RE: POP3 virtual hosting with same IP ?

[Charles Boening]

I use Qmail (http://www.qmail.org) with vckpw.  Works fine for me.  Running
on RH 5.2, 6.0 and 6.1 servers.

All my usernames for pop3 clients are ->  user%domain.com

to add a user, I just enter the email I want followed by the password.
Using an adduser program of course.
   vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] password

When the user authenticates, the vchpw program authenticates against a
unique user list for that domain.  That way, you can have  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and [EMAIL PROTECTED] without having a username conflict.

Seems to be working fine.  I'm also using a hacked IMAP server.  Although I
seem to have problems with MS Outlook Express clients.  Go figure!  :-)  


Charlie

-Original Message-
From: Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 9:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: POP3 virtual hosting with same IP ?


Hello,

Is there any pop3 daemon allow "name-based" virtual hosting ?

I had heard that there're pop3 daemon using "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the
username for pop3 services and it's not require different IP for different
domain, is it true? If so, would anyone tell me the detail of the pop3
daemon?

Thank you very much.

rgds,
Simons




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Tape DAT on Dell

[Didier Leprêtre]

Hi,

I have buy a Dell PowerEdge 1300 with Raid and Tape DAT

Dell have installed a machine

And today i can't use the DAT because i dont know if it's ok

I haven't found a device for the tape like /dev/rmt ou /dev/tape

Can you help me !

Thank


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Re: [Q] Big Brother Web Browser Logging

[Claudiu Balciza]

> I fiddled a bit with squid, installing it via the RH 6.1 rpm.  As soon as
I
> installed it, it stopped letting me access the web!  I uninstalled it for
the
> time being but will try it again soon.  Any idea if there's any sort of
> utility that will neatly summarize squid's logs so that I can see who
> accessed what?
>

http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid


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Re: Abit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Randy Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

| I have an Abit BP6 Motherboard with dual Celerons.

Perhaps you should subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  To do
so, mail the following to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
subscribe linux-abit
This list is an offshoot of the linux-kernel list.  People took their
BP6 moaning "offline".

|  I have been running
| Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.13 (with SMP)  for some time with little
| difficulty.

Apparently you are lucky.  I've posted to this list a problem I've had
with my BP6 system.  I don't trust my BP6 system and don't use it :-(

|  Abit recently released a BIOS update to fix some things.

It is known to break LINUX.  Go back to the NJ (previous) BIOS.

Good luck,

Hugh Redelmeier
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RE: [Q] Big Brother Web Browser Logging

[Juha Saarinen]

%->I fiddled a bit with squid, installing it via the RH 6.1 rpm.
%->As soon as I
%->installed it, it stopped letting me access the web!  I
%->uninstalled it for the
%->time being but will try it again soon.  Any idea if there's any sort of
%->utility that will neatly summarize squid's logs so that I can see who
%->accessed what?

Cachemgr.cgi shows Squid's log data for you -- the documentation describes
it quite well.

Check the ACL entries in squid.conf to make sure that your systems are
permitted to access the cache.


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Re: Possible Project

[pp_mm]

 Hi Mike
Nice project

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Re: Possible Project

[pp_mm]

Mike,

Nice project.
 
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Can't download w/minicom

[Dale Huckeby]

  Help!  I have been hoping to upload files from my old computer and
download them into my new one, but I can't get minicom to download.
Actually, a couple of files did download at one point but I have _no_
idea how I did it.  Everytime I try I get a CRC error at about 4000
or 5000 bytes and then it stops dead.  I've been downloading via telix
for several years, and it stops and starts a lot, _but at least it
keeps on going_.  Can anyone give me a clue as to what to look for?
Right now I'm trying to download into my mail directory, so the path
I'm using is /root/mail , and I'm using zmodem (but kermit doesn't
work either, nor does ymodem.  I've got RH 6.0 installed, if it makes
any difference.  Any suggestions I'll gladly try.  Any questions
I'll happily answer.

Thanks,
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Abit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

[Randy Carpenter]

I have an Abit BP6 Motherboard with dual Celerons.  I have been running
Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.13 (with SMP)  for some time with little
difficulty.  Abit recently released a BIOS update to fix some things.  I
flashed my board with the latest update, only to find that my SMP kernels
no longer will boot.  Uniprocessor kernels will boot fine, but SMP will
not work.  The SMP kernel will boot until right after detecting the IDE
hard disks and cd-rom, and then the machine will reboot instantly.  Does
anyone know why this would happen with a BIOS update?  Perhaps a broken
BIOS?  Perhaps a snafu in the kernel that is being tickled by a difference
in BIOSes ?

thanks,
-Randy


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POP3 virtual hosting with same IP ?

[Simons]

Hello,

Is there any pop3 daemon allow "name-based" virtual hosting ?

I had heard that there're pop3 daemon using "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the
username for pop3 services and it's not require different IP for different
domain, is it true? If so, would anyone tell me the detail of the pop3
daemon?

Thank you very much.

rgds,
Simons




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Re: /usr/sbin/warnquota ?

[Brian]

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Simons wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Would anyone tell me what's the function of /usr/sbin/warnquota ?
> I had tried to run it, but nothing happen.
> 
> P.S. I'm using redhat6.0

It checks users quotas and then sends an email to users who exceed their
quota.

What I don't like about it, is that their is no provision to change the
message it sends etc, without rebuilding from source.  IMHO a program such
as warnquota, needs a config file.


> 
> rgds,
> Simons
> 
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OT: RH6.1 on Dell & Gateway Notebooks with DVD,CDR, & CD

[Bob Hartung]

I know this is off topic, but I need to move to a new
notebook and many of the notebooks have multiple use DVD,
CDR, CD in an all-in-one package.  Does anyone have any
experience with any of these?  Specifically, do these
multi-purpose units work under RH?  Might consider replying
off the list to limit traffic as many might not be
interested.

TIA  :=)

Bob Hartung


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/usr/sbin/warnquota ?

[Simons]

Hello,

Would anyone tell me what's the function of /usr/sbin/warnquota ?
I had tried to run it, but nothing happen.

P.S. I'm using redhat6.0

rgds,
Simons




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Re: script to buld add user accounts

[tom minchin]

> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 
> >I run a small mail server for some schools that cannot afford their own and 
> >from time to time I get a list of new users who need accounts.  I would like 
> >to automate this as much as possible on my box running RH 6.1.
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone knew of a script that would take a text file with 
> >something like:
> >name1 pass1
> >name2 pass2
> >... ...
> >as a format and then just go through the list and run adduser against is with 
> >the proper tags?  I am not much of a shell script hacker, and I have tried 
> >modifying a PERL script that I have just to crypt a list of 
> >username/passwords, but I am failing there as well.
> >
> >Any help would be much appreciated.  I volunteer my time and when I get 50+ 
> >names at a time it is a big time commitment, as I get the account request in 
> >the form of a spreadsheet it would be nice if I could put it to use.  Thanks 
> >in advance.
> 

If you're willing to do it in two passes, you can use useradd to create the
account and details and chpasswd to give all the accounts passwords (feeding
in either plain text or encrypted passwords).

note if you are using MD5, chpasswd will only give you standard encryption.

All you need is to export your spreadsheet into a text file, and using
some basic scripting tools (eg cut/paste) and some editor work you can 
easily migrate the users from the spreadsheet into UNIX.

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Re: Virus in Master Boot Record

[MerlintheMage1]

I had a similar virus detection program .. it thought that LILO was a virus 
and gave me problems.  Disabled the virus scanner because it was more a pain 
in the butt and took up more system resources than was necessary.  

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Re: [Q] Big Brother Web Browser Logging

[Chris Dowling]

Jake Colman wrote:
> 
> WebBoy is commercial and only available for WinBlows.  I'm really looking for
> an open source solution that will work on my Linux firewall to monitor the
> entire network that's behind it.
>

I know, I'm just obliged to try and sell it :) The developers are some
good friends of mine, and they can't say no to free advertising :)
 
> 
> I think I really like this idea.  I can set up squid and use ipchains to
> automatically route all output via squid.  This would mean that I do not even
> have to modify each machine's browser configuration to specify a proxy!
> 
> I fiddled a bit with squid, installing it via the RH 6.1 rpm.  As soon as I
> installed it, it stopped letting me access the web!  I uninstalled it for the
> time being but will try it again soon.  Any idea if there's any sort of
> utility that will neatly summarize squid's logs so that I can see who
> accessed what?
> 

Yah, if you do it invisibly, then people can't just turn their proxy off
to get past the logging. A nice feature if there are some dodgy
characters on your network :) I dunno why squid did that, maybe a config
error?

I was thinking that there might be something to help you in the
portsentry suite of software (a definite possibility), but then I
relaised that there's even a better way of doing things. Using libpcap
you can just do some simple packet sniffing and pull out the relevant
data. I think that there is some framework code that you can download at
ee.lbl.gov. even tcpdump with the right flags will achieve the same goal
that you are after.

Saying this, I do believe that the proxy solution is more elegant,
because it not only provides you with a means of tracking access, it
introduces a new service to the people on your network, which will
probably enhance their web experience.

Of course this is all up to you, but I hope that it helps somewhat...

regards,
Chris Dowling.

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Re: Virus in Master Boot Record

[Michael S. Dunsavage]

I believe the virus protection in the BIOS prevents writing to the MBR or
messes it up.   I believe also its recomended you shut the virust
detection off when u install NT or Linux or any OS

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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Wayne Dyer wrote:

> Chris Dowling wrote:
> > sorry, but I can't see the problem :)
> > 
> > try making a linux boot disk. then format your mbr. I don't know how to
> > do this under linux, but if you have a dos boot disk then you can usr
> > "fdisk /mbr". Once you have cleared it, use your bootdisk to boot into
> > linux, and run lilo to restore the boot record.
> [...]
> 
> Make that a write-protected DOS boot disk...
> 
> This still might trigger the BIOS' virus "protection", depending on how it
> determines if the boot sector has been modified.
> 
> > > How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT (dual 
>boot system)
> > > but Linux does work.
> [...]
> 
> Keep in mind that if you have NT installed, the fdisk /mbr will wipe out
> booting to NT as well, as the DOS command replaces the bootsector with a
> generic Win9x/DOS boot sector.  If you made an Emergency Recovery Disk
> (start->run->rdisk), you can recover.  Keep in mind that you can't use an
> ERD from another system in nearly all cases.  If you don't have one, you're
> probably gonna need to reinstall NT.  (I'd do it to another directory, so
> you get the boot files in without messing with the installed OS, then edit
> the boot.ini file after you're dual booting to point back to the original
> OS, then reapply the service pack of your choice to update the system
> files.
> 
> Now if you're using LILO to point to NT's boot sector, you're going to be
> in the same boat.  If you're using NT's boot loader to point to the LILO
> boot loader, do the fdisk /mbr, then lilo, then NT.
> 
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Re: Virus in Master Boot Record

[Wayne Dyer]

Chris Dowling wrote:
> sorry, but I can't see the problem :)
> 
> try making a linux boot disk. then format your mbr. I don't know how to
> do this under linux, but if you have a dos boot disk then you can usr
> "fdisk /mbr". Once you have cleared it, use your bootdisk to boot into
> linux, and run lilo to restore the boot record.
[...]

Make that a write-protected DOS boot disk...

This still might trigger the BIOS' virus "protection", depending on how it
determines if the boot sector has been modified.

> > How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT (dual boot 
>system)
> > but Linux does work.
[...]

Keep in mind that if you have NT installed, the fdisk /mbr will wipe out
booting to NT as well, as the DOS command replaces the bootsector with a
generic Win9x/DOS boot sector.  If you made an Emergency Recovery Disk
(start->run->rdisk), you can recover.  Keep in mind that you can't use an
ERD from another system in nearly all cases.  If you don't have one, you're
probably gonna need to reinstall NT.  (I'd do it to another directory, so
you get the boot files in without messing with the installed OS, then edit
the boot.ini file after you're dual booting to point back to the original
OS, then reapply the service pack of your choice to update the system
files.

Now if you're using LILO to point to NT's boot sector, you're going to be
in the same boat.  If you're using NT's boot loader to point to the LILO
boot loader, do the fdisk /mbr, then lilo, then NT.

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Re: OT: Lithium Ion Batteries

[Greg W]

Hope you have a Lithium compatible charger.or your in trouble

if its a plug in charger, and it came with Ni-MH , and you have just bought
a Lithium and banged it in, this will be the problem

Lithium has vastly different properties to Ni-MH or Ni cad


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>Hi All,
>
>I'm really OT here, but I need some advice,
>
>I got a new Lithium Ion battery for my laptop, it's been in for ages but
>is taking lonnng to charge...
>
>Is this normal?
>
>It took a day for the critical low charge flashing light to stop, and
>it's been at 0% for about six hours...
>
>Any feedback is welcome,
>
>thanks,
>


Regards

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Re: Virus in Master Boot Record

[Clint Tinsley]

Ooops...  Missed this part.  The virus warning showed up when you installed RH 6.1 and 
now NT
won't boot?   Are you sure it is a virus or is it "just" your BIOS detecting that the 
boot
record changed as it now appears.  You should probably do a virus check from a boot 
floppy to
verify that you didn't pick up a boot sector virus but it is also very likely that no 
virus
exists and your "dual boot" master boot record got trashed which prevents NT from 
booting.
What are you using for a boot manager?

"Paul R. Watkins" wrote:

> I installed RH 6.1 a week or so ago. I have a virus detection program in my bios 
>setup. It
> detects a virus in the masterboot record. I can get by this and boot linux and 
>everything
> works fine in Linux.
>
> How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT (dual boot 
>system)
> but Linux does work.
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> Paul
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SMP Q

[Edward Schernau]

Is it normal for 1 CPU to take many more interrupts than another?
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Re: Virus in Master Boot Record

[Greg W]

turn off the virus detection in the BIOS   !  scratch it, don't use
it , whatever.

They are dumb, and you will experience many errors because of this (unless
you never change things on your system) , from what you have posted the
alert would be because you installed Linux and the BIOS is seeing the
changed boot values

get a separate virus program for your NT system

look for something called gag to manage your dual booting or an eqv.  , I
can mail it off the list if not familiar with freshmeat etc

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On 28/12/99 at 18:29 Paul R. Watkins wrote:

>I installed RH 6.1 a week or so ago. I have a virus detection program in
my bios setup. It
>detects a virus in the masterboot record. I can get by this and boot linux
and everything
>works fine in Linux.
>
>How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT
(dual boot system)
>but Linux does work.
>
>Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
>Paul


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Re: [Q] Big Brother Web Browser Logging

[Jake Colman]

> "Chris" == Chris Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Chris> sorry about that word crap. here it is again: Well, webboy is
Chris> written by a software company called NDG software
Chris> (www.ndgsoftware.com). webboy is designed specifically for
Chris> monitoring web traffic. they've got some other apps to, all in the
Chris> interests of network maintenence.

WebBoy is commercial and only available for WinBlows.  I'm really looking for
an open source solution that will work on my Linux firewall to monitor the
entire network that's behind it.

Chris> about the invisable proxy stuff, I'm not sure. I haven't tried it
Chris> (yet, it is a project for the crissy break). I believe that there
Chris> is a howto about the specifics, but I'm sure that you can achieve
Chris> it with any old proxy software (eg: squid) and ipchains. It seems
Chris> that all you need to do is to redirect all traffic (bar that
Chris> coming from the proxy host itself) going out on port 80 to the the
Chris> listening port of the proxy. All that is required then is to view
Chris> the proxy logs to see what ppl are looking at (tail -f works
Chris> well).

I think I really like this idea.  I can set up squid and use ipchains to
automatically route all output via squid.  This would mean that I do not even
have to modify each machine's browser configuration to specify a proxy!

I fiddled a bit with squid, installing it via the RH 6.1 rpm.  As soon as I
installed it, it stopped letting me access the web!  I uninstalled it for the
time being but will try it again soon.  Any idea if there's any sort of
utility that will neatly summarize squid's logs so that I can see who
accessed what?

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RE: DNS Error - please help

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On 28/12/99 at 17:58 Ed Lazor wrote:

>> How close or the ping times should not matter..you have a
>> secondary
>> set that is out of your network.right ? or you have a third or
fourth
>> DNS server set ?
>
>I do have a secondary.  What's interesting is that I did an nslookup of
>type ns and it didn't show my secondary.  Any idea why?
>
>   > set type=ns
>   > atfantasy.com
>   Server:  arcane.atfantasy.com
>   Address:  199.2.108.194
>
>   atfantasy.comnameserver = arcane.atfantasy.com
>   arcane.atfantasy.cominternet address = 199.2.108.194


With nslookup you should be able to get info returned on your own servers
or any other qualified servers

at the prompt nslookup   should return the
name and IP of the secondary server

to force nslookup to use the secondary server for some other lookups an
tests do ...

nslookup  

>
>
>> What application exactly do they get this error on ? are they
>> from the same
>> ISP ?
>
>Netscape, ping, and traceroute are what we've tested so far.  Different
>ISPs.

results of ping and tracroute ? these tests should really be showing where
the break is..

>
>> I am willing to monitor the exact sites and services for 24 hours or so
if
>> you like
>
>Way cool =)  Here's a few:
>
>   http://www.atfantasy.com
>   http://sylnae.atfantasy.com
>   http://new.atfantasy.com

Ok , these and your DNS is being monitored ..  they will be polled
every 10 minutes

>
>ps... could it somehow be related to bandwidth / latency to my server?
>

Only possible if it is being absolutely hammerredI have not seen
all your tests, but DNS is only for resolving names, and if you have 2
servers and one is off the local net, then this should never stop a name
from resolving..from outside anyway..

What I would do from here is if you are notified of when the condition
exists, ping an IP that you know is good within your network (say the NIC
of the DNS server) , test others within the net as well

if ping return is zero .  its not DNS as DNS does not stop ping to an
IP .

I will contact you off the list

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Re: Virus in Master Boot Record

[Chris Dowling]

sorry, but I can't see the problem :)

try making a linux boot disk. then format your mbr. I don't know how to
do this under linux, but if you have a dos boot disk then you can usr
"fdisk /mbr". Once you have cleared it, use your bootdisk to boot into
linux, and run lilo to restore the boot record.

sugarboy

"Paul R. Watkins" wrote:
> 
> I installed RH 6.1 a week or so ago. I have a virus detection program in my bios 
>setup. It
> detects a virus in the masterboot record. I can get by this and boot linux and 
>everything
> works fine in Linux.
> 
> How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT (dual boot 
>system)
> but Linux does work.
> 
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Paul
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Re: Virus in Master Boot Record

[Clint Tinsley]

One of the "emergency recovery disks" that you get with Norton AntiVirus (IBM, etc.) 
among
others will clean boot sector viruses.  I think there is even a downloadable "recovery 
disk"
on the the Symantec site, at least there was at one time.

"Paul R. Watkins" wrote:

> I installed RH 6.1 a week or so ago. I have a virus detection program in my bios 
>setup. It
> detects a virus in the masterboot record. I can get by this and boot linux and 
>everything
> works fine in Linux.
>
> How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT (dual boot 
>system)
> but Linux does work.
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> Paul
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Re: troubles with pcmcia package

[Charles Galpin]

rday

read the docs in the pcmcia-cs dir. They explain that installing from the
tarball breaks the redhat way, and tells you how to fix it. i would give
more detail, but running '98 on it right now.

If you remain stuck, give us another hollar and I'll take the time to
reboot and give you the details.

charles

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, rpjday wrote:

> 
>   i'm running out of ideas trying to get my pcmcia
> modem to work.  i'm working with the downloaded tar ball
> of linux-2.2.13, and pcmcia-3.1.8.  built, installed
> and the network card works just fine.  however, no luck
> getting the modem card to work (28.8K new media net surfer).



>   as i said, all of this worked fine using stock red hat 6.1, but
> upgrading the kernel and pcmcia package broke something.  i'm open
> to any suggestions.  thanks.
> 
> rday


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Virus in Master Boot Record

[Paul R. Watkins]

I installed RH 6.1 a week or so ago. I have a virus detection program in my bios 
setup. It
detects a virus in the masterboot record. I can get by this and boot linux and 
everything
works fine in Linux.

How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT (dual boot 
system)
but Linux does work.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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RE: DNS Error - please help

[Ed Lazor]

> How close or the ping times should not matter..you have a
> secondary
> set that is out of your network.right ? or you have a third or fourth
> DNS server set ?

I do have a secondary.  What's interesting is that I did an nslookup of
type ns and it didn't show my secondary.  Any idea why?

> set type=ns
> atfantasy.com
Server:  arcane.atfantasy.com
Address:  199.2.108.194

atfantasy.comnameserver = arcane.atfantasy.com
arcane.atfantasy.cominternet address = 199.2.108.194


> What application exactly do they get this error on ? are they
> from the same
> ISP ?

Netscape, ping, and traceroute are what we've tested so far.  Different
ISPs.

> I am willing to monitor the exact sites and services for 24 hours or so if
> you like

Way cool =)  Here's a few:

http://www.atfantasy.com
http://sylnae.atfantasy.com
http://new.atfantasy.com

Thanks in advance =)

ps... could it somehow be related to bandwidth / latency to my server?



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Dialin a linux box and authentcate onto a Radius server

[hugoh]

I have to install a linux box to answer 32 modems over an equinox
multiserial, but i have to authenticate the users onto another server
running radius. Is that possible ? How do I setup the box ? Or where could I
find something similar to it ?
TIA
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Re: trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script

[Rick L. Mantooth]

Paul,
You can (caution, insecure) just create a ~/.netrc file for the
user that is running the ftp script. (man ftp).


machine  machine.somewhere.domain
loginanonymous
password [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You will need a "BLANK LINE" after the password line.

You will also need to chmod 0400 ~/.netrc

Like I said, this is insecure as root can read the file, but it works.
You can replace the anonymous and [EMAIL PROTECTED] with real user/passwords.

Ugly hack:

Down inside your script,

ftp machine.somewhere.domain < I'm trying to write a shell script where part of the functionality is an
=> ftp.  How can I use ftp or a related utility so that I, or someone else
=> doesn't have to be there to type the password.
=> 
=> I tried
=> 
=> ftp < filename, where filename is a text file that has stuff in it that
=> I would type at the promptsno go.
=> 
=> I also tried
=> 
=> ftp host.do.main < filename
=> 
=> I can't use anything like rsh or rcp as this is a very secure
=> environment that I'm working in.  Every box is locked down for the most
=> part.  Most of my activities have to be done via ssh.
=> 
=> I haven't tried sftp, but I'm pretty shure that it's not going to work.
=> 
=> Anyone have any suggestions???
=> 
=> Sincerely,
=> Paul C.
=> 
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Re: redhat's secure server

[Clint Tinsley]

Red Hat Professional has Secure Server SSL.

Alan Mead wrote:

> At 03:59 PM 12/28/99 -0500, Eric Wood wrote:
> >Did Redhat drop that product?
>
> Don't they have an "e-commerce edition" that includes the OS and
> apache+mod_ssl?  I'm using that with RH 6.0 and it's the same thing as the
> old secure server.
>
> -Alan
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troubles with pcmcia package

[rpjday]

  i'm running out of ideas trying to get my pcmcia
modem to work.  i'm working with the downloaded tar ball
of linux-2.2.13, and pcmcia-3.1.8.  built, installed
and the network card works just fine.  however, no luck
getting the modem card to work (28.8K new media net surfer).

  when i try to bring up ppp (with "ifup ppp0"), while
this worked under the stock red hat 6.1 install, what i
get in /var/log/messages is:

Dec 28 19:54:37 dell ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200
Dec 28 19:54:37 dell modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
Dec 28 19:54:37 dell pppd[1134]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
Dec 28 19:54:38 dell chat[1143]: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error
Dec 28 19:54:38 dell pppd[1134]: Connect script failed
Dec 28 19:54:39 dell pppd[1134]: Exit.
Dec 28 19:54:41 dell modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
Dec 28 19:54:41 dell ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200
Dec 28 19:54:41 dell pppd[1144]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
Dec 28 19:54:42 dell chat[1153]: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error
Dec 28 19:54:42 dell pppd[1144]: Connect script failed
Dec 28 19:54:43 dell pppd[1144]: Exit.
Dec 28 19:54:43 dell ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200

  ... repeatedly.

  as a test, i popped out the card and re-inserted it, just to
see what cardmgr had to say, which was:

Dec 28 19:55:18 dell kernel: tty01 unloaded 
Dec 28 19:55:18 dell cardmgr[346]: shutting down socket 1
Dec 28 19:55:18 dell cardmgr[346]: executing: './serial stop ttyS1'
Dec 28 19:55:18 dell cardmgr[346]: executing: 'rmmod serial_cs'
Dec 28 19:55:25 dell cardmgr[346]: initializing socket 1
Dec 28 19:55:25 dell cardmgr[346]: socket 1: Serial or Modem
Dec 28 19:55:25 dell cardmgr[346]: executing: 'insmod 
/lib/modules/2.2.13/pcmcia/serial_cs.o'
Dec 28 19:55:25 dell kernel: tty01 at 0x13f8 (irq = 9) is a 16550A 
Dec 28 19:55:25 dell cardmgr[346]: executing: './serial start ttyS1'

  as i said, all of this worked fine using stock red hat 6.1, but
upgrading the kernel and pcmcia package broke something.  i'm open
to any suggestions.  thanks.

rday

p.s.  it's a dell inspiron 7500, if that mekes any difference.



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Re: rm help

[Rick L. Mantooth]

Erik,
Sorry, I missed the first of the thread.

One sure fire way to see what is going on, is to cd into
the dir that is giving you fits and do this:
/bin/ls -1a >dir.list

Then "vi dir.list" and issue the command in vi
:set list

That will show you any special characters in filenames.
ie: filenames with SPACES on the end would look something like:

filename   $

if it was named: filenameSPACESPACESPACE

If you want to continue from there, delete all of the filenames
in the dir.list file that you DO NOT want to delete, (. and ..) and then
issue the folowing commands in the vi session:

:1,$s/^/\"/g
(That will place a " (double quote) on the beginning of every line.

:1,$s/$/\"/g
(That will place a " (double quote) on the end of every line.

Then,
:1,$s/^/rm -i .\//g
(That will insert "rm -i ./" at the beginning of every line.

Be sure to :w! here to write the file ./dir.list

If all looks right, you can run the commands from inside of vi 
like so:

:! sh ./%

vi has the capability of running the file you are working on as a command.
(handy trick for testing scripts while you are writing them)

You will need to look for any other special characters in the dir.list
file while you are there and maybe "escape" them.
ie:

file[name

would need to be:
rm -i file\[name(example only. You see what I'm after)

in the file before you execute.

For some kind of program, I'd need to see your original post.
(sorry I missed it)

Have fun,
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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Erik wrote:

=> Ok,
=> 
=> I did this at the command prompt:
=> 
=> > 
=> > cat FILENAME | while read FN
=> > do
=> > rm "$FN";
=> > done;
=> 
=> but I get a bunch of error that look like this:
=> 
=> ': No such file or directory - 
=> 
=> Why am I getting this, and what can I do to fix it?
=> 
=> Thanks,
=> 
=> erik
=> 
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Re: 686 distro. [Was: What about Mandrake?]

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> 
> Any chance that you might also "back it down a notch" and compile it
> with the 586 flags?  For those of us with Cyrix and Pentiums, of course...
> My machines are MII-300, MII-233, PR233MX, 2xP133, PPro200, 8xP100, so I
> would obviously be able to benefit big from something like that, whereas
> for a 686 distro I wouldn't.

Just as a side-note.

You would benifit from i686 opt on the PPro200.

PPro, PII, PIII all have the same basic core., the P6 core.

PII  == PPro w/MMX
PIII == PII w/SSE.

Apart from other differences.

The PPro has integrated full speed L2 cache for instance where the PII
has external half-speed L2 cache.

The PIII comes in both flavors nowadays, etc etc etc...

But the basic core is the same.

// Stefan


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i686 Redhat Release - some questions

[Allen Bolderoff]

I have outlined some questions regarding the redhat 6.1 i686 release. 

Please go to http://linux.netnerve.com/ and read it there.

if you have any questions/comments either send them direct to me, or to the 
redhat list.

This is still a project in infancy.

Allen
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Re: ttyS4 and ttyS5?

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi.

> I have one PC with the two standard serial ports ttyS0 and ttyS1 plus an
> STB Fourport card.
> 
> When I run OS/2 in this PC I had setup one of the STB ports on IRQ 11
> and the remaining three in IRQ 12, all with different I/O addresses of
> course.
> 
> I'm currently trying to configure my serial ports and it was my
> intention to run setserial from rc.local for ttyS2, ttyS3, ttyS4 and
> ttyS5.
> 
> ttyS2 and ttyS3 works fine. But when running setserial for ttyS4 or
> ttyS5 if fails with the message that /dev/ttyS4 (or 5) doesn't exist,
> which is also the case.
> 
> What can I do to 'create' my /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5 ?

What you need is to use 'mknod' with the appropriate options.

In /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt we see that ttys are of
major 4 and that the ttyS' are from minor 64 and up. We also see it's a
character device. (That's what we specify to mknod).

ttyS0, 1, 2, 3 are minor 64, 65, 66, 67 so ttyS4 and S5 are 68 and 69.

Run this:

mknod /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68
mknod /dev/ttyS5 c 4 69

The 'c' is 'character device', the '4' is Major, the '68/69' is minor'.

Then we see that the other ttyS are owner root, group tty and have
access flags : crw--- .
Change owner and permission of files:

chown root.tty /dev/ttyS[45]
chmod 600 /dev/ttyS[45]

Yes, write like that with the brackets. Saves you some writing :)

Now an 'ls -l /dev/ttyS*' should show you that you suddenly have the
required ttyS'.

Good luck!

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Re: script to buld add user accounts

[Chuck Mead]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>I run a small mail server for some schools that cannot afford their own and 
>from time to time I get a list of new users who need accounts.  I would like 
>to automate this as much as possible on my box running RH 6.1.
>
>I was wondering if anyone knew of a script that would take a text file with 
>something like:
>name1 pass1
>name2 pass2
>... ...
>as a format and then just go through the list and run adduser against is with 
>the proper tags?  I am not much of a shell script hacker, and I have tried 
>modifying a PERL script that I have just to crypt a list of 
>username/passwords, but I am failing there as well.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.  I volunteer my time and when I get 50+ 
>names at a time it is a big time commitment, as I get the account request in 
>the form of a spreadsheet it would be nice if I could put it to use.  Thanks 
>in advance.

Why not ask on the bash list...

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Re: kernel recompile

[Gerry Doris]

Because that's the way Redhat themselves said to do it in their documentation
(granted, it was their 5.1 manual) and it has always worked for me.  

I really don't see any advantage to doing it your way as far as the modules are
concerned (not much difference in doing a vi versus a mv) but it really would
help keep the images straight.  

Thanks for the tip...it's easy to just keep doing something that works even if
it's not the best way!!!


Gerry



On 28-Dec-99 Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> Hi.
> 
>> Prior to running this you should go into the /lib/modules directory and:
>> 
>> mv 2.2.16 2.2.12.old
> 
> Why?
> 
> vi /usr/src/linux/Makefile
> 
> edit the EXTRAVERSION= to include something like -20_r1 where r1 stands
> for release 1, then next recompile change it to r2, etc.
> 
> Use that naming scheme for the kernel too, etc.
> 
> That's what RedHat themselves recommend to do.
> 
> Result is that all modules will go into their own directory in
> /lib/modules/2.2.12-20_r1.
> 
> // Stefan


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Re: redhat's secure server

[Alan Mead]

At 03:59 PM 12/28/99 -0500, Eric Wood wrote:
>Did Redhat drop that product?

Don't they have an "e-commerce edition" that includes the OS and
apache+mod_ssl?  I'm using that with RH 6.0 and it's the same thing as the
old secure server.

-Alan
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Re: ppp script

[redhat]

On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:20:38AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:

> >I get my mail several times a day using crontab to dial in 
> >I need to terminate the connection when there is no more activity 
> >on the ppp link sometimes it is 3 Min sometimes it is 30 Min.
 
> Do a 'man pppd' and look at the options.  Recent pppd's (like I was looking
> at the stock 6.1 pppd last night) have an 'idle' option.  Also a 'demand'
> option which might mean that you could discard any complicated scripts in
> favor of just running pppd which will wait for traffic to the outside
> world, connect, and then idle out.  At least that's what I'm going to try
> tonight.

Thanks Alan

I used the option
idle 25 
in my /etc/ppp/options file and it closed in 25 sec.

Jacob


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Re: Application Closing

[Allen Bolderoff]

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>  I like the file size of the new Mozilla RPMs, will have to give it a
> shot soon. 

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Re: Login

[Richard KHOO]

Do you have a /etc/nsswitch.conf?

#ls -l /etc/nsswitch.conf

2 -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1208 Oct 13  1998
/etc/nsswitch.conf

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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Philander Hopkins wrote:

> Does anyone have a fix for this problem?
> Am I doing something wrong during the install?
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Philander Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Login
> 
> 
> > This is a Console login.
> > 
> > 
> > >From: "Adrian Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: Re: Login
> > >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:45:17 EST
> > >
> > >is this a console login or is it a log on through telnet?
> > >
> > >
> > >>From: "Philander Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>Subject: Login
> > >>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:31:26 CST
> > >>
> > >>When my system boots up and the PC is ready for me to logon it will not
> > >>let
> > >>me type in the system password.
> > >>
> > >>When I get the following prompt:
> > >>
> > >>Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
> > >>Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an I586
> > >>
> > >>Kimetre login:
> > >>
> > >>I type in root and then it goes back to the login prompt.
> > >>What am I doing wrong?
> > >>__
> > >>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
> > >>



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redhat's secure server

[Eric Wood]

Did Redhat drop that product?

-eric wood



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Re: soundcard, scsi, and cd-rw

[Manuel Camacho]

Hi Matt!

You may want to check about the SMP capability of your kernel. I *guess* you
have to recompile for SMP the kernel boxed with 5.2.


-Manuel.


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Re: hardware testing

[Manuel Camacho]

Hi Charles!!!

If you are really into Hardware, you may want to take a look at "Upgrading and
Repairing PCs, Linux Edition" from Mueller (QUE). It comes with a bootable CD
with a Debian distribution that let you make diagnostics and other sort of
things.

On the other hand, there is a tool you may want to try "info" in KDE control
center. It has information about the IRQs and DMAs and other important info on
setting up hardware.

This other is not on any hand, but in my neck, as some guys on the list will
try to kill me for the comment. But, when I have had serious hardware
configuration problems, I make a basic Win98 install. Win diagnostic software
is better. Once I have my system with no errors under Winblows, and I have no
conflicts, I can repartition my drive and reinstall Linux with the settings I
already know.

Hope someone has a better answer than mine.

Best regards,

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Re: kernel recompile

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi.

> Prior to running this you should go into the /lib/modules directory and:
> 
> mv 2.2.16 2.2.12.old

Why?

vi /usr/src/linux/Makefile

edit the EXTRAVERSION= to include something like -20_r1 where r1 stands
for release 1, then next recompile change it to r2, etc.

Use that naming scheme for the kernel too, etc.

That's what RedHat themselves recommend to do.

Result is that all modules will go into their own directory in
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20_r1.

// Stefan


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RE: trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script

[Greg Wildman]

I use ncftp and ncftpget to do just as you need. You can specify
username and password as parameters..

Greg.


---
Paul wrote:

I'm trying to write a shell script where part of the functionality is an

ftp.  How can I use ftp or a related utility so that I, or someone else
doesn't have to be there to type the password.

I tried

ftp < filename, where filename is a text file that has stuff in it that
I would type at the promptsno go.

I also tried

ftp host.do.main < filename

I can't use anything like rsh or rcp as this is a very secure
environment that I'm working in.  Every box is locked down for the most
part.  Most of my activities have to be done via ssh.

I haven't tried sftp, but I'm pretty shure that it's not going to work.

Anyone have any suggestions???

Sincerely,
Paul C.
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ttyS4 and ttyS5?

[Gustav Schaffter]

Hi,

I have one PC with the two standard serial ports ttyS0 and ttyS1 plus an
STB Fourport card.

When I run OS/2 in this PC I had setup one of the STB ports on IRQ 11
and the remaining three in IRQ 12, all with different I/O addresses of
course.

I'm currently trying to configure my serial ports and it was my
intention to run setserial from rc.local for ttyS2, ttyS3, ttyS4 and
ttyS5.

ttyS2 and ttyS3 works fine. But when running setserial for ttyS4 or
ttyS5 if fails with the message that /dev/ttyS4 (or 5) doesn't exist,
which is also the case.

What can I do to 'create' my /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5 ?

Regards
Gustav

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RE: trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script

[Matt Shirel]

Option 1) SCP  -- This is what I would use.
Option 2) ncftp has a fully scriptable command line interface.  I would look
into the help on it.

> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Crossman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 11:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script
>
>
> I'm trying to write a shell script where part of the functionality is an
> ftp.  How can I use ftp or a related utility so that I, or someone else
> doesn't have to be there to type the password.
>
> I tried
>
> ftp < filename, where filename is a text file that has stuff in it that
> I would type at the promptsno go.
>
> I also tried
>
> ftp host.do.main < filename
>
> I can't use anything like rsh or rcp as this is a very secure
> environment that I'm working in.  Every box is locked down for the most
> part.  Most of my activities have to be done via ssh.
>
> I haven't tried sftp, but I'm pretty shure that it's not going to work.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions???
>
> Sincerely,
> Paul C.
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Re: Login

[Philander Hopkins]

Does anyone have a fix for this problem?
Am I doing something wrong during the install?

- Original Message -
From: "Philander Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: Login


>This is a Console login.
>
>
> >From: "Adrian Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Login
> >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:45:17 EST
> >
> >is this a console login or is it a log on through telnet?
> >
> >
> >>From: "Philander Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: Login
> >>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:31:26 CST
> >>
> >>When my system boots up and the PC is ready for me to logon it will not
> >>let
> >>me type in the system password.
> >>
> >>When I get the following prompt:
> >>
> >>Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
> >>Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an I586
> >>
> >>Kimetre login:
> >>
> >>I type in root and then it goes back to the login prompt.
> >>What am I doing wrong?
> >>__
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Re: soundcard, scsi, and cd-rw

[Charles Galpin]

I can vouch for the yamaha cd-rw (mine is awsome - I burn't a few CDs
yesterday while compiling the kernel in a loop and doing various other
things)

get xcdroast. It comes bundled with cdrecord and other tools to do
everything you will want to do. I think there is a new gtk version in the
works (old one is tk). You should have very little configuration to do, if
any for the scsi cdrw.

charles

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, matt boex wrote:

> 
> i just purchased a yamaha ymf724f-v soundcard, adaptec
> scsi card, and yamaha cd-rw.  i also got a new ibm
> dual processor box that i am gonna plop rh5.2 on and
> use as my web server and more.  
> 
> question.  does anyone have any expierence configuring
> these devices(things to read, place to search for
> info) and also, where can i get cd-rw software.
> 
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Re: ipchains and pptp

[Charles Galpin]

To be quite honest, I willing to bet my problems were user error. I could
simply not find any decent documentation on it, and it pretty much boils
down to ppp options anyway. But I was literally stuck at the most basic
options, given that all I have to go with is the info I use to connect
froma windows pptp client - a server IP, a domain name, and a username and
password. You'd think with those few parameters I could use it, but no :)

I won't have time for a while, so hpefully when I do get around to it,
this new development effort will have progressed a little.

I'm getting by just nicely with a windows vpn client until then, thanks to
your VPN masquerade efforts!

thanks though
charles

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, John D. Hardin wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Charles Galpin wrote:
> 
> > this allows you to use a pptp based vpn from a masqueraded client machine
> > thru the firewall.
> > 
> > I have yet to figure out how to get a linux vpn client to work though :(
> 
> The 1.0.2 PPTP VPN client has a bug that can sometimes cause the
> connection to fail.
> 
> The development of the Linux PPTP client was suspended for a while
> because Scott Ananian moved on to other things. It's now being moved
> to a CVS repository so that development may resume. There should
> hopefully be a 1.0.3 version out soon that fixes this bug and adds
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script to buld add user accounts

[NotLacan]

I run a small mail server for some schools that cannot afford their own and 
from time to time I get a list of new users who need accounts.  I would like 
to automate this as much as possible on my box running RH 6.1.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a script that would take a text file with 
something like:
name1 pass1
name2 pass2
... ...
as a format and then just go through the list and run adduser against is with 
the proper tags?  I am not much of a shell script hacker, and I have tried 
modifying a PERL script that I have just to crypt a list of 
username/passwords, but I am failing there as well.

Any help would be much appreciated.  I volunteer my time and when I get 50+ 
names at a time it is a big time commitment, as I get the account request in 
the form of a spreadsheet it would be nice if I could put it to use.  Thanks 
in advance.

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hardware testing

[Charles Galpin]

Hi All. this gets a bit long winded, but please bear with me.

The short version is what is the best (most intensive) way to test
hardware integrity, as well as isolate the exact problem?

yesterday I upgraded my box. I bought a new case/mb/cpu/ram and used all
the other existing components.

It's a AMD K7 500 w/ 256MB ram btw :)

I am currently running a kernel compile in a while /bin/true; do loop and
using the box at the same time as a "burn in test". It's been running like
this since yesterday sometime. I'm quite happy.

Oh so I should ahve mentioned that the old box used to lock up pretty   
frequently. I used to attribute it to the fact that I used to have scsi 
warnings on bootup, and felt like the drives were running too hot. Hence
the upgrade to a full tower case with three case fans.

Now, the real reason for this post is that I took the old case/mb/cpu/ram
combo (K6 II 450/ 256mb), stuck in a new ide CDROM, a new ide HD, and two
new netgear nics. My intention is to make this a server for my mom who
lives a 1000 miles away. It needs to be reliable.

Well the old mb/cpu/ram combo locked up on me twice already. I ran the
kernel compile loop on this box as well. It made it overnight, but locked
up sometime this morning. I ran it again, and this time it locked up in
just under 3 hours. I am currently running it again with one of the 128MB
dimms removed.

Nothing in the logs when this occurs.

So, I'd really like to figure out exactly which component needs
replacing. I'm guessing it's likely in the order of ram, then cpu, then
mb? But, I'd also like to be darn sure I test these properly. This really
needs to be reliable. The last box I setup for my mom turned out to have a
memory problem - only found out once it was installed and I was trying to
build something on it. THen lightning took out the modems so I could no
longer remotely admin it (but that's a whole other problem).

I have also just kicked off a program called memtester
http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester in the hopes of catching
a memory problem.

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Re: Login

[Philander Hopkins]

Does anyone have a fix for this problem?
Am I doing something wrong during the install?

- Original Message - 
From: "Philander Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: Login


> This is a Console login.
> 
> 
> >From: "Adrian Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Login
> >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:45:17 EST
> >
> >is this a console login or is it a log on through telnet?
> >
> >
> >>From: "Philander Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: Login
> >>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:31:26 CST
> >>
> >>When my system boots up and the PC is ready for me to logon it will not
> >>let
> >>me type in the system password.
> >>
> >>When I get the following prompt:
> >>
> >>Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
> >>Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an I586
> >>
> >>Kimetre login:
> >>
> >>I type in root and then it goes back to the login prompt.
> >>What am I doing wrong?
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soundcard, scsi, and cd-rw

[matt boex]

i just purchased a yamaha ymf724f-v soundcard, adaptec
scsi card, and yamaha cd-rw.  i also got a new ibm
dual processor box that i am gonna plop rh5.2 on and
use as my web server and more.  

question.  does anyone have any expierence configuring
these devices(things to read, place to search for
info) and also, where can i get cd-rw software.

matt  
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Re: ipchains and pptp

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Charles Galpin wrote:

> this allows you to use a pptp based vpn from a masqueraded client machine
> thru the firewall.
> 
> I have yet to figure out how to get a linux vpn client to work though :(

The 1.0.2 PPTP VPN client has a bug that can sometimes cause the
connection to fail.

The development of the Linux PPTP client was suspended for a while
because Scott Ananian moved on to other things. It's now being moved
to a CVS repository so that development may resume. There should
hopefully be a 1.0.3 version out soon that fixes this bug and adds
some other improvements.

Here's the patch for the bug if you cannot wait that long...

8<--8<8<--8<--
--- pptp-linux-1.0.2-orig/pptp.cWed Feb 18 23:42:14 1998
+++ pptp-linux-1.0.2/pptp.c Mon Feb  8 10:55:04 1999
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
   }
 
   /* Step 6: Do GRE copy until close. */
-  pptp_gre_copy(call_id, peer_call_id, pty_fd, inetaddr);
+  pptp_gre_copy(peer_call_id, call_id, pty_fd, inetaddr);
 
 shutdown:
   /* on close, kill all. */
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Quicktime Plugin for Linux

[Brian]

Does a quicktime plugin for linux exist?  If so, where?

Thanks!

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Unidentified subject!

[matt boex]

how can i stop my telnet's from timing out?

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login: can't resolve symbol '__xstat'

[Ryan Caveney]

At work I have recently inherited a couple of RH 4.0 machines with a
variety of legacy functions no one really wants to re-implement, but a
couple of things that did need to be upgraded.  I know the clean answer is
to do a fresh install, but I was hoping to do a minimal upgrade of just the
desired functions.
To that end, I upgraded just the packages we cared about, which
required going to glibc (I chose 2.0, as 2.1-devel wants 2.2.x kernel
headers) -- which overwrote a number of things, but nothing that looked too
bad at first glance.  Now everything seems OK (in single-user mode and via
ftp, etc.) except for one major problem -- /bin/login won't execute, dying
with the message "can't resolve symbol '__xstat'".
The only reference to this message I've found in the archives has to
do with XFree86, but these machines have no X at all installed, and nm duly
reports __xstat is indeed in /lib/libc.so ... can anyone tell me where
exactly to look for the offending version mismatches, and whether there is
anything useful or worthwhile left to do but reinstall the system?

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Re: named caching

[Vidiot]

>On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:
>
>> Other than rebooting, how to I clear out the named cache?  I am running
>> the stock RH6.0 /etc/named.conf.
>
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
>LLaP
>bero

Actually, "ndc restart" is best.

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Re: kernel recompile

[Jeff Smelser]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Gerry Doris wrote:

> You said you did a make modules_install but didn't say if you did a make
> modules??

 I compile all the kernel, do a make modules make
modules-install.. make bzImage..
 
> 
> The full command in the /usr/src/linux directory should be:
> 
> make dep modules modules_install bzImage

I know, I have been compiling kernels for years. This is a new one for me.
I have never had problems before. This computer is a new one to my linux
group and it is the first kernel compile on there.
 
> Prior to running this you should go into the /lib/modules directory and:
> 
> mv 2.2.16 2.2.12.old 

Pardon me, but what does this accomplish? I am recompiling a stock 
 
> This will ensure that you're got what you want in the way of modules once
> you're done.  As the other person suggested you might want to double check what
> you really did remove ie. SCSI support by doing an 
> 
> make xconfig

better yet, here is my config:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m

#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set 
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y

CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5
CONFIG_SCSI_IPS=m  
CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974=m


This is the part you want to see. This one is still a stock redhat kernel,
besides turning off ftape support. advansys is my card type, and its in
the /lib/modules...scsi area. My other pc has the same setup and it works
fine on 2.2.13.

btw: I made a mistake, its block-major-8. Scsi right?

This is all confusing me.. Why this doesn't work is beyond me. 
Jeff
 
> prior to the kernel make command.
> 
> 
> Gerry
> 
> On 28-Dec-99 Jeff Smelser wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Yoink! wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> >> > I have redhat-6.1 and all I did what take out ftape support and
> >> > recompiled. When I try to run the recompiled version, it gives me a kernel
> >> > panic and a block-major-3 (scsi driver not found error). But it I boot up
> >> > from redhat's default. Everything boots fine.
> >> > 
> >> > I even tried updating to 2.2.13. Same thing.
> >> 
> >> Check your config, you are either attempting to load a module that needs
> >> ftape
> >> support, a program that needs it, or you didn't "make modules", "make
> >> modules_install" after you finished compiling.
> >> 
> >> Make sure you didn't actually remove all scsi support too.
> > 
> > No.. I did make modules_install and I looked:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root94404 Dec 28 11:59 advansys.o
> > 
> > this is in lib/modules/2.2.12 etc...
> > 
> > more conf.moddules has:
> > 
> > alias scsihostadapter advansys
> > 
> > Anything else?
> > Jeff
> > 
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Re: rsh for root

[Nate Waddoups]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Hiten Sonpal wrote:

> > > Does anyone know what needs to be done to enable rsh access for root? 
> > 
> > Yeah, spell it "ssh" instead of "rsh" and you're in business. :-)
> 
> I'm basically trying to run rdist here, and I'd like to be able to have it
> run automatically via cron and not have to store the password in some
> file. I guess I don't really care if I use ssh, rsh or tftp... :-)

No problem, then.  I did the same thing earlier this month when I moved my
system from one box (with old bad drives) to another (with new ones).  
You can run rdist over ssh if you just set ssh to use rhosts
authentication.

The rdist command looks something like:

rdist   -f distfile \
-P /usr/local/bin/ssh \
-l file=rdist.log=notice,nerror,ferror,warning

And check these lines in /etc/sshd_config:

IgnoreRhosts no
RhostsAuthentication yes
AllowSHosts [space-separated list of IP addresses]

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kernel with nfs support

[Hidong Kim]

Hi,

I just downloaded the 2.2.13 kernel tar.gz from www.kernel.org.  I want
to compile nfs support into the kernel, but the NFS Server Support
option in the configuration is greyed out.  What do I need to do to get
NFS support into kernel 2.2.13?  Thanks,



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Re: kernel recompile

[Gerry Doris]

You said you did a make modules_install but didn't say if you did a make
modules??


The full command in the /usr/src/linux directory should be:

make dep modules modules_install bzImage

Prior to running this you should go into the /lib/modules directory and:

mv 2.2.16 2.2.12.old 

This will ensure that you're got what you want in the way of modules once
you're done.  As the other person suggested you might want to double check what
you really did remove ie. SCSI support by doing an 

make xconfig

prior to the kernel make command.


Gerry

On 28-Dec-99 Jeff Smelser wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Yoink! wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote:
>> > I have redhat-6.1 and all I did what take out ftape support and
>> > recompiled. When I try to run the recompiled version, it gives me a kernel
>> > panic and a block-major-3 (scsi driver not found error). But it I boot up
>> > from redhat's default. Everything boots fine.
>> > 
>> > I even tried updating to 2.2.13. Same thing.
>> 
>> Check your config, you are either attempting to load a module that needs
>> ftape
>> support, a program that needs it, or you didn't "make modules", "make
>> modules_install" after you finished compiling.
>> 
>> Make sure you didn't actually remove all scsi support too.
> 
> No.. I did make modules_install and I looked:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root94404 Dec 28 11:59 advansys.o
> 
> this is in lib/modules/2.2.12 etc...
> 
> more conf.moddules has:
> 
> alias scsihostadapter advansys
> 
> Anything else?
> Jeff
> 
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OT: Lithium Ion Batteries

[Ahbaid Gaffoor]

Hi All,

I'm really OT here, but I need some advice,

I got a new Lithium Ion battery for my laptop, it's been in for ages but
is taking lonnng to charge...

Is this normal?

It took a day for the critical low charge flashing light to stop, and
it's been at 0% for about six hours...

Any feedback is welcome,

thanks,

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module help

[scott lockhart]

hi folks,

my current configuration consists of an IBM ThinkPad 600E running RedHat
6.1, kernel 2.2.13.

the problem that i'm experiencing is that i get a long list of
unresolved module dependencies during bootup and a few "modprobe:  out
of file handle" messages.  though all module related functions (sound,
pcmcia, fat/dos emulation) seem to work fine.  i cannot find a copy of
the messages in any of /var/log/*, to be able to take a closer look and
any documentation that i've looked at (HOWTO's, man pages, "Running
Linux") doesn't seem to have a lot of detailed information re:
conf.modules, etc.

any assistance as to where i can find more info would be appreciated!

cheers!

scott


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Re: Process Limit of 32k PID's?

[Steve Borho]

On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 05:48:01PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I've been noticing that my system begins reissuing PID's after reaching
> around 32k. Is there a hard limit on the number of processes that Linux
> can currently run? I would imagine that an ISP or someone using Linux on a
> heavy production system might conceivably use up more than 32k processes,
> although most of them would have to be sleeping for the system not to die
> horribly.

There is a limit... you can tweak it in one of the kernel headers, and I
think you might be able to modify it through a proc file.

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Re: Suddenly, a strange CPAN error

[Steve Borho]

On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 04:31:06PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> CPAN is hanging here:
> 
>   cpan> install Data::ShowTable
>   CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
>   Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

just a guess, but I'd remove ftp.perl.org from your list of download
sites.

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Dual default routers

[Deni Watters]

When I fire up my RH 6.1 I get two identical default routes.  I can
delete one and the machine seems to function, but it needs to come up
with only 1 default route instead of two identical ones.  Any ideas.
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Re: kernel recompile

[Jeff Smelser]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Yoink! wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> > I have redhat-6.1 and all I did what take out ftape support and
> > recompiled. When I try to run the recompiled version, it gives me a kernel
> > panic and a block-major-3 (scsi driver not found error). But it I boot up
> > from redhat's default. Everything boots fine.
> > 
> > I even tried updating to 2.2.13. Same thing.
> 
> Check your config, you are either attempting to load a module that needs ftape
> support, a program that needs it, or you didn't "make modules", "make
> modules_install" after you finished compiling.
> 
> Make sure you didn't actually remove all scsi support too.

No.. I did make modules_install and I looked:

-rw-r--r--   1 root root94404 Dec 28 11:59 advansys.o

this is in lib/modules/2.2.12 etc...

more conf.moddules has:

alias scsihostadapter advansys

Anything else?
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Re: trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script

[Vinay Bharel]

Have you thought of using SCP instead of FTP to transfer files.  If
security is important to you then you should be using SCP instead of FTP
anyway.

If you are using SSH2 you can use SCP2 without passwords.  Go here for
directions on how to setup SCP2 to work without passwords :
http://www.narced.com/linux/ssh2+scp2_without_passwords.txt

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Paul Crossman wrote:

> I'm trying to write a shell script where part of the functionality is an
> ftp.  How can I use ftp or a related utility so that I, or someone else
> doesn't have to be there to type the password.
> 
> I tried
> 
> ftp < filename, where filename is a text file that has stuff in it that
> I would type at the promptsno go.
> 
> I also tried
> 
> ftp host.do.main < filename
> 
> I can't use anything like rsh or rcp as this is a very secure
> environment that I'm working in.  Every box is locked down for the most
> part.  Most of my activities have to be done via ssh.
> 
> I haven't tried sftp, but I'm pretty shure that it's not going to work.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions???
> 
> Sincerely,
> Paul C.
> 
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Re: ppp script

[Anthony E. Greene]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I get my mail several times a day using crontab to dial in
> I need to terminate the connection when there is no more activity
> on the ppp link sometimes it is 3 Min sometimes it is 30 Min.

You can run ppp-off as soon as fetchmail is done. Here's one way to do it:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0 up
sleep 60
defroute=`/sbin/route -n | /bin/grep -c ^0.0.0.0`
if [ "$defroute" = "1" ] ; then
/usr/bin/fetchmail
else
echo "Connection failed."
fi
/usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0 down


The script depends on your connection script setting a default route when
the connection is up. If you have a default route even when you're not
connected, then you'll have to figure out a different way to test the
connection.

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Re: trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script

[Alan Mead]

At 12:17 PM 12/28/99 -0500, Paul Crossman wrote:

>I can't use anything like rsh or rcp as this is a very secure
>environment that I'm working in.  Every box is locked down for the most
>part.  Most of my activities have to be done via ssh.

I don't think you can do exactly what you describe without something like
expect.  Have you considered using rsync across ssh?

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Re: unusual mouse behaviour

[D. Pierce-Price]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Jeff Graves wrote:

> a specific application either. Happens if i leave the computer on 
> and don't use sometimes, other times when i'm downloading in 
> netscape. Any ideas?

I had this, and fixed it by finding the part of the XF86Config (I think)
file which refers to the mouse (Pointer section), and changing the line
about the Protocol to IMPS/2 instead of PS/2, or vice-versa. Some people
have also spoken about turning off gpm with gpm -k although I haven't done
this. A search of Deja.com might turn up more advice.

I'm afraid I don't know what the underlying cause of the problem is!

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Re: trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script

[Dave Reed]

> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:17:33 -0500
> From: Paul Crossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> I'm trying to write a shell script where part of the functionality is an
> ftp.  How can I use ftp or a related utility so that I, or someone else
> doesn't have to be there to type the password.
> 
> I tried
> 
> ftp < filename, where filename is a text file that has stuff in it that
> I would type at the promptsno go.
> 
> I also tried
> 
> ftp host.do.main < filename
> 
> I can't use anything like rsh or rcp as this is a very secure
> environment that I'm working in.  Every box is locked down for the most
> part.  Most of my activities have to be done via ssh.
> 
> I haven't tried sftp, but I'm pretty shure that it's not going to work.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions???
> 
> Sincerely,
> Paul C.

Expect is the tool you want - I believe there is an O'Reilly book
about it.  

Obligatory warning: It's not a good idea to put the passwords in a
file since anyone who executes the script can look at the file and see
the passwords.

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trying to set up unattended ftp as part of a shell script

[Paul Crossman]

I'm trying to write a shell script where part of the functionality is an
ftp.  How can I use ftp or a related utility so that I, or someone else
doesn't have to be there to type the password.

I tried

ftp < filename, where filename is a text file that has stuff in it that
I would type at the promptsno go.

I also tried

ftp host.do.main < filename

I can't use anything like rsh or rcp as this is a very secure
environment that I'm working in.  Every box is locked down for the most
part.  Most of my activities have to be done via ssh.

I haven't tried sftp, but I'm pretty shure that it's not going to work.

Anyone have any suggestions???

Sincerely,
Paul C.


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Re: rm help

[Erik]

Ok,

I did this at the command prompt:

> 
> cat FILENAME | while read FN
> do
> rm "$FN";
> done;

but I get a bunch of error that look like this:

': No such file or directory - 

Why am I getting this, and what can I do to fix it?

Thanks,

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RE: unusual mouse behaviour

[Jamie Smith]

Title: RE: unusual mouse behaviour





I had to check the settings for the mouse in my BIOS...


-Original Message-
From: Jeff Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 9:27 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: unusual mouse behaviour



Hi guys,


I'm having trouble with my intellimouse and before i ditch it and 
move to the el cheap-o $3 spare i just wanted to see what 
everyone had to say. Every now and then i'll be working in X 
windows (doesn't matter which window manager, happens in KDE and 
GNOME) and the mouse will suddenly move up to the top right 
corner of the screen and i can't get it back. No matter how much 
i move it around...nothing. I recently upgraded to XFree86-3.3.5 
but this problem was happening before as well. It's no related to 
a specific application either. Happens if i leave the computer on 
and don't use sometimes, other times when i'm downloading in 
netscape. Any ideas?


TIA
jeff



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RE:[Q] Big Brother Web Browser Logging

[Chris Dowling]

sorry about that word crap. here it is again:

Well, webboy is written by a software company called NDG software
(www.ndgsoftware.com). webboy is designed specifically for monitoring
web traffic. they've got some other apps to, all in the interests of
network maintenence.

about the invisable proxy stuff, I'm not sure. I haven't tried it (yet,
it is a project for the crissy break). I believe that there is a howto
about the specifics, but I'm sure that you can achieve it with any old
proxy software (eg: squid) and ipchains. It seems that all you need to
do is to redirect all traffic (bar that coming from the proxy host
itself) going out on port 80 to the the listening port of the proxy. All
that is required then is to view the proxy logs to see what ppl are
looking at (tail -f works well).

chris dowling.

Jake wrote:
CD> Hi Jake.  There's a nice winblows app written by some friends of
mine
CD> called Webboy which might interest you...

Available where?  Which does what?
CD> Another alternative is to set up an invisible proxy somewhere on
your
CD> network and use the logs from that to track what everyone is
CD> doing. If you don't have the space to set up a proxy then you
may be
CD> able to just have a redirecting proxy or something... dunno.

Can you give me some more specifics?  What proxy would I use?  Does
squid do
this or is that something else entirely?

CD> that's all that comes to mind at the moment...

Thanks!

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Re: java path

[Rodrigo Moya]

"Martin A. Marques" wrote:

> I just installed java 1.1.7 from rpms downloaded from contrib.redhat.com, and
> installed them. But the executables are not in the path, soy the shells can't
> finde java, javac, etc.
> The rpm installed all the bins in /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin/ but it's not in
> the PATH variable. Should I just add it, or should it be some where else?
>

you should add them to the $PATH variable AFAIK

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java path

[Martin A. Marques]

I just installed java 1.1.7 from rpms downloaded from contrib.redhat.com, and
installed them. But the executables are not in the path, soy the shells can't
finde java, javac, etc.
The rpm installed all the bins in /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin/ but it's not in
the PATH variable. Should I just add it, or should it be some where else?

TIA... :-)

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RE: preventing data loss from power outage

[Chris Dowling]

I thought that the buffer flushing was done every 30 secs or so by the kernel anyway? 
I tend to find that the main cause of stuffed up config in my X stuff is what gnome 
and kde leave around in /tmp/ what I usually do after a crash of any sort is to delete 
any leftovers in tmp and then start my X session. If I don't do this then I find more 
problems than not.

my 2 cents

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run "sync" every once in a while (look at "info sync")

Philippe

"Chip Rose." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When the power flickers or goes out and the file system is not cleanly
> unmounted, I lose a lot of files and programs, etc.  I have a good power
> surge protector.  Upon reboot, it tries to repair itself, often
> requiring me to manually run fsck (I need to read up more on how to
> *properly* fsck..).  Then, I wind up with a dysfunctional kde panel,
> many lost emails, files, and even entire programs I had just finished
> downloading get completely erased!  If I had rebooted *prior* to the
> power outage, all the files would've been safe, and a forced reboot goes
> much easier.  Question is - how do I manually do a "permanent"
> save/write of these files, *without* constant rebooting?  Can I run a
> program to make it as if I had just rebooted?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chip Rose.
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unusual mouse behaviour

[Jeff Graves]

Hi guys,

I'm having trouble with my intellimouse and before i ditch it and 
move to the el cheap-o $3 spare i just wanted to see what 
everyone had to say. Every now and then i'll be working in X 
windows (doesn't matter which window manager, happens in KDE and 
GNOME) and the mouse will suddenly move up to the top right 
corner of the screen and i can't get it back. No matter how much 
i move it around...nothing. I recently upgraded to XFree86-3.3.5 
but this problem was happening before as well. It's no related to 
a specific application either. Happens if i leave the computer on 
and don't use sometimes, other times when i'm downloading in 
netscape. Any ideas?

TIA
jeff


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Re: ppp script

[Alan Mead]

At 02:31 PM 12/28/99 +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I get my mail several times a day using crontab to dial in 
>I need to terminate the connection when there is no more activity 
>on the ppp link sometimes it is 3 Min sometimes it is 30 Min.

Do a 'man pppd' and look at the options.  Recent pppd's (like I was looking
at the stock 6.1 pppd last night) have an 'idle' option.  Also a 'demand'
option which might mean that you could discard any complicated scripts in
favor of just running pppd which will wait for traffic to the outside
world, connect, and then idle out.  At least that's what I'm going to try
tonight.

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RE: 686 distro. [Was: What about Mandrake?]

[Chris Dowling]

I'd love to help out with this too, but unfortunately I haven't much experience with 
building rpms. anyone know of some good resources? I wasn't really able to digest the 
how-to...

sugarboy

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Gustav:

I would love to get involved with something like this.  I've already
started to put together my own i686 iso, but I've run into problems with
some of the RPMs rebuilding.  If anyone else is interested in working on
this, and possibly doing some other modifications (IE. reducing the kernel
to one RPM instead of 9 or 10 so a kernel upgrade would be to install only
one new RPM, etc.), please count me in.  I have storage space for RPMs,
and can work some nights on helping out with this.

- Mike

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Gustav Schaffter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd *love* to see a 686 compiled RH distro. It's not just Linux that
> goes through the evolution. So does the hardware available in hardware
> stores.
> 
> In a way, I can understand that RedHat doesn't want to go this way,
> because then they would also have to provide a 586 distro etc, etc. And
> when would they be able to discontinue the 386 compiled distro? Etc.
> 
> But I think it could be done as a distributed volonteer developer
> project. As long as RedHat doesn't want to do it themself, I don't see
> why they should (or could?) oppose to such a project. Maybe that RedHat
> would like to participate, if it's run by volonteers?
> 
> Of course, there need to be a project definition, organization,
> objective and scope definition, plus a serious coordination effort to
> fulfill the sake.
> 
> Idea: Maybe(!!) the objective would be to always maintain a distro
> optimized for the very latest available Intel platform?
> 
> If someone organized a distributed project to do this I would like to
> participate. (Does it already exist?) But, I wouldn't find time to
> manage it. Not even to participate in project management. I'd be happy
> to maintain the latest 686 rpms for a limited and well defined subset of
> the necessary packages. Kinda 20 - 30 rpms. Maybe more. I would also be
> happy to provide limited space on my ftp server. Maybe 10 - 20 MB, but
> no more. I don't see why such an effort couldn't even bring us a 686
> compiled .iso of the RH setup.
> 
> As I already stated, it would require someone else to organize the
> effort, though.
> 
> I'm aware that many people run Linux on 'old' hardware. I fully respect
> this need, which is somewhat proven by the fact that I intend to install
> RH6.1 on a few 486's laying around (when I find the time for it) and I
> agree that there should be a 386 compatible distro available. Still,
> nobody(?) *buys* a 386 or 486 system today.
> 
> Regards
> Gustav
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RE: [Q] Big Brother Web Browser Logging

[Chris Dowling]

Well, webboy is written by a software company called NDG software 
(www.ndgsoftware.com). webboy is designed specifically for monitoring web traffic. 
they've got some other apps to, all in the interests of network maintenence.

about the invisable proxy stuff, I'm not sure. I haven't tried it (yet, it is a 
project for the crissy break). I believe that there is a howto about the specifics, 
but I'm sure that you can achieve it with any old proxy software (eg: squid) and 
ipchains. It seems that all you need to do is to redirect all traffic (bar that coming 
from the proxy host itself) going out on port 80 to the the listening port of the 
proxy. All that is required then is to view the proxy logs to see what ppl are looking 
at (tail -f works well).

chris dowling.

Jake wrote:
CD> Hi Jake.  There's a nice winblows app written by some friends of mine
CD> called Webboy which might interest you...

Available where?  Which does what?
CD> Another alternative is to set up an invisible proxy somewhere on your
CD> network and use the logs from that to track what everyone is
CD> doing. If you don't have the space to set up a proxy then you may be
CD> able to just have a redirecting proxy or something... dunno.

Can you give me some more specifics?  What proxy would I use?  Does squid do
this or is that something else entirely?

CD> that's all that comes to mind at the moment...

Thanks!

no charge!

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RE: Anyone try Corel Linux

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Juha Saarinen wrote:

> > Also, the kernel in Rawhide does not patch the Makefiles to compile with
> > -mpentiumpro -march=i686 when arch == i686 (stability is more important
> > than speed for releases).
> 
> If I get the source for it, can I make it do that...?

Sure - edit the CFLAGS settings in /usr/src/linux/Makefile and
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Makefile.
You'll probably want to remove the -fno-strength-reduce from
arch/i386/Makefile as well as adding the other flags -
-fno-strength-reduce is no longer required with anywhere near recent
versions of gcc/egcs.

For my own kernel, I'm using gcc 2.95.2 with the flags
-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math
-fstrict-aliasing -mpentiumpro -march=i686

(This is optimizing for speed, possibly at the cost of stability. Works
for me, but I hardly ever have an uptime of > 2 days (I tend to update the
kernel often...))

LLaP
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RE: Anyone try Corel Linux

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Juha Saarinen wrote:

> Hmmm... thanks, but do your modules compile OK? Mine seem to do so (ie. no
> error messages during compile time) but at boot-up, I get the dreaded
> "unresolved symbols" errors.

I haven't built many modules lately (just the ones I'm using myself - need
to save some CPU time if I want to "work" on anything other than waiting
for the computer to finish all those build processes. ;) ) - the ones I'm
building (3c59x, parport, parport_pc, lp, nfs, sound, sb, unix) don't have
any problems.
For what modules are you getting the errors?

> Merry Christmas, btw!

To you (and the others on the list) too, btw. ;)

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Re: C language IDE for linux?

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote:

> I would like to know which would be the best IDE (integrated
> developement enviroment for c)  that I could use to learn c programming
> under the linux operating system.

If you have no previous experience, you'll probably want to look at
KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/). It's included in the Red Hat
PowerTools.

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Re: OT: Anyone try Corel Linux

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Frank Rocco wrote:

> I was told that the debian distribution is more stable that the others.

A common legend, if you ask me. Debian is very stable. So are most other
distributions (haven't had to reboot my Red Hat Linux box for anything
other than kernel updates for ages).

Right now, the latest stable release of Debian is pretty much outdated
(still using glibc 2.0 etc), which is IMO a problem (bugfixes not making
it in), so if you decide to give Debian a try, you're probably better off
picking the "unstable" version.

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Re: gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Charles Galpin wrote:

> I'm trying to build an rpm (spruce) that requires a script called
> gtk-config that is supposed to be installed by GTK. I don't have it on
> my system.
> 
> What rpm do I need?

gtk+-devel.

You'll also want to make sure you have installed glib-devel, glibc-devel
and XFree86-devel.

LLAP
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Re: no acceptable cc error

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Daniel Goldin wrote:

> When I atempted to build xemacs, I got an error saying "no acceptable
> cc."
> 
> Do I really not have cc on my 6.1 machine?

Depends on what you chose to install. Make sure you instaed at least:

egcs
egcs-c++
glibc-devel
cpp

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Re: named caching

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:

> Other than rebooting, how to I clear out the named cache?  I am running
> the stock RH6.0 /etc/named.conf.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart

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Re: no acceptable cc error

[lloy0076]

David finds it totally irresistable...


> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Daniel Goldin wrote:
> 
> > When I atempted to build xemacs, I got an error saying "no acceptable
> > cc."

So you can say no, eh?

DAVID


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Re: Has anyone gotten these unsupported printers to work?

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Anthony E. Greene wrote:

> I need to get a printer from a local retail source and my choices are
> limited. The printers are all recent models and are not listed on the
> ghostscript 5.50 site. If anyone has gotten any of these to work, please let
> me know.

I don't know anything about them first-hand, but the printer database
lists some of them:

> Canon BJC-1000, 2000, 5100, 530, & 6000

1000: Neither known good nor known bad. Will probably work with bjc600
  driver.
2000: Works, but only at 360x360 DPI as opposed to 720x360. Use bjc600
  driver.
5100: Neither known good nor known bad; 5000, however, is known bad, and
  5100 seems to be its direct successor.
530:  Neither known good nor known bad. Will probably work with bjc600
  driver.
6000: Works, but only at 360x360 DPI. Use bjc600 driver.

> HP 697c

Works perfectly. Use cdj550 or cdj670 driver.

> Epson Sylus 640, 740, 850, 860, 900

640: Works perfectly, even at 1440x720 DPI. Uniprint driver.
740: Works perfectly. Uniprint driver.
850: Unknown, will probably work with uniprint driver.
860: Unknown, will probably work with uniprint driver.
900: Works at 720x720 DPI, use uniprint driver in stc500 mode.

> Lexmark 3200

This is listed as a WinPrinter (doesn't work at all).

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Re: 686 distro. [Was: What about Mandrake?]

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Gustav Schaffter wrote:

> I know that Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been working on
> this task before. He has defined a number of packages that had
> compilation problems and published the list on a page at the redhat
> site. Unfortunately, I've lost the URL for his page. Bernhard? Do you
> read this? Could you please provide us with your insights in this?

There are no compilation problems if you stick with egcs, but the i686
optimizations in egcs suck.
If you want real optimizations, you should use gcc 2.95.2 (or a 2.96 CVS
snapshot... 2.96 has much better optimizations, but will
(currently) generate broken code. 2.95.2 is stable.). - unfortunately,
some bad code doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.2. In most cases, the patches
are trivial though - I've put the ones I've built up at
http://people.redhat.com/bero/gcc295.

LLaP
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Re: gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Charles Galpin wrote:

> thanks for the quick response. That's what I expected, i was just hoping
> to avoid the ripple effect that would be caused since I can't seem to find
> the versions I need (in rpm format)
> 
> glibc-devel-2.1.1-6

You very probably have this already - you said you have XFree86-devel,
which IIRC requires glibc-devel.

> gtk+-devel-10-1.0.6-5

You don't need that. gtk+ 1.0.* is obsolete, and the output of configure
you sent clearly wanted 1.2.*.
Just gtk+-devel-1.2.something will do.

If you need gtk+ 1.0.* for something else, you're looking for the wrong
filename - it's gtk+10-devel-1.0.6-5.

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Re: What about Mandrake?

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Gustav Schaffter wrote:

> I have understood that Mandrake is compiled for 686, right?

586 actually.

> I could of course recompile everything from the RH6.1 SRPMs to get it
> 686 optimized, but what a mess. I just don't find time for that.

But that'll give you the optimizations you want (i686).
If you want more speed at the cost of some compatibility (different
libstdc++), you'll want to upgrade to gcc 2.95.2 (rawhide) before
recompiling.

LLaP
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