Linux-Misc Digest #962, Volume #25 Sat, 7 Oct 00 02:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: EXTRA LARGE mouse POINTER problem (Pete)
Re: Adding an IP Address to masq file (David Efflandt)
Re: Change of hostname/ip-address.. (David Efflandt)
Re: Whats identd in Redhat 7.0?? (Chris J/#6)
Re: Weird mail behavior (David Efflandt)
Help about file transfer between Win98 ans Linux in a LAN ("Lucas")
reversed vgetty.. ("Fayaz A. Shaikh")
Re: Help about file transfer between Win98 ans Linux in a LAN (David M. Cook)
VMWare 2.0.2 on RedHat Linux 7.0? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to read Windows hard drive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: copying and pasting? (Bob Martin)
Re: Procomm-like comm package? (Doc)
Re: LILO on drive a: (Doc)
Re: One 100% Newbie ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: LILO on drive a: (Doc Shipley)
Re: How to read Windows hard drive? ("David ..")
Re: How to read Windows hard drive? (mike)
Re: Kernel version in Slackware circa 1995 and RedHat 4.x (Daniel C)
recovering one file on an ext2 filesystem (Markus Wagner)
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: EXTRA LARGE mouse POINTER problem
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 01:10:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:19:47 +0100, Rainer Bezzina wrote:
> >The problem occured when the X configuration test took over.
> >The mouse pointer (available correctly during setup/installation)
> >disappeared and
> >a white large box appeared instead of the mouse pointer. After trying
> >various resolutions & monitors (the screen & display) being OK, the
> >pointer always appeared as a box !
>
> Edit /etc/XF86Config (it may be in /etc/X11/XF86Config ) with a text
> editor (like pico or vi) and find the line that says
> Section "Device"
>
> Below that line, insert the line
> Option "sw_cursor"
>
> save the file, and restart X. This is a fairly common problem with
some
> video cards, but this fix generally clears everything up. HTH!
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us
to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin'
Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
>
This does normally work but I'm told it's a bit of a bodge really. It's
worth having a look on http://www.Xfree86.org to see if there's any
mention of different drivers for your card.
Pete
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Adding an IP Address to masq file
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 01:20:52 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am adding and IP address to the masq file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/in order
>to allow that machine to access the web thru our network. After adding
>the IP address access to the net is still denied. Any ideas why and how
>to correct? Thanks.
Your post is lacking details. Are you trying to MASQ everything that goes
through that IP. If it is something like ppp or something else with
dynamic IP it might be better to use the interface (like ppp0 or eth0 for
cable or dsl) instead of an IP that might change.
Assuming that you are setting up the MASQ properly, did you remember to
enable ip_forward?
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Change of hostname/ip-address..
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 01:34:58 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 14:25:08 -0400, Ish Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>What the file invoved in a change of hostnme/ip-address scenario.
>I tried with changes to
>
>/etc/hosts
>/etc/sysconfig/network
>/etc/sysconfig/network/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
>and it did not work.
So what hostname did you end up with when you rebooted or restarted the
network?
You should probably use the 'hostname' command first, or simply use
linuxconf if this is RedHat or Mandrake. Also check /etc/HOSTNAME, but I
think that the system resets this to what is in /etc/sysconfig/network the
next time the network is restarted.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris J/#6)
Subject: Re: Whats identd in Redhat 7.0??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 7 Oct 2000 02:32:59 +0100
In article <8rls0n$6rs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I agree. I'm blocking it with ipchains (DENY), and my logs show attempts
>to connect to port 113 quite often, but everything works fine.
>
Better to use REJECT rather than DENY. identd is a service that allows
remote machines to query your machine to find out who owns a particular
socket, the idea being that a remote service (web, ftp, finger, ...) can
say "okay someone connected to me on port <x>". It then sends connects to
the ident service on your machine and says the machine equivalent of "who
has connected to my port <y> with your port <x>", and your machine will
reply with the person who initiated the connection.
It's purpose is to provide a remote administrator with a security audit
trail (ie, a admin can email root@yourbox and say "According to my logs,
one of your users connected to my ftp/finger/web/... service. According
to the ident lookup, it was <blah> on your box".).
Most admins leave it disabled (see it as a security hole as it allows
a remote site to find usernames of machines). On a single user box, its
not worth running...comment it out of inetd.conf (or similar).
Now; why REJECT - DENY can leave the remote server hanging on for an
amount of time because DENY will drop packets rather than send a rejection
back to the host. The reject is better because it saves time, network
bandwidth (not a lot admittedly), CPU time, ... .
Chris...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Weird mail behavior
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 02:04:53 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 06 Oct 2000 20:02:03 GMT, O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yesterday, my system started burping the following mail to root about
>every ten seconds. Does anyone have any clue as to what is going on?
>
>>X-Persona: <darrow_local>
>>Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON>
>>Received: from localhost (localhost)
>> by oneillaw.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with internal id OAB06838;
>> Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:48:42 -0400
>>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:48:42 -0400
>>From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>MIME-Version: 1.0
>>Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
>> boundary="OAB06838.970858122/oneillaw.com"
>>Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
>>Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
>>Status:
>>
>>
>>The original message was received at Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:48:42 -0400
>>from root@localhost
>>
>>
>> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
(snip)
>>Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
>>Action: failed
>>Status: 5.1.1
>>Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:48:42 -0400
>>Return-Path: <root>
>>Received: (from root@localhost)
>> by oneillaw.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA06838;
>> Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:48:42 -0400
>>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:48:42 -0400
>>From: CronDaemon <root>
>>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I would say that you have a broken crontab file somewhere. See what
'crontab -e' as root has in it. Maybe you accidently removed a # from in
front of a comment or otherwise munged the file. Otherwise check any of
the cron.daily, cron.weekly or cron.monthly files.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: "Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help about file transfer between Win98 ans Linux in a LAN
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:24:25 +0800
HI all
I have a LAN of 7 PCs connecting, one is a Dual-CPU and Linux OS,
the others are Win98s, the cables are 10M/100Mb based. The ISP cable
is connect to a hub and there is a router, and then to the PCs.
I have to send files to a share folder at the Linux machine, I could do so
by 2 ways, one is by FTP to 192.168.0.X and the other is by Linux's
Samba.
However I found the transferring speed is over slow, only 60KB to
transfer a 10MB file, and as for Samba, the situation is more poorer,
at most time it could take 4-5 seconds to transfer a small HTML file,
but the speed could be very fluctuating, occasionally it could be as
high as 40-50KB too.
It must go wrong somewhere, could anyone tell me where did I go wrong?
Thanks very very much.
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From: "Fayaz A. Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: reversed vgetty..
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 21:34:55 -0700
I have installed and configured vgetty according to mini HOWTO. And it has
configured answering machine.
I want to make few changes. Instead of that, somebody else calls me and
then vgetty plays the message, I want my machine to call somebody and when
the other phone is hooked off , vgetty should play some recorded message and
not necessarily wait for incoming message. It is exactly like that some rep:
of business calls u and leaves computer generated messages for u. I have
tried vm, dialing through vm and then playing message through vm play -t
into telco line, but it hangs it up. Any solution. I will greatly appreciate
if u reply me and tell me any solution. I am also trying to look around for
nice vgetty programming documentation.
Fayaz Shaikh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help about file transfer between Win98 ans Linux in a LAN
Date: 7 Oct 2000 02:47:33 GMT
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:24:25 +0800, Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>the others are Win98s, the cables are 10M/100Mb based. The ISP cable
>is connect to a hub and there is a router, and then to the PCs.
You should have the cable connected to the router and then the router to the
hub (assuming a typical masquerading setup).
Could you give more detail about your network topology?
>by 2 ways, one is by FTP to 192.168.0.X ad the other is by Linux's
Try adding all the IP/hostname pairs in your system to each /etc/hosts,
e.g.:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.1 foo
192.168.0.2 bar
192.168.0.3 baz
>It must go wrong somewhere, could anyone tell me where did I go wrong?
It could be a routing problem. What do your routing tables look like (route
-n).
Dave Cook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VMWare 2.0.2 on RedHat Linux 7.0?
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 03:35:22 GMT
I have RedHat Linux 7.0, which has XFree 4.0.1.
Has anyone successfully ran VMWare 2.0.2 on RedHat 7.0, which has XFree
4.0.1?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to read Windows hard drive?
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 03:26:16 GMT
How to read Windows hard drive?
I have Win2K, Win98SE, and RedHat Linux 7.0, in different partitions.
I understand that I can access Win98SE partition, but how?
Hard drive is a device, so it should be in /dev directory,...
I have an Adaptec 19160 SCSI driver and two internal SCSI hard drives.
So, /dev/sda1 should access the first partition of the firsd SCSI hard
drive, right?
When I open the "File Manager", and open the /dev directory, I see many
directories and many files. What do I do?
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: copying and pasting?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 22:43:36 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > In the terminal window, just highlight the url. By highlighting,
> > you will place it into the clipboard. You can paste it with the
> > middle buton (or if two buttons then the two together).
>
> I tried all of your suggestions and it simply does not work between
> a term window and Netscape. There has to be an easy way to do this that
> I am missing.
What was suggested should work, I have a 3-button mouse and all I do is
highlight in one app and paste with the middle button in another app.
If you have the two button kind I think you need the "emulate 3-button"
option in the XConfig file. also it's a little tricky, you have to press
both buttons at the same time.
--
Bob Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doc)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Procomm-like comm package?
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 03:51:32 GMT
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:59:15 GMT, fred anger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <fBgD5.1702$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Techtonik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> man minicom there guy....
>
>Yeah, I guess I should have mentioned that minicomm doesn't quite fit
>the bill either. Anything with a GUI out there? Unfortunately (for
>me), my users hate having to remember commands.
>
Try Seyon. It's ugly, but it is "sorta" GUI.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doc)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.os.linux.iniziare,it.comp.os.linux.software
Subject: Re: LILO on drive a:
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 03:54:08 GMT
edit /etc/lilo.conf
One line should be "boot=/dev/<something>" Change it to read "boot=/dev/fd0"
Put a blank floppy in the drive and run lilo.
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:35:55 +0200, Dusk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I must re-install Winzozz98. But maybe he kill my LILO. So I want move LILO
>to a floppy and after all, boot from A and recover my RH.
>
>It si that correct and how can I do that?
>
>tnx
>
>
--
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: One 100% Newbie
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 23:12:54 -0500
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tony Lawrence quoth:
TL> Collin Borrlewyn wrote:
TL> >
TL> > That's me. I am here and prepared to ask really stupid questions. The first
TL> > one is: Where should I ask really stupid questions? After that my questions
TL> > get even stupider, but I'll wait until I know I'm in the right place.
TL>
TL>
TL> There are plenty of stupid answers, but very few stupid
TL> questions..
What if I ask a rhetorical question in order to answer someone elses
question. :-)
anm
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: LILO on drive a:
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 04:24:57 GMT
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read Windows hard drive?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 23:15:39 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How to read Windows hard drive?
>
> I have Win2K, Win98SE, and RedHat Linux 7.0, in different partitions.
> I understand that I can access Win98SE partition, but how?
> Hard drive is a device, so it should be in /dev directory,...
> I have an Adaptec 19160 SCSI driver and two internal SCSI hard drives.
> So, /dev/sda1 should access the first partition of the firsd SCSI hard
> drive, right?
> When I open the "File Manager", and open the /dev directory, I see many
> directories and many files. What do I do?
>
> ----
>
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> Before you buy.
This should work for win98. I don't know about w2k.
mkdir /mnt/windoz # or what ever you choose
Use the correct partition in the line below for your windoz partition.
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoz
To unmount it you would;
umount /mnt/windoz
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read Windows hard drive?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 22:30:22 -0700
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 03:26:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>How to read Windows hard drive?
>
>I have Win2K, Win98SE, and RedHat Linux 7.0, in different partitions.
>I understand that I can access Win98SE partition, but how?
>Hard drive is a device, so it should be in /dev directory,...
>I have an Adaptec 19160 SCSI driver and two internal SCSI hard drives.
>So, /dev/sda1 should access the first partition of the firsd SCSI hard
>drive, right?
>When I open the "File Manager", and open the /dev directory, I see many
>directories and many files. What do I do?
>
>----
>
>
You need to mount the partition. i.e. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows or
whatever(windows is a directory you create under the /mnt directory).
I only use FAT partitions under windows to share with Linux so I'm not
sure about other filesystem types. I'm pretty sure Linux can read
NTFS, I'm not sure about FAT32.
mike
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From: Daniel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel version in Slackware circa 1995 and RedHat 4.x
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 05:27:10 GMT
Bob Martin wrote:
>
> Bruce wrote:
> >
> > Can someone remember off the top of their head what kernel version
> > shipped with Slackware back in late 1995? And also in RedHat 4.x?
> >
> > I'm trying to get some versions of libraries, etc. from both distros for
> > my own knowledge.
> >
> > Or, if someone can locate a detailed history of each distro, I would
> > like to know the URL.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bruce
>
> Probably the 1.2 series, 2.0 was shipping in '96
> --
>
> Bob Martin
I have Slackware 3 book/cdrom from Sams Publishers1996. It has 1.2.13.
You can still get old versions from www.slackware.com.
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From: Markus Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: recovering one file on an ext2 filesystem
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 07:38:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I moved (mv -r) the contents of a 4 GB SCSI disk onto another. After
that I turned of the original disk and never turned it on again.
Now I need to recover one single small zip file from this disk. Since I
turned it off after moving, I think the chances that the file was not
overwritten are not that bad.
But: How can I get it back???
Thanks a lot in advance,
Markus
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