Linux-Misc Digest #673, Volume #25 Tue, 5 Sep 00 13:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: pap-secrets (Clifford Kite)
fsck errors on start up - signal 11 (Ken Siersma)
Re: IP address stealing on Intranet (Robert J Carter)
Re: installing suse 6.4 (Danny Wingate)
Remote graphical login (root)
Obtaining Domain contact information (Richard Q Woodland)
Re: dhcpd? ("Frederik Tilkin")
Re: Identifying actual kernel in use? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Linux printer problems
utlilty for cropping ps files (Fred Nastos)
Re: Open Games API? ("Phil Frisbie, Jr.")
Re: IP address stealing on Intranet ("kipz")
Re: Obtaining Domain contact information (Robert J Carter)
Re: Remote graphical login (Johan Kullstam)
Netscape problems (Filipe Bonjour)
How to get rif of gnome? (Fred Nastos)
Re: Is delphi5 good for linux? ("Manuel Jander Jansen")
Re: Red Hat server repeatedly crashing (The Darkener)
Re: How to allow a user to write to win98 partition? (Vinny LaPietra)
Re: disabling rlogind and others (Rasputin)
Linux can't find USR PCI hardware modem ("vpiercy")
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From: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pap-secrets
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 08:45:13 -0500
"���� ������" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't connnect due to misconfigures pap-secrets file :(
> As it was advised by some linux guru i put there next line:
> * myloginname mypassword.
That's
myloginname * mypassword
> But when negotiating i see, that instead of my myloginname there
> appears my hostame :(. I got connection to couple of ISP, and got
> different logins... so what i supposed to do to manage my accounts?
If the name for a second ISP account differs from the name for the first
ISP account then no problem. Just add a line of the same form as the
above to the secrets file. Otherwise use the pppd remotename option
to differentiate the ISPs, e.g.,
myloginname ispone mypassword
myloginname isptwo mypassword
using "remotename ispone" for the first ISP and "remotename isptwo"
for the second. Use the ppp "file" option to keep the pppd and chat
options and scripts for each ISP separate. Read "man pppd" to find out
more about the "file" option.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* The signal-to-noise ratio is too low in many [news] groups to make
* them good candidates for archiving.
* --- Mike Moraes, Answers to FAQs about Usenet */
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From: Ken Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fsck errors on start up - signal 11
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:12:42 +0000
Hello,
Have a RedHat 6.1 box which finds errors while checking the root
partition. So I run fsck manually on the root partition, and it prompts
me to fix the following:
Free blocks count wrong ...
Free inodes count wrong ...
Directories count wrong ...
I answer y to each to fix the errors, but I still get the following
error when fsck ends:
/dev/hda4: 118531/876096 files (1.0% non-contiguous), 1030058/1750140
blocks
warning fsck.ext2 for device exited with signal 11.
The user of this machine says that he shutdown the machine normally. Is
this error unrecoverable? Or do you need more information???
Thanks,
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J Carter)
Subject: Re: IP address stealing on Intranet
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:28:22 GMT
In article <Xg5t5.3334$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"kipz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Let people surf the web as much as they like. Who are they harming?
> I urge everybody in this group to with-hold any help to this person if
> it will be used to restrict peoples access to the web.
> K.
Don't be a putz. He's trying to ACCOUNT, not restrict
--
Robert J Carter at Oghma dot on dot ca
Use my lower-case initials to reach me via e-mail
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From: Danny Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing suse 6.4
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:28:58 GMT
James Campbell Andrew wrote:
> Jim, thanks again, your answer worked well but after everything was
installed I wound up with an invalid partition. I e-mailed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and await their reply. Any suggestions? Thanks again,
Danny
>
> Danny Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install suse 6.4 om my compaq laptop. I don't have an
> > internal cdrom only an external. Is there a way to get my pc to boot
from
> > it? I'm not very experienced, and have never installed any Linux at
all.
> > The installation manual makes it look easy to do if using yast. Any
help
> > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Danny
>
> You should be able to make a boot floppy and use that. There's a good
> chance it will detect your external CDROM. The only problem will be if
> you can't have both the CDROM and the floppy installed at the same time.
>
> Check disk one - there should be a setup program on here that will
> create boot disks for you.
>
> I'm running 6.4 on a TI laptop that *can* only have a CDROM *or* a
> floppy drive installed, and won't boot from CDROM. That was
> challenging...:-)
>
> Jim
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vertigo 1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remote graphical login
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 01:24:29 +0800
Hi all,
I want to login from a remote host to my Linux server, with all the
UIs as if I am logging on locally. I have studied quite a few docs but
still can't get the idea what and where to start with. Are there
anything in Linux that does this and what specifically should I get on
with?
Any help or pointers will be appreciated.
Marcel
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:38:51 -0400
From: Richard Q Woodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Obtaining Domain contact information
I need to contact the owner of a .co.uk domain. If it were a US domain
(.com, etc), I would go to the Network Solutions site.
Where do I go to get contact information for a .co.uk domain?
Thanks.
Rich Woodland
Magic Interface, Ltd.
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From: "Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dhcpd?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:41:13 GMT
Look in the dhcp mini-howto
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/DHCP/index.html
Here is a sample /etc/dhcpd.conf file from this howto:
# Sample /etc/dhcpd.conf
# (add your comments here)
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option routers 192.168.1.254;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2;
option domain-name "mydomain.org";
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.100;
range 192.168.1.150 192.168.1.200;
}
"Derek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have suse 6.2 on one machine and I am running another computer with
> Mac and Windows 95. I am trying to set my linux box as a DHCP server to
> give the addresses to the other computers that I have configured to get
> an address from a dhcp server through ethernet. I cannot seem to get the
> dhcp server to give out addresses to my other computers and I have here
> the DHCPD.conf file as I tried to configure it but it is probably wrong
> and my book does not go into detail.
> If you have any ideas please let me know, by email or on this group.
>
> Also if you need the rc.config file I have that as well or comments on
> what to set up or make sure is in the file.
> Derek
>
> dhcpd.conf----------------------
>
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.10;
> default-lease-time 7000;
> max-lease-time 240000;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> option broadcast-address 192.168.0.10;
> option routers 192.168.0.1;
> option domain-name "me.com";
> }
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Identifying actual kernel in use?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 5 Sep 2000 17:22:59 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ken Yasuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Very silly question here:
>
>I'm wondering how to determine the directory location of the
>currently-booted kernel. I have several kernel versions compiled, and
>can't do a `make xconfig' in the default `usr/src/linux' directory. How do
>I check on the booted kernel's location?
>
>Currently, I'm using SuSE 6.3.
>
>Pretty embarrassed to ask,
>
>Ken
>
Why can't you do 'make xconfig'?
The '/usr/src/linux' directory is usually a soft link to e.g.
'/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/' or whatever the kernel tarball
decomposed into.
The running kernel is usually located in '/boot/vmlinuz' or just
'/vmlinuz' (check your LILO configuration in '/etc/lilo.conf').
To get the version number of the running kernel, use 'uname -r'.
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>.
All junk e-mail will be reported to the appropriate authorities.
========================================================================
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux printer problems
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:28:58 GMT
Managed to get it to work by using the hp 670 series drivers in the
printtool. It actually works better than the hp 672 printer that I also
tried with the same driver..
Greg
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]Hello,
> ]I installed linux-mandrake 7.0 and really like it so far. Video, sound,
> ]etc. all work fine except my printer. It is a xerox xjc6, tried to set
it
> ]as ascii printer but it will only spit out a line of weird looking
> ]comments. How can I change it to text only printer?
>
> ??
> Anyway, from the Printer Database
> http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
>
> Driver: Postscript: -sDEVICE=cdj550 -r300x300 # (300x300 Color)
> Driver: Ghostscript: -sDEVICE=cdj550 # (1200x600 Color)
> Driver: Ghostscript: -sDEVICE=cdj550 -r300x300 -dBitsPerPixel=1 #
(600x600 BW) black-only
> Driver: Ghostscript: -sDEVICE=cdj550 # (1200x600 Color)
> Driver: Ghostscript: -sDEVICE=cdj550 # (1200x600 Color)
>
> Use the printtool to set up the printer. (Deskjet 550).
>
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From: Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: utlilty for cropping ps files
Date: 5 Sep 2000 15:38:41 GMT
Is there a command line utility that will crop
postscript files? Something quick and painless...
Thanks
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From: "Phil Frisbie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Open Games API?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:57:07 GMT
Andre-John Mas wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Both Mac users and Linux users are crying out for games, for their
> platforms and are having a hard time getting them. The platform of
> choice tends to be MS-Window with Direct-X, mainly due to their
> market share. I am almost certain that if an Open Games API could
> be developed, in the same vain as Direct-X, only better, then
> all non-MS-Windows could be winners. The way I see it, is if the
> games developers only needed to write for one API, that is supported
> by Linux, MacOS, BeOS, or whatever, then they would do a few
> calculations and see that the combined Linux/MacOS/other platform
> user base is that much larger and because of this API, they could
> develop for these platforms in one go.
>
> So, is there such an API in development, or are there any people
> out there interested in such a solution? Maybe the developers of
> these OSs could help push such an API?
I would like to bridge the Windows DirectPlay gap with my open source
(LGPL) library OpenNL (Open Network Library). I have a low level library
that compiles on Windows and Unix/Linux, but I have not had any offers
from Mac programmers to port it to MacOS.
The next step is a high level API that is similar to DirectPlay, and a
real-time voice API that uses open source code codecs.
For more information on OpenNL, check out
http://www.hawksoft.com/opennl/
Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Lead Developer, Hawk Software
http://www.hawksoft.com
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From: "kipz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP address stealing on Intranet
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:59:22 GMT
Well, by the look of things, I have been put in my place. I understand your
problem and will do my best to help. If you have a good read of squid.conf
(usually well documented), you see that you can set it up so that uses must
be authenticated in order to use the proxy.
Another approach would be to stop the ip address stealing. If you are using
DHCP, you can make sure that each ip address is associated with the correct
nic id.
If you need more infor, just emal me as can certainly help.
K.
P.S. I reacted such, as I have had my web restricted in the past, and feel
it unjust. But if it's your job, then what can I say.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> We have an intranet with about a hundred machines. Internet usage
> accounted based on usage of SQUID (which counted on IP address).
> Some people change their IP address to other which belong to someone
> who are on vacation.
>
> How can catch this IP address stealing?
>
> --
> Zsolt Bessenyei
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@oghma.on.ca (Robert J Carter)
Subject: Re: Obtaining Domain contact information
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:01:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Q Woodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to contact the owner of a .co.uk domain. If it were a US domain
> (.com, etc), I would go to the Network Solutions site.
>
> Where do I go to get contact information for a .co.uk domain?
>
fwhois [EMAIL PROTECTED]
will give you what you want.
> Thanks.
>
> Rich Woodland
> Magic Interface, Ltd.
>
>
--
Robert J Carter at Oghma dot on dot ca
Use my lower-case initials to reach me via e-mail
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Subject: Re: Remote graphical login
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Sep 2000 12:35:51 -0400
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
> I want to login from a remote host to my Linux server, with all the
> UIs as if I am logging on locally. I have studied quite a few docs but
> still can't get the idea what and where to start with. Are there
> anything in Linux that does this and what specifically should I get on
> with?
you'll need to setup the remote host as an X terminal.
> Any help or pointers will be appreciated.
> Marcel
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
sysengr
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From: Filipe Bonjour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Netscape problems
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 13:37:51 -0300
Hi,
I'm using Netscape and I've recently upgraded to 4.74 in an attempt
to overcome a few problems I'm having with it, but in vain...
Could someone please help me?
1) Netscape always complains that it doesn't find "java40.jar",
but it is in /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes, which is in the
CLASSPATH variable. The file is readable and all directories
leading to it are readable and executable.
2) I'm not sure if this is related to the problem above, but often
images are displayed all wrong, look like garbage. RedHat has
issued a bug report on a memory leak in Netscape 4.72, which I
thought was this problem, but upgrading to 4.74 didn't help.
3) I can't use the address book. When I'm composing a message, I
press the address book button, select an address by highlighting
it and when I press the "To:" button Netscape immediately quits.
Thanks for any help!
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From: Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get rif of gnome?
Date: 5 Sep 2000 16:44:41 GMT
How do I set the system so that every user has
fvwm2 running as the default. Right now one particular
user gets fvwm, but the other users get gnome. I'd
like to change that. Thanks.
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From: "Manuel Jander Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is delphi5 good for linux?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 00:11:18 -0400
Kylix is supposed to be released this year. Its a Deplhi/C++
enviroment, just like the windows version for Linux.
Personally i have used Delphi for several years, and its
a delicatesse. I had some tries on VB too, but sincerely,
it made me puke and do headbanging against the screen.
VB just sucks, when it comes to serious programming.
Delphi is much more consistent and structured, that makes
programming much easier; more than ever when you have
reached 10.000 lines of total source code :P
bye.
In article <8ouhok$3vj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> www.vbforlinux.com/delphi say their delphi5 can program linux like VB.
> is it good?
>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Red Hat server repeatedly crashing
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:58:39 GMT
I second that. Check the fans, blow the inside out with compressed air if
the dust is so thick inside it acts and insulation. Seems heat/hardware
related to me if it happens all of the sudden, multiple times with no kernel
logs.
Steve Cox wrote:
> Have you checked that the processor fan hasn't failed
> and the unit's overheating?
>
> Could be hardware related - dodgy memory etc.
>
> "Simon Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I admin a Linux box which runs MySQL-3.22.30, Apache 1.3.12 and Qmail
> > on Red Hat 6.1 and kernel version 2.2.12-20smp. Until now, it had >150
> > days uptime, and had given me little trouble. I've applied all
> > relevant security patches from Red Hat.
> >
> > It's crashed 3 times in the last 24 hours. Total lockup, requiring
> > calls to a service engineer to reboot it and too much downtime to keep
> > our customers (or my boss) happy. I'd like to know if there are any
> > DoS attacks which might cause the failure, or any other exploits I
> > might be vulnerable to. There doesn't seem to be anything in the
> > logfiles: the system just froze.
> >
> > Any ideas, or similar experiences?
> >
> > TIA,
> > --
> > simon@japh. | Ignore the address in the header.
> > freeserve.co.uk | Use this one instead.
--
- The Darkener
"I'm Doug, I have greasy hair and no muscles. You're Principal
Wheeler, you have a mustache and you smell like coffee." -The State
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From: Vinny LaPietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to allow a user to write to win98 partition?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:52:21 GMT
Make sure you have user and rw as mount options.
e.g mount -o user,rw
Or add them in your /etc/fstab (replacing defaults if it's there)
Vinny
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running SuSE 6.4 and have a mount to my Windows 98 partition. I
> can write to this partition as 'root', but would like to allow a
> particular user to do so. How can I do this w/o buying vmware, etc.?
I
> have tried various mount options as well as 'chmod' and 'chgrp'
options.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: disabling rlogind and others
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:02:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <-ljl-> wrote:
>In article <8p2rvu$g0t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> In article <8p2qjm$ehf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > In article <8p0hnk$4l7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'm trying to disable all unencrypted remote authorizations on
>> > > my linux boxes, so I removed telnetd & ftpd from inetd.conf.
>> > > In fact, I have nothing but comments in /etc/inetd.conf
>> > > (I'm using sshd)
Then why are you running inetd at all?
Switch it off in your initialisation scripts/directories.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: "vpiercy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux can't find USR PCI hardware modem
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:07:36 -0500
Hi,
I recently upgraded my motherboard (the Linux partitions were hosed by my
disk contollers failing) and now I can't initialize my 3-COM PCI
controller-based internal modem. I was able to initialize the modem (and go
online
and surf, etc.) before I swapped the motherboard.
The thing that really gets me is that the modem works fine under Windows
(com5, IRQ 9, I/O 0x1050-0x1057--IRQ holder for PCI steering has my sound
card, my USR/3-COM 56K Fax PCI modem, and Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB
Universal Host Controller sharing the same IRQ (9)).
I do a cat /proc/pci and find the IRQ and I/O
values for what I take to be the modem (they are the same values as in
Windows on my dual-boot system with Redat 6.2.14).
Then I type
setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 9 port 0x1051 autoconfig
There is a link between /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS1.
When I go to Gnome ppp to dial up a connection, nothing happens. Minicom
just sits there too--it seems to think that it has dialed up and connected
but it hasn't--no dialing, handshaking at all, and no "OK" message. When I
run a debug in Redhat Config for the modem, I get the message that there is
an I/O problem. Wvdialconf also says there is no serial port.
When I type dmesg I find the following seemingly relevant lines:
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY-PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
...
Creative SBLive! at 0x1020 on irq 9
When the modem was working before I swapped motherboards, the modem shared
IRQ 12 with the sound card, and the modem was assigned com 5 under Windows.
This setup presented no problems for Linux then. But now Linux can't find
the modem. I've been looking at the MODEM-HOW-TO pages and have to say I'm
still stumped.
Does anyone have any suggestions about some things I might try to figure
this problem out?
Thanks!
Van
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bloomington, Indiana
USA
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