Linux-Misc Digest #38, Volume #26 Sun, 15 Oct 00 06:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help compiling workman (Markus Kossmann)
GL problem (arif)
Re: Tutorial on Kernel patching ("pl")
Re: many distributions.... (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? (Robert Masters)
Redhat 6.0 vs Redhat 7.0 ("Micer")
Re: Redhat 7 won't run quake/quake2 (Paavo Leinonen)
Sound Utility ("Herminio Alvarez, Jr.")
Finding game servers (Sheeplet)
Re: IPChains and Cable Modems - Fequently loosing connectivity to the Internet
("Kevin Safford")
Re: Linux file burned onto CDR from Win98 machine (William McBrine)
Re: MTA replscement for sendmail (Martin Bock)
napster w/linux (Matt Garman)
[Help Me] UDP Network Programming (Bomshik Kim)
Re: Two IP Addresses - 1 NIC - Possible? (Reinhard Karcher)
Re: Savign xmodmap setting between sessions ("D. D. Brierton")
Re: napster w/linux (Kyle Parfrey)
novell print queue access (andi smart)
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help compiling workman
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:10:50 +0200
Brian S wrote:
>
> I'm getting a weird link error when I try to compile workman-1.3.4.
> Before I started compiling I downloaded and installed
> xview-3.2p1.4.bin.tar.gz.
[...]
> /usr/openwin/lib/libxview.so: undefined reference to `_xstat'
> /usr/openwin/lib/libxview.so: undefined reference to `_fxstat'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [workman] Error 1
>
Probably xview-3.2p1.4.bin.tar.gz was compiled against a old ( not
compatible ) version of libc.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: arif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GL problem
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 05:07:21 GMT
I've tried to get quake II running on my Linux box, and while the
installation etc all seem to work fine, the graphics are really, really
slow. I've followed all the instructions in the how-tos to the letter,
but can't figure out why this isn't working.
my system is:
RH 6.2
AMD K6-2 400mHz
160 megs of RAM
Voodoo 3 3000 pci
X 4.0.1
any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
arif
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From: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tutorial on Kernel patching
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 05:36:51 GMT
> I need some tutorial on kernel patching topic. I read all Kernel-Howto but it
> is to little to understand how to patch and compile kernel Please give me some
> good links to such tutorials
>
> Rafael
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/index.html
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: many distributions....
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:02:29 +1000
The truth is that you are now "window shopping".
And everyone of us has different taste and preferences.
Don't take seriously any advice on those matters - try yourself and the one
that
fits YOU like a comfortably shoe is THE BEST - for YOU.
Slak user.
Stanislaw.
nybblex wrote:
> Hello dear newsgroup...
> I recently installed Mandrake but I was told that StormLinux (by Debian I
> think) is better..
> So, Mandrake Vs StormLinux ???
> ...and something else..
> which is the best: KDE or Gnome (which one should I start to use?)
> I am new in this Linux world so any help would be highly appreciated...
>
> thanx in advance
>
> Konstantinos
> (my english sucks sometimes)
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From: Robert Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 08:52:53 +0800
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Unrot13 this;
>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to mnip ;
>
>> I logged in to my RH6.2 mail and web server for the first time in weeks
>> today, but the telnet login is now inoperable. I get the RH62 message, but
>> no login prompt. I then went over to the physical machine, and a similar
>> thing, login: but any input just returns the login: prompt.
>You've been hacked. Thats the usual response when a 'rootkit' has been
>installed.
>
>Take it offline ASAP to prevent any further useage by the hacker. Then
>backup any data you need, and only what you need so as to not backup the
>hackers work, wipe the disk clean and reinstall.
This is actually a bit extreme - if you can work out which packages have been
worked over, you can do a forced install of those packages from the
distribution - much less hassle!
>Then goto updates.redhat.com and grab and install *all* the fixes
>available for 6.2 there.
And that's the next step, along with wiping out any/all spurious user accounts,
and forcing password changes across the board.
Also check for plain-text passwords to other machines in you LAN, and change
them, and check any root-peered machines as well.
>Make sure tcpwrappers is running too.
>
>If this machine is a working machine, and not a development machine, get
>rid of the compiler because if they don't have a compiler, they can't
>compile the rootkit on your machine. You can always re-install it
>temorarily if you need it for some project or other. Get rid of the
>whole rsh package and all the utils in it, also telnet, use ssh instead.
More good advice. In fact, get rid of anything that is not needed for it to
run. If nothing else, it makes life easier when you want to see what is going
on when they hack you next time! And get rid of any ports/daemons that you
don't need as well. Also, if you're really serious, log the traffic logs and
messages to a separate machine, via a one-way link, like a serial port. Or to
paper.
>Then hook it up long enough to go get portsentry from www.psionic.com
>and install it. Once thats in and running, it might be safe to plug in
>the ethernet cable and leave it plugged in again.
Don't know portsentry - could you enlighten us?
>That may not be enough to stop a really determined cracker, but its
>managed to reject about 30 passes at hacking my office machine so far.
:-) But you are right, there is no "magic bullet" - as the old saw goes, the
price of freedom (of having a safe machine) is eternal vigilence. Modify,
maintain, monitor. Constantly.
-Rob.
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From: "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.0 vs Redhat 7.0
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:11:16 -0700
I have recently become familiar with my Redhat 6.0 and have set up a
firewall/proxy using ipchains.
If I go to Redhat 7.0 will I be able to use all the same stuff that I'm
already familiar with? Someone told me that ipchains is no more in newer
versions, (ie: that there is a different utitility for packet-filtering and
forwarding).
Thanks,
Micer
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From: Paavo Leinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7 won't run quake/quake2
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:11:52 GMT
Hi,
glibc-2.1.94-3 was available through update agent, I took that,
but it didn't help. What are my options?
- go back to RH6.2 or some other, more stable distro?
- wait RH7 to get better (RH6.2 did run quake 1&2 fine)?
- get rid of faulty libs and replace those with food ones?
- something else? Good suggestions welcome!
First one does not look good, I've just installed an X-terminal,
too, and I'm not too eager to configure *everything* again.
Third one is a scary one, too, I'm not that familiar with Linux,
and I'm a bit afraid that changing something like glibc might
broke something else, quake (1) and quake 2 servers are not the
most important things to run you might guess...
So waiting RH7 to become more reliable is what I'll do?
-Paavo
Thomas Zajic wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:08:39 GMT, Paavo Leinonen wrote:
>
> > glibc 2.1.92 is installed (it was part of the default Gnome-
> > workstation install), but I have not done any configuration
> > to use glibc instead of libc's. What should I do? RTFM? :)
>
> Ouch, that's a development version - I've had some problems with it
> at work, too (Debian 2.2 unstable (Woody?)). The new ld/ld.so wouldn't
> load the game .so's from Q3A Rocket Arena 3 v1.3, so I had to downgrade
> our RA3 server to v1.0 (my Slack 7.0 at home with glibc-2.1.2 loads &
> runs RA3 v1.3 just fine).
>
> Unfortunately I haven't found a way yet to back out unstable packages
> that don't work properly. I'm tempted to remove the unstable branches
> in /etc/apt/sources.list, 'apt-get update', and then 'apt-get --reinstall
> install libc6 ldso', but libc6 and ld.so are probably not the best
> packages to start experimenting with. Any experienced Debian users out
> there who know the right way?
>
> Thomas
> --
> =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
> - Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux-2.2.17/slrn-0.9.6.3pl1 -
> - "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) -
> =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
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From: "Herminio Alvarez, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Utility
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:23:13 GMT
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"speed" at which a sound or song plays? It would be equivalent to the
"Pitch Control" on a turn-table.
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From: Sheeplet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Finding game servers
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:17:04 GMT
I'm looking for a good way to locate online game servers in linux.
Something along the lines of Gamespy3D or similar, so that I could
specify master servers and filters and such. I just started playing
Q3Tactical Ops and can't find any servers.
Does there exist any such piece of software that works well?
Thanks,
Sheeplet
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From: "Kevin Safford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: IPChains and Cable Modems - Fequently loosing connectivity to the
Internet
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:36:58 GMT
"Vinson Armstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:K65G5.48264$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This is a strange problem...Any suggestions or advice would be greatly
> appreciated
>
> I have been having a problem with keeping my cable modem connection active
> when using my RH (first 6.2 now 7.0) server as a Firewall (running
IPChains
> 1.3.9-17)
>
I ran across your description while searching for a possible
explanation to a very similar problem. I recently made an old
486 into a linux firewall/router for my cable modem connection (I am on
@home). I have been having the exact same problem as you describe.
I am running Mandrake 7.0 with 2 ne2000 ISA cards. The symptom I have is,
after using the browser on my PC (par t of my internal network), the
connection seems to "hang". I can find no usage pattern that causes this to
happen or accelerates the problem, other than it occurs when I am actively
browsing (as opposed to it happening when the machines are sitting
idle.)Here's what I have discovered so far when the connection hangs:
1) I cannot ping to the outside world from either my linux box or my PC.
2) I can ping both the internal (192.168.1.1) and external address from both
the linux and PC.
3) If I try to telnet (or ftp) from my PC into my linux box, I make the
connection (and see the connection in the syslog), but I do not get the
login prompt (i.e., nothing is sent back to the PC). (I find this very,
very strange and kind of annoying, since I have to go find a keyboard to
connect to the linux box again.)
4) Restarting the network will not help: the DHCP request from my linux box
times out. Rebooting the linux box does not help. Same problem. The ONLY
way to get back is to unplug my cable modem (I have an RCA modem) and plug
it back in (simply turning it on and off with the power switch doesn't help;
I believe that unplugging this particular modem causes it to reinitialize
itself.)
I called ATT support this morning, and they claim that my cable modem itself
is pingable and that the problem is something with my machine. And, since
they don't support linux, I'm on my own. =)
I have searched through the various HOWTOs and FAQs looking for anything
related to this and have been unsucessful. I have played with my IPCHAINS
commands to see if they were the problem. Nothing I can think of has helped
solve the problem.
And, like you describe, my connection worked fine for a long time when the
modem directly connected to my PC.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I've gotten quite tired of
unplugging my cable modem and restarting my network.
Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux file burned onto CDR from Win98 machine
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.cdr,linux.redhat,staroffice.com.support.install.linux
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:37:26 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Ralf Cirksena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Make sure to burn with rock ridge extensions. There extended filenames
> and *IX permissions are mapped to ISO9660 file names.
When I used Easy CD Creator, it didn't support Rock Ridge, only Joliet.
However, in this case, I don't expect that will be a problem. I don't
know how the StarOffice installation is arranged, but I imagine it came
in the form of a simple archive. (No?)
You can do much more sophisticated CD mastering with the standard Linux
utilities. I imagine at least some of them have been ported to Windows
as well...
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Martin Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MTA replscement for sendmail
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:47:56 +0200
On 14 Oct 2000 23:27:27 +0100 S.Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am going to run a MTA on my single-user laptop, because even if it has a LAN
>connection to internet, it will not always be connected.
>
>Sendmail runs out of the box for my purpose, but if I am not mistaken,
>sendmail is designed for huge systems handeling enormous amounts of mail.
>Thus I think I would be better off with a different MTA developed with
>the single-user systems in mind.
[snip]
>Should I look into Qmail? Is there any other small MTA's out there worth
>looking into? Please explain pro's and con's. Thank you!
>
>Oh, I use Slackware 7.1, and emacs/gnus to read mail (and news).
>
>Cheers, Stig
Hi Stig,
I suggest you to use exim. It is a small, fast and easy-to-configure
MTA. Exim comes with Debian 2.2 as default mailer (don't know, if it
is part of your distribution).
HTH
--
Martin
God is dead!............Nietzsche
URL: www.martin-bock.de Nietzsche is dead!......God
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nietzsche is God!.......The Dead
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman)
Subject: napster w/linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 08:17:20 GMT
I cannot get any napster client to connect to the "official" napster
server under Linux. I've been using the lopster client most recently. I
can go into the config under the "network" tab and get a server list using
the "server list" button. But all attempts to connect to the "official
server" timeout.
Every other Linux napster client I've tried has the same problem:
connection refused or timeout on "autoget best server" or connect to the
"official" server.
My computer is the firewall/gateway for a home LAN. My roommate uses the
Windows Napster client behind the firewall without any problems at all.
Also, I tried connecting to the official server when I temporarily
disabled the firewall (flushed all ipchains rules and set all policies to
ACCEPT). Still no luck, so I'm pretty sure this isn't a firewall or ip
masquerading problem.
Of course there are the servers listed at Napigator.com, but I don't like
them. Whenever I do a search, I always get fewer results than if I were
to do the same search on my roommate's computer. Plus, 95% of the MP3s on
the opennap servers timeout or are unavailable.
If anyone has any advice or ideas, please let me know!
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I may make you feel, but I can't make you think."
-- Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick"
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From: Bomshik Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: [Help Me] UDP Network Programming
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:28:23 +0900
Hello
I have a question about UDP packet.
suppose A sends UDP packets to B, (each of A and B is process)
and I kill B and restart B in less 10 seconds then
B receives UDP packets which are not new data from A but
those data are UDP packets sent between (B's killed) and (B's restarted).
Maybe I think. there is some queue so..
after B being killed, the port of B still receives some UDP packets.
and holds them for some time.
I do not want to receive the out-of-date UDP packets.
When I restart process B, I just want to ignore the old UDP packets,
and to receive the new UDP packets.
How Can I Do That?
Process B works like below.
1) make socket -> 2) setsockopt SO_REUSEADDR true ->
3) bind socket (Addr/Port) -> do something -> close
socket_file_descriptor.
ps)please reply to both newsgroup and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Regards.
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:01:25 +0200
From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two IP Addresses - 1 NIC - Possible?
Web Enthusiast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to have both an external, and private IP address on my machine to
>enable me to access my Intranet Website, 192.168.0.*
There is an mini-howto on this subject. My distribution (Suse) has
it as /usr/doc/howto/en/mini/IP-Alias.gz
Reinhard
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Savign xmodmap setting between sessions
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:15:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8safnk$2cv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Colin Watson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> D. D. Brierton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Now how do I get these settings to automatically take effect each time
>>I start X?
>>
>>My machine boots into X and I use gdm as my login manager. I do not
>>have a .xinitrc file in general;
>
> .xinitrc is only used when you're using startx. If you're using a
> display manager like gdm, you need to edit .xsession instead.
Okay, that makes sense. However, this doesn't seem to be working:
[darren@excession darren]$ cat .xsession
xmodmap /home/darren/.xmodmaprc
[darren@excession darren]$ cat .xmodmaprc
keycode 113 = Alt_R
keycode 116 = Meta_R
add mod1 = Alt_R
add mod4 = Meta_R
When I log out and then log back in again the xmodmap changes have not
taken affect. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the format
of the .xmodmaprc file as "xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc" works fine.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Darren
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D. D. Brierton Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: Kyle Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: napster w/linux
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:22:55 GMT
I too have had trouble with linux napster-ing. I think gnome-napster
connects to the official servers (I can connect,though I am not behind a
firewall), I haven't had good results with it. Maybe try knapster,
though I needed some dependency and haven't been bothered to install it
yet.
Kyle
Matt Garman wrote:
>
> I cannot get any napster client to connect to the "official" napster
> server under Linux. I've been using the lopster client most recently. I
> can go into the config under the "network" tab and get a server list using
> the "server list" button. But all attempts to connect to the "official
> server" timeout.
>
> Every other Linux napster client I've tried has the same problem:
> connection refused or timeout on "autoget best server" or connect to the
> "official" server.
>
> My computer is the firewall/gateway for a home LAN. My roommate uses the
> Windows Napster client behind the firewall without any problems at all.
> Also, I tried connecting to the official server when I temporarily
> disabled the firewall (flushed all ipchains rules and set all policies to
> ACCEPT). Still no luck, so I'm pretty sure this isn't a firewall or ip
> masquerading problem.
>
> Of course there are the servers listed at Napigator.com, but I don't like
> them. Whenever I do a search, I always get fewer results than if I were
> to do the same search on my roommate's computer. Plus, 95% of the MP3s on
> the opennap servers timeout or are unavailable.
>
> If anyone has any advice or ideas, please let me know!
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "I may make you feel, but I can't make you think."
> -- Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi smart)
Subject: novell print queue access
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:59:04 GMT
We have an intranet server with RH6.1 - however we are mainly a Novell
Netware 4.11 site with our printing being controlled by NDS print
queues.
Just occasionally I would like to be able to send a print job from our
Linux server to the printer in the room next door (HP Laserjet 2100TN)
- is there any way I can send a print task from the linux server to a
Novell print queue?
andi smart
"A single open mind, can open any door"
Sonia Rutstein
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