Linuxers August 2001

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[COMMERCIAL] System/Network Administrators wanted
by Devdas Bhagat 13 Aug '01

13 Aug '01

About the company: Worldgate Networks Private Limited is a Surat based ISP, providing dialup services and internet access over cable. We are preparing to expand in Gujarat within the next few months. About the candidate: [SYSTEM] You must be familiar with Linux, having at least one year of professional experience, or two years of personal use. You know how to build a secure machine and run it. You are familiar with the command line, and the configuration files. You know how to RTFM, and can handle large volumes of email. *Knowledge of Perl and shell scripting essential. Knowledge of other programming languages will be an additional bonus. About the candiate: [NETWORK] You are familiar with Cisco routers and switches and their configuration. You know how to setup BGP in a cinch. You can configure appropriate firewall rulesets on Checkpoint, Cisco and Linux. For you, being called a bofh is the ultimate compliment. CCNA qualifications are not necessary, but they will be a bonus. All positions are based at Surat. Please send your resumes to jobs(a)worldgatein.net. Devdas Bhagat System Administrator WNPL. vim fanatic ;)

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by dominic 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Hi I have installed RH7.0 on my pc with i810 motherboard, but i have a problem with the sound. when i run sndconfig i selected the i810 AC97 audio, but i cannot hear the sample sound which is being played to test the audio. Can anyone help. Thanks Dominic

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Ip Chains
by Kunal Jhunjhunwala 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

How do I upgrade my copy of Ipchains?? I am currently running version 1.3.10. I want to upgrade it to version 1.3.10-7. I have this file, ipchains-1.3.10-7.src.rpm. I tried rpm uvh ipchains-1.3.10-7.src.rpm, it said my uninstall version had depreciated. So I used rpm ivh ipchains-1.3.10-7.src.rpm, it showed a bar and 100%, but my ipchains dint get updated. Can anyone help me here?? Kunal

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[OT] The cuckoo's egg
by Kishor Bhagwat 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

hi! Sorry for this off topic mail, but does anyone have the book "TheCuckoo's Egg' by Clifford Stoll? If anyone has it, please lemme borrow it!! btw, anyone interested in internet security might want to read this book...its a real-lfe story about how a temp sys admin's efforts to snare his network's attacker led him to an international espionage ring.....shld be interesting!! regards, kishor _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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VSNL plays a dirty trick on corp customers
by E C Vijil 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

VSNL plays a dirty trick on corp customers ALLEN J. MENDONCA BANGALORE: In what can only be seen as a highly controversial move, VSNL, India's largest ISP, on Thursday blocked all corporate email across the country on its networks, barring e-mails being sent via leased lines. The method is simple - no mail originating from a VSNL dialup line will be forwarded (and will in effect be bounced) unless it is in the form of user(a)vsnl.com, user(a)vsnl.net, user(a)vsnl.net.in or user(a)vsnl.in. Try to send a mail such as user(a)yahoo.com, user(a)hotmail.com user(a)yourcompany.com, and your mail will be rejected. This immediately stops any valid dialup user of VSNL in India from sending out mail using his or her corporate or personal identity. VSNL director (operations) K.P. Tiwari claimed that this was to "protect" its customers from things such as spam, but this weak cover story didn't last even a few seconds as VSNL openly advertised (in the same e-mail message sent to users) a premium service that allows non-VSNL-domain mailing at a tremendous cost, with fixed limits. While users can still send non-VSNL domain mail via web-interfaces provided by many services such as indiatimes.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, it prevents people from using industry standard mailers such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, etc, which depend on being able to send mail using the SMTP protocol via their ISP's mail relay servers. The effect of this is devastating. For one, VSNL gave no notice of their intention to do this, giving people no chance at all to arrange for alternatives. Secondly, the motives VSNL offers for this move don't hold water at all. The real reason appears to be that VSNL is seeking alternate sources of revenue (see http://internet.vsnl.com/vmail/vmail.html), while at the same flexing its monopolistic muscles (while it can). The results of this move are very likely to be anything VSNL expected. 1. VSNL has changed operational rules of its service in such a way as to in effect stop services to legitimate customers unless they either pay more or change their e-mail address. This is something easily challengeable in a consumer court, and reports are that such moves are already afoot. 2. While many customers will leave VSNL for other ISPs, it is very likely that other ISPs are also going to introduce such limitations, to reap the financial benefits of VSNL's move - probably in the form of lower rates than quoted at http://internet.vsnl.com/vmail/vmail.html - but with the same overall effect on customers. This is similar to all airlines raising their rates when Indian Airlines does. Exocore Consulting CTO Atul Chitnis had this to say, "ironically, this move affects mostly Microsoft Windows users, as their mail programs do not have the facility to deliver mail directly to the destination (in technical terms - MX-based delivery). Linux and other Unix users are affected only to the extent that they need to reconfigure their system's Mail Transport Agents (MTA) such as sendmail, qmail, postfix, etc, to deliver mail directly rather than via a relay server. Total downtime would be about 10 minutes overall." Chitnis proved this by sending us an e-mail message using his own domain name (exocore.com) from his notebook that runs Linux, via a VSNL dialup account. How will the government react to such a flexing of VSNL's monopolistic muscles? That remains to be seen, but it is clear that something needs to be done. India cannot afford to be seen as a "user-unfriendly" place in the current context of globalisation. -- There are three things I have always loved and never understood -- art, music, and women.

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Strange Message on Potato.
by Q u a s i 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Folks, I started to have this weird problem on potato r2.2. The kernal was custom compiled with minimum required things which resulted in a 450K compressed image. But I compiled the kernal a long while ago but the messages have started lately. When I boot, sometimes just before the login prompt or sometimes even after, I get the following message a random number of times. (max number observed is under 10) VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate... Then sometimes when I do shutdown I get the same message, again, a random number of times. quasi p.s. I do not have KDE... if the kupdate means Kde...? -- postscript -- Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek __________________________________________________ \?/ .Quasi. (0-0) ( | ) <quasiabhi(a)yahoo.com> ( v ) yahoo messenger : quasiabhi __| |__ / \ Protect OUR Earth. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Halting Problem
by Sameer Shinde 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Hi all, Once again with a new problem.... My system does not halt proprely. The codes appear on the screen r, --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halting systmem.... Stopping all md devices. Power Down. general protection fault : f000 cpu : 0 EIP : 0050 [<00008881>] EFLAGS : 00010046 eax, ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi, ebp, esp, ds, es, ss ( all with some address) Process halt ( pid : 1537, stackpage =c13cb000) stack : xxxx ( with long set of values ) call trace : [<xxxxx>] Code : Bad EIP value /etc/rc0.d/s01halt : line1: 1537 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The system stops here & after pressing ctrl + alt + del it shows a message " stopping all md devices." & the system reboots. What is all this happening? Thanks & Regards, SAMEER :)) ~~~~~ My Messanger IDs MSN: s2sameer Yahoo!: s9sameer RediffBol: s2sameer Indiatimes: s2sameer AIM: s2sameer

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X and PS/2.
by Satya 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 8 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.12-20smp i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 10) [That's correct, according to Xconfigurator] XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keycodes: "xfree86" (**) XKB: types: "default" (**) XKB: compat: "default" (**) XKB: symbols: "us(pc101)" (**) XKB: geometry: "pc" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc101" (**) XKB: layout: "us" Config Error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config:126 Protocol "ps2" ^^^^^ Mouse type not supported by this OS xinit: Success (errno 0): Server error. Huh?

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BIND 9: out-of-zone errors
by Mayur Joshi 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Dear Linuxers, I've migrated from BIND 8 to BIND 9. I corrected most of the errors in the zone files but a few domains still giving some problems. This is what happening when I start named. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 10 12:59:15 interpole named: named startup succeeded Aug 10 12:59:15 interpole named[4097]: using 1 CPU Aug 10 12:59:15 interpole named[4101]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Aug 10 12:59:15 interpole named[4101]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no' Aug 10 12:59:15 interpole named[4101]: no IPv6 interfaces found Aug 10 12:59:15 interpole named[4101]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Aug 10 12:59:15 interpole named[4101]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.2#53 Aug 10 12:59:16 interpole named[4101]: dns_master_load: citymarts.com.b:16: ignoring out-of-zone data Aug 10 12:59:16 interpole named[4101]: dns_master_load: citymarts.com.b:17: ignoring out-of-zone data Aug 10 12:59:16 interpole named[4101]: dns_master_load: citymarts.com.b:18: ignoring out-of-zone data Aug 10 12:59:16 interpole named[4101]: dns_master_load: citymarts.com.b:20: ignoring out-of-zone data Aug 10 12:59:16 interpole named[4101]: dns_zone_load: zone citytymarts.com/IN: could not find NS and/or SOA records Aug 10 12:59:16 interpole named[4101]: dns_zone_load: zone citytymarts.com/IN: has 0 SOA recordsAug 10 12:59:16 interpole named[4101]: dns_zone_load: zone citytymarts.com/IN: no NS records Aug 10 12:59:18 interpole named[4101]: dns_master_load: indiainformation.com.b:18: ignoring out-of-zone data Aug 10 12:59:21 interpole named[4101]: dns_master_load: shivalogy.com.b:17: ignoring out-of-zone data Aug 10 12:59:23 interpole named[4101]: running ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The name server starts but these zones will not work correctly. I'm also pasting the actual zone file for citymarts.com zone. ZONE FILE: citymarts.com.b ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $TTL 86400 $ORIGIN com. citymarts IN SOA ns3.nttindia.com. hostmaster.nttindia.com. ( 98121722 ; 86000 ; 7200 ; 3600000 ; 43200 ; ) IN NS ns3.nttindia.com. IN NS ns4.nttindia.com. IN A 202.87.40.236 IN MX 10 mail.citymarts.com. $ORIGIN citymarts.com. mail IN A 202.87.40.236 ftp IN A 202.87.40.236 www IN A 202.87.40.236 IN MX 10 mail.citymarts.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have almost 700 zone files on the server and all are almost similar. Why does this particular file gives out of zone error and 'Could not find SOA and/or NS records. Also named-checkzone gives me no error. Awaiting your replies, Best regards, Mayur Joshi, Interpole Solutions _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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RE SOUND PROBLEMS
by sachin g 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Hi Sac here Every dude who is havin a problem with sndconfig try a Alsa called advanced linux sound architect(it has better support than sndconfig and is growing big with most of the cards) but before configuration get all the information about ur soundcard coz it does ask some queries. Bye SaC _________________________________________________________ For Rs. 2,000,000 worth of Aptech scholarships click below http://clients.rediff.com/clients/aptechsch/index.htm

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