[techtalk] sparc & disk formatting...
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 Katie Weilbacher HA/TMA Network Operations Center Aurora Enterprise Solutions 5111 Leesburg Pike Skyline 5, Suite 302 Falls Church, VA 22041 Phone: 703.820.5580 x 330 Fax: 703.379.3961 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everything you can imagine is real - Pablo Picasso ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] mailman help
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 x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Mitre CVW / MOO, anyone?
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, --mandi ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] mailman help
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. -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator "It's easier than thinking!" Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc. -- Rick Moen http://www.semo.net ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)
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/ -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator "Of course I'm crazy, but that Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc.doesn't mean I'm wrong." http://www.semo.net -- Robert Anton Wilson ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] sparc & disk formatting...
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. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)
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. Jeff ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] GUI frontend for ipchains (Firewalling for Dummies :)
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] mailman help
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 x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Problem setting up dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Problem setting up dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Up and running: Dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] mailman help
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 -- Olivier Tharan, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Si c'était facile, les gens du matériel s'en occuperaient. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Port forwarding the port 21
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] LILO >1024 cylinders?
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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] LILO >1024 cylinders?
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 -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature