Aug. 1997 Digests
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Happy System Administrator Digest: 8-1
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Welcome to
T H E
HAPPY SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
D I G E S T
A
moderated forum discussing
all things legal related to:
installing, configuring, and maintaining,
a Linux system.
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Contents:
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1. A note from the moderator
2. Some answers, plus a rant
3. Resizing rxvt's
4. Mounting floopies in Linux (monkey)
5. Misc Answers
6. Re: July 20th HSAD!
7. Sorry to be lame
8. Linux Red Hat 4.2
9. HSAD - hd problems
10. Submission for HSAD HELP!!
11. Re: mtools
12. setting up x-windows
13. Re: July 20th HSAD!
14. Minicom installation troubles
15. help
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1. A note from the moderator
From: Moderator <jammer@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Hello again,
Here's another HSAD. It looks to be a good one, so I hope
you like it.
You may have noticed that the period between issues has been
growing. It's
because, for the summer, I have a full-time job, which coupled
with new toys
and a healthy social life, mean I have less free time. But, not
to worry.
In two weeks, my internship's over, and I get to go back to my
normal pattern
of using the HSAD as a procrastination device.
The creation of this HSAD was stretched over 3 days due to
a a very slow
ISP whose modems kept dropping carier.
Happy Administration,
-Jon
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2. Some answers, plus a rant
From: James Mastros <abszero@epix.net>
>And regarding mtools.. I was playing around with it yesterday
and I'm
<SNIP>
>
>[ Jon: Hmm. What are the mtools? ]
>
mtools are a collection of utilities for using MS-DOS filesystems.
Word to
the wise: just mount the partition, and use normal unix commands.
That
way, you get to try to forget that you are dealing with crappy
dos shit,
instead of trying to fake the fucked-up dos way of doing things.
(Note to Jon: If you don't like the swearing, just don't
publish any of
this e-mail. I don't like censorship.)
[ Jon: Swearing's fine, but my policy is to not publish flames/sensless
rants/etc ]
-=- James
Mastros
>=================================================================
>
>12.. Winmodems and Linux NOT
>From: Bill Eldridge <bill@rfa.org>
<SNIP>
>[ Jon: You're right. Winmodems suck becuase they aren't real
modems. They
> rely on software to
do most of the modeming. That's why they aren't
> supported/liked in Linux.
Check out US Robotics' homepage for more
> information. ]
>
Linux would support winmodems on a fairly short basis, most likely,
except
that modem manufacturers won't let developers get technical information
on
their winmodems (I refuse the honor of capitalization to them).
-=- James Mastros
============================
Please remove me from this malling-list. I am simply
fed up with the
stupid questions that seem to pre-dominate this list.
OK, it's officially rant time.
When I first heard of this malling-list, I immediately rushed
to send a
mail to Jon to add me (OK, I used his handy web form, and I waited
a couple
days). I just loved the idea; I though that I could
finally get some good
middle-level information: I'm beyond the crap in stuff
like the Linux
Gazette (some of it isn't to simple, but lots of it is X stuff,
and I don't
use X), but reading linux-kernel gives me headaches (along with
post-doc
physics, but that's not bad from a 17yo <G>). But
of course not. Instead,
this digest has become a haven for "how do I configure my
GUI" and people
replying to others concerns by saying umm... I don't know.
I simply see no
value in this digest any-more.
If a simple set of rules were adopted, I think that the quality
of this
forum would improve drastically. So, without further ado:
[ Jon: I'm going to respond to each of the items. I think
they are all valid
points, and I appreciate
the clarity with which you voice your rant. ]
1) Look for the answer yourself first.
[ Often people don't know where to look. One of my guides
(probably the next
one) will be a bibliography of Linux references. But for
now, the first
place you should look for anything is "www.linux.org".
]
2) If the problems come before you see "Uncompressing
linux....." for the
first time (FYI: This is the first message that you see
upon boot of the
linux kernel), then this is not the proper forum for your question;
look at
the documentation for your distribution, then their web page;
then e-mail
them.
[ Unless they're running LILO, which can encounter problems.
]
3) If it's distribution specific, don't ask us; we won't
know. This
includes: "how do I do this in the GUI", "how
do I un-install" (unless you
got it in source, or not as part of a distribution), and anything
having to
do with RPM.
[ That is true. There are many good forums for discussing
Slack/RH/whatever
installations. But there are also many people on this
list who know/use
many distributions. Feel free to ask your questions. If
I feel it is not
appropriate, I'll let you know off list, send you to the
appropriate list. ]
4) If you don't want to run linux, don't do so.
This includes not wanting
to exit from X and do some command-line stuff, IMHO.
[ X is a part of Linux. You aren't going to be able to run
X without doing
command-line stuff.And yes, this is not the appropriate
forum to ask about
getting rid of Linux. See comp.os.windows95.advocacy for
that ;) ]
5) Be certain to include any information that you think
might help people
to diagnose your problem. This always includes your distribution.
More
information is almost always better than not enough.
[ Very true. I get far too many questions asking "How
do I get my XYZ to work",
with no other information. If you have a question, please
take the time to
pose it clearly, explain the problem, and describe the
situation. ]
6) Try to speak proper English. I have noticed
that those people from
primary US domains (.com, .edu, and .net) seem to be unable to
speak proper
English. Perhaps you should learn the language before you
worry about
Linux. I would certainly be ashamed to send out a mail
with as bad English
as I see all the time in this digest to a friend. Certainly,
I would not
send such a mail out to hundreds (just how big is this list,
Jon?) of
people whom I do not know, and have it visibly archived for all
time. But
people do that very same thing. (Yes, I do realize that
I have terrible
run-on sentences; deal.)
Resizing rxvt's
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3. Resizing rxvt's
From: root@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de
new subscriptions
every day. ]
7) Have fun, and learn. That's what Linux has
been all about since it was
a few kilobytes that couldn't boot without Minix backing it up
that existed
only in a dorm room in Helsinki, Finland occupied by an unknown
student
named Linux Torvalids. (I butchered all of those proper
nouns, I know...)
[ Indeed. Linux started out as a small project (read: learning
experience),
the blossomed into a quite popular/usable tool/environment.
My goal is to
give you (the reader) the ability to recreate that learning
environment. ]
OK, end rant.
-=- James Mastros
Hi folks'n'hackers! ;-)
I Have a question concerning some strange
behaviour of rxvt/bash:
The default size of my rxvt under X
(using Linux) is 80x64 at a screen
resolution of 1280x1024.
All works fine until I resize a
just openend rxvt-window by clicking
in the opper right button of rxvt.
The window grows to the full size
of the screen and I can still enter
commands.
But using CTRL-a or CTRL-e or
other line editing keys the
whole commandline, which I have
edited before becomes confuse --
a lot of garbage.
Can one give a hint how to prevent
that nasty behaviour?
rxvt: version 2.19-3
bash: version 2.01
KEEP HACKING!
meino
[ Jon: It could be related to the fonts. Which font packages
do you have? ]
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4. Mounting floopies in Linux (monkey)
From: Duncan Mak <vulcan@asiaonline.net>
hi,
I install Monkey Linux on my 486 and it works really well.
But I
have problems mounting floopies (and CD) in linux? what is the
exact
command for mounting DOS FAT floppies? is it mount ext2 \mnt?
(/mnt
exists, btw) of is it mount dos /mnt?
Thankx,
--Duncan
[ Jon: The correct format is 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -tmsdos'.
The first arg.
is the floppy device (usually /dev/fd0 for drive A:, and
/dev/fd1 for B:).
The second arg. is the mount directory. The third argument
is the filesystem
type ('msdos' in this case). Of course, you could
have found this out for
yourself by looking at the mount man page ('man mount'),
or the Linux FAQ. ]
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5. Misc Answers
From: "Krzysztof G. Baranowski" <kgb@rubikon.net.pl>
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Jon McClintock wrote:
:> #Is there any way to start an xterm window as 'foo'
and let 'bar'
:> #inherit the window with all permissions to it so that
messages
:> #generated there are said to originate with 'bar'?
For example, you want to run xterm as root, but it should
look like
that jack is working there (after "w" or "who"
or "finger").
I think that is rather not possible (of course you can always
hack
xterm sources :).
It is possible to run xterm with "-ut" and you won't
be
logged to utmp. But I can always run eg. "ps -aux | grep
bash/root"
and find out what user is running a shell.
The other thing that is on my mind. What if you eg. your
uid=500, and you euid=0. What will be shown then ?
[Jon: What's to stop you from doing it? Alas, on the machine
I was going to
try it on, I don't have rxvt installed.
]
ps. One thing amazes me. Who is the real author of this post.
He answered before the digest was released
:-)
[ Uh, that would be me, screwing with time ]
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:Another linux question,
:
:Often i have a program to compile and gcc spits the dummy when
it cant
:find a library its lookign for.
Check if you have a library, it should be in one of directories
listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. You can also tell programs to look
for
libraries located in any directory by:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/the/library; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
You can do a lot of interesting things with libraries.
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:10. chmod +x and mtools
:From: noname <noname@blah.com>
:How do i make a shell script executable? I wrote one called
:lsa which executes the ff command:
:#!/bin/sh
:ls -a
:I chmod +x 'ed it then entered lsa at the prompt and what I
get is this:
:bash: lsa: command not found
:[ Jon: I can't see your problem, but why do it that way. You
can do it much
: easier using "alias".
Do a man alias to find out more. ]
Jon is right, the best way to do such kind of things is to
setup an
alias. Sample entry in bash looks following:
alias ll='ls -l'
alias pgrep='ps -auxw | grep $1' /* $1 is a variable
*/
But you can't run lsa because it's not in your PATH.
On Linux a local directory (a dot) is not searched
by default. You have to add it to your PATH or tell linux
that lsa is in you current directory. Type: ./lsa
To check the path type: echo $PATH
[ Ah yes, I forgot about that. I have it set by default on
all of my machines,
which makes it easier. ]
Kris
--
Krzysztof G. Baranowski - The President of the Harmless Manjacs'
Club
"Smith & Wesson - The original point and click interface..."
http://www.rubikon.net.pl/~celestyn/maniak/
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6. Re: July 20th HSAD!
From: Christopher Hicks <chicks@chicks.net>
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, BJ Johnson <bjjohnson@usinternet.com>
asked:
> 1. I've gotten my PPP connect going fine. Now
I'm trying to setup pine
> to get my e-mail. I'm using a dialup account on my
ISP with dynamic IP
> addressing. I configured the news-group part of it,
and that works
> great. I can even send mail out. But it will
not pick it up form my
> ISP. My mail-check-interval is set right and I have
the SMTP server set
> properly. What am I forgetting?
Incoming SMTP doesn't work very well with dynamic addresses.
To make it
work, your ISP would have to do something with dynamic DNS.
I have made
this work and it is ugly. But there are workable options.
You have three choices for getting your mail: POP, IMAP, and
UUCP. POP
makes sense if you just want to batch download your mail in a
batch.
popclient works well. IMAP makes sense if you want to leave
the mail on
the ISP's server. Pine works very nicely. (I'm a
pine fanatic.)
If you want to have more than one mail box, life gets more
interesting.
Using POP or IMAP, you'll need to have an ISP account for each
mail box.
Now, that may be fine for some. But I find its a headache
to administer.
Its not that bad with IMAP, but if you've automated popclient
to check for
mail every once in a while, then you have to keep track of usernames,
mail
servers, and passwords for every user. That's a pain.
Which brings us to the third solution: UUCP. This requires
the
cooperation of some ISP out there. (You can get UUCP service
from one ISP
and your PPP connection from another.) You decide on some
domain name
(@blazyblah.somedomain.com) and all the mail for that domain
gets sent to
your machine via uucp. You can add and delete users on
your machine
without worrying the ISP about it. UUCP works fine over
PPP connections
with dynamically assigned addresses. And UUCP over tcp/ip
is a lot easier
to administer than the old uucp on a raw modem was.
<COMMERCIAL pardon="please">
I sell mail over UUCP service if your ISP does not.
</COMMERCIAL>
[ Jon: But, if not setup properly, UUCP has some serious holes
that can be
exploited. ]
</chris>
"There are about four comments in all of NCSA httpd 1.3,
and they mostly
have to do with people owing me beer or about how much some version
of
UNIX sucks." -- Rob McCool
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7. Sorry to be lame
From: PlahZma Franco <plahzma@juno.com>
I have been reading about Linux for a while now and decided
to ask for
specific advice. I have a compaq presario 425 DX4 100Mghz,
I purchased
a 2.1 Gig drive a while back and parted it to 2 partitions.
Due to win95
problems I lost some space in the process.
When I use DOS fdisk heres what i get:
Part. status
type
volume label
MBytes
system
usage
c: 1
A
PRI DOS
1801
FAT 16
54%
2
EXT DOS
929
46%
Then it asks me to display logical DOS drives on part. 2:
DRV. ........
MBytes
System Usage
D:
929
FAT16 100%
I want to part the d: in order to put linux on it. But
Fips says I can
not split extended dos partitions. So now what? I
want about 200 megs
for linux. What do I do from here? How do I create
the partition I
want. BTW if you havent figured it out yet Im running win95,
I boot from
the c: and I really want Linux.
[ Jon: Try out Partition Magic. Yes, $59 does seem like a
lot of money, but
it works, and does its job
pretty well. ]
Also, I want to buy Redhat...and Im wondering if I will be
able to
install it with my cd-rom.
I have two cd-roms actualy one very old and one old. I
have a 1 speed
BSR cd-rom , can I use this to install linux? I also have
an 8 speed. I
would prefer to use this but dont think I can since it hooks
up to the
printer port and the printer is routed to it. I use win95
SCSI
controllers in order to use it, and cannot use it straight under
MS-DOS
since it is initialized in win95.
[ Your best bet is with the older CD-ROM drive. Especially
if it uses an
IDA/ATAPI interface. Otherwise, you probably have enough
space to copy
the distribution to your HD. ]
Thank you everybody for helping me and Im very Sorry to sound
so
ignorant.
[ You can compensate for ignorance by taking the time to clearly
state your
question, and think about the problem. If we all speak
clearly, we can better
communicate problems and solutions. ]
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8. Linux Red Hat 4.2
From: Michael Todd <trelane@infocom.com>
I recently installed Red Hat 4.2 and with it, installed the
newest version
of XFree86 version 3.2. I'm having problems with starting X.
It acts like
it's going to start, then it brings up a terminal window, starts
to bring
up control panel and just hangs there. It's almost like the mouse
is locked
or something. I can see the mouse pointer but cannot move it.
My system
info is as following:
P166 MMX, Asus VX97 motherboard, Matrox Mystique 4 MB video card,
Sound
Blaster 16 sound card, USR 33.6 Sportster Modem (not Winmodem)
set to com2
IRQ3 (dos), 3Com Etherlink III Network card (3C509 TPO), 32 MB
RAM, 1.6 WD
Hard Drive, Microsoft Serial Mouse, Compaq Presario 1400 Monitor.
I checked
all the settings I could find and couldn't find any problems.
If anyone has
had the same problems and knows the fix, help me please. I also
have
MetroLink X server 3.1.5 and it doesn't work either. I have deleted,
formatted and re-installed numerous times with the same and different
options. The version I have does work, I have it installed on
my work
computer (basically same computer except Processor(P100), Video
Card(Diamond Stealth 3D) and monitor(IBM 15P). I even tried the
Diamond
Stealth 3D card in my machine at home, no luck. Tried different
monitor
settings....is there away to set my monitor for the exact specs?
I picked
the closest and most conservative to mine, but there were no
exact
settings. Would that cause it to lock up like that?
[ My guess is that it is the video card. Check to see that
the chipset is
supported by the version of X you're using. www.xfree86.org
should
contain the most recent list, plus information for your
card.
I assume you're using XF86Setup to do the configuration.
If so, you might
want to go and edit the X configuration file, /etc/XF86Config.
Do a man
of XF86Config for its syntax. ]
Also, question 2..after
my Windows 95 partition got screwed, I reinstalled Windows 95
and now LILO
is gone on my computer at work. How can I get it back? The Linux
partitions
are still there. Just no way to get to them. The only bootdisk
I have is
the installation bootdisk.
[ Take your installation bootdisk and boot with it. When it
asks you for boot
parameters, type "mount root=/dev/hda2 ro",
using your Linux partition in
place of /dev/hda2. This will make it boot using your
Linux partition as
the root partition, from which you can simply run lilo
to reinstall. ]
And finally number 3. I have an earlier version
of slackware and XFree86 version 3.12. It came with a screensaver
called
Rock which I really liked. Unfortunately, 3.2 doesn't include
it. Does
anyone know where I can get it? Keep in mind, I'm not real familiar
with
Linux and am just learning. I haven't gotten much farther than
installation
and a little bit of configuring. I don't know how to install
programs in
Linux or how to do upgrades or patches. I've been reading HSAD
newsletters
as they come out. I've got a couple of decent books but the most
prevalent
thing right now is to get X working. The other stuff will come
later. I'd
appreciate any help anyone can give me with this. Thanks.
[ Search for "xlock" on the web. The screensavers
are actually bundled in one
app called xlock. The mode is controlled by the '-mode'
parameter. Rock
may still be in there, but under a different name. man
xlock for more info. ]
trelane@infocom.com
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9. HSAD - hd problems
From: -1
Hi , first off - kepp up the good work jon , your doing a
fine job =)
i'm having big troubles with a new quantum 6.4 eide hard drive
i have 3 main problems , which i summize
1) I can't seem to enable translation of my new
hard drive
2) The appreance of a new phantom hard drive /hdb
3) A new occurance of different physical/logical endings
on /hda
my system is set up as follows
pro 180 , with a AMI BIOS 1.00.04 - only got this box last
november
primary bus - quantum fireball eide 3.8 - master
secondary bus - 1) quantum stratus eide 6.4 - master
- NEW
2) cd drom - slave
all the settings in the BIOS are on auto configure
for both drives and cd-rom , they all have the same options enabled
but i have strange messages on boot , about a non existant
device
/dev/hdb
( all the jumpers are set correct on all drives )
Jul 22 03:29:40 iceburg kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A,
3681MB
w/76kB
Cache, LBA, CHS=935/128/63
Jul 22 03:29:40 iceburg kernel: hdb: non-IDE drive, CHS=784/255/63
Jul 22 03:29:40 iceburg kernel: hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL
HEADS?
Jul 22 03:29:40 iceburg kernel: hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A,
6149MB
w/81kB
Cach
Jul 22 03:29:40 iceburg kernel: hdd: FX120T, ATAPI CDROM drive
my lilo is standard with no append lines or linear lines
also as you can see the hda has been translated from 16 heads
to 128 ,
and
also with the cylinders approx 7400 to 935 ,
How do i translate my hdc ???
i' ve tried the ontrack , boot manager
but it only had options to lay a ddo to a floppy OS disk
and i could not see any translation options either .
Any suggestion on other software ?
On a side note , where excatley does the ddo live on the
mbr
because i have fdisked the /hda mbr many times and
yet the translation
has not been aftected .
and if all this was not bad enough fdisk for /dev/hda
now reports
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 935 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin
Start End Blocks
Id System
/dev/hda1 *
1 1
520 2096608+ 6 DOS 16-bit
>=32M
/dev/hda2
521 521
749 923328 6 DOS 16-bit
>=32M
/dev/hda3
750 750
757 32256 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4
758 758
935 717696 83 Linux native
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(933, 127, 63)
logical=(934, 127, 63)
any ideas ?
i have searched the web extensively , real the lilo doc's
, and the
large disk
how-to's , but yet i can find no real solution
Any help would be greatly appreaciated
Cr0n
[ Jon: One thought might be to go into your BIOS and search
for a setting
which enabled "LBA"
or large-block-addressing. Another thing to try
is to tell LILO the exact
specifications of your hard drive. Do
a man on 'lilo.conf' for
details on how to do this. ]
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10. Submission for HSAD HELP!!
From: Andy <jaliviper@geocities.com>
Hi all,
I need some seroius help.
I have Linux 1.2.13 on my 386 machine. It has a FPU and 8mb of
ram with a
25Mb swap partition.
Recently I've been noticing that some of the virtual terminals
have been
going haywire. tty3,tty4 and tty6 wont work and neither will
tty12 . They
dont show up in /dev and every 5 minutes i get a message saying
the process
is respawning too fast and its disabled for 5 minutes.
X now refuses to run as it cant find tty3 , I managed to fix
that by making
a link to tty5 called tty3 ;-) The /etc/inittab file seems fine,
i even
replaced it from a backup. Some changes could have been made
without my
knowing(root is unpassworded and a lot of people use my machine)
. Any ideas?
[ I don't know. You might try recreating your /dev directory.
]
Also can I upgrade just the kernel? If so will copying the
new kernel and
running Lilo do it?
[ No. But the files you will need to go along with the new
kernel are listed
in the release notes. ]
Any help would be appreciated
Andy
==========================================================
URL: http://members.tripod.com/~technoviper
You look like a million dollars.... all green and wrinkled
==========================================================
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11. Re: mtools
From: Josh Rogers <savinien@juno.com>
10. chmod +x and mtools
From: noname <noname@blah.com>
<SNIP>
[ Jon: Hmm. What are the mtools? ]
I think they are a collection of short scripts that allow
a user to use
_M_S-DOS commands in Linux. mdir a:\new That'd get
some wierd response
in linux if it were ls a:\new And it allows newly enlightened
DOS users
to get around for a bit. Hopefully, this isn't a permenant
arrangement.
Savinien
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12. setting up x-windows
From: Manny Roque <unix70@mosquito.frcc.cccoes.edu>
i have currently linux red hat 4.1 and i'm pissed off at packard
bell
for giving a hell of a pc to configure with linux. the os is
installed i
just can't get the video to display correctly with x windows.
i have a
cirrus chip on the motherboard :( and it does display x windows
it's
just very fuzzy when i'm in x. i have the linux bible but i don't
want
to spend the day reading it, does anyone have a quick fix for
this?
and yes i do have the monitors manual with all the specs.
[ Jon: Have you tried whacking the side of the monitor ;).
We need to know
more about your system (chipset,
monitor, etc) before we can help. ]
--
cya on the mosquito,
manny <unix70@mosquito.frcc.cccoes.edu>
"watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that
yellow snow"
Frank Zappa
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13. Re: July 20th HSAD!
From: Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Ok, so i've got the lib i want. Where do most programs expect
to find
them ?? The main problems i've had are with compiling a picture
viewer i
found. I found the jpeg lib it asked for, but where do i put
it ??
/usr/local/lib ?? /usr/lib ?? etc. I know i could put it anywhere
but
where is the usual place ?? I assume mnost makefiles expect to
find them
in a certian place.
I hope that clarifies my query.
Jason
[ Jon: Usually, it is specified in the library documentation.
Also, look for
some kind of "make
install" when compiling the library (you ARE
compiling them yourself,
right?) ]
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14. Minicom installation troubles
From: "Kurt Pfister" <kpfister@ao.net>
I am running Monkey Linux on a 486 box with 32 MB ram and
am trying to
install an ELF distribution of minicom. The problem is
that none of the
executables included in the program will work, the computer tells
me that
the command is 'not found', even when I can see it in an ls.
The
permissions all have 'x' in the appropriate places.
The installation script did not work either, so I moved all of
the files to
the appropriate directories by hand. Any Ideas? Thanks
in advance.
Kurt
kpfister@ao.net
[ Jon: As mentioned above, is your path set correctly? Is
the minicom binary
located somewhere in your
path. Also, does your kernel support ELF
binaries? If not, rebuild
it so that it does. ]
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15. help
From: HeX <hex@netnet.net>
I recently got red hat's linux 4.1 for intel and when I tried
to install it
I found a problem. linux will install fine but lilo will not
install onto my
machine. I have win95 but that can't be the problem cause the
last time I
tried to install linux I formated my hd first and started with
linux and it
still would not install lilo. the only thing I can think of is
that I have a
bad install cd. red hat tech support gave me the run around,
answers lilo
not loading, which has nothing to do with lilo not installing
from the
install cd. I can't alter a program that doesn't exist on my
computer yet.
and after they gave me the run around till the warrenty ran out
for tech
support they cut me from their system. so my only chance is if
someone out
there can help me. I'm not a linux god as a matter of fact I
was just
learning linux but I can't get on with my study until I can actually
use
linux and was gonna use this version to learn from. If anyone
can help or
can confirm my theory that the install cd red hat sent me is
faulty I would
appreciate it, thanks..
[ Jon: What does lilo (not) do? Does it give an error? Does
it not boot?
I am very hesitant to blame
RedHat. Give us some more information about
your system and we may be
able to help. ]
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