Linux-Misc Digest #678, Volume #25 Wed, 6 Sep 00 06:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Graphical LILO? (Richard Steiner)
Re: Fail in upgrading glibc RPM package ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: AOL client for linux (Johnny Hilla)
red hat help
Gnome menu's are messed up when starting from gdm. (Bob Jones)
bash no longer accesses .bash_history (Tony)
Re: waar vind ik drivers voor een dynalink is64pph(+) isdnkaart en hoe installeer ik
ze (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Remote graphical login (Eric)
Re: Fail in upgrading glibc RPM package (Fung Wai Keung)
Re: waar vind ik drivers voor een dynalink is64pph(+) isdnkaart en hoe installeer ik
ze (Davide Bianchi)
routing question (fred smith)
lpd: logging print jobs? (Frank Steiner)
Re: bash no longer accesses .bash_history ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Fail in upgrading glibc RPM package ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: dump win98 partition ("Bernd Penne")
Problem with RH 6.2 and second RAID array ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Trouble with NIS+ (Guy-Armand Kamendje)
modprobe cant find char-major-4? (Ray Fencey)
Re: Netscape problems (John Thompson)
Re: Booting (Rasputin)
Re: ppp0 module-load failure (Rasputin)
Re: Solved: was hlelp - ldconfig isn't updating my shared library cache (Rasputin)
Re: Netscape problems (Rasputin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Graphical LILO?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 23:31:14 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Dheera Venkatraman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Is there any (free) graphical alternative to the 'LILO Boot:' thing?
>Nothing that I really need... but graphical would be nice :)
XOSL is a freeware graphical boot menu (it has color themes and such as
well <g>), and it can replace the boot management part of LILO:
http://www.xosl.org
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Don't be sexist. Broads hate that. <-- Joke...
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fail in upgrading glibc RPM package
Date: 6 Sep 2000 06:00:47 GMT
Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: :> installing package glibc-2.0.7-29.2 needs 5Mb on the / filesystem
: : It means you need at least 5 megabytes of free space on your hard
: : disk to install this rpm, and you don't have this. You'd better
: : delete some inessential stuff since you're not going anywhere
: : without glibc.
: In rescue mode, I cannot delete any file. I have the updated glibc-*
: packages in my /tmp directory. How do I re-install the glibc-* packages
: so that my PC can boot up nromally?
Learn to delete files while in rescue mode? What is the basis of your
inability? A readonly filesystem? Remount it readwrite!
Why do you want to reinstall glibc, btw? You must already have glibc
even to be able to enter rescue mode, so surely all you want to do is
remove the mess you added. No? Is that what you are asking about?
And do you really want glibc 2.0? That implies that you are on an old
redhat system, I believe (that is the prerelease glibc2).
Personally I would do a delicate operation like replacing libc by hand,
not using rpms. It's simple enough. But the simplest method does
require space to have, temporarily, two libc's on /.
Peter
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From: Johnny Hilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL client for linux
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:29:28 GMT
America Online forced the website to remove it before legal actions were
made. So the webmaster destroyed his copy.
SouthPk64 wrote:
>
>
> Has anyone heard of this? I remember seeing an alpha or beta version on a
> website but didn't download it at the time. If anyone knows where I can
get
> this (either on a newsgroup or ftp site, I can't access websites...long
story)
> please reply. Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> ==========================
> Phil
> ICQ: 14873864
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The weak only strive to become weaker --Magus
> ==========================
>
>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: red hat help
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:29:30 GMT
i have a gateway 633Mhz with a 15 gig HD, 64 mb ram and windows ME. i
partitions my hard drive to have 5 megs for linux. when i try to install
red hat 6.1, i get to disk druid and when i try to assign a root partition
it says "Boot Partition too big"
can anyone help?
Thanx it would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Bob Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome menu's are messed up when starting from gdm.
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:43:06 GMT
Hey all.
I have a problem I'm completely stuck on.
If I start gnome using startx everything is fine.
If I start from gdm a bunch of my menu items have
the same name. Basically everything that I've added
shows as the same. Even my XMMS doesn't list the same plugins.
I'm starting gdm with the following line from my inittab.
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
# x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
# x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon
Anybody have any ideas?
I'm running
redhat 7.0 ;) It did it before when I was running 6.2 as well.
XFree 4.1
latest helix-gnome
latest kde.
Thanks
Bob
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From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bash no longer accesses .bash_history
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:44:48 GMT
Linux RH 6.2:
The bash history is no longer available. I used to be able to recall my
commands, but now I can only recall my "current session" commands and NO
commands are saved to my .bash_history. I can not use the "!" (recall)
command either.
Any ideas why and how to fix this?
I've been using Linux RH now for almost 3 years and now all of a sudden
I feel like I'm using Windows again. Everything seems to be breaking
with all our Linux machines.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: waar vind ik drivers voor een dynalink is64pph(+) isdnkaart en hoe
installeer ik ze
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 07:04:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:25:18 +0200, "linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>waar vind ik drivers voor een dynalink is64pph(+) isdnkaart en hoe
>installeer ik ze ik ben hier al 4 weken mee bezig zonder succes ik hoop dat
>een van jullie een antwoord heeft op mijn vraag
>
>alvast bedankt
Translation:
Where I can find the drivers for the "dynalink is64pph(+)" ISDN
card, and how can I install them? I was on this for 4 weeks
without success. I hope that you can give some hints.
TIA
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remote graphical login
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:12:11 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I want to login from a remote host to my Linux server, with all the
> UIs as if I am logging on locally. I have studied quite a few docs but
> still can't get the idea what and where to start with. Are there
> anything in Linux that does this and what specifically should I get on
> with?
> Any help or pointers will be appreciated.
> Marcel
X -query REMOTE_HOST_NAME :0 &
Eric
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From: Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fail in upgrading glibc RPM package
Date: 6 Sep 2000 07:05:28 GMT
Hi all,
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Learn to delete files while in rescue mode? What is the basis of your
: inability? A readonly filesystem? Remount it readwrite!
: Why do you want to reinstall glibc, btw? You must already have glibc
: even to be able to enter rescue mode, so surely all you want to do is
: remove the mess you added. No? Is that what you are asking about?
I boot the PC up with the boot disk and rescue disk. Is it possible to
just copy the libc located in the ramdisk to my HD /lib?
: And do you really want glibc 2.0? That implies that you are on an old
: redhat system, I believe (that is the prerelease glibc2).
: Personally I would do a delicate operation like replacing libc by hand,
: not using rpms. It's simple enough. But the simplest method does
: require space to have, temporarily, two libc's on /.
: Peter
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Automation and Computer Aided Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: waar vind ik drivers voor een dynalink is64pph(+) isdnkaart en hoe
installeer ik ze
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 07:18:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:25:18 +0200, "linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>waar vind ik drivers voor een dynalink is64pph(+) isdnkaart en hoe
>installeer ik ze ik ben hier al 4 weken mee bezig zonder succes ik hoop dat
>een van jullie een antwoord heeft op mijn vraag
>
>alvast bedankt
Wel, dynalink (www.dynalink.com) heeft niet drivers voor Linux of
Unix, ik denk dit kaart is een Windows-Only kaart.
Davide
Het spijt me voor mijn Nederland...
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: routing question
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:06:35 GMT
Gentlemen/Ladies:
I've got a home LAN with a Linux box I work on and another one as a
firewall/ip-masq box connecting to the internet via diald/ppp. All the
systems on the LAN are set to have the ip-masq box as their default
gateway.
Now, i'd like to be able to bring up a separate ppp link, from my
personal Linux box (referred to above as "...box I work on") on a
directly-attached modem, to my office and for the duration of that
connection have my default route go out that link and then to revert
when that connection is brought down.
however I haven't figured out how to do it (it's probably easy for
those of you who know what you're doing... :-), so any helpful advice
would be appreciated.
thanks!
Fred
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---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
============================= Proverbs 15:3 (niv) =============================
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From: Frank Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lpd: logging print jobs?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:57:29 +0200
Hi,
we have a local printer attached to one of our linux machines
(SuSE 6.4) but the printer can also be used remotely. We are
using lpd. Now I would like to log all print jobs, i.e., who
printed how many pages at what time (because we have to share
the costs...).
Does anyone have a solution for that? I didn't find anything in
the man pages for lpd or in the Printer-HOWTO.
Thx for every hint :-))
Best regards,
Frank
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D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst=
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash no longer accesses .bash_history
Date: 6 Sep 2000 08:17:48 GMT
Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Linux RH 6.2:
: The bash history is no longer available. I used to be able to recall my
: commands, but now I can only recall my "current session" commands and NO
: commands are saved to my .bash_history. I can not use the "!" (recall)
: command either.
: Any ideas why and how to fix this?
Set your history variable? read the bash man pages?
: I've been using Linux RH now for almost 3 years and now all of a sudden
: I feel like I'm using Windows again. Everything seems to be breaking
: with all our Linux machines.
!! Probably you have been hacked :-). Things don't change unless you
change them.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fail in upgrading glibc RPM package
Date: 6 Sep 2000 08:15:30 GMT
Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi all,
: Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: : Learn to delete files while in rescue mode? What is the basis of your
: : inability? A readonly filesystem? Remount it readwrite!
: : Why do you want to reinstall glibc, btw? You must already have glibc
: : even to be able to enter rescue mode, so surely all you want to do is
: : remove the mess you added. No? Is that what you are asking about?
: I boot the PC up with the boot disk and rescue disk. Is it possible to
: just copy the libc located in the ramdisk to my HD /lib?
Sure. But why would you want to! I imagine that the libc in the initrd
is highly modified and unsuitable for use on an installed system. Why
not just extract the libc from a rpm or tgz and put it in place?
You haven't said what is stopping you deleting files on the
harddisk while running from the rescue bootdisk. I suggested what
it might be above, but you didn't comment. Can you clarify, please?
: : Personally I would do a delicate operation like replacing libc by hand,
: : not using rpms. It's simple enough. But the simplest method does
: : require space to have, temporarily, two libc's on /.
Peter
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From: "Bernd Penne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dump win98 partition
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:04:03 +0200
check this out:
http://www.heise.de/ct/faq/result.xhtml?url=/ct/faq/hotline/00/07/12.shtml
greets
Bernd
"Volker Kalms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8p0ndr$ru4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> since I have linux 6.2 and also win98 on my PC I would like to use linux
> to do a full backup of the win98 partition.
> How is it possible to do this and how can I restore the backup after
> win98 is totaly messed up and the computer cries for a new installation
???
>
> Since I am not working with linux for a long time it would be greate if
> anyone
> could give me a hint !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Volker
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem with RH 6.2 and second RAID array
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:10:30 GMT
Hi,
I've just created a second logical disk on our Dell Poweredege server
which is a level 0 RAID array (PERC 2/SC). This is detected by the
kernel:
Sep 5 15:13:10 chico kernel: megaraid: v1.04 (August 16, 1999)
Sep 5 15:13:10 chico kernel: megaraid: found 0x101e:0x9010:idx 0:bus
2:slot 10:
func 0
Sep 5 15:13:10 chico kernel: scsi0 : Found a MegaRAID controller at
0xe490, IRQ
: 18
Sep 5 15:13:10 chico kernel: megaraid: [Uc77:1.47] detected 2 logical
drives
but I can't find any second disk to fdisk etc (ie only /dev/sda appears
to exist, no trace of /dev/sdb or anything).
Can anyone shed any light on what I've missed?
cheers
Peter
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From: Guy-Armand Kamendje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Trouble with NIS+
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:15:59 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have the following problem: I have installed Nis+ on my Redhat 6.2
machine and the connection to the Nis+ Server is quite ok! (Users in the
NIs+) kann logon on my machine. But whenever I try to mount a directory
from the Nis+ server (for example users directories), I get the
following message.
call_verify: server requires stronger authentication
call_verify: unknown auth error 5
I dont really understand what this means. The client credential was
created using DES as security parameter.
How can I resolve this problem?
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T-U Graz || www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/g/gaillard/
I.A.I.K ||www.iaik.at/people/gkamendje/gkamendje.html
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From: Ray Fencey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modprobe cant find char-major-4?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:19:29 GMT
hi folks
sorry that this is probably a very simple thing to fix, but i've just
rebuilt a 2.2 kernel on a friends box (with the make modules and make
modules_install) but when the box is reboot with the new kernel we see
that it reports
modprobe: modprobe cant find module char-major-4
can anyone point me in the direction to fix this. thanks
ray
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape problems
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:23:01 -0500
Filipe Bonjour wrote:
>
> I'm using Netscape and I've recently upgraded to 4.74 in an attempt
> to overcome a few problems I'm having with it, but in vain...
> Could someone please help me?
>
> 1) Netscape always complains that it doesn't find "java40.jar",
> but it is in /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes, which is in the
> CLASSPATH variable. The file is readable and all directories
> leading to it are readable and executable.
I haven't used v4.74, but I did get this problem with v4.75. I
never did resolve it, and have since reverted back to v4.73
because Java flatly refused to function with v4.75. I hope
somebody has a fix...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Booting
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:39:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have been configuring my kernel. I now have an error that reads
>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit evein in supervisor
>mode... Ok.
>
>CPU: Cyrix 6x86L 2x Core/Bus stepping 02
>
>Kernel panic: Kernel compiled for Pentium+, requies TSC
>
>In swapper task - not syncing
>
>Could someone tell me what I did wrong. I am working with 2.2.14-5.0.
>I upgraded from 2.2.12
Have you upgraded by RPM?
Build from source; follow the README and you'll be fine.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: ppp0 module-load failure
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:49:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <R, U & T> wrote:
>pppd wont start. Entry in /var/log/messages: modprobe: Can't locate
>module ppp0.
>In conf.modules (modules.conf) there are two aliases: ppp0->ppp and
>ppp1->ppp.
>So I looked for a ppp.o but not found anywhere.
There should be one in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/
(depending on your kernel version, of course)
Assuming you built it as a module, of course...
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Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Solved: was hlelp - ldconfig isn't updating my shared library cache
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:58:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It was a permission problem on /usr/local/lib. Setting the
>permissions to rw-rw-rw- solved the problem.
>
>much thanks,
>jeff
Just a quick comment; if this machine is even remotely multi-user,
set them back to how they were, and just run ldconifg as root when needed.
I know , I know, it's obvoius, but had to say it.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Netscape problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:01:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <John Thompson> wrote:
>Filipe Bonjour wrote:
>>
>
>> I'm using Netscape and I've recently upgraded to 4.74 in an attempt
>> to overcome a few problems I'm having with it, but in vain...
>> Could someone please help me?
>>
>> 1) Netscape always complains that it doesn't find "java40.jar",
>> but it is in /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes, which is in the
>> CLASSPATH variable. The file is readable and all directories
>> leading to it are readable and executable.
>
>I haven't used v4.74, but I did get this problem with v4.75. I
>never did resolve it, and have since reverted back to v4.73
>because Java flatly refused to function with v4.75. I hope
>somebody has a fix...
good general tip for stuff like this; run either
strace netscape or
truss netscape
it'll show you all the system calls the program makes.
redirect the output to a file , and see what directory netscape
open()s to find out where it's looking for that file.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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