Linux-Setup Digest #402, Volume #21 Sat, 9 Jun 01 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: any prrbs installing RH 7.1on a scsi HD? (Michael Meissner)
Compose key question (Smitty)
Re: NO modules will load after kernel recompile! ("David")
startx (Riyaz Mansoor)
Apache / CGI permission newbie (Kyle Evans)
Re: Apache / CGI permission newbie (David Efflandt)
Commandline Mail (Taylor James Zingsheim)
Set the X color depth (* Tong *)
Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000. ("Schorschi Decker")
Re: Setting a IDE CDROM as SCSI (David Efflandt)
Re: X Runs Only as Superuser (David Efflandt)
Re: xwindow session from w2k laptop (David Efflandt)
Kernel panic problem ("David Ehringer")
RedHat 7.1: sendmail setup ("LAU Kar Fai")
new install mandrake 8 problems ("tlc")
Re: Printing - 3Com home ethernet gateway (model 3C510) (Jaime Santiago)
Re: pppoatm not found ("Nils O. Sel�sdal")
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Subject: Re: any prrbs installing RH 7.1on a scsi HD?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Jun 2001 22:15:16 -0400
"Harison Phinizy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It locks on that blue screen where it loas the aic7xxx driver...
(Note, I work on GCC and not Linux, so this is all IMHO, and not Red Hat's).
I've heard other people complain about the new aic7xxx driver, and the usual
problem seems to be the new Adaptec driver doesn't work on everybody's system.
I believe if you go into expert mode and select the other Adaptec driver (I
think you want aic7xxx.o instead of aic7xxx_mod.o), you can get past the
installation problem.
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Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
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From: Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compose key question
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 02:21:10 GMT
How do I configure my /etc/XFree86.config file so that it activates a
compose key that will modify letters and numerals? Generally, the
compose key is the ScrollLock key.
Smitty
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,linux
Subject: Re: NO modules will load after kernel recompile!
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 02:36:42 GMT
I haven't gone as far as you have, but run into a similar problem. Take
anything away from the kernel and recompile and works fine until the 'make
modules' part. Then I get errors. Trying to make a smaller kernel so can
make a bootable floppy, but not having any luck. If I figure it out I will
post it.
Didn't have this problem with Mandrake 7.2
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From: Riyaz Mansoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: startx
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:40:52 +1000
hi
i have a SiS 6326 display card, running redhat 7.1, display set to
768x1024. my problem is my screen flickers sometimes.
i've already got the "no_accel" option in. i have to otherwise X is
pretty bad. i tried adding "no_linear" but X won't startt with it. is
there some other magic switch?
i'd also like to now if Konquerer has got Java 2 support in it. if doesn't
how can i put it in?
thaanx for your help.
riyaz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kyle Evans)
Subject: Apache / CGI permission newbie
Date: 8 Jun 2001 19:40:33 -0700
Hi, I have Apache running as the user apache. But I don't know who
must own the directories www/html and www/cgi-bin? Apache or any other
user? what are the right permissions?
thanks Kyle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Apache / CGI permission newbie
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:12:47 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8 Jun 2001, Kyle Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have Apache running as the user apache. But I don't know who
> must own the directories www/html and www/cgi-bin? Apache or any other
> user? what are the right permissions?
> thanks Kyle
It usually does not matter who owns the main web directories or files, as
long as directories or CGI has 755 permission and other web accessible
files (html, images, etc.) have 644 permission. Whether you can restrict
it beyond that depends upon who apache runs as.
However, if you are running virtual hosts with CGI under suexec apache
option with specified user and group or /~username (public_html)
directories, then any CGI directories or files must be owned by the
username or specified user.
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From: Taylor James Zingsheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Commandline Mail
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 03:16:40 GMT
I've attempted to figure out how to get mutt to work so that I can just
snap off a quick mail--to beep myself in case somebody logs on, for
example--and while I already know how to trigger the command, the
command itself is proving to be a bit of a bitch.
I've tried doing xterm -e mutt -s 'subject' -i 'body' 'recipient' and
that doesn't work out, and from reading the manpage and looking at the
conf file for mutt, I'm fairly impressed by the non-user-friendlyness of
the thing... it's a little bit more complex than I would think it would
be.
Now, I'm not using sendmail to, well, send mail, I'm using a seperate
mailserver and Nutscrape to read my mail, typically, so I'll mention
that in case those make the mix a bit different. I don't need it to
note it in my sent mbox or anything, although that would be neat, I just
need a one-command (although I suppose multiple ones would work, just so
long as it doesn't require user input) way to chuck mail in the general
direction of one address.
Box is RH7.1, i386 architecture, but I sincerely doubt that'll make much
of a difference, but it's just FYI in case it actually does matter in
some arcane way.
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Set the X color depth
Date: 09 Jun 2001 00:18:19 -0300
Hi,
where do I specify the default color depth for X?
I changed my /etc/X11/XF86Config, and now my X is 8b depth by
default.... Here is the "Screen" part:
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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*niX Power Tools Project: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/
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From: "Schorschi Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: linux box cannot be seen in networkneighbourhood of win2000.
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 03:22:17 GMT
OK, lets get this straight, SP2 for W2K does not really mess-up Samba, or
Linux, so much as restrict a few features for security control that Linux
and Samba need unless configured as applicable. The biggest issue is the
password as clear text issue. You should configure Linux (i.e Samba or
whatever) to not use such a unsecure method of interaction between W2K and
the network in general. Also, Linux and W2K support most of the same name
resolution methods with just a bit of configuration. The real exception is
NETBIOS, W2K still loves to use it, Linux does not have a clue unless you
know what you need to configure.
"Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> thank you guys for all the responses.
>
> Liverpool_FC.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Setting a IDE CDROM as SCSI
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:39:54 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9 Jun 2001 01:59:50 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 21:23:30 -0400, Tom�s Fern�ndez Pena staggered into
> the Black Sun and said:
>>I'm running Mandrake 8.0 with kernel 2.4.3, and I have a CD-ROM and a
>>CD-RW both IDEs. The burner is working under /dev/scd0 (0,0,0) but the
>>reader is working under /dev/hdc, so cdrecord -scanbus doesn't detect
>>the reader. I'd like that both work under /dev/scd*. I've recompiled the
>>kernel to statically link the SCSI emulation and the SCSI support and
>>SCSI generic support, and I've added to the /etc/lilo.conf the line
>>
>>append=" hdc=ide-scsi quiet"
>>
>>but nothing is change changed. My CD burner was left at /dev/scd0 and
>>is still recognized as a SCSI device, at 0,0,0, but my reader
>>continues under /dev/hdc . What should I do?
>
> Did you run /sbin/lilo after making your changes? BTW, "quiet" is
> something you *ONLY* put in *AFTER* you have everything working
> properly. And the append= line should read
> append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
> if you want both devices to be seen as SCSI devices. Leave that "quiet"
> option off; you want to see the messages the kernel generates while it's
> booting so you can tell if things are working correctly.
Apparently you both neglected to read the 2.4.x kernel config info for
SCSI emulation support:
In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support" and "SCSI
generic support", below. You must then provide the kernel command
line "hdx=scsi"
So it should be: append="hdc=scsi hdd=scsi"
However, it is also best to make sure that ATAPI cdrom support is NOT
built-in (it can be a module for alternate kernels). And the symlink
/dev/cdrom would need to be modified to point to the scd# device.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: X Runs Only as Superuser
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:48:16 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 08 Jun 2001 10:08:19 -0600, Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Here are some messages that happen instead of X starting when I execute
>> either xinit or startx as other than root:
>>
>> bash: /home/username/.bashrc: permission denied
>> xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/username/.Xauthority:
>> permission \
>> denied (600)
>> Gnome error: could not create per-user Gnome directory
>> </home/username/.gnome> \
>> aborting (d700)
>> warning: unable to lock ICE authority file: /home/username/.ICEauthority
>> (600)
>> errors from the xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86 \
>> compiled/xfree.xkm
>>
>> If I login as root, not of these errors occur and X runs normally. What
>> should the permissions on these files be? How do I regain access to X as
>> a normal user?
>
> chown -R username /home/username
And in the future do 'su -' to become root with root's enviroment instead
of 'su'. You likely ran startx with the wrong environment and files in
/home/username ended up with root ownership.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: xwindow session from w2k laptop
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:54:25 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Jeff D. Hamann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> newbie xwindow question.
>
> I have a linux box hat has software i would like to run (GRASS, R, etc) and
> would like to run the software such that I view the desktop from my laptop
> instead of having to log onto the linux server and sit there for hours on
> end (the monitor when it's hooked up is awful). Is there a way of running an
> xwindow session on my windows 2k laptop?
You can buy a program that can run X in Windows, or get VNC for free,
which can run X from Windows, Windows from Linux, or either from any
Java capable web browser over tcp/ip network.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
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From: "David Ehringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel panic problem
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:13:13 -0400
I have a duel booting system running Windows 98 and Red Hat 7 with two hard
disks, one solely for Windows (hda) and the other (hdc) has Linux and a
small Windows partition. Recently I have not been able to boot Linux
because of a kernel panic:
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:06, iso_blknum+16, block=32
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:06
Also, Windows no longer recognizes the partition on hdc. I ran fdisk on hdc
and it showed the following:
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Command (m for help): p
Disk /tmp/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 26559 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
System
/tmp/hdc1 1 33 16600+ 83
Linux
/tmp/hdc2 34 548 259560 82
Linux swap
/tmp/hdc3 549 3596 1536192 83 Linux
/tmp/hdc4 1024 875667 440819914+ 83 Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys+(1023,10,62) should be (1023,15,63)
/tmp/hdc5 ? 1905738 2445854 272218546+ 20 Unknown
My partition table was set up as:
hdc1 boot
hdc2 swap
hdc3 home
hdc5 usr
hdc6 /
hdc7 Windows (Win 95 FAT32)
I do not have much experience with this type of problem. Is it possible for
me to recover from this or at least retrieve some of my data from the
Windows partition or will I have to repartition my drive and reinstall
Linux? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
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From: "LAU Kar Fai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 7.1: sendmail setup
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:36:05 +0800
My distribution is RedHat 7.1, and I used sendmail 8.9.3 that comes with
RedHat 6.2. I could send mail to other domains using:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] </dev/null
But I could't configure it to send mail using Outlook Express or Netscape as
e-mail client on other PC. For example, if I use Outlook Express then I got
the message somewhat similar to below:
Cannot send mail, SMTP server response: 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Relaying
denied, port: 26, server error 550.
I have add all entries in /etc/sendmail.cw all variations of my domains,
e.g.
mydomain.com
smtp.mydomain.com
pop.mydomain.com
Could anyone tell me what configuration I have done was wrong?
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From: "tlc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new install mandrake 8 problems
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 01:03:02 -0400
i just installed mandrake 8 standerd ed. when i boot it takes a very long
time at the finding dependance screen. more than 10 minutes. then when i
type startx my screen goes black and has no signal?
athlon 700
256MB RAM
MSI Mobo
soundblaster live
hp cdr
dvd rom drive
d-link nic
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From: Jaime Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing - 3Com home ethernet gateway (model 3C510)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 05:18:41 GMT
Arnold Juster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having difficulty printing through the gateway mentioned above.
> At the bottom of this post there is a description of how the print
> server setup works from w/i windows, a link to product details on the
> gateway and copies of the /etc/hosts and /etc/printcap files.
>
> In brief, the gateway has
> * four 10/100BASE-TX RJ-45 ports to connect networked devices
> * an additional RJ-45 port for a WAN device (DSL or cable modem)
> * a serial port to allow you to connect an analog modem and
> * a parallel port to connect to a printer.
> When I scan the gateway (while running linux) for open ports, the port
> 505 is reported to be available for printing.
>
> I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.0 (kernel 2.4.3), my printer is a HP 6L.
> The gateway has an internal IP address of 192.168.2.1, the linux box
> is assigned 192.168.2.2, and a windows 2000 box is assigned
> 192.168.2.3. There is a DSL modem connected to the RJ-45 WAN
> connection on gateway that works fine with both the linux box and
> the windows 2000 machine. The Windows 2000 machine can print through
> the gateway without a problem. At the bottom of this post is a
> description of the setup routine to get the gateway to act as a
> print server for Windows.
>
> A few other things. When I directly connect the printer to the parallel
> port on the linux box and configure the printer as a local printer using
> KUPS, the printer works fine.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I think that if I could
> figure out how to setup the /etc/printcap and /etc/host files correctly
> that the print server features of this gateway might actually work.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Arnold Juster
>
I also use a 3Com Home Ethernet Gateway with a mixture of Linux, Windows 95
and Windows 98 in my home LAN. My printer is also an HP Laserjet 6L
connected to the printer port of the 3Com switch. All computers can print
with no problems. I used the CUPS web interface to setup the printer. It
must be set up as a remote Unix print queue. Queue name is lp. There is
no need to manually edit the printcap file.
I suggest you do the following (using the web cups interface.
1. Connect to CUPS at http://localhost:631.
2. Click on Printers at the top banner.
3. Select Add Printer.
4. Login as root and enter the root password.
5. Fill in the printer name, location and description (your own choices).
6. For device, select LPD/LPR Host or Printer.
7. For device URI enter: lpd://192.168.2.1/lp
8. For make select HP.
9. For model select HP LaserJet6L, Foomatic+ljet4(en).
10. That's it. Click on the printer name link and you can print a test
page. Good luck!
By the way, my Linux box runs on Linux-Mandrake 7.2. At work I have
Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and it prints to the LAN printer (HP LajserJet 4050N
running as a postscript printer) using Internet Printing Protocol also
setup using CUPS.
Jaime
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Jaime Santiago
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From: "Nils O. Sel�sdal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,bellsouth.net.support.linux,comp.os.linux,linux
Subject: Re: pppoatm not found
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:13:59 +0200
"John Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:b_vT6.35384$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> ok ok ok,
>
> I'VE ALMOST GOT IT! the modem worked correctly!!! at first it did
the same
> thing as yesterday, then i installed speedmgmt and
ppp-2.4.0b2-2.i386.rpm.
> speedmgmt was messing up at first, but after just starting and
restarting
> speedmgmt and unplugging and re-plugging in the modem, they
eventually
> agreed, and the modem synched up at full speed!! I made sure all my
modules
> were loaded, and they were, then i typed pppd. *sigh* and that's
where it
> crapped out on me. it can't find /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so I
looked
> in /usr/lib and there's no pppd directory at all! i've GOT to get
that to
> work without rebuilding the kernel. if i rebuild the kernel i KNOW
what's
> going to happen. i'll get all kinds of errors with USB, eth0 won't
come up
Thats probably because you dont start out with the default kernel
configuration
for your distro. Get the config file for your distro and start from
there.
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