Linux-Setup Digest #896, Volume #20 Fri, 23 Mar 01 19:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Internet Sharing ("Karl W. Schaefer")
Re: IRQ revelation command (Markku Kolkka)
Best Linux crashes during �nstallation. ("Pontus Walterstad")
Re: Internet Sharing (olgnuby)
Compaq Deskpro 6000 built-in LAN (Ross Goeres)
Triple Boot Win95B, W2k, Linux (Thomas W Trout)
RH7:lost interrupts, e2fsck ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Safe shutdown under SuSE (Kristoffer Adcock)
Re: Setting up identd ("Anthony")
Re: Need help with RedHat 7 and VMWare 2.04 install ("BetrOffDed")
Re: Mandrake 7.1 vs Mandrake 7.2 ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (peter)
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Bill Unruh)
Wierd graphics problem (permedia2) ("Sepehr Kiani")
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting System Clock(s)? (Paul Lew)
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Michael Heiming)
Re: rtin question (Thomas Krull)
setting up news (Kieron Dunbar)
Re: setting up news ("maik")
Re: setting up news (Michael Heiming)
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From: "Karl W. Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internet Sharing
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:22:16 -0500
Already mentioned to you, is the use of ICS - That stands for Internet
Connection Sharing, and requires W98se - or Second Edition. It is very easy
to set up, and it does work. If you have a lot of tools on the Linux box,
it may be that you would want to do that for some security standpoints if
you don't have another box to set up as a dedicated Linux interface to the
internet.
I personally am using that very same configuration - W98se, but working
towards getting Coyote Linux to work on a small 486 I picked up cheap,
because I too, belive Linux is better suited for my proxy needs, as well as
significantly more configurable. Until such time as I get my Coyote Linux
working, I'll continue to use W98se-ICS.
Good luck!
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Karl W. Schaefer
Remove the obvious between and including
the underscores, and then you'll reach me :-)
"<toor>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:995ele$305$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Windows98 machine and a Linux machine. My Windows machine is
> connected to the net, and I want my Linux machine to get on it. How would
I
> do this?
>
>
>
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: IRQ revelation command
Date: 23 Mar 2001 21:22:49 +0200
"Allan Jones, ComUnity Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to reveal which IRQ's are being used?
cat /proc/interrupts
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Markku Kolkka
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Reply-To: "Pontus Walterstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Pontus Walterstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best Linux crashes during �nstallation.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:41:33 GMT
In graphical setup mode after choosing pointing device, tha installation
crashes. Random chars scrolling down the creen and the CPU reboots after
prox 5 secs... The installation has worked out fine on other computers and
this one is an Aopen AX6BC PIII 500 mHz.
//D2
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internet Sharing
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:43:21 -0600
"Karl W. Schaefer" wrote:
>
> Already mentioned to you, is the use of ICS - That stands for Internet
> Connection Sharing, and requires W98se - or Second Edition. It is very easy
> to set up, and it does work.
I've set my home lan up a couple of times using Win98se and the ICS,
with my Linux box working through it, but to do so seems to destroy any
of the other networking capabilities, file and printer sharing etc. The
one complaint I had with it was not being able to do a disconnect from
the remote machine since I'm on a dialup connection. It does
automatically time out in a set amount of time if the function is
enabled.
I also had pretty good luck with just setting the Win box up with normal
link local addresses netted in to the lan and using VSocks light, a free
personal use proxy server which has a ping connect.now or ping
disconnect.now feature that will open a dial up from a remote machine or
close one. WinProxy has a shareware app that i tried for awhile that
works pretty good, but again require that you just let the connection
time out when a remote user finishes and the machine detects no activity
for a set amount of time.
Mandrake 7.2 has ICS built into it, but I didn't find it all that
amenable for my use.
I got a version of diald up and working on the linux box once so that I
could initiate a connection from a remote machine, but had difficulty
with all my filters and etc. and could only do ftp and ping type
connections. I'm kinda lost as a ball in the weeds on ipchains and all
the black art that goes into setting up a linux proxy or firewall, so I
haven't gone any farther yet until I can forget something so I have a
little room to learn some more.;-) May have even been a FreeBSD machine
I was farting around with the diald and demand dialing on.
Like the other fellow said, good luck. I know it can be done if a person
is sufficiently skilled enough to do it.
Charlie
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From: Ross Goeres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Deskpro 6000 built-in LAN
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:44:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone successfully set up networking through the built-in LAN port
on a Compaq Deskpro 6000 under Linux (Mandrake 7.2 in particular)?
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From: Thomas W Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Triple Boot Win95B, W2k, Linux
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:49:05 -0500
Has anybody successfully triple-booted with Win95 OSR2, Win2K, and Linux
with a Fat32 partition for Win95B? I installed Linux successfully but
when I reboot the computer comes up in the Win2K boot loader with Win2K
and Win95 as choices. LILO does not load at all before Win2K boot
loader. Should I have configured Linux to write to MBR for LILO to work
properly? Do I need to have a Fat16 partition for this to work? I can
boot to Linux with a boot floppy but would like to avoid this route.
This computer is used by several users some who would like to boot Linux
but who are not technically minded enough to be trusted to boot from a
floppy. :)
Thanks,
TW Trout
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH7:lost interrupts, e2fsck
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:21:58 GMT
Hello! I'm new to x86 architecture but not Linux (currently running
a LinuxPPC box...). I'm trying to do an install of RH7 on a P/150,
32MB with WIN98 on the master drive (which apparently my install
attempts have messed up, although I did NOT touch the partitioning on
it...). I have installed a 1.2G Quantum Fireball 1280AT drive as the
slave drive for Linux. My problems are these:
1.) When booting from the install CD or floppy, I get "lost interrupts"
messages for /hdbx where x is all Linux partitions (1,5, & 6? -- don't
recall)
2.) I get a message that timeout reached, run e2fsck -- how do I get
to a command prompt to do so?
3.) If I proceed and use the install program, it hangs while "Reading
Package Information." I thought perhaps it was just thrashing due to
low memory, but after 10 hrs it hadn't done anything... The HD access
light would wink out occasionally, but that's all... No activity from
the CD-ROM.
This machine is destined to be an ADSL proxy server (nothing more),
and I'd prefer not to have to put any new hardware in it. Can anyone
point me in the right direction as to what might be going on? Any more
info you need on it?
Cheers!
Dec
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From: Kristoffer Adcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Safe shutdown under SuSE
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:41:42 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:15:10 +0000, Kristoffer Adcock
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Evening all,
>>
>>Under SuSE 7.0, is it possible to configure Linux so that when you press
>>the power button, the shutdown process is begun? I'm using an ATX power
>>supply and motherboard and I understand that switching on and off is
>>controlled by software, (the BIOS?) so I /think/ its possible.
>>
>>Also, how can I configure things so that when the shutdown process is
>>completed, the machine switches itself off? Currently, it just stops
>>with "System Halted".
>>
>>Cheers,
>
>Have you read the thread in this ng started on 17/3/01 headed "Shut off &
>power down"?
>
>Chris Ward.
Just sums me up : always late for the party!
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Setting up identd
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:24:45 GMT
Thanks for your help so far David and maxmutt.
> "ident" is listed under the "auth" service.
Thanks, I found it. The default looks like this:
auth steam tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd
in.identd -l -e -o
So I uncommented that line and now I get a different error message
from my ident client:
Socket Error: SOCKET_ERROR (10054)
I tried chaning the user, and options on identd, with no luck. Any
other suggestions?
> I beleive that in Mandrake 7.1 that the suggested you use identd2
rather
> then identd. identd2 is more secure then identd. You might want to
> remove identd and add the identd2 package.
I couldn't find an "identd2" package. The one I have installed is
called "pidentd".
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From: "BetrOffDed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with RedHat 7 and VMWare 2.04 install
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:22:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Paul Knopp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am attemping to install VMWare 2.04 for Linux on a fresh Red Hat 7
> install. RH7 comes with the 2.2.16-22 kernel. VMWare installs okay,
> but I am getting the following error during the configuration portion;
> "kernel headers (version 2.4.0-0.26) does not match your running kernel
> (version 2.2.16-22)" I searched Redhat's site, (as well as a ftp search
> through Lycos) and there is not a matching version of kernel- headers
> for 2.2.16-22 (it has to match exactly, so I tried 2.2.16-3, etc and it
> did not work). Since RedHat has not released the 2.4 kernel for V7 yet
> (and I am not sure that I want to do a kernel recompile) I am stuck at
> this point. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank You
2.04? Is that an experimental release or something? I thought 2.03 was
the newest...
Anyways...
Hopefully I'm not too confused here. Looks like RH did some funky stuff
to make RH7 "2.4 ready".
Try this (all undoable if it for some reason doesn't work)
1. mv /usr/include/linux /usr/include/linux-2.4.0-0.26
2. then install the kernel-source-2.2.16-22 package from the CD if it isn't
already.
3. make sure that a symlink exists from /usr/src/linux to
/usr/src/linux-2.2.16 by doing an "ls -l /usr/src/" You should see
linux-> linux-2.2.16. if not, do an
"ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.2.16 /usr/src/linux"
4. ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
5. Then try vmware-config.pl again.
If it doesn't work, you can go back to the way it was by:
rm -f /usr/include/linux
mv /usr/include/linux-2.4.0-0.26 /usr/include/linux
in that order.
Did that make any sense?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 vs Mandrake 7.2 ?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:41:54 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are the major differences ?
> -KDE ?
> -Kernel ?
Kernel is 2.2.17, KDE is 2.0. Personally I like 7.2 (having
come from 7.1) but I don't think that there are enough changes
in it to justify upgrading right now - they are on the second
beta of 8, which will have 2.4 kernel... :-)
So, at this time, I would say wait a little bit more...
Kris
> Which do you like better ?
> Why ?
> I'm running 7.1, should I upgrade to 7.2 ?
> What will be different ?
> Peter
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From: peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:27:12 GMT
I've heard great things about the new Suse distro., but I was told by
someone that I should use the same distro that I use at work. At work
we use Red Hat, at home I just setup Mandrake 7.1, but everyone says
the new Suse distro is good and also Mandrake 7.2 is good.
What are the differences of these distros and versions ?
Is there a different file structure or something different in each
distro that will mess up my learning curve ?
Is the new software in mandrake 7.2 (or Suse) all that ?
Which is faster, I've got a few older machine I would like to install
Linux on (P166/32 megs, etc) ?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Date: 23 Mar 2001 22:58:23 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laura Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Thumper wrote:
]>
]> I was using that as a response that newbies get a lot. I avoid a recompile
]> like the plague when I can..:) But will do it when I have to.
]Speaking of recompiling, isn't there a groovy way to rerun the automatic
]hardware detection that runs at first install, instead of having to muck
]through all the hardware config by hand? If not, ding-dong it, there
]should be!
That hardware detection has nothing to do with the kernel. The stock
kernels are compiled to include almost everything anyone could ever want
or need. The installation routines are for setting up scripts etc to
install the specific stuff that your machine has. Since you could
compile on your machine a kernel for y our friend who has totally
different hardware it makes little sense for th ekernel compilation to
test your hardware.
As I said unless your definitely know you need to, compiling the kernel
is more likely to break stuff than fix it.
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From: "Sepehr Kiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wierd graphics problem (permedia2)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:00:09 +0500
Hi, I'm having some wierd graphics problems with my Leadtek Permedia2
(PCI) graphics board that I'm hoping someone will be able to help me
with.
System: RH7.0 (currently but have same problem with RH6.2 and
Mandrake7.1). The MB is AMD K7 but had same problem with old
P6 MB.
Problem 1: If I cold boot the computer into Linux the graphics goes into
800x600 mode regardless XFree settings. If I first boot NT
4.0 then restart into Linux I get all the graphics modes
set (in my case 1280x1024 and 1024x768). If I shutdown and
turn off and on again, i.e. cold boot, the problem also
occurs.
Problem 2: Once I'm in and working fine all of a sudden my screen will
change, i.e. colors will go wacky or completely blank.
If I hit control-alt-+ it will switch graphics modes and
reset everything until the next time. This problem
is random and doesn't not seem to be related to any one
app.
I should note that the board works perfectly under NT (I run ProE which is
very OpenGL intensive under NT). Any suggestions?
thanks (please email reply),
-Sep
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:07:45 GMT
Can't comment on SuSE 7.1, but Mandrake 7.2 is a disaster.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:27:12 GMT, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've heard great things about the new Suse distro., but I was told by
>someone that I should use the same distro that I use at work. At work
>we use Red Hat, at home I just setup Mandrake 7.1, but everyone says
>the new Suse distro is good and also Mandrake 7.2 is good.
>
>What are the differences of these distros and versions ?
>
>Is there a different file structure or something different in each
>distro that will mess up my learning curve ?
>
>Is the new software in mandrake 7.2 (or Suse) all that ?
>
>Which is faster, I've got a few older machine I would like to install
>Linux on (P166/32 megs, etc) ?
>
>
>Thanks
Flatfish
Why do they call it a flatfish?
Remove the ++++ to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: Setting System Clock(s)?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:11:49 GMT
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:02:19 -0800, Graeme Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>in article G%Iu6.3768$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom
>Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 3/23/01 6:23 AM:
>
>> Graeme Rae wrote:
>>> Problem - however I set the system clock, the date command returns the
>>> correct time, but creating files etc have the wrong time stamp.
>>
>> Your system has 2 clocks, software (system) and hardware (bios).
>> They both need to be correct and sync'd. I have this alias in my
>> /etc/bashrc :
>> alias tdate="rdate -sp time.nist.gov && hwclock --systohc"
>> Typing 'tdate' as root, while connected, sets the software clock to
>> time.nist.gov. Then, and only if that was successful, the '&& hwclock
>> --systohc' part, syncs the hardware clock to the just corrected
>> software clock. (see man rdate and man hwclock)
>
>
>Still doesn't work... (at 9am PST )
>
>[root@hal timetest]# rdate -sp time.nist.gov && /sbin/hwclock --systohc
>[root@hal timetest]# date
>Fri Mar 23 09:00:50 PST 2001
>[root@hal timetest]# touch test3
>[root@hal timetest]# ls -l test3
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 23 17:00 test3
>[root@hal timetest]#
>
>
>perhaps there's something wrong with my hwclock prog?
>
Probably not. Are you using the SuSE distr? I am having a similar problem
with the system clock and hardware clock under 2.4.x with the 2.4.x in
both SuSE 6.3 and 7.1.
With SuSE 6.3 and 2.4.x the clock displays the GMT time and the hwclock
displays the real time/timezone - 8 hrs off; going to SuSE 7.1, the same
thing is happening. But with the 1st aaa_base programs, the hwclock gets
munged; the 2nd aa_base progs (SuSE tech claims will fix) still get mangled
both before and after the bios clock was corrected but at least with the
2nd aaa_base progs, updating the sysclock from NIST the hwclock is also
updated closer to real time but still off in the future time.
SuSE says that the kernel 2.4.x has place the time stuff at a different
place and have also see something about timezone correction in the
patch files for patching 2.4.2. I've tried to patch with the 2.4.2-ac18
but it took over 5 hours and still going and decided to kill it; now just
waiting for the 2.4.3 release and hope the time stuff are fixed by someone
as the base progs from SuSE don't seem to be relocatable.
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 00:19:36 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Laura Goodwin wrote:
>
> Thumper wrote:
> >
> > I was using that as a response that newbies get a lot. I avoid a recompile
> > like the plague when I can..:) But will do it when I have to.
>
> Speaking of recompiling, isn't there a groovy way to rerun the automatic
> hardware detection that runs at first install, instead of having to muck
> through all the hardware config by hand? If not, ding-dong it, there
> should be!
Why?
A stock distro kernel includes almost everything, if you decide to download
the source tarball it's assumed that you know what you're doing. I.e.. you are
able to
read the /proc system, which will tell you what kind of hw you have.
Or you do it somehow like I do, don't buy a complete machine, buy everything
in parts, then put it together, you can be sure you know what's in the box...:-)
As always you're of course free to build an auto magic hw detection and
an auto config generator for /usr/src/linux/.config,
but the kernel configuration is not just about hw.
Michael Heiming
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From: Thomas Krull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rtin question
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:44:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[setting up leafnode]
> I've done just that and once configured, it works fine. However, I've
> noticed a couple of things (that may or may not be avoidable). First,
> tin no longer shows the number of unread articles in each newsgroup (in
> the newsgroup listing) and it no longer shows which articles are unread
> in either the article or thread listing. Apparently, it no longer knows.
> Is there a way to fix this? I can point my /etc/nntpserver back to my
> ISP's news server and unread stats show up.
I have no experience with "leafnode", since i have set up INN with an
"active" file trimmed to my needs on my local machine.
I guess your "$HOME/.newsrc" is still "matching" the remote NNTP server you
used b4 setting up "leafnode".
I suggest to save this file (rename) and then use the "-u" option of
"rtin", please check the man page b4 doing so.
YMMV
73s, Thomas
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From: Kieron Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setting up news
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:21:24 +0000
I've been trying to set up leafnode to store news locally. I can
download the list of newsgroups with fetchnews, but I don't know
how to tell my news program where to look for it. I'm trying to
use it with Pine 3.91 (because that's the version I could get
with dselect), and I've tried setting nntp-server to "news",
"nntp" and "/var/spool/news", all without any success. It's
probably fairly simple, but I can't see how to get it to work.
kwaheri, Kieron
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From: "maik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up news
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:42:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kieron Dunbar"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying to set up leafnode to store news locally. I can
> download the list of newsgroups with fetchnews, but I don't know how
> to tell my news program where to look for it. I'm trying to use it
> with Pine 3.91 (because that's the version I could get with dselect),
> and I've tried setting nntp-server to "news", "nntp" and
> "/var/spool/news", all without any success. It's probably fairly
> simple, but I can't see how to get it to work. kwaheri, Kieron
I used to use leafnode+netscape ... just tell netscape to use
'localhost' as your news server. Then I dumped leafnode+netscape, moved
to glitter, and now I adore Pan as my whole news solution.
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 00:50:07 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up news
Kieron Dunbar wrote:
>
> I've been trying to set up leafnode to store news locally. I can
> download the list of newsgroups with fetchnews, but I don't know
> how to tell my news program where to look for it. I'm trying to
> use it with Pine 3.91 (because that's the version I could get
> with dselect), and I've tried setting nntp-server to "news",
> "nntp" and "/var/spool/news", all without any success. It's
> probably fairly simple, but I can't see how to get it to work.
>
> kwaheri, Kieron
Hello,
thx for your post, I always wanted to install/configure leafnode.
After reading your post I did it, it's no rocket science ...:-)
I just followed this README.SuSE, yast suggest to read as it had
the packet installed. It's still fetching news...:-)
Here's this README, as it's available via ftp,
I hope I didn't accidentally infringed someone's copy rights?
Michael Heiming
Installation notes for Package leafnode
---------------------------------------
In order to use leafnode on your system, you have to configure some things
correctly:
o If you are updating from a previous release (before 1.9.3) run the
shell script /usr/doc/packages/leafnode/update.sh first:
cd /usr/share/doc/packages/leafnode
./update.sh /var/spool/news/ /etc/leafnode /var/lock/news/fetchnews.lck
Your groupinfo file will be reformatted and some other files will
be moved around. In case something goes wrong, you will find your
old groupinfo file in /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo.old. If
everything works out correctly, you can delete this file (it is not
needed any more).
Note: /usr/bin/fetch has been renamed to /usr/bin/fetchnews!
o Set the variable NNTPSERVER in /etc/rc.config to point to your local host:
NNTPSERVER="localhost"
Be sure to run SuSEconfig afterwards, this will create the necessary
entry in the file /etc/nntpserver.
o edit /etc/leafnode/config to fit your needs. As a minimum,
you have to insert your preferred News Server in Line 3:
server = <Your server>
This is the name or IP address of your provider's newsfeed. See the
manual page for leafnode(8) for more info about specific configuration
issues.
o to start leafnode when connecting with your newsreader, uncomment the
following line in /etc/inetd.conf:
nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode
This starts leafnode for all connections on the nntp port, subject to
/etc/hosts/allow and /etc/hosts.deny screening. Make sure, that this is
the only line beginning with "nntp"!
o After these changes, force inetd to reread the changed configuration file
To achieve this in SuSE Linux, issue the following command (as root):
rcinetd restart
Alternatively, you may use the following command:
killall -HUP inetd
o Now run fetchnews. The first run will take some time since fetchnews
reads a list of all newsgroups from your upstream server. With an
28.8 modem, it can take as long as 60 minutes (depending on how many
newsgroups your provider offers and how fast your connection is). To
see fetch working, run it with the Option "-vvv".
o Read news using an NNTP client (with $NNTPSERVER or /etc/nntpserver
pointing to your own host). Select the groups you want to read in
the future. You will find them empty except for a default article.
Reading this article is necessary with some newsreaders to select
the groups for further fetching. After this, you should have empty
files in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ for every group you want
to read.
o Run fetchnews again. This run should pick up all the groups you want to
read. You can now read these messages or post new ones with your
newsreader, fetch will deliver your posted messages during the
next run.
o If you want to fetchnews new news every time you go online, you could
run fetch from /etc/ppp/ip-up, for example.
o To clean up old articles, you should run texpire in regular intervals.
An example for /etc/crontab:
0 22 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/texpire && /usr/sbin/texpire
This would start texpire every night at 10pm. If your machine does not
run 24 hours a day, make sure that you choose a time, when it will be
turned on.
Have a lot of fun,
Your SuSE-Team.
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