Linux-Setup Digest #974, Volume #20 Tue, 3 Apr 01 02:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. (fubu)
Re: Display not showing entire diesktop under some resolutions ("David Jacobowitz")
Re: Help w/ ISDN: Ascend Pipeline (Dustin)
Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server (Rob Ristroph)
Re: Help on installing RedHat via FTP/NFS/HTTP ("Chau Chee Yang")
Re: Partioning problem during install (Dustin)
Re: Problem : ftpd - debian - apache, ftp transfer flag read for all not set ("Steve
Mettraux")
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. (Jack Agent 3509)
Can't print (drivers?) ("Taavi Hein")
Re: Trying to setup connection from Linux PC to Router.... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I would like to register a complaint ... (KCmaniac)
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. (Stray Cat)
Re: RH7.* -- downgrading to gcc/g++ 2.95.3 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Setup of a Python tape drive in a Dell 2450 poweredge ("Gene Heskett")
Re: SB Live Value PCI - No CD Audio? ("Gene Heskett")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fubu)
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 04:22:15 GMT
..... or tell them that you have no USB, and your PCI slots
are full. Kind of stupid that BS makes you do a little dance when they
could just sell you the ethernet modem to begin with. People have less
issues with them as well.
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:45:40 -0400, "Moose"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the recent past, it was noted that customer's whose computer won't support the
>internal PCI or external USB modem would get the
>free Ethernet modem.
>
>What kind of computer would that be? A Mac!
>
>So, tell them you have a Mac.
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From: "David Jacobowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Display not showing entire diesktop under some resolutions
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 04:18:49 GMT
Hi,
Thanks for the info everybody, it was greatly appreciated.
Sorry if I made multiple posts.
David J.
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"BKG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:KoAx6.52$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It is in your XF86config (check spelling) file. There is an option to
have
> a virtual screen.
> I don't like it either. Just change the virtual screen option.
>
> "David J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:ygUv6.6832$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2 with Kernel 2.2.16 on a 450 Mhz PIII with
> 128
> > MB, with XFREE86 3.3.6, using a 3dfx Voodoo3 AGP display adapter (my
XF86
> > Config file is attached).
> >
> > I am able to cycle through the four display modes using
> > <ctrl><alt><numeric+> and <numeric ->.
> >
> > However, only with the 1600x1200 resolution is the entire desktop
visible
> at
> > one time. Under any other video mode (640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768)
> > only a fraction of the desktop is viewable at any given time. Under
these
> > resolutions, moving the mouse around the upper or side edge of the
screen
> > changes the section of the desktop that is currently viewed. This
happens
> > with all the window managers I've tried, including Gnome/Enlightenment
and
> > KDE.
> >
> > Is there any way to set my display (like in Windows) such that at all
> > resolutions the entire desktop is visible at one time?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave J.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
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From: Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help w/ ISDN: Ascend Pipeline
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 23:22:16 -0500
Richard Everhart wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get my ISDN set up on my Linux installation but I seem to
> be stuck. The manual only addresses Windows and not Linux. I'm at the
> point where I have the Pipeline box hooked up to my machine and I think
> the ethernet card is configured and working (I can assign it an IP
> address and ping it).
>
> Okay, but now what? The installation instructions say that I need to
> connect the Pipeline box to my machine's serial port. Done. But now
> how do I proceed from here? I suppose I need to configure the serial
> port now, right?
I am going from memory and it has been some time. But, here it
goes. The basic idea is to configure the pipeline to accept
connections from the ethernet port. You need to configure this
to talk to your internal network. I suggest that be only one PC;
your linux box in this case. You will set an IP address for the
ethernet port on the pipeline and tell it what IP address(es) is
can talk to.
Next is to configure the dial-up connection. You have to give it
all of the information so that it will dial-up your provider
using one or both lines (assuming PRI).
The first time you connect to the box, you will net to do it thru
the serial port. You can use any termial emulation program to do
this. I think it defaults to 9600,8,N,1. After the initial
configuration is done (or at least the internal ethernet port)
you can telnet to the box to do the configurations/operations.
>
> Questions:
> 1) How do I use setserial to set up the serial port to communicate with
> the Pipeline box?
You will need a program line miniterm? I use the terminal option
in kppp. Just set it to talk to the port where your serial line
connects. I can't be more specific than this as I have not done
this often on Linux.
>
> 2) How do I set up my ethernet card so that upon start up it is visible
> when using the route command (I don't want to use ifconfig everytime I
> start my machine)?
Linuxconf should give you the options you need to have your
ethernet card come up each time. Also, you will be able to
configure routed to start each time. I found linuxconf to be
fairly straight forward.
>
> Thanks!
>
> My system:
> AMD Athelon 800mhz, dual-boot win98 and SuSe 6.4 2.2.14, Kingston EtheRx
> KNE110TX, Lucent (Ascend) Pipeline ISDN router.
>
> Rich
Dustin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ristroph)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 04:12:19 GMT
>>>>> "David" == David White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David>
David> Hi, all. Our church has its own RH 6.2 Linux box which serves
David> as a mail server, web server, and internet gateway for a
David> handful of Windows 95 machines.
David>
David> This being a church and all, we don't have a paid sysadmin, so
David> that job has fallen to me. I have several years of general
David> Unix and Linux experience (from a user standpoint), but not a
David> whole lot of practice being an admin.
David>
David> Some of it I'll pick up as we go along, but at the outset, I
David> want to at LEAST make sure I have a secure box that can
David> withstand whatever attacks may come, while I try to get up to
David> speed on all the rest.
David>
David> So I guess the questions are:
David>
David> 1) What are the absolute *critical* things that an admin
David> (particually an admin of a RH Linux 6.2) box should know about?
David> For instance, what kind of things should I be monitoring on a
David> day-to-day basis? What's the usual process for keeping up with
David> newly discovered software flaws or backdoors, and keeping a
David> system up-to-date?
David>
David> 2) What's the easiest way for someone with a limited amount of
David> time to get up to speed on sysadmin'ing? Again, I know that
David> it's a big job, so for now I'm wanting to get the most critical
David> tools in my toolchest first, and worry about optimizing,
David> running backups, etc. after that. Are there any good
David> books/websites that can take me from "newbie admin" to at least
David> "moderately skilled admin" ?
David>
David> 3) Is it possible to go straight from one version of RH (6.2)
David> to another (7.0) without simply erasing the hard drive and
David> reinstalling a fresh copy of 7.0 ?
Yes, but don't upgrade unless you need to. Usually what one does is
back up all the configuration files (/etc) and user files (/home) and
anything else that is hard to recreate (maybe a web site, or whatever)
and then put in the boot floppy from newer distribution and select
"upgrade existing installation" as the method of installation. But it
is likely that you can select any recent redhat or mandrake and stick
with it for several years without upgrading.
In addition to the great links others have posted, I suggest looking
at
http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/
This is a script that one runs right after installing the system. It
checks all the settings for dangerous things, and prompts you to
reconfigure, and is oriented towards explaining what it is doing so
that you learn. If you are inexperienced about to put a machine out
on the net, I recommend running it right after install; it should
protect you from the most common problems.
Also look into a back up scheme, even it is just burning a certain set
of directories to a CD once a week. Not backing up regularly is a
very common new mistake. Think carefully about how you will recover
from a crash or break-in; I have discovered that my home-rolled backup
systems of burning various directories as tar files to CDs where
painful to recover from, and in some cases it was easier to recreate
the directories from other sources. So think about the process of
completely rebuilding -- for me it is re-installing, then copying over
certain select files (/etc/passwd and stuff), and then replacing the
/home directories.
--Rob
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From: "Chau Chee Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on installing RedHat via FTP/NFS/HTTP
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:27:38 +0800
Reply-To: "Chau Chee Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yes . I did.
--
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Best Regards,
Chau Chee Yang
BCE Software Sdn. Bhd. ---> www.bce.com.my
Phone: 03-3372 5717 Fax: 03-3372 5719
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From: Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partioning problem during install
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 23:37:43 -0500
Eric,
Sounds like the same problem I am having. Opened a ticket w/
RedHat and they are of no help at all. There response was as
follows:
1st response -
Unfortunately if disk druid reports that your partition table is
corrupt then there isnt much we can do.
2nd response (after b*tt chewing) -
If you want to use this drive you are going to have to wipe it
clean, either low level
format or go into fdisk and type o, hit enter, w, hit enter.
This will create a new dos
partition tabel and allow you to get into disk druid.
This guy (at RH) doesn't seem to have a clue. Looks to me like a
bug in D. D. that will not allow it to access this drive (30GB or
larger?). Not sure. I really don't want to wipe my drive to
find out.
Carl, I would suggest the following:
Wipe all partitions from you 30G slave drive. During the install
process (on you new clean drive) create a 10MB partition for boot
(or what ever size you like). and create a 2GB partition for
root. Don't create any more partitions. After the install is
complete, you can use fdisk to create more partitions on the
unused portion of the drive, and then set them up to be mounted
at /usr, /home, /var, /opt etc. You can mount each partition to a
temporary mount point to get the contents of the original
installed partitions moved to the new partition. Then remount to
the new partition.
Dustin
Eric en Jolanda wrote:
>
> > Currently have a 30gig slave disk.../dev/hdb that I am trying to
> > install RH7 on. Disk Druid will not let me create / on it no matter
> > what the size, keeps saying not enough free space, even though the
> > disk shows 0% utilized. It does let me create /usr /var etc but not
> > /. I keep getting some unallocated partition error, and not enough
> > free space. And...if I try to use fdisk instead of D.D. I get kicked
> > out of the install and the system reboots? WTF??
>
> This used to be caused by not making a /boot below cylinder 1024
> But that was with 6.x releases. Still try to make /boot (16 MB ~ 1 Cylinder)
> the first partition on that disc. Can you proceed if you do that.
>
> Eric
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From: "Steve Mettraux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem : ftpd - debian - apache, ftp transfer flag read for all not set
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 06:42:35 +0200
Resolved by desinstalling package ftpd and installing package wu-ftpd
steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Agent 3509)
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 05:03:14 GMT
On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 17:25:02 -0400, John M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A happy Bellsouth customer without a decent news server?
I would be a happy Bellsouth customer even if they just discontinued
the damn newservers already. They have pretty much always sucked
anyway.
On the other hand, you could always get a T-1 and then for your $1000
per month you will have to buy a premium newservice anyway..
You pay $50 for this service...come on. No affordable home broadband
can even come close to this!! Hell they could also can the stinking
mail servers for all I care.
Who wants their IP and all that BS crap in the headers anyway?
One warez post and you would be back on dialup...
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From: "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Can't print (drivers?)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:50:21 +0300
I've tried to get my printer working, but with no success so far. Distro is
RH7 (what I think was workstation ed. or smth -- 4 cd-s), printer is Xerox
DocuPrint C6. Any idea on where I could get the appropriate drivers?
Also I have a winmodem :( and it's Genius GM56PCI-L. From linmodems.org I
found the card with Lucent chip (didn't find the drivers though -- link
didn't work), and a rockwell chipp w/o a card (IIRC, I have a rockwell
chip), so I'm a little confused and afraid to mess things up. Any advice
would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
Taavi Hein - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #209546
Registered Linux machine #97395
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trying to setup connection from Linux PC to Router....
Date: 3 Apr 2001 05:51:49 GMT
Christopher Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My ethernet card is working ok in Windows 98, but it may not be
> working in Linux.
First of all, check if your network card is working.
/sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/netstat -r should show you the
network card up & running and the route table installed. If
this does not work, see the Net4-HOWTO to install the network
(maybe you have to recompile the kernel to install the required
driver for the network card).
Check if the router is on the default route table and if
the DNS are installed into the /etc/resolv.conf file.
After this, try pinging to an address on the net.
Davide
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From: KCmaniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I would like to register a complaint ...
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:54:31 -0400
I realize this isn't the argument clinic, but I would like to register a
complaint.
There is a very fundemental concept in the DOS/Windows world of being
able to format a partition, after which you can begin again compiling
data into that empty but very much functional partition. WHY DOESN'T
LINUX HAVE AN EQUIVALENT COMMAND/FUNCTION???
Sorry for the big letters but I am now extremely frustrated over Linux's
apparent inability to clear a partition of all its data and to be able
to just simply begin again. Instead, it appears that you have to jump
through a bunch of hoops and all of which I have not yet found.
Without getting into the why's and what for's, formatting a partition in
the DOS/Windows world is a legimate and useful function when it is the
desired thing to do.
Is there anybody out there that knows enough about Linux/Unix
filesystems that can tell me why this function is not available and if
it is what is it?
It looks like I am going to have to use Linux's fdisk to change the what
"root sector??" of the partition to tell the DOS format function that it
is a FAT32 filesystem even when it is not but just so it will format it
in such a way that I can reuse it. After the DOS format is done
clearing the partition I will then have to change the partitions "ID"
back to Linux native and use the mke2fs to remake the ext2 filesystem.
At that point I should have clean and empty ext2 partition. So far this
is the only thing I can think of to achieve this desire goal. I tried
at the suggestion of someone in this newsgroup to use:
dd if=/dev/zero 0f=/dev/hdxX : where hdxX is a partition but this
apparently write zeros over everything including important locations
such as what makes up a superblock that Linux apparently very much
needs. This superblock needs to be recreated but the ext2 partition is
just not the same after that. Something is a miss when doing this
method.
Is there any body out there who knows enough to give me a workable
solution. I just can't understand why Linux does not perform this very
simple yet powerful function over its own filesystem.
Please, please, please. Anybody.
RLH
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From: Stray Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:55:40 -0400
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 05:03:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Agent
3509) wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 17:25:02 -0400, John M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>A happy Bellsouth customer without a decent news server?
>
>I would be a happy Bellsouth customer even if they just discontinued
>the damn newservers already. They have pretty much always sucked
>anyway.
>
>On the other hand, you could always get a T-1 and then for your $1000
>per month you will have to buy a premium newservice anyway..
>
>You pay $50 for this service...come on. No affordable home broadband
>can even come close to this!! Hell they could also can the stinking
>mail servers for all I care.
Really? I pay $50, and get good news and mail (but I don't use the
mail, I run my own).
>Who wants their IP and all that BS crap in the headers anyway?
My ISP's news server doesn't put IPs in the headers. But they still
can know who made the post.
>One warez post and you would be back on dialup...
LOL. And you'd lose that account too on the next illegal post if you
upped it directly to a news server. Unless the server was in Russia or
some such place.
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Date: 29 Mar 2001 9:12:24 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.* -- downgrading to gcc/g++ 2.95.3
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Carlos Moreno;
>> Red Hat has a new version of the compiler available on its errata site.
>> Just download it, install with rpm -Uvh, and you're set.
CM> But it is still 2.96, so it is still not tagged as reliable :-(
I'd argue that point. It went thru a flurry of -xx upgrades, and has
been stable at 2.96-79 for over a week now. I've been using it again
since about -76, building kernels, no problems. I've also built a
couple dozen other things with it, like gimp and such, again, they're
stable and do what they're told.
Its improved error checking, and ever closer to posix compliance will
tell you in its warning messages, things that *are* wrong with the
code you feed it. So will the Stanford code checker. Late kernels are
compiling with *very few* warnings, and getting fewer all the time as
all this falls into line.
This can't be anything but a Good Thing(TM)
You can get the latest versions from rawhide of course.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 500mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
<http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto>
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material,
is � 2001 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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Date: 26 Mar 2001 0:2:12 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup of a Python tape drive in a Dell 2450 poweredge
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Jean-Pierre Dub�;
JD> Hi,
JD> I'm trying to get the Archive python tape drive working on my
JD> poweredge
JD> 2450. I'm using Suse 7.0 distribution. I didn't have any problem
JD> installing Suse on the system except for the tape drive. I tried
JD> accessing the tape using /dev/nst0 and /dev/st0 and /devnst1,
JD> /dev/st1 and I get a device not dfound message. Any hints?
You *do* have the scsi interfaces driver made as a module, with the
kernels autoload turned on, or listed in the modules.conf I hope.
If the driver is not loaded, the device won't be found.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 500mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
<http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto>
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Date: 24 Mar 2001 8:43:40 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live Value PCI - No CD Audio?
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Chris Rankin;
CR> Keeper of the Key to Time wrote:
>> I'm running Mandrake 7.2, kernel has basic sound modules
>> compiled, plus
>> support for EMU10K (lsmod shows "soundcore" and "emu10k1" loaded
>> when I'm playing sounds). HardDrake [chuckle] detected the card and
>> didn't seem to do much; it works great for playing every type of
>> audio I can think of -- except CDs.
CR> It could just be a non-obvious mixer setting. I couldn't hear a
CR> note out of my CD drive until I raised the *video* volume, for
CR> example. Don't ask me why. Mind you, this was with a built-in
CR> sound chip.
CR> Chris
'Video' volume? WTH version of mixer are you running?
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 500mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
<http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto>
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