Linux-Setup Digest #668, Volume #19 Thu, 21 Sep 00 16:13:18 EDT
Contents:
LILO troubles ("ArMyZ")
Re: Installing Win98, Win2000 and Linux on one PC?! (Rootman)
Printtool ("JB")
Re: Encyppt whole Linux system ? (PB)
Re: Starting Fresh with new hard disk (Josef Oswald)
samba / nt problem (lucas)
framebuffer problems ("Todd Goyen")
Re: IP Masq ("Perjan Moors")
Re: cable modem setup (Kevin Croxen)
CVS pserver daemon configuration (Lele)
Re: Ethernet interface problem ("David ..")
Re: Ethernet interface problem (Scott Nolde)
Adobe acrobat reader problems ("The Unforgiven")
Re: KPPP user failure solution (Scott Nolde)
Re: LILO troubles ("David ..")
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From: "ArMyZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO troubles
Date: 21 Sep 2000 19:11:52 GMT
Hi all,
I explain you all the entire situation.
I've w98 installed on drive C which has 3 partitions : 1 for win itself
(fat32), 1 linux native and the other for linux swap.
I boot from slackware 7.0 CD w/o any problem and setup goes ahead till lilo
configuration.
I tried to do as I always did (successfully) and i installed it into MBR.
I try to reboot and boots w98...
Then i rebooted from a w98 diskette and performed a fdisk /mbr, tried to
reboot again and i could see this situation:
"LILO " prompted, with no more text, no way to choose as usual 1) Linux 2)
Winsucks as I configured the LILO
All stays frozen for 30 secs ( my delay time ) and then boots linux
regardles of what i type in the meanwhile.
Now, i performed several search on the web and news archives and i saw that
fdisk /mbr just rewrite the boot code only ( 446 bytes) leaving boot
information alone ( all info is 512 bytes ).
Now, should I remove and rewrite it entirely?
If yes, how?
Is there any dos utility for that?
Someone told me that exists another undocumented deature of the fdisk
command for that but i didn't find it on the web.
Suggestions and ideas are quite welcome.
Best regards,
Armando aka ArMyZ
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From: Rootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux,microsoft.public.win2000.applications
Subject: Re: Installing Win98, Win2000 and Linux on one PC?!
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:08:27 GMT
I've been ignoring this thread but thought I'd chime in. I have almost
what you want setup on my PC, I have WIn 95, Win2k, Win ME and Linux
all running on the same box and able to multiboot. I also have Windows
98 running under the Linux box using Win4Lin. Before you ask I am an
IT professional and need to support all these platforms - thats why I
need them all.
Some hints:
You should make 2 primary partitions, one for Win 98 and one for Win
2k. This is not possible using DOS fdisk, you can do it using the
most recent Freedos version of Fdisk ( FREE http://www.freedos.org/ ),
Partition Magic ( COMMERCIAL http://www.powerquest.com/ )or Ranish
Partition Manager ( FREE http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ )
Don't worry if anything complains about this just make 2 NON hidden
PRIMARY FAT32 partitions, activate the first one. I suggest make them 2
or 3 gigs. Format them both as FAT32.
Install Windows 98 on the first partition.
Get this application XOSL ( FREE http://www.xosl.org/ ) , it is one of
the best multiboot loaders out there. I've been having problems getting
to this site but keep trying - it is EXCELLANT.
Use fdisk or Partition Magic to make the 2nd primary partition active,
this will swap the drive letter, the first primary becomes D: and the
second C:. Reboot with the WIN 2K install disk. Be sure to install it
on the C: drive which the second primary partition has now become.
Use FDISk or Pmagic and make the FIRST primary partition active again.
Boot to a COMMAND PROMPT ONLY is Windows 98 by stabbing the F8 key to
bring the menu up when the PC first boots. Now install XOSL and reboot.
When it comes up go to SETUP and ADD your 2 OS's. It is fairly easy to
figure out so I won't go in to it here.
After you get XOSL working reboot to the Linux CD or Install disk and
install Linux to a portion of the remaining HD. Make the partition the
size you want. When it comes time to set up LILO tell it to put it in
the FIRST SECTOR of the PARTITION and NOT the MBR. Reboot and add
Linux to the XOSL menu. You are in effect passing the boot from XOSL
to LILO to make Linux boot.
Now for the rest of the disk. I would go ahead and make it all one big
partition, Linux can easily read FAT32 and so can 98 and 2k, so why
chop it up any more than you have to? Use FDISK, PMAGIC or Linux to
make it so.
Good luck :)
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Shicheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello there,
> We would like to install Win98, Win2000 and linux (redhat 6.0)
> three OSs onto our PC. The PC has a 30 GB hard disk, 128 MB memory
> and a 700 MHz CPU.
>
> We would like to have the above three OSs installed; after the
> installation, we could select one of the three OSs during the boot
time,
> otherwise, the PC will be booted automatically to the default
> OS (Win 2000 is the default one). Each OS would use one partition,
> so the three OSs would need three partitions.
> Apart from these three OS partitions, we may also need to create
> two more partitions using the remaining space of the disk:
> one such a partition would be for the storage of linux's data and the
> other one would be for the data storage for both the Win98 and
Win2000
> OSs; so the last data partition needs to be seen by both the 98 and
the
> 2000 OSs.
>
> We would be grateful you could give us some advice on the above.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shicheng
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "JB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printtool
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:21:02 +0100
I'm using Printtool under RH6.2 to set up an Epson Stylus 740. Followed the
notes to the letter but nothing happens when I print.
Where should I start looking.
Thanks,
--
JB.
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From: PB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Encyppt whole Linux system ?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:20:21 -0400
Reply-To: pboin @ mindspring com
Chang-Han Jong in <8qdld6$81b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>In tw.bbs.comp.linux Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am developing a product that base on Linux box. Is there any method
>> that can
>> encypt the whole file system that cannot be read by someone who have
>> access
>> the machine physically.
>> At least, I don't want people use other system boot up the machine and
>> mount the Linux system.
>> Many thanks for any help!!
>> Dicky
>There are some crypto-filesystem.
>you can search for them.
kerneli.org (note the 'i' for international)
--
PB
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting Fresh with new hard disk
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:29:00 GMT
Hi:-)
Michael wrote:
> I'm getting a new HD and I want to set it up with Win 98. Then use my
> old HD for Linux. I have never used Linux so I would appreciate help on
> how to set this up. Partition sizes etc.
Can't say which Distro you should use....
Anyway there is really not much to it. :-)
Ok you want to set up a dual boot box. First install WinXX on the one HDD.
( If you are a practical guy ant want to play save it save, you could
disconnect the WinnXX HDD and leave only the second one in the pc. Of
course you need to change the jumpers) and then you can install Linux on
that HDD without fearing anything can happen to your WinXX .I give this
advice only to the overly _cautios_:-)
so if you leave both in then :-)
Normally any Setup routine will recognize the HDD that are in the pc. The
Master HDD is called in your case hda the second hdb ( all partitions
counts are the same on both disks, the primary partition will be hda1.
All right: so if you leave both HDD in the PC then of course you need to
choose hdb for linux.
_Warning_ If you get during the install the option to install Linux as
_Server_ say _NO_ otherwise Linux will use _both_ HDD's, wiping out the
Win partition without mercy :-)
Partitions will be set up by the install routine; so there is not much you
need to do.
Well now you've got Linux on your system and its time, to decide where lilo
should be put.
I advise you to put it on a floppy: This way the MBR will be left to boot
WinXX only . Whenever you want to check out Linux; you can safely start up
Linux from the floppy.
Later when you are more familiar with Linux you can edit lilo.conf, to
start WinXX as well as as Linux. Also at that time you can install Lilo in
the MBR.
hth to get you started :-)
> Please help me get started. I'm kinda slow witted so i'll take any
> advice I can get
> Thanks Michael
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http://counter.li.org
-Strange it works but we don't know why: it's Windows it does not have bugs
only features....
the lie of the 20th. century..... will it continue in the third Millennium?
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:31:51 -0400
From: lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba / nt problem
hello one and all,
anyway, here is a samba question. i have it setup and running. from a
nt4 machine, if i log in the linux machine, via Network Neighborhood, as
root, then i can get into its default home directory. if i login to the
linux machine as say lucas, the shares will show, but when i try to
enter the share, nt returns that the server is unavailable. so what is
going on that i can not see? is it a linux file or directory chmod
thing? owner or group thing? samba thing? or nt thing?
thank you in advance and have a nice day.
lucas
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From: "Todd Goyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: framebuffer problems
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:36:43 GMT
Running slackware 7.1
and x 4.0.1
when i startx it dumps out that it can't open /dev/fb0
the framebuffer device
have the same problem with x3.3.6 and fbtv (console prog for tv card)
any ideas?
thanks
Todd Goyen
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Reply-To: "Perjan Moors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Perjan Moors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: IP Masq
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:39:52 +0200
If you can ping the outside of your gateway, the default gateway is ok.
I don't think ipfw supports ICMP. Try browsing a website.
Perjan.
Kamran Aslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Make sure you set the gateway of the masq'd machine to the IP of the
machine
> running the IP masq. The networking appears to be functional as you can
ping
> both the private and public IP's of the server.
>
> Warren Cundy wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 and I'm having some problems with
Ip-Masq.
> > I've got the kernel configured properly with everything it needs, and
I've
> > followed all of the steps in the IP-Masq HOWTO. I am running the
testing
> > part of it and I get stuck at step 5, which is pinging an external IP
from
> > an internal machine.
> >
> > I'm using 2 3com 509s in the linux box, one public, one private. The
linux
> > box is working fine, it can contact both the internet and the internal
> > subnet.
> >
> > The internal machine is a WinNT workstation. It can ping the linux box,
> > both its internal and external IP's, but can't get any farther than
that.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated...
> >
> > Thanks
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: cable modem setup
Date: 21 Sep 2000 19:47:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Brewer wrote:
>> >
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong , but DHCP didn't work. Every time that I tried to use
>this program the machine would hang trying to find a address. It wasn't unitl I
>used a fixed address that I got the thing working.
>
>So i guess I really don't need DHCP as long as I have the rc.inet1 and
>resolv.conf files configured correctly.
>martinbr
>
It depends on which dhcp client you're using and how old it is: no version
of dhclient appears to function with RR: the dhcp servers appear to make
four or five offers, which are all rejected with the error "offer wasn't
acceptable". After 5 offers or so dhclient goes into sleep mode for a
minute, whereupon the whole process begins again, ad infinitum. dhcpcd, on
the other hand, will work well with RR if you use a version from the last
3 or 4 months (at sunsite.unc.edu). It tends to work best when invoked
with the name of the eth interface as an argument 'dhcpcd eth0' for
example.
RR uses Microsoft dhcp servers. These servers expect NIC's contacting them
for an IP address to be using the obsolete and invalid 0.0.0.0 address as
a temporary assignment until the dhcp server dishes out a real address. MS
dhcp clients all use the 0.0.0.0 address. Newer distros of Linux tend to
temporarily assign an address in the 192.168.x.x range for the purpose of
initializing a card prior to dhcp --this causes headaches when talking to
an M$ dhcp server. You may find that to get even dhcpcd working reliably,
you will need to assign a bogus fixed address of 0.0.0.0 or 0.0.0.1 just
to get your card initialized properly at boot, then run dhcpcd and
ifconfig from a prompt after booting to consistently get a valid ip and
netmask from RR's server. This is how I get my Suse firewall (which gets
rebooted only every couple months or so) connected to RR, then I use
internally-assigned fixed addresses for the various clients I have
connecting through this firewall via IPMasquerading.
RR's dhcp server, at least in Mass., tends to change one's ip address a
couple of times a week in my experience. Maybe to discourage the running
of "servers", which is expressly forbidden in their service agreement. In
any event, I don't know how they would react, if your area is DHCP, to you
taking an ip permanently out of circulation that happens to be within
their dhcp scope --when the dhcp server assigns that same address to
someone else (because the dhcp server is unaware that you've camped on the
address), then that other party finds they can't connect because of an ip
conflict. Or you reboot after an absence to find you can't connect for the
same reason. Either way, the result is a testy-tempered netadmin and
possibly unpleasant consequences.
Cheers,
--Kevin
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From: Lele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: CVS pserver daemon configuration
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:31:32 +0200
Dear all,
I'm stuck with a strange problem while trying to configure a linux box
as a CVS repository for source development; the process of creating such
a repository is still in experimental stage.
I decided to go for remote TCP CVS connection because it sounds like the
most secure and versatile. I'm struggling to configure the CVS daemon
by putting the right directives in the /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services
files. The weird thing with this is that the very same command in the
same files work seamlessly on a Compaq Tru64 Unix box, while under Linux
i always end up getting a nice "Connection refused" error message:
I hereby recall that the correctness of the configuration may be tested
by opening a telnet connection to the port 2401.
This thing is driving me nuts and I am in dire need of help.
Below are the lines I added in the two configuration files, according
to CVS documentation.
File: /etc/inetd.conf. On a single line:
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /cvs/bin/cvs cvs
--allow-root=/home1/users/cvs/CVSROOT pserver
File: /etc/services:
...
cvspserver 2401/tcp # CVS client/server operations
cvspserver 2401/udp # CVS client/server operations
...
I'm reasonably sure the paths and command lines are correct.
May there be some security issues with Linux which I must have
overlooked?
Any help / links / ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Emmanuele Sordini
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet interface problem
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:37:46 -0500
Chakravarthy Sannedhi wrote:
>
> I am using the Redhat linux for a particular project. I had problem whenever
> i reboot my machine. Whenever i reboot the two ethernet interface cards
> (eth0 and eth1) on my machine are becoming inactive. So all the time i am
> doing the following course to make them active.
> System -> Control Panel -> Networking configuration
> after that i am pressing the Interfaces tab and making them acive and then
> quit.
> Is there any permanent solution to get around this problem. What is the
> command i could use. How come they could be default active?
Edit /etc/conf.modules and add these 2 lines to it if they are not
already there.
alias eth0 module
alias eth1 module
Change the word module to the module you need like "tulip" you don't
need to add the ".o" to the module name.
--
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: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet interface problem
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:02:46 GMT
Chakravarthy Sannedhi wrote:
>
> I am using the Redhat linux for a particular project. I had problem whenever
> i reboot my machine. Whenever i reboot the two ethernet interface cards
> (eth0 and eth1) on my machine are becoming inactive. So all the time i am
> doing the following course to make them active.
> System -> Control Panel -> Networking configuration
> after that i am pressing the Interfaces tab and making them acive and then
> quit.
> Is there any permanent solution to get around this problem. What is the
> command i could use. How come they could be default active?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Chakravarthy K Sannedhi
netconfig. How does your /etc/modules.conf refer to the cards? Are
they identical? Are they both using the same driver? You shouldn't be
having this problem.
The configuration files for the cards are
/etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-ethX, where X is either 0 or 1.
Configuration for a static IP address is:
DEVICE="eth1"
IPADDR="192.168.10.1"
NETMASK="255.255.0.0"
ONBOOT="yes"
BOOTPROTO="none"
IPXNETNUM_802_2=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_2="no"
IPXNETNUM_802_3=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_3="no"
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=""
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no"
IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no"
IPXNETNUM_SNAP=""
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no"
IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no"
Configuration for dhcp assigned IP is:
DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
ONBOOT="yes"
IPADDR=""
NETMASK=""
IPXNETNUM_802_2=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_2="no"
IPXNETNUM_802_3=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_3="no"
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=""
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no"
IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no"
IPXNETNUM_SNAP=""
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no"
IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no"
I think you don't have the modules loaded properly in your
/etc/modules.conf. And or network is not being started from
/etc/rc.d/rc[3|5]/S10network.
How does this help?
- Scott
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
3:55pm up 5:13, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: "The Unforgiven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adobe acrobat reader problems
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:06:07 -0500
I installed the adobe acrobat reader version 4.05 on my RH 6.2. The problem
with it is that everytime I run the application colors on the desktop get
inverted or whatever that happens makes it wierd. If acroread window has the
focus everything else is unreadable and if the focus is out of the acroread
window, it becomes unreadable. Anybody know if this problem is solvable?
Thanks,
Vinay
--
"Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium."
-Anon.
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KPPP user failure solution
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:07:03 GMT
The script probably starts from
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0.
Did the ifcfg-ppp0 file have the line USERCTL="no" in it? If so, change
"no" to "yes" and see if that solves your problem.
- Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear Folks,
>
> Had hairpulling time trying to figure out why KPPP would dial out when
> using root password but would not work as user. ( When I hit KPPP as
> user, nothing happened). Here is question that led to solution. (Has
> something to do with Redhat 6.2)
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Fred Mulharin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am running Redhat 6.2, and when I initiate kppp it prompts me for
> the
> > root password. How can I allow users to dialin to an ISP without
> > requiring users to use the root password?
> > --
> > Fred Mulharin
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> Dear Fred,
>
> Had similar problem. Found link refered to in your thread:
>
> www.kppp-archive.freeserve.co.uk/console.html
>
> essentially you open shell and:
>
> "However you might want to just get rid of consolehelper and run the
> real kppp binary directly. To do this type (as root)"
>
> ln -sf /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp
> chmod +s /usr/sbin/kppp
> chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
>
> After I typed 3rd line the shell said "no such file or directory". Do
> not fear.( This may be peculiar to my RH 6.2 system) Exit as root. Log
> back in as user. Hit kppp and it will come up as a new blank dialer. Add
> new account with same info as it appears in the kppp that appears under
> root.
>
> As a new Linux user I sometimes feel that as a teenager I should have
> joined an occult-magic group so that I could get used to mystical
> incantations and secret spells. That experience would have prepared my
> for Linux.
>
> coyotebert
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
4:01pm up 5:19, 2 users, load average: 1.01, 1.04, 1.01
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO troubles
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:45:16 -0500
ArMyZ wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I explain you all the entire situation.
> I've w98 installed on drive C which has 3 partitions : 1 for win itself
> (fat32), 1 linux native and the other for linux swap.
> I boot from slackware 7.0 CD w/o any problem and setup goes ahead till lilo
> configuration.
> I tried to do as I always did (successfully) and i installed it into MBR.
> I try to reboot and boots w98...
> Then i rebooted from a w98 diskette and performed a fdisk /mbr, tried to
> reboot again and i could see this situation:
> "LILO " prompted, with no more text, no way to choose as usual 1) Linux 2)
> Winsucks as I configured the LILO
> All stays frozen for 30 secs ( my delay time ) and then boots linux
> regardles of what i type in the meanwhile.
>
> Now, i performed several search on the web and news archives and i saw that
> fdisk /mbr just rewrite the boot code only ( 446 bytes) leaving boot
> information alone ( all info is 512 bytes ).
> Now, should I remove and rewrite it entirely?
> If yes, how?
> Is there any dos utility for that?
> Someone told me that exists another undocumented deature of the fdisk
> command for that but i didn't find it on the web.
Does your /etc/lilo.conf file have a couple of lines in it something
like this at the end so that lilo has a choice of what to boot?
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
Any changes made to lilo require the MBR being updated with the command
"/sbin/lilo"
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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