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apt-get breakage
AAA! apt-get dist-upgrade hosed my system yesterday! Well, hosed is a bit rough... everything works but it seems 'su' is busted. It says: su: Unrecognized Linux-PAM error Sorry. I've tried reinstalling all packages related to login, libpam, libpam- modules, etc. I've tried pwconv'ing and pwuconv'ing. No dice. I was very surprised to see this, since a) I'm running stable, and b) I've been using apt-get for a few weeks to keep this system current. Anyone have any advice as to how to fix this? Thanks, C Brown * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
ipchains latency
Hello, Our company LAN is divided into two segments, and I have just finished implementing firewalling rules for the router in between them, to protect the inner network from the outside world. After meticulously designing an installing my ipchains rules, I was dismayed by the performance hit they incurred. Before installing the firewalling rules, connection latency between the networks was normally below ~50ms. telnet, ftp, and other logins took less than a second to return a login prompt. Now, after installing the rules, a connection across the firewall takes at least 10sec, occasionally taking over 30sec. Once the login is successful, latency isn't too bad, but still noticably worse - well over 200-300ms - when in a telnet session. The router is a 386/33 with 16MB of RAM and two ISA Ethernet cards. Is this an underpowered machine for firewalling? I shouldn't think this is the problem... Are there any errors that add to connection latency that I should be looking for in the firewalling rules? Thanks, Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seitz Technical Products Inc. * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
IPFWADM Problems
Hello all, I have a Debian system running kernel 2.0.38 that is supposed to be acting as a router between two networks. For the past many months, we've had our nameserver doing the routing because it was far less flaky. We've fixed the problems in the hardware, finally, and would like to go back to using the first box. However, now we have some problems. Enabling IP Forwarding in the kernel does not allow packets to be routed between interfaces. I don't have any more information on this, that's all there is. From net-0 I can ping the net-0 side of the router, but I can't ping the net-1 side of the router. Both network cards are hooked up and configured correctly. Enabling IP Firewalling, flushing all the rules, and setting default policy to accept also has no setting. Once again, no error messages anywhere - the box obviously thinks this is right. I must have missed something. To make matters a bit weirder, IPX route happily between the interfaces. It's only IP that is causeing problems. Any help would be appreciated. CBrown * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
ext2 file recovery
Hello all, I administer a few Debian machines around the office, and have a question about data recovery. We have a machine with a 108GB RAID5 array, and have run into some hardware trouble. During an e2fsck of the array, *two* drives failed, causing massive problems with the array. I have figured out the low-level RAID problems, and the array is now mountable. The e2fs on top of the RAID device, however, isn't doing so hot. Every inode seems to have lost it's filename, and been moved to lost+found. This sucks the big one --- there was like 29G in about 5 million files on the array. Obviously if the only solution is to rename each file with the proper name, the data is as good as dead. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas that might help me here. Is the filename data still stuck in the filesystem somewhere? If so, how can I re-link the names to the files? I'm a relatively experienced GNU/Linux user and have done ext2 file recovery a few times before. I'm not scared of low-level fs editing, so no holds barred on prospective solutions. Thanks for any help!! Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
SIOCADDRT error on boot
Greetings, I'm cleaning up the boot messages of a system we're moving to another location, and I ran into a funny message. When the system boots everything looks OK until It mounts the local filesystems. I get this weird error, SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument twice, and then it moves on. I've looked at the /etc/init.d/mountall.sh script, /etc/fstab, and /proc/filesystems and I still don't have a clue. What do I need to change to kill this error? Thanks, Chris :/etc/fstab: /dev/hda4 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda1 noneswapsw,pri=-2 0 0 /dev/md0/home ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdd2 /home/usrsh ext2defaults,errors=remount- ro,usrquota,grpquota0 1 /dev/hdd1 noneswapsw,pri=-1 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults :/etc/init.d/mountall.sh: # # mountall.sh Mount all filsystems. # # Version: @(#)mountall.sh 1.0019-Jun-1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Version: @(#)mountall.sh 1.1004-Mar-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./etc/default/rcS # # Mount local filesystems in /etc/fstab # [ $VERBOSE != no ] echo Mounting local file systems... #mount -avt nonfs,noproc mount -at nonfs,noproc # # Execute swapon command again, in case we want to swap to # a file on a now mounted filesystem # # TEMPORARILY DISABLED -you can swapon a file twice, kernel bug. #swapon -a 2/dev/null :/proc/filesystems: ext2 minix msdos nodev proc nodev nfs iso9660 nodev autofs nodev devpts * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
RE: du -x
Thank you both for your replys... I am no unix expert so please bear with me on this one I fully understand what you are saying in your responses below, but I don't completely agree with the implications. First off, I'm persuing this because I'd like to make my life a little easier when reviewing drive usage; I'd like (need) a way to list summerized directory space used on a single filesystem for one level of directories (below the current, perhaps). For example if /home has a different filesystem than / and I'm at / then I'd like a response similar to; /bin 12234 /etc 23456 /home 1 ( directories use 1024 bytes) /var 34567 ... Where the totals are the sums of all lower subdirectories. Is there a way to do what I want, other than writing a fairly complex script? Ole, your statement -x only skips the directories that are on different filesystems from the argument currently being processed., very clearly addresses the area of confusion, but this is precisely the point I disagree with. In my (feeble) mind, in our example above, the argument, /home is a directory on the root filesystem, its contents are however on another filesystem. So I would rationalize that /home would be included, but not its contents. BTW: this is precisely how find interpets the situation, if I do a find -mount -maxdepth 16 from / I will get up to 16 subdirectory depths of all dirs except /home, but I do get /home listed as a directory of the root filesystem. Please, any suggestions on this fine point or a suggestion on how to accomplish the desired task TIA, Chirs Previous responses below; du is working just fine. What is happening is that the asterix is interpreted to mean each and every file that is visible, so du is actually excluding mounted filesystems some of the time -- only it is explicitly told to calculate the size of the filesystems mounted at a mount- point in your working directory. `du -sx .` should give no such problems. Hope that helps, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) Date: 09 Apr 1999 09:43:27 +0200 With du 4.0 -x seems to work for me. Are you sure the problem isn't caused by using '*' ? For example, this machine has /home on a separate filesystem: When I do 'cd /; du -sx .' /home is not included becuse it is on a different filesystem from . but if I do 'cd /; du -sx *' /home will be included because the command is expanded to 'du -sx bin boot ... home ...' . This will first do a du on bin, then on boot, and eventually on home. Since home is on the same filesystem as itself it will not be skipped. -x only skips the directories that are on different filesystems from the argument currently being processed. * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
laptop filesystem panic
Hi all, I just finished installing slink on my compaq armada with a 6.4 gig drive, its partitioned with one 2.1g dos primary, one 2.1 gig dos extended, and the balance (approx 2 gig) for linux. Every now and then I get a string of console messages, as shown below. How serious is this probem and what do I do to fix it? Am I correct in assuming the partition with the problem is the extended dos partition? Directory 825174: bad FAT Filesystem panic (dev 03:03, mounted on 03:01:454739) FAT error Filesystem panic (dev 03:03, mounted on 03:01:454739) fat_free: deleting beyond EOF TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
icmplogd
Hi all, Is there any way to tell icmplogd to not write a log entry for a ping from a group of ip addresses? My log files are getting huge but I don't want to stop pings completely. Thanks, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
login/inittab problems
Hello all, I recently did a slink install on one of my machines, but now when I log on to my machine on the console it doesn't ask for a root password. The /etc/inittab file looks exactly the same as another machine I have that works properly. Does anybody know where the offending config is? The password is set for root, and logging through su and over telnet works correctly. Thanks, Chris my /etc/inittab should be attached * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- Enclosure number 1 # /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration. # $Id: inittab,v 1.8 1998/05/10 10:37:50 miquels Exp $ # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: # Boot-time system configuration/initialization script. # This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode. si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS # What to do in single-user mode. ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin # /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change # of runlevel. # # Runlevel 0 is halt. # Runlevel 1 is single-user. # Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user. # Runlevel 6 is reboot. l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6 # Normally not reached, but fallthrough in case of emergency. z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now # Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow). kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this work. # What to do when the power fails/returns. pf::powerwait:/etc/init.d/powerfail start pn::powerfailnow:/etc/init.d/powerfail now po::powerokwait:/etc/init.d/powerfail stop # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels. # # The id field MUST be the same as the last # characters of the device (after tty). # # Format: # id:runlevels:action:process 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) # #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 # Example how to put a getty on a modem line. # #T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
Rebooting
Hi everyone, We have Debian 2.1 system here that seems to be rebooting a lot, and it seems to be doing it on its own. Sometimes, according to syslog it will reboot multiple times in a row. Unfortunately, none of the logs have any documented reason for a reboot. The system is a backup mail spooler, so the user base is myself, my boss, and the sys- admin, and none of us are rebooting it. What on Earth could cause somthing like this? To what point should I increase the verbosity of syslogd so it will document reboot conditions? Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
du -x problem
Hi all, I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can anybody help? Thanks, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
kmem_free error/warning..
Hi, a question to those more knowledgable than I; Under periods of heavy disk access my Debian slink system w/ 2.2.3 kernel and raid-1 on two 13gig IDE's occasionally spits out a console message: kmem_free: Either bad obj addr or double free (objp=c266fe00, name=size-512) The machine continues to run fine, is this serious? how do I track down the problem? Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Firewall configuration issue
We recently installed Debian onto a laptop machine, and ran into some weird IP problems. When we tried to ping out of the laptop, we recieved an Operation not permitted error. With help from the lists, the problem was tracked to the IP Firewalling setup. It defaulted to not allowing *any* network traffic. First of all, I specifically chose, while setting up modules to be installed for the Debian kernel, not to install the IP Firewall-related ones. Does this mean that the installation program changed my kernel setup without telling me, to include those necessary modules? Second, does it really make sense to have the IP Firewalling software default to not allowing any IP traffic? This is a very non- intuitive default. It would be helpful, in my mind, to have a notice somewhere saying Enabling this package will disable all IP services until configured otherwise. Does this make any sense? And finally, to satisfy my own curiosity, is this default of blocking all traffic a Debian-set default or a kernel/developer/maintainer/historical default? Thanks a bunch, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Console Screen Saver
We would like to completely and fully disable the screen saver for the console. We know the command use at the command line and it works, but. we would like to have the system comeup without the screen saver, so if it stops somewhere in boot or a the login prompt the screen doesnt turn off. The earlier in the boot process the better, a kernel option perhaps? We've tried placing the command line function is various scripts associated with bootup and run levels but it doesn't seem to work. Its almost as thought maybe something is coming after our disable to re-enable it. Any suggestions, TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Re: Console Screen Saver
The command we use is setterm -blank 0 it works once logged in, but we want to disable blanking the screen very early on in the boot process. On 7 Apr 99 at 8:42, Alan Su wrote: what is the command you're using to turn off screen blanking? -alan * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Re: New install: net unreachable
Brant others. getting desperate here, please help! To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes. If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the 3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap beeps, and when the system boots or the card is inserted, the network active light comes on on the adapter at the appropiate times. Also, a ping of the machine's own address completes properly in a millisecond or two. If I remove the card, pinging its own address returns the message network is unreachable. Pings to any other address with the card in result in: ping: sendto: operation not permitted ping: wrote 207.. 64 chars, ret=-1 I had a linux_guru_friend stop by last night to look at the problem, he looked at some low level tcpip functionality and saw that arp requests were being received by the laptop, but is wasn't sending anything out on the network. After mucking with it for a few hours he thought he would try a re-install from the rescue disks. same result! We successfully installed debian via nfs over the *EXACT* same network and interface, then on rebooting the network doesn't work and ping returns operation not allowed Any suggestions please !! On 5 Apr 99 at 22:42, Brant Wells wrote: Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed? Just checking, Brant. Chris Brown wrote: Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet). I can ping the machine's own address but pings anywhere else result with ping declaring not allowed... My ifconfig and route table look fine. I know the driver and network is okay because the entire system was nfs installed initially! This problem occurs when I reboot after completing the entire install process. I suspect that I've (unknowingly) installed some sort of ip security program that is not allowing network access, I see things in the boot log like ip paranoia deamon... and others that I don't understand. I used the custom package selection of dinstall. I've carefully done the process twice with the same results. As a newbie, I have no idea how to search the OS to find the offending software if that's the problem. Besides any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, can someone please let me know how I'd (efficiently) go about tracking down offending software in general? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
re: new install: network unreachable
Brant others. getting desperate here, please help! To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes. If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the 3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap beeps, and when the system boots or the card is inserted, the network active light comes on on the adapter at the appropiate times. Also, a ping of the machine's own address completes properly in a millisecond or two. If I remove the card, pinging its own address returns the message network is unreachable. Pings to any other address with the card in result in: ping: sendto: operation not permitted ping: wrote 207.106... 64 chars, ret=-1 I had a linux_guru_friend stop by last night to look at the problem, he looked at some low level tcpip functionality and saw that arp requests were being received by the laptop, but is wasn't sending anything out on the network. After mucking with it for a few hours he thought he would try a re-install from the rescue disks. same result! We successfully installed debian via nfs over the *EXACT* same network and interface, then on rebooting the network doesn't work and ping returns operation not allowed Any suggestions please !! On 5 Apr 99 at 22:42, Brant Wells wrote: Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed? Just checking, Brant. Chris Brown wrote: Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet). I can ping the machine's own address but pings anywhere else result with ping declaring not allowed... My ifconfig and route table look fine. I know the driver and network is okay because the entire system was nfs installed initially! This problem occurs when I reboot after completing the entire install process. I suspect that I've (unknowingly) installed some sort of ip security program that is not allowing network access, I see things in the boot log like ip paranoia deamon... and others that I don't understand. I used the custom package selection of dinstall. I've carefully done the process twice with the same results. As a newbie, I have no idea how to search the OS to find the offending software if that's the problem. Besides any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, can someone please let me know how I'd (efficiently) go about tracking down offending software in general? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
re: new install: network unreachable
Hi csani, You're a genius! the ipfwadm -Mf command was rejected, but the others worked and now I'm back on the net! Can you please explain a little what was going on and why my config defaulted to allow_no_network_traffic_mode? What's the best way to permanently set the correct options? Many thanks, Chris. On 6 Apr 99 at 16:35, Holanyi Janos, jr. wrote: Just wondering... try these commands: (for a 2.0 kernel) ipfwadm -If ipfwadm -Of ipfwadm -Ff ipfwadm -Mf ipfwadm -I -p acc ipfwadm -O -p acc ipfwadm -F -p acc ipfwadm -F -p acc ...and ping. Is it better? Bye csani On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Chris Brown wrote: Brant others. getting desperate here, please help! To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes. If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the 3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap beeps, and when the system boots or the card is inserted, the network active light comes on on the adapter at the appropiate times. Also, a ping of the machine's own address completes properly in a millisecond or two. If I remove the card, pinging its own address returns the message network is unreachable. Pings to any other address with the card in result in: ping: sendto: operation not permitted ping: wrote 207.. 64 chars, ret=-1 I had a linux_guru_friend stop by last night to look at the problem, he looked at some low level tcpip functionality and saw that arp requests were being received by the laptop, but is wasn't sending anything out on the network. After mucking with it for a few hours he thought he would try a re-install from the rescue disks. same result! We successfully installed debian via nfs over the *EXACT* same network and interface, then on rebooting the network doesn't work and ping returns operation not allowed Any suggestions please !! On 5 Apr 99 at 22:42, Brant Wells wrote: Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed? Just checking, Brant. Chris Brown wrote: Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet). I can ping the machine's own address but pings anywhere else result with ping declaring not allowed... My ifconfig and route table look fine. I know the driver and network is okay because the entire system was nfs installed initially! This problem occurs when I reboot after completing the entire install process. I suspect that I've (unknowingly) installed some sort of ip security program that is not allowing network access, I see things in the boot log like ip paranoia deamon... and others that I don't understand. I used the custom package selection of dinstall. I've carefully done the process twice with the same results. As a newbie, I have no idea how to search the OS to find the offending software if that's the problem. Besides any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, can someone please let me know how I'd (efficiently) go about tracking down offending software in general? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Raid 5 advice...
I want to put together a cheap server with lots of space, good reliability, performance is not critical. I was thinking of a Debian Linux system with say 4 UDMA 16-20g IDE drives. What is the best kernel and raid tools versions to be using for this, from a data security and reliability standpoint? TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Laptop Shutdown
I've got an annoying problem with slink on a compaq armada laptop. About 4 out of 5 times when I shutdown (#reboot) the shutdown process runs to near completion, then hangs with the message: Rebooting GDT: flushing all host drives. Done. I have to remove the batteries and power to shut the system down after the hang... Any Suggestions, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
New install: net unreachable
Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet). I can ping the machine's own address but pings anywhere else result with ping declaring not allowed... My ifconfig and route table look fine. I know the driver and network is okay because the entire system was nfs installed initially! This problem occurs when I reboot after completing the entire install process. I suspect that I've (unknowingly) installed some sort of ip security program that is not allowing network access, I see things in the boot log like ip paranoia deamon... and others that I don't understand. I used the custom package selection of dinstall. I've carefully done the process twice with the same results. As a newbie, I have no idea how to search the OS to find the offending software if that's the problem. Besides any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, can someone please let me know how I'd (efficiently) go about tracking down offending software in general? TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
top like drive usage utility?
Hello everyone, Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. They would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for 10 minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is accessing the disks? Thanks, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Disk usage utility?
Hi all, I was wondering if there's a utility like top to see who is accessing the drives. The machine has been going nuts with disk access for no obvious reason, and we don't know if it's a program running in the background, one of our shell users, or something else. Thanks, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
dselect.... missing the obvious?
Hello again and thanks for all the help this debian-newbie is getting! I've done several (custom) installs of slink using dselect, and each time I waste a bunch of time searching for certain packages I want for instance ntp, sendmail, snmp, pine, joe I am getting a little more familiar with the organization of the packages but it seems I must be doing it the difficult way, manually searching through the entire list! I know about the re-order list options, but there must be a way to search the package list for a keyword, package name or catagory, how do I do this? Second, once I have a favorite base system, can I integrate that into the dselect program for future installs? TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
kernel.org mirror
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kernel.org mirror[oops]
Hello everyone, Sorry about that last message, I had a little glitch with my computer. Anyway, my question has to do with mirroring. We are using slink's fmirror package to mirror ftp.us.kernel.org. We realize that ftp.us.kernel.org often fowards ftp requests to other servers. Our problem is that these other servers have different file times, and sometimes even completely different directory trees. Every time we run the fmirror script it says it needs to redownload about 600 megs of stuff we already have. It sometimes even deletes directories that we want, even though we have the nodel: 1 option set in the config file. Should we chose one of the ftp sites that ftp.us.kernel.org fowards to and stick with that? If so, which one is best? Is there a bug in fmirror that causes it to delete directories even though the nodel option is set? Thanks, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Raid issues
Hello all, We've been having some problems with our software RAID-1 implementation. Our machine is being transported out of town soon, so we've been trying to give our drives a workout. What we did was making a shell script that constantly cats the drives contents to /dev/null. We ran this script on /dev/hda, /dev/hdd, and /dev/md0. Everything was going fine until it suddenly crapped out on us with a kernel panic. When we rebooted only half of the mirror drive came back to life(/dev/hdb). We mucked around for hours with the raidtools that came with slink(0.42-16), but those didn't work. One of the error messages from the raidtools told us to go get raidtools-0.90. We eventually found the tools, but all but one site had them in rpm format, and the rpm was of version 0.90-2. We were wondering who the maintainer for the raidtools is, and who does the .deb packages for them. We also were curious about why the most recent version of the tools were not included in slink. Thanks, Chris Brown * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
password problems on slink
We just did a fresh install of slink on one of our machines, and set the root password just fine. The install finished, we played around with it for a little while, then rebooted. The problem is that when it reboots it doesn't require us to login! It goes straight to a bash prompt assuming we're root. The password is set, and when we telnet to it su works like it should, asking for and accepting the root password. Is automatic root login normal for slink? If so, where can we kill that? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Zombies
I had a few cpio scripts running in background, noticed an error with one of my scripts (it was recursive) and tried to stop it. kill pid# did not work. Somewhere along the way the jobs attained the zombie status, and kill wouldn't touch them. I finally rebooted. Can someone explain what a zombie is and how to kill it? TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
deb2.1 ftp / fmirror problem... HELP!!!!!
Is there a place to tweek with TCP protocol parameters?, time outs etc? are there buffer/mtu settings for ftp? Does ftp do any clever things like slide the mtu for file transfers? I'm have a weird problem with fmirror and ftp on a newly built Debian 2.1 machine. The machine is totally new (hw sw) but the network connection, host name, and ip address were in use for over a year with no problems. I've been trying to establish a mirror of debian.org with fmirror. It gets the file lists and maybe even a few small files. But it freezes on larger files. Two files in particular stop transfering at EXACTLY the same place all of the 50 or so times I've tried !!! I've tried 5 different debian ftp sites at different times of the day, all with no luck, other machines on our network can get the files. Both ftp and fmirror lock up at the same place. The two files that fail are at the beginning of the download and I can't get past them. Every time I try both ftp and fmirror the file transfers stop, they are; file name--- --size-- -stops at- % debian/dists/potato/Contents-alpha.gz 1,112,724 112,94410.2 /Contents-i386.gz 1,483,689 260,64017.6 Permissions in the target directory are correct, the machine serves web pages fine with apache, has mirrored (raid1) drives and otherwise seems fine. I'm going nuts ! any suggestions? TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
fmirror problems
Hello, I'm having a real bear of a time with trying to mirror ftp.us.debian.org using fmirror. I know I have the config script set up right, and when I run the command fmirror -f /etc/fmirror/debian.conf from console everything looks good. The problem is after only a few hundred Kbytes of downloading it craps out. It doesn't kick me out to a command line, or show any error messages, justs halts in its tracks. It does this every time, even though I've changed ftp sites several times, and tried running it at different times during the day. It even does this with my kernel.org mirror. Does anybody know why it randomly stops downloading? Thanks, C.Brown * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
screen saver annoyances
Hi, I'm having trouble finding any documentation on the automatic screen saver in linux. Does anybody know how to turn it off? It gets annoying having the screen black out after 5 minutes. Thanks! C.Brown * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Drive test Utility
Does anyone know of a package or utility that exercises and surface scans hard drives? (IDE in particular) I've got a system that will be co-located a 1000 miles away and I'd like to burn in the system before shipping it out. I've had a drive failure before so I'm especially interested in giving these a work out. The IDEAL would be if the program could run in background and do a non-destructive surface scan to a mounted drive. I know that's asking a lot, but I'd be happy with anything at this point. TIA, Chris Brown * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Laptop install Help Needed
Hello, I'm a newbie to Linux and want to install debian on my laptop as my primary (only) machine, its a compaq armada 1535 w/ 3com 3c575 pcmcia ethernet. I've got nfs/ftp access to a linux box on the local network which has a copy of the hamm distribution and have made the rescue and driver disks, partitioned the drive but haven't got much further. My questions are; 1. I'm not using the tecra version disks, but have not had any lockups with the standard ones I'm using. Which is the right choice? 2. I can't get the machine to talk on the network. How do I do this? I know there are a hundred right answers to this question, I'm looking for the easiest/quickest ways How do I get 3c575 support? I'm not sure I'm up to compiling a kernel yet. Should I consider other pcmcia cards that I have access to like NE200 or 3c589, or is pcmcia problematic and should I look for a pocket adatper or something else? 3. Once I get the network working should I use NFS or FTP to access the packages? (are there important pro's and con's of each?) TIA for any suggestions, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Mirrored Drives?
Hi, I'm looking to increase the reliability (fault tolerance) of a system that's using IDE drives. Is there a way to add a second identical drive and have the the OS mirror the data on the partitions? such that if one drive actually crashed, the OS would keep running or at least be restarted with little data loss? TIA -Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
PCI NIC support for 89C940?
I've got a bunch of PCI Ethernet adapters lying around, several brands like Link-SYS etc. that I'd like to use with Linux. They all have the LSI Winbond W89C940F on them. I've seen some reference to them as being Novell NE2000 Compatible but they don't seem to work with that driver and they don't use NE2000 I/O addresses. The HOW-2's don't seem to list this chip. Does anyone know if this part is supported, the drive name and how to get it? Many thanks, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Needed Documentation
Hello, I'm looking for a flowchart or something that describes the boot sequence in detail... haven't found anything like that yet. I'm a newbie to Linux, installed my first two systems this past weekend and have tons to learn. I know the PC inside out and am comfortable with OS's in general, have witten my share of x86 assembly and DOS tsr's. I have no idea what happens during the kernel bootup, initialization and the starting of processes. Mainly looking for which process invokes what, and how and where control is passed around during system startup. Secondly, I'm looking for a breif but complete listing bash and external commands. Any suggestions pointing me towards specific online docs, faqs, howto's or published books would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Chirs * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO only says LI 01 01 01 01...
My experiences with this indicate that LILO CANNOT configure itself on any except the first logical drive. I didn't experiment with it, but since removeable media (jaz drive) can be /dev/sda that made my hard drive /dev/sdb. When I tried to make lilo insert itself under these conditions I got exactly the response you have described. I believe this is a bug in LILO, but I haven't tried to confirm it. Hm, on my other Debian box I got 2 SCSI drives and no IDE. Linux is installed on the second drive (sdb) and everything works as expected. Lilo issues a warning that it's not installed on the first (logical) drive, but that's intended and okay. I guess, you're right that this is a bug in Lilo, but apparently it only happens when IDE and SCSI are mixed. Any comments anyone? I don't have scsi and ide mixed, just a removeable dirve in front of my install drive (jaz on sda, boot drive on sdb). As a side not, there was also a scsi cdrom in front of the hard drive in terms of scsi ids. Might this make any difference? Chris... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?
I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Best mode for uucp over tcp.
I have gotten uucp running properly over tcp. When using tcp which mode is the most effecient? From what I understand mode t was designed for such links but taylor suppores mode i which I haven't seen much documentation on. Which way should I go? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Easing security on public server.
I have a Debian 1.3 server running wu-ftpd and apache. This server is intended for public use. Last weak my boss found out that he was not able to telnet or ftp to that machine. It turned out that his DNS entry and reverse DNS entries didn't match for his laptop so the server was kicking him off. That problem is fixable however with as many screwed up DNS entries that I have seen from many ISPs and with the lack of understanding some ISP's have it is certain that this will come up again. We really don't want our FTP and web servers inaccessible because some ISP doesn't know what he is doing. I don't want to be too open, but on this machine I would like to loosen the access a bit. One thing that I am aware of is that there are some options during compile of tcpd so that it doesn't worry about DNS. During setup of NFS I learned a bit about the host.allow and host.deny files. I really don't have a good feel for the extent of control that is available thru these files and possibly others. Basically I need to figure out the best plan of attack on the following: 1. Allowing access to this server right now. (Nothing too extreme, if possible. Recompiling tcpd isn't that extreme if it's the best approach.) 2. Learn more about security access. - man pages - FAQs and HOWTOs - Books In the end I need to understand what's going on fairly well but right now it's important to have the server usable for it's intended use. It is probably going to take a while to learn as much as is necessary so any help is greatly appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Setting up sendmail for uucp delivery.
I have a slightly odd configuration that I would like to set up. My system at home is set up so that it is not connected to the net all the time and currently my sendmail at home and at work are set up smtp only. The server here at work just hammers away trying to dump it's queue until I come on line. I would like that mail to be queued for uucp instead. Currently both the server at work and my home system are able to connect via uucp over tcp, all I need is to get the server at the shop to queue the mail for my home system. When sendmail installed on the server at the shop I told it to be able to use uucp but I don't see anything in the sendmail.cf that would allow this. I figure that it should be simple to add a couple of lines to the sendmail.cf to take care of all this. * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to delete a directory tree.
I was looking around the ohter day and found a couple of old mirrors that there is no interest in any longer and I want to remove the entire directory tree that they are in. What is the simplest way to do this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dselect timeout during FTP install.
I just set up a new machine with 1.3 and am having a bit of a problem. Once the base was installed I went to do an FTP install of the rest of the sustem. When I go to do anything that requites attaching to an ftp server the thing times out. We have just gotten our new class C and don't have control of the reverse lookups yet on the DNS so it's giving me fits other places too. The odd part is that I tried to ftp the .deb files so that I could do a few things manually using dpkg but I can only ger around 1400 bytes before the FTP dies of old age. This happend using ftp.debian.org, ftp.crosslink.net and ftp.caldera.com. I even had to FTP the install floppies using netscape on windows. Any ideas would be helpfull. * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Log of secondary DNS updating from primary.
I need to determine weather my ISP is actually being secondary to my primary DNS. After looking at my log files I found entries like this. Jul 7 23:24:06 oak named[451]: approved AXFR from [204.176.14.4].4231 for seitz.com I gather that this says that 204.176.14.4 retrieved the records for seitz.com. Is there any other means of determining weather their DNS is acting as secondary? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]!!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org It may help to tell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Lawlor), president of AGIS.NET, the only first tier ISP that allows and SUPPORTS spammers on the Internet, what you think of spam. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to find out if sendmail has queued mail to forward.
I am trying to test some portions of an email system and want to determine weather one of my mail servers is picking up mail to forward. The recieving host is currently off and there is a MX route to my server so mail should be queued there right now. All I need to do is check the queue. What is the appropriat means of doing this for mail to be forwarded? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]!!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org It may help to tell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Lawlor), president of AGIS.NET, the only first tier ISP that allows and SUPPORTS spammers on the Internet, what you think of spam. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Simple sendmail question.
I am looking at setting up setting up several mail hosts. After doing a little reading it looks like sendmail is significantly more flexible than smail though possibly a bit more difficult to learn. Initially the only need to have a host that will pick up mail if our primary server is down or busy then forward it on when the other system is back up. When going thru the sendmailconfig it asks if it should accept mail for other hosts by giving their name in this case tell it seitz.com . At that point does it need to be told to forward this mail, so that the mail isn't delivered locally, of will it automagically forward it? Later on, all the interesting little features of sendmail can be implemented but at this point that's not necessary. I really don't want to get into one of these deals where I have to learn a bunch of different mail systems because one is overkill for a specific task, like this. I'd rather get right at it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Big Problem in upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3
I have a machine that I was using on my net here and I upgraded it from 1.2 to 1.3 over the last couple of days. When I rebooted this morning the machine came back up with my old 2.0.27 kernel but I can't get an aliased address on the ethernet port. The reason that it is a big problem is that the machine is temporarily acting as a router between 2 subnets that happen to be running on the same ethernet cable. Once I get my filtering gateway running correctly it won't be a problem because these subnets will actually be split but until then I'm in real trouble. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Setting up UUCP over TCP
When setting up Taylor uucp over tcp it looks to me that the only configuration files that are needed are. 1. config: hostname foo 2. sys: system foo2 address foo2.bar.com timeAny porttcp-conn chatogin: login_name word: pass_word 3. port: porttcp-conn typetcp service 540 and that's it. The dial, dialcode and call files are unnecessary in this case. Here is where I start getting a bit confused. If this ran over a modem line and was logged in using mgetty then life would be simple in that the shell of the user would be set to uucico. When the user logged in uucico would run and off they go. Over tcp there has to be a daemon listening to port 540. In one of the docs that I read about uucp mentioned a uucpd that I couldn't find. In the man page for uucico the -l or -e options makes uucico negotiate a login. Does this mean that uucico will naturally listen to port 540? (It doesn't seam likely to me.) The man page also says that the /etc/passwd file is not used but instead /usr/lib/uucp/passwd. Are these files in the same format and could the /etc/passwd file be copied to make the /usr/lib/uucp/passwd file? I think that this is about it for now. Sorry about the bother but it seams that most of the references to uucp are related to dialup lines and tcp is usually only mentioned as an after thought. It seams to me that uucp is the ideal way to move mail or news when a host is not on all the time and only comes on to gather it's information then get off in a polling cycle instead of being poled. As always any help is tremendously appreciated. I can't say enough about how helpful the folks on this list are. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X server via network.
The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any applications on X via a network connection befor so I thought this would be interesting. After doing an rlogin and setting the DISPLAY environvent variable like so: foo.bar.com:0.0. I ran the procmeter and it said that it didn't have permission to connect to the X server. Somewhere there must be a file that I need to grant this permission in but I am not familiar enough with X to know about this one and I'm not even sure where to look. Can someone point me in the right direction. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NFS mount permission.
I have a machine that is set up with an NFS and I was able to mount it's drive one time on my ethernet at home but not after that. The host.allow and host.deny are set up and the exports file has an entry something like this: /mnt (ro,insecure,no_root_squash) but it returns an error that I don't have permission to mount the drive from home. ( I was using it to access a CDROM drive so the general open permission to the area wasn't a problem though I'll probably tighten it later.) There are other machines on the same subnet that also can't NFS mount the drive. Earlier it was having RPC timeouts before and this was due to the hosts.allow and .deny but this is a different problem now. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin
Last night I tried the: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 ro There was no success there but I'm a little confused in that I thought that you just told the kernel that the second card was there and then it would look for it. Most of the time I have been compiling the drivers into the kernel but I haven't gotten to it yet on this machine. Does that mean that you need to take the approach that I was going tward if the driver is compiled in and the other approach if the driver is a module? It would be nice it one approach would work in both cases so that if I changed from one method to the other that I wouldn't have to change things in several places to make the cards work. Would it possibly be better to go to say ne2000 cards, (which I have around) if there is a problem in probing the 3c509 cards? Or possibly having one ne2000 and one 3c509? The point to this, by the way, is to set up a machine between a DMZ (attached to a cisco router) and the rest of our network. It will initially just route then probably get filtering added and finally (if the boss wasnts it) get a proxyserver. Right now there is a different machine doing kind of a strange thing, by having an alias address on the single network card. Both the DMZ and the main network are on the same ethernet cable but everything routes via this one card. The addresses on the card are on different subnets and the machines on these subnets have it set as their gateway. Strange but it works for now. The 3c509 card probe is a little strange and only works if you list them in the order of their ethernet MAC addresses. If you just said ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 it would find them both, but the eth0/eth1 names would refer to the wrong cards. Are you sure that the driver is compiled into the kernel? If you are loading the driver as a module, you'll have to take another approach. Edit /etc/conf.modules and see if these three lines are there: alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 3c509 options 3c509 io=300,310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
2 ethernet cards and loadlin
I am trying to get my machine to use 2 3c509 ethernet cards booting from loadlin. Looking at the loadlin docs I think the command line should be: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=10,300,eth0 ether=11,310,eth1 ro eth0 is fine but I don't get eth1 at all. There isn't even a reference to it in /var/log/messages. Where did I go wrong? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Multiple subnets on a single ethernet. Related to routes.
I have been doing a bit of planning related to subnetting a class C for our ehternet. One of the problems that I ran into was that if I used RIP the entire network had to be on the same subnetmask, since RIP doesn't deal with subnet masks. This was a real pain since I have a couple of machines that will need to have alliased addresses (WWW and FTP servers) and they will each use up a large portion of a subnet each if masked as 255.255.255.240. What complications occur if a particular machine has a single IP address and needs to communicate with a machine on a different subnet even though they share a single ethernet. I have done this before by manually adding the routes to the routing table but the connections seam extremely slow in establishment. Once the connection is made everything seams to be ok but the broadcast addresses are obviously out of different blocks which may be causing problems. Theoretically it shouldn't be a problem but practice can be a different thing all together. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Class of machine needed for DNS router.
I have to set up a primary DNS that will also route between two 10base2 ethernets with packet filtering. The line to the Internet will be a 128 K ISDN line so that bandwidth will be limited there. What class of machine is necessary for such a task? I have 3 machines laying around, a 386-DX 40, 486-DX 33 and a 486-DX2 66. At this point it doesn't make sense to commit too heavy a machine for this purpose and I'll put 16 Megs RAM and a 540 Meg had drive in it regardless of the processor. Since it is going to have the DNS 128 Megs of swap is probably necessary with the cached requests setting in the machine. Any comments would be appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
apache no longer starting at boot.
I have apache instilled on my home machine to do some testing. It was in anticipation of setting it up at work. Over the last few days, when I boot the machine apache doesn't load any longer. Trying to start it manually by doing /etc/init.d/apache start doesn't work either. None of the configuration files were changed from my recollection and I don't see anything in a log file complaining about it's untimely death. The current log files in /var/log/apache/ are zero length. I was thinking about uninstalling it and reinstalling it to see if that worked but I hate doing that without having an idea as to why this is happening. Any ideas or suggestions as to log files to check back on would be greatly appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect problem.
Quite a while ago I selected netscape 3.01 to be installed. When I got the netscape tar.gz file, I got the gold package which was not what the .deb file was trying to install it was trying to do the non gold 3.01. Since I had the tar file and didn't feel like getting the other one I installed it manually but neglected to unselect netscape in dselect. I have recently updated my packages file and the new one has netscale 4 in it. dselect is still trying to ftp the netscape 3 installer and I can't find a way to stop it from doing that. It's not really that big a deal since I can just select the packages to ftp and tell it no to netscape but that is a real pain in the tail. Other than this I'v had little problem with dselect. The recursive loop it gets it's self into at times over dependencies is a little anoying but all in all it is a lot better that some of the alternitives and I'd surely hate to have to write the thing my self. It is nice to have people deal with many insuse of install for you in advance. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian as a server.
I have been using Debian for a while now as a work station for a little bit now and have been pleased with it. I was originally quite surprised at the performance and reliability that I experienced. VERY soon I will have to install a server here at work for FTP and WWW services. I have been on the fence as to which way to go. Several people have been trying to convince me to go with FreeBSD or OpenBSD for these servers. One of these folks is my ISP who is running on Sun Spark systems with SunOS. One message that I got said that this person was running a FTP server with average loads of 100 Megs a day 150 Megs peek and had no problems. The machine never locked up or had to be reset which was not the case previously with Linux (Slackware I believe). The documentation that I have found on Linux has been Far superior to that of FreeBSD, at least for my applications. This has so far lead me to gravitate twards Debian. The support that I have received via this list has also been quite good to the most part. It would not be too far a jump tward BSD at this point though. I would like to hear from folks that are running medium to high volume servers related to their experiences. My boss was talking to folks at Netcom and was convinced by them, to some extent, that BSD was far superior to any Linux. That BSD was based on being a network oriented system and that Linux was designed as a general purpose system that was not really suited to being an effective and stable server. Stability is certainly a large concern of mine since I really don't want to have to baby sit the thing much once it is set up. As long as other folks don't get in and screw with it, I don't see that that is much to ask. Part of the key to this may be in selecting proper hardware to enable us to utilize the most stable drivers etc. This is one of the things that I often see people neglect in the concept of a high reliability system. It is unbelevable the sacrifice in reliability I see in the name of minimal performance increases that is after unnecessary. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape locked up console.
Last night I was running Netscape 3.01 Gold, looking at files on my local drive and the machine stopped responding to the keyboard and mouse buttons. The prockmeter was running, monitoring the ppp line to my ISP, it was running fine. When I telneted into the system and did ps -a and top, netscape was missing but was still being displayed as active on fvwm2. This happened once before quite a while back. The only thing that I could think to do was kill the pppd by unplugging the modem, letting it set for a while to flush as much of the casch as possoble then reset it. After this the system booted fine with the exception of complaining about the file system not being unmounted properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Selecting a pci ethernet card.
Very shortly I need to get an order in for new server parts one of the things that I haven't dealt with before is pci bus ethernet cards. Which cards and drivers are the most stable and which the best performing? Most reliable is probably more important. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How is apache setup for multiple domains?
I have been looking at using apache as our web server and it will be necessary to set up the server to appear as 3 different domains. After looking at some of the documentation it appears that a machine could be set up so that the server machine will respond to 3 different IP addresses each for a different domains then have apache determine which domain it should appear to be. It would be great if there were some sort of HOWTO type of document or some example configuration files for this but I haven't seen them. Can someone point me at something like this? One of the things that I'm not sure of is how to have different document roots for each domain and weather there is one or more than one httpd.conf. It looks like multiple VirtualHost entries are made in the same http.conf but how do the VirtualHosts get refered back to the IP address? Is it via reverse DNS? I have heard that reverse DNS lookups are extremely important on apache. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem printing large PostScript files with GhostScript.
I have little experiance with postsctipt and am having trouble printing some files. One in particular is a 1.4 Meg file of around 325 pages. The printers that I have available are HP laserjet series 2 and 4. Ghostscript gets to the 100 page point and quits. This happens when I attempt to print them direct and when I attempt to convert the files into a PDF file since I can deal with a PDF file. The PDF file is some 17+ Megs Is there a hard limit on GostScript in this area that I'm not aware of? Would it be a better bet to try to change to magicfilters? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What is the standard ethernet frame type?
I will be connecting several different types of systems to an ethernet network that is currently running only Netware on ipx. On the Netware server and workstations it is necessary to specify the Ethernet frame type. IPX is running either Ethernet_802.2 or Ethernet_803.2. The Novel books say that the TCP/IP has to run on Ethernet_II or Ethernet_SNAP. In reading the FAQs, HOWTOs and the Linux Network Administrator's book I don't recall any mention of specifying the frame type. What is the standard type used? Is there really a question in the UN*X world as to which standard to use? It will also be necessary to setup and run a BSD box so that question will also have to be addressed but I figure that most of the world must be running on one of the particular standards. Like they say the wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to chose from. Chris
How to properly set up a static IP address.
I have installde debian 1.2 on my desk top machine and origionally configured it with an IP address of 0.0.0.0 since my ISP uses dymanic IP address allocation. A few days ago I decided to try setting up the desktop machine as a server for my laptop so that I could get a little space on the laptop drive. wu-ftpd was loaded on the desk top so quick and dirty I launched that and attached the laptop to the desktop using ppp, giving bath the local and remote addresses to pppd like so (pppd /dev/ttyS1 57600 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2). When tried to use the paltop as a client I couldn't get a connection to the ftpd however using the loopback address on the desktop there was no poblem. Obviously my routing was screwed up. After reading several FAQs and Running Linux I was confused enough that I somply did ifconfig lo 10.0.0.1 and it ran. This is surely not the way I want to perminintly set things up. Can someone give me some direction on what to read and or what file changes I need to make. The changes should be simple enough. Thanks for any help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pocket ethernet adaptor
I have several EP200 ethernet adaptors available. Is there a way to use them. I haven't seen any mention of them in any FAQ or HOWTO. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
