October 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

RE: [Wlug] Looking for networking information

by Hemstreet, Jeffrey

Here are some good informational websites on networking and linux... Good Linux-on-a-floppy for a router ( I use this one ) and some information on networking: http://www.coyotelinux.com/ Good networking information: (Da LAN Tech) http://www.dalantech.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=networking&Numbe r=33059&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 http://www.dalantech.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=networking&Numbe r=30822&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 There are many other networking articles and how-to's out there these can get you started. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Pierce Barnard [mailto:pcbarnard@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 8:46 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Looking for networking information Hi, I recently acquired another pc and I want to incorporate it into my home network. Does anyone know of a website that has information on how to install and operate a windows based pc on a network? And I am looking for more information on networking in general. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Oct. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Linux

by Brian J. Conway

> P.S. This seemed a lot funnier shortly after the last wlug meeting. I > guess it lost a bit when it got held up by the non-subscribed email thing. > Of course if you still think Setag Lib (read it backwards) is real ... > please send your bank account information so I can proceed with those > diamonds. That Marc is such a funny guy... -b

Oct. 28, 2002

Double Double Messages Messages

by Keith Wright

Is anybody else getting two copies of all the Wlug messages?

Oct. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Linux

by Setag Lib

Hi to you Andy too! Thank you for fast reply. I actually already got Microsoft Linux installed! It was very easy I am still having some questions though. I can't get on the internet, what is wrong? My Digital camera does not work either, why not? Also, now that we are such good friends, I would like to tell you about my late father who has recently died in Nigeria. If you are interested in helping my family get a chest of diamonds out of the country, I would be willing to make it worth your while. Thank you again! Setag P.S. This seemed a lot funnier shortly after the last wlug meeting. I guess it lost a bit when it got held up by the non-subscribed email thing. Of course if you still think Setag Lib (read it backwards) is real ... please send your bank account information so I can proceed with those diamonds.

Oct. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Linux

by Keith Wright

> From: Setag Lib <bsetag(a)wpidalamar.com> > > P.S. This seemed a lot funnier shortly after the last wlug > meeting. I guess it lost a bit when it got held up by the > non-subscribed email thing. Of course if you still think Setag > Lib (read it backwards) is real ... please send your bank > account information so I can proceed with those diamonds. Oh. Does this mean our deal to trade $200 for the RedHat 6.1 CD is off? -- Keith

Oct. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Linux

by Keith Wright

> From: Setag Lib <bsetag(a)wpidalamar.com> > > I hear linux is very good. Is this true? He asks the Linux users group whether Linux is good! What shall we tell him? > Where can I buy it? You can buy a CD that contains a copy at the Borders bookstore on Route 9 in Shrewsbury, or various other places. I think the WPI bookstore has them. I got three or four copies for the price of a beer from somebody I met at the WLUG meeting. You can download a copy from various Internet sites. To order with your chargecard, you can use our *SECURED* web page at: http://www.cheapbytes.com (that was an unpaid commercial advertisement) I would be happy to sell you one of my old CDs for $200 (price not firm). > What is difference between RedHat and Linux? Linux is the name of the Kernel of an Operating System. This operating system was written by a loose coalition of programers around the world, and is released under the terms of the GPL and various other Open Source Licenses. RedHat is the name of a company that tries to make money selling copies, documentation, and support for free software. Here is an excerpt from the GPL, which is the End User License Agreement for GNU/Linux. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it. For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.

Oct. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Linux

by Andy Stewart

On Friday 25 October 2002 8:44 am, Setag Lib wrote: > I hear linux is very good. Is this true? Where can I buy it? What is > difference between RedHat and Linux? > > Regards, > Setag HI Setag, All of us on this mailing list think that Linux is good! :-) There are a large number of places where Linux can be purchased including the websites for the major distributions such as RedHat, SuSE, and Mandrake. The term "Linux", strictly speaking, refers to the core of the operating system, that is, the part which "talks" directly to the computer hardware. Having this ability is necessary but insufficient to do useful work on the computer. You need programs such as word processors, windowing environments, etc, etc. There are many groups of people (including companies) who have gathered together a large amount of software (including the Linux kernel) with the hope of having enough software to enable most people to do useful work (or have fun!!) with Linux. Some of these companies are RedHat, SuSE, and Mandrake (there are many others). Groups of people which are not companies include Debian. A collection of software which includes the Linux kernel that is distributed by a group of people is referred to as a Linux "distribution". There are many long discussions about which distribution is the best. There is no correct answer, just alot of opinions. In the United States, RedHat and Mandrake appear to be the most commonly used, while in Europe, SuSE has a large following. It is truly difficult to know which is most commonly used since the software can be downloaded from the Internet and counting downloads is not a reliable way to gauge the number of users as some users might download multiple times (for software upgrades, as an example). I look back and see I've written perhaps more than you wished to know, but I hope you find it helpful. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Oct. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Double Double Messages Messages

by Bill Smith

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:34:37 -0500 Keith Wright <kwright(a)gis.net> wrote: KW> Is anybody else getting two copies of all the Wlug messages? i was getting dupes of YOUR stuff, but not anyone elses.... (FWIW, i have to confess that i was "had" (as Andy put it) by "Setag Lib" until i got to the second posting of his... THEN i read his name backwards and groaned. <sigh> i suppose this is an object lesson; i should attend more WLUG meetings, eh? ;) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Name your salary here - I call mine Fred. * TAG! v3.1 *

Oct. 28, 2002

Building RH7.3 server after 7.0 hacked

by Richard Goodman

As some of you may recall from a mid-week email, two of my RH7.0 servers were badly hacked Tuesday about 5AM, and I lost ssh and think I received a trojan. Friday the hacking got worse - all outgoing mail was rejected as "relaying denied", so I decided to bite the bullet and format the drive and build a new server. This was made more interesting by the fact the RH7.3 wouldn't finish loading packages until I disconnected my second HD which previously held /var, and my web sites (tried 3-4 times) .. "Kernel unable to reread partition table on /tmp/hdc (device or resource busy)", then hung mid-package loading. Late Saturday afternoon I pulled the plug, and started a RH7.3 install. Midmorning I was done, including security patches and had no internet connection .. couldn't even ping from the server. Fortunately, it was just my ISP picking this time to be down for the first time in months. Now I have one remaining problem which over 8 hours of work has clarified, but not solved. For background, I have the just rebuilt RH7.3 server (A), and two other recently built RH7.3 servers (B) and (C) at a different location and each with its own static IP#, all running sendmail for one or several domains From A - incoming mail seems to be fine From A - I can send mail locally to several domain names that are on the A server From A - I can send email (such as this) out into the world Through A - I have several email addresses which are accessed by others from outside and send mail to another outside address in virtusertable or to an alias which is a list of outside addresses, and these are working From A - I cannot send mail to any of the domains at B or C When I try, I get this on the A sendmail log: Oct 27 19:02:56 bach sendmail[3693]: g9S02uO03693: from=<dick(a)goodman1.net>, size=316, class=0, nrcp ts=1, msgid=<p04310101b9e23f71eb3e(a)[192.168.1.9]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=host9.goodman1.net [192.168.1.9] Oct 27 19:03:02 bach sendmail[3695]: g9S02uO03693: SYSERR(root): 11harvard.com. config error: mail l oops back to me (MX problem?) Oct 27 19:03:02 bach sendmail[3695]: g9S02uO03693: to=<r.goodman(a)11harvard.com>, ctladdr=<dick@goodm an1.net> (503/503), delay=00:00:06, xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=esmtp, pri=30316, relay=11harvard.com. [ 66.92.78.250], dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local configuration error Oct 27 19:03:02 bach sendmail[3695]: g9S02uO03693: g9S032O03695: DSN: Local configuration error Oct 27 19:03:02 bach sendmail[3695]: g9S032O03695: to=<dick(a)goodman1.net>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00 :00:00, mailer=local, pri=60416, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Oct 27 19:03:02 bach sendmail[3695]: g9S032O03695: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer= local, pri=60416, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent and this on the B or C sendmail log: Oct 27 19:03:47 boron sendmail[8627]: NOQUEUE: goodman1.net [207.224.28.49] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/ VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA The part about an MX loop seems similar to what I used to get when I first started using sendmail and would forget to configure /etc/mail/local-host-names, but this file, and access and virtusertable on (A) were backed up before the format and restored - and a make done to regenerate the db files. Here's a sample of the bounce message I get, just to be complete: From MAILER-DAEMON(a)localhost.localdomain Sun Oct 27 19:03:02 2002 Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON(a)localhost.localdomain> Received: from localhost (localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9S032O03695; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:03:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:03:02 -0500 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)localhost.localdomain> Message-Id: <200210280003.g9S032O03695(a)localhost.localdomain> To: postmaster(a)localhost.localdomain To: <dick(a)goodman1.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="g9S032O03695.1035763382/localhost.localdomain" Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) This is a MIME-encapsulated message --g9S032O03695.1035763382/localhost.localdomain The original message was received at Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:02:56 -0500 from host9.goodman1.net [192.168.1.9] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <r.goodman(a)11harvard.com> (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 553 5.3.5 11harvard.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error --g9S032O03695.1035763382/localhost.localdomain Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain Received-From-MTA: DNS; host9.goodman1.net Arrival-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:02:56 -0500 Final-Recipient: RFC822; r.goodman(a)11harvard.com Action: failed Status: 5.3.5 Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 5.3.5 system config error Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:03:02 -0500 --g9S032O03695.1035763382/localhost.localdomain Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <dick(a)goodman1.net> Received: from [192.168.1.9] (host9.goodman1.net [192.168.1.9]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9S02uO03693 for <r.goodman(a)11harvard.com>; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:02:56 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: dick(a)pop.goodman1.net Message-Id: <p04310101b9e23f71eb3e(a)[192.168.1.9]> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:13:10 -0500 To: r.goodman(a)11harvard.com From: Richard Goodman <dick(a)goodman1.net> Subject: Test #3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" --------------------- Does anyone have any ideas, or requests for more information? I'm not doing too well after about 24 hours, and I'd really like to solve this mystery. Dick

Oct. 28, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for networking information

by Clint Moyer

Are your other PCs running Linux? On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:45:40 -0600 Pierce Barnard <pcbarnard(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >Hi, I recently acquired another pc and I want to >incorporate it into my home network. Does anyone know of >a website that has information on how to install and >operate a windows based pc on a network? And I am >looking for more information on networking in general. > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > <TEXTAREA NAME="Signature" ROWS="4" COLS="60">

Oct. 27, 2002