Linux-Setup Digest #125, Volume #21 Sat, 28 Apr 01 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (Christian Rose)
IP Masquerading ("aaa")
Re: IP Masquerading (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound (olgnuby)
Help whith RAID controller ("MEX")
Re: IP Masquerading ("ne...")
Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (Andreas Somogyi)
Re: IP Masquerading (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: PPPoE, Roaring Penguin & DSL trouble! (Michael Heiming)
Re: kernel number meaning (David Efflandt)
Re: Q: LILO on hddg (ide 5) can it be done? (Leon Garde)
Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (David Efflandt)
Re: Crontab ("Mikael Chambon")
RedHat7.1 startup & System Commander 2000 ("Alex")
Re: Modem trouble ("Muff Daddy")
HELP: Redhat 7.1 install (logs included) ("Maarten")
Re: Bizarre cascade of problems. (Jason Kirk)
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:46:17 +0200
None wrote:
> Isn't this "subscription only" now days?
Yes, but you can subscribe and use it for free. You can go to
https://www.redhat.com/network/ to register for a free RHN account, that
lets you use up2date as much as you want on as many systems you want.
What costs is if you want *automatic* installation of updates with RHN
on *more than one system* - you can even have automatic installation of
updates on one system for free.
Christian
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From: "aaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP Masquerading
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:54:26 +0200
How do you set up ip masquerading in RedHat 71 kernel 2.4.
ipchains isnt the ipchains it is in RH71
<i read somewhere this was done in iptables?)
any help or direction where to look appreciated
Cris
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:00:08 +0200
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, aaa wrote:
> How do you set up ip masquerading in RedHat 71 kernel 2.4.
> ipchains isnt the ipchains it is in RH71
>
> <i read somewhere this was done in iptables?)
>
> any help or direction where to look appreciated
If you use kernel 2.4, it would be crazy to use ipchains/ipmasqadm
instead of iptables. Look at
http://netfilter.samba.org/
There are some howto's and other documentation.
Rasmus
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-- [ Rasmus 'M�ffe' B�g Hansen ] --------------------------------------
If you don't receive an answer, then it either indicates that the bug is
too obvious or too difficult.
-- Manfred Spraul
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 07:59:12 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> You can put them where you like. The makefile is yours to edit (I put
> them in the alsa subdir, of course :-).
>
> Peter
I'm beginning to learn Linux is quite amenable and forgiving in those
areas as long as the changes are somewhat sane, compensated for and some
continuity maintained. But, sometime unexpected and bizarre results can
be obtained. ;-)
I've also learned I can get amazing, massive amounts of source code to
compile completely error free which will simply not do anything. ;-)
Charlie
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From: "MEX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help whith RAID controller
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:07:33 +0200
Hi all. I have Abit kt7a-raid motherboard. In the first Raid hd I've
installed w98. Linux, on the contrary, is installed in a normal ide hd on
the other controller. Where and how can I instal lilo to boot w98 and linux?
Now I've installed it on the normal ide disk but w98 on the raid doesn't
start.
Thanx all
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:14:36 GMT
On Apr 28, 2001 at 15:00, Rasmus B�g Hansen eloquently wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, aaa wrote:
>
>> How do you set up ip masquerading in RedHat 71 kernel 2.4.
>> ipchains isnt the ipchains it is in RH71
>>
>> <i read somewhere this was done in iptables?)
>>
>> any help or direction where to look appreciated
>
>If you use kernel 2.4, it would be crazy to use ipchains/ipmasqadm
>instead of iptables. Look at
Aktually it isn't. Until one gets to grips with pure iptables,
it is best to use the ipchains rules with the ipchains module
of iptables.
>
>http://netfilter.samba.org/
>
>There are some howto's and other documentation.
>
>Rasmus
>
>
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
What GOOD is a CARDBOARD suitcase ANYWAY?
10:11am up 2 days, 7:16, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Somogyi)
Subject: Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:49:53 GMT
Trevor wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 08:39:17, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I always go buy a plain ne2000
> > compatible (usually labelled "SOHO") for $30 when I'm in the states.
> > The reason is that the connectors are the first things to go on these,
> > and all the ne2000-compatibles have the same plugs.
>
> 3Com 3C589's had a lifetime free replacement service on the dangly bit
> at one point. You had to fill in a form and send the old one back and
> a couple of weeks later you got a new one back in the post. I don't
> know if you can still find the form on their web site though...
Hm. I have one of these - bought it used - and the "dangle" connector
won't stay in the card when I push it in... Don't know if it's supposed
to, though. Is it?
--
andreas somogyi - www.somogyi.nu - icq:436372
Forget all about equality
let's play
master and servant
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:22:48 +0200
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, ne... wrote:
> >If you use kernel 2.4, it would be crazy to use ipchains/ipmasqadm
> >instead of iptables. Look at
> Aktually it isn't. Until one gets to grips with pure iptables,
> it is best to use the ipchains rules with the ipchains module
> of iptables.
That's not quite what I meant. If you have some old ipchains scripts,
then yes - use the ipchains module.
If you do not know how to use either iptables nor ipchains/ipmasqadm, I
would say, that iptables is the one to go for. I understood it as, the
guy did not know neither and wanted to know what to do - and then I'd
say - go for iptables.
Rasmus
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-- [ Rasmus 'M�ffe' B�g Hansen ] --------------------------------------
I think the sum of intelligence on the internet is constant.
Only the number of users grows.
- Uwe Ohse in the monastery
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:46:28 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPPoE, Roaring Penguin & DSL trouble!
none wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble getting my debian potato to connect to my DSL
> provider. I'm trying to connect over PPPoE, using roaring penguin(RP). I
>
> have a dynamic IP. RP connects (logs in) just fine, but then I cannot
> 'go' anywhere.
Sounds like a routing problem, check "route -n" and post the output from
this command if you're connected & in case you're not connected.
May be someone knows more, if the docs of "roaring penguin" don't give
you a clue,
about how routing gets changed in case of connecting with your DSL.
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: kernel number meaning
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:25:37 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I installed RedHat 6.1 on my machine.
> When I type:>uname -a
> I get:
> Linux 2.2.12-20 etc...
> But: what does 12-20 means?
> If I want to upgrade to a newer kernel which patch should I download ?
> Thank for any help.
> Stefano
I don't know what kernel RPM's are available for RH 6.1, but it is easy
enough (and good learning experiance) to install your own from source.
I know that kernels at least through 2.2.15 had a potential security flaw
and someone told me this extended beyond that. If you cannot find a newer
one at RedHat's site, download kernel 2.2.19 or newer from
http://www.kernel.org/ or mirror.
cd /usr/src
rm linux
mkdir linux-2.2.19 (or actual kernel version)
ln -s linux-2.2.19 linux
This symlinks /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.2.19
Then use bunzip2 and tar to expand .bz2 source or tar xzvf to expand
/tar.gz or .tgz source from /usr/src which should dump the source into
/usr/src/linux. See /usr/src/linux/README and
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ dir.
You may want to duplicate the portion of your /etc/lilo.conf that boots
your current kernel and change one to a different label and cp the
relevant files in /boot to a different name to make sure that you can
still boot your current kernel if you make an error with the new one.
If not using an RPM kernel, you probably need to uncomment the line that
tells the kernel where the boot files are (/boot).
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leon Garde)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Q: LILO on hddg (ide 5) can it be done?
Date: 28 Apr 2001 07:14:20 GMT
t i g s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi all
: For reasons too long to discuss, I have four IDE controllers in my PC with
: the following disks attached:
: IDE1/0 - CDROM
: IDE2/0 - CDRW
: IDE3/0 - ATA/100 15Gb HDD
: IDE3/1 - ATA/100 30Gb HDD
: IDE4/0 - ATA/100 20Gb HDD
: My question is simple to ask (but maybe tricky to answer :) :-
: Can I install LILO in the MBR of IDE4/0 if I use another boot-strapper
: (BootMagic) to point to it?
: My BIOS is clever enough to boot off any of the drives, I currently have it
: booting from IDE3/0. Attempts to install LILO to IDE4/0 so far have just
: resulted in the LI... hanging boot of death.
did these disks get inserted into BIOS ?
how are the disks partitioned ?
Did you make a small /boot on the start of the ide 4 ?
what was the limit .. 8 gigabytes .. I bet your bios has a 8 gigabyte
limit, which you didnt hit with IDE3/0
but you have hit it with IDE4/0, because of luck/badluck
lilo does what it always did, what more should it do ?
well it has got a menu with arrow keys and it has
lba32 for using the extended interrupt 13,
which means you can break the 8 gigabyte limit,
and it has "linear" for doing geometry translation at run
time instead of at install time.
so if you need lilo to have fancy graphics, you can add that.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:49:36 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:27:12 -0700, Omar Lakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks, I have a Presario 1700 with Linux RH 7.0 on it and everything
> is working just fine besides the network (and modem) connection.
>
> After some reseach I found out that my ethernet nic is a CONEXANT. I
> browsed through many sites looking for some suitable kernel module as a
> driver. No clue...
I don't know if it will help that that use to be called Rockwell. Does
'lspci -v' show anything for it?
> I have tried many drivers just randomly without success.
>
> Finally (and sadly) I came to the decision that I need to invest in a
> PCMCIA, plug it in and get hooked up to the net. Now I find myself
> drowned in an ocean of information and don't know what to buy exactly. I
> would like to have a combo Ethernet/Modem with the less painul
> installation, not exactlya a plug and play thing, but something that has
> been tested and is guaranteed by experience to work.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Please CC me the reply as I rarely have the chance to browse through the
> newsgroups.
I originally got a cardbus nic (Netgear FA510c) and then a modem (Zoom
2975) and the overall cost was about the same as a combo card. I am
unlikely to use both at the same time, but I do commonly use a CF or
SmartMedia pc card adapter at the same time as the nic.
The combo cards tend to have a 16-bit nic which uses more power and may
run hotter than cardbus, but you are unlikely to notice any speed
difference.
One advanatge of having a nic that fits in one slot is that you might be
able to set up different network settings for each slot. For example I
set up Win98se to use hard coded IP in slot 0 and dhcp for slot 1. I am
not sure how to do this in Linux (pcmcia schemes), but it is easy enough
to change network settings on the fly.
NOTE: Beware of controllerless (Winmodem) pc card modems. If a modem says
it works with Mac and DOS you are probably safe.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: "Mikael Chambon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Crontab
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:47:31 +0200
thanks
--
Mikael Chambon
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ICQ 10249913 || http://www.cronos.org
"Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Mikael Chambon wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Each time my cron daemon executes an entry, it send a mail to the
> > root account,
> >
> > I saw that in /etc/crontab there is a MAIL entry but even if I delete
> > this entry
> > and if I restart crond I've got the same problem..
> >
> > Does anyone know how to disable this anoying options ???
> >
> > Thanks for all
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mikael Chambon
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ICQ 10249913 || http://www.cronos.org
> >
> >
> >
>
> Here is the crontab for Slackware-7.1:
>
> # If you don't want the output of a cron job mailed to you, you have to
> direct
> # any output to /dev/null. We'll do this here since these jobs should
> run
> # properly on a newly installed system, but if they don't the average
> newbie
> # might get quite perplexed about getting strange mail every 5 minutes.
> :^)
> #
> # Run the 'atrun' program every 5 minutes
> # This runs anything that's due to run from 'at'. See man 'at' or
> 'atrun'.
> # Note that this is commented out since it's not needed if you run atd.
> But,
> # it's left as an example, since atd isn't strictly required. You can
> still
> # run it this way instead.
> #0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/sbin/atrun 1>
/dev/null
> 2> /dev/null
> #
> # This touches a filename in the temp directory so that you can see
> cron is
> # working if the timestamp is current. Comment it out if it bugs you.
> :^)
> # * * * * * touch /tmp/.crond_running
>
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From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: RedHat7.1 startup & System Commander 2000
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 02:48:10 +1000
I have successfully installed RedHat7.1 on my second physical HDD. SC2000
is my boot loader for Win2K and WinME on my first physical drive. RH boots
from the floppy. Lilo was not installed during the initial setup.
What can I do within Gnome (or at the command line) to allow the Linux
partition on my second HDD to be bootable such that SC2000 can detech and
load this OS ?
(can this partition be started without lilo?, I'd also like to avoid writing
to or using the MBR if possible).
I'd very much appreciate a step by step guide on doing this.
More details:
MBR: contains System commander
1st HDD: Two Win OSs
2nd HDD: 1st primary partition: Linux Swap: 2nd primary partition: Linux
native:
3rd extended logical partition: Fat32 - a data storage for
win apps.
Thanks
Win defector ... Linux newbie.
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From: "Muff Daddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:51:44 +0100
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
<snip>
However, I have
>> never come across a 56k ISA card. Are you sure its not a PCI card?
>
>That's an excellent question; I've never heard of a 56k
>ISA modem either. (Not that I'm certain there aren't
>any; I've just never heard of one before.)
<snip>
I have a 56k ISA modem...U.S. Robotics 56K Fax/Data Modem and it seems to
work fine, although it's giving trouble in linux...I haven't tried disabling
COM2 in the BIOS yet though.
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From: "Maarten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: HELP: Redhat 7.1 install (logs included)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:05:57 +0200
Hi,
I posted this question before, but now it has been updated with new log
information. I really hope this helps.
I wanted to install Linux Redhat 7.1 on my computer, so I saved up some
money and bought a 'new' 3.2 gb hdd (WD). I downloaded both the ISO files
and burned them on a CD. So far so good.
CD 1 is bootable and took me to the installation menu. Keyboard and Mouse
detected (cordless). I partitioned linux using the disk druid and made a 128
mb swap file and the rest (I checked use remaining space) linux native (29xx
mb). I did a custom installation and checked most of the packages, in total
1.1 gb. My diamond viper v550 card was detected and also my monitor works
fine. So far so good. I finally came to the part where the files were copied
and installed. First he started to format both partitions (native and swap
(128 mb))
and then things went wrong: half way the status bar i got the error : "Error
writing install image to disk. You probably run out of disk space". This is
not possible, cause i have 3 gb of empty space and only 1 gb of packages. I
figured it must be a bad block on my "new" hdd, so i took another hdd (which
was tested and ok.) but the same problem at the same time. Then i figured
something was wrong with the ISO file and downloaded both files from a
different location and burned them on a CD again. But after installing
again, same problem, same time. I tried selecting different packages and
changing my partitions (I added /boot (300mb) and enlarged my swap, but
still the same error). My configuration:
Intel p3-450 (slot 1)
256 mb memory
prim master : maxtor 8.4 gb (win2k pro is here)
prim slave : WD 3.2 gb (linux should be here)
sec. master : philips 40 x cdrom
sec. slave : philips CDrw
Diamond viper v550
Logitech cordless desktop
Eicon diva ISDN
When I do a "df" when the error appears, i get the following output:
Mount point 1k-blocks Used Available
/ 4030 1007 3023
/proc 0 0 0
/dev/pts 0 0 0
/proc/bus/usb 0 0 0
/mnt/source 656756 656756 0
/mnt/runtime 100168 85370 14798
/mnt/sysimage 2992336 21928 2970408
/mnt/sysimage/proc 0 0 0
When I look into the error messages i see the following information:
<4> Unable to identify CDrom format
<6> CDROM open failed
<4> hdc: command error: status=0x51 {DriveReady Seekcomplete error}
<4> hdc: command error=0x50
<4> end_request : I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1078404
I really want to install RH 7.1, so I hope someone can help me fix this
problem.
Hope to hear from you,
Grtnx, Maarten
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From: Jason Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizarre cascade of problems.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:01:20 +0100
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David wrote:
>
> "cat /dev/zero >/dev/hdaX"
>
> where hdaX is the partition you want to format. This will wipe the
> partition with "zero" then use mkfs.ext2 or mke2fs to format it back to
> ext2 format.
>
> man mkfs
> man mke2fs
>
> You might also read "man badblocks" if you want to see what it may find.
Tried the cat command, but it just told me "error writing output No Space
left on device" which was helpfull so I decided to try a different
Linux's installer to see if the same thing happened (Mandrake 7.0) and
crashed out at the same stage reporting:
VPS: Cannot open root device on 08:01
Kernel panic VPS Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
All of this worked identically before (I know I kept a log book of the
options I used to install) so I'm beginning to think its a more
fundimental problem with the hard disc.
What a way to spend a weekend.
-Jason Kirk
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