Tripwire Config.

After being burned by the bind exploit I've re-installed my system (6.1) andinstalled Tripwire 2.2.1. When i ran './tripwire --init' I got lots of"Error 101. No such file or directory" so I noted them all and re-edited twpol.txt and then re-ran the twadmin scripts. Now it compiles fine wi

How to get my Xircom modem work

Can anyone tell me how to configure the credit card modem work, I followed the instruction from the manual but still couldn't make it work(A message of " modem busy " pop up everytime.) Thank you in advance!!! Bill __ Get Your Private, Free E

Checking quota level with FTP?

I just enabled quotas on my system, which was relatively painless! I know I can check my quota by typing in "quota -v" when I am logged in. Is there any way to check quota level via FTP? I don't allow users to telnet in, and they need a way to check on their quota. Thanks, Wes -- To unsub

SCCS

Title: SCCS Is SCCS available on Red Hat Linux 6.1 ? If not, is there any other alternative utility available for configuration management? Sangeeta Huria

Re: perl guru help please

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:17:11PM +1100, Dan Horth wrote: | that was a zero - they all are now! all 2Gb of text file worth of | them - thanks... just creating a large file full of 0's to test the | dat compression with. thanks loads... :) | | gotta love perl! really want to learn it properly s

Re: XFree86 4.0 packages available

Steve Dixon wrote: > i got it to work with my rage128 at work, but some apps wouldnt work > right. I got lockups on one machine when X exited (logout or switched vt's), and bad colormap corruption on another. And XFS doesn't work the way it used to. And XF86Setup hasn't been maintained I'm

Re: XFree86 4.0 packages available

i got it to work with my rage128 at work, but some apps wouldnt work right. Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > Much like xf86config, it's a nice > > start for vi /etc/X11/XF86Config, but that's about all it is. > > I'll concede that there's a difference between an X ser

Re: perl guru help please

that was a zero - they all are now! all 2Gb of text file worth of them - thanks... just creating a large file full of 0's to test the dat compression with. thanks loads... :) gotta love perl! really want to learn it properly soon ... thanks again. dan. At 22:09 -0700 15/3/00, Philippe Moutarl

Re: perl guru help please

Charles Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > no need to use perl, use vi! > > haha, I can barely look functional in vi > > perl -pi -e 's/\n/0/g' file > > that's a zero right? > Yes, I was also wondering : I hope that is an ASCII zero he wants to put there ... not the NULL character. P

Re: perl guru help please

no need to use perl, use vi! haha, I can barely look functional in vi perl -pi -e 's/\n/0/g' file that's a zero right? charles On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Dan Horth wrote: > hiya - can someone tell me a neat perl one liner to replace a carriage return > \n with a 0 in a file > > tia - dan. -- T

perl guru help please

hiya - can someone tell me a neat perl one liner to replace a carriage return \n with a 0 in a file tia - dan. - Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics & Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx (+61 2) 9810 0199 http://www.nitro.com.au/ -- To unsubs

Re: Formatting manual pages for printing?

>Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> >John >> >> >> >> Another way is: groff -man manpage_file | lpr >> >> or: groff -man manpage_file > manpage_file.ps >BTW : how do you do the above thing with Vi ? >Philippe You don't have to use VI when it can be done on the command line

DDS3 & HW compression?

Hiya - I've been scratching my head over this one for quite a while - and still have no joy :( We have a Seagate Scorpion 12/24 on our file server and use this to run overnight backups using BRU. I have the DIP switches set to enable DDS-DC hardware compression I've also tried using mt to enab

Re: Formatting manual pages for printing?

Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >John > >> > >> Another way is: groff -man manpage_file | lpr > >> or: groff -man manpage_file > manpage_file.ps > >> > >> Too much work to do it in EMACS. > >> > >> MB > > > >Cool. But what exactly are you trying to say, vi boy? > > > >Yeah

Re: remind

At 08:21 AM 3/15/00 -0800, you wrote: > >anyone had any luck with remind. trying to run and >output isn't outputting. i create my MSG statement >and it is not outputting to standard output. anyone >out there use remind, maybe give me a couple simple >pointers. > >matt > Hi Matt, Here is

Re: XFree86 4.0 packages available

Just not to give only bad report about 4.0 : I works wonderfully for me right out of the box using a 3DFx. I dno't know about the package, but the source + compile method works for me. Even get q3 running in its little window. Philippe Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bernhard

Re: Formatting manual pages for printing?

>> >John >> >> Another way is: groff -man manpage_file | lpr >> or: groff -man manpage_file > manpage_file.ps >> >> Too much work to do it in EMACS. >> >> MB > >Cool. But what exactly are you trying to say, vi boy? > >Yeah. I went there. > >Eric Cifreo That practically any oth

Re: XFree86 4.0 packages available

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > Much like xf86config, it's a nice > start for vi /etc/X11/XF86Config, but that's about all it is. I'll concede that there's a difference between an X server that starts, and one that works :) However, the X server doesn't seem to really _work_ however it's config

Re: what is runlevel 6 ?

Seems like some of the messages at boot are done before the timezone thing happens but I can't remember if that is in demsg only or not. We were looking at some logs and noticed some events happening 6 hours before ones earlier and had us scratchin our heads for a few minutes and several reboots

Re: Formatting manual pages for printing?

> >John > > Another way is: groff -man manpage_file | lpr > or: groff -man manpage_file > manpage_file.ps > > Too much work to do it in EMACS. > > MB Cool. But what exactly are you trying to say, vi boy? Yeah. I went there. Eric Cifreo Austin, TX -- To unsubscribe: mail

Re: Formatting manual pages for printing?

On 03/15/00, 08:49:25PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > > Another way is: groff -man manpage_file | lpr > or: groff -man manpage_file > manpage_file.ps > > Too much work to do it in EMACS. Interesting! Thanks for this one. John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Formatting manual pages for printing?

> >On 03/15/00, 10:21:31AM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: >> I would like to convert some manual pages to PostScript so >> that I could print them. > >An easy way to do this is in Emacs. See the help|manuals and then >tools|print|postscript print buffer. > >John Another way is: groff -man

Re: Formatting manual pages for printing?

On 03/15/00, 10:21:31AM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > I would like to convert some manual pages to PostScript so > that I could print them. An easy way to do this is in Emacs. See the help|manuals and then tools|print|postscript print buffer. John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PRO

Re: A couple of dumb Xwindows questions

Ok, if you use ssh to connect, you should have to do nothing. Just ssh in, and check if it's set by doing echo $DISPLAY and you should see it's set to the box you are sshing from (this of course assumes you are running an X server on the box you are sshing from) test it with xclock& hth charl

Re: Suddenly, linuxconf is segfaulting (SOLVED)

Matthew Saltzman wrote: > The ltrace convinced me that the problem was with the /etc/dhcpd.conf > file, although that was not the last file accessed. VMware manages a > special DHCP on its own virtual subnet for the virtual machine. They > recommend that those already managing DHCP include an en

Re: connecting 2 locations 24/7 via the internet

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone enlighten me or point me in the right direction? Go to: http://www.linuxdoc.org Look in the howto's for the VPN-HOWTO. It's a simple procedure to run ppp over an ssh tunnel. MSG -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject

Re: Suddenly, linuxconf is segfaulting (SOLVED)

Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> Wierd. All of a sudden, linuxconf has started terminating with a >> segfault as soon as I start it up. > >I usually do something like: >strace linuxconf 2>&1 | grep open >or: >ltrace linuxconf 2>&1 >when programs crash. Try t

Re: what is runlevel 6 ?

At 11:53 16/03/00, you wrote: >At 21:41 10/03/00 -0800, you wrote: >>Hi all, >>What is runlevel 6? One of my machines has a log >>entry saying entering runlevel 6 than it looks like it >>shutdown and rebooted. Everyone assures me that >>they did not lose their connection to that machine and >>that

Re: OT Web Server Detector

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:09:45PM -0500, Kevin Diffily wrote: > I remember seeing a utility a while back that can query a web server > and determine its type. Does anyone know of such a utility and its > source? Does this do enough? [hal@feenix hal]$ lynx -head http://redhat.com -dump | grep S

Re: OT Web Server Detector

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Kevin Diffily sent up smoke signals saying: KD>I remember seeing a utility a while back that can query a web server KD>and determine its type. Does anyone know of such a utility and its KD>source? http://www.netcraft.com/whats -- Chuck Mead, CTO/CEO, MoonGroup Consulting

OT Web Server Detector

I remember seeing a utility a while back that can query a web server and determine its type. Does anyone know of such a utility and its source? InterNetWorkingSolutions Your home for Busin

Re: what is runlevel 6 ?

At 21:41 10/03/00 -0800, you wrote: >Hi all, >What is runlevel 6? One of my machines has a log >entry saying entering runlevel 6 than it looks like it >shutdown and rebooted. Everyone assures me that >they did not lose their connection to that machine and >that to the best of their knowledge that

Re: man for windows

go to http://www.ctyme.com/linuxdoc.htm it has a lot of man pages... On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:01:32AM -0600, Chad W. Skinner wrote: >I am trying to find a man page viewer for ms windows so I can read >information at work. I know there was a project porting many of the common >unix commands to

connecting 2 locations 24/7 via the internet

OK, I don't quit know how to do this but am sure all you linux God's out there can lend a hand and point me in the right direction: I need to securely connect 2 offices together over a 24/7 internet connection so that clients at location A will be served by server at location B. The server and

Linux on Intel 820 or 840 chipsets???

Has anyone out there loaded Linux onto a system with a motherboard based on the intel 820 or 840 chipset? Have reliable word from a friend who builds systems for a living that slot 1 CPU's are going to be getting very hard to get; intel is quietly phasing out production of them in favor of the

Re: Which PC XServer to go with?

There is also a rather good PC X-Windows package called NetOps. Can't remember where to get it from, but it is commercial. I remember seeing it when I was making the choice. FWIW, I chose Exceed. Darryl At 06:10 16/03/00, you wrote: >Have You considered VNC? it works well here for that very

Re: A couple of dumb Xwindows questions

Ok, I am pretty new to this so maybe I am a bit slow but I just don't get it. Say I want to start X on a local box I first use ssh to connect once connected I just run the command: export DISPLAY=my_box_ip:0 when I do this nothing happens Steve On 15-Mar-2000 Charles Galpin wrote: > or just

Re: Permissions Question

To do that issue the following commands : - chmod -R 755 /some/directory/ and the chown command chown -R username:groupname /some/directory/ Instead of using username.group you should use username:groupname which is a much better way of doing it. On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Permissions Question

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:31:29AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ok, brain-fart, I was trying-rnot -R Yah, an annoyance. Most commands want -r for recursion, but that is already in use for the symbolic mode to chmod. Ah well... -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.0 packages available

Halcyon wrote: > Has anyone had experience with these packages yet? I *really* want the > nicer looking fonts in Netscape, but I'm afraid to try these rpms. :/ What nicer looking fonts? X still uses the same bitmapped fonts that it had before. If you want netscape to look better, find some d

Re: How to find value of PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > - The limit PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX defined in libpthreads.so > (change requires Linux kernel to be recompiled) > --end > snip > > My question is how do I find what values are

How to find value of PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX

In reading the README of the ibm jdk118 I find this information: begin snip -- If the number of Java threads exceeds the maximum number of processes allowed, your program might get an error message, a SIGSEGV error, or simply hang. The maximum

Re: Which PC XServer to go with?

Have You considered VNC? it works well here for that very thing. It is really remote control sort of thing but also works between two windows machines. AT&T had it on their web site but I would bet you can find it on freshmeat too. Bret Ed Lazor wrote: > > Other than Exceed from Hummingbird C

Re: XFree86 4.0 packages available

Has anyone had experience with these packages yet? I *really* want the nicer looking fonts in Netscape, but I'm afraid to try these rpms. :/ -Halcyon On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > For those who complained, XFree86 4.0 packages are now available. > > Before even consid

Re: Permissions Question

chmod -R chown -R http://www.peoplepublish.com Free Market Publishing, enabled by the Internet - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 11:22 AM Subject: Permissions Question > How do you change the permissions of a director

Re: Permissions Question

Ok, brain-fart, I was trying-rnot -R Thanks, Kirk >At 11:28 AM 3/15/00 -0700, you wrote: >chmod -R >chown -R >Usual reminder applies. > >Brad 'GreyBear' Davis - CTO, PeoplePublish, Inc. > >On the web at http://www.peoplepublish.com >

Re: Permissions Question

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:22:34 -0800 =>From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>Subject: Permissions Question =>Resent-Date: 15 Mar 2000 18:24:31 - =>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>

Permissions Question

How do you change the permissions of a directory recursivly? chmod 755 chown username.groupname *** Kirk -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: cant login

mohan mohta wrote: > out of curosity I just wanted to add somethinf else to the question > that is if the password protection is enabled in linux single user mode > and we either forget the password to linux single user mode and the root > password is there any way to recover them LILO boot: l

Re: Which PC XServer to go with?

NCD's PCXWare is also easier to configure than eXceed and we had more consistent results across a wide variety of hardware than when we used Hummingbird or WRQ's products. Earl Heather On 14 Mar 2000, at 22:25, Ed Lazor wrote: > > Other than Exceed from Hummingbird Communications, are there

Re: top for two cpus

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:25:11AM -0600, Steven Hildreth wrote: > Is this patch for Redhat 6.1? I also have a SMP machine and would > like top to display both CPU's. I downloaded the latest procps > (2.0.6-4) from http://www.rpmfind.net and installed it, but the > "patch" says it is for 2.1 kerne

Re: remind

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, matt boex wrote: > > anyone had any luck with remind? trying to run and > output isn't outputting. i create my MSG statement > and it is not outputting to standard output. anyone > out there use remind, maybe give me a couple simple > pointers. > > matt Hi Matt, I just

Re: RH6.1 on a Compaq Proliant 800

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Reinder van der Veen wrote: > Hi all, > > We are trying to install RH6.1 on a Compaq Proliant 800 (Pentium Pro 200 > Mhz). > > After installing RH6.1 and rebooting the system does nothing (black screen). > > Has anyone any experience with a Proliant 800? > > Reinder & Arj

remind

anyone had any luck with remind. trying to run and output isn't outputting. i create my MSG statement and it is not outputting to standard output. anyone out there use remind, maybe give me a couple simple pointers. matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk

Re: Netscape 4.7 needs improvement

Which means linux is still running. Normally logging in, if available, and killing X does the trick. Never had netscape do it, however. CCH wrote: > > Jeff Smelser wrote: > > > CCH wrote: > > > > > > Not only for Linux but also for Windows. Netscape seems to be alot of > > > problems. While i

RH6.1 on a Compaq Proliant 800

Hi all, We are trying to install RH6.1 on a Compaq Proliant 800 (Pentium Pro 200 Mhz). After installing RH6.1 and rebooting the system does nothing (black screen). Has anyone any experience with a Proliant 800? Reinder & Arjan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as

Re: top for two cpus

Is this patch for Redhat 6.1? I also have a SMP machine and would like top to display both CPU's. I downloaded the latest procps (2.0.6-4) from http://www.rpmfind.net and installed it, but the "patch" says it is for 2.1 kernel? Thanks for any information. Regards, Steven Hildreth Information Tec

Re: TCP Ports and Gnome

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why does Gnome (enlightment) open so many ports when it is turned on? ORBit > What is it listening for? CORBA requests. LLaP bero -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

TCP Ports and Gnome

Why does Gnome (enlightment) open so many ports when it is turned on? What is it listening for? I know 6000 if from X, but what of the others? Any Ideas?? This is with Gnome on: [kirk@shitbox kirk]$ netstat -a Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Addres

Re: XFree86 4.0 packages available

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Matt Housh wrote: > > I found, after compiling XFree86 4.0 from source, that xf86config > > worked fine. Is that a fluke? > > It worked here, too. As did `XFree86 -configure`. Not much else did, > however. XFree86 -configure does create wor

RE: Correct time format - Cronjob

On Tuesday, March 15, 2000, Stephen M Lavelle wrote: > What is the correct format for specifying 8:00hrs (8 am) in a cronjob? > Is it: > 0 8 > or 00 08 > I know that 17:30 is specified as 30 17 Either format will work fine. Use whichever you prefer. -- R

webcam

Hi, I'd like to setup a webcam server, I actually have an Apache 1.3 server running on a RH 6.1 Celeron 500 server. What i'd like to know is : - what sort of webcam shall i use (USB, parallel ?, what model ?.) - which software do i need (to run the cam, to interface with html pages) ? -

Re: Which PC XServer to go with?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Other than Exceed from Hummingbird Communications, are there other XServers >available for on the PC? The goal is to run X apps from my RedHat box and >have them display on the desktop of my PC. I've tried both Exceed and Reflection X (WRQ). They both work w

Formatting manual pages for printing?

I would like to convert some manual pages to PostScript so that I could print them. I already know about the option -t, for example, $ man -t fmirror > /var/tmp/fmirror.ps The default paper size used seems to be A4 in may system. How can I change this so I could use other paper sizes, li

RE: Wont accept login

I've seen this problem before.  It's caused by the GPM (console mouse 'driver') service.  This might sound weird but next time you boot up the computer press a key on the keyboard every 5 seconds.  Once the login prompt shows up you should be able to login.   Once logged in as root disable t

man for windows

I am trying to find a man page viewer for ms windows so I can read information at work. I know there was a project porting many of the common unix commands to windows, but can not find it. Does anyone know what this project is or of a man viewer for windows. Thanks, Chad -- To unsubscribe: mai

Re: acroread-4.05-2

Hmmm. Seems to be quite tricky to get something off of that server. Or am I the only one having problems downloading these? Regards Gustav Pierre Scotney wrote: > > The following RPM files: > >acroread-4.05-2.src.rpm(5930k) >acroread-4.05-2.i386.rpm (5700

RE: Which PC XServer to go with?

Check out the following page: http://www.microimages.com/mix/prices.htm On it you will find a comparision of the micrographics 2 x server and its competitors on the pc. Pretty good list of options to look into. Chad > -Original Message- > From: Ed Lazor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent

Re: A couple of dumb Xwindows questions

or just use ssh, and DISPLAY is setup for you automagically. Safer too. On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Cokey de Percin wrote: > > > > Normally, this information is lost when you disconnect. However, you can setup a >special user, say "nt_user", with a .login file which will reset the display each >time

Re: Netscape 4.7 needs improvement

"Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:57:13PM -0800, CCH wrote: > [...] > > That's true (almost). Netscape froze on me before in Linux and I use kill > > with right clicking on X button and it's gone. BUT, when I visited the java > > webpage then Netscape froze disa

Re: Netscape 4.7 needs improvement

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:57:13PM -0800, CCH wrote: [...] > That's true (almost). Netscape froze on me before in Linux and I use kill > with right clicking on X button and it's gone. BUT, when I visited the java > webpage then Netscape froze disabling my keyboard and my mouse moves still > but

Re: Which PC XServer to go with?

Ed Lazor wrote: > Other than Exceed from Hummingbird Communications, are there other XServers > available for on the PC? The goal is to run X apps from my RedHat box and > have them display on the desktop of my PC. > There is xwin32 which works pretty well. The company that makes the software i

during boootup network probs with 6.0

Hi, when the system boots up the system stops at the point where it says initializing interface lo [ok] initialing interface eth0 [ok] and then just hangs how do I get out and still login to theystem to see what is wrong..?? Thx., A -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

re:cant login

Hi out of curosity I just wanted to add somethinf else to the question that is if the password protection is enabled in linux single user mode and we either forget the password to linux single user mode and the root password is there any way to recover them OR if the password file g

Re: Netscape 4.7 needs improvement

Jeff Smelser wrote: > CCH wrote: > > > > Not only for Linux but also for Windows. Netscape seems to be alot of > > problems. While in Windows, Netscape caused general protection fault in > > Kernel. While in Linux, Netscape froze while viewing a few images using > > java taking my X windows wi