re: getting serial ports on STB4COM UP

2003-01-19 Thread Alan Womack
>> Alan -- In your kernel, have you compiled in support for serial ports >> sharing interrupts? It's an option (in "make menuconfig") under >> Character Devices >> Extended dumb serial options >> Support for sharing serial interrupts >> The fact that you have problems only on a port

getting serial ports on STB4COM UP

2003-01-18 Thread Alan Womack
after a few weeks hiatus, I am making another attempt at getting the last three serial ports of my STB4COM online. My system: LFS 3.3 Amptron 9100C STB 4Com 4 port ISA serial board I have ttyS00 on the motherboard working perfectly: alan@webby:alan $ setserial -a /dev/ttyS00 /dev/ttyS00, Line

re: Perl

2002-12-04 Thread Alan Womack
> How can I make this assignment in one statement. I know its going to be something easy. $path=$5; $path=~s/ /\\ /g; < won't $path=$5=~s/ /\\ /g; work? maybe have to put () around the $5=~, but I think it will work without that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: Trouble with serial ports

2002-11-03 Thread Alan Womack
>> > The STB 4Com card came to me used, I have attempted to set the card up >> in a manner as such: >> > >> > setserial /dev/ttyS04 baud_base 9600 irq 15 port 0x03E8 ^fourport >> ^skip_test >> > setserial /dev/ttyS03 baud_base 9600 irq 15 port 0x02F8 ^fourport >> ^skip_test >> > set

Re: Trouble with serial ports

2002-11-03 Thread Alan Womack
;m drawn to the difference between the first STB 4Com >> port and the others in your configuration. >> At 08:25 AM 11/3/02 -0800, Alan Womack wrote: >> >I have a chance to get back to this issue, it appears actually that none >> >of the STB 4Com ports are

Re: Trouble with serial ports

2002-11-03 Thread Alan Womack
I have a chance to get back to this issue, it appears actually that none of the STB 4Com ports are working "correctly" I can get some "data" from od -v /dev/ttyS01 but it is a file of ^@ the control character and the longer I leave it up the more it gets whether data is being sent or not. I hav

re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread Alan Womack
>> Seems a >> shame >> to have this bandwidth knocking about unused. Try a google search on shutgun internet access, a modem manufacturer a few years ago came out with a kit to use two dialup modems to get 106K access. You might find something that way. There basically has to be a layer

e2fs hosed?

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Womack
[root@Webby root]# e2fsck -b 131073 /dev/hdb e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an

Trouble with serial ports

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Womack
OK, made a loop back cable. Works great on the windows box, fast and accurate. On the linux box it's INCREDIBLY slow, makes 300 baud look blazing. Take like 2 hours to print the whole dmesg: cat dmesg (I have it saved to a file) >/dev/ttyS01 on second terminal od -v /dev/ttyS01 nothing is

Is there a way to "test" a serial

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Womack
port with a mouse attached outside of X? I have a linuxfromscratch 3.3 system with console and SVGAlib installed only. I have installed a 4 port STB card and am now trying to get my mouse going for links on port 1 which I have run setserial on and I think I have the correct information, but t

re: RAID was: Samba Mount File Corruption

2002-10-09 Thread Alan Womack
I assume you are using them in a raid, are you using an IDE controller, if so which one or are you using RAID within the kernel itself. e.g. software only raid. > (resolution note:) Instead, we got four of the 120G devices, and ended up spending $600 for for 480 G instead of $500 for 320 G. I

re: Large FTP transfers

2002-09-29 Thread Alan Womack
In similar situations I have had cards which are not fully engaged into the slot when they are screwed down. I've had, on occassion had to push the motherboard up from the back side (with power off of course), and had to remove the guard for the card and just leave it unsecured to the case. A

re: Proxy

2002-09-20 Thread &#x27;Alan Womack'
As Ray said, it can be a piece. I have in my Linux server, which started as a Redhat machine and become a LinuxFromScratch machine because I was frustrated not knowing enough about the internals of linux. I have two network cards in my machine: eth0 is connected to my DSL modem eth1 is connec

re: Proxy

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Womack
I am using squid for this now, I also understand Squidguard goes further and has abilities to download maintained lists of approved and disapproved sites from a central server on the web. e.g. other people say what is approved/disapproved.. > I want to be able to have all web traffic filter th

How do I do a surface scan of a CDROM?

2002-09-12 Thread Alan Womack
badblocks won't run because it's a read only medium. I believe my kids have scratched the disk on a particular file, but I would like to run a full surface scan of the cd to see if it gets read sometimes, but not others. Thanks Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: ssh error message

2002-09-08 Thread Alan Womack
Do you have the file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Please try running sshd from the command prompt. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please rea

re: ssh error message

2002-09-07 Thread Alan Womack
Can you post the portion of your log entries which show some details? You may have to turn on debugging features to get the output. >> when booting I get the following message: >> starting ssh: execvp: No such file or directory [failed] >> I uninstalled openssh, reinstalled, still I g

how long before a timeout on a cdrom drive error?

2002-09-04 Thread Alan Womack
I'm testing several CDrom's from an older server, I put a cd in the wrong drive and then tried to do: mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/scd2 /mnt/scd4 I am hung there.. I meant to be scd1 and the scd4 is correct as two are currently disconnected from the power supply awaiting another y cable. I have

re: SOLVED SAMBA unable to access the shares

2002-09-04 Thread Alan Womack
I discovered a couple of things digging in the prolific log files: user nobody is a really good idea smbpasswd needed a user of the same name as the share the valid users = I think negates the need for the second thing I found, but I'm not going to delete it since I have a user with the name of

SAMBA unable to access the shares

2002-09-03 Thread Alan Womack
I am having trouble getting samba to let me access the share I put on my LFS 3.3 box. attached is the dialog I get in windows. the following is my smb.conf root@webby:log# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = FAMILY # Put your own in here. netbios name = WEBBY server str

re: APM not rebooting or shutting down machine

2002-08-27 Thread Alan Womack
I have partially "fixed" the problem with APM by changing my 2.4.18 kernel to not use APM and to use ACPI. I am now able to reboot the machine with shutdown -r now. It did reboot just fine. The poweroff command stopped there, but a "three finger salute" caused it to reboot. Before I had to

APM and a fresh linux box

2002-08-21 Thread Alan Womack
I also tried, today a poweroff as root at the console, it resulted in the box stopping, but not turning off. Thoughts? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majo

re[2]: Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-16 Thread Alan Womack
Originally to: All This is "what" the line looks like: LLiinnuuxx--PPAAMM library there is a Ctrl-H between each duplicate pair of letters.. I think I can strip it with a perl script at work. $mystring=~/\cH.//g I think will do it, I'll read the whole file into an array and iterate through

Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-16 Thread Alan Womack
Originally to: All I'm trying to download the text manuals for the linux pam modules to my palm pilot, but there is the appearance of old style double strike for emphasis text all over the docs. e.g. a L(backspace)Li(backspace)in(backspace)n What utility to remove this backspacing and doubli

re[2]: Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-13 Thread Alan Womack
This is "what" the line looks like: LLiinnuuxx--PPAAMM library there is a Ctrl-H between each duplicate pair of letters.. I think I can strip it with a perl script at work. $mystring=~/\cH.//g I think will do it, I'll read the whole file into an array and iterate through and see what happens

Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-12 Thread Alan Womack
I'm trying to download the text manuals for the linux pam modules to my palm pilot, but there is the appearance of old style double strike for emphasis text all over the docs. e.g. a L(backspace)Li(backspace)in(backspace)n What utility to remove this backspacing and doubling of characters so t

re: Need some help getting DSL connected in

2002-07-01 Thread Alan Womack
I now have iptables up and running, the net connection is shared throughout the house again! Between your hints, a couple of files sent my a friend, some issues with the bash shell, some pam.d issues, and the ip masq howto it is working just fine. Next few days will try to figure out how to ti

re: Need some help getting DSL connected in

2002-07-01 Thread Alan Womack
It's not actually a DSL router, but just a DSL modem capable of being hooked to ethernet directly. My current hub only has 4 ports, and all 4 are in use before the modem arrived. The modem does indeed to nat and uses PPPoA encapsulation for it's VPN portion from my system to MSN via qwest.

Need some help getting DSL connected in

2002-06-29 Thread Alan Womack
Windows Internet Connection Sharing is giving me fits getting my DSL shared onto my private home network. I have 2 network cards in my linux server (redhat 7.2) Eth0 is set up as 192.168.0.5 Eth1 is set up as 192.168.0.6 My internal network is plugged into Eth1 and I am able to ping all my wi

Illegal user problem figured out

2002-06-27 Thread Alan Womack
I had posted about an illegal user problem I was having that I couldn't log in a user that existed in my /etc/shadow /etc/passwd and my ldap database. After nuking my pam.d directory and going to only pam_permit.so and STILL having the problem. I was able to find a little hint that perhaps ssh

problem with login

2002-06-26 Thread Alan Womack
Is there a way to check the results of each PAM module's result from the /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/login configuration files? I'm struggling with an in ability to log in while I get my ldap authentication going, but I don't know which layer is failing. The secure log isn't much

Failed none for illegal user lfs from 127.0.0.1 port 4664 ssh2

2002-06-24 Thread Alan Womack
I am working on adding a normal user on my Redhat 7.2 box. I also have openldap installed. I added a user using useradd -s /bin/bash -m lfs && passwd lfs then I also used the smbldap-useradd.pl script and added the same user. In passwd I have this now: lfs:x:1007:1007::/home/lfs:/bin/bash

re: SU and root login don't have proper permissions

2002-06-18 Thread Alan Womack
The ability and inability to log into my server as root or to su to root, appears to be random. Today when I returned home, I watched a shutdown -rF now check the file system and not make any complaints about the file system. It checked both /boot and /. I then logged in remotely to my accoun

re: SU and root login don't have proper permissions

2002-06-18 Thread Alan Womack
After doing a shutdown -rF now and watching the fsck run, there were no complaints about the file system logged to the console. Is there perhaps a log file that I need to look at to rule out the file system itself. I ran the rpm -Va and the results is below. As of yet I don't understand the f

re: remote login for Red Hat 7.2

2002-06-10 Thread Alan Womack
Two pieces I know of as a newbie: you need a client on the machine you are going to connect from, I use a windows machine so I use putty which is free and can be found with google easily enough. Then you need to have ssh running on your redhat box. You might try first logging in at the console

VIM syntax highlighting

2002-06-09 Thread Alan Womack
I want to enable syntax highlighting in my vim sessions, especially for perl. after reading several faqs I edited a perl file and then did :syntax on to which vim replied: sorry, this command is not implemented How can I tell if the syntax checking was disabled at compile time? Or if this m

re[2]: authentication issues

2002-06-08 Thread Alan Womack
Perhaps not meaningful but informative, I've cruise about the web, but finding do this and see this, do this and see this is missing for someone like myself who's unix,vms,linux experience is either so old as to not be specific enough or non existant. The method to check each layer would be in

authentication issues

2002-06-08 Thread Alan Womack
How can I tell if each layer of my authentication is working or not working? eg. how do I tell if I use/need shadow passwords? How do I tell if I have md5 and what encryption method it is using? I ask because when I enable my authconfig to use ldap, I can no longer log in, but there are severa

How to convert a MSDOS text file to Linux text file?

2002-05-31 Thread Alan Womack
I have a ldap base.ldif I made in windows, then via a samba share placed it on my linux box. A post up on the ldap list on another problem, suggested this can cause a problem due to the MSDOS LF CR (CR LF?) appended to each line vs the LF in unix land. What command line utility can I run on my