Re: Firewall - ipmasqadm Help SOLVED

1999-12-30 Thread Perry Blalock
Finally figured it out...thanks anyway. PB> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward PB>/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall PB>for masqmod in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ipv4/ip_masq_*; PB>do /sbin/modprobe $masqmod PB>done PB>*

Re: Ipchains MASQ problems AGAIN!

1999-12-30 Thread Greg W
you can use a special version of identd for masq hostsor if using ipchains , you can set it to REJECT and this should be enough for the requesting server as its an answer and overcome this problem. search http://www.freshmeat.net for ident and look at them all .. **

Re: mail problem again!!

1999-12-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel Goldin wrote: > > I don't know what's going on. I had it working for awhile.Now I get > this error... sometimes. The problem seems to be in the sender line. > >>|- Message log follows: -| > >> error in header: unterminated quoted literal > >>

RE:RE: how to setup xemcs newreader properly

1999-12-30 Thread Larry Mintz
E-Mail: Larry Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30-99 Time: 20:13:42 My xemacs newsreader has gone haywire. It does not read the newsgroups. All I get is the "Group" window ie it loads gnus and gnus-start and then hangs. What gives ? I need help howto set it up .

RE: how to setup xemcs newreader properly

1999-12-30 Thread Larry Mintz
On 30-Dec-99 Larry Mintz wrote: E-Mail: Larry Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29-Dec-99 Time: 20:13:42 My xemacs newsreader has gone haywire. It does not read the newsgroups. All I get is the "Group" window ie it loads gnus and gnus-start and then hangs. What gives ? I need

Re: Ipchains MASQ problems AGAIN!

1999-12-30 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > And many others rules on IP-Masquerade-HOWTO. > Thanks! Ident is a service that must be installed. Nothing ipchains can do about it.. I suggest you install it on the machine that does the masquerade.. It's already running on Linux and win

Re: imap ?'s

1999-12-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
"Chad W. Skinner" wrote: > that the "mbx" format is better than the default "Unix Spool" format. I am > trying to find answers to the following questions, but if there are sources > I could read let me know as well. Maildir is better than that. Safe over NFS and fast access are its benefits. >

Re: proc_ide_write_settings(): parse error

1999-12-30 Thread Hanigan Family
Thought I would post the solution I found to the following zip drive problem in case someone else needs it. Linda -Original Message- From: Hanigan Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Redhat list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, December 25, 1999 5:13 PM Subject: proc_ide_w

Firewall - ipmasqadm Help

1999-12-30 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello redhat-list, I'm trying to use ipmasqadm to portfw through my firewall for http services. I have a firewall (ipchains and kernel 2.2.5-15), with outside address of $IPADDR and an internal web server (port 80) at $INT_IP that I want to offer web service. I can't seem to get the po

mail problem again!!

1999-12-30 Thread Daniel Goldin
I don't know what's going on. I had it working for awhile.Now I get this error... sometimes. The problem seems to be in the sender line. >>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:43:55 -0800 (PST) >>|- Message log follows: ---

Mirroring tools

1999-12-30 Thread redhat
Hi all, I Run Redhat 6.0 and need to mirror 6 other sites on to my machine. Kindly point me to some beginner reading on Mirroring sites. Thanks Jacob -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

[OT - Greg] Re: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Heat is the largest problem, always get a good fan and heatsink hey > Edward.Speacially down here in Summer :-) , remember that servers are You're still lucky, mate, I've seen the forecasts for the ES and you guys are sitting on max 28 or so right now? I made the mistake of going golfi

Re: imap ?'s

1999-12-30 Thread Michael Ghens
> > Does anyone know what format the system uses when it moves the files out of > the spool and into the users home directory and is mbx superior in terms of > speed? Well, it usually is not an issue of speed. The imap server, most likely could move bytes faster than the connection iself. Usin

Re: IRC

1999-12-30 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Mike: You weren't rude at all. I apologize if I made you think that. :) I just wanted to make sure that I didn't get caught in the normal RTFM trap :) Thanks for the additional info. - Mike On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mike Cathey wrote: > Mike, > I apologize. I wasn't trying to come across as rud

Re: IRC

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Cathey
Mike, I apologize. I wasn't trying to come across as rude. This is one of those rare instances where none of the following provide any useful information: `apropos irc` `whatis irc` `man irc` `info irc` (*shudder* an FSF standard) However, there is one last hope: `irc --help` This turns up th

imap ?'s

1999-12-30 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I have been trying to determine the most appropriate way to set up a mail server for a small business and have run across a couple of articles ("Implementing IMAP with UW imapd" - http://www.carumba.com/imap/ and "Setting Up imapd" -http://info.rutgers.edu/Techdir/imap.html) which mention that the

Re: Improve font quality?

1999-12-30 Thread Kerry Blalock
For a temp fix, you might consider playing around with the different font options in netscape. I selected differt font and size and it improved the look a lot. Kerry B Hal Burgiss wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:42:46PM -0300, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote: > > I have been using redhat 6.1

Re: [OT] IRC invitation open for 30-60 minutes

1999-12-30 Thread Manuel Camacho
You may like using GMT time... -Manuel. On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Greg W wrote: > Hi all > > Well it was a partial success in that I was not the only participant ;-) , > there have been indications of interest (which I would still like to see > more of for those who see this at a later stage) > > I

Re: OT: RH6.1 on Dell & Gateway Notebooks with DVD,CDR, & CD

1999-12-30 Thread Manuel Camacho
Hi Bob! I saw an add on Linux Journal. Is a company called Linux Laptops. Their web site is www.linuxlaptops.com (original, isn't it? =) ). Hope this helps. -Manuel. On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Bob Hartung wrote: > I know this is off topic, but I need to move to a new > notebook and many of the noteb

Re: processor category ?

1999-12-30 Thread Manuel Camacho
Hi Philippe! Nice hard one. First of all, your AMD and Intel are different factories with different processors and different technologies. So, your question is like asking what model of a BMW is this model of Mercedes. Here's what I read: The AMD-K6 is a high performance six generation processor

Re: How small is small?

1999-12-30 Thread Manuel Camacho
Hi Kerry! I am running RH 5.2 in a 486/66 with 16 MB of RAM, 400 MB HDD, and I am using X with icewm (runs fast enough). Couple of suggestions: instead of using one swap partition, make two -half size each- one on each drive. Modify your /etc/inittab so you have only two virtual consoles instead

Re: Improve font quality?

1999-12-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:42:46PM -0300, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote: > I have been using redhat 6.1 and netscape for a few days and I >have noticed that the fonts quality when accesing web pages is really >low compared to the quality you get when you access the same pages >with a mac or a windo

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: > Hi Chris, > > >e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. > > Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a fs than I can use that will handle > >2g files? It's a kernel problem, and has nothing to do with ext2... Patch the kernel, get a new glibc and the problem goes

Re: IRC

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > Afternoon folks: > > when using irc from a command line in Linux, how do I tell it to connect > to a specific IRC server? I've tried irc name and it always sems > to come up to some default server. Is there an rc file somewhere that > needs

Re: Fortifying RedHat's Netscape RPM

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Kirk Taylor wrote: > I have the latest RPM for Netscape Communicator 4.7 from RedHat > (netscape-communicator-4.7-1.1 > and common) installed. I downloaded the latest x86 Unix patch (v1.4.5) > and unpacked it. When I run it, it tells me that /usr/bin/netscape > appears to

Re: Ipchains MASQ problems AGAIN!

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > And many others rules on IP-Masquerade-HOWTO. > Thanks! Ident is a service that must be installed. Nothing ipchains can do about it.. I suggest you install it on the machine that does the masquerade.. Igmar --

Re: [OT] IRC invitation open for 30-60 minutes

1999-12-30 Thread Greg W
Hi all Well it was a partial success in that I was not the only participant ;-) , there have been indications of interest (which I would still like to see more of for those who see this at a later stage) I apologize for the lateness of the invitation and was not expecting too much due to the tim

Improve font quality?

1999-12-30 Thread Martin R. Gonzalez
Hi, I have been using redhat 6.1 and netscape for a few days and I have noticed that the fonts quality when accesing web pages is really low compared to the quality you get when you access the same pages with a mac or a windows pc. I mean that after a few hours working with the computer y

Re: /usr/sbin/warnquota ?

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Hello, > > Would anyone tell me what's the function of /usr/sbin/warnquota ? > I had tried to run it, but nothing happen. It is a program that checks the quota of every user on the system (well, almost), and sends them a e-mail warning if they violate it. > > P.S. I'm using redhat6.0 > >

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Christopher Fisk wrote: > e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. Correction : The i386 has this limit.. With glibc 2.1.2 and a kernel patch this problem goed away.. > > Chris Igmar -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: pam user authentication

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Wilde, Jeff wrote: > I am trying to get su to only work with people that are in the wheel group. > I have added the following to su: > > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so debug > auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so debug > auth require

Re: rsh for root

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Hiten Sonpal wrote: > > Greetings, > > Does anyone know what needs to be done to enable rsh access for root? I'd > like to be able to connect as root from host1 to host2 on our intranet > without requiring a password. Setting up a .rhosts file in /root is not > enough...

Re: ABit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Firstly, I think that there are "so many" problems with this board > simply because "so many" people have bought it. So more weird hardware > (not quite > PC100 RAM, old video cards, weird Ethernet cards, crummy heatsinks) > problems crop up. Don't agree on this one. The BP6 is a weard thingy

Re: fetchmail question

1999-12-30 Thread Michael George
On Dec 30, Robert Key wrote: > Hi all, > I use fetchmail to get my mail over a ppp link to my office computer. > Both run linux. Problem: I cannot start fetchmail from the ip-up.local > script I have to start it manually after the the link is up. The error > message is "not the owner". How can I

Re: Abit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > I have an Abit BP6 Motherboard with dual Celerons. I have been running > Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.13 (with SMP) for some time with little > difficulty. Abit recently released a BIOS update to fix some things. I > flashed my board with the latest update, only to find that my SMP kernel

Re: Possible Project

1999-12-30 Thread Chuck Mead
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Robert A. Hayden said: RAH>On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: RAH> RAH>> In my opinion a waste of time.. The 5 % gain is not worth the complete RAH>> recompile, and it will give all kinds of weard problems... RAH> RAH>I dunno...I think there's some validity here of

Re: Possible Project

1999-12-30 Thread Robert A. Hayden
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > In my opinion a waste of time.. The 5 % gain is not worth the complete > recompile, and it will give all kinds of weard problems... I dunno...I think there's some validity here of some other RH problems could be cleaned up at the same time. If the

Re: login: can't resolve symbol '__xstat'

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Ryan Caveney wrote: > At work I have recently inherited a couple of RH 4.0 machines with a > variety of legacy functions no one really wants to re-implement, but a > couple of things that did need to be upgraded. I know the clean answer is > to do a fresh install,

Re: Possible Project

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > Afternoon Hatters: > > This is just an informal poll to see if there is an interest in doing > something like this. I'm interested in taking a Red Hat distribution, and > recompiling it to all i686 RPMs. Further, I would like to investigate

new mail problems -- after gnus upgrade?

1999-12-30 Thread Daniel Goldin
mail_error_latest.inf

Re: Non IP based Sendmail spam control?

1999-12-30 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Peter Kiem wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I have a user base that I host email for that are external to my network and > hence they could be logging in from any IP address at all. > > Now I can accept mail for them fine but I get

Re: IRC

1999-12-30 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Mike: I did try man irc (for fear of large flames :) ) first. No luck. I got the answer from another poster on the list. Thanks. - Mike On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mike Cathey wrote: > Mike, > 'man irc' ? > > try `/server irc.linpeople.org` > and then `/join #linpeople` > > cheers, > > Mike >

FTP connection lags

1999-12-30 Thread Brian Wright
I've been running wu-ftpd on RedHat 6.1, and for the last few weeks, there's one heck of a lag when connecting and logging into my Linux server. It used to be quite quick, and useage on my box hasn't increased all that much. Haven't messed with the config file though. How can I speed up the res

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread terry barnum
At 12:02 PM -0800 12/30/99, Hal Burgiss wrote: >There is a 2G ext2 file size limit that is the result of the x86 32bit >architecture. IIRC, there is a patch somewhere that ups the limit. Is it possible that using a RAID could increase the max filesize? Up until last week, we used to have two 9 g

Fwd: RAID & Init Script Load Order Problems

1999-12-30 Thread Kevin Diffily
I sent this a while ago and have not received a response. I had my mail server down for a couple of days so that may have been the problem. If you have an answer I could use the help. >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 19:01:16 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread terry barnum
Hi Chris, >e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a fs than I can use that will handle >2g files? -terry Digital OutPost http://www.dop.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: IRC

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Cathey
Mike, 'man irc' ? try `/server irc.linpeople.org` and then `/join #linpeople` cheers, Mike "Michael J. McGillick" wrote: > > Afternoon folks: > > when using irc from a command line in Linux, how do I tell it to connect > to a specific IRC server? I've tried irc name and it always sems > t

RE: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Dan Browning
[...snip...] > Nearly all my systems live with the cover off ! its easier to blow out > dust, change components and keeps them cooler to bootwhat I need is > racks really ;-) HARDCORE ! That is a common misconception. Computer cases (especially good ones) are designed specifically

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:48:09AM -0800, terry barnum wrote: > I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our > RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. > > Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I > thought, we

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:48:09AM -0800, terry barnum wrote: > I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 > onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as > /bigdrive. > > Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too > large." I thought,

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread Christopher Fisk
e2fs has a 2gb filesize limit. Chris On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: >I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our >RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. > >Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large."

2 gig filesize limit?

1999-12-30 Thread terry barnum
I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I thought, well maybe Samba has a problem with large files. So I tried to ftp the fil

IRC

1999-12-30 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Afternoon folks: when using irc from a command line in Linux, how do I tell it to connect to a specific IRC server? I've tried irc name and it always sems to come up to some default server. Is there an rc file somewhere that needs to be modified, or is there an argument I can give to irc to te

fetchmail question

1999-12-30 Thread Robert Key
Hi all, I use fetchmail to get my mail over a ppp link to my office computer. Both run linux. Problem: I cannot start fetchmail from the ip-up.local script I have to start it manually after the the link is up. The error message is "not the owner". How can I solve this? Thanks in advance, Rob Ke

Modem gets SIGHUP ramdomly

1999-12-30 Thread Robert Key
Hi, Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I have a ppp telephone link between two redhat linux 6.1 machines (kernel 2.2.12-20). The modem at either end gets a SIGHUP signal randomly and then the modems hang up. The duration of the call is 1.2, 1.6, 3.6 etc (minutes). There is nothing wr

Re: processor category ?

1999-12-30 Thread J. Scott Kasten
uname -m gives: i586 On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 08:30:30AM -0700, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > > > Just curious, as I start to get confused about this classification when we are not >usuing intel : > > what is a AMD K6 II mmx (486,586, 686 ??) > > > Philippe > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mai

Running X with Exceed

1999-12-30 Thread Joe
I have an RHL6.1 box at home and I'd like to run X apps at my office on my WinNT box w/Exceed and SSH. It used to work at the office over the modem (and still does on my W2k box at home) but it doesn't work anymore and I have no idea why it doesn't run. The error I get is _X11TransSocketINETCon

[OT] IRC invitation open for 30-60 minutes

1999-12-30 Thread Greg W
Hi all I have been toying with the idea of any interested people having a quick get together session say 2 times a week or something for 30 mins to an hour I guess . Anyone who is interested can go to sydney.oz.org#Linux with an IRC client I have thought of ICQ and AIM , but seeing most

telnet's keep timing out

1999-12-30 Thread matt boex
howdy all, my telnet keep timing out after about 5 minutes. how can i stop this from happening. matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Dual CPU howto?[Thanks]

1999-12-30 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > > Can some one point me to some docs or HOWTO talking about "How to install > linux with DUAL CPUs" At least with RedHat: Install. That will take care of it. In my case, the installation process detected that I had a dual processor MB even though I had only on

Re: How small is small?

1999-12-30 Thread Nate Waddoups
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Kerry Blalock wrote: > I am trying to salvage some old hardware for as much of a system as > possible as a project for my grandson. I have a 486sx25 with 16 meg ram, > and two small harddrives. One, a 245 M ibm, the other a 202 Calvalier. I was using a 468/33 with about 400

Re: Tar questions

1999-12-30 Thread Al Simcoe
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:50:29 +1100 (EST), you wrote: > >tar cvfz blah.tar.gz .[!\.]* > >Didn't I say there must be more elegant ways??? :-) OK, now you got my attention Explain it to me like I am 3 years old. :) I am OK with the "vfz", but not with the "c". The " .[!\.]*" has thrown me for

Re: Fortifying RedHat's Netscape RPM

1999-12-30 Thread Yashodhan Barve
Hi The netscape binary resides in /usr/lib/netscape/netscape. do a locate netscape and check where it is on your system. I am running 6.1 choose option 2 in Fortify & type the path and Fortify will work. Yashodhan Barve [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel- 780-412-6985 On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Kirk Taylor wrote

rc script question

1999-12-30 Thread Michael George
Okay, I've been futzing with this for about a month now, I think and there is something I'm still doing wrong, because it doesn't work. I'm hoping that a fresh set of eyes can spot the problem. I have a script, called "endurance" which I want to log when the system is booted and when it is shutd

RE: pam user authentication

1999-12-30 Thread Wilde, Jeff
I figured it out.. added auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so debug group=wheel I thought wheel was the default ;) -Original Message- From: Wilde, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 10:09 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: pam user authent

Re: Can't download w/minicom

1999-12-30 Thread Hanigan Family
snip - > I am uploading to my service provider, which has kermit, zmodem, >ymodem and xmodem. When I download from there to my new machine >zmodem doesn't work. When I download to my old machine, after I've >given the command (via menu) to download via zmodem, I'm then told >to give the receive

pam user authentication

1999-12-30 Thread Wilde, Jeff
I am trying to get su to only work with people that are in the wheel group. I have added the following to su: auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so debug auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so debug auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok account

RE: nfs startup problem

1999-12-30 Thread Kenneth N. Ash
I found the problem with my system. It appears that something overwrote my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo file which was causing lo to fail to initialize. This caused nfsd to fail. >My system just started giving me the following errors when I boot up. >Dec 29 14:31:22 falcon kernel: Ins

RE: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Greg W
Hi Bill I would assume that underclocking may be safe...I have never really tried it..a few years back when motherboards were littered with jumper settings, you could just about bet 50/50 if a system was locking up etc, and had a good heat sink, that a jumper was wrong..today

RE: Can't open window as root

1999-12-30 Thread Charles Galpin
yeah, but I'd rather nto have it run every tiem I log in, just when a X session is started. thanks though charles On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > You can put it in the user's default .cshrc file. It would then be done > everytime > the user logs in.HOWEVER, .cshrc files

RE: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Charles Galpin
Funny this is basically what I have done, and the cyrix box has been running all night (with some softwre runnign that is supposedto put a load on it) ! I left the case cover off. I moved the cdrom to a bay that allowed more air flow between the power supply and the rest of the case (only fan in

Re: How small is small?

1999-12-30 Thread Steven Hildreth
Are you master/slaving these together? Try putting them on the different controllers (IDE1 and IDE2 Controller).. Just a suggestion.. Regards, Steven Hildreth Information Technology Manager Aprotex Corporation, http://www.aprotex.com "Proven Property Protection Since 1952" - Original Messa

Re: Fetchmail Error

1999-12-30 Thread Wayne Dyer
SoloCDM wrote: > The following error displays in duplicate every time I execute > fetchmail, even though the mail downloads without any problems: > > fetchmail: Unknown/ Unimplemented command > fetchmail: Unknown/ Unimplemented command > > My .fetchmailrc has the following defaults: >

processor category ?

1999-12-30 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Just curious, as I start to get confused about this classification when we are not usuing intel : what is a AMD K6 II mmx (486,586, 686 ??) Philippe -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

umaks 755

1999-12-30 Thread ZioBudda
Hi (and happy new year). I must to create users home directory with permission set to: drwxr-xr-x (755). I have see in /etc/profile file the env. variable umask, but If I change the value of this variable I can create the users only with permission: drwx-- why this? I'm using a RH6.1 tnx I

RE: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Greg, from experience, you can safely UNDERclock a Cyrix with no ill effects. Never been seen the need to overclock one, though... I've underclocked them because of motherboard BIOS problems a few times, and ran an MII-300 as an MII-266 for 6 months. Works great as a 300 again, too. Gonna get

RE: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Ward William E PHDN
I'm not familiar enough with that particular MB, but it sounds like you are talking about the heat sink for the voltage converter. Yes, it would get very hot. If the Cyrix chip feels cool, then you're probably not feeling it in the right places :) By my own checks, I've found that Cyrix chips t

RE: Can't open window as root

1999-12-30 Thread Ward William E PHDN
You can put it in the user's default .cshrc file. It would then be done everytime the user logs in.HOWEVER, .cshrc files only get used by /bin/csh and /bin/tcsh shells... Unfortunately, I'm not a bash aficionado, so I can't tell you where to put it there, unless you want to try it in your .lo

How small is small?

1999-12-30 Thread Kerry Blalock
Hello, I am trying to salvage some old hardware for as much of a system as possible as a project for my grandson. I have a 486sx25 with 16 meg ram, and two small harddrives. One, a 245 M ibm, the other a 202 Calvalier. When setting up Redhat 6.0, I can not get disk druid to partition the drives to

RE: firewall

1999-12-30 Thread Niels Wagenaar
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: woensdag 29 december 1999 23:09 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: firewall > > Can some of you who have, with little starting > experience, successfully set up a firewall, Well, read the IPCHAI

NIS Server in RH6.1 - HELP!

1999-12-30 Thread LangZhi UPM
Hi, Is there any other step-by-step guide on howto setup RH6.1 as NIS Server ? I read the NIS-HOWto but it doesn't help much. BTW,RH6.1 use NIS or NIS+ ? Thanks -lz __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messen

RE: 686 distro. [Was: What about Mandrake?]

1999-12-30 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Brian Ivey wrote: > Could someone please explain why a 686 distribution is needed? How it would > be different from the normal RedHat distribution? It would run somewhat faster on PPro/Pentium III/Pentium III and probably K7 and Cyrix 6x86Mx, but wouldn't run at all on 386/4

Re: Changing Desktops

1999-12-30 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Brian Ivey wrote: > How do I change my desktop from Gnome to KDE? I like Gnome, but would like > to experiment with KDE. Run "switchdesk". I think it's also included somewhere in the Gnome menu (but I don't know for sure - my favorite "window manager" is the good old text co

Re: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Charles, If you don't want to go for air fans, well, some have been experimenting with water cooling systems. (Not me, though. :-) http://www.agaweb.com/coolcpu/ Regards Gustav Charles Galpin wrote: > > The cpu feels cool (I can only feel the sides). > > The motherboard (this is the cyrix 2

Re: hardware testing

1999-12-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Charles, If you don't want to go for air fans, well, some have been experimenting with water cooling systems. (Not me, though. :-) http://www.agaweb.com/coolcpu/ Regards Gustav Charles Galpin wrote: > > The cpu feels cool (I can only feel the sides). > > The motherboard (this is the cyrix 2