Linux-Misc Digest #834, Volume #23 Mon, 13 Mar 00 09:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Sendmail and win95 clients (Brian)
Re: Sendmail and win95 clients (Robert Heller)
Re: how can my scripts know Linux has made a ppp connection? (Koos Pol)
Re: repeated install failures (Dies_Irae)
Re: Linux with Soundcard Creative ES1373 PCI (Philipp Maier)
Re: No Sound (Philipp Maier)
Cobol and iBCS (Matheus Cunha Torres)
Re: Telnet to Unix box ("G. Roderick Singleton")
Incremental backups with tar to harddisc (J Bland)
How To setup users and groups on Linux ("Wayne Hendricks")
Re: preferences (Simon White)
new kernel for Compaq 1270 laptop running Mandrake 6?? (Rick)
Linux Party (LUGFEST) March 18th, Los Angeles (Dan Kegel)
Re: Cobol and iBCS (Lew Pitcher)
env vars help! (Mike L)
Re: tar and unwanted ownership (Villy Kruse)
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail and win95 clients
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:30:03 GMT
Hi Jason
>
> Hmmm... you are talking about three different things...
>
> POP3, SMTP, and telnet
Yes, I understand this. I am using telnet as a test and in the first
instance I was just trying send to see if it is at all possible. I can not
find any documentation on doing this sort of thing - only for pine, mutt
etc. You have given me hope - it sounds like it can be done??
>
> If you want to retrieve your mail from Linux machine... then you need to
> make sure you have a pop server running (look in /etc/inetd.conf for a
> 'popd' entry or something similar - to make sure the pop server starts up
> with the other services)
I have 3 commented mail entries in /etc/inetd.conf:
# Pop and imap mail services et al
#
#pop-2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
#pop-3 stream tcp nowait root
/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/vpop3d /usr/sbin/ipop3d
#imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
However /usr/sbin/ipop3d is not present - nor can I find it on the
distribution cd?? I have done a rpm search for 'pop' at redhat.com and
still no ipop3d. Am I missing something??
>
> For the smtp... do you get specific errors when you try to send through
the
> Linux machine (relaying not allowed, etc...)
No error messages (yet!)
>
> As far as telnet to the machine... a regular telnet to the Linux machine
> doesn't mean you have either smtp or pop server running.
It looks like smtp is ok - but no pop3.
Any help greatfully recieved :-)
Best regards, Brian
>
> Try:
>
> telnet 192.168.1.2 110 if you want to check for a pop server (listening
on
> port 110)
>
> Make sure you have entries for the windows machines in /etc/hosts... so
the
> Linux machine can resolve the names when the clients try to send mail.
>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail and win95 clients
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:48:42 GMT
Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:30:03 GMT, wrote :
B> Hi Jason
B>
B> >
B> > Hmmm... you are talking about three different things...
B> >
B> > POP3, SMTP, and telnet
B>
B> Yes, I understand this. I am using telnet as a test and in the first
B> instance I was just trying send to see if it is at all possible. I can not
B> find any documentation on doing this sort of thing - only for pine, mutt
B> etc. You have given me hope - it sounds like it can be done??
B>
B> >
B> > If you want to retrieve your mail from Linux machine... then you need to
B> > make sure you have a pop server running (look in /etc/inetd.conf for a
B> > 'popd' entry or something similar - to make sure the pop server starts up
B> > with the other services)
B>
B> I have 3 commented mail entries in /etc/inetd.conf:
B> # Pop and imap mail services et al
B> #
B> #pop-2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
B> #pop-3 stream tcp nowait root
B> /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/vpop3d /usr/sbin/ipop3d
B> #imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
B>
B> However /usr/sbin/ipop3d is not present - nor can I find it on the
B> distribution cd?? I have done a rpm search for 'pop' at redhat.com and
B> still no ipop3d. Am I missing something??
/usr/sbin/ipop3d lives in the imap package.
B>
B> >
B> > For the smtp... do you get specific errors when you try to send through
B> the
B> > Linux machine (relaying not allowed, etc...)
B>
B> No error messages (yet!)
B>
B> >
B> > As far as telnet to the machine... a regular telnet to the Linux machine
B> > doesn't mean you have either smtp or pop server running.
B>
B> It looks like smtp is ok - but no pop3.
B>
B> Any help greatfully recieved :-)
B>
B> Best regards, Brian
B>
B> >
B> > Try:
B> >
B> > telnet 192.168.1.2 110 if you want to check for a pop server (listening
B> on
B> > port 110)
B> >
B> > Make sure you have entries for the windows machines in /etc/hosts... so
B> the
B> > Linux machine can resolve the names when the clients try to send mail.
B> >
B>
B>
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B>
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From: Koos Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can my scripts know Linux has made a ppp connection?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:18:00 +0100
Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> Koos Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >* wrote:
> >>
> >> pppd will execute the contents of the file /etc/ppp/ip-up when it
> >> successfully negotiates a ppp connection
> >
> >Congrats! Of all options, this is the only *real* solution. ALL others
> >solutions (netstat, ifconfig, etc) can NOT be trusted to be working correctly
> >in all sitiations. This is the only one to have a guaranteed valid result.
>
> How is that more reliable that netstat or ifconfig? What circumstance will
> it be correct when ifconfig, for example, will not be?
On my system, if I do a "/sbin/isdnctrl hangup ippp0", the ifconfig output
still shows the ippp0 interface as up. The ifconfig output for checking if one
has an internet connection is probably the worst one.
Also reports have been made of netstat lagging behind with the actual status
of the ISDN channels. I don't know if that is reproducible, but then again...
Alas I don't recall if I learned that through a newsgroup or a website or a
mailinglist :-(
Koos Pol
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From: Dies_Irae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: repeated install failures
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:30:02 GMT
errors with the VFS point to the system ram. I would suggest pulling out
some of your memory (till you're down to 64 mb or less) and attempt to
load it again. It is possible for a soft error in memory to kill off the
Virtual File System and cause these errors.
good luck!
tom
BjJbMc wrote:
>
>
> This may be too general for people to help, but I have nothing else to
> give!
>
> I can not install Linux (Mandrake 6.5 OR 7.0) on an older machine I am
> trying to set up. It used to work fine with windoze. I get the
> installation started, it gets as far as:
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> (floppy etc)
> .
> .
> partition check:
> hda: hda1, hda2 <hda5, hda6>
> VFS: cannot open root device 16:01
> kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 16:01
> (wham!)
>
> The HD is new and good. The mainboard is old, a socket 7. The CPU is an
> AMD K6/200. The RAM is 128M of 66MHz SDRAM.
>
> The latest thing I did is replace the video card with a known working
and
> good one. No diff.
>
> Where might this problem come from? As I said, it's likely a definite
> answer isn't possible, but anything anyone can suggest will save my
blood
> pressure.
>
> TIA
> James
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with Soundcard Creative ES1373 PCI
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:52:21 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fritz wrote:
> I�m a beginner in working with Linux. Since I have installed Suse Linux 6.2
> , I try to set in opperation my above named Soundcard.
>
> Do anyone have experiences with this card?
Yes
> What I have to do to install it correctly ("sb" does not work)?
Take a look at my homepage (section Linux-->Sound). Couldn't be simpler!
PM
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Sound
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:54:10 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Steuber wrote:
>
> I'm running SuSE 6.2 (kernel 2.2.10).
> Sound card is a soundblaster.
>
> wavplay complains that /dev/dsp does not exist. That file is there.
> The KCD player will quietly not play a CD. The mixer won't open
> /dev/mixer. The /dev files have rw to the world. Sound is compiled
> in as a module. What am I missing?
Take a look at my homepage (Linxu-->Sound), I've described all necessary
steps in some detail...
PM
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From: Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Cobol and iBCS
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:06:58 -0300
Hi all,
After installing Slackware 7, I noticed that my MicroFocus Cobol v3.2
stopped to work properly w/ messages of "Segmentation Fault". It used
to work fine in Slackware 4.
Does anyone have an idea of what changed ?
I tried to use the iBCS.o from Slackware 4, but when I insmod it, it
says that the module was compiled to kernel 2.2.6 (i am using 2.2.13).
TIA,
Matheus C. Torres.
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From: "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Telnet to Unix box
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:02:02 GMT
Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein) wrote:
> >Now wait a minute Floyd. I do not actually use Linux in the
> >windowing environment, but my Unix recollection is that an
> >rlogin or telnet window can easily be VT100 compatible. It has
> >been a while but it works like that from another non-windows
> >system.
>
> Why would it? It's invoked from a command line, so you
> necessarily are already using either a terminal or a terminal
> emulator of some kind. All it does is pass the TERM variable to
> the environment at the remote host so that it knows what kind of
> a terminal is being used.
If you have set it. Otherwise ... It is the user's responsibilty
to define his environment. Often the sysadmin will provide
a 'canned' envrinoment for naive users but the user is still
responsible for ensuring that his environment provides useful
information to remote systems. So how does a user ensure his
environment is reasonable? By using one of the methods discussed.
>
> Try setting your TERM variable to some wierdly named vt100 type,
> say for example a DT80. Telnet to some distant host and see
> what the TERM variable has been set to! (You might want to
> leave it set to a DT80, it might be a better description of the
> terminal attributes than is a vt100 description!)
>
Telnet does not really care about $TERM. (see telnet(1)) so I don't see
the point of your arguement. If, on the other hand, we talk about rlogin
and family, then we can discuss environment
definitions such as TERM. Why? Because the rlogin family does
pass along the user's environment. This might affect use of
screen-oriented tools like vi if the passed $TERM is not recognized. The
solution use tset or other method to synchronize
definitions so that tools will behave in an expected manner. i.e.
providing a bad definition is probably a more silly thing to do
than to let the connection take care of itself.
> Hmmm... if your are really brave, try it from a shell inside GNU
> Emacs, where "emacs" is the terminal type. Or at least that is
> what it will be unless the init files for your shell on the
> distant host reset it.
>
And in other tools or from the commandline.
> Floyd
>
> >Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein) wrote:
> >>>Unix to Unix, consider rlogin.
> >>
> >>Which has exactly the same problem...
> >>
> >>Note that none of the discussion below addresses the problem.
> >>From a virtual console on a Linux box one does NOT get a vt220
> >>emulation with either telnet or rlogin. What you get is a
> >>"linux" terminal.
> >>
> >>The difficulty is that the distant host might be so old and
> >>crufty that it does not have a proper terminal description in
> >>its TERMCAP or TERMINFO database. Hence a user can attempt to
> >>use one that does exist and which is similar, such as vt100, but
> >>the results are not a perfect match and certain things, which
> >>differ from one terminal to another and may differ with older
> >>database entries, will not match. (There are roughly 101.3
> >>different xterms, and 524 different terminal descriptions for
> >>those xterms. Hence it is very arbitrary in which way they
> >>do not match. :-)
> >>
> >>The only perfect solution is to have a perfect terminal
> >>description _for_the_terminal_in_use. (vt220 and ansi terminals
> >>are not likely to be close to most xterms or to any UNIX
> >>variety's console.) But typically a proper fix can easily be
> >>obtained by either 1) getting the systems admin people on the
> >>distant host to add a "linux" description, which any Linux box
> >>can provide easily (rtfm on infocmp), or 2) setting up the
> >>user's login profile on the distant host to use a private
> >>terminal description database, which has a "linux" (or the
> >>approprite xterm) description in it. RTFM on terminfo.
> >>
> >>Using other terminal names to set TERM, whether it is
> >>accomplished using "TERM=xxzzy telnet host", or manually setting
> >>TERM at the distant end via tset or any other way, will *NOT*
> >>provide a better match between a linux console (or an xterm)
> >>and any of the various incorrect terminal descriptions that have
> >>been suggested.
> >>
> >> Floyd
> >>
> >>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "G. Roderick Singleton"
> >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>Mike McDade wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a simple fix is to emulate a terminal the UNIX box probably knows
> >>>>> such as a vt220
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Simple yes but if you login from various places using various
> >>>>type of terminal emulations, you should be using tset(1) to
> >>>>handle this.
> >>>>
> >>>>For example, a cshell user can put the following in his .login
> >>>>and be asked which terminal type to use:
> >>>>
> >>>>if ( $?TERM == 0 ) then
> >>>> setenv TERM unknown
> >>>> set noglob
> >>>> eval `tset -sQ -m :?$TERM $TERM`
> >>>> unset noglob
> >>>> set term=$TERM
> >>>>endif
> >>>>
> >>>>Well you get idea.
> >>>>> as soon as you log in do this (put them in a .profile, .kshrc, or whatever)
> >>>>> TERM=vt220
> >>>>> export TERM
> >>>>>
> >>>>> look in the TERMCAPS on the host machine to find out what kind
> >>>>> of terminals it likes
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mike
> >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>>>> > I have a Slack 7 box and a SCO 5.05 box in the same network. When I
> >>>>> > telnet from the Linux box to Unix box, the function keys and many other
> >>>>> > keys don't work properly. For example, backspace is the interrupt key.
> >>>>> > I tried to turn the TERM to ansi after connecting to Unix, but the prob
> >>>>> > continues...
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > Any ideas ???
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > TIA,
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > Matheus C. Torres.
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>--
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> >>>www.herbstein.com
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> >>>314 215-3584
> >>
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Incremental backups with tar to harddisc
Date: 13 Mar 2000 13:20:18 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to use tar to backup a small server's /home directory. The
idea is to make one main backup then use incremental ones from then on.
At the moment the system tars up /home every night, bzip2s it then shoves it
across to another machine via NFS. This backup can then be burned to a CDR
when it's convenient.
But at 100-200MB a backup it'd soon get very tedious. So, incremental
backups would make life much easier. But, how do you do it? The Guide on
www.linuxdoc.org is primarily for backing up to tape drives, which I would
have got but we didn't have the budget.
So, question 1 is how do I go about doing incremental backups to a tar
archive on a harddisc (with the main backup being on a CDR in a drawer
somewhere), and question 2 is, is there a better way of doing this
in the first place?
(there is reasonable harddisc space via nfs, we have a CD-R drive, any
ideas?)
JB
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From: "Wayne Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How To setup users and groups on Linux
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:22:00 +0200
Hey All
I am moving from Novell to Linux as my server and am trying to understand
the concepts used in Linux to define groups, users and rights (permissions)
to files and directories.
The only info I managed to find was on the persmissions and how to change
these and the creation of groups and users.
My problem is this....
If user KEVIN creates a file in a group directory eg ALL and the rights for
all members of the direcories is set as full ie the 777 how can another user
log in and use and change the same file if they are a member of the group
without having to run chown all the time.
Is there something I am missing here or a document which explains the
processe involved as I am lost on this issue.
Thanks a mil
Wayne Hendricks
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From: Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: preferences
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:32:44 +0000
> I'm using Netscape V4.6.
> Can anyone tell me how to have Netscape
> download message bodies and not just
> the headers.
Sounds like you're using IMAP. Try switching the server type to POP (if
your mailserver supports it) and, if you need to consult the mail
elsewhere, check leave a copy of messages on the server.
If you want to use IMAP, (a better standard for email when you need to see
it in more than one place, or frequently delete messages without reading
them) I think if you move stuff from the inbox to a folder you created,
you can get Netscape to then store these messages locally.
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: new kernel for Compaq 1270 laptop running Mandrake 6??
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:38:20 -0500
I am very new to Linux....
I have Madrake 6 running on a Compaq Presario 1270 laptop. It has the ES
Solo 1 sound chip, which is not supported by the kernel that shipped on
the CD. I undersatnd that 2.2.12 supports the Solo, and the Lucent modem
driver, so, Idlike to upgrade, but I dont really know how.
What I want to do is to DL a 2.2.12 kernel and install it... as simple
as I can get it. But, I dont know about system maps, modules and such.
Where might I get very simple directions on installing a stock kernel
(no compiling)?
Any and all help appreciated.
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From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: la.seminars
Subject: Linux Party (LUGFEST) March 18th, Los Angeles
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:50:55 GMT
[See also http://lugfest.sclug.org/ or http://www.lalugs.org ]
Interested in Linux? Want to know what Linux is? Want to see what
cool stuff Linux is capable of? Wanna meet other people from the
Linux User Group community?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then come to the
LUG Fest on March 18, 2000 at Nortel Networks, Simi Valley, CA, USA!
For directions, see http://lugfest.sclug.org/ or
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The LUG Fest will be run in an expo style, meaning the event will
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to demonstrate a particular application or concept. For those
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If your company is a Linux related company and wishes to sponsor
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The LUG Fest will start at 12pm and will end at 6pm on March 18th,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Cobol and iBCS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:52:17 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:06:58 -0300, Matheus Cunha Torres
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>After installing Slackware 7, I noticed that my MicroFocus Cobol v3.2
>stopped to work properly w/ messages of "Segmentation Fault". It used
>to work fine in Slackware 4.
>
>Does anyone have an idea of what changed ?
The kernel release changed... Slack4 was 2.2.6 (according to your
iBCS) and Slack7 is 2.2.13.
>I tried to use the iBCS.o from Slackware 4, but when I insmod it, it
>says that the module was compiled to kernel 2.2.6 (i am using 2.2.13).
So...
0) If you haven't already done so, install the iBCS source from the
Slackware 7 CDROMs
1) log on as root
2) cd to the ibcs source tree directory (i.e. cd /usr/src/ibcs)
3) make clean
4) make
5) make install
That's it
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Mike L
Subject: env vars help!
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:54:41 GMT
I'm having trouble defining (& seeing) any environment variables in my shell scripts
(bash).
First, if as the first line of the script I put:
#!/bin/bash
then I get the error:
bash: ./setenv No such file or directory
If I leave that line out, then my script(s) seem to run ok. However, any variables
that I define won't export.
Neither am I able to call one shell script from another. (I'm always getting the same
error as above.)
I've tried defining the variable & then exporting it or even defining & exporting on
the same line. Nothing seems to
work!
If anyone can help me with this, I'd really appreciate it!!!!
TIA,
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: tar and unwanted ownership
Date: 13 Mar 2000 14:08:44 GMT
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:55:01 GMT, peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I never faced this problem before and I often untared files
>as root. It makes no sense at all. the original ownership
>is totaly useless on my system and I dont want to chown
>every time I unpack something. I think the p flag is for
>extracting the ownership and if one doesnt use it, the
>extracted files should have the default-ownership of the
>calling user (even if he is root). and I�m quite sure that
>is the way tar behaved on my system in the past.
>
And I'm also prety sure that on any unix system I've used tar will
retain the original user and group ids if run by root, unless you
specify a flag to do otherwise. (with the 'o' flag).
Villy
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