Linux-Misc Digest #860, Volume #21 Sat, 18 Sep 99 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
questions (Victor Vjunnik)
Re: --> [Q] Linux and IBM RS6000 ?? (alexei)
Feedback howl (Rick)
ipchains help (Tripp)
Re: Linux und AMD, geht das? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Getting confused with the virtual terminals ("Bruce Merry (Entropy)")
Re: Fetchmail - recipient address *** didn@t match any local name??? (Nick Drage)
Re: problem with .forward (David Bowler)
Re: Best Linux Distro? / Best GUI? (Klea Dzonsons)
Re: DNS (extrange) Problems !! ("Bruce Merry (Entropy)")
Re: What is best HTML Editor for LINUX? (William Wueppelmann)
Re: IBM PS/2 with linux, how? (Shaw Carruthers)
licq (Raj Rijhwani)
Re: Linux newbie installation help ("Bruce Merry (Entropy)")
Re: Good network programming guide (Michael Ransburg)
Re: how to know my own IP? ("Bruce Merry (Entropy)")
Re: Linux und AMD, geht das? (Eduard Bloch)
Re: Apache upgrade. (Dave Brown)
Re: My first Linux crash - what should I have done? ("Bruce Merry (Entropy)")
Re: Connecting Linux Boxes with LapLink Cable (NF Stevens)
Re: [?] Help w/ ftpd (StuS)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Vjunnik)
Subject: questions
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:38:13 +0300
Hi All !
I transfering users from my server to other computer.
I'm copying following files - passwd, shadow, group.
Then I start vipw and simulate of editing (that db will be rebuild).
But nothing is worked - linuxconf is showing new users but I can't login
with
new account.
PS And one more question.
In the /etc/securetty I register next lines - pts/0, pts/1, etc
but I can't login in telnet with root account.
PS RH 6.0
Victor [Team McLaren & David Coulthard]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alexei)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: --> [Q] Linux and IBM RS6000 ??
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:52:48 GMT
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:05:50 +0200, Josep Lluis Guallar Esteve
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Alberto Varesio ha escrito:
>
>> Josep Lluis Guallar Esteve wrote:
>
>> > Hello there,
>
>> > We have some aeging IBM RS6000 and they had been running AIX. Now
>> > they have their well deserved retirement but...
>
>> > ...can I install Linux on those machines? They can be great for
>> > developing and intranet-web servers.
>
>> What models ?
>
>They are models 6550.h and 6530.H at 56,0 and 37,1 MIPS
If they are 7013/550 and 7013/530 - they are h/w y2k compilant. The
problem is if you have AIX ver 3.2.x. You should contact IBM and they
will be happy to provide you with ptfs for y2k. You can also find them
at IBM web page (do not remember though, something like
www.rs6000.ibm.com). Those machines are MCA, so you will spend more
time, trying to setup those machines under linux, then just update
AIX. From my poit of view it is better solution then trying to install
linux their. It is my point of view and it does not depends on others.
>
>> There are some distributions supporting RS/6000, but only if they are
>> PowerPC!
>> If so, try http://www.linuxppc.com http://www.linuxppc.org
>> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com and look around.
>
>I'll check them.
>
>> Alberto Varesio - AIX Support Professional
>
>
>Thank you Alberto,
>
>Josep L. Guallar
>Barcelona (Catalonia)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick)
Subject: Feedback howl
Date: 18 Sep 1999 13:30:08 GMT
Problem: My machine has a Soundblaster AWE-32 card which is automatically
activated when the kernel loads sound.o (dynamic loading). That would be fine,
except that the desk microphone is activated too, resulting in a really nice
feedback howl.
I can disconnect the mike, but it's a pain because I have to get in back of the
computer to do it. Also, that doesn't seem like a real soultion.
When the sound module is automatically unloaded, that doesn't change the state
of the sound card. Feedback is still a problem, even when "lsmod" shows that
sound.o is no longer loaded. Only rebooting will restore things.
Question: Is there a utility around similar to the sound control in Win95?
With the Win95 utility, I can disengage the microphone and leave the speakers
fully functional. Seems like Linux ought to have something similar available,
but a search of metalab.unc.edu has turned up nothing obvious.
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From: Tripp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ipchains help
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:21:43 -0400
I need to route port 110 tcp from the internet through my RH 6
firewall and into another machine on my private LAN.
I'm using ipchains for outgoing. And from what I understand, it will
do the same for incoming. But being new to ipchains, I'm confused at
the rule syntax and need an example.
Thankx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
de.comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux und AMD, geht das?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:31:23 GMT
In article <7rsu21$802$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Wolfgang Morgenthaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ich m�chte mir einen Rechner mit AMD-Prozessor zulegen und darauf
Linux
> installieren.Nun habe ich das Ger�cht (?) geh�rt, da� Linux mit AMD
�fters
> Schwierigkeiten bereitet?
I'm on a K6-II box with kernel 2.2.12 (formerly 2.2.10) and Glibc 2.1.2
(was 2.1.1 before, I think). So far it works flawlessly.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Bruce Merry (Entropy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting confused with the virtual terminals
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:36:20 +0200
Lori Holder-Webb wrote:
>
> I'm using RH 6.0 with Gnome, and find that if I go to a new virtual
> terminal, I can't get back into the GUI when I switch back. Terminal
> "2" runs fine (but won't support a new X-windows session), and when I
> switch back to Terminal "1", there's a screen full of messages, but no
> prompt, no windows, and no apparent way to get back into the windows.
X will allocate itself a separate terminal to work in. You will probably
find it on a higher terminal number like 7 (i.e. Alt-F7).
Bruce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Drage)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Fetchmail - recipient address *** didn@t match any local name???
Date: 18 Sep 1999 15:26:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:01:46 +0100, Alex Monaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I recently changed Internet Provider. I use a GMX free email account
>> which bounces all my mail to my true email address (similar to
>> the way Bigfoot works). Since changing IP I get an error message from
>> Fetchmail at the end of the headers of each incoming message. MY IP uses
>> POP3, my mail is downloaded by Fetchmail (v 5.0.5-1) and processed by
>> exim.
<< snip >>
>I'm presuming that you're using multi drop.
>
>Try changing your envelope settings, I had a similar problem when changing
>ISP's.
>
>I was delivering mail using the qvirtual and envelope settings, I can see
>that you have 2 Delivered To:'s, there is a mention in the fetchmail man
>page that you can use "envelope n envelope-text" where n is the number of
>matching envelope's to skip.
>
>Failing that you may need to declare the graff.f9.co.uk as a localdomain.
It didn't take me very long to get fetchmail up and running so I didn't
have a chance to learn a lot about it, so I can only suggest a much less
elegant solution.
Presuming that you're only sending all this email to the one account on
your Linux box why not direct all messages to your mailbox. Whereas
messages not to any local accounts will usually be sent to postmaster just
send them to yourself.
Like I say, not very pretty.
--
Nick Drage, learning Linux and SLRN
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:40:09 +0000
From: David Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem with .forward
Matt Spong wrote:
> Hi
>
> After 2 days of pulling my hair out trying to get procmail working on my
> RedHat 6 system, it turns out there's something wrong with the way my
> system is handling .forward files... I tried putting this in my .forward
> file:
>
> "|cat > /home/spong/test.out"
>
> And then emailing myself, but test.out never materializes (and the email
> falls off the face of the earth)! It turns out my mailer was never
> invoking procmail for some reason. This is a RedHat 6 system, as I said,
> and while I've upgraded a lot of stuff, nothing should have broken this.
>
> If anybody has any ideas why this is not working correctly, please email
> me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank you for your time
> Matt Spong
>
> ---------------=====< 1999: The Year of the Penguin >=====---------------
>
> Matt Spong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> UM Linux Users' Group Secretary <http://www.umlug.umd.edu/>
>
> "Y'arr... sometimes I wonder why I plunder at all..."
>
> Finger for public key, or see http://www.wam.umd.edu/~spong/crypto.html
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
make sure you have the correct permissions on your .forward file and home
directory for sendmail to access it
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From: Klea Dzonsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Best Linux Distro? / Best GUI?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:11:13 +0930
Tim Kelley wrote:
> Phil Hunt wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me if there's a Linux equivalent of the BSOD --
> > I've not had Linux crash since I installed SuSE6.0 (5 months ago), and
> > I'm curious.
>
> yes, a kernel panic. I've only seen them with bad memory
> (hardware), and even then the OS kept chugging along, albeit in a
> crippled manner; but I was able unmount eveything cleanly. It
> usually isn't like a bsod where the whole system just completely
> dies.
>
>
Okay, I cant really be considered a newbie anymore, but I still have alot to
learn.
Anyhow, what exactly *is* a kernel panic?
Ive heard that phrase being used alot, but what exactly happens during a
kernel panic,
what are the effects on the OS when this happens?
thanx in advance
K.Dzonsons
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From: "Bruce Merry (Entropy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS (extrange) Problems !!
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:34:31 +0200
Angel wrote:
>
> I have a Linux Box running a DNS service, that works OK.
>
> When I make a FTP o TELNET call to this Linux Box, it takes a long time
> to reply, so timeouts denny the access.
>
> Everything works again when I kill the DNS service or when I connect to
> Internet !!!???
Do you mean that you system isn't permanently connected to the internet,
and these ftp/telnet sessions take place in your LAN? If so, do your DNS
tables have entries from the machine you are telnetting from, in
particular the reverse lookup (PTR) records? If not, then what is
probably happening is that the servers on your machine are trying to do
IP address->host name lookups on the machine when a connection is made.
Bruce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: What is best HTML Editor for LINUX?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:07:03 GMT
In our last episode (Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:34:45 GMT),
the artist formerly known as John Culleton said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Indica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> John Hasler wrote:
>>
>> > WYSIWYG HTML editor is an oxymoron.
>>
>> Hardly, I suggest you go out and learn some more about high end
>editors
>> and site management tools before you make such a statement.
>>
>>
>> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
>> http://www.searchlinux.com
>>
>We are talking html, right? It does not control format precisely. What
>you get will vary from browser to browser and even from site to site.
>Unless the editor has a different mode for every known browser from
>Mosaic on forward and allows you to see all the possible variations of
>window size etc. there will never be a true WYSIWYG html editor.
After all, how can what you *see* be what you get when you're rendering a
document on a braille pad?
Oh, but wait, HTML is a language for controlling how Web pages look on
Netscape and Internet Explorer, right?
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: Shaw Carruthers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 with linux, how?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:35:11 +0100
Herve Fache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it now possible to install linux on an IBM PS/2 386 with MCA/SCSI
>buses? My RedHat 5.1 crashes when the hardware is to be detected...
>
Upgrade to a 2.2.x kernel as it supports MCA as a standard option.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raj Rijhwani)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: licq
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 99 12:32:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oddity afoot.
I installed (from a binary distribution), and had working, licq (0.61) the
weekend before last. When I came to use it this week, it fails to logon
to the server with "Bad UDP version no". I know there's a new version
been released this week (0.70) but I can't compile it (threads library not
installed). , and there doesn't seem to be a binsry distribution (yet?).
I can't think that I've changed anything in the intervening 10 days,
nor can I find any reference to the error in the licq docs or
pages around the place.
Suggestions?
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From: "Bruce Merry (Entropy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie installation help
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:15:07 +0200
Blacka wrote:
>
> Ok, I just bought a Pentium 90 with the intent of installing linux on it. I
> am trying to learn linux on this box. It doesnt have a cd rom however, but
> it has a network card. I was planning installing it via NFS, using my other
> machine which has a cdrom drive. Problem :The network card won't load in DOS
> (it's running a slim version of DOS 6.22).
>
> My question is : Since DOS won't load the driver, when I try installing
> Linux via NFS, will linux recognise the Network card and start the
> installation or will it fail?? The network card works fine, its just that
> the driver won't load in DOS.
Does the machine have a floppy drive? Then it shouldn't be too hard to
find out. Create some boot disks (they should either be on a Linux
CD-ROM, if you have one already, otherwise get hold of the images for
whichever distribution you will be getting
(ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions). This should let you
boot a minimal system (although make sure you get a disk image that has
network card support). Then give watch the boot messages and see if it
finds your card.
Bruce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Ransburg)
Subject: Re: Good network programming guide
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:11:18 GMT
>Do you know of any downloadable guides or good books about that topic? I
> am not looking for a general c programming introduction, a guide which
> leads through the network stuff would be sufficient.
I'd suggest "Unix Network Programming" by Richard W. Stevens.
cheers
mike
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From: "Bruce Merry (Entropy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to know my own IP?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:31:05 +0200
root wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using a dialup account to access Internet, ie. my IP is different
> everytime I dialup. So how can I know my IP address? What kind of
> software can return my IP to me when I dialup?
Run "ifconfig" as root.
Bruce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eduard Bloch)
Crossposted-To:
de.comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux und AMD, geht das?
Date: 18 Sep 1999 14:28:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:23:48 +0200 schrieb/wrote/a �crit
Wolfgang Morgenthaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc:
>ich m�chte mir einen Rechner mit AMD-Prozessor zulegen und darauf Linux
>installieren.Nun habe ich das Ger�cht (?) geh�rt, da� Linux mit AMD �fters
>Schwierigkeiten bereitet?
Ger�chten glaube ich grunds�tzlich nicht - www.deja.com reicht f�r eine
Best�tigung.
>Stimmte das? Gibt es jemanden der damit keine Schwierigkeiten hat bzw.
>best�tigen kann, da� er Schwierigkeiten hat?
Erste K6-Serie hatte einen Bug, ist aber schon Jahre her. K7 wird mit
einem Kernel 2.2.x-2.2.11 nicht booten, falls der MTRR-Support
einkompiliert wurde. Sollte normalerweise nicht passieren, au�er du
nimmst einen �lteren Kernel und kompilierst es selbst ein, oder du
versuchst SuSE 6.2 zu installieren, ohne das aktualisierte Image zu
benutzen.
mfG
Eduard.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Apache upgrade.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Sep 99 15:24:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terence Parker wrote:
>Can someone please tell me the correct procedure for upgrading Apache?
>...
I think the first rule is that if you use RedHat, you should look for
RPMs. RedHat (and rpm-based distros) will probably put things "somewhere
else".
Slackware puts apache in /var/lib under a directory httpd, which is the
name of the apache executable. (Don't be surprised if the name of the
executable is different that the common name of a product--it happens
all the time.) Under that directory is a "conf" directory which
has the files you need to modify to affect pathnames, etc. I believe
that RH puts these in /etc. The repository for system http docs in
RH is under the /home directory rather than the /var/lib/httpd area.
Once you get the "stuff" to where RH thinks it should be, either by
moving or symbolic-linking, I don't think you'd have to change the
init scripts.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: "Bruce Merry (Entropy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My first Linux crash - what should I have done?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:24:34 +0200
> I had installed quake2, and had been playing it, no problems, from the
> console.
>
> But then, I launched it from an xterm. Quake2 ran fine but when I quit,
> it said that it couldn't write a cfg file, probably a permission thing,
> but then I was in a full screen text mode and nothing would get me out.
> Ctrl-c, ctrl-z, alt-f1..f10 ctrl-alt-f1..f10, even alt-ctrl-del did
> nothing.
You will probably find that it left the keyboard in "raw" mode. If you
have a 2.2 kernel, I suggest compiling in the Magic SysRq option (I
think it is in the kernel hacking menu, if you use menuconfig) and read
the docs in linux/Documentation on it. It will allow you to restore your
keyboard to "cooked" mode, kill processes on the current console,
shutdown cleanly and even make coffee (ok, you'd need to edit the kernel
to do that :-).
> Now obviously, quake2 is a console app and I shouldn't run it from an
> xterm. Or should I be able to?
svgalib (which Q2 uses) will allocate a new console for Quake2. After Q2
is finished, you should be able to use Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Fn to get back
to where you were.
Bruce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Connecting Linux Boxes with LapLink Cable
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:18:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can someone inform me that how can I connect 2 linux machiene with a=20
>lap link cable (both connected
>to parallel Ports. I loaded Debian Gnu/linux on my old laptop (486)=20
>and would like to connect
>it to the perntim box I have (Do not and can have ethernet/PCMCIA on=20
>the laptop)
>
>Any pointers/How-to's hints will be helpful
>
>Preferably mark a copy to me while replying to this mail
/usr/src/linux/Documentations/networking/PLIP.txt
Norman
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From: StuS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [?] Help w/ ftpd
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:31:24 GMT
Francisco Cribari wrote:
>
> In my /etc/inetd.conf file, I have
>
> ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
I bet if you swap the "-a" for a "-A", your problem will go away. Possibly
something wrong in your ftpaccess file.... Not a desirable fix, but
provides a clue to a fix.
Stu.
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