How to become an "official" Red Hat mirror site?

2000-07-15 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear folks, The official mirrors of Red Hat in Hong Kong are usually a month or two out of date. We would like to publish our mirror on the Web. Our mirror is usually up to date within a day or two. We also have our own customised distribution based on Red Hat Linux that we would like to make

Re: Redhat Blacklist

2000-07-15 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:30:03PM +1000, Greg Wright wrote: > > RH used to use Smartlist for this list and some others, but about 2 > months ago approx, some list/s were changed to mailman, who knows > whats going on in there now, I did notice that the admin uses > [EMAIL PROTECTED] IIRC , I j

Re: Redhat Blacklist

2000-07-15 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 15/07/00 at 18:00 Lee Howard wrote: >Well, I think that RedHat is using SmartList, and you can find that and >review its inner workings, if needed... but I do think that the list is >having some troubles with respect to this issue... I've seen messag

Re: telnet doesn't work

2000-07-15 Thread Steven Pierce
[steven@grizzly ~]$ rpm -qa |grep ftp ftp-0.15-1 ncftp-3.0beta19-2 tftp-0.15-1 [steven@grizzly ~]$ Nitebirdz, When I run the command above you see what I get. So I do not have FTP installed? Wu-ftp is software that can be used?? Steven BTW [steven@grizzly apache_1.3.11]$ ls -l total 20

Re: Redhat Blacklist

2000-07-15 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:00:15PM -0600, Lee Howard wrote: > Well, I think that RedHat is using SmartList, and you can find that > and review its inner workings, if needed... but I do think that the > list is having some troubles with respect to this issue... I've seen > messages to that effect,

Epson Stylus 900

2000-07-15 Thread Cokey de Percin
Anyone using this printer and if so, how is it working. What print print driver are you using. Tnx Cokey -- -- Cokey de Percin, DBAEmail: Policy Management Systems Corp. Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbia, South Caroli

Re: Redhat Blacklist

2000-07-15 Thread Lee Howard
Well, I think that RedHat is using SmartList, and you can find that and review its inner workings, if needed... but I do think that the list is having some troubles with respect to this issue... I've seen messages to that effect, anyway. By default, SmartList /dev/nulls repeated subscribe attempt

Redhat Blacklist

2000-07-15 Thread Hal Burgiss
Does anyone know the internal workings of the redhat mailing lists? The reason I am asking such odd questions is that I have been officially unsubscribed from zoot-list due to bounced mail, and apparently auto unsubscribed from redhat-announce. My ISP was having mail problems off and on for a coup

Re: security: crontab

2000-07-15 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Michael Ghens wrote: > Todd, what is the url for this library? > http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/libsafe.html I found it by doing a search for libsafe in http://www.freshmeat.net, but I'm pretty sure that http://www.filewatcher.org and http://www.rpmfind.org would also

Mouse-keyboard config: followup

2000-07-15 Thread David Talkington
In case it helps someone else, I found my answers in a very old Unix book: xset and xsetroot accept arguments for anything I could possibly want to do, without the aid of front-ends. Is this stuff poorly documented, or have I just missed something? Man pages only help when you know what command

Re: security: crontab

2000-07-15 Thread Merell L. Matlock, Jr.
* Michael Ghens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000715 17:23]: > Todd, what is the url for this library? http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/libsafe.html > > From: Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Have you tried installing libsafe on your system? It should prevent all > > buffer overflow exploits,

Re: security: crontab

2000-07-15 Thread Jasper Jans
http://linux.stanford.edu/rpm2html/Unknown.html Enjoy :) J. - Original Message - From: Michael Ghens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 11:21 PM Subject: Re: security: crontab | Todd, what is the url for this library? | | On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tod

Re: security: crontab

2000-07-15 Thread Michael Ghens
Todd, what is the url for this library? On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:46:02 -0700 (PDT) > From: Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: security: crontab > Resent-Date: 12 Jul 2000 23:46:57 -

Weirdness w/Backspace and Delete keys in 6.2

2000-07-15 Thread Bob Taylor
In xterm both Backspace and Delete keys show ~ and the bell sounds. In Xemacs the Delete key acts like the Backspace key. In the xterm showkey shows Backspace as 14 and the Delete key as 111. I'm at a loss as to what the problem is. TIA Bob -- +--

Re: Hardware Watchdogs / Alternatives

2000-07-15 Thread Bret Hughes
Fred Whipple wrote: > All, > > I'm looking for a good watchdog card for Linux and am coming-up short. > Any pointers? > > Another thing I'd like to try out is some sort of device which will > reboot a Linux server remotely if need-be. Sometimes you get into a > situation where the kernel hasn't

Re: tcp ports listening

2000-07-15 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, rob smith wrote: > I hate to ask this question again but I had to reinstall linux and I couldn't > find the archive for this list (anyone know where it is??) Anyway, someone > mentioned that you could turn off tcp ports listening by typing startx -- -nolisten > tcp is th

Re: Weirdness w/Backspace and Delete keys in 6.2

2000-07-15 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Bob Taylor wrote: > In xterm both Backspace and Delete keys show ~ and the bell sounds. > In Xemacs the Delete key acts like the Backspace key. In the xterm > showkey shows Backspace as 14 and the Delete key as 111. > > I'm at a loss as to what the problem is. > Check to

Re: segmentation faults??

2000-07-15 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, rob smith wrote: > Everytime I try to install an rpm I get a segmentation fault...something about > the kernal can't handle the request...Can someone explain how I fix this?? and > what causes it?? > Never saw this before, but can you please paste the exact error message th

Re: Hardware Watchdogs / Alternatives

2000-07-15 Thread tcurl
There are many of these. I use boxes from Teleboot. Another company, located in FL, called Weeder Technologies makes one for about $50 that can control/examine the status of 7 channels and also has a mic input so you can listen to what is happening in the room where the unit is located. Tom

Re: Virtual paging fault on shutdown

2000-07-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Bob Hartung wrote: > Ok, I have managed to recompile the 2.2.16-3 kernel. I now get a > virtual page fault on shutdown at the very end of the shutdown process > > i.e. after The system is halted > appears on the screen I get the virtual page fault error. Whe

Re: identd

2000-07-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Sorry - the way I read the origional post was that the only way you could > do irc was to telnet to the Linux box first. Did you check the logs to > see if Ident is actualy recieving the request and responding? > I was telnetting to my shell accou

Re: Genius NetMouse Pro PS/2

2000-07-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, J. Carlos Cristobal wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > Thanks everybody for the comments, what I meant is that on some RH6.2 > without additional packages this mouse scroll buttons work with no > additional configurations, but I still unable to make tham wo

Virtual paging fault on shutdown

2000-07-15 Thread Bob Hartung
Ok, I have managed to recompile the 2.2.16-3 kernel. I now get a virtual page fault on shutdown at the very end of the shutdown process i.e. after The system is halted appears on the screen I get the virtual page fault error. Where should I begin checking to correct this. T

Re: Hardware Watchdogs / Alternatives

2000-07-15 Thread Dan Kronstadt
At 08:39 AM 7/14/00 -0500, Alan Mead wrote: >I don't know if it's still being made but we have a set of devices called, >I think, X10 or X11 that are designed for this I've used a device similar to this, but its just controlled by a phone connection - you plug a phone line into the box, then yo

KNU problems

2000-07-15 Thread John Aldrich
I keep getting the following response when I try to use the "host resolution" util in the KDE Network Utilities package: host: invalid option -- q host: usage error (unrecogized switch) Usage: host [-adlrwv] [-t querytype] [-c class] host [server] -a is equivalent to '-v -t *'

tcp ports and orbit

2000-07-15 Thread rob smith
I have placed the following 3 lines in orbit.rc ORBIIOPUSock=1 ORBIIOPIPv4=0 ORBIIOPIPv6=0 At startup I also type startx -- -nolisten tcp Yet when I do netstat -a I still have several tcp ports listening. Can someone look carefully at what I wrote above and see if there are any little err

Re: squid & http

2000-07-15 Thread Dondave
try using squid as a transparent proxy. -> dondave <- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: nfs troubles

2000-07-15 Thread Robert Friberg
Zoki writes: > *** That's because you're supposed to tell nfs which host has the right to > mount /. > > Try: > / MY HOSTNAME(rw, no_root_squash) > It's not necessary, no host means any host has access. It's working now, I had a silly problem that Mikkel L. Ellertson pointed o

Re: need help (USR modem)....

2000-07-15 Thread Eric Clover
> >2- I typed the following as suggested: > >setserial /dev/ttys1 irq 9 port 0x1040 ^fourport ^auto_irq skip_test > >autoconfig spd_vhi cap S might help also setserial /dev/ttys1 should be : setserial /dev/ttyS? eric -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject

solaris 2.6

2000-07-15 Thread kapil sharma
Hi, I am working on Sun Solaris sparc system. I want to appear for solaris 2.6 administration certification. I need follwing info: 1: Should I go for solaris 2.6 administration or solaris 7 administration? 2: Please suggest some brain dumps for sun solaris 2.6 administration certification 3: Pleas