Linux-Setup Digest #663, Volume #19 Thu, 21 Sep 00 04:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: REDHAT 6.2 (Eric)
Re: LINUX HELP PLEASE (JON)
Re: Mount in Corel Linux 1.1 (Eric)
Re: Intel Binary Compatability Standard - iBCS (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Can't login! Was I cracked? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Installation boot diskette RH 6.1 (Davide Bianchi)
exceed and redhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installation boot diskette RH 6.1 ("David ..")
Re: still can't upload via anonymous ftp (The Drag)
Re: How do I get GRUB out of CMOS? (Michael Perry)
Re: Linux and Microsoft together (Michael Perry)
Re: Modifying RedHat 6.2 install image - problems
Re: Increase memory to 128M ("David ..")
Re: Resetting WindowMaker to Defaults (Raymond Laia)
Re: Resetting WindowMaker to Defaults ("SM")
Re: cable modem setup (Martin Brewer)
system locked when starting daemons (GL)
Re: ppp dial-on-demand?? ? ? ("bluster")
Re: Netscape 6 (Ed Hurst)
Re: Netscape 6 (Ed Hurst)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: REDHAT 6.2
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:18:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diego wrote:
>
> i have a 17 gig HD and verytime i go to install linux and i give it the
> right size of native drive but it says the allcation of the partion is to
> big. i went from givin it 3 gigs to 200 mb and it still didnt work. can
> anyone help me!!
> thanx
Make sure the /boot partition lies entirely below 1024 cyl.
Search deja.com for more info
Eric
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From: JON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX HELP PLEASE
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:00:24 +0200
Diego wrote:
>
> hi i wanted to know what type and version of linux would i need when i've
> got a 32mb riva tnt 2 video card
I use Suse 6.3
but redhat 6.x supports it
so does mandrake
caldera 2.x
too
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mount in Corel Linux 1.1
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:24:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kieron Dunbar wrote:
>
> I've been having difficulties in mounting a hard disk with my current set-up.
> I've got Linux installed to a file on a hard disk, but when I try to mount
> the other hard disk with "mount -t affs /dev/hdb /usr/dh0" I got the response
> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or too many mounted file
> systems". Is there any way I can find out what the problem could be?
>
> kwaheri, Kieron (reverse username to reply)
I never heard of affs, but I suspect the /dev/hdb to be the problem, are
you sure it shouldn't be /dev/hdb1 ? take a look at the drive with fdisk
-l /dev/hdb to see the partitiontable.
Eric
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Binary Compatability Standard - iBCS
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:39:04 -0400
Stephen Scattergood wrote:
>
> I have an app which insists that iBCS be installed so that it can run under
> Linux.
> Does anyone know how to tell if this "package" is installed, especially in
> Mandrake 7.1?
Look in your /lib/modules/*/misc directory for an iBCS.o module.
Or you can just modprobe iBCS
Or you can look in /proc/modules for iBCS (to see if it was loaded)
Or, if you use RPM, you can check for it's install signature (I don't
use RPM, so I can't tell you _how_ to check RPM)
> Also, where can I find out more info on just what this standard is?
>From the iBCS readme...
iBCS Emulation for Linux
The Intel Binary Compatibility Specification, or iBCS, specifies the
interfaces between application programs and the surrounding
operating
system environment for i386 based systems. There are however several
flavours of iBCS in use - SVR4, SVR3 plus several vendor specific
extensions to SVR3 which are slightly different and incompatible.
The
iBCS emulator for Linux supports all flavours known so far.
and
REFERENCES
The Intel Binary Compatibility Specification, version 2 is described
in
the "McGraw Hill book".
Intel Binary Compatibility Specification
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
ISBN 0-07-031219-2
> Thanks in advance
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Can't login! Was I cracked?
Date: 21 Sep 2000 06:33:08 GMT
When the LILO prompt come on at bootup enter
linux 1
(ie do not let it boot up by itself)
Now, you will be dumped into a console as root.
edit /etc/inittab and change the line
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
Also make sure that you can log in as user at this point--
su username
su
enter root password
and see if login works. If not look at /etc/passwd and
/etc/security/shadow if youare using shadow files.
If this is ok, type exit or reboot. You will now come up in runlevel 3,
a console logon. Logon, and if you want to run X (or see what is going
wrong when you try to run X,) type startx. If it hangs, do
alt-ctrl-backspace. Look at the messages X put out.
At this point there are too many possibilities to cover them all.
In <8qbvve$fd4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]Ok, I've had my RH6.2 box running for awhile. Last night I was playing
]with linuxconf. I'm running Gnome/Helix, and regularly running
]"helix-update".
]So, today I'm telnetted in from work, all is fine. I go in and out
]several times during the course of the day, no problem. Then, somewhere
]about midday, I can't telnet in anymore. I don't even get a "Login:"
]prompt, just an immediate "Connection closed". I try this from
]addresses internal to my work as well as an external machine to verify
]that it's not my connection. I can still ftp to my machine. I can't
]rsh or rlogin, either.
]I get home. Gnome is still running, and I can login. However, I telnet
]out of my machine and then can't telnet back, so the problem still
]exists. I reboot.
]Now, I can't even login! I get the standard login screen, but no matter
]what I enter at that point, it just resets the screen. Doesn't even ask
]me for a password (so I doubt it's crackers at work). Regardless of
]whether the username is good or not.
]I've used a linux rescue disk to poke around, but I really have no idea
]where to start! Help? I'd be more willing to associate the problem
]with my own random hacking on my box if it hadn't just spontaneously
]happened in the middle of the day.
]While I was telnetted in to my box, I had an emacs session opened. That
]window then locked up on me, which I think is an artifact of my
]company's firewall or something timing out, because it happens all the
]time. So I opened another telnet. This is when I first discovered the
]problem -- but a few hours ago, telnet had worked fine.
]Poking around, all I can see is a few things :
]my /var/log/messages file and bootlog appear to have some unaccounted
]for time. I'm hoping it's not this easy, and that I'm just reading
]those files wrong.
]a bunch of my files were reporting touch dates of Sep 21 2000, even
]though this is all happening over Sep 20. But that date is attached to
]many files, including mail that I touched, etc, so I don't really know
]what that is.
]/var/log/messages is reporting that inetd is having trouble with
]"finger/tcp : unknown service" and "auth/tcp: bind: address already in
]use". I thought these were associated with the login, but apparently
]not -- just the boot sequence. I even turned them off temporarily so
]those messages didn't occur, but I still can't login.
]Can somebody tell me where to look? I've taken my machine off the net
]until I figure out what the problem is, but I hate having to do that!
]Also, if somebody has any suggestions about the probability of it being
]crackers rather than my own stupidity (yes, I was messing with
]linuxconf) I'd appreciate it! Is it possible that I was cracked and
]somebody has messed with inetd or something? Or is that a red herring?
]What exactly is the software that is running when I see that "Login:"
]prompt, and how can I debug what's going on?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Installation boot diskette RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:35:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:34:59 +0200, "H.AJ. van Niekerk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to upgrade an older system from RH.5.2 to 6.1. Problem: the
>system doesn't have CDROM-boot-option and the (copied) CD with RH 6.1 is
>without diskette. Can anyone tell me how to create the
>installation-bootdiskette from the CD or in which HOWTO or FAQ I can
>find the description to how to do it?
You should have a directory named IMAGES into the CD, that contain the
diskette image.
See the README document about how to create the diskette from the
images.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: exceed and redhat
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:29:33 GMT
i have exceed 6.1 and redhat 6.2,
when i set my host in exceed-xdmcp, i try running exceed, but the list
of hosts don't show up, is there a way to tell whether i can xterm to
my linux box? are there any daemons that i need to run, etc?
thanks
Dean
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Installation boot diskette RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:39:29 -0500
"H.AJ. van Niekerk" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to upgrade an older system from RH.5.2 to 6.1. Problem: the
> system doesn't have CDROM-boot-option and the (copied) CD with RH 6.1 is
> without diskette. Can anyone tell me how to create the
> installation-bootdiskette from the CD or in which HOWTO or FAQ I can
> find the description to how to do it?
This will work for the installation boot disk.
With the floppy disk in drive A: or /dev/fd0 give the following
commands.
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
This will format the disk to a 1.44 MB floppy.
The next step will write the image file to the floppy.
dd if=/path/to/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
You would need to give the correct path to the image file.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Drag)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: still can't upload via anonymous ftp
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:54:18 GMT
Well, you didn't actually read the FAQ or you would have the answer.
(or perhaps you just don't understand how anon-ftp is actually
supposed to be used)
Please tell us why you insist on installing anon-ftp for a production
webserver. At this point you have a breachable server as you didn't
setup enough security in your ftpaccess file.
Tell us what you want to accomplish, and we'll post an appropriate
config to help you out. The point being that none of us want to help
you get rooted by offering the same lack of security as the ftpaccess
file you posted.
TD
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:02:09 -0400, Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok, I'm waving the white flag. After upgrading to wu-ftp 6.1 and
>modifying my ftp access file according to the docs, I still can't
>upload, i.e., I am getting "permission denied on server" error messages
>when I try yo upload to the /home/ftp/pub directory. Does someone have
>an example ftpaccess file I can look at? Here is mine so maybe you can
>spot the problem.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Don
>
>===========================================
>class all real,guest,anonftp,anonymous *
>
>email root@localhost
>
>loginfails 5
>
>readme README* login
>readme README* cmd=*
>
>message /welcome.msg login
>message .message cwd=*
>
>compress yes all
>tar yes all
>chmod no guest,anonymous
>delete no guest,anonymous
>overwrite no guest,anonymous
>rename no guest,anonymous
>
>class anonftp anonymous *
>upload /home/ftp /pub yes ftp ftp 0440 nodirs
>noretrieve /home/ftp /pub
>
>log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound
>
>shutdown /etc/shutmsg
>
>passwd-check rfc822 warn
>===========================================
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: How do I get GRUB out of CMOS?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:15:03 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:54:37 -0400, Lonni J. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you've got GRUB in your CMOS then you have some pretty serious
>problems. More likely is that you have GRUB in your MBR. You get it
>removed by writing a different bootloader to the MBR.
>
>Marshall Wren wrote:
>>
>> The problem here involves the fact that GRUB is apparently written to CMOS
>> if you have designated LINUX as the primary boot OS. I have a problem
>> where I created a dual boot of Windows 98 with Linux Mandrake 7.1. I
>> designated Linux to be my primary boot OS via Boot Magic. Windows was
>> already installed and after I install Linux, I could not get a proper boot
>> of Linux due to my incorrect entry of the mounting point. Therefore, I
>> decided to start over and deleted the partitions created for both
>> operating systems and reformated the drive with the intent of reinstalling
>> Windows 98 first, followed by repartitioning remaining space to Linux
>> using Partition Magic. However, even though the drive has had fdisk
>> executed against it and reformated with a DOS operating system, CMOS still
>> tries to boot Linux via GRUB without ever looking at my operating system
>> on the drive. I am posting this situation as a question as well as
>> passing it on as an answer and clarification of Somerton Kennedy's
>> question. Hope to hear from someone soon!
It seems from some work I did recently that lilo will not write a bootsector
if grub is there. I recently wanted to replace grub with lilo in the mbr on
a caldera installation. I got all kinds of lilo errors at accessing the
root device, etc. I finally did the dos floppy boot disk thing and did a
fdisk /mbr about 3 times.
That worked.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Linux and Microsoft together
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:20:22 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:47:35 +0100, Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Pardon me for butting in, but does VMWare run the guest OS in a linux
>process? In other words, do you still enjoy pre-emptive multitasking
>between guest OSs? How does VMWare overcome NT's steely determination to
>control access to the hardware itself>
>
>Harry
>
Think of an entire machine virtually booting in another machine. This is
not an emulator. When you boot a VMware session, you see a physical
(virtual) phoenix bios booting. NT thinks it has control of the hardware
because there are virtual devices it finds for itself. You can also do
multiple guest sessions and copy and paste between them, etc.
As far as pre-emptive multitasking, you enjoy the benefits and the
limitations inherent in the machine you are booting. If its prone to blue
screen and crash at unusual times, it will do just that.
So NT's steely determination is a facade and NT becomes just another
application to Linux. Linux can run other applications while NT is running
and start processes that control hardware like networking, video, etc.
But... The serious side to this is it takes some guts for the host system.
It kinda goes along with booting one inside another. I run it in a smp dell
box. It chugs right along. I also have three other virtual guest OS'es
including a 98 and a linux one to play with.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Modifying RedHat 6.2 install image - problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:03:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Williamson wrote:
>
>I would like to install a modified 6.2 system. I want to include a
>number of the security and bug updates and put them on our kickstart
>server in the RedHat/RPMS directory so that the kickstart install will
>pick up the new packages automatically.
>
>The problem I have is that if I replace (say, for example)
>glibc-2.1.3-15.i386.rpm with the newer glibc-2.1.3-21.i386.rpm,
>kickstart fails to find the new version. It wants to continue to use
>the old version.
>
>Clearly there is "knowledge" of what version should be on the CD. But
>where? I have scanned all over that CD looking for something that
>might be the map, but so far, no luck.
>
>Any suggestions?
You may find some useful information at
http://imsb.au.dk/~mok/linux/doc/RedHat-CD.html
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:23:23 -0500
"Teck Meng, Liaw" wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have install RedHat 6.2 with 64M ram, now I have upgrade the server
> to128M, how do I change the system configuration to utilize all there 128M?
> Any help is appreciate.
>
> Teck Meng, Liaw
It should find it automatically. If it doesn't then you need to add this
line to /etc/lilo.conf
append="mem=128M"
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ID # 123538
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From: Raymond Laia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Resetting WindowMaker to Defaults
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:22:52 +0200
SM wrote:
>
> While attempting to update the setup (look &feel) for WindowMaker, an error
> occurred (no details were given) and I lost my pop-up menu. The only way for
> me to get out of the X shell was to turn the machine off.
If theses errors were specific WindowMaker you didn't need to turn the
machine off. To abort the session just hit the Ctrl+Alt+Del and the X
will be restarted.
> On logging back
> with the WindowMaker shell, I was faced with a completely blank screen, no
> menu items, no icons, no access to a terminal window, and no way to reboot.
Don't worry. If you want a fresh WindowMaker, just delete the directory
GNUstep in your home directory. As soon as you log in in WindowMaker, it
will create the directory new.
> My Questions -
> 1) Since I can log into XTerm using KDE, I'd like to restore the default
> WindowMaker setup. How can I do this?
See above
> 2) If I need to log out of the graphical interface, and don't have access to
> the 'Logout' option, if I have access to a console window, is it appropriate
> to use 'xkill'? Or is there a more suitable command?
Not xkill but kill. Run the command: ps ax and look for the pid number
of the process you want to kill and run the command: kill NUMBER.
> 3) Anything else I could use?
Raymond
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From: "SM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Resetting WindowMaker to Defaults
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 02:27:02 -0500
Thanks. That worked.
"Raymond Laia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
SM wrote:
>
> While attempting to update the setup (look &feel) for WindowMaker, an
error
> occurred (no details were given) and I lost my pop-up menu. The only way
for
> me to get out of the X shell was to turn the machine off.
If theses errors were specific WindowMaker you didn't need to turn the
machine off. To abort the session just hit the Ctrl+Alt+Del and the X
will be restarted.
> On logging back
> with the WindowMaker shell, I was faced with a completely blank screen, no
> menu items, no icons, no access to a terminal window, and no way to
reboot.
Don't worry. If you want a fresh WindowMaker, just delete the directory
GNUstep in your home directory. As soon as you log in in WindowMaker, it
will create the directory new.
> My Questions -
> 1) Since I can log into XTerm using KDE, I'd like to restore the default
> WindowMaker setup. How can I do this?
See above
> 2) If I need to log out of the graphical interface, and don't have access
to
> the 'Logout' option, if I have access to a console window, is it
appropriate
> to use 'xkill'? Or is there a more suitable command?
Not xkill but kill. Run the command: ps ax and look for the pid number
of the process you want to kill and run the command: kill NUMBER.
> 3) Anything else I could use?
Raymond
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From: Martin Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cable modem setup
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:44:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Martin Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have been working on setting up my cable modem under Slackware. I
> have
> > the card setup with a module being loaded into the kernel. I'm kinda
> > of stumped of what to do next?
> >
> > I have looked over all of the how-to's pertaining to net setup, but
> > still can't figure what the next step is to do? And what about DHCP?
> Is
> > this neccesary to have, or is the another work around.
> >
> > What files should I be looking for to modifiy?
> > thanks in advance,
> > martinbr
>
> You may want to try looking through the following site.
> http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/LinuxCableModem.html
>
> Because I am an @home user with an SMCEtherEZ card I used the following
> link: http://members.home.net/djl56/linux_at_home_with_etherez/
>
> My NIC card was detected (though plug and play had to be shut off in
> my bios for the card to get and irq) so I didn't have to go through
> the whole thing, only the network configuration:
> http://members.home.net/djl56/linux_at_home_with_etherez/linux_at_home.n
> etconfig.html
>
> You also need to know whether your ISP is using static or Dynamic IP
> addressing. @home where I live uses static so I had to fill all my
> values in manually--run winipcfg to get your values in Windows. Good
> luck.
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Most of these files are pretty much useless since most of the how-to's are
pertaining to the popular Red Hat distributions. The only one that I found
informational was the DHCP how-to.
I finally got my answer where I should have went to in the first place,
which is the Slackware homepage forum section. This is where I found out
about the netconfig command which fixed the mistakes that I was making in
configuring the rc.inet1 and the resolv.conf files.
It's funny after all the searching and numerous questions that I have left
in the NG'S, nobody suggested that. ...
martinbr
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From: GL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: system locked when starting daemons
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:46:44 +0200
Hello,
After the installation of Xfree 4.0.1 which seem support the graphic
board Elisa erasor X, I've reboot my system. Then, when the service
XFont Server begin, the system is locked and I haven't access to the
console.
Someone has an idea to avoid a reinstall of the server ?
Thanks.
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp dial-on-demand?? ? ?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:56:18 -0400
No problem I do this with RH6.2 now.
I set up ppp using linuxconf, like so:
in linuxconf ppp0 configuration screen:
on the "Hardware" => "options" line, add the options
demand idle 300
"networking" section: select "activate interface on boot"
I get a harmless error on boot since ifup hangs until
a connection is actually made... (which doesn't happen until
external packets are requested) but it is put in the
backgrount to finish while the boot proceeds.
hope this helps
bluster
lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello one and all,
>
> i have redhat linux 6.2 on one computer with a modem and ppp0 working
> and running. so i can www around once connected. i use "ifup ppp0" and
>
> "ifdown ppp0" to manually connect and disconnect. i have two windows
> computers connected via 100BaseTX to the linux box, where eth0 is the
> ethernet card on the linux box. the windows computers simply have the
> default gateway set to 192.168.0.1, which is the ip of the linux box.
> so the linux box has the only modem and is fully configured for ppp
> dialout, with two internal windows computers connected to it via
> 100BaseTX at IPs 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3, where the default gateway
> is the linux 192.168.0.1 box.
>
> all of the computers can browse the web fine once i manually turn ppp0
> on and it is connected. i would like the linux box, ppp0, to
> automatically dialout if an external IP request is requested of the
> linux box, either from itself or the other two windows computers. i
> believe that this is called dial-on-demand, but i am not sure. so once
> the first external request is received the ppp0 will automatically
> connect and external access is then running. i also want that if any
> and all external requests are silent for say 5 minutes, the ppp0 will
> automatically shutdown. once shutdown, it will again wait for another
> external request and dialout automatically. does this make sense?
>
> anyone who can offer assistance and/or has actually configured their
> little network to run like this, please respond and give me advise.
> thank you in advance and have a nice day.
>
> lucas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 6
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:41:08 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/20/00, 8:28:43 AM, Andrew Lee Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro=
te=20
regarding Netscape 6:
> I have recently installed netscape 6 on my machine, and it works fine
> other than the fact that I have to change to that directory every time=
> that I want to run the program. How do you point a link to that scrip=
t
> file to get it to run? Thanks
Andrew,
If we are talking about the latest version, NS6pr2, then you don't need =
a=20
console to run it. Here's what my script looks like:
# to start NS6pr2
cd /usr/local/netscape/
./netscape
Make sure that line two contains the full path to wherever you installed=
=20
it, and make sure the script's execute bit is set for you
chmod u+x ns6
You can then link to it on your favorite GUI menu.
Ed
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 6
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:27:22 -0500
Andrew Lee Stubbs wrote:
> I have recently installed netscape 6 on my machine, and it works fine
> other than the fact that I have to change to that directory every time
> that I want to run the program. How do you point a link to that script
> file to get it to run? Thanks
>
> Andrew Lee Stubbs
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If it's the most recent (NS6pr2) you don't need a console to start it.
Write a script in your home directory:
# to start NS6pr2
cd /usr/local/netscape/
./netscape
making sure the 2nd line there reflects the actual path to wherever you
installed NS6 and make sure you set the executable bit for yourself:
chmod u+x ns6
>From there, simply add it to your GUI menu.
Ed
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