and its not /;
its \;
so that would make it
find / -name deal.letter -exec rm {} \;
notice that the name you are looking for is not dead.letterS but
dead.letter
J.
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From: "Charles Galpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 199
Hi,
I have a question about general linux performance. It seems like my linux
box at home doesn't run like it ought to (specifically, it seems like it
was faster under windows). Here are the stats on it:
pentium 200mmx, 32 mb ram, 70 mb swap, matrox mystique w/ 4mb
I'm running a stock redhat 6.
I posted a previous message and have since tried to get PPP working with
my ISP's new "Realm Authentication" login procedure, which requires a
new login, and DNS settings.
I think I almost have it working. But the /var/log/messages file shows
the error "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Pro
Okay, I got the file mounted - thanks for helping with that. Next
question - I guess this is a true newbie question - is where to put
the archive for an executable for a program? In Windows I always
downloaded to a "Downloads' directory...not sure if creating one in
Linux would be the way to
Here's a link I've found helpful is getting Frontpage set up.
http://www.deerinet.nb.ca/~grantl/
david
At 01:25 PM 12/11/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Yes there is, but you will have to dig around for them, there is also one
>that just contains FP extensions look on Rufus.w3.org and elsewh
I have just about a full install of 6.1. I am looking for nenscript
documentation. I found /usr/bin/nenscript with find. Nothing with
apropos, man, info, or whatis. I poked around in /usr/doc without
success. Any pointers would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Bill Salvino
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> From: "Lee Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> When I try to mount my floppy drive I get:
>
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0)
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>or too many mounted filesystems
>
> What do I need to do?
>
> --Lee
man
Steve Lee wrote:
>
> what does it mean to run something setuid
It means the program runs as root even though another non-root user has
run it.
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When I try to mount my floppy drive I get:
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0)
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or too many mounted filesystems
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I should have mentioned that my problem arises because I'm also running
OS/2 on the same box, so making adjustments to the monitor will mess up my
OS/2 system. Since XF86Setup allows adjusting it with software, I thought
this would enable me to leave the monitor itself alone.
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Personally, my experience was not a good one. It uses i586 RPMS, but it
used kernel-2.2.9 (version 6.0 of mandrake) and had all sorts of beta
patches applied to the kernel that they should have just used a 2.3 series
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Evening Everyone:
Not looking to start a flame war here. I've heard of Mandrake, and that
it uses i586 or i686 rpms. Anyone out there tried it or compared it to
Red Hat? I'm just looking for comments on how it is. For example, is the
install similar, or does it have it's own way of doing thin
Just tell me the Advansys model so I never wate my money on one!
=)
On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, Iain Wade wrote:
> >%_> I just threw to the "recycle bin" an adaptec clone. So, I would say it is
> not a
> > good idea to experiment with cheap SCSI adapter clone. I bought an
> Advansys
> > Ultra SCSI c
> > swap 127
> > ram 4 gig
> >
>
> Sorry the new limitation (depending on the kernel and on the hardware)
> on the i386 platform is 2 gig for swap.
>
> Just pointing out the 'man mkswap' data on kernel 2.2.12
>
If you use big swap partitions, it is supposed to be more efficient to add
another
If you use the CD to boot from, it should find it with no problems. I
used that method for my ProLiant and it found it immediately.
Warren
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Doug Brunner wrote:
> When I try to run the installer on a Compaq ProSignia, I can't find the
> SCSI driver to use. The SCSI controller
I have a Compaq ProLiant 5500 (the older Pentium Pro one) with the
supplied TLAN card. I loaded RedHat 6.1 and everything works fine EXCEPT
that if I try to use DHCP the ethernet card shuts down immediately after
getting an IP. If I assign an IP it works fine. If I use DHCP, I have to
rmmod the
Thanks for the answer
Arpi
> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:46:43PM +0100, Tamas Arpad wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > > > Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> > > > Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine
> > with
> > > > readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> > >
I've recently installed Redhat 6.1 and am how trying to get it configured.
Although the installation program recognized my monitor (NEC P750) and
listed my video card (Matrox Millennium), the display isn't synched to my
monitor correctly. All available resolutions result in a display that
needs
Yes there is, but you will have to dig around for them, there is also one
that just contains FP extensions look on Rufus.w3.org and elsewhere
consider Kevin Hemenway's suggestions, and for Scott, get FP and use it so
you know what your clients are bugging you about, it wont be over once you
i
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 10:14:13AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ifup ppp0 causes the modem to dail in, but after the handshake, after
> serial connection established, and passing onto pppd (or however it
> works) the modem hangs up. BUT, then it dials in again and connects
> without a problem
Hi all.
I just installed to rh6.1, and ppp won't work properly.
ifup ppp0 causes the modem to dail in, but after the handshake, after
serial connection established, and passing onto pppd (or however it
works) the modem hangs up. BUT, then it dials in again and connects
without a problem.
Logs:
Simon Epsteyn wrote:
> I think what you are looking for is this:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/
>
> /Simon
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, David Richardson wrote:
>
> > Is there something like savecore for Linux? I am having server crashes
> > and I am getting no leads from log files as to what th
Hello all!
Thank you for the responces about the problem. I will try your
suggestions this weekend and send a summary on results.
SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 9 Dec 1999:
> When you disable a com port and install an internal modem to that
> port, the
> internal modem usually/somet
My ISP isswitching its login procedure to "Realm Authentication" which
means I have to change my login name, telephone number and DNS settings.
Here's my question. It's been a couple of years since I last configured
PPP and the PPP howto docs say you should include the primary and
secondary DNS se
actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.
hth charles
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:
> >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
> >
> >Note, all of that has to be there.
> >HTH, HAND
> >Bill Ward
>
> The double-quotes
I have been looking unsuccessfully for a competent backup program.
I want a package that will run on a linux system and completely backup both
linux and win98 boxes. Ideally, I want to be able to do a "cold iron" restore.
That is start from a boot disk and bring 'er up.
However, if I lose a b
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:46:43PM +0100, Tamas Arpad wrote:
> Hi,
> > > Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> > > Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine
> with
> > > readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> > > I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop o
Try grabbing just the iso9660 image. You're better off using a mirror than
the red hat ftp site. I use ftp.tux.org. The file you are looking to grab
is /distributions/redhat/redhat-6.1/iso/6.1-i386.iso. This is the complete
red hat 6.1 distributions already in bootable cd-rom format. You just need
Hi,
> > Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> > Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine
with
> > readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> > I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server support
it?
>
> Imap is plain text unless you go through
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] ht://Dig 3.1.4 RPMs for Red Hat
>I've just uploaded source and binary rpms for
-Original Message-
From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: RedHat Maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: setuid
>On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
>
>> is that the s when you do chmod +x
>
>you mean when you do +s? yes.
>
>chmod 4000 filename
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
> is that the s when you do chmod +x
you mean when you do +s? yes.
chmod 4000 filename will add the setuid bit
chmod +s filename will do the same.
Brian
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Brian wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
> >
> > >
>
> On 10 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
> > have system commander also.
> > If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of Lilo, "li"
> > and that's all folks.
> >
> > If I boo
True, but it's always good form to put them in quotes when trying to use
find. That ensures that you will not make the mistake, as a system admin
I will not name (who was NOT me) did, when he accidentally ended up erasing
everything above / using a poorly constructed find as root.
YMMV, but I t
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Daniel Goldin said:
DG>James> It appears that you have your sendmail.cf fle misconfigured. If
DG>you will follow
DG>James> the directions in the attached file it should get you going.
DG>
DG>Thanks for your help. I rewrote the .mc file as you siggested, but I
DG>got an error
is that the s when you do chmod +x
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Brian wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
>
> >
> > what does it mean to run something setuid
>
> It means that when you run the program, the program changes to the uid of
> the owner of the program. So if you have a program
At 07:59 PM 12/10/99 +, you wrote:
>On 10 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
> > have system commander also.
> > If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of
> Lilo, "li"
> >
>find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
>
>Note, all of that has to be there.
>HTH, HAND
>Bill Ward
The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
characters or spaces.
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xntp is a good program for that.
Get it at freshmeat.net
Jason
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From: Todd Dunbebin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 2:21 PM
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Subject: RE: Cron Help
> -Original Message-
> From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE
> -Original Message-
> From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Why not use ntp (Network Time Protocol) instead?
Because I didn't know about it.
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Todd Dunbebin wrote:
> /etc/cron.hourly with:
> */15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
nope.
if you look at /etc/crontab, there are entries for
run-parts /etc/cron.daily
run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
etc...
run-parts is a program that goes through the folder (say
I am trying to create a CD of 6.1 so I can do a fresh install. I have
looked on RH ftp site and I am unsure of what that I have to download.
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Type the following... note that if it's in <> it's the key, except for the
password
su
crontab -l > cronfile
vi cronfile
g
a
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
wq
crontab cronfile
rm cronfile
exit
That should do it.
Bill Ward
-Original Message-
From: Todd Dunbebin [mailto:[E
>I'm not sure I'm getting it.
>Are you saying that I can just put a text file in
>/etc/cron.hourly with:
>*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
>
>as the text and like a 755 permission, and it'll run, with no crontab or
>anything?
No. The above line goes into your root's crontab file and
find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
Note, all of that has to be there.
HTH, HAND
Bill Ward
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From: Steve Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 2:43 PM
To: RedHat Maillist
Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil
Subject: script
I
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:01:08PM -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
: Hashed passwords are not necessarily more secure than plaintext ones... It
: still boils down to protecting the file the passwords are stored in. If a
: person gets root access on your e-mail server, no password encryption
: scheme is
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
>
> what does it mean to run something setuid
It means that when you run the program, the program changes to the uid of
the owner of the program. So if you have a program and its owned by root,
and you make it setuid root and executable (chmod 4755), then
>I'm no programmer.
>can somoone show me a quick
>script that would run through
>the whole system to remove
>dead.letters off the system.
No script needed, simple command:
find / -iname dead.letters -exec rm {} \;
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I have a Compaq 5500 woth a TLAN 10/100 card in it. I loaded up RedHat
6.1 last night and everything seemed to go fine, but immediately after the
card gets its address from the DHCP server, the lights on the hub go dark
and it stops communicating.
Any ideas here?
Thanks,
Warren Melnick
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Put this in a file:
#!/bin/sh
find / -type f -name dead.letter -print -exec rm {} \;
Make it executable (chmod 700) and run that (from cron)
J.
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| From: "Steve Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| Sent: Friday, December 1
#!/bin/sh
find / -type f -name dead.letter -print -exec rm {} \;
Put the above in a file and make it executable (chmod 700)
and run that
J.
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From: "Steve Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RedHat Maillist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:43 PM
Sub
Assuming that Mandrake Linux 6.1's i586 RPMs were compiled using pgcc/egcs
and Red Hat Linux 6.1's i386 RPMs were compiled using gcc, IMO pgcc/egcs
produces faster code than gcc. I tried both systems, each for a few hours,
and was convinced that Mandrake's system was faster when starting up,
shutt
On 10 Dec, Steve Lee wrote:
>
> what does it mean to run something setuid
>
It means that the program will be run with the User ID of it's owner.
This is mostly done to allow standard users to do things that require
root privileges.
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On 10 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hi All
>
> I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
> have system commander also.
> If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of Lilo, "li"
> and that's all folks.
>
> If I boot from floppy, linux
I'm not sure I'm getting it.
Are you saying that I can just put a text file in
/etc/cron.hourly with:
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
as the text and like a 755 permission, and it'll run, with no crontab or
anything?
Forgive me if that isn't what you meant because I tried that and I
I'm no programmer.
can somoone show me a quick
script that would run through
the whole system to remove
dead.letters off the system.
After that i could setup cron to do
this every other day.
Thanks
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I have had nothing but problems with my system since
installing RH 6.0 and upgrading to, essentially,
6.1. Little and big things keep cracking my system up.
The latest problem to show up wont let me run netscape.
I installed netscape 4.61 and when I try to run it,
nothing happens at all. If I s
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James> It appears that you have your sendmail.cf fle misconfigured. If
you will follow
James> the directions in the attached file it should get you going.
Thanks for your help. I rewrote the .mc file as you siggested, but I
got an error message when I ran m4 ...
/etc/sendmail.mc:13: m4: Cannot
dead letters apear every time u cancle a mail.
J.
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Subject: dead.letters
| why do i keep getting these dead.letters ?
| when using pine. what cau
why do i keep getting these dead.letters ?
when using pine. what causes this
and why does it seem to happen so
frequently for me?
anyone.
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Hi All
I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
have system commander also.
If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of Lilo, "li"
and that's all folks.
If I boot from floppy, linux works great although it boots slow.
I've tried screw
I think what you are looking for is this:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/
/Simon
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, David Richardson wrote:
> Is there something like savecore for Linux? I am having server crashes
> and I am getting no leads from log files as to what the problem may be.
> I running RH 6.1.
Jason Hirsch wrote:
> Security is a concern, but so is not allowing freeloaders to spam anyone
> from my system.
>
> Soo- suggestions on which to implement?
First, if you're using kernel 2.2.x, then there's no reason for you to
patch your kernel. That functionality has been added to the kernel
Timothy Reaves wrote:
> issues. Some RPM's un-install (or screw up) some compat glibc stuff,
> other apps need version x and others version y.
> If anyone could point me in the correct direction I would appreciate
> it.
Often, the easiest solution is simply to get the src.rpm instead of the
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Chapman, Matt wrote:
> is there an rpm apache with fp already in it? and with PHP?
rpmfind.net has one for Mandrake that appears to run on Redhat.
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is there an rpm apache with fp already in it? and with PHP?
-matt
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From: Scott Skrogstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 12:34 PM
To: Red Hat Mailing list
Subject: front page
I must be missing something. One of my customers is trying to upd
Scott Skrogstad wrote:
>
> I must be missing something. One of my customers is trying to update
> their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this. They are
> telling me it does not work. What is the first thing that I should check?
>
OOERRR
Front Page is a dog. I could be VER
> I must be missing something. One of my customers is trying to update
> their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this. They are
> telling me it does not work. What is the first thing that I should check?
If you don't want to do the annoying hassle of getting Frontpage on your
Have you compiled the front page extensions into Apache yet? You also need
to setup their "Frontpage Web" using the frontpage tools that M$ provides.
Jason
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To: Red Hat Mailing li
I must be missing something. One of my customers is trying to update
their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this. They are
telling me it does not work. What is the first thing that I should check?
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Does anyone know what happen to the ftp site for "develope.redhat.com"?
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you can use linuconf or.
x here stands for your nic when it
boots up either 0, 1, 2, ...
what ever nic you want to alias
make another file ifcfg-ethx:0
in this file add this
IPADDR="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-yyy"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
what ever range you would like to alias for that
nic or just xxx.xx
For a *nix domain, you're looking at NIS. Read the NIS HOWTO. If the
clients are Windows based, then SAMBA can emulate and NT domain.
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:01:27PM -, Harjinder Dhudwar wrote:
> I was wondering whether there are any tools which allow administration of a
> large user dom
Yes, you "alias" your interface. As root under X, use control-panel
and select the network tool. Go to interfaces and check out the alias
option there.
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 06:04:31AM +0100, Guo Xiao Qiang TAGZ" wrote:
> These two IP network share same wire that no router between them. Could
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tamas Arpad wrote:
> Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine with
> readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server support it?
> Thanx
> A
Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine with
readers like outlook express without using ssh?
I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server support it?
Thanx
Arpi
> pop3, like ftp and telnet are insecure proto
pop3, like ftp and telnet are insecure protocols
i'm using imap, scp, ssh, ssl http no probs ;)
marek
LiNUX - Live free or die
__
Office:
The "insecure" nature of POP3 is that the passwords, and data, are
sent in cleartext. That means that if some ISP employee somewhere
happens to have a packet sniffer on at the exact time you check
your mail, he can grab your password. Chances are pretty unlikely.
But...
I suppose a really geeky
I was wondering whether there are any tools which allow administration of a
large user domain.
I have to maintain 100 PCs on which anyone can log onto and connect to a
server with their own user id.
The problem is that each user has different privileges, and these change
frequently, so keeping th
Hi folks,
I have a little problem installing RHL 5.2. I have an old 386/33
(Dell 333P with 16MB, 500MB EIDE drive, 3c503 NIC, video onboard (SVGA), two
serial ports onboard (16450), parallel port onboard, IDE controller onboard,
an additional I/O card with two serial ports (16550A) and a game and
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:47:19AM +0100, Zoki wrote:
> I noticed that Mandrake 6.0 doesn't have the utility to format MSDOS
> disquette's
[...]
If yo're talking about MSDOS floppies, I'd recommend to use the "mtools"
package. The RPM should be named similar.
HTH,
Thomas
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On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:58:55PM -0500, Todd Dunbebin wrote:
> I'm trying to get my linux box to synch with a time server, and I'm trying
> to use crontab, this is what I hve in the file settime
[...]
You've already got an answer to the cron question - I'd just like to
comment on the "synching
Hello all,
After a couple of questions from my boss, he finally decided to
implent a Linux server for proxy and firewall purposes and to
remove a Windows NT box as Proxy (We were fed up to reset the
Win NT server after a couple of days :-)
But, the company still wants to use a Windows NT serve
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