[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] 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. ==
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 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] 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] 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 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf allows the clients access. Example: Order Deny,Allow Allow From 192.168.1.* Deny From All -- --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] 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. ==
[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] 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. ==
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. ==
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. ==
[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] DDNS and DHCPD
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Phil Green wrote: - Steven, - Is there a way for just the DHCPD to make the updates? That way, as it - hands out the IP addresses, it updates the DNS. MetaIP in the Windows world - does this and it works quite well. Yes, you're right, my test machine was a - W2K workstation. I'll look at the docs you pointed me to more. I really - would like it though, if the DHCP daemon could just notify the DNS daemon of - the update. Use DHCP V3 from the ISC: http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ Version 3 does dynamic updates to the zone master automatically. It is still considered Beta but ISC's beta code is generally better than most companies' release to production. It worked very well for me in testing. You can also use a set of perl scripts I wrote for use with V2: http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/DHCP-DNS/dhcp-dns.html - - Original Message ----- - From: "Stephen Carville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 3:44 PM - Subject: 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. - > == - > - > - > - - - -- --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] 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 //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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 ==
[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] Alternative to postfix
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Christian A Strømmen [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 ==
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 Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: - I've been trying to get postfix to work on a server that I'm running, but - after much twiddling and much lingering about I can't seem to get to download - the mail from the server, I've posted mails about this on this list before, - but didn't get any answers that worked for me. Postfix is a MTA and does not download mail from a server. For that you need something like fetchmail. From there postfix will handle local delivery. As long as you are not receiving mail directly fetchmail plius the default postfix configuration is adequate. If you are receiving mail directly -- you have your own domain, MX record, etc -- you will have to make a couple of changes. Assuming you are not doing anything fancy with virtual domains, your domain is domain.net, and your MX record is mail.domain.net then in main.cf: myhostname = mail.domain.net mydomain = domain.net mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain That's about it for a basic setup. Be sure to change the aliases file appropriately and run postfix reload. -- --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] 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 ==
[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] Wireless LAN on Linux
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Ken Thompson wrote: - Just out of curiosity, why settle for 11Mbps network and pay that much for it? - LinkSys makes a network kit for $59.99 that includes 2 NIC's, 2 Cables and a - hub and is a 10/100Mbps network. Wireless is nice for laptops. I am considering a wireless hub because I like the idea of taking my laptop outside onto the patio in nice weather. I may have to work at home but that doesn't mean I have to be cooped up in the den all the time. Also wireless provides considerable flexibility over wire in installing a LAN thru an entire house. If you have ever had to pull cable thru an attic you will appreciate that. It is not nearly as robust as cat 5. In offices I have put wireless in (Aironet) the 11 Mbps links sometimes only gave 2-4 Mbps. However, unless you do massive file transfers over the LAN, that is plenty. I only have a 384K DSL line for Internet access, 11 Mbps (or 2 Mbps for that matter) is enough for surfing and telecommuting. -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds. L. Neil Smith ==
Re: [expert] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: - I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading - mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: - - [number1@liquid number1]$ 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) - - - 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 ==
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 Ramírez 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 Ramírez 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] 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 ==
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 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] 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 ==
[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] ssh problems
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have sshd running on my home system (mandrake 7.1) > and can connect to it from work. I am connected > as I write this. > > I am having a problem. I connected from work and > wanted to ftp from my home box to site to download > files to my home box. I can get into my home > system but I cannot get out. If I run "ping " > I get nothing. If I try to ftp to some site, > nothing happens. Looking at my /var/log/messages > I see (altered to protect the innocent): > > Oct 24 10:09:26 localhost sshd[2144]: Could not reverse map address > 155.*.*.*. This means that sshd was unable to get a reverse lookup on an address that was connecting via ssh. Without knowing the address thisis a littel ard to diagnose but it has nothing to do with being unable to ping. > This is from my ping attempt. Is this inability to get > out from my home box via ANY method an sshd configuration > problem or is it an ISP problem? I cannot even ping > the address from which I am connected to my home box...I > get a similar message as above in the log about not being > able to reverse map my address. ssh will not prevent you from getting out. Did you recently install pmfirewall? -- --Stephen Carville Network Engineer 714-952-5687 === The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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] 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] 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] 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] FW: [newbie] serial connection
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Gary Morgan wrote: - - - - - - -Original Message- - - From: Gary Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] - - Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:27 AM - - To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com - - Subject: [newbie] serial connection - - - - - - How do I open a serial connection to the console of a switch or router under - - linux? I use minicom. I crearted a special configuration file for my Cisco routers so I could also sue the modem. You will also need the correct cable and connector but, hopefully, that came with the router :-) - -- 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. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75 iD8DBQE5a+YPSEs8eqGTwqYRAg0FAJ9r0XrpB0poT3chRtsvjnqx32AMSQCfc7uY 2CVz/4kYVTKSE9p7telYmnY= =q5jW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
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] You people just don't get it
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote: -On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: -> Dude, get a grip. Everyone is a novice at some point in time. If you would -> get off your high horse for a second and realize, maybe these 'novices' are -> coming to the expert board for expert advice. Learn to live with it. Don't -> be a whiny topic nazi. Otherwise this board may just not be for you. -> -I'm not whining, I'm just wondering why a "NOVICE" (unlike -the original querant) would undertake such a difficult task -of setting up a server? Further, MOST servers that *I* have -seen (and I"ve seen more than a few in my job here at the -ISP where I work) don't try to run X Very good advice about X and servers. When I set up a Linux Server I never activate X I find the combination of openssh and file runner adequate for almost everything I need to do to maintain a server. -- 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.
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 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 :-) -- 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
[expert] CBB and year 2000 dates
I just discovered that CBB 0.79 does not handle the year 2000 very well -- thinks it is 1910 -- or there is a y2k problem with my system (mandrake 6.0). Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there a fix? -- 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
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 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] 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.
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] SRPM installation?
rpm is a package manager and you have to build the binares befaore installing. Go to wherever you have the SRPM and type: rpm --rebuild When the process is done -- if therea re no errors -- go to /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/ and install the binary. On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: -Is there a trick to installing source RPMs? I -downloaded samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm from one of the -mandrake mirrors, and installed it using 'rpm -ivh' (like all the binaries -I do successfully). When I then -query for the file list, I get told it isn't installed? - -[root@sphinx local]# rpm -ivh samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm -samba ## -[root@sphinx local]# rpm -ql samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm -package samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm is not installed -- 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] Root password and Screen Locking
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Darren Eckhoff wrote:
-The root user should ALWAYS have access, especially to the console. This is probably
-and oversight of the KDE people, because it does work in CDE. Killing the X server
-will get you in but seems extreme for just getting past a screen saver ("I sure
-hope Johnny saved his work!"). Another way you could try to extinguish the screen-
-saver is to telnet into the box as root and kill the screensaver process; or better
-yet, just hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login as root to do the same, then hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to
-get back into X windows.
When I tried that with k-science running, the X-sever crashed. That
may have been because of some other peculiar permission problems I
have been having but I doubt it.
--
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] 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
The mouse is probably not the problem -- it worked fine with the RH 5.2 that I was trying to upgrade. I have had some problem with this laptop crashing hard after running for a few hours. I suspect these crashed are related to the hard drive or the controller. It is also possible the suspend to disk is killing me too. For about a year now I have only used this laptop for network diagnosis. I will be less capable at locating network problems without it but them the breaks. On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: -Stephenit could be that your mouse is a separate problem. There -have been numerous folks with problems with laptop built-in mice and the -solution was to use a serial mouse and physically disconnect -(internally) the built-in one (at least till after the install is -complete. - -Alan - - -Stephen Carville wrote: -> -> 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. -- 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.
Re: [expert] Installing without a floppy drive
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: -At 07:07 AM 12/12/99 -0700, you 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/* - -Does your motherboard BIOS allow booting from SCSI? If so, does your SCSI -adapter allow booting from CDROM? If yes to both, this should be easy. I -just did an install of mandrake 6.1 with no floppy. Just put the cdrom in -and boot (you may need to tweak the BIOS a bit first). Unfortunately no to both. This is a pretty old laptop -- HP 5000 -- and will only boot from floppy or hard drive. -- 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.
[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] postfix and IMAP?
What mail client are you using? On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: -At 08:08 PM 12/9/99 -0800, you wrote: ->On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: ->-I want to run IMAP on my new system, since I need to access email from at ->-least ->-two remote machines. I nuked sendmail and installed the postfix RPM from ->-the 6.1 ->-cdrom. Made a couple of minor config changes and it delivers POP mail ->-fine. I then located and installed the IMAP RPM. Here's the rub: I can't ->-find anything in the docs for postfix that describe how to actually deliver ->-IMAP mail. The closest I can find seems to explicitly require the cyrus ->-IMAP software (which doesn't come with mandrake 6.1). Am I missing ->-something here? -> ->Postfix does not deliver IMAP mail, it just delivers mail. Once ->the mail has been put into a mailbox, postfix has nothing more to do. -> ->IMAP allows a mail client to access this mail from another machine. -> ->I use fetchmail to grab POP3 mail from my employer's Exchange ->server to my workstation. Fetchmail hands this mail to sendmail which ->delivers it to my system inbox. From there, IMAP allows me to access ->the inbox (and other mail folders) from home. - - -well i must be doing something wrong then, because with no further changes, -i can access my mail using POP but not using IMAP. i thought IMAP -supported actual folders, not just messages concatenated together? -- 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] postfix and IMAP?
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: -I want to run IMAP on my new system, since I need to access email from at -least -two remote machines. I nuked sendmail and installed the postfix RPM from -the 6.1 -cdrom. Made a couple of minor config changes and it delivers POP mail -fine. I then located and installed the IMAP RPM. Here's the rub: I can't -find anything in the docs for postfix that describe how to actually deliver -IMAP mail. The closest I can find seems to explicitly require the cyrus -IMAP software (which doesn't come with mandrake 6.1). Am I missing -something here? Postfix does not deliver IMAP mail, it just delivers mail. Once the mail has been put into a mailbox, postfix has nothing more to do. IMAP allows a mail client to access this mail from another machine. I use fetchmail to grab POP3 mail from my employer's Exchange server to my workstation. Fetchmail hands this mail to sendmail which delivers it to my system inbox. From there, IMAP allows me to access the inbox (and other mail folders) from home. -- 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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 Dec 3 07:33:00 cypci319 imapd[11168]: Authenticated 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: - -> 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] 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 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.
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.
[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] 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] 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 $TTL 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] 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: -> 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] 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] 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
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
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] realtech 39 fast eithernet card
metronumic wrote: > > LF, > > I had a similar problem, only i was getting 50% packet > loss. Id check the irq settings and make sure they are > right. Also, for a explanation, Full duplex is where both > sides "talk" at the same time. Half duplex is where one > waits for the other to finish "talking" (sloowww). Pedant point. I have run actual tests on my employer's network using Cisco 5500 switches and Intel Ether Express 100 Mbps cards. The difference in file transfer rates between full and half duplex is about 20% max. 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: > > 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 ' 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
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
[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] 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 > > 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
