Re: [expert] ADSL
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Lucas Petri Bernardes wrote: - Hi all ! - - - I have an static IP ADSL connection. I have an IP add and a gateway. My - ADSL modem is connected in a HUB and my network card is connected in that HUB. I use - this config in Win2k and worked fine, i just give the IP with the correct netmask - and the gateway. In LM 7.2 my network card doesnt work fine, when i type ifconfig it - shows only the Lo(loopback interface). The module for the netcard is installed, - RTL8139...but i allways get "temporaly unavaliable" when trying to UP the eth0 - interface and "network is unreacheble" when trying the route add command. Someone - would help me ??? It is probably easiest to setup the network using linuxconf. When done, quit from the program and type (as root): /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart If that works, then type (as root) chkconfig network on -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
[expert] Web Mail System
Any recommendations for a good open source web mail systems for Linux? Desired characteristics are IMAP support. I want to set up a system for my wife to access her mail from work using a browser. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] Linux box as printer server?
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote: - I've got three machines at home -- one of which is a Linux box. All three - are networked together and it's working well. - - What I would like to do is to hook our printer up to the Linux box (which is - always on anyway) to have it act as a print server. - - What configuration do I need to do within Linux to make it work as a printer - server? What configuration needs to be done on the other two (windoze) - machines? First set up the printer :-) Then add a share to /etc/smb.conf something like (assumes CUPS) [HL-1240] path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr-cups -r -P lp -o raw %s lprm command = cancel %p-%j restart samba and the printer should now appear in network neighborhood on the Win boxen. Use the printer install thingie... If your machine is a gateway and you do not block ports 137, 138, and 139 from leaving your local network, add to smb.conf under [global] interfaces local ethernet interface 127.0.0.1 bind interfaces only = true Sometimes on complicated networks this a little tricky to get right so it might be easier to just block outgoing smb/nmb traffic at the firewall. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] Checkbook package for Linux
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Neal Lippman wrote: - A few weeks (?months) ago, I recall reading an announcement on, I think, - slashdot, about a company that was producing a quicken-like financial - management / checkbook program for Linux. While not a quicken clone per se, - looking at their website strongly suggested it was going to be a quicken - equivalent for Linux. They were planning a beta release around March 1 and a - real release around September 2001. It is not freeware / open source, but - looked cheaply enough priced to be worth a look at. Unfortunately, I failed - to bookmark the link and now I cannot find any references to it anywhere. 99% - of all search results on this topic just point me to GnuCash. (Btw, anyone - using that under kde and find it to be stable and worth moving to from - Quicken?). If all you need is a checkbook program have you considered cbb? It is not a full fledged accounting program and does not pretend to be one but I have been using it for about four years with nary a glitch. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] MP3's are not working
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Vic wrote: - Uh oh dude sounds like somehow the diskwriter plugin got - activated instead of it just playing mp3s it is now converting them - back to a wav fle. That was it! I set the output in preferences to the OSS driver and everything works correctly in xmms. - I think one has to open uip the options thing again and - turn off the diskwriter plugin, if you neec more ito, - please aks Thanks! I'd ask what causes this but I figure it is the windows compatibility mode again :-) - - On Sunday 04 March 2001 01:18 am, Stephen Carville wrote: - Playing of MP3 files has stopped. Neither kaiman nor xmms will play an - MP3 file any longer. Kaiman does not start at all and xmms zips thu the - MP3 leaving a .wav file in my home dorectory. Neither produces any sound - even tho sound works (most of the time) for other applicatons. - - Both of these programs worked last time i tried them a few days ago. - - -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Karl Cunningham wrote: - There were a few circular dependencies where I used --nodeps. Then went in - and cleaned up the deadwood subdirectories left after the process. - Unfortunately, rpm listed four libraries contained in XFree86-libs as - needed by openssh-askpass, which is needed by openssh, which I definitely - want to keep. openssh-askpass is not needed by openssh. The dependency should be the other way around. Do an 'rpm -q --requires openssh' to be sure. I build my own openssh RPM without any such dependency and they have always worked fine. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] CUPS Help
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Theo Brinkman wrote: - I'm having a bit of trouble getting my printer set up properly using - CUPS. The printer in question is an HP 855c running off the parallel - port attached to my server. I've used this same machine as a print - server in the past with lpr, and I can currently print FROM the server, - but I can't seem to print THROUGH the server, and I'm not sure what I'm - missing configuration-wise. Are the clients Windows or UNIX? If Windows then add to smb.conf a share something like: [HL-1240] path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr-cups -r -P lp -o raw %s lprm command = cancel %p-%j If the clients are UNIX then check that the Location in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf allows the clients access. Example: Location / Order Deny,Allow Allow From 192.168.1.* Deny From All /Location -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] ssh, ssh1, ssh2 and openssh
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Larry Blodgett wrote: - I am trying to set up secure shell access to my 7.2 box. I have - installed open ssh with errors during the openssl make. So I gave up - on openssh and openssl. Openssh comes with 7.2. The binary RPMS are not the latest version but they install fine. - I am now in the middle of installing ssh2. The make has not - completed but I thought I would ask this question. My Mac client - asks for a Protocol and gives 3 choices (SSH - Blowfish) (SSH -DES) - and (SSH - 3DES). Which should I select? How do I know what the RSA - Key File is? I apologize for being such a dummy. Looks like your client is SSH1. Unless SSH 2 has changed since the last time I looked it is not immediatly interoperable with SSH1. You may need to install SSH1 as well to work with your Mac client. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] ssh prob
Use openssh. Mandrake 7.2 comes with version 2.4 which is very good and stable. So far they do not have a 2.5 RPM available but, if someone knows of a good place to put it, I have a 2.5 src RPM I made for myself I can post. (Sorry, but I just do not have the bandwidth to handle a drenload of downloads) Now that 2.5 supports RSA authentication for ssh V2 and has sftp there is no reason IMO to use the commercial version except under extraordinary circumstances. On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Brent wrote: - I was wondering if mandrake comes with ssh package ?...i wasnt able to - install ver ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz on mandrake ...should i try the rpm ?? or a - newer version of ssh?? - thanx in advance - B - - - -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
[expert] MP3's are not working
Playing of MP3 files has stopped. Neither kaiman nor xmms will play an MP3 file any longer. Kaiman does not start at all and xmms zips thu the MP3 leaving a .wav file in my home dorectory. Neither produces any sound even tho sound works (most of the time) for other applicatons. Both of these programs worked last time i tried them a few days ago. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] Linux IMAP PGP capable clients that interoperate with Courier-IMAP
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Sam Stern wrote: - All, - - As an update to this, there is an option to enable bug workarounds - (thanks to an offline message) for courier IMAP that seems to have solved - my problems except WRT xfmail. Does anyone know of a PGP aware MUA that - handles IMAP as well? - Pine with pgpenvelope. Pine handles the IMAP and (I think) pgpenvelope does the PGP stuff. It handles GPG pretty well. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
[expert] Javascript in Konqueror
I would like to be able to use Webcal from within Konqueror but so far getting javascript to work has eluded me. I have enabled java and javascript in Settings - Configure - Browser - Java/Javascript but it does not work. What else do I need to do to get Javascript working? -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
[expert] Kdesktop no longer starts
When I logged in this afternoon I was faced with a desktop with no icons, menus, and several settings -- most notably sound and and mouse -- set back to their defaults. I can start kdesktop from a terminal but that does not restore settings from the last session. Anyone know how I can fix this so kdesktop starts like it should? (Switch back to Redhat :-) Text of ~/.xsession-errors /usr/bin/startkde: /home/stephen/kde/share/config/.internetdone: No such file or directory kdeinit: Already running. QSocketNotifier: Multiple socket notifiers for same socket 8 and type read KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kcookiejar') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kaccess') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`konqueror') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kio_uiserver') Could not dlopen library kmix.la: file not found Could not load library! Trying exec KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kmix') Could not dlopen library ksysguard.la: file not found Could not load library! Trying exec KLauncher doing clientStarted(`ksysguard') ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! Unknown child process 11623 died QGList::locate: Index 1 out of range QGList::locate: Index 1 out of range QGList::locate: Index 1 out of range KLauncher doing clientStarted(`konsole') KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kio_file') undecodable token: \001b(hex)[36l KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 Could not dlopen library /usr/bin/konsole: (null) Could not load library! Trying exec KLauncher doing clientStarted(`/usr/bin/konsole') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`konsole') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kcontrol') KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kcontrol') KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] KDE Application Compiliation Problem
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Chris Fishwick wrote: - Hi All, - - I have recently changed from RedHat to Mandrake, and have a fresh install - of Mandrake 7.2, with all available updates installed. My problem is that - I am trying to compile a KDE application, and it keeps erroring on me, I - have checked that QTDIR is set, and that all headers have been installed, - however, the following error is given: Did you intall the devel packages for kde? # rpm -qa | grep devel | grep kde kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk kdesupport-devel-2.0-1mdk kdemultimedia-devel-2.0-4mdk kdeaddutils-devel-2.0-3mdk kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk kdenetwork-devel-2.0-1mdk kdegraphics-devel-2.0-4mdk kdebase-devel-2.0-7mdk - checking for KDE... libraries /usr/lib, headers /usr/include - checking for extra includes... no - checking for extra libs... no - checking for kde headers installed... conftest.C: In function `int main()': - conftest.C:7: no method `KApplication::kde_htmldir' - conftest.C:8: no method `KApplication::kde_appsdir' - conftest.C:9: no method `KApplication::kde_icondir' - conftest.C:10: no method `KApplication::kde_sounddir' - conftest.C:11: no method `KApplication::kde_datadir' - conftest.C:12: no method `KApplication::kde_localedir' - conftest.C:13: no method `KApplication::kde_cgidir' - conftest.C:14: no method `KApplication::kde_configdir' - conftest.C:15: no method `KApplication::kde_mimedir' - conftest.C:16: no method `KApplication::kde_toolbardir' - conftest.C:17: no method `KApplication::kde_wallpaperdir' - conftest.C:18: no method `KApplication::kde_bindir' - conftest.C:19: no method `KApplication::kde_partsdir' - configure: error: your system is not able to compile a small KDE application! - Check, if you installed the KDE header files correctly. - - I have also attached a copy of the output from 'set' a copy of the - 'config.log' file.. - - Any help would be appreciated.. - - Regards - - Chris - - - -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] Root Password
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: - ** Reply to message from Kuldeep Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 18 Feb - 2001 15:10:09 +0530 - - - I forgot the password of root - - I haven't tried this, but I think you can delete the password from /etc/shadow - (assuming you are using shadow passwords) and root will need to enter a new - password next time you login with that id. Type 'linux 1' (or 'linux single') at the lilo prompt. This drops you to single user mode with root privileges. From there edit /etc/shadow and delete the password for root. Make sure you delete the whole hash and have nothing between the colons. It should look something like: root::11342:0:9:7::: Reboot or type 'init 3'. You should now be able to login as root with no password. Change the root password. Set up sudo to make it easier in the future. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] DDNS and DHCPD
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Phil Green wrote: - I'm trying to setup DDNS with the DHCPD on a 7.2 server. The log - files say that there is no authorization for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to update - DNS. How do I authorize a subnet to update DNS? For example, - everyone in 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0 and so on. If you _really_ want to allow all clients (W2K right?) to update your DNS then add an allow-update statement to the zone definition in named.conf. See http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config/zone.html for syntax. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] SAMBA and Win2K
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Devin Rader wrote: - I've got Samba (both client and server) set up on my Linux box finally - (mandrake 7.2), but am still having problems accessing a share on my Win2K - box from the Linux box. When I try this: - - smbclient //myMachine/theShareName Try smbclient -U username //myMachine/theShareName -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...
gethostbyname requires a valid forward lookup. The quickest solution to his is to add your machine to /etc/hosts. 192.169.12.234 tesla tesla.domain.net loghost You also might want to double check that your DNS is set up correctly. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sean Armstrong wrote: - I looked at the /var/log/samba/log.smb and log.nmb, both fail to recognize - the host. See below: - [2001/02/11 09:34:45, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) - smbd version 2.0.7 started. - Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 - [2001/02/11 09:34:45, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) - file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are - available. - [2001/02/11 09:34:46, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(824) - Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host Tesla - [2001/02/11 09:59:26, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) - smbd version 2.0.7 started. - Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 - [2001/02/11 09:59:27, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) - file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are - available. - [2001/02/11 09:59:27, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(824) - Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host Tesla - [2001/02/11 10:09:52, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) - smbd version 2.0.7 started. - Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 - [2001/02/11 10:09:53, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) - file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are - available. - [2001/02/11 10:09:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(824) - Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host Tesla - [2001/02/11 10:40:03, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) - smbd version 2.0.7 started. - Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 - [2001/02/11 10:40:04, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) - file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are - available. - [2001/02/11 10:40:04, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(824) - Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host Tesla - [2001/02/11 10:48:48, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) - smbd version 2.0.7 started. - Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 - [2001/02/11 10:48:48, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) - file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are - available. - [2001/02/11 10:48:49, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(824) - Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host Tesla - [2001/02/14 22:00:57, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) - smbd version 2.0.7 started. - Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 - [2001/02/14 22:00:57, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) - file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are - available. - [2001/02/14 22:00:58, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(824) - Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host Tesla - [2001/02/14 22:12:04, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) - smbd version 2.0.7 started. - Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 - [2001/02/14 22:12:04, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) - file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are - available. - [2001/02/14 22:12:05, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(824) - Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host Tesla - - Same for log.nmb. Can anyone help me get this up and running? - - Thanks in advance. - SA - _ - Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com - - - -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] Using ADSL and dialup together...
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Franki wrote: - Hi all, - - This is my first post to "expert" which I don't consider myself to be. - - However I suspect that the question I am about to ask may be. - - I have a permananet dialup account with a static IP address... - - and I have an ADSL "dynamically assigned" connection... - - I want to have them both connected on the same machine, using the dial-up's - IP address, and use the server for hosting httpd and mail, but I want to - make use of the better bandwidth of the ADSL connection. (1500k/256k) No. The upstream routers will not know how to route the fixed IP on your dial-up line to your DSL line. Probably your simplest solution is to use a dynamic hosting service. Many are free for a single address and will handle multiple A records or aliases if you make a donation. You could do local redirection on the fixed IP. - And have the dial-up's connection for backup,, (ie if the ADSL connection - drops out, (as it does sometimes)) This may be tricky. Most routers can handle multiple default routes but I do not know if Linux has any software to do this. Maybe routed or gated can do it. If you go with a dynamic service you could kludge together a script that detects when the DSL line goes down and updates the DNS entry. When the DSL comes back up, it will need to update the entry again. All of the above assumes your DSL address is not a private address. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] postfix dynamic dns
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Anthony C. Cheng wrote: - Hi, - - I am using a dynamic dns service like dyndns.org and I want to be able to - send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whenever I try to send mail to - [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get a postfix error, mail loops back to - itself. Any ideas on how to fix this? Opem /etc/postfix/main.cf and add/edit the following: myhostname = whatever.dyndns.org mydomain = dyndns.org mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain Then restart postfix. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Can't FTP?
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: - I can't seem to ftp to either of my LM72 machines even though wu-ftpd is - installed. I've checked /etc/xinitd.d/wu-ftp, /etc/services, etc, however my - connections are still dropped immediately after Isupply a login id and password. - - What did I forget to check? - - Thanks folks! The user must be in /etc/passwd and _not_ be /etc/ftpusers. Are you trying to ftp as root? The user's shell must be in /etc/shells. If you are doing anonymous ftp, check man ftpd for how the directory needs to be set up. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Government is like burning witches: After years of burning young women failed to solve any of society's problems, the solution was to burn more young women. ==
Re: [expert] Truetype Fonts
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, A V Flinsch wrote: - On Thursday 08 February 2001 23:31, you wrote: - Are there some instructions on how to install truetype fonts with - Mandrake? I have only done it with xfstt -- which works very well -- - but Mandrake uses xfs. - - Just use drakfont, it will take care of everything for you. Be warned - however, if you have a lot of windows fonts it mught take a while to - complete. That did it, thanks. I only need a few basic windows fonts so it was a quick and painless process. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Dhcpd and Win clients?
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alen Salamun wrote: - Hi! - - I am running dhcpd on Mandrake for a small network. Whenever someone brings - a nootebook (Win98) and connects it to the network, nootebook first tries to - use the IP it got on other network over DHCP. Since the IP it uses on other - network is used here by another machine, it doesn't work. If I try to - release all and reget dhcp info on nootebook it get's the right IP and - works. - - Is there any way to make the nootebook work without this "release all/reget - all" stuff? Probably not. This is a problem with the Windows DHCP client rather than a server side issue. IIRC, it is because the Windows client does not react correctly to the DHCPDENY message. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Alternative to postfix
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Christian A Strmmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: - To make this more complete, this is when fetching from my local machine with - fetchmail: - - fetchmail: - [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 mail.deltacomputers.no - Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - 1 message for number1 at mail.deltacomputers.no (768 octets). - reading message 1 of 1 (768 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost - failed - fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.deltacomputers.no - fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) The SMTP error indicates that fetchmail could not connect to an MTA for local delivery. POP is working fine. fetchmail is a mail retrieval and forwarding utility. It does not deliver the mail. It retrieves mail from a remote server and hands it off to the local delivery mechanism. This means that you need sendmail or an equivalent running. I know this seems a little complicated but it provides considerable flexibility in retrieval and delivery. If you want to retrieve your mail using POP, why not just use a POP client like Netscape or Kmail? - server: - Feb 8 23:51:30 borg ipop3d[3895]: pop3 service init from 213.184.210.250 - Feb 8 23:51:35 borg ipop3d[3895]: Login user=number1 - host=liquid.realityx.net [213.184.210.250] nmsgs=1/1 - Feb 8 23:51:48 borg ipop3d[3895]: Logout user=number1 - host=liquid.realityx.net [213.184.210.250] nmsgs=1 ndele=0 -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
[expert] Truetype Fonts
Are there some instructions on how to install truetype fonts with Mandrake? I have only done it with xfstt -- which works very well -- but Mandrake uses xfs. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] KDE startup scripts
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, A V Flinsch wrote: - On Tuesday 06 February 2001 23:05, you wrote: - - - If there is no personal script called by default, where is the best - place to add the command to do it? - - A quick dirty way would be to put a script into the kde autostart - directory. You can find the path to your autostart directory in kcontrol - use the /LookNFeel/General from the lefthand menu tree, then select the - Desktop on the right. Didn't work. The script gets executed of course but none of the exported variables persists. The best I found is add a line to /etc/profile.d/kde.sh like: . $HOME/.kde_profile It works but it still seem to me a capacity for individual customizations of the environment should be included by default on a multi-user system. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
[expert] KDE startup scripts
I give up! Where the h**l does Mandrake hide the user specific startup scripts for KDE? There are user specific environment variables I want to set. I have determined that /etc/X11/Xsession is run but it never seems to call anything in the user's home directory when starting KDE. Neither does startkde. If there is no personal script called by default, where is the best place to add the command to do it? -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Problem starting Apache
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote: - Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE wrote: - - I can not get Apache to start on bootup in Mandrake 7.2. - - Cheat. Use the ncurses 'ntsysv' tool. Actually, I think there's a X - 'tksysv' you can use to start things. Roxen and Apache are two totally - different packages, BTW He can also use chkconfig. # chkconfig --list httpd httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off # chkconfig httpd on # chkconfig --list httpd httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
[expert] 3D Video Board
How do I tell if my video card can support 3D-graphics? I love the adventure/role-playing games (I would rather play Kings Quest III on a CoCo III than Quake on anything). However, even these kinds of games are now recommending "3D-graphics cards" so I would like some way to determine if what I have is good enough or if I have to buy a newer card. Frankly I do not even remember what kind of card I have in my machine now. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] CUPS printers with Samba
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Alen Salamun wrote: - Hi! - - Let me remind you, that you left out the "-r" parameter in "print command"! - So all files you'll print will be kept in /var/spool/samba (and fill up your - disk)! It is a bug in smb.conf example. I already reported it... Oops! Thanks! -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Christian A Strmmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: - I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading - mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: - snap - [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 borg.deltacomputers.no - Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - 1 message for number1 at borg.deltacomputers.no (768 octets). - reading message 1 of 1 (768 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost - failed - fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from borg.deltacomputers.no - fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) - /snap - - Anybody got a clue what might be wrong or what logs I should look at to find - it out ? - - Do I have to setup something in the postfix configs to allow downloading of - mail? Your config as installed should be able to handle sending mail and local delivery. I postfix running? Like sendmail it can send mail from a command line but has to be listening on port 25 to handle local delivery. Since you are getting a connection failure, that is my best first guess. Use "ps ax | grep postfix" to see if it is running. If not, as root do "/etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start" -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
[expert] CUPS printers with Samba
I just installed a Brother HL-1240 (very nice printer BTW) on my Linux box and I want it to be sharable with my wife's NT computer. IN the 'old' days of lpd I just defined a [printer] section in smb.conf and -- viola! -- my printers were available to NT. With CUPS that does not seem to work. I tried defining it thru SWAT but that does not work. I am sure this is simple procedure but the details have, so far, escaped me. I used the "printing=cups" option suggested by the CUPS faq but I still cannot see the printer as a printer from the NT box. Suggestions? -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] CUPS printers with Samba
Solving my own problem. I had to explicitly define the print command and printer queue in the smb.conf file: [HL-1240] path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr-cups -P lp -o raw %s lprm command = cancel %p-%j It works now... On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - I just installed a Brother HL-1240 (very nice printer BTW) on my Linux box - and I want it to be sharable with my wife's NT computer. IN the 'old' - days of lpd I just defined a [printer] section in smb.conf and -- viola! - -- my printers were available to NT. With CUPS that does not seem to - work. I tried defining it thru SWAT but that does not work. - - I am sure this is simple procedure but the details have, so far, escaped - me. I used the "printing=cups" option suggested by the CUPS faq but I - still cannot see the printer as a printer from the NT box. Suggestions? - - -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Password issues
Go to /etc/pam.d/passwd and comment out the line: password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 This should stop the checking against cracklib. On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jorge Ramrez Llaca wrote: - Thanks for your support but my real problem is Linux's password policy that - won't allow but only 5% of my users passwords. I need to lower the security - so it doesn't complaint about how terrible they are and rejects them. - Asking the users to change their passwords is really out of the question - right now because of the time frame in which I have to do this. You see, - most of my users are on vacation right now so they are not available. - - - Original Message - - From: "D. Stark - eSN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:34 PM - Subject: RE: [expert] Password issues - - - I can offer you no advice per se, but I applaud your moxy. Good luck. - Hey...let me think. In bash, maybe try something like this? - - for account in users.file - do -$userName = (awk statement) -$passWord = (awk statement) - -useradd $userName -s /dev/null -echo $passWord | passwd --stdin $userName - - done - - I know lots is missing, but it might be a start. Or, just tell them all - that - they compromise company security and need to fix it, dammit. : ) - - Derek Stark - IT / Linux Admin - eSupportNow - xt 8952 - - -Original Message- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jorge Ramrez Llaca - Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:21 PM - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: [expert] Password issues - - - I'm in the process of migrating all my NT servers to Linux Mandrake 7.2 - - Currently, there's a PDC holding all the user's network folders and a - couple - of SDC's running a variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, web - cache, printing, etc. - - All my users authenticate against the NT domain. So far I think i've got - this covered. I already cracked all my users passwords (using l0phtcrack - 2.52). Right now I'm in the process of writing a couple of migration - scripts - that will add the users, first to Linux and then to Samba 2.07, then move - all the files from the NT file server to the Mandrake server and finally - their mailboxes to a second Mandrake server. After taking the the NT PDC - offline I'll reconfigure Samba to act as a PDC on the file server and as a - SDC on the mail server. - - If all goes well, my users won't notice the change. Or at least that's my - goal,a completely transparent migration experience (at least for them). - - My problem is that some of my users have very weak passwords and Mandrake - won't allow them. I intend to address that issue sometime soon but I need - to - migrate them ASAP. So the question is: How do I instruct Mandrake to - accept - whaterver silly thing the users have chosen as their password. - - Can anyone help me please? - - - - - - - - -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
RE: [expert] Mandrake 7.2 and DNS Server
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Martin, Debi (REO) wrote:
- Thanks for the reply.
-
- I've checked out the files and as far as I can see its fine. But, saying
- that, I could
- be missing something obvious. If your offer of posting some working files
- still stands,
- I would really appreciate it. I can at least do a compare to see if
- something is amiss..
-
- My goal for the DNS server is to allow the other hosts on the same lan to be
- able
- to get to other hosts by the 'friendly' name. It makes life alot easier than
- maintaining
- individual host files on each machine.
Here are some basic config files.
# named.conf
options {
directory "/var/named";
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.local";
};
# private network resolution
zone "private.prv" {
type master;
file "private.prv.db";
zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "192.168.1.db";
};
# named.local
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
360; Expire
86400 ); Minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.
# private.prv.db
@ IN SOA warlock. dnsadmin.private.prv (
1 ;Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
360 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Min
IN NS warlock.private.prv.
IN MX 10 mail.private.prv
warlock IN A 192.168.1.10
mailIN A 192.168.1.10
princessIN A 192.168.1.12
# 1.168.192.db
@ IN SOA warlock. dnsadmin.private.prv (
1 ;Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
360 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Min
IN NS warlock.private.prv.
10 IN PTR warlock.private.prv.
12 IN PTR princess.private.prv.
The named.ca hints file is best created by using 'dig named.ca'
If this is not possible then here is the one I use:
# named.ca
; DiG 8.2
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; ., type = NS, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 4d3h29m29s IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 128.8.10.90
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 198.41.0.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 128.63.2.53
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 192.33.4.12
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 192.112.36.4
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 192.5.5.241
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 128.9.0.107
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 198.41.0.10
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 202.12.27.33
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 192.36.148.17
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5d3h29m29s IN A 192.203.230.10
;; Total query time: 1 msec
;; FROM: warlock to SERVER: default -- 192.168.1.10
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 23 06:50:39 2001
;; MSG SIZE sent: 17 rcvd: 436
--
--Stephen Carville
http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt
==
All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's
hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds.
L. Neil Smith
==
RE: [expert] First Impressions
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: - Sounds like "user error". - - You didn't choose "development" during the install. I originally selected "everything". Later I had to delete extra language packages to make room on /usr. - I'll bet you selected "server" instead. I did an 'expert' install. In any case, why would a server exclude normal development tools? Kind of silly unless the user planned to never install any software from source. While a highly secure server will exclude compiler (and a whole lot more) few of us here have extras machines setting about just to build RPM's and compile source on. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
[expert] First Impressions
I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. All essential services were back up in a couple of hours (despite forgetting to backup my named data files :-(. Even postfix is similar enough to sendmail that it only held me up for a few minutes. As a server everything is working OK. However (you knew that was coming :-), there were/are some small problems: I have 2G each for /, /usr, /var, /usr/local, and about 20G for /home The installation damn near filled the /usr partition. Even after deleting several documentation packages I am still at 90%! The patch, bison, flex, and yacc commands are missing. I would appreciate if someone could tell me which RPM packages these essential tools are stored. How the hell could anyone leave them out? Some of the fonts in kde were _terrible_. The menus and some applications looked absolutely ghastly. I was able to fix most of this by switching Helvetica to ISO 8859-1. The Mandrake Web page advises I use MandrakeUpdate to update packages but the program was not installed by default. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.2 and DNS Server
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Martin, Debi (REO) wrote: - Hi, - - I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium III pc and need to configure the - machine as a DNS - server. - - Can anyone here help ? - - I've configured the DNS server settings in Linuxconf but if i type nslookup - on the command - line, an error message appears that says 'server unavailable'. Its not even - using the 5 second - timeout before the error message comes up. Make sure named is running. If not, start it (/etc/init.d/named start) and watch the output in /var/log/messages. I use tail -f for this. You would be surprised how often this is the problem :-) Try using dig instead of nslookup. Dig provides much better information on how a request was processed so debugging is easier Frankly. I advise ignoring Linuxconf for DNS. It is a nice tool for some things but it sucks for DNS administration. Some people have reported good results with webmin but I have never used it. At the very least, read the DNS-Howto. It will step you thru the basics of setting up a caching only server and a simple domain server. If you have to admin a large domain or a number of domains (or your employer will pay for it), get a copy of DNS and Bind from O'Reilly. The third edition is a little dated but it will still save you a lot of headaches. Check out the ISC website: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/ If necessary, I can post some working files you can use as a template but I need to know something about your goal. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] First Impressions
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: - On Monday 22 January 2001 14:14, you wrote: - I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. All essential services were back - up in a couple of hours (despite forgetting to backup my named data - files :-(. Even postfix is similar enough to sendmail that it only - held me up for a few minutes. As a server everything is working OK. - - However (you knew that was coming :-), there were/are some small - problems: - - I have 2G each for /, /usr, /var, /usr/local, and about 20G for /home - The installation damn near filled the /usr partition. Even after - deleting several documentation packages I am still at 90%! - - The patch, bison, flex, and yacc commands are missing. I would - appreciate if someone could tell me which RPM packages these essential - tools are stored. How the hell could anyone leave them out? - - Some of the fonts in kde were _terrible_. The menus and some - applications looked absolutely ghastly. I was able to fix most of - this by switching Helvetica to ISO 8859-1. - - The Mandrake Web page advises I use MandrakeUpdate to update packages - but the program was not installed by default. - - Ummm, I assume you selected HIGH security. Update is not accessible from - DrakConf in such a case. No. I selected MEDIUM security. I'd read some "horror stories" about the HIGH setting on Mandrake based servers so I picked what looked like the best compromise. I've gotten pretty good at locking things down over the past few years so an extra service or three I need to shutdown is not scary to me. - It sounds like you did an expert install, but did not opt for individual - package selection. Yes. I had existing partitions I did not want upset -- especially /home -- and I figured it would be similar to a Redhat install. - bison, yacc, et al can be found at any of the mirrors. Check - http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 for a current list. They may also - be on your CD... Use a file manager like mc or konqueror to check. Thanks, I will take a look... -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: - PGP sure is free. I'm running right now on my machine. Both PGPcmndln and - PGP4Pine. Both operate quite well on this Mandrake machine. PGP works fine on Linux and there are Freeware versions. It is a good program. However, now that the RSA patent has expired, I can see no good reasons to continue to use PGP unless I needed compatibility with IDEA. An employer might want to use PGP because of the ADK feature but for personal use that is obviously not a desired feature. I switched to gnupg at version 1.0.0 and have been happy with it. The only problem with gnupg so far is that version 1.0.3+ defaults to twofish and MDC which is not compatible with earlier versions. Since 1.0.4 added Rijndael support and fixed the multiple signature bug I doubt this incompatibility will be an issue for long. I have already posted updated RPMS for gpg users where I work. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Living well is the only revenge. An eye for an eye only leads to lots of blind people. == Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: - Thank you. That was the trick. I am now able to connect via ssh to - my system. - - Next question: How does one go about doing file transfers/ftp over - ssh? - - praedor - Use secure copy. 'man scp' -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Living well is the only revenge. An eye for an eye only leads to lots of blind people. == Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Sendmail relay to exchange server
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Maximo Monsalvo wrote: - How make to configure my sendmail to realy incoming smtp mail to my internal - exchange server - If you are using the default sendmail.cf file, I think if you define the Smart Host all mail not addressed to usetname@relayname will be forwarded. DSrelayname -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Living well is the only revenge. An eye for an eye only leads to lots of blind people. == Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Verizon/GTE DSL and Mandrake
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Tom Wike wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any experience with Verizon/GTE DSL and Mandrake?? Thanks in advance. GTE sells DSL separate from ISP service so shop the ISP's for the best deal relative to your desires. Last time I checked, GTE Internet service (which is separate from GTE the Telco) only offers a very basic surf-fast-but-don't-be-a-server-on-our-residential-lines type of service. I have 384K service and pay a little more than GTE Internet would have charged. However, I get a fixed IP, slave DNS service for my domain, a shell account including ssh, a pretty responsive customer service department that is Linux aware (not officially supported they will work with both Linux and BSD users), and they do not care much about what I run. GTE has had some problems with their residential DSL service. Mostly these are related to under estimating demand and having to rush upgrades. I was once disconnected for 16 hours because of a botched frame relay switch upgrade. Another time I was down because if a dead kentrox card at one end of a T3 line. However in two years of service I can say I have had fewer outages with GTE DSL than my employer has had with UUNet T1's so I can't complain _too_ loud The following URL lists participating ISP's in various parts of the country. http://www.gte.com/dsl/partisp.html My ISP is California Prime Line: http://www.cpl.net -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Living well is the only revenge. An eye for an eye only leads to lots of blind people. == Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] will sendmail ?
Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTU) meaning it moves mail from one computer to another. It does not enable any kind of access to mail. You will need to install a POP or IMAP server -- depending on your clients' needs -- to serve up the mail to remote machines. On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, faisal wrote: - will sendmail work as a pop3 server or do we have to install some other pop3 - deamon ? - also - does anyone knows any mailing list of sendmail i can subscribe to i cant - seem to find it on sendmail.org,sendmail.net .? - - -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Re: [expert] telnet/ssh problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter M Aarestad wrote: - - Ellick Chan wrote: - - Try enabling the verbose modes on the sshd and ssh itself, I believe the - - flag was -v, then analyze those logs. They can tell you a lot. - - ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host This line means that the server side is not allowing you to access it. Nine times out of ten this is caused by LIBWRAP support which uses hosts.allow and hosts.deny to control access Add the following line to hosts.allow: sshd : ALL - -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.8.10 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE5oKgBSEs8eqGTwqYRAnG7AKCIKIAUZhst35sR5L682/sV0fXizQCfVFfZ jXWR2GOSHxt9ZTeYg+IrgbE= =HrCt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [expert] Root Password problem
man login man securetty. On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, kf wrote: Are you trying to log in as root remotely? If so, this is disallowed by default on many Unixen as a security hole. Can't remember just now which file it is you need to edit. Anybody? kf On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Declan Moriarty wrote: = I have 2 machines running Mandrake 7.0, one of which refuses to allow a = login as root. Any password, even the correct one, is "Incorrect". You have to = log in as a user, then su to root. This woks reliably. = = The machine in question is an AMD K6/2-350, 64MB of ram, 4.3 Gig for = linux. and running an SiS 6326 video card. This latest installation is a = reinstall after an upgrade from 6.1 failed miserably. The problem was present = under 6.1 as well. = = Any ideas? I have an AMD i586 running here, and you can log in as root fine. = = = = -- = Regards, = = = Declan Moriarty = -- Familiarity breeds contempt. -- Publius Syrus (42 B.C.), Maxim 640 -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer 714-952-5687 = Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil? =
Re: [expert] ssh vs openssh
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Ben Sugerman wrote: I would like to install ssh on Mdk 7.1, but the 2.0 sounce code fails in mid-compile with a complaint that it can not find -ltermcap. I tried using the rpm for redhat but it makes a number of complaints during the initialization of the host keys, etc. I've tried installing the openssh rpms from Mandrake, but it seems to leave out a *lot* of useful files, like ssh itself!!! Anyone played around with this and have some ideas on the easiest way to proceed? If you have perl, openssl-devel, tcp-wrappers, and gnome-devel installed go to: http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/programs/openssh-2.1.0p2-1.src.rpm I edited the spec file a little on this to be more tolerant. It has worked on every Mandrake and Redhat system I have tried it on. Use rpm --rebuild and install as usual. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer 714-952-5687
Re: [expert] OpenSSH won't accept connections?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Steven Boothe wrote: - Hello everyone. I am having a bit of trouble getting openssh to accept - connections. Can anyone help by either direct comment or either pointing me - where to look for additional information? So far I have installed sshd on - other RedHat machines without issues. But since I have began using LM7.1 I - have been running into this error message: - - "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host" - - Things I have done so far include: - - - checked /etc/inetd.conf for appropriate uncommented entries for sshd - - checked /etc/hosts.deny to ensure proper clearance for my hosts - - checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config for appropiate entry in the "ListenAddress" - field. This exact problem bit me big time a while back. If hosts.allow or hosts.deny exists, add to hosts.allow: sshd : ALL You need this even of you are not running sshd from inetd. -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt He prayeth best that loveth best, All things both great and small. The streptococcus is the test, I love him best of all.
Re: [expert] DSL Help Needed
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, 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. GTE's DSL is just bridged ethernet. Once the DSL is inststalled and tested. Set up your networking just like you were going to be plugged into an ethernet switch. If you go with GTE as your ISP (I didn't) you will have to set up for DHCP. It is fairly simple to make this work with linuxconf if your pump DHCP client is up to date. Make sure it supports the -h option. -- Stephen Carville He prayeth best that loveth best All things both great and small. The streptococcus is the test, I love him best of all.
Re: [expert] X remote $DISPLAY explanation
Matt Stegman wrote: It's quite simple, really. The environment variable DISPLAY is checked by all X clients, and they send output to the host/display indicated by that variable. If you use SSH (from UNIX to UNIX) then most SSH servers will set that variable automatically and forward X connections for you, no configuration needed. OpenSSH (used by Mandrake since 7.0) doesn't do this initially; you'll need to set it up yourself. Normally if you turn on X11 forwarding at the server and requests it at the client OpenSSH sets the DISPLAY variable and forwards X connections over the encryted channel. Does Mandrake's version of OpenSSH disable this feature?
Re: [expert] Real Audio.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: -On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, you wrote: - On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: - -On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, you wrote: - - Speaking of RealplayerG2, how do I get it to launch automatically - - from within Netscape. - - - -You ARE aware that there is no such thing as a "plugin" - -version of RPG2 for Linux, right? - - Yeah. I ma trying to get the application to work as a helper app. - - -That being said, go download the tarball and follow the - -instructions inside. It works pretty well, at least for me. - - I keep getting an error window telling me: - - sh: /opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay: No such file or directory - - I know the damn file is there :-) - -Hmm...well, is it executeable? My RPG2 is in -/usr/lib/RealPlayerG2/realplay, which is where the install -wanted to put it. Try this. From a console prompt, type -"locate realplay" and see what comes up locate realplay /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-pn-realplayer.kdelnk /opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay ls -l /opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1462688 Sep 28 08:49 /opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay* I really do not know what I am doing wrong here. Everything plays fine if I click on the downloaded file but I cannot get realplayer to start properly from Netscape -- Stephen Carville Linux -- The Assault Weapon of the Internet
RE: [expert] Real Audio.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: -Have you added the %s at the end of your command line in Netscape?? - Yup! That as the first thing I checked :-) - - --Original Message- -From: Stephen Carville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 11:42 AM -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject: Re: [expert] Real Audio. - - -On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: --On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, you wrote: -- On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: -- -On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, you wrote: -- - Speaking of RealplayerG2, how do I get it to launch automatically -- - from within Netscape. -- - -- -You ARE aware that there is no such thing as a "plugin" -- -version of RPG2 for Linux, right? -- -- Yeah. I ma trying to get the application to work as a helper app. -- -- -That being said, go download the tarball and follow the -- -instructions inside. It works pretty well, at least for me. -- -- I keep getting an error window telling me: -- -- sh: /opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay: No such file or directory -- -- I know the damn file is there :-) -- --Hmm...well, is it executeable? My RPG2 is in --/usr/lib/RealPlayerG2/realplay, which is where the install --wanted to put it. Try this. From a console prompt, type --"locate realplay" and see what comes up - -locate realplay - -/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-pn-realplayer.kdelnk -/opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay - -ls -l /opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay --rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1462688 Sep 28 08:49 -/opt/RealPlayerG2/realplay* - -I really do not know what I am doing wrong here. Everything -plays fine if I click on the downloaded file but I cannot get -realplayer to start properly from Netscape - --- -Stephen Carville - -Linux -- The Assault Weapon of the Internet -- Stephen Carville Linux -- The Assault Weapon of the Internet
Re: [expert] Real Audio.
Speaking of RealplayerG2, how do I get it to launch automatically from within Netscape. -- Stephen Carville Linux -- The Assault Weapon of the Internet
[expert] GPG with Kmail
Does anyone know how to get GPG to work with Kmail? I amusing version 1.0.21. -- Stephen Carville Linux -- The Assault Weapon of the Internet
Re: [expert] NT Exchange Server behind Redhat
I an not enough of an expert on Sendmail (is there any such tning as a sendmail expert?) to do this but the default setup should be able to relay for the local domain. From the NT box try: # telnet linux box 25 220 linux.box.domain ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.8.7; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:04:12 -0800 HELO mydomain.domain 250 linux.box.domain Hello IDENT:user@somewhere [192.168.1.13], pleased to meet you mail from: user@domain 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender ok rcpt to:someone@somewere 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient ok data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself Subject: relay test test .. And see if the message gets delivered. Be careful you do not become an open relay. If the default setup is not enough and the real experts here cannot help, try comp.mail.sendmail. On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Orlando Lewis wrote: -Thanks so how do you configure it as a relay? - - --Original Message----- -From: Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 12:49 PM -Subject: Re: [expert] NT Exchange Server behind Redhat - - -On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Orlando Lewis wrote: --I have NT Server Exchange 5.5 that I want to run behind a RedHat 6.1 box. --The Redhat box is connected to the internet and does IP masquerading for -the --local intranet. Could someone recommend a solution that will allow me to -use --this mail server behind a linux box. I want all mail --handled by the NT box and all Ftp services handled by the Linux box. - -The only way I know of to make this work is to use the Linux box as a -relay. - -- Stephen Carville My rights may be social constructs or gift from a creator but they did not come from some joker from Arkansas who lies on TV about getting a blowjob.
Re: [expert] NT Exchange Server behind Redhat
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Orlando Lewis wrote: -I have NT Server Exchange 5.5 that I want to run behind a RedHat 6.1 box. -The Redhat box is connected to the internet and does IP masquerading for the -local intranet. Could someone recommend a solution that will allow me to use -this mail server behind a linux box. I want all mail -handled by the NT box and all Ftp services handled by the Linux box. The only way I know of to make this work is to use the Linux box as a relay. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being necessary to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] Modem Speed
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Alejandro Arredondo wrote: -Hello everybody, - - Does anyone know how can I spped up my modem connection. In W98 I -changed -the MaxMTU, MaxMSS, and the Default TTL in the registry and it worked -very -good. I wonder if it is possible to change in Linux The MTU and MRU (MaxMSS?) can be adusted in the ppp options file or from within kppp if you prefer. On some serial connections reducing these can improve thruput -- 576 works well for many people. There is rarely any point in increasing them above the default of 1500 and it may hurt your performance because of fragmentton The TTL on a packet should not have any effect on the reliability of your connection. I have no idea why the feller reccomends that. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being necessary to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
[expert] Root password and Screen Locking
Recently I discovered that the root password does not unlock my KDE screen if I lock it as a user. I figure there must be a setting I missed somewhere but , swelp em. I cannot find it. Anyone know where I enable this feature? -- Stephen Carville Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
Re: [expert] Installing without a floppy drive
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: -On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Stephen Carville wrote: - I have a laptop with a bad floppy drive and an external SCSI CD. I - have a small DOS partition on the hard drive. Is it possible to - initiate an install from a hard drive? I only need to get far enough - along to start reading from the CD. - -dosutils/autoboot/* Thanks, I will give that a try. -- Stephen Carville Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
Re: [expert] Installing without a floppy drive
I tried and it almost worked! I got as far as configuring the mouse, then the system hung and I had to reset. Now of course I cannot boot at all because lilo cannot find the boot device it is expecting. Oh well, thanks to all for the help. Unless I can find a replacement for the little Panasonic drive, it looks like the old Omnibook just became a paper weight. On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Stephen Carville wrote: -On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: --On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Stephen Carville wrote: -- I have a laptop with a bad floppy drive and an external SCSI CD. I -- have a small DOS partition on the hard drive. Is it possible to -- initiate an install from a hard drive? I only need to get far enough -- along to start reading from the CD. -- --dosutils/autoboot/* - -Thanks, I will give that a try. -- Stephen Carville Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
[expert] Installing without a floppy drive
I have a laptop with a bad floppy drive and an external SCSI CD. I have a small DOS partition on the hard drive. Is it possible to initiate an install from a hard drive? I only need to get far enough along to start reading from the CD. -- Stephen Carville Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
Re: [expert] Nested Folders w/ IMAP
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999, Christopher Quale wrote: -I've successfully (?) setup imap-4.6.3 on MD 6.0 but I would -really like to have more than one level of nesting in my mail -folders, e.g.: - -~/imapmail --/subfolder1 --/subfolder2 -/subfolder3 - message1 - message2 - message3 -etc... - - - -So my questions are as follows: -a) Is this a limitation of imap? If not then... -b) Is there a way to change the existing imap server to - allow multiple nesting? -c) Are there other imap servers that allow nesting? I must be missing something. I run IMAP on my computer at work and there is no limit on how deep I nest the directories. AFAIK, any limitation on the depth of the "folders" is on the client, not the server. -- Stephen Carville Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
Re: [expert] desktop updater not working?
On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: - -I do not use the auto update much but it sounds like the install is -silently failing. Did you do the update as root or as a "normal" -users? - -root. Try running it from the command line (kvt, xterm, etc) and see if any error messages are printed. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] Problems with INETD services...
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, Anthony Speagle wrote: -After a clean 6.1 install, I find that I cannot connect to the box's ftp or -telnet serviceseven from localhost. - -Can anyone clue me in as to where to configure this? IIRC, 6.1 does not install the telent or ftp servers by default. You have to install them yourself. Then check that the appropriate lines in /etc/inetd are uncommented. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] desktop updater not working?
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: -I just installed 6.1 mandrake on my new K7. So it comes up and I click on -the easy update icon on the desktop. It shows me a bunch of packages, and -I select them all. It fetches them. It installs them. It says it is -updating the list of installed packages. Yet, if I run the updater again, -I see the exact same list of packages! This worked a couple of months ago -on my old PPro-180, but then again, I know I didn't configure everything -exactly the same. Any ideas? I do not use the auto update much but it sounds like the install is silently failing. Did you do the update as root or as a "normal" users? -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] Netscape bookmarks error
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, S. Newhouse wrote: -Hi, - I recently installed Mandrake-6.1 on an Intel PII-300 system. For -the first few weeks, Netscape ran normally. Now I am regularly -getting the error: - "bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded" - -This happens even when the system is idle and netscape has not been -used for hours. You probably have another copy of netscape running somewhere. I have seen this when a user logs out without shutting down netscape and then just removes the lock file when he logs back in. Sometimes the netscape process does not actually terminate. Quit from your current netscape session , do a 'ps aux | grep netscape` , and kill any netscape processes laying around. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] IMAP
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Shannon M. Johnston wrote: -I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to get IMAP working on my server. The -package is installed and the lines are uncommented in the inetd.conf -file. The services are set for the correct ports, but it's just plain -not working. Does anybody know what's going on? Two places to look. As root do a "tail -f /var/log/messages" and watch treh message as you try to connect. You will see somehing like: Dec 3 07:32:56 cypci319 imapd[11168]: imap service init from ip This tells you that imapd is really starting. In another window do "tail -f /var/log/maillog" and look at the messages when you try to connect. If impad is startes\d you will see someting like: Dec 3 07:32:56 cypci319 imapd[11168]: imap service init from ip Dec 3 07:33:00 cypci319 imapd[11168]: Authenticated user=user This will help dignose problems with the connection. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] Lynx -- the color browser ?
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Ramon Gandia wrote: -On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: - On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: - Dear friends: - - I noticed some time ago that Lynx, which is available on Mandrake, - features a lovely spectrum of colors when used in the console. We all - know how fast it is. But the colors make it a very attractive browser, - too. it's all text, but sometimes, you wouldn't know it. At any rate, in - xterm its colors are the old grim-looking, dull black and white. Is - there any way to use Lynx in xterm with the wonderful colors that you - see in the console? - - Sure...run it under Konsole instead of Xterm. ;-) - -The problem with Konsole is that its buggier than a fly trap. -Try cut and paste between two Konsoles. Ugh. xterm works -fine that way. It was enough for me to junk Konsole and -put xterm on my toolbar. It certainly is! However, kvt has performed quite nicely for me and it runs lynx in color. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
RE: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Vanco, Donald wrote: -snip - And if the Exchange is anywhere near to being a standard - mail-server, than you should be able to use just about any - mail-program - which supports POP3 and/or IMAP. I.e. just about any mail - program at all. - - To name few: pine, elm, kmail, Netscape, balsa... - It has been my (sad) experience that none of these clients "play -nice" with Exchange as the server. There are different capabilities for POP -and IMAP (purely from the Exchange side) that make integration a real pain. - If anyone has found a client that plays well with Exchange I'd love -to hear your comments. Netscape is about the best so far - other than the -fact that I can't send anything... ;) My employer recently crammed Exchange down my throat. I now use fetchmail to snarf the mail from the Exchange server (using IMAP instead of POP) and Kmail to read it and sort it into different mailboxes. I run imapd so my system inbox and the Kmail boxes are accessible from home using TkRat. I send my mail using sendmail but setting up Kmail to use the Exchange server as an SMTP server should work. At least it did in my tests. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] What is causing this?
On 29 Nov, Kari Suomela wrote: - I keep seeing these in my messages log, and can't pinpoint what is - causing it: - - - === Cut === - Nov 29 21:40:01 k4 identd[1876]: Returned: 4599 , 21 : NO-USER - Nov 29 21:40:01 k4 identd[1877]: Returned: 4599 , 21 : NO-USER - Nov 29 21:40:03 k4 identd[1878]: Returned: 4600 , 13014 : NO-USER - Nov 29 21:40:06 k4 identd[1879]: Returned: 4601 , 13016 : NO-USER - === Cut === Some service is requesting your machine identify itself and the user requstign the service The responses you see mean in.identd is started with the -l (log responses) -e (anonymous) and -o (do not reveal operating system) options in identd.conf. Unless you have a need for another machine to get your username -- such as a user@machine entry in hosts.allow -- these are the safest settings -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] Firewall is stopping my server from sending mail.
On 29 Nov, Eric L. Damron wrote: - For some reason, when I run my firewall, my mail is not being relayed. My - firewall is just a set of ipchain rules. Here is an example of my maillog - file. The first entry is something that I sent - after dropping my firewall and the second is after the firewall is back up: - - Nov 29 18:29:43 C287853-A sendmail[12067]: SAA12065: [EMAIL PROTECTED], - ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, - relay=mx-rr.home.com. [24.0.0.194], stat=Sent (SAA24790 Message accepted for - delivery) - - Nov 29 18:31:57 C287853-A sendmail[12244]: SAA12244: from=root, size=216, - class=0, pri=30216, nrcpts=1, - msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], - relay=root@localhost - Nov 29 18:31:57 C287853-A sendmail[12246]: SAA12244: [EMAIL PROTECTED], - ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, - relay=mx1.home.com. [24.0.0.31], stat=Deferred: Connection refused by - mx1.home.com. - - Notice that the relay refuses a connection when my firewall is up! - - Any idea why this would happen? Just a shot in the dark but try to connecting to port 25 on the remote host (telnet hostname 25). Maybe one of your firewall rules is preventing the handshake. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
[expert] Problems with automounter
Is anyone aware of any problesm with the automounter? Recently a problem with automounter has cropped up. Whenever I try to mount a drive directory operations slow to a crawl. If I stop the automounter (autofs stop) everything come back to normal. This does not happen until the first attempt to automount a drive and it does not matter if the mount is successful or not. Mounting by 'hand' does not cause this problem. I am using automount version 3.1.3 on Mandrake 6.0. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
RE: [expert] Keeping correct time?
On 24 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I have the same problem. i think that it is because my PC is dual boot with - Win95 Is yours dual boot too? This is most likely caused by your Linux systen expecting GMT in the BIOS. AFAIK, Windows cannot handle GMT to timezone conversions so it expects the BIOS to be local time. You will need to set your Linux system to expect the BIOS to have local time. IIRC just remove /etc/localtime (It is a symlink to the timezone description) or go into Linuxconf and uncheck "System clock set to GMT" -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] Update of bind
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Rickard Åberg wrote: -Hi! - -I've upgraded to bind 8.2.2P3 from bind 4.9.6... -I, of course ran into some problems... - -Why does named dump this to syslog after I upgraded: -named[11471]: Zone "foobar.com" (file db.foobar.com): No default TTL set -using SOA minimum instead This is a harmless message. Bind is looking for a default Time To Live. If the TTL is not there is uses the SOA minimum TTL instead. Put the line $TTLtime to live in seconds just before the first $ORIGIN (or the line with an @ in it.). -I have converted named.boot to named.conf and that went smooth. -Afaik the db.* files hasn't changed or? - -This is the begining of the db.* files: -@IN SOAns.foobar.org. hostmaster.foo.org. ( -1999091301 ; serial [MMddNN] - 21600 ; refresh [6h] - 3600 ; retry [1h] -691200 ; expire [8d] - 86400) ; minimum [1d] - -TIA. -/ Rickard -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] DISABLING PAM ?
You do not need to disable pam. Go to /etc/security/console.perms and comment out every device you do not want controlled by pam. Then go to /dev and set the ownership on those modules to root:root with perms 666. This gives any user access to the devices. If you want a little bit more security, set the ownership to to root:users and perms 660. Then make sure all permitted users are in the users group. On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, WH Bouterse wrote: -A previous post received no response. I will try again. - -L-M 6.1 - -On a Home machine : - -I often have several xsessions running simultaneously on the same -hardware, -and I frequently log in as more than one user. -Permissions constantly get in the way of various users logging in and -out. -My wife and I are the only "Real" users at this time. - -My constant battle with permissions and my AWE32 the last couple of -weeks is getting old. -Before that it was the never-before-seen printer problem which finally -got patched up. -I have tried Axalon's method -I have tried Civileme's method -I have tried my method that always worked before. -I have tried mixing everyones method !!! - -About the time Sound starts working, a permission problem crops up. -Sure partially its my on lack of Linux expertise, but nevertheless I -have begun -to spend more time "fixing" problems than actually "producing results". - -How can I disable the "Pam_module" to make multi-user use of devices and -programs -less restrictive and erratic? - -William Bouterse -Juneau, Alaska -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] how do I allow users to ftp in
Do you have ftpd commented out in /etc/inetd.conf? Is the ftpd package installed? It is not installed by default. On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: -Steve, - - Even IF you turn on MD5, you can still have legacy passwords in - /etc/passwd. There's also a conversion utility to convert a legacy - passwd file to shadowed. - -What would that be? I've enabled the MD5+shadow and reset my password -but I still can't ftp in as myself. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] how do I allow users to ftp in
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, you wrote: -does the anonftp allow for more than anonymous ftp? No and you probably shouldn't use anonymous ftp for this. -I have been trying -to allow a user ftp access to a web directory and haven't been -successful. Check that he had a password (ftp will not allow a user with no password in), is not listed in /etc/ftpusers, and the user's shell is listed in /etc/shells. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] how do I allow users to ftp in
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, you wrote: - I thought 'normal users' are by default allowed to ftp to their home - directory. - - They are. It breaks if you turn off MD5 and/or Shadowed -passwords. - - Further testing is necessary to identify the exact cause of this -bug. It should be fixed of course but why would anyone want to not use MD5 and shadow passwords? -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] Switch Hub
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -Why is a switch (or bridge) a bad idea? It's not. Like anything else in a network, switches and bridges have their place. When I was in college I did network installation for schools and sometime just adding a switch to segment the LAN did wonders for the performance. The current rage for putting everything on a switch is really overkill. Most people do not use the bandwidth they already have. However, the perception is often enough to quiet a squeaky wheel. Several times I have moved a noisy user from a hub to a switch and, even tho traffic measurements showed no differences, they couldn't say enough good things about how much better things were. Go figger In fact, in a broadcast intensive environment (Windows!) switching can actually _hurt_ performance! - A switch is really nothing more than a bridge anyway. Everyone decided - that bridges are bad, so the marketing folks renamed them and - repositioned them in the market. - - Stephen Carville wrote: - - A switched hub is a multiport bridge. IOW the same thing as a - switch. Why it is called a 'switched hub' instead of a 'switch?' - Dunno. Someone in marketing probably thought it would sell better. - -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
RE: [expert] Switch Hub
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -thanks, that's teh last straw for me. I'm getting myself a SMC 8 Port 10/100 -Full/Half Switch hehe :) - -sure hope it improves performance over my 10BaseT Dumb HUB :) I hope so too. However, remember the First Most Neglected Law of Network Design: More bandwidth will not cure a configuration problem. -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
RE: [expert] Switch Hub
A switched hub is a multiport bridge. IOW the same thing as a switch. Why it is called a 'switched hub' instead of a 'switch?' Dunno. Someone in marketing probably thought it would sell better. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: -I know what the different between a HUB and a SWITCH is, but Acer offers -something called a SWITCHED HUB, not a HUB, not a SWITCH, any idea what that -does? - - -Original Message- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bug Hunter - Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 8:37 PM - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Re: [expert] Switch Hub - - - - A hub is like a wire splitter that connects all the wires together. - - a switch has a computer that only connects the wires together for the - data packets that matter. - - - - On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: - - I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: - - I see Switched HUBS and SWITCHES - - what's the diff between those or are they teh same but some wierd - marketing scheme? - - - -- Stephen Carville A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
Re: [expert] perl modules as RPMs
Vincent Danen wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Denis Havlik wrote: :~Is there a place one can get perl modules as RPMs for Mandrake? A buddy :~of mine sent me some for RedHat but they're a little dated... I just :~successfully made a new RPM for one of the newer modules I need to install :~a forum thingy on my website, but I was wondering if there was a place for :~Mandrake RPMs for perl modules? Does anyone know? If not, I may make a :~bit of a project for myself... I am using those from the rh - powertools/CPAN (second section). Everything seems to work OK. If you really need the newest and greatest, I am afraid you will have to go to cpan and do it yourself for most of the things. That's what I was afraid of... does Mandrake have the equivalent in it's powerpack? Or is RedHat's powertools the only source for perl module RPMs? If you have an earlier source RPM, You can probably just drop the newer source package in place of the older in the SOURCES directory, make the appropiate changes in the spec file and then do an 'rpm -ba specfile' I've done this on a few perl packages myself. For details see: http://www.rpm.org/support/RPM-HOWTO.html -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
[expert] New version of DHCP client
I had some problems with the DHCP client that comes with mandrake (pump). It defaults to a very short lease time (6 hours!) and does not include the client hostname in the renewal request. Both of these were causing problems with my DHCP to dynamic DNS so I modified the program to be a little better behaved. (Who say having source is useless?) Anyone who is interested can download source or binary RPMS from my website: http://www.cpl.net/~carville/ My question is: Who do I contact to get these changes considered for the next release of the program? -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] perl modules as RPMs
Vincent Danen wrote: Is there a place one can get perl modules as RPMs for Mandrake? A buddy of mine sent me some for RedHat but they're a little dated... I just successfully made a new RPM for one of the newer modules I need to install a forum thingy on my website, but I was wondering if there was a place for Mandrake RPMs for perl modules? Does anyone know? If not, I may make a bit of a project for myself... ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat/powertools/CPAN/ There seems to be a movement amongst perl people to deprecate RPM packaging and many of the RPM perl archives have gone away. This one may disappear too. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] Can't network because of ARP
Check your cables. 99.% of the time I see 3/4 of the ARP transaction one way but none of it the other way, it is a bad cable. D to L D sends ARP request L receives ARP request L send ARP reply D does not receive reply because the wire pair from L to the hub or from the hub to D is bad. L to D L sends ARP request D does not receive it for the same reason as above. Marco Fioretti wrote: Hello, I just installed Mandrake 6.1 on both my desktop (D) and laptop( L). Now I'm trying to connect the two via Ethernet, but, even after reading the PCMCIA howto, NAG, etc.., and giving all commands at the root prompt , I came to a dead end on ARP. My configuration is: D: 192.168.1.1 polaris.net.local L: 192.168.1.2 avalon.net.local When pinging from D to L, tcpdump on both machines says: D arp who-is 192.168.1.2 tell at polaris.net.local L arp who-is 192.168.1.2 tell at polaris.net.local arp reply 192.168.1.2 is-at its Ethernet address ARP request make it to the laptop, it (says that) is answering, but the desktop doesnt see nothing, so the whole thing dies right there. Pinging the other way never makes it to the desktop. ifconfig on both machines says eth0 is ON, with settings as shown in the Network Administrator Guide, and route -n shows routes from each computer to the other (forgot floppy with log at home, I'll post it tomorrow if needed) telnet says no route to host, or network unreachable. All hardware seems to be OK (PCMCIA ETHERNET card gives two high beeps as expected, and is recognized/configured, according to system logs. Both cards blink green to show the link is ON...) Any suggestion is welcome.. TIA, Marco -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] CPAN rpms on rufus are gone?
Never Mind. I found them at: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat/powertools/CPAN/ Stephen Carville wrote: Does anyone know what happened to the CPAN rpms that used to be on http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/? I was looking for some perl packages I need to get a web mail app working and suddenly I discovered that my usual source for CPAN rpms files has dried up! -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
[expert] CPAN rpms on rufus are gone?
Does anyone know what happened to the CPAN rpms that used to be on http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/? I was looking for some perl packages I need to get a web mail app working and suddenly I discovered that my usual source for CPAN rpms files has dried up! -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] How can I suppress this network message?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I have just installed MDK6.1 at work, and succesfully get the network (LAN and Internet as well) working. I have only one problem. If I am at the console, I have this error message: IP address sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast. Because this message appears million times in every 10 seconds, it makes impossible to work on the console. What causes this error, and how I can get rid of it?! What is ICMP anyway? If I could just suppress it, that would be fine, 'cause otherwise everything works. The actual IP address is a computer on my LAN network, none of the computers I am dealing with ( I mean not the printer server, or primary DNS, or something I specified in the setup) This sounds like the computer at IP address is broadcasting bad packets. 1. AFAIK, these message will only appear on the startup console so try using a different console screen. Use ctrl-alt-F2 to F6 to reach one. 2. Check if console logging has been turned on in /etc/syslog.conf. It is off by default in most distros. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] boot up -- syntax error
You didn't comment out the end of the if block. See below.
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear Steve:
I would very much appreciate your help with an error which I
inadvertently made while using your instructions on how to get rid of
the ugly penguin. I got rid of the ugly penguin all right, but I also
got a Failed message during boottime concerning a syntax error in
unexpected token in line 50 of /etc/rc.d/rc.local/rc3.d/S99local:
[sher@adsl-77-232-194 rc3.d]$ cat S99local:
I am including it by attachment.
I know nothing about programming, but I did try to see some pattern and
use my "common sense" to figure this out. Naturally, uninformed "common
sense", professionally speaking, isn't worth a hoot.
By the way, someone else recommended deleting /etc/issue. I did that but
the file ?etc/issue was always recreated just the same.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Benjamin
Benjamin and Anna Sher
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
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#!/bin/sh
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
# Removing it, need to hack the console-tools to have it
#. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
#
#if [ "$PCMCIA" != "yes" ] ; then
# initty=/dev/tty[1-8]
# for tty in $initty; do
#setleds +num $tty
# done
#fi
if [ -f /etc/mandrake-release ];then
R=$(cat /etc/mandrake-release)
arch=$(uname -m)
a="a"
case "_$arch" in
_a*) a="an";;
_i*) a="an";;
esac
NUMPROC=$[`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor | wc -l`]
if [ $NUMPROC -gt 1 ]; then
SMP="$NUMPROC-processor "
if [ "$NUMPROC" = "8" -o "$NUMPROC" = "11" ]; then
a="an"
else
a="a"
fi
fi
# This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any changes you
# want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
# if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ];then
#/usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f /etc/issue
#echo "" /etc/issue
# else
# echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" /etc/issue
This line needs to be commented out
fi
echo "$R" /etc/issue
echo "$R" /etc/issue.net
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" /etc/issue.net
fi
--
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there.
Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] Mandrake in the REAL WORLD.
Mark Holloway wrote: I'm studying for my Cisco CCIE certification. As a network administrator I haven't stayed up with the progress of Linux in the Internet world, but 80% of the routing/switching market for the Internet is Cisco. Up until the last year or so, Solaris was also considered to have about 70-80% of the Server market share as well. I really want to strategically place myself in the Internet community. I know NT very well and have some hands on with Digital Unix and Solaris. However, it's much easier to take two of my x86 boxes and my two Alphas and build a Linux farm, thus pushing Linux to the max by getting hands on experience. My only concern is the seriousness of Linux in the Commerce/Business world of the Internet. Are companies like Broadcast.com, CDNow, iD, etc. going to seriously consider Linux as an option? Or is it the poor mans server OS? Good luck. I 'm not up to CCIE (yet :-) but I her that exam is a real bitch... If you are working in networks, you definitely want to learn Linux. If nothing else, Linux will enable you to provide services like DHCP, DNS, etc for a fraction of the cost of UNIX or NT with no sacrifice in reliability. Also, some of the new contenders in the router market are using Linux as the base for their routers. BTW, lose the HTML.. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] How to set permission to write to a FAT partition as user?!
Viktor Lakics wrote: Dear Mandrake users, Does anybody know how to set write permission for users to a FAT32 partition under MDK6.1 linux? As root I am able to read and write the mounted Windows partitions. As user, I can only read from them. I tried chmod o+rw /dev/hda1 as root succesfully, (I mean after ls -al the permissions are set) but it is still not possible to write to those partitions as a USER. Anybody has an idea how to make those partitions writable for all regular users? In /etc/fstab set the mount options to: rw,uid=0,gid=group you belong to,perm=775 You can also set these thru linuxconf. File Systems - Access Local Drive - partition - Dos Options. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS (slightly off topic)
Thanks to everyone who replied. I have my computer's address in dhs.org and everything is working fine. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
[expert] True Type fonts in Mandrake.
Does anyone know how to get True Type fonts working with Mandrake 6.0? After I figured out they were not on by default I tried to enable then using xfs. I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ and ran 'ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale'. Then I used mkfontdir to create the fonts.dir file. I restarted xfs and, viola! all of my subsequent X-apps hung. I couldn't even log out of KDE; I had to go to a tty screen and 'telinit 3' to get control back. When I tried 'telinit 5' to restart X the server tried to start -- and tried and tried and tried... This worked with xfstt on my RH 5.2 install but apparently there is something else required for xfs. I finally hit Crtl-Alt-Delete, booted to runlevel three and commented out the ttfonts directory in /etc/X11/fs/config. I am back in business but without True Type fonts True Type is supposed to work in Mandrake but how? -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] Static IP trouble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Mandrake tech support, I've encountered a very strange problem with my Mandrake system -- I'm using a 3com 3c595 ethernet card that worked fine under NT, and as long as I keep mandrake under DHCP it handles all port 80 functions fine, but as soon as I assign a static IP it can't even ping another system on the same subnet. (It does get a 127.0.0.1 ping though) I didn't change any of the routing or DNS specifications, or any of the subnet masks or anything -- the instant I set it back to DHCP it works, and when I go back to static it doesn't. I'm sure that it's not a bad IP address. Any suggestions? 1. Check that your netmask is correct. Linuxconf has a habit of assigning a netmask based on the class of the address. If you are subnetting a class B address, this netmask will be wrong. 2. Check and make certain the address is not duplicated anywhere on the subnet. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
[expert] X-Windows login
I hate to keep pestering you all with these problem but my Mandrake installation has developed a new quirk I cannot solve I normally boot into runlevel 5 and log in as a normal user. Up until recently, this worked fine but now the first time anyone besides root tries to login with kdm, the X-Server quits, leaving behind the following message the log file: kdm[811]: Cannot open server authorization file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/A:0-swTFiV Which makes sense because the file does not exist! The missing file name is different every time so it looks like a temporary file but where is it supposed to be created? What did I break to cause this? If I drop to a TTY screen, log in as root, telinit 3, wait a few seconds, and telinit 5, the X-server comes back and every thing works normally This looks like a permission problem but permission to what from what? Even when I created an authdir in usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/ (which is a symlink to /etc/X11/xdm) a normal user cannot login until after the telinit 3 -- telinit 5 procedure described above. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
[expert] Dynamic DNS (slightly off topic)
Now that I have a static IP address and DSL, I would like to set up with one of those dynamic DNS services. My ISP doesn't care much what services I run from my home (as long as I pay my bill :-) and an accessible domain name is really necessary for the experimenting I want to do. Does anyone here have any experiencre with the various providers of this service? Maybe provide a reference (cost, reliability, etc)? -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] telent update may be broken
Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote: Just a $0.02: I would install ssh, and throw telnet out the door... Unfortunately ssh doesn't ship with Mandrake (I assume because it's not GPL), so you'll have to get it from somewhere else. The main site is http://www.ssh.fi. The source RPM's are available at ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/redhat/SRPMS/ssh-1.2.27-5i.src.rpm ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/redhat/SRPMS/ssh2-2.0.13-1i.src.rpm Both build fine on Mandrake 6.0, I use telnet on the private side of my home LAN but ssh in the Internet side. I do not have all the security details correct yet. I have installed ssh2 on my Firewall/NAT server (my employer is using ssh2 for UNIX remote access) and I just have to figure out how to lock the machine down so the Internet side is super secure but the intranet side is more lax As a second suggestion: get ssh-1.2.27, not ssh-2x. ssh2 is claimed to be a complete rewrite, but it seems completely botched to me. It is a pain to configure, gives you a 2x reduction in performance, and only has dubious advantages over ssh1. I haven't used ssh2 enough to comment. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] telent update may be broken
Sylvain GIL wrote: The telnet package has been splitted : - telnet-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm - telnet-server-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm You have to install the telnet-server package to get the server back. Damn undocumented features :-) Thanks, I will get them both and install them. I still need telnet on my local LAN tho I use ssh for Internet access. I am waiting for lsh to become stable. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
Re: [expert] Machine name on a network
Kevin Fife wrote: I have my linux computer on an company Win95/98/NT LAN. I need to give the computer a name for Samba. Since I do not know the file names that I need to modify in order change this, I use linuxconf. Under Networking, Basic host information, I have the host name as "kevin". What should be the "Primary name + domain" for Adaptor 1? Our NT server has all of the users in the XSELL domain. Just use "kevin" or whatever you call your machine in DNS. I will bet that XSELL is the NT authentication domain which is not (repeat NOT) the same as a DNS domain. (I usually avoid MS bashing but) If you think the above is confusing, just wait until you see what those bastards have done in NT5 with their Active Directory domains. Major confusion with DNS... -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
[expert] telent update may be broken
The telnet update from mandrake may be broken. When I installed it on my workstation at work (using the update program) it only installed the client. The server in.telentd was not installed. Since an update normally uninstalls the old rpm, this could be a bit of a problem if you need telnet access to a machine. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
