Linux-Networking Digest #226, Volume #10 Wed, 17 Feb 99 01:13:41 EST
Contents:
Re: Somebody stop me... (Tim Lines)
DHCPD - Bad file number (stupid)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Jeff Moore)
Re: New Redhat installation - cannot telnet to localhost. (Francois Boucher)
Linux 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 IP Aliasing..Help! ("Tarun Arora")
Re: Fetchmail/procmail question (Juergen Fiedler)
Re: Somebody stop me... (Martin Brown)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (John Hascall)
Re: 3c509 + 3c59x = Barfff (aasland)
installing via PLIP (Mike Redan)
ppp0 up and running, but can't ping beyond the gateway (Rob Thompson)
Modem freeze? (QUI? CO^'C TU+?)
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From: Tim Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Somebody stop me...
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:51:04 +0000
Peter Kortvelyessy wrote:
> Hi, my name's Korte, and I'm a recovering Windows user.
>
> (Everybody say Hi, Korte...)
Hi, Korte!
>
>
> I 'd just like to say that I haven't really used Windows for anything
> except games for about four years. I've been using Linux almost
> exclusively for all that time, with or without an Internet connection.
> Meny around me have come to rely on me for Linux-related advice, etc...
> and now I'm thinking of switching back :-<<<
This is SAD! Why would you do this?
>
>
> The reason? Peer pressure... It seems that I can't get out of using
> Netscape for my daily sustenance of web+news+e-mail(preferably
> encryptable). I just got a cable modem and the connection is pretty
> decent, but I can't even ftp properly (I need a proxy to have reverse
> DNS).
>
I don't understand this. I'm using IP masquerading and built in firewalling. It works
for me. There's something about your setup your not telling us. Don't hold back!
>
> Whichever version of Netscape I try (4.0<) it ends up freezing on me.
> I'm right now using the 4.5 glibc version, and IMHO it couldn't even be
> called flaky, rather it's plain broken. This is true for the libc5
> versions as well.
I understand. Believe me I had the same problems with netscape 4.5 under linux (RH
5.1). But I gave up 4.5! I saw the light! It's 4.08 and stability for me now! (Tears
stream down my face).
>
>
> Another thing is this plugin-mania. I keep telling people that if they
> *have* to use them at least try not to rely on them exclusively... but
> it's all in vain. Again, plugins mostly come built for... You've guessed
> it!
Plugins never installed correctly for me under Linux either. But a wise internet
person
(Thomas Zajic) showed me his .mailcap and .netscape/plugin files. I was moved. I was
moved to vi my own damn files and make them work.
Thomas Zajic said something like:
> Hi,
> I have a really dumb question concerning Netscape (v4.07 shipped with RH5.2).
> I'm trying to configure the external applications such as acrobat, ghost view,
> etc. to handle "unknown" file types. I tried everything possible in the
> ~/.mailcap file, things such as:
> application/pdf acroread
> or the same thing with a trailing %s, or with the absolute path, and nothing
> seems to happen. The file seems to be read, but acroread is never spawned
> (doing a ps aux tells me so). The file mime-types seems also to be configured
> correctly (has been automatically edited by Netscape).
> Any idea on how to fix this stupid thing?
First of all, why add entries to this file manually? Use Netscape�s
Configuration menu for thisSecond, you got the format wrong in your ~/.mailcap file.
This is
what mine looks like (it�s from Navigator 3.04, though):
TK212017089010:~$ cat ~/.mailcap
#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
audio/x-wav;wavplay -q %s
#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
audio/x-midi;playmidi %s > /dev/null
#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
video/x-msvideo;xanim +q +Ze %s
#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
video/quicktime;xanim +q +Ze %s
#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
video/mpeg;xanim +q +Ze %s
Note the ";" between MIME type and helper app!
Third, I�m using the AcroRead plugin on my system (as opposed to a
helper app):
TK212017089010:~$ cat ~/.netscape/plugin-list
PluginList Version 1
/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so 915463145 application/pdf:
pdf:Portable Document Format;
pluginName=nppdf.so
/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/qplug.so 915463145
application/x-qplug-plugin: None:QuakeWorld Plugin;
application/x-q2plug-plugin: None:Quake II Plugin;
pluginName=QuakeWorld/QuakeII plugin Version 0.4.1
pluginDescription=Report informations from QuakeWorld or QuakeII
servers.<P>Author : <A HREF=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Olivier Debon
</A>
/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so 911408591
application/x-shockwave-flash: swf:Shockwave Flash;
application/futuresplash: spl:FutureSplash Player;
pluginName=Shockwave Flash
pluginDescription=Shockwave Flash 3.0 r13
TK212017089010:~$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/
total 362
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 241019 Nov 18 18:03 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 75892 Jan 4 16:19 nppdf.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48242 Jan 4 16:19 qplug.so
Note that plugins installed in <netscape-lib-dir>/plugins are available
system-wide, while plugins installed in ~/.netscape/plugins are only
available for that specific user.
HTH,
Thomas
(Sorry for the long lines and the HTML crap, I was too lazy to edit
it out ;-)
>
> So, seeing that I still spend most of my time reading and writing news
> and e-mail and browsing the net, and code very little on a weekly
> basis... It seems that in a very short time I'll be primarily a Windows
> user... Unless someone can throw me a rope here. I've tried things like
> Arena, but the that does not seem quite finished yet. Somebody, help me!
>
> Korte
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From: stupid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCPD - Bad file number
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:15:05 GMT
Hi! I can't get dhcpd running on my slackware 3.6, linux 2.2.1
When I try to run it, it seems to be OK on the console, but checking the
log files (messages), it said "select: bad file number". I don't see a
"dhcpd" when I do ps after i try starting it, and dhcpcd's can't
connect. I am sure I'm not running bootpd.
My dhcpd.conf:
server-identifier rwu.pudges.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option domain-name "rwu.pudges.net";
option routers 192.168.1.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.248;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.7;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 259200;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.248 {
range 192.168.1.5 192.168.1.6;
}
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
RWU
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:11:28 -0600
From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Crossposted-To:
vmsnet.networks.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
I use Star Trek names on my home network.
ds9 for my gateway
borg for my pieced together RS6000
etc.
At work we use island or tropical place names
oahu
tripoli
mikonos
mazatlan
martinique
cabo
lanai
long
stthomas
stcroix
thousand
gilligans
etc..
Stuart Summerville wrote:
> Hi peoples,
>
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
> Stu.
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Stuart Summerville
> Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----------------------------------------------
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From: Francois Boucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New Redhat installation - cannot telnet to localhost.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:54:14 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's an odd one.
>
> Pentium box with fresh and seems to work Redhat Linux 5.2 on it. 100Base-T
> ethernet to HUB (macintoshs running off from hub).
>
> I set up the ethernet card fine (tulip interface) and have set up the IP
> numbers for the machines (192.168.1.x). The linux box is running the default
> apache server (with the 'It worked!' index.html page) and the macs can
> successfully use the linux box as their web server.
>
> I can ping the linux server from the macs with no problems. And a port scan
> shows that lots of nice services are running on the linux box.
>
> HOWEVER
>
> I cannot telnet or ftp into the linux box. I cannot even telnet into the
> linuxbox's localhost from itself.
>
> Both FTP and TELNET just sit there, waiting. No connection occurs. The network
> is there because I can http into the linux box. But no telnet or ftp at all.
>
> I know ftp has problems with out reverse domain naming or something. But
> telnet should work. Right? What am I missing.
>
> Thanks for any input here (email welcome).
>
> Jon
>
> (As you can tell I'm pretty much a linux networking newbie - I have looked
> through the how-tos and faqs - to no evail.)
>
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> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
This is because you cannot login as root directly.
create a dummy user on the linux machine,
then telnet and login as dummy. You can then
do a su command to switch user to root.
Francois Boucher
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From: "Tarun Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 IP Aliasing..Help!
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:15:57 -0800
Hi !
I have recently upgraded to 2.2.1 but the IP aliases that I set up in the
old kernel are lost..
While recompiling..I did not find an option to have IP aliasing as a module
like in 2.0.36 compile..
I tried to use insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ipv4/ip_alias.o but as
expected it says that it is from an old kernel..
I have tried everything I knew..Please Please Please wil someone help me..
Please reply direct to chottabhoot(at)usa.net
Thank you in advance
Sharad
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From: Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fetchmail/procmail question
Date: 17 Feb 1999 05:27:09 GMT
John Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
: You're confusing syntaxes here. Procmail uses Regular Expressions, which
: have a different syntax than the filename wildcards used by the shell.
: Take a look at "man procmailex" for examples, or the perl regular
: expression manual page, or "man egrep".
: To fix your examples, they should be:
: :0:
: * ^To:.*ppp
: /usr/home/juergen/mail/Linux-PPP
: :0:
: * ^To:.*kde.*
: /usr/home/juergen/mail/KDE
OK... I tried exactly that, and although I now have one error less,
the thing still doesn't work: Everything still lands in /var/spool/mail/juergen
and stays there until I manually copy it into the appropriate folder.
Darn.
Do you have any idea what else could have gone wrong?
And one more thing: People told me that .procmailrc practically works
like a normal shell script. Does that mean that a line like
echo test>>test.txt
should be executed each time .procmailrc is invoked? If so, where should
this test.txt be created? If not, is there another way to make sure that
.procmailrc is really invoked?
Thanks,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Somebody stop me...
Date: 17 Feb 1999 05:35:12 GMT
I used Netscape _Navigator_ 3.04 (from my Caldera 1.1 distro, kernel
2.0.29) for more than a year with nary a problem. About 3 months ago, I
picked up Netscape _Navigator_ (NOT Communicator), and it has worked
fairly well. From time to time, it gets slow and jerky, or as it did
last night, complains of low memory. It has even hung a few times, but
not often.
Considering that I keep my system up 24/7, and keep Netscape up the same
amount, and generally keep open 10-12 programs/xterms running in about 15
windows using pager with 4 virtual 1280x1024 screens, I'm pretty
satisfied.
--
- Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP public key available via finger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hascall)
Crossposted-To:
vmsnet.networks.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 05:53:46 GMT
Carl Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}We use ISO standard naming conventions:
}so each server has a 3 part name consisting of Country&City, Role & a
}number, ie:
}
}AUSYDSRV05 Meaning Australia Sydney General Server No.5
}AUBRIPRN04 Meaning Australia Brisbane Print Server No.4
}
Do you count the strawberries too? Geez!
We let our user's name their machines any darn thing they like.
The machines for my current project (a Y2K time machine lab) are
named _______ly.bogus.iastate.edu :
aimlessly.bogus.iastate.edu
alphabetically.bogus.iastate.edu
amusingly.bogus.iastate.edu
completely.bogus.iastate.edu
genuinely.bogus.iastate.edu
graphically.bogus.iastate.edu
insanely.bogus.iastate.edu
millennialy.bogus.iastate.edu
ornately.bogus.iastate.edu
sadly.bogus.iastate.edu
The GIS lab is named for cities and things (beijing, kiev,
vostok, kashmir, urup, sydney, madagascar, ...)
And, of course, the workstation farm is named for crops
(alfalfa,beans,corn,oats,rice,wheat,etc). Until, that is,
I named our newest parallel machine 'kudzu' and a normally
sane manager grew pointy hair and re-christened it 'combine'
(duh, that's like not a crop, dude).
John
--
John Hascall, Software Engr. Shut up, be happy. The conveniences you
ISU Computation Center demanded are now mandatory. -Jello Biafra
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cc.iastate.edu/staff/systems/john/index.html <=- the usual crud
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From: aasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.install
Subject: Re: 3c509 + 3c59x = Barfff
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:18:01 GMT
Good news! I got a response from Donald Becker, here's what he wrote:
> I compiled them into the kernel, so that counts as built-in, right?
Yup.
> However, they do show up in kerneld.
Hmmm, what do you mean by that?
Anyway, you should put the following line in /etc/lilo.conf:
append = "ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2 ether=0,0,eth3"
Note: some old versions of LILO were picky about spaces, so put in two (as
above).
Alternately, you can use the 3c509 driver as a module.
---> So thanks a million, Donald!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Christian Aasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello, any help would be appreciated (please email too):
> >
> > I have a 3Com 3c509b that works great by itself. But as soon as I plug
> > in a 3Com
> > 3c59x (in this case 3c900 (Boomerang) or 3c905 (Vortex)) PCI cards I
> > lose the
> > 3c5x9 ISA card. I've turned off PnP bios on the card and mboard and set
> > the card
> > to a non-conflcting IRQ/ioport. Still not getting anything!
> >
> > Anyone care to lead me in the right direction (or at least let me know
> > if it can be done) ???
> >
> I have the same problem as Christian, a 3c509B ISA and a 3c900B PCI which work
> properly alone, but with both together the 509 receives no packets. I have
> no interrupt conflicts.
> I'm using Redhat 5.2, so I expect I have the latest drivers. Is this true?
> Please let me know any tips.
> Thanks
>
> Mark.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Redan)
Subject: installing via PLIP
Date: 17 Feb 1999 05:45:13 GMT
has anyone had any luck installing RH 5.2 over PLIP and NFS? I'm trying to
get linux on my 486 66 cyrix laptop, which of course has no cdrom drive.
I found out that the RH install is supposed to be able to install over
PLIP. So I tried it out, but no luck.
I have gotten PLIP to work on the laptop using Toms Boot and Root mini
Linux distro, and I have done an NFS mount over it... but the RH install
chokes.
the error is something like RPC-time out.
now when I tried it with the mini Linux distro, I set it up wrong at
first...but an error at least showed up in the logs of my desktop. Under
the RH install the two computers don't even talk.
I figured I'd try to trick it, and just do the mount manually from another
console...but the install hangs very soon after I insert the second disk.
here is what I have ruled out after much testing:
both the floppies are good.
the disk drive is good.
the cable and paralell ports are good.
My NFS setup is good.
My hard drive on the laptop is too small to just copy the files over (300 MB)
what am I missing??
here is the setup:
the main computer:
IP 192.168.93.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
mount directory /burner
the laptop:
IP 192.168.93.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
directory that is trying to be mounted /burner/RedHat
thanks in advance for any help
Mike
PS I am more than willing to try any other distro that supports this type
of install.
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:48:19 -0500
From: Rob Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ppp0 up and running, but can't ping beyond the gateway
Dear group,
I've set up ppp in Linux on a number of machines with a variety of
ISPs, but I've never seen this problem:
I just installed RH 5.2 and set up PPP. The modem connects, the PAP
authentication is successful, an IP address is (dynamically) assigned,
by the server. Ifconfig reports that the ppp0 interface is up and
running. It stays up for as long as I like. I can ping the ppp server
of my ISP.
Netstat -nr (or route -n) shows a host route to the server AND a
default gateway route to the server. (PPP is executed with the
defaultroute option). However, I can't ping anything else besides the
server :(
The FAQs and HOWTOs suggest that my ISP's server may not be
forwarding IP packets, but then the documentation suggests that the test
of this is to connect with a different OS, like windows. But with
windows, everything works fine.
Any suggestions? I will gladly supply the debugging output, and
copies of the scripts, if that would be useful. Also, if I am advised
to contact my ISP ( it is IBM globalnetwork), that is fine, but what do
I ask them (specifically, what do I say to get past the receptionist who
tells me "we don't support linux")?
Thanks,
Rob Thompson
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From: QUI? CO^'C TU+? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Modem freeze?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:02:31 -0500
I have 3 Ext motorola modemsurf. They work very good. But when my ISP at
peek time in the evening, my dial-up modem always be freeze. Light
TR,CD,OH,RI is still on as normal, but no data can be transfer. If I use
kill -9 processID# then the light TR and OH
go off, but the light CD still on. I can not redial the modem, I have to
shutdown my computer to make my modem dial again.
I use a linux system.
My dialup script:
exec pppd connect 'chat -f /chatdial' ..etc..
In my chatdial I have my modem init string:
ATZ OK ATFE0v1&c1&d2s95=47s0=0+ms=12,1,34667,5600
I already try to lower max speed but it no work.
Do anyone help me about this problem?
How can I make a automatic redial script, so my system can redial
when get disconnect or can not transfer data? (I have a dedicated dialup
access )
Thank you very much !!!
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