Linux-Misc Digest #708, Volume #26 Thu, 4 Jan 01 18:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: lilo.conf
Re: email (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Linux Gripes... ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: Apache question (Drew Lawson)
External machines to view web server (Alina Zukich)
who's rewriting /etc/fstab? (Roger Davis)
DMail Mail Server Mthly Pointer to FAQ (stephenp)
Re: DVD software for Linux yet? (Pineapple)
Re: Need MINIMAL Linux for a laptop dinosaur... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting Up Several Apache (Tim Haynes)
port forwarding for external machines (Alina Zukich)
Re: mpg123 skips when samba working (Mat)
Re: Problems starting POP3 server (Steve)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: lilo.conf
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:10:15 -0500
WTF ??
Didn't lilo complain ???
On my 6.0 , lilo is *very* unhappy if I mis-type anything in the conf file.
But then, Ofcourse, I only recompiled 2.2.17 & 18 kernels . I never updated
lilo .
Really , this is odd...
TomC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> I mistype the kernel file name in the lilo.conf in rh6.2 and can't mount
> the root filesystem after reboot. I know that I can create a boot disk
> and rescue disk in rh 5.2. Then, use 2 disks to boot up and go to single
> user mode. Can I do this in rh 6.2? I'm using scsi hd with adaptec 2940
> scsi controller, will this cause more problems?
>
> Thanks
> Brian
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: email
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:25:17 GMT
Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I was wondering if anyone could help me find an email app. that will
>allow me to write emails from the command line in text.
elm, mutt, (to name just a few) or (_insert_drums_here): mail
>like this.
>mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>data
>subject: hi
>Importance : high
>Content type: text
>etc
>etc
>.
>quit
This is not a mail application problem. What you're talking about
here is an ESMTP session, which you can invoke by telnetting to
any mailserver's SMTP port; most likely your own machine ones.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Gripes...
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:24:29 +0200
Reply-To: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:92vhi6$2rl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
>
> Man I just don't know what you all see in this OS. I want to believe. I
like
> the idea of open source. Linux is just so much work for so little joy.
This
> OS is just plain slow, bloated and buggy. All these damn config files are
> scattered all over the place with no set format of any kind. There is no
> decent help files and if there are you can't search any of them. Programs
Well - mine (Rh6) renders with Povray for two weeks solid - Windows crashes
in five hours.
For me, that is all that counts...!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Lawson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Apache question
Date: 4 Jan 2001 22:00:20 GMT
In article <932mng$3kk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Make a "dummy" vhost that does nothing but catch requests that
>don't match any other vhosts. Of course, it must
>be listed first. It shouldn't matter what ServerName you
>specify, as long as it doesn't match any other server.
That's the approach I took on my home (soon to be DSLed) server.
I intend to just have that page list links to the supported hostnames
(and maybe tell them to get a newer browser that sends Host lines).
--
|Drew Lawson | Of all the things I've lost |
|[EMAIL PROTECTED] | I miss my mind the most |
|http://www.furrfu.com/ | |
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From: Alina Zukich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External machines to view web server
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:10:27 GMT
I run a ip-masquerading network with my cable modem. I've set up a web
server on the linux machine(apache).
On my linux box, eth0 is 192.168.0.1 and eth1 is my cable modem.
My three other machines are running windows and are 192.168.0.x
The network with the cable modem works just fine.
Now I would like a web server so that external machines can see what's
on the web page that I create (a web page using mysql and php stuff)
I've added this to my rc.firewall:
ipmasqadm portfw -f
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L [eth1 address] 8080 -R [192.168.0.1] 8080
(I choose port 8080 so that I don't have to run apache as root)
I also gave the server name in httpd.conf file as 192.168.0.1 (and made
sure to change the port to 8080).
I can see it working fine on the linux box but if I go to some external
machine it does not work?
I might be mixing the orders somehow? Please help me?
Alen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Roger Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: who's rewriting /etc/fstab?
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:17:02 -1000
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I've encountered a bizarre problem in RedHat 6.2 where my /etc/fstab
is being rewritten (incorrectly!) by either (i) PowerQuest's Drive
Image Pro 4.0 backup/restore software or (ii) something which occurs
during the RH 6.2 boot procedure. PowerQuest swears that their software
does not do this, so I'm asking if anyone here is aware of any
circumstances under which RH 6.2 would attempt to rewrite /etc/fstab
on its own during boot-up.
I am using PQ's Drive Image program to generate direct-to-CD-RW backups
of the Linux ext2 partitions on my dual-boot (Win98/RH6.2) laptop.
I wanted to verify the functionality of this backup, so I restored
it to a spare partition on my hard disk. The restore procedure
goes as follows: (i) run the PQ program from a DOS environment, using
it to first delete the existing spare Linux partition and then immediately
create a new Linux partition in the same spot on the disk and fill it
with the restored filesystem read from the CD-RW, then (ii) exit the PQ
program which causes a reboot. When the system attempts to reboot into
RedHat 6.2 it fails because /etc/fstab has been rewritten incorrectly
by agents unknown. This behavior is 100% reproducible.
I immediately suspected the PQ program of attempting to be clever,
looking around on my disk for my root filesystem's partition and then
changing the fstab there to mount the filesystem that was just restored.
PQ insists, however, that their program never writes anything whatsoever
to any partition on the disk other than the partition to which the backup
is being restored. Obviously their code has to alter the disk label
to reflect the changed partitioning. I have no choice in the matter of
deleting the existing partition and recreating it with the PQ restore
software -- that's just the way their stuff works. The PQ backup image
on the CD is supposedly a sector-by-sector copy of the hard drive partition
from which it was created. (Sectors not belonging to any file are not
written to the image.) The new disk label appears to be correct, and after
I muck around with fstab and reboot again the restored partition (and
everything else) looks OK.
The first three columns of my original /etc/fstab look like this (minus the
arrows at the right):
/dev/hda5 / ext2
/dev/hda2 /boot ext2
/dev/hda6 /export/ctrobot ext2 <-------
/dev/hda1 /export/ctrobotw98 vfat
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
/dev/hda7 swap swap <-------
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2
none /proc proc
none /dev/pts devpts
Whoever is screwing up this file changes the first column of the two lines
indicated by the arrows above to read
/dev/hda5 /export/ctrobot ext2
/dev/hda6 swap swap
/export/ctrobot (which should be /dev/hda6) is the filesystem into which
the data were restored, so it seems significant that it is the entry
which gets screwed up, along with the adjacent swap partition (which should
be /dev/hda7).
My partition table looks like this after the restore:
Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 3278 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 741 5601928+ 1b Hidden Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 * 742 743 15120 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 744 3278 19164600 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 744 1021 2101648+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1022 1299 2101648+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3207 3278 544288+ 82 Linux swap
Before the restore /dev/hda6 spanned cylinders 1022-3206, but it was
downsized by the PQ restore program to be just large enough to hold
the filesystem being restored (which was the backup of my root filesystem
in /dev/hda5).
Does anybody have any idea what the hell is going on here? Is there any
way of examining the /etc/fstab on /dev/hda5 before I reboot into Linux
with /dev/hda5 mounted as root so that I can verify whether PQ is in fact
corrupting this file or not? (I tried a couple of years ago to make a
rescue diskette containing a root filesystem and failed miserably after
many hours of work. I am not eager to repeat that experiment! Is there
a pre-built rescue diskette image containing a root filesystem that will
boot my laptop available on the web anywhere?)
Thanks much for any information that anyone can provide.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (stephenp)
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc
Subject: DMail Mail Server Mthly Pointer to FAQ
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:17:34 GMT
Pointer to DMail Mail Server, Email List Server and WEBMail Software
FAQ and Binary Areas:
The Dmail Mail Server is an advanced, standards based, Email Software
Solution suitable Internet Service Providers and Corporates. The
server is available for most common operating systems.
Manual & FAQS: http://www.netwinsite.com/dmail/manual.htm
WEB: http://www.netwinsite.com
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From: Pineapple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.video.dvd,alt.video.dvd.software
Subject: Re: DVD software for Linux yet?
Date: 4 Jan 2001 22:25:20 GMT
Luman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <931rt5$fbk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Is sombodody who knows which organisation takingo 10K USD for rigths to
DSS?
>I have an idea which can help us to build legal DVD soft.
>Please send an URL.
quote from dvdfaq
"The licensor of CSS encryption technology is DVD CCA (Copy Control Association), a
non-profit
trade association with offices at 225 B Cochrane Circle, Morgan Hill, CA. There is a
$10,000 initial
licensing fee, but no per-product royalties. Send license requests to
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
technical info requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before December 15, 1999, CSS licensing
was
administered on an interim basis by Matsushita."
dvdccas page -> http://www.lmicp.com/dvdcca/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need MINIMAL Linux for a laptop dinosaur...
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:19:05 GMT
Theres a distro called 'looplinux' that should run on a laptop with
that spec.
It can be either loaded on a USMSDOS or on its own ext2 partition.
It can be downloaded from the URL below:
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/index.html
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arque Bishop) wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I've got a bit of a problem here, and I was hoping someone out there might
> be able to help me. I've got an NEC Versa V/50 laptop w/ a 486/SX CPU, 4
> MB of RAM, a 500 MB hard drive, and a 14.4k PCMCIA modem. What I'm
wanting
> to do is put a very minimal Linux on this laptop. Basically, ALL it would
> be required to do is dial up a remote PC using minicom. In fact, if it
> wasn't for the fact that the boot/root disks for Slackware require a
minimum
> of 8 MB of RAM, I'd just use the a1 disk series of Slack. Unfortunately,
> the earliest distro available on their website is 3.3. :( Does anyone
have
> any recommendations for a distro and config of Linux that could be used to
> make this laptop into a simple dial-up terminal?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> --
>
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> "Do you see the smile in my words, sad and evil? Sad because
> I am utterly alone. Evil because I am dead and yet I live.
> Can you hear me? Listen. A dead man visits you."
>
--James O'Barr, The Crow
>
> D'Arque Bishop -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ravenloft.net/~drkbish
>
> "For a dark man shall come unto the House of God, and the
> darkness shall be upon him, yea, even within him."
> -- from Noctropolis: Night Vision
>
>
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>
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Setting Up Several Apache
Date: 04 Jan 2001 22:21:07 +0000
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Zukich, Alen [SKY:6J00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Immortal Love wrote:
>
> > I installed RedHat Linux 6.2 with everything, ie. I had Apache 1.3.12
> > installed well. Now, I downloaded Apache 1.3.14 source code and
> > complied and made in default destination, /usr/local/apache/. But how
> > can I run and autorun when booting up both Apache servers together. Can
> > anyone teach how to do it? Do I need to copy some files to somewhere?
> > Or do I need to edit httpd.conf script? Thanks.
>
> I'm not sure what your asking here but I think its that you want to start
> both apache servers 1.3.12 and 1.3.14. (why you would want to do this is
> beyond me)
He knows 1.3.12 works; keeping the other one separate until happy is one
option.
> You can edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add the line to start apache
> (apache_dir/httpd)
Erk! No need for that at all. Copying the existing /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
across to `apache' in the same directory would be the right thing to do;
moderate amendments therewithin should suffice, and then symlink into
../rcN.d/ for suitable values of N.
> Also you must realize that you cannot have to apache servers running on
> the same port. Make sure you change the ports for the servers so that
> they are different in the httpd.conf file.
Sure thing.
Overall approach:
cd ~/C/apache-1.3.14
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=all
nice make && sudo make install
cd /usr/local/apache/conf
mv httpd.conf httpd.conf.default
cp /etc/httpd/httpd.conf .
vi httpd.conf # adjust port from being 80
../bin/httpd
and hopefully, woopee.
~Tim
--
10:17pm up 11 days, 32 min, 13 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Can you tell me how to get,
http://piglet.is.dreaming.org |How to get to Sesame Street?
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From: Alina Zukich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: port forwarding for external machines
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:40:24 GMT
I run a ip-masquerading network with my cable modem. I've set up a web
server on the linux machine(apache).
On my linux box, eth0 is 192.168.0.1 and eth1 is my cable modem.
My three other machines are running windows and are 192.168.0.x
The network with the cable modem works just fine.
Now I would like a web server so that external machines can see what's
on the web page that I create (a web page using mysql and php stuff)
I've added this to my rc.firewall:
ipmasqadm portfw -f
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L [eth1 address] 8080 -R [192.168.0.1] 8080
(I choose port 8080 so that I don't have to run apache as root)
I also gave the server name in httpd.conf file as 192.168.0.1 (and made
sure to change the port to 8080).
I can see it working fine on the linux box but if I go to some external
machine it does not work?
I might be mixing the orders somehow? Please help me?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mpg123 skips when samba working
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:41:37 GMT
Mat wrote:
>
> Brad Bailey wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 02:22:34 GMT, Mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > ->My problem is whenever I access large files from machine B (win2k) via
> > ->samba the mp3's annoyingly slow down and skip on directory access &
> > ->file retrieval.
> >
> > I'd look at the network before replacing a sound card. Running mp3's
> > over a LAN can be a bit much for low-end 10-Base-T hubs, especially
> > if there are other data transfers taking place at the same time.
> >
> > At least, it was for mine. Playing them over the network wasn't bad, but
> > if I copied an mp3 across to another box while one was playing,
> > everything started hiccupping. Upgrading to a 10/100 switch made things
> > a LOT better.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > Brad Bailey __/) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > "You know, it's easy to be happy if your one concern in life is figuring
> > out how much saliva to dribble." --Woody Allen
>
> My network (at the moment anyways) is the ultimate! The single red
> crossover cable! :)
>
> The mp3's are not actually playing over the LAN they are playing from
> the machine, the large file access is over the LAN, but I see your
> point.
>
> This has given me some ideas though to check the network...
> -open a SAMBA share on the jukebox machine instead of the win2K machine
> and read a large file.
> -run iptraf to see how much traffic is being generated by the smb work.
> -do some FTP between the machines while playing an mp3 to check the
> network.
>
> hmmmm! things to do, post-work :]
>
> Mat
I tried the following while playing mp3s (from hdb) on jukebox (linux)
-cp large file hdb->hda. no skipping
-open smb share from jukebox->jukebox & copy large file hdb->hda. no
skipping
-open smb share from jukebox->win2k & copy large file jukebox->win2k.
6400kb/s over eth0. no skipping
-open smb share from win2k->jukebox & copy large file jukebox->win2k.
7400kb/s over eth0. skip like crazy
-ftp from win2k->jukebox & copy large file from jukebox->win2k. 7100kb/s
over eth0. skip like crazy
i wonder still though if a network upgrade would help?
(this sort of thing is bound to happen when you spend $15 on your home
network! :)
Mat
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems starting POP3 server
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:43:23 +0000
Don wrote:
>
> Have installed RedHat Linux 7.0
>
> 1) Went into setup--> System services and made sure that ipop3 is check
> marked
>
> 2) Verified that pop3 is listed in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf
>
> 3) Rebooted
>
> I still can't see any indication of my POP3 server running? How can I
> troubleshoot this?
$ telnet localhost 110
If you get something like
+OK POP3 localhost v7.64 server ready
then your pop server is listening and answering.
Type 'quit' to exit.
If you don't get anything at all, then your server isn't
listening. Are you sure it's installed? Check with 'rpm -q imap'
--
Steve Ackman
http://twovoyagers.com
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