Linux-Setup Digest #47, Volume #19 Sat, 1 Jul 00 13:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Various errors (Oystein Johnsen)
Gnome Compile (Noble Pepper)
Re: Dual boot problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stupid me, forgot to run /sbin/lilo... ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Sendmail (o1flame)
Re: Various errors (Colin Watson)
Font server and XFree 4.0 (Penguin Head)
Re: How do you make the windows smaller? (Jaime Davila)
Re: How to check SMP in Linux ? (Gabor 'Morc' Kormos)
Re: Memory (Gabor 'Morc' Kormos)
Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue (Robert Jones)
Re: Fetchmail Question (CoryJ)
This may be a stupid question, but are there Linux viruses (virii?)? ("Theodore J.
Mooney")
Re: Multiple network configuration on a laptop. (Peter Teuben)
Re: Partitioning of large IDE-Disk (Gabor 'Morc' Kormos)
Re: Naming Partitions for Red Hat 6.0 ("the curious one")
Two network cards on same subnet (Gabor 'Morc' Kormos)
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From: Oystein Johnsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Various errors
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 13:10:22 GMT
I'm trying to install my Gravis Ultrasound PnP soundcard under Linux
Mandrake 7.0. After being adviced by the Mandrake support team to use
the ALSA driver set, I've encountered some problems. The installation
starts, according to the mini-HOWTO, by entering the command
'./configure' (I'm understading this is a standard command when
installing stuff under Linux...? [Yes, I am new to Linux]), but this
doesn't work. I get the following message:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking wether the C compiler (gcc) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem:
C compiler cannot create executables
What am I doing wrong?
An other thing I can't get working, is my CDR-drive - a Philips
CDD-3610. My DVD-drive is mounted correctly however. My CDR-drive
*is* mounted, but I can't access it if I put a CD in it. Both drives
are automatically mounted in the booting process.
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards...
/\/\/\/\ Oystein Johnsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/\/\/\/
/\/\/\/\ http://www.oystein.johnsen.com \/\/\/\/
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome Compile
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:35:09 +0000
When compiling control-center I am getting undefined references to several Xpm
functions. The Xpm libraries appear to be properly installed.
Any help out there?
here's the specific command and the errors it generates:
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -o .libs/theme-selector-capplet
./../control-center/.libs/libcapplet.so -L/usr/local/lib -lORBitCosNaming
-lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lm -lm -ldl -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnorba
-lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib
-lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd
-laudiofile -lm -ldb -lglib -ldl -L/usr/local/lib -lImlib -ljpeg -ltiff -ljpeg
-lz -lungif -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11
file.o globals.o lister.o main.o signals.o demo.o gui.o install.o
./../control-center/.libs/libcapplet.so -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP
-lORBitutil -lglib -lm -lm -ldl -lgnorba -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP
-lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule
-lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -ldb -lglib -ldl
-rdynamic -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lORBitCosNaming
-lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lm -rdynamic -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl
-lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXext -lX11 -lgnome
-lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -ldb -lglib -ldl -lImlib -rdynamic
-lgtkxmhtml -lz -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm
-lgnorba -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to
`XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer'
/usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined
reference to `XpmFreeXpmInfo' /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined
reference to `XpmGetErrorString' /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined
reference to `XpmCreateXpmImageFromData' /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so:
undefined reference to `XpmFreeXpmImage' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [theme-selector-capplet] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/control-center-1.2.0/capplets/theme-switcher' make[2]: ***
[all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/control-center-1.2.0/capplets' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/control-center-1.2.0' make: ***
[all-recursive-am] Error 2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual boot problems
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 13:49:33 GMT
In article <8hhbpc$qq7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > --------------E5AB18FEB0C330BA64C7EAF5
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > Read the multiboot howtos. They contain lots of the "gotchas"
of
> > dual boot installation. It sounds like the one you have run into is
> > that your BIOS will only be able to boot an OS who's boot
information
> is
> > within the first 1024 cylinders. When you partition your disk,
> arrange
> > for both Win98 AND Linux to have a boot partition within this range.
> > Note, you can make a 10-20 MB "/boot" partition for Linux that will
> > contain the necessary information.
> >
> > Infamous Capt Potato wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello people,
> > >
> > > I have just bought a new system, on which I am attempting to dual
> boot Win98
> > > and Mandrake 7.0. I have followed the instructions with Mandrake
on
> > > repartitioning the drive after Win98, so tried to install Linux
> after that.
> > >
> > > The problem is that I can only one OS or the other (depending on
> which one
> > > was installed first - I have tried both ways). With Win98
installed
> first,
> > > I have a problem with the Mandrake installation when it wants to
> install
> > > lilo - it complains about the boot partition not being in the
first
> 1024
> > > cylinders. If I use PartitionMagic and BootMagic to dual boot, the
> latter
> > > does not recognise Linux as an OS on the partition, so it does
> nothing
> > > after I click on Linux to boot it.
> > >
> > > I am sure it is something really simple, but I am at wit's end
> trying to
> > > solve it. Any tips would be great.
> > >
> > > Anthony.
>
> To get around the infamous lilo 1024 cylinder problem, get the lilo
from
> ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo. Follow the instructions in the
> readme, and you should be able to boot above cyl 1024, provided your
> mobo supports the init13 call (most newer ones do). It works for me
> booting DOS, two Linux systems, and Solaris.
>
> --
> -Mike Stevens
> What manner of quandry is this? - The Tick
>
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid me, forgot to run /sbin/lilo...
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 10:03:30 -0400
> If you were a woman, I'd kiss you!!!
Yikes! Well, you have benefitted from my having to do that same
operation many times.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 10:10:36 -0400
> Since I thought it might be nice to be able to restore from tape after
> booting from floppy in rescue mode, I created a new boot floppy. The
> problem is, when I boot from floppy, insert the rescue disk and enter the
> command above at the # prompt, I'm greeted with a msg that /dev/st0 does
> not exist. Sure enough, it doesn't.
>
> Is there any way around this or am I attempting the impossible?
Hm, your backup plan is the same as mine, but I've never actually tried
it. First guess: if /dev/st0 doesn't exist, create it with
MAKEDEV st0
or, if MAKEDEV doesn't exist in the rescue file system, use "mknod"
instead. Can't remember the syntax right now, but all you need is the
device name (st0) and the major and minor device mode numbers-- visible
in your regular file system in "ls -l /dev/st0".
Let me know how it goes. I guess if I'm going to use that backup plan I
need to have those major and minor device numbers written down-- hadn't
thought of it before.
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Subject: Re: Sendmail
From: o1flame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 07:14:56 -0700
you can try to look up www.linuxgazette.com
There are some article on setting up sendmail on a LAN.
Do and search on sendmail on linuxtoday.com, and there are a
bunch of them over there.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Various errors
Date: 1 Jul 2000 15:24:08 GMT
Oystein Johnsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to install my Gravis Ultrasound PnP soundcard under Linux
>Mandrake 7.0. After being adviced by the Mandrake support team to use
>the ALSA driver set, I've encountered some problems. The installation
>starts, according to the mini-HOWTO, by entering the command
>'./configure' (I'm understading this is a standard command when
>installing stuff under Linux...? [Yes, I am new to Linux]),
When compiling from source, yes; if you're installing programs that have
been packaged for Mandrake, then they've done that work for you, and you
can just use rpm or one of its graphical front-ends (the Mandrake
documentation should have more details on this).
>but this doesn't work. I get the following message:
>
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking wether the C compiler (gcc) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem:
> C compiler cannot create executables
>
>What am I doing wrong?
You need to install the binutils package; also make sure that you have
the glibc-devel package installed.
>An other thing I can't get working, is my CDR-drive - a Philips
>CDD-3610. My DVD-drive is mounted correctly however. My CDR-drive
>*is* mounted, but I can't access it if I put a CD in it. Both drives
>are automatically mounted in the booting process.
Drives with removable media (floppies, CD-ROMs, etc.) should not be
mounted on boot. Mounting is really something that applies to the
individual disk (or, more specifically, a filesystem on the disk - don't
try mounting a disk without a filesystem, like an audio CD), not to the
drive. If you want to avoid mounting your CD-Rs and DVDs manually all
the time, you should look at autofs instead, which is packaged for
Mandrake 7.0; when properly set up, this can automatically mount the
filesystems on those drives when required.
You should only mount CD-Rs when reading data you've already written to
them. *Writing* to CD-Rs is an operation that takes place on the raw
disk, and on a blank CD-R there'll be nothing to mount. In particular,
if you're blanking a rewriteable disk, it is dangerous to have a
filesystem on that disk mounted, and you run the risk of confusing your
kernel to the point where you'll have to reboot to unconfuse it. I'd
hope that decent CD-recording software would check for this mistake, but
it's better to be safe.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"A recommended acceptance test might be to experiment with subjects
whose skulls are only at partial vacuum, such as Vice-Presidents of
Marketing." - RFC 1437
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From: Penguin Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Font server and XFree 4.0
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 15:35:54 GMT
Hi all,
Just installed Xfree 4.0 on Mandrake 6.1 and 7.1. It works fine but when
I ran a java/swing application I get the following error message:
[bin]$ Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Eventhough the font server starts OK on bootup, it fails to shutdown
properly at system shutdown.
Did anyone have such a problem?
Any help on resolving this matter is appreciated.
TIA,
PH
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From: Jaime Davila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do you make the windows smaller?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 16:09:22 GMT
Also, you can move the windows without grabbing the edge of them by
pressing the ALT key and then clicking on the window and dragging it
around. You should be able to get to the bottom (or top) of any window
that way.
Mary P wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:54:51 -0500,
> Theodore J. Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just installed Storm Linux 2000 Rain edition.
> >... When I try to do something that creates a new tabbed
> >window, the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons are off the screen
> >on the bottom and there's no way to move the window up
> >any more.
>
> I can't help you with Storm Linux but if you are still
> sitting there five hours later and haven't closed those
> windows yet :-) try moving the window DOWN on your
> screen (assuming
> you are now in the upper left part of the virtual desk-
> top). Then get yourself down to the part of the desktop
> directly below, and you'll be able to see the bottom of
> the window you just moved. If you want to click some
> button at the bottom, you will now be able to do so.
>
> Before I figured that out I was kind of "diving" the
> mouse cursor down below the bottom of the page and
> clicking randomly, hoping to hit "cancel" or whatever.
> I thought it was a feature until somebody took me aside
> and gently explained . . .
>
> In RH you can fix it with
> Xconfigurator, and if that doesn't clear it up there are
> monitor configuration HOWTOs at http://www.linuxdoc.org
> and elsewhere.
>
> MP
> --
> _
> . .
> V
> // \\
> // \\
> (W W)
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School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
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From: Gabor 'Morc' Kormos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to check SMP in Linux ?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:15:35 +0100
AB wrote:
>
> Gandalf wrote:
> >
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> bogomips : 432.54
>
> processor : 1
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 6
> model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
> stepping : 5
> cpu MHz : 434.324990
> cache size : 128 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
> bogomips : 434.18
>
> So this means, it uses 1 CPU. How do get it to work SMP then ? Since Ie
> made the kernel with the SMP option....
No, this means, that you missed the first CPU processor 0 (if you lok at the
output above there is a lonely bogomipsm which belongs to your first (0)
processor). Try cat /proc/cpuinfo | more, and you'll see, that you have two
processors running :)
But there's another trick to find out how many CPUs are running. type ps axw |
more and count how many processes have R as STAT (third column). One will be
your ps process.
Morc.
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From: Gabor 'Morc' Kormos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:20:10 +0100
Choi Po wrote:
>
> Actually, i have 128Mb physical memory in my system but RH6.2 tells me that
> i just have 13Mb.
>
> How to change it ????
Look for a memory hole between 15-16M or something like this in your BIOS. If
it's enabled disable it, and you'll find you missing mem (maybe only 64MB will
show up, if this is the case, then you'll have to add append line to you lilo
(sorry, I don't know the exact syntax, but look into messages posted here, and
you'll find one)). If this doesn't help, then I don't have any advice left.
Morc.
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:27:03 -0500
"Andrew E. Schulman" wrote:
> > Since I thought it might be nice to be able to restore from tape after
> > booting from floppy in rescue mode, I created a new boot floppy. The
> > problem is, when I boot from floppy, insert the rescue disk and enter the
> > command above at the # prompt, I'm greeted with a msg that /dev/st0 does
> > not exist. Sure enough, it doesn't.
> >
> > Is there any way around this or am I attempting the impossible?
>
> Hm, your backup plan is the same as mine, but I've never actually tried
> it. First guess: if /dev/st0 doesn't exist, create it with
>
> MAKEDEV st0
>
> or, if MAKEDEV doesn't exist in the rescue file system, use "mknod"
> instead. Can't remember the syntax right now, but all you need is the
> device name (st0) and the major and minor device mode numbers-- visible
> in your regular file system in "ls -l /dev/st0".
>
> Let me know how it goes. I guess if I'm going to use that backup plan I
> need to have those major and minor device numbers written down-- hadn't
> thought of it before.
MAKEDEV was my first thought, too, but the command isn't available in rescue.
Back in my normal mode, I find that 'ls -l /dev/st0 yields:
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/st0
so I booted rescue again and entered 'mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 b 9 0
and got something that resembles the above except for the date AND
group/owner. It shows 0 0 in whatever shell is used. Since chown is also
not available in rescue mode, that presents another obstacle.
It's interesting that while booting the floppy, even before the rescue disk is
inserted, I get the msg:
scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
which would make it seem that the kernel knows all about my tape drive.
There's one thing about all this. If you and I had the same idea
independently about how we'd like to be able to restore from tape, the chances
are very good that someone else has either done it successfully or proven it
can't be done.
Maybe some other vendor's idea of a rescue image includes /dev/st* and/or the
MAKEDEV command....
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From: CoryJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fetchmail Question
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 16:20:34 GMT
Here is what I did in RedHat.. first I made a ~/.fetcmailrc
that looks like this:
set daemon 300 #Daemon mode, Poll every 5 minutes
set postmaster myLinuxAccount #Send messages it doesn't know
#what to do with to this account
set syslog # Log to system logs
poll mail.myisp.com protocol POP3 username myusername password "mypass"
fetchall
# Everything needed to connect and poll my ISP for mail
Next I added the following to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local
su MyLinuxAcct -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/myhomedir/.fetchmailrc"
#runs fetchmail as myself using the above config file each reboot.
So far I have never had a problem of fetchmail dying off although
some other posters say they have. If you do have that problem, you
could probably use cron (man 5 crontab) to run at set intervals
and not use fetchmail's daemon mode.
> Hi. I am running Redhat 6.2. How can I make fetchmail fetch mail
every X
> minutes without manually starting it? Thanks in advance!
>
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From: "Theodore J. Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: This may be a stupid question, but are there Linux viruses (virii?)?
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:31:52 -0500
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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,redhat.config,redhat.general,redhat.hardware.arch.intel,redhat.networking.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Multiple network configuration on a laptop.
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 12:31:04 -0400
Andreas Schweitzer wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> <some problems I also had>
> >So here is the question (or challenge). Can I do different startup
> >configurations based on weather or not I am connected to a network???
>
> I have found 2 packages :
> netenv and divine (I have no URL's here - you may find them on freshmeat etc.)
>
> I haven't even tried divine yet.
> I tried netenv but I had to fool around with it so much I ended up doing the
> following :
> You can pass environment variables with lilo. Everything that is not
> understood by lilo or the kernel is passed to init and even further.
> So I have some targets in lilo.conf that set certain variables and my
> init scripts test these and set up the network accordingly and fool around
> with other files.
> I even have a target that eventually asks during boot up for the IP etc.
> interactively.
somebody once told me that linuxconf can reconfigure your networking
setup. But
I've been using a very old scripting solution, that works for dialup as
well
as ethernet. You can tailor it for any distribution, i use redhat and
slackware.
First you need to figure out which files are changed when you change
location.
This will depend on the complexity of your network, e.g. if you use
static routes
(most of us probably don't) you need to add /etc/sysconfig/static_routes
to your
database.
I use the method whereby important system files are actually stored in
${file}_S{loc},
and the script will then copy them back to ${file}. So, here is my
configuration
script:
#! /bin/csh -f
#
if ($#argv == 0) then
grep ^GATEWAY= /etc/sysconfig/network
grep ^IPADDR= /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
exit 0
endif
foreach loc ($*)
foreach dir (/etc /etc/sysconfig /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts)
#echo Adding $loc
#echo Visiting $dir
set names=(`find $dir -maxdepth 1 -name \*_$loc -print`)
if ($#names > 0) then
foreach name ($names)
set base=`echo $name | sed s/_$loc//`
#echo $base :
#echo " $name"
if (-e $base) then
echo cp -p $name $base
cp -p $name $base
endif
end
else
#echo Nothing for _$loc in $dir
endif
end
end
I've seen a solution like this by somebody else who copied files into a
specific
directory, i keep them in the location where they belong (that makes it
a little
easier to use in different distributions where the location may be
different).
Anyways, maybe somebody will have some new additions/improvements to
this method.
I also have a script that given a newly edited site, it will do the
reverse, and
promote system files to a specific '_loc'. That saves you from manually
making
the backups.
My method can also be used to do dialup in redhat, but i've been using
an old
slackware method even under redhat. For that I had to maintain a
separate script
called ppp_configure, which is messy and i won't dare to publish that
here.
- peter
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From: Gabor 'Morc' Kormos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning of large IDE-Disk
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:39:07 +0100
Hi Oliver,
> Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 29765 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 1 12484 6291904+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc2 12485 24968 6291936 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc3 24969 29765 2417688 b Win95 FAT32
Why are you using you drive in normal disk access mode (BIOS setting)? I would
use a large drive like this with LBA setting, not normal/CHS. And are the files
disappeared after you copied them to /C (maybe you need some up-to-date utils)?
Morc.
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From: "the curious one" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Naming Partitions for Red Hat 6.0
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 16:44:56 GMT
ok ...... thanks ...... that was easy enough to understand
Leanne
Jim Harback wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Leanne,
>
>You are specifying the locations of the directories but, you are not
>adding extra directories. By specifically specifiy the directories as
>you are doing you are physically placing them on different partitions
>of your hard drive instead of placing them all on one partition. This is
>normally considered a good thing. If a partition goes bad you don't lose
>everything just that directory along with its subdirectories. For instance
>you have roughly set up the following:
>
>hda1 /
>hda5 /home
>hda6 /usr
>hda7 /var
>hda8 /boot ( I would recommend to place this first, not at the end)
>
>If you lose hda7 you will still have all your data because it will be
located
>on hda5 (/home). In cases of disaster this type of patitioning scheme
allows
>for a more graceful rebuild of your system.
>
>I hope this is understandabel and clears up some misconceptions.
>
>Jim
>
>the curious one wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am jus wanting to know, by naming partitions,/ , home, usr, var, boot
>> ...... is this correct ?? And if so then does this mean that i am
specifying
>> that i want these directories in these specific partitions ? Or am i
>> actually adding extra directories to the whole sys ?
>>
>> thnks
>>
>> Leanne
>
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From: Gabor 'Morc' Kormos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Two network cards on same subnet
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:08:58 +0100
Hi Guys,
System specs:
RH 6.1/6.2, Intel Pro 100+ cards (mb intergated/add-on card), kernel
2.2.14 (I
will upgrade to 2.2.16) w/multicasting enabled
Situation I:
I have some servers with two network cards in each to have some redundancy and
if I set up both cards to be on the same subnet (192.168.0.0) and same
address/different address then if I unplug the cable from the first card (eth0)
that box stops reaching the network until I plug is back.
Question I:
Is there any solution to make the two cards work in parallel?
Situation II:
Same setup, as above, but I down the eth0 and only use eth1 to access the
network. I want to use IP multicast on them/this. I set up the 224.0.0.0 network
to be routed though the eth1 (route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 dev eth1) then ping
224.0.0.1 does not give back any replies. If I up the eth0 (nothing else is
changed!) everything work fine and all the machines replies (NOTE: the network
is working OK with eth1 only, and I can ping any normal IP address on the net or
connect to any machine!!!!).
Question II:
Is this a bug/feature in Linux kernel?
I'm not a newbie, but I'm on a tight schedule and I don't have too much time
to read all the docs again (I've dealt Linux before, but for the past 4 years I
dealt with Win9x mainly). So if the answers are in one or more of the
FAQs/HowTos/Guides shipping with standard distros or found on the net then just
reply RTFM and the manuals containing the answers (ULRs too).
TIA, Morc.
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