RE: IP masquerading

2000-05-30 Thread Martin Reiser
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 03:04:41PM -0500, M. Smith wrote: > > There is a change in RH 6.2 regarding masquerading. Have to say they > did not do a real good job of highlighting this and I had to root > around to find it. > > 1. Version 6.2 no longer uses IPCHAINS. It is now IPTABLES. There is

6.2 installer retarded?

2000-05-30 Thread David M. Talkington
Wow, is it me, or is the installer for 6.2 a big step backwards? I've had all kinds of trouble with it, in stark contrast to the 6.0 installer, which was fast and reliable. 1. Twice, on two very different computers -- a PII 266 laptop and a Celeron 500 workstation -- the new graphic installer

rpmspec.in format

2000-05-30 Thread Bob Taylor
Am I right in that the rpmspec.in format is simply a file containing the spec? If not could some kind soul point me in the right direction? TIA Bob -- ++ | Bob Taylor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |---

Linux Security

2000-05-30 Thread Krikofer
Hi.  My friend had told me that Linux does not have a good firewall.  Linux can be broken into easily (according to his job's system administrator).  Would any of you know if this is true?  He says his friend likes Linux.  Any facts?   CH

Re: compatible printers

2000-05-30 Thread Hidong Kim
Look here http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi. Good luck, Hidong eagle wrote: > > Hello, >I have installed Rh 6.1 in my system and am about to install a > dot matrix printer I wanted to know which printer is compatible to it > weather Epson is compatible to it or n

ipchains and VPN

2000-05-30 Thread Bret Hughes
I have achieved vpnness! I could use a little guidance on the ipchains stuff though. My configuration and represenatation of my understanding of how this is all working follows. Some of this is probably wasted bandwidth but I really needed to try and say it and hope that someone will correct an

compatible printers

2000-05-30 Thread eagle
Hello, I have installed Rh 6.1 in my system and am about to install a dot matrix printer I wanted to know which printer is compatible to it weather Epson is compatible to it or not . Buying a driver for it is not what I wish . thanking in advance. mohan :-) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMA

Re: netscape-lock file

2000-05-30 Thread Hyung Kim
--- Joe Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Um, one more try here (something really weird > happened to my > last post): > > jack wallen jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Hyung Kim wrote: > > > I just removed netscape communicator 4.73 and > > > installed the commu

'Off-line' browser for RH 6.1 = where?

2000-05-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
I am interested in the use of some 'off-line' reader/browser under RH 6.1 (like Teleport or similar under Windows). Any suggestion? Misko -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Sound Card Drivers

2000-05-30 Thread Michael McLeod
I am running RH 6.0 I have just installed a Diamond Multi Media sound/fax card Telecommander 2500. Even though it is probably compatible with Sound Blaster Pro, it does not seem to work in Linux (for that fact it didn't work in windoz with the SB Pro drivers, but does work after I got and loade

Opinions about Partitioning

2000-05-30 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I have been reading about HD partitioning for server systems and security and am wondering what others think about the topic. This is a somewhat personal topic as well since I am getting ready to reinstall my system. I have read that it is a good idea to have a boot partition and a root partition

Re: Please Help with this... [Fwd: PCMCIA Help]

2000-05-30 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Ahbaid Gaffoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I sent this earlier but go no response, can anyone help me out? > > thanks, > > Ahbaid. > > Original Message > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a CNET CN40BC pcmcia network card going on my > laptop... > > PCMCIA services starts

linux with other os

2000-05-30 Thread eagle
Hello, I have installed Rh 6.1(2nd partition) in my system ; it coexists with windows95 . My system has 4 gig hd and divided into 2 one allotted for windows and the other to Rh 6.1 . I wanted to install another disk of 13 gig so that I could install winNT solaris and stuff like . I wanted to kn

Please Help with this... [Fwd: PCMCIA Help]

2000-05-30 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
I sent this earlier but go no response, can anyone help me out? thanks, Ahbaid. Original Message Hi all, I'm trying to get a CNET CN40BC pcmcia network card going on my laptop... PCMCIA services starts by default (btw, I'm using RH6.1), "cardctl ident" returns the followin

Re: scsi module loading twice

2000-05-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Eric Clover wrote: > this has to do with an email i sent out yesterday. i found out , what is > happening is for some reason , my kernel is loading my advansys scsi > module twice , first on scsi0 , then it tries to do it again on scsi1 , > i Have no scsi1 , thus , it just ha

Re: can anybody please help me???

2000-05-30 Thread Hidong Kim
Are you logging in to your system as root, and then trying to launch X as a normal user? Why don't you just log in to the system as the normal user? Can you launch X if you log in as a normal user? You really should minimize use of the root account. Use it only for system administration tasks.

can anybody please help me???

2000-05-30 Thread dattatraya
well i am using rh 6.0. i created a non privileged user and tried to work in xwindows with it. but i got the following message. well, the strange characters u see maybe due to the fact that i copied the file into windows after mounting windows in linux. >>Script started on Sat

scsi module loading twice

2000-05-30 Thread Eric Clover
this has to do with an email i sent out yesterday. i found out , what is happening is for some reason , my kernel is loading my advansys scsi module twice , first on scsi0 , then it tries to do it again on scsi1 , i Have no scsi1 , thus , it just hangs and gives me the "asc_isr_callback" error. an

Re: PCI DMA disabled

2000-05-30 Thread Eric Clover
eric clover wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "knet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "RedHat Digest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 1:32 AM > Subject: PCI DMA disabled > > > I have a motherboard with an ALI15XX chipset. Current kernels only seem > > > i have a url f

Re: Top 5 admin chores

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Mead
I echo the other comments. My most used admin tools are vi, netconf and printtool. But it probably depends on the system's use. I might be persuaded to someday try comanche again. But the first thing I always do is the custom install where I examine each package installed. Ok, there are a few

Re: rsync: permission denied, unexpected EOF .. read_timeout

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Mead
Yes, I prefer SSH. Pity OpenSSH doesn't run on stock 6.0. I don't think the plus signs matter. My default permissions on .rhosts weren't strict enough for ... rsh? or whatever is the control mechanism. I changed them to 600 and all's well. -Alan - Original Message - From: Cameron Si

Re: Keeping RH up to date

2000-05-30 Thread Craig Kulesa
Mobeen Azhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed a RH 6.1 box and upgraded the kernel and modules stuff to > 6.2 by following the Kernel update howto. [..] > It seems that the FTP sites that it checks are very slow and after > going through some RPMS, autorpm bombs. > Has anyone got

RE: Wine

2000-05-30 Thread Earl Heather
Check out http://www.winehq.com/dev.html#ml for mailing lists Earl On 30 May 2000, at 20:12, Uncle Meat wrote: > > On 31-May-2000 erik opined: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone know of a really good list for wine? > > > > I am having some troubles and want to get them resolved. > > Likely t

Re: rsync: permission denied, unexpected EOF .. read_timeout

2000-05-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:31:34PM -0700, Alan Mead wrote: | I can rsh back and forth but I need to enter a password dispite the fact | that I've created .rhosts in my home directory on both machines like this: | | +webserver | +mylocalhost Get rid of the + signs. And later, get right of rsh al

RE: Wine

2000-05-30 Thread Uncle Meat
On 31-May-2000 erik opined: > Hello, > > Does anyone know of a really good list for wine? > > I am having some troubles and want to get them resolved. Likely there's a miling list but, I don't know. A newsgroup exists for certain. comp..emulators.ms-windows.wine -- Statistics means n

Wine

2000-05-30 Thread erik
Hello, Does anyone know of a really good list for wine? I am having some troubles and want to get them resolved. Thanks, -e- -- erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Can I pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?" "A little early isn't it, Woody?" "For a beer?" "No, for stupid que

RE: RedHat and Apple

2000-05-30 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I've only done this once with an older version of RH, but you need to get the netatalk+asun rpm or tar file. Adrian sun (I believe this is correct) wrote Appleshare IP patches for netatalk. You can also look at the netatalk FAQ by Anders Brownworth at http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/. HTH,

RedHat and Apple

2000-05-30 Thread Spunk S. Spunk III
I've recompiled my kernel to include netatalk but I'm finding it difficult to locate answers to some basic questions. From what I can gather, netatalk is a way to communicate between nfs and hfs via AppleTalk? What I want to do is use my Linux machine as a file server for one of my Macs but I'd pr

Re: Problem with Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread Michael McLeod
Problem fixed: I got some help from the Gnome list and was told to delete "~/ICEauthority" and that did it apparently it is a but in my version of Gnome. Thanks to all who responded Michael Michael McLeod wrote: > I tried your solution, I did find some old files and deleted as you said, but > d

Re: APM + SMP

2000-05-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:46:00PM -0400, Robert Fausey wrote: > Is it possible to enable the poweroff feature of apm with a smp > kernel? I haven't tried to recompile the kernel, I would like to > know if this combo is possible with the 2.2.14 kernel before I > recompile the kernel. Yes, with bo

attempting to change SHMMAX

2000-05-30 Thread Christina Clark
Greetings, I am setting up an Oracle 8i Server on Intel RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14-5.0). I am very happy with the way the kernel is behaving and only want to increase SHMMAX from 32 megs to 128 megs (half my physical memory). The detailed steps I took to change and recompile the kernel follow be

Re: orbit

2000-05-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Meghan Madel wrote: > Hello, > does anyone know what the orbit-"login name" directory in /tmp is about? > thanks, > meghan > I believe this it the CORBA orb (object request broker) that gnome uses for it's interprocess communications. If not I am sure I will hear about ti :) Bret -- To un

Re: compatible printer's

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Anthony E. Greene" wrote: > > > > At 10:45 2000-05-30 +0530, eagle wrote: > > > I have installed Rh 6.1 in my system and am about to install a > > >dot matrix printer I wanted to know which printer is compatible to it > > >weather Epson is compatibl

Re: linux with other os

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
"eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed Rh 6.1(2nd partition) in my system ; it coexists > with windows95 . My system has 4 gig hd and divided into 2 one > allotted for windows and the other to Rh 6.1 . > I wanted to install another disk of 13 gig [...] > I wanted to know that

Re: PCI DMA disabled

2000-05-30 Thread eric clover
- Original Message - From: "knet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RedHat Digest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 1:32 AM Subject: PCI DMA disabled > I have a motherboard with an ALI15XX chipset. Current kernels only seem i have a url for a patch for the ali15x3 chipset but

Netscape fun (fixing the "Alt q" exit problem)

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
Here's a little netscape lore for you folks, if anyone is interested: Being the keyboard junkie that I am, I often close Netscape windows by doing an "Alt w". This however is right next door to "Alt q", which kills *all* of the Netscape windows, which is not what I want. I finally decided th

Re[2]: email program

2000-05-30 Thread y u r i
Hello, Wednesday, May 31, 2000, 7:27:43 AM, Danny wrote: D> Kmail does the job D> You need KDE but it's very limited in terms of server management options: I was not able to leave some messages on the server and trash the rest, so when I switch stations (work-home) I would pick the ones

1st time kernel compile quits w/ error 2

2000-05-30 Thread redhat
Ok, I tried compiling my kernel for the 1st time. Std RH6.1 src dist. All I did was use xconfig to turn on Bridging. Then I ran the following: make dep make clean make bzImage and make bzImage runs for a while then quites with the following: make [1]: *** bbootsec.o [error 127] make [1]: leav

RE: Keeping RH up to date

2000-05-30 Thread Mobeen Azhar
Well, the only requirement is to run a non M$ OS that is available for a low cost AND that can integrate with Novell's NDS. I am able to successfully run Novell's NDS4Linux on RH, not sure if it would work with Debian. If I can get NDS4Linux to work with Debian then I have no problem with runnin

Re: Keeping RH up to date

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone gotten autorpm to work consistently? Are there any other solid > ways to keep a RH 6.2 box up to date? I noticed that even though I upgraded > my kernel and modules to the 6.2 versions, autorpm still went looking under > the 6.1 directory on the ftp sites

Re: netscape-lock file

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
Um, one more try here (something really weird happened to my last post): jack wallen jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Hyung Kim wrote: > > I just removed netscape communicator 4.73 and > > installed the communicator 4.73 with 128-bit > > encryption. Now, everytime I try

Re: how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread stevenma
I totally agree on the ssh documentation, it's awful for the most part.. I've used it for years and am not sure how to do what I talked about before. And I HAVE read the man pages many times. Oh and to compile ssh 2.1 with TCP_WRAPPER support do this: ./configure --with-libwrap And you can ad

APM + SMP

2000-05-30 Thread Robert Fausey
Is it possible to enable the poweroff feature of apm with a smp kernel? I haven't tried to recompile the kernel, I would like to know if this combo is possible with the 2.2.14 kernel before I recompile the kernel. Rob Fausey. A communication disruption can mean only one thing ... invasion --

Re: how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread Carey F. Cox
On Tue, 30 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This brings up a question I've always wondered but never asked, how does > ssh work with .rhosts like functionality? For example, rsh lets you > remote shell in with no passwords, with SSH it usually either asks you the > password for the login I

Keeping RH up to date

2000-05-30 Thread Mobeen Azhar
I installed a RH 6.1 box and upgraded the kernel and modules stuff to 6.2 by following the Kernel update howto. The system is working fine. I have a couple of RPMS installed that I would like to keep up to date. I have been unable to get autorpm to ever compelte successfully! It seems that th

Re: how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Mead
At 02:17 PM 5/30/00 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This brings up a question I've always wondered but never asked, how does >ssh work with .rhosts like functionality? For example, rsh lets you I had assumed it used the .rhosts authentication means. I find that documentation of ssh is pretty poor

Re: SSH, VPN's, and firewalls

2000-05-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Bret Hughes wrote: > Bret Hughes wrote: > I keep getting the following errors when running ifup vpn0. I am getting > > Sorry about not mentining the script in the last post. /etc/ppp/vpn-start is > the culprit. > > Pretty sure I checked the orig. to make sure that I did not do it and don't > re

orbit

2000-05-30 Thread Meghan Madel
Hello, does anyone know what the orbit-"login name" directory in /tmp is about? thanks, meghan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread Carey F. Cox
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > At 01:53 PM 5/30/00 , Carey F. Cox wrote: > >Anyway, do the following > > > > 1) Check to make sure /etc/hosts.equiv has the client ip addresses. > > I need to put something in /etc/hosts.equiv? Or do you mean /etc/hosts? I > can try modifying .

Re: how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread stevenma
This brings up a question I've always wondered but never asked, how does ssh work with .rhosts like functionality? For example, rsh lets you remote shell in with no passwords, with SSH it usually either asks you the password for the login ID, or your SSH Private Key password. I've never seen it

Re: pump and remote printing

2000-05-30 Thread Carey F. Cox
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > At 12:58 2000-05-30 -0500, Carey F. Cox wrote: > > > >I am having problems setting up one of my student workstations to print > >to a networked printer from a dhcp (actually pump) client. I keep getting > >errors about "not able to find hostname"

Re: how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Mead
At 01:53 PM 5/30/00 , Carey F. Cox wrote: >Anyway, do the following > > 1) Check to make sure /etc/hosts.equiv has the client ip addresses. I need to put something in /etc/hosts.equiv? Or do you mean /etc/hosts? I can try modifying .equiv when I get home this eve but I didn't have root

Re: how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread Carey F. Cox
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > I've done this years ago but not since. On my private LAN at home behind a > firewall I want to allow some processes to logon without > authentication. One of the machines is running RH 6.0 (the other RH 6.2) > and for now will not run OpenSSH so I'll

Re: firewall-rule for ftp

2000-05-30 Thread Peter Monta
> I am trying to set a rule for ipchains to allow ftp > from netscape. My current policy for input is DENY. > Can someone please tell me the minimum port range for > the source-port to allow for ftp to most sites. Most browsers use "passive-mode" FTP, for which the client initiates both control

Quake 3 & Mach64

2000-05-30 Thread erik
Hi, has anyone on the list gotten Quake 3 to work with the Mach64 chip. I have an All-In-Wonder Pro, and i have read that you can play Q3 with it. i have GLX and Mesa correctly installed and working. I have Q3 installed but it won't run. It keeps giving me errors like this: Q3 1.11 linux-i38

how do I set up .rhosts?

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Mead
I've done this years ago but not since. On my private LAN at home behind a firewall I want to allow some processes to logon without authentication. One of the machines is running RH 6.0 (the other RH 6.2) and for now will not run OpenSSH so I'll start with rsh. I created this simple file .rh

Re: pump and remote printing

2000-05-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 12:58 2000-05-30 -0500, Carey F. Cox wrote: > >I am having problems setting up one of my student workstations to print >to a networked printer from a dhcp (actually pump) client. I keep getting >errors about "not able to find hostname" or something like that. If I >type hostname it gives me

pump and remote printing

2000-05-30 Thread Carey F. Cox
I am having problems setting up one of my student workstations to print to a networked printer from a dhcp (actually pump) client. I keep getting errors about "not able to find hostname" or something like that. If I type hostname it gives me the correct hostname. I even hard coded the variabl

Re: Top 5 admin chores

2000-05-30 Thread Eric Sisler
"Spunk S. Spunk III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'm curious as to what some of the more experienced Linux gurus consider to >be their top 5 favorite or most important duties when setting up a machine. >They might be tricks or time-savers or security issues or whatever. My top 5 most important duties w

Re: Top 5 admin chores

2000-05-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 09:55 2000-05-30 -0700, Spunk S. Spunk III wrote: >I'm curious as to what some of the more experienced Linux gurus consider to >be their top 5 favorite or most important duties when setting up a machine. I'm not a guru, but I generally configure TCP-Wrappers and restrictions on Sendmail first.

Re: Two SCSI controllers

2000-05-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: > > So can you do an insmod on the other module and have both working? > Yep. Sure can. I just need to get BOTH to install at boot. Actually, these days, isn't the command "modprobe" anyway? > > I have a motherboard with on-board Adaptec AIC-7890 and > a PCI

Top 5 admin chores

2000-05-30 Thread Spunk S. Spunk III
I'm curious as to what some of the more experienced Linux gurus consider to be their top 5 favorite or most important duties when setting up a machine. They might be tricks or time-savers or security issues or whatever. For instance, when setting up a regular user for yourselves, what group and ho

Re: netscape-lock file

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
jack wallen jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Hyung Kim wrote: > > I just removed netscape communicator 4.73 and > > installed the communicator 4.73 with 128-bit > > encryption. Now, everytime I try to open multiple > > copies of netscape, I get a warning stating that there

ipcahins & AOL Instant Messenger.

2000-05-30 Thread Prentice
I've been having problems using AOL Instant Messenger through my ipchains firewall. Does anyone know what rules I need to implemement to handle this or if there is an ip_masq module I need to handle this? -- Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton Plasma Physics Lab http://www.pppl.gov -- To

firewall-rule for ftp

2000-05-30 Thread Hyung Kim
I am trying to set a rule for ipchains to allow ftp from netscape. My current policy for input is DENY. Can someone please tell me the minimum port range for the source-port to allow for ftp to most sites. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your

Re: tomsrtbt, minix, link, etc.

2000-05-30 Thread Frank Carreiro
::grinz:: didn't know where to get it. I received the file from a buddy of mine and had no idea where to get the current one. I"ll change the web site to reflect the link. Thx for the update :-) Frank Carreiro Tom Oehser wrote: > > >> Check out my web site. I found a great minix boot di

Re: compatible printer's

2000-05-30 Thread Ric Moore
"Anthony E. Greene" wrote: > > At 10:45 2000-05-30 +0530, eagle wrote: > > I have installed Rh 6.1 in my system and am about to install a > >dot matrix printer I wanted to know which printer is compatible to it > >weather Epson is compatible to it or not . Buying a driver for it is not > >

Re: Sendmail Attachments

2000-05-30 Thread Don Knott
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Butler, Mike wrote: > Hello All, > I'm trying to send an attachment (its a gif) with a sendmail message from > within a perl script. Anyone know how this could be done? man metamail -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: SSH, VPN's, and firewalls

2000-05-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Bret Hughes wrote: I keep getting the following errors when running ifup vpn0. I am getting Sorry about not mentining the script in the last post. /etc/ppp/vpn-start is the culprit. Pretty sure I checked the orig. to make sure that I did not do it and don't really have time to verifiy it now s

Re: compatible printer's

2000-05-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 10:45 2000-05-30 +0530, eagle wrote: > I have installed Rh 6.1 in my system and am about to install a >dot matrix printer I wanted to know which printer is compatible to it >weather Epson is compatible to it or not . Buying a driver for it is not There are Epson drivers in the Ghostscrip

Re: email program

2000-05-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 17:27 2000-05-31 +1000, Danny wrote: >On Tue, 30 May 2000, Rick Knebel wrote: >> Hi, >> Is there any email program in Linux that will let you have seperate accounts >> for different email address's. > >Kmail does the job >You need KDE You'll need KDE libraries installed. You can run any deskt

Re: alumni registry - web database?

2000-05-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 22:57 2000-05-29 -0700, Joe Brenner wrote: >"Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm a perl user, so I favor perl and PostgreSQL. Red Hat ships with the >> Pg.pm module which makes it easy to connect to PostgreSQL databases with >> perl. Perl has so many modules that it's easy to

Re: SSH, VPN's, and firewalls

2000-05-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Bret Hughes wrote: > > I keep getting the following errors when running ifup vpn0. I am getting > the ssh session but don't know what it the problem with this. I suspect it > is a configuration issue on my machin but I am stumped. Found it. Bug in script. needed to add fi at the end of the l

Re: SSH, VPN's, and firewalls

2000-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bret Hughes wrote: > I keep getting the following errors when running ifup vpn0. I am getting > the ssh session but don't know what it the problem with this. I suspect it > is a configuration issue on my machin but I am stumped. > > [root@bretdell_linux network-scripts]# ifup vpn0 > Failed to o

Sendmail Attachments

2000-05-30 Thread Butler, Mike
Hello All, I'm trying to send an attachment (its a gif) with a sendmail message from within a perl script. Anyone know how this could be done? Thanks Mike -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: netscape-lock file

2000-05-30 Thread jack wallen jr
i changed the way i call netscape. instead of just using the netscape command (say in the gnome panel) to call netscape i use this shell script: #! /bin/sh if [ -h ~/.netscape/lock ] then rm -f ~/.netscape/lock echo "LOCK FILE REMOVED" fi netscape-communicator see what you said.

x windows problem

2000-05-30 Thread dattatraya
well i am using rh 6.0. i created a non privileged user and try to work in xwindows with it. but i gothe following message.well the strange characters u see maybe due to the fact that i copied the file into winndows after mounting windows in linux. >>Script started on Sat May 27

Re: DNS

2000-05-30 Thread Ric Moore
Bret Hughes wrote: > > Ron Golan wrote: > > > > > The O'Reilly DNS and BIND book is exactly what you are asking for. You > > won't regret buying it. > > Between that and linuxconf you can do great and wonderful things quite > easily. At least I did. Well, it works anyway :) Glad to hear we

DHCP from WinNT through RH6.2 box

2000-05-30 Thread Enrico Payne
Hi, I have a WinNT server acting as WINS and DHCP, and have installed a RH6.2 server that has 2 interface cards. I can see clients on either side of the server from anywhere on the network, however if I remove the IP addresses etc. and aks the client to get an IP address from my NT box on the oth

Re: email program

2000-05-30 Thread Danny
Kmail does the job You need KDE On Tue, 30 May 2000, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > Is there any email program in Linux that will let you have seperate accounts > for different email address's. > > ie. One account for rknebel@uplink and one account for > [EMAIL PROTECTED] So each can have a sepera

RE: gcc or cc

2000-05-30 Thread Danny
I am running BSD at home so I am doing this from memory Try "rpm -qf gcc" or try "rpm -qf cc" this will show you the rpm for gcc or cc Without a C compiler it is very annoying isn't it? dannyh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 May 2000, Paul Brown wrote: > > I would like to know which package nam

Re: samba

2000-05-30 Thread Danny
There are at least 2 chapters on "Dave" Samba and macs" in Samba in 24 hours. I suggest if you haven't read that book you should read it. It can help you more than I can. Looking forward to your feedback. dannyh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" a

Re: netscape-lock file

2000-05-30 Thread Danny
When Netscape crashes it creates a file in /home/username/.netscape/lock To get rid of this message simply "rm /home/username/netscape/.lock" note:= replace username with your actual username Looking forward to your feedback. dannyh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 May 2000, Hyung Kim wrote: > I

Re: apache

2000-05-30 Thread Danny
Have you specified the DocumentRoot? Have you made sure you give the correct permissions to index.htm Eg:- Try chmod 644 index.htm ? Looking forward to your feedback. dannyh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 May 2000, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to setup apache to run in RedHat 6.2. > Eve

PCI DMA disabled

2000-05-30 Thread knet
I have a motherboard with an ALI15XX chipset. Current kernels only seem to have support for ALI14XX chipsets. As a result, it appears I'm unable to use DMA with my IDE devices. I assume this will effect the data transfer rate and overrall performance of my machine. In the kernel I have support

Re: Two SCSI controllers

2000-05-30 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, John, John Aldrich wrote: > > I've got two SCSI controllers in my system currently, but > despite the fact that both of them are in conf.modules, > only one will have the module installed at boot. One is an So can you do an insmod on the other module and have both working? > Advansys ABP-

whereis ip_masq_netmeeting ?

2000-05-30 Thread Claudiu Balciza
anyone knows where can I find ip_masq_netmeeting ? TIA Claudiu -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: OT: LaTeX mailing list

2000-05-30 Thread Hidong Kim
Thanks, Hidong Michael Hannon wrote: > > Hidong - > > At 12:21 AM 05/26/2000 -0700, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Could someone point me to a LaTeX mailing list? Thanks, > > I don't know about a list, but there's a relevant newsgroup: > > comp.text.tex > >

Re: alumni registry - web database?

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
"Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JRtL wrote: > > i have a school project on web development. i am assign > > to do the alumni registry of our college (sort of online web > > database for alumni to register and some value added > > services) but i am not aware of the tools a

Re: SSH, VPN's, and firewalls

2000-05-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Gordon Messmer wrote: > > I would REALLY like feedback on these scripts. Is the documentation > sufficient/accurate? Does it work for you? How can they be made > better/easier to use/more secure? (I've really tried for the best > security possible). If you think that you could benefit from t

Re: Serial link not 8-bit clean.

2000-05-30 Thread Zoki
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Brian Ashe wrote: ->Hi Zoki, -> ->Try this one. -> ->http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html -> ->It should help you take care of your problem. *** It seems like the doc above gives a bit more information about what's happening. Especially the next parapgraph: "Then pp

Setting priority on multiple sources of internet

2000-05-30 Thread Bardia Khalili
Hi, We have two different accounts on different ISP's in our company. I want to connect to both of them at the same time (using a linux box and two modems), and share the Internet for everyone in our LAN. I'm looking for a way to set some kind of priority on the modems. In other words, if the traf

compatible printer's

2000-05-30 Thread eagle
Hello, I have installed Rh 6.1 in my system and am about to install a dot matrix printer I wanted to know which printer is compatible to it weather Epson is compatible to it or not . Buying a driver for it is not what I wish . thanking in advance. mohan :-) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EM

linux with other os

2000-05-30 Thread eagle
Hello, I have installed Rh 6.1(2nd partition) in my system ; it coexists with windows95 . My system has 4 gig hd and divided into 2 one allotted for windows and the other to Rh 6.1 . I wanted to install another disk of 13 gig so that I could install winNT solaris and stuff like . I wanted to kn

rsync: permission denied, unexpected EOF .. read_timeout

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Mead
I am trying to use rsync for the first time to backup web project files across my home LAN. On 'webserver' (RH 6.0) and on mylocalhost (RH 6.2) I've tried running rsync like this: (from webserver to mylocalhost) $ cd $ rsync -van webserver:/home/httpd/html/mywebsite/* ./mywebsite Permission Deni

Re: Serial link not 8-bit clean.

2000-05-30 Thread Zoki
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: ->On Mon, 29 May 2000, Zoki wrote: -> ->> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: ->> ->Well, you have got me stumped. Username and password have to be right, or ->you couldn't commect with the old number. About the only thing I can ->

Re: How to configure SCSI with CD-RW and HP SureStore

2000-05-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Gary Nielson wrote: > Thanks, Mikkel: > > Your reply was very helpful. I have a couple of "quick" questions below: > > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Gary, > > As long as the SCSI card on the new system has an external > > connector, the easy way to