Linux-Setup Digest #419, Volume #21 Mon, 11 Jun 01 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dual Boot ("Steven.H.Huang")
Re: LILO stops at LI with IDE & SCSI setup (Ardith Hoyt)
samba and vmware (together?) ("Jason")
KDE not working (Vladimir Ilich Ulianov)
Re: New kernel hangs at "Creating /var/log/boot.msg" ("Rod Brick")
Re: "linuxconf" - Red Hat 7.1 ("Levent Sarikaya")
Re: samba and vmware (together?) (Mark A. Odell)
Re: Machine name and Sendmail: HELP!!!!!!!!! (John Todd)
Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning (Skylar Thompson)
Re: Is there a french LINUX wizard? ("David Anderson")
Re: Is there a french LINUX wizard? ("David Anderson")
Re: samba and vmware (together?) ("Jason")
IPMasqerading Setup Still Not Right (Felix Miata)
Re: Is there a french LINUX wizard? ("David Anderson")
Re: floppy controller in SCSI host--what is the device called? ("Eric Gisin")
Old video components question ("Draegon")
Re: Reference on security (Robert Davies)
Re: LILO stops at LI with IDE & SCSI setup (Robert Davies)
Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RH 7.1 and system bios ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: "Steven.H.Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Boot
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:00:47 GMT
I am getting a new PC with Windows ME pre-installed on a 40GB IDE HD. I am
assuming that Windows ME will be installed in one 40GB FAT32 partition.
I eventually want three partitions, 13GB NTFS/13GB NTFS/14GB Linux, and dual
boot with W2K/Linux. However in the short term, I will keep Windows ME.
My questions:
1. Is there any difference between Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, W2K
implementation of FAT32 as far as FIPS is concerned? i.e. is FIPS successful
with WinME?
2. My plan of attack is as follows. Any suggestions?
a. Use FIPS to shrink the FAT32 partition from 40GB to 13GB.
b. Use the Windows ME software to delete the 27GB partition created by FIPS
and create a second partition FAT32 partition of 13GB. The remaining 14GB of
space will not be partitioned.
c. Have Linux use its 'fdisk' program to create an extended partition with
the remaining 14GB of space. It will contain two logical partitions, root
and swap.
d. When installing Linux, I will specify the root Linux partition as the
boot device (rather than on the hard disk MBR). I will also create a Linux
boot floppy. I will need to boot Linux from floppy until W2K is installed
(as the Windows ME replacement). Once W2K is installed, I can configure its
boot loader to include Linux as a hard disk boot option.
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From: Ardith Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO stops at LI with IDE & SCSI setup
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:54:36 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Davies wrote:
>> lilo.conf:
>> boot=/dev/sda1
>
> ^^^^^^^
>
> You're installing lilo into the partition, not the MBR. Are you using
> another boot manager?
>
> Try boot=/dev/sda, and get your BIOS to boot off that disk as C:.
Oy, you were right. I had tried that before, but I must have had something
else wrong that time. Thanks a lot for pointing out my error.
Ardith
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From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: samba and vmware (together?)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:06:51 -0600
Good day,
Supposedly vmware (2.0.4) comes with Samba (I looked at the version number
and I got 2.0.6), and I'm trying to configure it to cooperate with the
Windows 2000 (win2k) guest OS that is residing upon a Redhat 7.1 (kernel
2.4.2) based system. I'm not sure where to start, really. I looked
through vmware's documentation on their website and came up dry. I tried to
connect to it within the win2k guest OS, but it is giving me an error which
is not helpful at all. That error is "System error 53 has occured. \n The
network path was not found." Any ideas? Maybe I'm not even approaching it
from the right angle?
Thanks very much in advance,
Jason Rist
jason (at) atmos.colostate.edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vladimir Ilich Ulianov)
Subject: KDE not working
Date: 11 Jun 2001 21:11:31 GMT
Hi, all!
I'm newbie in Linux and i have "a big trouble".
I have a P200MMX, 65Mb RAM, QDI Titanium IB+ (last updated) motherboard,
Mandrake 7.0, 126 Mb swap.
I can start KDE desktop but when executing any k-application, that one
hangs at few seconds (Invalid operation. Dumping memory); if i execute
another X-applications, it runs a little more time.
If using Gnome+Sawfish or Icewm, all runs smoothness.
Any idea?
Thanx.
--
I apologize for my English. I in lowers, 'cos i'm not so important.
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From: "Rod Brick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: New kernel hangs at "Creating /var/log/boot.msg"
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:19:51 -0500
Currently, everything is mounted on the same partition. When I boot a
default kernel (SuSE), all is fine. It's this new kernel that's giving me
trouble.
--
=================================================================
Rod Brick
HillCast Technologies, Inc.
Austin, TX
(512) 474-4644 ext. 6
=================================================================
"Craig Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Rod Brick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've just recompiled a 2.4 kernel. It hangs during startup at "Creating
> > /var/log/boot.msg"
> >
> > I have no idea where the culprit lies here. Something missing in my
config?
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Can it not mount the volume that /var/log is on? That is often a
> 'doh' situation that may or may not pertain to your problem.
>
> --
> 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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From: "Levent Sarikaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "linuxconf" - Red Hat 7.1
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:45:47 +0200
the rpm packet of linuxconf is on the second cd.
based on what you will do, you can use setup, i think its also on the second
cd
try something like rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/rpms/linuxconf*
after mount and you'l inbstall it,
solong.......Levent
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed Red Hat 7.1 and there is no configuration tool from
> earlier versions called "linuxconf". Anyone know how you are supposed
> to do configuring? Is there some new tool available?
>
> I downloaded a version of linuxconf from the main site, installed it
> and it caused all kinds of problems to my system and I had to
> reinstall linux.
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark A. Odell)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: samba and vmware (together?)
Date: 11 Jun 2001 21:58:57 GMT
"Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Good day,
> Supposedly vmware (2.0.4) comes with Samba (I looked at the version
> number
> and I got 2.0.6), and I'm trying to configure it to cooperate with the
> Windows 2000 (win2k) guest OS that is residing upon a Redhat 7.1 (kernel
> 2.4.2) based system. I'm not sure where to start, really. I looked
> through vmware's documentation on their website and came up dry. I tried
> to connect to it within the win2k guest OS, but it is giving me an error
> which is not helpful at all. That error is "System error 53 has occured.
> \n The network path was not found." Any ideas? Maybe I'm not even
> approaching it from the right angle?
Not that this is necessarily the problem, but... I had no end of weird
problems until I told SAMBA to use encrypted passwords. Do a search on
RedHat's site for this. If VMWare allows Windows 2000 to see a NIC then
VMWare really shouldn't be part of the problem.
--
- Mark ->
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Machine name and Sendmail: HELP!!!!!!!!!
Date: 11 Jun 2001 21:13:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendmail looks for that domain name; if it doesn't find it,
it will time out after about 2 minutes. If you use sendmail, the local
domain name is desirable.
On 11 Jun 2001 15:35:33 GMT, DVHandorf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello. I am attemptiung to change the name of my machine from
>redhat.localdomain to just redhat. However, when I do so, the machine freezes
>when sendmail attempts to start. I am NOT on a network, but the loopback
>device is enabled, I use RH 6.0, which is outdated, and I think I have sendmail
>8.9.3. Thank you for any/all help you have to offer
>
>Dusty
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6.0
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From: Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:58:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just got a new SCSI hard drive, and am having some trouble repartitioning it. I
>would
>
> Well, fix your scsi setup then! Something as basic as that not working
> indicates that your scsi system is fouled.
>
> It is usually cabling or termination (lack of). Check the kernel
> messages with dmesg.
No, all that is working. SCSI found it, and even did a successful low-level
format.
--
--Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
`All that is gold does not glitter/Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither/Deep roots are not reached by the frost
>From the ashes a fire shall be woken/A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken/The crownless again shall be king.'
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From: "David Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a french LINUX wizard?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:16:40 +0200
Reply-To: "David Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi, I have installed LINUX on my pc for a long time. But I'm looking for
> a Linux wizard, espacially speaking french or nearby, who could drive me
> in linux exploitation. Because I lose too many time !!!!!
> thanks a lot
> Nicolas
Yop!
Essaye voir www.lea-linux.org ... Un gros guide avec plein d'infos sur les
bases de linus: comment l'installer, le configurer, le securiser etc etc...
@+
David Anderson
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From: "David Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a french LINUX wizard?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:17:36 +0200
Reply-To: "David Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Oups j'ai oublie un truc: le forum usenet fr.comp.os.linux.configuration .
La version francaise de ce newsgroup.
@+
David Anderson
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From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: samba and vmware (together?)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:23:03 -0600
Someyunghui wrote this:
>
> Not that this is necessarily the problem, but... I had no end of weird
> problems until I told SAMBA to use encrypted passwords. Do a search on
> RedHat's site for this. If VMWare allows Windows 2000 to see a NIC then
> VMWare really shouldn't be part of the problem.
>
> --
> - Mark ->
> --
Windows 2000 can see the NIC, and encrypted passwords are on. I guess I'm
more curious how the two work together, in addtion to solving the problem.
Jason
jason (at) atmos.colostate.edu
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From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: IPMasqerading Setup Still Not Right
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:23:59 -0400
With all the help I've gotten here and elsewhere on this subject, plus
the many HOWTO's on this and related subjects, I had hoped to get this
figured out long ago. I suspended attempts for several days in order to
start from scratch with my RHL 6.2 install on machine st21s, spending
some time doing a custom install in order to get the right combination
of packages installed and dependencies met in order to do little more
than operate as my internet connection. Actually my ulterior motive was
to scrap Gnome in favor of KDE. Anyway, two birds with one stone. Now,
back where I left off.
My /etc/rc.d/rc.local ends with:
#rc.firewall script - Start IPMASQ and the firewall
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
#This probably belongs somewhere else
/usr/bin/smbmount //td91w/c /share/td91w/c
and /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall currently contains only the following:
#rc.firewall - firewall startup commands
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j MASQ
This is currently providing a shared internet connection for to my other
three machines (except when one of them is booted to Mandrake 7.1, but
fixing that's reserved as next project. ifconfig looks good, but no
ping).
Besides improving on the basic security that is mostly missing from the
current setup (IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html is open in Netscape right now),
I have the following problems:
1-When I first boot, the last startup message prior to the initial login
prompt used to be 'linuxconf'. Now that I've created
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall to replace the previous ipchains entries in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local, the last message prior to the initial login prompt
is a password prompt. I've been able to find nothing to explain what
about those three little startup lines might cause this.
2-I want to login to st21s via telnet from OS/2 and start and stop the
ppp connection at will. I don't want a demand setup, as I have Netscape
querying for new mail every nine minutes in order to maintain a
connection that might otherwise be dropped by my ISP for lack of
activity. Wvdial appears to require that the telnet session be kept
open, and that it be a root access login. I want to dial as an ordinary
user. The scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, supplied here, on
Usenet, and in the HOWTO's all manage in one way or another to not work.
Maybe I'm trying too hard and reading too many HOWTO's. Ideally, I could
set up OS/2 with some sort of non-root scripted telnet login that does
no more either establish or terminate a connection and then exit.
3-(not that important right now) I'd like to know why I follow what seem
to be simple enough Samba directions and still can't see any shared
Linux resources on either OS/2 or windoze. To get anything to pass from
Linux, I had to create RW access on a windoze directory and put the
desired files there with Linux.
All help much appreciated.
--
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under
control. Proverbs 29:11 NKJV
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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From: "David Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a french LINUX wizard?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:20:46 +0200
Reply-To: "David Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Et ENCORE un truc (ben oui jai pas l'habitude de poster a 00:20 moi...), si
tu as des questions je veut bien essayer de t'aider, mais la meilleure aide
que tu pourrais avoir c'est un bouquin qui t'explique les bases...
De la, usenet prends le relais pour achever ta formation (j'en suis la perso
:-) )
@+
David Anderson
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From: "Eric Gisin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: floppy controller in SCSI host--what is the device called?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:36:05 -0700
Reply-To: "Eric Gisin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
They used to make them for floppy duplicates. Other than that, noone need
more than two floppies today.
"Brian Schwarz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9g39t8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
|
| Has anybody seen a floppy drive controller that let you use alternate IRQ
| and I/O settings? I haven't seen any myself, but that doesn't mean they
| don't exist.
|
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From: "Draegon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Old video components question
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:29:34 GMT
I have an ancient Diamond Stealth VRAM video card (ISA, DCS 2824-0 Clock,
SC1148 3CV RAMDAC, P86C911 Chipset, BIOS v.2.31, 1 MB VRAM) that I'm using
with an even older Mitsubishi XC-1429C monitor (this is a VGA 0.28 dot pitch
monitor; not sure if it's multiscanning). I'm trying to install this on
RedHat v.7.1 with little success in activating the proper video for the X
windows system. I can designate the proper adapter but 1) there is no
monitor matching mine and I don't have the manual for it so I can't manually
assign the refresh rates, etc, 2) when Generic is chosen (no matter which
generic monitor), only the bottom-left portion of the video shows upon
activation of X, 3) it's very odd that the Standard 640x480 256 colors
doesn't work because I'm positive that's what's shown when Linux is booting
up (the full screen dialog where you select the OS to boot; LILO i believe
it's called).
Is there a site that archives old hardware settings out there in cyber-space
anywhere? What could explain only a portion of the video showing up? Thx
for any assistance.
Draegon
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From: Robert Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reference on security
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:48:24 +0100
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.setup Greg Hains <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My problem isn't with the actual commands, it's more with the allocation
>> of rights to a file/directory for groups and users. I am used to systems
>> whereby a file/directory can be accessed by one or more users and one or
>> more groups - easy. I don't see how this can be done in Linux where only
>> one
>
> Same thing in unix. Put all the users who should have access to it in one
> group, and make the directory owned by that group and accessible to
> them.
>
> If you want to use ACLs instead, you'll have to go play with them.
Best to think of the group as an ACL, but efficient. One list applies to
many directories and files. You can remove a user from the group, much
more quickly, than you can update acl's on thousands of files. To keep
files and directories in the group, of the directory they belong to, use
'chmod g+s' on a directory, or mount with BSD semantics.
For delete/rename rights it's the write permission to the directory that's
important.
>> user/group can own and access the same.
>
> Is your question how you can compose several groups into a supergroup?
> "netgroups" is the answer, I believe, but I've never used them.
No, netgroups are an NIS thing, and used for controlling things like
machines that can NFS mount. User netgroups were one of those bright ideas
that never really became very useful or caught on.
Rob
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From: Robert Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO stops at LI with IDE & SCSI setup
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:54:08 +0100
Ardith Hoyt wrote:
> Robert Davies wrote:
>
>>> lilo.conf:
>>> boot=/dev/sda1
>>
>> ^^^^^^^
>>
>> You're installing lilo into the partition, not the MBR. Are you using
>> another boot manager?
>>
>> Try boot=/dev/sda, and get your BIOS to boot off that disk as C:.
>
> I guess I was under the impression you could boot off the partition if
> it's bootable flag is toggled.
Only if you have the original MBR, or recreate it with 'fdisk /mbr'.
I've been bitten by this one :)
As I'd moved a disk, I thought it was something to do with the cables, the
disk was not recognised by BIOS a few times, which put me off the scent.
Rob
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Re-partitioning
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:36:33 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>>
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I just got a new SCSI hard drive, and am having some trouble repartitioning it. I
>would
>>
>> Well, fix your scsi setup then! Something as basic as that not working
>> indicates that your scsi system is fouled.
>>
>> It is usually cabling or termination (lack of). Check the kernel
>> messages with dmesg.
> No, all that is working. SCSI found it, and even did a successful low-level
> format.
This is not a good test. Formatting is done at low speed, and one disk at a
time.
What is your reply to "Check the kernel messages with dmesg"?
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 and system bios
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:54:44 +0200
I.M.Sanders <i'[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:04:11 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
>>to fakes, Mr Sanders. As far as I can tell you are posting
>>from mindspring.net, but I don't know if you have an email address
>>there.
> Actually, Mindspring tells me I have a right not to post my email
They tell you wrong. It is not a "right" in any sense that I can
fathom! You may choose to do so, and nobody will prosecure you, but it
is against netiquette, RFCs, and it has the same effect as spam: it makes
the net less of a medium of communication.
> address in the newsgroups to avoid spam. Since I already delete
> hundreds of unwanted, unread, and unrequested emails a month I am
Do you? Why? I hardly get 4 a day, and I must be on every mailing list
known to mankind by now. Junk junk mail into a spam folder. Put in a
single procmail rule that drops mail that is not directly addressed to
you. Every so often mail abuse@wherever with the choicest of them.
Or install a professional spam filter in your incoming procmail
filter. I use "despam".
> going to continue to exercise that right.
Except that it is not a right, but an abuse of privilege, just
like spam.
I receive several thousand mails a day (I am on many real lists).
As I said, only about 4 are spam and usually 3 of those are caught
by the spamfilter. Here's today's list:
NM 1 Jun 11 366?????? (225) [?big5?]
N 2 Jun 11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (40) 2001 ^?^? ^?s ^?L ^?O ^
Just 2. Both trapped.
Peter
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