Linux-Setup Digest #249, Volume #21 Thu, 17 May 01 14:13:11 EDT
Contents:
What am I doing wrong with iptables? ("George Adams")
Re: Redhat 7.1 client pc dns problem... ("KW")
Re: Dell Optiplex 110 or Call Linux (Michael Meissner)
Re: OPENSSH sftp HELP PLEaSE!!! (Patrick Lamb)
Sendmail + Gateway ("Bruce E. Varney")
Installing Linux (Ammon)
Re: Simple question about slrnpull-slrn (Rudy Taraschi)
Re: num lock ("ne...")
Re: X Screen Adjustment ("ne...")
sendmail problem was due to configuration (Yidao Cai)
Re: Redhat 7.1 client pc dns problem... (Anthony PIRON)
Re: PCMCIA Modem and Linuix ("TitoAnee")
Re: IDS9.21UC2/Redhat 7.1: share library libncurses.so.4 not found (Ronald Cole)
Re: filename contains ":" characters in scp? (Colin Watson)
Problems setting up ramdisk ("Oscar Ricardo Silva")
Newbie ? on Install from CD ("Nick T")
Re: Redhat 7.1: Whay linuxconf not run on KDE? (Mark Schlegel)
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From: "George Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: What am I doing wrong with iptables?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:13:38 -0400
I'm using a slightly modified version of gShield
(http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html) to set up a firewall for my RH 7.1
Linux box, which also serves as the internet gateway for a small LAN. The
linux box has 3 network interfaces: eth0, the NIC that connects to the
outside world; eth1, the NIC that connects to the local LAN (192.168.1.*),
and ppp0, a dial-up modem connected to the serial port.
The box has a static IP address of, say, 11.22.33.44 . The DSL router
connected to the computer is 11.22.33.43 . The broadcast address is
11.22.33.45
I've been able to tweak gShield to do a lot of what I need, but I'm still
having several problems, even after trying to comprehend the IPTABLES HOWTO
and NAT HOWTO.
(btw, the output of "iptables -L ..." is at the bottom of this message)
1) Every 30 seconds or so, an entry like this appears in /var/log/messages:
May 17 10:36:38 www kernel: gShield / default drop: IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:c1:7a:93:a1:13:08:00 SRC=11.22.33.43
DST=11.22.33.45 LEN=72 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=22423 PROTO=UDP SPT=520
DPT=520 LEN=52
My guess is that the DSL router is sending out a broadcast packet to see
who'll respond, and my Linux box is seeing the packet, then dropping it.
First of all, does the dropping of this packet mess anything up? (i.e. will
the router eventually decide the Linux computer is not on and stop routing
traffic to it?) More importantly, what changes do I need to make to
iptables to allow the Linux machine to respond to this packet (and get rid
of the errors in /var/log/messages)?
2) When I was setting up my PPP connection using the HOWTO, I put the
following in my /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 file:
11.22.33.44:192.168.1.254
which (if I understand correctly) assigns the person dialing into the linux
box an IP address of 192.168.1.254 . (the idea was so that person would be
on the same LAN as the rest of the computers in our internal network). When
someone connects, the following appears in /var/log/messages:
May 13 22:30:25 www mgetty[14828]: data dev=ttyS0, pid=14828, caller='none',
conn='38400',
name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', user='/AutoPPP/'
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
May 13 22:30:25 www pppd[14828]: pppd 2.4.0 started by a_ppp, uid 0
May 13 22:30:25 www pppd[14828]: Using interface ppp0
May 13 22:30:25 www pppd[14828]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: NET4: Linux IPX 0.46 for NET4.0
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva,
Inc.
May 13 22:30:25 www kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
May 13 22:30:28 www ppp(pam_unix)[14828]: session opened for user foobar by
a_ppp(uid=0)
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: user foobar logged in
May 13 22:30:28 www kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
May 13 22:30:28 www kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: found interface eth1 for proxy arp
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: local IP address 11.22.33.44
May 13 22:30:28 www pppd[14828]: remote IP address 192.168.1.254
May 13 22:30:29 www kernel: gShield / INVALID drop: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=
SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.2 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=52507
PROTO=ICMP TYPE=10 CODE=0
Here it appears that gShield thinks ppp0 shouldn't be using an address of
192.168.1.254 (or else it's not happy about the destination address of
224.0.0.2). The only workaround I could come up for this was to find the
part of gShield that added this rule:
RESERVED all -- 192.168.0.0/16 0.0.0.0/0
and delete it, then add this iptables rule:
> iptables -A STATEFUL -m state --state INVALID -j ACCEPT
I'm sure that's not the best way to solve the problem. What else can I do?
Finally, here is a big ol' list of my iptables rules. Thanks very, very
much to anyone who can help!
============================================================================
======================
> iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
TAINTED all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 unclean
ACCEPT all -- 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.0/24
RESERVED all -- 10.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 172.16.0.0/12 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.1 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.2 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.4 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.5 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.6 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.9 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.13 0.0.0.0/0
RESERVED all -- 224.0.0.15 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg
30/min burst 5
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp
spts:32769:65535 dpts:33434:33523
DNS udp -- 22.33.44.55 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53
DNS udp -- 22.33.44.56 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:21
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:20
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:80
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:80
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:443
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:443
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:25
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:110
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:110
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:22
PUBLIC udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 udp dpt:22
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:23
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:113
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:79
PUBLIC tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 11.22.33.44 tcp dpt:123
STATEFUL all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
STATEFUL all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain ACCEPTnLOG (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0
level 5 prefix `gShield / accept: '
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain BLACKLIST (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0
level 5 prefix `gShield / blacklisted drop: '
REJECT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with
tcp-reset
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain BLOCK_OUT (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain CLIENT (14 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain CLOSED (0 references)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0
level 5 prefix `gShield / closed port drop: '
REJECT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with
tcp-reset
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
=============================================
> iptables -L -t nat -n
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- 192.168.1.0/24 0.0.0.0/0
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
=============================================
> iptables -L -t mangle -n
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID
LOG level warning prefix `gShield / INVALID drop: '
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp-data
TOS set Maximize-Throughput
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http TOS
set Maximize-Throughput
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:telnet
TOS set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:domain
TOS set Minimize-Delay
TOS udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:domain
TOS set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:nntp TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:pop3 TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:imap TOS
set Minimize-Delay
TOS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ircd TOS
set Minimize-Delay
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 client pc dns problem...
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:49:50 -0500
make sure named is running....
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anthony PIRON"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have replaced mandrake 7.0 with redhat 7.1 on my server which do
> masquerading. Under
> mandrake all worked fine but now my client pc cannot make any dns lookup
> (but I'm able to
> ping an external ip in dot notation and I can query dns on server).
> The caching name name server seems work correctly:
>
> [root@alenvers /root]# dig -x 127.0.0.1 ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59739 ;; flags: qr
> aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR localhost.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS localhost.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> localhost. 86400 IN A 127.0.0.1
>
> ;; Query time: 45 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Thu May 17 14:50:09 2001
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 93
>
>
> but for other request it fails:
>
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> Remark: with other nameservers it's the same thing.
>
> I suspect changes in the 2.4 kernel beeing the source of the problem. I
> use ipchains and not iptables.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thank you
>
> -- Anthony
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Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex 110 or Call Linux
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 May 2001 12:02:41 -0400
Edward Iglesias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After having an incredibly frustrating call with a Dell tech support person
> who told me to "call linux" I am doing just that. It seems that Dell does
> not support any of its systems sold with Windows 98 if you choose to upgrade
> to Linux. This being the case, is there anyone out there with experience
> putting Linux Redhat 6.2 on a Dell Optiplex 110. Xconfigure wont read the
> correct vga card (intel 810E Chipset) and the screen is apparently too new.
> I have ordered 7.0 but being an educational institution things go a bit
> slowly around here. Any help would be appreciated.
(note, I work on GCC, and not Linux, so the following is own opinion...)
I believe the XFree86 (3.3.6 if memory serves) that shipped with 6.2 did not
support the i810 chipset. The XFree86 (4.0.3) that ships with Red Hat 7.1,
which was recently just released claims to support the i810 chipset. I don't
recall offhand if the XFree86 (4.0.1?) that ships with Red Hat 7.0 supports the
i810.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Patrick Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: OPENSSH sftp HELP PLEaSE!!!
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:08:10 GMT
dubcaller wrote:
>
> HI ALL
>
> Here's my problem:
>
> 1. I have files on a Windows 2000 platform. I want to be able to have my
> employees download these files via secure FTP from anywhere on the NET.
>
> 2. I have a Linux Red Hat 7.0 computer acting as my router. IPCHAINS and
> ipmasqadm
>
> 3. I've got openssh server installed as well. (that's the as far as I got,
> I'm still a newbie)
>
> Questions:
> 1. Do I need SAMBA?
> 2. Does anyone know if there's any good windows openssh clients?
> 3. Where do I go from here?
If I understand you correctly, you want to have people use ssh to
download your files through an openssh server from your Winlose 2000
box. I'm not aware of a 'doze openssh server, so I'll assume that's
running on your Linux box.
(1) You will need to install samba so the Linux box can read the shared
disk on the 'doze box.
(2) Other posters have responded here. No openssh clients, but
interoperable ssh clients are available.
(3) Install samba. Read the docs. Set up file sharing between your
'doze host and the Linux server. Tighten security on the firewall so
you don't share your internal net with the whole world. (I'd be tempted
to reject all ports except tcp/udp 22. This would force your users to
use ssh instead of insecure protocols like ftp). Make sure all your
potential users are set up as users on the router/firewall. Decide how
you're going to do authentication, generate openssh keys if necessary,
and distribute to your users.
Pat
--
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
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From: "Bruce E. Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail + Gateway
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:47:35 GMT
I can't seem to get sendmail set up with a gateway on my Linux box
(RH7). Here is my situation:
PC running W98 on the net (ISP requires some custom interface
software).
Port forwarder on PC forwards port 25 to smtp host on net
Set up sendmail using mailconf: gateway=192.1.1.3 (W98 machine's
local IP), Don't use DNS
The port forwarding works fine. I can do a "telnet 192.1.1.3 25" from
the linux box and all works fine. But when I try to do:
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from the linux box, It gets stuck in the mail queue, complaining:
Deferred: Name server: 192.1.1.3: host name lookup failure
What's going on? I configured sendmail to not use DNS (and yes, I did
apply the changes and re-start sendmail). Why can't I get this to
work??????????
Bruce
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From: Ammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:30:04 -0000
I have a two part question.
1) How do you install Linux without completely reformatting (and losing
all old data) your computer?
2) How do you create a dual-boot system so that you can choose which OS
you want your PC to boot up?
Thanks!
--Ammon
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rudy Taraschi)
Crossposted-To: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: Simple question about slrnpull-slrn
Date: 17 May 2001 16:34:15 GMT
HateLinux wrote:
> I used slrnpull yesterday for the first time. However, instead
> of downloading just the headers so I could examine them offline with
> slrn or whatever, it downloaded the whole messages.
That's the way slrnpull works.
> I downloaded megs of unwanted binaries, and loads of messages about
> hardware that does not interest me at all.
In order to minimize this, you can set up a killfile in slrnpull so
that it doesn't download stuff that you don't want.
> So how would I do my "agent" thing with slrn/slrnpull ?
There are currently three ways of doing this that I know of:
a) run Agent under Wine [1] in linux - it works!
b) download thunder7's slrn patch [2] which allows you to slrnpull
headers only, mark the interesting ones, and slrnpull only these
selected bodies only
c) run leafnode [3] as a local newsserver, which also supports delay
body
Hope this helps!
[1] http://www.winehq.com
[2] http://www.xs4all.nl/~thunder7
[3] http://www.leafnode.org
--
Rudy Taraschi - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: num lock
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:06:56 GMT
On May 17, 2001 at 13:35, John Nicholls eloquently wrote:
>In article <pcIL6.60037$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brian Crouch"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> How do I make num lock on a default on boot?
>
>Look for a program numlockx which is designed for just this purpose.
This only works for X. For console add the following to
your /path/to/rc.local
INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY
do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners
always spell better than they pronounce.
-- Mark Twain
1:05pm up 18 days, 18:59, 9 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Screen Adjustment
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:13:07 GMT
On May 17, 2001 at 06:33, Kevin Reeder eloquently wrote:
>How can I adjust my virtual screen to lock to the size of my actual
>display? I've looked at xvidtune and tested some configurations but that
>doesn't address this problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Yes with one caveat: the size of your virtual screen
will be the largest listed resolution on the Modes
line listed. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and
remove the virtual lines in your Screen section.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
JAPAN is a WONDERFUL planet -- I wonder if we'll ever reach their level
of COMPARATIVE SHOPPING ...
1:10pm up 18 days, 19:05, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: sendmail problem was due to configuration
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:16:36 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I figured out the sendmail problem. It was due to default
configuration in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. Just remove the
line started with DAEMON_OPTIONS and recompile it.
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From: Anthony PIRON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 client pc dns problem...
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:30:16 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks but I found. It was the default policy of redhat firewall which
inhibits the
dns query.
KW wrote:
>
> make sure named is running....
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From: "TitoAnee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Modem and Linuix
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:28:50 GMT
HI All
Now PCMCIA works after using PCMICA Card Server 3.1.24 .
Warm Regads
Titoanee
"TitoAnee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:y8HM6.87053$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have linux version 2.2.17, Redhat 6.1 and Pcmica Card Server 3.1.25 and
I
> getting follwing with modem card.
>
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.25
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: kernel build: 2.2.17 #14 Wed Sep 27
> 09:36:38 EDT 2000
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: options: [pci]
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: Intel i82365sl A step rev 00
> ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: host opts [0]: none
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: host opts [1]: none
> May 16 18:57:56 TitoAnee kernel: ISA irqs (default) =
> 3,5,7,9,10,12,14,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
> [root@TitoAnee /dev]# May 16 18:57:57 TitoAnee cardmgr[1365]: starting,
> version is 3.1.25
> May 16 18:57:57 TitoAnee cardmgr[1365]: watching 2 sockets
> May 16 18:57:58 TitoAnee cardmgr[1365]: initializing socket 0
> May 16 18:57:58 TitoAnee cardmgr[1365]: socket 0: Serial or Modem
> May 16 18:57:58 TitoAnee kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff:
> clean.
> May 16 18:57:58 TitoAnee cardmgr[1365]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
> May 16 18:57:59 TitoAnee cardmgr[1365]: bind 'serial_cs' to socket 0
> failed: Operation not permitted
>
> Any suggestions:
>
> Warm Regards
> TitoAnee
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.informix
Subject: Re: IDS9.21UC2/Redhat 7.1: share library libncurses.so.4 not found
Date: 17 May 2001 10:29:37 -0700
"Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying IDS2000 9.21.UC2 on Redhat 7.1 today.
> After successful to initialize the engine with oninit -iv, I realize
> onspaces and onmonitor not working even though onstat and oninit working.
Scuttlebutt last week was that IDS9's oninit would die attempting to
load a shared library on RHL7.1... How are you special? Are you on a
stock system?
--
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Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: filename contains ":" characters in scp?
Date: 17 May 2001 17:22:30 GMT
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.setup Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Believe me, his bug reports are no more useful. When half a dozen
>> different complaints are raised in the one long rant of a report (e.g.
>> Debian bug #47000), the inclination is to fix something else instead.
>
>That was uncalled for, colin. Bug 47000 looks kosher to me!
It is a kosher bug, yes. Unfortunately, it's also several bugs (some of
which I agree with and some I don't) rolled up into one, together with
lots of sarcastic remarks. Nothing can be closed until the whole thing
is done, which makes tracking very difficult for the maintainer (i.e. I
can't do what I do for every other bug, put closes: #nnnnn against the
fix in the changelog, and have the bug tracking system remember the rest
of it for me).
And, really - if you had thirty-odd open bug reports, and one of them
contained stuff like "What does it mean if not nothing? Please remove
this GUFF!", would you be inclined to fix that one first? It's the best
way of making a non-critical bug fall to the bottom of the pile.
I guess I'm trying to make a point (well, perhaps overstated - I
apologize for going off half-cocked) about bug reporting, just as about
helping people on newsgroups - making sarcastic remarks about the
package or its maintainer is almost always the least productive thing
it's possible to do, particularly when the maintainer is a volunteer.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html - I get it wrong
from time to time as well, but it's worth remembering that there's an
ordinary person at the other end (usually) trying to fix it.
> It is very "unsightly" to users. It undoes the work of persuading them
> to read manpages in the first place.
>
>I still see problems with man-db. I have no idea why, but occasionally
>it just won't see manpages that I can read with nroff. The only cure is
>to su - man, and run man-db.
'man --debug' is the key to a useful bug report here. Some code related
to this will be changing soon anyway.
man-db is indeed broken in many interesting ways. I hope and believe
that it's a lot less broken now than it used to be (assuming you're
running testing/unstable).
>Have a look at the report and see if it makes more sense to you now!
>Are you the maintainer? I remember a conversation partly in german
>with the author, whoever it is.
The previous maintainer passed away a couple of months ago, and I took
the package over then. Believe me, I have read the report recently. :)
>I went on to complain about the documentation, pointing out what made
>it so wonderfully incomprehensible. Has that been fixed ...
I rewrite bits and pieces as I see them. On one point I agree with
Fabrizio - since I have lots of code to fix and/or rewrite, any offers
to help improve the documentation will be appreciated. Note that
Fabrizio's comment that the manual only has a verbatim licence is
inaccurate, so the whole thing doesn't need to be rewritten.
>> 'tar cf - ... | ssh remote-host tar xvf -' can be a useful way to get
>> around scp's (apparent) lack of an escape.
>
>Yes, good idea. But if you're scp'ying a directory, there won't be any
>trouble with the filenames inside.
Assuming that the directory name doesn't contain colons, of course, and
you could always call tar on a single filename too.
Cheers [followups set to poster, as this is getting onto a different
topic],
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"The game is on again / A lover or a friend
A big thing or a small / The winner takes it all" - Abba
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From: "Oscar Ricardo Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems setting up ramdisk
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:38:43 -0500
I've been asked to create an 800MB ramdisk so that a database can be copied
into it. After some initial problems, mostly with syntax, I've been able to
create a 400MB ramdisk but not 800MB. Here is what I do for the 400MB:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=400000
/sbin/mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 400000
mount /dev/ram /usr/ram
and this works if I issue the commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Here is what
happens when I try to create the 800MB ramdisk:
[root@doris /root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=800000
800000+0 records in
800000+0 records out
[root@doris /root]# /sbin/mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 800000
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
100128 inodes, 200000 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
7 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
14304 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
[root@doris /root]# mount /dev/ram /ram
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/ram,
or too many mounted file systems
Some info on the machine I'm working on:
Operating system: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Dual processor Pentium III 933Mhz
Asus CUV4X-DLS
1GB RAM
2 20GB drives
1 60GB drive
Any information would be appreciated
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From: "Nick T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie ? on Install from CD
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:48:39 -0400
I have download the 2 iso files to install Red Hat 7.1 and burned them onto
a CDR. My pc will not boot to the cd. I have the bios set to boot to the cd
first but it does not see the cd as bootable. I also tried to download the
boot.img file and that does not help when burned on the cd with the iso
file. Any help you could provide in how to install off a bootable cd would
be great. Thanks.
Nick
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From: Mark Schlegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1: Whay linuxconf not run on KDE?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:45:53 -0400
Damaen wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Luke Vogel"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There is a good reason that linuxconf is deprecated ... it's broken.
> >
> > There is no way known that it could keep up with the updates and
> > improvements of the packages that it was supposed to administer.
> >
>
> Ok... I'm confused... linuxconf works on my box, with no mention of being
> deprecated, nslookup was the only program I noticed proclaiming that. So
> basically this is one big fat... HUH??
see section #17 near the bottom of the RedHat 7.1 manual:
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manual/release-notes/s1-system.html
"17.Deprecated Packages - the following packages are deprecated, and could
disappear
in a future release:
a.AfterStep
b.Netscape 4.x
c.Qt 1.x
d.KDE v1 compatibility libraries / build environment
e.elm
f.linuxconf
g.ncpfs
h.mars_nwe"
Mark
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