Re: [SLUG] remote control
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Marko Denev wrote: I would like to be able to remote control my linux box. I'm thinking of You mean remote access? That was the norm in the old days when everybody used a terminal to share a unix server. So it works well. either just telnet to it or using some other software such as PC Anywhere on the Wintel platform ( have not decided on this option as yet). Dont use telnet - its very insecure with passwords sent in clear-text. You want 'ssh', which has win-dos clients such as putty. Of course, X-windows has always worked over a network. Or use VNC. Anyway my question is is there a how-to or a man document that explains how to enable telnet to my linux box. I know it will be handled on port 23 but I man -k telnet? Just install the telnet daemon, and RTM. But DONT. Install ssh instead. don't remember how to invoke the telnet software/daemon. I hope this Its normally invoked from the /etc/inetd.conf mechanism. -- The human race is faced with a cruel choice - work or daytime television -- Dave Barry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] A library to render to raster bitmaps?
Hey all, I'm after a library which can turn arbitary commands like moveto(), lineto(), drawTextOverThere() et al into bitmaps in memory... Is anyone aware of anything like this? Thanks, Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UMT+11hrs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.1 installation problem
- Original Message - From: S Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 7:36 AM Subject: [SLUG] Redhat 7.1 installation problem Hi I bought the Linux minibook from PC World (see www.idg.com.au). It came with CDs that included Redhat 7.1. I tried to install Redhat 7.1 from those CDs on my PC but it did not prompt me to install LILO. My harddisk has several partitions, the primary partition has Win98 and I have created partitions for Linux and Linux swap on extended / logical partition before the installation. Am I missing something? How do I install LILO after I install Linux? This is my first time to touch Linux. Thanks in advance. Lee Use Your red hat rescue disk to boot linux login as root and type lilo should see some thing like %added linux* %added dos the * is the default when you have fixed this see the lilo HOW TO for some tips. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.1 installation problem
- Original Message - From: S Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 7:36 AM Subject: [SLUG] Redhat 7.1 installation problem Hi I bought the Linux minibook from PC World (see www.idg.com.au). It came with CDs that included Redhat 7.1. I tried to install Redhat 7.1 from those CDs on my PC but it did not prompt me to install LILO. My harddisk has several partitions, the primary partition has Win98 and I have created partitions for Linux and Linux swap on extended / logical partition before the installation. Am I missing something? How do I install LILO after I install Linux? This is my first time to touch Linux. Thanks in advance. Lee More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug Lets try again sorry about the HTML Use Your red hat rescue disk to boot linux login as root and type lilo this will add lilo as your boot loader should see some thing like %added linux* %added dos the * is the default when you have fixed this see the lilo HOW TO for some tips. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] File Access on cdrom
G'Day Gang, I have files I want to access on a cdrom but don't seem to be able to list the contents with ls although cat gave me three and a half truck loads of gobbledegook so I figure the cdrom is mounted ok. I still don't have X working yet so this is all done from the command prompt. Can someone point me in the right direction please. TIA Kind Regards Dennis -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] File Access on cdrom
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 23:40, Dennis Curnow` wrote: G'Day Gang, I have files I want to access on a cdrom but don't seem to be able to list the contents with ls although cat gave me three and a half truck loads of gobbledegook so I figure the cdrom is mounted ok. I still don't have X working yet so this is all done from the command prompt. Can someone point me in the right direction please. I am going to take a stab in the dark. I think you might be accessing /dev/cdrom. If you are you have to mount the cdrom. On redhat you can 'mount /mnt/cdrom' (others such as debian are 'mount /cdrom' so try that as well). You then access the cd through the /mnt/cdrom directory. Once you have finshed with the cd get out of the /mnt/cdrom entirely and use the command 'eject /mnt/cdrom' to get the cd out again. /dev/cdrom is raw access to the CD, you are getting everything from the CD sequentially, including directories. If this is not your problem please post a sample ls command. Thanks KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] File Access on cdrom
- Original Message - From: Dennis Curnow` [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sydney Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:40 PM Subject: [SLUG] File Access on cdrom G'Day Gang, I have files I want to access on a cdrom but don't seem to be able to list the contents with ls although cat gave me three and a half truck loads of gobbledegook so I figure the cdrom is mounted ok. I still don't have X working yet so this is all done from the command prompt. Can someone point me in the right direction please. TIA Kind Regards Dennis try df to see if it is truly mounted you should see your cdrom in output Darren -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] strange users,groups and daemons
checking out users on the system through linuxconf user tinydns home directory=/var/djbdns (non-existent directory) command interpreter=/bin/true and user axfrdns home directory=/var/djbdns command interpreter=/bin/true looking at snort user home directory=/var/log/snort command interpreter=/bin/false looking through other users, it seems common to use /bin/false and /bin/true as command interpreters. Is this common ? Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] strange users,groups and daemons
quote who=Christopher Booth looking through other users, it seems common to use /bin/false and /bin/true as command interpreters. Is this common ? It is a common thing to do when the accounts should never be used for login. Both /bin/false and /bin/true return immediately, doing nothing, so drop straight back to the login prompt even if you do manage to somehow get past the login prompt for those accounts. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] broken cvs on woody
I updated on Debian woody and CVS is broken: ? nas/unxlngi3.pro cvs: lock.c:177: lock_name: Assertion `(__extension__ (__builtin_constant_p ( strlen (CVSroot_directory)) more of the assertion is snipped. How do I report these errors? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] broken cvs on woody
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:40:47AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I updated on Debian woody and CVS is broken: ? nas/unxlngi3.pro cvs: lock.c:177: lock_name: Assertion `(__extension__ (__builtin_constant_p ( strlen (CVSroot_directory)) more of the assertion is snipped. How do I report these errors? First, check http://bugs.debian.org/cvs to see if this bug has already been reported. If not, install reportbug, type reportbug cvs, and include the *full* *text* of the assertion. -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] StevenK *sigh* 3 minutes to download 300Kb. * StevenK encorages his download TO HURRY THE FUCK UP. mrjazzman StevenK: u're on ihug bandwidth what do you want StevenK I could get out and push faster, for fucks sake. msg21872/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SLUG] BIND / Network connection
Hi Sluggers, Firstly, appologies for mail client, I'm currently without a Linux Desktop. I was wondering if anyone knows how to bind a program to a particular IP for outgoing communications? Specifically I am setting up Bind as a secondary DNS and it's grabbing zone info from a master server.. The master is a Win2k box that is set to accept zone request info from domain only. For each of the 3 domains he's set the ns2 (the linux box) to be a different ip so that when reverse lookups are set up it will only show the relevant domain). I've scoured the web and I've found doco's on how to run multiple instances of bind and to set each to listen to a certain ip. This is all great but it doesn't set the src ip of any requests it makes to be the ip it listens to. So what happens is that although the linux box has eth0 and 18 aliased ip's on eth0 (ie eth0:0 - eth0:17) whenever it tries to grab the zone info from ns1 all the win2k box see's is the eth0 ip. I hope this makes sense as I'm not 100% sure if this is the most easily understandable explaination.. I guess essentially what I'm trying to acheive is to spoof the ip address like nmap can do.. I was wondering if ipchains might have been the answer.. because the ns1 for each domain has a different ip and I was wondering if there is a rewrite ip header ability where if dest ip = ns1.domain1 then rewrite src ip to ns2.domain1. Is any of this possible or am Iasking for things that shouldn't be? I'd prefer it if there is an ipchains/ tables solution rather than a multiple instance of bind solution as that way there's just 1 instance of bind running and hence there aren't the performance overheads to contend with. Thanks in advance. Paul
Re: [SLUG] BIND / Network connection
quote who=Paul Robinson Firstly, appologies for mail client, I'm currently without a Linux Desktop. I was wondering if anyone knows how to bind a program to a particular IP for outgoing communications? Specifically I am setting up Bind as a secondary DNS and it's grabbing zone info from a master server.. The master is a Win2k box that is set to accept zone request info from domain only. For each of the 3 domains he's set the ns2 (the linux box) to be a different ip so that when reverse lookups are set up it will only show the relevant domain). As it happens, I asked a similar question a week or so ago, but with one crucial difference: I just wanted requests to come from the primary IP, not any of the aliases. If you can change your config around to accommodate that, then you can use dummy interfaces instead of aliases (as suggested by Jess). That's all I needed, and I certainly didn't want to go to the trouble of a more complicated solution for that. If you can't, or don't want to do it that way, the best solution is iproute2. You can set up a rule that will do the funky routing that you require. A good intro is the Advanced Routing Howto: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html - Jeff -- I used the word 'infrastructure' when describing her cooking style... and she didn't speak to me for a week. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] RedHat Update Service
Is anyone here using the RedHat online update service? I signed up for it some time ago with the license from a CD purchased in one of those pocket book publications. It worked so well that when I went to set up a server for a local community group I went to their new online RedHat Network section of their web site and paid $US60 for the same thing I got for free with the $20 CD mentioned above. I thought at the time that it was odd to pay $A120 for something that came with a cheap CD but hey, I was in a hurry and I don't mind supporting good work anyway. We can only expect so much for free and I've been with RH for many years now (yes, that's flame bait for those of you who are bored). Anyway, a few months ago I noticed that my subscription had changed to two servers using the Basic service to one server on Basic and the other on a new Workgroup offering. I didn't think too much of it as I rarely use the web site as I do all the updating from the client side command line. After recent discussions with their sales people (which took over a month for them to contact me, and then only after a complaint) I discovered that they have been charging me $US20 a month for this new service when I had only paid for a one-off $US60. That's about $A480 a year for something that came for free with a CD not long ago. Not to mention the issue of billing someone's credit card without permission. I cry foul! I've been faxed the invoices but no proof of the original order. They have stated that they will refund my money but they have yet to explain to me why anyone would pay this in the first place when you can get the service for free upon purchasing a CD at any newsagent? Strikes me as a very odd way to do business. So heads up about the service and I'd be most interested to hear from anyone else who is using it. Cheers. ~~~ darrell@home -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Changing source address
One of those tricky routing things. I'm trying to work out f it is possible to do the following using iproute. Setup is as follows adsl0: 203.62.148.1/30 ipsec0: 203.62.148.1/30 eth0: 192.168.0.1/24 routes: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 203.62.148.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0 00 adsl0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 192.168.2.0 203.62.148.2255.255.255.0 U 0 00 ipsec0 0.0.0.0 203.62.148.20.0.0.0 U 0 00 adsl0 Now the problem is I only have the one IPSEC tunnel set up 192.168.0.0/24 - 192.168.2.0/24 which means the subnets can talk to each other but this linux box can't talk to the 192.168.2.0/24 subnet. Normally you would setup a new tunnel as so 203.62.148.1/32 - 192.168.2.0/24 but unfortunatley I can't. Now if I use hping2 to change the source address of ping packets as so hping2 --icmp -a 192.168.0.1 192.168.2.20 I can ping things fine. So what I want to be able to do is whenever traffic goes down ipsec0 I want to change my source address from 203.62.148.1 to 192.168.0.1. I think it is possible to do this with iproute but I'm not quite sure how. Also a bit difficult to test since the said linux box is in Melbourne and I;ve already managed to muck up the routing on it so I can't talk to it :) I was thinking of doing seomthing like the folowing but not sure if it's right. ip rule add prio 320 from 203.62.148.1 nat 192.168.0.1 dev ipsec0 I seem to be missing something else. Has anyone ever done anything like this is there a better way. NB 2.2 kernel so no iptables shenanigans :) -- John http://www.inodes.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RedHat Update Service
Darrell Burkey wrote:
...snip...
So heads up about the service and I'd be most interested to hear from anyone
else who is using it.
Basically, you can sign up one system for free, the rest/extra you have
to pay for. In my case, I signed up an unimportant system with
everything installed (then switched it all off). This gets you a
notification email service. What you do after that is up to you.
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[SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.
hi guys i'm running debian testing, though i have moved to the 2.4.14 kernel in order to get ext3. gdm runs at startup and i log into X. then if i try to switch to a virtual console using Ctl-Alt-F1 it works but trying to get back to X or any other virtual console results in a blank screen and nothing brings either X or a virtual console back. maybe this is related to a problem i have in that gdm sometimes doesn't start properly upon bootup, leaving me with a blank screen and trying to switch to a virtual console doesn't work. gdm usually runs fine after a reboot. there is nothing in the log files after one of these crashes. any ideas? thanks marty -- Skirwan - And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream... [1] talonyx - I really need to stop reading Slashdot while on codeiene... [2] [1] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113144 [2] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113355 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.
quote who=Martin gdm runs at startup and i log into X. then if i try to switch to a virtual console using Ctl-Alt-F1 it works but trying to get back to X or any other virtual console results in a blank screen and nothing brings either X or a virtual console back. What's your video card? - Jeff -- World domination is a community responsibility. - Michael Hall, LinuxPlanet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.
$author = Jeff Waugh ; gdm runs at startup and i log into X. then if i try to switch to a virtual console using Ctl-Alt-F1 it works but trying to get back to X or any other virtual console results in a blank screen and nothing brings either X or a virtual console back. What's your video card? S3 Trio output of lspci -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c368 [Trio 3D/2X] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: S3 Inc. Trio3D/2X Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 Memory at d400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0 marty -- Skirwan - And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream... [1] talonyx - I really need to stop reading Slashdot while on codeiene... [2] [1] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113144 [2] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113355 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.
quote who=Martin $author = Jeff Waugh ; What's your video card? S3 Trio Ouch. :-) X3 or X4? - Jeff -- Odd is good by the way. I knew normal in high school and normal hates me. - Mary Gardiner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.
$author = Jeff Waugh ; S3 Trio Ouch. :-) X3 or X4? the full thing on the chip is Trio3D/2X i can't see any other markings to indicate what board it is or any more info on the chipset... marty -- Skirwan - And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream... [1] talonyx - I really need to stop reading Slashdot while on codeiene... [2] [1] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113144 [2] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113355 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Martin wrote: $author = Jeff Waugh ; Ouch. :-) X3 or X4? the full thing on the chip is Trio3D/2X What version of X are you running? -- Jessica Mayo. ( also found 2X vs X3/X4 cryptic. :) (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.
$author = Jessica Mayo ; What version of X are you running? a... rainbows! XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 also found 2X vs X3/X4 cryptic. :) yeah, i wasn't on jeff's wavelength... :) marty -- Skirwan - And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream... [1] talonyx - I really need to stop reading Slashdot while on codeiene... [2] [1] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113144 [2] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113355 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Satellite Connections
Just wondering if anybody has had any experiance with satellite broadband? I snigger want /snigger a two-way satellite connection, but have only found offerings by telstra at the moment (http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/satellite/2wayPricing.asp). The price is pretty steep and I am unable to get cable or ADSL broadband services out here in regional australia (Forster). I have a group of friends that would like broadband as well and are interested in going into a co-op type group for our access using 802.11b to distribute the bandwidth. Because the access is so high on a two-way satellite I was wondering if I also got a one-way sat (http://www.bigpond.com/broadband/satellite/pricing.asp, http://www.nobbys.net.au/meteor/plans.htm) Like the Meteor Leo, that has a 2 Mbps download speed, if i was able to use the two-way for sending requests, and the one-way (without using dialup, because we have shocking phone lines out here) AND the two-way to receive requests, with the one-way being the preference, and the two-way being used as a backup when we fill the one-way? I would also like to keep track of how much traffic each user generates through the gateway (user auth?), but not keep track of local internal traffic. any comments? (or anybody know of any cheeper two-way or one-way?) Regards, Karl Some pest with high hopes Bowden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] I dream in #!/bin/bash (splitting a diff patch)
I was looking at UML this morning. I wanted a Win32 port.
I downloaded the patch to the latest stable 2.4 kernel.
[ done while looking over the LINE 0.5 code (think Lin4Win :) ]
But I'll never get started with distractions like these...
... I wanted to look at said patch file in a non-linear fashion. :)
It contains diffs for a large number of files in the kernel tree, and I
wanted an overall picture, not the line-by-line view I was getting.
I wanted to extract those diffs into their proper tree, without patching.
... enter grep.
I could grep for all lines containing 'diff'. That would show me all
modified/added files, but looking up more detail was still tedious.
... enter a monster... :)
cat uml-patch-2_4_18-10 | {
while read LINE; do
set -- $LINE
if [ $1 = diff ]; then
echo
while [ $2 ]; do shift; done
FILE=$1.diff
if [ -e $FILE ]; then
echo skipping $FILE
FILE=
else
echo creating $FILE
mkdirhier `dirname $FILE`
fi
fi
echo -n .
[ $FILE ] echo $LINE $FILE
done
}
... enter bright idea
. o O (Maybe someone else wants to do this)
. o O (If I post it to slug, it'll pop up in the archive search...)
... footnote
I used set/shift to set the args and pick out the first/last words so bash
didn't have to spawn a subprocess. I normally would've used 'cut', but
doing it for every line slowed things down a lot.
... apologies
This was probably a waste of bandwidth.
There's probably a proper tool somewhere to do the job.
Yes, I'm sure scripting in ZSH could've done it better. :-P
-- Jessica Mayo.
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[SLUG] newbie Q's
Hi listers, just installed mandrake 8.2 on my laptop, the furthest progress on linux I've made so far after departing from slackware. was tinkering around and few newbie questions that cropped up I hope wouldn't take up much of your time, mind you that some questions would seem trivial. 1) when gnome is loading, a beep is emitted. yet, when trying to play an audio cd a wav file, no sound is heard. peeked into rpmdrake, and found gnome-audio package is installed. so where should I go poking next? 2) There're 3 other pc's using Win2k, and had some partitions shared. How do I access those shared partitions? What program do I use specifically? Do I simply mount them just like cdrom? 3) There's a black square-ish black box at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. What's that for? 4) Was tinkering around and add a clock panel. had it removed, instead of the rest of the icons filling up the empty space, it seems as if there's a ghost copy, thus gaps. how do I remove those gaps? 5) how do I mount a NTFS volume created by W2k, that's residing on the same hdd? 6) does licq able to use the data files used by windows version of icq2001b? 7) does Galeon able to use the mail data file created by windows versionn of Netscape 6.2? 8) I'm using a broadband router. The manual deals with Windows only and had instructions to fill in the address of DNS servers and the DNS suffix for this connection field under windows. Is there such equivalent field under linux? How do I add such entries? 9) Upon starting Gnome, it complains of my host isn't a valid entry. Does it refers the host as the name of this pc? I'd put in nsw.bigpond.net.au thinking that it's referring to DNS suffix. Obviously I'm wrong. 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right? Thank in advance. Rgds, H T Wijaya -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] newbie Q's
quote who=Henry T Wijaya 1) when gnome is loading, a beep is emitted. yet, when trying to play an audio cd a wav file, no sound is heard. peeked into rpmdrake, and found gnome-audio package is installed. so where should I go poking next? In the Control Centre, under Multimedia, then Sound. Make sure Enable sound server at startup is checked. 2) There're 3 other pc's using Win2k, and had some partitions shared. How do I access those shared partitions? What program do I use specifically? Do I simply mount them just like cdrom? Kinda, but like this: mount -t smbfs //windowsmachine/share /mnt 3) There's a black square-ish black box at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. What's that for? Not sure. Screenshot? (Please pop it up on a website, not attached to your email to the list.) 4) Was tinkering around and add a clock panel. had it removed, instead of the rest of the icons filling up the empty space, it seems as if there's a ghost copy, thus gaps. how do I remove those gaps? Middle-drag the other applets and icons along the panel. 5) how do I mount a NTFS volume created by W2k, that's residing on the same hdd? NTFS under Linux is pretty unstable. You can mount it read-only with the ntfs module, though. Same as anything else, you just have to specify the filesystem type: mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /mnt 6) does licq able to use the data files used by windows version of icq2001b? No. 7) does Galeon able to use the mail data file created by windows versionn of Netscape 6.2? Galeon doesn't handle your mail, it's just a web browser. You'll have to use Mozilla, and I believe it can use the mail files you use under Windows. 8) I'm using a broadband router. The manual deals with Windows only and had instructions to fill in the address of DNS servers and the DNS suffix for this connection field under windows. Is there such equivalent field under linux? How do I add such entries? /etc/resolv.conf: search nsw.bigpond.net.au nameserver ip.address.of.nameserver nameserver ip.address.of.nameserver 9) Upon starting Gnome, it complains of my host isn't a valid entry. Does it refers the host as the name of this pc? I'd put in nsw.bigpond.net.au thinking that it's referring to DNS suffix. Obviously I'm wrong. You'll need to add an entry to your /etc/hosts file. 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right? Generally, no. - Jeff -- Broken hearts rarely come with Some Assembly Required stickers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] newbie Q's
Jeff Waugh was once rumoured to have said: quote who=Henry T Wijaya 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right? Generally, no. Unless you want to install it properly[1]. As root, use: setup /net This puts a shared installation onto your system. Then log as your user, and run setup from the path you installed StarOffice into previously, and it'll install the user specific data into your home directory. C. [1] I don't believe in user-local software installation, especially for something as large as staroffice. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] newbie Q's
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:24, Henry T Wijaya wrote: Hi listers, just installed mandrake 8.2 on my laptop, the furthest progress on linux I've made so far after departing from slackware. was tinkering around and few newbie questions that cropped up I hope wouldn't take up much of your time, mind you that some questions would seem trivial. Thats what we're here for ;-) 1) when gnome is loading, a beep is emitted. yet, when trying to play an audio cd a wav file, no sound is heard. peeked into rpmdrake, and found gnome-audio package is installed. so where should I go poking next? Sound in gnome is done through a daemon called ESD (no comments on its efficency are requested or required!). You can go to a command prompt and type ps -ef | egrep esd You should see something like this tgreen@cavey:~$ ps -ef | egrep esd tgreen1018 1 0 Mar22 ?00:00:00 esd -nobeeps This means that user tgreen (me) is running esd. If its not running, make sure you're in the right group (audio on debian, I'm not sure about 'drake. Then check that you have 'Enable sound server at startup' turned on in the Gnome Control Center and restart your session (logout/login). You may also want to check that you have the volume turned up on the mixer (I know you got beeps, but the mixer settings may get clobbered during your session startup. 2) There're 3 other pc's using Win2k, and had some partitions shared. How do I access those shared partitions? What program do I use specifically? Do I simply mount them just like cdrom? You need to use a package called samba. There are a lot of howto's out there on this, but to give you an overview mount -t smbfs -o username=tgreen,passwd=mypass //windowsbox/windows share /mnt (the above is all one command) That should give you a place to start. If you get an error about smbfs not supported, check you have the samba package. 3) There's a black square-ish black box at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. What's that for? Possible load/network monitor (I have two, do they look like the ones in http://bandcamp.tv/misc/screenshots.html ?) If not, perhaps you could email ME (not the list) a screenshot 4) Was tinkering around and add a clock panel. had it removed, instead of the rest of the icons filling up the empty space, it seems as if there's a ghost copy, thus gaps. how do I remove those gaps? Right click on the applet and select 'move' (I think middle button works too). you can then slide them around. 5) how do I mount a NTFS volume created by W2k, that's residing on the same hdd? NTFS (if I remember correctly) is an experimental kernel option and is available as read only or as read write (I think writing was UBER dangerous last time I looked). Don't know if the options you need will be compiled into the default kernel (read only maybe, I doubt if r/w will). Try (If your NT partition is the first partition on your IDE drive) mount -t /dev/hda1 /mnt 6) does licq able to use the data files used by windows version of icq2001b? Eer, don't know about that one. I use gaim (you might like it too), it has plugins for MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, IRC etc etc etc 7) does Galeon able to use the mail data file created by windows versionn of Netscape 6.2? Galeon doesn't have a mail subsystem in it, mozilla (the grunt behind galeon) does and AFAIK it uses the same mail formats as the windows version (or it used to at least) 8) I'm using a broadband router. The manual deals with Windows only and had instructions to fill in the address of DNS servers and the DNS suffix for this connection field under windows. Is there such equivalent field under linux? How do I add such entries? In the file /etc/resolv.conf, you need to put entries in like this search this.domain.au nameserver ip.of.name.server 9) Upon starting Gnome, it complains of my host isn't a valid entry. Does it refers the host as the name of this pc? I'd put in nsw.bigpond.net.au thinking that it's referring to DNS suffix. Obviously I'm wrong. You could be missing an entry in your hosts file (/etc/hosts). The entry should match your machines name (try the hostname command) 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right? If you want to do a multiuser install then you need to login as root and run 'setup /net' (I think). This will install the base system and allow 'normal' users to do workstation installs (at about 10mb). phew, is that it Let us know how you get on. Greeno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] iptables DNAT help required
Sluggers, I'm playing around with DNAT on iptables but whenever I try to put the rule in I just get an error Invalid argument. I've looked at a number of examples on the net and they all seem to be doing the same thing that I am. Does anyone know if there is a version problem? I've got kernel 2.4.7-10 and iptables 1.2.3-1 Basically I want to have my firewall allow http traffic through from the outside world to a linux box on the internal net but this is what happens.. # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 0/0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.99 iptables: Invalid argument Cluesticks? Thanks Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] newbie Q's
At 6:30 pm, Sunday, March 24 2002, Henry T Wijaya mumbled: just installed mandrake 8.2 on my laptop, the furthest progress on linux I've made so far after departing from slackware. was tinkering around and few newbie questions that cropped up I hope wouldn't take up much of your time, mind you that some questions would seem trivial. 1) when gnome is loading, a beep is emitted. yet, when trying to play an audio cd a wav file, no sound is heard. peeked into rpmdrake, and found gnome-audio package is installed. so where should I go poking next? See if: 1) a module is loaded for your sound card. (Not really needed, as I'm not sure about Mandrake's kernel config.) 2) Can you 'cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp' and hear something like white noise? 3) Is esound running? (ps aux | grep es) 2) There're 3 other pc's using Win2k, and had some partitions shared. How do I access those shared partitions? What program do I use specifically? Do I simply mount them just like cdrom? Well, it depends on what kind of partition Win2k is using. If it's just vfat, you can just mount it, but NTFSv5 is more of a problem. 5) how do I mount a NTFS volume created by W2k, that's residing on the same hdd? Oh crap, answered my own question. You can't really, as the code for mounting NTFS partitions is really flaky. I haven't really keep up to date with the situation, but my feeling is that you can't mount NTFSv5, but can mount NTFSv4. 6) does licq able to use the data files used by windows version of icq2001b? No, they are completely incompatible. 7) does Galeon able to use the mail data file created by windows versionn of Netscape 6.2? I doubt it. 8) I'm using a broadband router. The manual deals with Windows only and had instructions to fill in the address of DNS servers and the DNS suffix for this connection field under windows. Is there such equivalent field under linux? How do I add such entries? The DNS servers, and DNS suffix are put in a file called resolv.conf: steven@broken:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search wedontsleep.org nameserver 192.168.66.1 nameserver 192.168.66.4 9) Upon starting Gnome, it complains of my host isn't a valid entry. Does it refers the host as the name of this pc? I'd put in nsw.bigpond.net.au thinking that it's referring to DNS suffix. Obviously I'm wrong. No idea, sorry. 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right? StarOffice is a special case. From memory, you need to do an install of StarOffice, and then install it yourself as an ordinary user. Thank in advance. No problem! -- Steve ElectricElf Anyone have a favorite low-overhead remote filesystem protocol? (NFS and Samba are, of course, options) DanielS ElectricElf: it's like asking what is the least painful method of castration involving a rusty fishing wire msg21893/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] iptables DNAT help required
Peter Rundle was once rumoured to have said: Sluggers, I'm playing around with DNAT on iptables but whenever I try to put the rule in I just get an error Invalid argument. I've looked at a number of examples on the net and they all seem to be doing the same thing that I am. Does anyone know if there is a version problem? I've got kernel 2.4.7-10 and iptables 1.2.3-1 Basically I want to have my firewall allow http traffic through from the outside world to a linux box on the internal net but this is what happens.. # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 0/0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.99 iptables: Invalid argument Cluesticks? s/POSTROUTING/PREROUTING/ DNAT has to be applied before a routing decision is made so the packets can be routed correctly. C. -- --==-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
