check to see if the file ./runInstaller is executable
ls -l ./runInstaller
There should be an x in the fourth column. If there is a - instead, you may
need to set the permissions
chmod u+x ./runInstaller
(2) If that doesn't help, it may be that the "permission denied" message is
coming from some command that is inside the script file or program
"runInstaller".
Try "file ./runInstaller" to see whether the file is a shell script, or a
binary program.
If it is a shell script, depending on the shell, you might be able to turn on
the command echoing by adding switches such as -v -x -V or -X to the first line
of the shell script.
For example,
#!/bin/tcsh
becomes
#!/bin/tcsh -V -X
This way, the script echoes every command as it is executed... then you can
find out exactly which command inside the script is causing the error.
If the first line is /bin/sh or /bin/bash, there may be a different way to
accomplish this... I don't know.
I hope this is helpful.
Phill
> I am trying to install Oracle 8i for Linux, and I am having problems. I have
> set up the users and groups fine, but running the installation program is
> giving me problems.
>
> when I try to install it, I get this error.
>
> oracle@linux:/cdrom > ./runInstaller
> bash: ./runInstaller: Permission denied
>
> Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Screen resolution
Date: 7 Jun 2001 11:47:40 -0700
I'm running RH7.1 and GNOME. I changed sceen resolution from 1024X768
to 640X480. What happend is the desk top image explored, doesn't fit
in screen. When I move the mouse cursor to the boarder of screen, the
image shifting, other parts are showing, just like it gets scroll
bars. I don't like this scrolling things. For the resolution of
1024X768, it's O.K., everything fits in. Can someone give a hand.
Thanks.
Mike Huang
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From: "kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RH7.1 and SoundBlaster Live!
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:50:11 -0700
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Well damn it that SUCKS!!! You can still get a regular pci SBLive!
instead and that will work. Other then that..... your are SOL, sorry.
I guess you can blame gateway for not releasing the specs for that
interface, we tried creative and they deny that the thing even
exists.
- -Jayson
http://linux.microbsys.com
Randy Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Uh-oh. Indeed this is the Gateway OEM SBLive! with digital output
> and Boston Acoustics speakers. I looked through the archives of
> the
> email list at http://opensource.creative.com and saw what you
> referred to. There doesn't seem to be any fix to the emu10k driver
> as yet to get this up and running. :o<
>
> Randy
>
> kyi wrote:
> >
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> >
> > I noticed from your hardware discription that it is a gateway
> > computer. Is the SBLive! the digital one that comes with the
> > gateway? or a standalone pci card? The reason I ask is 'cause if
> > it's the SBLive! digital that comes onboard with the gateway it
> > probably won't work ;-( If it's not, and it's a SBLive! that you
> > bought seperatly then it will work. The reason is there is
> > something flaky about the gateway card, I read this on the
> > opensource.creative.developers mailing list. I strongly suggest
> > that you goto
> > http://opensource.creative.com and follow the links on
> > subscribing to the email list for this card. I personally have
> > the SBLive!, bought from compusa, and it is a very very good
> > card, so all this won't be a wast of time.
> >
> > - -Jayson Garrell
> > http://linux.microbsys.com
> >
>
> --
> Randy Pratt - Agere Systems
> Read Channel Design - Storage Products Organization
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://megpsrv.agere.com/~rrp2/
>
> There are 3 kinds of people in this world:
those who can count, and those who can't
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Two file execution problems
Date: 7 Jun 2001 18:44:37 GMT
Richard Everhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having two problems related to execution. Both for these problems
>are exemplified in the shar file I'm trying to run. This file,
>linux-x86.shar, is essentially a shell script. I was originally
>created, I'm pretty sure, on a Solaris box. However when I try to
>execute it like so:
>sh linux-x86.shar
>
>I get the following error message:
>`inux-x86.shar: line 22: syntax error near unexpected token `do
>`inux-x86.shar: line 22: `do
>
>I've noticed this when executing other shell scripts not created on my
>machine. If I re-type all the newlines in the file, which is laborious,
>then this problem goes away and I can execute the script.
Oh, you mean convert the newlines to Unix-style newlines (CR/LF to LF)?
Sounds like you've transferred it via an MS-DOS or Windows box in binary
mode rather than ASCII. There are plenty of tools to do this conversion
automatically, such as dos2unix; if you don't have any of them, then
try:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r$//' linux-x86.shar
This will convert the file, and leave a backup in linux-x86.shar.bak.
>bin is in my path as is my current directory.
You should never put your current directory in your path. What if you
were in /tmp and somebody else on the system you're using had left a
trojan executable called 'ls' there (or, if you have . at the end of
your path, trojan executables based on common misspellings of commands)?
It's better to get used to typing './foo' instead.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
If I had mayonnaise I'd be dangerous.
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000.
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:51:58 -0400
thank you guys for all the responses.
Liverpool_FC.
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: phone support for rh linux.
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:52:45 -0400
hey,
thank you all for the responses.
Liverpool_FC.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: rc.local file.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:53:41 GMT
On 07 Jun 2001 21:09:10 +0300, Markku Kolkka
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) writes:
>> The message that I was replying to did *not* identify the
>> distribution,
>
>Read the thread from start before replying, don't start from the
>middle.
Some news servers don't carry the full thread. This is a property of
usenet, and can be expected at any time
>If you don't have the full background information, don't
>reply at all.
Wrong. It is the custom of posts to usenet to include the relevant
bits of the thread, precisely because newsservers don't reliably carry
the full thread, and a reply poster _might_ just have something
relevant to say. It is up to each poster to copy the relevant portions
of the thread message they are replying to in their reply, just to
address this situation.
Section 3.1.1 of RFC1855 ("Netiquette Guidelines") instructs usenet
users to...
"If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
summarize the original at the top of the message, or include
just enough text of the original to give a context.
This will make sure readers understand when they start to read
your response. Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by
distributing the postings from one host to another, it is
possible to see a response to a message before seeing the
original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not include
the entire original!"
Apparently, you violated this guideline by not summarizing the
original, and not including enough of the original text to give a
context. Shame on you <g>.
Now, don't take this as a flame; I'm not in an arguing mood today (the
birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and I'm happily coding). But,
also don't take offense or chastize posters that have valid points or
observations, even if they don't jibe with your point-of-view.
>--
> Markku Kolkka
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: rc.local file.
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:05:08 -0400
hey,
thank you all for the info. and suggestions.
i did not infer that dos was older than unix. i am a sco- unix guy myself.
this is only my second year working with sco,redhat and ibm-as400.
i have got a long ways more to go. but we are getting up to speed. we bought
a couple of books, bookmark a few websites. but these newsgroups have
provided so much more guidance since you guys are actually working with this
stuff daily.
Liverpool_FC.
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From: "sleepy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Could symlinks prevent /mnt/cdrom access
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:55:46 GMT
I did a chmod 777 on the /mnt/kenwood directory and now it works 4.0, but I
still cannot use the plextor cdrw to read cd's. It works in xcdroast (well
kinda) but I cannot view it's contents in any other place. Yes, I did try
to chmod it, but no dice. I'm almost positive it has to do with scsi
emulation. Should I create two separate fstab entries for the same device.
One to do scsi emulation for writing and one just to read or do you think it
would freak out. Thanks. Sleepy
"Craig Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> sleepy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Running Mandrake 8.0 and I've already run the fstab and permissions
route
> > on this problem. I am confident I have ownership as root of the
/mnt/cdrom
> > and /mnt/cdrom2 directory. Nevertheless I am locked out of the folders
and
> > the terminal I get an i/o error. Gui filebrowser gives me "you do not
have
> > permission to access these files" when I try to access the /mnt/cdrom
> > directories. I'm only left with the fact that I did something trying to
> > add cdwriter support via the scsi module hdc=ide-scsi emulation thing.
My
> > fstab is exactly the same as it was before I tried any of this. The
only
> > thing you'll notice odd in my fstab is that I'm using /mnt/plexcdrom and
> > /mnt/kenwood as the mount folders. I only did that to see if I would
still
> > get locks on those new folders and yes I did. Otherwise the fstab is
> > factory correct. Can anyone tell me of some possible embedded symlinks
> > that might be doing this? Here's my fstab FYI
> >
> > /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/plexcdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> > > /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/kenwood supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
> > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat
> > > user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> > > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/extra ext2 defaults 1 2
> > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> 2 items you may wish to consider:
>
> 1) Adding the 'user' flag to the device options allows the user
> that opens the device to have full access to it.
>
> 2) You do have good permissions on /, /mnt and /mnt/cdrom,
> right?
>
> --
> It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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