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Re: [Wlug] Installfest

by Michael Long

It is not easy being a heretic scum but someone has to do it... :) I am using SuSE 7.3 and would like to install windblows 98. I don't have 2000 and NT does not support usb. mike > Mike, > DIE, DIE, HERETIC SCUM! > > OK, now that I've got that out of my system ;-) what distro are you using? I > know that Mandrake has a lilo conf tool that will basically do it for you. > > Wes > > On Thursday 24 October 2002 11:53 am, Michael Long wrote: > > I have a request that is sacrilege to the charter of WLUG. However it is > > driven by the practicality of working in todays IT market place. > > > > I have run linux exclusively on my personal computers for quite awhile. > > My situation has changed and now need to make one of my computers a dual > > boot with windows. The only way I know how to do this is to install > > windows first and then linux. This would mean having to restore my > > current installation from backups which I have not done before. My > > preference would be to add windows leaving my linux installation alone. > > I am still a newbie to linux and do not understand lilo and the boot > > process. Would this be something that someone would be willing to help > > walk me through? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- > ------ > This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please > send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

Oct. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Installfest

by Wes Allen

Mike, DIE, DIE, HERETIC SCUM! OK, now that I've got that out of my system ;-) what distro are you using? I know that Mandrake has a lilo conf tool that will basically do it for you. Wes On Thursday 24 October 2002 11:53 am, Michael Long wrote: > I have a request that is sacrilege to the charter of WLUG. However it is > driven by the practicality of working in todays IT market place. > > I have run linux exclusively on my personal computers for quite awhile. > My situation has changed and now need to make one of my computers a dual > boot with windows. The only way I know how to do this is to install > windows first and then linux. This would mean having to restore my > current installation from backups which I have not done before. My > preference would be to add windows leaving my linux installation alone. > I am still a newbie to linux and do not understand lilo and the boot > process. Would this be something that someone would be willing to help > walk me through? > > Thanks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.

Oct. 24, 2002

Installfest

by Michael Long

I have a request that is sacrilege to the charter of WLUG. However it is driven by the practicality of working in todays IT market place. I have run linux exclusively on my personal computers for quite awhile. My situation has changed and now need to make one of my computers a dual boot with windows. The only way I know how to do this is to install windows first and then linux. This would mean having to restore my current installation from backups which I have not done before. My preference would be to add windows leaving my linux installation alone. I am still a newbie to linux and do not understand lilo and the boot process. Would this be something that someone would be willing to help walk me through? Thanks, Mike

Oct. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] nslookup not works!

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:27:06PM +0700, Aramico wrote: aramico> RH 8 and its built in application specially modssl. the type of the modssl aramico> is the model where the worm can get the party in it.... aramico> hemm.... Do i miss a thing here....... :( You shouldn't build your own ssl. Instead, get the official updates from Red Hat using up2date. You probably broke something when you installed your home-built stuff. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Oct. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by doug waud

Hi all >>In case no one shows, ..... If a cable is pulled out and nobody it there to see it, does the electricity go off? :-) doug

Oct. 24, 2002

backup recomendation

by Karl Hiramoto

What do people out there use for backup tools. Anyone use Amanda? Any good? My situation is I have three servers I wish to backup. The total amount of data to be backup'd is 40GB. I wish to do weekly or monthly full backups with daily incremental. Plan A: Monthly Level 0, weekly Level 1, daily Level 2 Plan B: Weekly Level 0, daily Level 1 Plan C: Monthly Level 0, weekly level 0, daily level 1 Then every month I'd like to take one of the full backups and put it away for long term storage. My backup media is a 120GB IDE disks in a removable drive trays. Take them home for off site storage. One thing I'm trying now is: rsync the three servers to the local 120 GB disk. From local disk create tar files. Bad part about it is I have to store an extra 40GB on the disk of local copies of the servers. I can't just tar over NFS, because the files on the server may be changing as the tar is created. Tar bitches when that happens. My optimal solution: keep all files on the servers. Possibly use a small local scratch area(1 G or so). Create local backups and store them to the 120GB removable disk. I would like to use free software if possible. Any suggestions? -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø This is now. Later is later.

Oct. 24, 2002

RE: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by Brian J. Conway

> In case no one shows, do we want to plan something? A while back we did More beer and pizza? ;-) -b

Oct. 24, 2002

RE: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by Marc Hughes

In case no one shows, do we want to plan something? A while back we did a distribution bake-off. Since we'll have the facilities, and probably a few computers, we could do something like that again? -Marc -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:41 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest??? On Wednesday 23 October 2002 1:26 pm, Keller, Tim wrote: > Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in > attendance for the installfest? > > Later, > Tim. I have received ZERO e-mail about this so far. I plan to be there so I hope some folks come out of the woodwork. Later, Andy (who just returned from California yesterday evening) -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Oct. 24, 2002

nslookup not works!

by Aramico

Hi all, I've got a problem when i try to use nslookup to resolve the name of my defined ip [root@console]# nslookup -sil nslookup: relocation error: /usr/lib/libdns.so.5: undefined symbol: ENGINE_new What was wrong with it ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- I've just finished installing my new server with rh 8, that's something I really upset... :( RH 8 and its built in application specially modssl. the type of the modssl is the model where the worm can get the party in it.... hemm.... Do i miss a thing here....... :(

Oct. 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by Andy Stewart

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 1:26 pm, Keller, Tim wrote: > Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in attendance > for the installfest? > > Later, > Tim. I have received ZERO e-mail about this so far. I plan to be there so I hope some folks come out of the woodwork. Later, Andy (who just returned from California yesterday evening) -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Oct. 24, 2002

virus scanner

by bryon3245＠netzero.com

I was wondering if anyoen has any suggestions for a virus scanner that i could install on my free bsd box that runs at 33mhz and I only use as a router and fire wall to scan all incoming traffic for viruses? -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

Oct. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by Wes Allen

Thanks Brad, It's not looking good, maybe I'll just pool my Christmas money and get a zaurus? Wes On Wednesday 23 October 2002 2:23 pm, brad wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 01:53 pm, Wes Allen wrote: > > Is it tommorow? Or tonight? > > I believe it is tomorrow. > > > I want to be able to come and get my iPAQ converted (finally), but I had > > my wisdom teeth out yesterday AND I've got the flu.....I'm pretty zoned > > out. > > that's no fun. I'll be there if you want to install in your iPAQ. > > -brad > > > Wes > > > > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 1:26 pm, Keller, Tim wrote: > > > Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in > > > attendance for the installfest? > > > > > > Later, > > > Tim. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wlug mailing list > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.

Oct. 23, 2002

Aurora SPARC Linux

by Charles R. Anderson

I'll have Aurora SPARC Linux (www.auroralinux.org) at tomorrow's InstallFest if anyone wants to try it out. It is basically the same as what would be Red Hat 7.3/Sparc, but they can't call it that since it wasn't officially made by Red Hat. There is a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Oct. 23, 2002

RE: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by Haines, Charles Allen

I've sent the message to WPILA twice now. Haven't gotten any response back, but at least they know. I'll be there with CD's for Gentoo 1.4_rc1 with stage3, Mandrake 9.0 and Redhat 8.0. I'm trying to get slack-current before then, we will see. ----------------------------------------- Chuck Haines GDC Systems Administrator Infinity Complex Developer WPILA Lab Manager ----------------------------------------- AIM: CyberGrex ICQ: 3707881 Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 Cell: (410) 610-6343. ----------------------------------------- "Geek by nature, Linux by choice." -----Original Message----- From: brad [mailto:brad@ithryn.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:24 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest??? On Wednesday 23 October 2002 01:53 pm, Wes Allen wrote: > Is it tommorow? Or tonight? I believe it is tomorrow. > I want to be able to come and get my iPAQ converted (finally), but I > had my wisdom teeth out yesterday AND I've got the flu.....I'm pretty > zoned out. that's no fun. I'll be there if you want to install in your iPAQ. -brad > Wes > > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 1:26 pm, Keller, Tim wrote: > > Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in > > attendance for the installfest? > > > > Later, > > Tim. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Oct. 23, 2002

RE: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by Keller, Tim

Tomorrow... I hope you feel better. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Wes Allen [mailto:wallen@charter.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 13:54 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest??? Is it tommorow? Or tonight? I want to be able to come and get my iPAQ converted (finally), but I had my wisdom teeth out yesterday AND I've got the flu.....I'm pretty zoned out. Wes On Wednesday 23 October 2002 1:26 pm, Keller, Tim wrote: > Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in attendance > for the installfest? > > Later, > Tim. > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Oct. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by brad

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 01:53 pm, Wes Allen wrote: > Is it tommorow? Or tonight? I believe it is tomorrow. > I want to be able to come and get my iPAQ converted (finally), but I had my > wisdom teeth out yesterday AND I've got the flu.....I'm pretty zoned out. that's no fun. I'll be there if you want to install in your iPAQ. -brad > Wes > > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 1:26 pm, Keller, Tim wrote: > > Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in attendance > > for the installfest? > > > > Later, > > Tim. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Oct. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] What's the tally for the installfest???

by Wes Allen

Is it tommorow? Or tonight? I want to be able to come and get my iPAQ converted (finally), but I had my wisdom teeth out yesterday AND I've got the flu.....I'm pretty zoned out. Wes On Wednesday 23 October 2002 1:26 pm, Keller, Tim wrote: > Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in attendance > for the installfest? > > Later, > Tim. > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.

Oct. 23, 2002

What's the tally for the installfest???

by Keller, Tim

Do we have a rough idea of how many people are going to be in attendance for the installfest? Later, Tim.

Oct. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Restarting ldap by user, not by root!

by Charles R. Anderson

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:34:55PM +0700, Aramico wrote: aramico> There is several users are configuring LDAP in my server. aramico> I give them access to modify the LDAP's configuration by giving o+rwx and This is a huge security risk, giving o+rwx. You should create a group and give g+rwx to the group members, or use sudo. aramico> how can i grant the read and write access to the defined directory which aramico> belong to root ? How can I do it ? Use sudo. man sudoers -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Oct. 23, 2002

RH7.0 Hacked

by Richard Goodman

I have two RH7.0 and two RH7.3 servers ... it appears that between 5-6am Tuesday both the 7.0 servers were hacked - identically. They are on the same ISP and often their firewalls pick up the same scans and probes. I'm no expert, but this is what I think happened. The first clue was that I couldn't log in through ssh - got the message "The program does not understand the servers's version of the protocol" Looking at /var/log/secure I saw: 10/22 5:34 xinetd fail ftp libwrap from 195.157.17.177 then two fails from 127.0.0.1 I'm running an unpatched wu-ftpd (which I'm sure didn't help me) but the host.allow/deny were set to only allow ftp from the internal network and one specified outside IP# 10/22 5:48 (twice) xinetd start pop3 pid=10804 from 127.0.0.1 [not me-sleeping] 10/22 6:09 Listener created on port 22 Daemon is running Some poking around showed in /etc/ssh sshd (which should have been approx 200K was 2,621,812 and dated 10/22, so probably a trojan? ssh_host_key, ssh_host_key_pub, ssh_random_seed, sshd_config all had 10/22 modified dates My web server also was not running (or at least serving local pages) I accidently rebooted, the web server came back, but ssh did not. Later I attempted to delete and reinstall sshd. rpm said it couldn't uninstall because it wasn't there, and couldn't install because it was there. I think it finally installed with --force, and sshd was about 186K, but the symptoms were the same It turns out that ftp is also now not operational from the internal network. There is a message about xinetd/ftp in the startup, but its probably not important at this point After the reboot, ps -ax listed: 1811 D /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major 7 [which I could not kill] Obviously, I'm going to have to wipe the server (plan to offload a few .conf and mail config files, firewall script and leave /var/www - should that be safe?) and will probably load RH7.3 and patches. Any comments on what happened, or on rebuilding? The hard drive is partitioned (a) / (b) /home (c) /var - and /home has only mail files. If I format (a) and delete some (which?) directories on /var, should I be ok? Would prefer not to rebuild the /var/www directories if possible. With ftp and ssh both down, my only way to offload is to floppies? Boy, I miss not having ssh access! Dick

Oct. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RH7.0 Hacked

by Karl Hiramoto

Did you not run redhat's up2date program? I agree with marc that you should have ftp client access to ftp from that machine to another. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Richard Goodman wrote: > I have two RH7.0 and two RH7.3 servers ... it appears that between > 5-6am Tuesday both the 7.0 servers were hacked - identically. They > are on the same ISP and often their firewalls pick up the same scans > and probes. > > I'm no expert, but this is what I think happened. > > The first clue was that I couldn't log in through ssh - got the > message "The program does not understand the servers's version of the > protocol" > > Looking at /var/log/secure I saw: > 10/22 5:34 xinetd fail ftp libwrap from 195.157.17.177 > then two fails from 127.0.0.1 > I'm running an unpatched wu-ftpd (which I'm sure didn't help me) but > the host.allow/deny were set to only allow ftp from the internal > network and one specified outside IP# > > 10/22 5:48 (twice) xinetd start pop3 pid=10804 from 127.0.0.1 [not me-sleeping] > 10/22 6:09 Listener created on port 22 > Daemon is running > > Some poking around showed in /etc/ssh > sshd (which should have been approx 200K was 2,621,812 and dated > 10/22, so probably a trojan? > ssh_host_key, ssh_host_key_pub, ssh_random_seed, sshd_config all had > 10/22 modified dates > > My web server also was not running (or at least serving local pages) > > I accidently rebooted, the web server came back, but ssh did not. > Later I attempted to delete and reinstall sshd. rpm said it couldn't > uninstall because it wasn't there, and couldn't install because it > was there. I think it finally installed with --force, and sshd was > about 186K, but the symptoms were the same > > It turns out that ftp is also now not operational from the internal > network. There is a message about xinetd/ftp in the startup, but its > probably not important at this point > > After the reboot, ps -ax listed: > 1811 D /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major 7 [which I could not kill] > > Obviously, I'm going to have to wipe the server (plan to offload a > few .conf and mail config files, firewall script and leave /var/www - > should that be safe?) and will probably load RH7.3 and patches. > > Any comments on what happened, or on rebuilding? The hard drive is > partitioned (a) / (b) /home (c) /var - and /home has only mail files. > If I format (a) and delete some (which?) directories on /var, should > I be ok? Would prefer not to rebuild the /var/www directories if > possible. With ftp and ssh both down, my only way to offload is to > floppies? > > Boy, I miss not having ssh access! > > Dick > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.

Oct. 23, 2002

RE: [Wlug] RH7.0 Hacked

by Marc Hughes

You probably still have ftp or ssh access from that machine, so you can copy your data off of it onto another server. But I'd say your best bet is unplug it from the internet, copy off all your data (not programs!), wipe clean, and reinstall. You never know what kinds of rootkits were installed, and you can't rely on any system info to be accurate since some rootkits are rather advanced. Did you have SSL running without the recent (as in past month or so) patches? -Marc -----Original Message----- From: Richard Goodman [mailto:dick@goodman1.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:31 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] RH7.0 Hacked I have two RH7.0 and two RH7.3 servers ... it appears that between 5-6am Tuesday both the 7.0 servers were hacked - identically. They are on the same ISP and often their firewalls pick up the same scans and probes. I'm no expert, but this is what I think happened. The first clue was that I couldn't log in through ssh - got the message "The program does not understand the servers's version of the protocol" Looking at /var/log/secure I saw: 10/22 5:34 xinetd fail ftp libwrap from 195.157.17.177 then two fails from 127.0.0.1 I'm running an unpatched wu-ftpd (which I'm sure didn't help me) but the host.allow/deny were set to only allow ftp from the internal network and one specified outside IP# 10/22 5:48 (twice) xinetd start pop3 pid=10804 from 127.0.0.1 [not me-sleeping] 10/22 6:09 Listener created on port 22 Daemon is running Some poking around showed in /etc/ssh sshd (which should have been approx 200K was 2,621,812 and dated 10/22, so probably a trojan? ssh_host_key, ssh_host_key_pub, ssh_random_seed, sshd_config all had 10/22 modified dates My web server also was not running (or at least serving local pages) I accidently rebooted, the web server came back, but ssh did not. Later I attempted to delete and reinstall sshd. rpm said it couldn't uninstall because it wasn't there, and couldn't install because it was there. I think it finally installed with --force, and sshd was about 186K, but the symptoms were the same It turns out that ftp is also now not operational from the internal network. There is a message about xinetd/ftp in the startup, but its probably not important at this point After the reboot, ps -ax listed: 1811 D /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major 7 [which I could not kill] Obviously, I'm going to have to wipe the server (plan to offload a few .conf and mail config files, firewall script and leave /var/www - should that be safe?) and will probably load RH7.3 and patches. Any comments on what happened, or on rebuilding? The hard drive is partitioned (a) / (b) /home (c) /var - and /home has only mail files. If I format (a) and delete some (which?) directories on /var, should I be ok? Would prefer not to rebuild the /var/www directories if possible. With ftp and ssh both down, my only way to offload is to floppies? Boy, I miss not having ssh access! Dick _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Oct. 23, 2002

Restarting ldap by user, not by root!

by Aramico

HI all, Can u please help me to solve this problem...... There is several users are configuring LDAP in my server. I give them access to modify the LDAP's configuration by giving o+rwx and create the link for LDAP in their home directory. By this they can modify the L:DAP configuration. The big problem is, they always ask me to restart the ldap (/etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap restart), in fact... I'm so bussy.... Talk to the clients..... can my users ( group users ) able to restart the ldap by executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap restart.... how can i grant the read and write access to the defined directory which belong to root ? How can I do it ? --------------------------------------------------- Note : Btw, so sorry about asking you so much low level question...... Thanks.....

Oct. 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Using iptables to MASQ the connection to the internet.

by Peter Gutowski

Aramico, I've noticed, since you posts started appearing, that you seem to be asking for help on topics that are generally well-covered on the internet. But perhaps you are new enough to all this (as I was several years ago) that you don't realize that the purpose of forums like this is to add a level of enrichment to the research work that you've (hopefully) already done. It might be a better use of all of our time if you did some of that research yourself and came back with specific questions after having done so. The answer to the question you ask below specifically is answered quite well in HOWTOs that are readily available. I'll infer for a moment that your question is based on your sucessfull installation of RHL8.0 that you were asking about earlier. To find more information about any installed package do... rpm -q <package-name> -i So for your iptables question, I'd do this: rpm -q iptables -i Among the info listed here is a key to finding out how to use it: URL: : http://www.netfilter.org If you were to follow that link, you'll find plenty of answers to the exact question your pose. (Scroll to the bottom of the page and select NAT HOWTO. Look for "4.1 I just want masquerading! Help!" ) Also, most RPMs have a certain amout of enclosed documentation that will vary in its helpfulness. Do a rpm -q <package-name> -l | grep doc or substitute "info" or "man" for the "doc" above. Making an attempt to read those would also be a good first step to implementing new facilities on systems you are using. You might be pleasantly surprized about how many of these questions have been already anticipated *and* answered! Finally, doing a google search (http://www.google.com) might also surprize you pleasantly about locating these resources quickly. On 10/23/2002 12:23 AM, Aramico <aramico(a)duahati.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >Can you please tell me what is the sysntax of iptables to masquerade >my >network connection to the internet ? > >Basicly, I've only done this to masquerade my network connectionto >the >Internet, as default we can use the computer who masq the connection >as >gateway. >ipchains -A forward -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -j MASQ > >So, can you please tell me what is the syntax of iptables to produce >the >result as the command above...... ? > >Thanks ...... > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Oct. 23, 2002

Using iptables to MASQ the connection to the internet.

by Aramico

Hi all, Can you please tell me what is the sysntax of iptables to masquerade my network connection to the internet ? Basicly, I've only done this to masquerade my network connectionto the Internet, as default we can use the computer who masq the connection as gateway. ipchains -A forward -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -j MASQ So, can you please tell me what is the syntax of iptables to produce the result as the command above...... ? Thanks ......

Oct. 23, 2002