May 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Comcast experiences ?

by Mike Frysinger

i was talking with a guy who claimed comcast provided great cable service in worcester and was basically way better than anything dsl could offer (i use speakeasy myself and love it). seeing as how he is a non-computer person, i took his opinion with a large grain of salt ... it did get me wondering though as ive never used comcast in worcester myself, just in holden (and it sucked a lot), how have other people got along with comcast here ? looking for the standard fare, speeds/tech support/response times/etc... -mike

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] SuSE 9.1

by mike＠beakerware.net

> 7) The network devices are a little weird in 2.6. There isn't an "ifup eth0" > or "ifup eth1" like there used to be. On my system, its "ifup > eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:00" (fill in your MAC address). Once its up and you > see it with ifconfig, the "standard" ifdown command works as always. While I'm not 100% familiar with SuSE, does your network interface appear if you do an 'ifconfig -a' before an ifup is issued? I think its a SuSE thing, not a 2.6 thing your seeing, maybe because SuSE doesn't load the network card module until an 'ifup' is done? -mike

May 16, 2004

SuSE 9.1

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, I've received my copy of SuSE 9.1 and I've gotten it installed on my laptop. Here are my thoughts so far. 0) SuSE 9.1 comes on 2 double-sided DVDs and 5 CDs. There are 64 and 32-bit versions, so one must used the proper side of the DVD. 1) It took 2 hours to upgrade from SuSE 9.0 to SuSE 9.1 on my 1 GHz Sony Vaio laptop using the DVD. That seemed long to me. 2) It uses the 2.6.4 kernel. One new feature of that kernel caused me some temporary grief since I didn't understand what it was doing. The "subfs" filesystem type is used for removeable media. The user doesn't need to mount any CD or floppy, just put in the medium and reference it with "ls /media/ floppy" or whatever. The operating system figures out that the medium isn't mounted, mounts it, carries out your wish, and then unmounts it. Sometimes, I find this a bit annoying, but perhaps I'm just not yet used to it. 3) The ACPI power management on my laptop now actually works! Well, it works for the root user, anyway (kpowersave). I actually got about 45 minutes on a battery (instead of 10). The PCMCIA wireless card really suck the life out of the battery when used! I'm diving into the code to figure out why kpowersave won't work for J-random-user. There's probably some executable that needs setuid root or some such. I suspect I can be more agressive about power saving to get close to 60 minutes out of it. 4) I said "bye-bye" to the ide-scsi module, especially after reading some notes about Linus' opinion of that module and the author of cdrecord. Things work fine without it. 5) Sound works great after one simple command. 6) I got wireless, grub, the printer, the hard wired network, and even (I think) the onboard modem working very easily. I've never had the onboard modem working previously. 7) The network devices are a little weird in 2.6. There isn't an "ifup eth0" or "ifup eth1" like there used to be. On my system, its "ifup eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:00" (fill in your MAC address). Once its up and you see it with ifconfig, the "standard" ifdown command works as always. 8) SuSE 9.1 comes with KDE 3.2.1, with which I haven't yet played. Thunderstorm coming....singing of for now....... -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Marc Hughes

Quoting "Charles R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU>: > If a client is not participating in the domain, then the client will > login to the local system using its local account database. If the > client wishes to later connect to the samba server, they will need to > authenticate to the server. The user can type their domain > credentials when mapping the network drive. If the user's local > account credentials are the same as the domain credentials for that > user, then the user will not have to authenticate manually. The > client system will use the cached credentials from when the user > logged in locally. > Excellent, that's exactly what I want. > vsftpd. Very secure and fast. Little to no maintenance. Snifty. Thanks for the fast reply. -Marc

May 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Dwight A. Ernest

Marc Hughes wrote: > What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients > at a time) and low-maintenance? The only real choice these days for an FTP server, regardless of how often it's used, is vsftpd. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ -- Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com GPG key A6999567 Cell: +1-508-523-1416 FAX: +1-978-405-2504 YIM: dwight_ernest RHCE #803004293310030 http://significant.com/~dwight/ KA2CNN Papa, partner, pilot, net geek, sysadmin, consultant, cohouser.

May 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:27:13AM -0400, Marc Hughes wrote: > If I set up samba to be a domain controller. Can clients not participating in > the domain still log in? If a client is not participating in the domain, then the client will login to the local system using its local account database. If the client wishes to later connect to the samba server, they will need to authenticate to the server. The user can type their domain credentials when mapping the network drive. If the user's local account credentials are the same as the domain credentials for that user, then the user will not have to authenticate manually. The client system will use the cached credentials from when the user logged in locally. > What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients > at a time) and low-maintenance? vsftpd. Very secure and fast. Little to no maintenance.

May 13, 2004

Ftp & Samba questions

by Marc Hughes

Here's 2 quick questions. If I set up samba to be a domain controller. Can clients not participating in the domain still log in? What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients at a time) and low-maintenance? -Marc

May 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux and mssql

by Andy Stewart

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 1:15 am, aramico(a)duahati.com wrote: > 2. On php's progress in configuring : > configure: warning: with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds: invalid host type > . > . > . > checking for the location of libtiff... no > checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... (cached) yes > ./configure: cd: yes: No such file or directory > checking for png_create_info_struct in -lpng... no > configure: error: libpng not found! > > whats the relation between iodbc and mssql to this ? > You are missing a package. You need to install whatever package provides libpng.so. On my SuSE system, its called libpng-devel but it may be called something else if you are not running SuSE. -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 12, 2004

Linux and mssql

by aramico＠duahati.com

Friends, I have a problem here... Is anyone of you using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 that of course run on Windows 2000 Advanced Server where the developing is done in Linux with its integration such as php and apache. I have re-configured my php configuration and add the configuration needed for the mssql integration : Before, my php is running perfect with this configuration : ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --enable-memory-limit --enable-ftp --enable-bcmath --enable-track-vars --enable-calendar --enable-dio --with-gmp --with-java=/usr/local/java --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl --with-gd --with-pdflib=/usr/local --with-gettext --with-mm=/usr/local/mm/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local --with-mcrypt --with-mhash --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql --with-xml Now, mssql's need are included, so the reconfiguration looks like: ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --enable-memory-limit --enable-ftp --enable-bcmath --enable-track-vars --enable-calendar --enable-dio --with-gmp --with-java=/usr/local/java --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl --with-gd --with-pdflib=/usr/local --with-gettext --with-mm=/usr/local/mm/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local --with-mcrypt --with-mhash --with-iodbc=/usr/local --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds --with-xml The diffrent is only placed on: --with-iodbc=/usr/local and --with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds but error happens as these shown bellow: 1. On installing linux odbc ( unixODBC-2.2.8.tar.gz ), error is: . . . checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! what does it mean ? Well, I've already use the rpm version. 2. On php's progress in configuring : configure: warning: with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds: invalid host type . . . checking for the location of libtiff... no checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... (cached) yes ./configure: cd: yes: No such file or directory checking for png_create_info_struct in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng not found! whats the relation between iodbc and mssql to this ? Is Linux not supporting development using php where the database is using MSQL ? Can somebody help me ? I need to develope using php where the database is on MSSQL Server 2000 on windows 2000 advanced server. Thanks. Aramico

May 12, 2004

Re: [Wlug] System won't shutdown

by Michael Long

Dwight Ernest wrote: > Michael Long wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a computer with SuSE 9.0 installed. When I run shutdown -h now >> it starts the shutdown process but then hangs immediately after >> >> running /etc/init.d/halt.local2 done >> >> I can hit the carriage return and am left at the console with the >> system running. The relevant part of ps x at this point is. >> >> 296822 ? S 0:00 2 /bin/bash /etc/init.d/rc 0 >> 296899 ? S 0:00 2 /bin/2sh /etc/init.d/rc0.d/S20halt start >> >> What could be preventing this machine from shutting down? >> >> Thanks, >> Mike > > > It's hung trying to run something in the /etc/init.d/halt script. Can > you (1) c&p that script into an email and show it to me or to the > list? (2) show the rest of the ps, as it should show some hint to what > it might be hung on? > Thanks for the response. It appears that I have some hardware issues. The box is an older PII that was rescued from the basement and put back into service. After pulling the plug and restarting it, the Ethernet card failed to initialize and the boot process hangs with trying to create /var/log/boot.msg. I guess I should have looked at that before asking for help.

May 11, 2004