Re: rpm file not keeping accurate records of installed rpms

2000-05-13 Thread Steven Schramm
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > $ rpm -e mod_ssl-2.6.0_1.3.12-1.i586.rpm > error: package mod_ssl-2.6.0_1.3.12-1.i586.rpm is not installed > > But if I try to install it: > > $ rpm -i mod_ssl-2.6.0_1.3.12-1.i586.rpm > package mod_ssl-2.6.0_1.3.12-1 is already installed rpm -e mod_ssl-2.6.0_1.3.12-

console login and telnet probs..

2000-05-13 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Hello: Can anyone tell me where I should look for why my machine when I telnet to it or login as my own user account would give me this: I have no name!@mydomain myusername# What could be wrong or has my system been compromised in some way. If I try to run Pine from the above prompt I get this

restricting access

2000-05-13 Thread Hugo Bouckaert
Hi Is there a way to restrict access to a particular machine based on the ethernet card addresses of machines trying to make the connection? The machine I want to limit access to runs linux RedHat 6.0. I would like to limit access to this machine so only computers with specified ethernet card

Re: [OT] RAD cgi-form development

2000-05-13 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 16:09 2000-05-09 -0500, Alan Mead wrote: > From time to time I spend what seems like an inordinate amount of time >creating multi-page forms. I create them by hand-coding HTML and Perl >using CGI.pm. Because they are multi-form, I code the Perl to write the >HTML "on the fly" as in Lincoln

Re: How much is enough?

2000-05-13 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 17:04 2000-05-09 -0400, Jerry Human wrote: >A) First I'd like to know of some of the more_Linux_friendly >motherboards and how much memory is needed for an optimum system? While I'm not an expert on motherboards, almost any one should do. You should get at least 64MB of RAM if you plan to run

configuring single key password

2000-05-13 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello friends, I have RedHat 6.1 and RedHat 6.2 computers in my network. Sometimes I need to start Xwindow from one machine to another machine. I don't want to telnet to the remote machine and then start applications, what I want is to do a remote Xwindow login (with xdm). Th

Re: How much is enough?

2000-05-13 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:04:21PM -0400, Jerry Human wrote: [...] > > B) Second I was wondering if a 386DX25 with a 340 meg hard drive and > 32 meg of memory is a fast enough machine to use for a firewall and > print server? I intend to network all my older machines and since the > old 386 i

Initialize disk

2000-05-13 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I was just wondering if there was a "low level format" or initialize command / utility I could use to zero a disk. Can anyone tell me what utilities are used by the RH install process to do a format and check for bad blocks? basically I have a disk that I know has bad blocks on it and I w

problems with parallel port ZIP

2000-05-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! I've got 2 laptops (both the same model), with the same RedHat 6.1 kernel, and in one of them, I've got no problem when loading the ppa module and mounting the ZIP drive. But in the other one, when I run 'modprobe ppa', I get the following error: parport reports no device scsi: 0 hosts /

Playing VCDs in RH 6.1

2000-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I finally compiled xreadvcd Hmm...did anyone try to watch VCDs on RH 6.1? I used this xreadvcd -v -a 00:10.00 | mtvp - But I find that the video playback is not as good as on RH5.2 The video seems to have moments of "jerking" effects Is this due to a newer version of XFree? Or because of

Re: Filtering mail before sending to ANOTHER machine for delivery?

2000-05-13 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Don Knott wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Pete Peterson wrote: > > > We have a RedHat Linux mail gateway which receives all incoming mail from > > the outside and then relays most of it to other machines, including mostly > > Micro$oft Exchange servers for Outlook victims. > >

Re: rpm file not keeping accurate records of installed rpms

2000-05-13 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I recently re-installed 6.1, and now the system isn't keeping accurate > track of installed rpms. Yesterday I installed mod_ssl. I just tried to > uninstall it and received the following message: > > $ rpm -e mod_ssl-2.6.0_1.3.12-1.i586.rpm > er

PPP Dial-in Problems (routing??) RH6.2

2000-05-13 Thread Mark Bayles \(rh\)
Hello All, You will have to excuse my language regarding Linux but it is my 1st attempt at a *nix OS. Product: Redhat 6.2 (Zoot) - Kernel: 2.2.14-5.0 Issue: I have setup a dial-in Server to allow windows 9x,NT machines to dial in and get access to the Apache server based on the d

Re: ORB drives

2000-05-13 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Performance is not a major issue, reliability is, both drive and media. If the above is true, then in my opinion - DON'T EVEN CONSIDER DOING THIS!!! ALL drives our company has sold have come back broken, Castlewood's web support/e-mail support is non-existant and they've cost us and our custom

Re: RH on a 386?

2000-05-13 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Jim Baxter wrote: > I have been asked if RH 6.2 ( or 5.2 even) will run on a 386 with 32 mb > memory and 40mb hard disk. > Can't say why he wants to but I suspect it is some old junk he is wanting to > get some use out of. > > Does any one think it can be done and still do anything like run a bro

How do I create a restricted ftp account?

2000-05-13 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
How do I create a restricted ftp user account? This is for a webhosting server. Basically this client wants to have several users who can access different parts of /home/httpd/html/theirdomain without having access to the entire domain. I can accomplish this by setting them up as full users, but

VA-enhanced Red Hat Linux 6.2

2000-05-13 Thread John P. Verel
I've just seen a posting from VA Linux, indicating the availability of "VA-Enhanced Red Hat Linux 6.2 http://www.valinux.com/software/ Looks like they've added some current Power Tools, the kernel update and some other updates. Am I missing something or is this not worth the bother? John --

Apache 1.3.12 dies

2000-05-13 Thread Ganbold
Hi, Recently I upgraded my box from 6.1 to 6.2. Now apache-1.3.12-2 and php-3.0.16 is not working. PHP is compiled without any errors but when I enable load modules and add module lines for php3 apache starts but dies immediately. Nothing in log file. It worked before upgrade with apache-1.3.9-

Re: RH on a 386?

2000-05-13 Thread Victor R. Cardona
If he can get everything he needs to fit in 40mb, then I would guess yes. It should run on a 386 with 32mb. Victor On Tue, 9 May 2000, Jim Baxter wrote: > Hi Gang > > I have been asked if RH 6.2 ( or 5.2 even) will run on a 386 with 32 mb > memory and 40mb hard disk. > Can't say why he wants

RE: RH on a 386?

2000-05-13 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
> I have been asked if RH 6.2 ( or 5.2 even) will run on a 386 > with 32 mb > memory and 40mb hard disk. > Can't say why he wants to but I suspect it is some old junk > he is wanting to > get some use out of. > > Does any one think it can be done and still do anything like > run a browser? > > I b

Linux workstation behind firewall, how do I get it on the Net?

2000-05-13 Thread Brian Wright
Hello, List! I have a RedHat 6.1 box that is behind a firewall. It has DHCP setup so it gets a valid IP address. However, it doesn't get the DNS or gateway information, and I can't access the Internet this way. I need to know of a HOWTO or other document so I can get this box on the Internet.

Re: auto bcc on sendmail ?

2000-05-13 Thread Me
sixx wrote: > > Hi ppl, > > I was wondering how is it possible to do an auto bcc on sendmail for both > outgoing > and incoming mails. Has anybody done it and has a working config to share ? > Thanks. No. The only worthwhile reference I know for doing this with sendmail is at Harker Systems: h

Re: RH on a 386?

2000-05-13 Thread Toby A. Rider
Jim Baxter wrote: > > Hi Gang > > I have been asked if RH 6.2 ( or 5.2 even) will run on a 386 with 32 mb > memory and 40mb hard disk. > Can't say why he wants to but I suspect it is some old junk he is wanting to > get some use out of. > > Does any one think it can be done and still do anythin

Re: auto bcc on sendmail ?

2000-05-13 Thread Allen Bolderoff
it *can* be done, but is a real bitch of a thing to set up search the regular sendmail haunts for a copyto macro. -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC -

whither Red Hat?

2000-05-13 Thread Hidong Kim
Is the Red Hat list down again? I've gotten no Thursday postings today. I posted three messages yesterday, and I haven't seen any of them yet. Thanks, Hidong -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: command to keep job running after logout?

2000-05-13 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Barton Hodges ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I seem to have forgotten what the command > was to keep a job running even after I log > out of the console... can anyone help? man nohup Tom. -- .--. .^. | Tom Gilbert, England

Re: command to keep job running after logout?

2000-05-13 Thread rpjday
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Barton Hodges wrote: > I seem to have forgotten what the command > was to keep a job running even after I log > out of the console... can anyone help? > nohup. rday -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Open File Handles monitoring

2000-05-13 Thread MW Mike Weiner \(5028\)
Dear list readers - Let me give you a small amount of background first so you understand where i am coming from...first off, i am a sysadmin for americangreetings.com who runs a fairly large web server farm to push our pages and products. Currently 30% of our farm is sgi irix v6.5.5 and the othe

strange boot problem

2000-05-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
I don't know if this is LILO-related, mbr related, or unrelated to Linux, but I've never seen it before: Machine is Pentium 166, all SCSI, Adaptec 2940 controller. MB and BIOS are AMD. System is about 3 ~ 4 years old. I've had several versions of Linux on it, including the latest, on the secon

Install on SCSI box (6.1)

2000-05-13 Thread Mike Erickson
Hello, I'm currently trying to set up RH 6.1 on a box here at work. The box is a dual P2-400/128 with a ICP Vortex SCSI controller handling a IBM 9.1GB LZX SCSI-III drive. The box is running on a Asus P2B-D motherboard. The box started with just a 3.5" floppy drive, so I tried to get a FTP insta

Linux workstation behind firewall, how do I get it on the Net?

2000-05-13 Thread Brian Wright
Hello, List! I have a RedHat 6.1 box that is behind a firewall. It has DHCP setup so it gets a valid IP address. However, it doesn't get the DNS or gateway information, and I can't access the Internet this way. I need to know of a HOWTO or other document so I can get this box on the Internet.

Re: rpm file not keeping accurate records of installed rpms

2000-05-13 Thread erik
I think the problem is the command you issued.. you need to: $rpm -e mod_ssl and not &rpm -e mod_ssl-_1.3.12-1.i586.rpm hope this helps. -e- On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:36:47AM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: >I recently re-installed 6.1, and now the system isn't keeping accurate

Re: command to keep job running after logout?

2000-05-13 Thread fred smith
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:28:00AM -0500, Barton Hodges wrote: > I seem to have forgotten what the command > was to keep a job running even after I log > out of the console... can anyone help? > > Thanks. nohup And if for some reason that won't work for you (I've seen occasional cases w

test message - please ignore!!!

2000-05-13 Thread Prentice
This is just a test - it looks like I'm having problems posting to this list. -- Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton Plasma Physics Lab http://www.pppl.gov -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: MySQL weirdness

2000-05-13 Thread Mike Erickson
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Mark Basil wrote: > Try > > insert into user values ("localhost","username",password("$userpassword")); The kosher way is: grant select, insert, delete, update on database.table to user@domain identified by 'password'; this will give user access to database.table when he c

ls and ftp, unable to vew directory content

2000-05-13 Thread Davy COUDENIS
Hi, I have a problem since i upgrade my servers from RedHat 5.1 to 6.x. When i log into my ftp server with a real login/passwd, i'm not able to retrieve the directory listing. The ftp client software give : 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls Received 0 bytes Ok [...] In my ftpac