[techtalk] sparc & disk formatting...

2000-08-09 Thread Weilbacher, Katie, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA

morning! :)

i have a friend who needed help, so i figured this might be just the place
to turn!
he's running RH 5.2 on a sun sparc 10, with a floppy drive. the plan is to
download mysql & burn on a cd here at work (with the fast connection). then
at home (on NT 4.0), he wants to create an archive of mysql that spans
multiple floppy disks. so we're looking for a util that will allow the
creation of a spanned diskette archive in a format that the sparc will
understand. 

so the question is - does anyone know of an app that will do this? my
initial thought, of course, was rawrite. but i don't know how that works
with sparc architecture. 

tia!! 

katie



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[techtalk] mailman help

2000-08-09 Thread JLG


A project I'm working on requires me to set up some 
mailing lists and I decided to go with Mailman.

The CGI's are working great, but I am having some problems with
the mail end of things.

A user can sign up for lists, they are sent their confirmation.
When they reply to their confirmation it disapears into the ether...
no 'welcome to the list', and no record of their subscription on the list
roster.

I tried creating a list that didn't require a confirmation for
subcription and all the would-be list members showed up as pending and 
upon approval got their 'welcome message'. When members posted to the list
the posts never showed up.

I installed Mailman from rpm on a Redhat 6.1 machine but wound up having
to rebuild a few times. all CGI and mail operations are running as the
user 'mailman' in group mailman.

 My 'users' are test accounts on the local
machine whose
account can send and recieve mail to eachother just fine.

according to the 'check_perms' script my permissions are all correct,
but I suspect that this mostly pertains to CGI

The mailman verson is mailman-2.0beta5 

It sounds like mailman isn't able to receive mail correctly for some
reason. 

Any help troubleshooting or suggestions for getting this to work
are appreciated. Let me know if there is any additional info I can
provide.

Thanks in advance

Jen 

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[techtalk] Mitre CVW / MOO, anyone?

2000-08-09 Thread Mandi


Hi.  I'm working on setting up a collaboration solution for the
pointy-hairs at work, and dragging my feet on NetMeeting...

So I have CVW working, and it's pretty sweet, but I'd like to get it to
work with our existing document acquisition system, which is web-based,
Oracle on Solaris with Apache.

Has anyone used CVW?  Know how it performs?  How people like what it does?
Tried adding features to it?  Know if I should learn to program MOO?

Any info is greatly appreciated.

TIA, 
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Re: [techtalk] mailman help

2000-08-09 Thread Aaron Malone

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:48:09AM +, JLG wrote:
> 
> A project I'm working on requires me to set up some 
> mailing lists and I decided to go with Mailman.
> 
> The CGI's are working great, but I am having some problems with
> the mail end of things.
> 
> A user can sign up for lists, they are sent their confirmation.
> When they reply to their confirmation it disapears into the ether...
> no 'welcome to the list', and no record of their subscription on the list
> roster.

[snip]

Have you looked at the mail logs on the server where mailman is installed
to see what's happening to this mail?  That would be the first place I'd
look, to see if the mail is actually being delivered correctly.

When I set up mailman on a RedHat box, I had to add a link to the
'wrapper' program in /etc/smrsh before sendmail would accept mail
addressed to that program.  I don't know if the RPM does this
automatically, you might want to check that as well.

Also, be sure to add the aliases output when you create a new list to
/etc/aliases -- though if you hadn't done that, you should be getting
bounce messages.

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[techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)

2000-08-09 Thread Caitlyn Maire Martin

Hi, everyone,

I'm in hot, sweltering Atlanta this week, setting up a couple of Linux
firewalls for a client, one in their development environment and one in their
colocated production environment.  Everything works and the production firewall
goes live tomorrow.  Of course, there is a catch...

The client here doesn't have a really technical savvy person, and the guy who
acts as their sysadmin is a total Linux newbie with a pure Windows background. 
Fortunately, he does understand basic firewall concepts and can administer
something with a Checkpoint-like GUI front end.  easyfw would be perfect for
this if we were doing some straightforward IP masquerading.  Of course, we're
not.

The client has several Citrix Metaframe servers which need to live behind the
firewall.  I've got the docs on how to do this with ipchains, and it works. 
(It's actually ipmasqadm, but that's not relevant here.)  The problem comes
about when they need to add new servers.  Naturally, I'm having to do multiple
redirects, and I have not seen a GUI front end to ipchains that supports this. 
I haven't even seen one that supports multiple networks.  easyfw certainly
doesn't.

Does anyone know of a more comprehensive GUI front-end for ipchains that would
support this?  Worst comes to worst I can walk the client's admin through
manually editing with a text editor, but nobody is really comfortable with
this.  If not any alternate free Linux firewall suggestions?  

Since I'm leaving tomorrow evening, this is really kind of urgent.  Any help
y'all can give will be gratefully appreciated.

Best,
Caity


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Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)

2000-08-09 Thread Aaron Malone

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:11:02AM -0400, Caitlyn Maire Martin wrote:
> Does anyone know of a more comprehensive GUI front-end for ipchains that would
> support this?  Worst comes to worst I can walk the client's admin through
> manually editing with a text editor, but nobody is really comfortable with
> this.  If not any alternate free Linux firewall suggestions?  

A quick look on freshmeat found gfcc (GTK+ Firewall Control Center).  I'm
not sure if it does exactly what you need (I'm not that familiar with
firewalling), but it's certainly work a try. :)

http://icarus.autostock.co.kr/

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Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)

2000-08-09 Thread C. M. Martin

Hi, Aaron
> 
> A quick look on freshmeat found gfcc (GTK+ Firewall Control Center).  I'm
> not sure if it does exactly what you need (I'm not that familiar with
> firewalling), but it's certainly work a try. :)
> 
> http://icarus.autostock.co.kr/

GFCC was superceded by gshield.  gShieldConf is the graphical front end, and it
does not do what I need :(  

Anyone else?

Thanks,
Caity


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RE: [techtalk] sparc & disk formatting...

2000-08-09 Thread Fan, Laurel

Weilbacher, Katie, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA, said:
> he's running RH 5.2 on a sun sparc 10, with a floppy drive. the plan is to
> download mysql & burn on a cd here at work (with the fast connection).
then
> at home (on NT 4.0), he wants to create an archive of mysql that spans
> multiple floppy disks. so we're looking for a util that will allow the
> creation of a spanned diskette archive in a format that the sparc will
> understand. 

Linux (I assume the sparc's running Linux, not Solaris) can understand msdos
formatted floppies. (can either mount them or use mtools).

If I was trying to use floppies to transfer stuff between 2 Linuxes, I'd
use split on one end to split the tar.gz into 1.4M parts, copy each to a
floppy, and then cat them together on the other.  I'm not sure if there's
anything on Windows that can split files. (If there is it probably would
be from warez doods, not say, Microsoft, since it would make it easier
to copy or download files, which we all know is evil.)

I don't think Unix unzip can handle multipart zip archives, but if it can,
then you could do that.

> so the question is - does anyone know of an app that will do this? my
> initial thought, of course, was rawrite. but i don't know how 
> that works
> with sparc architecture. 

rawrite probably wouldn't work, since you'd have to have floppy images
first.  The problem isn't the format of the floppies, since Linux (it's
an OS thing, not an architecture thing) can read dos floppies, it's how
to get Windows to split the files.



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Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)

2000-08-09 Thread Jeff Dike

Also check out mason (http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/mason/).  It's not a GUI, 
but it does have the feature that you can put it into learning mode, make 
connections to the firewall, and have it generate the rules needed to block 
that connection.

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Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)

2000-08-09 Thread C. M. Martin

On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:
> Also check out mason (http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/mason/).  It's not a GUI, 
> but it does have the feature that you can put it into learning mode, make 
> connections to the firewall, and have it generate the rules needed to block 
> that connection.

Hi, Jeff,

I'm familiar with Mason.  For me, it's fine.  For my client, it's still editing
text files, nothing like Windows, and requires some UNIX understanding.  In
other words, it's no help.

Folks, what I need isn't for me.  I need a Windows-like GUI for a Windows
person.  

Regards,
Caity


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Re: [techtalk] mailman help

2000-08-09 Thread JLG

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Aaron Malone wrote:

Thanks for the swift reply!


> Have you looked at the mail logs on the server where mailman is installed
> to see what's happening to this mail?  That would be the first place I'd
> look, to see if the mail is actually being delivered correctly.


here's  asnip of the maillog that gives an example of the error message
I'm getting:


sendmail[384]: MAA25674: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner
modtest", delay=1+02:29:27, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating
system error
Aug  9 14:54:22 gundam
sendmail[384]: MAA25698: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd modtest",
delay=1+02:27:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating system
error
Aug  9 14:54:22 gundam
sendmail[384]: MAA25715: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd modtest",
delay=1+02:22:27, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating system
error
Aug  9 14:54:35 gundam sendmail[421]: OAA00421: forward
/usr/share/mailman/.forward.gundam: Group writable directory
Aug  9 14:54:35 gundam sendmail[421]: OAA00421: forward
/usr/share/mailman/.forward: Group writable directory

___and

[jg@gundam jg]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -q

Running OAA00380 (sequence 1 of 30)
"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd listfoo"... Connecting to prog...
"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd listfoo"... Operating system error

 
> > When I set up mailman on a RedHat box, I had to add a link
to the > 'wrapper' program in /etc/smrsh before sendmail would accept mail
> addressed to that program.  I don't know if the RPM does this
> automatically, you might want to check that as well.

This has been done.

> 
> Also, be sure to add the aliases output when you create a new list to
> /etc/aliases -- though if you hadn't done that, you should be getting
> bounce messages.
> 

this has been done as well.


Thanks!

Jen

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[techtalk] Problem setting up dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000

2000-08-09 Thread C. M. Martin

Hi, everyone,

I've run into another problem, and before I call Caldera, I thought I'd try the
most helpful list I know of.

I have an IBM NetFinity 1000 running Caldera OpenLinux 2.4.  The system needs
to be dual-homed, and the system seems to recognize both ethernet cards.  One
is on eth0, IRQ11, and is working properly.  Network connectivity is just fine.
The other is eth1, IRQ10, different I/O memory range from the first card.  The
box can ping itself at that address, but can't see any other box on that
network, and nothing on that net can see this box.  

I went into the network settings with COAS and found that the default gateway
wasn't set on eth1.  I tried setting it, but the system would not save the new
settings.  Sometimes it gives me a python error saying it cannot communicate
with the network, sometimes not.  It reads:

Error when executing command ip-config change eth1
the command produced the following output:
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
eth1: initialization failed

 Everything in ifconfig looks normal.  Both cards show up and the addresses
are correct.  I  tried to take eth1 down that way, then reset the address.  No
difference.  If I type in ifconfig eth1 up I do not get an error at all.  There
is no provision for adding a second interface in lisa, and adding it manually
to the /etc/hosts file didn't change anything.

Any suggestions?  

Regards,
Caity



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Re: [techtalk] Problem setting up dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000

2000-08-09 Thread Anmol Khirbat


On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, C. M. Martin wrote:

> box can ping itself at that address, but can't see any other box on that
> network, and nothing on that net can see this box.  

Pinging your own addresses only tells you whether the lo interface is up
or not.

> I went into the network settings with COAS and found that the default gateway
> wasn't set on eth1.  

Theres only one default `gateway' per machine. 

It would help if you could mail me the output of `ifconfig -a' and
`netstat -nr'. 

Does dmesg show any unusual messages about the network
interfaces?

bye :)
Anmol



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Re: [techtalk] Up and running: Dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000

2000-08-09 Thread C. M. Martin

Hi, 

I've got it!  It turned out to be a problem with the physical network
connection, not Linux at all.  The box is up and running on both networks.

Interestingly enough, Caldera successfully detected both cards.  All I really
had to do was add Internet addresses and go.

Oh, the default gateway on the second card has to be set to the address of the
first.

Thanks for e-listening.

Best,
Caity




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Re: [techtalk] mailman help

2000-08-09 Thread Olivier Tharan

Le 09 août 2000 a 13:58, JLG a écrit :
> here's  asnip of the maillog that gives an example of the error message
> I'm getting:
[ ... ]
> Aug  9 14:54:35 gundam sendmail[421]: OAA00421: forward
> /usr/share/mailman/.forward.gundam: Group writable directory

Sendmail does not like group-writable directories very much. This is
because everyone the same group as you could potentially change your
.forward file and thus receive your email.

do an 'ls -ld /usr/share/mailman' and look that the directory is indeed
group-writable; beware also of /usr and /usr/share as sendmail won't
like either them being group-writable (but they shouldn't be). Then do a
'chmod g-w /usr/share/mailman'

If the latter is not an option for you (eg Mailman has to write things
in this directory with group access and so on), you can use as a last
resort sendmail's option 'O GroupWritableForwardFileSafe'.

olive
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[techtalk] Port forwarding the port 21

2000-08-09 Thread Beverly Guillermo

I have 2.2.x kernel and I'm using ipchains and ipmasqadm --
I want to forward the ftp port from one computer to another computer but
it doesn't want to do it.  I know about the active and passive modes but I
still cannot get certain commands to act correctly for ftp.  (Things like
ls will not work.)

Here's what I've done (from what I understood):

$ ipchains -I forward -p udp -s 192.168.1.21/32 21 -j MASQ
$ ipchains -I forward -p tcp -s 192.168.1.21/32 21 -j MASQ
$ ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L 192.168.1.1 21 -R 192.168.1.21 21
$ ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 192.168.1.1 21 -R 192.168.1.21 21

This doesn't work and I think it has to do with the passive
mode anyone let me know what I'm doing wrong please.

Thanks!
Beverly



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[techtalk] LILO >1024 cylinders?

2000-08-09 Thread jennyw

Hi!  I finally got Debian installed on my box at our local LinuxChix meeting
(thanks Stephane!).  One problem that we ran into, though, is that my
computer already has NT on it, and the first available free space was after
the 1024 cylinder limit.  Does anyone know how to get around this?

We installed Debian off of the slink and a half CD, I think.

Thanks!

Jen



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Re: [techtalk] LILO >1024 cylinders?

2000-08-09 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:35:13PM -0700, jennyw wrote:
> Hi!  I finally got Debian installed on my box at our local LinuxChix
> meeting (thanks Stephane!).  One problem that we ran into, though, is
> that my computer already has NT on it, and the first available free
> space was after the 1024 cylinder limit.  Does anyone know how to get
> around this?

The latest LILO versions (version 21.3 and later) can do this, using the
lba32 option in lilo.conf (or -L on the command line). Your BIOS needs
to be fairly recent to allow this to work, but apprently most BIOS chips
that are 1998 or later will suffice.

Apparently, the Potato version of Debian (frozen version) contains LILO
21.4, so you can even get a debian package for it. :-)

Cheers,
Malcolm

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