[newbie] Remote Administration Confusion
I have been trying to get a handle on how to remotely administer a linuxbox I would like to have colocated at my ISP. I have read howtos and minihowtos until my head is spinning. God what I wouldn't give for a simple Timbuktu like approach to this problem in linux. So far I have gotten ssh2 setup on both machines (which are current on my LAN and I'll call "local" and "remote"). I can use ssh to login from local to remote as root, which I would think is the first step. However, now the confusion begins. Ideally I would like to display a kde desktop on my local machine that reflects the remote machine. I have heard numerous times about people supposably doing this such that it works just like sitting in front of the remote machine (apart from bandwith delay in response). Both my machines are running mandrake 7. I will be using a cable modem to connect from the local to the remote machine at the isp. Could someone please tell me the concrete simple steps to get this working? I also gather that it might be useful (and much faster) to use NFS to mount the remote machine disk on my local machine, but I also get the impression that security in that approach is a big concern. Thoughts on this approach would also be appreciated! And yes, I already know about webmin as a partial solution, but it doesn't get close to what I would need to be able to do to make this practical for me. Thanks much for any advice! -- Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] TR4 tape mounting?
I searched the archives and found my questions asked by others a couple of times but no answer. I have a Seagate tr4 type IDE tape drive that I want to use for backups with BRU. I installed the drive and Mandrake properly detected it and "configured" it. It shows during the startup as hdd. However I cannot figure out how to get it to mount so that it can be used. I cannot find an entry in the fstab that seems to identify it. Could someone please tell me how to add the appropriate entries so the tape can be mounted. Thanks much. -- Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Need help with charitable linux project
I decided to post to this list because I have been using Linux-Mandrake for a while and feel it is probably the best option for a project I intend to start. I am hopeful that perhaps some of you may be able to assist with knowledge or other resources. I am a psychologist who does a lot of work in nursing homes. In my experience there is a population in every nursing home that I have visited who are intellectually intact and quite lonely and bored due to their circumstances. Some of these people are relatively young and suffer a debilitating disease such as MS, and others are elderly persons who have retained their intellectual abilities in the context of declining health. They have lost the physical ability to interact with the outside world as the rest of us do, and typically feel quite out of place in an environment where most of their peers are too confused to provide them much human interaction. I want to begin placing computers in these facilities for the sole use of residents who wish to use them to reach out to the world they can no longer physically access (via email and web access). Obviously I need a multiuser system and need to minimize costs and maximize reliability and ease of use. Consequently I plan to try to obtain donations of equipment and will probably use Linux-Mandrake as the operating system (unless I were to find another Linux version that would be more user friendly for novices). I am trying to keep any costs to the nursing homes to a bare minimum (such as a phone line for internet access) because this industry is in financial difficulty in the US and unlikely to be willing to burden any significant costs to participate in such an effort. If anyone knows of a company that might consider donation of equipment, or if you wish to provide any expertise you may have in setting up and maintaining Linux-Mandrake for use in such an environment please contact me directly _off_list_, so as to not burden this list with further discussion that might not be of interest to most list members. Thanks in advance to anyone who may be interested in such a project. -- Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Removing a windows partition
I originally setup my disk with both linux and a windows partition. I am no longer using windows on this machine and would like to remove the partition without risk of damaging my linux data. Ideally I would like to be able to expand one of my linux partitions to take advantage of the new space, however making a new linux partition would be an acceptable option as well. How can I do this without the possibility of damaging my linux system data? Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] KPPP doesn't work after upgrade to Mandrake 7
I recently upgraded from 6.1 to v7. I haven't used my kppp dialer for a couple of months but last I checked I could connect to my isp. I now immediately get disconnected and my system log says "The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address" What is up with this? Did the upgrade change something about my pppd settings? Suggestions appreciated. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] KPPP doesn't work after upgrade to Mandrake 7
You neeed to put all of your setting back. I think it is looking for the PAP connection info where you have your username and secret. Check that and make sure your password is in there. - Original Message - From: Eric Mings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 9:30 PM Subject: [newbie] KPPP doesn't work after upgrade to Mandrake 7 I recently upgraded from 6.1 to v7. I haven't used my kppp dialer for a couple of months but last I checked I could connect to my isp. I now immediately get disconnected and my system log says "The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address" What is up with this? Did the upgrade change something about my pppd settings? Suggestions appreciated. My setup is the same as well as I can tell. The username and password are displayed in Kppp just as they always were. I even reentered the password. If there is something else I need to check please let me know. Thanks Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Cool email client
A few months back someone posted a url to a new cool email client that was due to be released in Dec 99 as I remember. I cannot seem to find the message in the archives. This program seemed to be as elegant as Emailer and full featured as Outlook Express on the Mac, and was supposed to be able to archive messages among other things. Anyone have an idea what I am talking about and the url? Thanks much. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D. .~. /V\ //.\\ /( )\ ^^-^^
[newbie] Dual boot with two hard drives?
I currently have one hard drive partitioned with linux and windows. I would like to remove windows from that disk entirely and use the space only for linux. I have another hard drive that I am putting in where I would like to install windows. How do I go about this transition with totally screwing up something in the process? Suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D. .~. /V\ //.\\ /( )\ ^^-^^
Re: [newbie] Two systems
Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra software however that doesn't have a linux port.. I have a cable modem connnected to the uplink port of an ethernet hub and it works great for my Macs. I haven't configured the linux boxes on my net to use it because I need static IP numbers for them. However, I can see no reason why it would make any difference what kind of machine on the network is going through the cable modem. Of course, then I could be completely wrong :-) Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D. .~. /V\ //.\\ /( )\ ^^-^^
[newbie] X window remote access?
I have read some information about x window being a server and client program. I was under the impression the server and client could exist on seperate computers. Is it possible to access a machine across a network as root running K desktop and x windows? I clearly do not fully understand how this works. I have used telnet some but that is pretty limited for what I want. I would like to be able to colocate one of my machines (running Mandrake 6.1 and K desktop) at an ISP and need to know if I can access it for administration across the net with X windows/K desktop. Could someone please clarify this for me. Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Amd?
Under what circumstances is it useful to have amd running? I read the man pages but it still is not clear to me whether I need this running on a machine that will be primarily a web server. I generally access this machine to work on it either directly or via appletalk (no windows network accesses). Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Memory - what a hoot!
I originally posed the question about where to find good prices on memory. Thanks to everyone who responded! Anyways, as a comparison, the local CompUSA quoted me a price close to $500 for 128 meg PC 100 memory. I just ordered it from Access Micro for $140! I repeatedly asked to make _sure_ the Access Micro memory was PC100 (not 66) and they assured me it is. Amazing to me. There are probably other sources that would have been close to that amount but I wanted to pay by business check instead of plastic (which many others couldn't/wouldn't do). Pays to shop around! Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] amd question
Can someone please tell me what this means in the syslog and what needs to be done about it? Thanks! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nov 22 16:53:17 tiger amd[508]: Unknown host: .directory Nov 22 16:53:17 tiger amd[508]: Using NFS version 0, protocol udp on host .directory Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] Memory - what a hoot!
Sure, call me lazy, but do you happen to have an URL for Access Micro? I'd like to pick up another 128 for this machine and that's the best price I've seen since I bought this stick 6 months ago. U http://www.accessmicro.com/ ;-) Actually the price they quoted me on the phone was better than what I remember seeing on their website. I would call for a price. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] A little OT- Memory
If anyone has suggestions for places to find the best prices on memory upgrades that I can use for my PIII 450 linux box I would appreciate it. I am going to be using it as a server and need at least PC100 128 meg chips (though I would like to buy 256 if I could find an affordable source). I have looked at several mainstream mailorder places and prices vary widely. Y'all can email me directly if you think this is not of general interest to others. Thanks much. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] ADSL?
No one yet contacted me so I thought I might try again. Anyone out there using a linux box connected to an ISP through ADSL? If so please contact me off list if you are willing to share your experiences of getting it running. Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] ADSL soon (I hope)
I can almost taste it :-) After months of waiting it appears that I will soon finally get adsl through a local ISP provider (assuming Bell South actually shows up to do their part). In anticipation I had my linux box built with dual ethernet cards. Currently one card connects to my home network and I have connected to the net via a 56k modem. Now instead I will have my other ethernet card connnected to an adsl modem. Has anyone setup a system with adsl connection to the net and might have some pointers about issues I need to consider? For example, I think there is more than one type of adsl modem available and I don't know if it makes a difference which one I choose. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] What is this?
I asked about this once before under a subject about being concerned regarding a possible scan of my machine. Unfortunately I did not receive a reply as yet. Just recently I have begun to find entries in my syslog such as: Nov 9 21:51:18 tiger kernel: nfs: RPC call returned error 111 Nov 9 21:51:18 tiger kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued! Nov 9 21:51:18 tiger kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending) Can anyone tell me what would likely cause this? I have portsentry now and it doesn't appear to show any violations. The manual would appear to indicate that rpc allows c programs to make c calls across a network. Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Relay test your mail server
Just saw this on a Mac mail server list. You can relay test your mail server by using your mail server machine to telnet to: mail-abuse.org It will automatically relay test your mail server on that machine and provide you the results onscreen as it happens. Pretty cool! Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] APACHE and PHP
Upon searching both the expert and newbie mail list archives as well as the
newsgroups I see several people have asked this questions and none have
recieved an answer.
Has anyone else come up against this...and if so what is the solution?
Yes I have.. and damn I wish I remember exactly what I did. |:-{
The essence of it is that I removed all references to the midgard module
in the apache config file and instead used the regular php3 module which
is also included in the distribution. This works perfectly. I was never
able to comprehend exactly what advantages the midgard module provided
over basic php so I am living happily in my ignorance :-)
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Anyone have virtual interfaces coming up at boot?
I am beginning to get very frustrated. Steve has been trying his best to help me, but so far we have not found a solution. I cannot get virtual ethernet interfaces to come up at boot. It seems to be something with the network script in inet.d that does not add the available virtual interface startup scripts to the startup list. I am running Mandrake 6.1 on the problem machine. I have RedHat 6 running on another machine with no such problems. Does anyone out there have virtual interfaces loading successfully at bootup running Mandrake 6.1 ? If so please contact me if you are willing to help me find my problem. Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Still can't get virtual interface up at boot
I posted before about not being able to get the virtual interface eth0:1 to come up at boot since upgrading to Mandrake 6.1 from 6.0. I have investigated the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory and there definitely is a ifcfg-eth0:1 script there along with other scripts. Is there some reason that these scripts are not being properly run at startup? I can easily bring up the virtual interface manually with ifconfig. Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] Still can't get virtual interface up at boot
Testing the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script shows it's getting tossed out of the list of interfaces on lines 51-52 or 55. From hacking back through the commands, it looks like it's the ':' in the '(ifcfg-lo|:)'. Try pulling the '|:' out of there and see if it works correctly. Steve, I tried that and unfortunately to no effect. I think you are on the right track though, I believe that area of the script builds the list of interfaces to bring up and does not produce anything but lo , eth0 , eth1 , etc. I think that in an effort to "ingore aliases, alternative configurations, and editor backup files" the script fails to add virtual interfaces and even a ppp interface if they exist. This would also explain why I was never able to get ppp0 to load on boot. Unfortunately, I don't know enough egrep to figure out what is wrong, but it would appear to be a bug in the code. Help? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] DNS server analysis tool?
On the Mac there is a great commercial DNS server analysis tool called "DNS expert" available that queries a DNS server and looks for misconfigurations and security issues for any given domain name you choose. However, it is a hundred bucks and I cannot justify that for the limited use I have for it since my evaluation time ran out :-( Seems to me there must be some linux tool that can perfrom the same level of analysis of DNS records to make sure they are setup correctly. Any ideas? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] I really screwed up
I modified the startup script for mysql and now it hangs during the machine bootup. I tried using my Mandrake startup disk I created during installation, but it just gets to the same point and hangs (apparently loads the same init scripts). What do I do now? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] I really screwed up- part two
I realized that when using the startup disk without a command it was loading from my regular hard disk. However, when I used the rescue mode, I got a kernel panic stating it couldn't find init. I really would appreciate some help on this!! Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Virtual Network Interfaces
How does one successfully get Mandrake 6.1 to activate a virtual network interface ( e.g. eth0:1 192.168.1.4) on bootup? I can use Webmin to successfully set this up on a machine running RedHat 6 but it will not work on a machine running Mandrake 6.1. I _think_ it did work on Mandrake 6 before I upgraded but I am not sure. I tried also checking linuxconfig but nothing I did seemed to make a setting that would stick on the next bootup. Help? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] 100dpi
Don wrote in part: OK THIS IS IN ANSWER TO ALL UR FAGGOTS POSTS! Oooo i've really learned a lesson! Yeah rick, u really turned my life around. No i'm not 13-14 and u can take ur nettiquet and screw it. Blah, blah, blah I have not been involved in this discussion but he continues to pollute my mailbox as well as all the others on this list. He threatens to change addresses if he is removed. I have placed a complaint with mindspring (postmaster and abuse address), his provider. I suggest others equally disgusted consider doing the same. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Backup options
I would like to be able to use a backup program to backup some files to a harddrive in a directory on another computer on my network. Seems to me, from what I have looked at, that the two main commercial backup programs are focused towards tape drives. Could someone tell me what my best option might be for this usage (Preferably cheap or free :-) . I am used to Retrospect on the Mac that can backup to damn near anything with ease. Thanks! Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] OK maybe I should start from scratch
I am pleased to say that I seem to have solved the problems I reported. I changed some nonobvious settings in bios and was able to get the machine to boot from floppy (though I am not sure why the changes I made were necessary). I then did an upgrade to Mandrake 6.1 and, lo and behold, now my machine loads up Linux at lightning speed (as it should). Again I am not sure why the improvement but all seems normal. Now I will just wait and hope the freezing problems are gone as well! Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Problems with 6.1 new Apache
Since upgrading to Mandrake 6.1, I can no longer access any of my PHP pages on Apache (Advanced Extranet Server?). I get the error: Fatal error: midgard module not found in - on line 0 What is this about? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] OK maybe I should start from scratch
Curiousity makes me ask what you changed in the BIOS... :) I changed several things numerous times in attempts to get it to work. I believe the thing that finally did it was enabling a "swap" floppy setting (though I had previously setup the boot sequence to start with A and also enabled a one time floppy seek at bootup without success). BTHOOM (Beats the * out of me :-) Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] OK maybe I should start from scratch
I have posted several strange problems I have had with my LinuxMandrake installation on a PIII 450 I have. Strangely enough none of them actually stop linux from running but caused considerable inconvenience in many ways. I am about to the point where I think I should perhaps reinstall everything. However I am not sure that would do it. Here is a list of the the problems I have mentioned and some new ones: Linux loads VERY slowly compared to RedHat on an old 486, once loaded however the startup process is normal and generally the machine appears to run OK. LILO also loads very slowly before that, and I can no longer get DOS to load at all from LILO (it says loading DOS and nothing happens). I have had some intermittent problems with screen freezes in KDE under one of two conditions, either while scrolling a window quickly with the scroll tab or when the machine is left alone for several hours. Now the kicker. I decided to see if upgrading to 6.1 would help before I went to more desperate measures. The machine will NOT boot from either the CDROM or the floppy (yes I did set the bios boot sequence to allow that). It will wait a LONG time and then go on to boot from the C drive. I must say I am getting very frustrated and feel clueless at this point. I have looked around in the bios settings to see if something is obviously wrong but haven't found it. If anyone can help me figure this out I would greatly appreciate it. I know several suggestions were made previously to some of the individual problems I posted, but perhaps this more total picture of my mess might help clarify the underlying problem(s). I suspect that some combination of incorrect bios settings , hardware, and/or disk corruption may be to blame. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Linux Machine Freezing
One of the main reasons I started using linux was the much touted great reliability and minimal crashes. However recently I have had considerable problems with the machine (pentium 450) freezing up when left alone for several hours. The situation is that I am running KDE and using Kppp to maintain a connection to my ISP. No other programs are running during these times except daemons. When I return to the machine my mouse is completely unresponsive as is the keyboard. At first I thought maybe a screen saver was doing it, but it did the same thing last night with no screen saver running. I have looked at the system log but don't see anything obvious. Ideas and suggestions for solving this would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] Linux Machine Freezing
Sounds like possibly a heat problem. What's the average ambient temp in the room with the P450? Also, are you overclocking it? If so, that's a good way to get it to lock up! John No overclocking. Don't know the temp, but I have two Macs and a 486 running in the same room with no problems. The problem is intermittent and not associated with a change in the general temp. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost
I never received any solutions or explanations for the difficulty I mentioned in my prior post so I figured I would try again. I know that with a high volumn list such as this, questions quickly become lost in the pile if not addressed soon after posting. Anyways, below is my problem. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks. I recently installed Mandrake 6 on a 450 pentium box and, although it runs well, it seems very slow to initially load up. I have redhat 6 running on an old 486 and it loads MUCH faster. Here is the difference, it takes forever for the LILO prompt to come up after the basic bios settings display is finished. Sometimes I even have to restart to get it to come up at all. It then takes almost forever for the "loading linux" to finish. After that point all is normal in the startup process. Both of these aspects are very fast on my old 486 with redhat. Any ideas what could be causing this? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost
Well, you asked for ideas, not educated guesses.
Thanks!
1. Do you have a Seagate IDE Disk?
I have a IBM 7200 rpm IDE
From BIOS to LILO, what occurs besides a disk read? Does it switch to
multi-mode there? Does it try to implement UDMA?
I cant tell what it does. It just goes from displaying the bios settings
to displaying the LILO message and the the loading linux message.
What does your startup log look like? Any {Seek Complete} Errors?
I haven't found any errors.
What bus speed and what chipset on the P-II?
Not sure of bus speed, the processor is a PIII 450. Regardless, I am sure
it is much more capable than what is in my old 486 that loads up almost
instantly.
And if it is just a very slow load and normality is established afterward,
why worry?
Because it seems abnormal which leads me to believe there may be hidden
problems that I haven't found yet. Hopefully this info is somewhat
helpful it trying to figure it out.
Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost
Is your machine attempting to boot from the floppy or CDROM before jumping to the hard drive? That could the problems you report. It does not appear to be doing that. The bios was set for attempting C,cdrom,A I then set it for C only . No difference.
Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost
seems like a problem with the spin-up for your harddisk to me... What kind of hard disk is it? SCSI or IDE? Size, make/brand... ? IBM IDE 10gig 7200 rpm Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Linux very slow to load
I recently installed Mandrake 6 on a 450 pentium box and, although it runs well, it seems very slow to initially load up. I have redhat 6 running on an old 486 and it loads MUCH faster. Here is the difference, it takes forever for the LILO prompt to come up after the basic bios settings display is finished. Sometimes I even have to restart to get it to come up at all. It then takes almost forever for the "loading linux" to finish. After that point all is normal in the startup process. Both of these aspects are very fast on my old 486 with redhat. Any ideas what could be causing this? Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
RE: [newbie] ADSL?
Unfortunatly us backward european don't have ADSL yet. :( When it is release in the UK next year, I will post something up on connecting with it. Hopefully by then I will be connected. Since no one else has responded yet, seems I may be at the frontier's edge on this. I am expecting installation a week from monday. This is all new to my ISP as well. I am their "test case", primarily because I have been bugging them to get it up for months. I may be wrong, but I think the major primary players in my area (the phone companies themselves- Bell South and Sprint) won't hook up ADSL to a linux box, in some areas they are not even authorizing mac boxes yet. I will certainly keep folks posted on experiences. Meanwhile if anyone has done this yet I would love to hear from you. Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] Hostile probe?
This morning I found unusual log entries in my syslog that indicated that "amq requested mount of" and then a buch of letters and symbols. Further down in the log I found an entry of rpc.statd that states "STAT_FAIL to /i for SM_MON of" and again a lot of unusual symbols and letters. On further down in the log is another entry that states "nfs: RPC call returned error 111" followed by and entry "RPC task of released request still queued!" and "(task is on exprt_pending)" I have never seen these type entries before. This machine is connected to the net by a dialup. Does this reflect some type of attempt to probe the machine? Thanks.
[Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]
The point is frozen, the beast is dead, the fluff gets up your nose ..
