Success!! but I have a question...

Sat Nov 16 11:54:00 2002

 > Great!  What method finally worked for you?

Here's what I did to get YDL 2.3 installed on my Umax S900:
It kept failing during the "packages" install so I had to manually keep 
going back and selecting (to the best of my knowledge) packages that I 
thought were necessary. This was an iterative process--I still don't 
know why the package install process failed--but each time I had to 
select a few packages, let it install, went back, selected a few more 
packages, and so forth..for a total of about 5 iterations.

After that, the installation went quite smooth.

Here is an odd thing (I wrote about it a week ago, but no response). I 
had to use the text installer. If I chose to go via the graphical 
installer, my screen would get "compressed" in half. This means that 
YDL tried to squeeze a 1024x768 screen into a 1024x384, making it 
impossible to see the menu options. Never did figure out why that was 
happening. If anyone knows, please let me know!

Thanks for the help with the ftp. I checked and I don't have an ftp 
server installed! How can I get proftpd installed and running at boot?

One final question (I should look at the mailing archive for this): Is 
the ATI Rage 128 card supported under YDL? (i.e. acceleration).  Does 
anyone know if an Apple OEM Rage 128 would work in a Umax S900 clone?

Thanks y'all!

--Bondster!
On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 01:08  PM, nathan r. hruby wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>
>> Bondtrails wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>> after many trials, I finally got YDL v2.3 up and running on my 
>>> UmaxS900!
>>> (And its running great). I haven't tried MOL and all that other good
>>> stuff, but for now I am pleased with how far I got.
>>>
>
> Great!  What method finally worked for you?
>
>>> Here's a simple question:
>>> How can I capture all that text that scrolls across the screen during
>>> the boot-up sequence?
>>
>> It's already in /var/log/messages, if you want more: man syslog.conf
>>
>
> Well yes and no.  To look at kernel messages that occur *before* init
> start syslogd use the 'dmesg' command (or look at /var/log/dmesg)  once
> syslog has been started you can examine /var/log/messages for 
> information.
> LogWatch will also mail root a report of odd activity on a daily basis 
> by
> default so read roots mail! (or have it forwarded to your local 
> account by
> editing the alias for root in /etc/alaises and runing the 'newaliases'
> command)  I've also asked the YDL folks to include logcheck in the 
> Tasty
> Morsels collection, for those of us who find logwatch.. err.. icky :)  
> IF
> you want this in precompiled rpm format, lemmie know.
>
>>>
>>> Also, I am looking at all my services that start up during the boot
>>> sequence, how do I know if my FTP server is starting? If its not, how
>>> can I get it to start up automagically?
>>
>> xinetd is responsible for I guess. In /etc/xinetd.d you should have an
>> entry like this:
>>
>
> Yes, but the easier way to do this is simply with chkconfig
>
> # See what services are scheduled to boot and what aren't:
> /sbin/chkconfig --list
>
> #  make ftp a useable service at boot
> /sbin/chkconfig proftpd on
>
> # Make ftpd availible now:
> /sbin/service xinetd restart
>
>> file name: proftpd in my case.
>>
>> # default: off
>> # description: The proftpd FTP server serves FTP connections. It uses 
>> \
>> #       normal, unencrypted usernames and passwords for 
>> authentication.
>> service ftp
>> {
>>          socket_type             = stream
>>          wait                    = no
>>          user                    = root
>>          server                  = /usr/sbin/in.proftpd
>>          log_on_success          += DURATION HOST USERID
>>          log_on_failure          += USERID
>>          only_from               =
>>          nice                    = 10
>>          disable                 = no  <----- to enable it say no here
>> }
>>
>
> The above can be managed by chkconfig, as I noted.  While there's no 
> hard
> and fast rule for using one way or the other (editing the xinetd files
> vs. chkconfig) I feel chkconfig is easier for a newbie than learning
> xinetd's config file format.
>
> I'll also take a moment to stand on a soapbox and proclaim the wonders 
> of
> ssh, scp and sftp.  These are aprt of the OpenSSH package and are a 
> very
> very very good thing to get comfortable with.  They can easiley replace
> rsh, telnet, rcp, ftp and xhost in a secure and encrypted fashion.  
> Please
> consider using them over ftp and telnet whenever possible.
>
> Tangent: Does YDL have a post-install setup checklist with an eye 
> toward
> setting up a secure machine?  I think this would be a handy document to
> have and would be happy to put some time into it if people thight it
> useful.
>
> -n
>
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------
> nathan hruby <nathan@drama.uga.edu>
> computer services specialist
> uga drama
> http://www.drama.uga.edu/support/
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