Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread Manuel Camacho
Where is your SWAP partition? DD requires at least 1. -Manuel. On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, John S. Muller wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following partitions: > > hda18g Windoze 98 > hda21g Linux (slackware) > hda31g Linux (slackware) > hda44g

LINUX-CONF error

2000-01-29 Thread Azhar H. Chowdhury
Dear All, I have Linux-conf latest version 1.16 installed at RH 6.0, it's works fine but some times I can't run it and following error display after enter linuxconf from X-Terminal. -- Error message from remadmin : Xlib: connection to "0:0" ref

Re[2]: FTP that will script please

2000-01-29 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello Thomas, Saturday, January 29, 2000, 2:45:00 PM, you wrote: TKG> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jim Baxter wrote: >> Hi >> >> We do not seem to be able to run ftp from a shell script or script ftp. >> The man page talks about macros but they go away at close. >> What we need is the ability to start

RE: expn and vrfy

2000-01-29 Thread Adrian Walters
i had the same problem... apparently sendmail is case sensative. try using this instead: define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') then m4 /etc/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart that should do it. On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: =>Date

any ps2html or pdf2html?

2000-01-29 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
Hi there, I've got a few LaTeX files I'd like to convert to html. Have tried "l2h" and "latex2html" packages, but they are very limited (figures, equations, etc. are not handled at all). I wonder if there is any ps2html or pdf2html converter out there Hossein -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAI

RE: expn and vrfy

2000-01-29 Thread Charles Galpin
great thread! However, I tried this, and I can still use expn and vrfy. #in /etc/sendmail.mc define(`confPrivacy_FLAGS' , `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') #then [root@pooh /etc]# m4 /etc/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf [root@pooh /etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart thanks charles On Fri, 28

Re: ttloop: peer died:

2000-01-29 Thread Kirk Whiting
Excellent suggestion, portsentry rules. Got 2 with it in the last 4 days. Kirk >On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Frederic Herman wrote: > He may have broken in, then covered his tracks. In that case, he > probably now have a backdoor into your machine. If your telnet is > changed, which is likely in a br

Re: cannot connect to display :0.0

2000-01-29 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Well if your are on the same machine you can just copy ~/.Xauthority to /root. This will do the trick. Cheers, Dominic. > "pon" == Patrick O Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pon> I know this has been asked off and on in the past but... I would pon> REALLY like to eliminate this annoy

cannot connect to display :0.0

2000-01-29 Thread Patrick O Neil
I know this has been asked off and on in the past but... I would REALLY like to eliminate this annoyance once and for all. My feeling is that as superuser, this should NEVER apply, EVER. As su I can do ANYTHING and I should not be prevented from connecting to display this or that at all. Basica

Re: ttloop: peer died:

2000-01-29 Thread Frederic Herman
He may have broken in, then covered his tracks. In that case, he probably now have a backdoor into your machine. If your telnet is changed, which is likely in a break in, that might explain your inability to telnet. You should really determine if this is the case. Check to see if you have lock

How to install Xerox DocuPrint P8e Printer

2000-01-29 Thread mylinux
hi I am new in linux could zou help telling me how to install mz printer *Laserprinter with PCL5e Language. thanks Calogero Butera -- Get your free email account at http://www.freesurf.ch -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: [OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Why would you use "-w"? Anyway, try ... egrep '^8[^0-9] /proc/cyclades The first "^" says to root at the start of the line The 8 says to look for 8 The [] says to examine only these characters (those between brackets). The second ^ says to accept anything that does not match whats between br

memorex cd rewriter

2000-01-29 Thread jack wallen jr
anyone have any luck with the Memorex CDRewritable Drive 2xW/6xR (it's the CRW-1622) with Red Hat 6.1? Tiger direct has them for 99.00 and i was thinking 'bout picking one up. Jack Wallen, Jr. Editor in Chief of Linux Content www.techrepublic.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: [OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread Carl Karsten
I am assuming you just want the lines that begin with 8. grep "^8 " /proc/whatever The ^ represents the beginning of the line. FYI, $ is the end of the line. these are both part of the "regular expression" syntax. Carl - Original Message - From: Robert Canary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

Re: [OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread Robert Canary
Duhhh ... Do i feel silly. I knew that. Thanks everyone, sorry for wasting your time. I guess sometimes we just need a little push. Thanks agin ;-) Robert Canary wrote: > Hi, > > This is really a silly question, but ... > > I need to extract a single line from a /proc file. The

Graphics servers?

2000-01-29 Thread Martin R. Gonzalez
Hi, Does anybody know if there is any graphics server for linux with anti-aliasing support or if the xserver will include that feature any time soon? Moreover, are the comercial servers better than x ? and are they expensive?. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: [OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread Wayne Dyer
Robert Canary wrote: > Hi, > > This is really a silly question, but ... > > I need to extract a single line from a /proc file. The lines are sorted > by the first column, which are always 0,1,2,3,4,...,60,61,62,63,64. I > treid doing something like: > cat /proc/cyclades | egrep -w "8"

Re: [OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread Vidiot
>This is really a silly question, but ... > >I need to extract a single line from a /proc file. The lines are sorted >by the first column, which are always 0,1,2,3,4,...,60,61,62,63,64. I >treid doing something like: >cat /proc/cyclades | egrep -w "8" but it returns *every* line with an

Re: 'route' problem

2000-01-29 Thread Clint Tinsley
Actually the cc: reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] that is causing the duplicate responses not the address itself. rpjday wrote: > (first, please fix your mailing address for this list, so it doesn't > duplicate responses by default. the correct address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To unsubscribe: mail

Re: [OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread rpjday
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Robert Canary wrote: > Hi, > > This is really a silly question, but ... > > I need to extract a single line from a /proc file. The lines are sorted > by the first column, which are always 0,1,2,3,4,...,60,61,62,63,64. I > treid doing something like: > cat /proc/

Re: [OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Robert Canary wrote: > treid doing something like: > cat /proc/cyclades | egrep -w "8" but it returns *every* line with an > 8. How can I do this without going through a loop? If you want the line starting with 8, use "^8" (^ anchors it and I mean the literal ^, not ctrl).

Re: Getting various X libs/widgets

2000-01-29 Thread Adam Getchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know where I might obtain the libraries for libX11.so.6 and libXext.so.6, or how I might repair my current ones? In short, I have a complete package source build of XFree86-3.3.6.src.rpm, but it seems to have left these libraries out, pre

Re: Oracle 8i

2000-01-29 Thread Adam Getchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marketing aside, there are a fair number of significant differences between Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5 (8i). And, BTW, 8.1.6 is being released for HP-UX, Solaris, and Tru64, and is in development on other platforms (Linux, NT). - From the docs (I have an

Re: FTP that will script please

2000-01-29 Thread Thomas K. Gamble
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jim Baxter wrote: > Hi > > We do not seem to be able to run ftp from a shell script or script ftp. > The man page talks about macros but they go away at close. > What we need is the ability to start ftp, login and get (or put) a list of > files and > log off all from a shell

[OffTopic] egrepping a text file

2000-01-29 Thread Robert Canary
Hi, This is really a silly question, but ... I need to extract a single line from a /proc file. The lines are sorted by the first column, which are always 0,1,2,3,4,...,60,61,62,63,64. I treid doing something like: cat /proc/cyclades | egrep -w "8" but it returns *every* line with an

Re: 'route' problem

2000-01-29 Thread rpjday
(first, please fix your mailing address for this list, so it doesn't duplicate responses by default. the correct address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Robert Castley wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Robert Castley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to t

RE: Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-29 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> There is a patch to fix the problem with Windows 95 OSR 2.xx series. It %-> can be found from the AMD web site (http://www.amd.com). Most of the %-> time you can get 95 stable enough to run it...the trick is to actually %-> get it to go into safe mode. Easiest way to do that is to actually %->

Looking For "palerider"

2000-01-29 Thread Roderick Lyons
I recognize this isn't really the correct forum for this, but if anyone knows "palerider" please ask him to respond to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tks -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Problem printing PS files.

2000-01-29 Thread Hidong Kim
Manuel Camacho wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I just connected my HP LaserJet Series II to my RH 6.0 box. > > I configured the printer using printtool. Now, here's the problem: > > When I print an ASCII text page, it works great. > > When I print the PS test page, I get the page splittled in th

'route' problem

2000-01-29 Thread Robert Castley
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Robert Castley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. I have eth0 configured but when I type in 'route' it just sits there, however when I type in 'netstat -rn' it reports everything back. At present I am configured with the following

RE: expn and vrfy

2000-01-29 Thread Nate Waddoups
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Tony Johnson wrote: > [useful info about turning off expn/vrfy] > > these options give outside users the ability to see if a paticular username > is valid on your system by telnetiing to smtp port. Someone, for example, > could get all the users who are subscribed to this m

updating with rpm

2000-01-29 Thread Nate Waddoups
To date I've always downloaded and built tar/tgz distributions, but I'm trying to get on the rpm bandwagon... I seem to be doing something wrong though. I tried: rpm -v --freshen ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/sysklogd-1.3.31-14.i386.rpm ...but "syslogd -v" reports "syslogd 1.3-3" and my /s

Re: ttloop: peer died:

2000-01-29 Thread mi na
Hi Frederic herman, Thanks for your quick response! I am using hosts.allow, and hosts.deny to restrict people access that box. If the hacker didn't not break in, why i can not telnet to that box. PS: Where i can get the latest patchs for named, telnet, and wu-ftp? Thanks again! Li >From:

Re: makewhatis error

2000-01-29 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Mark, 100%. That's it. Thanks to both Fred and you I now have the full story. Unfortunately, i had already sent a follow up question to Freds answer. That question is now obsolete. Big thanks to both of you. Regards Gustav Mark Gray wrote: > > Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread Dave Reed
The 1024 cylinder is not around 1.4GB on most drives - it's closer to 8GB and only the /boot partition has to be completely below the 1024 cylinder - the rest of the system can be anywhere on the disk. The reason for the 1024 cylinder limit for /boot is that most BIOS can't load anything above t

OT: POS Software for Linux

2000-01-29 Thread David
Hello All; Sorry for the OT here... I'm setting up an Internet Cafe here in Toronto, and have been looking around for user login Management Software that works on Linux. I'm going to be having both MS and Linux machines for surfing, but as yet, have not found any software that either, work

sndconfig: device busy?

2000-01-29 Thread Zaigui Wang
I got a device busy error when I tried to configure the sound using sndconfig. What is happening? How do I make it (sound.o) idle? I remember that "sound" used to be an option in "ntsysv", but it is not there any more since I replaced my 5.1 with 6.1. (6.1 looks great!) -- | Zaigui Wan

Re: R: Li...... FIXED

2000-01-29 Thread Lee Ward
Okay, I decided to re-install RedHat. This time, I decided not to create a bootdisk when prompted. When it was all finished I rebooted, and it started fine. No LI scrolling. What happened? When I created a bootdisk, it wouldn't boot normal, when I didn't create one (during installation) it boot

Re: Oracle 8i

2000-01-29 Thread Wayne Dyer
Brian Hand wrote: > Its real version is 8.1.5 which as comapered to just Oracle 8 the highest > version is 8.0.6. > > You got the CD because you joined the Redhat Developer Connection most likely. > > I got one myself for joining. I knew I must have done *something* in my sleep. :-) -W- --

Re: makewhatis error

2000-01-29 Thread Mark Gray
Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > In my cron.weekly, there is a script file named makewhatis.cron. Every > week I get a mail from cron, because the makewhatis produces output. > > So, I tried to execute the command manually, as root. > > The command 'makewhatis -w' gives t

Re: makewhatis error

2000-01-29 Thread Frederic Herman
It may indicate a broken link. Try running updatedb --verbose >dumpfile and see if it has a problem. Examine the output file to see if this >file/directory generates any updatedb errors. Fred Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > Hi, > > In my cron.weekly, there is a script file named makewhatis.cro

Re: question about possible hacker

2000-01-29 Thread Frederic Herman
The hacker wanted to exploit the bind security hole. See the CERT info at: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#bind This exploit is being used to break into linux boxes. I had one cracked last week. That taught me to keep the patches current. Make sure you have the latest bind p

makewhatis error

2000-01-29 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, In my cron.weekly, there is a script file named makewhatis.cron. Every week I get a mail from cron, because the makewhatis produces output. So, I tried to execute the command manually, as root. The command 'makewhatis -w' gives the output: Read file error: ./rec.1 No such file or directory

question about possible hacker

2000-01-29 Thread matt boex
i downloaded ippl, basically logs all tcp, udp connections. looking at the log today i see this entry- Jan 29 12:25:48 domain connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [216.0.222.7] (216.0.222.7:4749->my-ip-address:53) Jan 29 12:33:41 port 113 connection attempt from ns.pfsfhq.com [216.0.222.7]

Re: ttloop: peer died:

2000-01-29 Thread Frederic Herman
BTW, make sure your patches are up to date. Especially named, telnet and wu-ftp. The hacker was trying to break in. Frederic Herman wrote: > > Hacker attempted to telnet and failed. Check log file secure for the > event as well as messages log file. If you find a message with the ip, > trac

Re: ttloop: peer died:

2000-01-29 Thread Frederic Herman
Hacker attempted to telnet and failed. Check log file secure for the event as well as messages log file. If you find a message with the ip, traceroute it and report the event to the isp upstream from the ip. Fred mi na wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a linux (redhat 5.2) box, no one can telne

redhat.com | join

2000-01-29 Thread Brian Hand
This is to register on the developer connection. However it make no mention of Oracle 8i anymore. You may not get it. Brian http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/user_maint Title: redhat.com | store Privacy Statement Acco

Re: need help (VAX)

2000-01-29 Thread John Darrah
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Jefferson wrote: > Please excuse me for my ignorance. Is VAX like UNIX? > Maybe you could give me some introductions regarding > VAX. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks a lot. > VAX is not an operating system or piece of software... it is a hardware architecture compara

Re: Oracle 8i

2000-01-29 Thread Adrian Walters
how do you join? On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Brian Hand wrote: =>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:20:41 -0600 =>From: Brian Hand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>Subject: Re: Oracle 8i =>Resent-Date: 29 Jan 2000 18:18:48 - =>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>Rese

Re: Oracle 8i

2000-01-29 Thread Brian Hand
Its real version is 8.1.5 which as comapered to just Oracle 8 the highest version is 8.0.6. You got the CD because you joined the Redhat Developer Connection most likely. I got one myself for joining. Brian Paul Brown wrote: > > so what exactly is the difference between 8i and 8? or what ever

Re: Oracle 8i

2000-01-29 Thread Paul Brown
> so what exactly is the difference between 8i and 8? or what ever the pay > version of oracle is... The "i" means Internet ready. It's a bullshit marketing strategy. Paul --- Paul B. Brown

ttloop: peer died:

2000-01-29 Thread mi na
Hi All, I have a linux (redhat 5.2) box, no one can telnet to this box since yesterday, and here is the log message: "telnetd[467]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character" Is this a some kind of Virus? Pls help, thanks! Li __

need help (VAX)

2000-01-29 Thread Jefferson
Hi, It is not appropriate for me to ask questions unrelated to linux in this list but I will take this opportunity to ask questions knowing one of you maybe familiar with VAX. Can you help me find resources regarding the ff. concepts implemented in VAX?     Memory management     File handl

Re: Oracle 8i

2000-01-29 Thread Adrian Walters
so what exactly is the difference between 8i and 8? or what ever the pay version of oracle is... On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Reiner Rusch wrote: =>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 05:37:14 +0100 =>From: Reiner Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>Subject: Re: Oracle 8i =>Resent-Date: 29 Jan 2000

Problem printing PS files.

2000-01-29 Thread Manuel Camacho
Dear friends: I just connected my HP LaserJet Series II to my RH 6.0 box. I configured the printer using printtool. Now, here's the problem: When I print an ASCII text page, it works great. When I print the PS test page, I get the page splittled in three thirds, one on a different page. Can t

Re: Serial/Parallel Ports not functioning in 6.1

2000-01-29 Thread Manuel Camacho
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jeff Mings wrote: > Just a thought - have you guys made absolutely sure that your ports are set up > correctly and enabled? I was having problems with a printer port under RH 6.1 > that had worked fine under 5.2. For some reason, the BIOS setting for the port > was "auto" in

Re: Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread on4hu
Hello let me know wat is "8g" is 8 Gigabytes if this is correct linux must be installed, all version below the 1024 sector (around below 1.4Gb) and can never above this value At 09:22 29/01/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > >I have the following partitions: > > hda18g Windoze 9

RE: RH6.1 Standard or Deluxe?

2000-01-29 Thread Greg W
Frank I am not trying to be cruel, maybe I am even being kind, as its gone on too long. There is no "best" , it is simply what you are comfortable with, overwhelmingly the answer from the RH list will be use Redhat, from the Caldera list it will be Caldera, I suspect you know this, if not, consi

Disk Druid Install Problems

2000-01-29 Thread John S. Muller
Hi, I have the following partitions: hda18g Windoze 98 hda21g Linux (slackware) hda31g Linux (slackware) hda44g BeOS I am trying to install the redhat distribution to hda2, but disk druid will not let me proceede. The

Re: Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-29 Thread lloy0076
There is a patch to fix the problem with Windows 95 OSR 2.xx series. It can be found from the AMD web site (http://www.amd.com). Most of the time you can get 95 stable enough to run it...the trick is to actually get it to go into safe mode. Easiest way to do that is to actually switch the power o

RE: RH6.1 Standard or Deluxe?

2000-01-29 Thread Frank Rocco
Greg, I'm not trying to get you or anyone. As I stated before, I have a slight OCD problem which causes me to be indecisive at times. I see no need to be cruel. I really wanted to know why experienced Linux users choose RH over others so I could make an informed decision. That's all. Frank ---

Inverted rc.local ?

2000-01-29 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, In my rc.local I start two instances of setiathome. When I do a shutdown, I'd like those two processes to be automatically killed *before* the shutdown sequence starts. (I'd also like to execute a quick non related 'cleanup' sequence.) Is there any rc file where I could store some kill `pi

Re: Apache

2000-01-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Gary Bricker wrote: > I have 2 questions about Apache (the latest version), is there a set of the > Frontpage extentions for it and if so where can I get them. http://www.darkorb.net/pub/frontpage > Also do ASP > files work with Apache with a normal install or is there some