Linux-Misc Digest #67, Volume #27 Fri, 9 Feb 01 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: firewall question (Sven Heinecke)
Re: Journalled Filesystem on a laptop - spindown ? (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: Free internet phone calls for Linux ? Net2Phone ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boot Problems w/ WinME & Linux (Don)
Re: Qmail relaying stopped working ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Mandrake Linux CD-ROMs (Rod Smith)
USB printer trouble ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: security (Paul Kimoto)
devfs and IDE ATAPI floppy (Jonathan DeSena)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Free internet phone calls for Linux ? Net2Phone ? (Sinner from the Prairy)
unable to read partition table (Dan Amarel)
Re: Trouble with via ac97 sound (Jean-Pierre Moreau)
Re: Boot Problems w/ WinME & Linux (Hugh Lawson)
Re: RH 7.1 beta, USB tape drive and software ("Nathan")
Linux / Siemens scenic mobile 700 (fernando)
Backing up Windows95 from Linux (Joe Morris)
kernel 2.2.18 e red-hat 6.2 (Lodo Nicolino)
Re: Backing up Windows95 from Linux
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From: Sven Heinecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: firewall question
Date: 9 Feb 2001 14:25:21 GMT
Miguel Lastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed a firewall in a friend's Linux box. After that I
> "atacked" that box with nessus. In the report I get, nessus advises me
> to
>
> "filter out the icmp timestamp requests (13), and the outgoing icmp
> timestamp replies (14). "
>
> I have tried to do that, but then the machine does no reply to any ping
> request, How can I solve this ?
What did you do exactly? Did you use the --icmp-type option? Type
ipchains -h icmp for all valid icmp-types.
perhaps that helps?
Sven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Journalled Filesystem on a laptop - spindown ?
Date: 9 Feb 2001 14:26:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Al Jalaikakik wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>says...
>> Has anybody tried the various journaled filesystems to overcome
>> problems like this?
>
>Yes, I use ReiserFS on a Sony VAIO Z505SX. WOrks like a champ. I made a
Hi, I just came across this thread because I just installed
ReiserFS on my laptop. However, I cannot get the disk to spin
down. After reading through various archives I ended up on
http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/
Which basically confirms that it is hard to get long spindown times
with ReiserFS. Any experiences with that ?
Thanks
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Free internet phone calls for Linux ? Net2Phone ?
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:17:47 GMT
i have cable modem connection at home..and i receive 99% my calls from
my cell phone, so i am thinking of canceling my home phone (Qwest, damn
expensive even without making long distance calls), and go with
Net2phone. i tried out the software last night..not too bad..some delay
and echoing. i see that net2phone sells handsets (yap phone and some
other type that plug into the speaker outlet). i am leaning toward
purchasing a yap phone, since it also have a dial pad. have anyone used
it, and if it is any good? ie, clear and minimizing the delay? and
also, i cant seem to find a speed dial (phonebook) function on the
net2phone software..and i cant erase the numbers that i have previous
dialed from the program. anyone have that problem?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Limbert) wrote:
> Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> <DWWe6.4900$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Free internet phone calls for Linux ? Net2Phone ?
> >I think Net2Phone is a great service. You can make phone calls with
a
> >computer for free, and because I have DSL, the quality is almost
perfect.
> >However, I was not able to find Net2Phone client for Linux.
> >Does anyone know of free internet phone service for Linux?
> >
> >
> >
>
> They don't even have one for Mac, yet.
>
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From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Problems w/ WinME & Linux
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:30:07 -0000
I have a custom built AMD Athlon system with an Abit 7A-100 motherboard
(going from memory as I'm not at home) and an IBM 20Gb hard drive running
as an ATA100. The system was running fine for several months. I began to
install Linux by using the partitioning software that comes with it (not
PartitionMagic). I converted my 20Gb drive to a 15Mb and was going to use
the 5Gb for a Linux partition. I did not get to establish Linux on the new
partition. The system ran like this for a couple of weeks with no problems.
While I was out of town, something happened while a family member was using
the machine. They couldn't get it to boot. I suspect they put the Linux
boot floppy in the drive by mistake. Anyway, the result is that it will
boot from the floppy, but does not see the hard drive. It is as though the
hard drive doesn't exist. There are no error messages that would indicate a
hardware failure. Any thoughts? I also posted this on the WinME board.
Thanks!
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,unipi.comp.linux,linux.admin
Subject: Re: Qmail relaying stopped working
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:38:53 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Fabrizio Bartolomucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> delegated to the relay of incoming messages from the net to our network
> stopped functioning correctly after 7 months of regular work.What has
> happened is that qmail abdruptedly stopped forwarding mail to the
Ask it why. Run it in verbose mode. It sounds like someone abruptly
messed up your DNS tables.
And as far as I know, qmail does not "forward". It receives incoming
mail and passes it on to a local delivery agent for local delivery,
or relays the mail to another server if the recipient is aliased
as foo@bar, or you have a virtualuser table saying that in general.
> address of the internal mail server specified on smptroutes for unknown
Eh? Raise the question on the qmail mailing lists. Obviously
more data is needed! Your configuration, for one, and what happens for
another.
> reasons on both servers. Though no linux experts we have been revising
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux CD-ROMs
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:52:48 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (BobNWL) writes:
>
> I lost my access to a CD-ROM writer at work and downloading the ISO files on my
> home workstation would take forever. Is there anywhere on the net where I can
> get just the 2 Mandrake Linux CD-ROMs and nothing else. I just want the 2 ISO
> files extracted and put on 2 CD-ROMS....
http://www.linuxmall.com
http://www.cheapbytes.com
http://www.lsl.com
Plenty of others, too, I'm sure....
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: USB printer trouble
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09 Feb 2001 10:20:16 -0500
Hi,
I'm running a RedHat7 fully updated, kernel 2.4.1. and I own a Cannon
BJC-2110 printer which I'm trying to use through the USB port. I have
support in my kernel for USB and when I boot up I can the USB-UHCI (I
think) is being used. when I try to configure my printer using
printtool it does not find any local printers, but I tell it that the
printer is under /dev/usb/lp0 and everything seems fine. the I restart
the lpd daemon and again everything seems fine. then I send a file to
be printed using lpr, and I monitor what's happening using lpq, and
what's happening is that it says the job is being "processed" and
that's it the printer never prints. I also tried to manually load some
modules like printer.o usbcore.o and usb-utci.o. some of them were
already loaded and it didn't help at all.
any help would be appreciated.
p.s. the printer works under windows.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: security
Date: 9 Feb 2001 10:28:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Mcclain wrote:
> I take it from your response that if I leave telnet and
> ftp in /etc/inetd.conf that this means others can login on my box.
> I thought I had to leave them on to ftp/telnet out.
No, inetd works on incoming connections.
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and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Jonathan DeSena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: devfs and IDE ATAPI floppy
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:28:12 -0500
Does anyone know if the IDE ATAPI floppy driver in kernel 2.4.1 has support
for devfs? I am trying out a kernel with devfs comiled in, but i can't
seem to access my IDE zip drive. There are compatibility links to all my
other drives (hd, cd, scsi, fd) but none to what my zip device used to be.
I've tried searching for it in the /dev directory, but to no avail. So I
wonder: maybe the driver does not support devfs yet? If not, is this
being worked on?
Thanks,
JTD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:58:56 +0000
Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> I have never, not once, heard 'integer' referred to
> in the plural without an 's' on it.
I haven't either... Must be a strange colonial abheration...
:)
Or maybe he was just plain wrong.
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From: Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free internet phone calls for Linux ? Net2Phone ?
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 10:54:14 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> i have cable modem connection at home..and i receive 99% my calls from
> my cell phone, so i am thinking of canceling my home phone (Qwest, damn
> expensive even without making long distance calls), and go with
> Net2phone. i tried out the software last night..not too bad..some delay
> and echoing. i see that net2phone sells handsets (yap phone and some
> other type that plug into the speaker outlet). i am leaning toward
> purchasing a yap phone, since it also have a dial pad. have anyone used
> it, and if it is any good? ie, clear and minimizing the delay? and
> also, i cant seem to find a speed dial (phonebook) function on the
> net2phone software..and i cant erase the numbers that i have previous
> dialed from the program. anyone have that problem?
All this with Linux?
How?
Salut,
Sinner
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From: Dan Amarel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unable to read partition table
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 10:57:57 -0500
After an accidental episode of file deletion from my home dir (by the Netscape 6
installer) and subsequent system lock-up (thanks to Netscape 6 spawning a
zillion pop-up error windows), and in combination with a power outage (caused by
a reflexive action on the part of my left foot against the surge protector)...
my system now refuses to boot properly, with the boot process reporting a
filesystem error, and dropping me into a shell.
System is an i686 running Redhat 6.1, and I have 2 SCSI disks.
Current status:
-From the shell, I see the root filesystem, but nothing under either /user,
/home or /home2
-e2fsck reports that sda is clean, but it can't open sdb, saying:
e2fsck: Device not configured while trying to open /dev/sdb1
-I can't find /var/log/syslog at all.
-dmesg reports a disk error:
(Repair filesystem)6 /bin/dmesg | more
...
Partion check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
sdb: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 1 lun 0 return code =28000002
...
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
unable to read partition table
...
-Perhaps I should add that there was a sym-link from my home dir (in sda3) to a
lot of Java stuff in home2 (in sdb1). I wonder if the NS6 installer may have
followed this sym-link and devoured everything in sdb1. (In general, I'm
confused as to whether the system won't boot, because necessary files have been
deleted, because of a filesystem error, or a combo of both.)
I'm not a hacker, and I've never had a problem booting Linux before, and I'm not
knowledgable about recovery issues...Much appreciate any advice!
DA
-
Dan Amarel
Dense Media
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Subject: Re: Trouble with via ac97 sound
From: Jean-Pierre Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 16:02:21 GMT
Peter Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> . . .
>
> The kernel drivers don't support the chip, so I had to find out that
> ALSA might be helpful (and OSS, which for various reasons proves to be
> an even inferior solution for me).
>
> With ALSA I can listen to wav, au, mp3, cd audio, but not to midi,
> . . .
>
> Here is - finally - my problem:
> I can't get sound to work with the quake games series (especially quake
> and quakeworld), and ALSA even mentions that quake has to segfault
> because there is a problem with "mmap" (whatever that means). So without
> sound I am unable and unwilling to play these games.
>
> Is there any realistic alternative to get quake sound under linux with a
> VIA AC97 (and without upgrading the kernel to 2.3.x or 2.4, where I
> found some experimental stuff with www.google.com)?
> Someone of you all with VIA AC97 got a good solution? Or is this
> hopeless?
This can help, but NOT a definite solution.
I have the same problem, or similar: ALSA for onboard
VIA VT82C686 AC97 southbridge, module 'snd-card-via686a',
on Slackware-7.1 Linux. Because ALSA most developed in this case, even
supposed to have sound recording (this I know looking at C sources of
modules in different cases: not very impressive doc, but I understand.
At least there IS some drivers!)
For now, applications I tried that have ALSA interface for output of
sound are Ok. My son bought Myth II game, and no sound for now, not
having ALSA interface.
But in THIS case: MythII can use ESD (Enlightenment Sound ...), and
ESD can POSSIBLY use ALSA interfaces, from a vague rememberance of
something read on Internet.
More generally (possibly you know it): in ALSA doc, there is way to
make ALSA drivers 'kernel sound (free OSS?)' compatible.
I did NOT try it up to now, I will in some days (or weeks?).
And all above is for sound Output, I did not yet try sound recording
with this AC 97 Sound Onboard chip with ALSA driver.
By the way, I am somewhat with you concerning 'lost bandwith on Usenet':
this is far from abuse.
Not very definitive answer, but I hope this help,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Lawson)
Subject: Re: Boot Problems w/ WinME & Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 15:58:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don wrote:
>Anyway, the result is that it will
>boot from the floppy, but does not see the hard drive. It is as though the
>hard drive doesn't exist. There are no error messages that would indicate a
>hardware failure. Any thoughts? I also posted this on the WinME board.
Just a question or two.
1. Is your boot floppy a lilo boot floppy?
2. If so, can you boot Windows by typing in the right word at the
LILO: prompt?
3. What happens if you start the computer without the boot floppy
inserted?
If the answers to both #1 and #2 are "yes", then you may be able to
restore automatic booting of Windows in this way. Use the boot floppy to
boot windows. Go the "Run" selection on the start menu and run this in
Windows:
fdisk /mbr
This will restore to the first hard drive the code needed in the master
boot record to start Windows.
If the answers are not "yes", then post as much information as you can
about 1, 2, and 3 and some real guru may be able to help.
--
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
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From: "Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 beta, USB tape drive and software
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:15:21 -0500
I tried tar, cpio, Taper, and a simple backup script. They all seem to
freeze at some point in the backup process.
"John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What about "man tar"... ?
>
>
> "Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:3a82df4b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Compaq EP with RedHat 7.1 beta (2.4 kernel) and a Seagate USB
> tape
> > drive. The system does recognize theF reecom hub and drive (/dev/st0)
and
> > it shows up in the usbview utility. All I need is some software or
> utility
> > that can write to the drive. I've attempted to use taper and Amanda
with
> no
> > success. Has anyone tried BRU with this compbination? I'll buy it if I
> > need to. I just want to know if there's a simple 'cpio' script that I
can
> > use.
> >
> > BTW, the linux-usb (http://www.linux-usb.org) web site offers no help
when
> > trying to install usb tape drives. I find this odd since usb can be
used
> > with so many devices. oh well...
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Linux / Siemens scenic mobile 700
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:25:23 +0000
Hello,
First, I already read all the FAQ, manuals, searched old posts, etc.
Just in case =)
I have an old Siemens Scenic Mobile 700 notebook with a C&T65550 chipset
and I still can't setup X.
Anyone out there with the same old notebook who can help me?
Thanks
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From: Joe Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
Subject: Backing up Windows95 from Linux
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:46:08 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Didn't see any Howto's or much in Deja
I've got an all SCSI system with a 4mm tape drive, a Win95
partition and various unix partitions. I do all my backups
from Linux. I recently had an bad experience doing a total
restore of the Win95 partition and I lost all the long
file names. I had mounted the filesystem like "mount -t msdos"
and done a tar. This had always worked fine to restore
a directory here or a file there.
What's the best way to backup Win95 from Linux?
I know "dd" would work, but I want to be able to do individual
files as well as a bare metal restore.
Thanks for any pointers
--
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Atlanta stories: http://www.olagrande.net/users/jolomo/atlanta.html
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From: Lodo Nicolino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.2.18 e red-hat 6.2
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:01:59 GMT
Hi i am Nico.
I have downloaded the kernel 2.2.18 and after i compiled that it does
not create the directory /lib/modules/2.2.18. So i am not able to load
the modules.
The same ass happen if i try do compile the kernel 2.4.1.
what i am doing is that:
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig
rm /boot/System.map
rm /boot/vmlinuz
make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install
cp /System.map /boot/System.map.2.2.18
cp /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18
ln -s /boot/System.map-2.2.18 /boot/System.map
ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 /boot/vmlinuz
/sbin/lilo
Anybody can help a poor newby.
Thanks
Nico
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
Subject: Re: Backing up Windows95 from Linux
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:04:54 -0500
For a file by file backup,
mount it as "vfat" . This allows you to see the long file names.
hth
Joe Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9616sg$ecd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Didn't see any Howto's or much in Deja
>
> I've got an all SCSI system with a 4mm tape drive, a Win95
> partition and various unix partitions. I do all my backups
> from Linux. I recently had an bad experience doing a total
> restore of the Win95 partition and I lost all the long
> file names. I had mounted the filesystem like "mount -t msdos"
> and done a tar. This had always worked fine to restore
> a directory here or a file there.
>
> What's the best way to backup Win95 from Linux?
>
> I know "dd" would work, but I want to be able to do individual
> files as well as a bare metal restore.
>
> Thanks for any pointers
> --
> Joe Morris, SysAdmin and Not Insane
> Atlanta stories: http://www.olagrande.net/users/jolomo/atlanta.html
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