trinux-talk — General discussion including questions and problem resolution

[Trinux-talk] cdpdump

[Sistemas - I. T. Ltda. <sis...@in...>]

I switched hardware recently (after havig Trinux up for more than 2 
months 24x7); now after a few days of smooth run on the new PC, I am 
getting every few  minutes some kind of crond output stating:

crond[495]: USER root pid XXXX cmd /usr/bin/cdpdump

This disturbs the screen status of currently running traffic analyzers.

What is the cause / remedy for this ?

Thanks in advance

DAVID RAMIREZ
Bogota - Colombia

Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Very nice patches, I'll add them to the linuxrc and to the
documentation. Sounds like I also need to do a new release, particularly
in light of all the do_brk() nonsense. Hopefully over the holidays...

- mdf


> Dear all,
> 
> I'm also working on running Trinux from a harddisk.
> 
> In my case, I'm using a small partition which boots SYSLINUX, similar to the
> way that Trinux is booted from a floppy disk.
> 
> On this partition, I have stored a number of floppy disk images, so I can
> boot virtually any Operating System from any bootfloppy, which is much
> faster then booting from a physical floppy drive.
> 
> One of the problems I saw is that the original linuxrc in the initrd.gz does
> not recognize this situation.
> 
> I have added the following lines to the original linuxrc of Matthew Franz in
> the 'Special Probing stuff' Section, and then it worked.
> 
> Matthew, is this something to add permanently in the linuxrc ?  
> 
> Regards,   Henk
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> ######################################################################
> ### Special Probing stuff
> ######################################################################
> 
> ### HvA, 20031201: check for boot harddisk with syslinux
> echo "Checking all vfat partitions for ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
> 
> for i in `cat /etc/proc/fixed 2> /dev/null`
> do
> 	if mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/${i} /mnt 2> /dev/null
> 	then
> 		echo -n "VFAT found on $i"
> 		if ls /mnt/ldlinux.sys 2> /dev/null
> 		then
> 			echo -n " found ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
> 			if [ -d /mnt/trinux ]
> 			then
> 				echo " found trinux"
> 				BOOT="/dev/${i}"
> 				BOOTFS="vfat"
> 				echo "BOOT=$BOOT"
> 				echo "$i" > /etc/proc/fixedpkg
> 				SYSLINUX="true"
> 				cd /
> 				umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
> 				break
> 			fi		
> 		fi
> 		
> 	fi
> 	umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
> done
> 
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> 
> Henk van Asselt
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Franz [mailto:mf...@ci...] 
> Sent: Thursday, 18 December, 2003 5:09 PM
> To: Brian Ford
> Cc: tri...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:23:26AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> >  
> > List;
> >  
> > Is anyone out there running Trinux from a hard drive?  I have a Pentium
> > MMX PC with 192 MB of RAM that I am looking to use for pen test.  I can
> > run Trinux on it from the CD but have been unable to get it to boot from
> > the hard disk.  Any suggestions?
> >  
> 
> Section 1.4 in http://trinux.sourceforge.net/docs.txt should get you
> started. It
> requires booting with MS-DOS (or FreeDOS for purists) with loadlin.exe
> 
> See http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/fdos-util-0.1?download
> 
> - mdf
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

[Henk v. A. <he...@lx...>]

Dear all,

I'm also working on running Trinux from a harddisk.

In my case, I'm using a small partition which boots SYSLINUX, similar to the
way that Trinux is booted from a floppy disk.

On this partition, I have stored a number of floppy disk images, so I can
boot virtually any Operating System from any bootfloppy, which is much
faster then booting from a physical floppy drive.

One of the problems I saw is that the original linuxrc in the initrd.gz does
not recognize this situation.

I have added the following lines to the original linuxrc of Matthew Franz in
the 'Special Probing stuff' Section, and then it worked.

Matthew, is this something to add permanently in the linuxrc ?  

Regards,   Henk

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

######################################################################
### Special Probing stuff
######################################################################

### HvA, 20031201: check for boot harddisk with syslinux
echo "Checking all vfat partitions for ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"

for i in `cat /etc/proc/fixed 2> /dev/null`
do
	if mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/${i} /mnt 2> /dev/null
	then
		echo -n "VFAT found on $i"
		if ls /mnt/ldlinux.sys 2> /dev/null
		then
			echo -n " found ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
			if [ -d /mnt/trinux ]
			then
				echo " found trinux"
				BOOT="/dev/${i}"
				BOOTFS="vfat"
				echo "BOOT=$BOOT"
				echo "$i" > /etc/proc/fixedpkg
				SYSLINUX="true"
				cd /
				umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
				break
			fi		
		fi
		
	fi
	umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
done

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<


Henk van Asselt



-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Franz [mailto:mf...@ci...] 
Sent: Thursday, 18 December, 2003 5:09 PM
To: Brian Ford
Cc: tri...@li...
Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:23:26AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>  
> List;
>  
> Is anyone out there running Trinux from a hard drive?  I have a Pentium
> MMX PC with 192 MB of RAM that I am looking to use for pen test.  I can
> run Trinux on it from the CD but have been unable to get it to boot from
> the hard disk.  Any suggestions?
>  

Section 1.4 in http://trinux.sourceforge.net/docs.txt should get you
started. It
requires booting with MS-DOS (or FreeDOS for purists) with loadlin.exe

See http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/fdos-util-0.1?download

- mdf




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Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:23:26AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>  
> List;
>  
> Is anyone out there running Trinux from a hard drive?  I have a Pentium
> MMX PC with 192 MB of RAM that I am looking to use for pen test.  I can
> run Trinux on it from the CD but have been unable to get it to boot from
> the hard disk.  Any suggestions?
>  

Section 1.4 in http://trinux.sourceforge.net/docs.txt should get you started. It
requires booting with MS-DOS (or FreeDOS for purists) with loadlin.exe

See http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/fdos-util-0.1?download

- mdf

Re: [Trinux-talk] 386 Trinux

[<HHu...@t-...>]

Hallo, Stephen,

Du meintest am 15.12.03 zum Thema [Trinux-talk] 386 Trinux:

> Just tried Trinux on an ancient 386.
> Boot fails 'broken WP bit' and kernel panics and says 'recompile
> for 386'

> I know the minimum is supposed to be 486.

> Anyone know if it trinux could be remade for 386?  What are the
> issues that make 486 minumum CPU?

Look at
        http://hullen.de/helmut/Trinux/

The packet "Arkt-dsk.zip" may do the job; I have tested it with  
486SX33 CPUs with abou 16 MByte RAM.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

[Trinux-talk] ISA-PnP network cards

[<HHu...@t-...>]

Hallo, trinux-talk,

I have a lot of computers with ISA PnP network cards.
When I use the setup program for these cards and fix port and IRQ  
(instead of PnP), then I can tell trinux these parameters and trinux  
finds the server.

But most times these computers should work with PnP values for port  
and IRQ: how can I tell trinux (0.80rc2) to find these values?

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

[Trinux-talk] 386 Trinux

[Stephen D. <ste...@en...>]

Hello All

Just tried Trinux on an ancient 386.
Boot fails 'broken WP bit' and kernel panics and says 'recompile for 386'

I know the minimum is supposed to be 486.

Anyone know if it trinux could be remade for 386?  What are the issues
that make 486 minumum CPU?

Thanks
Stephen

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[Trinux-talk] Promise ATA controller

[schickb <sc...@ho...>]

I am trying mount partitions under Trinux on my system with a Promise
Ultra100 Tx2 ATA/100 control with 2 drives (both ATA/100) connected. =
During
the boot process the drives and partitions are found (message below), =
but
when running there are no devices in /dev. When I look in /proc/ide all =
the
info is there.=20

Anyone know how to get this card working? Do I need a kernel module or =
is
there some other way to mount these other than "mount /dev/hde1 /hde1"? =
The
drive connected to the built-in Intel chipset ATA channel mounts fine.

Thanks,
Brad

-----
The two drives on the Promise Ultra100 are the
HDS722580VLAT20 and the IC35L060AVER07-0

hda: ST340825A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: HDS722580VLAT20, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c025e0e8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c025e55c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xecb0-0xecb7,0xecaa on irq 3
ide3 at 0xec98-0xec9f,0xec92 on irq 3
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area =3D> 1
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3D4865/255/63
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: host protected area =3D> 1
hde: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1794KiB Cache, CHS=3D10011/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: host protected area =3D> 1
hdg: 117187500 sectors (60000 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=3D116257/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Partition check:
 hda:<7>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Found an MS-DOS partition table, =
not
a dynamic disk.
 hda1
 hde:<7>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Found an MS-DOS partition table, =
not
a dynamic disk.
 hde1 hde2
 hdg:<7>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Found an MS-DOS partition table, =
not
a dynamic disk.
 [PTBL] [7294/255/63] hdg1 hdg2 < hdg5 hdg6 hdg7 >

[--- /proc/partitions ---]
major minor  #blocks  name

  34     0   58593750 hdg
  34     1    7172991 hdg1
  34     2          1 hdg2
  34     5   20482843 hdg5
  34     6   22531131 hdg6
  34     7    8393931 hdg7
  33     0   80418240 hde
  33     1   54275571 hde1
  33     2      16065 hde2
   3     0   39082680 hda
   3     1   19093252 hda1

Re: [Trinux-talk] proper shutdown technique

[<HHu...@t-...>]

Hallo, Mike,

Du meintest am 25.11.03 zum Thema [Trinux-talk] proper shutdown technique:

> OK, I'm an idiot...but what is the proper command for "gracefully"
> shutting down a Trinux PC?

"halt" or "reboot" should work.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

Re: [Trinux-talk] mii-tool or ethtool for Trinux?

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Done. Not not tested though. And regarding graceful shutdown as long as you haven't
mounted anything you can power off or the 3 finger salute.

#getpkg ethtools


- mdf

> Is there an ethtool or mii-tool package or another way to set speed and
> duplex for NICs in Trinux?  I have a laptop with 2 3c575 PCMCIA NICs.  One
> is properly negotiating 100-Full with the switch.  The other is negotiating
> 100-Half for some reason.
> 
> Thanks, Mike
> 
> 

[Trinux-talk] mii-tool or ethtool for Trinux?

[Mike P. <MPi...@lg...>]

Is there an ethtool or mii-tool package or another way to set speed and
duplex for NICs in Trinux?  I have a laptop with 2 3c575 PCMCIA NICs.  One
is properly negotiating 100-Full with the switch.  The other is negotiating
100-Half for some reason.

Thanks, Mike

[Trinux-talk] proper shutdown technique

[Mike P. <MPi...@lg...>]

OK, I'm an idiot...but what is the proper command for "gracefully" shutting
down a Trinux PC?  I'm using the PCMCIA floppy dist.

Thanks, Mike

[Trinux-talk] Samba server ?? Or client only

[Yuen, R. <Ric...@AC...>]

Hi All, 

I am wondering which pkg I need to install to run samba server/ smbd . I
only see smbcore/smbclient/smbmount so far, and none of them seems able to
run as server mode/or to share resources. 

Thanks. 

Rick 

[Trinux-talk] opensshd: file missing?

[SERGI C. E. <sc...@ti...>]

I'd need to sftp my remote trinux boxes, and I use opensshd. But file
sftp-server needed by sftp subsystem of sshd is missing. Is it possible to
include it in any package?
If not, knowing the right params for building opensshd (and openssh) would
help.

Sorry my bad english.

Thanks.
Sergi.

[Trinux-talk] pcmcia - not a NIC question

[Rich S <ric...@ho...>]

I'm new to Linux, let alone Trinux but am figuring it out quick.  I'm =
trying to use a compact flash card in my pcmcia slot to save my =
information from Trinux.  My laptop uses a TI PCI-1520 Cardbus =
Controller (PCI bus 2, device 2, function 0 and PCI bus 2, device 2, =
function 1.)  Could somebody please help me and remember I'm not =
LINUX/TRINUX smart....yet!

Rich

[Trinux-talk] Matthew: Possible help compiling libpcap using uclibc

[Bill B. <bi...@ap...>]

I noticed that your site says you are having trouble with libpcap and
uclibc.  The LEAF project has a distro called Bering-uClibc that
provides libpcap.lrp.  You mightbe able to get some insight about
libpcap from that.

http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=91017&page_id=51

-- 
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[Trinux-talk] Darkstat behavior

[Sistemas - I. T. LTDA. <sis...@in...>]

This question should be directed to some darkstat-list, but since 
darkstat comes with Trinux may be some of you can tell me what happened.

When I tried darkstat (the version that comes with the current Trinux 
bundle) for the first time, a few weeks ago, I got in my Trinux-console 
a colorful (n)top-like display of ongoing network connections. Its man 
page even had a -m switch to turn it monochrome.

It was useful for just having a permanent (and not so changing as a 
sniffer) display of activity.

But after a restart of Trinux there isn't any such "darkstat", now I 
have the (more current ?) port 666 mini-server only (which, 
nevertheless, is also very useful and worth to have). The top display is 
gone, also the man page is different... e.g. -m switch is not there.

Something I missed ?

Thanks
David Ramirez
Bogotá - Colombia
Active (24x7) Trinux user.

Re: [Trinux-talk] Newbie Questions

[<HHu...@t-...>]

Hallo, Brian,

Du meintest am 19.10.03 zum Thema [Trinux-talk] Newbie Questions:

> I'm having problems getting other packages to load.

You should put the needed packages onto floppy disks too (under  
Windows).
When Trinux finds neither HD nor server you can feed it with these  
disks.

> I did create a
> "trinux" directory on the hard drive and have copied all the basic
> and optional tgz's as well as nmap and a couple of other tools.  I
> can't get them to work.

Have you put "loadlin.exe" on the HD?

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

Re: [Trinux-talk] German Keyboard

[<HHu...@t-...>]

Hallo, Djockheck,

Du meintest am 15.10.03 zum Thema [Trinux-talk] German Keyboard:

> How can I switch trinux to use a german keyboard-layout?

1.      getpkg kmap

2.      kmap
        Nummer 6

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

Re: [Trinux-talk] German Keyboard

[<DJo...@ga...>]

Loading package kmap.tgz after adding this script in /etc/init.d/kmap works
fine :-)

--- cut --
#!/bin/sh
echo Initialisiere deutsche Tastatur
loadkmap </usr/share/keymaps/de.bmap
--- cut ---

MfG
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[Trinux-talk] NUM-Lock and CAPS-Lock

[<DJo...@ga...>]

Hi!

How can I switch NUM-Lock and CAPS-Lock on in trinux by default? Setting
this values in the bios doesn't work.

ciao
Detlef Jockheck
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[Trinux-talk] German Keyboard

[<DJo...@ga...>]

Hi!

How can I switch trinux to use a german keyboard-layout?

MfG
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[Trinux-talk] Booting from hd using loadlin

[<DJo...@ga...>]

Hi,

I just followed the instructions in doc.txt to install trinux using
loadlin.exe. When I boot the system using trinux.bat I receive some strange
messages:

1. It says "BOOT=/dev/hda1"
2. Later I receive
================
BOOT:/dev/fd0      <-!?
KERNEL:2.4.21
CDEV:hdb
FDEV: hda1 hda2
BOOTFS: vfat
================
3. Then I receive a error message:
"mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /boot failed"

I tried to disable the floppy-drive in BIOS that doens'nt seem to help. I
want to boot from HD!!!

Any ideas?

BTW: In 1.4.2 it says
mkdir -p tux/config
mkdir tux

I think the second mkdir can be removed.

regards
Detlef Jockheck

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Re: [Trinux-talk] Install to hd?

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Only using a DOS partition and booting via loadlin.

See  http://trinux.sf.net/docs.txt

Section 1.1.4

- mdf

> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to install a bootable trinux-installation on a hd?
> 
> ciao
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[Trinux-talk] Install to hd?

[Detlef J. <de...@jo...>]

Hi!

Is it possible to install a bootable trinux-installation on a hd?

ciao
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