Linux-Networking Digest #652, Volume #11 Thu, 24 Jun 99 16:14:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: mgetty for dial-in blocks outgoing traffic ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sendmail - user unknow ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DMA hangs...activated workarounds? please help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Q: Why is "Text file busy"?!? Samba config? (Nicholas E Couchman)
triggering pppd through external phone call ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DirectPC operates in canada? (root)
alternatives to ip masquerade?? ("William Hubbs")
LAN connectivity problem (Richrj)
Running Xserver behind Sygate ("Orhan I. KARSLIGIL")
Re: Still having problems with Samba (DonJr)
Re: help -- database ("change")
with 2 NICs, first net visible, 2nd invisible ("Phil Parker")
Help connecting to ISP ("Justin Colson")
PCI network card problem (RealTek 8029) (Nickolai Sergienko)
Re: ifconfig can't set MTU (Clifford Kite)
Re: sudo (Derek Lucas)
Printers Across Two Networks/Linux router (Joe T. Smith)
Can't establish a ppp connection over a modem. (Allyn Dimock)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Terry Carmen)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mgetty for dial-in blocks outgoing traffic
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:00:40 GMT
If that is the result of an attempted pppd session,
> then you'll need an pppd*rpm update, or a recompiled pppd . <
I'm using ppp 2.3.5 I think. Thats a reasonably up-to-date version, I
would guess.
> Either your "chat" script is broken, <
The chat script works fine if I remove mgetty from inittab and use the
"standard" mingetty entry...but I'll check it over.
> Does pppd create
> a lockfile at all ? Is it called LCK...ttyS3 ? <
>
Yes. I get LCK...tty3 as anticipated. And the process (ps) comand lists
sbin/ppd as running
w command shows dialout on ttyS3.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sendmail - user unknow
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:14:34 -0400
sendmail is not a local mail delivery agent!
Another program handles actually putting mail in mailboxes.
My local ilevery program is called deliver.
Chick the end of /etc/sendmail.conf for what sendmail is passing
the mail to for local delivery and check for man pages/docs on
your local delivery program.
MicroNg wrote:
>
> Hi they, some Q again
>
> I'm using RH5.2 , I can't use senmail etc to send mail to any user - user
> xxx unknow, either with or without FQD in the address,, anyone help please
> ?
>
> thank in advance
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DMA hangs...activated workarounds? please help!
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:38:05 GMT
I got some problems with my server. When I check dmesg and it tells me
that I have "DMA hangs... and it Activated workarounds" from "PCI
probing". My motherboard is FIC 503+ Ver.1.2a which using VIA MVP3
PCI chipset. The OS is Redhat Linux 6.0 Could someone please give me
some advices? How can I solve this problem?
Thank you so much!
Regards,
Tran
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From: Nicholas E Couchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Why is "Text file busy"?!? Samba config?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:31:06 GMT
If you are going to write something, anything that you are going to transfer to
Linux (ie documents, text, batch files), don't use notepad. You will see why if
you try to open any text file from Linux on notepad, it doesn't work that
great. Use MS Word, MS Wordpad, or something like that and save it as a plain
text format.
--Nick
Dave Ewart wrote:
> My setup: Windows 98 workstation, running Netware clients, logged into a
> couple of Netware 3.12 servers. RH 5.2 Linux server - running Samba.
>
> I have drive U: on the Windows 98 workstation mapped to my home directory on
> the Linux box - if I create a small script, called "test1" say, on the Linux
> box using VI editor, it will execute happily. If, however, I use a text
> editor on the Windows 98 workstation to create a script, called "test2" say,
> it will not execute - the error "bash: ./test2: text file busy" appears.
>
> I have changed the file permissions to 700 for both files, the owner and
> group for the files are the same and "diff test1 test2" brings up no
> differences.
>
> The error message suggests to me that the file from the Windows text editor
> is locked - this is not the case, since the file is not open in the editor.
>
> Is this a Samba configuration problem?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Ewart, Computing Manager
> Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Cancer Epidemiology Unit), Oxford
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: triggering pppd through external phone call
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:55:19 GMT
Wednesday June 23 1999 16:27, Bill Unruh wrote to All:
BU> mgetty, dial in from =19our work machine, mgetty answers, you log on
BU> and
BU> run ppp on the home machine and then ppp on your work machine. Or
BU> set
BU> up AutoPPP and use pap, or...
I am having a hard time getting AutoPPP working on RH 6.0. The user
gets in fine, and then ppp tries to authenticate in vain, and then
times out. Can't find any clues from the howtos etc., i.e. any help
would be appreciated.
KS
... Avoid Quiet and Placid persons unless you are in Need of Sleep.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Subject: DirectPC operates in canada?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:56:30 GMT
Anyone knows if DirectPC actually operates in Canada? What's its
coverage? Virtually anywhere?
Does a satellite receiver work along with any kind of modem, like a packet
radio modem?
Thanks
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From: "William Hubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alternatives to ip masquerade??
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:33:58 -0500
Hi all,
I have an rh 5.2 machine and a windows 98 machine. I have an ADSL
connection to the internet with a static ip address. I am interested in
setting things up so that both machines have full access to the internet.
I have been using ip masquerade on the linux machine, and it sortof works.
There are things that I want to do on the windows box (netmeeting and icq
for example) which will not work correctly when it is going through the
linux machine running masquerade.
Are there ways to set up ip masquerade to handle these programs? Or, are
there alternatives to ip masquerade that will allow both machines to have
access to the internet?
I don't get a chance to read newsgroups often, so please send responses to
me via email as well as posting them.
Any help would be appreciated.
William
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From: Richrj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.networking.general
Subject: LAN connectivity problem
Date: 24 Jun 1999 19:31:00 GMT
NEED HELP:
I can ping my eth0 card but can't ping out to any other machines on my LAN.
I am running dualboot on my Linux machine. When I boot to windows instead
of Linux, I can see the other machine on my network fine.
SPECIFICATIONS:
ethernet card = D-Link-220P
LAN = 2 pc's directly connected via UTP
IP address = 192.168.0.1
network = 192.168.0.0
broadcast = 192.168.0.255
subnet = 255.255.255.0
ROUTE TABLE:
DESTINATION GATEWAY GENMASK FLAGS METRIC REF USE IFACE
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2 eth0
loopnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 2 lo
default test.linux.com 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 13 eth0
ERROR MESSAGE FROM DMESG:
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x2, t=800
ARP: arp called for own IP address
Can anyone help??????
thanks,
Rich
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From: "Orhan I. KARSLIGIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux
Subject: Running Xserver behind Sygate
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:42:16 -0400
Reply-To: "Orhan I. KARSLIGIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
We have a two machine network with an NTServer (192.168.0.1) connected
to the cable modem and running Sygate and a Linux (RedHat 6.0) machine
(192.168.0.101) as client. Everything is configured fine and working
properly.
I want to connect to a unix box and run X-applications remotely. I can
telnet to the remote machine and using xhost I already gave permissions
to the X-clients on my machine, but I can not export my display. If I
telnet from the Linux machine, the remote unix box sees the external IP
address of the NTServer and of course does not recognize my Linux
machine as Xserver. How should I export my Display ?
(I am using setenv DISPLAY NTserver.real.IP:0 and it is not working
because of obvious reasons) Is there a way to configure Sygate aprules
so that I can send the Display to a spesific port of the NTserver so
that it is relayed to my machine?
Thanks,
Orhan Karsligil
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From: DonJr <donjr@[127.0.0.1]>
Subject: Re: Still having problems with Samba
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 04:02:25 -0400
Bob Miller wrote:
>
> I posted a message here about a week ago and got a couple of responses,
> but nothing I tried worked (like enabling password security).
> I reinstalled Samba and I'm actually able to see the Linux box now from
> the network, but that's it. I can't see any of the shares when I try to
> connect to Samba. Win95 just keeps giving me the standard message -
> either it can't get any shares or it can't connect to the machine.
>
> I've got a small network of about 10 Win95 machines, 2 WinNT machines,
> and a NetWare server. When I was running RedHat 5.2 with its Samba
> version (1.9.?), I had it working just fine. But when I upgraded to
> RedHat 6.0 and then to Samba 2.0.4b, I just can't seem to get it
> working.
>
> What I would like to do is just have a simple share system going. I
> only want to have the machines connect and get a list of shared
> directories, without having to authenticate to the Linux box. So,
> I tried first to set the security to share, but that didn't work. Then
> I set up every user on the system in Linux, with passwords set
> properly, and set the security to user. That didn't work, either, so
> I set the security to server and had it go to the main NT server,
> "test," for user authentication. Well, neither did THAT work. In
> RedHat 5.2's setup, I had both user and server level security working
> just fine (though I noticed server level took a little longer).
>
> Can anyone give me any suggestions? I'd really appreciate it. Here's
> my smb.conf file:
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> # /etc/smb.conf: RMJ, 6-16-99
> # Samba configuration file
>
> [global]
> workgroup = DOMAIN
> server string = Samba Server
> hosts allow = 38.150.13.
Fix this to something like:
hosts allow = 38.150.13.0/24
Add this to give it a name
netbios name = MYSAMBA
After you get it working you can pick a better name.
Must be 8 "Alfia characters or numbers" or less.
Dispite the DOCs it has no relationship to any TCP/IP number or name.
Although it servers the same propose under the 'netBIOS' protocol.
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> load printers = yes
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 50
> security = user
> ; password server = test
> password level = 8
> username level = 8
> encrypt passwords = yes
> smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
Have you created /etc/smbpasswd this file?
If not see /usr/doc/samba*/docs/ for how. Without it nobody can login.
Is it owner and group 'root' and only RW by 'root'?
IE chmod 0600 /etc/smbpasswd
There is a security feature in the code that will only allow it to work
that way.
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> ; interfaces = 38.150.13.32/24
The above should work if that is the IP of the host that samba is
running on.
> ; remote browse sync = 38.150.13.34
> remote announce = 38.150.13.255
> ; local master = yes
> ; os level = 33
> ; domain master = yes
> ; preferred master = yes
> ; domain controller = test
> name resolve order = bcast wins lmhosts
> wins server = 38.150.13.34
> dns proxy = no
> guest account = ftp
>
> [home]
> comment = Home Directories
> browseable = yes
> writable = yes
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = no
> guest ok = no
> writable = no
> printable = yes
>
Do you really want an area READ/WRIT/ABLE to Everybody.
Remove the 'guest ok = yes' and then only logged in users will have
access
> [public]
> path = /home/public
> public = yes
> browseable = yes
> ; only guest = yes
> guest ok = yes
> writable = yes
> printable = no
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> -> Bob Miller
> Systems Engineer & CNE
> PALOMINO technologies
That's all I see at first glance.
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From: "change" <changeme@changeme>
Subject: Re: help -- database
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:40:41 -0500
GTK is the Gnu ToolKit.
TCL/TK is fairly good. (Freeware)
The Applix product, an integrated office suite is nice. Uses ODBC to
connect to anything that has ODBC dirvers. (Commerical from $100.00 USD per
user to $200.00 USD per developer)
HTH
Michael Black
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
> My company wants to focus our database product -DBMaker (Does
>anyone hear about it? DBMaker has 5-user free package for anyone who
>wants to try it.) on Linux. We need to gether more information. So I
>have some questions need you guys' help.
>
> 1. Execpt Perl, PHP3 and Python, is there any more popular front-end
>
>tool that I can use it to development application on database?
>
> 2. What's GTK+? Is it popular?
>
> 3. What do you think a database should have to make you like to use
>it?
>
> 4. What do you think a well-defined database solution should have?
>
> ChingYi
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Phil Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: with 2 NICs, first net visible, 2nd invisible
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:36:37 -0500
I'm running RHL 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel) with two NICs. The first network is
visible, the second is not.
Ifconfig outputs the following:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:17:D0:0B
inet addr:10.55.100.3 Bcast:10.55.103.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:29:61:6B
inet addr:206.109.47.252 Bcast:206.109.47.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6100
Netstat -nr outputs the following:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
206.109.47.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0
eth1
10.55.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1500 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
Pinging the 10.55 network works great. Pinging the 206.109 network gets no
replies (but no "unreachable" message, either). It just sits there with
100% packet loss. Pinging from another machine does not work, either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Phil Parker
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From: "Justin Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help connecting to ISP
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:29:09 +0100
I have got X-ISP to dial sucessfuly to my ISP (Free-Online), A few seconds
later a X-ISP terminal box pops up with the text
WELCOME TO 3COM TOTAL CONTROL
NETWORKS THAT GO THE DISTANCE
login : (I type in my Free-Online login)
password : (I type in my Free-Online password put nothing appears as I type)
A few seconds later
NO CARRIER
appears and it disconnects from the net. Once it had a different message
(not 3COM) and it worked and I was assigned a IP address but Netscape or
even Lynx say they can't connect when it is still connected(I can hear the
buzzing if I pick up the phone).
Thanks for any help.
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From: Nickolai Sergienko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI network card problem (RealTek 8029)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:48:57 +0200
Hello everybody,
I've just got a new Compaq Presario computer with PCI network card,
which is NE2000 compatible (RealTek 8029 RTL). Computer came with
preinstalled Windows 98.
Network card works wel under Win98 and uses (reported by Windows)
io=0x1000 irq=11.
I've installed RedHat 6.0 on this machine, and everything went perfect,
except that network interface doesn't work. ne2k-pci module loads with
the warnig message: "PCI BIOS assigned IRQ=0 to the device RealTek 8029
RTL, use PCI BIOS setup to assign appropriate IRQ level", and the kernel
reports "SCCIADDRFLAG: Resource currently unavailable
Network unreacheble".
ifconfig etho gives reasonable output.
First of all, I don't know how to launch BIOS setup program on COMPAQ,
tryed all keys combinations. Does anybody know how to do it?
Is there another solution to the problem? (card replacement doesn't
count)
Thanks in advance,
Nick
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: ifconfig can't set MTU
Date: 24 Jun 1999 14:01:21 -0500
Klaus Doth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have a problem with ifconfig since I've updated my old Suse 6.0-Linux
: to Version 6.1.
: When I use the old kernel (2.0.36), ifconfig can set the MTU of the
: EQL-device to any value, but if I use the new kernel (2.2.7) ifconfig
: exits with the error "SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument"
: Has anybody an idea how to get ifconfig working again without using the
: old kernel?
You know that the new 2.2.x kernel series needs upgraded net-tools don't
you? If not then you need to read the Documentation/Changes file in the
kernel source tree. The latest stable kernel is 2.2.10 and there may be
PPP problems with any less than 2.2.9 .
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Editing with vi is a lot better than using a huge swiss army knife. */
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:48:53 -0400
From: Derek Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sudo
You can find sudo at many file search engines.. and many anonymous ftp
sites, such as:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/su/sudo-1.2-shadow.tgz
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Systems Administrator
OneNet Communications, Inc.
513.618.1000 : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Sergiu Condorovici wrote:
> Where can I find a sudo package for RH 6.0?
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe T. Smith)
Subject: Printers Across Two Networks/Linux router
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Jun 99 17:33:23 GMT
I have two Ethernet networks (Network A and Network B). I
have a Linux box set up using IP masquerading to route these two
networks to the Internet. Network A and Network B both consist of
several Win95 boxes. There is a printer attached to one of the
Win95 hosts on Network A. Other hosts on Network A can see and
print from this printer. However, I don't know how to make Win95
hosts on Network B see this printer. Here are my questions:
1. How can I merge the two Network Neighborhoods to
look like one, so that I can see the printers on Network A from
Network B? Is there some kind of Linux software that will allow
me to do this?
2. Is this problem a Win95 configuration problem and not something
I can fix on the Linux router?
Additional information:
The Win95 machines are configured with TCP/IP and IPX
support. TCP/IP networking between the two networks works: a host
on Network A can ping a host on Network B.
The printer itself is physically attached to one of the
Win95 hosts. It doesn't have its own network card or anything like
that.
The linux kernel is 2.0.36 and it's also configured for IPX
support. I have tried using some software called tipxd to set up an
IPX tunnel, but this didn't work.
Attaching the printer to the Linux router is out of the
question due to the physical layout of these networks.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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From: Allyn Dimock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Can't establish a ppp connection over a modem.
Date: 24 Jun 1999 14:15:05 -0400
In trying to activate "ppp0" or "ppp1" from netcfg with i/o to /dev/modem:
netcfg says "active" but doesn't dial out. I get the following
messages in /var/log/messages
Jun 24 10:31:47 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp1 on /dev/modem at 115200
Jun 24 10:31:47 localhost pppd[782]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
Jun 24 10:31:47 localhost pppd[782]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
Jun 24 10:31:48 localhost pppd[782]: Exit.
I am using Red Hat 5.2 on a Fujitsu C350 with the modem on a Xircom card.
This configuration was working for 5 months.
I can still use the modem from Windows-98 with no trouble.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
-- Allyn
Allyn Dimock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eng. Sci. Lab #227
348 Harvard St. #1 h (617) 661-9299 40 Oxford St.
Cambridge, Ma. 02138 w (617) 495-3998 Cambridge, Ma. 02138
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Carmen)
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:18:58 GMT
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:01:31 +0000, yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I changed from NT server to Linux server 6 months ago. I achieved 99.8%
>uptime in the last 6 months; the one time the system was unavailable
>(for 3 hours - I was out of town) was due to the fact that I screwed up
>the hosts file. This on a budget of $0 and a total time of maybe 40
>hours.
>
>The NT installation prior to that would crash regularly. I took to
>rebooting it every weekend, and sometimes it would not come up. (I
>blame most of this on R&RAS, which is the worst POS I've ever seen in a
>production environment. I've seen alpha stuff that is more stable and
>better documented.)
While it's very easy to bash NT and come up with amazing statistics
supporting either operating system, I should mention that NT is very
stable if you do a proper install on certified hardware and don't load
it up with a bunch of crap.
If you take NT certified hardware, install NT, the web server of your
choice and a recent service pack, then log off and walk away from the
console, it will run quite nicely for a very long time.
The biggest reason NT has less uptime is mostly because people can't
resist installing all sorts of new software that may or may not leak
resources, and may or may not replace core OS components with versions
that are either incompatible or buggy.
Modifying the kernel under Linux requires a recompile. Modifying core
NT components requires nothing more than leaving a DLL where the OS
can find it.
This is a central flaw in the design of Windows, and one of it's
dirtiest secrets, that there are a virtually infinite number of
possible DLL combinations, depending on what's been installed, and
they're not all compatible. However, if you install a good set and
leave it alone, it's usually OK.
FWIW, the most reliable servers I've ever seen were Netware 3.x and 4,
where they were simply installed, stuck in a closet and ignored. Many
have been running for years with no reboots or failures.
Terry
"It's much easier to develop software using actual technology, instead of just made-up
stuff."
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