Linux-Setup Digest #451, Volume #21 Sat, 16 Jun 01 01:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Red Hat 7.1 Email Problems (Dave Uhring)
Re: New HD Install (Steve Martin)
Re: How do I get rid of Linux (Dave Uhring)
Re: Redhat Version Question (Steve Martin)
Re: /bin/login cannot be removed (Pantek Technical Support)
Re: prob with install LinuxRedHat ("Jeff S")
Re: Redhat Version Question (Rand Simberg)
Set Up on a Compaq Prolinea 466 (lanceman)
Re: Buying a CDR/RW (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Buying a CDR/RW (Stanislaw Flatto)
Enable inbound telnet on Mandrake 8.0? ("BethJon")
compiling qpopper and installing (gabriel)
Re: Enable inbound telnet on Mandrake 8.0? (Dave Uhring)
How do I upgrade to X 4.1.0? (Chris)
Re: httpd won't start at boot time (Dave Uhring)
Re: RPM 4 upgrade Problem :( (Dave Uhring)
Re: login (Dave Uhring)
Re: Stateful Packet Filtering? (Dave Uhring)
IP, netmask, and gateway Ip addresses (Carey Matthew Rozier)
Re: openldap 2.0.10 (Dean Thompson)
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.1 Email Problems
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:20:11 -0500
Tars Tarkas wrote:
> Three years ago I experimented briefly with Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1.
> I had no problem configuring email for Elm or Netscape (which I think
> I had to download, although I might be wrong about that). Today I have
> been struggling to get my email going with Red Hat 7.1 for over a week.
> I had it running briefly with Netscape but I must have forgotten what
> I did because I can't get it running again. I can send email, but I
> cannot receive it. Arrgh. I hate spending a week struggling with the
> same problem especially when I've solved it before. Maybe I'm getting
> dumber instead of smarter.
>
> What books shall I read? What HOWTO's? (I've already searched all of
> my many books, and the Linux Config HOWTO.) Now what? What files should
> I check for problems?
>
> I'm a little disappointed that Red Hat 7.1 with GNOME is
> giving me more trouble than Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1 from the command line.
> I thought the newer distributions were suppose to be easier?
>
> Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.
>
Read the RELEASE-NOTES on CD 1. After the security fiasco of RH-7.0, they
have tightened security on RH-7.1 immensely and sendmail will not accept
any mail except from localhost. The fix is easy enough and the
instructions are clear.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New HD Install
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:23:29 -0400
Colin wrote:
>
> Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'd make the new drive the master drive, re-jumper the Windows
> > drive as the slave, install Linux on the new drive, and set up
> > LILO to boot either OS. If you'd like some hand-holding through
> > the process, contact me off-list and I'll help any way I can.
>
> Have you tried this? I think Windows insists on being on the primary
> master drive.
It does not. I'm running Win98 ("upgraded" from Win95) on
the primary slave drive with no problems.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I get rid of Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:23:26 -0500
David.Anthony Grimshaw wrote:
> I have just installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 with the lnx4win option,
> the system starts but just freezes when I click on an icon, I have
> tried mandrake 7.2 with the lnx4win setup and that worked fine but
> with this new version there seems to be nothing inside the
> uninstall.bat and the uninstall.pif or the lnx4win or any visible
> means of deleting it from my system.
>
> If I delete the folder then grub will still be left how can I get rid
> of this grub? or really how can I delete Linux
>
> Without stress my life would be empty
>
To get back to a Microsoft standard boot loader, boot up a Windows
setup/rescue floppy and
A:> fdisk /mbr
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Redhat Version Question
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:53:29 -0400
Rand Simberg wrote:
> >The glibc version usually bites me on the bum more times than not. If
> >you really want a new version of something, you can grab the src.rpms
> >and
> >rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm
> >and then pray that it goes smoothly.
>
> Well, I tried that with modutils-2.4.6, and it seemed to go smoothly
> (i.e. no obvious errors). But when it was done, 'insmod -V' said that
> the version was still 2.3. Is there something else that I'm supposed
> to do after the rebuild? Like actually upgrade? If so, where did the
> rebuild process put the package?
"rpm --rebuild" builds a binary RPM from the source RPM. It puts
it in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/(arch) where (arch) is one of i386, i486,
etc. Look in i386 first, it's probably there.
Go to the directory where the binary RPM was put and do an
"rpm -Uhv pkg-name".
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:07:01 -0400
From: Pantek Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /bin/login cannot be removed
> That still does not protect you from a kernel module, which could be
> altering system calls, in such a way to defeat your tripwire run.
> You can mostly only detect problems, not prove their abscence :)
Anyone can download a kernel module (search google for "adore.o") that
loads itself and then hides itself and any specified file or program. I
beleive it also hides specified file modifications from md5sum and rpm -V
checks.
Hackers have also been known to cleverly hide backdoors within
/etc/rc.d/init.d scripts, and also in crontabs. Theres more.
I agree, once you've been hacked, the only way to be sure there isn't a
backdoor is to format the system and completely re-install. You can copy
back data files that aren't executables.
Richard Zack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RHCE
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From: "Jeff S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: prob with install LinuxRedHat
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:58:20 -0600
In article <9gcq2s$kmi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kristijan Schmidt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the partion prog says boot -> 1024
> on c: and on d: is w2kpro
> I wanted to install RedHat on e: which is 5GB big. I made a swap
> partition. I cant make a boot and / or a root part. it says boot -> 1024
> obviously its the win boot!
> Can you help me and/or understand me? Greetings from Germany
>
Kristijan,
Are c:, d: and e: all partitions of the same physical hard drive? If so,
you may be stuck, particularly if your computer's BIOS can't handle LBA32
addressing.
But if e: is in fact a separate hard drive, try this instead:
hdc1 /boot <--we'll put this first, so that it's below cylinder 1024
hdc2 swap
hdc3 /
Older BIOSes and older versions of Lilo don't work if /boot is above
cylinder 1024. Red Hat 7.1 however, *does* support LBA32 addressing and
*will* allow you to do this, but it involves a little extra work.
Jeff S
Boulder, Colorado
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Redhat Version Question
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 02:15:12 GMT
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:53:29 -0400, in a place far, far away, Steve
Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
>"rpm --rebuild" builds a binary RPM from the source RPM. It puts
>it in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/(arch) where (arch) is one of i386, i486,
>etc. Look in i386 first, it's probably there.
>
>Go to the directory where the binary RPM was put and do an
>"rpm -Uhv pkg-name".
Thanks--that's just the info I needed. It worked...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (lanceman)
Subject: Set Up on a Compaq Prolinea 466
Date: 15 Jun 2001 19:30:01 -0700
I'm a linux newbie and I'm having some problems getting redhat 7.1
installed on my Prolinea 466.
I just switched hard drives on it and used the compaq bios disk to
make sure that everything was recognized. The hard drive is a Western
Digital 3gb. When I run the boot disk I get a kernal panic. I know the
bios setup is run from the hard drive. My question is how, if
possible, do I overcome this? And is it worth trying.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Buying a CDR/RW
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:03:58 +1000
Julian Bordas wrote:
>
> The HD is on a different interface to the CDR. Do you know of any
> suppliers of SCSI CDR/RW ?
In my box sits a Matsushita SCSI drive, Teak, Sony and others have them too.
> BTW Wheere is Ulla Dulla?
It is Ulladulla, just 260k south of Sydney and 700k north of Melbourne.
Good fish and chips.
>
> Julian
Stanislaw.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Buying a CDR/RW
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:08:02 +1000
Julian Bordas wrote:
>
> The HD is on a different interface to the CDR. Do you know of any
> suppliers of SCSI CDR/RW ?
Me again.
Chance on aus.ads.computers.new. Suppliers of everything.
Used them few times.
> Julian
Stanislaw.
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From: "BethJon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enable inbound telnet on Mandrake 8.0?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 02:51:46 GMT
Hi
How do I enable telnet in Mandrake 8.0? It's a brand new install and I want
to be able to telnet into the machine from across the internet.
Tia,
Jon C
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From: gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compiling qpopper and installing
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:06:02 -0400
i have downloaded that latest version of qpopper from eudora and
uncompressed it into its own dir. when i type "./configure " i get an
error.. "checking for cc:no" checking for gcc:no" "no valid cc found in
path"
what the hell is a cc, is it perhaps refering to a compiler of some sort?
please give a hint and i can give it a whirl from there.. thanks tons
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enable inbound telnet on Mandrake 8.0?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:29:10 -0500
BethJon wrote:
> Hi
> How do I enable telnet in Mandrake 8.0? It's a brand new install and I
> want to be able to telnet into the machine from across the internet.
>
> Tia,
> Jon C
>
>
>
Enable telnet on a machine which is connected to the internet and very
shortly your system will be owned by some script kiddie. Use ssh.
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I upgrade to X 4.1.0?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 03:30:12 -0000
I currently have Red Hat 7.0 installed ... and I downloaded X 4.1.0 from
www.xfree86.org (one of their FTP mirrors) ... so, can somebody explain
what I do now? I copied all the files onto a temp. directory ... all I
know is that I need to do is exit X and type:
sh Xinstall.sh
But ... how do I quit X? It keeps coming back, and ... how do I get
everything back again? If I upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 from my current Red
Hat 7.0 installation ... will it cause my graphical login and GNOME to go
away? Somebody explain everything to me please! :-)
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: httpd won't start at boot time
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:35:13 -0500
Jeff Perry wrote:
> My httpd wasn't coming up at boot time, so I ran the SysV Init Editor and
> pulled httpd into the 'runlevel 3 start' window.
>
> When I reboot, I don't see httpd start, and I can't get to my web server.
> However, when I run SysV Init Editor, it shows httpd running in runlevel
> 3.
> If I try to stop the service, it fails (probably because it's not
> running), and if I then start it again, eveything is OK, and my server
> works fine.
>
> I obviously didn't go about installing httpd into my startup scripts
> successfully.
>
> My question is: Can someone give me hint on how to go about installing a
> daemon like httpd into my startup scripts?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
The SysV Init Editor doesn't show whether a daemon is running or not. Use
ps ax for that or ps -ef. Question is whether your default runlevel is 3
or 5. Maybe you want to put httpd into the startup for runlevel 5, too.
And be sure that other network services have started before starting httpd.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM 4 upgrade Problem :(
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:37:42 -0500
Dan Yocom wrote:
> Hi,
> Several moths ago, I upgraded to RPM 4.?? from the version that comes
> with Redhat 6.2 (3.??). The upgrade seemed to work fine however, when i
> install new packages, they install fine but they they are not listed a
> rpm -qa or in kpackage! How do i make my newly installed RPMs listed as
> installed? RPM is pointless if i can not uninstall Packages. please help
> me.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Yocom
>
# rpm --rebuilddb (?)
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: login
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:41:10 -0500
Steve wrote:
> I have a problem since I updated shadow package to newest version. When I
> login after authentication I have to wait 1 minute before I get the
> prompt. I straced the login and during the timeout period the command is
> issuing the following instructions:
>
> gettimeofday({...}, NULL) = 0
> 327 socket(PF_UNSPEC, 0 /* SOCK_??? */, 0) = 4
> 327 getpid() = 327
> 327 bind(0, NULL, 0) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, FIONBIO, 0xbfffd148) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 sendto(0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, 0) = 56
> 327 poll(0xbfffd11c, 0x1, 0x1388, 0x4015cca0, 0xbfffd11c) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffae24) = 0
> 327 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffae2c) = 0
> 327 close(4) = 0
> 327 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4
> 327 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|S_ISUID|S_ISGID|S_ISVTX|05613600056,
> st_rdev=makedev(47, 46), ...}) = 0
> 327 mmap(0x2e2f2e2e, 774778670, 0x2f002e00, 0 /* MAP_???
> */|MAP_GROWSDOWN|MAP_DENYWRITE|0x72702600, 1932485487, 0x2f666c65) =
> 0x40161000
> 327 close(4) = 0
>
> I was told it is something tied to the nameserver. (which is not running
> on my system).
>
> See if you can help
>
>
>
>
You might want to change your passwords so that /etc/shadow has passwords
created with the new package.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stateful Packet Filtering?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:45:13 -0500
Dae Kim wrote:
> 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...
>
>
>
>
You might want to read this:
http://www.openlysecure.org/content/html/www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.txt
BTW, it's not available for Linux.
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From: Carey Matthew Rozier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP, netmask, and gateway Ip addresses
Date: 16 Jun 2001 03:50:22 GMT
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: openldap 2.0.10
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:34:30 +1000
Hi Thomas,
> Hello,
> i installed OpenLdap 2.0.10 and tried to create the initial
> database from the following ldif file:
Have you checked the appropriate LDAP documentation which can be found at
http://www.linuxdoc.org. There is an entire document describing how to use
the LDAP system.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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