Re: Login problems

2000-03-13 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
"Angel L. Mateo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El día Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:22:35 -0600 "Stephen Hargrove" escribió: > > > > I've screwed something up big time, and I'm not sure what I've done. = > > Whenever I login, I get the following: > > > > Last login: Mon Mar 13 17:05:36 from stephen > >

Re: Login problems

2000-03-13 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El día Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:22:35 -0600 "Stephen Hargrove" escribió: > > I've screwed something up big time, and I'm not sure what I've done. = > Whenever I login, I get the following: > > Last login: Mon Mar 13 17:05:36 from stephen > No directory /home/Stephen! > Logging in with home =3D "/"

Re: Finding the tty# associated with a ppp process?

2000-03-13 Thread Robert Canary
I believ you got something setup wrong Eddie. Killing the modem should also send a signal to ppp to die. Are you running pppd with the "modem" option. The lock file will reflect the ppp PID. Send it standard kill will disconnect the pppd. I have attached a script that I use that runs from cr

Re: UUCP file size limit

2000-03-13 Thread Michael Ghens
Is this for sendmaill? File size is in sendmail.cf The answer to the meaning of life: perl -e 'print$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10); ' On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:20:47 -0600 (CST) > From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To:

Re: inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use

2000-03-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
Charles Galpin wrote: > Mar 13 22:49:24 server inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in > use > Mar 13 22:59:24 server inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in > use > > I have named setup to run at boot time in ntsysv. hehehe... The "bind" in the syslog is referring to the bind

Re: inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use

2000-03-13 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:04:13PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: > I know I've seen this one before, but can't find it in the archives > > I get these every ten minutes in the logs: > > Mar 13 22:49:24 server inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in > use > Mar 13 22:59:24 server inetd[10

Re: D P I

2000-03-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
> A H Fekry wrote: > I've installed RH 6.0, but the screen lines need to be fixed > because the x windows and the font are too small. Make sure that your 100DPI fonts are installed (rpm -q XFree86-100dpi-fonts). Then, edit /etc/X11/fs/config. Look for the catalogue there. Reorder the list

inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use

2000-03-13 Thread Charles Galpin
I know I've seen this one before, but can't find it in the archives I get these every ten minutes in the logs: Mar 13 22:49:24 server inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use Mar 13 22:59:24 server inetd[10663]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use I have named setup to run at boo

R> RE: Automounting a volume to a subdirectory

2000-03-13 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Ward William E PHDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...explanation of soft vs. hard NFS mount...] >I'm not being super clear, I know... but it's the easiest way I can explain >it. OK that explains it more or less, thanks. >As for your fstab entry if you want it to automatically mount, why are

Re: UUCP file size limit

2000-03-13 Thread Vidiot
Fred responded: >I didn't even know there WAS a size limit, I've been using it for >file/mail/news transfer for years. Guess you have to back as far as I do, back to the days when the only means of communication for e-mail was UUCP :-) >Looking in "info uucp" under the section on the 'sys' file

RE: UUCP file size limit

2000-03-13 Thread Gregory Hosler
I'm not so sure that there is a uucp size limitation. Been using uucp for years and years, and have seen messages megabytes in size. There is / canbe a sizelimitation in sendmail, which might be the cause of your grief. You'll need a copy of the sendmail.cf file from your uucp provider, to see if

okaaaaaay sound again...

2000-03-13 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
ok so i got it configured and no dma/irq/io conflicts and then it says erroc occurred while opening /dev/audio? any fix? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: sound?

2000-03-13 Thread Hidong Kim
"Michael S. Dunsavage" wrote: > > I did get my sound card to work well I can hear Linus speak but I cannot > hear the midi. > > My sound is soundblaster compatany help appreciated. > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. I had a similar

SCSI Error

2000-03-13 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - been getting a few of these popping up in our log files and I'm wondering if it's likely we have a hardware fault - or is it something that I can remedy by re-formatting the drive (with masking bad blocks?). If a reformat is the option then how would I go about this? TIA - dan. kernel

xmms [was sound?]

2000-03-13 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I did get sound to work for everything excep xmms? I cannot get any mp3's to play? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

sound?

2000-03-13 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I did get my sound card to work well I can hear Linus speak but I cannot hear the midi. My sound is soundblaster compatany help appreciated. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

xmms?

2000-03-13 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I ran xmms from a terminal in X and it told me cannot open /dev/ttys1 well my modem is on that is there a way to make xmms read to /dev/dsp? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: UUCP file size limit

2000-03-13 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:20:47AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > Anyone know how to change the file size limitation that UUCP has? > I need to increase it to basically unlimited. > > The last time I did something like this was way back in BSD Unix days > and did it through soource changes. Hopefully th

Re: Login problems

2000-03-13 Thread Bret Hughes
I would start with giving myself execute permissions on the directory chmod u+x /home/Stephen Then you should be able to cd into it and do a listing on it. I forget which of these you get with x permisions Bret > Stephen Hargrove wrote: > > I've screwed something up big time, and I'm not su

Login problems

2000-03-13 Thread Stephen Hargrove
I've screwed something up big time, and I'm not sure what I've done.  Whenever I login, I get the following:   Last login: Mon Mar 13 17:05:36 from stephenNo directory /home/Stephen!Logging in with home = "/".bash: /home/Stephen/.bash_profile: Permission denied   Additionally, I can't go anyw

Re: root login over telnet

2000-03-13 Thread Timothy Lillicrap
Thanks Steve, this is exactly what I was looking for : ) Timothy Lillicrap On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Steve Dixon wrote: > edit the file /etc/pam.d/login and comment out the securetty line. it > should be right after the first comment. then just try to telnet and > you should be good to go. -- T

Finding the tty# associated with a ppp process?

2000-03-13 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Hello:   I am trying to write a script to allow the killing of a ppp process for a dialup user. I am running a cylades cyclom -ye pci board with 32 ports for dialup access to the net and when a user logs in pppd will assign a random /dev/pppn device to it. It could be ppp0 through ppp31. But

Re: RealPlayer 7?

2000-03-13 Thread Piet Barber
Adam Goucher wrote: > I know that Real has released RealServer 7 for Linux, but has the player > been released yet? I couldnt find it. If it hasnt, anyone know when it > will be released? In the meantime, whats the link to the most recent > player? The version I have keeps crapping out. Yes, I c

Re: libXm.so.2 and ddd

2000-03-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
Vladimir Kamenov wrote: > I tried to install ddd-3.2-4.i386.rpm from redhat, but it needs > libXm.so.2. Can some one point me out, which rpm contains this library? lesstif If you got ddd from Red Hat, I assume you'll find the lesstif rpm in the same location. lesstif is an open source clone of

Re: root login over telnet

2000-03-13 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Timothy Lillicrap wrote: > I would like to be able to gain root access through telnet without > having to go in as a normal user and then su. Either use ssh (better - if you put up authorization keys, you don't even need to type the password every time if security is not a c

Re: root login over telnet

2000-03-13 Thread Vidiot
>Hi I have a small LAN in my house which is physically isolated from the >internet. It is composed of several linux boxes (some RH6.0 and some Slackware >7.0). Because it is isolated from the internet I am not concerned about >security (also the machines hold no valuable data). When I wish to t

xmms

2000-03-13 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I have sound confgiured and it can play waves files and the cdrom but not mp3s I ran xmms in a terminal in X and it told me no permission to /dev/ttys1 or some sort but the problem is my modem is on ttys1...how can i get it to pipe to /dev/dsp? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: root login over telnet

2000-03-13 Thread Jeff Smelser
Timothy Lillicrap wrote: > > Hi I have a small LAN in my house which is physically isolated from the > internet. It is composed of several linux boxes (some RH6.0 and some Slackware > 7.0). Because it is isolated from the internet I am not concerned about > security (also the machines hold no v

Re: root login over telnet

2000-03-13 Thread Steve Dixon
edit the file /etc/pam.d/login and comment out the securetty line. it should be right after the first comment. then just try to telnet and you should be good to go. Timothy Lillicrap wrote: > > Hi I have a small LAN in my house which is physically isolated from the > internet. It is composed

libXm.so.2 and ddd

2000-03-13 Thread Vladimir Kamenov
Hi, I tried to install ddd-3.2-4.i386.rpm from redhat, but it needs libXm.so.2. Can some one point me out, which rpm contains this library? Many thanks, --Vlado -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

PPP over USB

2000-03-13 Thread Ed Schernau
Anyone heard mention of this, or does this exist already? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: netatalk

2000-03-13 Thread Eric Wood
netatalk is very simple to configure after installing the rpm. Just add you shares to the top of the /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.system file. As you can see, I'm share the /vol1 linux directory to a Apple "Vol1" share. [ewood@secure atalk]$ head AppleVolumes.system # Last Updated March 11, 1999 # U

root login over telnet

2000-03-13 Thread Timothy Lillicrap
Hi I have a small LAN in my house which is physically isolated from the internet. It is composed of several linux boxes (some RH6.0 and some Slackware 7.0). Because it is isolated from the internet I am not concerned about security (also the machines hold no valuable data). When I wish to telne

Re: [REDHAT] gnome pager (on helix gnome)

2000-03-13 Thread Adam Sleight
> funny enough, I'm using sawmill (since it was the default with helix), but > I swear it was working originally. > > I did switch back to E, and then back to sawmill which might have done it. > > But since it was working when I got it, I like to think I can get it back. > > Then again, that to

margin problems when printing to an hp1100

2000-03-13 Thread sgulick
Just bought an HP1100 because it is 100% compatable with the HP LJ4 drivers. Set everything up in the printer control panel and when I do an lpr -PHP1100 /etc/sendmail.cf it prints right away but there is a minimal margin and the print is cut off at the top, bottom, and sides. I tried to adjust th

Xscreensaver password dialogue image

2000-03-13 Thread Toby A. Rider
Simple question: I want to change the skull & crossbones images in the password dialogue box on Xscreensaver. I have a nice penguin I'd like to put in there. :-) Where does Xscreensaver look for that image on the filesystem and what is the filename of the image? Maybe I can save having to

Pop3 Problems

2000-03-13 Thread Scott Skrogstad
When user of mine tries to get their mail via pop3 and they get terminated during the process, when they dial back in to get their mail it won't let them because the other pop3 process is running. Is there anyway to change the timeout or to increase the sessions? Scott Skrogstad Computer Integr

Re: Using fdisk during install

2000-03-13 Thread Matt Housh
> Thanks. I assume you meant /tmp/sda, instead of /dev/sda. I did, I'm a moron :) Matt -- Matt HoushMorpheus.Net Administrator email: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) web: (http://jaeger.morpheus.net/) -

where to get latest rpm's for ssh?

2000-03-13 Thread sgulick
Newbie question: can anyone tell where to get the latest rpm's for ssh and what version they are? TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Sound card and hard disk

2000-03-13 Thread mohan mohta
Hi I am new to this list this might be stupid but it would be nice if you could answer . I am a newbie to linux since when i installed linux my sound card though get's detected but doesnt work I guess it is not supportd by linux Using setup command or sndconfig whenever I try to install it the sy

Re: shell script

2000-03-13 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Rodrigo Moya wrote: > I've got a text file containing the following: > > /dir/file1=/mnt/zip/dir/file1 > /dir/dir/file2=/mnt/zip/dir/dir/file1 > ... > > and like this with hundreds of files. What I want is to read all the > file and copy the files in the first position (to the left of '=') to >

Export Linux NFS to another Unix

2000-03-13 Thread Butler, Mike
I've got a Linux NFS mount exported and I can mount it from another Linux box with no problem. I would like to mount this from an AIX box. Anyone got any experience with such a thing? I am getting an error that vmount is not permitted from the AIX box. Thanks Mike -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAI

Re: [REDHAT] gnome pager (on helix gnome)

2000-03-13 Thread Charles Galpin
Ok, I tried switching back and forth between window managers. It looks like the pager only has one desktop under sawmill. Any regular sawmill users out there? Can you use the pager with more than one desktop? This may just be a helix bug. charles p.s. the top panle came back after switching des

Re: [REDHAT] gnome pager (on helix gnome)

2000-03-13 Thread Charles Galpin
funny enough, I'm using sawmill (since it was the default with helix), but I swear it was working originally. I did switch back to E, and then back to sawmill which might have done it. But since it was working when I got it, I like to think I can get it back. Then again, that top panel i was co

Re: [REDHAT] gnome pager (on helix gnome)

2000-03-13 Thread David Kramer
Charles Galpin wrote: > > Hi > > I somehow lost the multiple desktops on my gnome pager. There are 4 by > default, but now I have one. > > The properties shows settings for rows and columns of desktops, but > changing those settings doesn't help. I tried removing it and adding it, > but that di

sendmail 8.x

2000-03-13 Thread PICCINALI Jean-Guillaume
I am trying to configure sendmail 8. working within a linux network : 2 sparcs with RedHat6.1 and 1 Intel PC with RH 6.0 linked together by my etherlink hub. hostname : cyan.is.snpe_esm yellow.is.snpe_esm name+domainname : cyan.is.snpe_esm yellow.is.snpe_esm

Re: where to put portsentry and ipchains commands for pcmcia eth0?

2000-03-13 Thread Eric Rahmig
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Thomas Porter wrote: > Where do I put commands that I want activated when my eth0 interface > comes up under pcmcia control? What about deactivating these commands when I take >the interface down? Hi Tom, Try customizing /sbin/ifup-local and /sbin/ifdown-local. I also

Re: shell script

2000-03-13 Thread David E. Lupo
At 06:21 PM 3/13/00 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: >Hi all! > >I've got a text file containing the following: > >/dir/file1=/mnt/zip/dir/file1 >/dir/dir/file2=/mnt/zip/dir/dir/file1 >... > >and like this with hundreds of files. What I want is to read all the >file and copy the files in the first posit

RE: file cannot be stat-ed???

2000-03-13 Thread Ward William E PHDN
init 1 mount / -o remount,ro e2fsck -f /dev/hda1 mount / -o remount,rw init 3 cd /linux1/g1/kleen/ rm car.jpg Go to single user mode, remount the file system read only, run extended2 file system check in forced mode, correct errors found, remount the file system read/write, go back to run level3

shell script

2000-03-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! I've got a text file containing the following: /dir/file1=/mnt/zip/dir/file1 /dir/dir/file2=/mnt/zip/dir/dir/file1 ... and like this with hundreds of files. What I want is to read all the file and copy the files in the first position (to the left of '=') to the place specified by the st

Re: BEEP Alert

2000-03-13 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
Thank you VER much > >Read the hosts.allow and hosts.deny man pages for the TCP wrappers. >There are ways to invoke scripts on failed attempts. I even have >a WAV file of Lt. Wharf on STNG calling a security alert if you really >want to get perverted with this. ;-)

RE: [OT] Time syncing NT boxes (was: Time Server)

2000-03-13 Thread Ounsted, Toby
This is easy using timeserv which comes with the NT reskit. There's a little ini file and you just point it towards a time server. Easy as that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 March 2000

RE: Automounting a volume to a subdirectory

2000-03-13 Thread Ward William E PHDN
The reason that soft mounts can cause problems is that, if a client is brought up while the server is down, you can have constant network traffic from the client trying to connect to the server; same if the server is lost for a while in a dropout. However, the connection is not reset on a hardmou

Re: BEEP Alert

2000-03-13 Thread J. Scott Kasten
Read the hosts.allow and hosts.deny man pages for the TCP wrappers. There are ways to invoke scripts on failed attempts. I even have a WAV file of Lt. Wharf on STNG calling a security alert if you really want to get perverted with this. ;-) On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:41:02AM -0800, Wellington T

UUCP file size limit

2000-03-13 Thread Vidiot
Anyone know how to change the file size limitation that UUCP has? I need to increase it to basically unlimited. The last time I did something like this was way back in BSD Unix days and did it through soource changes. Hopefully there is a config value. Thanks in advance. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: secure ftp

2000-03-13 Thread J. Scott Kasten
That's where someone intercepts your data stream with the server. To you, he pretends to be the server, to the server, he pretends to be you. Basicly he's carying on a session with you an the server. This is an old trick for getting people's ATM PIN numbers, etc... Think of a fake ATM machine pro

Re: secure ftp

2000-03-13 Thread J. Scott Kasten
Configuring SSH is not difficult. The configuration need only be done on the server to determine the authentication method(s) of choice and a few other parameters. The clients will negotiate with the server to determine what is allowed. I would forgo the RSA key authentication and just use simp

RE: OT: fonts in Netscape

2000-03-13 Thread Ward William E PHDN
I saw this, and had to butt in... I the sysadmin for a bunch of machines... not by training (I have only a few formal classes on sysadmin, all taken while I was getting my masters... and mostly dealing with the networking aspects of DNS/Bind/YP) nor by inclination, nor even by job title... it's

RE: IPCHAINS very simple question

2000-03-13 Thread Frank Carreiro
Cool... Thx for the link. Good info there. Thx again!!! Frank www.xmission.com/~dmacleod > > Hi Frank, > > Try this page: > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/ipchains2.html > > it helped me. > > > Cindy -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows NT r

RE: how to get text only man pages?

2000-03-13 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
I think that the right way to do is: man rpm |colcrt > rpm.txt Will do the magic,if you want to print do the same command but send the commando for your printer device likeL man rpm | colcrt > /dev/lp0 >I am not in linux, but I believe there is a -t or -T that will process the >files, but I don

where to put portsentry and ipchains commands for pcmcia eth0?

2000-03-13 Thread Thomas Porter
I recently got a laptop which uses a combo pcmcia card for connectivity. This means that I do not have eth0 or ppp0 active all the time. With ppp on my desktop machine, I know I can put commands to be executed when the ppp interface comes up in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, and turn them off in /etc/ppp

RE: how to get text only man pages?

2000-03-13 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I am not in linux, but I believe there is a -t or -T that will process the files, but I don't know what the output looks like before printing. I typically do "man -t ldapd | lpr -PHP882C" and it prints the information directly. I think the filter is groff if I remember correctly, does anyone know

Re: driver

2000-03-13 Thread psv
"Indra D.Kurniawan" ïèøåò: > > Hello redhat-list-request, > > I'm a newbie, so please tell me how to install a driver for my sound > card. I have its linux driver but I can't install it. I'm using > redhat 6.1. > Hi! (On behalf of redhat-list-request :) If in your box installed well-know

Re: IPCHAINS very simple question

2000-03-13 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:54:42PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: [...] > I don't think portsentry will modify ipchains but I could be wrong > about that. I think that's configurable. portsentry can either use tcp wrappers, simply drop the route and/or add a firewall rule when it detects a scan. I haven

BEEP Alert

2000-03-13 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
Hi,list! i want to know,howto make my server BEEP on non autorized access? kind a ,grab some not friend IP from log trying to connecting to telnet port for example,then make the computer BEEP for infinite untill some responsable for the server check whats going on. Thanks _

Re: APM vs. SMP

2000-03-13 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Or my 2*PIII550 desktop. :-) Thanks a lot for that Jason. I'll try it tonight. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Regards Gustav Jason Costomiris wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 09:47:16AM -0800, Toby A. Rider wrote: > : Edward Schernau wrote: > : > The kernel will n