Linux-Networking Digest #914, Volume #9 Sun, 17 Jan 99 18:13:37 EST
Contents:
Diald on my lan ("David Thompson")
Re: User quota ("Iceman")
Re: DOES LINUX SUCK (John Burg)
3 questions (Steve Vertigan)
Re: DOES LINUX SUCK (mlw)
Re: DOES LINUX SUCK (stevep)
Re: Security hole with WU-FTPD (Bill Unruh)
dhcpd problems - would appreciate your insight (Daddy Rabbit)
Re: networking a notebook to different networks (Jim Richardson)
Re: Fetchmail error (messages included). SMTP fail. (Jim Richardson)
Re: Help: Cannot connect to ISP form command line (Mark Cooperstein)
telnet troubleshooting (Ophidian Dragon)
Re: SOS SOS SOS HELP HELP HELP SOS SOS SOS (James Youngman)
Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent (jedi)
Re: Mount WIN9x drive across LAN (Dave Roznar)
Re: When I'm online, my hard drive makes noise... (James Youngman)
Re: securing a linux box (James Youngman)
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From: "David Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diald on my lan
Date: 17 Jan 1999 17:20:53 GMT
I have a ip masq server running diald on my LAN, but I also use the box for
access to files with samba. my problem is, that any traffic on my lan
triggers diald, is there any way to stop this?
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From: "Iceman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User quota
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:55:13 GMT
Go to http://www.linux.org, click help and go to How-Tos.
--
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some
people will love you for you. Most will love you for what
you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
Website: None
E-mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simon Andre Simonsen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello!
>
>Does anyone know how to set up user disk quota ???
>
>If you have any information about this, feel free to E-mail me.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Burg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: DOES LINUX SUCK
Date: 17 Jan 1999 20:57:57 GMT
>
>With this kind of problems, on a stable release of the O/S, with a supported
>product, it makes me really wonder
>"Does LINUX SUCK ?"
>
>
No, Linux doesn't suck.
You just have no idea what you're doing.
John
--
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From: Steve Vertigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3 questions
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:12:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I'm hoping to make some improvements to a smallish ISP's setup and I'm
wondering if someone can help me out with the following queries. Any URLs
to tutorials on the following subjects would be most appreciated :)
1) At the moment win95 users dial-in and then either login using the
terminal window that appears after the modems connect or use a script which
does the same. What I'd like to know is how to get it to login using the
username and password that windows prompts for in the "Connect To" dialogue
box. And more importantly can it be done without stopping people dialing in
the old way?
2) How does one track the bytes used by a user both incoming and outgoing.
And is there software that can implement download ratios so that when a user
exceeds a certain amount of traffic they can't access sites outside the
network? ie. so they can still check their email and local web pages but
they can't access outside pages like cnn.com? And in general what sort of
(free/gnu) accounting software do ISP's use?
3) Not really networking related but I thought I'd throw it in for good
measure :). How do you get adduser to create home directories like
/users/b/o/bob and /users/m/a/mary?
Any input or FAQ referrals on these would be most helpful.
Thanks,
--Steve
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: DOES LINUX SUCK
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:19:43 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I know this questions is highly debated.
> But consider this,
> I've got a generic un-modified RedHat 5.2 install,
> with a supported PCMCIA card from 3com, a 3CXEM556B.
Lets first say, and I think I speak for all engineers that have
experienced the joy of doing drivers for PCMCIA, PCMCIA sucks more.
>
> Now after 2 full days of work, and countless emails to and from helpful
> folks, including the gentlemen who maintains the PCMCIA page, the darn
> thing still doesn't work.
>
> On the other hand, the install under WINDOWS 95 to about 2 mins, and
> Everything Worked !!
You are one of the lucky ones. I have never seen PCMCIA work correctly
in Windows or any other system. If you say it does, I will believe you,
but, usually, when people say they are having problems with PCMCIA, I
think to myself, of course, what did you expect, it's PCMCIA.
>
> Now I'm no fan of MicroSquissy, but I've never had a supported product be
> this difficult to
> get to work under WINDOWS. In fact I do tech support for a huge UNIX shop,
> and I've never seen this
> much grief.
Like I said, your PCMCIA card working, in my experience, is a rearity,
in Windows or any other system. If you absolutely need PCMCIA and
Windows does it for you, I'm glad, however, I can tell you nightmares
about PCMCIA network cards and modems on Windows 95 that will amaze you.
A year or so ago, I had enough. I decided to sell my lap top and never
try again. PCMCIA and Laptops are cool ideas, but, they are so fragile,
so mickey mouse'd that I can't see spending any amount of money on them.
I am thinking about a portable computer, maybe a bsi "lunch box" ATX
system.
>
> More to the point, there's Hundreds of folks with similar problems ( Go to
> www.dejanews.com - Do a search
> for "LINUX tcgetattr" )
>
> With this kind of problems, on a stable release of the O/S, with a supported
> product, it makes me really wonder
> "Does LINUX SUCK ?"
No I don't think Linux sucks at all. It is very stable, very fast, and I
can do C/C++ development easily. My business runs on Linux, it is where
I keep all my data, it is my Internet gateway and it is my file server.
On the other hand, I have used Windows NT server, and work station. Each
was a disaster, to do anything with NT Server that I could do for free
with Linux costs a lot of money, SQL, firewalls, etc. With NT Work
station, stability was a joke, machines crashing (BSOD) when I save a
spreadsheet with Excel, sometimes I would walk away during a long
compile or print job, only to come back and see the BSOD, and have to
start all over. And of course the second time trough it did not crash so
how is one to get any sense of stability in NT anyway.
No, Linux does not suck. I think we can all say that all computers suck.
Linux helps them to suck less.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit the Mohawk Software website: www.mohawksoft.com
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From: stevep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: DOES LINUX SUCK
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:27:32 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, Linux doesn't 'suck', but it ain't as easy as people make out. Some of
the replies you got were just silly Linux people who just think Linux is
faultless because it isn't Microsoft, and so their reply was to tell you it was
all your fault.
Most of my time is spent installing and configring large UNIX databases on AIX
and HP-UX, so I'm not what you'd call a UNIX newbie (15 years UNIX, in fact),
but even I find Linux a struggle at times - particularly configuring new
devices.
I'm still having problems getting an Adaptec 2940 with IBM UW drives running
without hanging...
I suppose we can only hope that the attention Linux is now getting from major
vendors will improve the driver situation, as I'm sure that's where most of the
problems you mention actually are.
Still, stick at, Linux is a nice OS (this is on Redhat 5.2, BTW) once you get
it working right.
Steve Phelan.
> I know this questions is highly debated.
> But consider this,
> I've got a generic un-modified RedHat 5.2 install,
> with a supported PCMCIA card from 3com, a 3CXEM556B.
>
> Now after 2 full days of work, and countless emails to and from helpful
> folks, including the gentlemen who maintains the PCMCIA page, the darn
> thing still doesn't work.
>
> On the other hand, the install under WINDOWS 95 to about 2 mins, and
> Everything Worked !!
>
> Now I'm no fan of MicroSquissy, but I've never had a supported product be
> this difficult to
> get to work under WINDOWS. In fact I do tech support for a huge UNIX shop,
> and I've never seen this
> much grief.
>
> More to the point, there's Hundreds of folks with similar problems ( Go to
> www.dejanews.com - Do a search
> for "LINUX tcgetattr" )
>
> With this kind of problems, on a stable release of the O/S, with a supported
> product, it makes me really wonder
> "Does LINUX SUCK ?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,redhat.networking.general,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Security hole with WU-FTPD
Date: 17 Jan 1999 21:29:57 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder) writes:
>and manually edit the /etc/passwd file to have an entry with an empty
>password string and no corresponding entry in /etc/shadow, then you'll
>always be able to login without password. Try it. Add a user manually
>and login. I just tested it on a SuSE 5.3 system, using login.c v. 1.4 .
>Using an FTP account to actually access the system is just a way to hide
>the intruder(s) from the eyes of the sysadmin. But the damage is already
>done.
His comment is that while login does not allow a remote root login with no
password, ftp does allow a root login with no password. This is what he
is calling the bug in ftpd. It certainly is an inconsistancy between
the two.
It is also true that this bug is minor compared to the bug which allowed
a root user to be entered into passwd without a password.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daddy Rabbit)
Subject: dhcpd problems - would appreciate your insight
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:15:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#/usr/lib/dhcp-2.0
#
server-identifier lcs.sunbelt.com;
option domain-name "sunbelt.com";
option domain-name-servers ns.sunbelt.com;
I am trying to get dhcpd working on a new installation using RedHat
5.2. I had problems from the start because the installation did not
provide all of the files necessary to get it up and running, I
download dhcpd-2.0b1pl6 from the net, compiled it without incident and
place the files in the directories as specified in the dhcpd script.
After editing the dhcpd.conf file as outline below, I get the
following error message from /var/log/messages:
No subnet declaration for eth0 (0.0.0.0)
I'm at a loss as to what the message means or how to fix it. Any help
would be most appreciated.
Thanks Jim
[contents of the dhcpd.conf file]
#/usr/lib/dhcp-2.0
#
server-identifier lcs.sunbelt.com;
option domain-name "sunbelt.com";
option domain-name-servers ns.sunbelt.com;
shared-network sunbelt {
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.192;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 720000;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.192 {
range 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.62;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.63;
option routers lcs.sunbelt.com;
}
subnet 192.168.1.64 netmask 255.255.255.192 {
range 192.168.1.65 192.168.1.126;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.127;
option routers lcs.sunbelt.com;
}
host lcs {
hardware ethernet 00:80:ad:0b:12:54;
server-name "lcs.sunbelt.com";
}
}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: networking a notebook to different networks
Date: 17 Jan 1999 18:04:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:24:43 +0100,
Markus Reinhardt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> brought forth the following words...:
>Hello,
>
>I have a notebook running Linux. The notebook is part time connected
>to our network at the university via a ethernet card. When I am using my
>notebook at
>home I want to connect the notebook to my desktop PC running Linux.
>Unfortuately I can not use a ethernet connection. But I hope I can use
>a serial port (and SLIP or PPP ?). I want to ftp and telnet from the
>notebook to
>the desktop PC and vice versa.
>
>How can this be done ?
>
>Regards,
>
>Markus
In general terms, make a script that does the following
for univ.
activates the eth0 interface, with proper address
makes the default route, the eth0 interface
for home
activates the ppp0 interface with proper address
makes the default route the ppp0 interface
run appropriate script at appropriat location.
Also, netcfg will let you set this up graphically, configure eth0 and ppp0
appropriately for each network (ppp0 for home setup, eth0 for school )
this is a redhat util tho' no use if you're using slackware or suse etc.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Fetchmail error (messages included). SMTP fail.
Date: 17 Jan 1999 18:04:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 05:48:16 GMT,
minstrel
<none> brought forth the following words...:
>How can I check to see if Sendmail is running and/or properly configured?
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
telnet to port 25, if it picks up, sendmail is there. (or smail, or
something:)
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Cooperstein)
Subject: Re: Help: Cannot connect to ISP form command line
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:08:32 GMT
the trick is to find the shell scripts that netcfg is using to start the
network. In my RedHat 5.2 system ppp gets started from a bunch of scripts
that exist in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. The script that is maintained
by netcfg to bring up/down ppp is called "ifup" and "ifdown". "ifup/down"
takes one argument: the configured ppp device (usually ppp0), therefore, if
you are in bash, the following command *should* startup pppd:
# ifup ppp0
and the command:
# ifdown ppp0
will bring it down. Again, this is the RH 5.2 way of doing it from X11 using
the netcfg application that's part of the "control panel". Give it a try.
Mark
n article <77t1f8$m13$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have RedHat 5.1 installed on a PC and have managed to configure PPP using
>the network configurator in Xwindows. I have Netscape and Lynx running in
>Xwindows, but I would like to connect from the command line, to use Lynx
>without X. I have Linux Under Cover manual from RedHat but unfortunately some
>of the info in the HOWTOs does not seem to apply. I end up managing to
>connect using minicom and pppd manually, but route -n only shows a single
>entry (127.0.0.1) so Lynx will not work.
>
>Can anyone please advise on how to start PPP from the command line? Since it
>works in X, the config files must be OK and I should only need a command to
>initiate whatever sequence does the trick in X.
>
>Thanks all in advance
>
>
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From: Ophidian Dragon <"zacwbond"@hotmail.c()m>
Subject: telnet troubleshooting
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:07:26 -0600
Reply-To: ---
Allright, I've attempted to set up my RH Linux box as a telnet server,
but I am running into a rather frustrating stickling point--If I use
Telnet from my local machine to telnet to myself, I'm fine. However, if
I use my Win98 box (on another phone line and ISP), I can never connect.
I suspect that perhaps either a) Win98's telnet is bad, or b) Linux is
not allowing anyone to connect unles they are from the same host as the
local machine. Ideas? This would seem rather simple, but the telnet
documentation I found was not altogether helpful in troubleshooting....
-Zac Bond
(Ophidian)
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SOS SOS SOS HELP HELP HELP SOS SOS SOS
Date: 17 Jan 1999 21:54:42 +0000
"CRASH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Setup is 4336 bytes
> System is 560 KB
> System is too big
> Make [1]:***[zImage] Error 1
> Make [1]:Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.30/arch/i386/boot'
> Make :***[zImage] Error 2 "
See /usr/src/linux/README.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.networking.general,iu.linux
Subject: Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:03:35 -0800
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:55:12 -0330, Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I reccomend an EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card by Linksys.
>
>It uses the tulip.c driver that comes with kernel 2.0.36 .
>
>You can also download the driver from their website.
>
>The card works very well on my system.
Check the back of the box. Linux will be listed there
if it is a compatible card...
...that's the major reason I'm partial to LinkSys.
>
>Neil
>
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jan Stifter wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> Shane Bearham wrote:
>> >
>> > "Larry Herzog Jr." wrote:
>> >
>> > Nothing like a good old WD8013 series card....never fails me
>> > even performs admirably, it's programable or jumpered &
>> > around here I can pick them up for $3-$5 each at swap meets
>> >
>> > Shane ()
>>
>> I can recommend the Fast EtherRx PCI 10/100TX card of Kingston.
>> just turn on the DEC-Tulip option in the kernel and it works perfect...
>>
>>
>> jan
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> | Jan Stifter email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
>> | web: www.htl-bw.ch/~ia95stif |
>> | meet me: telnet://freechess.org:5000 (nick: nunc) |
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>
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is coerced to the point where it will scratch your eyes out / | \
as soon as your grip slips.
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Roznar)
Subject: Re: Mount WIN9x drive across LAN
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:15:47 GMT
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:54:43 -0500, "Eugene"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>>My question is...can I mount the remote drives of the systems on my
>>LAN without running NFS/Samba, etc. Can I just use the Win peer to
>>peer setup ? (I didn't think so) :-)
>
>
>
>uhhm, that's what NFS and samba are for!!! (duh!)
>
>
As I had said, that is what I thought. Do I just install Samba on my
Linux machine...or do I need it on Win 98 as well. I said before, I
already have a working LAN.
Thanks for all your 'help" :-)
============================================
Dave Roznar - W6TGE
Portland, OR
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web-site http://members.home.net/droznar
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: When I'm online, my hard drive makes noise...
Date: 17 Jan 1999 21:26:58 +0000
Enno Middelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> *.*;mail.none;news.none /var/log/messages
>
> Ok, seems like its the last line which is the "bug". I think I'll go
> into the man syslog.conf and check how to configure it so that only
> warnings and stuff like this are logged.
Change that to (e.g.)
*.info;mail.none;news.none /var/log/messages
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: securing a linux box
Date: 17 Jan 1999 21:32:35 +0000
David Augros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Lots of good stuff]
Also, run pwconv to switch to using shadow passwords.
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