Linux-Misc Digest #775, Volume #21 Sun, 12 Sep 99 14:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Recovery procedure for Software RAID-1 RH6.0 (April Darenkamp)
fetchmail help... (Ted Wager)
Re: RH6.0...woes... (Rod)
Help with i740 AGP and sound balster (Richard Latter)
Re: What to do when you've been hacked (Bill Unruh)
New project: web design/management application (Beat Rupp)
Re: ifconfig question (Bernd Eckenfels)
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 ("R.K.Aa")
Re: C++ Error (NF Stevens)
Re: kppp connects and immediately disconnects with pppd died (Wade)
Re: xterm broken? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: NFS on RH 6.0 vs AIX 4.2.1 -- can't mount! ("Jeff Kloek")
silo install problem !!!
Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0 (Hal Burgiss)
Help with i740 AGP and sound balster (Richard Latter)
Re: Telnet as root (mist)
HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK (Joao)
Re: Squid in Mandrake ("Gene Zesch")
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! (Lisa Evans)
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From: April Darenkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recovery procedure for Software RAID-1 RH6.0
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:31:15 GMT
I have been given the job of figuring out how a software RAID-1 works in
RH6.0. I work for a small computer company. Our "Linux guy" built several
web servers (for a customer) with 2 ide drives (1 with OS for booting, and
1 for user log files) and 2 SCSI drives to be mirrored for data storage.
The customer has not deployed these machines yet, but has been doing some
testing to familiarize himself with how to recover from drive failures, and
things don't work the way he anticipated they would. The guy who built the
machines got hired away from us, and I'm the only one who has any
experience with Linux, so this is now my baby. However, I am completely
unfamiliar with RAIDs. I've scoured the Internet for information to
educate myself, and the only thing so far of any help has been the Software
RAID how-to, and it did help me understand conceptually what happens and
how it was set up. Does anyone know where I can find info on what actually
happens when the system is running, what will happen in a failure, and what
steps should be taken to recover?
Here are the problems the customer reports: He tried removing one of the
data drives to see if the machine would just run on the other one, but the
machine won't boot with the scsi a drive missing, and gives errors if the
scsi b drive is missing. He tried replacing one of the drives with a 3rd
spare drive, and gets an error message from that also.
Any advice, suggestions, or pointers of any kind will be most appreciated.
Thanks,
April
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From: Ted Wager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fetchmail help...
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:38:57 +0100
Hi..
I wonder if someone could send me the stanza for fetchmail..I have read
the manpages and
cribbed ideas from various books but my isp will not accept it...
If my fetchmail address is pop3.cwcom.net usrname foo passwd bah What do
I put...
I have tried all combinations but the isp keeps asking for a username
and after a while drops out
with "user unknown".
I can telnet to pop3.cwcom.net 110 and see I have mail but fetchmail
will not connect to get it...
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From: Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0...woes...
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:31:24 GMT
Stephan Wynne wrote:
>
> Having a go at the wrong person, that MArk is the problem. Anyone find
> an answer that has not their head shuffed up their bum, let me know
>
I had the same problem with the stock kernel in RH60. As soon as I
upgraded to kernel 2.2.11, modules were no problem.
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From: Richard Latter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with i740 AGP and sound balster
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:53:40 +0100
Hi all,
I�m having great difficulty in installing an Intel 740 AGP 8MB graphics
card for Redhat Linux. I�ve download and installed the XBF drivers for
this, but cannot see any references in the card database for this. I
was working befire, but cannot remember how I did it.
Also, I�ve never managed to get my sound card working with Linux. It�s
a Sound Blaster 64. Pnp just does not seem to help.
Can anyone Help?
Cheers,
Richard
PS. I�m running redhat 5.1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: What to do when you've been hacked
Date: 12 Sep 1999 16:06:53 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sohn jung-woo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Tha problem is that I don't know what security hole the cracker exploited.
]The most suspected security hole is proftpd-1.2.0 included
]with RedHat 6.0 original distribution, but I recently upgraded it
]to proftpd-1.2.0pre3 from redhat updates ftp. Can somebody
]reply to me about any other major security bugs related to redhat 6.0
]that can be exloited?
Well, the best thing is to make sure that you download and install all
of the security updates on the Redhat site as soon as they come out.
Look in your old logs for strange entries around the time of the
breakin.
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From: Beat Rupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New project: web design/management application
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:01:11 GMT
Hello together
I see many posts from people who want some =BBWYSIWYG=AB HTML editors fo=
r=20
Linux. I don't want a WYSIWYG editor because this is something=20
impossible in HTML, I know that. What I want is a HTML editor which=20
has site management features included and is easy to use for an=20
average user with a nice gui (the advanced users can continue with=20
emacs and vi, I don't have anything against this form of html editing,=20
because I sometimes do it the same way!!).
For this purpose I have set up a page at http://www.spin.ch/~hrupp/
Please have a look at it and tell me, what you think about such an=20
application (preferrably reply to this group that others have the=20
chance to read it too).=20
And keep in mind: I don't want any WYSIWYG! I want to combine a good=20
html editor with a powerful preprocessor! And please don't tell me=20
that this already works! I know that it works (I do my html stuff this=20
way) if you are familiar with command line tools, but many users=20
aren't (they have no time to learn these things). And that's the=20
target audience for such a project: average KDE/GNOME users.
Let me know anything. Even if there already is something like this,=20
I'd love to hear from it!
Good luck!
Beat
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From: Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ifconfig question
Date: 12 Sep 1999 16:55:46 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Michael Starkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about domain name services? Right now I have two /etc/resolv.conf
> files one for the internet and the other for the private network (
> /etc/resolv.conf.default && /etc/resolv.conf.private ). I manually copy the
> appropriate file to /etc/resolv.conf before connection establishment. How can
> I configure my DNS list to include all domain name servers in both networks
> if I am to use both networks simultaneously?
You can use a list in which u place both. But that wont work very well,
since it is random which nameserver is asked for which domain. You could do
3 things:
a) use a configurable resolver... there is one around, but dont ask me
where, search for something like "selective resolver".
b) use your own forwarding name server and configure it as a secondary to
your internal zone.
c) if you are onlien only use the internal nameserver as long as this one
is forwarding requests to the internet.
Greetings
Bernd
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:02:20 GMT
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:20:07 GMT, R.K.Aa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Err... isn't it mentioned in the same "newfontsystem" whitepaper you
> >yourself quoted from earlyer?
> >
> >K.
> >
>
> Yes, but unfortunately there is not enough free space in my brain folder
> to accept new data readily ;)
>
> And, including some worthwhile documentation with 6.0 itself would have
> been a nice touch.
Agreed! I wasted over a week puzzling all the pieces together here.
The docs on the CD don't cut it.
K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: C++ Error
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:10:01 GMT
"Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Oh dear, maybe not. Can I copy it from my RedHat Cd, or do I have to do an
>install? That'd be a major bother since I have Oracle running on that
>server.
Find the rpms you want to install and then "rpm -i <package-file>" for
each file.
Norman
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From: Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: kppp connects and immediately disconnects with pppd died
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:04:12 GMT
> I believe that all (?) of the distributions already include MSCHAPv1
> (chap 80) as part of the compilation of pppd. Version 2 is another
> matter, but reports of its use are very rare.
Particulaly, it matters more the version of the kernel / distribution
than the distribution itself. For those of us running older kernels
(2.0.35, etc) with older pppd to match, what I said is true.
Wade
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: xterm broken?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:55:39 GMT
In article <pKFC3.336$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, T.E.Dickey wrote:
>Artit J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> After compiling xterm from the source, now it just dies with a
>> segmentation fault. Any ideas? Right now I am using Eterm, because that
>> is the only thing that will work (wterm won't compile, rxvt segfaults).
>
>It sounds as if you neglected to recompile the X libraries as well (or
>obtain ones that match glibc 2.11).
I'm using the ones compiled against glibc-2.0.7, XFree-3.3.2 so those
ought to work. Yep, all kinds of glibc's since then, no problems.
Bye,
Juergen
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From: "Jeff Kloek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: NFS on RH 6.0 vs AIX 4.2.1 -- can't mount!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:56:02 GMT
I had the same problem. I have a 520 running 432. I could mount the 520's
filesystems
on Linux no problem, but I couldn't do the reverse.
Here's what I did to make this work.
1) on linux side: add insecure to /etc/exports options for your filesystem
2) Use the afforementioned mount -o vers=2 command
This made it work perfectly.
Now I can mount my Linux box's filesystems to the RS6000 and back them up
to the RS6000's tape drives!!
Hope this helps!!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: silo install problem !!!
Date: 12 Sep 1999 15:51:31 GMT
Dear friend,
I installed Red Hat 6.0 for sparc successfully. But I can't
install silo correctly. I just can use floppy to boot my system.
Is it that problem silo can't be installed on large harddisk (> 8.4GB) ?
My hard disk is Quantum KN9100LW Ultra wide(68pins) convert to Ultra
(50pins) and I set scsi id as "3".
(Sparc 10 PROM v2.9, the default boot is disk0 (scsi id 3))
My partition table is:
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 501 512000 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 501 2501 2048000 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 0 8759 8969216 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 2501 2801 307200 83 Linux native
/dev/sda5 2801 5801 3072000 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 5801 6701 921600 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 6701 8501 1843200 83 Linux native
/dev/sda8 u 8501 8759 264192 82 Linux swap
(Let the partition one from block "1" not "0" especially !)
(The block "0" be reserved for MBR !!!)
I install silo in the MBR, the /etc/silo.conf is:
timeout=50
partition=1
root=/dev/sda1
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
read-only
At the sparc OK prompt, I try:
setenv boot-device disk0
boot
error message shows me that "Can't Open boot device sd@3,0" !!!
Please help me solve this problem. Thank your help.
Best Regards, Jackie Yang
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfs on Redhat 6.0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 Sep 1999 13:30:21 -0500
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:02:20 GMT, R.K.Aa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hal Burgiss wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:20:07 GMT, R.K.Aa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Err... isn't it mentioned in the same "newfontsystem" whitepaper you
>> >yourself quoted from earlyer?
>> >
>> >K.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, but unfortunately there is not enough free space in my brain folder
>> to accept new data readily ;)
>>
>> And, including some worthwhile documentation with 6.0 itself would have
>> been a nice touch.
>
>Agreed! I wasted over a week puzzling all the pieces together here.
>The docs on the CD don't cut it.
>
Have you by any chance gotten NS to recognize more than one point size?
All I get is 12pt with ttfonts, which I suspect it is picking up up from
the default-point-size as defined in /etc/X11/fs/config. Seems to work OK
elsewhere ...
--
Hal B
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From: Richard Latter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with i740 AGP and sound balster
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:50:20 +0100
Hi all,
I�m having great difficulty in installing an Intel 740 AGP 8MB graphics
card for Redhat Linux. I�ve download and installed the XBF drivers for
this, but cannot see any references in the card database for this. I
was working befire, but cannot remember how I did it.
Also, I�ve never managed to get my sound card working with Linux. It�s
a Sound Blaster 64. Pnp just does not seem to help.
Can anyone Help?
Cheers,
Richard
PS. I�m running redhat 5.1
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet as root
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:39:35 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kenny A. Chaffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>In article <7rfia8$aqb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a small Ethernet network setup in my house (three machines) and I
>> would like to be able to telnet as ROOT from my workstation (dual boot Linux
>> / Win95) to my Samba server (Redhat 5.2) or Slackware machine. I can telnet
>> just fine as regular user, what is stopping me from doing so as root. I know
>> I have read some thing about this before, it is a security concern and is
>> not allowed by default.
>>
>Seriously though, I had the same need. RH 6.0 checks the /etc/securetty
>file which lists the tty's which allow login as root. I was not able to
>determine how to modify this to allow root telnet, but by renaming the
>file (so login doesn't find it) I'm able to telnet in.
>
AIUI, all you would need to do is telnet in (as a normal user) and do a
"ps ax". Then find the letters that relate to your login terminal and
add that to securetty. Eg. On mine you would see something like
443 pts/0 SW 0:00 [login]
So add the pts bit to securetty.
There really is *no need whatsoever* to do this, though. root telnet is
a big hole, and it really isn't time consuming to log in as a normal
user and type "su". Even if the Lan you're using now isn't connected to
the Internet, it's better to get used to better techniques.
--
Mist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joao)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:15:32 GMT
Hi.
I havea a LAN With a Red Hat Linux Server and 5 Workstations with
Win98.
Is possible create a Filesystem on hardrive of Linux where I can see
my files on the workstations?.....Win files (word, excel,etc...)?
If so, how can I do that ?
Excuse my English.
Thanks In Advance
Joao Pinto
Excuse my English.
Thanks In Advance.
Joao Pinto
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From: "Gene Zesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Squid in Mandrake
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:04:06 -0500
Thanks for your reply, somewhat.
I've been all through the /etc/squid/squid.conf file and I don't see a thing
about starting squid. The old version created the files with squid -z and
then started with RunCache &. This doesn't work on this version.
squid -z says it is creating swap directories, but this version doesn't seem
to have a RunCache command.
So I repeat my question...how do I start this thing? What am I missing here?
Gene
abn wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi, all!
>
>Gene Zesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:yoAC3.309$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Trying to set up squid in Mandrake 6.
>> The version on their cd is squid-2.2.STABLE1-2mdk.i586.rpm.
>> The rpm doesn't seem to include any of the docs, as when I install it,
the
>> files are empty. Does anyone know how to start this version?
>> I had an older squid-1.1.21 and it doesn't respond to the same commands
as
>> that.
>> I've looked at the Squid page and mandrakes version doesn't respond to
the
>> commands they give, either.
>> Can anyone help here?
>> Thanks,
>> Gene
>>
>>
>
>try to _read_ CONFIG file
>
>wbr, abn
>
>
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From: Lisa Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:59:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Pedro RA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > >Sorry to post off topic but this is EXTREMELY important!
> > >
> > >FREE EAST TIMOR NOW!
> > >STOP THE KILLING KNOW!
> > >
> > >Please take a look at the nearest
> > >internacional news broadcast.
> > >
> > >Remember KOSOVO, RUANDA,
> > >BOSNIA, CAMBODJA, KURDISTAN,
> > >or the HOLOCAUST. Or remember all
> > >of them. You may as well add
> > >EAST TIMOR to this list.
> > >
> > >DO SOMETHING!
> > >
> > >Do what ever you can.
> > >
> > >Better even:
> > >STOP SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!
> > >
> > > FREE EAST TIMOR
> >
> > Let's all send them our old Linux CDs!!!
>
> That's actually not a bad idea... We can lobby congress and the UN to
send
> a Peacekeeping mission over and then train the Timorians(?) on how to
> sharpen the edge of the used CD we send them. They can then use them
as
> weapons and achienve their freedom. Or we could keep the old CDs and
use
> them for coasters. ;-)
>
> Bill
You people are disgusting. Remind me to make jokes at your expense the
next time you and your family are shipped to a concentration camp and
slaughtered, because that's what's happening in East Timor right now.
Lisa Evans
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