Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] bizarre by "Jenn V."@simegen.com > Except that it looks like the problem occured while she was > offline. Well, it's possible that it happened when she was online, and she only noticed next time she dialed up... Even so, the logs disappearing really looks like a cracker attack. rming the logs is a simple and inelegant but effective way of making it much harder to track down the source. Only other thing I can think of that might cause this strange behavior is the disk filling up, in which case logrotate might be trying to rotate the logs, but ending up losing them because it doesnt have space to rotate in. In general, if you're using a stable os, and it goes nuts, its because of external forces, such as you doing something bad as root, a breakin, or hardware problems. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Well, if the person who got it also killed syslogd (which of course they would), she wouldn't've noticed until it dialed again. C Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jenn V. wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:42:12 +1100 > From: Jenn V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system. > > > > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > > > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > > > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it > > > said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." > > Except that it looks like the problem occured while she was > offline. > > Oh, I admit that it's possible that someone set things up while > she was online to crash when she next dialled, but that's really > strange behaviour to find as the result of a hack. > > > Jenn V. > -- > "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor. >This is women's work!" > Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ > > Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Hi! I'm kind of new to the list, and have been lurking, but it's time to get out and say hi! Security is one of the most intriguing aspects of the internet to me, but I like to keep it to the hobby level so I can still enjoy it (read that: I haven't learned much about encryption. heh.) Anyhow, I suggest the following: 1. Unplug your modem or ethernet card or both 2. If your are running Red Hat Linux, run rpm -Va >rpmlist and check that out for a few things: MD5 sums missing files added files version numbers of files that are on www.redhat.com/errata for your release. If you have Red Hat Linux, and you've updated everything from the errata and you still got hacked, you got hit by something that's not known about by the general public.If that's the case, I would suspect the following things: service daemons that run as root setuid root files if you have users on your server a silly teenager who might remove your log files from an open rxvt while you're not looking just to freak you out (it's happened to me! (: ) If you're not running Red Hat, it will be a little more difficult. Check for suid root files that may have been installed. Run netstat to see what kind of connections are outbound. Check /etc/inetd.conf to see what services are running, and find out what version they are and check bugtraq to make sure they're not listed. Do ps aux |grep root to see what's running. It's good to know what got ya so you can plug the hole. Take a look at the Firewall HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html for preventative measures. Try your best to find out how it happened, but in any case, I suggest you 3. re-install. Even with RPM and other tools, it's not hard to hide a daemon or two, or maybe something lurking in your crontab, or something in a config file that will be accessed by a service running as root, or or or... (: Always paranoid, Cindy Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:14:14 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > > Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system. FIRST check your > daemons, make sure something isn't running that SHOULDN'T be. > THEN check to make sure that what IS running is the proper file > (replacement of a valid program with a trojan). THEN check your > outbound mail for something that shouldn't be going out (not sent > by you or your users (/var/spool/mail from memory, varies from OS > to OS though). > FIRST, change your root password AFTER disconnecting from the > net, then make sure nothing goes out after that timestamp (don't > need to send a hacker your new password). > Good luck, > Steve > > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it > > said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." I said "Uh" and > > tried again, a few times. I got the same result. I cd'd to /var/log, and > > tehre were a total of 3 files there. And I believe they were all > > directories. It got too weird, so I rebooted. I did it twice, because > > sendmail was taking ages to start and giving bizarre errors. So I told it > > to stop running sendmail and httpd on startup, since I don't even use them > > anyway. After the reboot, /var/log/messages reappeared and was fine and > > ppp worked fine. So then the problem was that my tty (mingetty) was set > > to 'dumb' instead of vt100. I can't figure that one out. I also > > periodically get messages (write style) from syslogd in assorted garbage. > > It is weird high ascii stuff, i think. There is something about 'not able > > to piece together parts of message.' This all started sometime between 8 > > and 10 pm tonight. I am running ip masquerading and ipchains over a ppp > > dialup. Talking to a group of friends who use linux wasn't helpful, > > except in stopping sendmail and httpd on boot. > > I'm getting close to going "gyagh" and hitting it. Help? > > > > Conni > > > > -- > > So they linked their hands and danced 'round in circles and in rows. > > -Loreena McKennitt > > > > http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~ccovingt > > > > http://www.angelfire.com/anime/Galadriel > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > > > > > > > __ > NetZero - Defenders of the Free World > Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
On 0, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it > said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." I said "Uh" and > Looks like you have been hacked. Backup your important files and reinstall linux and then tighten the system. Then restore your backed up files. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <= http://www.smcinnovations.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Multiple Languages on one box
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:19:32AM -0600 or thereabouts, Stephan Zaniolo wrote: > I'm running Red Hat 6.0, kernel 2.2.12, with October GNOME and XFree86 > 3.3.4. I would like to setup one user account that would be all French ... This sounds interesting :) I don't think you need to do it on a separate machine. But you might have to recompile programs you want to speak French to you to include their various language support options. I don't know whether all programs come with support for different languages turned on or not. I think one of the things you need to find out about is the 'locale' property. As I understand it, changing your locale alters things like the language and the character sets. (I should note I don't understand it very well, of course: I just see regular "How do I turn on language?" questions on a couple of other mailing lists and locale crops up all the time in that. :)) There are several entries in the man pages about locale (man -k locale). I think you want to do 'man 7 locale', as just 'man locale' gives me info about a Perl command called that. It's an environment variable, I -think. Many GNU programs have at least some support for different languages. Have a look in /usr/doc for directories which have a file called ABOUT-NLS in them (a lot of the Gnome ones do, for example). Looking at the little chart in that file, it mentions twenty-seven packages and twenty-six of them have support for the French language. One of them is bash, which is probably handy. That's dated December 1997, so I would expect there's more now. > to do this (or do I need to set it up on a separate machine :^( ? Is there > a HOW-TO or something available? Is there any place I could find an image > of the French keyboard mapping? There is indeed a French-HOWTO. You might want to wait until you've learned French to read it, however... :) Of course, you could always feed it to Babelfish! It lives in /usr/doc/HOWTO, if you installed the HOWTOs. Or it lives on your CD or at www.linuxdoc.org if you didn't. If you installed documentation in all the different languages, you'll also find a number of files kicking around with the suffix (urrr...) .fr (in the man pages directory, for example) and in the po (don't ask me why, but po is the name of the directory involved) directory in the sources of programs. po is where translations live. I have been told what it stands for, but I forget :) As for images of the keyboard mapping, I have completely forgotten where the stuff that defines what letter comes up when you hit a key on the keyboard comes, but you can get a picture of a French keyboard by downloading, compiling, and installing 'xkeycaps' by Jamie Zawinski. It's actually a graphical front-end to 'xmodmap', for altering your keyboard, but part of what it does is to draw a big picture of whatever keyboard you ask for, with what's on the keys where. I don't think it would be very useful if you're not using X, but it will give you an idea: I count seven different French keyboard layouts in the current list. (It's worth getting anyway, because it's very cool :) I turned my caps lock key into a 'spare' control key a while back with it, and now my control key has started sticking, I'm very glad I did! The caps lock key has now justified its presence on my keyboard: a backup control key in a much more sensible place...) > One additional item that may complicate this, my video card is not fully > supported yet under XFree (It should be under 4.0), so I need to boot into > runlevel 5. (Changing to runlevel 3 from 5 tends to send the card into > suspend mode and won't come out without a reboot. So changing XFree config > file and restarting X every time is not an option.) I don't think that any of this would require too much messing about with X. But I've never tried it... Bonne chance! Telsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Subba Rao wrote: > On 0, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it > > said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." I said "Uh" and > > > > Looks like you have been hacked. Backup your important files and reinstall linux > and then tighten the system. Then restore your backed up files. > > Subba Rao > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ > > => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <= > http://www.smcinnovations.com > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org Well, sigh whatever the cause, do a reasonable restore. As mentioned previously mentioned change your root password off line etc. Check the crontab for for sure. Make sure you know what at and cron run. Be one of those loose people, who would set cron.deny and at.deny to stop nobody, there was no problem. But the climate was different then. But it is also possible with one or two errors in something, that look totally innocent and to clobber yourself too. If there is extensive logging facilities, anything that looks like C-2 security, turn it on and watch. Read the logfiles. This can be illustrative. In fact have them also daily snuck to a safe place too. Then compare the backups against the current. But sigh, certainly rm-ing files that something thinks it can't do without an easy way to wreak havoc as said before. In all system security work so far, is how I caught anyone, known or unknown trying to break in to sites, was via logfiles and watching things. Have Fun and Good Luck, Sends Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Cynthia Dale wrote: > 2. If your are running Red Hat Linux, run rpm -Va >rpmlist and check that > out for a few things: > MD5 sums > missing files > added files You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- they're just not in the database, so they won't get checked. You might want to find setuid/setgid binaries with 'find / -perm +6000' and ensure that they're ok: find / -perm +6000 > /tmp/suidfiles rpm -qf `cat /tmp/suidfiles` 2>/tmp/nopkgsuid | sort | uniq >/tmp/suidpkgs In /tmp/nopkgsuid you'll find the files that are suid and don't belong to a package (check those carefully). With 'rpm -V `cat /tmp/suidpkgs`' you can verify the packages that hold suid files. > If you're not running Red Hat, it will be a little more difficult. Check If you're not running a distro with RPM ... (almost anything except Slackware, Debian, Corel (Debian derivative) and Stampede IIRC). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] IRQ
Hello, I am a new user to Linux. How do I custmomize the IRQ settings on Linux. I am running Linux on my IBM I Series 1400 Laptop with Pentium 300 and 128 MB RAM. I have USB (webcam connected to this), two serial ports, port entender, one external PS2 mouse support, sound card Yamaha. I seem to have some problem with sound card. When I invoke sound, the machine hangs giving the message IO port 270 in use and then crashes. The only thing I can do is to do a cold boot. Any clues? Sriram __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:59:10PM +0100 or thereabouts, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- [snip] > If you're not running a distro with RPM ... (almost anything except > Slackware, Debian, Corel (Debian derivative) and Stampede IIRC). I knew I bookmarked these for a reason. They do include using rpm to verify packages and so on, but there are useful commands for using find to locate setuid and guid files or to locate files with names like ".. " (yes, with a space at the end) where apparently people tend to put their toys. This series of articles was in Linux Journal over the last few weeks under the title "Thwarting the System Cracker". http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/sysadmin/003.html http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/sysadmin/004.html http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/sysadmin/005.html http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/sysadmin/006.html http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/sysadmin/007.html http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/sysadmin/008.html Part five (007.html) is the one with the "what to do if you've had a break in" stuff. It's brief, but it's easy to read and easy to apply the commands it covers. Telsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] who else uses ncurses?
I have used ncurses, and belive it lives up to it's name... :) Have you tried getting the source code to ncurses and compiling it for each system? That seems to fix most problems I've had with incompatilibity for other programs, and I can't think of why ncurses would be diffrent... Here's the homepage for ncurses: http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.html Hope this helps! -Marlene =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Marlene Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science Major, Southwestern Adventist University.Keene, TX The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. --F. Scott Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] bizarre by Nils [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- they're just not in the > database, so they won't get checked. You might want to find setuid/setgid Of course, the cracker could always have replaced rpm.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Yup. The intruder could have done any number of things, which is why I suggested reinstalling. The other stuff I suggested was just to try to find out how it was done, so it could be prevented in the future. Nothing worse than getting hacked and not knowing how... Cindy Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:15:10 -0500 (EST) > From: Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > > Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] bizarre by Nils > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- they're just not in the > > database, so they won't get checked. You might want to find setuid/setgid > > Of course, the cracker could always have replaced rpm.. > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] Samba question
We did have Samba running and it was working through NT, but not Win95. We're using Red Hat Linux 6.0. Now, it seems we can't see either of our Linux servers through Network Neighborhood. What can I check to see what's wrong? Thanks, yvonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] I'm a newbie
Just found this list, am thrilled, look forward to learning and sharing a lot here!! Theresa Radke Senior/Computer Science Major Age 38 Wichita Falls Texas Favorite distro: Corel :-) _ SignUP For your CorelCity FREE email at http://www.corelcity.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?
Hello, I was wondering if Linux has support drivers for DVD CD-ROM. I have the DVD-ROM, but cannot use it for anything else other than data CDs and music CDs. If there is no support for DVD on Linux, I might as well swap it with another machine. I haven't seen anything during the kernel compiles in 2.2.x versions, that mentions DVD support. If anyone else is using a DVD-ROM on Linux for DVD CDs, please let me know how you did it. I would like to get some use of the features offered by this device. Thank you in advance. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <= http://www.smcinnovations.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Seagate Eagle hard drives have a jumper that makes them read-only; keep RPM and the MD5 checksums of your system stuff or anything else that you could use to investigate a break-in on one of those puppies. You simply CAN'T modify anything when its physically write protected. =) > Yup. The intruder could have done any number of things, which is why I > suggested reinstalling. The other stuff I suggested was just to try to > find out how it was done, so it could be prevented in the future. Nothing > worse than getting hacked and not knowing how... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux? by Subba [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was wondering if Linux has support drivers for DVD CD-ROM. I > have the DVD-ROM, but cannot use it for anything else other than > data CDs and music CDs. > > If there is no support for DVD on Linux, I might as well swap > it with anothermachine. I haven't seen anything during the kernel > compiles in 2.2.x versions, that mentions DVD support. There definitely isn't any in 2.2.x. People are working on it, so there may be some very very experimental code in the 2.3 kernels (haven't been keeping track of kernel dev lately..), but it probably doesn't work terribly well anyway. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Samba question
First thing, before you assume something is wrong -- try doing a "Find" on that computer. I've found that Windows 95 (and 98) do weird things and don't show up in Network Neighborhood -- often for days. The next thing -- is did you put in a userid and password when you went into Windows? *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/13/99 at 3:42 PM Yvonne wrote: >We did have Samba running and it was working through NT, but not Win95. >We're using Red Hat Linux 6.0. >Now, it seems we can't see either of our Linux servers through Network >Neighborhood. >What can I check to see what's wrong? > >Thanks, >yvonne > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?
DVD video support is in the 2.3 kernels. See http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ or http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/diary.html for first hand details . If you want stable support, wait for the 2.4 kernels. Since I am a broke college student, the whole point is moot for me... Emily, whose idea of a big upgrade is actually having a modem that works [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
The same idea works with CD-ROMs, so you can use RPM binaries from a CD-ROM. A tool I like to play around with is Trinux, which is actually a very small Linux OS. (www.trinux.org) It's basically a kernel and a few tools like netstat and stuff, but the lovely thing about it is that you can add whatever you like to it. The bus on my daughter's machine was fried, and for a while we just used 3 Trinux disks as her OS. (: But anyhow, you don't have to boot your system to go in and take a look at it, so anything that might be scheduled to run, or any kind of trojanned binary on the system won't be able to do damage, as the system won't be live, and you'll only run the binaries which come with triinux (or which you get from a trusted place such as a CD) to check out the system with. Cindy Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Conrad Golightly wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:52:04 -0600 > From: Conrad Golightly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > > Seagate Eagle hard drives have a jumper that makes them read-only; keep RPM > and the MD5 checksums of your system stuff or anything else that you could > use to investigate a break-in on one of those puppies. You simply CAN'T > modify anything when its physically write protected. =) > > > > Yup. The intruder could have done any number of things, which is why I > > suggested reinstalling. The other stuff I suggested was just to try to > > find out how it was done, so it could be prevented in the future. Nothing > > worse than getting hacked and not knowing how... > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Samba question
Your smb.conf file would probably help a bit. However I've noticed that windows 9X tends to not "see" network machines at times, and continues to no notice them. But to be certain that it's not win9x misbehaving (as usual), check if you can browse the linux box from the NT machine that you're going through (assuming you're logging onto the PDC). Missed your first posting of the question, so what version of samba are you running? What does your smb.conf look like? Did you accidentally tell samba not to announce to the master browser? So many variables, so little whiskey... :/ ];) > First thing, before you assume something is wrong -- try doing a "Find" on > that computer. I've found that Windows 95 (and 98) do weird things and > don't show up in Network Neighborhood -- often for days. > > The next thing -- is did you put in a userid and password when you went > into Windows? > > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > On 12/13/99 at 3:42 PM Yvonne wrote: > > >We did have Samba running and it was working through NT, but not Win95. > >We're using Red Hat Linux 6.0. > >Now, it seems we can't see either of our Linux servers through Network > >Neighborhood. > >What can I check to see what's wrong? > > > >Thanks, > >yvonne > > > > > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > > __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?
MY idea of a big upgrade is having a kernel that supports my AAA- 133 card. TOTAL waste being in an NT terminal server... :/ > Emily, whose idea of a big upgrade is actually having a modem that works __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
FIRST do an e2fsck on your drives, perhaps you have a bad HD that has a spreading corruption (read; bad part of the media that's spreading (surface "sluffing", was a rather common problem with conner HD's back before Seagate bought them out). Second, re-verify your init.d files, make certain that nobody got into your machine and put nasty things there. Last, triple check ownerships and permissions on /var, /usr, /sbin, /... to be sure that nothing was corrupted in the access information flags. > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it > said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." I said "Uh" and > tried again, a few times. I got the same result. I cd'd to /var/log, and > tehre were a total of 3 files there. And I believe they were all > directories. It got too weird, so I rebooted. I did it twice, because > sendmail was taking ages to start and giving bizarre errors. So I told it > to stop running sendmail and httpd on startup, since I don't even use them > anyway. After the reboot, /var/log/messages reappeared and was fine and > ppp worked fine. So then the problem was that my tty (mingetty) was set > to 'dumb' instead of vt100. I can't figure that one out. I also > periodically get messages (write style) from syslogd in assorted garbage. > It is weird high ascii stuff, i think. There is something about 'not able > to piece together parts of message.' This all started sometime between 8 > and 10 pm tonight. I am running ip masquerading and ipchains over a ppp > dialup. Talking to a group of friends who use linux wasn't helpful, > except in stopping sendmail and httpd on boot. > I'm getting close to going "gyagh" and hitting it. Help? > > Conni > > -- > So they linked their hands and danced 'round in circles and in rows. > -Loreena McKennitt > > http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~ccovingt > > http://www.angelfire.com/anime/Galadriel > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > > __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
Ever heard of hardware failure such as a HD going south? Does the same thing, eventually the OS hangs and begins running properly again on disk access. The final end is when it hangs forever due to not finding a sector to read or even report the error to... > In general, if you're using a stable os, and it goes nuts, its because > of external forces, such as you doing something bad as root, a breakin, > or hardware problems. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > > __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] forwarded (due to a weird bounce)
> From: Di Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux? > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > I have a question... > I have a compaq presario laptop, which came with a dvd player, and the > copy of windows + programs (junk) that comes with it, the "clean install" > is un*stable, so I had to buy (piss me off) a copy of Windows 98 to > install on it without the otehr crap, and download the drivers. But, > contrary to what I had thought, Win 98 doesn't have a player for DVD and > I have no idea where to get one. I did find one on the internet for > 49.99 but I really don't want to pay that kind of money to watch dvds on > my laptop when technically I already own a copy of a player, but you > can't individually install the programs, so either I'm stuck or I need to > find a player... > > tia > Dianna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] winmodem sound driver
I have a PC-Chips MB with a winmodem onboard, I visited their website and asked an engineer to please provide me with a driver, I was actually shocked when he produced a driver for my sound card and my modem, trouble is when I try to load it I get the message that it was compiled with 2.2.2-5 and I am running 2.2.12 What can I do?? _ SignUP For your CorelCity FREE email at http://www.corelcity.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Samba question
You might want to check in the Win95 Network properties that Client for MS Networks, TCP/IP, and NetBEUI, and your ethernet adapter are all listed under Network - Configuration and you might need to Primary Network Logon as Client for MS Networks. Also, if you haven't checked it out, try the Samba Server Step-by-Step guide at: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html Hope this helps, Stephan > On 12/13/99 at 3:42 PM Yvonne wrote: >We did have Samba running and it was working through NT, but not Win95. >We're using Red Hat Linux 6.0. >Now, it seems we can't see either of our Linux servers through Network >Neighborhood. >What can I check to see what's wrong? > >Thanks, >yvonne > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] RE: samba question
> First thing, before you assume something is wrong -- try doing a > "Find" on > that computer. I've found that Windows 95 (and 98) do weird things > and > don't show up in Network Neighborhood -- often for days. While I couldn't "see" the servers in Network Neighborhood, I still had a drive to each machine mapped, and could get to them--however, today, I can't-- get an access error. And I did put in my userid and password in Windows... > you're logging onto the PDC). Missed your first posting of the > question, so what version of samba are you running? What does > your smb.conf look like? Did you accidentally tell samba not to > announce to the master browser? Don't know the version, will have to check that. I presume it's the version that came with Red Hat 6.0. I'll have to grab a copy of the smb.conf tomorrow. I haven't done anything to it--I'm the web admin, but they haven't given me root permission. (I plan to attempt to load Linux on the server at my desk tomorrow to play with it myself). My boss was running a diagnostic on it that I found on the web, but he hadn't figured out the problem yet. Thanks, Yvonne -- "Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, "I drank what?" --Chris Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 [techtalk] winmodem sound d.. by "Theresa Radke"@corelcit > I have a PC-Chips MB with a winmodem onboard, I visited their > website and asked an engineer to please provide me with a > driver, I was actually shocked when he produced a driver for > my sound card and my modem, trouble is when I try to load it > I get the message that it was compiled with 2.2.2-5 and I am > running 2.2.12 > > What can I do?? Wow, you actually got a driver for a winmodem??? I guess you can either downgrade your kernel to 2.2.2-5, or ask the engineer to please provide you with the source or a module compiled for 2.2.12. I'm still amazed you got a driver for a winmodem.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Samba question
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:10:03 -0600, "Kathleen Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >First thing, before you assume something is wrong -- try doing a >"Find" on that computer. I've found that Windows 95 (and 98) do >weird things and don't show up in Network Neighborhood -- often for >days. I had Windows add a spurious route to my network configuration once, which resulted in packets going off into lala land. It took me almost a week to fix that -- and I had to dump the Window registry to do it. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?
Emily Cartier wrote: > > DVD video support is in the 2.3 kernels. See http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ > or http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/diary.html for first > hand details . If you want stable support, wait for the > 2.4 kernels. Since I am a broke college student, the whole point is moot > for me... Yes, I was about to comment on that. The diary entries about DVD sound or video but not both at one point > Emily, whose idea of a big upgrade is actually having a modem that works I remember that! Dancer and I were helping with a non-profit community ISP at one point, and we used to use a modem that was no longer reliable in the modem bank but if you just power cycled it when it froze it was ok. Jenn V. -- "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor. This is women's work!" Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver
Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 [techtalk] winmodem sound d.. by > "Theresa Radke"@corelcit > > I have a PC-Chips MB with a winmodem onboard, I visited their > > website and asked an engineer to please provide me with a > > driver, I was actually shocked when he produced a driver for > > my sound card and my modem, trouble is when I try to load it > > I get the message that it was compiled with 2.2.2-5 and I am > > running 2.2.12 > > > > What can I do?? 2.2.2-5 is a kernel from RedHat 6.0, if I'm not mistaken. -- |< () http://kir.sever.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 7551596 () |_ Microsoft SELLS you Windows, Linux GIVES you the whole house! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver
I know, so was I, I bought this system from the linux systems section on pricewatch.com. Only to find that while it shipped with RH 6.0, hardly any of the hardware was linux compatable. I got a good price so have been struggling with slapping old hard ware I've got hanging around. Last night out of sheer frustration I went to PC-chips website and reamed them out Today in my email a .o file :-) I don't want to downgrade, as a matter of fact I just upgraded to 2.2.13 tonight, (what a rush to sucessfully recompile the kernel) So I really don't want to downgrade. Thanks for the reply, I'll keep you posted _ SignUP For your CorelCity FREE email at http://www.corelcity.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver
I didn't think that version looked familiar, so I looked around and nope, it's not a kernel we we either shipped or put out as an update. For 6.0, it was 2.2.5-15, with an update of 2.2.5-22, and 5.2 had the 2.0.x kernels. But all you should have to do is just compile a 2.2.2 kernel and turn off "[ ] Set version information on all symbols for modules" and it should load. Good luck, Cindy P.S. ftp.kernel.org and/or metalab.unc.edu are good places to get kernel sources, IMO Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:52:08 +0300 > From: Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver > > Laurel Fan wrote: > > > Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 [techtalk] winmodem sound d.. by > > "Theresa Radke"@corelcit > > > I have a PC-Chips MB with a winmodem onboard, I visited their > > > website and asked an engineer to please provide me with a > > > driver, I was actually shocked when he produced a driver for > > > my sound card and my modem, trouble is when I try to load it > > > I get the message that it was compiled with 2.2.2-5 and I am > > > running 2.2.12 > > > > > > What can I do?? > > 2.2.2-5 is a kernel from RedHat 6.0, if I'm not mistaken. > > -- > |< () http://kir.sever.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 7551596 > () |_ Microsoft SELLS you Windows, Linux GIVES you the whole house! > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:50:21 -0500 (EST), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Wow, you actually got a driver for a winmodem??? Yeah, it's just a matter of emulating a DSP in the kernel. Raph has been talking about doing this for some time. It's a REAL waste of processor cycles, though. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
