Linux-Setup Digest #172, Volume #20 Wed, 6 Dec 00 12:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Sendmail question ("Peter Tselios")
Re: openSSH configuration problem (Dragan Colak)
Re: unstalling - unistalling packages ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Does anyone know!?!?! (Eric)
Re: unstalling - unistalling packages ("Peter Tselios")
Anyone have luck with I/O Magic 3DDX Video install? (Cindy Huyser)
Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?! (Eric)
Problems with Xircom CBE2-100 adapter ("S. Umar")
Re: changing link (Black Dragon)
Re: Netscape installing ERROR? (Black Dragon)
Re: unstalling - unistalling packages ("Peter T. Breuer")
how to setup linux VPN??? ("Daley")
Re: fuzzy cirrus logic ("Nigel Moore")
Re: What is this message??How to solve??thanks!! (Eric)
Security - Best tool for monitoring outside connections? ("Yavin")
Re: Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation (Eric)
A script in /etc/init.d doesn't execute at all ! (Mandrake 7.2) (Pierre-Philippe
Ravier)
Re: RH7 - can't get video configuration to work for X ("TSHACK")
Re: Security - Best tool for monitoring outside connections? (Black Dragon)
Re: No sound for users in Gnome, but Root works okay
Word 97 on Wine (David Punsalan)
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail question
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:02:52 +0200
Probably a configuretion problem!!!!
I have the same problem and I need help too!
A note: Do not use you linux box as root, except of the cases that is
absolutelly necessary (eg install a new package) :):)
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sendmail question
> I am running RedHat Linux 6.2. As my system boots up it loads Sendmail
> just fine and gives an [OK] status. When I log onto the system I can
> send out e-mail to friends and family fine. But when they send e-mail
> back to me they get the following bounce back:
>
> "This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
>
> Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> each recipient was rejected.
>
> Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reason: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> if you feel this message to be in error."
>
> Can anyone help. What do I need to do to receive e-mail on my server to
>
> my local domain?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: openSSH configuration problem
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:36:39 -0100
Peter Tselios wrote:
> Hallo,
> I really need to have a secure connection (with root privileges) to a
> Slackware 7 linux box from various terminals (W9x) and seems that only
> "secure" selution is ssh. OK. no problem, I installed the package, but I
> have the gollowing message:
>
> error: Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key: No such file
> or direc
> tory
> Disabling protocol version 1
> error: Could not load DSA host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
> Disabling protocol version 2
> sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
> sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
>
> I understand that I have to generate a private and a public key that must
> be installed in /usr/..
> Reading the man pages was very helpful about the connections etc but
> nothing about the creation of the HOST'S key. Should I add the command
> "ssh-keygen" in the init script or what?
>
> Thank you,
> Peter Tselios
>
>
You run ssh-keygen once and it creates you a key pair (private/public)
whitch is stored in ~/.ssh
Dragan
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unstalling - unistalling packages
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:39:23 +0100
Peter Tselios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No I do not mean tgz. For those packages I have the pkgtool
> But I mean the tar.gz. Something I do not understand is the links with the
What do you mean by THE tar.gz? That's simply a compressed tar
archive, not subject to any conventions at all. It is usually used
to hold source code.
> libraries. If I simply delete the files, and th .so files, how I will be
> able to update the libraries (ldconfig??)
Eh? A .tar.gz will usually contain no binaries. Are you talking about
whatever you compiled from the source code contents? In that case,
if you have installed dynamic libraries, yes, use rm (better ln) and
ldconfig.
Don't do this to your system libraries, however! There, be careful to
change the links back to point at an earlier version before deleting the
library and running ldconfig! For other libraries, the order shouldn't
matter. A few tools and daemons may crash but so what. Start 'em again.
If you are talking about the .so compilation links, you can do whatever
you like to those.
It would be helpful if you came clean on what you are talking about.
Peter
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anyone know!?!?!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:49:12 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am trying to run the talk command but I get the message that
> the connection is refused. I changed the disable = yes to no for the
> talk file in the /etc/xinet.d/talk but still get the error. Am I
> missing some other config file? I could not find any usefull
> documention on the configuration of this. Any help would be much
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
man mesg
Eric
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unstalling - unistalling packages
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:59:12 +0200
OK: Here it is:
I compile the package xzy.tar.gz (the usuals: tar xzf, make, make clean,
make install).
Now, You said the if I had older (system) libraries I should link to the
previous files. How can I do that?
Thanks,
Peter
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Peter Tselios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No I do not mean tgz. For those packages I have the pkgtool
> > But I mean the tar.gz. Something I do not understand is the links with
the
>
> What do you mean by THE tar.gz? That's simply a compressed tar
> archive, not subject to any conventions at all. It is usually used
> to hold source code.
>
> > libraries. If I simply delete the files, and th .so files, how I will be
> > able to update the libraries (ldconfig??)
>
> Eh? A .tar.gz will usually contain no binaries. Are you talking about
> whatever you compiled from the source code contents? In that case,
> if you have installed dynamic libraries, yes, use rm (better ln) and
> ldconfig.
>
> Don't do this to your system libraries, however! There, be careful to
> change the links back to point at an earlier version before deleting the
> library and running ldconfig! For other libraries, the order shouldn't
> matter. A few tools and daemons may crash but so what. Start 'em again.
>
> If you are talking about the .so compilation links, you can do whatever
> you like to those.
>
> It would be helpful if you came clean on what you are talking about.
>
> Peter
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From: Cindy Huyser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone have luck with I/O Magic 3DDX Video install?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:00:15 -0600
I'm in the process of tracking down what type of chipset is used with
I/OMagic's MagicVideo 3DDx Graphics card. The company doesn't make
Linux drivers for their product, and I know I'll at least need the
chipset type before I can see if it's supported... but someone out there
may have been down this path before!
Any luck? Horror stories?
Thanks,
Cindy
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:03:37 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >> >disk /dev/hda: 255 heads 63 sectors 2498 cylinders
> >> >> >units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >> >> >
> >> >> >device boot start end blocks id system
> >> >> >
> >> >> >/dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048224+ b win95 fat32
> >> >> >partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> >> >> >phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
> >> >> >
> >>
> >> The above tables are made using a 16 heads translation (end head is
> >> 15), while the usual BIOS setting for a disk this size would be LBA
> >> mode with a 255 heads setting.
> >
> >I figured that this was what you meant
> >
> >> The partition table CHS values however may be correct, if the BIOS is
> >> set to NORMAL mode. This can be the case, since the fdisk information
> >> may not be correct.
> >>
> >> Another way to verify that the tables are made using a 16 heads
> >> translation is to look at the number 2048224+ for hda1. This is
> >> 2*2048224+1 sectors = 4096449 sectors. In front of hda1 we usually
> >> have 63 sectors. Then (4096449+63)/16/63 = 4064 is a full number of
> >> cylinders.
> >
> >I don't get this part, using 256 instead of 16 also gives an integer
>
> No BIOS uses a 256 heads translation.
>
Still confused :-|
No you say, Yes you must mean :-)
(4096449+63)/256/63 = 254
Which is an integer
I understand that the table has a ending-heads entry of 15, which is not
cylinder aligned when you use 256 heads translation. I can even
understand that this is a strong clue that the wrong geometry settings
were used, I just cannot follow the math you use to verify this. (Which
doesn't matter, I guess I'm no math wonderboy anyway)
This message though:
partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
is clear to me.
Thanks for the info you gave me into this
Eric
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From: "S. Umar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Problems with Xircom CBE2-100 adapter
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:09:59 -0600
I have RH7.0+updates running on a DELL Inspiron 3800 notebook.
As the networking card I have Xircom 10/100 CBE2-100 networking
card (no modem). The card is recognized by linux and it actually
works (uses tulip_cb driver) BUT when trasferring files it becomes
extremely slow. I substitute the PCMCIA card with a 3Com card and
it is blazingly fast. I read about problems with Xircom cards but
could not find a solution. I ported the pcmcia-3.1.22 package and
started using that but that did not solve the problem either. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
--
Prof. S. Umar
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
Tel : (615) 322-2459
Fax : (615) 343-7263
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu/~umar/resu.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: changing link
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:10:20 GMT
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:54:17 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
: I am trying to get my modem working and so far the most success I've
: had has been in getting modemtool to assign it to /dev/tts2. Setserial
: just gives me an input/output error with every set of options I've read
: to try. I notice there is a link from /dev/ttys2 to modem or vice
: versa. I've read the man page for link, but I'm lost. How do I change
: the link to get my modem to be ttys4? Tia
cd /dev
rm modem
ln -s ttyS4 modem
--
Black Dragon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Netscape installing ERROR?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:15:29 GMT
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:20:16 -0800 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Dean Kwak' said:
: i just downloaded netscape 6 installer and ran the following command as
: Netscape says:
:
: gzip -dc netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
"tar -xvzf netscape*.tar.gz"
If that doesn't work, the file is corrupted, download it again.
--
Black Dragon
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unstalling - unistalling packages
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:31:29 +0100
Peter Tselios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK: Here it is:
For goodness sake! I corrected your quoting three times and you STILL
don't get it! Please do not reply above the thing you are replying to!
I read linearly, from top to bottom. Edit the message, and intersperse
your comments between the (few) passages you retain, so that we get
context, and we don't get information overload.
> Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> It would be helpful if you came clean on what you are talking about.
> I compile the package xzy.tar.gz (the usuals: tar xzf, make, make clean,
> make install).
> Now, You said the if I had older (system) libraries I should link to the
> previous files. How can I do that?
Man ln.
Peter
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From: "Daley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to setup linux VPN???
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:51:13 +0800
hello,
can everyone tell me is that possible to setup linux VPN via the internet to
access my private server from home? you are most welcome to email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
regards,
daley
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From: "Nigel Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fuzzy cirrus logic
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:48:13 +0900
"C. L. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:90l0ni$qsn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> ;-) Got sneaking suspicions the "J" might have something to do with it.
> Where are you in Japan? I lived up on Hokkaido for almost five years.
> Close to Sapporo. Learned to ski on Moya Yama(sp?) Watshi no Nihongo
> scoshi rusty. ;-) Been about thirty five years.
Yes I'm also in the wild and woolly north: I spent 10 years in Akita,
before moving to Fukushima.
>
> Most of the IBM clones can take a video card in one of the slots. Some
> of them have a jumper on the MB someplace to disable the onboard video,
> some will do it auto. One early IBM PS-1 I had was auto, one 486 had to
> have the jumper removed.
Only jumpers that I can see round here are the ones that I'm wearing, so
presumably any pci card would register automatically .
>
> Ah hell, I remember back in 95 blowing a hundred bucks to get my grubby
> hands on a copy of Win95 to put on a 386/25 with 8 meg of ram when I
> should have spent it on at least an Evergreen CPU upgrade. ;-)
As I said I got the ersatz literature magazine as well, and it impressed the
bookshop nerds for a foreigner to be buying a Linux magazine in japanese -
Supernerd strikes again!
Thanks for your help. Next stop the hardware store.
NM.
.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is this message??How to solve??thanks!!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:52:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kitty wrote:
>
> HELLO
> I HAVE A QUESTION.
> MY LINUX(MAIL-SERVER) TO APPEAR : "Unable to load
> interpreter".
> WHAT IS THIS ERROR-MESSAGE ? HOW TO SOLVE IT THAT I DO'T KNOW ?
> SO IF ANYONE COULD HELP PLEASE COULD YOU E-MAIL ME AT
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> THANKYOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!!
I D.O N.O.T K.N.O.W
You should give more info (how when what why) and stop shouting!
It's not very readable, and is considered rude.
Eric
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From: "Yavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Security - Best tool for monitoring outside connections?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:57:54 -0700
What is the best way to monitor what kind of network connections are
going on in the system? Is 'netstat' the best way... I mainly want to see
masquerading and all internet inbound connections.....
--Yavin
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:57:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cfish wrote:
>
> are you sure you had enough room for that install. anyway it's dead it
> doesn't matter anymore. might as well reinstall it.
>
> if you read LILO documentation, it will explain to you what lilo knows
> and what problem it encounters if you see "LI" or if you see "LIL" or
> if you see "LILO" now i can't remember them off the bat so you have to
> look it up.
>
This wont help much. I can tell out front why LI appears.
The linux loader cannot find the kernel anymore.
Not so strange, considering he reinstalled :-)
The new lilo wasn't written yet, so try the install again.
Make sure that the hardware is still OK,
check the partition table as it is right now, and make sure that the
windows partitions still exist.
Eric
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From: Pierre-Philippe Ravier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A script in /etc/init.d doesn't execute at all ! (Mandrake 7.2)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:02:33 GMT
In order to try to solve my network problems (the loopback is not set-
up) I added the following script in my /etc/init.d folder :
#!/bin/sh
#
# network Bring up/down networking
#
cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
echo -n "PPR Bringing up interface lo: "i
./ifup ifcfg-lo
I did that because the network script seems not to do his job (another
mistery that I don't understand)
I can execute this script by hand and it works.
But it seems not to execute during the start-up of the machine.
The file is executable by everyone.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "TSHACK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 - can't get video configuration to work for X
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:17:52 -0800
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> TSHACK wrote:
> >
> > I've got Linux 7.0.
> >
> > I've got an older 200mhz pentium computer.
> >
> > My video card (on the motherboard) is SiS5597/5598 (as per autoprobe and
> > Windows boot screen), with 2mb video memory.
> >
> > My monitor is an Impression 3 Plus 3428NG.
> >
> > Both of these show up in the hardware database when trying to install,
but I
> > can't find them on the Hardware Compatibility List on www.redhat.com.
> >
> > Though I got this configuration working once, I did a reinstall and I
can't
> > get it working again.
> >
> > I keep getting "There is a problem with your configuration" and have to
go
> > back.
> >
>
> Skip the X configuration during install,
> continue with the rest of the install,
> boot linux and run Xconfigurator
I get essentially the same problem, whether going the non-X graphical
interface, or command line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Security - Best tool for monitoring outside connections?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:17:18 GMT
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:57:54 -0700 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Yavin' said:
: What is the best way to monitor what kind of network connections are
: going on in the system? Is 'netstat' the best way... I mainly want to see
: masquerading and all internet inbound connections.....
``netwatch''
Search for it at http://freshmeat.net .
--
Black Dragon
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound for users in Gnome, but Root works okay
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:30:13 -0000
Thanks, that fixed it.
James
Steve Bradley wrote:
> To make everything work on my system (RH6.2, heavily upgraded), I had to
> hit /dev/mixer* /dev/midi* /dev/dsp* and /dev/audio* - the astericks are
> there because there were more than one of each of these
(ie, /dev/mixer0,
> /dev/mixer1, etc).
>
> I changed my persmissions to 777 on all of those files - although the
RIGHT
> way (thinking security) to do it is probably to 'chown' the files to a
> group (users, maybe) then make sure that all your non-root users have
that
> group as part of their supplemental groups (use 'usermod'
or 'userconf').
> On my single user system, I just got lazy ;-)
> --
> Steve Bradley
>
> Registered Linux User#187404
> (register at www.linuxcounter.org)
> ICQ#19864616
>
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Word 97 on Wine
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:40:18 -0600
I recently saw a screenshot that showed Word running on Wine.
I was wondering just how well does Word run on Wine? ... other MS-Office
programs?
Regards,
David
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