Linux-Misc Digest #284, Volume #24 Wed, 26 Apr 00 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Logical Volume Manager for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Configuring an Ethernet card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
time setting itself? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to config eql and ppp on two modems? ("Adi Masputra")
Re: Linux / Windows 95 modems ("David ..")
Re: security ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: News server recommendation (Graham Murray)
Re: time setting itself? ("David ..")
Re: How to config eql and ppp on two modems? (Clifford Kite)
Re: anonymous ftp problem (Bob Hauck)
Help/Hilfe suse 6.4 nfs install (Randon Loeb)
Quake 3 Demo probs :( (Wouter Westendorp)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Ermine Todd")
Re: filenames with spaces and wildcards (Siemel Naran)
Want More On Linux? Try Here.No Commercials ("SEATTLE")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Logical Volume Manager for Linux?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:01:47 GMT
George,
I don't know if this satisfies your question, but RH6.1 has built-in
software RAID support. With this I was able to logically join three
physical volumes together into one big data space.
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <390b191d.100746312@home>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George) wrote:
>
> I'm currently a Unix administrator for a major corporation. We have
> an HP9000 running HP/UX using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to
> administer multiple hard drives into a single volume. For example, we
> have 12 9.1gb hard drives arranged into a single volume group to give
> us 109.2gb of available space.
>
> I also have a Linux machine at home running RedHat v6.1. I am running
> a small news server which carries a few newsgroups that I like to
> read. What I have installed in this machine is 2 hard drives, 1 2.5gb
> and 1 6gb. The 2.5gb hard drive has the Linux OS on it and some
> available free space and the 6gb hard drive is totally devoted to
> news. I would like to combine the 6gb and the 1.5gb remaining from
> the first drive together to form a single volume. Now some of you
> might say, "Why not just buy a larger hard drive?", sure but there
> could be other times where someone else may need allot more space than
> I do. Take the example above of 12 9.1gb hard drives, now if I had
> these drives on my server at home (I only wish) it would make an
> awesome news server would it?
>
> Bottom line is... Is there such a program that exists for Linux that
> can do volume management?
>
> Thank you.
>
> George
>
> P.S. Sorry for the multiple newsgroup posting, but I wanted to get
> the message out to a broader area.
>
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Configuring an Ethernet card
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:03:14 GMT
Hi,
OK, I'm having major problems configuring my new card. Before this
card, I
had a no-name NE-2000 compatible (so says the box) card which I couldn't
get
to the anything. Now, I bought a new NetGear card and I actually got
somewhere, but I'm still having some problems.
I'm using a Netgear Fast Ethernet FA 310TX which some people mentioned
here
was a good card, and is listed in the Net-HOWTO as a supported card
under
Linux.
This is exactly what I did to configure it on my Red Hat 6.1 system:
1. I installed the card, and rebooted. The kudzo program which detects
new
devices detected it. It asked me if I want to configure it, I chose
YES,
and then asked me if I wanted to configure Networking, I chose YES,
entered
all of my IPs, DNS, default Gateway, etc.
2. I asked about the card on IRC. A person who said that he was using
this
same Netgear card, told me that they use a modified Tulip driver, and
sent
me the .tar.gz. In the drivers, there was a file called `installtulip',
a
shell script, which looks like this:
-- START FILE --
echo "Compiling netgear drivers..."
# The original method ( this is what netgear was doing )
#gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c Tulip.c `[ -f
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h ]
&& echo -DMODVERSIONS`
# New and improved ( this is what the 2.2 kernel does ;)
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m486
-malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DMODULE -c -o
tulip.o
tulip.c
echo "Installing drivers..."
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
/sbin/rmmod tulip
mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net
cp -f tulip.o /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/net/tulip.o
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/insmod tulip
echo "You now need to reconfigure your network settings, either with
ifconfig or another program."
-- END OF FILE --
3. I ran the installtulip file as root, and here's the output I got:
-- START OUTPUT --
# ./installtulip
Compiling netgear drivers...
Installing drivers...
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
rmmod: module tulip not loaded
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/tulip.o: unresolved symbol(s)
You now need to reconfigure your network settings, either with ifconfig
or
another program.
-- END OUTPUT --
4. I used the following commands:
# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 <my_ip> netmask 255.255.255.0
# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5F:F0:04
inet addr:<my_ip> Bcast:64.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xb800
5. In order to test the card, I ping-ed the IP I used as an argument to
/sbin/ifconfig:
# ping <my_ip>
PING <my_ip> (my_ip) from my_ip : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from my_ip: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
64 bytes from my_ip: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
64 bytes from my_ip: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
64 bytes from my_ip: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
^C
--- my_ip ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0.1 ms
6. I rebooted my machine, and the Red Hat startup thing gave the
following
errors:
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/tulip.o: unresolved symbol(s)
(note that the above path is not where I put the netgear drivers. I put
them
in my home dir.. I guess the installtulip script put them in
/lib/modules/... or maybe this is a conflict between the modified tulip
and
the real one? I don't know)
And then later:
Bringing up eth0 interface delayed eth0 [FAILED]
(or something along those lines, I can't really remember)
7. When Red Hat 6.1 finished booting, I did:
# /sbin/ifconfig
But this time eth0 wasn't listed. If I use:
# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 <my_ip> netmask <my_netmask>
Again, then it's listed in /sbin/ifconfig.
What should I do? I know some of you guys have Netgear cards, and
everyone
said it's a breeze to install.. so what to do?
Thanks a lot,
-- John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: time setting itself?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:13:14 GMT
Ok, I'm confused.
I'm running Mandrake's issue of Redhat ver 6.1. Everything seems to be working
correctly.
I noticed the other day that the time was about 5 hours behind what it should be, so
I used the date command to reset it. I noticed this morning, that it was, again,
about 5 hours behind what it's supposed to be, so I used linuxconf to reset it.
About half an hour ago, I reset it again because it was about 5 hours behind. Took
another look, and once again, it's 5 hours behind. I couldn't see anything in the
process stats that looked like a time daemon. Anybody know what keeps resetting my
system's time?
Thanks for any tips.
Doug
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Douglas K. O'Leary
System Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Adi Masputra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: How to config eql and ppp on two modems?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:36:37 -0700
If your ISP supports Multi-link PPP (MP), then try the 2.4 Beta
version of pppd from: ftp://linuxcare.com.au/pub/ppp
I'm unsure about the requirements for the Linux Kernel, but I
think you'd need at least 2.3.99pre5 or later.
--
Adi Masputra, Internet Engineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Solaris Networking Technologies Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"Cheong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a SuSE6.2 box, with two modem, running ppp and connect to my ISP.
> Someone tell me that I can use two modems configured with "eql" and "ppp"
to
> increase the bandwidth. I have used a lot of time to search the linux web
> site but I can't get it. Can anyone tell me how can I get it? Does anyone
> successfully run "eql" and "ppp" running with two modems?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Antony.
>
>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux / Windows 95 modems
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:27:10 -0500
Leslie Hamilton wrote:
>
> I have a dual boot Linux / Windows 95 system. Everything runs fine, but I
> have an internal 'Winmodem' fitted therefore cannot download to my Linux
> partition from the Internet.
> Any suggestions for an external Linux / Windows 95 modem that will work?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
One of my systems uses a USrobotics 56K voice ISA internal
The other system uses a 3com courier V.everything 56k x2 ISA internal
Both work without any problems other than having to correct the IRQ
setting for the USrobotics with a fresh install.
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ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: security
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:36:30 GMT
# ed johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# I have a problem with someone downloading my passwd file from a linux server
# on the net and using some utility to crack the root password. I need anon
# ftp access to the server but how can I stop this please...???
Properly configuring the anonymous ftp server would probably be a good start.
I believe there's a HOWTO on it; failing that, the man page should help.
Doug
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Douglas K. O'Leary
Senior System Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: news.software.nn,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: News server recommendation
Date: 26 Apr 2000 20:39:01 +0000
In news.software.nntp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> who has a web browser but not a nntp client? unless you're running
> some stone-age browser like mosaic, web browsers have a (albeit poor)
> nntp client built-in.
Someone who runs Netscape Navigator rather than Communicator?
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: time setting itself?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:49:34 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm confused.
>
> I'm running Mandrake's issue of Redhat ver 6.1. Everything seems to be working
>correctly.
> I noticed the other day that the time was about 5 hours behind what it should be, so
> I used the date command to reset it. I noticed this morning, that it was, again,
> about 5 hours behind what it's supposed to be, so I used linuxconf to reset it.
>
> About half an hour ago, I reset it again because it was about 5 hours behind. Took
> another look, and once again, it's 5 hours behind. I couldn't see anything in the
> process stats that looked like a time daemon. Anybody know what keeps resetting my
> system's time?
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> Doug
>
> --
> ------------------------
> Douglas K. O'Leary
> System Administrator
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First do this and check to see if this is what you have.
cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
ZONE="country/timezone" # like "US/Central" including quotes
UTC=true
ARC=false
This means that Linux will assume that your BIOS clock is set to the UTC
or GMT timezone. More than likely, the clock is set to your local
timezone, and you need to change the UTC line.
If yours is similar other than timezone and country.
Then you need to change the line:
UTC=true
to
UTC=false
Then reset the clock. This should correct the problem.
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ID # 123538
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From: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: How to config eql and ppp on two modems?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:14:52 -0500
Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a SuSE6.2 box, with two modem, running ppp and connect to my ISP.
> Someone tell me that I can use two modems configured with "eql" and "ppp" to
> increase the bandwidth. I have used a lot of time to search the linux web
> site but I can't get it. Can anyone tell me how can I get it? Does anyone
> successfully run "eql" and "ppp" running with two modems?
You have to have the cooperation of the ISP at the very least. Moreover
the eql.txt in the kernel source tree is dated February 1995, and that
eql is designed for an ISP using a Livingston Portmaster 2e terminal
server and no other. Personally I think you are tilting at windmills,
as regards eql but here are the links I know about:
http://abies.com/eql-howto.html
http://home.indyramp.com/eql/eql.html
http://www.cwareco.com/eqlplus.html
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* ... packets usually cross many administrative boundaries on their way
from a source to a destination and often the only point of agreement
between those separate administrations is that all problems are someone
else's fault. --Van Jacobson, abstract of April 97 MSRI talk */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp problem
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:19:36 GMT
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:33:23 -0700, Christopher Fonnesbeck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to set up an anonymous ftp server on my Linux machine, using
>wu-ftp. However, when users try and log in anonymously, they are asked
>for a password, rather than their e-mail address.
What happens if they just enter their email address? Here's what my
wu-ftpd does:
[hauck@lab hauck]$ ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 lab.codem.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Wed Jan
7 01:03:55 MST 1998) ready.
Name (localhost:hauck): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
If I give an email address as my password it logs me in as anonymous.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: Randon Loeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Help/Hilfe suse 6.4 nfs install
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:18:54 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone installed suse 6.4 using yast over nfs? (not yast2). If so,
please email me, I'd like to ask exactly how you did it. I am having
problems with yast not liking disk2.
It keeps telling me "The given directory does not contain the correct
CD". Yes, I do know how to count!
Hat irgendjemand suse 6.4 ueber nfs installiert? ich versuche mit yast,
nicht yast2. falls ja, bitte schreiben sie mir ein email, ich wuerde
gerne wissen genau wie sie das gemacht haben. ich habe probleme mit
disk2, "The given directory does not contain the correct CD". Ja, ich
kann richtig rechnen, sogar wenn mein deutsch nicht gut ist!
--
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CTI Consulting & Training
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From: Wouter Westendorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Quake 3 Demo probs :(
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:26:46 -0100
Hi,
A few days ago I installed Linux (Redhat 6.2) for the first time on my
computer. I installed my soundcard drivers and my Voodoo 2 drivers as
described on the 3dfx site, and, of course, I installed the Q3 Demo.
But when I start the Q3 Demo I only see a black screen, but I can hear
the sound of the intro, but it is very distorted. I can quit by typing
'blindly' '/quit'. I tried several things like installing in other
directory's, with or without Mesa drivers etc... but it won't help :(
Does anybody know how to resolve this BiG ProBleM ??
Bdw, my Glide tests were ok...
My system:
Celeron 333@416
G200 + Voodoo 2
Diamond MX 300
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From: "Ermine Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:31:46 -0700
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
You clearly don't know what the MSInstaller service is. First, all of the
items mentioned in your dream sheet are fully supported. Second, the
message you describe is not one of the messages that the installer service
uses. Third, if you feel that you are lacking details, there's always the
complete log file available (use /L*v <filename.log>). Fourth, any
file/package installed by the installer is inherently self-healing - delete
any component and the installer is able to detect the condition and repair
it - though you do have to ask it to do so; but then, it has a defined API
that is callable from within applications so that applications can be
self-healing. and on, and on. - you can read the specs yourself.
It does work. You should give it a try.
--ET--
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ermine Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Not to harp on too fine a point, but I suggest that you research the
> : MSInstaller service before you condemn it as "just another installer".
It
> : is an integral element of the OS that does much more than just copy
files.
>
> Can it give me a complete file/registry/etc manifest both before and
> after install? A dependency manifest both forwards and back through
> the hierarchy (what components depend on it and which it depends
> upon)? Automatic dependency satisfaction (such as automatically
> installing DirectX, a VB runtime, or JRE, iff it's not installed
> already (as known by the package database))? For bonus points, it
> should be able to automatically download those required components
> via HTTP, FTP, or off a local CDROM...without the user being
> required to open a browser or know a URL. For even more bonus
> points, an admin should be able to easily build their own "meta"
> package that simply lists dependencies for the software they want so
> the entire list can be installed in one go.
>
> To call MSInstaller simply a copy program would be kind...at least
> when I use copy I know what is going where... At least with del I
> know what is being removed... :-(
>
> AFAIK, there is no way to pick a random file in the system and say,
> "To which application does this belong?". Sometimes information in
> the file may tell you, most times it won't.
>
> What of the message MS's deinstaller gives, "Some components could
> not be removed. You should remove them manually." ...then
> completely fails to offer any method to find the list of components
> that need to be removed... Or the never ending list of, "The shared
> component Foobar.DLL is no longer in use by any application, would
> you like to delete it?"...then finding when you do it breaks god
> knows what...After a few dozen times one simply learns to never,
> ever delete any DLL from anywere in Windows for any reason if you
> want a chance in hell of keeping the system stable. To really have
> a chance however, you simply can't uninstall anything, full stop.
>
> IMHO, the #1 problem Windows really has is a total lack of any real
> package management system. It looks pretty to be sure and Win2k is
> even prettier, but it is functionally inept.
>
> : The SFC utility is terribly hard to find: you might try Find/Search but
> : if that's too much for you, you can always just try Start-Run-SFC.
>
> Looks interesting, however it would have been completely useless for
> the problem I described. Safe mode didn't come up; there simply was
> no running GUI, which in turn makes SFC useless, AFAICT.
>
> --
> -Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
> BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
> Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
> medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
> more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran)
Subject: Re: filenames with spaces and wildcards
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:37:12 GMT
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:53:53 GMT, Christopher Browne
>How do you deal with editing the _three_ files:
> a) first_file
> b) second_file
> c) "third file with spaces"
>?
>
>How would you attach the _three_ files to the variable, FILES,
>so that you could execute
> vi $FILES
>and expect to get all three files?
>
>_THAT_ is the crucial generalization that determines if your scheme
>is feasible, or desparately broken?
FILES=first_file second_file "third file with spaces"
vi $FILES
But in the current shells, the first line is a syntax error.
And this does not work either:
FILES='first_file second_file "third file with spaces"'
The shell sees this as 6 things --
first_file
second_file
"third
file
with
spaces"
Just now, I thought that bash2 array feature would do the trick.
files=(one "second file")
vi $files
Unfortunately, it edits three files, not two!
one
"second
file"
How retarted...
>How would you deal with assembling together prefix and suffix where
>you have a list of prefixes thus:
> a) myfile
> b) yourfile
> c) "someone else's file"
>and need to attach them to the ".cpp" suffix?
files=(myfile yourfile "someone else's file")
for each file in $files ; do
file=$file.cpp
done
echo ${files[*]}
The result is:
myfile.cpp yourfile.cpp "some else's file.cpp"
or:
"myfile.cpp" "yourfile.cpp" "some else's file.cpp"
Well, the above doesn't even work in bash2.
>It gives you the challenge of convincing people that they should _use_
>your scheme...
I'll have to convince them of the power of filenames with spaces.
They are likely not to believe me. Not because of any deep reason,
but rather because they are not used to filenames with spaces.
--
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:53:36 GMT
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