Re: Perl and Serial Devices

2000-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:10:26PM -0600, Robert Canary wrote: | I have script here as follows: | | | | open (PORTACCESS, "+>>/dev/ttyC0"); | print PORTACCESS "AT\&V1" . "\n\r"; | | alarm(10); | while () { | print; | chomp; | /OK|ERROR/ && do { | close(PORTACCESS); |

RE: /dev/fd0H1773 ?

2000-03-08 Thread Chad W. Skinner
Alan, I did not see a reply to you message so I dug through the list and found a post with this in it. > mknod b 2 60 /dev/fd0u1722 > > check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt Note, I don't know if this worked for the original poster. Let me know if you have it working as I am intereste

Re: Editing /etc/passwd

2000-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:21:59PM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote: | A quick question that I probably should have answered myself by now. | | Which command line tools should I use to modify the information in | /etc/passwd? Like people's shell etc. On FreeBSD I used to use chpass or | something similar

Re: Lilo

2000-03-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
in Linuxconf check out lilo options and make Windows the default, then "Activate changes" and ok and you are done. Alessandro Coppelli wrote: > Hi to all. > >( Sorry for question ) > >I want to obtain Win start and not Linux > >with lilo in my dual boot box for default. > >How I

Re: in.identd where

2000-03-08 Thread Agustin Navarro
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: >Hi, > >(Sorry, I must be brain-dead. :-) > >I'm trying to find out what rpm on the RH6.1 CD contains the >/usr/sbin/in.identd file, but I ain't getting there. > >I know the file is in one of the .rpm's but which one? (It's not >installed and therefore

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Vidiot
>I just installed RH 6.1. This is the first time I have used this 6.1 >install program. When it got to the point where it asked for the root >password I put it in and then added a userthis is new. I assumed this >was a user to su from. I am positive of my root password. When I booted >u

RE: Editing /etc/passwd

2000-03-08 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I am not sure exactly what you need, but passwd will allow you to change the password itself and I believe another command you may want to look into is chfn. Let me know what you find out. Chad > -Original Message- > From: Chuck Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 0

Re: virtual host problem

2000-03-08 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > Namebased setup with Apache SSL don't work. SSL needs a real IP adress. > > > > Name based with one secure site works fine, you need to add SSLRequireSSL > to the encrypted server (I assume you are not using those servernames!) > and specify https://mysecondsite when connecting. >From the

Re: I've read the 6.1 Installation Guide and ...

2000-03-08 Thread Vidiot
>On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Steve Frampton wrote: > >vidiot's disaster is not a consequence of a flawed red hat installation >program -- it is a result of numerous incredibly bad decisions on >vidiot's part, including (but not limited to) getting a new release >of the OS from a friend without the docs,

Re: Problem with config. of ethernet card

2000-03-08 Thread ben
Hang in there, linux doesn't hold your hand like some other operating systems do, but the power it gives you is well worth it. First of all did the redhat installation find the ethernet card on install? What kind of card is it? Can you ping 127.0.0.1 from the machine? can you ping the ethernet

Re: Problem with config. of ethernet card

2000-03-08 Thread Bret Hughes
try posting the output of ifconfig and route -n to the list there really is not enough information to go on so far. Ant relevaent messages in /var/log/messages would also be helpful. Bret tk dev wrote: > > hi > > redhat 6.1 is really giving me a headache...i've followed every step to > config

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just installed RH 6.1. This is the first time I have used this 6.1 > install program. When it got to the point where it asked for the root > password I put it in and then added a userthis is new. I assumed this > was a user to su from. I am positi

RE: Multiple IP addresses on one interface

2000-03-08 Thread Chad W. Skinner
Mr. Saltzman, The command to do this is similar to the following (from the Net-3-howto section 6.5): ifconfig eth0:0 netmask up route add -n netmask eth0 Also, there are a few scripts that define the setup for the ethernet adapters, I have one script on my system called I believe

help!!!!!!

2000-03-08 Thread GEORGE CHANTZOPOULOS
Thanks all of you for the help for the help message. I messed up with the permissions in the directory /tmp and that seemed to cause the problem. Again thanks a lot.

Re: Trying to do an IP audit

2000-03-08 Thread tom minchin
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:05:32AM -0800, Martin Waller wrote: > Interesting command, does anyone know what the SunOS equiv' is, I've had a > look on our Sun machine and can't see it... > Just compile it from source on the Sun, it's not a standard command by any means. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: I've read the 6.1 Installation Guide and ...

2000-03-08 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now, as to this "server" definition. as i read it, when you select > a "server" type install, this will (currently) wipe *all* of your > disks. some people object to this. your objections are misplaced. > > one definition of a server is a machine that is

RE: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I'm fairly new to this as well, but what you need to do is boot into single user mode and then change the root password. I believe this is done by typing "linux single" at the lilo prompt. This assumes that the lilo command used to boot into linux is linux. Chad > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
reboot your PC, and at LILO prompt type: LILO: linux single then, system will start, and at the prompt write: passwd and be sure to type your password correctly. After that, you may reboot your system normally. -Manuel. > -Mensaje original- > De: Morse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > En

Re: Back solution

2000-03-08 Thread Eric Sisler
>I need a tape backup program, console based, schedulable, that will work >with a HP T20 SCSI tape drive, although I know that part is based on low >level drivers. Anyone know of such a beast? AFAIK, as long as the SCSI card is supported, pretty much any device you can hang off of it will be su

Re: SCSI Bus errrs on 6.1

2000-03-08 Thread Eric Sisler
Kyle Hargraves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone seen anything like this previously - and if so what is the >problem ? The termination does seem ok ! > > >Mar 5 04:04:11 localhost kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout >:pid 272041, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (6) 10 33 f7

Re: Time Server

2000-03-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Brian Schneider wrote: > What do I need to install to get my machine to allow a remote time server > lookup? My other machine works, but since I didn't set it up to do it I am > unsure exactly what I need. Sure I am just missing a package. Depending on the accuracy needed, you can run xntpd or rd

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-08 Thread Vidiot
>I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a web >page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the font. >When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really small, >hard to read Times. When I view this page in Windows, either netscape >or IE, it

RE: samba

2000-03-08 Thread Patrick M. May
Try: [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No That's the way mine is set up. Patrick > -Original Message- > From: Steve Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 02:09 > To: RedHat Maillist > Subject: samba > > >

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-08 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:41:50AM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a > web page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the > font. When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really > small, hard to read Time

Re: Help...can't mount my a drive

2000-03-08 Thread Hidong Kim
tk dev wrote: > > hi all > > i've installed redhat 6.1 & can't mount my A drive... > what's wrong? When you installed, you must've given a partition name like /dev/hda1 to your A drive or some part of your A drive. You need to create a filesystem on this partition. You can do this with fdisk,

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Maziar Mahzari
> I can boot but I just can't get in as root. is there anything I can do > other then reinstall ? Use boot and rescue floopies to boot the system. Then you can change the root password. I believe there was a detailed description about it in the list. cheers Maziar -- To unsubscribe: mail

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread tom minchin
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:18:30PM -0800, Morse wrote: > I just installed RH 6.1. This is the first time I have used this 6.1 > install program. When it got to the point where it asked for the root > password I put it in and then added a userthis is new. I assumed this > was a user to su

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Danny
Hello, if thats the case :- When Linux Prompts in for a Login and password all you have to do is 1) type in your "usrname" and Password 2) Type in "su" 3) Type in your "su" password 4) Type in "passwd root" or "/usr/sbin/passwd root" and type in your new root password. Looking forward to your

Re: Lilo

2000-03-08 Thread Maziar Mahzari
You should edit /etc/lilo.conf as follow: boot = /dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt vga = normal read-only timeout = 500 other = /dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda Also there is a FAQ in RedHat site which gives you more description about the topic. Note that while you see lilo

Re: setting correct timezone?

2000-03-08 Thread Danny
Hello, Iyou can. To change the time zone you are in :- 1)Login as "root" 2) Type in "linuxconf" On the bottom you should see "date" there you can easily change the timezone you are in and the date automatcially without the complexities of using the "date" command. Looking forward to your feed

RE: SCSI Bus errrs on 6.1

2000-03-08 Thread Jon Nichols
what kind of SCSI card? -Original Message- From: Kyle Hargraves [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 1:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SCSI Bus errrs on 6.1 hi, Has anyone seen anything like this previously - and if so what is the problem ? The te

Re: Editing /etc/passwd

2000-03-08 Thread Maziar Mahzari
linuxconf cheers Maziar On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Chuck Dale wrote: > Hi there, > > A quick question that I probably should have answered myself by now. > > Which command line tools should I use to modify the information in > /etc/passwd? Like people's shell etc. On FreeBSD I used to use chpass or

Re: Editing /etc/passwd

2000-03-08 Thread Alan Mead
I don't know of a tool after the fact but 'adduser' will allow you to specify different options to create the account. -Alan --- Alan D. Mead / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 61874 USA 217-352-4739 (v) / 2

Virtural desktop

2000-03-08 Thread Doug Piper
I am running 6.0 at level 3. When I startx and try to set up Netscape, I can't see the entire screen as when I get to the edge with the cursor nothing happens. How do I set the desktop size at 1x1 or whatever so that I can see the entire screen at once? The man pages are as helpful as after marke

Re: Time Server

2000-03-08 Thread Bret Hughes
Check out xntp the package on my boxes is xntp3-5.93-12. No tellin what 6.1 uses but probably called xntp3 something. Bret Brian Schneider wrote: > > What do I need to install to get my machine to allow a remote time server > lookup? My other machine works, but since I didn't set it up to do

Re: Help...can't mount my a drive

2000-03-08 Thread Bret Hughes
tk dev wrote: > > hi all > > i've installed redhat 6.1 & can't mount my A drive... > what's wrong? too vague. What error messages are yougetting ? What is the exact command you are using. Does the floppy have the right filesystem on it? > > when i try to change my ethernet card module (f

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Morse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed RH 6.1. This is the first time I have used this 6.1 > install program. When it got to the point where it asked for the root > password I put it in and then added a userthis is new. I assumed this > was a user to su from. I am positive

Re: Lilo

2000-03-08 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Alessandro Coppelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi to all. > > >( Sorry for question ) > >I want to obtain Win start and not Linux > >with lilo in my dual boot box for default. > >How I do this . Edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the line: default = win (if win is the label of th

DSL and Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Dana Danet
hello everyone, so i am the recent listed person with growing interests in linux my question to the list is: i am planning on implementing a server out of my house via dsl and i hear horror stories of users that know ip ranges given out by isp's and the scan them looking to get into boxes. bef

Re: Lilo

2000-03-08 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I want to obtain Win start and not Linux >with lilo in my dual boot box for default. >How I do this . In /etc/lilo.conf you'll find a couple sections at the bottom of the file. One is probably something like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-2.5.0 label=

Re: Editing /etc/passwd

2000-03-08 Thread tom minchin
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:21:59PM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote: > Hi there, > > A quick question that I probably should have answered myself by now. > > Which command line tools should I use to modify the information in > /etc/passwd? Like people's shell etc. On FreeBSD I used to use chpass or > som

Re: Editing /etc/passwd

2000-03-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Chuck Dale wrote: > Which command line tools should I use to modify the information in > /etc/passwd? Like people's shell etc. chsh und chage? LLaP bero -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: in.identd where

2000-03-08 Thread Ron Golan
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:52:57PM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Hi, > > (Sorry, I must be brain-dead. :-) > > I'm trying to find out what rpm on the RH6.1 CD contains the > /usr/sbin/in.identd file, but I ain't getting there. pidentd-3.0.7-5 -- Ron Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubsc

Re: Lilo

2000-03-08 Thread Phil Risby
Make the whole of the win entry come first and the complete Linux entry come last Then run /sbin/lilo as root to make the changes take effect Phil Alessandro Coppelli wrote: > Hi to all. > >( Sorry for question ) > >I want to obtain Win start and not Linux > >with lilo in my dual boot

RE: Disk Doctor

2000-03-08 Thread Ward William E PHDN
man fsck or man e2fsck HTH Bill Ward -Original Message- From: Luis Pablo Gasparotto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:18 AM To: Red Hat List Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil Subject: Disk Doctor Hi all, Do you know some disk utility like Nor

RE: Time Server

2000-03-08 Thread Ward William E PHDN
xntp It's pretty easy to setup you'll need to edit the file /etc/ntp.conf a tad to point to the other server when you've finished installing it, and make sure that it knows to start the xntpd on bootup. Funny, it's rare to see a question on Time Synchronization on this list... but I asked o

Re: Time Server

2000-03-08 Thread Jasper Jans
You need the ntp daemon. J. - Original Message - From: "Brian Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Red Hat List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:00 AM Subject: Time Server | What do I need to install to get my machine to allow a remote time server | lookup? My othe

RE: FTP access

2000-03-08 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> I think England has some law about email about they have to put %-> a signature of %-> legal crap in each and every email messageblame the %-> government of England. %-> Should we start another Boston Tea Party? What should we call this one? Things are worse than you think in Old Blighty

RE: Gnome Sound -- Startup wav not working

2000-03-08 Thread Jeremy Bradley
I have never gotten any sounds, although I am a newbie. I did sndconfig and heard the sample sounds and everything, but when I go to select event sounds and preview them, I get nothing. Any advice..please be gentle..like I said..NEWBIE! -Original Message- From: Wayne Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Yes. Following these instructions (should) fix the password problem for root. However, it also teaches you one of the security holes in the system... if that makes you nervous, good. Read the instructions BEFORE starting. Reboot the system (yes, this requires a reboot!) At the LILO prompt, typ

nmap ping scan and netbios scanning

2000-03-08 Thread Adam Sleight
Forgot who posted nmap sP x.y.z.1-254 does list if so and so host is up. Host (192.168.1.1) appears to be up Host (192.168.1.3) appears to be up Not sure if the person has a win network and wanted netbios scanning to map the ip to the host name under linux...like Sniffer Pro does, etc. http://w

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Alan Mead
For better or for worse, this is really simple. Reboot. At the LILO prompt type 'linux single' and hit enter. It will drop you into a root shell. Type 'passwd root ' and then exit. I think it will even continue on to whatever normal run level you use. -Alan --- Alan D. Mead / Research S

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Bret Hughes
reboot and at the lilo prompt type linux single This will drop you into single user mode logged in as root. type passwd to Morse wrote: > > I just installed RH 6.1. This is the first time I have used this 6.1 > install program. When it got to the point where it asked for the root > passwor

RE: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Patrick M. May
You can start in single user mode and redo the password. LILO: linux single (or the 1 [as in the number] should do it) Then I believe you need to run the password program and give root a new password. Patrick PS: I'm glad to see the list back. > -Original Message- > From: Morse [mailt

Re: in.identd where

2000-03-08 Thread Bret Hughes
on my machine rpm -qf /usr/sbin/in.identd returns pidentd-2.8.5-3 BTW rpmfind --apropos identd returns a whole boot load of pidentd packages. hmm looks like there are some newer ons out there associated with 6.0.and 6.1 I guess I need to lookinto it. hope this helps Bret Gustav Schaffter wrot

Supa Redundancy

2000-03-08 Thread Steve Dixon
anyone know of something that will continuously copy data from one server to another server and then take over if the main server goes down? kinda like raid but with servers as the drives? ive never been this redundant about data before, but my boss is asking and i dont have a clue. --

Re: RH 6.1 forgot root password

2000-03-08 Thread Kurt Brust
user is root ... on brightside, since its a new install, you can reinstall On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Morse wrote: > I just installed RH 6.1. This is the first time I have used this 6.1 > install program. When it got to the point where it asked for the root > password I put it in and then added a us

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-08 Thread Matt Housh
> http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/buffers.htm if anyone is interested > in looking at the HTML. Thanks, The page looks fine to me. Are you saying you can view other sites that use Verdana in windows, but not with netscape in Linux? You might want to check your XFree86 fontpath, make

Re: in.identd where

2000-03-08 Thread Matt Housh
> I'm trying to find out what rpm on the RH6.1 CD contains the > /usr/sbin/in.identd file, but I ain't getting there. > > I know the file is in one of the .rpm's but which one? (It's not > installed and therefore not found in the rpm database.) Check out the pidentd RPM, should be in the

Re: other redhat hosted mailing lists down?

2000-03-08 Thread Bret Hughes
I assumed it it was down when I looked at the moongroup stite and they had the last one I did that was about 4-5 hours old yesterday afternoon. Only other way I could think of to verify what was happening. Bret Hidong Kim wrote: > > The redhat-list mailing list seems to be down or at least slo

Re: Sound, but no midi [SOLVED]

2000-03-08 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Elliot Lee wrote: > As 'playmidi -h' shows, you need to specify the '-a' parameter to playmidi: > > playmidi -a jjett.mid > > -- Elliot > "Moron of the week" for four years running Elliot, If someone is the moron of the week, then it's me. ;-) You're absolutely right. And I'm absolu

RE: [OT] Some help with LATEX.

2000-03-08 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
Thanks! Just found out how it works: \documentclass[spanish]{report} \usepackage{babel} -Manuel. > -Mensaje original- > De: Dominic Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Enviado el: Miércoles, 08 de Marzo de 2000 11:13 a.m. > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: Linux (E-mail) > Asunto: Re: [

Re: RED HAT 5.1 INSTLLATION

2000-03-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Jimmie Brandon wrote: > > I just finished installing Red Hat 5.1. > > The computer has rebooted and it is asking for > > "localhost login:". > > In the installation process, earlier it asked me for > a login and password. I tried using the password at > the "localhost login:" prompt, but the

Re: in.identd where

2000-03-08 Thread Ryan Caveney
Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to find out what rpm on the RH6.1 CD contains the >/usr/sbin/in.identd file, but I ain't getting there. % rpm -qf /usr/sbin/in.identd pidentd-2.8.5-3 Ryan Caveney -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subj

Re: in.identd where

2000-03-08 Thread Steve Feehan
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Hi, > > (Sorry, I must be brain-dead. :-) > > I'm trying to find out what rpm on the RH6.1 CD contains the > /usr/sbin/in.identd file, but I ain't getting there. > > I know the file is in one of the .rpm's but which one? (It's not > installed and t

Re: [OT] Some help with LATEX.

2000-03-08 Thread Juan Sanchez
I highly recommend the comp.text.tex newsgroup. The people there are generally helpful. Looking in /usr/share/texmf I found the following: /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/spanish.sty /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/spanishb.sty spanishb.sty appears to have definitions to redefine the section name

Re: Multiple IP addresses on one interface

2000-03-08 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I want to configure a web server that will answer requests for multiple > machine names (e.g., www.example.com, www2.example.com, etc), displaying > different home pages depending on the destination name. The machine > has a single network connection

Re: in.identd where

2000-03-08 Thread Brad 'GreyBear' Davis
I won't even say read the rpm man page, it should go without saying, but here's how I did it in less than 15 seconds... #8^D [bdavis@scifi bdavis]$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/in.identd pidentd-3.0.7-5 Brad 'GreyBear' Davis - CTO, PeoplePublish, Inc. O

RH 6.1 and Intel 840 Chipset?

2000-03-08 Thread Fred Whipple
All, Does anyone know if RH 6.1 would run on a motherboard with the 840 chipset @ 133MHz? I'm looking to build a few new servers and need stability over bleeding-edge. But if it runs rock-solid(ly) on the 840, I want to give that a shot. Thanks, -Fred ___

Re: CuSeeMe for linux

2000-03-08 Thread J. Scott Kasten
http://h263.org/videoconf.html Go there. Tons of links. Some of the projects are Open source and Cu-See-Me compat, some are commercial, but for linux. Good luck! On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: > Does anyone know of a working Cu-See-Me client package for L

phoneline network ?

2000-03-08 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
sorry if this goes twice : I could not see my own post on the list. I wanted to know if anyone has ever heard about those network cards going via pholines (3com, lynksys have some) for home LAN . If so, would they work with linux ? Thanks Philippe -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTEC

Supa Redundancy

2000-03-08 Thread Steve Dixon
anyone know of something that will continuously copy data from one server to another server and then take over if the main server goes down? kinda like raid but with servers as the drives? ive never been this redundant about data before, but my boss is asking and i dont have a clue. --

samba

2000-03-08 Thread Steve Lee
how would you give users access to only there home directory. ie. read, write, execute i use this config in the smb.conf file and they can read but not write. [homes] comment = Home Directory path = /home/user/local/%u read only = No browseable = no available = no public

Fetchmail skips the mail from one of my pop servers

2000-03-08 Thread Rahim Valiani
I have been sucessfully using fetchmail to retrieve mail from mindspring, but for some reason, it does not seem to retrieve any mail from my new provider, but instead skipps them. I have manualy tried pop retrival and it works fine. Any suggestions? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTE

mysterious .font-unix

2000-03-08 Thread Jason Hirsch
Greetings- My firewall has a file that keeps popping up in hte /tmp directory. I recently deleted it the other day, but it's back again. drwxrwxrwt 2 xfs xfs 1024 Mar 6 22:33 .font-unix As you can see, uits a recent addition. I also thought I removed all of the xwindows suppo

Fwd: rpm-3.0.4-0.i386.rpm

2000-03-08 Thread Christopher Molnar
Since it apears the rpm list is not working... I'll try here: - Forwarded message from Christopher Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 12:59:44 -0500 From: Christopher Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: rpm-3.0.4-0.i386.rpm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello! I am trying to

Re: I've read the 6.1 Installation Guide and ...

2000-03-08 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I aggree 150% . Nice to hear an independant soul on the list. Steve Frampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, rpjday wrote: > > > aggghh! because, as i recall, you asked for a "server" install, no? > > Er... > > >

[OT] Email gateway

2000-03-08 Thread Joel West
I am attempting to set up an internal LAN. Only some of these users are to have access to the Internet. Other will have access to NetBUI only. Is there a way to use Linux as an email gateway so that all users will have access to interoffice email but only some users will have Internet email? --

Re: [OT] Some help with LATEX.

2000-03-08 Thread Dominic Mitchell
You should go on comp.text.tex. I think you can use the babel package to do something like this \usepackage[spanish]{babel} Cheers, Dominic. > "macq" == Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: macq> I am writting some docs in Spanish using LATEX, but I don´t know m

Re: Help!!!!!!

2000-03-08 Thread Jonathan Ruano
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:33:08AM -0800, Rick Forrister wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I've just got a serious problem in my Linux. I rebout my system, I > > login either as root or user the enlightment configuration starts and > > then I get only a blue screen! Not a taskbar, not icons. T

Re: Help!!!!!!!

2000-03-08 Thread Adrian Walters
chmod 1777 On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja wrote: =>Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 18:09:02 +0100 =>From: Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>Subject: Re: Help!!! =>Resent-Date: 8 Mar 2000 11:23:23 - =>Resent-From: [

Re: SCSI Bus errrs on 6.1

2000-03-08 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:31:35PM +0800, Kyle Hargraves wrote: > > Has anyone seen anything like this previously - and if so what is the > problem ? The termination does seem ok ! > > > Mar 5 04:04:11 localhost kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :pid >272041, scsi0, channel 0, i

faces of XFree86

2000-03-08 Thread Jacobelli, Francisco
Hello. I want to change my TWM X windows interface to something else, but I think I am missing the libraries. I upgraded to X 3.3.5. The libraries were all in the old version. Will it be ok if I just copy the librariepaths to the new 3.3.5 installation? thanks -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PR

RE: Httpd and httpsd eating too much memory

2000-03-08 Thread Bjornson, Matt
Go into the Apache config files and you can specify how many processes that you want to be running...I think that it si http.conf. In Apache 1.3.4 and later there is but one config file as opposed to the pre 1.3.4 where there are http.conf, srm.conf, and access.conf (?) You need to determine ho

ipchains and ftp

2000-03-08 Thread Chris Dowling
Hi folks I have a firewall that basically denies everything and only allows certain things in, but everything out. the problem I have is with ftp in active mode. I cannot get the data channel to open! after reading the ipchains docco, which says to open prts 1024 -> 6000; 6010 -> onwards, I wa

Re: test

2000-03-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
there does seem to be quite a bit less traffic than normal, but I've gotten about 30 posts. Hidong Kim wrote: > Hi, > > I posted two messages to this list today. I haven't seen either. In > fact, I've hardly gotten any messages from this list today. Has it been > suddenly deactivated? Thanks

Re: xemacs:c++,java (fwd)

2000-03-08 Thread Joe Brenner
Mohammed Ennasar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, the above message was maybe not clear, indeed i installed the > xemacs-21.8 either linux-2.2.5-15, redhat 6.0, i will use it in mode c++ > and java modes, can i do that? if yes how? > > Thanks in advance. I'm not entirely clear on your quest

Drivers for Truetime PCI-SG Time Clock Synchronizer

2000-03-08 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Does anyone know if there are Linux drivers for the TrueTime PCI-SG Computer Time Clock Synchronization card? I need a IRIG A or IRIG B time synchronization to connect to a Stratum 1 time server, and a machine to act as an XNTP time server on my network, and I'd really prefer to do it with Linux

RE: are my spam rules working?

2000-03-08 Thread Scott Kindley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (snip) > telnet mail-abuse.org [you have to execute this from the mailserver] > > It'll run a test back to your server and connect to the sendmail port. > It'll put your computer through something like 17 different tests. The > one kink I found is t

KDE in RH 6.2 beta

2000-03-08 Thread Mathco Tech. Dep
Hi I know this is a beta and i know there are alot of bugs in it, but one thing that confuses me is that whenever you launch a application under KDE it launches Konsole also, is there anyway to shut this off? +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Mathias Björkman|

Re: Sound, but no midi

2000-03-08 Thread Robert Glover
If memory serves, you need to look at the AWE32 mini-HOWTO. The AWE64 is an AWE32 on steroids (on software actually, but I won't go into that now). Just look at the mini-HOWTO and pay close attention to the PCI configuration, particularly the last three PCI entries that are not always detected. L

Re: What else did RH6.1 install forget...

2000-03-08 Thread Joe Brenner
Tom Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the important thing is to remember how helpful *constructive* > criticism is. It's very helpful. No argument there. > > The point is that: > > "xyz is RUBBISH!" > > Isn't really very constructive, is it? Not much use to anyone. Sure it is. I

Re: Httpd and httpsd eating too much memory

2000-03-08 Thread Ryan Caveney
Kevsurf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The reason is, httpd is running 11 times and httpsd is running 7 times!!! >I know this is not normal and am wondering what I can do to stop this from >eating up so much memory. It's perfectly normal. If you installed from RPM, your Apache config files are prob

Re: ld-linux.so.2

2000-03-08 Thread Ryan Caveney
Tonko de Rooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ld-linux.so.2 is Netscape's backend process that handles things such >as communication. That's a somewhat odd way to put it. On RH 6.0: % locate ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 % rpm -qf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 glibc-2.1.1-6 It's the ELF dy

Re: RED HAT 5.1 INSTLLATION

2000-03-08 Thread Rick Forrister
Jimmy, as I read what you're saying, you're putting the password you entered in at the "localhost login: " prompt. If that's the case, you _really_ need to read and follow whatever book/etc came with the cdrom you installed from. What you probably created is the "root" account, you're being ask

Re: ld-linux.so.2

2000-03-08 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:23:04AM -0500, Timothy Reaves wrote: > This is the process I always kill when Netscape hangs, so I assume it > is a Netscape library. If I don't kill it I can't restart Netscape, and > killing effects nothing else. I agree it is a NS problem, but: [hal@feenix hal]

IP Masquerading for Failsafe Internet Service?

2000-03-08 Thread Jerry Keene
We recently added another ISP, so our system has two potential routes to the internet. I've set up Routed and have configured /etc/gateways using net 0.0.0.0 gateway xx.xx.xx.1 metric 1 passive net 0.0.0.0 gateway xx.xx.xx.1 metric 2 passive During testing both default routes

Flash v4 on RH Linux 6.0 locks up Netscape 4.7-2 [SHR2000030700003012]

2000-03-08 Thread Jon Knews
ShockMechanics, The Linux version of Flash comes in flash_linux.tar.gz with 3 files, the .so, the .class and the README.Linux (where the instructions are located which I followed to the letter). With regard to the email discussion below, I have also tried this same file on my RedHat Linux 5.

RE: Httpd and httpsd eating too much memory

2000-03-08 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I'm going to take a stab in the date, but I have never heard of apache using that much memory on so few servers, but then again I have never run the secure server either. If you run top and find that apache is indeed causing the memory problems you need to change a few of the configuration directi

RE: Trying to do an IP audit

2000-03-08 Thread Martin Waller
Interesting command, does anyone know what the SunOS equiv' is, I've had a look on our Sun machine and can't see it... Martin -Original Message- From: Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 March 2000 09:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Trying to do an IP a

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