Linux-Misc Digest #407, Volume #24 Mon, 8 May 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Advice on Netware under linux. ("Fraser Orr")
Re: webserver ("Alex Lam.")
Re: 1.7M floppy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Configuring an *old* WD ISA EtherNet card... (Andrew Purugganan)
Abit released free Gentus-linux 2.0 optimized for Abit mobo. Re: Abit ("Alex Lam.")
Re: Advice on Netware under linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux (Christopher Browne)
Re: Why partition a Disk? (Christopher Browne)
http sniffer ("Yak Boy")
how does the device driver determines its device number? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: http sniffer ("Plathora")
Re: http sniffer (Dances With Crows)
Re: good email client for Linux? (Mario Saraceni)
Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!? ("Brian")
Re: Need to find my IP address (brian moore)
Re: What is the best source for working with core dumps? (brian moore)
Re: swap partition deleted, what now ? (Peter Buelow)
Re: Extracting multiple, COMPRESSED, tar files? (mh)
Re: mail server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: http sniffer (Peter Buelow)
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From: "Fraser Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Advice on Netware under linux.
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 20:10:07 -0500
I currently have a NetWare network running with
a large number of clients (all windows 98/NT.)
I want to begin to migrate the system as a whole
to Linux, however I am not sure of the best strategy.
My first task is to provide a database backend.
To do this I planned, as a first stage, to implement
a Linux server running MySQL. Using this allow the
client windows 98 systems to access the MySQL
system via MyODBC.
However, I am not sure how well Linux will interact
in this environment. I am particularly concerned
with whether it will be able to operate under Netware.
I eventually want to migrate the network disks and
print server onto Linux too, and I wonder how difficult
that is going to be.
Can anyone give me a brief outline of the quality
of NetWare support available in Linux? What works
real well, and what is shaky beta software? How does
it compare to Samba?
Any thoughts or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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From: "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: webserver
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:28:53 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a computer and I want to make it a webserver for my friends.
> whats software would I need to make it like one of those hosting sites you
> sign up for?
> like, to have the control panel and ftp access only to your area and
> everywhere?
> im lost and i dunno where 2 begin
>
There's the Apache which comes with almost all Linux distro.
There're also the AOLServer (with a public lisence similar to
Mozilla)
http://aolserver.com/dist/3.0/
And the WN web server (GNU lisence)
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/
Both the aolserver and the wn web server seem to be easier to
set up than Apache. I just downloaded both, haven't set them up
yet.
Alex Lam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 1.7M floppy
Date: 9 May 2000 09:22:26 +0800
>
> Re: 1.7M floppy
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
> Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 08 May 2000 10:29:19 EDT
> Organization: Fleabag Discordian Society
> Newsgroups:
> comp.os.linux.misc
> Followup to: newsgroup(s)
> References:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On 8 May 2000 18:52:54 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>How can I mount a 1.7M floppy ?
>>
>>I run "ls /dev/fd*"
>>and there is no fd0*1772. Is it a kernel issue ?
>>Do I need to re-compile the kernel?
>
>Nothing to do with the kernel at all.
>
># mknod /dev/fd0u1722 b 2 60
>then
># mount /dev/fd0u1722 /mnt/floppy
>
>Which distribution is brain-dead enough to not create a /dev entry for the
>1.7M floppy? I want to know so I can avoid that one and/or send them a
>nasty letter....
>
This is redhat 6.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Configuring an *old* WD ISA EtherNet card...
Date: 9 May 2000 01:05:09 GMT
Robert Heller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: The card itself IS seen by the kernel:
: Extracted from /var/log/messages:
<snip>
I also had an old card, but what my job easier was I had KDE and in one
of the control center panels it identifies what IRQ and memory addr was
being reserved for the NIC.
Then I got the NET1-2 (or something) HOWTO which advises how to run
modprobe, and which er driver to use in conjunction with the settings
from above. Who knows, maybe the coax thing is working but then...
--
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Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit released free Gentus-linux 2.0 optimized for Abit mobo. Re: Abit
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:39:47 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here's the problem. I have recently purchased the Abit BP6 motherboard.
> It uses ATA66 (meaning I have 4 IDE ports). The problem is that my
> harddrive and cdrom are on the first 2 (that still use ATA33). My burner
> therefore has to be on the ATA66 side.
>
> Apparently, RedHat 6.1 doesn't support ATA66 by default. Either one of 2
> fixes (in my mind) should work. Either the linux driver for the burner
> should help the burner (cause I'm not sure whether its the lack of a
> driver, or the OS itself), or I need whatever patch red hat has.
>
> I have emailed red hat twice now in the last 2 weeks with nothing but
> automated responses. If any one has had this problem before, and knows
> what to do, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Also, on a related topic, my sound card is not working. I most likely need
> drivers, but have been unable to find any.
>
DUMP RedHat.
Abit just released its own Linux distro. Gentus-Linux 2.0 (the
latest).
It's optimized for the Abit mobo
".....Free From ABIT and Free From Worry!" The ABIT Gentus?
package features the latest stable kernel with full native
support for multi-processing, and drivers and patches all
together. With Gentus? we have really gone out of our way to
make it easy to set up and install. Specifically we have added
direct support for UDMA/ATA/66 drivers so that you can install
directly to an ATA/66 drive, with a fixed driver and driver
optimizations for UDMA66.
Previously, users had to first install in the ATA/33 mode then
later switch over to the ATA/66 channel. With our software
enhancements to the Linux kernel that has all been obviated and
the process is much more
smooth. With Gentus? there is even auto recognition of ABIT
motherboards to suggest which pre-built kernels a user might
want to install in X-WIN GUI mode such as KDE OR GNOME. Many
software distributions only offer
one of those. Software RAID that is compatible with UDMA/66 IDE
is supported and is directly installable to and bootable from
RAID at the setup menu of the 1st CD. Gentus? also features
flexible HD partitioning
and pre-configuration as well as the afore mentioned
installation to IDE drive on UDMA/66 from a bootable CD...."
Free article & download from:
http://www.gentus.com/about_gentus.html
===============================
Alex Lam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Advice on Netware under linux.
Date: 9 May 2000 09:29:39 +0800
>
> Advice on Netware under linux.
>
> From: "Fraser Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply to: "Fraser Orr"
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 20:10:07 -0500
> Organization: XNet Information Systems, Inc.
> Newsgroups:
> comp.os.linux.misc
> Followup to: newsgroup(s)
>I currently have a NetWare network running with
>a large number of clients (all windows 98/NT.)
>I want to begin to migrate the system as a whole
>to Linux, however I am not sure of the best strategy.
>
>My first task is to provide a database backend.
>To do this I planned, as a first stage, to implement
>a Linux server running MySQL. Using this allow the
>client windows 98 systems to access the MySQL
>system via MyODBC.
>
>However, I am not sure how well Linux will interact
>in this environment. I am particularly concerned
>with whether it will be able to operate under Netware.
>
>I eventually want to migrate the network disks and
>print server onto Linux too, and I wonder how difficult
>that is going to be.
>
>Can anyone give me a brief outline of the quality
>of NetWare support available in Linux? What works
>real well, and what is shaky beta software? How does
>it compare to Samba?
>
>Any thoughts or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
I use my linux box to interact with the netware server, and find less problem than
using a window station.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Good Contact Manager for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 01:40:36 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Colin Holywell would say:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, root
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does Anyone know of a Good Contact Manager for Linux? I am looking for
>> one with most of the features of Outlook 98. This is really the main
>> reason I contunue to use Windows It must be X based.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>Sure! It is called Evolution; it is for Gnome and is a Outlook clone.
>I think the only way to download it is from their CVS as it is not
>done yet. Check it out at:
> <http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3>
_The_ question of the day:
Does Evolution support Visual Basic "worms" like Outlook does?
:-)
--
"Are we worried about Linux? ... Sure we are worried."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Why partition a Disk?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 01:40:48 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Rick Hoffman would say:
>> I have gradually moved to using cfengine to set up increasing amounts
>> of my system configuration. <http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/> This
>> amounts to constructing scripts that dribble necessary configuration into
>> configuration files wherever they may be.
>>
>> The result is that the control of configuration on my system is wandering
>> into /etc/cfengine. Net result is that when I install a new system,
>> an early thing I do is to install cfengine, and then run it on that set
>> of data, whether:
>> a) NFS mounted from another system,
>> b) Sitting on a floppy, or
>> c) Burnt onto a CDROM backup.
>>
>> I run cfengine, and it copies some config files into place, and inserts
>> entries into others, as needed. The beauty of this is that this leads
>> towards a "self-configuring" system. I _wish_ cfengine was a tad
>> friendlier; it would be quite wonderful to have a GUIed front end to
>> help generate rule sets. It's still useful enough to be valuable...
>
>Boy, I am really glad I kept up with this line of conversation because every
>response has been very helpful and now yours, Chrisopher, has stepped, I think,
>into an area that I ultimately was looking to get to. I am fairly new to Linux
>and just started using it on my home PC recently. There is one hell of a lot of
>files that make up this system. WHEW! Maybe 2% of all these files I feel
>comfortable with. Out of all these files what do I backup and replace, after a
>disaster or upgrade, to allow as much as possible returning to the same
>configurations on everything as I had before? I want to get to that point as
>quickly as possible before my configuration matures too much, you know what I
>mean? This cfengine you speak of can help with that? I am definently interested
>in knowing more. Thanks, I think, for bringing this up!!
If you're new to Linux, then I suggest that you initially direct
yourself to "figuring things out."
An approach to this that is fairly valid is to do the "stress to
failure" thing. Try things out; see what breaks; at some point, you
may have messed around with enough stuff to justify reinstalling from
scratch.
When that happens, it would be rather nice to have the more critical
configuration data still around to consult in getting the
reinstalled-system running as you want it running, as well as to have
any data that you've set up in /home/your-user-id.
To that end, I'd commend the idea of having /home as its own
partition, and of backing up configuration data that _largely_ resides
in /etc some place on /home.
# cp -r /etc /home
should likely do the trick.
The point of cfengine is to come up with somewhat general "rules" for
configuring your system. I suspect it may be a bit early for you to
know what those "rules" would be. It will certainly not be something
you figure out the _first_ time you install and try out Linux.
The first time, I'd consider the system a "scratch" system, one that
you should expect to be willing to demolish at will. Willing to try
things out, to see what works and what breaks.
The second time, you may want to go in a bit more carefully. You have
figured out that you need some information in /etc/hosts in order to
access remote hosts, and things like that.
In effect, the _second_ time around, you start figuring out that in
order to have a system that is running well, you need to set up some
data that goes, largely, in some files in /etc.
The idea of cfengine is that you take those things that you fiddled
with in /etc, and turn that "fiddling" into rules to update those
files. Perhaps adding a few lines of hosts you connect to into
/etc/hosts. Or changing /etc/profile to set up your favorite
timezone.
I'd somewhat suggest using version control on the files there; the
_first_ thing to do before doing custom "fiddling around" with
configuration would be:
# cd /etc
# mkdir RCS
# ci -l *
[RCS will ask "what is this file, anyways?" for each file; I'd suggest
using null messages by typing a "." period and pressing enter...]
You then will have the ability to use RCS to compare versions of
config files with "what they were before."
You fiddle around with /etc/hosts, and want to know what has changed:
# rcsdiff hosts
...and rcsdiff will show what lines got added/deleted
If you get quite happy with a particular set of changes, and want to
preserve a new version of /etc/fstab, you might do:
# ci -l fstab
RCS/fstab <-- fstab
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
enter log message, terminated with single '.' or end of file:
>> Added in some NFS mounts on remote host
>> Changed /cdrom so that ordinary users can mount it
>> Changed /floppy so ordinary users can mount it
man ci
man rcsdiff
man co
will all be helpful in figuring out the use of the basic RCS
utilities. _Very_ handy in managing configuration information that is
stored in text files.
If you find that you keep changing the permissions on a particular
file, or have an NFS mount entry that you need in /etc/fstab on
several hosts, _that_ is an indication that you may have a good
candidate for management using cfengine.
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From: "Yak Boy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: http sniffer
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 09:32:56 +1000
I'm not sure if this is really the right newsgroup, but I'm running Linux so
it's broadly coming in the topic.
What I'd like is a program to sniff out http posts and gets, ie Have a
normal browser running, but I'd like to be able to see exactly what gets
posted to the http server. I realise that sometimes this gets encrypted if
one is using SSL but for a simple plain post message, is there any utilities
out there to grab the plain post message ? ie, can a utility just sit and
listen on port 80 and output what is received ?
Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how does the device driver determines its device number?
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 02:02:12 GMT
Hi,
My NIC driver is 3c59x.o. I was wondering when the module is loaded,
how does it know it should be called eth0 instead of eth1? Is it
because there is an alias called "eth0" pointing to it or it just
grabs the first unoccupied eth number? Is it decided by the kernel
or by the device driver?
A related question: is /dev/sd5 the SCSI disk with SCSI ID 5?
Thanks in advance for any info!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Plathora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: http sniffer
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 02:14:45 GMT
This is possible yet it works a little differently then you might imagine.
Essentially what one does in order to "sniff" a machine is use the standard
ethernet interfaces to intercept the packets as they are processed by the
network card driver. BTW, your card must support "promiscquos mode" (I
know my spelling sucks ;-)).
Take a look on the web. I'm sure there is a driver out there somewhere to
get this working on Linux. Furthermore, if your stuck and have a budget I
know this functionality is provided by the various automated test tool
venders. Mercury Interactive has the best tools, followed by Rational. One
of them must have at least a client that runs on Linux and broadcasts the
results to a Win32 box for rendering/processing.
If you can't find anything re-post to this message. I've always wanted to
take the time to build one of these puppies and if there are non available
that would give me an excuse to dive in.
Hope this helped,
Plathora.
Yak Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8f7j1o$a8j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm not sure if this is really the right newsgroup, but I'm running Linux
so
> it's broadly coming in the topic.
>
> What I'd like is a program to sniff out http posts and gets, ie Have a
> normal browser running, but I'd like to be able to see exactly what gets
> posted to the http server. I realise that sometimes this gets encrypted if
> one is using SSL but for a simple plain post message, is there any
utilities
> out there to grab the plain post message ? ie, can a utility just sit and
> listen on port 80 and output what is received ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: http sniffer
Date: 08 May 2000 22:26:26 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 9 May 2000 09:32:56 +1000, Yak Boy
<<8f7j1o$a8j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm not sure if this is really the right newsgroup, but I'm running Linux so
>it's broadly coming in the topic.
>
>What I'd like is a program to sniff out http posts and gets, ie Have a
>normal browser running, but I'd like to be able to see exactly what gets
>posted to the http server. I realise that sometimes this gets encrypted if
>one is using SSL but for a simple plain post message, is there any utilities
>out there to grab the plain post message ? ie, can a utility just sit and
>listen on port 80 and output what is received ?
# tcpdump -w file.dump port 80
will dump the raw HTTP packets to file.dump. Then you can look at what
got received with a program such as Ethereal (check freshmeat.net).
Ethereal can also do packet-dumping on its own. Dug Song wrote something
called the dsniff suite that can do a whole lot of nifty stuff, but I
couldn't get it to compile... Remember these programs are for diagnostic
and educational purposes only. h4x0ring can get you in a lot of trouble,
and invading peoples' privacy is Not Nice.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Mario Saraceni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good email client for Linux?
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 03:27:25 +0100
> >Can anyone recomend a good email client for Linux?
>
Try CSCmail. it's probably the most complete GUI e-mail client for linux. Mutt for
text-only, or pine.
mario
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - write_g1?!?!?!?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 19:34:45 -0700
Hi Douglas:
Douglas E. Mitton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>That was about the third thing I tried but no go! If anything it
>fails even more often now! I'm pretty sure it is tied to the kernel
>scsi modules I'm using, more than likely some tuning option that has
>been addedd BUT that I haven't discovered yet.
Hmmm.
I suggest you have developed a hardware failure of some description,
coincidently with your kernel change.
Are you able to go back to your 2.2.13 kernel and burn without error?
If that is the case, you have to email Joerg and let him know.
Best regards,
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: 9 May 2000 02:37:53 GMT
On Mon, 08 May 2000 23:17:13 GMT,
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 07 May 2000 02:20:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
> wrote in comp.os.linux.development.apps:
>
> >The recommended method is to not try to find your IP number. Programs that try
> >to discover the IP address of the local machine are kludgy, and will break
> >under circumstances that the author did not take into account: multiple
> >interfaces, IP aliasing, dynamic IP, etc.
>
> What is the "reccommended method" of binding a program to only one
> interface/port combination without first determining the address of that
> interface? The ip(7) man page says that you should either bind to a
> specific address or to INADDR_ANY (which is effectively 0.0.0.0). Say,
> for example, I have an situation which requires me to run two different
> daemons on the same port number of different interfaces of the same
> machine....
What is the method of specifying the interface where the IP number isn't
sufficient to distinguish them?
Why would you want to specify 'eth0' instead of '10.1.2.3'?
--
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Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
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Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: What is the best source for working with core dumps?
Date: 9 May 2000 02:40:39 GMT
On Mon, 08 May 2000 19:10:31 -0500,
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Harlan Grove wrote:
> >
> > So does this mean there's no way to pull information from
> > core files without having the source code and a binary with
> > debugging information? What's the format of a core file? I
> > assume it's the memory image of the errant process, but
> > does it include the stack and register status at the moment
> > of failure? If so, at the end?
>
> Of course you can always find out which program produced the
> core dump by using the command
> file core
> The core dump is a memory image as you say. I've never tried
> to look at one under Linux, but I did under SunOS. You can
> probably get information about stack and register status, but
> what good would that do you?
With source? It would allow you to see what it was doing when it
crashed, which may provide the clue to fixing the cause of the crash.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Peter Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swap partition deleted, what now ?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:47:51 -0500
Did you set partition 5 to be type 82 <Linux Swap>. Without this, swapon
or mkswap will fail not having a valid swap partition.
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> While installing a second OS to my hard disk I thought "Oh,
> there is a free extended partition with id 5 - I don't have DOS,
> so what." - and scratched it, i.e., overwrote it with the
> second OS I wanted to install on that machine (FreeBSD).
>
> Now, when booting Linux (Redhat 6.1), I get an error when Linux
> tries to configure the swap device /dev/hda5. (Although
> it seems that Linux 'repairs' this deficiency later by adding some
> default swap).
>
> I tried to run fdisk from Linux, gave that partition it's ID 5 back
> but this didn't seem to work.
>
> How can I repair this?
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Pete Buelow
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 02:49:36 +0000
From: mh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extracting multiple, COMPRESSED, tar files?
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 May 2000 18:38:45 +0000, mh
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >Is there a way to extract multiple compressed tar files at once? I
> >tried the -M option for "multiple volumes" but got an error message to
> >the effect that this was not possible with compressed files, which is
> >what I'm trying to work with. I also tried using the "*" wildcard, but
> >got the same error.
> >
> >I just downloaded complete sets of HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs. Each
> >collection consists of a single compressed tar file containing multiple
> >compressed tar files, one for EACH article. I can't imagine anyone
> >actually extracting these articles one at a time.
>
> Shell script time.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # Warning, this is hasty and tasteless and nasty.
> # call this from the directory containing the first collection of tarballs
> # this only goes 2 levels deep
> # making it go deeper/recurse is left as an exercise
>
> for i in `ls *.tar.gz`; do
> tar xvzf $i
> j=echo $i | sed -e 's/\.tar\.gz//' -
> cd $j
> for k in `ls *.tar.gz`; do
> tar xvzf $k
> done
> cd ..
> done
>
> ...or use a GUI archiver client? Oh well, this should get you started...
>
You're right. That is nasty! My programming skills are pretty weak, so
let me see if I got this right. The first two lines seem
straightforward, though I wouldn't have expected you could set an
incrementing variable using the ls command.
The third line and fourth lines are a mystery--don't know why the first
variable is being piped to the sed script which is setting the value of
the second incrementing variable? or why you'd cd to a file? Is the
script creating a second-level directory?
The rest is to process the second level of tar-zipped archives.
Perhaps you could recommend a GUI archiver? Didn't know they existed,
or could process recursive tar-zipped archives.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 02:37:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
>
> I want to setup a little mail server on my machine (running Mandrake
> 7.0). There's a need for only four or five mail accounts. I want to
> know which server to use and how to set this up.
> I already have a web server with a domain name, if it helps... I want
> these email addresses to be @domainname.com.
I recommend exim. I set it up in one day (I have configured a mail
server on NT via GUI but had never done it on Linux). It comes with
superb documentation.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Peter Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: http sniffer
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:54:08 -0500
I don't know about a specific IP protocol sniffer, but there are generic packet
and network sniffers which you could use to watch for HTTP traffic. It would be
tougher, but still a can do project. Probably involving a script of program to
parse the output.
You can find lots of them at www.freshmeat.net
Yak Boy wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is really the right newsgroup, but I'm running Linux so
> it's broadly coming in the topic.
>
> What I'd like is a program to sniff out http posts and gets, ie Have a
> normal browser running, but I'd like to be able to see exactly what gets
> posted to the http server. I realise that sometimes this gets encrypted if
> one is using SSL but for a simple plain post message, is there any utilities
> out there to grab the plain post message ? ie, can a utility just sit and
> listen on port 80 and output what is received ?
>
> Thanks,
--
Pete Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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