Linux-Misc Digest #813, Volume #18 Fri, 29 Jan 99 19:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: changing the server prompt (jamie)
How to Determine Max Possible Number of Files and Directories in a Filesystem?
(Daniel Beckham)
Re: linux max RAM is 1GB? (Dan Shechter)
Re: Trouble with 2.2 kernel (Shaygetz)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks ("Douglas Cook")
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Stuart R.
Fuller)
Re: when RedHat to ship 2.2.X? (Frank Hale)
Re: Looking for file recovery utility ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: ldd result question (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Database for LINUX (Redhat 5.0 or up) (Matthias Warkus)
Re: [Q] Bogo mips shrinked!? (Andy Mulhearn)
Re: Star office 5 problem (John Thompson)
hpfs (was Re: Zip disk) (John Thompson)
Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Queue 1.11 announcement] (Werner Krebs)
kernel 2.2.0 and too fast MIDI play (Glenn PM)
Re: Best version of Netscape 4.5 ("Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus")
Re: How to set RTS and DTR on serial port (Gregory Propf)
Re: Firewall? (Yan Seiner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jamie)
Subject: Re: changing the server prompt
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:43:45 -0600
Daddy Rabbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to change the server prompt so the pwd is displayed.
>I would appreciate an example.
>
>PS1=
export PS1='\h:$LOGNAME \w> '
This gives a prompt that tells you hostname (\h) who you're logged in as,
and pwd (\w)
My prompt using that looks like this:
bozo:jamie /usr/local/bin>
--
jamie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"There's a seeker born every minute."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Beckham)
Subject: How to Determine Max Possible Number of Files and Directories in a Filesystem?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:34:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I determine what the maximum number of files that can be stored in a
filesystem is? I'm thinking of a large filesystem... say, 100GB of usable
RAID5 storage.
This is what I've come up with:
The filesystem is using inodes with a 4K cluster size, so for 100GB that would
be roughly 26,214,400 clusters.
So, my question is since, each inode is a 4K cluster, you could have roughly
26 million files and directories records 4K in size, right?
Am I missing anything here? My company is running into a major problem with
Netware, in that Netware has a limit to the number of directories it can have
in a filesystem. No matter how large the volume is. Is there a limit
like this with ext2?
Thank you for any help you might be able to give,
Regards,
Daniel Beckham
Mortgage Information Services, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:04:28 +0200
From: Dan Shechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: linux max RAM is 1GB?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <78m19r$sn2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> > For some reason that I don't remember I believe that the 32 bits, although
> > theoretically capable of addressing 4GB, can only really address 2GB. But
> > shouldn't this be actually 2G"words" (32 or 64 bits wide?)
> >
> >
> Actually, Intel processors allow you to access memory bytes individually, so
> restricting the memory to 2^32 bytes.
Actually, Intel processors allow you to access 2^36 bytes, on pentium
pro's & pentium II.
If I'm not mistaken.
>
> Hugo
>
Shechter.
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From: Shaygetz <"s m c q u a l e"@i x.n e t c o m.c o m>
Subject: Re: Trouble with 2.2 kernel
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:18:34 -0500
Dan Nguyen wrote:
>
>
> Did you run lilo after you copied your zImage?
This is slightly off the topic, but I had a strange
experience yesterday when I compiled and installed
the new kernel (2.2.0).
I copied my new zImage up to root directory, changing its
name to /vmlinuz, and in the process effectively "overwriting"
the previous image (a hacked v.2.0.35 kernel). I ran lilo,
did a little tweaking of lilo.conf, and rebooted. Here is the
interesting part: it booted the old kernel! I could tell, of
course, both, because of the "Welcome to . . ." string that
uses uname to display the working kernel version, and because
it coughed during bootup when it tried to read my NTFS partition
(a major reason I updated to v2.2.0). Technically, the old
kernel was gone, so it shouldn't have been able to boot it
up (actually, I still had a copy of the older kernel in a
stash I had created, named, appropriately enough, /kernel --
but my lilo.conf does not have any pointer to it.)
This is my theory (...which is mine...etc): I have NT on my
machine, and I use the NT boot loader up on top in a vfat
partition. To boot Linux, I had done the routine using a boot
sector image using dd (etc etc), which is referenced by
boot.ini. I hadn't yet created a newer copy of bootsect.lnx
to work with the new kernel (okay, so I forgot). Here is the
actual theory: the old bootsect.lnx was still pointing to
the old kernel, which still (theoretically) existed
_physically_, if not logically, in the Linux root partition.
Moreover, theoretically, if I had continued to work in
Linux -- using this "phantom" kernel, or by booting from
the boot floppy (as I had the foresight to compile with
the command, "make zdisk") -- it would eventually be overwritten,
and I would then be unable to boot using the old bootsect.lnx.
Any thoughts about this theory (...which is mine...)?
(Incidentally, I have no way of proving this theory, as I
had then run the dd command to create a new bootsector image.)
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seth McQuale --> "Shaygetz" To reply to to me directly, remove
the spaces in the "Reply to" email address in the header.
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From: "Douglas Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:23:52 -0700
ASP's eat CPU cycles for lunch...
MS's site doesn't HAVE to use ASP's, but the site is a lot more
inter-connected and glitzy. That makes it hard to maintain. ASP's help
out a lot with that, in the same way that object-oriented programming
helps out with keeping big coding projects straight. Virtual methods
aren't needed, but they are nice. ASP's aren't necessary, but they make
it possible to organize HTML code... Server side includes, automatic
detection and handling of browser (instead of redirecting you or making
the HTML be cross-browser), keeping tabs on who is logged on to the
secure sites... All CAN be done with static HTML, but it is cheaper to
buy more servers than to keep track of that much static HTML.
And yes, Yahoo to some large extent runs FreeBSD (as I do when I don't
have to use my MS apps for work, etc.).
http://www.freebsdmall.com/newsletter1/yahoo_and_freebsd.phtml
====== excerpt from above page =======
Yahoo! began life at Stanford University on a DEC Alpha box running OSF
and a Sparc 20 running SunOS. They served us well for the first year,
but we learned that neither system was really designed for handling a
large number of HTTP requests. In fact we were unable to find any
commercial system that addressed the problems we were facing with
scalability. This was one of the unfortunate realities of being at the
forefront of Web technology.
After leaving Stanford we used a few platforms including SGI IRIX,
Linux, and BSDI. Not being impressed with anything we'd used (in terms
of performance and stability), we were still looking for alternatives.
As Yahoo! grew more popular, both scalability and stability were
becoming critical to our success. At the time none of us knew anything
about FreeBSD, but after seeing references to it I thought I'd give it a
try.
Having spent many frustrating hours trying to install other PC OS's, I
was a bit skeptical. I had no intention of spending three days trying to
install yet another one. To my surprise I went to the FreeBSD Web site,
downloaded the floppy boot image, booted a PC with the created floppy,
answered a few install questions, and a few minutes later FreeBSD was
installing over the Net. The real surprise was when I came back later to
a fully configured system that actually worked. If anything had gone
wrong with that install it would have likely been the end of that trial.
Luckily for us that it was the easiest and most painless OS installs I
had ever experienced.
A couple of days later we added a FreeBSD box to our cluster of Web
servers. Not only did it out-perform the rest of our machines, but it
was more stable. A few weeks into this experiment and we were sold.
Although the price was certainly attractive, it was the stability,
performance, and access to the source code that sold us. Ever since then
we've used FreeBSD almost exclusively for production as well as our
development environment
====== end ======
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Douglas Cook - MCP, BYU ITC Web Programmer
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://students.cs.byu.edu/~cookd/
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Tim Smith wrote in message
<78f826$7ns$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Eugene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>ftp.cdrom.com runs on FreeBSD. It is the busiest ftp site on the
internet
>>(it won the award for that recently). Over 700 GB of downloads per
day, to
>>up to 3600 simultaneous connections. And it all runs nicely on ppro
200 with
>>512 Mb of RAM!
>
>You are comparing serving up static content in huge chunks...
>
>>(Compare THAT to Microsoft's 6 Gb of downloads per day on 3
>>ppro 200 machines!)
>
>...to dynamic content in small chunks. These are completely different
kinds
>loads, and place completely different demands on the system.
>
>...
>>BTW, www.yahoo.com also runs on FreeBSD and so does www.hotmail.com
There's
>
>Hotmail uses a Sun operating system on Sun hardware.
>
>>a nice story somewhere about how Microsoft tried to replace FreeBSD
with NT
>>on Hotmail... But NT just didn't cut it.
>
>No one who has thought about it believes that story, though.
>
>--Tim Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:00:04 GMT
Chris Webb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: Strangely enough, apparently Digital UNIX doesn't. Perhaps something to
: do with it's checkered history as a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit processor?
Not likely, since Digital Unix has ALWAYS been a 64-bit OS. Maybe you're
thinking of Ultrix?
Stu
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: when RedHat to ship 2.2.X?
Date: 29 Jan 1999 22:55:00 GMT
Georg Schwarz wrote:
>
> When can we expect RedHat to release a distribution that is based on
> the 2.2.X kernel? (probably their next release?)
> --
> Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
> Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
> Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
They're waiting until the patches and things for it simmer down. They
don't want to pull another RH 5.1 and ship with a shitty kernel.
Anyway why would it matter when you can download the kernel and roll
your own 2.2 system.
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Website: http://www.franksstuff.com/
"I say line-ux you say lynn-ux,
whats the difference? Its still better than windows"
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for file recovery utility
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:11:58 -0800
Megan wrote in message ...
>
>Say someone has done something incredibly foolish (by accident), such
>as the equivalent of an rm -rf * on a mounted volume... Let's also
>say that the backup was too out of date to be useful.
>
>Does anyone have a pointer to a utility which will examine a linux
>ext2 volume looking for former files?
You may want to check the ext2fs-Undeletion MINI-Howto.
But be warned: Due to the nature of how ext2fs and Unix fs in general work
it's unlikely that you could recover all data.
You best undelete is a backup.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner; microsoft.com, UID: jurgenex
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: ldd result question
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:42:59 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:45:52 -0500...
..and Jim White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use gcc compiled a program with -lm, so it links a math lib,
> the gcc manual say it's libm.a, but ldd show it's libm.so, I think
> thses two lib are different. Any one can explain? TIA
libm.a is the static version of the library. If you link it in, the whole
thing is inside the executable for ever more.
libm.so is the dynamic version. If you link with it, only stubs are linked
in, and when such a stub is called, the dynamic loader ld.so retrieves the
library from a /lib directory.
mawa
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My Geek Code is no longer in my .signature. It's available on e-mail request.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually
lowers your social status...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Database for LINUX (Redhat 5.0 or up)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:39:49 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:53:34 GMT...
..and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[schnibble]
> o YARD
> o SOLID
> o InterBase
> These are smaller (either in terms of company size or in terms of Linux-
> developer-mindshare), but seem to have good niche markets for well-supported
> products. All three have been supporting Linux for a while.
>
> In all, I'd recommend giving the first three (PostgreSQL, mySQL, and Sybase) a
> look. All three are free, and fairly easy to install and try out.
SuSE do a lot of advertising for Adabas. I am by no means a database expert,
but I just wanted to mention that it exists.
mawa
--
Matthias Warkus | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dyson Spheres for sale!
My Geek Code is no longer in my .signature. It's available on e-mail request.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually
lowers your social status...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Mulhearn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: [Q] Bogo mips shrinked!?
Date: 29 Jan 1999 22:15:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jinhyok Heo wrote:
>Hi~ all.
>
>
>And also `dmesg|grep Bogo' shows :
> -------------
> Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 28.67 BogoMIPS
I found that if I turned off BIOS caching - I think that was it
but can't check as I'm using it at present - the BogoMIPS value
for my 133Mhz Zenith dropped from 53.04 to about what you're
seeing. May be worth a look,
Andy
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star office 5 problem
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:14:25 -0500
Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> I just got redhat 5.2 up and running. I installed Star Office 5.2 with
> the setup /net option into the
> directory /usr/Office50. The install worked fine. I then tried to run
> the application in the
> directory it was installed /usr/Office50/bin/soffice, what happens next
>
> is that it tries to reinstall the
> _whole_ StarOffice application again into the directory /root where I
> have very little room.
> I then run out of disk space, get errors, have to do a lilo -l, extract
> my bootsector and copy
> it to my root NT drive to get linux to boot again.
Did you read the setup.pdf file that came with StarOffice? After you
install using setup /net you need to set up each user's installation
separately. This takes about 2-3MB in their home directory. To do this,
the user (or you su-ed as the user) logs in, cd's to the /usr/Office50/bin
directory and runs ./setup *as a user.* This will run the install script
and if you select the "standard workstation installation" it will only put
a couple megs of files in the user's home directory. Each user will have
to register their installation with StarDivision to avoid the 30 day
time-out with the unregistered version.
> I checked my path and also tried to include the office directory with
> the command:
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/Office50/bin
> The same problem occurs. Anyone have any idea what may be going on?
> Also I was wondering where I should edit my path in Redhat5.2 to get it
> to include
> Office automatically for all the users at login?
Add it to the PATH statement in /etc/profile
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hpfs (was Re: Zip disk)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:17:34 -0500
Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>
> > Quoting a message by "Doug Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in comp.os.linux.misc:
> >
> > >I bought an internal ATAPI IDE. It works great, is reasonably fast, and is
> > >reasonably inexpensive. It's also very easy to install.
> >
> > I've also got an internal ATAPI IDE ZIP drive, and I'm pretty new to
> > Linux, so would you mind explaining to me how to install it?
> >
> > Since I forgot to make a FAT staging partition between Linux and
> > OS/2, I have no way of getting files back to my OS/2 setup, other
> > than the dreaded floppies.
> Are you referring to a dual-boot system? If so, you could probably mount your
> OS/2 partition under Linux, and copy the files directly there rather than using
> any kind of staging. (I don't do OS/2, but a quick check shows that Linux has
> support for the "OS/2 HPFS" file system.)
Linux does support hpfs, but out of the box this is "read-only." There is a
read/write hpfs driver available as source code from metalab.unc.edu that you can
compile into your kernel or as a module.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Werner Krebs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Queue 1.11 announcement]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:13:38 -0500
GNU Queue 1.11 is available by ftp from ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/queue/
and mirrors of that site (see list below).
GNU Queue is a UNIX process network load-balancing system that features
an innovative proxy daemon mechanism which allows users to control their
remote jobs in a nearly seamless and transparent fashion. When an
interactive remote job is launched, such as say Octave, or EMACS
interfacing Common Lisp, a proxy daemon runs on the local end. By
sending signals to the remote side - including control signals like
hitting the suspend key - the process on the remote end may be
controlled just as easily as if it were a local process. Resuming the
stub resumes the remote job. The user's environment is almost completely
replicated, including not only environmental variables, but nice values,
rlimits, terminal settings are all replicated on the remote end.
Together with MIT_MAGIC_COOKIE_1 (or xhost +) the system is X-windows
transparent as well, provided the users local DISPLAY variable is set to
the fully qualified pathname of the local machine.
One of the most appealing features of the stub system even with
experienced users is that asynchronous job control of remote jobs by the
shell is possible and intuitive. One simply runs the proxy job in the
background under the local shell; the shell notifies the user when the
remote job has a change in status by monitoring the proxy daemon.
Want to migrate that CPU guzzling interactive job to another
machine? Run queue -- jobname, and it behaves as if it were local. Want
to suspend that job? Control-Z, and you're back to the local shell; the
job is suspended on the remote machine as well. Type bg or fg and the
job is seemingly running on the local machine again; except it's not!
It's running on a remote CPU. This feature is especially practical when
you wish to run many cpu-intensive jobs simultaneously throughout the
cluster --- you can control them all effortlessly through the local
shell.
When the remote process has terminated, the proxy returns the exit
value to the shell; otherwise, the proxy job simulates a death by the
same signal as that which terminated or suspended the remote job. In
this way, control of the remote process is intuitive even to novice
users, as it is just like controlling a local job from the shell. Many
of my original users had to be reminded that their jobs were, in fact,
running remotely.
In addition, Queue also features a more traditional distributed
batch processing environment, with results returned to the user via
email. In addition, traditional batch processing limitations may be
placed on jobs running in either environment (proxy process or with the
email mechanism) such as suspension of jobs if the system exceeds a
certain load average, limits on CPU time, disk free requirements, limits
on the times in which jobs may run, etc. (These are documented in the
sample profile file included.)
Queue may be installed by any user on the system; root privileges
are not required.
GNU Queue supports the GNU/Linux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, IRIX, Digital
Unix, and, most recently, FreeBSD platforms. The homepages for GNU Queue
are http://www.gnu.org/software/queue (official) and
http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/~wkrebs/queue.html (frequently updated).
Planned improvements for GNU Queue include adding support for
heterogenuous clusters and adding checkpoint process migration (to allow
processes migrate from host to host dynamically after startup).
Volunteers are sought to assist with these and other development
projects; information on subscribing to the development list is
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:52:33 -0500
From: Glenn PM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.2.0 and too fast MIDI play
Hi,
I made and installed kernel 2.2.0 including the second patch, last
night. All seems to work well except for MIDI sounds. They are being
played at about what seems to be, 50% faster than they should. I run
them with timidity. Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks,
Glenn
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From: "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.news,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Best version of Netscape 4.5
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:15:20 +1100
G'day...
> Which version of Netscape Communicator (4.5) runs best under Linux RH52.
> I have a standard Pentium 120 machine with 64M memory and plenty of
> drive space. Thanks in advance.
v4.5 of Navigator and/or Communicator are available - however they are not
reccommended.
v4.08 is the most stable so far.
All the best.
Michael.
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From: Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to set RTS and DTR on serial port
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 02:53:53 GMT
Shiuh Deh Liew wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> It would be great if someone out there could tell me or point me to where
> I can get information on how to set and reset the RTS and DTR pins of a
> serial port.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Have a good day.
>
> Shiuh
Read the man pages for stty and getty. Also realize that,in the case of
a modem, line parameters are set using "AT" commands sent directly to
it. This is actually how you change the parity, flow-control, etc of a
modem link. If you want people to be able to dial into your Linux
machine this will require that the entry for the modem line in
/etc/gettydefs and the remote modem both use the same serial line
params.
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- Sadaam Hussein, in a letter to Santa Claus.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Firewall?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:17:00 -0500
Do a search for PPTP-linux. there is a PPTP-linux client along with all the
required protocol 47 redirect stuff available. Look for stuff that Scott Ananian
has done.
You need either a) a linux PPTP client or b) an NT PPTP server behind the firewall.
There is no PPTP server available for linux as yet.
Yan
Stefan Pommerening wrote:
> Dan Star wrote:
> > I am looking into firewall technology being a newbie and am wondering if
> > firewall software exists for linux, and if it does can it:
> > - secure In/Out FTP
> > - securs Telnet In/Out
> > - provids Virtual Private Networking supporting Microsoft's clientside
> > PPTP
>
> You'll have to recompile the kernel with firewall support
> tuned in. The use ipfwadm for configuration.
>
> I do not know that microsoft stuff you mentioned but for the
> rest the answer is 'yes'.
>
> Stefan.
>
> --
> Dipl-Inform Stefan Pommerening Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> DMSP Internet Marketing, Berlin, Germany (http://www.dmsp.com)
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