RE: [newbie] Some problems
I was advised once not to use kill -9 if I could get away with using one of the other signal numbers as it is so 'brutal'. (It was described as 'like creeping up behind the process and hitting it with an axe'.) I'm impressed that this option doesn't work and don't know what to suggest sorry. regards Daryl A) Sometimes kwintv hung and it is impossible to kill it (kill -9 ps or killall kwintv doesn't work). If I shutdown the computer every thing seems to be OK, but starting the computer again, the partition hdb8 (/home) is not well umounted and needs to be fixed. One time I did: umount /home before to shutdown and the message doesn appear when the computer started again, but this is not a good solution, If kwintv hang and I like to watch tv I need to shutdown the computer. Does anybody know a way to kill efectively kwintv when this occurs? [...]
Re: [Re: [newbie] some problems after new install]
What security level did you set on your boxtry reducing the security in DrakConf. HTH Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I reformatted and reinstalled (again) thinking i might have missed something up during the installation. Now the mail problem seems to be fixed but i was still getting a connection refused message when i tried to telnet and ftp into my machine. I checked the /etc/inetd.conf file and telnet and ftp are not commented out so they should be running. One thing i did find was that mandrak apparently didnt set inetd up to be called and run in the /etc/rc.d scripts. I added it to rc3.d and rc5.d so that it would get started up when the computer came up and an now getting: telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]' Connection closed by foreign host. Getting the same thing via ftp as well, connected then disconnected. Is there something else that i need to have running for these services to accept connections? ipchains has no rules in it other then in the forwarding section for masquerading (which works btw) and all policies are set to accept on input and output so the firewall shouldnt be blocking anything. Anyone got any other ideas? All assistance is GREATLY appreciated, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Reply to mail from Paul about [newbie] some problems after new install On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fireman71 wrote: 1 - when trying to send an email with the mail command i got the message :: "/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory" so i went and checked, sure enough, there is no file there. I then went back to the mandrake cd and tried :: "rpm -Uv sendmail-*" which responded with the reply "sendmail conflicts with postfix-19991231-3mdk" anyone got any ideas on how i can get this one fixed? With "kpackage" first locate and uninstall Postfix. Then install Sendmail. I know these two don't like each other. 2 - I am now no longer able to telnet or ftp in to my computer either via localhost or from another machine on my lan or over the Internet. trying telnet localhost, telnet 127.0.0.1, etc all result in "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused" ftp localhost gives "ftp: connect: Connection refused" I am able to masq through this Linux box with a comp running win98 for http access. Meaning that i can go to my win machine and tell netscape on it to go to www.mandrake.com and it will bring the page up and that all works fine. I can even access the default web page for apache from my win machine with "http://192.168.0.1" Also telnet and ftp work fine for going out. just when i try to connect in does it refuse it From what I learnt here, you could check if ftp and telnet are allowed in your /etc/inetd.conf file. Of course, I may be wrong... Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 ---End reply The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] some problems after new install
ok, I reformatted and reinstalled (again) thinking i might have missed something up during the installation. Now the mail problem seems to be fixed but i was still getting a connection refused message when i tried to telnet and ftp into my machine. I checked the /etc/inetd.conf file and telnet and ftp are not commented out so they should be running. One thing i did find was that mandrak apparently didnt set inetd up to be called and run in the /etc/rc.d scripts. I added it to rc3.d and rc5.d so that it would get started up when the computer came up and an now getting: telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]' Connection closed by foreign host. Getting the same thing via ftp as well, connected then disconnected. Is there something else that i need to have running for these services to accept connections? ipchains has no rules in it other then in the forwarding section for masquerading (which works btw) and all policies are set to accept on input and output so the firewall shouldnt be blocking anything. Anyone got any other ideas? All assistance is GREATLY appreciated, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Reply to mail from Paul about [newbie] some problems after new install On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fireman71 wrote: 1 - when trying to send an email with the mail command i got the message :: "/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory" so i went and checked, sure enough, there is no file there. I then went back to the mandrake cd and tried :: "rpm -Uv sendmail-*" which responded with the reply "sendmail conflicts with postfix-19991231-3mdk" anyone got any ideas on how i can get this one fixed? With "kpackage" first locate and uninstall Postfix. Then install Sendmail. I know these two don't like each other. 2 - I am now no longer able to telnet or ftp in to my computer either via localhost or from another machine on my lan or over the Internet. trying telnet localhost, telnet 127.0.0.1, etc all result in "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused" ftp localhost gives "ftp: connect: Connection refused" I am able to masq through this Linux box with a comp running win98 for http access. Meaning that i can go to my win machine and tell netscape on it to go to www.mandrake.com and it will bring the page up and that all works fine. I can even access the default web page for apache from my win machine with "http://192.168.0.1" Also telnet and ftp work fine for going out. just when i try to connect in does it refuse it From what I learnt here, you could check if ftp and telnet are allowed in your /etc/inetd.conf file. Of course, I may be wrong... Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 ---End reply
Re: [newbie] some problems after new install
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fireman71 wrote: 1 - when trying to send an email with the mail command i got the message :: "/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory" so i went and checked, sure enough, there is no file there. I then went back to the mandrake cd and tried :: "rpm -Uv sendmail-*" which responded with the reply "sendmail conflicts with postfix-19991231-3mdk" anyone got any ideas on how i can get this one fixed? With "kpackage" first locate and uninstall Postfix. Then install Sendmail. I know these two don't like each other. 2 - I am now no longer able to telnet or ftp in to my computer either via localhost or from another machine on my lan or over the Internet. trying telnet localhost, telnet 127.0.0.1, etc all result in "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused" ftp localhost gives "ftp: connect: Connection refused" I am able to masq through this Linux box with a comp running win98 for http access. Meaning that i can go to my win machine and tell netscape on it to go to www.mandrake.com and it will bring the page up and that all works fine. I can even access the default web page for apache from my win machine with "http://192.168.0.1" Also telnet and ftp work fine for going out. just when i try to connect in does it refuse it From what I learnt here, you could check if ftp and telnet are allowed in your /etc/inetd.conf file. Of course, I may be wrong... Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] some problems with Linux
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, brandon wrote: I already have the linux installed on my pc. The problem is: I can only use the features and applications when I login as "root". During installation, I chose a user name and password for a normal user. But when I login as the non-privileged user, I cannot run ANY of the applications! Even ls? I haven't heard of this problem from anyone, so my guess is you're trying to run stuff like adduser as the normal user, which isn't supposed to work. Also, I read that the "usercfg" or "usercfg " command allows you to add users. I typed that command in the x-terminal and it doesn't recognize this command. Why?? Because you didn't install it. rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/usercfg* And if I want to change the monitor and video card selection after installing Linux, how would I do it?? Xconfigurator LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
