Re: [expert] LM 7.2 DHCP stability . . .
Usually I've discovered this kind of symptom is attributed to logging issues where a daemon is trying to discover the name of the IP address of the machine requesting the service. By creating authoritive DNS zone files for your network or simply entering names for each of the IP addresses which will be used in /etc/hosts can go a long way towards making your machine function when it's not connected to the Internet. There's much more to be said about the various types of name services their configurations. The odd thing about all this is that usually, the IP addresses for which name service lookups are being performed are IP addresses inside your private network and there usually is no official name for it's ip address. Your machine tries to query the DNS servers on the outside world and they simply say there's no record for it, the lookup fails and only the numeric representation of the IP address gets logged. -Joe Baker Digital Communications Research, Inc. www.dcresearch.com www.dcresearch.com/joebaker www.dcresearch.com/resume.html 414-427-6140 On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Robert Fox wrote: I have LM 7.2 on one machine using a realtek 8139 10/100 Ethernet card, the DHCP host is (unfortunately) a Win2K machine with a 3Com 3C905 10/100 card using network sharing . . . When the Linux box fires up - it finds it's address no problem - and continues happily along in the boot process. When I shutdown the DHCP host, or just disconnect the ISDN internet access from the host machine . . . the Linux box seems to hang - mouse movement works, but keyboard non-responsive and nothing opens or closes . . . can't even bring up a virtual console! When I allow the Win2K host back on the Internet - the Linux box "wakes up" and continues on like nothing happened!?!?!? What is the rule of thumb about DHCP hosts, timeouts and where can I tweak these parameters if any? Many thanks in advance . . . -- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?
Check the file /etc/hosts.allow It should have an entry like in.telnetd:10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1 or if you want to be able to telnet in from anywhere... in.telnetd:ALL the file inetd.conf was used before, but it appears that in 7.2 Mandrake has moved to an Inet super daemon with a better reputation for security named xinetd. You'll find the configuration files in /etc/xinet.d/ There is a configuration file for each service. xinetd gives you many more configuration options than did inetd. You shouldn't have to edit these files. I'd bet that you specifically need to allow the service in hosts.allow. Also make sure that xinetd is running by executing the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart If this command reports failure of stopping the xinetd daemon, that likely means that it wasn't running from boot. To make sure that xinetd starts on boot in the future, run the command /usr/sbin/ntsysv Put a star in front ot the ntsysv daemon to enable it's execution upon booting. I'm looking for a system administration job. I'd like to work for Mandrake :) My resume http://www.dcresearch.com/resume.html Cheers, Joe Baker On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, SIR admin wrote: make sure inetd is running. also: if you are telneting into a machine, check your hosts.allow file and your hosts.deny file. also: if the machine you are telneting from isn't in the servers hosts file, it might lag a bit. this is especially important for private networks i've noticed. matthew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Eastman Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2? Sorry, I hate having to ask stupid simple questions but I can't seem to work it out! How do I allow people to telnet to my computer? This is what is in my inetd.conf file: # # These are standard services. # ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd # telnet is uncommented... so why doesn't it work? There must be something simple I'm missing... anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Tom -- -Joe Baker Digital Communications Research, Inc. www.dcresearch.com www.dcresearch.com/joebaker 414-427-6140 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Where's a QT-2.1.1 RPM to support KDE 2.0 ?
Forgive me, I might not belong in the expert list,
but I'm trying to upgrade my Mandrake 7.1 installation
to KDE 2.0. Can anyone point me towards instructions for
doing this?
Running startx now starts XFree86 and I see it begin to outline
the menu bars at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes it gets as far as
opening up an xterm window but within a second or two the crash occurs.
---Beginning of .xsession-errors file---
Here is the .xsession-errors file from my home directory.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MESSAGES = "en",
LC_TIME = "en",
LC_NUMERIC = "en",
LC_CTYPE = "en",
LC_MONETARY = "en",
LC_COLLATE = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MESSAGES = "en",
LC_TIME = "en",
LC_NUMERIC = "en",
LC_CTYPE = "en",
LC_MONETARY = "en",
LC_COLLATE = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MESSAGES = "en",
LC_TIME = "en",
LC_NUMERIC = "en",
LC_CTYPE = "en",
LC_MONETARY = "en",
LC_COLLATE = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
END of .xsession-errors file---
Isn' there supposed to be a dependancy on QT-2.1.1?
When I searched rpmfind I didn't find any mandrake versions of QT-2.1.1
only the old 1.4ish versions.
Is work being done on putting out a Mandrake package of the new QT?
Do I need the new QT for KDE 2.0?
Now I didn't un-install the old KDE first.
But I learned that the kdebase package doesn't upgrade properly so it
is best to remove that one by hand.
Here's the RPM's I've downloaded from rpmfind.net most of them
have been installed which deal with kde, other's I've seen recommendations
that those packages be upgraded.
Some of thes rpms I had to --force and --nodeps because they interfered
with programs already installed which said new versions would break the
dependancies old programs had on the files I was upgrading.
Here's the list...
bzip2-1.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm
glibc-2.1.95-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdeaddutils-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdeaddutils-devel-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdeadmin-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdebase-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdebase-devel-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdegames-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdegraphics-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdegraphics-devel-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-devel-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-sound-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdemultimedia-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdemultimedia-devel-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdenetwork-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdenetwork-devel-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdepim-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdesdk-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdesupport-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdesupport-devel-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdetoys-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdeutils-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kdoc-2.0-1mdk.noarch.rpm
klyx-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
koffice-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
koffice-devel-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
kups-0.8-23mdk.i586.rpm
kups-devel-0.8-23mdk.i586.rpm
kvirc-2.0.0-2.0.1mdk.i586.rpm
libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm
mandrake_desk-7.2-18mdk.noarch.rpm
menu-2.1.5-19mdk.i586.rpm
menu-2.1.5-42mdk.i586.rpm
menu-2.1.5-43mdk.i586.rpm
pam-0.72-12mdk.i586.rpm
pam-0.72-7mdk.i586.rpm
qt2.2.1-1.SuSE-7.0.i586.rpm
qtcups-1.0-14mdk.i586.rpm
qtcups-devel-1.0-14mdk.i586.rpm
quanta-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpm
rpm-4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm --Currently installed
-Joe Baker
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www.bigfoot.com/~joebaker
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Re: [expert] OpenSSH won't accept connections?
What do you make of that? Nothing's open on port 22??? Yet I have the "ListenAdress" variable set to "63.196.197.0", and now I've even set hosts.allow to ALL:ALL, and hosts.deny to null. Not to mention that /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd status == running... Hi Steven, Specify your special listening address in /etc/hosts.allow as such: ssh:63.196.197.0/255.255.255.0 I noticed earlier that you had specified sshd in hosts.allow. I think that ssh should be used instead. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config reset your ListenAddress to 0.0.0.0 SSH is a great tool that you'll want to master. Joe Baker - Digital Communications Research, Inc. www.dcresearch.com 414-427-6140 Office / Cell 707-313-0165 Fax
Re: [expert] PPPD 'Lag'
Mr Sentient wrote: I have my linux 'gateway' setup to Dial-on-demand. Works great (well, almost). At the moment, if i try to connect with mIRC from my Windows Workstations, it takes 8-12 seconds before the gateway dials up. Is there any way I can shorten this time, without affect internal network performance? Thx in advance You might tell the modem it need not wait for a dial tone. You might shorten the pause between digits. These are Modem Initialization issues. Thes could help speed your time to connect, but I'm sorry I do not know what is taking the 8-12 seconds before your modem is taken off-hook. How did you enable dial on demand? Joe Baker - Digital Communications Research, Inc. www.dcresearch.com 414-427-6140 Office / Cell 707-313-0165 Fax
