Linux-Misc Digest #820, Volume #25 Wed, 20 Sep 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Group Passwords (Christopher Browne)
boot problem (kernel panic) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What is tacnews? (Daisuke Kanzaki)
Kernel Module Support: QM_SYMBOLS unknown error 263732004 (Subhachandra Chandra)
Out of Memory Error... ("Tim Koopman")
Increase memory to 128M ("Teck Meng, Liaw")
Re: What is tacnews? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Good MPEG player for Linux? (Michel Catudal)
slow upload with ethernet? (Janet)
Re: Increase memory to 128M ("David ..")
Re: ICQ SKIN, ICQ FRIENDS, ICQ FUN..... (FyreFiend)
Re: Group Passwords (FyreFiend)
BRIDGE TOOLS (Homer Wilson Smith)
S3 virge DX (Homer Wilson Smith)
Re: Increase memory to 128M (Brian Dotzour)
Re: remote setup of email / virtual domains rh 6.2 (Brian Dotzour)
Re: Need to view full name of process name disregarding brackets (Brian Dotzour)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Group Passwords
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:15:36 GMT
In our last episode (20 Sep 2000 20:41:37 GMT),
the artist formerly known as john slimick said:
>I must not be looking in the right places, but I simply can not find
>any information on how one sets a group password. Yes, it's great
>that we have gone past the Unix "leave the group password out in the
>open", and I'm impressed that we can shadow the group passwords, but
>how do you set one???
I think you may be misunderstanding things a tad; it's _users_ that
have passwords, not groups.
Users are _members_ of groups.
Passwords don't enter into this.
--
(concatenate 'string "aa454" "@" "freenet.carleton.ca")
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
"Now, if someone proposed using people who spam comp.sys.* groups with
political screeds in place of lab rats for drug testing, I'd
wholeheartedly concur". -- John C. Randolph
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: boot problem (kernel panic)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:07:06 GMT
I tried to update my RH 6.0 system to 6.2. After running the
installation program (the "upgrade" option), LILO tries to load linux,
and everything freezes with the following error message(s):
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:0b
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:0b
I get the same problem if I try to boot using the boot disk created by
the installation program.
Everything was fine before I tried the upgrade. Also, I can boot up in
Windows NT just fine using the DOS option in LILO.
The BIOS recognizes my SCSI drives just fine.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance...
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Daisuke Kanzaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is tacnews?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:21:26 +0900
Hello,
In order to check a security of my linux box, I performed a port
scan to my linux box and it displayed the following things:
Port ServiceName Description
21 ftp File Transfer [Control]
23 telnet Telnet
25 smtp Simple Mail Transfer
98 tacnews TAC News
110 pop3 Post Office Protocol - Version 3
113 auth Authentication Service
119 nntp Network News Transfer Protocol
139 netbios-ssn NETBIOS Session Service
I almost understand why each port is opened except for tacnews.
So I have two questions about this result.
1. What is tacnews? I checked inetd.conf of my linux box to
close this port but could not find the related things.
How is tacnews port closed? What opens tacnews port?
2. Is it no problem to close auth port by commenting on auth
line on inetd.conf? If something like problem appears,
what it is?
Please advise to me.
Daisuke Kanzaki
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:30:59 +0800
From: Subhachandra Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux
Subject: Kernel Module Support: QM_SYMBOLS unknown error 263732004
I keep getting this error whenever I run most of the module utils.
# /sbin/insmod hello.o
insmod: kernel1: QM_SYMBOLS: Unknown error 263732004
# /sbin/ksyms
ksyms: kernel1: QM_SYMBOLS: Unknown error 263732004
I do have kernel support for modules turned on in the config file.
I built the kernel and the module (hello.o - from the guide on modules
at linuxdoc.org) using a cross-compiler for mips on an i386 box. The
kernel version is 2.4.0-test3. The module is part of an 8MB RamDisk
compiled with the kernel using initrd. This is the only module I am
trying to load. The kernel seems to work fine otherwise.
Has anyone seen similar errors before?
Thanks
Chandra
------------------------------
From: "Tim Koopman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.groupware.lotus-notes.admin,comp.groupware.lotus-notes.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Out of Memory Error...
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:36:36 +1000
Hi All,
I have a Redhat 6.1 box, running Lotus Domino. Lotus is giving me out of
memory errors. I don't think this is the problem though. My memory status
with the servers are running is...
Mem: 386552K av, 383424K used, 3128K free, 629740K shrd, 12644K buff
Swap: 257000K av, 30088K used, 226912K free 55916K cached
I traked the problem down too Too many processes running.
When this was a stright Red hat install the processes would get to
about 309 (This is what top tells me is running) then I would start getting
this error. I then edited the /etc/security/limits.conf file & added this
lines.. (I guessed on values from example :))
notes soft nproc 1500
notes hard nproc 2000
notes - nofile 900
After doing these changes I stopped getting the errors. But now they have
started again. Now the processes get to about 410 before stopping. Any ideas
to what could be causing this?
One Idea I have is that it is getting too many processes again but shouldn't
those lines I added make the numbers of processes go alot higher. The max
red hat can handle is 2048 & the notes user (this is the user id that the
servers run under) can use most of them.
The only other idea I have is too many open files. Red hat can handle 1024
open files. but how do I check how many are used? I tried using lsof but it
doesn't just show open files by what I could tell. If it is only showing
open file sthen there is more then 1024 :) other things I am seeing in there
is open http requests
Any ideas?
Thanks
Tim Koopman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: "Teck Meng, Liaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:53:24 +0800
Hi!
I have install RedHat 6.2 with 64M ram, now I have upgrade the server
to128M, how do I change the system configuration to utilize all there 128M?
I can do it during the boot time by typing Linux mem=128M at boot prompt,
but I cannot retain this setting after I have try to reboot it again.
Any help is appreciate.
Teck Meng, Liaw
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: What is tacnews?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:12:05 GMT
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:21:26 +0900, Daisuke Kanzaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>In order to check a security of my linux box, I performed a port
>scan to my linux box and it displayed the following things:
>
>Port ServiceName Description
>21 ftp File Transfer [Control]
>23 telnet Telnet
>25 smtp Simple Mail Transfer
>98 tacnews TAC News
Linuxconf.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
------------------------------
From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good MPEG player for Linux?
Date: 20 Sep 2000 20:28:02 -0500
Trumpy a �crit :
>
> > Don't waste your vote. Vote Green, or don't vote at all.
Both actions are synonyms
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
------------------------------
From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slow upload with ethernet?
Date: 20 Sep 2000 18:33:49 -0700
Hi,
Recently, my computer started uploading things very slowly. I'm on an
ethernet connection, and I used to be able to upload/download up to around
1 MB/s. Now, my downloading is fine, but my uploading is only about 0.1
MB/s. I have moved to a different subnet (other computers on this subnet
don't have this problem though), and I have also upgraded my processor and
motherboard (although why this would make it slower, I can't imagine). My
card is a Linksys, using the tulip driver.
I tried tcpdump, but I don't really understand the output enough to see
any problems. This is the output when downloading (705 k/s):
18:31:02.697808 bistromath.stanford.edu.1072 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: . ack
3134465 win 30660 (DF)
18:31:02.698769 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1072: P
3134465:3135489(1024) ack 1 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:31:02.699651 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1072: .
3135489:3136513(1024) ack 1 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:31:02.699668 bistromath.stanford.edu.1072 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: . ack
3136513 win 30660 (DF)
18:31:02.700629 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1072: P
3136513:3137537(1024) ack 1 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:31:02.701510 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1072: .
3137537:3138561(1024) ack 1 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:31:02.701526 bistromath.stanford.edu.1072 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: . ack
3138561 win 30660 (DF)
18:31:02.702487 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1072: P
3138561:3139585(1024) ack 1 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:31:02.703369 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1072: .
3139585:3140609(1024) ack 1 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:31:02.703386 bistromath.stanford.edu.1072 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: . ack
3140609 win 30660 (DF)
18:31:02.704347 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1072: P
3140609:3141633(1024) ack 1 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:31:02.714086 bistromath.stanford.edu.1072 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: . ack
3141633 win 32120 (DF)
This is the output when uploading (121 k/s):
18:33:02.440969 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1073: . ack
1090621 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:33:02.440989 bistromath.stanford.edu.1073 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: .
1090621:1092081(1460) ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
18:33:02.440994 bistromath.stanford.edu.1073 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: .
1092081:1093541(1460) ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
18:33:02.440998 bistromath.stanford.edu.1073 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: .
1093541:1095001(1460) ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
18:33:02.444761 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1073: . ack
1090621 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:33:02.444829 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1073: . ack
1092081 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:33:02.444845 bistromath.stanford.edu.1073 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: .
1095001:1096461(1460) ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
18:33:02.448013 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1073: . ack
1092081 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:33:02.634095 bistromath.stanford.edu.1073 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: .
1092081:1093541(1460) ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
18:33:02.637382 transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data > bistromath.stanford.edu.1073: . ack
1093541 win 8760 (DF) [tos 0x8]
18:33:02.637413 bistromath.stanford.edu.1073 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: .
1093541:1095001(1460) ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
18:33:02.637419 bistromath.stanford.edu.1073 > transfer1.Stanford.EDU.ftp-data: .
1095001:1096461(1460) ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Janet
------------------------------
From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:37:00 -0500
"Teck Meng, Liaw" wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have install RedHat 6.2 with 64M ram, now I have upgrade the server
> to128M, how do I change the system configuration to utilize all there 128M?
> I can do it during the boot time by typing Linux mem=128M at boot prompt,
> but I cannot retain this setting after I have try to reboot it again.
> Any help is appreciate.
>
> Teck Meng, Liaw
Add this line to /etc/lilo.conf just below the "default=" line.
apend="mem=128M"
Then run "/sbin/lilo" to update the MBR.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
------------------------------
From: FyreFiend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ICQ SKIN, ICQ FRIENDS, ICQ FUN.....
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:52:17 -0400
This is in my opinion spam so I just reported it. If anyone else
agrees with me then please forward the original post to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The address spamcop.net gave me).
Sorry for being off topic,
Fyre
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:48:47 +0800, "WWW.CSN23.COM"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Path:
>netnews.netreach.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsgate.netvigator.com!imsp212.netvigator.com!not-for-mail
>From: "WWW.CSN23.COM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Newsgroups:
>hk.chinese,alt.html,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,hk.comp.chinese,hk.comp.pc,hk.comp.software,hk.entertainment,hk.forsale,hk.general,hk.politics,hk.talk.love,hk.talk.feelings,japa
>Subject: ICQ SKIN, ICQ FRIENDS, ICQ FUN.....
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:48:47 +0800
>Organization: IMS Netvigator
>Lines: 23
>Message-ID: <8qblhs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "WWW.CSN23.COM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: bbig022006.netvigator.com
>X-Priority: 3
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700
>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
>Xref: netnews.netreach.net alt.html:63581 comp.os.linux.advocacy:57046
>comp.os.linux.misc:47602 comp.os.linux.networking:49055
>comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking:13065 hk.comp.software:26575
>hk.talk.love:75211 hk.talk.feelings:21100
>
>HTTP://17ICQ.COM
>
>
>--
>Cheers,
>Michael Chan
>1. www.csn23.com
>(Almost daily-updated w/ more than 50000 daily page views)
>
>2. www.17icq.com
>(ICQ pals matching, ICQ SKINs, ICQ teaching, ICQ Fun Stuff...)
>
>3. www.11lyric.com
>(Daily updated lyrics! Cool.)
>
>4. www.11skin.com
>(Daily updated winamp skin)
>
>5. www.11idol.com
>(Daily updated idol gallery)
>*********************************************************************
>
------------------------------
From: FyreFiend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Group Passwords
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:53:28 -0400
I had wondered about that myself because it looks like there's a place
for a password in the group file
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:15:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher
Browne) wrote:
>In our last episode (20 Sep 2000 20:41:37 GMT),
>the artist formerly known as john slimick said:
>>I must not be looking in the right places, but I simply can not find
>>any information on how one sets a group password. Yes, it's great
>>that we have gone past the Unix "leave the group password out in the
>>open", and I'm impressed that we can shadow the group passwords, but
>>how do you set one???
>
>I think you may be misunderstanding things a tad; it's _users_ that
>have passwords, not groups.
>
>Users are _members_ of groups.
>
>Passwords don't enter into this.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Wilson Smith)
Subject: BRIDGE TOOLS
Date: 20 Sep 2000 22:13:23 -0500
Kernel 2.0.38 says Bridge Tools are at shadow.cabi.net but
this no longer exists.
Where are they?
Thanks Homer
--
========================================================================
Homer Wilson Smith Clean Air, Clear Water, Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959 A Green Earth and Peace. Internet Access, Ithaca NY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that too much to ask? http://www.lightlink.com
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Wilson Smith)
Subject: S3 virge DX
Date: 20 Sep 2000 22:14:26 -0500
Newest S3 Virge DX cards no longer work with any version of Xfree86.
What cheap video card (for server) should I be using.
Thanks Homer
--
========================================================================
Homer Wilson Smith Clean Air, Clear Water, Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959 A Green Earth and Peace. Internet Access, Ithaca NY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that too much to ask? http://www.lightlink.com
------------------------------
From: Brian Dotzour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:45:33 GMT
add the line
append "mem=128M"
to the appropriate section in LILO and then run
#lilo
"Teck Meng, Liaw" wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have install RedHat 6.2 with 64M ram, now I have upgrade the server
> to128M, how do I change the system configuration to utilize all there 128M?
> I can do it during the boot time by typing Linux mem=128M at boot prompt,
> but I cannot retain this setting after I have try to reboot it again.
> Any help is appreciate.
>
> Teck Meng, Liaw
------------------------------
From: Brian Dotzour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: remote setup of email / virtual domains rh 6.2
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:52:22 GMT
First off, if this is going to be any kind of server that you don't want to be
hacked into, use SSH and not telnet. Close up that telnet port and any others
that you don't absolutely need.
1) download the latest version of Apache and install
2) Read up on using DNS/Bind (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html) to
learn how to set it up as a DNS server.
3) Create users on the system which will generate email addresses at the machine
4) Read up on configuring Sendmail
(http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/RH-sendmail-HOWTO/book1.html) to set
up email aliasing. I did this over a summer and let me tell you it's fun.
These are the basic steps you need to take if you're planning on doing this from
a vanilla install with no 3rd-party software.
Michael Ware wrote:
> Hello, A new server has just been installed and contains Red Hat 6.2 . I
> will be using a Windows 98 machine and remotely, ie over the internet,
> configuring new POP email addresses hosted at different virtual domains on
> the server. I will also be creating the virtual servers on the linux box,
> with email addresses attached to them. For Example, I need to create the
> following: (ie once the domain is registered)
>
> Using the Apache server, www.myserver.com.au will need to be created. and an
> email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also need to be created.
>
> i will need www.myserver.com.au to link to a directory, ie
> home/www/mynewserver/
>
> I will require access over the internet and therefore I will need to use
> telnet to access it.
> Please tell me how, in as much detail as you wish, to set up the email
> accounts, ie what files i need to modify, etc, and the easiest way for me to
> do this. I am not using any third party email server software such as
> qpopper, its just a standard Red Hat Linux 6.2 system.
>
> Thank you very much for your time, very much appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> Michael Ware
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ps I would also appreciate an email.
------------------------------
From: Brian Dotzour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need to view full name of process name disregarding brackets
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:02:24 GMT
Set up a shell script that gets each process name and stores it in a
tempfile (I'd use sed if I were you).
Then loop through that temp file and stick each process name in a variable
($name), then do this:
tr -d [ $name | tr -d ]
the output will be the name without brackets. if the name has no brackets
nothing will change. Then do
whatever you want with the output.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need to be able to see the full process name even when it has brackets
> (without it being cut off).
>
> I have done the following (below). Can someone please help me.
>
> In article <8qach1$gf6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Some processes have brackets around the name. This happens if the
> > program is being swapped from disk. Now i need to display the full
> name
> > of the process disregarding any brackets (if it has any).
> >
> > I have tried doing the following
> >
> > > ps -ef
> >
> > =>this show the full listing and shows brackets around the name(if it
> > has any)
> >
> > eg.
> > root 1911 1 0 15:04 ? 00:00:52 [AServerautoindexer]
> >
> > >ps -e
> > => this shows the name of the process and it doesn't have brackets
> even
> > if it had some before.
> >
> > eg.
> > 1911 ? 00:00:52 AServerautoinde
> >
> > HOWEVER, if the name is long enough, it gets cut off. I need to be
> able
> > to see the full name AND no brackets. In this case i need this for
> > linux. Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
