Linux-Misc Digest #663, Volume #26 Sat, 30 Dec 00 05:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: What is Python and Kt (RH6.2)???? ("weberd")
Re: RealPlayer8 doesn't like SuSE 6.3 (Ron Olsen)
Re: event soounds in X-Chat (Rick)
Re: Storage Area Networking (E J)
Re: video card for linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: Internet Filtering (Dan Birchall)
Re: determing modem connection speeds? (mike)
Re: RealPlayer8 doesn't like SuSE 6.3 (E J)
Named pipes, eof, etc. (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: How to set PATH? ("tszeto")
Re: RTF Printing (Lew Pitcher)
Re: ppp trouble when not using minicom ! (Henry)
New Year's DDOS Advisory (David)
Re: New Year's DDOS Advisory (Luke Vogel)
Re: question on ftp ("Dan White")
Re: Backup Windows 2000 partition from Linux ("Eric en Jolanda")
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From: "weberd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is Python and Kt (RH6.2)????
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 05:13:36 GMT
You can install the python rpm from the RH 6.2 disk. The rpms are located
under the redhat/RPMS directory. Simply find the rpm's you want to install
and then (as root) type rpm -Uvh [rpm name]. I don't have my 6.2 disk
handy, but it should work something like:
mount /dev/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/redhat/RPMS <- probably wrong!
dir python*
......
su -c "rpm -Uvh python......"
su -c "rpm -Uvh Kt....."
I'm hoping that the Kt library is named something like that, or it may be
inside another package. It's harder to locate if it's inside another
package - the best way is to look at the 6.2 manual in the section that
describes all the packages. You could also try grep'ing the RPMS directory
for Kt, but you could get a lot of hits.
HTH
"Bo Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I get an error message when I try to start netcfg on my newly
> installed RedHat 6.2 machine.
> The error message complains about Python and Kt and I have no clue as
> to what that is.
> How can I find out???
>
> My Linux box needs ethernet configuration (IP address etc) but netcfg
> won't start.
>
> During install I unchecked a bunch of seemingly unnecessary
> applications (who needs all this stuff anyway) and I may have
> accidentally unchecked some important part of networking.
> How can I get what is needed back short of reinstalling Linux?
>
>
> Bo Berglund
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Olsen)
Subject: Re: RealPlayer8 doesn't like SuSE 6.3
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 05:41:59 GMT
> RealPlayer 7 worked fine. After seeing version 8 on freshmeat, I
> downloaded it. (the rpm and bin versions - tried them both). No errors
> are noted in the installation. I type 'realplay' ...nothing...no error
> messages..no sound. Now I am back using RealPlayer 7. Is anyone else
> running RealPlayer 8 under SuSE?
I had a similar problem on RedHat 6.2.
I fixed it by putting the following line in .bashrc:
REALPLAYER_HOME=/usr/lib/RealPlayer8
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Ron Olsen
Boulder Colorado
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: event soounds in X-Chat
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:58:53 -0500
Rick wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me how to have sounds play when an event happens. i
> assumed you could assign a sound to one of the events listed in the edit
> event dialog box, but the sound assignment never "takes' I am usiong
> X-Chat 1.4.3 on LinuxPPC 2000. I can play the sounds in RealPlayer, or
> they will play as a /ctcp nick sound soundfile.
>
> Any and all help appreciated.
>
OK... I realized my mistake... I have event sounds now. BUT, I would
like to play a sound when I receive a PING. Shouldnt it be possible to
add ;/PLAY soundfile to the ctcp ping reply ?
Any and all help appreciated.
--
Rick
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Storage Area Networking
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:03:02 GMT
A free solution is to use amanda.
I used amanda which is a good program for SAN and tried to use a robotic
tape drive to do the storage onto DLT.
The problem was the open source driver was in the alpha stage. If the
driver was more mature and worked
properly, it would have been good.
There are very little commercial SAN for linux yet. Vertias Netbackup is
only avaiable for Linux as client only.
My favorite commerical net backup for Solaris server for heavy duty backup
and Oracle backup. It is pretty pricey.
A slightly cheaper solution is to use Legato backup on Solaris.
DaveH wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm looking for a good SAN that I can use at my ISP to provide off site
> storage of critical data for small companies. Anyone have experience
> with this?
>
> Any good & bad war stories? Any recommendations on particular products
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Please copy my private email on these answers.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: video card for linux
Date: 30 Dec 2000 06:05:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[followups set]
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:30:07 -0000, vedanta barooah staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>i currently have a sis6326 [4mb] video card and i run linux 7.1
>mandrake -
>it okay - but the "no_accel" option in the XF86Config - makes X drag slow.
>can anyone suggest me what is the best vdo card for X.
Define "best" first. Do you want something cheap that performs OK,
something that provides really good image quality, or something that
provides the best possible 3D performance for Quake3? There are several
different answers, so I'll throw out a few of them:
Cheap and OK: ATi Xpert 9x
Good 2d quality: Matrox G200, G400
3D Performance: nVidia TNT2 / nVidia GeForce / 3dfx Voodoo3
All of these cards have a reasonable degree of acceleration with recent
X-servers; much better than that SiS card you mentioned.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Birchall)
Subject: Re: Internet Filtering
Date: 30 Dec 2000 06:06:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have @home (cable) service and am setting up network access for my
> family. Although I am a unix newbie, I was able to plug 2 NICs into
> an old PC, loaded RH7, and successfully enabled simple masquerading.
>
> My wife now wants me to block all porn, violence, and hate sites. I
> know that there are Internet filter programs for Windows that do this
> (NetNanny, CyberSitter, etc) but have not found a program for Linux.
> I believe I'd prefer a program that evaluates content "on the fly",
> rather than via predefined lists of inappropriate sites.
>
> Is this practical? If so, would someone please point me to a suitable
> product?
It's not practical, sorry. Not that it's infeasible to *do* it (though
it'd take some serious packet-sniffing and whatnot), but the tools that
claim to _do_ it generally either don't catch everything, or catch stuff
they really shouldn't.
It's probably easiest to just turn on some sort of accounting/logging of
what sites are being accessed. You won't stop anyone, or catch them
red-handed, but you can sit down and have a talk after-the-fact.
Alternately you could "fix" things so that those sites started resolving
to a different IP address, say, for www.disney.com (if you believe Disney
to be any less perverse and character-destroying than porn, that is).
-Dan
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Subject: Re: determing modem connection speeds?
From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:16:51 GMT
Nostradamus foresaw that on Sat Dec 30 2000, Steve would write:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:03:42 GMT, Paul Fairless wrote:
> >hi
> >
> >i was trying to find out if there is a way to get pppd (2.3.10) to
> >report the connection speed that it got when it hooked up to your isp?
> >
> >i've got the output going to syslog at the moment so i see all the:
>
> I think that ifconfig can give you that information so have a look at
> man ifconfig.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> %HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
>
> web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
>
> or http://start.at/zero-pps
>
> 12:43am up 11 days, 12:04, 3 users, load average: 1.08, 1.06, 1.03
At the end of 'chat-script' I use 'W2':
ATM0W2DT<number>
REPORT CONNECT CONNECT ''
and '-r' in 'options' to direct it to a file:
Opening "/etc/ppp/chat.log.earthlink"...
chat: Dec 30 00:55:49 CONNECT 46000
Closing "/etc/ppp/chat.log.earthlink".
This could probably be improved. man 'chat' for details.
Mike
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer8 doesn't like SuSE 6.3
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:21:56 GMT
Well it does not work on Redhat 7.0 either. I downloaded it from
www.real.com
I tried kpackage to extract rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm and I get the
message "package RealPlayer-8.0-1
is for a different architecture"
John Scudder wrote:
> RealPlayer 7 worked fine. After seeing version 8 on freshmeat, I
> downloaded it. (the rpm and bin versions - tried them both). No errors
> are noted in the installation. I type 'realplay' ...nothing...no error
> messages..no sound. Now I am back using RealPlayer 7. Is anyone else
> running RealPlayer 8 under SuSE?
>
> John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: Named pipes, eof, etc.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Dec 2000 19:40:03 +1200
I want to be able to run a program which takes stdin, and write data
to it whenever I feel like it. I can do this with fifo named pipes. e.g.:
txtplay < named_pipe.fifo
echo "Hello World" > named_pipe.fifo
However, this has the disadvantage of the first command exiting
after the second has finished. What I want is the same as:
txtplay
in effect, so I can just stick in my data whenever I like, and not worry
about it seeing end-of-file. Unfortunately, I cannot simply do this, as I
want the data to be sent to it to be processed through a filter before the
program sees it.
Why don't I just load the program each time I want to send data to
it? Too slow.
What I want, basically, is a way of redirecting the output of a
given command to a fifo named pipe, without the end-of-file. While I'm at
it, how does this EOF business work? Is there a special "EOF" command, or is
it when no more data is received, or when the original program outputting
the data exits?
Thanks for any Enlightenment on the subject -- although I do prefer SawFish.
Ignore that last one.
--
Bryan Hoyt
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From: "tszeto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to set PATH?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:34:54 -0800
Trying to change the PATH in the file /etc/profile doesn't work.
But I can change the PATH if I add the line:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin; export PATH
to the .bashrc file.
Thanks to everyone who replied.
"tszeto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:928n0s$kad$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to set my path to recognize the jdk1.3 I just installed.
>
> I open /etc/profile and change the path to this:
> PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin"
>
> But when I echo $PATH, the jdk path that I added doesn't appear.
>
> Any help appreciated. BTW I'm using Redhat 7.
>
> Thanks,
> Ted
>
>
>
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RTF Printing
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:38:38 -0500
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 00:14:53 -0000, clear staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
> >Anyone know how I can print RTF documents (without the use of a WP
> >pacckage), ideally as a command lineoption?
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtf2ps/
>
> ...OK, it's not self-contained, but you can use it in a pipeline to lpr,
One of the _best_ features of Unix (and it's workalikes, like Linux) is
that utility programs do not _have_ to be self-contained (and are
encouraged _not_ to be self-contained). The pipeline is a perfectly
reasonable way to connect a number of small utilities together into one
big utility, without requiring the monolithic implementation of 'one big
utility' ;-)
> most likely. No idea about the output quality, as I have no complex
> RTFs to feed it. BTW, when you think to yourself, "I need $THING", it's
> a good idea to go to freshmeat.net and do a search on $THING . Chances
> are that someone's already done some work on it. HTH,
Very good advice.
Add to that:
- Check out the Unix Guru Universe for general Unix advice. If you're
asking it, it's probably already been asked and answered before, and UGU
will likely have the answer,
- Check out Ibiblio (used to be metalab) for other Open Source software.
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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From: Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp trouble when not using minicom !
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:15:20 -0500
> The problem has to do with getting PPP to work. If I dial
> and make the initial connection via "minicom" everything
> is fine. But when I use an "expect" script to open the
> serial device and do all the dialing pppd cannot get through
> its negotiation sequence and eventually drops the line.
The server you try to access might be using PAP (Password Authentication
Protocol). Try to configure your ppp dialup software to authenticate
with the server via PAP.
H
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: New Year's DDOS Advisory
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:24:26 GMT
Based on FBI investigations and other information, the NIPC advises
taking some extra precautions in computer security over the holiday
period to reduce the possibility of, or damage from, Distributed
Denial-of-Service (DDOS) and other cyber attacks which could occur.
http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2000/00-063.htm
NIPC recommends the use of our "Find DDOS" utility to determine if your
network has been victimized by implanting of DDOS Trojans including
Trin00, Tribal Flood Net, TFN2K, MStream, Stacheldraht and Trinity v3.
(The tool can be downloaded from
http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2000/00-044.htm
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From: Luke Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: New Year's DDOS Advisory
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:38:22 +1000
David wrote:
>
> Based on FBI investigations and other information, the NIPC advises
> taking some extra precautions in computer security over the holiday
> period to reduce the possibility of, or damage from, Distributed
> Denial-of-Service (DDOS) and other cyber attacks which could occur.
nah ... extra precautions? ... bit late now!
> NIPC recommends the use of our "Find DDOS" utility to determine if your
> network has been victimized by implanting of DDOS Trojans including
> Trin00, Tribal Flood Net, TFN2K, MStream, Stacheldraht and Trinity v3.
> (The tool can be downloaded from
Shut the gate! The horse has bolted!
... sorry ... I'm still in Bah Humbug mode.
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Regards
Luke
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From: "Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question on ftp
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 09:15:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could someone help me with the following:
>
> I have seen where people have set up ftp servers with real
> user, that allow the users to log into specified dirs, and to limit them
> to that dir structure only.
> I am using RedHat Linux v6.0, and I found a section in a book
> about configureing the /etc/ftpaccess file using the "guestgroup"
> command. I have created a group in /etc/group called 'ftpuser' and in
> the /etc/ftpaccess file I added the line "guestgroup ftpuser". Also I
> have edited the /etc/passwd file to the following.
>
> username:encrypted
> password:500:128:username:/home/ftp/./username:/bin/false
>
> I have edited the /etc/shells file to include the /bin/false
> per the RedHat instructions, yet everytime username logs in I see the
> message via ftp that no home dir could be found, and that home=/ .
Looks like a typo in your /etc/passwd entry. /home/ftp/./username should
be either /home/ftp/username or /home/username (or /home/ftp). However,
if you use something other than /home/ftp, and since it is running in a
chrooted environment, you should copy the contents of /home/ftp into the
user's home directory.
- Dan White
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup Windows 2000 partition from Linux
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:07:23 +0100
> I have a system that has Windows 2000 Server on one disk, and Linux on
> another. I would like to backup the W2K partition from Linux, delete
> it, and restore it later.
>
> Is this possible?
I don't see why not
> The W2K disk looks like this, according to Linux fdisk:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdc1 * 1 548 4401778+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> I am thinking of something like this:
>
> # copy raw W2K partition to file
> dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/tmp/sdc1.dd
> # copy MBR to file
> dd if=/dev/sdc of=/tmp/mbr.dd bs=512 count=1
> # backup both files to tape
> cd /tmp
> tar -cf /dev/st0 sdc1.dd mbr.dd
> # (maybe put a 'z' in the tar args to compress it, to make it
> # fit on a single tape)
or all at once:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=hdc.img
dd'ing it back, will restore the snapshot you made
> To restore, I would ensure the disk is partitioned exactly the same,
> and then reverse the above steps.
wouldn't matter, if you overwrite the MBR again, the partitiontable will be
overwritten too. It's a part of the MBR
>
> Would this work?
> Would this enable me to perform a "bare metal" recovery of my W2K
> system, assuming I recreate the partitions exactly as they are now?
No problem I'd say
It will solve no problems you may have with win2K though. You will restore
it exactly as it is now. (I don't know why you want to do this, unless you
want to copy the NT install to multiple machines, which must then be
physically identical!)
>
> I know so little about W2K...
Me too, but hey what do you expect, this is a linux NG. If you want windows
info, go to another NG
HTH
Eric
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