RH Dialer

2000-08-17 Thread Shanmuga Raj
Hi, I am using RH Dialer utility to connect to my ISP. It works fine. However, I want to connect to the ISP by using a script from the command prompt. I tried with "dip", however, I am not getting it right. I wannt to dial to the ISP, authenticate using my username and password, and start the pppd

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Stephen, I need to modify what I said to you. For netmask, if you use 10.0.0.2 for the ethernet connection pointing to the DSL router set your netmask to 255.0.0.0 For the LAN netmask, if you stick with the 192.168.X.X set it to 255.255.255.0 Whatever configuration you use, you can't use the s

Workstation to Internet

2000-08-17 Thread SoloCDM
I have the following setup: DNS and BIND, Samba, Win9x (TCP/IP, Gateway, DNS), lmhosts and hosts, resolver on server. With all these, I'm still not able to retrieve anything from the Internet with a Win9x workstation going through a primary server. Although, I am able to ping a web site from the

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Michael J. Maravillo wrote: > To make it look uglier even ... you need to add arp entries also > for the workstations in the linux box so that the router will > know how to reach them right? :-) Nope, connections to the router will be masqueraded, not forwarded. The router

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > I have eth0 connected to the DSL modem (Cisco 675), 10.0.0.2. I have eth1 > connected to the LAN, 192.198.1.1x. Are those the IP addresses of your ethernet cards, or the other machines on the network? > 255.255.255.0, but my LAN was inaccessible -

Re: gateway configuration

2000-08-17 Thread Vidiot
>When I install redhat 6.1 I supply a wrong ip number >for the gateway in the net configuration. How can I >manually modify the affected config files? linuxconf MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate t

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Vidiot
Leonard posted: >(ISP gateway 200.201.202.1) > (|) >DSL modem 192.168.1.254 >| 192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0 network >eth1 192.168.1.10 > linux router >eth0 192.168.2.1 >| >lan 192.168.2.x/255.255.255.0 This is an interesting situation you have h

Re: PERL broken?

2000-08-17 Thread Charles Galpin
make sure perl is truly in /usr/bin by doing a 'which perl' If it is there, do a 'od -c process.pl' and make sure you don't have a DOS end of line char at the end of the first line. hth charles On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ron Brinkman wrote: > > When I try to run "./process.pl" the error message > "

PERL broken?

2000-08-17 Thread Ron Brinkman
Red Hat Linux 6.2 I have a strange problem getting perl to run. Look at the following information: [root@cx668484-c cgi-bin]# which perl /usr/bin/perl [root@cx668484-c cgi-bin]# more process #!/bin/bash echo "Content-Type: text/html" echo "" echo "Bash test" echo "Testing BASH"

Re: laptop recommendations

2000-08-17 Thread Charles Galpin
try http://www.armcomputer.com I've had one for about 2 years and it works great. They have even jumped on the Linux bandwagon now. I'm not sure about the touchpad though.. hth charles On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Rob Saul wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I'm hoping the good people here can recommend laptop

Re: gateway configuration

2000-08-17 Thread Hidong Kim
Fernando Rowies wrote: > > When I install redhat 6.1 I supply a wrong ip number > for the gateway in the net configuration. How can I > manually modify the affected config files? > > TIA > Fernando Rowies > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PR

Re: vger is dead

2000-08-17 Thread Wayne Dyer
Mike A. Harris wrote: > > >Saw your posting . . . anyone have any idea what happened yet? Did someone > >decide to sabotage linux where it hurts most during the conference? > > I talked to David Miller. vger.rutgers.edu is officially > diseased, it is no longer, it has ceased to be, it has fel

Raid5 Install on FTP

2000-08-17 Thread Kirk
How do you get RedHat 6.2 to install from FTP and make the Raid5 array (Linux Raid). Disk druid is no help. I have all the partitions defined how in console install do i tell it to build the array. The GUI install works great for this, but I cant seem to get an FTP install to do it. HELP PLEASE -

Re: Someone scanned my user names

2000-08-17 Thread vik
Juha Saarinen wrote: > Think it's a "feature" of CIFS and/or NetBIOS, which you can't turn > off. No doubt it's documented on the Samba site, and it makes it even more > important to disallow access to the NetBIOS ports. Fortunately NetBIOS is blocked by IP on my local PC and completely by our fi

gateway configuration

2000-08-17 Thread Fernando Rowies
When I install redhat 6.1 I supply a wrong ip number for the gateway in the net configuration. How can I manually modify the affected config files? TIA Fernando Rowies ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/

Re: Someone scanned my user names

2000-08-17 Thread vik
It appears that the usernames were somehow extracted by Retina Scan from the Samaba service. This is based on the user names being exclusively and completely the ones in /etc/smbpasswd. I'd still like to know how, but it is mildly comforting to know that it's "only" a samba thing. Interesting expl

Re: Someone scanned my user names

2000-08-17 Thread vik
Juha Saarinen wrote: > > %-> Someone on our internal network - with my knowledge - ran the NT Retina > %-> Scan product on my RH 6.1 box, which has "finger" disabled in inetd.conf > > Damn, must've been a helluva scan... killed the rest of your email it seems! > ;-) > > -- Juha Indeed. I think

Re: How-to disable monitor blank?

2000-08-17 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Have you tried: xset -dpms Disables monitor power management. The xset command's pretty cool; you can even force most monitors to power off with: xset +dpms xset dpms force off - -d - -- David Talkington Community Networking Initiative [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to add a Windowmanager to KDM??

2000-08-17 Thread Chip Rose.
Hi, Can someone give me a pointer on how to add the blackbox window manager to my drop-down selection in kdm? Blackbox is installed, and works fine when booting from a command prompt. I added it to /usr/share/config/kdmrc, and it shows up in the drop-down menu in kdm until I completely reboot t

Re: Someone scanned my user names

2000-08-17 Thread vik
John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone on our internal network - with my knowledge - ran the NT Retina > > Scan product on my RH 6.1 box, which has "finger" disabled in inetd.conf > > > And the result was? > John They somehow managed to extract the names of some of the u

Re: Domain Email

2000-08-17 Thread Osyrys
At 04:36 PM 8/17/00 -0600, you wrote: >So what did you insert into line 1 of the virtusertable? > >-- Line one is one entry for the email addresses. As I did it before like this [EMAIL PROTECTED] localname Then run makemap on the virtualusertable file, and it

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > Step back to 3.0.5. Or, perhaps grab the source tarball and compile > > RPM4. My recollection (from this list) is that the RedHat RPM is > > corrupt and will corrupt your rpm database. > > Personally I'm waiting for RedHat 7.1 before I upgrade! ;-) I wanna > > m

Re: Someone scanned my user names

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Someone on our internal network - with my knowledge - ran the NT Retina > Scan product on my RH 6.1 box, which has "finger" disabled in inetd.conf > And the result was? John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

Memorex mouse

2000-08-17 Thread Michael McLeod
Does anyone know where I can get a driver for the Memorex Internet-Pro Scrolling Mouse? Thanks! Michael ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Someone scanned my user names

2000-08-17 Thread vik
Someone on our internal network - with my knowledge - ran the NT Retina Scan product on my RH 6.1 box, which has "finger" disabled in inetd.conf ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Domain Email

2000-08-17 Thread Chuck Mead
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Osyrys spewed into the bitstream: O> First allow me to introduce myself. My name is Fred, and I am the owner O>of a small web service in upstate NY. I have been using Redhat on my O>servers for nearly 3 years and love the new look of 6.2 (takes a bit to get O>used t

Domain Email

2000-08-17 Thread Osyrys
First allow me to introduce myself. My name is Fred, and I am the owner of a small web service in upstate NY. I have been using Redhat on my servers for nearly 3 years and love the new look of 6.2 (takes a bit to get used to though... ) Anyway. On to my question... I just i

compilation errors

2000-08-17 Thread Jack Bowling
I am trying to compile kernel 2.2.16 sources with the latest released gcc 2.96-52 but am stumbling on punctuation errors in checksum.S The relevant stanzas of checksum.S are: - cut * * FIXME: could someone double-check whether I haven't mixed up some SRC and *

Re: [RHL] Cisco 675 and DSL

2000-08-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Glen, > To give this letter some technical value: if some of you are having > trouble with 2 or more nic cards with 1 or more networks not accessible, > make sure you have a different netmask for each network your computer is > trying to access. I was running 255.255.255.0

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Darryl, > >Different physical network interfaces on your linux server should > >not be on the same network addressing scheme (192.168.1.x/24). > > > >Use something like 192.168.2.x in the eth0 side of your network. > > Else subnet the address range. Yeah, lets go subnetti

RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's

2000-08-17 Thread TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel
Thanks, didn't know about that one. However, if it is NFS which is the culprit (as I think it is) how do I make it behave and relinquish control without having to restart it? Is there a config option somewhere I can modify to make it behave? Thanks again! > -Original Message- > From: Pet

Re: Graphical Installation/ X Windows Start causes computer tofreeze(RH 6.2)

2000-08-17 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, CamouflageTZ wrote: > how would i do that in the installation? > Sorry, but I am a complete newbie to Linux so i really don't know how to do > much. > Also, It sounds like you meant to do it in the graphical installation. This > is impossible because the computer freezes afte

RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's

2000-08-17 Thread Pete Peterson
Try something like "fuser -am /mnt/cdrom" "man fuser" will tell you some other possibly helpful options, such as -v, -u, -k and will also explain the letter-codes in the output. That usually allows me to figure out "busy" errors. pete peterson > From: "TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread Fred Herman
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > > > I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I > > > > seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I > > > > don

Re: How-to disable monitor blank?

2000-08-17 Thread Chad Rismiller
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Anthony Lawson wrote: > OK, I have disabled power management in the bios and recompiled the kernel > with no software power management but the screen still goes blank after > 30-60 seconds of no activity. I need the screens to stay on 24/7 > regardless. Where are the settin

News about window managers.

2000-08-17 Thread Chuck Mead
XFce is making a bit of news today as an XFce user squares off with Michael J. Hammel over his exclusion of XFce for consideration of his articles for LJ. http://www.linuxguru.com/stories.php?story=19 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-08-17-037-20-NW-DT -- Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMa

How-to disable monitor blank?

2000-08-17 Thread Anthony Lawson
OK, I have disabled power management in the bios and recompiled the kernel with no software power management but the screen still goes blank after 30-60 seconds of no activity. I need the screens to stay on 24/7 regardless. Where are the settings for this kind of stuff under Red Hat 6.2? P.S. I

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Re: Open Letter to Vo

2000-08-17 Thread Barry L. Kline
Matt Housh wrote: > I could be wrong, but it seems to me that adding even MORE useless email > to this list in the form of just plain being an asshole is not > necessary. Just a thought. Have a nice day. So then why would you do it? You too have a pleasant day. And thanks for the plain text pos

X on Gateway Laptop

2000-08-17 Thread Ray Parish
Anyone have successfully gotten X to work on a gateway laptop (Gateway Solo Pro 2550) Ray ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's

2000-08-17 Thread TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel
Title: RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's Tried that. Didn't work. Still says it's in use and won't allow the "force" to take effect. -Original Message- From:   Anthony Lawson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Thursday, August 17, 2000 12:59 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:  

RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's

2000-08-17 Thread Anthony Lawson
Title: RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's I usually have the same problem and just use "umount -f /mnt/cdrom".  A n t h o n y  L a w s o n Systems/Networking Support - CCNA Semaphore Corporation   206.905.5028 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel

RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's

2000-08-17 Thread TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel
Title: RE: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's Nothing else. Just mounted it from an xterm, didn't go in it, and NFS mounted it from the other machine. umount once I'm done from the 2nd machine, then try to umount the CD, and it tells me it's still being used. I think it's NFS that's not giving i

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread Statux
Sorry, had company.. lost concentration. it's `rpm --rebuilddb` *blush* On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Statux wrote: > rpm --rebuild ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

[OFF TOPIC] Re: Open Letter to Vo

2000-08-17 Thread Matt Housh
> While you're at it, would you please send a similarly caustic, yet > succinct, note to yourself and remind yourself that posting in HTML is > considered inconsiderate? Be sure to instruct yourself to go into > your mail client and turn off mail formatting and turn on automatic > wrap at a nice,

Re: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's

2000-08-17 Thread Hidong Kim
> "TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel" wrote: > > I have two machines in a network, both runing Linux. One doesn't > have a CD on it (did a network install). The problem I have is that > when I insert a CD in the first one, mount it, then NFS mount it on > the second one, when I release the NFS mount and then

Problems with NFS-exporting CD's

2000-08-17 Thread TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel
Title: Problems with NFS-exporting CD's I have two machines in a network, both runing Linux. One doesn't have a CD on it (did a network install). The problem I have is that when I insert a CD in the first one, mount it, then NFS mount it on the second one, when I release the NFS mount and then

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > > I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I > > > seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I > > > don't have a backup of this box)? > > >

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread Statux
rpm --rebuild On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Fred Herman wrote: > I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I > seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I > don't have a backup of this box)? > > I even tried to do a reinstall (install, not upgr

Re: POP3/SMTP server

2000-08-17 Thread Statux
procmail? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Single User

2000-08-17 Thread Bob Taylor
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Wood writes: > This the problem, when I boot into single user mode, I get a root > password request. I need to bypass this so that I can change the root > password. Again, this is with SuSE. Thanks On LILO boot line add: init=/bin/bash Bob -- +-

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread Fred Herman
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I > > seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I > > don't have a backup of this box)? > > > > I even tried to do a reinstall (install,

RE: Open Letter to Vo

2000-08-17 Thread Tanner, Robby
1) It's Robby, not Roddy. 2) Perhaps you should check the definition of caustic before bandying it about. My comments were perhaps not couched in complimentary language, but it wasn't corrosive or sarcastic as the term implies either. They were inert and instructive. 3) The reason for the HTM

Re: linuxconf after new kernel recompiling

2000-08-17 Thread Jacques Gelinas
> Hello, > I have RH-6.2. I downloaded and recompiled new kernel > 2.2.16-3. It's working ok, but when I run linuxconf I received > "Segmentation fault". Which options must I have in /usr/src/linux-2.2.16-3/.config > to linuxconf works ? No particular one. Was linuxconf working before the kernel

Re: IPchains interface

2000-08-17 Thread noel . timario
Additional sites... www.tucows.com (linux download) www.linuxhomepage.com noelt. Quoting "Michael J. Maravillo" : > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:57:02PM +0530, kapil sharma wrote: > > Is there any good graphical interface for making ipchains policies? > Please > > suggest one software

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread Bryan Liles
rpm --rebuilddb On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:51:56AM -0600, Fred Herman wrote: > I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I > seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I > don't have a backup of this box)? > > I even tried to do a reins

Re: Howto convert to dial on demand, etc.

2000-08-17 Thread Bryan Liles
You might want to have a look at Diald. There is a link to it at http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/02/24/888343869.html. I haven't set this up in a while, but it was fairly straight forward if I remember correctly. On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:15:58PM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > Here's t

Re: Single User

2000-08-17 Thread noel . timario
Hello Kevin, Quoting Kevin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This the problem, when I boot into single user mode, I get a root > password request. I need to bypass this so that I can change the root > password. Again, this is with SuSE. Thanks > Try this at "boot:" type this... linux init=/

Re: laptop recommendations

2000-08-17 Thread Bryan Liles
I'm posting this message from a Gateway Solo 9300. I even got the winmodem working somewhat. On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:29:34AM -0700, Rob Saul wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I'm hoping the good people here can recommend laptops that > work well with Linux. > > My primary constraints are: >

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi Fred, First type rpm --help Then you will see near the bottom that all you need do is type rpm --rebuilddb Please try to keep step one in mind for future use. man rpm can also be useful. Have fun, -- _ Brian Ashe

Re: How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: > I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I > seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I > don't have a backup of this box)? > > I even tried to do a reinstall (install, not upgrade), but the > installa

Re: Open Letter to Vo

2000-08-17 Thread Barry L. Kline
I agree completely with your sentiments Roddy.Getting multiple copies of his message was annoying. While you're at it, would you please send a similarly caustic, yet succinct, note to yourself and remind yourself that posting in HTML is considered inconsiderate? Be sure to instruct yourself

Re: Squid cachemgr.cgi problem

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew So hing-pong
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, kapil sharma wrote: did you add a following line on squid.conf ?/? http_access allow all > I am unable to connect to squid proxy server cache manager (cachemgr.cgi. > program). Please help! > > kapil > > > > ___ > Redhat-list ma

Re: POP3/SMTP server

2000-08-17 Thread noel . timario
Hi Shanmuga! Quoting Shanmuga Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a Linux 6.2 server configured for SMTP and POP. I am using Sendmail > for SMTP and Fetchmail for collecting mails from my ISPs POP3 mail box. At > my ISP I have a domain name registered "mydomain.com". All mails coming to > this

How Do I Rebuild RPM Database

2000-08-17 Thread Fred Herman
I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I don't have a backup of this box)? I even tried to do a reinstall (install, not upgrade), but the installation seemed to never try to load any rpm's a

Howto convert to dial on demand, etc.

2000-08-17 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Here's the situation: I'm converting from 56k dialup (24/7) to DSL... The telco is on strike (verizon - was Bell Atlantic), so they can't install for a while... When they get around to it, part of their deal will be to check that I have an extra pair of phone lines (which would be my second pho

Open Letter to Vo

2000-08-17 Thread Tanner, Robby
Dear The Vo,   A couple of things are gonna' make your life easier on the web.  One is to remove any cutsie formatting (i.e. whatever this background colour is, tope?) from your emails.  The second is to more thoroughly read your documentation.  When you first subscribed to this list, no do

Re: POP3/SMTP server

2000-08-17 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Raj, When fetchmail logs onto your ISP to check your mail, it logs onto your user's mail box. It doesn't read the header of each letter, it simply opens the box, grabs what's in there, and retrieves it. As such it doesn't matter who the letter is addressed to. Fetchmail doesn't sort it, just r

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
As long as your configuration is working I'd stick with it. As an experiment I tried changing the address of eth0 to my static IP address. I lost access to the 'net from every machine here, including the firewall machine. When I put it back to 10.0.0.2 I was able to access the 'net again. As I

Netscape and Java

2000-08-17 Thread Wade Hampton
I just read that the JAVA hole with netscape only works on Linux if the user is running as root? Does anyone have any first hand experience with this? Is this correct or more BS? Any ideas if/when this will be fixed? -- W. Wade, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On July 8, 1947, witnesses clai

Re: Squid cachemgr.cgi problem

2000-08-17 Thread Michael J. Maravillo
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:11:48PM +0530, kapil sharma wrote: > I am unable to connect to squid proxy server cache manager (cachemgr.cgi. > program). Please help! Can you provide more details on the error message you're getting? Also, please take time to read "The Cache Manager" in the FAQ secti

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Vidiot
>>>2) Go into "Basic Host Information." Change your static IP address on >>>adaptor 1, (eth0) to 10.0.0.2, netmask 255.255.255.0 UNLESS you know that >>>your eth0 port on your DSL modem is set to something other than 10.0.0.1. >>>If so set it to match that subnet class. >> >>Excuse me, but why

Re: char-major-145 ??

2000-08-17 Thread Michael J. Maravillo
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:54:53AM -0500, Wayne Dyer wrote: > Anyone know where I can find out what char-major-145 is? Should be listed in Documentation/devices.txt in your kernel source tree. Mike -- .--. Michael J. Maravillo office://+63.2.894.3592/ ( () ) Q Linux S

Re: building RPMs for the inexperienced

2000-08-17 Thread Michael J. Maravillo
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:02:24PM -0400, fred smith wrote: > I'm going to need to learn how to build an RPM package sometime in the > next few months. I find the docs that come with RH to be scanty as regards > this particular activity. > > I've got the online form of "Maximum RPM", but it seems

Squid cachemgr.cgi problem

2000-08-17 Thread kapil sharma
I am unable to connect to squid proxy server cache manager (cachemgr.cgi. program). Please help! kapil ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: IPchains interface

2000-08-17 Thread Michael J. Maravillo
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:57:02PM +0530, kapil sharma wrote: > Is there any good graphical interface for making ipchains policies? Please > suggest one software for making ipchains rules on Redhat linux 6.1 Checkout http://freshmeat.net. Particularly, the ipchains firewalling module for webmin

multiple disk spanning for Big files

2000-08-17 Thread UK Jaiswal
Hi, What would be the way to copy very big files on to floppies in linux. In DOS, you could "pkzip -& a:xyz.zip big_file.exe" I tried using "tar -cMvf /mnt/floppy/xyz.tar 8_mb_file.tar.gz" but it did not work. Uk ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

char-major-145 ??

2000-08-17 Thread Wayne Dyer
Anyone know where I can find out what char-major-145 is? -W- For your convenience, we recommend courageous, efficient self-service. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Single User

2000-08-17 Thread Kevin Wood
This the problem, when I boot into single user mode, I get a root password request. I need to bypass this so that I can change the root password. Again, this is with SuSE. Thanks Kevin Anthony Lawson wrote: > > I'm pretty sure the answer is yes for all Linux distros. I have booted a > SuSe l

How safe is Socks5 proxy on firewall?

2000-08-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Just after some opinions here. I have a number of servers sitting being an IPChains firewall. The IPChains scripts are very restrictive, deny first then open specified ports only. Pretty much no connection allowed to the firewall itself except for SSH. I need to install a Socks5 proxy to let so

Re: Routing causes _slow_ ftp

2000-08-17 Thread Ben Logan
--- Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What error message do you get when you try to > connect? The odd thing is that I get no errors. No error from the ftp client, no errors in any configuration files on either the host or client computer. The ftp client immediately says "connected to 1

Re: Suggested CD-RW Drive

2000-08-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello John, > My 2 cents -- if you are trying to do anything else while using an > IDE CDR/RW, you stand a chance of buffer underruns and thus > "coastering" your CD blank. OTOH, it's my understanding that because > SCSI works differently than IDE, you have less chance of buffer >

linuxconf after new kernel recompiling

2000-08-17 Thread Arturs Korneevs
** Reply Requested by 8/19/2000 (Saturday) ** Hello, I have RH-6.2. I downloaded and recompiled new kernel 2.2.16-3. It's working ok, but when I run linuxconf I received "Segmentation fault". Which options must I have in /usr/src/linux-2.2.16-3/.config to linuxconf works ? .config: # # Automati

POP3/SMTP server

2000-08-17 Thread Shanmuga Raj
I have a Linux 6.2 server configured for SMTP and POP. I am using Sendmail for SMTP and Fetchmail for collecting mails from my ISPs POP3 mail box. At my ISP I have a domain name registered "mydomain.com". All mails coming to this domain are forwarded to one common POP3 mail box at the ISP. I want

IPchains interface

2000-08-17 Thread kapil sharma
Is there any good graphical interface for making ipchains policies? Please suggest one software for making ipchains rules on Redhat linux 6.1 kapil ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: DSL & Dual NICs

2000-08-17 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Gordon, You clearly sound like you know what you're doing. I have a question. I have eth0 connected to the DSL modem (Cisco 675), 10.0.0.2. I have eth1 connected to the LAN, 192.198.1.1x. I had both set with a netmask of 255.255.255.0, but my LAN was inaccessible - the two client machines coul

building RPMs for the inexperienced

2000-08-17 Thread fred smith
I'm going to need to learn how to build an RPM package sometime in the next few months. I find the docs that come with RH to be scanty as regards this particular activity. I've got the online form of "Maximum RPM", but it seems to be sadly out of date (i.e., 3 years old). Is there anyplace one c

Re: Help: Lilo not running with RHL7b

2000-08-17 Thread noel . timario
Quoting Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joe wrote: > > > I can't get lilo to load on my new hard drive; here's the message I get: > > [root@blotter /root]# lilo > > Warning: /dev/hdd1 is not on the first disk > > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > ... > >