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Re: [wlug] clipboard
by Matthias Dallmeier 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

gascoigne wrote: > > Anyone know if Linux has a clipboard to cut and paste between applications? > I have tried one X clipboard but it did not seem to work. ... you mean other than gpm? -- Matthias

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Remote Logins
by Bob Brown 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Hi, I know this is probably a FAQ, but which file do I modify to allow root to login from otherplaces other than the console. I'm "su"ing to root at the moment which works but it's a pain... Cheers, - Bob - --- Bob Brown, bob.b(a)clear.net.nz, Guru Extraordinaire Computer Tutor, Programmer, Techncian, Consultant etc ... PO Box 880, Napier. http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~bobb

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Xanim - libs
by Simon 03 Sep '99

03 Sep '99

Can someone please tell me how I find out what libraries my system is using? I want to compile in the cinepak support for xanim and hav to which file I have to download. Im running a 486 with RH 5.2... I thought x86 Linux ELF maybe but theres also x86 Linux AOUT etc etc... Cheers Simon

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RE: [wlug] RH6.0 & DNS?
by Daniel Lawson 26 Jul '99

26 Jul '99

>Yeah - I realised I hadn't mentioned that when I sent the message :) no problem >I've got it config'd as a dialin server and want to be able to use virtual >hosts etc for remote callers. I've already got them to put entries in their >c:\windows\hosts files but it's messy. Hmm, okay. >Okay - so how do I find out what IHUG's are? I can look it up on their web >site but there must be an easier way - either using W95/98 or RH6.0. Oh, i assumed your isp was clear because of your email address :) 203.29.160.4 203.29.160.2 :) >Yeah, I'd appreciate that - please do. Start with "You add entries to your >DNS by ...." <sigh>. :) this will be a LONG post i feel... Its probably worth sending to the mailing list however, so that anyone else who is curious about setting up DNS can have a look... First of all, redhat 6.0 ships with bind-8.2-6 do 'rpm -qa | grep bind' as root to see what bind rpms you have installed, if any you should have bind-8.2-6 bind-devel-8.2-6 bind-utils-8.2-6 or something very similar (ie, the revision number might have changed for your release of rh6.0) if you dont have these then install them.. (either use an X-based package management tool like gnorpm, or use rpm from the command line..) put your rh6.0 cd in the cdrom drive mount /mnt/cdrom rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS/bind* and you should be away :) right... now for the config files at this point i VERY strongly recommend you go away and read the docs for bind at www.isc.org here's some pointers Some config hints for bind 8.2.1 (slightly newwer version that the rh6.0 one, but still applies) http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/misc/config_hints.phtml Bind 8.2 configuration guide http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/docs/config/index.phtml bind 8.2 master file format http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/docs/bind8.2_master-file.phtml The BOG (BIND Operations Guide) was a very useful resource for bind-4.9.7, but this version of bind is oldish and you should probably use 8.2 series. the configuration guide tells you what to do, more or less, but we can have a look at them here too... i'll add comments, these are indicated by // preceeding ------ /etc/named.conf ------ // make sure you get all the {'s and ;'s in the right place here options { directory "/var/named"; // this tells named where to set its base dir to. }; logging { category lame-servers { null; }; / these send all the boring errors that you dont category cname { null; }; // care about to null, rather than actually logging them }; zone "." in { type hint; // the 'hint' file is a set of root servers. these are important if you file "named.cache"; // want your dns server to work on address outside your zones }; // i'll show how to get a named.cache file later zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in { // the 0.0.127 zone is the reverse zone for your localhost type master; // its a master file notify no; // dont notify file "slave/127.0.0.in-addr.arpa"; // the file name }; zone "foo.org" in { // forward lookup for your 'domain' on your local network type master; //master file file "slave/foo.org"; //filename }; zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { //reverse lookup for your domain, on 192.168.0.xxx type master; // note the reverse order of ip addresses file "slave/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa"; }; ---- eof----- right, now in /var/named you should have some files... /var/named/named.cache there is possibly already a named.cache file, but we should update it anyway.. anonymous ftp to ftp.internic.net cd domain get named.cache cp named.cache /var/named/named.cache -f okay, thats your cache file set up. now to set up some zone files first of all, make a directory in /var/named to hold the zone files.. mkdir /var/named/zone cd /var/named/zone now.. there are two types of zone files.. forward lookup (which contain mappings from hostnames to ip addresses) and reverse lookup (which contain mappings from ip addresses to hostnames) first we'll look at the forward zone files. /var/named/zone/foo.org (or whatever you call it, make sure the entry in the named.conf file points to the right place tho) ; denotes a comment in these files ------------------- ; ; /var/named/zone/foo.org ; zone file for foo.org ; 27/7/1999 @ IN SOA server. root.server. ( 1999072701 ; Serial 8H ; Refresh 2H ; Retry 1W ; Expire 1D) ; minimum ; first of all, lets look at these. ; the @ inserts the domain information by default. so, it expands out to foo.org ; the rest of that line says that the Start Of Authority (SOA) for the domain is server ; and the admin email is root(a)server ; the serial number is important. when you change a zone file, change its serial number, ; otherwise bind will not reload it. ; also, bind will only load /higher/ serial numbers. you can number any way you like, for ; example starting at 1, but it is sometimes handy to put them in the format yyyymmdd ; where yyyy == year, dd = day of month, mm = month, rr = revision number. ; the refresh, retry, expire and minimum values are all required by named, it tells it how ; often to do the related action. ; ie, Refresh this zone every 8 hours. rertry an ip on this zone every 2 ; NS server.foo.org. ;specifies that the NameServer for the domain is server.foo.org. MX 10 server.foo.org. ; Mail eXchange for the domain is server.foo.org. the number is the priority, 10 is a good ; number to leave there. NOTE both of these have a trailing '.' - if you DONT include this it ; will expand out with your domain name after it (ie, to server.foo.org.foo.org ) !!! localhost A 127.0.0.1 ; A records point from the hostname to its ip. this is the ip of the localhost (the server) server A 192.168.0.2 ; this is the A record for the server, assuming its ip addresss is 192.168.0.2 HINFO "Pentium" "Linux 2.2" TXT "Gateway / Server" ; these lines aren't needed, but add extra information. There are a lot of extra lines like this ; dont worry about them if you like - not including them is perhaps a /good/ thing. mail CNAME server www CNAME server ftp CNAME server proxy CNAME server dns CNAME server ; CNAMES are records that point to an A record. Not needed really, but sometimes is nicer ; (and more obvious) to use 'proxy' for your proxy settings, and 'mail' in your mailclient setup. ; Various DNS experts discourage the usage of CNAME, because it can lead to trouble if ; you do things like point your MX record to a CNAME. ; You could use multiple A records (eg, 'ftp A 192.168.0.2' but that gets messy, ; and you only have one reverse lookup anyway windows A 192.168.0.1 ; A record for your windows computer dialin1 A 192.168.0.10 dialin2 A 192.168.0.11 ; A records for your dialin ip addresses. ; I forget how dialing into a linux server works, particularly with regards to ip allocation, ; you may only be able to specify 1 ip address for each dialin device. ------ EOF ----- thats the end of it! there are a lot of things you COULD include in there, but thats all you need. now, onto the reverse lookup zone files /var/named/zone/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa --------------- ; ; /var/named/zone/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa ; zone file for 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa ; 27/7/1999 @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost ( 1999072701 8H 2H 1W 1S ) ; note, we condensed everything down here. the whitespace in the previous example ; is for clarity, you dont need it or the comments at all. NS server.foo.org. ; nameserver entry. note the trailing '.' 1 PTR localhost. ; PTR record. this is a reverse lookup for 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa (ie, if you do 'nslookup ; 127.0.0.1' - it'll look in this file, find the PTR entry for '1', and reply with the given value. ; again note the trailing '.' - if you forgot that it would expand to localhost.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa ------ EOF ---- /var/named/zone/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa ---------------- ; ; /var/named/zone/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa ; zone file for 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa ; 27/7/1999 @ IN SOA server. root.server. ( 1999072701 8H 2H 1W 1D) IN NS server.foo.org. ; NS for zone is server.foo.org - again, note the trailing '.' 1 IN PTR windows.foo.org. 2 IN PTR server.foo.org. 10 IN PTR dialin1.foo.org. 11 IN PTR dialin2.foo.org. -------- EOF ----------- once you have created all these files, try starting named by going /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start if you check the output of /var/log/messages , it should display some information about whats happening (tail -f /var/log/messages on another console to look at it, ctrl-c to break out of 'tail' ) it should give you some output along the lines of... Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: starting. named 8.1.2 Thu Sep 24 02:47:08 EDT 1998 ^Iroot(a)porky.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/src/bin/named Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1997072701) Jul 27 02:22:40 server named[12344]: master zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1997072701) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: master zone "foo.org" (IN) loaded (serial 1997072701) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: listening on [192.168.0.2].53 (eth0) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: listening on [203.109.198.21].53 (ppp0) Jul 27 02:22:41 server named[12344]: Ready to answer queries. okay.. now, make sure your /etc/resolv.conf has the line 'nameserver 192.168.0.2' at the TOP of the nameserver lists. then do.. nslookup server.foo.org you should get the response -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 -- now do nslookup localhost -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 --- (or something similar) nslookup 192.168.0.1 you should get -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name windows.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.1 -- if thats all go, then forward DNS works. now try reverse.. nslookup 192.168.0.1 -- Server: server.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.2 Name windows.foo.org Address: 192.168.0.1 -- as you can see, it looks the same :) So, all you have to do now is set up your dialin clients to use your dns server - i'm not sure if this can be forced upon them when they dial in, or if they should set it manually, but that's for you to work out :) I've led you through this entirely - thats because I was very bored tonight, and had nothing else to do :). I do urge you to go and read the documentation on www.isc.org, and the docs that come with the bind rpms. UNDERSTAND them... no point in doing things like this if you dont understand them.. Good luck. you shouldn't have many problems (unless i included some typos there), but if you do, read the docs, work it out, and then report back to the list telling us what went wrong and how you fixed it :) Daniel Lawson

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RE: [wlug] redhat 6.0
by Craig Mckenna 05 May '99

05 May '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > [mailto:owner-wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Greig McGill > Sent: Thursday, 6 May 1999 08:58 > To: 'wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' > Subject: RE: [wlug] redhat 6.0 > > > Hey. > > Yep, it clearly is a long time - so long you've forgotten how to spell > my name! ;) > > Anyway... > Your comment about not having much time stirred something in the "tech" > inside of me... > It seems that a good proportion of would-be linuxers are put off by "not > having enough time" to play with Linux in order to get to a point where > they are comfortable using it. > Oh for enough time to fiddle :) > I think the cause of this is the microsoft world. People are often > scared to take that leap away from windows, and may need to fall back on > windows apps for productivity/compatibility reasons. I think people in general are afraid of change, If the software they currently use does what they want they see no reason to change to something else. Also with the majority of people using computers today being only semi computer literate (or even Illiterate), most people arn't interested in investing the time to learn a new interface/method of work, even if it is 1000 times better > > This in turn hinders the spread of linux, and in effect, adds to the > problem... > > What do you all think? How can we help (short of nuking M$!)? I recon the best way to help is to get in at grass roots level, it the newbie's just starting, ie school kids, tech students. If they are introduced to things before they get into the full workforce, cause once they get out there they will be taught one way of doing things and if that way is MS your stuffed. Just my $0.02 worth -- Craig Mckenna IT Systems Manager Tintz Graphics Limited craigm(a)tintz.co.nz

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Re: [wlug] redhat 6.0
by Gavin Denby 05 May '99

05 May '99

> Your comment about not having much time stirred something in the "tech" > inside of me... > It seems that a good proportion of would-be linuxers are put off by "not > having enough time" to play with Linux in order to get to a point where > they are comfortable using it. > > I think the cause of this is the microsoft world. People are often > scared to take that leap away from windows, and may need to fall back on > windows apps for productivity/compatibility reasons. > > This in turn hinders the spread of linux, and in effect, adds to the > problem... > I think your right. for Linux to really catch on in the mainstream there is a need for a office compatable GUI interface. I think that star office 5.0 is on the right track as it is fully cross compatable with M$ office and has versions in windoze, mac, .... ad infinitum, and of course Linux. With interfaces like KDE you can have a user interface that seems "normal" to an average user, as a result they can use it, then drop down to the "guts of the OS" to play with it later. Personally my approach at present is twofold, I am trying to get a stable reduced kernal size desktop enviroment, that will boot to a graphical desktop with my apps ......netscape, dial up PPP, Mail, Star Office .... etc and not carry too much "fat" ( so it loads quicker with out requiring huge memory) on it for a single desktop machine (the most common win95/98) system. While this seems crazy, it is a start point that gets a person using linux in some form. Later they can add the server/ network features if thy need them or want to play with them. ........... Oh no another dist .... AARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH ( Not really) Interesting that Caldera have moved a similar direction with col 2.2 ... Which I am planning to get installed this weekend to see how they have done ..... Sadly I think it will still be fairly bloated (Gut feel from reading the 151 problems I get from the caldera-users list) My other arrow is that I have been trying to push for a regular "Linux" ... not PC, or Mac, or ..... gathering where people can play with/learn about/obtain Linux in a form that is not too much like a meeting for software engineers. Sadly interest from the list has been very poor. Maybe once we are up an running I will be able to get some of you who know what you are doing to come and sort out our mess :-) Main problems to be solved . - Hardware support !!! The list on the Net are just too old, We need to know what new hardware works with linux, and what doesn't ... before we start installing this. Perhaps someone should start a local NZ database . ( Why are you all now looking at me that way ???????) Ok that is at least a start with my 2 cents worth .... I guess that shows how bad inflation really is . But I am a technician and a manager, not really a software person, so please consider that as you shoot me down in flames, ok ?

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Re: [wlug] [Fwd: GNU Lecture]
by root <Glenn Reed 07 Apr '99

07 Apr '99

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Stuart Inglis wrote: > Public lecture sponsored by Computer Science Department, University of > Waikato > The GNU Project and the GNU/Linux Operating System > Richard Stallman > Free Software Association, GNU Project Founder > Monday 12 April 1999 > 7.30pm, C&LLT > Can someone tell me where this lecture theatre is, roughly which block. I am reasonable familiar with the campus layout but no longer with the building names. I know the different gates amd better still the street names. Is there any cost involved in these lectures and do I have to register? Regards Glenn.

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RPM installation
by Simon Gascoigne 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

Anyone know what to do when you try to install an RPM but you get the message " cannot get exclusive lock on database" "failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"??? Simon G

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Linux course.
by Gavin 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Just saw the caldera training outline, Thought it might help layout some options to add/go with the planned content. Course Description The Linux System Administration course provides five days of training for System Administrators and VARs who wish to gain practical, hands-on Linux training. The course is not specific to a particular Linux distribution and presents information about using Linux in a commercial environment. The last day of the course focuses on OpenLinux Installation. Additional courses will be announced as they become available. Linux System Administration (five days) Cost: $1995 Day 1 Introduction to Linux, The System Environment. LILO Boot Manger, user accounts, logging in, logging out, shutting down the system, mount, unmount, Linux directory hierarchy, directory listings, devices, device drivers and files, setting up Linux partitions, handling file system errors, Linux shells, and customizing the environment. Day 2 Essential Commands, Administration of Users/Groups. Essential commands, including man, cd, ls, mkdir, pwd, find, locate, updatedb, cp, mv, rmdir, rm, alias, cls, ln, cat, file, more, less, and grep. Superuser functions, adding users, setting up groups, changing users in groups, setting up user, group, and global permissions, and deleting users. Day 3 Networking. Serial connections, inittab, gettydefs. Setting up virtual consoles and serial terminals, connecting to a TCP/IP network server, connecting to a time server, connecting to NT and Windows, Samba, setting up the domain name server, an email gateway, and masqueraded mail server. Setting up a POP server, configuring a telnet server, an FTP server, and a web server. Using CGI. Internet security. Introduction to configuring a firewall. Day 4 Printing, Package Management, System Initialization, Customizing the Operating System, Troubleshooting. Printing, package management, DOS shell, reading a DOS disk, copying a DOS disk. System initializing, including using sys V initialization, modifying the boot loader using LILO, manually loading and unloading modules, navigating /etc/sysconfig, backing up the kernel, booting with LILO, configuring your system, compiling and installing the kernel, automatically loading and unloading modules, redefining the init process, and troubleshooting. Day 5 Detailed OpenLinux Installation. Preparing to install, preparing the hard disk, and installing/upgrading OpenLinux.

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