Linux-Networking Digest #676, Volume #11 Sat, 26 Jun 99 07:13:52 EDT
Contents:
Re: mIRC DCC help?? (Andrew Corrigan)
Re: Why not C++ (Justin Vallon)
Re: Why not C++ (Justin Vallon)
Gaming over a shared internet connection? (Andrew Corrigan)
caching only nameserver ("Herbert Sauerer")
Re: Changing default WU-FTPD port (Chris Rankin)
RH 6.0 & 3C905C TXM Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux install via wingate 3.0 (Bill Tkach)
Re: mail server ("Gregory D. Horne")
help setting up email server (PlumTree)
Re: LDAP User Authenication? (Frederic Faure)
Re: Linux PPP & Leased Line problem (Rob van der Putten)
Re: hosts.allow or hosts.deny (David Graham)
Automating Remote applications running on Unix (Stanley Mathew)
Re: Mount Ftp (John Thompson)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("John Hughes")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Robin Becker)
Re: samba and fstab. ("castor")
Re: samba and fstab. (Steve Cowles)
Re: Strange PPP problem with HTTP pages greater that 1200bytes/Ricochet related
(Rob van der Putten)
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From: Andrew Corrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mIRC DCC help??
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:02:12 GMT
Hey,
Not sure if this is the problem but with mIRC on Win95, I couldn't dcc send when
I had ipx/spx installed (but I could receive too). Removed that and worked
great. I know it is a problem cause I had to ask some guy on irc who had just
had the problem too.
Matt wrote:
> I'm having some problems getting DCC working in mIRC on my windows machines
> behind my Linux box. I'm able to receive files via DCC but I can't seems to
> send any. I've loaded the irc module on my Linux box and it doesn't seem to
> make a difference. Anyone know how to do this??
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From: Justin Vallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Why not C++
Date: 26 Jun 1999 04:00:08 -0400
David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> +-----On 24 Jun 1999 17:02:09 -0400, Stefan Monnier spoke unto us:----------
> | >>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Glebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | > [...]
>
> | Wring question. The question should be:
>
> | Why C++ ?
>
> - Objects
> - Inheritance
> - Polymorphism
> - Overloaded functions/operators
> - Streaming I/O
Abstraction
Public interfaces
Protocol classes (virtual bases)
Design patterns: Factories, etc
And, yes, of course, you could write Linux in Common-Lisp, or OO in C.
--
-Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Justin Vallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Why not C++
Date: 26 Jun 1999 04:03:33 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Comeau) writes:
> In article <7kscsl$s0h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Nathan Myers) writes:
> >2. It takes substantial extra effort to code C++ libraries that are
> > binary-compatible from one release to the next, so library version
> > problems are incrementally harder.
>
> This is definitely a roadblock, but I wonder how many people actually
> realized this when they started out? I would suspect not to many.
> Luckily Standard C++ is out and at least for now binary compatible issues
> are known and can be addressed by compiler implementors as they upgrade.
> Of course, some compilers have done this more than others. :)
Why would binary compatibility between compiler releases be an issue
for the kernel? Don't you build the entire kernel under one compiler?
Maybe for modules, but you'd extern "C" those, anyway.
Or, are you speaking in general (libnifty.1, libnifty.2)?
--
-Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrew Corrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gaming over a shared internet connection?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:27:50 GMT
Hi,
I am interested in trying out linux and was thinking of setting up a
relatively cheap linux box as a gateway using IP Masquerade. Two
Windows 98 SE boxes would be connected to the linux gateway (I figure
using a router?) over a cable modem. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone
had done a similar setup and used it for multiplayer gaming over the
net, primarily Halflife, Forsaken, some RTS games. I haven't seen any
mention of games over this setup.
Also, what should I be looking for in hardware. I mainly plan on using
it for just this purpose and some fiddling around with linux every now
and then (when it's not being used as the gateway). I'm thinking I can
save some money on a monitor but using some remote access software from
my Win98 computer (the other will be my roommates). Please cc any
replys to my email address as well. Thanks.
Andrew
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From: "Herbert Sauerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: caching only nameserver
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:13:11 +0200
hi,
is it somehow possible to get some information about which hosts my caching
only nameserver already konws about? where is the data stored?
regards
herbert
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business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.set-gmbh.com
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From: Chris Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing default WU-FTPD port
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:30:23 +1000
Thomas Hopson wrote:
> Is there an easy way to change the default port?
Are you trying to use the PORT command on a WU-ftpd, by any chance? This
functionality has been disabled unless you happen to be connecting to
localhost. The only solution is to edit the code in ftpcmd.y and
recompile.
Chris.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: RH 6.0 & 3C905C TXM Problems
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 06:29:13 GMT
We just purchased some Dell Dimension machines and they come with the
3Com 3C905C TXM NIC cards. RedHat claims that these cards are not
supported and neither are the Netgear FX310 TX nor the 3C905B TX. They
claim that the best card to buy is the 3Com 3c595. Unfortunately, I
can't find this card at our local computer stores.
I tried the Boomerang drivers from
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
and those don't seem to work either.
This is getting frustrating. After spending $78.00 for "support", I
don't feel that I'm getting my money's worth.
Any ideas for getting the 3Com 3C905C TXM cards working? When I try to
do an insmod 3c59x, I get an error message that the "device or resource
is busy." When I try to specify 3c59x during the install of RH6.0, I
get an error message that it can't find the card.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Bill Tkach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: linux install via wingate 3.0
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:00:13 GMT
I've got a windows 98 machine connected to the internet via cable modem.
I have another machine connected to that one via LAN, and I want to put
Linux on it.
Is it possible to :
a) do a linux install through the wingate server from an FTP site on the
internet?
b) access the internet from Linux through the wingate server.
And if either of these can be done... how? What do I need to set up?
thanks
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From: "Gregory D. Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:41:43 -0400
harry dupre wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a good mail server package that I can run on a Linux box?
> And security is must.
>
Linux includes the sendmail programme which acts as the server. As for
security, nothing attached to or travelling over the Internet is secure unless
certain precautions are taken. First, you might consider hiding your mail
server behind a firewall and have the firewall server act as an MTA between the
outside world and your mail server. Second, if security over the content of
the mail messages is crucial, then consier encrypting the mail prior to sending
it - there are many encryption utilities available including PGP. Third, set
up a monitoring service on your server(s) to track all traffic coming into the
box and of course review the logs regularly. Fouth, you might reconfigure the
port number used by your mail server and clients from the well-known port
number to one of the unreserved port numbers - this may involve recompiling the
mail server programme such as sendmail or be simply nothing more than editing a
conf file.
I used options 1 through 3, sans encryption, at one of my clients sites. The
only issue we found was mail directed from the firewall mail MTA to the mail
server often destined for external hosts resulted in a build-up of records in
the /var/spool/smap or /var/spool/mqueue directory. A cron tab entry eleimated
this sitaution by auto purging those directories daily of any files older than
the current day.
Regards,
Gregory D. Horne
Interworking Engineer
Information technology Architect
The Network Laboratorium (NetLab)
>
> Thank you in advance.
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From: PlumTree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help setting up email server
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 03:21:56 -0700
Hi,
I'm running Redhat 5.2 with 2.0.36 kernal. I recently got an adsl
connection with a static ip address. I am using the linux box to run ip
masquerade so that my roommates can have internet access. I'm
interested in setting up my own email server. I want to be able to send
and receive email and not depend on my isp for this service.
Is it possible to set up email for myself and my roommates? How would I
go about doing this? Which packages do I need to install? How can I
check to see if they are already installed? How do I go about
configuring them, and setting up individual email accounts? etc...
I'm still new to linux, so any super simple instructions or good clear
and concise guides would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Akira
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
please remove the nospam to reply.
have a nice day! :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Re: LDAP User Authenication?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:55:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:06:16 -0400, "Kevin Currie"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'd like to try playing around with LDAP for user authentication on a spare
>Linux box; however, information on this seems to be hard to find. I see
>people everywhere saying how great it is, but I can't seem to find any info
>other than how to setup LDAP for use as anything other than a phone book.
I'm in the same situation. I bought a book on LDAP from an editor
called WOX (not sure of the name), which deals with different LDAP
servers, OpenLDAP for one. I haven't read it yet, so don't know if
everything's in there, though. Look it up on Amazon.
FF.
--
The system required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux!
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux PPP & Leased Line problem
Date: 26 Jun 1999 12:27:25 +0200
Hi there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> About 4 years ago I used Linux 1.0.x (0.99 ?) to
> connect to a 28.8k voice-grade leased line without
> any problem. But now I tried to use Red Hat
> (2.2.5, PPPD 2.3.7) and PPPD to connect to the
> same type leased line. I failed.
Did you have a look at the leased line mini howto?
Regards,
Rob
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From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hosts.allow or hosts.deny
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:38:07 -0400
>From "man 5 hosts_access":
The access control software consults two files. The search
stops at the first match:
� Access will be granted when a (daemon,client) pair
matches an entry in the /etc/hosts.allow file.
� Otherwise, access will be denied when a (dae�
mon,client) pair matches an entry in the
/etc/hosts.deny file.
� Otherwise, access will be granted.
David Graham
--
>
> I was curious, if you put a name in etc/hosts.allow, and then you put
> the same name in hosts.deny, would that host be allowed or denied?
> Which file does Linux look at first?
>
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From: Stanley Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Automating Remote applications running on Unix
Date: 26 Jun 1999 10:30:37 GMT
Hello Every one,
I have a linux machine C++ libraries and Java jdk installed.
I need to write a application that will connect to a remote Unix machine
which has a application running on it. For connecting to the system we use
Telnet and enter the login name which take us to the Application login
screen asking for User Id and Password and we enter the valid details it
takes you into Screen with menu options select a particular menu which
might take you to another menu screen or a screen where we enter details
and save the data. All this are now been done manually. Now here is the
problem we have to do the complete operation through commands (i.e) we have
to write a program that will use telnet to login into the system and pass
the valid user id and password and go to the correspoding screen and enter
the values and do a transaction completely. We have some idea like since
in unix all the devices are files and tty is also a file we have to capture
each file make some editing on it and run the same on the unix system.
I would like your help for writing a C or Java application that can
connect to the remote unix system and capture each screens into a file and
edit it and run it.
Expecting your help soon.
Thanks & Regards
Stanley
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mount Ftp
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:50:28 -0600
"William B. Cattell" wrote:
>
> Allan Christiansen wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyone who knows of a program/deamon where you can mount a ftp-site
> > as if it was a part of the file system. eg. mount ftp.linuxberg.com as
> > /mnt/linuxberg
> >
> > Allan
>
> I use StarOffice 5.1 which will let you do that - set up an
> FTP site as if it were part of your machine's file system.
> File Runner does that same thing.
Have you actually gotten it to work? I've tried to access
my OS/2 machine with Star Office this way and it always
craps out with "Error 2" whatever that may be. Using a
regular ftp client to connect to the server on the OS/2
machine is no problem.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "John Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:53:02 +0100
How about these? Did MS cheat also? ;)
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2256617,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/jumps/0,4270,401961,00.html
Ochran Industries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > And I don't see Rob Malda complaining about the poor performance
> > of his dual-CPU x86 box running Linux and serving Slashdot to a
> > _large_ audience. Do you honestly think NT would provide better
> > uptime and throughput than Linux for that task?
> >
>
> I can just see that - "I've got this great website that basically has
> everything to do with everything that is good about linux, but have
> decided to run it on an NT boxen."
>
> >
> >
>
> --
> westyX
> It's not that i am a cannibal, it's just that human flesh is so tasty.
> I believe in preemptive righting of wrongs.
> Babylon 5 - Death to all unbelievers
> Home grown and better than the bought ones.
>
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From: Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:56:07 +0100
In article <7l280k$1d9i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hughes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>How about these? Did MS cheat also? ;)
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2256617,00.html
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/jumps/0,4270,401961,00.html
>
>
...
a bit off topic, but an article in my paper, the Independent, states
that M$'s encarta has different versions for different countries. If M$
can claim in the US that Edison (October 1879) invented the electric
light bulb before Swan (February 1879) then a few adjustments to
benchmark results seem minor. Apparently the M$ mouthpiece says these
sort of 'facts' aren't always black and white etc etc.
It was Orwell's 1984 that had the 'Ministry of Truth', but I wonder if,
now that we have the technology, it's becoming a reality.
--
Robin Becker
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From: "castor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba and fstab.
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:09:44 +1000
Well that was entirely the wrong answer. I already know about |more, I
suspect that anyone who knows about the existence of /etc/rc.d/boot.local
would know about |more too. Where can you stick a |more in while it's
showing stuff while it's booting up? Did you even read the rest of my
message?
-c.
Andrey Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7l1u2v$6ms$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In order to pause scrolling output use | more argument with your command:
>
> Example: ls -l | more
>
> Good luck!
>
> castor wrote in message <7l1gf8$lu4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Can someone please tell me how to mount Samba shares in /etc/fstab? Or
fix
> >the following problem?
> >I have a script file which mounts some Windows 98 partitions with
smbmount.
> >If I put this file in my /etc/rc.d/boot.local, or even if I put the whole
> >thing manually with full paths in there, it doesn't work. The thing
scrolls
> >off way too fast for me to read properly (can someone tell me how to
pause?
> >:). It says something about service not being available[?] This happens
> >whether my Windows box has finished booting up or not. As soon as I log
on
> >and run the script, the partitions mount fine.
> >
> >Will the problem persist if I mount the partitions in fstab?
> >
> >-c.
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From: Steve Cowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: samba and fstab.
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:03:53 GMT
castor wrote:
> Well that was entirely the wrong answer. I already know about |more, I
> suspect that anyone who knows about the existence of /etc/rc.d/boot.local
> would know about |more too. Where can you stick a |more in while it's
> showing stuff while it's booting up? Did you even read the rest of my
> message?
>
> -c.
>
> Andrey Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7l1u2v$6ms$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In order to pause scrolling output use | more argument with your command:
> >
> > Example: ls -l | more
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > castor wrote in message <7l1gf8$lu4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >Can someone please tell me how to mount Samba shares in /etc/fstab? Or
> fix
> > >the following problem?
> > >I have a script file which mounts some Windows 98 partitions with
> smbmount.
> > >If I put this file in my /etc/rc.d/boot.local, or even if I put the whole
> > >thing manually with full paths in there, it doesn't work. The thing
> scrolls
> > >off way too fast for me to read properly (can someone tell me how to
> pause?
> > >:). It says something about service not being available[?] This happens
> > >whether my Windows box has finished booting up or not. As soon as I log
> on
> > >and run the script, the partitions mount fine.
> > >
> > >Will the problem persist if I mount the partitions in fstab?
> > >
> > >-c.
Castor,
Instead of trying to "pause", you might want to try and redirect stdout and
stderr to a file, like:
smbmount bla bla bla >/tmp/smbmount.err 2>&1
This will at least capture all output (stdout and strerr) to the file
/tmp/smbmount.err for later review. I used this approach to figure out what was
happening with "startx" back when I setup my Linux box.
If I understand the rest of your post correctly... you might want to invoke
your script under your userid within rc.local, like:
/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail" scowles
The above is straight out of my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file (RH6.0). This invokes
fetchmail under my userid so that is properly reads my ~/.fetchmailrc file.
Hope this helps
Steve Cowles
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange PPP problem with HTTP pages greater that 1200bytes/Ricochet
related
Date: 26 Jun 1999 12:16:03 +0200
Hi there
Rik Sagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any reason why pages greater than that size might
> fail to download?
Check your flow control.
Regards,
Rob
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