Re: loading scsi module on boot

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Borho
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:04:43PM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote: > conf.modules: > > alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542 > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc > alias eth0 ne > alias eth1 ne > options ne io=0x340,0x300 irq=9,5 > options aha1542 io=0x330 Have you tried?: options aha1542 ioport=0x330 I'v

Re: cdrecord error

2000-07-31 Thread Kirk
shmget is a shared memory error, not sure how to help on this. How much memory do you have? Kirk On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Steve Lee wrote: > what does this mean? > Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > /usr/bin/cdrecord: No space left on dev

Re: strip ^M from list of files in for loop

2000-07-31 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
My understanding is the ^M, which is \r, is a beginning-of-line command - it moves the carriage back to the beginning of the same line in a DOS/Windows environment (return). \n moves down to the next line, sort of like pressing the down arrow, it doesn't move the cursor back to the beginning of t

Re: Intel eepro100 problem

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
This has happened a couple of times to me, but it was due to bad network cards, creating the broadcast storm. Caused a lot of problems, no one could do anything, locked up everyone's computer that was in that subnet. We replaced the nic and everything goes back to normal. Jake On Tue, 1 Aug 20

Re: ssh hangs for several minutes

2000-07-31 Thread Ed Strohmier
Bret: I have run into a similar modprobe problem with the same error messages you are receiving in /var/log/messages. The fix to this was doing the following: To your /etc/conf.modules add these lines: alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_d

RHCE objectives and questions of RHCE's

2000-07-31 Thread Alan Mead
I am preparing some Linux training for our programming staff who would like to know about Linux but who work almost entirely with Windows right now. I figure I'll stand on the shoulders of giants and follow the RHCE exam objectives, edited for my company's context. Ok, so am I totally thick or a

more compiling problems...

2000-07-31 Thread rob smith
Thanks for the help on the last error...I ran into a couple other problems that I fixed since the patch error...now I get the following error, any suggestions? + pod2man --section=1 --center=Lexmark Printer Management --release=6.0-3 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/lx.control + make RPM_OPT_FLAGS=-O2 -m4

Re: strip ^M from list of files in for loop

2000-07-31 Thread linda hanigan
There is a program called dos2unix that converts dos files to unix files. Linda Hanigan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Intel eepro100 problem

2000-07-31 Thread Dan Horth
not to do with embedded NICs but we have had problems with our eepro100 cards in our file servers and netatalk which involved the server freezing (and workstations connected to it) as the eepro100 flooded the network with... uhm... network activity - sorry - hapened ages ago and really busy he

Re: strip ^M from list of files in for loop

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi Bret There is nothing strange about this at all. From your other posts (not necesarily this thread) I'll bet the input file was created/written to from one of your PCs via Samba, correct? Well, DOS uses \r\n as it's line termintor, unix uses \n, and mac uses \r. Unix utilities don't do anyt

Re: strip ^M from list of files in for loop

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
The ^M is something that almost all windows editors add on as the "enter" command at the end of each line. Even notepad does this. It's just something that windows, and dos editor, does to files so it knows where the end of a line is. Jake On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: --Thanks to a

Re: ssh hangs for several minutes

2000-07-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Bret Hughes wrote: > I have been experiencing intermittant problems with a vpn > ppp connection through ssh. I can be working along (typing > in a terminal) and then poof, no response for several > minuites. during this time I can sometimes ping the box and > others the delay is there as well.

Re: strip ^M from list of files in for loop

2000-07-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Thanks to all who responded. For the record, the solution I came up with was tr. The echo -n I could not get to work in this situation. I believe it was because the ^M was already there. It appears from the man page that echo -n will merely keep a ^M from being appended. This is a weird thing

Re: Intel eepro100 problem

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Steven Pierce wrote: > Kevin, > > I have one on my machine(server) and it works without an issue. I am using > 2.2.13. I have not upgraded to .16 yet. I know I should, but it has been one of >those > months., > I've got an Intel EEPRO 10/100 Nic built-into my home machin

RE: Epson Stylus Color 740

2000-07-31 Thread Cindy Pearce
I upgraded from 6.1. Sounds like I should do a re-install from scratch like you suggested. According to my logs, lpd starts successfully and then I see: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,EPPECP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation ppuser: Use

Re: compiling ghostscript..trying anyway..

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
The rpm called 'patch', not a patch! [root@bitsy /etc]# rpm -q patch patch-2.5-10 You Red Hat CD, and any mirror will have it. I like rpmfind myself: [root@bitsy /etc]# rpmfind --latest patch Installing patch will require 175 KBytes ### To Transfer: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386

unable to boot to linux: please help

2000-07-31 Thread vsnl
i have a dual boot machine win98 and rh6.0. recently i loaded win agin and now i am unable to boot to linux. what do i do to get to lilo boot prompt again? i dont have a linux bootable floppy... do i need to reload linux??? do tell me thanks dattatraya -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: compiling ghostscript..trying anyway..

2000-07-31 Thread rob smith
Thankx for the responce but could you be a little more specific...what patch?? any idea where I get it? On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:58:59 Charles Galpin wrote: > you need the 'patch' rpm > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, rob smith wrote: > > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1350: patch: command not found > > > -- > T

Re: compiling ghostscript..trying anyway..

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
you need the 'patch' rpm On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, rob smith wrote: > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1350: patch: command not found -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

compiling ghostscript..trying anyway..

2000-07-31 Thread rob smith
On the advice of list members I am trying to compile ghostscript with lexmark drivers for my z11. The process is explained quite clearly and I followed perfectly, however (of course there is a however) I get the following error when trying to make the rpm. Anyone care to guess what might have g

Re: Qmail POP3 Error

2000-07-31 Thread Anthony P
Thanx, I'm using RH 6.2, and I get Qmail from www.qmail.org with mirror site California. For installation i follow instruction from README files. 1. stopping sendmail service, and ypbind. 2. untar var-qmail-1.03-2-gnu-linux-i386.tar.gz 3. rpm --rebuild qmail-1.03-102memphis.src.rpm 4. /usr/src/r

loading scsi module on boot

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
This PC boots fine from a floppy, but I've long since forgotten what parameters were given to lilo to do so. I do know it boots off of /dev/sda2 which is the root part. I just got it to boot from LILO on /dev/sda by adding disk/bios parameters (it has a ide disk as /dev/hda - with no bootable pa

Re: Intel eepro100 problem

2000-07-31 Thread Steven Pierce
Kevin, I have one on my machine(server) and it works without an issue. I am using 2.2.13. I have not upgraded to .16 yet. I know I should, but it has been one of those months., *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/30/2000 at 10:26 PM Edward Marczak wrote: >28/7/00 4:56 PM, Kevin Wo

Re: How to install samke and xcdrecod on RH 6.2

2000-07-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Mikkel, Thanks Stephen - Original Message - From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:49 AM Subject: Re: How to install samke and xcdrecod on RH 6.2 > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Stephen Li

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread linda hanigan
- Original Message - From: "Glen Lee Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 4:18 PM Subject: Re: su and root not the same?? > I would think that with all the known problems with running rm -rf from > root that someone would get smart and find a

cdrecord error

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Lee
what does this mean? Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM /usr/bin/cdrecord: No space left on device. shmget failed i get this sometimes when i try to burn cds. When i reboot it works fine. but its getting old rebooting everytime. -- To

Re: local address spoofing

2000-07-31 Thread Graham Hemmings
Cable modems are a shared medium much like an Ethernet hub. Given the filtering you describe it seems likely that your attacker would have to be on the same shared segment as you. You could run a packet sniffer like tcpdump to try and obtain the MAC address of the hacker (assuming that hasn'

Re: How to install samke and xcdrecod on RH 6.2

2000-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Mikkel, > > Thanks for your assistance. cdrecord-1.9-2.src.rpm has been rebuilt, > compiled and installed in accordance to your advice without problem. > However I could not locate the manual/instruction for its > starting/operation. > > CDWriter Ic

Re: How to install samke and xcdrecod on RH 6.2

2000-07-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your assistance. cdrecord-1.9-2.src.rpm has been rebuilt, compiled and installed in accordance to your advice without problem. However I could not locate the manual/instruction for its starting/operation. CDWriter Icon has been created on KDE desktop. After having 'iso9

Re: printer...

2000-07-31 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, rob smith wrote: > I have a lexmark Z11 printer. It is not supported in redhat 6.2 Actually it's supposed to work... According to http://www.linuxprinting.org/: Success reported with Peter West's lx5000 driver; I don't know how well it works, but probably color and b

OpenVMS/DEC-Alpha Printing to Linux Print Queues?

2000-07-31 Thread Jerry Keene
I'm trying to print from an OpenVMS (VMS version 7.1) Alpha system to a Linux print queue defined under lpd. I've used OpenVMS ucx version 4.1 and the LPRSETUP utility to define a remote "out" queue on the alpha, but have had no success getting test print files to print to the linux queue. I

Re: [OT] two connections to the net.

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Watt
At 17:09 31/07/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I will soon have both a xDSL and a cable modem connection to the net. > >I want to set up a linux router use both connections. I am thinking >OSPF.. I have never done this, but I want to try. My question, has anyone >here done this? Does anyone

printer...

2000-07-31 Thread rob smith
I have a lexmark Z11 printer. It is not supported in redhat 6.2 I have been told (on another list) that there is "no way" it will ever work in linux. I find this hard to believe, with all of the "linux Guru's" out there surely someone can figure out a way to make it work...so any suggestions??

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I would think that with all the known problems with running rm -rf from root that someone would get smart and find a way to disable its use from root. rm -r from root would accomplish the same but force the user to sit there and manually approve each deletion. Granted there are times when as a s

RE: [OT] two connections to the net.

2000-07-31 Thread Anthony Lawson
You would need BGP and a BGP peer. Way more then it's probably worth on a home connection. The hard way is to create static routes out each pipe to different blocks. Maybe use one of the gateway, and the other for common accessed areas like gaming servers. A n t h o n y L a w s o n Systems/N

[OT] two connections to the net.

2000-07-31 Thread paul . hessels
I will soon have both a xDSL and a cable modem connection to the net. I want to set up a linux router use both connections. I am thinking OSPF.. I have never done this, but I want to try. My question, has anyone here done this? Does anyone know how to do this? thank you, -- --Paul Hessels (

Re: Less on 6.2

2000-07-31 Thread Bob Taylor
OK. The mystery is that rxvt does not support this. I didn't make the connection. FYI less -X will not work in rxvt. Thanks to all who responded! I've been a less user for some 15 years. Bob -- ++ | Bob Taylor Email:

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > I agree. Sorry to ruffle everyone's feathers about this. Just wasn't thinking > before I spoke. > No feathers ruffled here. :-) It's amazing how complacent you get about running other people's scripts, etc when you use 'em every day. Now if I were a prog

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: --Yeah, but with all the publicity linux is getting and "linux4windows" --and stuff like that, "Joe Average" is gonna go down to his local --office supply store, grab a copy of Linux4Windows, install it on his --Win98SE machine and call himself a SysAdmin.

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
BTW, I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying that we can't stop 'em. :-) John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > --Sure... YOU don't. But what about the guy who's decided to try linux > --and barely has enough competence to install it. :-) > --John > > I feel that people with that little competency should not be all

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: --Sure... YOU don't. But what about the guy who's decided to try linux --and barely has enough competence to install it. :-) -- John I feel that people with that little competency should not be allowed to turn on the computer. They may hurt themselve

Re: kernel 2.4.x and redhat

2000-07-31 Thread linlist
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Wayne Dyer wrote: > Larry Mintz wrote: > > What version of Red Hat will carry kernel 2.4.x ? > > I see at kernel.org its in beta . > > I wonder when Red Hat will release it ? > > I 'm waiting for that version ! > > Larry<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > RH usually doesn't release spec

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > Yes, I see what your saying. If I would just happen to be in /tmp, and someone > just happened to make that fake "ls" script, then that would be a problem. I > don't know of many people on my system that know how to do anything more than > run pine, but t

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
Yes, I see what your saying. If I would just happen to be in /tmp, and someone just happened to make that fake "ls" script, then that would be a problem. I don't know of many people on my system that know how to do anything more than run pine, but there's the possibility. Thanks again. Jake O

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > but that's *THE POINT*! If you run 'ls' as root while in /tmp you are not > knowlingly running someone else's script - you are doing soemthing you do > many times a day that is quite harmless. > Hmm...you know, I never thought of it that way before. :

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
but that's *THE POINT*! If you run 'ls' as root while in /tmp you are not knowlingly running someone else's script - you are doing soemthing you do many times a day that is quite harmless. 1. somehow someone gets to create the file /tmp/ls as I suggested - could be a disgrunlted friend who had a

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > > I don't know about anyone else, but I don't just go around and run people's > scripts. If I do happen to come along a script that I think about running, I > look at it for a long time first in an editor. I especially don't run things > that are in the

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: --actually it's more about you being root, unintentionaly running someone --else's script. In my example I should have pointed out that *anyone* could --create an executeable file called /tmp/ls. -- --charles I don't know about anyone else, but I don't

Re: Cat5 modular wall jacks

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: --I love these guys -- --http://milestek.com -- --charles Yes, these are the only people that I order from, when it comes to wiring and cabinet needs. jake -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Cat5 modular wall jacks

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
I bought the ones that I have at Renningers, ( a hardware store ) any hardware store carry them. The company is Convergence. Yes they are called Catagory 5, 8 Modular wall jacks, then you have to get a face plate for them. jake On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: --Do these have a specifi

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
actually it's more about you being root, unintentionaly running someone else's script. In my example I should have pointed out that *anyone* could create an executeable file called /tmp/ls. charles On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > > ok, thanks for the info. I never really thought of

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
ok, thanks for the info. I never really thought of it like that, someone else running as root. Even though they would never get my password, I guess there are other ways of becoming root. Thanks again. jake On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: --I didn't see anyone answer this, so I'll

Re: Cat5 modular wall jacks

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
I love these guys http://milestek.com charles On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: > Do these have a specific name or am I calling them by the correct > name? I want to buy some (what I think are called) modular Cat 5 > wall jacks for my house. Anyone know where I can get some of these? > I

RE: Cat5 modular wall jacks

2000-07-31 Thread Anthony Lawson
Look in your area for "electric and communication supply" stores. They will have tons in all different kinds for a good price. Yes, that description is correct (well at least I knew what you were talking about...). =) A n t h o n y L a w s o n Systems/Networking Support - CCNA Semaphore Corpor

Re: Cat5 modular wall jacks

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: > Do these have a specific name or am I calling them by the correct > name? I want to buy some (what I think are called) modular Cat 5 > wall jacks for my house. Anyone know where I can get some of these? > I was looking for something that had some snap in m

Cat5 modular wall jacks

2000-07-31 Thread Jeff Graves
Do these have a specific name or am I calling them by the correct name? I want to buy some (what I think are called) modular Cat 5 wall jacks for my house. Anyone know where I can get some of these? I was looking for something that had some snap in modules of different varieties like an RJ11, RJ45

RE: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: >> yes, he should be able to if > > >Of course this assumes the route exist for the interface > >and the "local" network. > > he had the 192.168.1.0 entry in the tables. > Ermm... excuse me, I'm on a 192.168.0.x network. :-) But your point is taken. > > H

RE: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread Jeff Graves
>He should be able to ping the local windows boxes without the default >route right? yes, he should be able to if >Of course this assumes the route exist for the interface >and the "local" network. he had the 192.168.1.0 entry in the tables. >The default would only be used if a host not in >th

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > He should be able to ping the local windows boxes without the default > route right? Of course this assumes the route exist for the interface > and the "local" network. The default would only be used if a host not in > the local net was accessed. The

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Jeff Graves wrote: > If there's no default route listed when you issue the command > route -n, then you won't be able to ping out. If you type route you > should get 4 entries (that's what I get on all the default install > boxes i have): > > DestGateMask

Re: OFF TOPIC@#$@# hrmmm jobs

2000-07-31 Thread Chuck Mead
Chas, I saw this too and elected not to zing you on it... besides... I already knew you couldn't spell... >> Original Message << On 7/31/00, 12:20:52 PM, Charles Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: OFF TOPIC@#$@# hrmmm jobs: > I never said I c

Re: OFF TOPIC@#$@# hrmmm jobs

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
I never said I could spell worth a damn. I *never* spell check my emial to this list. But then again I'm not looking for a job, or trying to impress *anyone*... On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: > Charles Galpin wrote: > > > > Just some friendly advice regarding emails intended to help you

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
I didn't see anyone answer this, so I'll give it a stab. It protects you against trojans. The beauty of the unix security model is that a 'regular' user can't do much wrong to the system, only to themselves. However if you can get root to run something malicious (like "rm -rf /") then you can rea

Re: OFF TOPIC@#$@# hrmmm jobs

2000-07-31 Thread Hidong Kim
Charles Galpin wrote: > > Just some friendly advice regarding emails intended to help you get a job. > > 1. spell check > 2. spell check > 3. spell check > > At the very least it looks like you read the letter yourself before > sending it, and may even help make you look competant. competant?

RE: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: > If there's no default route listed when you issue the command > route -n, then you won't be able to ping out. If you type route you > should get 4 entries (that's what I get on all the default install > boxes i have): > > Dest GateMas

Re: Intel eepro100 problem

2000-07-31 Thread sixx
there is quite a few problems with 2.2.16 and eepro100 for my base of eepro100 servers, most were able to be resolved with the addition of the following line in the source. #define USE_IO At 16:56 00/07/28 -0400, you wrote: >Has anyone else been having problems with the Intel eepro100 embedded >

RE: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread Jeff Graves
If there's no default route listed when you issue the command route -n, then you won't be able to ping out. If you type route you should get 4 entries (that's what I get on all the default install boxes i have): DestGateMaskFlags Int 192.168.1.2 0

Re: OFF TOPIC@#$@# hrmmm jobs

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
Just some friendly advice regarding emails intended to help you get a job. 1. spell check 2. spell check 3. spell check At the very least it looks like you read the letter yourself before sending it, and may even help make you look competant. charles :) On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Michael S. Dunsavag

Re: Did I do something dumb ? - kernel build and basic question

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Galpin
> Pete Lancashire wrote: > > The other question is in the RedHat RPM'ed kernel source is there > > the config file that matches the kernel on the CDROM ? from a freshly installed kernel rpm, run "make oldconfig" to get the settings Red Hat used to build their kernel. hth charles -- To unsubs

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, eric clover wrote: > > ICMP disabled/blocked in the firewall on the box??? > > mine is on my box at home and i can not ping anything and pings to the box > > are blocked > > eric > > > Well the wierd thing is it just suddenly stopped working yesterday.

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
John Aldrich wrote: [snip] > I don't know what route -n says, haven't checked that yet, but on my > AMD k6 box here at work, "route" by itself shows the existing routes. > Ifconfig eth0 shows the "normal" stuff, as I recall. I don't have > that machine set up and hooked up to a monitor at the mome

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, eric clover wrote: > ICMP disabled/blocked in the firewall on the box??? > mine is on my box at home and i can not ping anything and pings to the box > are blocked > eric > Well the wierd thing is it just suddenly stopped working yesterday. It was working and then all of a su

Re: Help - NMBD issue

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
Tundra wrote: > > I have tried starting the nmbd and daemons via the command line (i.e. /usr/sbin/smbd >-D, /usr/sbin/nmbd -D)as well as through /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb. > > In each case, smbd starts appropriately. > Nmbd, however, starts up *two* daemons in each case. This totally screws with my

Re: Help Install stalls

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
linda hanigan wrote: > > Hi All, > I have an old 486 with 4 meg of ram I am trying > to install linux on. I managed to get the floppy > drives switched so I can now boot from a > 3 1/2" floppy it goes through all the messages > till > RAMDISK compressed Image Found at block 0 > then it quits. Doe

Re: Did I do something dumb ? - kernel build and basic question

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
Pete Lancashire wrote: > > I down loaded the 2.2.16.rpm source, rpm'ed it and then > added a patch (HighPoint 370 chip). That all went well. > > My real goal is to add the patch for the HighPoint IDE > chip, and then maybe tune up and such for the K7. > > Before I dig out the kernel-howto, I'm

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
Jake McHenry wrote: > What is such a security error with what I said? I've never done what I said, but > about the same thing. I have root's login disabled, to I have to su to root. I > have the . at the end of my user's path, and when I su to root, it keeps my > paths, including the ., so I alwa

Re: free x client for windows

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:55:08 -0400 > > "George Lenzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Personally, I prefer Vnc from AT&T. It's free (free beer). I've > > Just to interject, VNC is free as in free speech. And AT&T just bought Olivetti Research Labs, who had alrea

Re: Intel eepro100 problem

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
Kevin Wood wrote: > > Has anyone else been having problems with the Intel eepro100 embedded > NICs? I have a few customers that have been complaining of drop-outs > with these cards and it seems to be caused by the 2.2.16 (definite I've > seen it myself) and the 2.2.14 (just heard this one) kern

Re: su and root not the same??

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Arnold
Jamin Collins wrote: [snip] > > In short, my point is that we should not get to the point of just telling > everyone with a question that has been answered elsewhere or in a manual to > RTFM. I feel this is especially the case information is not provide with > regard to which manual it is they s

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread eric clover
ICMP disabled/blocked in the firewall on the box??? mine is on my box at home and i can not ping anything and pings to the box are blocked eric - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Help! Ne

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > --I don't know for sure but I would be suprised if even ping would work if > --there was a 10/100 MB confusion. > > > that's right. If you have a 10 meg network, and try to link up at 100 meg, > the link ligh

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > What is the purpose of this machine? Is it your gateway/ firewall/ masq > box or just a workstation. I don't think you need a default route if > there is only eth0 as an interface (i.e. workstation). You will need a > gateway entry if you need to access

ssh hangs for several minutes

2000-07-31 Thread Bret Hughes
I have been experiencing intermittant problems with a vpn ppp connection through ssh. I can be working along (typing in a terminal) and then poof, no response for several minuites. during this time I can sometimes ping the box and others the delay is there as well. I can't figure out what is ca

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread Jake McHenry
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: --I don't know for sure but I would be suprised if even ping would work if --there was a 10/100 MB confusion. that's right. If you have a 10 meg network, and try to link up at 100 meg, the link lights normally will blink, or just not come on at all. It wi

Re: Somebody's knocking...

2000-07-31 Thread Juan Martinez
The command to check /bin by modtime is: "ls -altc /bin" The man page says you need the -t with -c if you want to see things "float to the top" by ctime instead of by name. Juan -- Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -- Anonymous On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Brian As

Re: Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread Bret Hughes
John Aldrich wrote: > My linux box at home is a dual-PPro motherboard (only uni-processor > right now -- 2nd CPU died) with a built-in 10/100 Intel EtherExpress > NIC. > For some reason it has stopped seeing the network. My *guess* since I > can ping the box from another machine is that somehow i

Re: Qmail POP3 Error

2000-07-31 Thread redhat
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:51:54AM -0700, Anthony P wrote: Hi, > i'm install qmail for my servermail. from outlook > express, a can send mail with smtp to my server, but i > can't reciev with pop3. when i'm running pop3 daemon, > i found error : Try the qmail list. Give more detail of what ins

Re: Less on 6.2

2000-07-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Jim Simmons wrote: > Try this if you're using bash: > > export LESS=-X > > You'll need to put it in your .bash_profile or .bashrc to make it permanent. > > Jim I have wondered about this my self. The LESS=-X works but why? What is reading this variable xterm. less, sonething else? Jus

Re: Less on 6.2

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Borho
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:59:56PM -0700, Bob Taylor wrote: > Sorry this is not what I want. I'm not sure how to explain it better. > I type less in an xterm OR console and less does not > actually write on the xterm/console. In other words when I exit less > what it has printed disappears lea

CD-RW drive suggestion needed

2000-07-31 Thread Vidiot
I'm looking for a SCSI CD-RW drive that is at least capable of writing CD-R media at x8, preferrably faster. I'm also looking for a drive that will do CD-Text. That probably narrowed the list to zero. Thanks, in advance. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying othe

Re: which file switches window manger?

2000-07-31 Thread Steve Borho
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:32:31PM -0500, ktb wrote: > I hosed gnome trying to install helix, it complains about not finding a > fixed font. My X session defaults to gnome when I use 'startx'. I'm > thinking if I could switch the window manager to kde while in console, then > I could at least ge

Help! Network stopped working!

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
My linux box at home is a dual-PPro motherboard (only uni-processor right now -- 2nd CPU died) with a built-in 10/100 Intel EtherExpress NIC. For some reason it has stopped seeing the network. My *guess* since I can ping the box from another machine is that somehow it got set to 100 Megabit-only

Re: Less on 6.2

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bob Taylor wrote: > Sorry this is not what I want. I'm not sure how to explain it better. > I type less in an xterm OR console and less does not > actually write on the xterm/console. In other words when I exit less > what it has printed disappears leaving my screen the sa

Re: which file switches window manger?

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, ktb wrote: > I hosed gnome trying to install helix, it complains about not finding a > fixed font. My X session defaults to gnome when I use 'startx'. I'm > thinking if I could switch the window manager to kde while in console, then > I could at least get X back. This is my

Re: Somebody's knocking...

2000-07-31 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi Thomas, The first way to tell if you were compromised is if you can still log in. Most root kits replace /bin/login. If for some reason your hacker did not, you can also do a ls -alc /bin to see if any thing floats to the top. If a root kit was installed the dates wont match and you will at le

Re: Somebody's knocking...

2000-07-31 Thread Christopher Fisk
>Also try a generic ls -al | more and see if your . dot directories are >listed. If you see anything strange then install a fresh fileutils >package (fileutils-4.0-21 is the redhat 6.2 package) (rpm --force >/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/i386/RPMS/fileutils-4.0-21.i386.rpm as well as procps >package (rpm --f

Re: Somebody's knocking...

2000-07-31 Thread Christopher Fisk
>Looks like someone was knocking... Is there any way to tell if they got in? > >## LogWatch 1.6.6 Begin # > > > - Cron Begin >Commands Run: > User root: > /sbin/rmmod -as: 144 Time(s) > run-parts /et

Re: Help - NMBD issue

2000-07-31 Thread Tundra
I have tried starting the nmbd and daemons via the command line (i.e. /usr/sbin/smbd -D, /usr/sbin/nmbd -D)as well as through /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb. In each case, smbd starts appropriately. Nmbd, however, starts up *two* daemons in each case. This totally screws with my configuration. I have tr

Somebody's knocking...

2000-07-31 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Looks like someone was knocking... Is there any way to tell if they got in? ## LogWatch 1.6.6 Begin # - Cron Begin Commands Run: User root: /sbin/rmmod -as: 144 Time(s) run-parts /etc

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