Linux-Networking Digest #795, Volume #9 Wed, 6 Jan 99 08:13:28 EST
Contents:
ppp problems on RH5.1, please help!!
Re: samba mount problem (Guenther Wieser)
ANNOUNCE: DosLinux - Loop + Umsdos (root)
Re: RedHat 5.2 and pcmcia question? ("Dan H.")
Fetchmail/POP3 ("Felix Dominguez")
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Michael Powe)
Re: Telnet as root ("Johannes Verelst")
Automatically cut ppp link (Patrick Clauberg)
Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B Problem (Alex Parfenov)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp problems on RH5.1, please help!!
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:45:53 -0000
Hi,
I'm having problems getting ppp setup on RH 5.1.
I'm new to linux so I'd appreciate it if any responses could be in simple
english.
I've set up all the scripts and they seem to be correct.
When I try pppd I get some S*!t about the kernel not being set up to support
ppp, to be perfictly honest I don't have a clue about this. I've been
looking in my 'book' for help but none comes.
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP.
Thanks in advance,
Paul Eastman.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Guenther Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: samba mount problem
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 23:43:24 GMT
Be sure to habe the sbm file system support compiled into the kernel or
loaded via module. I had strange behaviours, too, until I compiled the
kernel new. Thought that smb support is in the SuSE kernels.
Eric Melville wrote:
>
> i've got linux and 95 machines networked together nicely... samba is
> working great and everything, but i've got this other problem with
> smb... whenever i use smbmount, it "seems" to work just fine, but after
> a minute or two, directories on the mounted share start disappearing...
> any ideas?
>
> -E
--
G�nther Wieser
creative-it/G�nther Wieser Software KEG
http://www.creative-it.com
Student of Telematik at Graz University of Technology
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In A World Without Walls And Fences, Who Needs Windows And Gates?
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Written on Linux 2.0.34
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DosLinux - Loop + Umsdos
Date: 6 Jan 1999 10:52:49 GMT
=========================================================================
DosLinux is a relatively small distribution of the linux operating
system.
This is not a umsdos version of linux, it's a loop version that
uses the standard linux ext2 filesystem.
You have the option of creating a UMSDOS and or a LOOP version of
DosLinux, you can have both they won't interfere with each other.
It can be installed on an existing dos system i.e. msdos, pcdos,
drdos, and win95/98 in dos mode.
There's no need to create a partition or repartition to install
doslinux, because it will just occupy a file i.e.
C:\doslinux\system\doslinux.img on your existing dos system.
Read DosLinux.README for further info at the site below.
You'll need about 40 megabytes of free space on your dos system
to unpack doslinux.
DosLinux doesn't include X windows or the gcc compiler, but these
are easy to install on doslinux, just read /usr/doc/guides/
install.X.guide and gcc-doslinux after you install doslinux.
DosLinux has support for IDE, SCSI, & PS/2 hard drives, Ethernet cards,
IDE & SCSI cdrom drives, Tcp/ip networking i.e. SLIP/PPP, Floppy drives,
Serial & Non serial mice, Parallel printers, PNP support, PCMCIA support,
etc.
If you're not sure if DosLinux will boot on your system get 'setup.exe'
and 'zimage.exe', try to boot the small loop linux system, if it boots
then get doslnx74.exe.
If you can't boot the small loop linux system there's no point getting
doslnx74.exe.
You need 'setup.exe' anyway to setup DosLinux, you don't have to get it
again any future versions of DosLinux will use the same 'setup.exe'.
Read HowTo.Install.DosLinux at the site below.
The DosLinux kernel is version: 2.1.132
DosLinux is a 100% libc6 system.
You need at least a 386 CPU and 8MB of RAM = Memory to use DosLinux.
========================================================================
Begin3
Title: DosLinux
Version: 74
Entered-date: 03JAN99
Description: A small linux libc6 system that can be droped into an
existing dos system, i.e. msdos, pcdos, drdos, etc.
& win95/98 in dos mode.
About 28 mbytes uncompressed, 13 mbytes compressed.
Contents: doslnx74.exe 9712Kb or 9944908b
setup.exe 1332Kb or 1363863b
zimage.exe 876Kb or 896545b <SCSI & IDE kernel>
modules directory.
packages directory.
Keywords: HowTo.Install.DosLinux & DosLinux.README
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent Robotti)
Primary-site: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/doslinux
Alternate-site:
Platforms: Dos/Win95/98
Copying-policy: GPL
End
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From: "Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2 and pcmcia question?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 10:52:15 +0000
David Hinds wrote:
> You should check out the description of scheme support in the
> PCMCIA-HOWTO: out of the box, it does exactly what your scripts are
> doing to handle multiple configurations. You can then keep all the
> settings in one network.opts file, and use SCHEME=xyz on the boot
> line.
>
> -- Dave Hinds
DAVE HINDS ROCKS <g>
Seriously, your pcmcia HOW-TO got me from a non-responding low tone with
a 3Com 589D to a working, Ethernet abled computer in Bosnia when I was
first learning Linux. Even with this RH 5.1 system I now have I had to
upgrade the pcmcia for my Xircom RealPort dual card.
If you have never been anonymously thanked for all the work you do,
here's one.
Dan H
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From: "Felix Dominguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fetchmail/POP3
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 04:54:30 -0600
Ive learned to stop asking "how do i" questions cuz from what i see linux
can do anything :)
but
is this fessible/wise/ok (before i delve into reading doc after do)
... using fetchmail to retrieve mail from 3 different pops, and setting up
a pop mail server on my box so that the people of my lan (who are using free
mailers like hotmail) can retrieve mail through the linux box
just wondering..
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: 06 Jan 1999 01:12:23 -0800
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>>>>> "Zoltan" == Zoltan Kocsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Zoltan> Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> themselves -- they push the problem off on someone else. It's
>> particularly pathetic in linux newsgroups, since everyone
>> running linux has the ability to filter spam with procmail.
Zoltan> Yup, immediatelly after you downloaded it. Connection time
Zoltan> costs money, you know. Spam also wastes disk space at the
Zoltan> ISP, bandwidth, resources on my machines, it wastes my
Zoltan> time and so on, I do not like downloading 1M junk with
Zoltan> Windows binaries to read 20K mail. I don't have a 24/7
Zoltan> 10M link for flat monthly fee yet so I - pathetic or not -
Zoltan> do not like huge messages which I pay for before
Zoltan> discarding them unread.
I have never received a single binary "junk mail" file. Ever. I've
been on the 'net for five years. You'll excuse me if I'm somewhat
dubious about your claim that they're a constant problem. Of course,
you should use a responsible ISP that filters mail and you should do
what you can to help them do it. All the means are available to you
to take care of your own problem. It's your choice not to use them.
That decision has nothing to do with the spammers.
My opinion remains unchanged. These activities do nothing to reduce
the spam levels nor to end the activities of spammers. I look forward
to the day that news servers are configured to require a correct
return address, just as mail servers now are.
Zoltan> Please do not press Reply. As you may have guessed, the
Zoltan> From: address is invalid, real address is in the sig ...
Don't worry. I don't reply to munged addresses.
mp
8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
#! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
$from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
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Michael Powe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
Portland, Oregon USA
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From: "Johannes Verelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet as root
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:08:07 +0100
this trick also works under redhat 5.1
Lew Pitcher heeft geschreven in bericht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:44:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason P. Holland)
wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:23:03 +0200, "Bertie Price"
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>To telnet as root:
>>>First telnet as a normal user -
>>>Do a "ps a" on the linux box and see what tty you came in on.
>>> eg "ttyp0"
>>>Now edit /etc/securetty and add "ttyp0" to the bottom of the file.
>>>You should now be able to telnet as root.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Huh? What flavor of linux are you running? I've never heard of this
>>before.
>>
>I don't know what flavour of Linux bertie is running, but
>telnet works in the described manner in the Slackware 3.3 distribution.
>
>
>
>Lew Pitcher
>System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
>Toronto Dominion Bank
>
>([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
>(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Clauberg)
Subject: Automatically cut ppp link
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:15:00 GMT
Hi,
I am using a linux box to connect me to the internet and I manually
start / stop the ppp thing.
Some days ago I forgot to hang up and noticed it the next morning.
:-((((
How do I control the ppp link, and automatically cut it after a
certain time without traffic?
I tried the diald , but don't like it
Thanx
Patrick
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From: Alex Parfenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B Problem
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:24:37 -0500
Instead of typing 'ifconfig' type 'ifconfig eth0'
if it complains that device is unknown/invalid/etc. you are in trouble: probably
your driver is not compatible. If the interface exists, it will probably come up
as 'DOWN' - that's why typing 'ifconfig' does not work, 'ifconfig' without
parameters only displays active interfaces.
So, if the interface exists, go ahead and try to configure your interface
using ifconfig command( look in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 for format and explanations on
what do exactly).
Once you are able to configure interface using ifconfig, then start over and try
to get dhcp to automatically configure it for you.
Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Another thing. I'm also not setting up an intranet or anything. I'm trying to
> get 2 machines to pull IPs off from the DHCP server. Do I need to setup the
> Linux box to foward and give it 2 cards? 1 to connect to the modem and another
> to go to the hub?
>
> Chad Cunningham wrote:
>
> > You don't need the rrdhcpcd, normal DHCP works fine. I'll bet your on
> > roadrunner, right? This happens to me sometimes because their dhcp
> > servers are slow to send out the info, and it times out. I don't
> > remember exactly how to do it, but if you don't get an answer, ask
> > around about setting a sleep() command for DHCP during the bootup.
> > There's somewhere you can put it to make it wait longer.
> >
> > Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > >
> > > I just recently got into Linux for my company. I got the task of setting
> > > up our web server on the network. Which we have the Intel EtherExpress
> > > Pro/100B cards and Intel InBusiness Hubs. I purchased a book including
> > > RedHat 5.1 and installed it along with the card. Rebuilt the kernel so
> > > it's a driver. Only problem is that during booting up the card is
> > > detected and passes all the tests. But our network is connected to the
> > > web via a cable modem so this server needs to connect to the DHCP server
> > > to get an IP address. But for some reason everytime it tries during boot
> > > up it fails. I was required to get a different DHCP client called
> > > rrDHCPcd, cause that's what works with the cable provider. Try as I do I
> > > can not get it to connect to the server. Nor when I type /sbin/ifconfig
> > > does the eth0 device show up. The eth0 does show when typing cat
> > > /proc/net/dev. If there is anyone that can help I'd really appreciate
> > > it. Or if there is any other info I need to provide just tell me.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Doug Goldstein
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Alex Parfenov
http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~aparfeno
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