Re: Telnet

2000-08-22 Thread Anthony Capone
su...it worked that is great!! now I don't need to telnet in using root! Thanks! Anthony - - Original Message - From: "Statux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 11:51 PM Subject: Re: Telnet > su (or su -) to root from a user account if yo

Re: crontab entry question

2000-08-22 Thread Bret Hughes
Uncle Meat wrote: > On 22-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke something to the effect: > > > > If I change the command to > > > >/301 ** *root run-parts > > /etc/run.hourly > > > > Then this command will every half hour right ? > > You intuition about the form

Re: failed dependencies

2000-08-22 Thread Bret Hughes
eric clover wrote: > hello, > just wondering if someone can see something i am not seeing. > trying to upgrade my hdparm and i get this error, also posted is the results > of a find: > > [root@xxx installs]# rpm -Uvh hdparm-3.9-6.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.

Re: Setting up a firewall on PBI Enhanced DSL

2000-08-22 Thread Bret Hughes
Charles Galpin wrote: > A friend of mine does this, but with a FreeBSD firewall/router. Seems to > have a very easy to understand routing/forwarding syntax - I guess the > equivalent of ipchains. I don't know the details, but I'm also hoping one > of the network gurus on the list will pipe up and

Re: Telnet

2000-08-22 Thread Statux
su (or su -) to root from a user account if you want to do root stuff. You have to log in on one of those terms in order to be able to login directly as root.. which you don't need to do so don't worry about it. When you connect (not login) to a system.. you're assigned a psuedo-terminal (for r

Re: Names

2000-08-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:26:52PM -0500, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: : Where does redhat get the names from for the different releases? : : Manhattan, Hedwig, Cartman, Zoot, Pinstripe etc. I suspect the development team makes them up. Hey, those names are better than Mother's Day + 0.1.. Those were

Re: Bin Files

2000-08-22 Thread Statux
make it executable and run it. ** * Statux * * * | * * E-Mail: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * ICQ: | 173

Re: Setting up a firewall on PBI Enhanced DSL

2000-08-22 Thread Charles Galpin
A friend of mine does this, but with a FreeBSD firewall/router. Seems to have a very easy to understand routing/forwarding syntax - I guess the equivalent of ipchains. I don't know the details, but I'm also hoping one of the network gurus on the list will pipe up and explain how this can be done w

future configurations questions

2000-08-22 Thread kabir
At some future time when redhat release kernel 2.4.x I will get a 20 or 30 GB harddisk. I have a question. Suppose I get a 20 GB drive. I split the disk into 3 partitions. device mount drive space /dev/hda /NT or /win2k 10 GB | /dev/hda

Clueless Tech Support (A rant!)

2000-08-22 Thread John Aldrich
Hows this for clueless Tech Support -- I downloaded and installed the binary-only distro of Yahoo Messenger for linux (yes, there's an official BETA version of their chat client out for linux now ) I noticed some problems and filled out there "comments" form on their web site explaining what the

Re: Re: Ultra ATA66 /EIDE HDD

2000-08-22 Thread Kirk
>On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > What's Hedrick patches? A kernel patch. >Where can I get them? ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick get the one that matches your kernel and make sure to get the latest one, they are dated. Then read the man page on patch. And you will

Names

2000-08-22 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
Where does redhat get the names from for the different releases? Manhattan, Hedwig, Cartman, Zoot, Pinstripe etc. Just curious... Ahbaid. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Ultra ATA66 /EIDE HDD

2000-08-22 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
What's Hedrick patches? Where can I get them? I'd like to give this and a couple of other things a try since I have an opportunity coming up to play with a server before rebuilding it. thanks, Ahbaid. Kevin Wood wrote: > Not with the standard install. You can do one of two ways. > > Run the c

Re: crontab entry question

2000-08-22 Thread David Kramer
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does the following crontab entry > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly > read > run at 1 am everyday and month run-parts ? No, it says run every minute. > > The problem is I thought crontab entries were of the format > >Minute Hour Da

Re: crontab entry question

2000-08-22 Thread Vidiot
> >does the following crontab entry >01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly >read >run at 1 am everyday and month run-parts ? > >The problem is I thought crontab entries were of the format > > Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek Command >eg 0 1 ** *

crontab entry question

2000-08-22 Thread kabir
does the following crontab entry 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly read run at 1 am everyday and month run-parts ? The problem is I thought crontab entries were of the format Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek Command eg 0 1 ** * root r

failed dependencies

2000-08-22 Thread eric clover
hello, just wondering if someone can see something i am not seeing. trying to upgrade my hdparm and i get this error, also posted is the results of a find: [root@xxx installs]# rpm -Uvh hdparm-3.9-6.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by hdparm-3.9-6 [root@

Console :0 is owned by UID 0

2000-08-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I keep finding a lot of entries like: pam_console[928]: Console :0 is owned by UID 0 in my /var/log/secure file. What does this message signify and how should I react to it? Best regards Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: host wrong?

2000-08-22 Thread Tobias Roppelt
> checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; > you must specify one tell configure what host type is ./configure --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu ^ replace this ^^^ with your host type ./configure --help should give you more information

Re: host wrong?

2000-08-22 Thread Michael J. Maravillo
What's the output when you run: ./config.guess On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:55:35AM -0700, lee wrote: > well i've managed to mess up me system somehow > this is a new one though so i'm getting creative i guess LOL > getting host error on ./configure any help appreciated.see below > > [roo

Re: tee problem

2000-08-22 Thread Michael J. Maravillo
Hi Arturs, Enclose your variables in {}. I'd suggest you do this (and make it habit :) when you use variables in shell scripts... E.g.: nice -18 find . -print \ | grep -v ${LOGFILE} \ | grep -v /proc/ \ | grep -v /mnt/floppy/ \

Re: Setting up a firewall on PBI Enhanced DSL

2000-08-22 Thread Patrick May
I assume you are looking at something along the lines of: DSL Bridge -> Router/Firewall -> Private LAN -> DMZ with servers I think this would be a little more complicated. You would need to make sure the NIC on the DSL line is setup to listen for all of your IP

Re: Gnome and Multihead

2000-08-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:21:10AM -0400, Kevin Wood wrote: : Thanks that did the trick, but now I have one other issue. Xinerama is : not supported by most Window managers. This is according to Xfree86.org : and personal trial. Anybody know of a manager that does work across : multiple screens

Re: ssh without password

2000-08-22 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 22/08/00 at 9:08 Thomas Ribbrock wrote: >On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:00:51AM +1000, Greg Wright wrote: > >> Keep a password, use expect to do what you want, it should be >> installed.. > >Wouldn't that mean that he'd have to store the password in

upgrading Rh 6.1 to newest gcc, libstdc++, etc.

2000-08-22 Thread Thomas Porter
I am thinking of living on the bleeding edge and would like to upgrade from the egcs packages that came with RH 6.1 to the pinstripe gcc, cpp, qt-2.1.1, and glibc packages. I am finding a lot of packages (new KDE beta's) that require new qt, and new Qt packages require libstdc++-6.2-2 at least.

Re: aic7xxx driver hangs during isntall

2000-08-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Nitebirdz, > I got a problem during the installation of Red Hat 6.1 and need some help, > please. I try to install directly from the CD on a system that has a > Seagate SCSI hard drive, and the initrd images seems to load fine, then it > calls the aic7xxx module driver and it

Re: What's Accessing The Hard Disk

2000-08-22 Thread Nitebirdz
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, SoloCDM wrote: > Is there a way to actually know what's accessing the hard disk? To > eliminate a few I already use: uname, uptime, df, w, who, ftpwho, lpq, > lpc, users, domainname, ipfwadm, netstat, mailstats, smbstatus, > procinfo, ifconfig, rpcinfo, lsof. > Chancer are

Re: Telnet Login

2000-08-22 Thread Nitebirdz
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Osyrys wrote: > When I log into my account through telnet for maint. and stuff, it says. > > bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted > > Any thoughts on what this might be?? If anyone knows, it'd be great... > The only thing that's chang

Re: Bin Files

2000-08-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 27 Sep 2036, George Georgiev wrote: > Hi everybody, > > yesterday i downloaded staroffice 5.2 for linux, but it came as a .bin file. > Please, tell me how to extract this .bin file and open the installation (also > if it's possible i would like to know how to handle other .bin files, and

Re: Gnome and Multihead

2000-08-22 Thread Wade Hampton
For some time now, I have tried fvwm2 with 2 monitors. However I was using the Accelerated X server, not XFree86 as XF86 did not include multihead until 4.0. Try it and tell me how well it works out. Currenly, I don't have a monitor on the second display (sitting in a box on my desk). Cheers

Re: Telnet

2000-08-22 Thread Charles Galpin
Anthony. You can log in as a regular user, then su to root. Do 'su - root' to get root's path setup properly. There is no need to log in as root ever, and as others have said, you are much better off with ssh and sudo. hth charles On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Anthony Capone wrote: > I would like to log

SCSI error

2000-08-22 Thread Duncan Hill
Getting a series of messages similar to the following on a server: Disk error, return code 1802 SCSI key Abort Command SCSI parity error scsidisk parity error reset Downloading scripts. This is a 53c875 based card with a pair of 9 gig scsi drives attached. Am I looking at card failure or dis

Re: Telnet

2000-08-22 Thread Anthony Capone
I would like to login as root remotely to make minor ajustments but then I can re-edit the securetty file to take away root access. My only question is that how do I logon onto one of those terminals? I tryed telnetting to the machine and I tryed to login but to no avail... Thanks, Anthony -

Re: Gnome and Multihead

2000-08-22 Thread Kevin Wood
Jason, Thanks that did the trick, but now I have one other issue. Xinerama is not supported by most Window managers. This is according to Xfree86.org and personal trial. Anybody know of a manager that does work across multiple screens? Thanks Kevin Jason Costomiris wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 2

Re: ssh without password

2000-08-22 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Steve Manuel wrote: > This is correct but there is one little wrinkle that needs to be addressed. > When you run ssh-keygen it will create the public/private keypair then ask > you for a password. You should *not* type a password. Just press the enter > key. I believe it asks

host wrong?

2000-08-22 Thread lee
well i've managed to mess up me system somehow this is a new one though so i'm getting creative i guess LOL getting host error on ./configure any help appreciated.see below [root@dialup-209 heroes-0.1]# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr

Re: Ultra ATA66 /EIDE HDD

2000-08-22 Thread Kevin Wood
Not with the standard install. You can do one of two ways. Run the command : hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hdx everytime the machine boots, or Get a clean 2.2.16 tree and apply the hedrick patches which will do the same thing for you. Hope this helps. Kevin "M. Neidorff" wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Is

Re: ssh without password

2000-08-22 Thread Bill Carlson
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Kevin Wood wrote: > If you look at the command ssh-keygen, this is what you will need. > > Run the command ssh-keygen as the user you will be logging into the > remote machine with. > This will produce a identity key and an identity.pub key located in the > ~/.ssh/ directory

Re: Gnome and Multihead

2000-08-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:59:08AM -0400, Kevin Wood wrote: : Hey crew, a question for you. : : I have now become a self declared XF86Config hacker (Yuck!) and gotten a : machine with RH6.9.5(RH7.0 Beta) running an AGP Voodoo3 16MB and a PCI : Voodoo3 16MB Card running X one both windows. I got

Re: aic7xxx driver hangs during isntall

2000-08-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:48:26AM -0500, Nitebirdz wrote: : : I got a problem during the installation of Red Hat 6.1 and need some help, : please. I try to install directly from the CD on a system that has a : Seagate SCSI hard drive, and the initrd images seems to load fine, then it : calls th

Re: Slipping in [RHL]

2000-08-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 10:43:24PM -0700, Kirk wrote: : Why be picky about email titles and such? I do it for my sorting, I like : pine and use procmail, I belong to 4 mail groups and all the others use : the [title] on their own. Placing [title] in the subject line makes it much more difficult t

Re: [RHL] Restricting telnet access

2000-08-22 Thread Edward Marczak
>> I believe you can do something like this in hosts.deny >> >> in.telnetd:username@hostname >> >> That,or something close to that, should deny just that user. I'll give it a >> quick try here and apologize if I find I was wrong :) Good luck >> > Ugh.. Its not very useful, It can't get the

Re: Setting up a firewall on PBI Enhanced DSL

2000-08-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Bill Ries-Knight wrote: > This is a twis on an old problem. > > I have a PBI Enhanced DSL account. This gives me 5 IP's through a > single DSL modem. I want to use the redhat bos to create a firewall, > and that is easy enough. What I wish to know is this. > > With th

Re: Gnome and Multihead

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Borho
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:59:08AM -0400, Kevin Wood wrote: > Hey crew, a question for you. > > I have now become a self declared XF86Config hacker (Yuck!) and gotten a > machine with RH6.9.5(RH7.0 Beta) running an AGP Voodoo3 16MB and a PCI > Voodoo3 16MB Card running X one both windows. I got

Re: Fetchmail / Procmail

2000-08-22 Thread Bret Hughes
Shanmuga Raj wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the response. Let me be more specific. > I am using domain name based mail forwading at my ISP. All users within my > office have individual e-mail IDs [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ISP forwards all > mails coming to mydomain.com into one POP3 mail box. Now, I collec

Ultra ATA66 /EIDE HDD

2000-08-22 Thread M. Neidorff
Hi folks, Is the ultra ATA66/EIDE drive type supported in the stock RH 6.2? (I saw on the web that Win NT, etc. require a special driver) Thanks, Mark ___ __HHH__ (@ @) .oOO--\_/--OOo.- | Mark Neido

Re: Bin Files

2000-08-22 Thread Kevin Wood
Chmod +x the file and run it. This is the entire installation file! Kevin George Georgiev wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > yesterday i downloaded staroffice 5.2 for linux, but it came as a .bin file. > Please, tell me how to extract this .bin file and open the installation (also > if it's possi

Re: Apache authentication with mod_auth_pam

2000-08-22 Thread Olivier van Helden
Title: Re: Apache authentication with mod_auth_pam At 12:49 +0200 21/08/00, Olivier van Helden wrote: For the web site, I'd like to use authentication based on the standard user/group specification, to avoid the management of multiple account per user. I've found the way to setup authentication

Re: Bin Files

2000-08-22 Thread UK Jaiswal
# chmod +x soff..bin # ./soff..binor ./soff..bin /net (for network installation) Uk George Georgiev wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > yesterday i downloaded staroffice 5.2 for linux, but it came as a .bin file. > Please, tell me how to extract this .bin file and open the installa

Bin Files

2000-08-22 Thread George Georgiev
Hi everybody, yesterday i downloaded staroffice 5.2 for linux, but it came as a .bin file. Please, tell me how to extract this .bin file and open the installation (also if it's possible i would like to know how to handle other .bin files, and what do they hold, i.e. installations, programs, etc.

Gnome and Multihead

2000-08-22 Thread Kevin Wood
Hey crew, a question for you. I have now become a self declared XF86Config hacker (Yuck!) and gotten a machine with RH6.9.5(RH7.0 Beta) running an AGP Voodoo3 16MB and a PCI Voodoo3 16MB Card running X one both windows. I got them to the correct resolutions and all! The problem I am having is t

Re: cpus for asus p2b-ds

2000-08-22 Thread Kevin Wood
The manuals are out of date! I think, but am not sure, that you can run at least an 850MHz processor in there. I think I have run in upwards of an 800MHz myself. Hope this helps. I am running RH6.2 on the Athlon as well, 1GHz to be exact (excuse me while I wipe the drool off my chin). The onl

Re: Intel N440BX Motherboard

2000-08-22 Thread Kevin Wood
Works fine, we have sold tons running under Linux. Kevin Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > > Hi all, > > anyone know anything this motherboard under RH6.2? > > In particular I'm wondering if the onboard SCSI controller will give a > problem: > > Symbios Logic 53C876 Dual Channel Ultra, one's wide and

tee problem

2000-08-22 Thread Arturs Korneevs
** Reply Requested by 8/24/2000 (Thursday) ** Hello, Could you tell me why I cannot see list of files on my screen and in log ? I see only: [root@aurum /root]# ./fullbackup Servera aurum kopesanas sakums Tue Aug 22 12:01:12 EEST 2000 Kopetie faili: Servera aurum kopesanas beigas Tue Aug 22 12:

Re: rpm cannot install

2000-08-22 Thread Vikas
Steve Borho wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:56:35PM +0530, Vikas wrote: > > executed "rpm -ivh perl-???.i386.rpm" but it complained rpms cannot be > > instaled. I was "root" still. > > What could be the reason? > > None of the rpms are getting installed. I did check with "rpm -q " to > > ma

Re: rpm cannot install

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Borho
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:56:35PM +0530, Vikas wrote: > executed "rpm -ivh perl-???.i386.rpm" but it complained rpms cannot be > instaled. I was "root" still. > What could be the reason? > None of the rpms are getting installed. I did check with "rpm -q " to > make sure they were not already ins

Re: rpm cannot install

2000-08-22 Thread Statux
> executed "rpm -ivh perl-???.i386.rpm" but it complained rpms cannot be > instaled. I was "root" still. > What could be the reason? > None of the rpms are getting installed. I did check with "rpm -q " to > make sure they were not already installed. > Do all the files that need to be installed *h

rpm cannot install

2000-08-22 Thread Vikas
After rhlinux got perfectly installed I came to know that few pakages that were present in the "rpms/" directory did not get installed. I had modified the base/comps so that I could do a base install but during instalation I had selcted "[*] Install everthing" also. As the docs told: I mounted the

Re: ssh without password

2000-08-22 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:00:51AM +1000, Greg Wright wrote: > Keep a password, use expect to do what you want, it should be > installed.. Wouldn't that mean that he'd have to store the password in plain text in some script file? Wondering, Thomas -- "Look, Ma, no obsolete q

Re: Telnet

2000-08-22 Thread Statux
What's more important to you? Logging in directly as root remotely or security? :/ Once they're added, if you login on one of those terms.. you can login as root. Nothing needs to be restarted or anything. On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Anthony Capone wrote: > What do I have to do after I have added thes

Re: ssh without password

2000-08-22 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El día Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:14:00 -0500 Steve Manuel escribió: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:18:53PM -0400, Kevin Wood wrote: > > If you look at the command ssh-keygen, this is what you will need. > > > > Run the command ssh-keygen as the user you will be logging into the > > remote machine with.