how do you know the NIC is working?

2000-04-27 Thread Zaigui Wang
I thought my NIC was working, but now ... when I did a "traceroute localhost" or "taceroute 192.168.1.1(the ip I assigned to the NIC)" it reported "could not find any interfaces". I am using SMC eznet 10/100 pci NIC, which is supposedly supported by the rtl3198 driver (not sure though). I was ab

fwd: In Memorium of Phil Katz of pkzip

2000-04-27 Thread Bill Ries-Knight
CNET | Digital Dispatch DNA Computing, Guide to Start Pages, ICQ 2000a Arrives April 27, 2000 Vol. 6, No. 17 News of Phil Katz's death was just made public earlier this week. You may never have heard of Phil Katz, but chances are, you've used the product he's known for. Back in 1986, Katz devel

Re: Netscape plug-ins

2000-04-27 Thread Me
David Talkington wrote: > > Me wrote: > : > :/usr/bin/xpdf %s > > Thanks -- where is there documentation on that stuff? > > Peace -d I dunno... it was too long ago that I figured it out. -- mozilla Be Counted ---> http://counter.li.org:80/index.html -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Netscape plug-ins

2000-04-27 Thread David Talkington
Me wrote: : :/usr/bin/xpdf %s Thanks -- where is there documentation on that stuff? Peace -d : :-- :mozilla :Be Counted ---> http://counter.li.org:80/index.html : : : -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Netscape plug-ins

2000-04-27 Thread Me
David Talkington wrote: > > Perhaps OT, but does anyone know what Netscape wants in order to pass > arguments to helper apps? If I set pdf files to be opened by > "/usr/bin/xpdf %h" (without quotes) for instance, then selecting a pdf > file on the web will start xpdf -- but won't open the docume

Install 6.2 onto an HPT366 ATA66 controller

2000-04-27 Thread Edward Schernau
The stock kernels dont have support for this, so 6.2 doesn't detect my disk on install. Any way to pass a module or something to get it to work? Ed -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: swap

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
> I'd caution keeping the insane amount of swap, especially on a mail > server. Yes, 99% of the time it won't use a fraction of the swap, but that > 1% of the time it will come in handy or keep the machine from running out > of memory. Unless you are cramped for space, I'd keep the swap around. >

Netscape plug-ins

2000-04-27 Thread David Talkington
Perhaps OT, but does anyone know what Netscape wants in order to pass arguments to helper apps? If I set pdf files to be opened by "/usr/bin/xpdf %h" (without quotes) for instance, then selecting a pdf file on the web will start xpdf -- but won't open the document. Same thing happens with Acror

hp deskjet

2000-04-27 Thread Mark Basil
Does anyone have any info about getting the HP Deskjet 970Cse working, either parallel port or usb interface? Kinda sucks not being able to print anything. Thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: hard disk access

2000-04-27 Thread Mark Basil
Yeah, they are gone, it's just that I didn't hear them get deleted--didn't hear the disk do anything, and it was an instantaneous delete Oh well, I'm not going to worry about this, I'm just happy I got the /usr remounted on another disk. And another thing, completely off subject, shouldn't g

RE: X windows problem in red-hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Its a Video Card, check www.3dfx.com, im sure they have a list of distributors. Kirk >At 05:23 PM 4/27/00 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Kirk, > >Can you please let me know how to get Voodoo3. Is it >free download or paid. > >thabsk in adv for your help. > > >Bpandey > >__

last_ack queue keeps making pppd redial

2000-04-27 Thread Bret Hughes
On the demand pppd setup I am working on I have a box that I used a browser (lynx) to view the configuration and statistics for a switch with a web interface. The switch is on the other side of my demand pppd link. after I closed lynx and the link shut down, it kept redialing and then hanging ba

Re: hard disk access

2000-04-27 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 07:15:53PM -0400, Mark Basil wrote: > I recently transfered my /usr folder to it's own partition, which happens to > be on a different physical drive than /. But there's no problem there, it > just brought me to find something else. The new hard drive that I'm using > is

setting mail server in exmh

2000-04-27 Thread Hugo Bouckaert
Hi I have a problem with exmh version 2.0.2-7. Suddenly the person using it could not send mail anymore, although mail could still be received with exmh. So I thought I have a look if the outgoing mail server was set up properly. To my astonishment there is no option to set the outgoing and inco

SMC 3016TP ISA ethernet adapter supported?

2000-04-27 Thread Charles Galpin
Can anyone verify if this card will work under linux (RH 6.2) I used the DOS conf_tst.exe program to verify it was ok, with jumpers manually set to irq 5, port 300h. I tried the smc-ultra module and all I get is Apr 27 19:49:42 gateway kernel: smc-ultra.c: No SMC Ultra card found (i/o = 0x30 0

RE: X windows problem in red-hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
Vodoo 3000 is a videocard. -Manuel. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: subscribe confirmation for redhat-list [000426224611901]

2000-04-27 Thread Nat Bayles
Thankx for the input on the FTP everyone... -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Repositioning Desktop Icons

2000-04-27 Thread John P. Verel
Hi, Jake Yeah, this is a dumb one. If I create a new launcher icon, it insists on going to the lower left corner of the desktop. I am unable to drag and move it anywhere. Right click, etc. are to no avail. Copy and/or move are greeted with an error message saying that the source and target ar

RE: X windows problem in red-hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread Bhuwan Pandey
Hi Kirk, Can you please let me know how to get Voodoo3. Is it free download or paid. thabsk in adv for your help. Bpandey __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- To uns

RE: X windows problem in red-hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread Danny
Firstly your Video Card is Not supported with the version of XFree86 that comes with RH 5.2 - You should checkout www.xfree86.org -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

hard disk access

2000-04-27 Thread Mark Basil
I recently transfered my /usr folder to it's own partition, which happens to be on a different physical drive than /. But there's no problem there, it just brought me to find something else. The new hard drive that I'm using is an ultra2 scsi Seagate 4.5 Gigwhich leads to me to the question:

ppp-watch hangs ifup ppp0

2000-04-27 Thread Bret Hughes
I've been working for the better part of two days (I am a little ashamed to admit) on gettting a redhat 6.2 dial on demand thing working and all the associated routing stuff working. This is not your normal default route to the internet type of deal, but that is beside the point I am asking abou

raid install

2000-04-27 Thread Jim Baxter
Hi gang, Well we are on to the next level. Raid When we do mkfs /dev/md0 it hangs after the line that says SCSI 0 : tag queing now active for target 1 Ps aux status is D which I think means an ultimate sleep Also, none of the samples seem to show which partitions ie sda5 is To be mirrored t

RE: X windows problem in red-hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>The system configurations are : >>AMD-6 500 MHZ >>64MB RAM >>COMPAQ MV720 monitor, Video Card : SIS 530 The SIS 530 will not work with the XFree86 in RedHat 5.2, I tried that a long time ago. It might work in 6.2 not sure, Im us

Re: Redat 6.2 and Geoforce 256 DDR

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Dixon
i think that nvidia gave up on the support for 3.3.6 and are just doing stuff for 4.0. they just released drivers for 4.0 a couple of days ago. On 27 Apr 2000, Rob Ruth wrote: > Anyone had any luck w/ 6.2 running w/ the 64 meg DDR card that Dell is > shipping in their 800 MHz Dimesions? > > A

Redat 6.2 and Geoforce 256 DDR

2000-04-27 Thread Rob Ruth
Anyone had any luck w/ 6.2 running w/ the 64 meg DDR card that Dell is shipping in their 800 MHz Dimesions? Any help would be appreciated. -Rob -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: X windows problem in red-hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
The information you are giving is not enough to help. You require to know the SiS model number of your video card. Actually, the XFree86 that comes with RH 5.2 will not support many SiS cards (there are some versions of RH after 5.2: 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2, which is the "current"). After looking at th

Re: swap

2000-04-27 Thread Hidong Kim
Steve Feehan wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: > > > You can use fdisk to repartition the 1 G space into a smaller swap and > > another regular (ext2) partition. If you're going to reconfigure your > > swap space, you'll get better performance with one large swap instead of > >

Re: 6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread Kerry Blalock
Bad service you did to RH list with this message. This is at least the tenth time I have had to look at it, and will proballt see a lot more before you get back. Robert Burton wrote: > > >I am away from the office until > >tuesday 2nd may,2000 > >Michuki and Jimmy will help. I will be in to

Re: swap

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Feehan
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: > You can use fdisk to repartition the 1 G space into a smaller swap and > another regular (ext2) partition. If you're going to reconfigure your > swap space, you'll get better performance with one large swap instead of > multiple smaller ones. Good luck,

logrotate always fails with missingok option

2000-04-27 Thread Darryl Harvey
I just upgraded my samba, now I get an error every time logrotate runs; error: samba:3 unknown option 'missingok' -- ignoring line error: samba:11 unknown option 'missingok' -- ignoring line This option "missingok" always gives this error, so why is it in logrotate scripts? my samba script

Re: 6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 03:16 PM 4/27/00 -0400, you wrote: >Well, I got 6.2 installed, and also installed the errata. As an interesting >aside, after installing the new kernel and sources, I had to recompile as it >broke my networking - just as well, as it's now a meaner, cleaner kernel. > >OK, as I said before, I wa

Re: 6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: 6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread Adam Sleight
The problem is that his Vacation Auto-Reply with whatever mail server he is using isn't checking whether the message is Human-Generated or not...thus email bombing. I think it should check for Headers such as Precendence: list or bulkobviously it's not. I think Owen Taylor at redhat is the c

Re: 6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: 6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread Robert Burton
>I am away from the office until >tuesday 2nd may,2000 >Michuki and Jimmy will help. I will be in touch with Dine. > >Regards > >Solomon > > > >-- >To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" >as the Subject. Who do we talk to for gettin this guy unsubscribed from the list? I lo

6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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6.2 installed, what now? (Long winded as usual)

2000-04-27 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Well, I got 6.2 installed, and also installed the errata. As an interesting aside, after installing the new kernel and sources, I had to recompile as it broke my networking - just as well, as it's now a meaner, cleaner kernel. OK, as I said before, I want ftp, telnet, smtp, pop, and http availab

Re: linksys 10/100 PCMCIA driver?

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: linksys 10/100 PCMCIA driver?

2000-04-27 Thread Robert Glover
Try the tulip driver., but first check out www.linksys.com THis link in particular might be helpful: http://www.linksys.com/support/solution/nos/linux_lne100tx.htm > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:44:27 -0400 (EDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Does anyone know which

Re: recovering if samba server reboots

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: recovering if samba server reboots

2000-04-27 Thread Robert Glover
I usually just, umount the mount point and the mount it again. umount will gripe and complain, but it in the end it will (for me) un-mount the share (Try umount twice in a row to see if you get a differnt error message the second time.) Then you can just mount it again the usual way. In my case

X windows problem in red-hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread Bhuwan Pandey
Hi Linux Gurus, I am trying to be familiar with Red-Hat Linux 5.2 installation and alomost it is done accept the X window. After login as root I was not able to launch the X windows on my linux system. let

Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread Sam Bayne
What is it about Commercial backup software that you like? The proprietary tape formats, the unencrypted client/server communications, or the crappy tech support? Just not kidding, hee hee. We've got the nightmare of all backup situations here, with multiple platforms (Netware 3.12, Netware 5.0,

Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread Robert Burton
Adam, >I plan on getting a new 2U rackmount with one 9G and two 36GB SCSI's for a >SAMBA server. >I use tar currently for my mail server and it works fine. However, for >this SAMBA server >I'd prefer a "commercial" solution. I need to *remotely* backup/restore >this server...no I just ordere

Re: Ecommerce

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: Ecommerce

2000-04-27 Thread Robert Burton
>I would like to setup a ecommerce server. Can anyone point me to a howto >on this. I have purchased RH 6.2 professional. Do I have to have a >certificate to do this or can I just setup shop? > Scott, If you got the RH Pro, it's books should help you along, that's all I really used when I bo

Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread Jake McHenry
I would recommend using ArcServeIT, I have been using this for about two years now without any problems. I would'nt try the beta software on your production machine, though. Start with an existing released version, then work your way up. I haven't messed around with any others, but ArcServeIT has

Re: OT: video capture card

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: OT: video capture card

2000-04-27 Thread ::--Koshy Kerteya--~!~
Aopen AX59Pro (Kind of confused, somewhere the document mentioned it being patched, later, it said the board was incompatiable) Well, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this... ->>may I know what motherboard u are using...? -> ->Pine Technologies dual slot 1 with dual P3 -500s -> ->>cos my motherboard is

Re: linux boxes cannot see each other!

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
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Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
I am away from the office until tuesday 2nd may,2000 Michuki and Jimmy will help. I will be in touch with Dine. Regards Solomon -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: linux boxes cannot see each other!

2000-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 11:20 AM 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote: >I also thought this is a routing problem. I am not in front of my machine >right now. So have no idea what the routing table willl be like. > >How do you add route anyway? I have only two machines on the network at >this moment. > man route -- To unsubscr

Re: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread tcurl
My take; Arkeia - nice looking interface but very complex to setup and use. For an enterprise level back-up with a full time backup operator it will be great. They should have made an abbreviated setup for the smaller site. ArcServe - should be in some other business. Their products occasion

Re: Any comments? Fwd: [LAW] Security problem in RH 6.2

2000-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 09:00 AM 4/27/00 +1200, you wrote: >I havent seen any mention of this on the list, but it seems to be an important >point. > > > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1757740.html > It was announced on the RedHad Announce and Security lists, along with the fix. It looks like someone at Redha

RE: Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread Ward William E PHDN
I only have one thing to add, that you've left off the list. Veritas Netbackup is VERY good a bit more expensive, but it will easily handle any tape library you throw at it... and it has the ability to also automatically backup all of your other servers and workstations. It works fine with R

Commercial BACKUP software

2000-04-27 Thread Adam Sleight
I plan on getting a new 2U rackmount with one 9G and two 36GB SCSI's for a SAMBA server. I use tar currently for my mail server and it works fine. However, for this SAMBA server I'd prefer a "commercial" solution. I need to *remotely* backup/restore this server...no monitor or keyboard will be

X WIndows problem with Red-Hat 5.2

2000-04-27 Thread Bhuwan Pandey
Hi Linux Gurus, I am trying to be familiar with Red-Hat Linux 5.2 installation and alomost it is

Re: OT: video capture card

2000-04-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>may I know what motherboard u are using...? Pine Technologies dual slot 1 with dual P3 -500s >cos my motherboard is one of the in-compatiable (!!) What kind of motherboard are you running? >Other than that, I was intending to get WinTV-theater / TV-GO >or StudioMP10 from pinnacles (depe

Re: linux boxes cannot see each other!

2000-04-27 Thread Zaigui Wang
I also thought this is a routing problem. I am not in front of my machine right now. So have no idea what the routing table willl be like. How do you add route anyway? I have only two machines on the network at this moment. On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > At 00:29 2000-04-27 -0

Re: OT: video capture card

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Dowling
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, ::--Koshy Kerteya--~!~ wrote: > Hi, > > OT topic...anyone has a video capture card (TV cards? watever?) > that is working well with RH ? > I 'm just hoping for the path with least headaches / curses :) > Most cards are PCI (I think) > > thanks for any advice!! > Hiya

Re: Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread David Talkington
Robert Glover wrote: : :Also, check the permissions on the root directory with "ls -ld /" Oops. Object lesson: when you're sure you've checked everything, check it again -- but get some sleep first. Thanks -d -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Ecommerce

2000-04-27 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I would like to setup a ecommerce server. Can anyone point me to a howto on this. I have purchased RH 6.2 professional. Do I have to have a certificate to do this or can I just setup shop? Scott Skrogstad Computer Integration Inc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800-522-3475 Phone -- To unsubscribe: mail

linksys 10/100 PCMCIA driver?

2000-04-27 Thread redhat
Does anyone know which driver I should use for this card? TIA Steve Uptime: 11:43am up 11 days, 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.38, 0.97 -- Steven J. Gulick Cornerstone Development, LLC. www.cornerstonect.com Voice: (203) 855-1501 Fax:(203) 838-9597

OQ-Need info on Setting up a Bastillion Host

2000-04-27 Thread redhat
Can any one point me in the right direction for info on how to properly set up a Bastillion Host using Linux? TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: xterm problem with ATI Xpert 128 (Rage 128) and Xfree86 3.3.6

2000-04-27 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 16:21:21 -0400 (EDT) | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Summary: in an xterm window, line are sometimes rendered in the wrong | position, but only with ATI Xpert 128 and | XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-15.i386.rpm. This is in the bugzilla database as bug number 10656 (

Re: swap

2000-04-27 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, eric clover wrote: > hello > first , thank you to all that have helped me on my other questions. > next , > my boss set up a mail server , with 256m ram , and a (I don't know why he > did this) 1g (yes , I said 1 gig) swap! > we are lucky if the server uses like over 500k of

Permissions with automounter

2000-04-27 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
Hello, I use automount (autofs) to mount my windoz disks when going after data. The docs in Redhat 6.1 are cyclic (here points you to there which points you to here). I can't find an answer for my problem. The problem: when a non-root user goes to an automounted disk, his permissions are 755.

RE: swap

2000-04-27 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
I've never done this, but should be something as: 1.) Run fdisk, be careful to modify only your swap. 2.) Remove swap. 3.) Recreate swap the size you want. 4.) Use the remaining space for a new partition. 5.) Move there the data you want. -Manuel. > -Mensaje original- > De: eric clover

re:sendmail + masquerade + returned email

2000-04-27 Thread Hyung Kim
I was actually able to resolve the issue. Basically, since I am using sendmail by masquerading through my isp, an undelivered email bounces to my isp and not to me. Since the login for my local machine is different from that of my isp, my isp does not know to send the bounced email on to me. Th

recovering if samba server reboots

2000-04-27 Thread Hyung Kim
How do you recover if a samba server that you have mounted reboots before you can unmount? When the windows machine came back onto the network after rebooting, the root can not unmount or mount the shares on the samba file. If I look at my mount point, I can list the directory using 'ls', but no

Re: FTP Server Question

2000-04-27 Thread Steven Schramm
The following solution is working very well for me: To set up a chroot'd environment for real users on a wu-ftpd server, do the following: 1. Obtain the latest version of wu-ftpd from ftp.wu-ftpd.org (get the source- I have had problems with the 2.6.0-1.rpm) 2. Build and install wu-ftpd. 3. Foll

Re: OT: video capture card

2000-04-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Happauge WinTV, works great here. Im not sure about the fancy one with the remote though. Mabey someone else has experience with that. But the basic one works great. Kirk At 02:12 PM 4/27/00 +0800, you wrote: >Hi, > >OT topic...anyone has a video capture card (TV cards? watever?) >that is worki

RE: MP3, Sound Cards and Linux?

2000-04-27 Thread Head Technician @ Mathco.com
Does anyone know if Linux has support for the Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! MP3+? That one is suppose to be good for MP3 playback. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Mathias Bjorkman| | Head technician | | Mathco Computer

Re: Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread Robert Glover
> At 02:48 AM 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote: > > > >RH6.0 dialup gateway server, all security updates. Very strange > >issue, in which logins to all accounts except root fail with the > >following: "no directory /home/user". Permissions are fine on all > >home directories. Tried creating a new user,

Re: devise busy?

2000-04-27 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 08:53:39PM -0400, Mark Basil wrote: > I have a 200 Meg partition mounted as /root, and EVERY time I shutdown or > reboot, when the partitions are being unmounted, /root always fails three > times saying that the device is busy, and on the fourth time it goes through > and h

Any comments? Fwd: [LAW] Security problem in RH 6.2

2000-04-27 Thread AlphaByte
I havent seen any mention of this on the list, but it seems to be an important point. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1757740.html -- AlphaByte: PO Box 1941, Auckland, New Zealand Specialising in:Graphic Design, Education and Training, Technical Documentation, Consulting. http://www.alp

RE: Configuring LILO SOLVED!

2000-04-27 Thread Jeff Graves
Well, i finally got it working. Boots all three. I gave up on lilo because (after extensive reading) i found that lilo will not boot if it is on anything but the first hard drive. And windows nt will not boot unless it is the first hard drive. I found both in documentation but i beg to differ

Re: downloading web sites

2000-04-27 Thread AlphaByte
Thanks Edward, I found another Java based application that seems to work pretty well on Linux. One problem I found with wget was that it did not like some directory formats, in particular those with slashes that go the Win way (/ cf \). And Vidiot was a little correct in that some files did not

Re: Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Is this machine connected? Did you compare the existing login application with the rpm database? Did you compare it with what's in the .rpm on the installation CD? Whenever there's a problem with login, one should be suspicious. Regards Gustav David Talkington wrote: > > Yes, I wouldn't ordi

Re: Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread David Talkington
Yes, I wouldn't ordinarily leave /home wide open; I had loosened it deliberately while beating on this (it's late, I was frustrated =). I was mad enough to go nuts with chmod -R 777 willy-nilly, too. =) Believe me, I'm sure file perms aren't my problem. There's gotta be a lock file somewhe

Re: Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 03:03 AM 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote: > >777 and 755, respectively. > Well, 755 is good for bash, but I don't like the 777 for /home! I don't think home should be world writable. I would also double check the ownership of the home directories, as you may have problems there. Mikkel -- Do n

Re: help with df command

2000-04-27 Thread Allen Bolderoff
watch df - Original Message - From: "Scott Kindley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 5:10 AM Subject: help with df command > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A while back someone told me you could alt-f2 and login to a secon

Re: Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread David Talkington
777 and 755, respectively. Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: :At 02:48 AM 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote: :> :>RH6.0 dialup gateway server, all security updates. Very strange :>issue, in which logins to all accounts except root fail with the :>following: "no directory /home/user". Permissions are fine on

Re: Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 02:48 AM 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote: > >RH6.0 dialup gateway server, all security updates. Very strange >issue, in which logins to all accounts except root fail with the >following: "no directory /home/user". Permissions are fine on all >home directories. Tried creating a new user, and that us

Unable to login except as root

2000-04-27 Thread David Talkington
RH6.0 dialup gateway server, all security updates. Very strange issue, in which logins to all accounts except root fail with the following: "no directory /home/user". Permissions are fine on all home directories. Tried creating a new user, and that user got the same results. Tried editing /et

Re: sendmail +masquerade +returned mail

2000-04-27 Thread Richard Harvey Chapman
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Hyung Kim wrote: > Well here is the answer to my question. However it > does not provide the solution I'm looking for. It > only leads to another question. > > With the current configuration of sendmail, the user > name used to define the return-path is the user on the > l

Re: need routing advice for home network

2000-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 03:39 AM 4/27/00 GMT, you wrote: >Good morning all. > >I have a 3 machine home network connected to the ISP by modem . > >After lots of problems which turned out to be caused by >mostly 'bad hardware'... 2 bad Nics and a bad cable >I am finally getting close to a working solution on >my home ne

Re: linux boxes cannot see each other!

2000-04-27 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 00:29 2000-04-27 -0500, Zaigui Wang wrote: > >It is frustrating and feels stupid too. I have all the files ready >(/etc/hosts,/etc/sysconfig/network, etc.) I have assigned prviate ip # to the machine. >My NIC is working (they show up upon "ifconfig eth0" command). But I could >ping the other ma

Re: swap

2000-04-27 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Eric, You may also want to look at cfdisk. The user interface, though requiring ncursors, is nicer IMO. Plus, the man page of fdisk says something like: "Don't use fdisk 'cause it's buggy. Use cfdisk instead." (!?!?!?!) Anyway, I found cfdisk more intuitive than fdisk. YMMV. Regards Gustav Hid

Re: MP3, Sound Cards and Linux?

2000-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 08:14 PM 4/26/00 -0400, you wrote: >The digest had the following: > >(Quote on) >From: Yoink! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: MP3, Sound Cards and Linux? > >On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote: >> I am planning to transform many of my cds to mp3 so I can listen to them >> from t