Linux-Networking Digest #832, Volume #10 Mon, 12 Apr 99 14:13:39 EDT
Contents:
kfm is opening repeatedly ..? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Name Server ??? ("Chow Hoi Ka, Eric")
Initializing Modem under Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ppp connection error ("Johannes Tiefenbacher")
Re: yppasswd not working? (Thorsten Kukuk)
Accurate interface byte counts (Alan Westhagen)
Re: very slow responce from telnet, ftp and route ? (Adam Rheaume)
Re: RESULT: comp.os.linux.security passes 334:13 (Terry Husie)
Re: 286 diskless computers like terminals on linux (Leslie Mikesell)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan Zuccolo)
Re: Remote install using samba & Redhat 5.1 ("Mike Ellis")
Re: PPP problems wit LCP timeout. ("Greg")
NFS server crash on all our linux boxes ("Sebastien Boving")
Re: HDD access over network (Michal Bukovjan)
Re: ANY news reader thru Proxy?? (on X) (Michal Bukovjan)
Re: tool to identify IP address from a PID or pty (Brian McCauley)
Re: Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network? (Matteo
Valsasna)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kfm is opening repeatedly ..?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:47:24 GMT
Hi All
I downloaded new version of KDE, and installed it, The installation
was successfull, no problems. Now if I execute ' kde ' from X-Windows,
the ' kfm ' is getting opened repeatedly, The ' kfm ' window will keep on
opening automatically untill memory gets filled finally linux box gets hang.
Even without executing ' kde ' if I execute ' kfm ' directly also the same
thing is happening. Pls, can anybody tell me how to avoid this.
Thanks
Ravindra
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From: "Chow Hoi Ka, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Name Server ???
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:49:19 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Linux Users,
How can I do that ???
IP : 161.64.62.104
Host 1: www.test1.edu.mo HTML_Root_Directory : /home/test1/public_html
Host 2: www.test2.edu.mo HTML_Root_Directory : /home/test2/public_html
Host 3: www.test3.edu.mo HTML_Root_Directory : /home/test3/public_html
My question is that, how can I just use one and only one IP to implement
3 or more host name(domain name).
Such as that,
When I type the URL " www.test2.edu.mo", it will directly go to the IP
:"161.64.62.104" but in the related directory ?
Best regards,
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Initializing Modem under Linux
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:55:21 GMT
Hi,
I have a PCMCIA modem on a laptop that I want to use under Red Hat 5.2 Linux.
It is detected and does work under linux (verified w/ minicom), but the
dialer I want to use is X-ISP. The problem is that the modem takes a long
time (~ 30 sec) to initialize, and Xisp 2.5p7 times out (chat returns 3,
modem failed to init) before the modem is ready to dial. I'm using the std.
init string AT as the init sequence. I wouldn't mind using another dialer,
but I require a terminal window after dialing before I can start my PPP
session (using secure dial-in).
So, is there a way to make X-isp wait for the modem to init. I've tried the
timeout values in the menus, but those are just for a login: prompt, etc.
Or, is there another dialer that I can use (besides minicom) that will prompt
with a terminal window that will wait for the modem to init?
PC Card modem: Psion DACOM Gold Card 56K
Thanks in adv,
Jeff
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From: "Johannes Tiefenbacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp connection error
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:29:38 +0200
Hi!
I want to connect my modem to the internet with linux.
When I start the KDE Internetconnection program, my modem dials the right
number of my provider, but then I get the message: "The pppd daemon died
unexpectely." Does anybody know whats the problem?
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From: Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: yppasswd not working?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:48:55 GMT
Hello,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <7es71e$d14$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Look in the file where rpc.yppasswdd is startet, read the manual page,
>> and set the correct arguments. So easy.
> Well, I had read the manual page, but anyway -- I got it to work by mv the
> passwd file to /etc/yp/ and then making a symlink from /etc/passwd to
> /etc/yp/passwd. Seems to work, but is that proper way to do it?
This tells me, you have an very old rpc.yppasswdd (0.9 or so, and not from ypserv),
or you haven't read it:
SYNOPSIS
rpc.yppasswdd [-D directory] [-e chsh|chfn]
rpc.yppasswdd [-s shadow] [-p passwd] [-e chsh|chfn]
[..]
-p passwdfile
This options tells rpc.yppasswdd to use a different
source file instead of /etc/passwd This is useful
if you do not want to give all users in the NIS
database automatic access to your NIS server.
Use -p /etc/passwd if your default is /etc/yp/passwd. Or is this so difficult ?
Thorsten
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From: Alan Westhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accurate interface byte counts
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:51:16 -0700
The bill my ISP sends me each month is partly dependent
on the number of bytes that pass over the link. Recently
the byte counts that they report have been going up.
I have no theory which would account for this increased
traffic, so I would like an independent means of
monitoring the data flow.
I know that I could run 'netstat -i' at frequent intervals,
appending output to a disk file, and then could write a
perl script to estimate traffic over a month. I suspect
that someone has already done this, or something better.
Any hints in this regard would be warmly appreciated.
-- Alan Westhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Rheaume)
Subject: Re: very slow responce from telnet, ftp and route ?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 17:14:48 GMT
Ya the problem is with the DNS. It is trying to look up the DNS record of the machine
that is telneting in. You can turn off the lookup or add the machine to your hosts
file..
-=>Viper<=-
Marten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I just re-installed redhat 5.2 and i have knoticed that telnet and ftp
: session take ages to start (about 20-30 seconds). Also if i do a 'route' it
: take a long time as well ('route -n' works fast). Is this a DNS problem I
: have a caching only DNS running. Also DHCP and samba. Everything seems to
: run.
: thanks Marten
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From: Terry Husie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RESULT: comp.os.linux.security passes 334:13
Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:10:33 -0700
Anybody know where the CHARTER will wind up?
I thought they were supposed to be in one of the news.* groups,
but I've never been able to find them.
There doesn't seem to be any difference between
comp.os.linux.{help,questions,misc,setup}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: 286 diskless computers like terminals on linux
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:42:09 -0500
In article <7edr09$8na$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a network with some 286 (1Meg VGA Card) diskless / ethernet card.
>
>How can I make this computers, terminals (X terminals if possible) on a
>Linux box?
They are probably too slow for decent X operation even if you can find
a program that isn't too expensive.
I'd go with the msdos version of kermit
(http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html)
which will run over a packet driver and work in character mode in
telnet sessions.
Les Mikesell
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From: Juan Zuccolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:15:40 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
have you had the experience of seting up linux PPP to loging to
sfu.ca?
Well, let me tell you, I've been going thru the pains for the last two
weeks, so maybe, if you have the time and the experience, drop me a
line
and guide me thru the ordeal.... :-)
cheers
Juan
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From: "Mike Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remote install using samba & Redhat 5.1
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:12:22 -0700
I ran into a similar problem this weekend. Here's what I did:
Put RH CD-ROM on remote machine. Set up sharing in /etc/smb.conf
as
[cdrom]
path = /mnt/cdrom
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = no
printable = no
Next create a user named nobody on the remote system with password
'nobody'. (not a very secure thing to do, so delete later)
Now retry the installation. When prompted for the share info, enter
remote_host_name
cdrom
nobody
nobody
Your mileage may vary, but this worked for me.
Cheers,
Mike Ellis
Burton wrote in message <7erk0s$t6m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ok ive got redhat 5.1 and samba setup. Ive got a share setup to redhat
5.2.
>Using another system im trying to remotly install redhat 5.2 using samba.
>When I boot using the boot.img disk and chose samba and put in the
suppl.img
>disk everything appears ok but when i get to the part about the smb server
>volume and username and password it tell me it can't mount that volume on
>the server I to alt+f3 and it tells me its an unknown host Ive tried ip
>address its netbios nambe everything from the samba server I can ping the
>other machine. using ip 192.168.10.1/24 remote machine using
>192.168.10.2/24.
>Has anyone else done this is it even possible??
>
>
>
>
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From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP problems wit LCP timeout.
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:16:32 -0400
add: noauthor in your /etc/ppp/options file, pppd may by default be
asking for authentication of your ISP this should take care it.
jongmook wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The problem is that the earthlink server did not respond to my system's
>LCP request.
>
>
>Also, the response from the 'Earthlink' server is so slow, I have added
>the option
* Remove this >'lcp-max-configure 60' to the 'options' file.
>
>Any idea ?.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jongmook
>
>Mar 11 09:20:41 grace pppd[2356]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff895c> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Mar 11 09:20:59 grace last message repeated 6 times
>Mar 11 09:21:00 grace pppd[2356]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
>Mar 11 09:21:00 grace pppd[2356]: Modem hangup
>Mar 11 09:21:00 grace pppd[2356]: Connection terminated.
>Mar 11 09:21:01 grace pppd[2356]: Exit.
>
>options
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
># This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following
>lines
># but please do not delete lines or the change the comments or you will
># confuse pppconfig.
>noauth #pppconfig_noauth
>connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/earthlink"
>#pppconfig_connect
>debug #pppconfig_debug
>/dev/ttyS2 #pppconfig_dev
>115200 #pppconfig_speed
>defaultroute #pppconfig_route
>noipdefault #pppconfig_ipdefault
>user ELN/jongmook #pppconfig_user
># End of pppconfig controlled lines. You can add lines below here
>without
># confusing pppconfig.
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From: "Sebastien Boving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS server crash on all our linux boxes
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:06:55 +0200
Hi,
I'd like to report a problem i've been trying to solve since a long time
now. I almost never had reactions to my posts except people having the same
problem as i described. Also RH support doesn't seem to know the answer.
Problem affects all our RH5.0+ systems. Recently i have installed kernel
2.2.3 and hoped for a change but the same problem still occurs.
The problem is that the NFS server on linux seems to stop answering requests
after a while. I suspect it is the mountd part which stop doing its work, or
maybe the portmapper. Usually there is no crash, it simply still runs but
does not what it is supposed to do. Clients hang while trying to mount,
sometimes severely (no way to kill the proces), sometimes just for a few
seconds.
As i said, i have this on all my linux boxes. Therefore i know it is
something that has to do with our particular setup. We have a very
heterogeneous network of HP, Sun, Dec, Sgi, Linux, and, yes, more and more
Windows machines. While the commercial unices seem to be doomed to disappear
from our dept, linux has a serious chance to replace them, if only bugs like
the one i am about to describe could be solved.
So, i was talking about our particular setup:
- automounting on every host. most hosts play NFS server as well as client.
- exporting is done to a netgroup (esat.arch). This netgroup includes all
the 'safe' unix boxes, that is, where only we as sysadmins are root (at
least that is what we think).
- these netgroups are imported with NIS.
More detailed, this is an example export table, of one of the linux
machines:
/ @esat.arch \
oklahoma \
utah \
134.58.189.1 134.58.189.2 134.58.189.3
/volume1 @esat.arch \
oklahoma \
utah \
134.58.189.1 134.58.189.2 134.58.189.3
ypcat netgroup works and you can see the esat.arch netgroup (which includes
hundreds of hosts) there. Nis is used for a lot of other critical stuff so
if something was wrong with it i would have noticed already.
These are the RPMs i think are important:
boving@palm:~$ rpm -qa | grep nfs
nfs-server-clients-2.2beta37-1
nfs-server-2.2beta37-1
boving@palm:~$ rpm -qa | grep portmap
portmap-4.0-12
boving@palm:~$ rpm -qa | grep yp
yp-tools-2.1-1
ypbind-3.3-9
ypserv-1.3.5-1
for all these packages i've tried previous versions in different
combinations but they all have the problem.
How the problem exactly occurs is difficult to say. Let's say i reboot a
linux NFS server. After the reboot it seems to work. Then clients start to
access it, and some days later i notice it doesn't work anymore. Restarting
/etc/init.d/nfs sometimes work. Usually, i have to restart the portmapper (i
stop ypbind first and restart it later). When the problem occurs, if i do
locally a 'showmount -e', i usually get 'RPC: timed out' after a while,
while rpcinfo -p still tells me rpc.mountd is there (only, i don't think
it's much alive anymore).
As i said before, all my machines with different hardware and different RPMs
versions have the same problem. I also had replies to my post of people who
also had this problem: they had the same (netgroup imported with nis) setup.
I'm sure this setup is 'supported' by linux since it starts working fine.
Only, after a while, there seems to be a serious problem!
I had some advices of reorganising the syntax of my /etc/exports. It didn't
seem to help either.
I also have the feeling it could be that when some particular hosts in the
building (running OS XYZ on hardware ABC) accesses the linux server things
start going wrong. I have never found which XYZ/ABC combination this could
be however (so i'm probably wrong about this).
Also, please Cc: replies to my email adress so i'm absolutely sure i won't
miss them!
thanks in advance,
Sebastien Boving.
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From: Michal Bukovjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HDD access over network
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:06:59 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Mr. Fastenow" wrote:
> I am having a problem writing files to a Linux system [running RH5.2, with
> Samba, and the drive configured as a writable one under smb.conf (as far as
> I know, I have followed examples) ] from a Win95 machine. I can see my
> Linux machine fine, and copy files from it, but I am not able to copy files
> over to it. I am curious if the partition has to be a NFS partition, or if
> the standard ext2 will work. Could directory permissions have anything to
> do with it, and if so, what should they be set at? The Linux machine also
> has Win95 on it, and I can send files to it that way, but I would rather
> not. If anyone has any experience with Samba and file sharing stuff, please
> email me or post to this group.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Aaron Fastenow
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the shared volume is vfat, try
1. In smb.conf, set
public = yes
writable = yes
2. When mounting the vfat drive, be sure to include umask=000 as a parameter in
fstab.
This worked for me.
Regards,
Mike
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From: Michal Bukovjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ANY news reader thru Proxy?? (on X)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:36:33 +0000
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know of a NNTP news reader that can read thru a
> proxy server??? preferable an X based on. The KDE default
> news client has no such option it seems, and any mail client
> (POP) that can do thru proxy??
>
> TIA
>
> banibrata.
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Try leafnode.
It is a news proxy server, and you can connect to it through any news
reader, including Netscape
Communicator.
You may find it on www.freshmeat.net, I think.
Mike
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tool to identify IP address from a PID or pty
Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:56:50 +0100
"Mark Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anybody aware of a way to associate the IP address associated from a
> process ID or PID.
I've posted a way to do this in the past (use dejanews if you care).
Basically you use a tool like 'lsof' on the ptc side of the
controlling pty and then again on the telnet or rlogin daemon.
> This is required of an application I need to write.
However, in practice, when I need to do this I use a modified version
of /bin/login that puts the remote host into the environment. I
notice that the this is standard on some distributions (e.g. SuSE 6.0).
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From: Matteo Valsasna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:40:49 +0200
"John F. McKee" wrote:
>
> I'd like to know how, when running the viewer from NT, to be able to view as a
> KDE Desktop. For example, if user "ccm" telnets to Linux, starts a vncserver
> session, then launches vncviewer, the desktop that appears is not his default
> KDE-style desktop but a "fvm" (sp) style.
>
> How do I get that beautiful KDE desktop to appear in the vncviewer window?
look in ~ccm/.vnc/xstartup:
there is the default x configuration, you can substitute startkde there
(twm is the window manager) to get the display you like
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