From billf at inxpress.net  Thu Mar  2 09:03:20 2000
From: billf at inxpress.net (Bill Fredrickson)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:03:20 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Meeting Reminder
Message-ID: <38BE82B8.DC6024E6@inxpress.net>

Hi Everybody,

Tomorrow's the first Friday of March so it must be Steep N Brew time.
The Meeting will be at the State Street Steep N Brew at about 7pm.
Everybody's welcome. Nothing special on the adgenda, just the usual
techie chit chat. Hope to see you all there.

Bill




From arzamendi at berbee.com  Thu Mar  2 09:37:36 2000
From: arzamendi at berbee.com (Peter Arzamendi)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:37:36 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Perl question.
Message-ID: <NDBBJDJFHKGNMDNIKHDPGEHGCAAA.arzamendi@berbee.com>

Hello,
	I'm new to Perl and was looking for some help. What I'm tiring to do is
open a Win32 console on a NT server and execute a program from within that
console. Here is where my question comes in. How do I pipe commands to the
program I executed from the WIN32 console?(ex. run rconsole servername and
input the password into the password field)


thanks in advance,

Pete




From droehre at bus.wisc.edu  Thu Mar  2 11:35:11 2000
From: droehre at bus.wisc.edu (Dan Roehre)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:35:11 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] advertisement filtering
Message-ID: <4.2.1.20000302112716.00b5b7f0@mail.bus.wisc.edu>

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone has set up their Linux firewall/router
to filter advertising content from the likes of doubleclick, et al.
I've seen one article in LinuxGazette, but I think you need to
provide the browser with an alternative image to replace the
advertising banner.  Otherwise Netscape waits and times out
waiting for the image.

Is anyone doing filtering using ipchains or ipfwadm?

I know there are commercial versions and even some opensource
products, but I would like to experiment at the router level (maybe I'll even
learn something in the process!).

Thanks

Dan


********************************************
Dan Roehre
NT Administrator
Technology Support Center
UW-Madison School of Business
608-262-7371
droehre at bus.wisc.edu
********************************************




From tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu  Thu Mar  2 23:16:39 2000
From: tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu (Ted R Shoemaker)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:16:39 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Linux's success
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000302231639.007bd540@students.wisc.edu>

 "Everyone still flush from seeing Linux
 take on COMDEX and Wall Street
 are more than eager to declare Linux
 the dominating OS of the future...
 these same pundits were, not even six
 months ago, calling Linux a 'hacker's
 hobby tool, not fit for real work." -
 TJ Miller jr.

 Complete story:
http://www.maximumpc.com/cgi-bin/redirect.
cgi?newsletter=mpcn&target=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osopinion.com%2F
Opinions%2FTJMiller%2FTJMiller16.html

(That's all one URL -- all 4 lines!)

                #####


Ted Shoemaker

PARENTING
is the radical idea
that children are worth keeping.




From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Fri Mar  3 13:56:19 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 13:56:19 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] advertisement filtering
Message-ID: <s8bfc4a0.060@gwmail>

You could do this with ipchains but it might be simpler to use stuff from Junkbusters with Squid proxy server or just have a modified /etc/hosts file.  Squid is pretty easy to setup, but I personally haven't used Junkbusters with it.  As I understand it Junkbusters is just a set of regular expression filters that block ads at the proxy.

The other solution is to add domains like doubleclick.com to your /etc/hosts with ip addresses of 127.0.0.1.  Since the /etc/hosts is read before DNS (configured in /etc/resolv.conf) requests to doubleclick get sent to your own machine instead, and just timeout.  If you are running your own caching DNS server you could just add this to your own zone file, I think.

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Dan Roehre <droehre at bus.wisc.edu> 03/02/00 11:35AM >>>
Hi,

I am wondering if anyone has set up their Linux firewall/router
to filter advertising content from the likes of doubleclick, et al.
I've seen one article in LinuxGazette, but I think you need to
provide the browser with an alternative image to replace the
advertising banner.  Otherwise Netscape waits and times out
waiting for the image.

Is anyone doing filtering using ipchains or ipfwadm?

I know there are commercial versions and even some opensource
products, but I would like to experiment at the router level (maybe I'll even
learn something in the process!).





From MTinberg at compuserve.com  Sun Mar  5 14:05:22 2000
From: MTinberg at compuserve.com (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 14:05:22 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Minutes for Feb 22 and Mar 3 meetings
Message-ID: <00030514293301.05172@lordcyrix.raven667.org>

Here is the very short meeting minutes for the last two regular meetings.

Feb 22:

Presentation on X startup and initialization by myself, Mark Tinberg.  A copy
of the presentation will be available on the website shortly, as soon as I fix
the extraneous <font> tags in my HTML docs.

After the presentation Bill gave a little talk about the state of the
Organization, including the amount left in the Treasury.  I stated that I had
taken over duties as Secretary and asked anyone if they had any objections.  No
one did, thankfully, so I continue on.

However, we still could use a Treasurer and a few other jobs need filling.  If
you are interested please contact Bill Fredrickson <billf at inxpress.net>.

No official business was discussed or voted on.  The meeting broke up late, as
usual, and the die-hards stayed until about Midnight.

Mar 3:

Great coffee meeting!  We had a few new faces from the mailing list show up. 
We discussed a whole lotta Linux and left Steep-n-Brew a bit after 11:00PM,
although a few of us went across the street to BW3s for a beer and left there
about 02:00AM.

No business was discussed, or voted on.

Notes:

There was more conversations than I could follow, maybe I should start bringing
a notebook and jotting down a few of the subjects discussed, for later
reference.  It also might be good to get names and email, like a guest book, so
I can match faces to people I talk to on-list.

-- 
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!



From billf at inxpress.net  Sun Mar  5 20:08:01 2000
From: billf at inxpress.net (Bill Fredrickson)
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 20:08:01 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] AMD to release 1GHz chip on Monday.
Message-ID: <38C31301.9F0B120A@inxpress.net>

Be the fist "kid" on your block to have one, or two, or three or.......
Saw this on the news wire tonight, thought I would pass it along.
Bill


Sunday March 5 5:30 PM ET

AMD Set to Beat Intel 1GHz Chip

By Therese Poletti

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a business where speed is paramount,
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. appears ready to jump
out ahead on Monday of Intel Corp. in the race to ship the first
ultra-fast computer chip that reaches a new milestone of 1
billion cycles per second.

Advanced Micro (NYSE:AMD - news) issued a news release on Sunday stating
it will announce early Monday that it has
``commenced shipments of 1GHz (gigahertz) AMD Athlon processors.''

Analysts had said they expected both Intel (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) and
its scrappy rival Advanced Micro to launch their
first processors running at one gigahertz this week.

A call to Intel on Sunday afternoon was not returned.

Both companies sped up their product plans, analysts said, in order to
capture the boasting rights for being first to the market
with a chip that runs at 1 billion cycles per second.

As recently as last month at the company's developer forum, Intel
executives said they planned to launch the Pentium III at one
gigahertz chip sometime in the second half of this year.

On Friday, AMD officials scrambled to take down some details of their
own product launch plans from their Web site, which
had been inadvertently published in an FAQ (frequently asked question)
on AMD's Web site, and republished Friday in an
article on The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk).

On its Web posting, AMD said that its current manufacturing process,
combined with the seventh generation architecture in
the Athlon processor, will enable it to launch one gigahertz processors
in March.

``It went live prematurely,'' said John Greenagle, a spokesman for AMD
in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Analysts, however, note that these chips will not be available in big
volumes after they are launched and that only a handful
of personal computer makers are likely to announce products designed
with one gigahertz processors.

``I think it's chest-thumping more than anything else,'' said Mark
Edelstone, a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst.

Ashok Kumar, an analyst with US Bancorp Piper Jaffray, agreed.

``I don't think there is a big push from an OEM (original equipment
manufacturer) perspective. It's just bragging rights,''
Kumar said of current PC maker demand for more powerful chips.

``The sweet spot in the market is closer to 500 megahertz,'' he said of
the speed required to run the overwhelming number of
computer software programs now available.

But because these will be the first processors on the market running at
one gigahertz, the companies will be able to charge a
premium, even if it is just for a short time.

Keith Diefendorff, editor-in-chief of the Microprocessor Report,
estimates that both one gigahertz chips will be priced
around $900 or so, compared with the $850 now charged for the most
expensive Pentium IIIs.

Brookwood of Insight 64 has even higher projections, ranging from
$1,200, $1,500, to even as high as $2,000.

``It is a huge milestone,'' Brookwood said. ``In a couple of years we
won't be talking about 800 megahertz. ... The machines
you bought a few years ago will '.8 gigahertz.' The whole scheme of
measuring will change. That doesn't happen very often.''


                                           Questions or Comments
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rights reserved.
               Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is
expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
                  Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays
in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.





From subb3 at attglobal.net  Mon Mar  6 16:52:50 2000
From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:52:50 -0500
Subject: [Madlug] Linux Agents/Robots ??
Message-ID: <20000306175250.A18514@attglobal.net>

Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want
to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics.

Any pointers or info appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Subba Rao
subb3 at attglobal.net
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/

 => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <=
http://www.smcinnovations.com



From mad96 at hampshire.edu  Mon Mar  6 16:52:34 2000
From: mad96 at hampshire.edu (Michael Dartt)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:52:34 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Madlug] Linux Agents/Robots ??
In-Reply-To: <20000306175250.A18514@attglobal.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10003061751230.9946-100000@stout>

I would recommend using Metacrawler (www.metacrawler.com), which searches
Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, and several other search engines.  I've had
good luck with it so far.


--Mike

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Subba Rao wrote:

> 
> Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want
> to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics.
> 
> Any pointers or info appreciated.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Subba Rao
> subb3 at attglobal.net
> http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
> 
>  => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <=
> http://www.smcinnovations.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> 




From tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu  Tue Mar  7 22:18:09 2000
From: tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu (Ted R Shoemaker)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:18:09 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] bootable from CD
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000307221809.007bcdf0@students.wisc.edu>

I have more than one question, so I'll send more than one post.
Here's the first question: What determines whether a particular PC is
bootable from CD --  
Is it the CD-ROM? the mainboard BIOS? the IDE controller? etc.

Thanks,

Ted

Ted Shoemaker

PARENTING
is the radical idea
that children are worth keeping.




From tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu  Tue Mar  7 22:20:53 2000
From: tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu (Ted R Shoemaker)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:20:53 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Which hardware is linux-compatible?
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000307222053.007be7d0@students.wisc.edu>

How/where can I find out whether a given piece of hardware is
Linux-compatible?

Please be more specific than just saying something like "freshmeat" or
"read the mans".  I'm a newbie and need the *details*.

Thank you!

Ted Shoemaker

PARENTING
is the radical idea
that children are worth keeping.




From tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu  Tue Mar  7 22:24:57 2000
From: tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu (Ted R Shoemaker)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:24:57 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] bootloader
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000307222457.007bf8b0@students.wisc.edu>

How much HDD space is required for the boot-loader?  If somebody wants a
particular bootloader (see 
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
for info about one called GRUB), are they likely to need more space?

Thanks!

Ted Shoemaker

PARENTING
is the radical idea
that children are worth keeping.




From NickHall at flashmail.com  Tue Mar  7 22:39:20 2000
From: NickHall at flashmail.com (Nick Hall)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:39:20 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Which hardware is linux-compatible?
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000307222053.007be7d0@students.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000307223322.00b88e60@flash1.flashmail.com>

Hi Ted,

To start with, you could go to the fairly newbie-friendly 
http://www.linuxhardware.net There is also a fairly complete database of 
working hardware at http://lhd.datapower.com If you can't find it there, 
you can try the Hardware HOWTO (HOWTOs can be found at the Linux 
Documentation Project site, http://www.linuxdoc.org ). Be warned though, 
this HOWTO is fairly incomplete so you're not too likely to find that great 
of info there. You can also check out the specific HOWTO for the piece of 
hardware you're checking (like the Ethernet HOWTO for an Ethernet card) but 
again, the author doesn't always update these with the latest hardware. 
Often you have to find out the chipset if you have something like an 
Ethernet card and look if other cards with the same chipset are compatible, 
as this often means your hardware works under Linux. If you can't find it 
in these sites, I often search usenet at http://www.deja.com as if you're 
checking to see if it works, someone else has probably checked and someone 
else has probably succeeded in getting it to work (if its possible with the 
current drivers). Hope this helps,

Nick Hall


At 10:20 PM 3/7/00, Ted R Shoemaker wrote:

>How/where can I find out whether a given piece of hardware is
>Linux-compatible?
>
>Please be more specific than just saying something like "freshmeat" or
>"read the mans".  I'm a newbie and need the *details*.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Ted Shoemaker
>
>PARENTING
>is the radical idea
>that children are worth keeping.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
>http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug





From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Wed Mar  8 08:56:27 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 08:56:27 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] bootable from CD
Message-ID: <s8c615d8.018@gwmail>

This is a function of the BIOS, it should work with any IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive.  As Steve informed me the way bootable CDs work is that the first 2.88 MB of the CDROM disk becomes an emulated floppy disk to the BIOS.  Your floppy drive may be inaccessable because of this.  So to make a CD bootable just put a floppy image in the first 2.88 MB and viola.

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Ted R Shoemaker <tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu> 03/07/00 10:18PM >>>

I have more than one question, so I'll send more than one post.
Here's the first question: What determines whether a particular PC is
bootable from CD --  
Is it the CD-ROM? the mainboard BIOS? the IDE controller? etc.





From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Wed Mar  8 09:00:12 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:00:12 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] bootloader
Message-ID: <s8c616b5.027@gwmail>

Well the bootloader will have to take up the first 512 bytes of the HDD other than that it could be variable, some bootloaders install a couple of meg in a small partition (like OS/2 and Partition Magic), others like LILO and NT Bootloader exist as files on the OS partition.

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Ted R Shoemaker <tshoemaker at students.wisc.edu> 03/07/00 10:24PM >>>

How much HDD space is required for the boot-loader?  If somebody wants a
particular bootloader (see 
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ 
for info about one called GRUB), are they likely to need more space?






From bfarina at venture-1.com  Wed Mar  8 09:27:46 2000
From: bfarina at venture-1.com (Bill Farina)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:27:46 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Remote Management Tools
Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000308092526.00c8f5e0@venture-1.com>

Does anyone know of any remote server management tools for Linux that will 
run on A)other Linux Boxes and B)Windoze Boxes?




From taschaab at students.wisc.edu  Wed Mar  8 09:46:26 2000
From: taschaab at students.wisc.edu (Tim Schaab)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:46:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] Remote Management Tools
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000308092526.00c8f5e0@venture-1.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003080937490.2987-100000@witt128-050.resnet.wisc.edu>

A remote management program I've been toying around with is Webmin.  It's
a web based remote management tool.  You can configure a lot of normal
services with it, it can be customized with 3rd party modules and will
also fit itself to your Linux flavor.  It can configure Sendmail,
Apache, DNS, Squid, Majordomo, Samba, DHPC, and some more server software.
You can also mange users, disk usage, disk partitions and more.  Nice
little program, but having just found it, I haven't been able to test most
of the features out. You might want to take a look at it and see what you
think.  From all the features it has listed and the room it has for
expansion, it looks like a nice program.

Webmin:
http://www.webmin.com

-- 
Tim Schaab
Witte Hall Web Designer  -  http://housing.wisc.edu/witte
FMBA Director - http://www.madweb.org/fmba

The opinions expressed herein are those of absolutely everyone at UW - Madison:
students, the Regents, staff, Professors, their spouses, children, dogs, 
and cats. In fact, everyone in Madison also agrees. No, make that Wisconsin. 




From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Wed Mar  8 09:46:06 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:46:06 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Remote Management Tools
Message-ID: <s8c62170.093@gwmail>

I'm a big fan of the Webmin/MindTerm/WierdX combo (although I haven't tried WierdX yet)

1)  Webmin is a web based system config tool, like Linuxconf or COAS.  Unlike Linuxconf it is very well designed and plays nice with your hand edited config files (YMMV)  It includes a perl based webserver and all the config modules are perl CGIs.  It has easy access controls so individual users can only use the config modules that the admin specifies, like the Mail admin only has access to sendmail and majordomo conf, and the account admin only has access to the accounts/groups and quotas section with the web admin only having access to apache and ftp modules.  It has a Java file management module, allowing you to view, edit, copy, move and change permissions on files.  It is GPL.  Webmin has its own host-based security, but as far as running world accessable on a production server, it's probably a good idea to also use ipchains to reduce access.

2)  MindTerm is a Java SSH client, it is also available as a predone module for Webmin.  I like to put this on servers I create so that I can login and get a shell from anywhere in the world, without having to worry about the configuration of the client workstation.  Just stick a small page that loads it as an applet on your webserver and your machine becomes very self-hosting.

3)  WierdX (which I haven't used yet) is a Java X server.  It would work well with MindTerm to provide secure access including all your X apps for remote management and config.  Just think, you could have your complete desktop environment, as you have configured it, from anywhere in the world with just a few clicks!

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Bill Farina <bfarina at venture-1.com> 03/08/00 09:27AM >>>
Does anyone know of any remote server management tools for Linux that will 
run on A)other Linux Boxes and B)Windoze Boxes?







From JSchneider at parts-unltd.com  Wed Mar  8 10:01:17 2000
From: JSchneider at parts-unltd.com (Schneider, Jan)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:01:17 -0600 
Subject: [Madlug] Linux & BIND
Message-ID: <AB93FB2DE778D2119C8E00A0C9E9176B1F4417@NTSERVER1>

Has anyone set up a DMZ using RedHat Linux 5.2 and BIND 8?  We host the
primary DNS on site.  The DNS server has an outside address.  I'm trying to
create a DMZ for our web application servers.  Can anyone help?  Thanks.

Janet Schneider, CNE
Network Engineer
LeMans Corporation
Voice 608.741.5325
Fax 608.758.1814
jschneider at parts-unltd.com




From matt at securepipe.com  Wed Mar  8 10:18:29 2000
From: matt at securepipe.com (matt at securepipe.com)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:18:29 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] Linux & BIND
In-Reply-To: <AB93FB2DE778D2119C8E00A0C9E9176B1F4417@NTSERVER1>
Message-ID: <m12SjCY-000ZTVC@franz.stat.wisc.edu>

I've done that.  What exactly is the problem?

Assuming you have the IP connectivity working (the DMZ nameserver can
see the net), then it's just a matter of configuring bind.

That is:

create "master" files for each zone you're authoritative for, and
configure /var/named/named.conf.  Thisfile will specify the "resolvers"
that is, who can query you, as well as have the "zone" data for each of
the domains you're authoritative for.  

If you have a specific question, feel free to email me.

On  8 Mar, Schneider, Jan wrote:
> Has anyone set up a DMZ using RedHat Linux 5.2 and BIND 8?  We host the
> primary DNS on site.  The DNS server has an outside address.  I'm trying to
> create a DMZ for our web application servers.  Can anyone help?  Thanks.
> 
> Janet Schneider, CNE
> Network Engineer
> LeMans Corporation
> Voice 608.741.5325
> Fax 608.758.1814
> jschneider at parts-unltd.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug

-- 
Matthew Callaway
Network Administrator
SecurePipe Communications, LLC
matt at securepipe.com




From andis at medix1.com  Thu Mar  9 11:02:26 2000
From: andis at medix1.com (Andi Siahaan)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:02:26 -0600 
Subject: [Madlug] Free Web Hosting
Message-ID: <DB816E7E1695D2119FB700400535D6EB23A866@PDC>

I am looking for the site to allow me to host my domain name for non
commercial site. I know some but it is for business.
Thanks


Andi



From taschaab at students.wisc.edu  Sat Mar 11 00:41:58 2000
From: taschaab at students.wisc.edu (Tim Schaab)
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:41:58 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] Aureal Vortex Linux Drivers?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003110039550.9617-100000@witt128-050.resnet.wisc.edu>

Huzzah and Kudos!
   Does anyone know if there are linux drivers for Aureal's vortex1 sound
card chipset?  I thought I heard something mentioned about it a while ago
and can't find any info on it.  Thanks for any help!


-- 
Tim Schaab
Witte Hall Web Designer  -  http://housing.wisc.edu/witte - MIA
FMBA Director - http://www.madweb.org/fmba

The opinions expressed herein are those of absolutely everyone at UW - Madison:
students, the Regents, staff, Professors, their spouses, children, dogs, 
and cats. In fact, everyone in Madison also agrees. No, make that Wisconsin. 




From subb3 at attglobal.net  Sat Mar 11 20:44:18 2000
From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao)
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:44:18 -0500
Subject: [Madlug] Cacheing
Message-ID: <20000311214418.G2156@attglobal.net>

I am using Squid in conjunction with Junkbuster. The banner adds blocking
is working fine. One of the main purpose of Squid is not working for me, i.e. cacheing.
What configuration flags should be enabled/disabled for cacheing to work?

I thought I defined the cache directory in the config file.

cache_dir ufs /var/squid/cache 100 16 256

Each time I visit a static site, the page is loaded. The same pages were not
reloaded via Apache proxy module. If I can get squid to cache the web, then I plan to
delete the Apache proxy module.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Subba Rao
subb3 at attglobal.net
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/

 => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <=
http://www.smcinnovations.com




From etler at cs.wisc.edu  Sat Mar 11 21:22:58 2000
From: etler at cs.wisc.edu (Sam Etler)
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:22:58 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] MAD-SAGE Kick off
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.1000311211734.16681B-100000@stall.cs.wisc.edu>

There's a Madison chapter of SAGE that's being formed.  The kick off
meeting is next Thursday.  One of the people who's setting it all up is my
boss, David Parter. He's very involved in the Usenix and SAGE community,
was the chair of LISA 1999 etc.  Should be interesting..  More detailed
info about the organization is below, and details about the upcoming
meeting as well.  Hope to see some of you guys there!

Sam Etler
UW Madison
CSL Networking

------------------------------------------------------------------------

My apologies if you get this more than once. Please join us, and please
pass the word to any Madison area system administrators that you know.

     --david

MAD-SAGE -- The Madison System Administrators' Guild!

MAD-SAGE is the Madison System Administrators' Guild. Participation is not
limited to members of SAGE, nor is it limited to people who admin Unix, NT,
any other OS, routers, or networks. If you ride herd on information systems
and/or their users, you belong here.

We are a local group affiliated with SAGE, The System Administrators'
Guild (http://www.usenix.org/sage).  SAGE is a special technical groupof
USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association (http://www.usenix.org).

MAD-SAGE is now forming. The organizing committee for the kick-off event is
William Annis (UW Biomedical Computing Group), Kent Hooker (UW Division of
Information Technology), David Parter (UW Computer Science Department), and
Scott Pichelman (Berbee Information Networks). Thanks for Bob Kabler, Jeremy
Charles and Epic Systems for the use of Epic's meeting room.

Join us at our "kick-off" event:

The Blind Man and the Elephant -- What Is System Administration?

Panelists:

   * Steve Barnet, UW Space Science Engineering Center
   * Tom Mish, Berbee Information Networks
   * Kim Wallace, Cisco Systems (special guest panelist from Silicon Valley)

Date:         Thursday, March 16

Time:         6:00  PIZZA and "networking"
              6:30  Introduction and Panel Discussion
              ~7:30 short "business meeting" to discuss organizational issues

Location:     Epic Systems
              5301 Tokay Blvd
              (on the top of the hill behind Westgate Mall)

Directions:   Epic is at the top of the hill on Tokay Blvd, between Segoe
              Rd. and Whitney Way.

              Enter at the East driveway (away from Westgate Mall). Follow
              the arrows on the signs around to the back side of the
              building. The main entrance is set back in to the middle of
              the building. Push the doorbell button if the door is locked
              and the receptionist will let you in. Follow the signs to
              the MAD-SAGE event.

This information is also on the web at 
     http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dparter/mad-sage.html 
and will soon be on the web at 
     http://www.mad-sage.org






From subb3 at attglobal.net  Sun Mar 12 16:45:39 2000
From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:45:39 -0500
Subject: [Madlug] Apache Proxy and Apache server at startup
Message-ID: <20000312174539.A1794@attglobal.net>

I have 2 questions regarding Apache server version 1.3.11.

1.
==
I have Apache Proxy installed on Linux. The proxy web cacheing works fine,
when I access the web from a 95/NT box. Most revisted pages are immediately
fetched from the Apache Proxy's cache. This is certainly not true when I access
these same pages from the hosting Linux system. Each revist is fetched from the
site. I have configured browsers exactly alike.

Any idea why this is happening?

2.
==
One other problem I have noticed is the slow startup of Apache at boot up time.
In the startup scripts, I have the following lines:

if [ -x /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl ]; then
  echo "Starting Apache Web Server"
  /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
fi

The system waits for about 5 minutes before moving on to the next instruction.
I do not have any "sleep" commands in this script. Once the system has started,
if I do any of the following commands:

  /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl stop
  /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
  /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart

Apache responds rightaway. If anyone is experiencing this same problem, please let
me know how you resolved this problem.

Thank you in advance.

Subba Rao
subb3 at attglobal.net
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/

 => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <=
http://www.smcinnovations.com




From andis at medix1.com  Mon Mar 13 08:51:35 2000
From: andis at medix1.com (Andi Siahaan)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:51:35 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Apache
Message-ID: <DB816E7E1695D2119FB700400535D6EB23A86D@PDC>

When I try to "./configure" apache 1.3.12 an error says " something you
don't have compiler no gcc cc and there is another I don't remember. Also On
the book it says do "./configure --something=/something/httpd \. What this
"\" symbol means.

Thanks

Andi






From mad96 at hampshire.edu  Mon Mar 13 08:13:56 2000
From: mad96 at hampshire.edu (Michael Dartt)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:13:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Madlug] Apache
In-Reply-To: <DB816E7E1695D2119FB700400535D6EB23A86D@PDC>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003130907440.1702-100000@prometheus.hampshire.edu>

(As tired as I am, I'm not sure I can answer this effectively, but I'll
give it a shot....)

Could you paste the error message into an email?  That'll make it much
easier to answer your question.

I can't be 100% certain what the "\" symbol is in this context, as I'm not
sure what book you're referring to, but it's generally an "escape
character" on the command line.  That is, it tells the shell that whatever
comes after the "\" should be treated literally and not be interpreted by
the shell.  An example is if you have file names with spaces in them--tab
completion in zsh when I want to run pico on a file named "m2m review"
yields:

jedin[~]: pico m2m\ review 

this way, the shell knows that there's a space in there that's part of the
file name, and that "review" isn't an option to the command or something.

I hope I haven't confused anyone with this explanation.  :-)

(Btw, the file referred to above is my Q&D, spoiler-free review of
"Mission to Mars".  If anyone wants to see it, let me know and I'll be
happy to email you a copy.  And yes, it's different from the ones on
Slashdot  :-j)



--Mike


On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Andi  Siahaan wrote:

> When I try to "./configure" apache 1.3.12 an error says " something you
> don't have compiler no gcc cc and there is another I don't remember. Also On
> the book it says do "./configure --something=/something/httpd \. What this
> "\" symbol means.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> 




From lcarus at lucent.com  Mon Mar 13 13:38:13 2000
From: lcarus at lucent.com (Larry Caruso)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:38:13 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] printing from red hat 6.1
Message-ID: <NDBBKJJMGKBJNGEDDHIJIEMDDLAA.lcarus@lucent.com>

At the risk of asking a newbie question, how does one using Red Hat 6.1
setup IP-based printing to an HP jetdirect based last printer such as an HP
8000?

TIA,
Larry




From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Tue Mar 14 09:29:28 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:29:28 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Apache
Message-ID: <s8ce0682.037@gwmail>

The \ can be used to escape newline characters as well so that line breaks aren't interpreted by the shell and are passed to the program, which will ignore them.  That way you can break up config files into multiple lines for readability while the program can interpret them as one line.  Example:

./configure --something=something_else \
--something_else_entirely=no \
--end_of_the_line=yes

Which gets interpreted as:

./configure --something=something_else --something_else_entirely=no --end_of_the_line=yes

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Andi  Siahaan <andis at medix1.com> 03/13/00 08:51AM >>>
When I try to "./configure" apache 1.3.12 an error says " something you
don't have compiler no gcc cc and there is another I don't remember. Also On
the book it says do "./configure --something=/something/httpd \. What this
"\" symbol means.





From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Tue Mar 14 09:47:11 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:47:11 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Cacheing
Message-ID: <s8ce0ab6.038@gwmail>

I am running Squid on my workstation both at home and at work (to have a unified cache for Netscape, Mozilla, KFM, W3M, Lynx, IE5.x (in Windows in VMWare), etc.)  I have noticed that the cache speed for static pages is not all that noticable, where I do notice it is for images.

I have also noticed that some websites send HTTP headers that instruct that their pages should not be cached, this is supposed to be used for pages that have dynamic content, like Slashdot, but is sometimes used on commercial sites, like ones that serve graphics files.  Also for the cache to determine whether it has the current page or graphic it has to make a request to the remote site and ask, which can generate some traffic.

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net> 03/11/00 08:44PM >>>

I am using Squid in conjunction with Junkbuster. The banner adds blocking
is working fine. One of the main purpose of Squid is not working for me, i.e. cacheing.
What configuration flags should be enabled/disabled for cacheing to work?

I thought I defined the cache directory in the config file.

cache_dir ufs /var/squid/cache 100 16 256

Each time I visit a static site, the page is loaded. The same pages were not
reloaded via Apache proxy module. If I can get squid to cache the web, then I plan to
delete the Apache proxy module.

Thank you in advance for any help.





From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Tue Mar 14 09:55:31 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:55:31 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Aureal Vortex Linux Drivers?
Message-ID: <s8ce0ca6.060@gwmail>

Both the OSS <http://www.4front-tech.com> and ALSA <http://www.alsa-project.org> seem to have beta drivers for the Vortex 1 and 2 chipsets.  I believe that Aureal Open Sourced their old binary only Linux driver which may have been rolled into these drivers.  Otherwise look at the Aureal website for more info.

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Tim Schaab <taschaab at students.wisc.edu> 03/11/00 12:41AM >>>
Huzzah and Kudos!
   Does anyone know if there are linux drivers for Aureal's vortex1 sound
card chipset?  I thought I heard something mentioned about it a while ago
and can't find any info on it.  Thanks for any help!


-- 
Tim Schaab
Witte Hall Web Designer  -  http://housing.wisc.edu/witte - MIA
FMBA Director - http://www.madweb.org/fmba 

The opinions expressed herein are those of absolutely everyone at UW - Madison:
students, the Regents, staff, Professors, their spouses, children, dogs, 
and cats. In fact, everyone in Madison also agrees. No, make that Wisconsin. 


_______________________________________________
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From mad96 at hampshire.edu  Thu Mar 16 07:33:43 2000
From: mad96 at hampshire.edu (Michael Dartt)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:33:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Madlug] SAG meeting
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003160832400.877-100000@prometheus.hampshire.edu>

Could someone forward me the email with the System Administrator's Guild
meeting announcement?


--Mike





From TonyH at selectpub.com  Fri Mar 17 11:23:05 2000
From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:23:05 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Sending Email and Hostname
Message-ID: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CB68@EMAILSERVER>

Hey all!

Well, I have some CGI scripts that use sendmail to send mail to users. I
am getting bounce messages from a certain user - their mail server is
rejecting emails because the header contains (root at localhost) in it.
Now, I do have the hostname and domainname set on the machine and this
still comes up. Here is a sample header:

Return-Path: <root at www.selectsecure.com>
Received: from www.selectsecure.com ([209.224.226.113]) by
mail.forthefarm.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.01) with ESMTP id 263
for <webstix at forthefarm.com>; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:00:56 -0600
Received: (from root at localhost) by www.selectsecure.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id
GAA05146; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:05:02-0600
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:05:02 -0600
Message-ID: <200003171205.GAA05146 at www.selectsecure.com>
To: webstix at forthefarm.com
Reply-To: weather at forthefarm.com
From:  weather at forthefarm.com
Subject: Forecast for Madison, Wisconsin

---------------
The line in question is:

	Received: (from root at localhost) by www.selectsecure.com


I did a linuxconf --text and looked through every setting and couldn't
find "localhost" anywhere.

Any idears???

-Tony




	Anthony C. Herman
	Chief Web Officer      	
	Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
	tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
	------------------------------------------
	Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
	Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
	Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
	------------------------------------------




From Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us  Fri Mar 17 15:05:00 2000
From: Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us (Jefferson, Dean)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:05:00 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] My new kernel hangs at "Finding module dependencies:"
Message-ID: <832E8B37AD19D311839700508B2CF7D1197B1E@exchange.oci.state.wi.us>

Has anyone experienced this? Is there a gotcha I missed?

I need to build my own kernel for Oracle; it requires more shared memory and
semaphores than are in the standard Red Hat 6.0 kernel. I have read and
followed the instructions in the Kernel How-To and the SMP How-To (because I
am doing this on a Compaq Proliant with 4 Pentium Pro CPU's).

I built my own kernel successfully on a plain old Pentium. The difference
was that I did not have to recompile the loadable modules for that machine,
but for an SMP machine I have to.

Any tips for diagnosing the bad module or modules will be greatly
appreciated.

Dean Jefferson
Database Administrator
Wisconsin Office of Commissioner of Insurance
608/267-9422
Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us



From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Fri Mar 17 16:13:21 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:13:21 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] My new kernel hangs at "Finding module
	dependencies:"
Message-ID: <s8d259b4.037@gwmail.madison.tec.wi.us>

What modules are "bad" and what are your symptoms?

If you are compiling your own kernel just use the menuconfig or xconfig and compile everything statically.  What I mean is don't bother to compile all the modules, just compile in the drivers you need and leave everything else go hang.  Quicker and less complicated build process that way.

Of course that means that everytime you make a hardware change you will have to recompile again, that I why I use modules for everything myself.  I just change a config file and viola, out with the old and in with the new.  YMMV.

Just dive into menuconfig/xconfig and start playing, compile times on a 4 proc machine should be very, very fast and as long as you don't overwrite your current kernel you have nothing to lose.  Just add new entries to lilo.conf (remember to run lilo afterwards).

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> "Jefferson, Dean" <Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us> 03/17/00 03:05PM >>>
Has anyone experienced this? Is there a gotcha I missed?

I need to build my own kernel for Oracle; it requires more shared memory and
semaphores than are in the standard Red Hat 6.0 kernel. I have read and
followed the instructions in the Kernel How-To and the SMP How-To (because I
am doing this on a Compaq Proliant with 4 Pentium Pro CPU's).

I built my own kernel successfully on a plain old Pentium. The difference
was that I did not have to recompile the loadable modules for that machine,
but for an SMP machine I have to.

Any tips for diagnosing the bad module or modules will be greatly
appreciated.





From MTinberg at compuserve.com  Fri Mar 17 22:52:37 2000
From: MTinberg at compuserve.com (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:52:37 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] My new kernel hangs at "Finding module dependencies:"
In-Reply-To: <s8d259b4.037@gwmail.madison.tec.wi.us>
References: <s8d259b4.037@gwmail.madison.tec.wi.us>
Message-ID: <00031723003400.04012@lordcyrix.raven667.org>

Geeze, you would have thought that I would actually _read_ the subject line. 
Now here goes.

"Finding Module Dependancies" isn't a kernel activity, this is something
_after_ the kernel loads.  Usually your init scripts run 'depmod -a' at some
point, usually before the scripts start loading modules.

Try booting into single user mode (LILO: linux single) and running 'depmod -a'
and see if it is giving this behavior.  If that really is the culprit you can
then comment it out of your init scripts so the machine will boot normally
(scripts should be in /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d).  Then run 'strace depmod
-a' to see where it is failing.

I don't think your system is locking up, it is just that one command which is
failing and your scripts wait forever, causing your system to never complete
initilization.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mark Tinberg wrote:
> What modules are "bad" and what are your symptoms?
> 
> If you are compiling your own kernel just use the menuconfig or xconfig and compile everything statically.  What I mean is don't bother to compile all the modules, just compile in the drivers you need and leave everything else go hang.  Quicker and less complicated build process that way.
> 
> Of course that means that everytime you make a hardware change you will have to recompile again, that I why I use modules for everything myself.  I just change a config file and viola, out with the old and in with the new.  YMMV.
> 
> Just dive into menuconfig/xconfig and start playing, compile times on a 4 proc machine should be very, very fast and as long as you don't overwrite your current kernel you have nothing to lose.  Just add new entries to lilo.conf (remember to run lilo afterwards).

> 
> >>> "Jefferson, Dean" <Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us> 03/17/00 03:05PM >>>
> Has anyone experienced this? Is there a gotcha I missed?
> 
> I need to build my own kernel for Oracle; it requires more shared memory and
> semaphores than are in the standard Red Hat 6.0 kernel. I have read and
> followed the instructions in the Kernel How-To and the SMP How-To (because I
> am doing this on a Compaq Proliant with 4 Pentium Pro CPU's).
> 
> I built my own kernel successfully on a plain old Pentium. The difference
> was that I did not have to recompile the loadable modules for that machine,
> but for an SMP machine I have to.
> 
> Any tips for diagnosing the bad module or modules will be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
-- 
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!



From drp at mindspring.com  Sat Mar 18 11:16:04 2000
From: drp at mindspring.com (Dave Perkins)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:16:04 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Samba
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000318111604.007d88e0@pop.mindspring.com>


I recently had Samba 2.0.5a up and running on RedHat 6.1 which allowed me
to share files with a win98 machine.  For no apparent reason however, it
has stopped working.  I've gone through a number of diagnostic steps and
have verified that the Samba server is listening on port 139, but I get
nothing but 'session request to SERVERNAME failed' error messages when
attempting to connect via smbclient.  I've reinstalled all Samba related
packages to no avail.  I'm working off a minimal smb.conf that worked in
the past and is valid according to 'testparm'.  Is anyone using Samba
successfully today that has run into this type of problem in the past?  Any
thoughts on how to address this issue would be very much welcomed.

Thanks,

Dave Perkins




From spkraus1 at students.wisc.edu  Sun Mar 19 10:45:29 2000
From: spkraus1 at students.wisc.edu (Steven P. Krause)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:45:29 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Tuesday meeting
Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000319095136.00a2aef0@students.wisc.edu>

Hello all,

I'm just sending this out as a short note about the upcoming meeting 
(Tuesday, March 21) at the Comp. Sci building (7pm).

The presentation will focus on text editing / processing / typesetting 
under Linux, with sections on the following:
1.	A brief look at word processing / word processors
2.	Text editors and other text tools
3.	Typesetting and such (lout, groff, TeX, for example)
4.	Other tools, other file formats
The bulk of the presentation will focus on the 3rd section, which will 
cover the 3 systems mentioned, history, uses of such systems, and some 
specific examples.  The final section will briefly deal with tools to 
produce ps and pdf files, etc.

This is meant as an introduction to and survey of the software out there; 
more advanced presentations on the topics presented could be worked out for 
later; in fact, if anyone would like to do a presentation on advanced work 
with packages such as (La)TeX or an advanced emacs presentation, let me know.

If you have any questions or suggestions, email me.

Steve Krause




From TonyH at selectpub.com  Sun Mar 19 16:52:08 2000
From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:52:08 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
Message-ID: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CB99@EMAILSERVER>

Hey all,

Quick question...I can set the domainname and hostname at the command
line, but it is lost everytime I reboot. What am I doing wrong?

-Tony



	Anthony C. Herman
	Chief Web Officer      	
	Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
	tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
	------------------------------------------
	Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
	Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
	Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
	------------------------------------------




From dxf at dewittross.com  Mon Mar 20 08:43:26 2000
From: dxf at dewittross.com (Daniell Freed)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:43:26 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
References: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CB99@EMAILSERVER>
Message-ID: <38D6390E.463E6FCF@dewittross.com>

Are you changing it in /etc/HOSTNAME?

-- 
Daniell Freed
Computer Services
Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens

He who fights with monsters might take care 
lest he thereby become a monster. 
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
the abyss gazes also into you.

Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche

Tony Herman wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> Quick question...I can set the domainname and hostname at the command
> line, but it is lost everytime I reboot. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> -Tony
> 
>         Anthony C. Herman
>         Chief Web Officer
>         Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
>         tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
>         ------------------------------------------
>         Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
>         Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
>         Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
>         ------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug



From TonyH at selectpub.com  Mon Mar 20 09:03:05 2000
From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:03:05 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
Message-ID: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CBA1@EMAILSERVER>

I don't have an /etc/hostname file. I have /etc/hosts - should it go
there? 

What is the format of this file?

Thanks,
-Tony


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniell Freed [SMTP:dxf at dewittross.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 20, 2000 8:43 AM
> To:	Tony Herman
> Cc:	Madison Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject:	Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
> 
> Are you changing it in /etc/HOSTNAME?
> 
> -- 
> Daniell Freed
> Computer Services
> Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens
> 
> He who fights with monsters might take care 
> lest he thereby become a monster. 
> And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
> the abyss gazes also into you.
> 
> Beyond Good and Evil
> Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
> 
> Tony Herman wrote:
> > 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Quick question...I can set the domainname and hostname at the
> command
> > line, but it is lost everytime I reboot. What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > -Tony
> > 
> >         Anthony C. Herman
> >         Chief Web Officer
> >         Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
> >         tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
> >         ------------------------------------------
> >         Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
> >         Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
> >         Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
> >         ------------------------------------------
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From trowbrid at execpc.com  Mon Mar 20 09:17:25 2000
From: trowbrid at execpc.com (Tim J Trowbridge)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:17:25 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
In-Reply-To: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CBA1@EMAILSERVER> from "Tony Herman" at Mar 20, 0 09:03:05 am
Message-ID: <200003201517.JAA14523@earth.execpc.com>

How about ...
/etc/HOSTNAME  (All Caps)

Also, some boot scripts will overwrite this file when you reboot.  Try a 
    grep hostname /etc/rc.d/init.d/*
or maybe your could go right to the "boot" script that might reside there.

Tony Herman wrote:
> 
> I don't have an /etc/hostname file. I have /etc/hosts - should it go
> there? 
> 
> What is the format of this file?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Tony
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Daniell Freed [SMTP:dxf at dewittross.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, March 20, 2000 8:43 AM
> > To:	Tony Herman
> > Cc:	Madison Linux User Group (E-mail)
> > Subject:	Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
> > 
> > Are you changing it in /etc/HOSTNAME?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Daniell Freed
> > Computer Services
> > Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens
> > 
> > He who fights with monsters might take care 
> > lest he thereby become a monster. 
> > And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
> > the abyss gazes also into you.
> > 
> > Beyond Good and Evil
> > Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
> > 
> > Tony Herman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hey all,
> > > 
> > > Quick question...I can set the domainname and hostname at the
> > command
> > > line, but it is lost everytime I reboot. What am I doing wrong?
> > > 
> > > -Tony
> > > 
> > >         Anthony C. Herman
> > >         Chief Web Officer
> > >         Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
> > >         tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
> > >         ------------------------------------------
> > >         Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
> > >         Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
> > >         Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
> > >         ------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
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From dxf at dewittross.com  Mon Mar 20 09:21:24 2000
From: dxf at dewittross.com (Daniell Freed)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:21:24 -0600
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost]
Message-ID: <38D641F4.6D976841@dewittross.com>


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:20:15 -0600
From: Daniell Freed <dxf at dewittross.com>
To: Tony Herman <TonyH at selectpub.com>
References: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CBA1 at EMAILSERVER>

What distro are you using?  If you are using a Redhat or a Mandrake
distro just use linuxconf and change your hostname their, that is the
easiest way to do it.  

It depends on your distro, but most will read the file /etc/HOSTNAME
(all caps is important) on bootup in order to set your systems
hostname.  If you don't have a /etc/HOSTNAME file I would create one and
set your desired hostname there, then reboot and see if it fixed the
problem.

Dan



Tony Herman wrote:
> 
> I don't have an /etc/hostname file. I have /etc/hosts - should it go
> there?
> 
> What is the format of this file?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Tony
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniell Freed [SMTP:dxf at dewittross.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:43 AM
> > To:   Tony Herman
> > Cc:   Madison Linux User Group (E-mail)
> > Subject:      Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
> >
> > Are you changing it in /etc/HOSTNAME?
> >
> > --
> > Daniell Freed
> > Computer Services
> > Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens
> >
> > He who fights with monsters might take care
> > lest he thereby become a monster.
> > And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
> > the abyss gazes also into you.
> >
> > Beyond Good and Evil
> > Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
> >
> > Tony Herman wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > Quick question...I can set the domainname and hostname at the
> > command
> > > line, but it is lost everytime I reboot. What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > -Tony
> > >
> > >         Anthony C. Herman
> > >         Chief Web Officer
> > >         Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
> > >         tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
> > >         ------------------------------------------
> > >         Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
> > >         Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
> > >         Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
> > >         ------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug

-- 
Daniell Freed
Computer Services
Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens

He who fights with monsters might take care 
lest he thereby become a monster. 
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
the abyss gazes also into you.

Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche



From TonyH at selectpub.com  Mon Mar 20 09:40:00 2000
From: TonyH at selectpub.com (Tony Herman)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:40:00 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
Message-ID: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CBA9@EMAILSERVER>

Yeah, it was the caps thing (my face is red) :-)

But I edited that file and that file is changed after a reboot.
Something is overriding it.

>	Also, some boot scripts will overwrite this file when you
reboot.  Try a 
>	    grep hostname /etc/rc.d/init.d/*
>	or maybe your could go right to the "boot" script that might
reside there.  

The results of the grep were:

	[root at webstix]: grep hostname /etc/rc.d/init.d/*
	Binary file /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd matches

Where is the boot script?

-Tony



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniell Freed [SMTP:dxf at dewittross.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 20, 2000 9:20 AM
> To:	Tony Herman
> Subject:	Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
> 
> What distro are you using?  If you are using a Redhat or a Mandrake
> distro just use linuxconf and change your hostname their, that is the
> easiest way to do it.  
> 
> It depends on your distro, but most will read the file /etc/HOSTNAME
> (all caps is important) on bootup in order to set your systems
> hostname.  If you don't have a /etc/HOSTNAME file I would create one
> and
> set your desired hostname there, then reboot and see if it fixed the
> problem.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> Tony Herman wrote:
> > 
> > I don't have an /etc/hostname file. I have /etc/hosts - should it go
> > there?
> > 
> > What is the format of this file?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Tony
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniell Freed [SMTP:dxf at dewittross.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:43 AM
> > > To:   Tony Herman
> > > Cc:   Madison Linux User Group (E-mail)
> > > Subject:      Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
> > >
> > > Are you changing it in /etc/HOSTNAME?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniell Freed
> > > Computer Services
> > > Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens
> > >
> > > He who fights with monsters might take care
> > > lest he thereby become a monster.
> > > And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
> > > the abyss gazes also into you.
> > >
> > > Beyond Good and Evil
> > > Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
> > >
> > > Tony Herman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hey all,
> > > >
> > > > Quick question...I can set the domainname and hostname at the
> > > command
> > > > line, but it is lost everytime I reboot. What am I doing wrong?
> > > >
> > > > -Tony
> > > >
> > > >         Anthony C. Herman
> > > >         Chief Web Officer
> > > >         Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
> > > >         tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
> > > >         ------------------------------------------
> > > >         Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
> > > >         Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
> > > >         Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
> > > >         ------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > > > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> 
> -- 
> Daniell Freed
> Computer Services
> Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens
> 
> He who fights with monsters might take care 
> lest he thereby become a monster. 
> And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
> the abyss gazes also into you.
> 
> Beyond Good and Evil
> Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche



From trowbrid at execpc.com  Mon Mar 20 10:34:00 2000
From: trowbrid at execpc.com (Tim J Trowbridge)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:34:00 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
In-Reply-To: <EBF0B0F8D6C9D311A0FE00805FBB7CA204CBA9@EMAILSERVER> from "Tony Herman" at Mar 20, 0 09:40:00 am
Message-ID: <200003201634.KAA12901@earth.execpc.com>

Tony Herman wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it was the caps thing (my face is red) :-)
> 
> But I edited that file and that file is changed after a reboot.
> Something is overriding it.
> 
> >	Also, some boot scripts will overwrite this file when you
> reboot.  Try a 
> >	    grep hostname /etc/rc.d/init.d/*
> >	or maybe your could go right to the "boot" script that might
> reside there.  
> 
> The results of the grep were:
> 
> 	[root at webstix]: grep hostname /etc/rc.d/init.d/*
> 	Binary file /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd matches
> 
> Where is the boot script?

If you're using RedHat 6.1 or possibly 6.0, the boot script is probably in
/etc/rc.d/init.d  Some other distributions will put their boot scripts in
/etc/init.d ( Debian )
/etc/rc.d ( Slackware) (I think...not sure on this one.)

You may need to do a little searching through some files for the right boot
script, but I know in my Debian 1.1 system, the boot script was located at
/etc/init.d/boot  on Debian 2.1, the script that sets the hostname is
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh, but it depends on /etc/hostname containing the
hostname.domain.name


> 
> -Tony
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Daniell Freed [SMTP:dxf at dewittross.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, March 20, 2000 9:20 AM
> > To:	Tony Herman
> > Subject:	Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
> > 
> > What distro are you using?  If you are using a Redhat or a Mandrake
> > distro just use linuxconf and change your hostname their, that is the
> > easiest way to do it.  
> > 
> > It depends on your distro, but most will read the file /etc/HOSTNAME
> > (all caps is important) on bootup in order to set your systems
> > hostname.  If you don't have a /etc/HOSTNAME file I would create one
> > and
> > set your desired hostname there, then reboot and see if it fixed the
> > problem.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Tony Herman wrote:
> > > 
> > > I don't have an /etc/hostname file. I have /etc/hosts - should it go
> > > there?
> > > 
> > > What is the format of this file?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Tony
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Daniell Freed [SMTP:dxf at dewittross.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:43 AM
> > > > To:   Tony Herman
> > > > Cc:   Madison Linux User Group (E-mail)
> > > > Subject:      Re: [Madlug] Hostname and Domainname keep being lost
> > > >
> > > > Are you changing it in /etc/HOSTNAME?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Daniell Freed
> > > > Computer Services
> > > > Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens
> > > >
> > > > He who fights with monsters might take care
> > > > lest he thereby become a monster.
> > > > And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
> > > > the abyss gazes also into you.
> > > >
> > > > Beyond Good and Evil
> > > > Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
> > > >
> > > > Tony Herman wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hey all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Quick question...I can set the domainname and hostname at the
> > > > command
> > > > > line, but it is lost everytime I reboot. What am I doing wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > > -Tony
> > > > >
> > > > >         Anthony C. Herman
> > > > >         Chief Web Officer
> > > > >         Select Publishing, Inc.        Madison, WI
> > > > >         tonyh at selectpub.com      608.277.5787 x310
> > > > >         ------------------------------------------
> > > > >         Farm     --> http://www.forthefarm.com
> > > > >         Auctions --> http://www.communitytrade.com
> > > > >         Web      --> http://www.selectpub.com
> > > > >         ------------------------------------------
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > > > > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > > > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> > > http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> > 
> > -- 
> > Daniell Freed
> > Computer Services
> > Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens
> > 
> > He who fights with monsters might take care 
> > lest he thereby become a monster. 
> > And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
> > the abyss gazes also into you.
> > 
> > Beyond Good and Evil
> > Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Madlug mailing list  -  Madlug at madisonlinux.org
> http://www.madisonlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/madlug
> 


-- 
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From andis at medix1.com  Mon Mar 20 10:51:08 2000
From: andis at medix1.com (Andi Siahaan)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:51:08 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Adding second hard drive
Message-ID: <DB816E7E1695D2119FB700400535D6EB23A87C@PDC>

What do I do next after I add second hd to my linux box. I made my second hd
as a slave and I want the second hd strictly for 
data storage using samba. So, after add the second hd reboot computer and
what next.

Thanks


Andi






From jabraham at blc.edu  Tue Mar 21 11:28:59 2000
From: jabraham at blc.edu (jabraham at blc.edu)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:28:59 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Adding second hard drive
References: <m12XNn6-000ZTkb@franz.stat.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <38D7B15B.3CAAC4B@blc.edu>

> From: Andi  Siahaan <andis at medix1.com>
>
> What do I do next after I add second hd to my linux box. I made my second hd
> as a slave and I want the second hd strictly for
> data storage using samba. So, after add the second hd reboot computer and
> what next.

Andi,
su to root
Back up your primary master now.

1) Define how you want this drive divided. Do you want the whole thing to be one
logical drive, or do you want several separate partitions? Decide that based on how
you want it used. It sounds like you want a single partition.

2) Partition the drive. I am assuming that both these hard drives are on the
primary interface, in that case, your new drive would be /dev/hdb. To partition, do

fdisk /dev/hdb
type p to print current partition info. (this is a sanity check, if you recognize
the partitions as belonging to your installed linux system, then you know you have
the wrong device, so dont repartition, just quit "q")

type d to delete any partitions that exist, start with the largest numbered
partition and work down, repeating as necessary.

type n to add a partition, it should be made type 83 (linux) by default
Select the primary type
select the starting block (usually 1) and then select the largest block number
available for the ending (usually default).

type p to review the partition info.

type w to write it to the drive.

This should quit fdisk, some versions you still need to type q to quit.

3) Create a file system on your new partition.
mke2fs /dev/hdb
You should see bunches of stuff about bootblocks, inodes, and stuff fly by.

4)Define where you want this drive to be made available. Do you want it available
as
/home/samba
or just as
/samba
and create that mount point as a directory if it doesnt already exist
mkdir /home/samba

5) Edit your /etc/fstab to reflect this. Make the last entry something like

/dev/hdb1    /home/samba    ext2    defaults    1 2

(that is, mount the device hdb's first partition on /home/samba as an ext2
filesystem using default settings)

6) mount the directory by typing
mount /home/samba

That should be it for the hard drive stuff. How you configure samba depends also an
how you want to use the drive.


Joe Abrahamson
jabraham at blc.edu
Bethany Lutheran College
Mankato, MN






From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Tue Mar 21 16:05:45 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:05:45 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Samba
Message-ID: <s8d79ddc.086@gwmail.madison.tec.wi.us>

Most of the weirdness I have encountered had to do with NetBIOS browsing.  I have yet to see an automated browsing protocol that actually works (don't get me started about AppleTalk, ugh).  That said you could make sure that both SMBD and NMBD are running, as well as adjusting the loglevel in smb.conf (see the man page for more info).  It is _very_ verbose at the higher logging levels.  You could also do a tcpdump, if you have it installed, to see exactally what traffic is happening on ethernet interface if that might help.

There is a 10 step troubleshooting guide in the Samba docs, learn it, love it, live it.

--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!

>>> Dave Perkins <drp at mindspring.com> 03/18/00 11:16AM >>>


I recently had Samba 2.0.5a up and running on RedHat 6.1 which allowed me
to share files with a win98 machine.  For no apparent reason however, it
has stopped working.  I've gone through a number of diagnostic steps and
have verified that the Samba server is listening on port 139, but I get
nothing but 'session request to SERVERNAME failed' error messages when
attempting to connect via smbclient.  I've reinstalled all Samba related
packages to no avail.  I'm working off a minimal smb.conf that worked in
the past and is valid according to 'testparm'.  Is anyone using Samba
successfully today that has run into this type of problem in the past?  Any
thoughts on how to address this issue would be very much welcomed.





From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Tue Mar 21 16:08:02 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:08:02 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Adding second hard drive
Message-ID: <s8d79e76.095@gwmail.madison.tec.wi.us>

That should probably be 'mke2fs /dev/hdb1'

3) Create a file system on your new partition.
mke2fs /dev/hdb


--
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!




From jlowe at itis.com  Wed Mar 22 12:06:59 2000
From: jlowe at itis.com (JLowe)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:06:59 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Microsoft screen shot
Message-ID: <38D90BC2.11B623F@itis.com>

Here's something that I thought I'd share.
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From billf at inxpress.net  Thu Mar 23 03:07:29 2000
From: billf at inxpress.net (Bill Fredrickson)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 03:07:29 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] IBM + Linux = Supercomputer
Message-ID: <38D9DED1.E1EDFA3C@inxpress.net>

Hi,

I found this on this mornings wire services and
thought I would pass it along. 

Bill
"Happy Clustering to one and all!"

===================


IBM turns to Linux for supercomputers
By Reuters 
March 22, 2000 9:38 AM PT
URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2471995,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop

IBM Corp. said on Wednesday it is providing a new
class of low-cost
supercomputer that uses the Linux alternative
operating system, allowing
researchers and developers access to computational
power they previously could
not afford. 

The National Computational Science Alliance,
comprised of 50 academic,
government and research partners, said it would
use the system of IBM computers
as a part of its effort to create a new highly
sophisticated computer network for
research. 

The system, called Los Lobos, is actually a
"supercluster" of servers, which are
powerful computers that manage networks of other
computers. It will be located
at the University of New Mexico. 

Los Lobos will consist of 256 IBM Netfinity PC
servers, which linked together
will provide supercomputer-level performance at
lower cost. 

More deals to follow A source close to IBM said
this was the first of six such deals
with universities expected this year. 

"The Linux superclusters are the new
supercomputers of the 21st Century," said
Frank Gilfeather, the University of New Mexico's
director of supercomputing.
"We see them as replacing the traditional Cray,
IBM, and Silicon Graphics Inc.
supercomputers because of their cost benefit." 

Researchers said it was the combination of
industry-standard PC servers with the
Linux operating system that would put
supercomputer performance within reach
for modestly funded research projects. 

"Open source software, such as Linux, decreases
costs dramatically because the
community of users continually augments the
software base," said Dan Reed,
director of the Alliance. "In addition,
superclusters made from off-the-shelf
products are a very cost effective way to offer
supercomputer performance to the
user community." 

The Netfinity servers are linked together using
special clustering software and
high speed networking hardware, acting as one to
process at a speed of 375
gigaflops, or 375 billion operations per second.
That speed would place Los Lobos
at No. 24 on the world's current list of the top
500 fastest supercomputers. 

'Superclusters made from off-the-shelf products
are a very cost effective way to
offer supercomputer performance to the user
community.'|Dan Reed, Alliance
director 

The effort is seen as a nod to the potential of
Linux, which has grown from being
a programmer's hobby into a force in the
commercial marketplace for computer
operating systems. 

While Linux is popular with technicians and used
widely at the back-end of Web
sites, it is not yet considered to have the muscle
for handling industrial-strength
business tasks. 

IBM, which has embraced the fast-growing operating
system by making many of
its products run Linux, said that the work of the
research community could help
to beef up Linux for wider commercial uses. 

"The Linux movement is benefiting greatly from the
strong support of top
researchers and programmers at our nation's
leading universities and
laboratories," said Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice
president of technology and
strategy at IBM's Enterprise Systems Group. 

"The innovation of the National Computational
Science Alliance supported by
the research community will lead the way for
commercial Linux applications and
product development," he said. 

The IBM supercluster system will be delivered in
mid-April, and the Alliance
will begin to allocate time nationally on the
system this summer, for use to make
advances in areas such as medicine, physics,
chemistry and genetics.



From dhodapka at cae.wisc.edu  Fri Mar 24 00:08:46 2000
From: dhodapka at cae.wisc.edu (Ashutosh Dhodapkar)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:08:46 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] startx on DELL dimension PC
Message-ID: <38DB066E.77EC351C@cae.wisc.edu>


Hi,
 I have been trying to get the X-server running on my new DELL dimension
PC. Whenever I startx, the program just quits saying identifier "Module"
not allowed or something like that. can someone help me with it. the
best help would be to mail me a sample XF86config file which I can
modify.

thanks,
ashutosh




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From tim at madweb.org  Fri Mar 24 03:06:13 2000
From: tim at madweb.org (Tim Schaab)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 03:06:13 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] What's the Best Internet Connection Sharing Method?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003240302130.29476-100000@witt128-050.resnet.wisc.edu>

Greetings All,
   I have a quick question to throw out.  If I wanted to network my
computers at home (mix of linux and win 98) and connect to the
Internet through a cable modem based on a linux box, what's the best
method to use? Firewalls? Proxy Servers?  Others?

I need some general info on it, like speed, ease of setup, security
issues and the like.  Also, any places on the net anywhere where I can
find some information on this would be very helpful too.  Thanks!

-- 
Tim Schaab
Mad.Web * http://www.madweb.org/ * Enter.My.World
 
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.




From jjacobsen at jvlnet.com  Fri Mar 24 07:41:18 2000
From: jjacobsen at jvlnet.com (Jesse Jacobsen)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:41:18 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] startx on DELL dimension PC
In-Reply-To: <38DB066E.77EC351C@cae.wisc.edu>; from dhodapka@cae.wisc.edu on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:08:46AM -0600
References: <38DB066E.77EC351C@cae.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <20000324074117.A6909@jvlnet.com>

On 03/24/00, Ashutosh Dhodapkar addressed "[Madlug] startx on DELL dimension PC":
> 
> Hi,
>  I have been trying to get the X-server running on my new DELL dimension
> PC. Whenever I startx, the program just quits saying identifier "Module"
> not allowed or something like that. can someone help me with it. the
> best help would be to mail me a sample XF86config file which I can
> modify.

It would probably help you most to get a sample XF86Config file from
the same distribution you're currently using.  Anyway, I'll attach mine,
which I use on the Debian distribution, "frozen" branch.

-- 
Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor          jjacobsen at jvlnet.com
Grace Lutheran Church (ELS)     http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/
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# File generated by xf86config.

#
# Copyright (c) 1995 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
# 
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
# 
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
# THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
# OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
# 
# Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall
# not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
# dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
# XFree86 Project.
#

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of 
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

# **********************************************************************
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

    RgbPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# 
# If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
# programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory
# to the end of this list (or comment them out).
# 

    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

# For OSs that support Dynamically loaded modules, ModulePath can be
# used to set a search path for the modules.  This is currently supported
# for Linux ELF, FreeBSD 2.x and NetBSD 1.x.  The default path is shown
# here.

#    ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this is an optional section which is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.  Dynamically loadable
# modules are currently supported only for Linux ELF, FreeBSD 2.x
# and NetBSD 1.x.  Currently, dynamically loadable modules are used
# only for some extended input (XInput) device drivers.
# **********************************************************************
#
# Section "Module"
#
# This loads the module for the Joystick driver
#
# Load "xf86Jstk.so"
# 
# EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"

# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is 
# received.  This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging

#    NoTrapSignals

# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.

#    DontZap

# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> mode switching
# sequences.  This allows clients to receive these key events.

#    DontZoom

# Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
# it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
# but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
# receive a protocol error.

#       DisableVidModeExtension

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client. 

#       AllowNonLocalXvidtune

# Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
# (mouse and keyboard) settings. 

#       DisableModInDev

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
# change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset).

#       AllowNonLocalModInDev

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************

# **********************************************************************
# Keyboard section
# **********************************************************************

Section "Keyboard"

    Protocol	"Standard"

# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line

#    Protocol	"Xqueue"

    AutoRepeat	500 5
# Let the server do the NumLock processing.  This should only be required
# when using pre-R6 clients
#    ServerNumLock

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#    Xleds      1 2 3

# To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift, 
# RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:

#    LeftAlt     Meta
#    RightAlt    ModeShift
#    RightCtl    Compose
#    ScrollLock  ModeLock

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.

#    XkbDisable

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#    XkbModel    "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#    XkbModel    "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#    XkbLayout   "de"
# or:
#    XkbLayout   "de"
#    XkbVariant  "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#    XkbOptions  "ctrl:swapcaps"

# These are the default XKB settings for XFree86
#    XkbRules    "xfree86"
#    XkbModel    "pc101"
#    XkbLayout   "us"
#    XkbVariant  ""
#    XkbOptions  ""

    XkbKeymap   "xfree86(us_microsoft)"


EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Pointer section
# **********************************************************************

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "Microsoft"
    Device      "/dev/ttyS0"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

#    Protocol	"Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice

#    BaudRate	9600
#    SampleRate	150

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

    Emulate3Buttons
    Emulate3Timeout    50

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

#    ChordMiddle

EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Xinput section -- this is optional and is required only if you
# are using extended input devices.  This is for example only.  Refer
# to the XF86Config man page for a description of the options.
# **********************************************************************
#
# Section "Xinput" 
#    SubSection "WacomStylus"
#        Port "/dev/ttyS1"
#        DeviceName "Wacom"
#    EndSubSection
#    SubSection "WacomCursor"
#        Port "/dev/ttyS1"
#    EndSubSection
#    SubSection "WacomEraser"
#        Port "/dev/ttyS1"
#    EndSubSection
#
#    SubSection "Elographics"
#        Port "/dev/ttyS1"
#        DeviceName "Elo"
#        MinimumXPosition 300
#        MaximumXPosition 3500
#        MinimumYPosition 300
#        MaximumYPosition 3500
#        Screen 0
#        UntouchDelay 10
#        ReportDelay 10
#    EndSubSection
#
#    SubSection "Joystick"
#        Port "/dev/joy0"
#        DeviceName "Joystick"
#        TimeOut 10
#        MinimumXPosition 100
#        MaximumXPosition 1300
#        MinimumYPosition 100
#        MaximumYPosition 1100
#        # CenterX 700
#        # CenterY 600
#        Delta 20
#    EndSubSection
#
# The Mouse Subsection contains the same type of entries as the
# standard Pointer Section (see above), with the addition of the
# DeviceName entry.
#
#    SubSection "Mouse" 
#        Port "/dev/mouse2"
#        DeviceName "Second Mouse"
#        Protocol "Logitech"
#    EndSubSection
# EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "ADI Microscan"
    VendorName  "ADI"
    ModelName   "Microscan 4v"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    HorizSync   31-64

#    HorizSync	30-64         # multisync
#    HorizSync	31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
#    HorizSync	15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    VertRefresh 50-100

# Modes can be specified in two formats.  A compact one-line format, or
# a multi-line format.

# These two are equivalent

#    ModeLine "1024x768i" 45 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 Interlace

#    Mode "1024x768i"
#        DotClock	45
#        HTimings	1024 1048 1208 1264
#        VTimings	768 776 784 817
#        Flags		"Interlace"
#    EndMode

# This is a set of standard mode timings. Modes that are out of monitor spec
# are automatically deleted by the server (provided the HorizSync and
# VertRefresh lines are correct), so there's no immediate need to
# delete mode timings (unless particular mode timings don't work on your
# monitor). With these modes, the best standard mode that your monitor
# and video card can support for a given resolution is automatically
# used.

# 640x400 @ 70 Hz, 31.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "640x400"     25.175 640  664  760  800   400  409  411  450
# 640x480 @ 60 Hz, 31.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "640x480"     25.175 640  664  760  800   480  491  493  525
# 800x600 @ 56 Hz, 35.15 kHz hsync
ModeLine "800x600"     36     800  824  896 1024   600  601  603  625
# 1024x768 @ 87 Hz interlaced, 35.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"    44.9  1024 1048 1208 1264   768  776  784  817 Interlace

# 640x400 @ 85 Hz, 37.86 kHz hsync
Modeline "640x400"     31.5   640  672 736   832   400  401  404  445 -HSync +VSync
# 640x480 @ 72 Hz, 36.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "640x480"     31.5   640  680  720  864   480  488  491  521
# 640x480 @ 75 Hz, 37.50 kHz hsync
ModeLine  "640x480"    31.5   640  656  720  840   480  481  484  500 -HSync -VSync
# 800x600 @ 60 Hz, 37.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "800x600"     40     800  840  968 1056   600  601  605  628 +hsync +vsync

# 640x480 @ 85 Hz, 43.27 kHz hsync
Modeline "640x400"     36     640  696  752  832   480  481  484  509 -HSync -VSync
# 1152x864 @ 89 Hz interlaced, 44 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1152x864"    65    1152 1168 1384 1480   864  865  875  985 Interlace

# 800x600 @ 72 Hz, 48.0 kHz hsync
Modeline "800x600"     50     800  856  976 1040   600  637  643  666 +hsync +vsync
# 1024x768 @ 60 Hz, 48.4 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"    65    1024 1032 1176 1344   768  771  777  806 -hsync -vsync

# 640x480 @ 100 Hz, 53.01 kHz hsync
Modeline "640x480"     45.8   640  672  768  864   480  488  494  530 -HSync -VSync
# 1152x864 @ 60 Hz, 53.5 kHz hsync
Modeline  "1152x864"   89.9  1152 1216 1472 1680   864  868  876  892 -HSync -VSync
# 800x600 @ 85 Hz, 55.84 kHz hsync
Modeline  "800x600"    60.75  800  864  928 1088   600  616  621  657 -HSync -VSync

# 1024x768 @ 70 Hz, 56.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"    75    1024 1048 1184 1328   768  771  777  806 -hsync -vsync
# 1280x1024 @ 87 Hz interlaced, 51 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024"   80    1280 1296 1512 1568  1024 1025 1037 1165 Interlace

# 800x600 @ 100 Hz, 64.02 kHz hsync
Modeline  "800x600"    69.65  800  864  928 1088   600  604  610  640 -HSync -VSync
# 1024x768 @ 76 Hz, 62.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"    85    1024 1032 1152 1360   768  784  787  823
# 1152x864 @ 70 Hz, 62.4 kHz hsync
Modeline  "1152x864"   92    1152 1208 1368 1474   864  865  875  895
# 1280x1024 @ 61 Hz, 64.2 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024"  110    1280 1328 1512 1712  1024 1025 1028 1054

# 1024x768 @ 85 Hz, 70.24 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"   98.9  1024 1056 1216 1408   768 782 788 822 -HSync -VSync
# 1152x864 @ 78 Hz, 70.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "1152x864"   110   1152 1240 1324 1552   864  864  876  908

# 1280x1024 @ 70 Hz, 74.59 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024"  126.5 1280 1312 1472 1696  1024 1032 1040 1068 -HSync -VSync
# 1600x1200 @ 60Hz, 75.00 kHz hsync
Modeline "1600x1200"  162   1600 1664 1856 2160  1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync
# 1152x864 @ 84 Hz, 76.0 kHz hsync
Modeline "1152x864"   135    1152 1464 1592 1776   864  864  876  908

# 1280x1024 @ 74 Hz, 78.85 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024"  135    1280 1312 1456 1712  1024 1027 1030 1064

# 1024x768 @ 100Hz, 80.21 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"   115.5  1024 1056 1248 1440  768  771  781  802 -HSync -VSync
# 1280x1024 @ 76 Hz, 81.13 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024"  135    1280 1312 1416 1664  1024 1027 1030 1064

# 1600x1200 @ 70 Hz, 87.50 kHz hsync
Modeline "1600x1200"  189    1600 1664 1856 2160  1200 1201 1204 1250 -HSync -VSync
# 1152x864 @ 100 Hz, 89.62 kHz hsync
Modeline "1152x864"   137.65 1152 1184 1312 1536   864  866  885  902 -HSync -VSync
# 1280x1024 @ 85 Hz, 91.15 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024"  157.5  1280 1344 1504 1728  1024 1025 1028 1072 +HSync +VSync
# 1600x1200 @ 75 Hz, 93.75 kHz hsync
Modeline "1600x1200"  202.5  1600 1664 1856 2160  1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync
# 1600x1200 @ 85 Hz, 105.77 kHz hsync
Modeline "1600x1200"  220    1600 1616 1808 2080  1200 1204 1207 1244 +HSync +VSync
# 1280x1024 @ 100 Hz, 107.16 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024"  181.75 1280 1312 1440 1696  1024 1031 1046 1072 -HSync -VSync

# 1800x1440 @ 64Hz, 96.15 kHz hsync 
ModeLine "1800X1440"  230    1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync
# 1800x1440 @ 70Hz, 104.52 kHz hsync 
ModeLine "1800X1440"  250    1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync

# 512x384 @ 78 Hz, 31.50 kHz hsync
Modeline "512x384"    20.160 512  528  592  640   384  385  388  404 -HSync -VSync
# 512x384 @ 85 Hz, 34.38 kHz hsync
Modeline "512x384"    22     512  528  592  640   384  385  388  404 -HSync -VSync

# Low-res Doublescan modes
# If your chipset does not support doublescan, you get a 'squashed'
# resolution like 320x400.

# 320x200 @ 70 Hz, 31.5 kHz hsync, 8:5 aspect ratio
Modeline "320x200"     12.588 320  336  384  400   200  204  205  225 Doublescan
# 320x240 @ 60 Hz, 31.5 kHz hsync, 4:3 aspect ratio
Modeline "320x240"     12.588 320  336  384  400   240  245  246  262 Doublescan
# 320x240 @ 72 Hz, 36.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "320x240"     15.750 320  336  384  400   240  244  246  262 Doublescan
# 400x300 @ 56 Hz, 35.2 kHz hsync, 4:3 aspect ratio
ModeLine "400x300"     18     400  416  448  512   300  301  302  312 Doublescan
# 400x300 @ 60 Hz, 37.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "400x300"     20     400  416  480  528   300  301  303  314 Doublescan
# 400x300 @ 72 Hz, 48.0 kHz hsync
Modeline "400x300"     25     400  424  488  520   300  319  322  333 Doublescan
# 480x300 @ 56 Hz, 35.2 kHz hsync, 8:5 aspect ratio
ModeLine "480x300"     21.656 480  496  536  616   300  301  302  312 Doublescan
# 480x300 @ 60 Hz, 37.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "480x300"     23.890 480  496  576  632   300  301  303  314 Doublescan
# 480x300 @ 63 Hz, 39.6 kHz hsync
Modeline "480x300"     25     480  496  576  632   300  301  303  314 Doublescan
# 480x300 @ 72 Hz, 48.0 kHz hsync
Modeline "480x300"     29.952 480  504  584  624   300  319  322  333 Doublescan

EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
    Identifier	"Generic VGA"
    VendorName	"Unknown"
    BoardName	"Unknown"
    Chipset	"generic"

#    VideoRam	256

#    Clocks	25.2 28.3

EndSection

# Sample Device for accelerated server:

# Section "Device"
#    Identifier	"Actix GE32+ 2MB"
#    VendorName	"Actix"
#    BoardName	"GE32+"
#    Ramdac	"ATT20C490"
#    Dacspeed	110
#    Option	"dac_8_bit"
#    Clocks	 25.0  28.0  40.0   0.0  50.0  77.0  36.0  45.0
#    Clocks	130.0 120.0  80.0  31.0 110.0  65.0  75.0  94.0
# EndSection

# Sample Device for Hercules mono card:

# Section "Device"
#    Identifier "Hercules mono"
# EndSection

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "CLGD5446"
    VendorName  "Cirrus Logic"
    BoardName   "GD5446"
    Option	"power_saver"
    VideoRam    2048
# Use Option "no_bitblt" if you have graphics problems. If that fails
# try Option "noaccel".
# Also "no_pixmap_cache"
# Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.cirrus.
# To allow linear addressing, uncomment the Option line and the
# address that the card maps the framebuffer to.
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# The Colour SVGA server

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "svga"
    # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
    #Device      "Generic VGA"
    Device      "CLGD5446"
    Monitor     "ADI Microscan"
    DefaultColorDepth	16
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
        ViewPort    0 0
        # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
        Virtual     1280 1024
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1024 768
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection
EndSection

# The 16-color VGA server

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "vga16"
    Device      "Generic VGA"
    Monitor     "ADI Microscan"
    Subsection "Display"
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection
EndSection

# The Mono server

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "vga2"
    Device      "Generic VGA"
    Monitor     "ADI Microscan"
    Subsection "Display"
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection
EndSection

# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64)

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "accel"
    Device      "CLGD5446"
    Monitor     "ADI Microscan"
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1600 1200
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1152 900
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection
EndSection


From bates at stat.wisc.edu  Fri Mar 24 08:11:00 2000
From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: 24 Mar 2000 08:11:00 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] What's the Best Internet Connection Sharing Method?
In-Reply-To: Tim Schaab's message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 03:06:13 -0600 (CST)"
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003240302130.29476-100000@witt128-050.resnet.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <6rityc5uh7.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu>

Tim Schaab <tim at madweb.org> writes:

>    I have a quick question to throw out.  If I wanted to network my
> computers at home (mix of linux and win 98) and connect to the
> Internet through a cable modem based on a linux box, what's the best
> method to use? Firewalls? Proxy Servers?  Others?

You want Firewalls and IP Masquerading at least.  With IP Masquerading
you do not need a Proxy Server.  The only reason for adding a Proxy
Server would be if you had several clients in the home network that
would tend to fetch the same web pages so it would be worthwhile
caching a local copy.

The April 2000 issue of Linux Journal has a feature section on
networking including an article on "The Linux Home Network" and an
article on "Setting Up a Linux Gateway".  You probably want to get a
copy.

I have set up such networks and can probably answer technical
questions if you run into trouble.



From jeklund at jvlnet.com  Mon Mar 27 00:02:41 2000
From: jeklund at jvlnet.com (Jon Eklund)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:02:41 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] old hardware support
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000326235050.009885d0@mail.jvlnet.com>

note:  somewhat off-topic, please reply personally

I have Motorola 88K VME terminal server that I've been playing with for a 
while.  While I have all the OS documentation, I'm missing information on 
some of the peripherals.

If anyone knows anything about Motorola DeltaLINK terminal servers let me 
know, but I'm more looking for some listserv or something relating to 
"vintage" Motola hardware.

thanks for any information.

Jon Eklund



From subb3 at attglobal.net  Mon Mar 27 10:35:49 2000
From: subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:35:49 -0500
Subject: [Madlug] Linux DBMS
Message-ID: <20000327113549.A1352@attglobal.net>

In the e-Business arena, where are Linux servers being used?
It looks like Linux is being used only for Web servers and development
platforms.

I am currently looking at using a DBMS server on a Linux system.
Are Linux systems used as DBMS servers? If yes, what HW configuration
would be recommended for a DBMS server for a e-Business application?

Which DBMS systems perform well on Linux and are not resource hogs?

Thanks for any input.

Subba Rao
subb3 at attglobal.net
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/

 => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <=
http://www.smcinnovations.com



From bates at stat.wisc.edu  Mon Mar 27 10:50:47 2000
From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: 27 Mar 2000 10:50:47 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Linux DBMS
In-Reply-To: Subba Rao's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:35:49 -0500"
References: <20000327113549.A1352@attglobal.net>
Message-ID: <6raejkqrvc.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu>

Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net> writes:

> In the e-Business arena, where are Linux servers being used?
> It looks like Linux is being used only for Web servers and development
> platforms.

> I am currently looking at using a DBMS server on a Linux system.
> Are Linux systems used as DBMS servers? If yes, what HW configuration
> would be recommended for a DBMS server for a e-Business application?

> Which DBMS systems perform well on Linux and are not resource hogs?

My experience is mostly with MySQL, a relational DBMS that is freely
available for Linux.  I see a lot of discussion on the MySQL lists
regarding running servers under Linux for e-Business.  I suggest that
you check out their web site http://www.mysql.com/ or its local mirror
http://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/mysql/.

Paul Dubois's book "MySQL" is an excellent introduction to MySQL and
to relational databases in general.  He also describes the Perl DBI
interface, the PHP interface and the C API for MySQL.  It happens that
Paul is a local system admin.  He works for the Primate Center on the
UW campus.

Another openly available DBMS for Linux is PostgreSQL.  The trade-off
between MySQL and PostgreSQL is speed versus features.  MySQL does not
provide every known feature of a RDBMS.  For example, it does not
provide transactions and rollback.  However, it is astonishingly fast
when you set up your tables well.  For me the speed of MySQL and its
generally friendly features in terms of administration outweigh the
more complete implementation of PostgreSQL.




From mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us  Mon Mar 27 10:50:34 2000
From: mtinberg at madison.tec.wi.us (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:50:34 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Linux DBMS
Message-ID: <s8df3d11.023@gwmail>

Well, you can really use Linux for everything but for databases look at MySQL and PostgreSQL, they are the big two SQL servers for Linux/*BSD/etc.  MySQL is the more lightweight and it seems more used.  Also be aware that most every other SQL server runs on Linux (Oracle 8i, Sybase, DB2, etc.) if you _really_ need some esoteric feature that these bigguns support.  There are ODBC drivers available for all these and most programming languages support them directly (Perl, Python, Java, C, etc.)

Since I am not really a database guy you should check out their websites.  http://www.mysql.org and http://www.postgresql.org .

>>> Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net> 03/27/00 10:35AM >>>

In the e-Business arena, where are Linux servers being used?
It looks like Linux is being used only for Web servers and development
platforms.

I am currently looking at using a DBMS server on a Linux system.
Are Linux systems used as DBMS servers? If yes, what HW configuration
would be recommended for a DBMS server for a e-Business application?

Which DBMS systems perform well on Linux and are not resource hogs?

Thanks for any input.

Subba Rao
subb3 at attglobal.net 
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ 

 => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <=
http://www.smcinnovations.com 

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From Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us  Mon Mar 27 11:17:38 2000
From: Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us (Jefferson, Dean)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:17:38 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Linux DBMS
Message-ID: <832E8B37AD19D311839700508B2CF7D1197B36@exchange.oci.state.wi.us>

I am in the process of installing an Oracle 8i database on Linux. I believe
Oracle's announced (but not yet delivered) "database appliance" uses a Linux
kernel to deliver maximum database bang for the buck.

I am using a Compaq Proliant server with 4 CPU's, because that's what we
bought for Oracle on NT. Your hardware requirements depend on how large a
database you need to support and how fast it needs to be.

If you want a DBMS that is not a resource hog, Oracle is not it. The idea
with running Oracle on Linux is to minimize the OS overhead so Oracle can
hog the whole machine!

If your DBMS needs are more modest, try MySQL as the other answers to your
post suggest.

Dean Jefferson
Dean.Jefferson at oci.state.wi.us

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subba Rao [mailto:subb3 at attglobal.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM
> To: Madison Linux Users
> Subject: [Madlug] Linux DBMS
> 
> 
> 
> In the e-Business arena, where are Linux servers being used?
> It looks like Linux is being used only for Web servers and development
> platforms.
> 
> I am currently looking at using a DBMS server on a Linux system.
> Are Linux systems used as DBMS servers? If yes, what HW configuration
> would be recommended for a DBMS server for a e-Business application?
> 
> Which DBMS systems perform well on Linux and are not resource hogs?
> 
> Thanks for any input.
> 
> Subba Rao
> subb3 at attglobal.net
> http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
> 
>  => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <=
> http://www.smcinnovations.com
> 
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From billf at inxpress.net  Mon Mar 27 11:20:39 2000
From: billf at inxpress.net (Bill Fredrickson)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:20:39 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] [Fwd: [suse-announce-e] XFree86 4.0 for SuSE Linux available]
Message-ID: <38DF9867.E7DE22F3@inxpress.net>

Thought maybe some of you might find this
interesting.

Bill
================

Christian Egle wrote:
> 
> Dear Linux user!
> 
> We are proud to inform all XFree86 enthusiasts that the rpms of the very
> latest XFree86 release 4.0 for SuSE Linux are now available for download
> on SuSE?s ftp site ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0-SuSE
> 
> XFree86 4.0 is the first official release of the new XFree86 4.  XFree86 4
> represents a significant redesign of the XFree86 X server. It is very
> important to keep in mind that XFree86 4 is still very much in development,
> and it contains a lot of new work.  That means two things: there is a lot
> of new exciting stuff to try, but being new code, it hasn't had nearly as
> much of a workout as the stable 3.3.x releases. If you're looking for a
> well-tested, stable release, and can't afford the inconveniences that new
> software can sometimes cause, then you are probably better off sticking
> with the 3.3.x releases for now.
> 
> So please take care of the release notes
> 
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0-SuSE/RELNOTES
> 
> and the readme
> 
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0-SuSE/README
> 
> Have a lot of fun!
> 
> Your SuSE team
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Tel.: +49-(0)911-7405331      Fax: +49-(0)911-7417755
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From MTinberg at compuserve.com  Tue Mar 28 19:31:22 2000
From: MTinberg at compuserve.com (Mark Tinberg)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:31:22 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Linux DBMS
In-Reply-To: <20000327113549.A1352@attglobal.net>
References: <20000327113549.A1352@attglobal.net>
Message-ID: <00032819323500.12791@lordcyrix.raven667.org>

It just so happens that this very topic is currently being discussed on
slashdot.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/16/2151236&mode=nested


On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> Which DBMS systems perform well on Linux and are not resource hogs?

-- 
Mark Tinberg
MTinberg at compuserve.com
Remember:  Wherever you go, there you are!



From jjacobsen at jvlnet.com  Thu Mar 30 08:50:34 2000
From: jjacobsen at jvlnet.com (Jesse Jacobsen)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:50:34 +0000
Subject: [Madlug] Bresnan@home and (Debian) Linux
Message-ID: <20000330145033.A26517@jvlnet.com>

Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Bresnan to share?  How
is it pricewise compared to DSL?  Unfortunately, Ameritech says DSL is
unavailable where I'm at -- barely unavailable.  But I'm getting tired
of dialup speeds.  Granted, I've been at 33.6 for a while now, but I'd
like more than just an incremental improvement.  From what I've seen,
ISDN is not really worth pursuing because it's more expensive than DSL
and slower.

I know I've seen a few posts about Bresnan before.  I think Doug was
one of the posters.  Would you still recommend Bresnan at home?


--
Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor          jjacobsen at jvlnet.com
Grace Lutheran Church (ELS)     http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/
Madison, Wisconsin              GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13






From dxf at dewittross.com  Thu Mar 30 09:06:48 2000
From: dxf at dewittross.com (Daniell Freed)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:06:48 -0600
Subject: [Madlug] Bresnan@home and (Debian) Linux
References: <20000330145033.A26517@jvlnet.com>
Message-ID: <38E36D88.FB179FBB@dewittross.com>

I have been using Bresnans at home since they introduced it last fall. 
Despite the rocky start last fall, I would still recommend using it.

Some of the problems they have:
--No offical Linux support, but linux still works fine with the service,
they just won't help you set it up.
--Their installers are not very reliable.  I had to set it up pretty
much on my own.  I've seen this happen in one other case since mine as
well.
--Weird bug with mplayer that shows you having a really crappy ping.  I
don't know what this is all about, but it doesn't affect your game
playing at all.

The good stuff:
--Very very fast. I get download speeds up to 200 KB (thats kiloBytes
not bits) / sec.  On average they tend to be closer to 120 -150 KB / sec
from a decent site.
--More or less static IP address.  They say it is DHCP, but a tech on
the phone told me that they almost never change your IP address.
--reliable.  I have only been down 2x in the last 6 months for an
evening on each occasion, and on both occasions only email and their
proxy servers where down.  Everything else was OK.
--Multiple email accounts at no extra charge.
--not too expensive.  $40 /month

There are a few people here at work that have a DSL line through TCI and
they like that as well.  They are paying about $45 / month I think. 
They don't get static IP's and their download speed is on average slower
(about 75 - 80 KB /sec), but their upload speeds seem to be better.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Daniell Freed
Computer Services
Dewitt, Ross, & Stevens

He who fights with monsters might take care 
lest he thereby become a monster. 
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, 
the abyss gazes also into you.

Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche


Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Bresnan to share?  How
> is it pricewise compared to DSL?  Unfortunately, Ameritech says DSL is
> unavailable where I'm at -- barely unavailable.  But I'm getting tired
> of dialup speeds.  Granted, I've been at 33.6 for a while now, but I'd
> like more than just an incremental improvement.  From what I've seen,
> ISDN is not really worth pursuing because it's more expensive than DSL
> and slower.
> 
> I know I've seen a few posts about Bresnan before.  I think Doug was
> one of the posters.  Would you still recommend Bresnan at home?
> 
> --
> Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor          jjacobsen at jvlnet.com
> Grace Lutheran Church (ELS)     http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/
> Madison, Wisconsin              GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
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From matt at kindjal.net  Thu Mar 30 09:30:37 2000
From: matt at kindjal.net (Matthew Callaway)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:30:37 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Madlug] Bresnan@home and (Debian) Linux
In-Reply-To: <20000330145033.A26517@jvlnet.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003300920350.7050-100000@gummy.wi.securepipe.com>

Hey Jesse,

I have Bresnan at Home, and I can report my experiences with them, which are
similar to Daniel's.

Their techs are clueless.  They barely know their windows stuff.  You'll
have to set it up on your own.

They claim it's DHCP, but it's fully static if you know how to set it up.
It's only DHCP if you tell it to be, and why would you?  Basically, they
give you an IP, and you use that forever.  But most people use Windows,
and to make it easy for the clueless, they just have you click the DHCP
button to set that up, so it queries a DHCP server for an IP.  Don't know
why they do that.

It's fast, but their networking people are missing something, because the
routes they use are stupid. For example, if I traceroute to my office from
my house, I follow this route:

my house -> Chicago -> Philidelphia -> New York -> Philidelphia -> Chicago
-> Madison -> my office

I still get ping times around 50 ms for the round trip.  Just think what
it could be if the techs weren't.... well... I'll not throw stones.

The cons are that the cable modems themselves are a bit touchy.  You get
into trouble if you want to do more than just be a quiet, normal user.
For example, I've got a home network that I fiddle with.  Sometimes I'd
like to switch which machine acts as a router.  But I can't do this
because Bresnan's equipment remembers the MAC address of the NIC you're
using, so if you switch NICs, you lose your connection.  It takes a few
days for it clear its cache, then the connection comes back up.  

But, really, everything works if you just set it up and leave it alone.

I won't ever recommend Bresnan, because I've never had a good experience
with them, TV, cable, or otherwise.  But they're the only game in town
right now if you live in the 'burbs and want fast internet access.  If I
had a choice, I'd take DSL in a heartbeat.

I'm starting to ramble again, so I'll stop.  :)

Matt



On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote:

> Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Bresnan to share?  How
> is it pricewise compared to DSL?  Unfortunately, Ameritech says DSL is
> unavailable where I'm at -- barely unavailable.  But I'm getting tired
> of dialup speeds.  Granted, I've been at 33.6 for a while now, but I'd
> like more than just an incremental improvement.  From what I've seen,
> ISDN is not really worth pursuing because it's more expensive than DSL
> and slower.
> 
> I know I've seen a few posts about Bresnan before.  I think Doug was
> one of the posters.  Would you still recommend Bresnan at home?
> 
> 
> --
> Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor          jjacobsen at jvlnet.com
> Grace Lutheran Church (ELS)     http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/
> Madison, Wisconsin              GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
> 
> 
> 
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