Linux-Misc Digest #476, Volume #26 Wed, 6 Dec 00 00:13:03 EST
Contents:
SurgeFTP ftp server released ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel won't mount raid0 (solved) (Stephan A Suerken)
Re: Booting Windows on a second hard drive with lilo (Dances With Crows)
Intruders or What? (john slimick)
Re: Howto indentify file's owner & group? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux telnet windows (moonie;))
Howto to install Rh7 xinetd, ftpd, and telnetd (webqueen, queen of the web)
CDDB->wav->CDDB? (spicerun)
Re: Intruders or What? (Noble Pepper)
Re: CDDB->wav->CDDB? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which driver to use (Noname)
Re: Scaling images (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux???? (Paul Kimoto)
Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00 (David V Bowen)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SurgeFTP ftp server released
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 02:08:18 GMT
Hi, If you would like to try out a new ftp server on your
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Features include:
Simple web admin tool for easy Management
Report generator to find out whos downloading what
High performance, fully threaded
User limits e.g. XXmb/user/day to prevent abuse
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ChrisP.
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From: Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel won't mount raid0 (solved)
Date: 06 Dec 2000 03:02:37 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, I know. However, very few people are doing so, and I doubt if
> anyone is doing so on a pre-release kernel. Go back and try it on some
> other kernels.
(..)
> And whether or not it's been messed up in the pre-release you are
> looking at.
I don't think there are only very few people doing it, as it's a good
thing (tm)!
As for the kernels: 2.2.17pre6 is the default kernel in Debian 2.2 r0
(as 2.2.16 is even more broken). [ Btw, in 2.2 r2, 2.2.18pre21 is the
default kernel for an analog reasons ;) ]
I needed 2.2.18(prewhatever) as I needed USB. That just to
explain. Basically, its not the kernel causing the "failure" here. I
actually tested it with 2.2.17 stable AND 2.4.0-test<something> as
well.
> That block is very far upstream for a root device! Your root is at
> least 60MB in size. Well, I suppose that's OK.
Actually, the problems were on two raid0s, one 12 G, the other about 5 G.
> Well, did you say you chunked at 16? 1KB chunks would be normal if the
> device file system has 1KB blocksize.
>
> > the kernel via boot options. The second imho most likely thing is that
> > I give the wrong chunk size factor. Kernel's md.txt isn't really clear
> > about that.
>
> It shouldn't matter, provided your whole device size is a multiple, of
> course.
Still not finding any info about how to exactly specify the "chunk size"
in the kernel parms, I made a exhaustive test. The results for
my two raid0s are:
mdtab : /dev/md0 raid0,16k,0,802eab69 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdc2
kernel args: md=0,0,2,0,/dev/hda3,/dev/hdc2
^--"chunk size": 2 works
mdtab : /dev/md0 raid0,8k,0,08716985 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
kernel args: md=0,0,1,0,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1
^--"chunk size": 1 works
Other values for the chunk size (factor) (tested 1-16) do NOT
work. Obviously, "mdtab-value == kargs-value x 8k" must be met. This
really should be in kernel's md.txt, imho.
> Why are you striping root? I can't think of an advantage. Root is
> essentially only read once for daemons and libs and stays in memory
> thereafter, so you don't get a speed up. There would be an advantage
> (robustness) in having a mirrored root.
My normal disk / fs layout is to only have a small /boot partition on
a bios-secure place and some swap space partition. All the rest is
root-raid. This obviously has two advantages:
1. Speed (striping).
2. No fixed space mounted partitions (which is REALLY annoying).
I don't have a clean "old-style" root partition any more to boot
from. I get security by other means. Previously, I had that, using the
raid via symlinks, but that solution has some disadvantages, besides
the fact that it is ugly !
MfG,
Stephan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Booting Windows on a second hard drive with lilo
Date: 6 Dec 2000 02:55:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:20:24 GMT, David Kaplan
staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> I have linux on /dev/hda, and windows on /dev/hdd. I can boot
>linux just fine with lilo, but when I try to boot windows, I get this:
>
>boot: windows
>Loading kernel 01boot:
>
>and asks for another boot label until it gets linux.
>My lilo.conf file is fine for linux but here is the windows stanza:
>
>other=/dev/hdd1
>label=windows
>table=/dev/hdd
Try this:
other=/dev/hdd1
map-drive=0x80
to=0x83
map-drive=0x83
to=0x80
label=dos
table=/dev/hdd
A lot of BIOSes can't seem to boot from hard drives on /dev/hdc or
/dev/hdd, so if this doesn't work, swap the Doze drive to /dev/hdb and
change the 0x83s to 0x81s. MS OSes in general get really snotty about
being the first partition on the first drive, and LILO's hackaround
works in most cases.
Alternatively, swap hdd and hda, copy the kernel image and the map file
to the Doze partition, and put LILO on the MBR of the Doze drive. Use
msattrib or ATTRIB.EXE to mark the kernel image and map file as hidden,
system, and read-only, otherwise, DEFRAG.EXE can munge things horribly
when it pessimizes your disk. 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!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john slimick)
Subject: Intruders or What?
Date: 6 Dec 2000 02:56:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of our lab machines was
configured with RH 6.2 --
CPU is Cyrix 233.
On November 5 I found a barely
operable system -- httpd and the
printer daemon had been shut off
and several /var/log files had
been deleted. There were three
accounts in /passwd that I did
not recognize; These were
deleted. I restored with
6.2, but could not get XWindows
to work for ordinary users.
Tonight, December 5, I found a
dead lpd, httpd, console mouse,
and Xfont. No new accounts this
timei, but the log files were
mostly gone. I restored with RH 6.0,
but this time I did reformat
/usr -- but since this is
the end of the
semester I cannot yet reformat
/ and /home. Same problem with
XWindows -- they work great for
root, but not ordinary users,
apparently because Xfont idaemon isn't
there (some file is missing on startup).
I find it odd that it happened
on November 5 and December 5.
Can anyone provide some thoughts
on what might be happening here?
john slimick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Howto indentify file's owner & group?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:10:01 GMT
Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: But then, how can I preserve the ownership (including the group) of the
: erased files?
: Can anyone please help or if you know a better way to archive such task,
: please don't hesistate to let mw know. TIA.
To set a file to zero length and not changing anything else, I simply
type from the commandline:
"> filename"
(without the quotes).
Can't see any reason why this souldn't work from a shell script.
So perhaps your problem could be reduced to something like:
"> $(find somedir -somehow something)"
Regards,
Friedhelm
--
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The answer is: "NO!"
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux telnet windows
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:11:09 -0500
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>HI all,
>
>I'm very familiar with Unix, but new to Linux. I now have a
>new Linux desktop at work.
>
>I've always relied on the menus to cut and paste into telnet
>windows. But the mouse is causing me some mistakes now.
>
>Is there a telnet tools for Linux out there that has the
>standard Edit menu, with both the standard Cut and Paste
>commands?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
You don't need them, just highlight what you want to copy, put the cursor here
you want to paste it and middle click, works with telnet (I just tried it to
make sure, cool)
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: webqueen, queen of the web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Howto to install Rh7 xinetd, ftpd, and telnetd
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 03:26:33 GMT
This is a HowTo install the networking services above:
http://www.tealseal.com/howto1.html
It describes xinetd , wu-ftpd and telnetd services aquisition and
installation. They don't come installed in RedHat 7, at least not in
mine- and I asked for EVERYTHING..
The author isn't a linux guru but it works.
-WQ
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From: spicerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDDB->wav->CDDB?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:13:49 GMT
Hi All,
I haven't seen a question like this anywhere, so I thought I would ask
it here.
Is there a program that can make a CDDB Audio Disk from a wav or mp3
file? And would this CDDB Disk work in any Audio CD Player (like the
car's CD player?). I want to hook a turntable and record an LP, then
encode it onto a CD that I can play in the car. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intruders or What?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:12:11 -0600
john slimick wrote:
> One of our lab machines was
> configured with RH 6.2 --
> CPU is Cyrix 233.
>
> On November 5 I found a barely
> operable system -- httpd and the
> printer daemon had been shut off
> and several /var/log files had
<snip>
> Tonight, December 5, I found a
> dead lpd, httpd, console mouse,
> and Xfont. No new accounts this
<snip>
> I find it odd that it happened
> on November 5 and December 5.
> Can anyone provide some thoughts
> on what might be happening here?
>
> john slimick
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
comp.os.linux.security can help if you have intruders
If this happening on the 5th of the month you should look at your cron
setup.
The third field in a crontab entry is the date field so look for ones with
* * 5 8 * at the beginning
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDDB->wav->CDDB?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:27:14 GMT
spicerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I haven't seen a question like this anywhere, so I thought I would ask
> it here.
> Is there a program that can make a CDDB Audio Disk from a wav or mp3
> file? And would this CDDB Disk work in any Audio CD Player (like the
> car's CD player?). I want to hook a turntable and record an LP, then
> encode it onto a CD that I can play in the car. Is this possible?
> Thanks in advance.
Sure can... cdrecord can burn wav files directly to disk... Something
like:
$ cdrecord dev=0,3,0 speed=4 -audio track1.wav track2.wav track3.wav
This is will give you a normal audio CD. You can't do it directly with mp3,
so you'd need to convert any mp3's to wav first.
Adam
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From: Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which driver to use
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:19:21 GMT
I renamed the files so linux would recreate it. It is posted below.
Sorry for posting the whole file, but it's not that big anyway.
in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, I have the following enabled:
/sbin/modprob via-rhine
but it fails when the system is rebooting. is the compiled file
supposed to have the extension o? (via-rhine.o) probably that's the
problem.
THanks.
Again the file u asked 4 is @ the bottom
> >alias eth0 rtl8139
> >
> This problem seems to be going round in circles at present - I think
we need
> more information to get things moving!
>
> Please post the section of your dmesg or /var/log/messages file from
the last
> startup so we can see what the machine thinks is happening on the nic
front
> and we'll have another go.
Dec 5 22:59:28 sedky syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Dec 5 22:59:29 sedky kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Dec 5 22:59:29 sedky kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Loaded 9679 symbols from /boot/System.map.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.16.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Loaded 64 symbols from 5 modules.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0
initialized
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU
using exception 16 error reporting.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer
Society NET3.039
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux
NET4.0.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial
options enabled
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: lp: no devices found
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: i2c: initialized
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Linux telephony interface: v1.00
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: loop: registered device at major 7
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: hda: WDC AC313000R, 12416MB w/512kB
Cache, CHS=1582/255/63, (U)DMA
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: hdb: WDC AC32500H, 2441MB w/128kB Cache,
CHS=620/128/63
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: TCP compression code copyright 1989
Regents of the University of California
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by
Donald Becker
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: NTFS version 990411
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: Adding Swap: 64508k swap-space (priority -
1)
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-
MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256).
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by
Donald Becker
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by
Donald Becker
Dec 5 22:59:30 sedky kernel:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
Dec 5 22:59:43 sedky sendmail[136]: starting daemon (8.10.2):
SMTP+queueing@00:15:00
Dec 5 22:59:44 sedky kernel: iBCS: socksys registered on character
major 30
Dec 5 23:00:01 sedky login[148]: ROOT LOGIN on `tty1'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: Re: Scaling images
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:38:50 GMT
Who ever said Aulne couldn't write what follows?:
>In article <90idv2$pk9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jimenez Martinez Angel Luis) wrote:
>
>> Aulne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>>
>> > I have graphic files in either tiff or ps format that I have to scale down
>> > in order to fit a full printer page. Otherwise only a portion of the file is
>> > printed. Is there a utility somewhere that can do this?
>
>> Have you tried using The Gimp?? It works quite well for my needs. But if you
>> want to convert between image formats and apply some modifications take a look
>> at Imagemagick package. It has a console program called "convert" which do
>> these kind of things.
>
>Oops... I forgot to mention that this scaling must be called from within a
>program. In order words, I need some utility that I can call with parameters
>from my software. Any suggestions?
>
Yup. Convert will work just fine. It's a very powerful command-line utility
with about a million parameters.
--
Bryan Hoyt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.crosswinds.net/~artmusic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux????
Date: 5 Dec 2000 23:45:57 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <90k3jg$4tn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I try downloading software from the internet to install and try out on
> Linux, but I can NEVER figure out how to install anything and make it
> work! I keep getting errors saying I need to have QT, PHP,
> MySQL...etc..etc...installed. When I try to install the needed stuff,
> it never works either or I just do something dumb.
Remember that (most? all?) distributions usually split library stuff into
a runtime and development part. To build programs, you need to have the
development part installed, too.
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: David V Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:49:28 -0500
I have a Gateway Solo laptop 9300XL running Windows 98 and Linux
RedHat 7.0 as a dual boot (using Bootmagic). I recently used
PartionMagic 6.0 to resize the partions slightly (by 500MB), and
everything seems to have gone fine except except when I boot into
Linux I get a whole slew of messages related to the start-up files all
of the form
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ... invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
This last part is always identical. The boot continues fine, however,
and once completed, there don't seem to be any problems. I get
identical errors on shutting down the machine too. So, three
questions:
- does anyone have any idea what this means?
- Is it serious?
- Should I/How do I cure the problem?
Thanks
Dave Bowen
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Copy of current /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults
1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro
0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
/dev/hda1 /c vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
/dev/hda6 /scr ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto 0 0
Current disk useage:
/dev/hda2 3.6G 2.7G 812M 78% /
/dev/hda1 2.4G 1.4G 1.1G 55% /c
/dev/hda6 10G 5.5G 4.3G 56% /scr
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