Linux-Misc Digest #105, Volume #27 Tue, 13 Feb 01 23:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux Sucks... well not really (The Real Bev)
Swap Partition Error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Sucks... well not really (Johan Kullstam)
RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter ("Guillermo Auad")
Pan 0.9.3 ("Felix Tilley")
PC, MAC and Linux Network ("interzpace")
Re: Pan 0.9.3 ("Felix Tilley")
Re: Java Port (Jan Schaumann)
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter (Mike Martinet)
Re: Compiling a Kernel... (Steve Martin)
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: O'Reilly: SSH book published (Jean-David Beyer)
Where to put hdparm (Pete Ritter)
Re: scp problem (openSSH/openSSL suite). (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: which distro (Noah Roberts)
Re: Cant run Acrobat Reader on RH 7.0 (john_i)
Re: O'Reilly: SSH book published ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network (Noah Roberts)
Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network (Rod Smith)
Is here anyone successful compile midnight commander at solaris? (Carfield Yim)
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From: The Real Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Sucks... well not really
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:15:23 -0800
japhilp wrote:
>
> Just noticed something about netscape and it's threading :
>
> Say you have 5 windows open , on 5 diferent web sites.
> Now if one of those windows freezes halfway through a download, then it's
> bye-bye netscape over here.
> Sure it is threaded : A new thread for each new window, but all the
> communications go through a single thread. The same happens on a win32
> system .
>
> About using netscape for other than web browsing :
> It has been my experience that when an application tries to be the jak of
> all trades, it becomes just that, the jack of all trades, and master of
> none. Netscape fits my needs as far as browsing is concerned.
>
> Pan fills my needs for a news client.
>
> After trying to take a peek at balsa , I quit , and have decided to use
> Kmail.
I like kmail and use it for mail that I want to send from my non-posting
address. Way easier than swapping addresses around and I can just cat its
sent-mail file into my netscape Sent file every once in a while.
Netscape sucks, but it's better than the other browsers we have available,
and it does mail and news too. I'd like news filters and fewer
crash/freezes, but I'd like an orange Corvette, too.
--
Cheers,
Bev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Friends help you move. *Real* friends help you move bodies."
--A. Walker
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:41:19 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Swap Partition Error
hi
recently, i've been receiving the following error report in
/var/log/message:
Feb 14 05:10:21 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of
device]
Feb 14 05:10:21 kernel: 03:03: rw=0, want=754065968,
limit=2827440t [IPCP 14 05:10id=0x3 <addr 1kernel: dev 03:03
blksize=4096 blocknr=-1958967157 sector=1508131928 size=4096 count=1
i'm guessing device 03:03 is /dev/hda3. that's my swap partition (it's
approx 90MB). when i receive this error, my filesystem usually sustains
some damage. The last time this happened, linux reported that i had a
file that was several terabytes long (which is wrong since i've only got
an 8GB hdd :))), libraries were deleted when i ran fsck and it caused me
a lot of headaches overall.
I know that my harddrive isn't damaged. i've run badblocks on it several
times. i've been running linux on this HDD for a while now...and it's
only recently that these problems have been cropping up. what exactly is
the problem and how can i fix it???
thanks
ali
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Subject: Re: Linux Sucks... well not really
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 01:49:20 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Banner <tbanner.bridgec*NOSPAM*@virginnet.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > browser anymore.. IE unfortunately is faster, more stable and renders
> >> Not faster...
>
> > Yes a lot faster :) I'm a Linux fan, I even go to my local LUGs on
>
> What is all this about speed? A browser doesn't take time!
you obviously haven't seen mozilla. it's usable at work on a p3 650,
but at home with my ppro200, it's a dog.
> It has ages
> to wait for packets from the net (some 10ths of seconds) and then
> if it needs to process anything it takes microseconds. What are you
> people talking about?
mostly the user controls. the redering of mozilla is actually fast.
it's when you punch "bookmarks" and wait a few tenths of a second for
it to roll down. you do "edit->preference" and wait 15 seconds for a
very sluggish prefs window to pop up. "edit bookmarks" is an
excercise in frustration. i could go on, but you get the point.
> I use lynx normally, because I prefer to avoid
> silly images, but I see no difference in speed against netscape when
> I use it - nor would I expect to. The processing time is relatively
> trivial. Netscape never maxes out the cpu - or even 10% of it!
in an ideal world, you are right, but every so often netscape goes
nuts...
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Guillermo Auad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:24 -0800
I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
Any ideas? please, reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thx.
Guillermo.
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From: "Felix Tilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pan 0.9.3
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:04:09 GMT
Running Linux Mandrake 7.1:
It still has problems with dates. All dates are displayed in GMT/UTC
time. Nothing is displayed in local time (-0700 for me).
I don't know how the posts are formatted for date and time. Consider
this a test of Pan 0.9.3.
I can now get fixed fonts, like Courier to display properly, unlike Pan
0.9.2.
I plan to "downgrade" to Pan 0.92 in a few minutes.
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From: "interzpace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux
Subject: PC, MAC and Linux Network
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 06:25:59 +0800
Hello all,
I'm thinking of building a network with the following:
1 x PC (Win98SE/Mandrake 7.2 workstation, AMD K6-2 350, 288M Ram, 10G HD,
3COM 3c509 NIC)
1 x PC (Mandrake 7.2 workstation, P166MMX, 40M Ram, 1.6G HD, Genius NIC)
1 x PowerMac (MacOS 8.5, PPC7100, 88M Ram, NuBus, 6G SCSI HD, transceiver)
1 x 8 port minihub
1 x cable modem
1 x PC Bubble jet printer
The cable connection is using dynamic IP. Which network design is best for
the above components? Is it a good idea to setup a Linux server using the
Mac with MkLinux? Or should I configure the second PC as a Linux server
instead? I also want this network to be firewalled regarding the security. I
just don't have the faintest idea to make the whole thing work. Anyone??
thanks!!
regards,
wes
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From: "Felix Tilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pan 0.9.3
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:51:04 GMT
In article <tIli6.336$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Felix
Tilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Path:
>
>newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail
> From: "Felix Tilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pan 0.9.3
> Newsgroups:
> alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
> Organization: i.delete.spammers.org User-Agent: Pan/0.9.3 (Unix)
> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Tranfer-Encoding: 8bit X-No-Productlinks: Yes Lines: 22
> Message-ID: <tIli6.336$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:
> Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:04:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.11.144.66
> X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Trace:
> newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 982116249 63.11.144.66 (Tue, 13 Feb
> 2001 18:04:09 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:09 PST
> Xref: newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net alt.os.linux.mandrake:105473
> comp.os.linux.misc:447488 comp.os.linux.redhat:4798
>
> Running Linux Mandrake 7.1:
>
>
> It still has problems with dates. All dates are displayed in GMT/UTC
> time. Nothing is displayed in local time (-0700 for me).
>
> I don't know how the posts are formatted for date and time. Consider
> this a test of Pan 0.9.3.
>
> I can now get fixed fonts, like Courier to display properly, unlike Pan
> 0.9.2.
>
> I plan to "downgrade" to Pan 0.92 in a few minutes.
I have now downgraded to Pan 0.9.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann)
Subject: Re: Java Port
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:58:47 GMT
* olliecat wrote:
> Cam someone tell me what the most recent golden release of the java sdk
> for Linux is, if there is one?
http://java.sun.com
http://www.google.com
The latest Java SDK from Sun is SDK 1.3, which also is named j2sdk1.3,
as sun made so many changes since the 1.2 release that they now call it
"Java 2", even though the /SDK/ is 1.3.
All this is not very well hidden on the obscure websites I named above,
that, miraculously, are available to everybody.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Linux vs. Windows is a no-WIN situation.
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From: Mike Martinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:14:20 -0700
Guillermo Auad wrote:
>
> I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
>
> % ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
>
> it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
> adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
>
> Any ideas? please, reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> thx.
>
> Guillermo.
Take a look at /etc/conf.modules.
Mine looks like this:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 3c59x
Those are the two ethernet cards installed and the module necessary to
handle them.
MjM
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Compiling a Kernel...
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:26:20 GMT
Dedicated to all Manson Fans wrote:
>
> After two packages of cigarettes, many bottles of beer and no progress I
> have to to scream for help. I try to compile a new Kernel (2.4.1) and
> there seems to be no way to get it to an acceptable size. The biggest I
> got was about 2.2 MB the smallest about 1.4 MB
I took the .config file you posted and used it to compile the 2.4.1
kernel here on my RH7 machine. It compiled to a kernel file that was
462,244 bytes (approx. 450k) big.
Is it possible that the file you're saying is too large is
/usr/src/linux/vmlinux? If so, that might be the problem.
That is not the file you should be using... the bootable kernel
built by "make bzImage" and/or "make bzlilo" is the file
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage and is a compressed
kernel.
Try using that file as your bootable kernel image.
By the way, I got an error message when compiling drivers/video/fonts.c
that said "no fonts specified". I got rid of it by selecting one of
the video card drivers under the DRI selection (the Help file for
the DRI selection says that you have to select one of the card-specific
drivers for inclusion in the kernel if you include DRI).
Hope this helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:27:04 GMT
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:24 -0800, "Guillermo Auad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
>
>% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
>
>it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
>adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
>
>Any ideas? please, reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>thx.
Yea.
Run Windows instead of Linsux .
Or, do without your hardware like most Linux users.
Flatfish
Why do they call it a flatfish?
Remove the ++++ to reply.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: O'Reilly: SSH book published
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:31:15 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Daniel Barrett wrote:
> >> Backing up to a remote machine using ssh
> >> CVS access from behind firewall ???
> >> imap and ssh
> >> Scripting SSH
> >> ssh problems
> >> ssh rsa fails?
> >> ssh, scp and batch mode
> >> sshd authorized_keys
> >> starting ssh-agent as parent of X session for SSH
> >> ...
> >>
> >> I thought the announcement would be helpful. Apologies for missing the
> >> boat on comp.os.linux.announce.
> >>
> > While I suppose it was posted to the wrong newsgroup, I got the book
> > because I saw the post, and it just arrived today. I skimmed it and it
> > looks good.
>
> Is it? I teach ssl in an e-commerce course and might need it. My
> ssl knowledge comes from the RFCs and the various notes from the
> drafts. I'm not at all sure how ssh fits in to that picture, and
> could do with something that gives some data. Does it? Or is it
> all howto?
>
As I said, I just skimmed it, but it is not all "howto."
Here is a summary of the T.O.C. The sections 1 and 3 will be complete to
give a hint as to level of detail. I will put in some page numbers. The
rest will be more brief:
Preface
1. Introduction to SSH..........................1
1.1 What Is SSH?................................2
1.2 What SSH Is Not.............................2
1.3 The SSH Protocol............................4
1.4 Overview of SSH Features....................5
1.5 History of SSH..............................10
1.6 Related Technologies........................12
1.7 Summary.....................................18
2. Basic Client Use.............................19
3. Inside SSH...................................41
3.1 Overview of Features........................42
3.2 A Cryptography Primer.......................45
3.3 The Architecture of an SSH System...........49
3.4 Inside SSH-1................................52
3.5 Inside SSH-2................................72
3.6 As-User Access (userfile)...................85
3.7 Randomness..................................86
3.8 SSH and File Transfers (scp and sftp).......88
3.9 Algorithms Used by SSH......................91
3.10 Threats SSH Can Counter....................100
3.11 Threats SSH Doesn't Prevent................103
3.12 Summary....................................107
4. Installation and Compile-Time Configuration..108
5. Serverwide Configuration.....................139
6. Key Management and Agents....................204
7. Advanced Client Use..........................240
8. Per-Account Server Configuration.............293
9. Port Fowarding and X Forwarding..............316
10. Recommended Setup...........................360
11. Case Studies................................372
12. Troubleshooting and FAQ.....................437
13. Overview of Other Implementations...........461
14. SSH1 Port by Sergey Okahapkin (Windows).....471
15. SecureCRT (Windows).........................480
16. F-Secure SSH Client (Windows, Macintosh)....488
17. NiftyTelnet SSH (Macintosh).................498
A. SSH2 Manpage for sshregex....................503
B. SSH Quick Reference..........................506
Index...........................................521 - 540
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:10pm up 16 days, 6:37, 4 users, load average: 2.06, 2.12, 2.01
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From: Pete Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to put hdparm
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:37:21 GMT
In which rc.d file is the correct place to put "hdparm -d1 -X34" so that
these params are set on boot? Or better yet, perhaps they should be
compiled into the kernel?
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You know where to put the "@" and the "."
cpritter
home
com
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scp problem (openSSH/openSSL suite).
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:41:20 -0500
Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:07:08 -0500, Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >While I have openSSH working just fine between my two machines, and I
> >have even had it work from my nephew's machine hundreds of miles from
> >here, I have never gotten scp to work. Here is a typical attempt:
> >debug: Entering interactive session.
> >bash: scp: command not found
>
> You probably installed via source to /usr/local. The problem is that scp is not
> in the path on the remote end. You can set /usr/local/bin as part of everyone's
> path or even better just created a symlink from /usr/local/bin/scp to
> /usr/bin/scp.
>
> Regards, Dustin
>
Thanks. That wuzzit. I thought I had already checked that, but I must
have overlooked it.
I did the symlink at both ends, since it would not work either way. I
tested it only one way. Since ssh worked, I did not even have to turn on
the monitor at the other system (10 feet away).
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:35pm up 16 days, 7:02, 4 users, load average: 2.18, 2.11, 2.07
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:43:27 -0800
From: Noah Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which distro
Drew Roedersheimer wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 05:20:16 GMT, Big Al in Seattle wrote:
> >I have a question that I have not seen answer to. I have a variety of
> >systems, 486s P100, Mac. Should I use one distr. for all systems or use a
> >different one depending on what will run the best. I have quite a few disks
> >around, but getting them working is a matter of time and space.
> >
> >Any ideas on this?
> >
> >Big Al in Seattle
> >
> >
>
> Personally, I would use the same distro on all the machines since it would
> make maintaining all of them easier. (i.e. Some distros use a variety of
> GUI administration tools, while others don't offer these same apps for
> manipulating the internals (a better scheme for learning, obviously)).
>
> With that said, it really won't matter much if you do use different distros
> across the machines since many of the applications you use are, many times,
> *nix independent (e.g. Most of the GNU tools will run happily on Linux,
> Solaris, BSD, etc) - not to mention Linux distribution independent...
> Distribution rarely comes into play, except in configuration terms.
Well, on the one hand some distros install too much stuff, and need that much
stuff, to install on the smaller drives....so you can run into trouble on the
older machines.
On the other hand, Mac tosses a wrench in the works and not all distros install
on Mac.
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From: john_i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant run Acrobat Reader on RH 7.0
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:48:54 -0500
In article <OPRf6.7079$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
I had to go to Adobe's site and download a newer build of Acrobat, which
works fine with RH7.
>
> "Eduardo M Kalinowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:95mp8u$5v5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently upgraded to RedHat 7.0, but I have not been able to run
> > Acrobat Reader and some other programs (like Maple V). I get an error
> > message like this when I run the programs:
> >
> > path:No such file or directory
> >
> > where path is the path of the executable program. Has anybody found a
> > solution to this problem?
> I'd probably check the pat of the executeable, and see if it matches your
> icon
> or whatever you click...
> Works fine here...
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: O'Reilly: SSH book published
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:48:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Barrett) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Please don't spam Usenet with commercial announcements of new book
> >publications.
> I can understand your concern. I posted the announcement here in
> c.o.l.misc because people have been asking SSH questions here that
> are covered in the book.
Which is well and good and needs to be treated as irrelevant.
If you could link to URLs that quoted the material, where the book was
available under the FDL or some such arrangement, that would be one
thing.
But there are literally _hundreds_ of books out there that could be
considered "relevant" to many of the questions out there. It should
be obvious that if everyone posted notices to comp.os.linux.misc about
the latest product that they want to sell, this newsgroup would be
_awash_ with book advertising.
So please _don't_, not unless you can actually give a straight answer
to the question that does not mandate buying something.
--
(concatenate 'string "aa454" "@freenet.carleton.ca")
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/rdbms.html
Rules of the Evil Overlord #216. "If my Legions of Terror are defeated
in a battle, I will quietly withdraw and regroup instead of launching
a haphazard mission to assassinate the hero."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:46:51 -0800
From: Noah Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network
interzpace wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm thinking of building a network with the following:
> 1 x PC (Win98SE/Mandrake 7.2 workstation, AMD K6-2 350, 288M Ram, 10G HD,
> 3COM 3c509 NIC)
> 1 x PC (Mandrake 7.2 workstation, P166MMX, 40M Ram, 1.6G HD, Genius NIC)
> 1 x PowerMac (MacOS 8.5, PPC7100, 88M Ram, NuBus, 6G SCSI HD, transceiver)
> 1 x 8 port minihub
> 1 x cable modem
> 1 x PC Bubble jet printer
>
> The cable connection is using dynamic IP. Which network design is best for
> the above components? Is it a good idea to setup a Linux server using the
> Mac with MkLinux? Or should I configure the second PC as a Linux server
> instead? I also want this network to be firewalled regarding the security. I
> just don't have the faintest idea to make the whole thing work. Anyone??
Give the cable to the linux and set up IP-Masquerade on it.....use it as a
gateway.
Then just put the rest on a private 1 hub network.....share with SAMBA and
Netatalk.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:56:26 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <96737g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"interzpace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm thinking of building a network with the following:
> 1 x PC (Win98SE/Mandrake 7.2 workstation, AMD K6-2 350, 288M Ram, 10G HD,
> 3COM 3c509 NIC)
> 1 x PC (Mandrake 7.2 workstation, P166MMX, 40M Ram, 1.6G HD, Genius NIC)
> 1 x PowerMac (MacOS 8.5, PPC7100, 88M Ram, NuBus, 6G SCSI HD, transceiver)
> 1 x 8 port minihub
> 1 x cable modem
> 1 x PC Bubble jet printer
>
> The cable connection is using dynamic IP. Which network design is best for
> the above components? Is it a good idea to setup a Linux server using the
> Mac with MkLinux? Or should I configure the second PC as a Linux server
> instead?
I'm not familiar with the exact features of a PPC 7100. Certainly the
RAM and hard disk specs you've quoted are superior to those of your
second PC, so if your server needs to handle a heavy load, the Mac would
be superior in that respect. With a light load, though, or possibly with
upgraded RAM and/or hard disk, the PC might do quite well.
Also, MkLinux is, AFAIK, essentially abandoned. If the 7100 will run
something that's currently being developed (LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog,
Debian, or SuSE, for instance), I'd use that rather than MkLinux.
> I also want this network to be firewalled regarding the security. I
> just don't have the faintest idea to make the whole thing work. Anyone??
As a general rule, it's best to isolate your internal network from the
outside with a dedicated firewall of some sort. With a low-end cable
connection that probably only gives you one IP address, you may want to
get a dedicated broadband router, like the ones reviewed at
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/reviews/. Some of these have
built-in hubs or switches, so you'd dump your existing 8-port hub.
Others would require that you keep your existing hub. If you're not
really using one of your computers for other things, you could dedicate
it to this function. (Two NICs would help make this secure, but one
would do in a pinch.) In either case, the firewall will have to do
NAT/IP masquerading, which lets several computers share a single
external IP address.
If your server must be accessible from outside your network, you'll
need to forward ports through the NAT firewall. Configuration details
depend on what you use for that function.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:09:44 +0800
From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Is here anyone successful compile midnight commander at solaris?
As title, is there anyone success use midnight commander at solaris? I
can't compile it, the problem is:
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
*** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to
point
*** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if
that
*** is required on your system
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it,
although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
***
*** If you have a RedHat 5.0 system, you should remove the GTK package
that
*** came with the system with the command
***
*** rpm --erase --nodeps gtk gtk-devel
configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. MC requires GLIB.
But I have set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/glib/, it is where
glic installed, and I have no /etc/ld.so.conf and no ldconfig on my
system. Any help?
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