Linux-Misc Digest #631, Volume #25 Thu, 31 Aug 00 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative? ("Sjoerd
Langkemper")
Re: Select and Paste Keys ? (Laurent Jacques)
X server problems ("Keyur Kanabar")
Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98 (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Howto: A simle command line mail program ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Check out this weird linux behavior (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Redirect EMAIL (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: preventing those crashes: is the kernel the culprit? (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: TCP/IP networking and PPPD???? (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
problem with Tyan 1682 (Someone Else)
Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98 (Hans Marcus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kr=FCger?=)
Re: access database on Linux (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Redirect EMAIL (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Port forwarding on RedHat 6.2 ????? (Akira Yamanita)
Re: problem with Tyan 1682 (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Redirect EMAIL (ray)
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From: "Sjoerd Langkemper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:23:57 GMT
"Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Desktop Linux in the company has Netscape.
> Netscape is unstable honestly. Netscape often stop or terminated during
> the normal operation without a warning message.
> I need an web browser is more stable than Netscape. :-)
You could also try Lynx. You should find lynx in one of your bin
directories.
> My homepage is 'http://www.geocities.com/flyingdoggle/main.html'
That's your problem.
Sjoerd
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From: Laurent Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Select and Paste Keys ?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:18:14 +0200
Hello All,
Finally, I've resolved my mouse problem.
The solution that I've found on the web/HOWTO/manpages consists in the
use
of TWO mice.
For that I use the section "XInput" with the subsection "Mouse" in
XF86Config [see the manpage of XF86Config + the example file
XF86Config.eg
(on Debian)].
Now, I can control my cursor with two mice :-D
Thus, with one I use the wheel for web application, and with the other I
can cut'n paste all I want.
It's a bit strange but funny, and it solved my problem.
LJ.
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From: "Keyur Kanabar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X server problems
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:36:19 +0100
Hi
I've got a problem with an PC Xserver sever I'm using. The X server (X
Manager) is running on a Win 98 box. On my network I've got a box running
Linux.
What I've managed to do is to run an X windows session (GNOME, Enlightenment
etc.....)on my Linux box and have the displayed piped throught the network
and on to my Win98 box via the X server. I done this using xdm.
Now the problem I'm having is that when I install new themes i.e .ethemes
then somtimes certains fonts would be missing on the menu etc.. hence I
wouldn't be able to do anything because I can't see any of the fonts. I've
tried installing the fonts required onto my Xsever, I also tried using an
xfs but no luck.
Does anyone know what the problem could be?? Am I going about it the right
way?? Any help would be much appreciated.
KK
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:29:53 -0400
Greg F Walz Chojnacki wrote:
> I need a little clarification:
>
> I set up samba on Redhat 6.02, and my win 95 machine can use the Linux
> printer, no problem. A Win 98 machine, however, asks for a password, which I
> can never get right.
I run SAMBA on this machine. When I boot Windows 95 on my other machine, it asks
for my password on this machine (so it can talk to SAMBA). When I first set it
up, it did not work. Neither my Windows 95 nor my SAMBA are setup to use
encrypted passwords. The problem was that I had upper-case letters in my
password on this machine, and Windows mapped all my upper-case letters to lower
case, so they did not match. Changing my password on this machine to all
lower-case letters and some digits solved that problem. I was sorry to do that,
but Bill Gates is not much into passwords at all, much less secure ones.
> This seems to me like a problem with encrypted passwords, which I suppose
> Win 98 is using, but not Linux or Win 95.
>
> Right?
>
> I'm uncertain, because when I print with the win95 machine, I'm not even
> asked for a password.
>
> If so, the solution, I gather, is to get win 95 and the Linux Samba setup to
> use password encryption.
>
> Right?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Greg
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Howto: A simle command line mail program
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:48:07 GMT
Is there a simple "command line" mail program that makes it possible to send mail
directly to an externel smtp server without having to setup anything besides the
program
itself, maybe something like it's done in lids. Here I just have to specify the name
of the
externel smtp server, the username, the password and everything works. I need the mail
program
to auto send messages, loginfo, system status etc. and I do not want the big sendmail
program.
If you think there is a better way to have a linux server mail me status info, through
the
internet, please let me know.
Thanks in advance
Bo Jacobsen
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Check out this weird linux behavior
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:45:56 -0400
Rudy Moore wrote:
> Well, you hit the nail on the head. Check out this line in my
> inetd.conf:
>
> 60000 stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh /bin/sh -i
Mine does not look like this. My line is like this (commented out anyway, so it does
not matter to me):
# These are standard services.
#
#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
#telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
#
Can you really put port numbers in there where the service name should be?
Upon execution, inetd reads its configuration information from a configu-
ration file which, by default, is /etc/inetd.conf. There must be an entry
for each field of the configuration file, with entries for each field
separated by a tab or a space. Comments are denoted by a ``#'' at the
beginning of a line. There must be an entry for each field. The fields
of the configuration file are as follows:
service name
socket type
protocol
wait/nowait[.max]
user[.group]
server program
server program arguments
The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file
/etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the service
name must be the official name of the service (that is, the first entry
in /etc/services). When used to specify a Sun-RPC based service, this
field is a valid RPC service name in the file /etc/rpc. The part on the
right of the ``/'' is the RPC version number. This can simply be a single
numeric argument or a range of versions. A range is bounded by the low
version to the high version - ``rusers/1-3''.
Did your hacker install a service named 60000? He must have diddled your
/etc/services file also, then.
>
>
> Me, being quite new to linux, wondered what that was, so I telneted to
> it. Those of you not so new to linux already know what that does, I'm
> sure :)
>
> I suspect they came in from ftp because most of my root.root type files
> are now root.ftp
>
> Anyways, thanks for your help, I'll be sure to keep my eye out for those
> security announcements.
>
> Rudy
>
> In article <8octn3$o0l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> > Well, I would suspect a hack.
> >
> > What in the world is in.amqd?in.sysched? What are all those identd's
> > doing there? You seem to have a lot of daemons running-- do you really
> > need them?
> >
> > If you are on an rpm system, do
> > rpm -Va|grep '^..5'>/tmp/verify
> > and look for crucial files which have been altered.
> >
> > Then, when you are sure you have a good find, do
> > find / -perms +4000 -ls
> > and figure out whether each of those suid files is legitimate.
> >
> > Who is charles running irc (without being logged in)?
> >
> >
> > In <MPG.14135fd2a9c7b56f989688@news> Rudy Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> > ]My machine is doing weird things :). For one, the hosts.deny file is
> > ]now empty, and I can't make changes to it! vi now allowing me to write
> > ]to it, prompted me to do a chmod 777, which I wasn't allowed to do!
> >
> > ]Anyone know why this is happening? (hack?)
> >
> >
> > ][chris@dr-evil chris]$ su -l
> > ]Password:
> > ][root@dr-evil /root]# ls -al /etc/hosts.deny
> > ]-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Jul 13 01:35 /etc/hosts.deny
> > ][root@dr-evil /root]# chmod 777 /etc/hosts.deny
> > ]chmod: /etc/hosts.deny: Operation not permitted
> > ][root@dr-evil /root]# rm /etc/hosts.deny
> > ]rm: remove write-protected file `/etc/hosts.deny'? y
> > ]rm: cannot unlink `/etc/hosts.deny': Operation not permitted
> > ][root@dr-evil /root]# whoami
> > ]root
> >
> >
> > ]=======================
> > ]here's a ps:
> >
> >
> > ][root@dr-evil /etc]# ps -auxc
> > ]USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > ]bin 340 0.0 0.6 1212 420 ? S 08:11 0:00 portmap
> > ]chris 5338 0.1 1.7 1832 1088 2 S 01:10 0:00 irc
> > ]daemon 470 0.0 0.4 1144 296 ? S 08:11 0:00 atd
> > ]nobody 452 0.0 0.8 1300 532 ? S 08:11 0:00 identd
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redirect EMAIL
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:50:15 -0400
Ernesto Gianoni wrote:
> I have a LOT of email in /var/spool/mail/root
>
> HOW CAN I GET THEM with my email client???
>
> Thank you in advance
Type elm, mail, or whatever your e-mail client's name is. It
will typically give you a list of items that you can read, one
at a time. You can keep, reply to, save to a file, or discard
them, usually. You have to be logged in as root. su is not
enough, but su - probably is.
I bet these are just failed logrotates of something, for
services you are not running. I get them for http (or someting)
that I am not running. I have not taken the trouble to find out
where this is being done and stopping it.
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: preventing those crashes: is the kernel the culprit?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:00:24 -0400
Neil Zanella wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After upgrading from Red Hat 5.2 to Red Hat 6.2 I was experiencing lots
> of system crashes and wondering why that was. At first I thought it might
> be overfull partitions as my /tmp was quite full so I made sure everything
> was no more than 80% full but that did not help. My system kept on
> crashing unexpectedly from time to time. Then I suspected it was my text
> editor vim since I use it so often and the system used to crash a lot
> while editing files. But the system crashed when I was not using it as
> well. So then I suspected that it might be the gnome or enlightenment
> or some other X Window thing. That was not the case as Linux froze on
> me once again, this time in console mode. Arrghh, what could it be?
> Well, my conclusion was that the newer kernels are prone to crashing.
> I _DOWN_graded to linux-2.2.13 and my systems seems to be working fine
> once again. Fortunately I do not need any of those newer feature. IMHO
> all of kernels 2.2.14 and up have problems.
I got my machine with 2.2.12-0.1smp kernel and it worked pretty well. I have
since upgraded to 2.2.14-5.0.14asmp and then (end of May?) to
2.2.14-5.0.14csmp which I am running at the moment. I think the only one
with problems in it was 2.2.14-5.0.14asmp, since it was replaced after only a
few days. I run my machine 24/7 so if it was going to crash, I think it would
have by now.
Sometimes the windowing system locks up when running Netscape, but except for
once, I could get out of that without rebooting. Even that one time, the
system was up and running; just could not use the console.
> I had kernels with all of
> the bug workarounds enabled and things were freezing. Kernel 2.2.13 with
> the same kernel configuration works as smoothly as always. So, the bottom
> line is: if your system freezes from time to time and you are not
> doing any kernel testing or kernel drivers development then just downgrade
> to kernel 2.2.13. This is only a suggestion and of course I may
> be wrong but that worked for me. Hopefully the 2.4.0 kernel will have this
> freezing problem fixed with some luck (the test6 version also had this
> problem).
>
> Bye,
>
> Neil
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TCP/IP networking and PPPD????
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:08:22 -0400
Rob Blomquist wrote:
> I am building a TCP/IP network at my house and I am having a problem.
>
> It appears that my IP addressing for my local network
> (192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0) is running afoul of my ISP's dynamic IP
> addressing. Is there a good work around? I would like to use both the LAN
> and the PPP connection simultaneously.
>
> Rob
> --
> Rob Blomquist
> Kirkland, WA
Why do you think so? I cannot imagine your ISP is assigning addresses in the
192.168.0.0 area.
You can definately use both LAN and PPP simultaneously. I am doing it this
very instant. My LAN is on 192.168.0.0 and my PPP is on 208.225.0.0. No
interactions at all.
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From: Someone Else <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with Tyan 1682
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:13:06 +0200
hi,
do someone know, what may be the reason for hanging the linux-system?
I have folowing System and confuguration:
Tyan 1682D (dual pentium II motherboard with one CPU - Intel 440FX
chipset)
64 MB EDO-RAM
one Hauppauge TV-card (PCI)
one SB-AWE64 (ISA)
one 3Com905-TX NIC (PCI)
one S3 ViRG/DX
one Adaptec UW-SCSI card (PCI)
System hags on some random time without any reason and shows always some
probelem in filesystem, mostly " Deleted inod xxxxxxx has zero dtime,
fixed", and this inode is every time same. The same system with same
configuration (differs only in kernel, i686 < > i586) runs without any
prob. on a Pentium I 200 MMX CPU (naturally on a diffrent mother board,
with 440HX chipset).
Theres is same prob. with window95/98/NT too !!
Is there anybody who could help me in this very painfull problem ????
regards
SomeOne
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From: Hans Marcus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kr=FCger?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:24:00 -0300
Greg F Walz Chojnacki wrote:
>
> I need a little clarification:
>
> I set up samba on Redhat 6.02, and my win 95 machine can use the Linux
> printer, no problem. A Win 98 machine, however, asks for a password, which I
> can never get right.
>
> This seems to me like a problem with encrypted passwords, which I suppose
> Win 98 is using, but not Linux or Win 95.
>
> Right?
>
> I'm uncertain, because when I print with the win95 machine, I'm not even
> asked for a password.
>
> If so, the solution, I gather, is to get win 95 and the Linux Samba setup to
> use password encryption.
>
> Right?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Greg
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] UW-Milwaukee News Services & Publications 414/229-4454
> http://www.uwm.edu/News/ FAX:414/229-6443
Yes, or you can download a patch for your Win95 box, or you can use the
registry-patch supplied with samba to disable win98 password encryption
(look at samba's documentation directory, somewhere in /usr/doc/samba).
HMK
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: access database on Linux
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:27:09 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an access database. Can I place it on a Linux server? If not, is
> there anyway I can place the data on an alternative database and make it
> searchable?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
I would doubt Microsoft Access will run on Linux. If it does, it would run
on WINE, but I sort-of doubt it. I have not checked.
There are other relational database management systems that run on Linux. I
have tried three:
1.) postgreSQL. I tried this in about 1998, I think. The first version I
tried could not do indices (i.e., support primary keys or other indIces).
The other version I tried could do that, but could not do views. Its API
was not quite SQL and the field-types had non-standard names. I could not
live with that. I seem to recall that they do not support transactions, and
I did not like that at all. This was in late 1998, I suppose. They may have
improved things since then.
2.) Informix-SE. I tried that next, converting my database from postgreSQL.
Not fun. It worked quite well and was free at the time. Major fault was
lack of API for C++, so I had to write a zillion kludgy C functions to be
called by C++ in order to use the C API. I was still running Red Hat Linux
5.0 at the time. As soon as Red Hat 6.0 came out, I upgraded to that, but I
could not read in the Informix CD-ROM again. I e-mailed them and they said
they did not know if Informix-SE worked on RHL 6.0 or not. I said if they
would send me a CD-ROM, I would be glad to try it out for them. They never
send a new CD, and never answered my e-mails after that.
3.) I switched to IBM's db2 V6.1. That is much more dbms than I really
need, but it works. Their customer support is worse than Microsoft's,
though. I think you must pay something like $200/hour to talk to them. They
will not discuss ANYTHING unless you pay up front. So figure on doing
everything on you own. But it seems to be a very good dbms.
I have not tried MySQL, but it is free under some circumstances, and
presumably works.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redirect EMAIL
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:42:23 +0200
> Ernesto Gianoni wrote:
>
> > I have a LOT of email in /var/spool/mail/root
> >
> > HOW CAN I GET THEM with my email client???
> >
> > Thank you in advance
how about redirecting email for root to your normal user
account? Depends on your MTA how exactly to do that.
Gerald
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: Port forwarding on RedHat 6.2 ?????
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:51:20 GMT
Cannon Fodder wrote:
>
> What you want to do has a precedent. It's now
> called Virtual Private Networking (VPN). There's
> a how-to on www.kerneldoc.org to guide you called
> VPN-HOWTO.
What he asks for isn't a VPN.
I don't see why the second line is necessary.
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQ
/sbin/ipchains -I forward -p tcp -s 10.0.0.10 80 -j MASQ
Maybe it should be:
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQ
/sbin/ipchains -I input -p tcp --dport 80 -j MASQ
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with Tyan 1682
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:54:11 -0400
Someone Else wrote:
> hi,
>
> do someone know, what may be the reason for hanging the linux-system?
>
> I have folowing System and confuguration:
> Tyan 1682D (dual pentium II motherboard with one CPU - Intel 440FX
> chipset)
> 64 MB EDO-RAM
> one Hauppauge TV-card (PCI)
> one SB-AWE64 (ISA)
> one 3Com905-TX NIC (PCI)
> one S3 ViRG/DX
> one Adaptec UW-SCSI card (PCI)
>
> System hags on some random time without any reason and shows always some
> probelem in filesystem, mostly " Deleted inod xxxxxxx has zero dtime,
> fixed", and this inode is every time same. The same system with same
> configuration (differs only in kernel, i686 < > i586) runs without any
> prob. on a Pentium I 200 MMX CPU (naturally on a diffrent mother board,
> with 440HX chipset).
> Theres is same prob. with window95/98/NT too !!
>
> Is there anybody who could help me in this very painfull problem ????
>
> regards
>
> SomeOne
My system is a little like that.
I have an S1832DL Tiger 100 motherboard with
Intel 440BX/ZX Host Bridge and AGP bridge,
Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA bridge
Intel 82371AB PIIX4IDE interface
Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB controller
Intel 83371AB PIIX4 ACPI (whatever that is)
2 550MHz Pentium IIIs with 512K caches,
512MB ECC SDRAM (2 256MB Low Profile 100MHz from ACDC;
I got the system from VA Linux, and they said they get
the best
results with them)
Soundblaster 16 PNP
Intel EEPro 10/100 NIC (running at 100)
Matrox G200 AGP with 8Meg SGRAM (whatever SGRAM is)
Symbios 8951U Ultra 2 SCSI Controller card for hard drives
Symbios 810 Narrow SCSI controller for DDS-2 tape drive
Do you shut down your system correctly? I got stuff like that the only time
my windowing system locked up so bad I could not get out of it. I pressed
the panic button and it made resentful remarks like that when doing the
fschecks. But if you are shutting down correctly, and not pressing the
reset button, then perhaps you are having trouble with your hard drive(s),
or the controller, or something.
Since you get the same problem with Windows, I suspect your hardware is in
trouble. I did not know the S1832DL would run with EDO-RAM. Tyan say, in
part,
Since TYAN boards are manufactured with performance in mind, you should use
add-on components that match. Some DIMM modules may seem to be high quality
because of name or feel but that does not guarantee real-world usability.
Some cheaper or OEM memory may have brand-name components, but they may
contain inferior or substandard parts which do not meet the critical
tolerances our products require. Because of this, your memory may not work
correctly in a TYAN board though it may work in a competitor's board. This
is because many of our competitors do not adhere to the strict tolerances
required for high performance. If you buy a TYAN board, you are getting the
best system available. To make installation easy and trouble free, get high
quality parts. Some brands we recommend are Advantage Memory, Corsair
Microsystems, Millenium, Kingston Memory, QesTec Incorporated, Unigen,
Micron Technology, and Crucial Technology. These DIMMs have proven to be
very stable on our boards and perform extremely well.
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redirect EMAIL
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:58:40 GMT
Gerald Willmann wrote:
> > Ernesto Gianoni wrote:
> >
> > > I have a LOT of email in /var/spool/mail/root
> > >
> > > HOW CAN I GET THEM with my email client???
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance
>
> how about redirecting email for root to your normal user
> account? Depends on your MTA how exactly to do that.
> Gerald
That's a good idea. I don't like root being the actual receiver. In
/etc/aliases, point root to whatever
user you normally are, and HE will get root's mail. After you change it,
invoke newaliases, to make it take effect.
This is for RH6.2 and sendmail, but, there are ways to do this for all
MTA's that I know of.
--
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Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
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