Linux-Setup Digest #373, Volume #19 Fri, 11 Aug 00 01:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem. (Glitch)
Re: ftpd and telnetd;;; (Mark)
Re: (Rant) Installing RPMs: Endless fun... (A transfinite number of monkeys)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Christopher Browne)
Re: E-Mail server not receiving mail (Mark)
Help!Redhat 5.2 didn't support scsi160(aic7892) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: compatibility ("Carl R. Thorpe")
Re: Sound card doesn't initialize (Opti 931) (Michael Mitchell)
Re: Access to FAT32 file systems ("tlc")
Re: Linux AFTER Win2000 is installed ??? ("tlc")
mounting tool (David Punsalan)
??apache redirection while keeping original address in browser ("!!Tonnere de Brest")
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:15:16 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem.
looking at /var/log/messages would have told you that the daemon was
trying to be spawned but could not b/c it was not on the drive...i had
this problem with ftp. I wanted an ftp daemon to catch ftp requests.
Inetd.conf was configured with wu.ftp but that wasn't installed. I
switched it to in.ftp and it worked fine.
I found the problme by looking at what /var/log/messages told me.
Buschman wrote:
>
> YES!!!! That worked dude! I can't tell you how much I appreciate
> your assitance, all of you guys have helped tremendously. Ok, one
> question, will I have to run those commands after every restart? Is
> it now included in the startup files? If not how can I include them?
> which file?
>
> thanks again,
> Buschman
>
> On 9 Aug 2000 19:24:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond Johansson)
> wrote:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman) writes:
> >
> >
> >>No I don't have that file. I am using mandrake 6.1 and am afraid I am
> >>not super familiar with how RPM works?
> >
> >Mount the CD. Go down to Mandrake/RPMS and give the command
> > rpm -i telnet-server*
> >and for ftp
> > rpm -i wu-ftpd*
> >
> >-- rj
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftpd and telnetd;;;
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 02:55:49 GMT
They may very well already be installed.
To check, type in...
rpm -q anonftp
rpm -q ftp
etc....
Not everything on the install CD will be installed. For a workstation
installation the daemons are not installed...etc...
Linux programs all follow the same format: program_name-
version.cpu_class.rpm
Sometimes other platform specific info is embedded in there...
So, all the programs you listed are for Mandrake (mdk) on an Intel
Pentium class (i586), and they are RPM builds.
Cheers
Mark
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman) wrote:
>
> I am having the exact same problem as this guy except I'm using
> Mandrake 6.1. OK I went through the RPMS on my install disk and found
> these entries:
>
> anonftp-2.8-3mdk.i586.rpm
> ftp-0.10-3mdk.i586.rpm
> gftp-2.0.3-1mdk.i586.rpm
> lftp-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm
> ncftp-3.0beta18-4mdk.i586.rpm
> popt-1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
> telnet-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm
> telnet-server-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm
> tftp-0.10-4mdk.i586.rpm
> wu-ftp-2.5.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
> So why do all these files end in mdk.i586.rpm? How do I install these
> files? Granted I am able to telnet and ftp FROM my machine, just not
> TO my machine. Which of these services will allow me to do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Buschman
>
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:42:03 -0700, vururu
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I installed mandrake 7.1 server version with high security
> >option (bad idea for sure!!). I think that it could be the
> >reason why when i try ftp connection from a client, i got:
> >
> >Connecting to: mandrake
> >Connection Established
> >Error connecting to: mandrake
> >
> >I can ping the machine, inetd is working process
> >What could be the reason why cannot get ftp services...
> >Could anyone help me again,
> >Would like to say thanks for all people for theiere advices and
> >help.
> >
> >vuru
> >
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A transfinite number of monkeys)
Subject: Re: (Rant) Installing RPMs: Endless fun...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:13:59 GMT
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:59:21 GMT,
Frederic Faure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: => Me thinks we should come up with an improved version of RPM that
: will generate even more twisted and random names for the packages it
: builds...
Why are you blaming the tool for what's the fault of the people creating
the packages???
What was stopping you from visiting www.mysql.com, downloading the
rpms of the mysql package (MySQL, MySQL-client, MySQL-devel, MySQL-shared),
then:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
> install Bundle::DBI
> quit
???
Then install the MySQL modules. I'm kind of an RPM-nazi, but I don't
bother with RPMs to install perl modules.
--
Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:18:00 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
>Christopher Browne wrote:
>> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
>> >Christopher Browne wrote:
>> >> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John Hasler would say:
>> >> >How could Debian "exploit" the GPL (or anything else)? Do you understand
>> >> >what Debian is?
>> >>
>> >> Indeed. I'd find it interesting just what systems are supposedly not
>> >> "exploiting" anything. It's pretty common for comments like this to come
>> >> from "BSD trolls;" the fact that BSDI bought out Walnut Creek, and
>> >> IBM bought WhistleJet demonstrate that the "BSD world" is not immune
>> >> to commercial attempts to "exploit" BSD code either.
>> >
>> >I just checked Linuxmall.com. Debian shows up in a box, with a $17.95
>> >price tag right next to it.
>>
>> The question is, who is it that's getting the $17.95.
>>
>> It is _not_ The Debian Project.
>>
>> >Sure. *BSD are making money too. But they do allow the developers to
>> >keep their codes proprietary; just a tiny bit more option for the
>> >contributors- in my fscking opinion. :-)
>>
>> Since the author retains rights to license his or her own code under
>> whatever arrangements they wish, I'm not sure what additional option
>> they _actually_ get.
>>
>> >> >> ...where you no longer has any rights to.
>> >> >
>> >> >Wrong. I still own the copyrights on my stuff and only I can distribute
>> >> >the software under any license other than the GPL.
>> >>
>> >> ... Which is the _fascinating_ thing about the GPL, and also the
>> >> most-misunderstood...
>> >>
>> >Maybe I've misinterputed the GNU-GPL a little, but life is a non-stop
>> >learning process. Right!?
>> >
>> >I'll re-read the GNU-GPL again. Maybe I'll agree with you later, or
>> >maybe not. It all depends on how you interpute the language written in
>> >the lisence. Common fools like me read differently than bean-counters,
>> >or lawyers... Or GNU-GPL gurus...
>>
>> Read the GPL looking for clauses that indicate that they are binding
>> on the author.
>>
>> You won't find any, because if you are the _author_, the GPL _doesn't
>> bind you._
>>
>> That is an _essential_ fact that keeps getting missed.
>>
>Geez! Did I opened up a can of worms!? :P
I don't see any worms. Of the Morris variety or otherwise...
>> For something like the Linux kernel, that has hundreds if not thousands
>> of authors, the GPL winds up being pretty binding overall, as people
>> give Linus Torvalds code that _they_ have released under the GPL, thus
>> binding him to release it under the GPL.
>
>Is that why we keep getting the "Kernel de jour?" :-0
No, the more-or-less-weekly kernel update occurs because a lot of
changes get contributed in.
>> In contrast, if I am the sole author of GnomoVision, the Ever Cool DVD
>> Player that runs on Linux, I can simultaneously release it licensed under
>> the GPL, and, based on my rights as author, simultaneously release it
>> under the Studly License, where in order to use it, you have to send me
>> $5000 and a greeting card that says that I'm A Stud, as well as under
>> a license whereby Be Software pays me $500,000, and then is allowed to
>> include a GnomoVision DVD in their boxed sets of BeOS.
>
>I'm no stub or even macho. I'm a whimpy NOBODY. But self-confident and
>self-secure by default. :-)
>
>I give up playing music and video on pc already. A stand alone hardware
>home player is mutto better
>than any pc based player. And it's actually not costing any much more
>either. A decent DVD stand alone home player can be had for about
>$300-$400US. And can play music CD, CDV, have AC-3, DTS, etc. Not to
>mention without the annoying fans noises, HDDs spinning noises etc,
>coming out from the pc.
>
>And NO computer based sound reproduction set up can even come remotely
>close to the sound quality of my home sound system. (Yes, I'm one of
>those *real* audiophile, high-end audio snob.) ;-)
>
>I NEVER pay more than US$100. for a video card, since I NEVER care about
>games.
You miss the point. The specific name of the application, the nature
of the application, do not matter in the slightest. As mentioned
below, some of this is _a bit silly_.
>> Some of those options are somewhat silly, but legally viable.
The point, that evidently you're too enamoured with making fun of the
idea of a DVD player app to recognize, is that whatever the application,
whether a DVD player, or text editor, or accounting system, or web cache,
or whatever, the author has the ability to release the code simultaneously
under the GPL as well as under whatever other licenses he or she wishes
to use.
One might release under the GPL to provide something hobbyists may
be interested in, whilst also having a ROMed version configured for
deployment embedded in "appliance" devices, as well as having a third
license for "expensive, royaltied source that allows customization"
usable for those that like the GPLed code, but don't want to need to
release sources that the GPL would mandate.
That precise scenario has reportedly been the case for Aladdin
Ghostscript, which is dually released under GPL as well as other
'private' license arrangements, and I suspect that it's also the case
for the Cygnus Ecos RTOS.
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: E-Mail server not receiving mail
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:05:04 GMT
Check first to see if sendmail is answering on your box by telnetting
into it on port 25. If it answers, note the version and box name.
telnet mydomain.com 25
It should respond with something like:
220 mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:47:36 -0500
If it doesn't answer then sendmail is not running or your MX record is
incorrectly configured at the DNS. Try telnetting into your machine on
port 25 using the IP number instead of the FQDN. If it then answers
then you can bet it is a MX record problem.
Could be also that the mail is going into a directory that you do not
expect.
I'm terrible on things like this, but the guys over at the sendmail
newsgroup are the real experts.
Mark
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andy Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a problem with sendmail or my DNS, but I have
set
> up a machine to run Linux-Mandrake 7.1 with Sendmail 8.9.3 as an
email
> server for a domain that I am running (mydomain.com). It is working
fine
> as an SMTP server for me, but whenever I try to send mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] through another SMTP server, such as Hotmail, the
message
> isn't getting through. I check the mail queue on the server, and it
is
> empty, but the Hotmail account isn't getting any messages that it has
> bounced. When I checked the settings in netconf, it is using
procmail as
> the local delivery agent, any it is checked to accept mail for
> mydomain.com. Is there another configuration setting that I am
missing, or
> do I need to do more than just add the MX record to the DNS? If you
need
> any more information, just let me know.
>
> Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help!Redhat 5.2 didn't support scsi160(aic7892)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:14:15 GMT
When i install redhat5.2,kernel couldn't find my hard disk?
redhat 5.2 didn't support aic7892,only support aic788x.
How can i install redhat5.2?
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From: "Carl R. Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compatibility
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:18:03 -0500
>Frank McMurray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I want to buy a machine that I know I'll be able to run Linux on.
>I've given up trying to get the hp pavillion I have to work
What kind of problems are you having with your pavillion? I have linux up
and running on my old pavillion. Installed just fine with no trouble at
all. In fact, it was the first machine I ever installed it on.
Carl Thorpe
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card doesn't initialize (Opti 931)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:34:18 GMT
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hmmm, aren't supposed to disable plug and play in the bios or am I
behind in my learning curve
Naren Devaiah wrote:
>
> use isapnp-tools to init the card.
>
> Modprobe loads the driver for you...It does not init the device...
> (please correct me if I am mistaken)
>
> -Naren
>
> "Mr. Mister" wrote:
>
> > It is plug and play actually. I don't follow you regarding setting the
> > IRQ. The setup string(s) that modprobe uses in conf.modules has a parm
> > in there for the IRQ already. Doesn't modprobe do the init?
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:51:02 GMT, Mr. Mister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >My sound card only seems to work under Linux if I start the computer
> > in
> > > >Windows first. If I do a cold boot directly into Linux the sound card
> > > >doesn't work, i.e. cat /dev/sndstat gives an error rather than the
> > nice
> > > >list of devices. By the behavior is suspect that Windows is
> > > >initializing something on the card that Linux for some reason isn't.
> > > >
> > > >I'm using Suse 6.2, the sound card is a a Sound Blaster compatible
> > Bravo
> > > >card with the Opti 931 chip set.
> > >
> > > Maybe the card is P&P, so is waiting to receive the correct "init"
> > > for IRQ and DMA... try set the IRQ manually.
> > > Davide
> > >
> > >
> >
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<html><head></head><body>hmmm, aren't supposed to disable plug and play in the bios or
am I behind in my learning curve<br>
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Naren Devaiah wrote:<br>
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<div class="text-plain"><pre wrap>use isapnp-tools to init the card.
Modprobe loads the driver for you...It does not init the device...
(please correct me if I am mistaken)
-Naren
"Mr. Mister" wrote:
> It is plug and play actually. I don't follow you regarding setting the
> IRQ. The setup string(s) that modprobe uses in conf.modules has a parm
> in there for the IRQ already. Doesn't modprobe do the init?
>
> In article <a class="txt-link txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"><[EMAIL PROTECTED]></a>,
> <a class="txt-link txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:51:02 GMT, Mr. Mister <a class="txt-link
txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"><[EMAIL PROTECTED]></a>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >My sound card only seems to work under Linux if I start the computer
> in
> > >Windows first. If I do a cold boot directly into Linux the sound card
> > >doesn't work, i.e. cat /dev/sndstat gives an error rather than the
> nice
> > >list of devices. By the behavior is suspect that Windows is
> > >initializing something on the card that Linux for some reason isn't.
> > >
> > >I'm using Suse 6.2, the sound card is a a Sound Blaster compatible
> Bravo
> > >card with the Opti 931 chip set.
> >
> > Maybe the card is P&P, so is waiting to receive the correct "init"
> > for IRQ and DMA... try set the IRQ manually.
> > Davide
> >
> >
>
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Reply-To: "tlc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "tlc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Access to FAT32 file systems
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:20:37 -0400
are you using fat or vfat when mounting the drives.
fat32 needs vfat
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Reply-To: "tlc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "tlc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux AFTER Win2000 is installed ???
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:28:36 -0400
install linux to the emty part.
install lilo to hda "or better none as c:"
boot to linux
config lilo to boot from the / partion.
run lilo
then in a shell promt type:
dd if=/dev/hda? of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
then copy it to c:
or mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:
? is the / partion ie. hda5
boot with a win9x floppy
fdisk /mbr
copy bootsect.lnx to c:\
then edit the winnt boot.ini file
add:
c:\bootsect.lnx="linux"
now you can boot win9x, win2000, or linux from the ntbootloader.
this is how i did it.
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: mounting tool
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:12:48 -0500
Hi,
I am running RH6.1 on a 486DX 50 MHz w/ 16MB Ram. Is there a good gui
mounting tool available for twm/fvwm? I can't run GNOME or KDE b/c of my
limited speed.
Thanks,
David
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From: "!!Tonnere de Brest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: ??apache redirection while keeping original address in browser
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:41:41 -0700
Reply-To: sii@bilow
I am administrating a web server and a lot of users want their urls forwarded
to other sites.
Is it possible to keep the original address in the browser address window after
redirecting it to the desired destination by changing something in the apache
configuration files?
As an example, 1 user has a web site http://www.spidermandesign.com
Does the facility exist so that when a user enters
http://www.spidermandesign.com
and they are redirected to where the site is hosted at
http://www.james30.freeserve.co.uk
that www.spidermandesign.com remains as the site address in the browser
address bar and it does not change to www.james30.freeserve.co.uk ?
I have another question about caching:
the apache configuration file contain:
# Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following line to
# enable the proxy server:
#ProxyRequests On
# To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines:
#CacheRoot /var/cache/httpd
#CacheSize 5
#CacheGcInterval 4
#CacheMaxExpire 24
#CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
#CacheDefaultExpire 1
#NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com
I have a lot of web sites of the form http://www.Server/~user and the user
html files are on another computer that the web server has to get via nfs.
Would enabling the cache statements cache the user html files and reduce nfs
requests?
I also have the following questions:
does the cachefs feature exist on other operating systems than solaris (linux,
hpux, osf)?
Does the shadow (/etc/shadow) feature exist on other operating systems than
solaris (linux, hpux, osf)?
Thank you very much.
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