Linux-Setup Digest #447, Volume #21 Fri, 15 Jun 01 13:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Stateful Packet Filtering? ("Dae Kim")
Re: Can't ping, cant see the Net, Linux DOA ("Ian Whitehouse")
Re: Problem with Apache + PHP + mod_perl installation (Kit)
Re: "Stable" 2.4.X Linux Kernels
Workaround to get HP Colorado IDE tape drives to work under RH7.1 (2.4 (Leonard
Evens)
alsaconfig and suse 7.2/kernel2.4.4 (Bogislav Rauschert)
Re: Kickstart from within Linux? (ada2)
Re: USB mouse (Achim Linder)
acroread sceen goes yellow and horrible (Bill Unruh)
Re: RH 7.1: piece of garbage? (Vincent Fox)
Re: RH 7.1: piece of garbage? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Help to setup Apache sever (Craig Kelley)
Re: Make user settings similar to root setting (Craig Kelley)
Services ("Martin Greco")
Re: irq problems and no eth0 device (Craig Kelley)
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From: "Dae Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stateful Packet Filtering?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:41:42 -0400
What is Stateful Packet Filtering and Dynamic Stateful Packet Filtering?
Is that just mean I have option to specify which packets based one
"APPLICATIONS" I can permit? and dynamic is just automatically detect and
permit?
but aren't those applications uses their own port and if I block ports then
it would block THAT application effectively?
are they saying that I can check and permit port 80 and only allow internet
explorer packets and not netscape browsers?
confusing...
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From: "Ian Whitehouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't ping, cant see the Net, Linux DOA
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:45:18 +0100
"mack1er" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am a Linux newbie (as if you couldn't have guessed)
>
> Here's the deal. I am a Windows guy. I have 4 servers running W2K server
> here, all configured just fine. We have a Linux box (a fifth server) and I
> can't for the life of me bring it online.
>
> We have a bunch of static IP's, the Internet connection works fine and all
> that... We are running RH Linux 7.0...
>
> -I want to have the machine's IP as 24.151.xxx.yyy
Try ifconfig eth0, and see what ip address it's currently set to
If it's wrong try ifconfig eth0 24.151.xxx.yyy up (as far as I can remember)
> -The gateway is 24.151.ooo.ppp
route add default 24.151.ooo.ppp
> -the machine name is vegeta
> -domain -----> question 1--> does this have to be a registered Internet
> domain name, or a windows workgroup type domain?
> -subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
> -name severs are plugged in (let's leave those out)
>
> Question 1 - do we need to have a registered Internet domain name, or a
> windows workgroup type domain for "DOMAIN"?
Don't quite understand the question - what are you trying to get it to do?
File & print with/for Windows, or DNS related activities. The two are quite
seperate.
>
> Question 2 - Can we name the machine anything?
Alphanumerics and _'s should work fine
>
> Question 3 - do we need apache running to see this machine on the web?
>
Yes - if it's an out-of the box install it may already be running.
Try a ps -x and see if httpd turns up. If not, run /etc/init.d/httpd start
> Question 4 - what is the broadcast address and do we need that from our
> Internet provider or can that be anything?
Assuming you've got a full class C, broadcast _should_ be 24.151.xxx.254
If not, check with your ISP.
>
> Question 5 - did I miss something/leave anything out?
Are you running/considering running any firewalling, or do you have that
taken care of for you?
>
> Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!! Thanx!
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
I strongly suggest you take a look at the various HOWTO's on your machine or
at http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto , as they cover a whole range of
topics that may prove helpful.
Good luck,
Ian W.
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From: Kit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with Apache + PHP + mod_perl installation
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:04:24 GMT
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:19:55 +0200, "bored with TV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'd really recommend getting Apache Toolbox (search on freshmeat) if you
>want to install and compile from source rather than with RPMs. It'll do it
>all automagically and it does a pretty damn good job in its latest
>incarnations.
Wow. You're absolutely right - that program is *incredible*. I
downloaded it, ran the install program, and it did everything for me.
Not only that, it did it *correctly*, and apache worked the very first
time I tried with the correct modules installed. I can't think you
enough for referring me to it. :)
Kit
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"Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder,
But Vanity is a gift you give Yourself." -Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: "Stable" 2.4.X Linux Kernels
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:13:09 GMT
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:16:27 +1000, Stuart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>As a quick note try the Matrox site they have released LINUX DRIVERS!!!!!!!
>For G200 onwards from memory. With a version of Power Desk for Linux too!!!!
>
>To be honest I haven't installed them yet so can't say how well they work,
>will know better this afternoon.
You still have to get the kernel module from xfree's cvs site. Matrox
has the mga_drv and mga_hal xfree drivers, but they won't work with the
2.4.4 mga kernel driver.
>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>ome.com...
>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:29:25 -0700 (PDT), patrick
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I just updated my Linux kernel from 2.2.16-22 to 2.2.18 and
>> >life is good. (I was having a problem with the 2.2.16-22 kernel.)
>> >
>> >However, there are now 2.4.0-2.4.5 kernels. Are there any
>> >2.4.X kernels which are known to be better than others?
>> >
>> >Please advise.
>>
>> I'd say to go with the latest'n'greatest version. I currently run 2.4.4
>and
>> it works like a champ with one exception: it's matrox mga driver is out
>of date
>> and I had to go to xfree.org's cvs site to get a usable driver.
>>
>> The 2.4.x kernel is the most reliable software I've ever experienced in my
>25
>> years of computing.
>>
>
>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Workaround to get HP Colorado IDE tape drives to work under RH7.1 (2.4
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:10:54 -0500
Robert Davies wrote:
>
> Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> > Denis Leroy wrote:
> >>
> >> Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >> > HELP!
> >> >
> >> The solution is to use the device in SCSI emulation mode, it'll work just
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> modprobe ide-scsi
> >> modprobe st
> >>
> >> drive is now available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
> >>
> >> -denis
> >
> > I tried this, but attempts to access the device through mt or
> > tar respond that there is no such device. Of course, there is
> > such a device, but something can't find it. Any suggestions?
>
> Yes, you need to pass some options on boot in your lilo append line.
>
> To set a drive hdc to scsi emulation I have :
>
> append = "reboot=warm hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
>
> This is needed to tell the IDE drivers that they don't 'own' this drive.
>
> I had to put the modprobe ide-scsi in a file called 'boot.local' which is
> run before the rc?.d stuff.
>
> Rob
I think that as long as I don't try to access the tape drive first
as /dev/ht0 (and thus load the ide-tape module), then Denis's
fix works fine. I think I could just put this is rc.local
or just load the modules when I need them to use the tape drive.
I know several people had complained about not being able to use
the HP Colorado IDE tape drives under RH7.1. I've been trying
to track them down without success. I just came upon Denis's
solution by luck, and I think it should be better advertised.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Bogislav Rauschert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alsaconfig and suse 7.2/kernel2.4.4
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:32:41 +0200
Hi!
I've installed Suse 7.2 on my AMD K6-II machine with Creative SB16 (orig.).
After using Yast2 to get sound working, everything was fine (I never used
Yast2 before). But then I compiled a new kernel and now my sound does not
work anymore: instead I get these messages:
Loading driver:
Starting sound driver: snd-card-sb16 /lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp
/lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_dsp
/lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_special
/lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_special
/lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd.o: insmod snd-card-sb16 failed
failed
The modules are there (in .../misc/...). I re-installed alsa, but this
did not work, and using Yast2 again it sais, that the kernel modules could
not be loaded.
What can I do?
Thanks for any help!
Bogislav
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From: ada2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kickstart from within Linux?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:41:31 -0800
Wilfred Dee wrote:
> Is there any way possible to start Kickstart from within Linux? The
> reason I ask is because I need to run a script that determines some
> system information which is used to start Kickstart with a particular
> config file. I have to do it this way because I need to retrieve some
> information stored in the Non Volatile RAM and use that to determine
> which Kickstart config file to use. In the past I used a DOS boot
> disk and ran a script which in turn ran loadlin with the appropriate
> config file to start the Kickstart process. Is it possible to start
> Kickstart from within Linux? If not, is there any other way to work
> around the problem?
>
Is this what you want?
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manual/customization-guide/ch-kickstart2.html#S1-KICKSTART2-WHATIS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Achim Linder)
Subject: Re: USB mouse
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:38:54 +0200
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:00:37 +0200, Tozzy wrote:
>Is it posible to use a USB mouse under suse6.2?
Upgrade to kernel 2.2.18 or 2.2.19.
Achim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: acroread sceen goes yellow and horrible
Date: 15 Jun 2001 16:42:29 GMT
I am having problems with acroread on a number of my Linux systems.
In particular, although the intial page display is fine, if I scroll down, I often
get a yellow page with all of the letters looking like they have been eaten by
tiny moths. It is impossible to read in that state. sometime is I page down more,
it will clear up, sometimes not.
Has anyone seen this and have a cure?
Thanks.
Mandrake 6.1 ( and 7.2) Acrobat 4.05
xpdf does much better, but there are documents it cannot read.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Subject: Re: RH 7.1: piece of garbage?
Date: 15 Jun 2001 16:51:26 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>On 12 Jun 2001 07:20:49 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JZ) wrote:
*snip*
>I have also just installed RH7.1 and have been through a very very
>frustrating time. I would prefer FTP, Telnet, rlogin, NFS and lots of
>other services to be enabled by default and let me turn off what I
>don't want.
Which is the source of Denial of Service attacks all over the world.
People who want everything on by default, and cannot be bothered to
apply basic security. Their box gets rooted through imapd or named
and next thing you know someone's getting flooded with ping packets.
Default disable/deny is a GOOD rule.
>Fair enough, RH says they are all turned off BUT they provide no docs
>or release notes or anything about how to enable them because they
>also forgot to mention that the tool we used to use, "linuxconf", is
>no longer provided and what they don't tell you ANYWHERE is that it no
>longer works - in fact when I got my own copy and installed it, it
>corrupted my system and I had to reinstall.
Did you buy the retail version? Which docs did you look in?
www.linuxdoc.org? How about just running "setup" from a command
line and checking off the boxes for what you want enabled?
>After searching the Net I found an obscure reference to a tool called
>"ntsysv" which did exactly what was required and everything works
>great now (except Samba and Windows 2000 because of the password
>problem which is again very poorly documented).
No, it's in the Samba FAQ.
>RH7.1 is an excellent product but is it badly let down by missing some
>extremely important information in the documentation and particularly
>the release notes. This will turn off many potential uses
>unfortunately.
>RTFM? They ain't no FM for a lot of this stuff.
Sure there is, you just didn't see it. Just because you
didn't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1: piece of garbage?
Date: 15 Jun 2001 10:57:03 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On 12 Jun 2001 07:20:49 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JZ) wrote:
>
> >I just installed RH 7.1 in my laptop, looks cool initially. But bad
> >things happen:
> >
> >1. I instaalled FTP package in my laptop, but why 'ftp localhost'
> >doesn't work? Maybe security setting? I couldn't find any related
> >info, neither from RH web site. BTW, the 'firewall-config' from
> >'program->system' has nothing inside.
> >
> >2. Try to use my laptop's interface to install Oracle into another
> >Linux machine. Since Oracle installation requires X, so I do 'xhost +'
> >as root in both machines. But I still get the 'connection refused'
> >error. Of course it works when I try the same thing in another RH6.2
> >laptop.
> >
> >3. DON'T USE RH 7.1!!! RH 7.1 just messed up lots of stuff. Stick with
> >6.2 or slackware, of course you have to apply necessary patches.
> >
> >I just cannot find any docs about RH 7.1. No wonder RHAT drops like a
> >champ, it will be down to under $1.
> >
> >Anti-RH
>
> I have also just installed RH7.1 and have been through a very very
> frustrating time. I would prefer FTP, Telnet, rlogin, NFS and lots of
> other services to be enabled by default and let me turn off what I
> don't want.
No no no no no no no no NO! We had WAY too many people infected by
the wuftpd hole; everything should be OFF until it is turned on.
> Fair enough, RH says they are all turned off BUT they provide no docs
> or release notes or anything about how to enable them because they
> also forgot to mention that the tool we used to use, "linuxconf", is
> no longer provided and what they don't tell you ANYWHERE is that it no
> longer works - in fact when I got my own copy and installed it, it
> corrupted my system and I had to reinstall.
It is on the CD:
/7.1/i386/RedHat/RPMS > ls linux*
linuxconf-1.24r2-10.i386.rpm linuxconf-devel-1.24r2-10.i386.rpm
You can select it in the installer, or install it later if you want
to...
> After searching the Net I found an obscure reference to a tool called
> "ntsysv" which did exactly what was required and everything works
> great now (except Samba and Windows 2000 because of the password
> problem which is again very poorly documented).
The control-panel program has an (old) GUI tool to do this. Netconf
will do it after you install linuxconf.
> RH7.1 is an excellent product but is it badly let down by missing some
> extremely important information in the documentation and particularly
> the release notes. This will turn off many potential uses
> unfortunately.
>
> RTFM? They ain't no FM for a lot of this stuff.
There is if you buy it. ;)
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help to setup Apache sever
Date: 15 Jun 2001 10:58:11 -0600
Yanglong Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I want to set up an Apache server on RedHat Linux 7.1. I tryied the
> default settings. but it didn't work. I could see the default page on
> the same machine, but not on any other computers. What is the problem?
> Please help.
You setup a firewall and locked yourself out.
Run 'lokkit' as the root user.
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make user settings similar to root setting
Date: 15 Jun 2001 10:59:57 -0600
Jesper Petersen <jesperp**Delete**@nork.auc.dk> writes:
> Hi!
>
> I just changed from Mandrake 8.0 to Red Hat 7.1 reusing the kernel. When I
> start Emacs as root I get a green background with yellowcharacters (which I
> like), but when I start Emacs as a normal user I just get black characters on
> a white background.
>
> In order to get the green Emacs I have to start X as root, it's not enough to
> "su -" when I'm logged in as user.
>
> A similar thing happens when I start an Xterm, as root I get a black
> background and as a normal user I get a white one.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I make the root settings default for normal
> users?
>
> Doesn't know if it has anything to say, but to make X work for normal users I
> did the following:
>
> chown root /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> chmod -s /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>
> chown root /etc/X11/X
> chmod -s /etc/X11/X
How about:
cp ~root/.emacs ~otheruser
Of course, you *should* be using XEmacs; it is much better. :)
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Martin Greco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Services
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:13:13 -0300
How can I set which services to load at init without redhat's setup or
linuxconf?
--
-
Martin Greco
Soporte Residencial - int. 2001
Sinectis Rosario - Rioja 1659
Tel: 0810-999-0700
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: irq problems and no eth0 device
Date: 15 Jun 2001 11:02:30 -0600
Greger Haga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi there...
> I have some problems with interrupts and the NIC card etc..perhaps
> somebody can help out here
>
> The NIC is a Etherlink III 3c509B-TP
>
> The driver I attempt to use is called 3c509...didn't find any 3c509B-TP
> on linux
You'll probably want to go into your BIOS and where it says:
PnP (Plug and Play) OS Installed = Yes
Change it to 'No'; also you should be using the poorly-named '3c59x'
driver instead.
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
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