Re: Y2K

I have 2 1996 vintage PC's with the Award 4.51 BIOS. One boots fine (has the better looking MB) while the other wouldn't boot this morning. It hung with some sort of floppy drive not found error. Could be a coincidence that something else went wrong, and disabling the boot from floppy option in t

Re: Apache user pages

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > >I have installed RH 6.1 and apache 1.3.9 (as part of the initial > >installation). I am trying to get user pages working. If I do > > > > http://localhost > > > >it works just fine--I get the "It Work

Re: boooooring

NO!!! Nothing that radical. Wayne Dyer wrote: > > Frederic Herman wrote: > > I put a smile on my wife's face this morning :0) > > You turned off the computer? > > -W- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Running X with Exceed

Do you mean /etc/hosts.allow? I didn't think that had anything to do with access. In any case, I did some more research today and I was told the RPMs I was using were compiled so X forwarding was disabled. If that's the case, then would that explain what I'm getting: ==

Re: RH5.2 won't boot now

"Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good luck - it looks like a PCChips Taiwanese crap board. Try and navigate > their site and make sure you can display Taiwanese writing. > > http://www.fugu.com.tw/ > > Let me guess - it was cheap? It was free. I've already been to Wim's BIOS page

RE: Someone hacking into our system.

> > On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Michael Hatchard wrote: > >^ > > > > > > > > How can I keep this person out of our system?? > > > > Even easier > As this guy is already in tomorrow, simply go back to yesterday > and shutdown > That way he will never have hacked in > ;-) > Phil

re: RH5.2 won't boot now

> ** Original Subject: RH5.2 won't boot now > ** Original Sender: Steve Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ** Original Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 13:18:28 -0800 > ** Original Message follows... > > Howdy: > > I guess I should have been more zealous about it, but it looks like my > oldest motherboard

Re: Someone hacking into our system.

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Next, upgrade your version of SSH to one that isn't vulnerable to buffer > overflows, change your passwords, and make sure that SSH is compiled to > run from inetd. It's much slower that way, but by limiting SSH sessions to > systems defined only in you

modifying keyboard echo

Is there a way to modify the keystroke echo so that when one presses the F1 (or any Fx key) F1 is echoed back (instead of ^[[[A)? Glen -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Y2K [vs Award BIOS]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 05:15:42PM -0600, Carey F. Cox wrote: > All is well at work. However, I am having problems with my dual boot > home computer. > > Specs: > > Computer: Pentium 166MHz > Boot: LILO with RH6.0 & Win95 > Bios: Award v4.51PG Oct. 18, 1996 > > I checked out

Re: Multiple X sessions

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: >Hi, > >Is there any way I can run multiple X sessions in one box. > >I'd like to run X as myself on tty7 startx & >and run X as a different user in for >instance tty8. startx -- :1.0 & >Best regards startx -- :2.0 & Oops. Got carried away. Y2K

re:lost printer device

>Besides, even Windoze boxes survived the turnaround, so what reason do we >have to party? ;)) My 2 Windoze boxes survived, but reset the date to Jan 4, 1980. My Linux box made the switch to 2000, no hitches or modifications needed. Glen Glen Lee Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RH5.2 won't boot now

> The board is a FuguTech i430FX chipset board, Award BIOS 4.50g, Pentium Good luck - it looks like a PCChips Taiwanese crap board. Try and navigate their site and make sure you can display Taiwanese writing. http://www.fugu.com.tw/ Let me guess - it was cheap? Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple

Re: RH5.2 won't boot now

OOps - ignore that. Fugutech is apparently gone. Try this. http://www.ping.be/bios/HTML1/fugutech.html Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. T: (08) 9397-1040 F: (08) 9397-0548 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as t

Diald and other

Hi, I'm trying to setup a dial on demand box. It is going to be gateway (masq) for about 12 other machines. I have everything installed, it even tries to dial when it needs a connection, but keeps giving me an pap error "cannot find suitable secret to authenticate itself". my pap-secrets file is

Re: Y2K

On 01-Jan-00 Carey F. Cox opined: > All is well at work. However, I am having problems with my dual boot > home computer. > > Specs: > > Computer: Pentium 166MHz > Boot: LILO with RH6.0 & Win95 > Bios: Award v4.51PG Oct. 18, 1996 > > I checked out the award web site and they

Re: mailing list archive

At 5:04 PM -0800 on 1/1/00, Alan E. Derhaag wrote: >OK! It's been a while.. where is the redhat mailing list archived? Cheers, igor -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

mailing list archive

OK! It's been a while.. where is the redhat mailing list archived? -- Alan E. Derhaag New Era Software Development http://www.wolfenet.com/~aderhaag/ Auburn, WA, USA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Y2K

Hi Carey, Give this URL a try, I found lots of helpful info here. I have the same bios. http://www.sysopt.com/guides.html HTH bob "Carey F. Cox" wrote: > All is well at work. However, I am having problems with my dual boot > home computer. > > Specs: > > Computer: Pentium 166MHz >

Re: Y2K

All is well at work. However, I am having problems with my dual boot home computer. Specs: Computer: Pentium 166MHz Boot: LILO with RH6.0 & Win95 Bios: Award v4.51PG Oct. 18, 1996 I checked out the award web site and they have fixes for the bios for Linux OS. However,

Re: lost printer device

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Harold E Vine III wrote: > > > [ alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc ] > > riddle me this... > > Why did this happen? why wasn't i able to set the printer up from the > > beginining? > > A bug in the installer. > Yes, one

Re: Y2K

Well here is a "y2k" brain teaser. I run a number of redhat-6.1 servers here, and when i ssh'd into them this morning at about 4:30am i saw this unusual message: ~/ eclipse hunter's password: Last login: Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 -0500 No mail. I thought that was rather strange, since i hadnt be

Adaptec AHA-1740 EISA-How to config?

Everybody still around!?? In that case I wish you all a very happy 1900... I recovered some old ICL 486 servers with EISA bus and the AHA-1740. I had some tough time finding the drivers for DOS/Win 3.1x and a config utility. The problem is that I can't seem to find a way to enter into the BIOS of

lost printer device

i installed r.h. 6.1 on top of a a previous 6.0 install. i chose to do a fresh install and format all partitions. after instalation, i find i cannot get my printer to work under printtool. i *was* working before the upgrade. it says it cant find or locate /de/lp0, /dev/lp1, /dev/lp2. and that

Re: lost printer device

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, harold e vine iii wrote: > before the upgrade. it says it cant find or locate /de/lp0, /dev/lp1, > /dev/lp2. Add "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" to /etc/conf.modules and try again. LLaP bero -- Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM. -- Bill

Re: boooooring

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Wayne Dyer said: WD>Frederic Herman wrote: WD>> I put a smile on my wife's face this morning :0) WD> WD>You turned off the computer? WD> -- Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available at: wwwkeys.us.pgp.net 4:

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Someone hacking into our system.

To All Someone has hacked into our system. I'm not quite sure how he is getting in. But here is some info from my logs. It looks like it starts here from my guess machine admin (software testing machine) Redhat 6.0 ssh 1.2.27-5i Dec 31 01:25:31 admin sshd connect from 194.109.6.45 port 58440

Re: Someone hacking into our system.

On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Michael Hatchard wrote: > Someone has hacked into our system. > I'm not quite sure how he is getting in. He's almost certainly using the "RSA buffer overrun" exploit in ssh. Try replacing ssh with OpenSSH from ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/security/ > pico I've never se

Re: Someone hacking into our system.

On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Michael Hatchard wrote: > How can I keep this person out of our system?? First, reinstall everything. Unless you've been diligently using a reliable intrusion detection system such as tripwire, you can't guarantee that essential services haven't been compromised. Reformat and

Re: boooooring

Frederic Herman wrote: > I put a smile on my wife's face this morning :0) You turned off the computer? -W- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Someone hacking into our system.

of course you installed every security update that redhat released correct? On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Michael Hatchard wrote: > To All > > Someone has hacked into our system. > > I'm not quite sure how he is getting in. > > But here is some info from my logs. > > It looks like it starts here from

Re: Y2K

hUnTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well here is a "y2k" brain teaser. I run a number of redhat-6.1 servers > here, and when i ssh'd into them this morning at about 4:30am i saw this > unusual message: > > ~/ eclipse > hunter's password: > Last login: Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 -0500 > No mail.

Re: Kernal rebuild

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 12:13:54PM -0500, Brian Ivey wrote: > I rebuilt my kernal last night. Now when I boot up, I receive this > error, "Mounting local filesystems mount fs type devpts not > supported by kernal". > > I was trying to add support for an NT partition I have. Everything > went well

Re: Kernal rebuild

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Brian Ivey wrote: > I rebuilt my kernal last night. Now when I boot up, I receive this error, > "Mounting local filesystems mount fs type devpts not supported by kernal". You need to compile support for the "/dev/pts" filesystem into the kernel. It's needed to allocate ttys f

Kernal rebuild

Dear List: Happy New Year!!! I rebuilt my kernal last night. Now when I boot up, I receive this error, "Mounting local filesystems mount fs type devpts not supported by kernal". I was trying to add support for an NT partition I have. Everything went well, or so I thought, until I rebooted. I ca

Help on error msg

Dear List: Will someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? While attempting to startx as a user, I get this message: "Authentication failed - cannot start x server" "Perhaps you do not have console ownership?_x11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno=111" What's up with this? Thanks

Re: Sendmail error message

Yeah, I got that message, also. The rpm installed the sendmail with extra permissions on the group. I removed all permissions from group and the error went away. hope this helps :-) Marc Davis wrote: > Well, sendmail flipped out last night -- right after midnight . . . eh? > -- but my helpful

Re: Sendmail error message

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 12:34:55PM -0600, Marc Davis wrote: > Well, sendmail flipped out last night -- right after midnight . . . > eh? -- but my helpful linux guru happened to be over for a glass o' > bubbly, so he reinstalled sendmail. > > I'm now getting the following warning showing up in my

Sendmail error message

Well, sendmail flipped out last night -- right after midnight . . . eh? -- but my helpful linux guru happened to be over for a glass o' bubbly, so he reinstalled sendmail. I'm now getting the following warning showing up in my logs: Jan 1 11:01:00 maxx sendmail[1002]: /etc/sendmail.cf: WARNING:

RE: Y2K is here!

No problems here with Aturna Communications, either. :) Systems rolled over OK, my home Linux box is doing just fine, with an Award BIOS dated Sept. 1997. Happy New Year everyone! I need a large jug of black coffee :) --Brian On 01-Jan-2000 Chuck Mead wrote: > > If this makes it... I gue

Re: Y2K

Hmmm, I have a Gatway2000 486dx2 from 1994 that I beat on allot and it is having no problems. How old is your bios? Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > 2000 has started over here - no Y2K problems whatsoever. > So we've finally proven that W2K is a *much* bigger problem than Y2K. ;) > > LLaP > ber

Re: Sendmail error message

Hal & Robert: Doh! Shall we say overlooking the obvious? I failed to realize the warning message was telling me *which file* had the wrong write permissions and was off thinking something obscure and menacing sendmail configuration-wise was happening. Thanks so much. Problem solved. User has

Multiple X sessions

Hi, Is there any way I can run multiple X sessions in one box. I'd like to run X as myself on tty7 and run X as a different user in for instance tty8. Best regards Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http:/

re:lost printer device

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Harold E Vine III wrote: > [ alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc ] > riddle me this... > Why did this happen? why wasn't i able to set the printer up from the > beginining? A bug in the installer. > and if anyone knows > > where did the rescue image go from the cd? ftp

RH5.2 won't boot now

Howdy: I guess I should have been more zealous about it, but it looks like my oldest motherboard (running RH5.2 in my ip-masq gateway) is not y2k compliant. I can boot it up in single-user mode (runlevel 1) or from a DOS floppy, but it won't boot in runlevel 3. It gets all the way up to the "st

Re: boooooring

Weell ... I was hoping for something that my 4 yr old boy could enjoy. He needs a break from the Linux screen for awhile. (he he he he) Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Robert Canary wrote: > > > Man is there anything to do on New Years besides watching parades! > >

Re: boooooring

Yes, well we wouldn't go there. (because she won't go there) Frederic Herman wrote: > I put a smile on my wife's face this morning :0) > > Robert Canary wrote: > > > > Man is there anything to do on New Years besides watching parades! > > > > -- > > robert canary > > system services > > OhioCou

anyone recognize this rdate error?

I have all three of my Linux servers setup to 'rdate -s' a couple time servers. Starting at 4:00 AM (local time here in Illinois) on 12/31 they started giving different messages. Normally (heretofore) they would emit no messages at all. Now two of them now say "success" which is fine (a bit noi

Re: boooooring

I put a smile on my wife's face this morning :0) Robert Canary wrote: > > Man is there anything to do on New Years besides watching parades! > > -- > robert canary > system services > OhioCounty.Net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (270)298-9331 Office > (270)298-7449 Fax > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [E

Re: boooooring

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Robert Canary wrote: > Man is there anything to do on New Years besides watching parades! Yes. Hacking. A lot of stuff needs to be done before 6.2. ;) LLaP bero -- Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM. -- Bill Gates, 1983 Windows 98 requires 16 MB RAM

Re: Someone hacking into our system.

"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Michael Hatchard wrote: ^ > > > > How can I keep this person out of our system?? > Even easier As this guy is already in tomorrow, simply go back to yesterday and shutdown That way he will never have hacked in ;-) Phil --

boooooring

Man is there anything to do on New Years besides watching parades! -- robert canary system services OhioCounty.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (270)298-9331 Office (270)298-7449 Fax -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Apache user pages

I have installed RH 6.1 and apache 1.3.9 (as part of the initial installation). I am trying to get user pages working. If I do http://localhost it works just fine--I get the "It Worked!" page. However, if I try http://localhost/~braden/ I get a "Forbidden" message. I think the directory p

re:lost printer device

>Subject: lost printer device >i installed r.h. 6.1 on top of a a previous 6.0 install. >i chose to do a fresh install and format all partitions. >after instalation, i find i cannot get my printer to work under >printtool. i *was* working >before the upgrade. it says it cant find or locate /

Re: Sendmail error message

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Marc Davis said: MD>Hal & Robert: MD> MD>Doh! MD>Shall we say overlooking the obvious? I failed to realize the warning MD>message was telling me *which file* had the wrong write permissions and MD>was off thinking something obscure and menacing sendmail MD>configuration-wise

Re: Apache user pages

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: >I have installed RH 6.1 and apache 1.3.9 (as part of the initial >installation). I am trying to get user pages working. If I do > > http://localhost > >it works just fine--I get the "It Worked!" page. However, if I try > > http://localhost/~braden/

Re: fetchmail question

Thanks very much for the help Todd. I guessed it was an ownership problem but did not know how to set the user up to myself at run time. Compliments of the season to you. Cheers, Rob Key "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Robert Key wrote: > > > script I have to start it manually

Re: Y2K is here!

My 1996 AMI bios does not detect hdc when booting with a Y2k date (but there is an update available (moral -- do not get too confident until you try to reboot.)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manuel Camacho) writes: > No Y2K problem here, even on my old 486s! > > =) > > HAPPY NEW YEAR! > > -Manuel. > >