Linux-Networking Digest #132, Volume #12 Fri, 6 Aug 99 13:13:44 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kill -9 won't kill a process ("Saif A. Warsi")
Re: Help with RR and Linux Pump ("Brandon W. Beasley")
Re: PPTP won't authenticate through ipmasq (Yousuf Khan)
Re: PPP (Dial-out) connection requirements ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ppp compression question (Gustin Kiffney)
Possible to measure CPU used by Ethernet interface? ("Steve Snyder")
nfs server under RedHat 6.0 (Nick Birkett)
Re: Ping 10baseT vs 100baseT (Tom Crane)
Re: 12 Step Plan (Robert Krawitz)
@Home cable modem to Linux ("P.A. Grant")
handling of dealock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ccan linux and windows talk ("gonZo theGreaT")
Re: SMC switches & Full duplex ("Thomas Paine")
dial-up with linux ("Harald [EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Samba question ("David Murray")
Howto check if Port # is block by ISP? (Young4ert)
Re: Pump it up ! ("Michael Wall")
Re: users can't mount cdrom (Stefan Bauer)
Re: Ccan linux and windows talk ("David Murray")
Help!!!! (Ian Mentiply)
Hawkeye error can't connect to MySql server (Philippe Demaret)
Re: why?? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Linux driver for 3Com card ("P.A. Grant")
Re: Will I ever be able to use Linux at all?? HELP! ("David Murray")
Re: Samba slow one direction only! (Oliver Nelson)
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From: "Saif A. Warsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kill -9 won't kill a process
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:21:03 -0500
Gary Smith wrote:
> Sound like the kernel is having trouble writing the core file. Are you out of disk
> space ?
>
> Try deleting the core file. The kernel may give up writing to it and proceed to
> terminate the process.
>
No I have plenty of disk space and deleting the core file was the first thing I tried
to no avail. One thing that semi-worked was setting the coredumpsize to zero however,
this is not a good solution for me as I sometimes need to see the core file.
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From: "Brandon W. Beasley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help with RR and Linux Pump
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:59:13 -0500
To update pump (having downloaded new pump version from redhat updates),
type the following:
rpm -Uvh pump-[whatever version].rpm
The "U" means update. The "v" means verbose (show what's going on); the
"h" means show little hash marks as a progress metter. "rpm -Uvh" is the
basic command for upgrading packages on a redhat box.
Do a network restart by typing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart"
Then type "/sbin/ifconfig" to spit out the info on your NICs. Look for
inet address - if you have an ip address, then pump did the right thing
and got your IP address. Pump is a REPLACEMENT for the older dhcp client
on the 5.2.
Type less "/etc/resolv" to see if pump put the DNS addresses in that file.
Hope this helps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed RH 6.0 on my machine and that took my only 90
> minutes, but I have been trying to get my cablemodem (roadrunner, La
> Jolla) to work for 6 hrs without success.
>
> I dowloaded Phil Karn's rrlogin.c. I also downloaded the new pump
> from ftp://update.redhat.com. However, I have no idea on how to run
> rpm to update my DHCP client. Could someone please run a step by step
> tutorial on how to install a working DHCP client for for RH 6.0 box ?
> How do I verify that DHCP actually works? Thank-you everyone.
>
> Helena
>
> PS. I did RTFM the How-Tos but alas without well...:-)
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From: Yousuf Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPTP won't authenticate through ipmasq
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:21:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dave Kristol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something like that idea occurred to me on the way to lunch, and
indeed
> it works. Specifically, I made "deny" the default -I policy, then
added
> this rule:
> ipfwadm -I -a accept -W eth0 -S my-pptp-server-address
So would you consider that your permanent solution, or just a temporary
workaround?
Yousuf Khan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PPP (Dial-out) connection requirements
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:34:55 GMT
I don't want to do this but if no choice I will have to - write a
program that would keep on sending some junk packets periodically every
few minutes [let's say 30 min] [ get http://something > /dev/null]
Please suggest a better approach.
TIA
Rajeev
In article <wgu20.933935906@riemann>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >(i) My connection breaks after an hour or so. May be its beacause
during
> >this time the system was idle. Its not bcaz of my ISP because my
Win95
> >PC connected to the same ISP keeps the connection alive for days. Any
> >suggestion - Any option that may be causing this I am not using the
> >'idle' option but using 'persist'.
>
> Win may well be periodically sending something down the line to make
the other
> end think it is not idle.
>
> >(ii) I need an X-Application that would give me the status of the
PPPD /
> >MODEM. Does DialD has this interface.
>
> diald dials out if there is any packet which needs to be sent down the
line.
> Ie it does not tie up the line and the ISP's modems while still making
it
> transparent to connect.
>
> >Do you consider 'diald' as a better option - if yes why ?
>
>
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From: Gustin Kiffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp compression question
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:34:21 GMT
It's probable that some of the ISP servers are set up for compression
and that others aren't. Since this is a crapshoot for you, you're
probably better off disabling compression entirely and using the modem
compression. Also, when you say 'deflate 11,0' you're saying 'compress
to me but don't compress anything I send' which might not be what you
want and which might not be well supported at the other end.
Also, I find that when you do have software compression at both
ends, the connection is faster if you also disable modem compression at
your end (so that the modems don't also try to compress the
incompressible).
Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been having a problem configuring ppp compression with my ISP. I
have
> 'defalte 11,0' and bsdcomp 11,0' in my /etc/ppp/options file. Problem
is,
> sometimes this works (my ISP accepts it), sometimes it does not (a
lot of
> ComfReq/ConfRej followed by 'CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests' in
my
> logfile). Do I need to use 'noccp' in /etc/ppp/options, and does this
> automatically disable all compression? Or will the compression still
work
> (I know, a potentially stupid question, but I'm not sure). I've tried
using
> using both deflate and bsdcomp on their own, as well as different
values
> for the compression; the inconsistancies remain.
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Possible to measure CPU used by Ethernet interface?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:02:34 GMT
The server on my LAN is used as a gateway to the Internet. Is it
possible to measure how much CPU time is consumed by the traffic on a
given Ethernet device?
Since the net traffic is not associated with a single process, top
doesn't tell me anything. I can view /proc/interrupts to see the
interrupt count for each device or ifconfig to see the packet counts,
but that doesn't tell me how much of a burden the CPU is running
under.
Thank you.
***** Steve Snyder *****
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From: Nick Birkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nfs server under RedHat 6.0
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:12:14 +0100
Hi I am having problems gettting SGI IRIX hosts to mount nfs files from
my Linux box since I upgraded to RH6. It worked fine under RedHat 5.2
(but then again so did a lot of things !!).
Other Linux boxes can mount the files fine. I have a custom 2.2.5 kernel
with nfs compiled in.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Crane)
Subject: Re: Ping 10baseT vs 100baseT
Date: 6 Aug 99 15:58:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mike Redrobe"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Mai wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,:
>>Hello,
>
>>How do I write a simple C or shell program to measure the speed of the
>>10baseT vs 100baseT
>>using ping program.?
>
> ping will tell you the response speed, which is similar for 10 and 100baseT.
>
> setup samba (or nfs..) and tranfer a few megs over the network, then use
> something like IpTraf to monitor speed...
Or better still, use ttcp which is designed specifically for this purpose.
Tom.
--
Tom Crane, Dept. Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill,
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 12 Step Plan
Date: 06 Aug 1999 11:16:02 -0400
"Trevor Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In an ongoing effort diminish M$'$ presence, I'm trying to determine what we
> 'll 'lose' by going to a purely Linux-run domain (using Samba . I'm not
> optimistic enough to give most of my users Linux !). One of the biggest
> problems I can foresee is our mail functionality. Granted, Exchange Server
> is a huge PIG, but it does offer some nice features such as a consolidated
> mail database and public folders. Is there a Linux-based solution to this?
> How can I keep all of my mail in one db (or centralized location) and have a
> pool of mail items shared among users?
Use news for the stuff you want to share, and use IMAP for reading
mail. Beyond that, what's the advantage of a consolidated mail
database?
--
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Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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Reply-To: "P.A. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "P.A. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: @Home cable modem to Linux
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:11:38 GMT
I am new to Linux, and I am trying to set it up to work with my cable modem.
I am using SuSE 6.1. When I boot the machine up, it goes thriugh the regular
start up processes, then it gives me an error something like this:
setting up routing etc/route.conf
error while executing /sbin/route add default gw <ip address>
SIOCADDRT:Network is unreachableSetting up routing
Well, I've checked the /etc/route.conf and the correct IP is there.. Does
anyone have any ideas of what I am doing wrong? I know the IP and subnet
mask work, I've used them with Win 98 on the same machine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: handling of dealock
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:38:40 GMT
I'am currently working on a project with the linux system. I'am
preparing to make a group presentation in class in regards to how linux
system handle deadlock. I would appreciate any insight you may have on
the subject to help me understand the mechanism with which linux handle
deadlock.
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From: "gonZo theGreaT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ccan linux and windows talk
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:53:06 GMT
> Can some one suggest a way I can make Linux and Windows talk. What are the
> softwares required and tell me briefly how to achive this.
Think you should go down and read all msgs 'bout Samba , and
Samba-configuration
small hint: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html
> Secondly, is it very hard to have X-Windows on Linux as I have been trying
> from 2 months
belongs to your used Hardware - and your patience by reading HOWTOs ;)
maybe you'll try for another 2 YEARS , or you read the HOWTOs !
> Thanx
> Vasanth
Anytime !
Gonzo
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From: "Thomas Paine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking
Subject: Re: SMC switches & Full duplex
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:44:14 -0500
Reply-To: "Thomas Paine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm not positive, but I don't think full duplex is exactly standardized
yet.
--
Please let me know if I was able to help!
Thomas Paine
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 18:16:56 +0200
From: "Harald [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dial-up with linux
I have installed a linux-server as internetgateway and DNS.
It works good, but after the first dial-in and hung-up it doesn�t dial
in automatically
any more, but i can do a dial-in manually.
Harald St�rmer
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba question
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:35:41 GMT
Okay.. another samba question. I'm trying to get my company's software to
work on Linux. I work at Citadel and we make a variety of networking
products that sit on an NT or Novell server. However, our products pull
down lists of usernames from the server. This doesn't seem to work with a
Linuxbox running samba. I get a blank list of users. Is this something
samba just hasn't implimented or is it something that I need to change so
that samba can provide a list of users on that server? I have tried using
a seperate smbpasswd file but that doesn't help either.
--DavidM
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Howto check if Port # is block by ISP?
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 12:37:25 -0400
Hi,
I am connected to the Internet through a local ISP: NetZero.net. I can
surf the Internet with NetScape 4.6.1. I can even send e-mail to anyone
through the ISP's stmp server. However, when I tried to setup my other
e-mail account from a third party e-mail provider, i.e. mailandnews.com,
I could not send out the e-mail and the sendmail responded with "Network
Unreachable". Having said that, I did the following to test if the ISP
has blocked the smtp port:
1. "telnet mailandnews.com 25" produces the following error message:
telnet mailandnews.com 25
Trying 199.29.68.160...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable
2. "telnet mailandnews.com 23" produces the following error message:
telnet mailandnews.com 23
Trying 199.29.68.160...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
So, it looks me that the ISP has blocked the smtp port. Can anyone
please confirm that what I have done above is correct? Also, is there a
way to by pass the blockage?
I certainly appreciate if you could kindly respond through e-mail.
Thanks.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: "Michael Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Pump it up !
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:38:52 -0600
To install the RPM go to an xterm window and find where you saved it. Type
rpm -Uvh and the name of the
rpm file you downloaded to install the update.
As for setting up DHCP go to the mini DHCP HOWTO, located in the
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini directory.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:37aa5db9.8876934@news-server...
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed RH 6.0 on my machine and that took my only 90
> minutes, but I have been trying to get my cablemodem (roadrunner, La
> Jolla) to work for 6 hrs without success.
>
> I dowloaded Phil Karn's rrlogin.c. I also downloaded the new pump
> from ftp://update.redhat.com. However, I have no idea on how to run
> rpm to update my DHCP client. Could someone please run a step by step
> tutorial on how to install a working DHCP client for for RH 6.0 box ?
> How do I verify that DHCP actually works? Thank-you everyone.
>
> Helena
>
> PS. I did RTFM the How-Tos but alas without well...:-)
>
>
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:42:13 +0200
From: Stefan Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: users can't mount cdrom
Jeff Greer schrieb:
>
> Hello,
>
> Why can I only mount the cdrom drive as root?
>
> here is /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660
> noauto,ro,user 0 0
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 37672 Oct 6 1998 /bin/mount
> brwxrwxrwx 1 root users 11, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 guest users 4 Mar 26 04:23 /dev/cdrom
> -> scd0
>
Looks quite o.K.
What are the permissions for /mnt/cdrom?
--
Stefan Bauer
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ccan linux and windows talk
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:42:08 GMT
Gonzo,
This isn't a very helpfull reply to a person who we should be trying to
help out here.. Yes the post is something probably answered in the how-tos
but that isn't always the case and many of the how-tos are very confusing.
Vasanth (original poster),
Samba is definatly the package you need to share files between windows and
Linux. I assume this is what you want when reffering to them "talking"
otherwise you might consider sitting there pinging each other to be
talking.. who knows.
Xwindows can be a pain to setup for the first time. it is still a pain
for me to get it setup in the refreshrate, color scheme, and resolution I
want. However, most people that run Linux, run Xwindows.. it is a given.
If you could provide some specific information on what is happening, maybe
we could help more.
--DavidM
gonZo theGreaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<CxDq3.34908$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> > Can some one suggest a way I can make Linux and Windows talk. What are
the
> > softwares required and tell me briefly how to achive this.
>
> Think you should go down and read all msgs 'bout Samba , and
> Samba-configuration
> small hint: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html
>
> > Secondly, is it very hard to have X-Windows on Linux as I have been
trying
> > from 2 months
>
> belongs to your used Hardware - and your patience by reading HOWTOs ;)
> maybe you'll try for another 2 YEARS , or you read the HOWTOs !
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From: Ian Mentiply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Help!!!!
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:31:02 GMT
Is there anyone in the BOSTON area that is very experienced in the
Installation and configuration of Redhat v 6 and the configuration of
SAMBA, if there is let me know I am looking for someone who can come in to
my company for a day or so the help me set up my print services on LINUX.
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From: Philippe Demaret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.networking.general
Subject: Hawkeye error can't connect to MySql server
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:31:03 GMT
Hi
After i'd installed Hawkeye 1.11, the same message appear : Can't connect
to MySql server.
After many reboot, it's the same...
So an idea ?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: why??
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:10:03 GMT
Paul Wilkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Allen Wong wrote:
: >
: > Ricky,
: >
: > Please post the output of this:
: >
: > cat /dev/sndstat
: >
: > Allen
: > --
: > Linux: If you're not careful, you might actually learn something.
:
: I appear to have the same trouble, and while ls shows it to exist, I
: don't appear to be able to get anything from it.
:
: $ ls -l /dev/sndstat
: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 6 Jul 12 17:15 /dev/sndstat
: $ cat /dev/sndstat
: cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
Do you have a sound card? Does the kernel appear to find it at boot time?
Stu
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Reply-To: "P.A. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "P.A. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux driver for 3Com card
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:12:41 GMT
This is my first time in this ng, so please forgive me for asking. I am
looking for a Linux driver for a 3Com 3C90X card. Can anyone help me with
this? thanks in advance.
=======
PG
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will I ever be able to use Linux at all?? HELP!
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:38:25 GMT
Ugh.. I've never used suse before.. but I have tried KPPP and never once
has it worked for me. I usually just use the red-hat control panel (which
I know you won't have) but linuxconf may have the item you want.. sorry I
can't be of too much help in your particular distribution.. also you might
try using the command-line version of ppp.. all I can say is that I don't
personally know anyone who has made KPPP work correctly.
--DavidM
> I've just installed Suse 6.1 and I'm all happy and fuzzy about it...
> trouble is... I can't connect to the internet. I have absolutely no
> CLUE at all as to what to donext... I have a Cardinal MVP2888I Modem.
> I try using yast to configure it but it doesn't work(?)
>
> It keeps returning a 0.0.0.0 IP adress...
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From: Oliver Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba slow one direction only!
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:43:58 -0700
Alex,
Just upgraded from SuSEs site to Kernel 2.2.7 which has some bug and security fixes
apparently, but this didn't help. I this it is due to my nic not being setup properly,
but I don't know how to change the nic settings in linux like I did in dos with net.cfg
file (IPX netware network but same config file concept).
Thanx
OLIVER
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