Linux-Misc Digest #236, Volume #25 Tue, 25 Jul 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
GO2CALL.COM and firewall (Laetus)
Re: Dev listings question (-ljl-)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Doc Shipley)
Re: ./configure problem (Dirk Reckmann)
Can't login through anything but FTP ("Aric")
Re: xfs fails during start up (Robert Sparr)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Kelly and Sandy)
Re: ps output (Dances With Crows)
Re: Application required - Word Processor ("Wes Westberg")
Starting with Windows or Linux (Andy)
Re: Starting with Windows or Linux (Marc)
Re: Starting with Windows or Linux (Robert Heller)
Re: soundblaster live driver install (Marc)
Re: Help! DNS-Problem! (Barry Margolin)
Re: CFLAGS: optimize for i586 (Martin Herrman)
Re: monitor sync / startx problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Distros Security Report. (blowfish)
Re: is oracle free on linux(once for all or for a limited time) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux & free ISPs (mst)
Re: soundblaster live driver install
Re: Can't login through anything but FTP ("David ..")
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From: Laetus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GO2CALL.COM and firewall
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:01:16 GMT
Quick overview. I can't get my WIN2K machine (IP 192.168.1.14 on my
home network) to work with GO2CALL. I'm behind a Linux firewall
running IPCHAINS to masq the backend of the network. Chain rules:
:input ACCEPT
:forward DENY
:output ACCEPT
-A forward -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j MASQ
I'm also doing portforwarding with the following rules:
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2090 -R 192.168.1.14 2090
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2091 -R 192.168.1.14 2091
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2090 -R 192.168.1.14 2090
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2091 -R 192.168.1.14 2091
where firewall's.incoming.ip.address is the outside NIC of the firewall
and 192.168.1.14 is the IP of my WIN2K workstation.
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -ln reports:
prot localaddr rediraddr lport rport pcnt pref
UDP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2091 2091 10 10
UDP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2090 2090 10 10
TCP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2091 2091 10 10
TCP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2090 2090 10 10
I've successfully used DIALPAD.COM doing autoforwarding using these
rules which work fine:
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -u -r udp 51200 51201 -c tcp
7175 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -u -r tcp 51210 51210 -c tcp 7175
Anyone got any ideas why GO2CALL.COM won't work? I'd really
appreciated it. Thanks,
-- laetus
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dev listings question
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:14:57 GMT
In article <8lk84q$l6a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a Redhat 6.1 machine that I have installed an Adaptec 2930 SCSI
> card in. Redhat detected the card and I think it installed the kernal
> add on correctly. Attached to this SCSI card I have an 8mm tape drive
> and an SCSI hard drive. I am trying to figure out if any of the
> entries under /dev actually point to the devices attached to the SCSI
> card. I have tried doing a tar to any st* or nst* listing under dev
> and I get no drive activity.
>
> Is there a way to find out what dev entries go to what devices and if
> Linux has made the link?
Do "dmesg | less" and see what you kernel says, or you should find the
same info in "/var/log/messages". You'll see you SCSI card detected
snd then the devices. My DAT shows up as st0 in the above files.
If "st" (SCSI Tape) support is a module then "lsmod" should list it.
Also, "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" might help.
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.lang.oberon,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:21:32 GMT
raf wrote:
> I don't know about his grandmother, but I loaded Gobe Productive into my
> grandmother's 4.5.2 and she's off writing her life stories complete with
> pictures from 1922. Wait till she discovers the internet.
We wanna read it!
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Reckmann)
Subject: Re: ./configure problem
Date: 25 Jul 2000 18:40:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Seringhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>./configure
>
>it does a lot of tests (i.e. checking to see if gcc works .... yes,
>checking to see if timestamp accepts input.... yes, etc etc for about 2
>minutes) , and exits without an error,
Why do you think, .config is wrong, when it's not telling you?
>but then "make" does not work (it
>says "make: command not found").
That seems as is you didn't install the "make" - program. It's most
probably in an file called make-<version>.rpm on you RedHat CDs.
>It seems to be running all the
>preliminary tests but never getting around to creating the "make" file
>for the program I want to install
./configure is usually building a file called "Makefile". This is
later interpreted by the make application, which is then calling the
compiler.
Hope, that helps.
Ciao,
Dirk
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From: "Aric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't login through anything but FTP
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:55:34 -0500
Ok,
I am using RedHat 6.2 and the other night everything was working fine. 2
days later after not touching anything I can't login through telnet or at
the system. I can login through FTP though. Any hints? I have never heard
of anything like this before so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Aric
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Sparr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: xfs fails during start up
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:58:17 -0700
Ah-ha!
I had found that /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs was failing to unlock xfs at
shutdown. I could boot into runlevel 3, unlock xfs and start is
manually, and then either do startx or /usr/bin/gdm -daemon and go into
X11.
The unsolved mystery became why xfs no longer got unlocked. But it is
true that my /tmp directory was full. (Actually, my / partition was
full -- I ran an RPM that tried to install a few new directories there
and filled up the 256MB that Red Hat recommended I allocate there at
installation.)
Cleaning out the / partition solved the problem. /var/lock/subsys/xfs
now gets deleted properly at shutdown and starts up at boot time. I can
boot directly into runlevel 5.
Thank you, everyone, for your help! It is amazing how much you can
learn by having a few problems.
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From: Kelly and Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.lang.oberon,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:15:22 +0100
In a alt.os.linux.mandrake newsletter entitled "Operating systems for
personal-computers?", Piers B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>What does your grandmother do with her computer??????????/
She writes her books, the story of her family from before the First
World War up to the present day. She makes up A4 adverts and
flyers for the pensioners group. She makes A4 adverts and flyers for
her branch of the Socialist Worker Party. She writes snail-mail on it
for official correspondence. And email, of course. Researches stuff
on the Web. Her husband keeps track of the finances and does the tax
on it. He writes up his mathematical papers neatly -- in
Mathematica notebooks -- and runs the Chess Club newsletters. They both
compose and send out pictures from the scanner and digital camera
using it.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!/,
Sandy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ps output
Date: 25 Jul 2000 19:16:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25 Jul 2000 17:39:46 GMT, Claudia Bondila wrote:
>Can someone tell me what is the difference between:
>
>100 S bruceb 13313 13309 0 60 0 - 584 read_c Jul17 pts/2
>00:00:00 [tcsh]
>100 S fja 14496 14492 0 60 0 - 624 read_c Jul17 pts/4
>00:00:00 -tcsh
>
>What the right brackets mean?
A process shown like [this] has been swapped out to disk.
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: "Wes Westberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Application required - Word Processor
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:54:06 -0400
I don't know if anyone else tried that download, but I could only get it to
run under Windows 95. Maybe it was because I didn't have Word 5.0 for dos.
Richard Slobod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Onifer) wrote:
> >On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:29:38 -0400, Richard Slobod
>
> >>Microsoft Word for DOS 5.5 is available directly from Microsoft's
> >>website:
> >
> >This is just an update for Word for DOS 5.0 users. I doubt it will run
by
> >itself (unless you have Word for DOS 5.0).
>
> Microsoft never released any 5.0 to 5.5 upgrade of that type (although I
> believe there was a special upgrade _price_) and I can't imagine them
going
> to the trouble of putting one together now; I'm sure that download
contains
> the complete set of Word 5.5 install files. It's certainly large enough.
>
> Ironically enough, that would mean that there's actually a complete copy
of
> Word 5.0 included as well (run "SETUP 5.0" instead of simply "SETUP"),
> although I wouldn't suggest using it given its file-corrupting Y2K bug.
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Starting with Windows or Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:30:03 GMT
I am just learning linux so i need to get into windows for other files how
can i start my computer with a choice of linux or windows?
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting with Windows or Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:35:36 +0200
Andy wrote:
>
> I am just learning linux so i need to get into windows for other files how
> can i start my computer with a choice of linux or windows?
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
These are the possibilities
1) Boot Linux using a boot floppy.
2) Install the Linuxloader (LILO) which gives you the possibility to
boot several OS'.
3) Install Loadlin to boot from Windows into Linux.
Regards,
--
Marc
Logica: De kunst om het vol overtuiging bij het verkeerde eind te
hebben.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting with Windows or Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:38:34 GMT
Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:30:03 GMT, wrote :
A> I am just learning linux so i need to get into windows for other files how
A> can i start my computer with a choice of linux or windows?
Yes. This is called 'dual booting'. Note: Linux can read MS-Windows
partitions.
A>
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A> http://www.help.com/
A>
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundblaster live driver install
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:44:27 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> i downloaded the linux driver emu10k1---put it on floppy
> which file do you install it in?
> read a few tutorials and i cant make heads or tails of all this mess.
> thanks
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
What kind of file did you download?
If you have a RPM or a Gzip file you'l have to install it the normal
way.
Normally the driver resides in
/lib/modules/<kernelversion>/misc/emu10k1.o
You'l have to invoke it by modprobe emu10k1.
regards,
--
Marc
Logica: De kunst om het vol overtuiging bij het verkeerde eind te
hebben.
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From: Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help! DNS-Problem!
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:50:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Barry Margolin wrote:
>...
>> That doesn't sound like evidence of forwarding. Even a forwarding name
>> server caches the results it got. It only forwards when the data isn't in
>> its cache, which is the same circumstances that a non-forwarding server
>> will query one of the registered servers.
>>
>> It sounds more like the servers on network 1 are stealth secondary servers,
>> not forwarding servers.
>
>The interval right/bad ip on network 2 is longer than a normal
>cache-update interval. It seems to be that [ns2] is in
>forward-only-mode, although the registered servers have updated with new
>records, [ns2] needs hours to get the new information (as long as I get
>"...can't find x.y.z. : Server failed").
You'll have to ask the operator of ns2 what's going on. It sounds like
it has something misconfigured about your domain, or it's forwarding to a
server with that misconfiguration.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: CFLAGS: optimize for i586
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Jul 2000 20:06:35 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:12:30 GMT, A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> This will work, but also take into account, that this is also
> COMPILER dependent. the latest gcc (2.95.*) will handle this, as well as
> pgcc. egcs, and gcc-2.7.2.* will not understand the -march and -mcpu
> flags, IIRC. So before using this, check to see which compiler you have
> installed.
>
Thanks guys! "gcc -v" shows:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
So I think it will work?
Yes, it works.. the program compiles and the rpm works. BUT! I have a
new question: still the rpm is called *.i386.rpm. Why isn't it an
i586 rpm? And how can I solve this?
thanks again!
Martin
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10:00pm up 21 days, 6 min, 2 users, load average: 0.86, 0.61, 0.28
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: monitor sync / startx problem
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:22:06 GMT
I Had the same probleme.
I noticed that, my root file system was 100% full, that why xfs failed
during boot process.
I cleaned up my / filesystem, and all was OK.
Nicolas
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Linux Distros Security Report.
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:48:55 -0700
Major Linux distros security report.
http://www.securityportal.com/cover/coverstory20000724.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: is oracle free on linux(once for all or for a limited time)
Date: 25 Jul 2000 20:59:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:10:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>hello all,
> I just would like to know whether the oracle available on linux is
>an evaluation copy or is it free once for all
There's nothing I can find that indicates the version available for free
download will expire at some point. I *think* that the free download is
limited in the number of simultaneous connections it will accept and the
total size of the database. Haven't really tried to exceed those limits
myself... yet.
If you don't need the special features of Oracle, you'd be better off
using MySQL or Postgres, since those are (or soon will be) Free, no
doubt about it.
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & free ISPs
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:07:10 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Try this page
> www.metconnect.com
>
Great! Thanks! It's exactly what I was looking for. They just don't have
a news server - bummer!
MST
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundblaster live driver install
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:30:03 GMT
Marc wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > i downloaded the linux driver emu10k1---put it on floppy
> > which file do you install it in?
> > read a few tutorials and i cant make heads or tails of all this mess.
> > thanks
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
> What kind of file did you download?
> If you have a RPM or a Gzip file you'l have to install it the normal
> way.
>
> Normally the driver resides in
> /lib/modules/<kernelversion>/misc/emu10k1.o
> You'l have to invoke it by modprobe emu10k1.
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Marc
>
> Logica: De kunst om het vol overtuiging bij het verkeerde eind te
> hebben.
> Remove nospam to reply
What is the normal way?
This is my first install, just trying to get everything to work for now.
thanks for the reply :)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't login through anything but FTP
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:43:49 -0500
Aric wrote:
>
> Ok,
> I am using RedHat 6.2 and the other night everything was working fine. 2
> days later after not touching anything I can't login through telnet or at
> the system. I can login through FTP though. Any hints? I have never heard
> of anything like this before so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Was it connected to the net for those 2 days?
If YES, then it may have been CRACKED into.
Just a thought.
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