Re: [newbie] Accessing (via ssh) PC Behind DHCP Server?
Sevatio, Yes, this is possible. I use dyndns.org. Basically what you do is setup a subdomain at one of the domain names they let you choose from, and then install a client on your server. Whenever the DHCP connection is refreshed, the new IP is sent to dyndns.org and the host record is updated immediately, therefore you can always connect to your machine via the subdomain. Have a look at dyndns.org, and they'll explain it more. HTH, Kevin On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 22:05, Sevatio wrote: > How do you ssh into a machine that is behind a DHCP server? For > example, linuxbox#1 has two NICs; eth0 is connected to the internet with > static IP, eth1 is serving DHCP & connected to linuxbox#2 (via crossover > cable). Is it possible to ssh into linuxbox#2 from another computer on > the internet at a different location? > > Thanks, > Sevatio > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
Thanks for your reply, but I am still not able to get this working. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: "Gerald Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I > > have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: > > > > I type: telnet and press Enter > > > > I get: > > > > SunOS 5.6 > > > > login: > > > > After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just > > moves to the "l" of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get > > a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. > > > > I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this > > server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) > > > > Any suggestions are appreciated, > > Kevin > > Set your xterm Settings -< Keyboard to Linux Console > > HTH > > -- > Gerald Waugh > Connecticut USA > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
Hello all, I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: I type: telnet and press Enter I get: SunOS 5.6 login: After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just moves to the "l" of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) Any suggestions are appreciated, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network slow at times
Hello all, I have a network in my house (10 Base T) and a server which is connected to and ADSL connection. For some reason after about a week of use, with a constant connection to the net, the internal network seems to slow down dramatically. It can take up to 30 seconds for me to be able to ssh to the internal server from my laptop. It seems that if I reboot the server everything runs lighting fast. Is there away to get this without restarting the server? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dos2unix....can't find the RPM on 8.1 distro?
Hello all, I need to convert a file from dos to unix and would like to use dos2unix, but it isn't on the 8.1 CD. Anyone else use something else? Why isn't it included with Mandrake 8.1? Anyone use a RPM for another system? Thanks, ------ Kevin Old Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix
Actually, I got it to work by just calling /usr/sbin/sendmail. Evitentally Postfix comes with a file called sendmail that redirects everything to postfix. Thanks for your help though, Kevin - Original Message - From: "skinky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kevin Old" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix > On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:39, Kevin Old wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a Mandrake 8.1 box running Postfix. I have a few CGI's that need to > > send email. I have always used Sendmail and have been come stumped with > > this line in my script after swtiching to postfix: > > > > # * NAME (AND LOCATION) OF THE SERVER MAIL PROGRAM * > > # Enter the name of your server's mail program. Most servers are > > # configured with a program called 'sendmail'. You may, depending on the > > # server settings, have to enter the complete path in addition to the name. > > $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; > > > > What should I put here? > > > > All help is appreciated, > > Kevin > > Not that I know much about postfix but... > > [skinky]skinky$ whereis postfix > postfix: /usr/sbin/postfix /etc/postfix /usr/lib/postfix > /usr/share/man/man1/postfix.1.bz2 > > So I guess you should put '/usr/sbin/postfix' > > HTH > skinky > -- > oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix
Hello all, I have a Mandrake 8.1 box running Postfix. I have a few CGI's that need to send email. I have always used Sendmail and have been come stumped with this line in my script after swtiching to postfix: # * NAME (AND LOCATION) OF THE SERVER MAIL PROGRAM * # Enter the name of your server's mail program. Most servers are # configured with a program called 'sendmail'. You may, depending on the # server settings, have to enter the complete path in addition to the name. $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; What should I put here? All help is appreciated, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Restarting dead processes
Hello all, I have a quick question about monitoring processes. I have a process (adsl-connect) which should be running if the connection is live. Most of the time the connection is dropped by my ISP after about a week of online time. I'd like to write a shell script that can check and see if this process is running and if not, restart it. Here's a shell script that I've come up with, but can't get it to work: #!/bin/sh foreach DAEMON ( adsl-connect ) ps -e | fgrep "$DAEMON:t" | cut -c1-8 > /dev/null if($status > 0) then echo "Restarting $daemon" #code to restart daemon endif end Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix on Mandrake 8.1
Hello all, Quick question on using Postfix on Mandrake 8.1. What I have is basically a gateway for my intranet that all machines go through. 2 NICs on the machine and a DSL connection. NIC with IP 192.168.1.1 is eth1 and is the internal IP. NIC with 192.168.1.5 is the one that ppp0 is bound to. I have a domain at dyndns.org - oldcomm.dyndns.org and have the it updating the IP via one of the clients so that I can get to my machine from oldcomm.homeip.net even when I get a new IP. Haven't set an MX record on dyndns.org configurationthey said I could do it without that. Now with all that said, I want to configure Postfix (or Sendmail) to simply send and receive mail from my domain (oldcomm.homeip.net). I've looked at several tutorials and examples and can't figure out what I need to do. I can send config files if needed. Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP
Andre, Yes, it has to be a permissions issue. Here's one thing that has gotten me in the past. Make sure that the directory (and ones above it) for grafitti.dat have the same permissions and are owned and grouped exactly as grafitti.dat is. Try that and let me know what happens. Also, check your Apache error_log for error messages and they might help you pinpoint the problem. As for your original question, nobody is just an ordinary user like any other. The only thing is that the nobody account is disabled so that nobody can log in in the normal way. The purpose of having such an account is to limit the power of processes that run as this user and to partition them off to some extent from other users although there seems to be something of a trend nowadays to run various services as their own separate users (eg, in Debian: www-data for Apache, proxy for squid, et al.) If you want to know why 'nobody' is not singled out as a specially restricted user then I can only give you my explanation and I don't know how authoritative that is. Firstly the Unix model says there are two types of users: superusers (uid=0) and ordinary users (uid!=0). Many would argue that this approach is the reason Unix security is such a problem so the question of whether introducing a new users with varying privileges would actually help or not would need to be considered carefully. Perhaps the main reason why it hasn't been done so far is that there is little need. If you and I both have an account on the system, can I delete your files? Hopefully not -- unless you have specifically given a group I am in this privilege (or, heaven forbid, the dreaded 'other'). If you have private files then hopefully you have set the permissions/umask appropriately hence I can't read these either. Consequently, we are both unprivileged users and only ourselves (or, more correctly, processes with our uid) can do any damage to our files (unless permission is granted otherwise). Hence use of the nobody limits the damage that can be done to 'nobody': a user who owns virtually nothing and can only access (read/write) files to which r/w permission has been granted to "other" -- how more unprivileged could this be? (Perhaps rlimits could be permanently enforced but in some ways perhaps this is the responsiblity of the application process, not the user id it runs as.) As I said, this is just my opinion and someone else can probably provide a better answer. :) Hope this helps, Kevin - Original Message - From: "Andre Dubuc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 2:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP > Finally, I have working copies of Apache 1.3.22 and PHP 4.1.1 on my LM8.0 > box. Apache has been set up with "nobody' permissions, and I write test > scripts as root and place them in /home/web/apache/htdocs. > > I can read scripts from this directory, but I've tried to use: > . . . excerpt . . . > > $filename = "/tmp/graffiti.dat"; > $handle = fopen ($filename, "a+"); > fputs ($handle, $graffiti); [I've also tried fwrite] > fclose($handle); > > . . . followed by a form that takes $graffiti as input . . . and then a php > script that displays the contents of the appended $filename . . . > > And no matter what I try, nothing is written to "graffiti.dat" -- I've > checked that it is writeable. Somehow, I think it's related to permissions > and the group "nobody". I've written the script as root, and another as user. > Neither works. Apache (temporarily) is run at root -- I'm just learning > Apache and PHP -- this is a developmental setup, not connected to the outside. > > If there are any gurus that can help me, I'd appreciate it. Permissions are > set otherwise to 755. > > I'm obviously not clear on the concept of "nobody" and how it affects running > of scripts. Who cn arun these, if it's set to "nobody"? > > Tia, > Andre > > > > > -- > Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. > Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. > > May God bless you abundantly in His love! > > For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Licensing, Windows and Mandrake
I don't know if it can be moved to Linux entirely. It's software called ACS
(http://www.acshome.com/) and is church management (server/client) software.
I'm trying to setup Samba on the Linux server and install ACS onto that
drive and see if things will run.
One big problem is that if we let them know that we're using it all on a
Linux server, then they'll freak and won't give us tech support on the
client machines or for the software in general. Also, updates they send out
could be an issue.
Anyone else have a Windows product (client/server) that they have been
successful in getting to work in Linux?
Thanks,
Kevin
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[newbie] Re: Licensing, Windows and Mandrake
Jeff, Thanks for your reply. I'm not worried about Linux. I'm a linux nut and have been working with it for years. I'm worried about Windows. For instance, a client machine requests something from the Win2k box. The request is received at the Linux box. The Linux box passes and receives the request to the Win2k box. The Linux box returns the data to the client machine. Given this senario, do I need client licenses for the Win2k Server if they are not going to be directly connecting to the Win2k box. Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Old" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: hey kev > you probably already saw my post...hopefully... > > but...feel good my man...it's LINUX. > > it's free. what do you mean by lawsuits? you mean because > you're integratiing linux into your pro-windows network? > > i am a little confused by your post. however, i wanted to > email you and suggest that you go 100% linux network. > > :) > > think i'm nuts? > > well...how about this...at home, 100% linux...that's 2 > workstations and one software router/web > server/email/random experiments. > > the web company i parted with recently...web servers...all > linux...my workstations...all linux... > > there was no need for these silly licenses and other > useless pieces of paper. save a tree. > > :) > > 2 years ago, i knew NOTHING about linux...and now it's all > i use. :) > > good luck my man...and if you have questions, post more on > the list, and don't forget that the O'Reilly series books > are REALLY great if you want to learn the stuff. > > -jeff > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with LM 8.1
Hakan, First of all, I'd go back and reinstall your Mandrak installation and this time use Expert Mode. I think that should fix most, if not all of your problems. Then, come back and let us know your questions. > 4) There is a network at my workplace, which uses Novell netware. I have a > novell client at my computer, by which I can connect the network from > Windows 95. Is there any chance for me to connect to the same network from > Linux, either with or without a Novell client? Linux Journal has an article about this. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1354 Hope this helps, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new installation questions
Ravi, Have a look hereit's your best bet..http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/micron.html Kevin - Original Message - From: Ravi Malghan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:37 PM Subject: [newbie] new installation questions I did a fresh installtion of 8.1 on a Mircon laptop. I have the following queston/problems 1. The installation does not seem to recognizing the mouse correctly. It always shows up as big white square instead of a pointer. 2. It default logs in in as a user userx. How can I change this to ask for a login and password. 3. Whenever I login, I see 4 nautilius processes running each taking about 7M of memory. Do I need this nautilus? How do I disable it. I have been a RedHat user for a while. Never seen this. Any help appreciated. TIA Ravi
[newbie] Knowing partition and mounting NTFS
Hello all, I am wondering if someone can tell me how to know what partition certain operating systems are on? For instance.I want to mount a NTFS from within linux (I know how to do that for vfat so I assume I do the same except the file system type is ntfs instead of vfat) Someone said this line would work 'mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2/ /mnt/ntfs' Or I could adapt that line into the fstab file. Anyway, my question is, how did they know that the the ntfs system is on /dev/hda2? Is there a utility that can tell me this info? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
