RE: Needing help with eth0

2000-09-06 Thread Ron Brinkman
Don't know if my experience is the same as yours, but I have never gotten DHCP (via pump) to work. So I hard-coded the IP address in my config files. Even then, when booting the startup of eth0 always times out for 60 seconds, then reports [FAILED]. I found I had to exectue the followin

RE: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Curry
Why don't you just login under a normal user account and then "su" to root? This is the easiest way, and the way most of us do it. My 2 cents, Steve Curry NonStopNet.Net, Inc. http://www.nonstopnet.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R

Re: Vacation (Vidiot)

2000-09-06 Thread Vidiot
>Thanks for the Info. This has solved the error problem. It all seems to be >OK now, except the message that is returned to the sender is totally blank, >no subject, or body. The .vacation.msg file exists in the users directory >as created by vacation? >Jeremy You need to enter the vacation me

Re: IPChains

2000-09-06 Thread Jeremy Russell
Hi Charles, Thanks for the reply. Only question that I have is that I'm running RH6.2, isnt ipmasqadm a pre 6.2 utility, or is it OK to install on RH6.2? Thanks Jeremy I just did this the other day. Assumptions: You have correctly setup your firewall to support multiple real IPs (i.e. you hav

Re: Vacation (Vidiot)

2000-09-06 Thread Jeremy Russell
Hi, Thanks for the Info. This has solved the error problem. It all seems to be OK now, except the message that is returned to the sender is totally blank, no subject, or body. The .vacation.msg file exists in the users directory as created by vacation? Regards Jeremy >I'm having trouble getti

Re: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-06 Thread Statux
CISC.. is the other one I think (which is what x86's are). x86 is the architecture, actually. On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > Um, no it's not. If it was, you couldn't run windows or > linux on it. Windows and linux only run on the SIS > architecture. You are either running IBM AIX or

Re: Vacation

2000-09-06 Thread Dan Horth
not answering your problems - but - whatever you do just make sure that the user you are setting up the vacation notice for (specially if it's yourself! ;) has disabled any subscriptions to mailing lists before they go on vacation - otherwise the mail lists will probably get flooded with a loa

Re: Vacation

2000-09-06 Thread Rick Warner
Sendmail on RedHat is set to use smrsh authentication for programs called during processing. Specifically, smrsh will only run programs from a specific directory; on RH6.2 that is /etc/smrsh I believe. What you need to do is create a symlink that points /etc/smrsh vacation to the real vacation

Re: [LIH] telnet problem

2000-09-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > I was wondering about this too, so I set up a DNS server for the local > domain. Access time has improved somewhat. I also noticed that the > connection is very rapid but the login prompt takes some time to come > especially during the day. At night

Re: Urgent:No images have been defined.

2000-09-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Madhu, > > > though the problem is solved, iam still unable > > to understand why it was not including that > > single image(the one i added newly). > > If lilo fails in *any* respect it will not write the bootsector, as to avoid >

Re: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Rex wrote: > AMD K6 is RISC archetcture. > Hmm...but isn't the P6 a RISC architecture as well? I was thinking Pentium Pro was RISC. Am I wrong? John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.co

Re: ssh-2.3.0 and openssh - compatible?

2000-09-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hello > I have recently removed my openssh pacakges from the server and > installed ssh-2.3.0 from a > rpm file. Things went bdaly wrong. > Problems: > > a) I can't see sshd using ps aux | grep sshd anymore. sshd start seems > to be w

Re: Problem with my printers.

2000-09-06 Thread John P. Verel
There's a bug in 6.1 that is addressed in a document on Red Hat's web site, called, "6.1 Gottchas and Workarounds" (title approximate) John On 09/06/00, 11:35:17AM -0500, David P. Giffen wrote: > I just loaded Redhat 6.1 on my computer. the problem I am having is that > Print-Tool does not see e

Re: Vacation

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Jeremy Russell wrote: > I'm having trouble getting the Vacation mail auto-responder working. > Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong? Trying to use "vacation". It is obsolete, sir. You should consider using procmail for such end

Re: Majordomo

2000-09-06 Thread Vidiot
>On 04 Sep 2000 19:18 Osyrys wrote: >>Exactly the way I had it before I changed from 5.2 to 6.2 :) (it >>worked on my other server that was 5.2) Here's what's in there... > >That's a hint. The newer sendmail includes restrictions on running scripts (sendmail >restricted shell). Look for "smr

Re: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-06 Thread Jake McHenry
Um, no it's not. If it was, you couldn't run windows or linux on it. Windows and linux only run on the SIS architecture. You are either running IBM AIX or MAC OS on a RISC processor. Linux is for Intel based chipsets, ie.. SIS, not RISC. - Original Message - From: "Rex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vacation

2000-09-06 Thread Vidiot
>I'm having trouble getting the Vacation mail auto-responder working. When >ever a mail is sent to a user with vacation enabled (.forward = user, >"|vacation user") a message along the lines of: >550 /home/user/.forward: line 1: "|vacation user"... Address ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is unsafe for maili

Re: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-06 Thread Robert Soros
Did you mean to say 'can log into' or did you really mean 'cannot' ? > try removing the file and see what happens, There's a PAM module that > looks for it, and if it doesn't exist just skips it. > > > On 3 Sep 2000, Robert Soros wrote: > > > Wrong, let me quote the securetty manpage itself

Re: isp OS

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew So hing-pong
As I know, most of ISP use OS: solaris, Linux (Common) Web: Apache + SSL (support) emailserver: qmail(http://www.qmail.org) I personally recommend. On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Wayne Dyer wrote: > faisal wrote: > > is there any way of telling what type of OS/webserver/emailserver an isp > > uses ? > > m

Vacation

2000-09-06 Thread Jeremy Russell
Hi, I'm having trouble getting the Vacation mail auto-responder working. When ever a mail is sent to a user with vacation enabled (.forward = user, "|vacation user") a message along the lines of: 550 /home/user/.forward: line 1: "|vacation user"... Address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is unsafe for mailin

Re: [LIH] telnet problem

2000-09-06 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
I was wondering about this too, so I set up a DNS server for the local domain. Access time has improved somewhat. I also noticed that the connection is very rapid but the login prompt takes some time to come especially during the day. At night it is very fast. So probably in this case it is due to

RH6.2J with ptex/dvips

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Eng
Hello, I am trying to use Japanese pLaTeX on RedHat 6.2/J, as supplied in the packages tetex-latex-*-1.0.6-11j4. Running platex foo works without problems, and the output previews correctly in xdvi foo. However, if I run dvips foo, the attached error comes out (sorry for the long dump). This i

Re: How to make ATM PPOA card to work on Liunx

2000-09-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:26:49PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > PPP > ATM card: Speeddream 3010 speedstream > c/w Network adapter > Make: NEC Model No. ATU-R31 In case you didn't see it in there, here are some relevant links. There is a (beta?) driver for that particular card. Good fortune

Re: Pine: Set correct reply-to address?

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew So hing-pong
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Peter Kiem wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a mail user with a login of vh13501 on my mail server > > raistlin.zordah.net > > > > Now when she sends an email it comes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > How can she setup pine

Re: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew So hing-pong
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Steven Pierce wrote: make sure the configuration on /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny is correct. U can add yours hostname in /etc/hosts like: 10.1.1.1host.daemon.net > > > Question... Since we are talking about telnet. I am trying to telnet into my >machine in

Speed Control over Ethener port

2000-09-06 Thread Manohar Pradhan
Hi, I am having few 2 subnets and using a Linux Box as gateway for these subnets using 3 NIC cards. All the users in these subnets go to Internet through this Gateway NIC interface. 192.168.1.0 -! network A 192.168.1.1 ---

leaving xterm open

2000-09-06 Thread Thomas R. Shannon
I've looked through the man page and I just can't find how to do this. I'd like to start a command in a new terminal, let's say for instance: xterm -e ps aux | grep emacs and then leave the terminal open so that I can view the results of the command and any error messages. Thanks in advance, To

Re: Lots of attempts recently...

2000-09-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:18:31AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > Wow! > > Is it just me, or has anyone else just had a rash of hack-attempts? > I went away for 4 days, and had more than 20 attempts I usually only > get about 4 (or less) per week... Ahh...what ports? The Qaz virus i

2 machine with the same IP

2000-09-06 Thread CheeYong . Koh
hi list it seems that RH 6.2 Linux doesn't complaint if there are 2 machines of the same IP addess sitting in the same segment. why is that so? (i have checked the /var/log/messages) I have installed Solaris and Windows before with the same scenerio but in both cases I will know of any confl

Re: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-06 Thread Rex
AMD K6 is RISC archetcture. - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:28 AM Subject: What architecture is an AMD k6? > I tried to install an i686 RPM and RPM came back and said it was for > a different arc

ssh-2.3.0 and openssh - compatible?

2000-09-06 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I have recently removed my openssh pacakges from the server and installed ssh-2.3.0 from a rpm file. Things went bdaly wrong. Problems: a) I can't see sshd using ps aux | grep sshd anymore. sshd start seems to be working but no pid is shown. b) slogin is gone. c) when i try to conn

Re: Majordomo

2000-09-06 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 04 Sep 2000 19:18 Osyrys wrote: >Exactly the way I had it before I changed from 5.2 to 6.2 :) (it >worked on my other server that was 5.2) Here's what's in there... That's a hint. The newer sendmail includes restrictions on running scripts (sendmail restricted shell). Look for "smrsh" in

HP 712/80

2000-09-06 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
Can Linux be installed on a Hewlett Packard 712/80 workstation? Ahbaid. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

detecting file changes

2000-09-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I am looking for a method of detecting when a file has changed with 50 to 100 millisecond granularity. just looking at the modify time only tells me if the file has changed within the last-second. ---eric ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Re: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-06 Thread simon . elder
Hi , We have 2 Dell poweredge 2400's - dual CPU , onboard hardware raid controller with 5 SCSI disks doing RAID 5 on each. One Has NT & one has Redhat 6.1, never had a problem with them except a stock standard Redhat CD will not detect the onboard hardware raid controller, you have to use De

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-06 Thread Robert Canary
The way I understood the brochure, they install it free. What are you using your PowerEdges for, and how much ram did you get with it? If you reordered today is their anything you would change? Fred Herman wrote: > Robert Canary wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone purchased one of Dell's pow

does RH install on SGI Visual Workstation 320?

2000-09-06 Thread Rob Saul
Anybody know if one can install RedHat on a SGI Visual Workstation 320? Thanks, ~Rob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-06 Thread Fred Herman
Robert Canary wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anyone purchased one of Dell's poweredge machines with RH 6.2 > preloaded? I am looking to pickup another server and was shopping and > wondering if the price is worth it. > > -- > robert canary > system services > OhioCounty.Net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (270

[OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-06 Thread Robert Canary
Hi, Has anyone purchased one of Dell's poweredge machines with RH 6.2 preloaded? I am looking to pickup another server and was shopping and wondering if the price is worth it. -- robert canary system services OhioCounty.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (270)298-9331 Office (270)298-7449 Fax _

Re: Urgent:No images have been defined.

2000-09-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Madhu, > though the problem is solved, iam still unable > to understand why it was not including that > single image(the one i added newly). If lilo fails in *any* respect it will not write the bootsector, as to avoid writing a corrupt one. Well, I guess John said that

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Eric, Well, I wanted to replace rsh, rlogin, telnet and ftp within my small home LAN. (Currently 7 PCs with two more in the pipeline.) Especially, I want to use ssh as the only way to login to my Internet Gateway (that I'm right now configuring for use with ADSL within a month or two). The Gatew

RE: moving the /usr/share dir???

2000-09-06 Thread Uncle Meat
On 06-Sep-2000 Smith, Jonathan spoke something to the effect: > I have to linux parts. > > /dev/hda5 which mounts /usr and > /dev/hda6 which mounts / > > /dev/hda5 is about 90% full and I would like to know if I can do the > following > > make a dir under / "/share" > copy all the data from

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Alan Mead
I echo what Eric said. You basically, install the RPM binaries and it works. Only thing you need to do is connect once to a new host (once per login) and say 'yes' (*not* 'y') to the prompt to store that hosts' cert. Oh, you have to start sshd in /etc/rc.d/init.d. If you don't have the RPM'

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Eric Sisler
Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone knows where I can find some basic HOW-TO or equivalent covering >the practicals of configuring and using ssh, particularly openssh? There isn't really much to the basic install - you'll need openssh, openssh-server, openssh-clients and openssl

ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, Anyone knows where I can find some basic HOW-TO or equivalent covering the practicals of configuring and using ssh, particularly openssh? I have studied the man pages until my eyes bleed, but there are still parts of the basics concepts I don't understand. Hate to admit it, too. ;-) Regard

install on HP LC 3 with two scsi drives

2000-09-06 Thread Pat Cookson
O.k., I'm doing some research but hope that someone can give me a quick answer. I am installing 6.2 on a HP LC3 with on 4gb scsi drive (for OS) and an 18gb RAID on an HP Netraid card. The install loads the raid drivers first on default therefore making my RAID the sda which I dont want. Do I need

(no subject)

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Cotter
Title: Hi everyone, I'm trying to use a nis printcap map for my printers. The nis server is a solaris 2.6 box. I am currently using nis for the password file validations which works great on the redhat 6.2 clients. We configured the printcap file and pushed it out. On the redhat

Re: Two ethernets in same box question

2000-09-06 Thread Vidiot
>You're at the mercy of the BIOS. OTOH, why do you care? Because I currently have the DSL connected to one of the cards. As I mentioned in a followup, I'll just have to see which one comes up as which and plug in the cable accordingly. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it de

Problem with my printers.

2000-09-06 Thread David P. Giffen
I just loaded Redhat 6.1 on my computer. the problem I am having is that Print-Tool does not see either the printer port on the mother board or the PCI printer board. I also looked at my /var/ log/messages to see if it is detected at boot-up. A couple years back I had this computer set up as a du

[OT]Re: Samba, Win2000, Election

2000-09-06 Thread Rob Saul
Ali wrote: > .. there is a message that comes up in the Win2000 server complaining > about the election that Win2000 lost the election to the Linux box. it's just being a sore looser. :) ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listma

Re: Two ethernets in same box question

2000-09-06 Thread Steven W. Orr
You're at the mercy of the BIOS. OTOH, why do you care? -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Stranger things have happened but none stranger than this. Steven W. Orr- Does your driver's license say Organ Donor?Black holes are where God \ ---divided by z

Re: [OT] perl question [answered]

2000-09-06 Thread Charles Galpin
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Thanks for the tips guys. As I was looking at my code, I > realied that I had not actually tried the combination that I > posted. What i did try was: > > @resarray= split /"\n"/, $resstring; > > Which for some reason I can not discern, puts everything

Re: moving the /usr/share dir???

2000-09-06 Thread Osyrys
You would be better off adding a drive, and changing the mount to the new drive. However, I've noticed with MY /usr mount, unless you start or plan to install a bunch of new components/packages then you should be fine. Most other things go into /home and /var which is why those part

moving the /usr/share dir???

2000-09-06 Thread Smith, Jonathan
I have to linux parts. /dev/hda5 which mounts /usr and /dev/hda6 which mounts / /dev/hda5 is about 90% full and I would like to know if I can do the following make a dir under / "/share" copy all the data from "/usr/share" to "/share" what mc build a link to "/share" as "/usr/share" Will thi

Re: [OT] perl question [answered]

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Thanks for the tips guys. As I was looking at my code, I > realied that I had not actually tried the combination that I > posted. What i did try was: > > @resarray= split /"\n"/, $resstring; > > Which for some reason I can not discern, puts everything

Re: Two ethernets in same box question

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vidiot wrote: > Charles responded: > > >I think you could just switch the slots the cards are in if you find the > >order changes on you. Also if it does change, it's really not that big a > >deal to change eth0 to eth1. > > I suspect that if it does turn the configurations

Re: Apache root dir in 7.0

2000-09-06 Thread Ray Parish
/var/www/html Ray - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:44 AM Subject: Apache root dir in 7.0 > > I am getting ready to rebuild a temporary web server that we > use to develop our site. Currently I build the serv

Re: [OT] perl question [answered]

2000-09-06 Thread Bret Hughes
Bret Hughes wrote: > Please forgive the off topic post but I don't subscribe to a > perl list, and hate to for the occasional question. > > OK, I give up. I know this should be a simple task but I > cannot get it to work. I am using the perl libwww request > object to retrieve the results of a

Lots of attempts recently...

2000-09-06 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Wow! Is it just me, or has anyone else just had a rash of hack-attempts? I went away for 4 days, and had more than 20 attempts I usually only get about 4 (or less) per week... ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listma

Modem not responding

2000-09-06 Thread madhu
hello all, i have a modem set up with a linux machine. in general, when i start MINICOM and initiate the modem, i see a light glowing, then i dial out. with the new machine that i have setup now, that light is glowing as soon as the system boots and now, MINICOM is not responding p

RE: Network Installs on a low memory 486.... how do I do it?

2000-09-06 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Original Message- From: Thomas Ribbrock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:49 AM >On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:39:56AM -0400, Ward William E PHDN wrote: >> >> When I started this, I thought I'd have 32MB of RAM to do it in... It >> probably >> would have worke

Re: Piglet ?

2000-09-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Gregory Hosler wrote: > A friend of a friend came to me w/ a Linux question. when I asked him which > distro/version he was using, he told me "RH 6.3". When I told him that there > was no 6.3, just "6.2 (a.k.a. Zoot), and 6.9.5 (a.k.a. pinstripe)" he told me > that his was cod

Re: Network Installs on a low memory 486.... how do I do it?

2000-09-06 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:39:56AM -0400, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > > When I started this, I thought I'd have 32MB of RAM to do it in... It > probably > would have worked (I've done installs on P100s with only 24 MB, albeit via > CD). > The key seems to be trying to do the FTP install with so

Apache root dir in 7.0

2000-09-06 Thread chadws
I am getting ready to rebuild a temporary web server that we use to develop our site. Currently I build the server with a fairly large home directory as this is where the web server root is. I read the updates for redhat 7.0 (pinstripe??) and it states that this directory was removed from home, b

Re: Piglet ?

2000-09-06 Thread Justin Ballou
> A friend of a friend came to me w/ a Linux question. when I asked him which > distro/version he was using, he told me "RH 6.3". When I told him that there > was no 6.3, just "6.2 (a.k.a. Zoot), and 6.9.5 (a.k.a. pinstripe)" he told me > that his was codenamed "piglet" - what's "piglet" ? > > G

Re: [OT] perl question

2000-09-06 Thread Charles Galpin
dump the text to a file and do a od -c file to see the end of line cahrs (if they exist). they might be DOS end of line chars. what kind of processing do you want to do? Sometimes it's even easier to have the text as one long string anyway. On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Please for

Re: # symbols in a QUERY_STRING

2000-09-06 Thread Charles Galpin
Well, it's a GET too, so if you have a lot of info it will get truncated at some point (I think around 1024 chars) anyway. However, this is also probably your saving grace. Get the info from REQUEST_URI instead of QUERY_STRING. If you don't have access to the cgi code, then wrap it with a script

Re: [OT] perl question

2000-09-06 Thread Osyrys
I send you (privately) a sample to look through, if that doesn't work, (and this may help others with some things too) there is a place called All Experts at http://www.allexperts.com where you can ask people questions for free. I used to volunteer there when I had more time. They

Re: [OT] perl question

2000-09-06 Thread Joe Brenner
> Please forgive the off topic post but I don't subscribe to a > perl list, and hate to for the occasional question. Don't neglect the usenet newsgroups. There's always comp.lang.perl.misc, or possibly comp.infosystems.www.misc (or you might even try comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi, which ha

Re: leaving xterm open

2000-09-06 Thread Ben Logan
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:46:43 +1100, Cameron Simpson said: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:55:36PM -0500, Thomas R. Shannon wrote: > | I've looked through the man page and I just can't find how to do this. > | I'd like to start a command in a new terminal, let's say for instance: > | > | xterm -e

Re: Piglet ?

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Weiser
Hello Gregory, you wrote: >A friend of a friend came to me w/ a Linux question. when I asked him which >distro/version he was using, he told me "RH 6.3". When I told him that there >was no 6.3, just "6.2 (a.k.a. Zoot), and 6.9.5 (a.k.a. pinstripe)" he told me >that his was codenamed "piglet" - wha

Re: # symbols in a QUERY_STRING

2000-09-06 Thread Robert Canary
A quick dump->logfile of the httpd %ENV revealed the truncatated QUERY_STRING while the REQUEST_URI show the entire string intact. This tells me the collector app (which is a Windows based app, not html) is not sending anything as hex. I think I am screwed :-) QUERY_STRING = FirstName=John&Last