Re: [expert] DNS server
We use the "hosts" file, not "lmhosts" in our LAN. Also, use Windows Explorer Tools|Find|"Files or Folders" to find "hosts", since w98 NT4 put it in different places. Ron Greg Stewart wrote: I think that I have to config the DNS server in order to use the FTP software I don't quite understand why you'd need to configure a DNS server to use an ftp client on a local LAN. Do you mean that you want to be able to type ftp \\mylinuxbox and connect to the linux box without having to type the IP address? 1st, a DNS server maps IP addresses to FQDNs (fully qualified domain names). Unless you have your domain names configured on your hosts, internally, this is only going to confuse the issue. 2nd If your network is using DHCP to assign IP addresses, things are going to be a little difficult. BUT, 3rd, if your IPs are static, you can enter the IP address of the linux box and the name you want to call that linux box, in the lmhosts file on your windows box's hard drive. If you are running NT, the file exists as "Lmhosts.sam" in the C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc folder-- the ".sam" means "sample" and the extension needs to be removed after you edit it. If you are running Win98 or otherwise, use the file find to locate the lmhosts.sam file, and edit it where it lives. The format of the line to add is as follows (and stick it 'before' any comments, as it slows windows down to have to sort through comments first): 192.168.0.1mylinuxbox'sname Since you're on a local LAN, don't add a "dot" and a domain name...all you want to do is define a name by which your windows box will call the linux box. It can be "Fred" if you want, even it the linux box's name is "Marsha"...it don't matter as long as you know what you're looking for. Don't forget to remove the ".sam" --Greg - Original Message - From: "Vu Nguyen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I want to use WinFTP from one of the windows machine to access to the Linux 7.1 machine (both of them in one local network, I can ping from one to the other by the IP address because it does not understand by the name) . I think that I have to config the DNS server in order to use the FTP software. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do it. Please give me an advise and thost steps. Thank you so much -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] DNS server
Vu said he wanted to use FTP. FTP is *not* an SMB protocol and has nothing to do with Samba nor Lan Manager. Therefore, he needs hosts, not lmhosts. Ron Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:02:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: We use the "hosts" file, not "lmhosts" in our LAN. Right. lmhosts is a microsoftism. It is used for SMB name resolution. The "lm" comes from "Lan Manager", IBM's name for the protocol when they first came up with it. You will find it on any NT box as Greg describes below. On a W95/98 box it is in c:\windows. hosts is the Unix name and is used to tcp/ip name resolution. So the two files do the same thing, but in the contenxt of different protocols. If you have a Windows client running SMB for file sharing and tpc/ip for net access, it may use both files. I have both on all of my Windows boxes. If you run Samba on your linux box, you have both, in /etc. You still need DNS resolution, although if you have an NT Server WINS will do it as well. I don't know if Samba handles WINS or not. You need DNS for resolving names outside your network. You can use DNS or hosts for name resolution within your network. And you need lmhosts for SMB name resolution in your own network. If you decide to uses hosts for your own network, you can get away with using your ISP's name server directly. Better, use a caching only name server on your firewall and have all your machines use it for name resolution. I do the latter, and I think it speeds up net access over a 56K modem noticably. Also, use Windows Explorer Tools|Find|"Files or Folders" to find "hosts", since w98 NT4 put it in different places. Ron Greg Stewart wrote: I think that I have to config the DNS server in order to use the FTP software I don't quite understand why you'd need to configure a DNS server to use an ftp client on a local LAN. Do you mean that you want to be able to type ftp \\mylinuxbox and connect to the linux box without having to type the IP address? 1st, a DNS server maps IP addresses to FQDNs (fully qualified domain names). Unless you have your domain names configured on your hosts, internally, this is only going to confuse the issue. 2nd If your network is using DHCP to assign IP addresses, things are going to be a little difficult. BUT, 3rd, if your IPs are static, you can enter the IP address of the linux box and the name you want to call that linux box, in the lmhosts file on your windows box's hard drive. If you are running NT, the file exists as "Lmhosts.sam" in the C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc folder-- the ".sam" means "sample" and the extension needs to be removed after you edit it. If you are running Win98 or otherwise, use the file find to locate the lmhosts.sam file, and edit it where it lives. The format of the line to add is as follows (and stick it 'before' any comments, as it slows windows down to have to sort through comments first): 192.168.0.1mylinuxbox'sname Since you're on a local LAN, don't add a "dot" and a domain name...all you want to do is define a name by which your windows box will call the linux box. It can be "Fred" if you want, even it the linux box's name is "Marsha"...it don't matter as long as you know what you're looking for. Don't forget to remove the ".sam" --Greg - Original Message - From: "Vu Nguyen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I want to use WinFTP from one of the windows machine to access to the Linux 7.1 machine (both of them in one local network, I can ping from one to the other by the IP address because it does not understand by the name) . I think that I have to config the DNS server in order to use the FTP software. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do it. Please give me an advise and thost steps. Thank you so much -- -- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] How to config network printer?
Ti Nu wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to config network printer? (printer that use the network cable RJ45 to the Hub and work as a machine) I have an Brother HL-1270N with network capabilities. I already successful config it inside the network with win NT. Now I try to do so In Linux Mandrake 7.1. Does anyone know how to do? If one already did, Please so me the step. Does mdk71 still use printtool? Once you have created a queue in printtool, you can define a remote host and remote queue. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] pgcc ok to compile kde2 ?
Pardon me for being dense, but what do you mean by "How about both?"? Are you saying that both of what I have are equivalent to the requirements? Ron Buchan Milne wrote: Hopw about both ? "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: Hi, all. While analysing the feasibilty of installing kde2.0 on my old Mandrake 6.0, I find that kde2 requires egcs 1.1.x or gcc 2.95.x. Well, here is what I have: libstdc++-2.9.0-3mdk libstdc++-devel-1.1.3-3mdk pgcc-c++-1.1.3-3mdk Is pgcc an acceptable equivalent to either of the 2 required compilers, or must I rip them out and install egcs-1.1.2? (Since this has to do with both kde mdk, I thought that a cross-post would be justified.) Sincerely, Ron -- -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Upgrading CPU...
TK Kim wrote: Hi, If I upgrade the CPU on my system, do I need to recompile the system? no. u *can* if u r going from archetecture to archetectue (485 - 586, Intel - AMD, K-6x - Athlon) but u do not *have* to. (One time where u *may* have to recompile: if u are downgrading in archetecture.) Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^
andy b wrote: ok... I bought 127 megs of ram to add to my 64 megs my bios recognises 192 megs... but Linux only recognises 64 (even if I only put in the 128 meg module) it would be nice to triply my ram... any ideas? Maybe my old brain has dredged out details from 1992, but what happens if you remove the 64MB SDRAM and put the 128MB SDRAM in socket 0? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got Mandrake 7.02 on my laptop and have NT4 on another partition. How do I go about mounting this partition so that I can write to it? Samba. RTFM, try to set it up, then come back with more questions. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.
Stephen Bosch wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: I've got Mandrake 7.02 on my laptop and have NT4 on another partition. How do I go about mounting this partition so that I can write to it? Samba. RTFM, try to set it up, then come back with more questions. You can't mount an NTFS partition on the same machine using Samba. Who's providing the SMB service? Duh. If I got as much sleep as I should, I'd have read it more closely... I thought he had 2 computers. Never mind. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Niiiiice. Kill off kde STABLE 2.0 immediately
Praedor Tempus wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: What if we trailing-edge types totally deinstall our 1.1.x systems, then try to install kde2 from source? You could try. When I did the attempt, the indications were that it would REPLACE your kde-1.1.2. In my experience, it did replace everything except kdebase-1.1.2. EVERYTHING else was replaced. This led to a double kdebase which was real screwy. I uninstalled the kdebase-1.1.2 manually and reinstalled kde 2.0. It worked I'm confused. Isn't EVERYTHING *supposed* to be replaced? better, such as that goes, but it was nearly useless. It just looked a little better at being useless. Give it a shot and let me know... I am always wondering if there is some small squirrelly thing wrong with my system. praedor What do u mean: nearly useless. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] pgcc ok to compile kde2 ?
Hi, all. While analysing the feasibilty of installing kde2.0 on my old Mandrake 6.0, I find that kde2 requires egcs 1.1.x or gcc 2.95.x. Well, here is what I have: libstdc++-2.9.0-3mdk libstdc++-devel-1.1.3-3mdk pgcc-c++-1.1.3-3mdk Is pgcc an acceptable equivalent to either of the 2 required compilers, or must I rip them out and install egcs-1.1.2? (Since this has to do with both kde mdk, I thought that a cross-post would be justified.) Sincerely, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:52:00PM -0500: I didn't think of kde. For some silly reason, I was thinking it was a kernel tool! silly me Uh? But it's a KDE tool, is it not? :] That's a logical assumption, but apparently not: $ kmkdosfs START Usage: kmkdosfs [-c | -l bad-block-file] [-m boot-msg-file] [-n volume-name] [-i volume-id] [-s sectors-per-cluster] [-v] [-f number-of-FATs] [-F fat-size] [-r root-dir-entries] /dev/name [blocks] Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Niiiiice. Kill off kde STABLE 2.0 immediately
What if we trailing-edge types totally deinstall our 1.1.x systems, then try to install kde2 from source? Ron Praedor Tempus wrote: Thanks. It still also resides in SOME (very few) kde mirrors. Here's the big question...did you actually install it and get it working? After downloading and installing, all was wrong with the world. First, installing it, even with menu-3.0.5-43mdk installed, it segfaults during the rpm install on /usr/bin/upgrade-menus. Both qt2 and kde rpms segfault it. Once it IS all installed, the system is broken. SOME things work, most do not. Looking deeper into it, even though I got NO dependency missing messages, it appears that you HAVE to "upgrade" just about every rpm on your system to 7.2beta or Cooker level - all because you need to upgrade menu, apparently, even beyond menu-2.1.5-43mdk, because of the segfaults on upgrade-menus. To upgrade menu, to 4.0, which is all that is left, you must upgrade glibc to glibc-2.1.95 or 2.1.96. Doing THIS will break all the other rpms on your system, so you must upgrade them as well. It APPEARS that the "stable" kde 2.0 cannot be used except on an unstable, beta-only distro like 7.2beta or Cooker. There is a README I read on one mirror yesterday that indicated you could run kde 2.0 on other mandrake versions, but you had to upgrade a few rpms (pam, menu, a COUPLE others). Problem is, it is NOT a few rpms. As I described above, to "simply" upgrade menu alone requires an entire cascade of other upgrades to satisfy dependencies. At least with RedHat, though they offer glibc-2.1.95 (and 2.1.96) they ALSO have a glibc-compat rpm NOT for OLD glibc, but for the previous glibc that was in RedHat 6.2, which is essentially 2.1.3. No such beast exists for Mandrake so if you upgrade glibc to upgrade menu to install kde 2.0, you break everything. In for a penny, in for a pound. praedor philomena wrote: here's one... http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/ Praedor Tempus wrote: Real nice. Yesterday, kde releases, finally, the stable, final kde-2.0. Yesterday you could download it from mandrake cooker, from rpmfind, from every mirror known to man. [...] -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:03:24PM -0500: What's the difference between mkdosfs (which I don't have) This is a console tool... kmkdosfs (which I *do* have)? I have no man page for either. kmkdosfs not? Don't know, never heard about kmkdosfs, but this very much sounds like a KDE tool. I didn't think of kde. For some silly reason, I was thinking it was a kernel tool! silly me Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] making a usable floppy disk
Hi, After I formay it with "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440", how do I create a filesystem on it? Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some other mk* command that I haven't found? Thanks, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:39:26AM -0500: Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some other mk* command that I haven't found? For FAT/VFAT it would be mkdosfs, but besides this, you're correct What's the difference between mkdosfs (which I don't have) kmkdosfs (which I *do* have)? I have no man page for either. If it helps, I'm running mdk6.0. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] logrotate
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you get: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) Thank you! -turgut PS: 5 million files is an estimate. - Divide and conquer: rm [Aa]* rm [Bb]* rm [Cc]* etc., etc. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] VPN access through firewall
Clayton Nielsen wrote: I have been challanged to setup a firewall for a friend of mine at his place of bussiness since they are having problems using win based firewalls. Over the last few months they have had quite a number of intrutions and need a better solution. Anyway I can get everything buttoned up tight to prevent access from the web but now I have to allow certain people (employees) to access to the work server from their homes so they can check stock and update orders. Anything would help. Thanx Clayton PMfirewall (look in freshmeat) or http://www.freesco.org Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet
Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Sprint Broadband internet access. The company does not support Linux, but they say couple of the customers are using linux. The cable from the tx/rx dish connects to my eth card What information do I need to setup the Internet access, I am not sure if any type of authentication is involved. Mac and Windows are officially supported. I assume due to support for Mac OS, it should work on Linux. Do they give u a static address or a dynamicly assigned address? Does Sprint use "PPP over Ethernet", or "real Ethernet"? These are the 1st things you must ask of Sprint. What Mandrake version do u use? Mdk6.0 uses "pump" for dynamicly assigned addresses. v6.1 also may use pump. Newer versions use dhcp. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Apache 1.3.12-12mdk log writes are *very* lazy
Jean-Michel Dault wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: Messages aren't flushed to the access_log until apache is shut down nicely via "httpd stop". Also, when they are flushed, they are not in chronological order. Yes, it is due to the SGI optimizations, more precisely, the buffered_logs feature. There is no way to turn it off, as I discovered. Get Apache 1.3.12-30mdk from the 7.2 release, it fixes this bug/feature/whatever. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Since this is a minor agrivation at a low volume site, I think, though, that I will wait until 7.2 is released. Since 7.2 is still beta, the -30mdk might increase to -31 or -32. Question: must I install both apache-common-1.3.12-30mdk and apache-1.3.12-30mdk? The docs at www.rpmfind.net seem to indicate this. Under Mdk7.1, there was only 1.3.12-12mdk. Sincerely, Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Apache mdk install
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Greets All, I'm in the process of building a small web-email server and simply did a "automatic" install. In my attempt to install apache rpmdrake reported that I needed "libmm" just doing a quick search for this in rpmdrake failed. Can anyone point me to it? It's at www.rpmfind.net, and maybe other... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Apache 1.3.12-12mdk log writes are *very* lazy
Cecil Watson wrote: apachectl graceful Will gracefully restart Apache and write to the log file. This is done when there are no active connections. Interesting. Obvious question: how do u know when there are no active connections? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Apache 1.3.12-12mdk log writes are *very* lazy
Messages aren't flushed to the access_log until apache is shut down nicely via "httpd stop". Also, when they are flushed, they are not in chronological order. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] OT: OnStream DI30 IDE tape backup unit
Matthew Micene wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote: Does anyone have experience with this type of unit? Their website says that it works with BRU Lone-Tar, but I wonder if is it quality hardware that works with cpio, tar, etc. I just bought one of these for the office and I must say I am not sure whether or not to be impressed. I like the amount of space on the tapes, the native throughput is not bad (about 1Gig/hr). BRU handles the drive very well, once you patch the kernel to properly use the ide version. As of yet I have not tried cpio tar etc, however mt works like a charm for moving around the tape :) I am not an expert cpio user but if you'd like, privately email me and I can perhaps run some tests for you? What kernel do you use? The OnStream web site seems to indicate that 2.2.16 (which I have) doesn't need to be patched. 1GB/hr? I guess you get what you pay for. At work, we have a DLT-7000 (35GB native) drive plugged (via SCSI-2) into a 466MHz Alpha 4100 and get 12GB/hr. Of course, the DLT drive (a 7 tape stacker) costs $30,000... Can I email you in a month to ask you how you like it? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Software
Richard Humphrey wrote: Does anyone know of a software that runs on Linux that will record keystrokes of another machine on the network? Boy, couldn't *that* be used as a great cracking tool... Wouldn't you need a "keystroke server" (possibly a module in the kernel, to trap keystrokes), and an open port on the "other machine" to capture the strokes and then send them to the collecting machine? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?
tom strickland wrote: tom strickland wrote: tomtell him to buy an external serial modem (not usb). No! Soon it will be difficult to buy motherboards with ISA slots. No ISA slot - no ISA bus - no serial port. I need a future proof modem, as he Hogwash. Nowadays, the IDE serial ports are part of a "virtual" PCI-based super-IO card. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?
tom strickland wrote: My friend is about to buy a modem, and he'd like it to be compatible with linux. Buying PCI would be more futureproof than isa or serial. I know that winmodems don't work under linux - most software modems in other words. I know that pci modems don't work on linux at the moment (not without fiddling, and then only some), but will they work under kernel 2.4? Just like anything else: it depends... All winmodems are PCI-based, but not all PCI-based modems are winmodems. If it costs more tham $65, it *probably* is a "hardware" modem, as opposed to a winmodem, which is a.k.a. a software modem. "Hardware" PCI-based modems will usually advertise the fact, or say that they are DOS compatible. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?
Stephen Bosch wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: Just like anything else: it depends... All winmodems are PCI-based, but not all PCI-based modems are winmodems. Sorry? Not all Winmodems are PCI based. I have several ISA Winmodems. Really? I didn't know that. If it costs more tham $65, it *probably* is a "hardware" modem, as opposed to a winmodem, which is a.k.a. a software modem. This is a dangerous way to determine if something is a Winmodem or not -- it's better to look for "hardware controller" modems and avoid "HCF" and "HSP" modems. I've seen enough $100 Winmodems. Generally speaking, manufacturers like to hide the fact that their modems are Winmodems, because bad news travels fast and people are starting to figure out that Winmodems are crap in general. If it doesn't say boldly "Hardware modem" or "hardware controller" then it's probably a Winmodem. We are talking about the same thing, but yes, you are more specific. Most winmodems are now much cheaper. The only surefire non-Winmodem is a serial external. Totally true, but it's yet one more box to clutter the desk with, and 1 more "little brick" power supply to plug into the power strip and partially block a 2nd outlet. You can see the flashing (or not flashing) lights, though, and turn it off if something gets hung. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?
Stew Benedict wrote: FYI - the ActionTec was marked as compatible with Linux and had detailed instructions for Linux - how to find the interrupt, port address, edit setserial, make the device file etc. Took me all of 15 minutes, including opening the case. What model number? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] OT: OnStream DI30 IDE tape backup unit
Does anyone have experience with this type of unit? Their website says that it works with BRU Lone-Tar, but I wonder if is it quality hardware that works with cpio, tar, etc. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] About to upgrade mdk6.0 from kde1.1.1 to 1.1.2
alann wrote: Sarang Lakare wrote: my suggestion, don't bother with 1.1.2, either directly upgrade to 2.0 (which is heaven!) or wait for Mandrake 7.2 -sarang I'm dying to try KDE 2.. But after 2 attempts at installing ( following the instructions religously ) KDE2, twice, both times resulting in a BROKEN KDE, I think I will wait until Mdk 7.2. For the time being, I'm going to stick with peicemeal updates. Also, won't go with KDE2 until glaring bugs are fixed at ~2.0.1. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] About to upgrade mdk6.0 from kde1.1.1 to 1.1.2
After I grab the 10 KDE Mdk RPMs from Metalab, and shutdown X, is there anything I should do except # rpm -Uvh kde* These are the RPMs that I have: kdeadmin-1.1.2-12mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-1.1.2-61mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-1.1.2-8mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-1.1.2-12mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-1.1.2-18mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-1.1.2-11mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-1.1.2-17mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-1.1.2-17mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-1.1.2-7mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-1.1.2-13mdk.i586.rpm This has me scared witless that X, KDE my desktops will get totally, horribly, irretreivable mangled beyond repair... /opt/kde is a symlink to /usr/. Will this cause any problems? Here are some details of my system, if that is important: - kernel 2.2.16 - glibc-2.1.2-17 - XFree86 3.3.3.1-58mdk Sincerely, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] -- MARK -- in /var/log/messages
Hello, As you can see, these are logged every 20 minutes, and it's been happening since the beginning of the machine. What causes this, and can I or should I turn this off? Sincerely, Ron Sep 20 01:52:31 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 02:11:16 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 02:31:16 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 02:51:16 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 03:31:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 03:51:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 04:31:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 05:11:16 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 05:31:16 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 05:51:16 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 06:31:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 06:51:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 07:11:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 07:31:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 07:51:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 08:11:18 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 08:31:18 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 08:51:18 rebel -- MARK -- -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] permissions on swap partitions
Hello, These messages appear in syslog at boot time: swapon: warning: /dev/hda2 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested swapon: warning: /dev/hdc1 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested swapon: warning: /dev/hdc2 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested Here are their entries in /etc/fstab: # mount fs #device point type #-- - /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults0 0 /dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults0 0 /dev/hdc2 swap swap defaults0 0 Should I change column 4 to "defaults,mode=0600"? Sincerely, Ron -- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] -- MARK -- in /var/log/messages
David Mihm wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: As you can see, these are logged every 20 minutes, and it's been happening since the beginning of the machine. What causes this, and can I or should I turn this off? Sep 20 01:52:31 rebel -- MARK -- From the man page for syslogd: -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely. ... from someone who writes man pages, man pages are your friend. :) Thanks. I'd have *never* thought to look in the man page. Stuff is written in /var/log/messages from so many sources, who'da thunk that syslogd does it? In hindsight, though, since a process name isn't listed, I should have realized (by process of elimination) that syslogd does it. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] -- MARK -- in /var/log/messages
Stew Benedict wrote: Actually, syslogd does write all of it. There is a very good explanation of why in the latest Server/Workstation Expert magazine. If each process touched that file, you'd have a real mess as multiple apps tried to append to the same file. That's why syslogd was created. [snip] Thanks. I'd have *never* thought to look in the man page. Stuff is written in /var/log/messages from so many sources, who'da thunk that syslogd does it? In hindsight, though, since a process name isn't listed, I should have realized (by process of elimination) that syslogd does it. Sorry, my grammar was blurry. I know that only syslogd writes to /var/log/messages. Instead of "Stuff is written in /var/log/messages from so many sources", I should have said, "So many different processes tell syslogd to write messages". What is this "Server/Workstation Expert" magazine? Do they have a URL? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] setting up printers and printing
Praedor Tempus wrote: Well... This is the Mandrake list, thus I am using Mandrake and need to make things work with it. I need to print to shared network printers. I had been doing so via samba but they are now no longer samba shares. I need to print directly to the printers via their ip addresses. I have tried various configurations with printerdrake but nothing results in printing. [snip] These. Are. Their. Names. Yet I get messages about the real name not being able to be accessed and I get no output. These are both postscript printers that worked fine under samba. I was able, in the past before the network configuration was changed, to connect directly to the printers as well and print from them. I could transfer a postscript file to them and have that print out. Basic postscript printers. Could it be that these new print servers don't support lpd, but just support Windows IPX? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] setting up printers and printing
Praedor Tempus wrote: I need to print to network printers at school. They WERE samba shares until recently, and I could print to them via the samba printserver. Now, they are setup to be printed to directly. Problem is, I don't know how to set up the printers in this way. Using printerdrake, there are no options for this: local printer, remote lpd (unix), or samba. That's it. With the redhat printtool, there is an additional option for setting up a direct to port printer. I just don't know if THIS is the proper method. I need to print to the IP address of the printers, setup as lp, lp0, etc. How does one set this up? Not only must you know the IP address of the print server (which I thnk you do), but you must also know the name of the printer (a.k.a. queue name) that is attached to the print server. That is because print servers can have more than 1 parallel port, so, obviously, can serve more than 1 printer. Each of these printers must have an associated queue name. I easily used printtool 3.40 (which came with Mdk6.0) to set up my HP L-J 1100 (using the L-J 4 driver), once I knew the the IP addr queue name. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? That's BOTSWANA (in Africa) Please see URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html Thank you. I'd have *never* guessed that on my own... Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)
Francois Swanepoel wrote: .bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a holiday, if you like to get real close to nature and own a 4x4 vehicle. So I've heard. Political Geography question: What was the "white" name of Botswana? (Like Rhodesia was the "white" name of Zimbabwe.) Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] GUI Editor needed for remote computer
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Sarang Lakare pushed some tiny letters in this order: You can either do whata Tony suggested, or KDE 2.0 has total network transparancy.. so u can ftp from konqueror to any remote machine and then just click on the icon of any file to edit! -sarang Since u refer to ftp, can I assume that it makes a local copy, and then when u r finished editing it, it "put"s the file back to the remote host? I say this because without nfs/samba, how would the local editor know how to process the file unless it were tempirarily local? Sincerely, Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? That's BOTSWANA (in Africa) Please see URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html Thank you. I'd have *never* guessed that on my own... Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)
Francois Swanepoel wrote: .bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a holiday, if you like to get real close to nature and own a 4x4 vehicle. So I've heard. Political Geography question: What was the "white" name of Botswana? (Like Rhodesia was the "white" name of Zimbabwe.) Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Xwindow
Sarang Lakare wrote: Dave, VNC is for those _crappy_ OSes that do now have XWindows inbuilt.. Linux and other Unices have XWindows builtin... thus it dosn't matter what machine u are running the program on.. u can always just telnet/ssh to taht machine and run the program there, but the display will be on u're screen.. thats the strength of unix. On Windoze, u need to buy a program which can emulate X on u're machine.. and that way u'll be able to run X apps from a remote machine on u're machine.. So don't tell us that VNC is good and other crap.. you dont' need it if u are using Linux/Unix.. Everybody here is trying to tell you that and you are not able to understand! My, my, my. Young Mr. Lakare is *so* full of piss vinegar, and thinks he knows so much... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln
Matthew Micene wrote: [snip] chain policies. I did not mean to imply in my first post that the ports listening in the netstat output were listening THROUGH the firewall, but showed the need for a firewall to be put in place :) If I'd have been a bit more clueful, I'd have realized that... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln
Tony Smith wrote: How can i check which ports on my computer are open i will be sitting on my server ? I use "netstat -an --inet | grep LISTEN" to show me which ports are accessible. Remove the grep to see active connections too. Also, check out lsof which will allow you to tell which processes are connected/listening. Tony This is great... 1 question though: Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign AddressState* tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:230.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:210.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:515 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN Since the foreign address is 0.0.0.0, does that mean that these ports are accessable by the world? Port 515 is the print spooler, so it sounds bad that that should be world accessable. TIA, Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln
Matthew Micene wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, you wrote: Since the foreign address is 0.0.0.0, does that mean that these ports are accessable by the world? Port 515 is the print spooler, so it sounds bad that that should be world accessable. You'd better believe it. And if you want it to get worse, open an X Window session and watch X pop up on port 6000 and xfs on port 2046 I think. This is why EVERYONE running a linux box (at home or otherwise) needs to have a firewall installed of some sort. One solution is tcpserver as a replacement for inet super server because it supports binding to a specific interface or address. It is limited in the fact that it only handles TCP protocols. Well that's pretty bad. I used PMFirewall to set up my ipchains commands, but apparently it has left some things out... It was my assumption that PMFirewall blocked everything then allowed only certain ports in... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln
Matthew Micene wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, you wrote: Since the foreign address is 0.0.0.0, does that mean that these ports are accessable by the world? Port 515 is the print spooler, so it sounds bad that that should be world accessable. You'd better believe it. And if you want it to get worse, open an X Window session and watch X pop up on port 6000 and xfs on port 2046 I think. This is why EVERYONE running a linux box (at home or otherwise) needs to have a firewall installed of some sort. One solution is tcpserver as a replacement for inet super server because it supports binding to a specific interface or address. It is limited in the fact that it only handles TCP protocols. As far as X and xfs go ... pass the -nolisten tcp to your startx script as a server arg and X will no longer listen on the network for connections. xfs will take -udpPort 0 to to turn off network requests, but I still haven't found a good place in prefdm or the like to pass that arg automatically. If anyone has any tips please post them. "netstat -an --inet | grep LISTEN" says that port 139 (NETBIOS session service) is listening to the world, but "ipchains -L" says this: [root 13:06:16 /home/me (4000.87KB)]# ipchains -L Chain input (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestinationports REJECT udp -- anywhere indi0.indi.se.verio.net/24 any - 113 DENY tcp -- anywhere anywhere any - netbios-ns:netbios-ssn DENY udp -- anywhere anywhere any - netbios-ns:netbios-ssn Does this mean that even though netbios-ssn is listening on 113 that ipchains will block any outside requests? (BTW, I guess samba needs netbios-ssn for my internal LAN, which has Windows boxen sharing disks printer.) Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant. Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will be wrong for ML 7.2. It sounds, then, like moving from an earlier version of mdk to 7.2 will entail a *lot* of file moving, which would break your system (i.e. PATH variables, fully qualified file names in scripts, etc.). Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
pablito wrote: [snip] problems. Mandrake also does a much better job sticking on the various programs that make Linux easier to use. [snip] Plz clarify this. Thanks, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!
Stefan Srdic wrote: [snip] I have used PMFirewall as well, only it does not configure an outgoing DHCP server correctly, I intend to build my own firewall. I dont want to end up being a Windows Linux user. This OS is open sourced for a reason, so that you can learn and improve your computer skills. Thanks for all your help, I think that I'm going to read the entire IPChains HOW-TO and IPMasquerading HOW-TO this week-end :-D You should (or maybe u did...) email [EMAIL PROTECTED] about that dhcp bug. Good luck studying IPchains! Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] HDD 33.8GB ???
Hi, http://www.linuxdocs.org/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html is a bit ambiguous as to whether, on the 2.2.x kernels, it *only* works on 2.2.14, or = 2.2.14. And I'm refering to the generic kernel, not the mdk-patched kernels. Thanks in advance, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] multiple logons
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: [snip] second login and a forking process is pretty minor in Linux). Why would you care if someone logs in multiple times? If that's a concern, go use [snip] In most situations, u r right: there is no reason to restrict multiple logins. HOWEVER, in the commercial realm, when dozens of clerks are logged into a system, it is often useful (for tracking, auditing or consistency, etc.) to only let a clerk log into a system once. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] multiple logons
Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: HOWEVER, in the commercial realm, when dozens of clerks are logged into a system, it is often useful (for tracking, auditing or consistency, etc.) to only let a clerk log into a system once. But if I wanted to wreak havoc on the tracking system, I'd just open about 11 bash shells, scores of rxvts, and a few instances of Netscape. That way, I'd have lots of possible input methods on a *single* login. Put simply, I don't think the concept of a single login really exists in Linux Mandrake. Best regards, though. Anyone with more constructive suggestions, feel free to prove me wrong! -- Asheesh Laroia. I agree with u; I was simply pointing out a circumstance where single-login is useful... Would it be easier, if not foolproof, to enforce single-login on dumb serial terminals? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Mike Bowley wrote: Deno Did that URL actually work for you? I get a "host not found" error. I managed to find the top 10 tips article at :- http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455 same thing happens to me. Ditto for ping. Maybe the host is down... Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
frank wrote: On Tue, 02 May 2000, Stefan Srdic put to word: I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot floppy and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in Windows :-D Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up which OS to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root filesystem, its above the 1024th cylinder. I tried using DrakBoot with no success, I know that I have Grub installed on my system. How do I configure and install it? oddly, most of the responses on this thread deal with lilo rather than grub, which is a clearly superior bootloader...to find out more about grub, type: If lilo is running fine for me, why change? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
frank wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. put to word: If lilo is running fine for me, why change? i've not advised you to change...my comments went to the poster asking about grub and getting answers about lilo...if lilo meets your needs, use it...if those needs expand to areas where lilo becomes not efficient, then you ought look for a tool which better handles the job... 'kay. I thought you were on a grub-and-no-other crusade. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] How to install Grub?
[snip] I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot over the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using KLILO I always get the same error message: Warning:device 0x0306 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1291 1023) Error: LILO died I'm running LILO v21, and it boots just fine off a 4GB / partition. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] ipchains question
Bill Dillon wrote: Hi List: I just installed ipchains and configured it with pmfirewall. All seemes to go well and I started the /etc/rc.d/init.d/pmfirewall start. That went fine too. My question: I thought that I'd see ipchains running by doing a ps -ef | grep ipchains. I don't and was kind of wondering if my firewall is actually runing? ipchains isn't a daemon. Like route, it sets up data structures right in the kernel. From "man ipchains": -L, --list List all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all chains are listed. It is legal to specify the -Z (zero) option as well, in which case no chain may be specified. The exact output is effected by the other arguments given. So, "sbin/ipchains --list" is what u want. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] How to see IP address?
Sarang Lakare wrote: grep IP /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 This i thought was the best of all the solutions!.. it gives a bad output though which i'll have to filter out somehow.. btw, I want to know the IP as a user.. so cant' run ifconfig.. This, I think is the bottleneck of linux and _has_ to be improved.. Why shldn't a user know his own IP address?? why does he have to be root to do that!! its rediculous!.. -sarang Users don't have IP addresses: devices do... As a non-root user, this works grandly, and is SIMPLE: $/sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet addr:" Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] How to see IP address?
Eric Peters wrote: And id you can not run that command as a simple user there must be a reason why you were locked out of it! "My boss" As of 5 mins ago stated that. :) snicker... P.S. Why make something so difficult ping the box that will tell you the ip address. Misleading, if u have multiple eth or ppp ports. /sbin/ifconfig is definitive. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] ipchains question
Stefan Srdic wrote: Log in as super user and type "gfcc" at any command prompt, this frontend program will allow you to configure your firewall. You can also test your firewall online at www.grc.com What's cfcc? Is that mdk7 specific, or is it at freshmeat? Also, is it analogous to PMFirewall? Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] ipchains question
Stefan Srdic wrote: Sorry, I made a typo. I meant GFCC. That stands for GTK Firewall Control Centre. Its basically a front end GUI to manipulate the rules that you have set up for IPchains. Once executed this program will detect the current rules that you have set up for your system and allow you to edit them and change them on the fly. I have used it with PMFirewall, PMFirewall is simply a script that enables IPchains in the Linux kernel. I can help you with more question's if you like. You could also post a question on my Linux forum at www.speedcorp.net I'm a moderator their and would be glad to help out :-D How stable is GFCC 0.7.4? Thanks, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's
Duhhh. Most (99.999%?) of the people on this (or any other) list would know that "Michael Powell, PhD" is a Philosophy Doctor, not a Medical Doctor. That's why he's "Michael Powell, PhD" instead of "Michael Powell, MD". "james.fogg" wrote: Nice flame, but Dr. Michael Powell, PhD is correct. It differentiates from Dr. Michael Powell, MD. [snip] He's probably just a pompous(sp?) lamer. Dr. Michael Powell or Michael Powell, PhD but *never* the silly-ly redundant Dr. Michael Powell PhD Ron (I'm not a PhD and I don't play one on TV) -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Proxy/router setup How-To
Benjamin Reed wrote: While the thought of buying another piece isn't too appealing to me (I have a mylar bag with about 10 NIC's in it already) it looks like I don't know if you really need to get new hardware just for this if you've already got the NICs, you'll just have to spend a little time (probably) learning IPChains. There are very few ipchains "wrappers" that handle more than one internal NIC (that I know of), and unless you want to fork out the money for a switch instead of a hub, you'll probably get better performance with multiple NICs. :) If u want 1 NIC on Linux per client PC, do u need special "straight thru" cat5, in order to run wire diectly from the client to the Linux box? Otherwise, wouldn't u need a hub NIC on your linux box? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Another IPCHAINS question
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: On a somewhat related topic, consider this scenerio: I want a linux box to function sort of like a switch, passing through internet traffic, but isolating each network device from another. Example: eth0 = connection to a Masqing box (192.168.1.x network) eth1 = office 1 (192.168.1.41-50) eth2 = office 2 (192.168.1.51-60) eth3 = office 3 (192.168.1.61-70) In this box, I want no masquerading to take place.. I want a machine connected to eth1 with an IP of 192.168.1.42 routed right out eth0 as the same IP. Basically just like I had a dumb hub. The reason for the need for some intelligience here is that I don't want Win95 machines in office 1 seeing machines in office 2 using their netbios / whatever protocol. The reverse obviously has to work: if a packet comes into eth0 for 192.168.1.65, it should go right out eth3 with that same IP. This means that eth0 will be responding to several IP numbers, not just its own. If it makes it any easier, I can change eth0's network numbers to be on another network (like 10.0.0.x), but I still need the 1:1 mapping. How/where in IPCHAINS??? Bob Would it make think somewhat easier if each office had it's own network segment? The masq'ing box on 192.168.4.x network, and: NIC on 'linux switch''s descrip segment 'linux switch'" IP on each segment --- --- -- office 1 192.168.1.x eth1 192.168.1.1 office 2 192.168.2.x eth2 192.168.2.1 office 3 192.168.3.x eth3 192.168.3.1 masq box 192.168.4.x eth0 192.168.4.1 If each client had a 255.255.255.0 netmask, then your "linux switch" could have an ethX on each of 192.168.[123] and 192.168.4. Also, the "linux switch" (as 192.168.[123].1 on each relevant ethX NIC) would be the default gw of each client PC. Would that make the IPchains solution more tractable, since all is not on 1 network segment? Or am I just a dumb sh*t who should keep his hands off the keyboard? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: The K6-3 is a kissing cousin of the K6-2. The only diff is that on the K6-3, the L1 cache runs at processor speed, whereas on K6-2, the L1 is slower. The L1 cache _always_ runs at processor speed on any processor that I know of ... To do otherwise would defeat its purpose IMHO. But the K6-3 also has 256K of _L2_ cache (yep, level 2, the cache on the MB, if any, is level 3) running at full processor speed. This is a bit like the Celeron, which only has 128K of L2 cache on-chip. Thanks for the correction. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions
"Julia A . Case" wrote: Yes. startx will start a session alt-shift-f7 and start :1 will start one on alt-shift-f8 Julie Quoting faisal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can i have two Xwindows at once like on shift f1 root shift f2 have normal user login ?? Unless u are comparing Window managers, why would u *want* multiple X-servers? Many managers give u virtual desk tops X4 gives u multi-headedness, and all let u open as many xterm sessions as u like. Maybe Faisal is confused about what X window managers actually do? Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Vic wrote: Just curious I use an AMD K6-3 400. I know this is an older slower chip, but it appears to run decently with 7.0-2. Is K6-3 a cousin to the Pentium or Pentium3? Is the Athlon a totally new architecture or more related to the K6-3? The Athlon is a totally new arch. the K6-2 was related to PII and I suspec the K6-3 is related to the PIII's although the K6's still used socket-7's. The Athlon uses their own propritary Slot A technology (bad AMD 8-)) I have several K6-2-300's around and they run very well with 7.0 and 7.1 and my Athlon (K7) runs like a scaled dog. The K6-3 is a kissing cousin of the K6-2. The only diff is that on the K6-3, the L1 cache runs at processor speed, whereas on K6-2, the L1 is slower. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions "Julia A . Case" wrote: Yes. startx will start a session alt-shift-f7 and start :1 will start one on alt-shift-f8 Julie Quoting faisal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can i have two Xwindows at once like on shift f1 root shift f2 have normal user login ?? Unless u are comparing Window managers, why would u *want* multiple X-servers? Many managers give u virtual desk tops X4 gives u multi-headedness, and all let u open as many xterm sessions as u like. Maybe Faisal is confused about what X window managers actually do? I would like to run two X-servers because KDE doesn't like multi-head very well (always pops up new screens split between the monitors - yecch). And, of course, VMware and Win4Lin don't like it either. It would be nice to have KDE on one monitor and then run one of the other full screen in the other monitor (XFree86-4.0, two video cards here). Anyone have experience with this? Boy, aren't I glad I didn't refer to "multiple startx" as a Stupid Idea... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions
Mage Grimau wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: "Julia A . Case" wrote: Yes. startx will start a session alt-shift-f7 and start :1 will start one on alt-shift-f8 Julie Quoting faisal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can i have two Xwindows at once like on shift f1 root shift f2 have normal user login ?? Unless u are comparing Window managers, why would u *want* multiple X-servers? Many managers give u virtual desk tops X4 gives u multi-headedness, and all let u open as many xterm sessions as u like. Maybe Faisal is confused about what X window managers actually do? As he said - he wants to log in as root under one, and as a user under the other. When I need to do a lot of stuff as root I do the same thing, since I don't know much about using linux from the command line. 1. Learn Unix. It's slow. I'm getting there and so will you. 2. su 3. There's a command (for the life of me I can't remember it, but a *real* expert will) that, along with the commands su export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 will allow you to run X apps from root, even when u have done startx from a non-root acct. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?
Vic wrote: Sorry, what is a scaled dog? Does it mean fast? I've heard of catfish, but not dogfish... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Download managers !
Ron Stodden wrote: [snip] No dreaming - think it through ... Results depend on where the bandwidth bottleneck is - for 500MB/sec cable users like us it is usually at or near the far end and applies on a per-connection basis. So for the usual trans-pacific download achievable of about 30KB/sec, running 10 separate connection threads to the same segmented file would achieve 300KB/sec, well within the receive capabilities of the cable here. [snip] H. 500 megabytes/sec == 1,500 megabits/sec == 1.5 *giga*bits per sec. I DON'T THINK SOOO... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] two gateway in one machine
Lang Zhi wrote: Hi. I have a linux box that do IP-MASQ (eth0) and connected to net via serial modem(ttyS0)- (the main gateway). Now, i wonder if i can add another modem(ttyS1) and configure my linux box to automaticaly choose between modem1 and modem2 as their gateway.Thats mean, data coming from eth0 can "choose" their gateway either modem1 or modem2. Is this possible ? If can, to do it, or where to RTFM.? How would it know which gw to choose? Based on the IP addr? Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: [snap] /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_icq /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_h323 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ipsec These modules don't exist in the 2.2.16 tarball I grabbed from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2. Where did you get them? Also, these modules weren't compiled: ip_masq_app.c ip_masq_autofw.c ip_masq_mfw.c ip_masq_mod.c ip_masq_portfw.c How do I compile them myself? Thanks, Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] DSL Help Needed
"Ralph F. De Witt" wrote: Hi to all: I have finally bit the bullet and ordered DSL service. This will be provieded by GTE, of course Linux is not supported as a OS, and to make matters worst the last time I read the networking man and how to's I ended up haveing to reinstall both my Winbloz machine and LInux. I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and have all the security updates installed. I am hoping some one can give me the info I need to get it installed and set up. I thank you in advance for your help and advice in this matter. -- Ralph F. De Witt Proud user of Mandrake 7.1 Linux Register Linux User ICQ #49993234 No Windoze were broken in the making of this Message. You have to see whether your DSL modem spits out straight Ethernet or PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE). If regular ethernet, then just run the dhcp client and act as if you are on any other Ethernet LAN. Maybe someone else can help if GTE makes u use PPPoE. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] New Server
Daniel Woods wrote: The only things I'm not sure of is the Dlink DE-538TX 10/100 PCI ethernet card ... I have this and the DFE-530TX+ and both work well. Linux sees this as a 'rt18139' driver. Thanks... Dan. Note that it's an "ell" not a "one": rtl8139, not rt18139 driver. ^^ Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] removing the 2.2.9 kernel RPMs
Hi, These RPMs were installed when I installed mdk6.0. Subsequently, I've installed 2.2.12 .16 from tarballs. Will doing an "rpm -e" on these packages ruin my system by erasing the 2.2.16 files? kernel-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-headers-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-doc-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-source-2.2.9-19mdk Sincerely, Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?
Ken Thompson wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello, In my current kernel 2.2.12, my 10b2 card uses the rtl8139.o module, but I can't find it in the 2.2.16 "make menuconfig". Am I just blind, or has something changed? Sincerely, Ron -- Try the ne2k-pci device in linux conf. This seems to work with *MOST* pci NIC's, and ALL of my RTL card's.. -- Ken Thompson As a workaround, after I did "make mrproper", I grabbed the linux-2.2.12/.config a dropped it in linux-2.2.16, then ran "make oldconfig"... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?
Ken Thompson wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello, In my current kernel 2.2.12, my 10b2 card uses the rtl8139.o module, but I can't find it in the 2.2.16 "make menuconfig". Am I just blind, or has something changed? [snip] Try the ne2k-pci device in linux conf. This seems to work with *MOST* pci NIC's, and ALL of my RTL card's.. -- 'kay. Still, why wouldn't rtl8139 be listed in "make *config"? Is it an oversight on the part of the guy who supports "kernel make"? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Quick how do I mirror a drive?
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: I believe, that if you want to be able to boot from the mirrored set, you'll need to get a controller that mirrors the drives for you... such as the Adaptec adapters. Raid is supported AFTER the kernel loads. Though I may be wrong, with the more recent releases. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James |Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 1:18 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] Quick how do I mirror a drive? | | |We've got a Poweredge 2400 and the RAID was setup with 4GB boot and the |other 104GB were divided in half and mirrored. We've outgrown the 50 |user NT license, so we put mandrake on it. The only problem is that |linux is just treating it as two large partitions. How do I set up a |mirror. We are doing nightly back-ups, but if something major happens, |it's much easier to switch drives. Also, in NT there was a way of |setting the updating of the mirror. Is this possible in Linux as well? | Was NT doing the mirroring for you? In that case, as Jose, said, you must load the RAID modules post-boot. "Enterprise" RAID controllers will do the mirroring for u and present present the OS with a simplified view of things. I don't know if "departmental" controllers also do this... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?
Hello, In my current kernel 2.2.12, my 10b2 card uses the rtl8139.o module, but I can't find it in the 2.2.16 "make menuconfig". Am I just blind, or has something changed? Sincerely, Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote: What does "(ext2) is designed properly, so there's no need" mean? No filesystem can be designed to eliminate fragmentation. If you are constantly "churning" on your disk, especially if your disk is 80% full, it *will* become fragged. Of course, high speed disks, high speed CPUs and lots of RAM for cache will minimize fragmentation's effect... Of course, since I have high speed disks, high speed CPUs and lots of RAM for cache, and the disks are 80% full, and I don't "churning" on my disks, I don't defrag my disks. The way that Linux allocates files, the filesystem fragmentation is kept EXTREMELY low. If you do a manual FSCK on your file system, you'll see at most 3-5% non-contiguous, except in EXTREMELY rare situations. While there ARE degrag utils for EXT2, they are generally not necessary, as the O/S doesn't, as a rule, become fragmented in the first place. John Does it use it use (what VMS calls) the "Contiguous Best Try"? In other words, contiguous if possible, and if possible, in as few fragments as possible? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: WeiQuan Tian wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for optimization of Hard disk in Mandrake 6.0 or RPM in higher version? Thanks in advance, Wei Quan Tian No, the Linux file system is designed properly, so there's no need. What does "(ext2) is designed properly, so there's no need" mean? No filesystem can be designed to eliminate fragmentation. If you are constantly "churning" on your disk, especially if your disk is 80% full, it *will* become fragged. Of course, high speed disks, high speed CPUs and lots of RAM for cache will minimize fragmentation's effect... Of course, since I have high speed disks, high speed CPUs and lots of RAM for cache, and the disks are 80% full, and I don't "churning" on my disks, I don't defrag my disks. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Uptime monitoring
Duncan Hall wrote: I've tried that but I need a package that does not rely on the uptimes.net server and keeps track of uptime from a specified date. Dunc "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: Duncan Hall wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a programme to monitor the uptime of my server. The uptime programme tells me how long my system has been running but I need somehting that will tell me how much uptime I have had since a certain date and how many outages have occured during that time. Any thoughts? Dunc goto freshmeat.net and search for the string "uptime". I use uptimed 0.1.5, which is stand-alone; I'd swear I got it from freshmeat... It keeps a list of the top 45 uptimes. The author may be coming out with an option to sort the list by boot-time. If you'd like, I'll send the gzipball to you if I was wrong about freshmeat. Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] cron question
Bill Shirley wrote: Before taking that route you might investigate: http://www.bizland.com/ which will give you a free subdomain.bizland.com with website and e-mail. Or, if you have your own domain name but use a dynamic IP address you might check out: http://www.dyndns.com/ along with: http://soa.granitecanyon.com/ to have your domain mapped back to your dial-up IP address so you can use your own server for e-mail, http, etc. http://www.dhs.org is similar to www.dyndns.com and works with dynamic or static IP addresses. I don't know if dyndns.com is free, but dhs.org and either runs on linux or *BSD. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Uptime monitoring
Duncan Hall wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a programme to monitor the uptime of my server. The uptime programme tells me how long my system has been running but I need somehting that will tell me how much uptime I have had since a certain date and how many outages have occured during that time. Any thoughts? Dunc goto freshmeat.net and search for the string "uptime". -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] brilliant idea
John Connell wrote: [snip] This is not a really "brilliant" idea but it is an issue that is of importance to me personally. I would like to see a Minimal Install" option at setup time! I second this. If in mdk7, you did away with char-mode install, you should bring one back. Building a network appliance (firewall, proxy, router, DNS server, Apache server, etc.) out of an old P75 with 16MB RAM and 350MB HDD would be much easier that way. Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] BASH Shell games
Charles Curley wrote: [snip] if [ /etc/fstab -nt $metatada/fstab ] || [ ! -f $metadata/fstab ] ; then echo "Copying $metatada/fstab in from /etc." cp /etc/fstab $metadata; fi [snip] $metatada $metadata ^^^ transcription error... Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] pine netscape
Thank you... "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: Well, the RFC's usually deal with transport format, not storage format. Nonetheless the basic data files *are* compatible, but Netscape makes extra files called ".foo.summary" for each mailbox "foo." If you update mailboxes with pine, netscape will get confused, but if you just wipe out the ~/nsmail/.*.summary files every time you finish with pine it should automatically re-generated them. Then it's just a matter of getting them to agree on the folder. Netscape is supposed to let you change the dir it uses but in my experience this does not work well. I'd either change it in pine or use a symbolic link. Not also that you may have an issue with different locations for inbox/outbox/sent mail. Ron Johnson wrote: Hi. Somewhere, I read that NS' email client follows RFCblah. Can these 2 share email folders? It sure would be handy to be able to use them both... -- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?
AG wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: | Dave Lers wrote: | | telnet-server | | H. Since I have telnetd, but don't have the telnet-server | rpm, where does /usr/sbin/in.telnetd come from? | | Is there an rpm command to find which rpm contains a certain | file? | | # rpm -qal | grep telnetd | /usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.bz2 | /usr/man/man8/telnetd.8.bz2 | /usr/sbin/in.telnetd | | "rpm -qal | grep telnetd" almost works, but not quite... rpm -qf /usr/sbin/in.telnetd Thank you. Someone else suggested that and that says: $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/in.telnetd telnet-0.10-8mdk Boy, did *that* start a pissing match... Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Of course the client and server are separate packages. However, telnetd is the telnet Daemon, and is therefore part of the SERVER. You don't need a daemon for a client. Ok. But if the guy doesn't have telnet-server installed, how the heck did he get the telnetd installed? :-) John I already asked. He won't answer that... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
