Re: Linux is More Secure than NT? Prove It.

2000-09-15 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > I believe companies of alternative operating systems should buckle down and > have their products rated by the NCSC to better compete with Microsoft and > make us feel proud (and more secure) in using alternative operating systems, > like Linux. Please email co

Re: Bulk e-mailer

2000-09-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I don't have the guts to try switching from sendmail to postfix. > > I'm the one that talked my boss intot the fact that "we really need to > switch from NT to Linux" heh. > > I sure wish some of these distros would use postfix and ProFTPD as the >

Re: compiling kernel 2.4.0-test8-1.0

2000-09-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Adam Sleight wrote: > I compiled 2.4.0-test8-1.0 and now my cd burning doesn't work and sound doesn't > work. Generally, what is supposed to be compiled as a module? I'm guess my > scsi cd burner doesn't burn because I didn't use mkinitrd. Although I can't > mount cd's etc

Re: Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 15 Sep 2000 11:41 Luke C Gavel wrote: >If I type more than two dots consecutively on separate lines, the >remainder of the message seems to get truncated. To confirm >this, I'm trying it in this message again: Okay, let's try this again. ___ Redh

Re: count # files in directory

2000-09-15 Thread Jim Cunning
This one works for the most part, but has a subtle problem: Files with spaces in their names get counted multiple times (because wc -w counts words instead of lines). Use the "wc -l" form. On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Anthony E . Greene wrote: > On 14 Sep 2000 23:26 Adam Sleight wrote: > >can't think

Re: Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 15 Sep 2000 11:41 Luke C Gavel wrote: >If I type more than two dots consecutively on separate lines, the >remainder of the message seems to get truncated. To confirm >this, I'm trying it in this message again: Is it possible that it's your mail client or your ISP's MTA? -- Anthony E.

RE: proper setup of hostnames [more]

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Anderson
First post to the list, but here goes... Yup, in my experience with Linuxconf, you have to put the FQDN in both places: Hostname: and Primary name + domain name:. Doesn't agree with docs, but that's what it took to work for me. YMMV. Steve On Friday, September 15, 2000 3:55 PM, Jonathan Wi

Re: Fwd: proper setup of hostnames [more]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Something definantly wrong. I sent a message from the box, from pine, to my workstation and it comes in like this: From: admin account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hmm, where is it getting localhost.localdomain from??? JW At 02:54 PM 9/15/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Well, from reading the help

Linux is More Secure than NT? Prove It.

2000-09-15 Thread Wagner, Joseph
A recent osOpinion article perked my interest about the Navy's recent decision to use the Microsoft Windows operating system in its next generation aircraft carrier (http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0807/news-navy-08-07-00.asp). Two years earlier, a divide by zero error on a Microsoft Windows

Re[2]: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Cool, thanks. I do have all of the above, except we're running MySQL not Postgres ( I wanted to use Postgres but the main coder here just started using MySQl, so I was out of luck ;-) ) but since we know PHP I think we can make this work. Upgraded to php4 BTW but it shouldn't matter. >*Rest of

/net automount functionality

2000-09-15 Thread Guillermo Navarrete
Title: /net automount functionality I'd like to setup the auto.master and auto.net file so that when you cd /net// it can map any exported filesystem from any host on my network without having to manually enter each host in an automount map? I have nis running and have been able to use regula

Fwd: proper setup of hostnames [more]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Well, from reading the help page it looks like I have it correct: Hostname: actualhostname Primary name + domain name: actualhostname.actualdomainname.tld Aliases: actualhostname Only thing I can see that could be wrong it maybe Hostname should contain the full host.domain.tld? note: of

compiling kernel 2.4.0-test8-1.0

2000-09-15 Thread Adam Sleight
I compiled 2.4.0-test8-1.0 and now my cd burning doesn't work and sound doesn't work. Generally, what is supposed to be compiled as a module? I'm guess my scsi cd burner doesn't burn because I didn't use mkinitrd. Although I can't mount cd's etc...just not burn. sage: mkinitrd [--version] [-

Re: is this true??

2000-09-15 Thread John P. Verel
On 09/15/00, 09:30:37AM -0500, Billy R Nordyke Sr wrote: > Just a note toremind of the difference between upgrade and install. Another difference: upgrade only "upgrades" that which is already on the computer. Any new packages have to be installed explicitly, after the upgrade. John > Instal

Re[2]: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi Jonathan, Stop worrying about the mailer you use. Since I believe you had initially requested just being able to interface with a RDBMS try this. Have PHP installed? (You're insane not to, IMHO ;) ) Have Apache installed? Have PostgreSQL installed? These are all stock in Redhat and easily in

proper setup of hostnames

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Howdy, Hmm, I'm not sure how to ask this. it goes like this: We've leased a Red Hat server at a hosting co. When we first leased it it didn't have a domian name, so the hosting co filled in what basically amounts to bogus host info. Now we have a dns entry pointing to the IP of this box, and

Re: Bulk e-mailer

2000-09-15 Thread Charles Galpin
search for "mass mail" on the moongroup mailer archives. here wait. http://www.moongroup.com/old/MailArch3/msg01589.html hth charles On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > At 02:09 PM 9/15/2000 -0400, you wrote: > > >have you looked at the script? > > > >charles > > > Er, did I miss

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
On 15 Sep 2000, Simon J Mudd spewed into the bitstream: SJM>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuck Mead) writes: SJM> SJM>> Some things you can read which might help: SJM>> SJM>> http://mirrors.linuxmall.com/postfix/start.html SJM>> http://www.moongroup.com/old/docs/postfix-faq/index.html SJM>> http://www.moo

Re: Changing Monitors ---

2000-09-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, dawg wrote: > Forgot to mention, I'm running Redhat 6.2 > thanks again re-run xf86config or XF86Setup. John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Bulk e-mailer

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
At 02:09 PM 9/15/2000 -0400, you wrote: >have you looked at the script? > >charles Er, did I miss something? You mentioned the script but you didn't send it to me, nor give me a link to it - or did you, and I missed it?? ___ Redhat-list mailing

RE: Possible list bug [It IS a bug]

2000-09-15 Thread John MacLean
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Possible list bug [It IS a bug] On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote: > > Hi, > > If I type more than two dots consecutively on separat

Seleting a soundcard

2000-09-15 Thread Robert Canary
hi, I was looking to pickup a soundcard and I was wondering what the Linux community preferred and/or recommened. Any comments? -- robert canary system services OhioCounty.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (270)298-9331 Office (270)298-7449 Fax ___ Redhat-lis

Re: Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > I am suprised that one dot on a line by itself does not hose your mail. > I believe a period and a newline tells sendmail and fetchmail for that > matter that the end is here. Actaully not sure about the sendmail part > but I know it confused the hell

Re: Schedule backups

2000-09-15 Thread Charles Galpin
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Eileen Orbell wrote: > I am trying to schedule a backup of a directory to run every hour on a > directory. I want to modify crontab to include my listing.. the backup is > to a tapedrive.. Can someone direct me how to do this?? > I am trying to learn how to do backups and

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Simon J Mudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuck Mead) writes: > Some things you can read which might help: > > http://mirrors.linuxmall.com/postfix/start.html > http://www.moongroup.com/old/docs/postfix-faq/index.html > http://www.moongroup.com/old/docs/RH-postfix-HOWTO/ > http://www.moongroup.com/old/documentation.ph

Re: How do I change monitor types

2000-09-15 Thread Peter Blomgren
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:11:26AM -0700, dawg wrote: > I've changed monitors and have been unsuccessful in finding where to make > the change, any help would be appreciate. Xconfigurator (from Xconfigurator-4.3.5-1) has a large database of monitor settings; if your monitor is not in there, selec

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson spewed into the bitstream: JW>Heck, man, it'll take more then my hour's time just to read those docs ;-) Sorry... before I became the head geek at LinuxMall I was a mail consultant. That's most of what MoonGroup (yes... it's my company though I'm using it as

Re: Sendmail question

2000-09-15 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi Kirk, This is likely due to a configuration problem. It would seem that sendmail is having trouble resolving a host. Either add this host to /etc/hosts (may fix it) or find out what is misconfigured in your sendmail.cf. You would need to provide a great deal more info to have someone on the l

Re: Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread burk
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote: > Okay...so who wrote that particular Request-For-Comment? Some > chimpanzee that scientists are trying to 'talk' to? I guess part > of the experiment included an email account for the monkey...and > Behold! RFC821 was born! The late, great, Jonathan B.

Re: Bulk e-mailer

2000-09-15 Thread Charles Galpin
yes. Postfix is a drop in replacement for sendmail. There is even a sendmail executable that takes the same args etc. Anyway, it doesn't really matter because you *should* be using Net::SMTP (even though the curren tversion of the script calss sendmail directly. It would be trivial to use the s

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Heck, man, it'll take more then my hour's time just to read those docs ;-) JW At 12:03 PM 9/15/2000 -0600, you wrote: >On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson spewed into the bitstream: > >JW>Exactly how hard is it to switch to Postfix from sendmail? If I can >JW>guarantee my boss that it'

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Charles Galpin
It's no day, but it's no hour either. I guess it depends how familiar you are with sendmail, and MTAs in general. Don't do it if you are concerned. Just measure the time/performance with sendmail and then rethink it's need. But I'm no expert, so YMMV charles On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilso

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson spewed into the bitstream: JW>Exactly how hard is it to switch to Postfix from sendmail? If I can JW>guarantee my boss that it's "rpm -Uhv postfix.rpm' and viola, instant JW>Postfix, then maybe I can get away with it. JW> JW>But if It's gonna take a whole da

Re: Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pete Peterson wrote: > This isn't a list bug, it's the behavior specified in RFC821. > Okay...so who wrote that particular Request-For-Comment? Some chimpanzee that scientists are trying to 'talk' to? I guess part of the experiment included an email account for the monkey

Re: mounting

2000-09-15 Thread Tobias Roppelt
> Is there a way to change so that I can mount my floppy > and cdrom as a regular user? In /etc/fstab '/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0' replace 'owner' with 'user'. Try 'man mount' and read more about it. Tobias ___ Redhat-list

Re: Bulk e-mailer [Postfix?]

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Exactly how hard is it to switch to Postfix from sendmail? If I can guarantee my boss that it's "rpm -Uhv postfix.rpm' and viola, instant Postfix, then maybe I can get away with it. But if It's gonna take a whole day just to set up Postfix, there's no way. (at this point if it's likely to take

Re: Bulk e-mailer

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Will the scripts and other stuff you're referring to work with sendmail? If so are either of you willing to help with it, considering that I can't move to postfix atm ? JW At 07:37 PM 9/14/2000 -0400, you wrote: >I see Gordon has already offered to help write it, so if you know what's

Re: Problem copying audio CDs.

2000-09-15 Thread Adam Sleight
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:09:57 -0700 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #> I have no trouble on duplicating data CDs, but when try to copy audio #> CDs, I get error messages regarding the track size. The master disks are #> played fine, but it seems I am doing something wrong on copying them. #> #> I

Re: How do I change monitor types

2000-09-15 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: dawg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:17 PM Subject: How do I change monitor types >I've changed monitors and have been unsuccessful in finding where to make >the change, any help would be apprecia

Re: Problem copying audio CDs.

2000-09-15 Thread lee
i know sqwat about these issues at the moment although surely someone with far greater knowledge will assist..but in the interim just goto xcdroast website and download iti use it and LOVE IT.. i'm in windows at the moment (database stuff ) so I can't give you url...just got http://www

mounting

2000-09-15 Thread Stephen King
I try to mount as a normal user and it won't let me giving me the message you have to be root. Is there a way to change so that I can mount my floppy and cdrom as a regular user? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.c

Schedule backups

2000-09-15 Thread Eileen Orbell
I am trying to schedule a backup of a directory to run every hour on a directory. I want to modify crontab to include my listing.. the backup is to a tapedrive.. Can someone direct me how to do this?? I am trying to learn how to do backups and starting with 1 directory only.. Thanks Eileen

Re: Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread Pete Peterson
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:41:57 -0300 (ADT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke C Gavel) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Possible list bug > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi, > > If I type more than two dots consecutively on separate lines, the > remainder of the message seems to get trun

Sound Blaster Live!

2000-09-15 Thread Kevin Wood
Hey guys, Does anyone have the link to the non-ALSA driver for the Sound Blaster Live!. I have a copy of an older driver and I want to see if there is one newer. I looked on Creative's web page and all they have is the precompiled one. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Wo

FW: 'ESC' key round 2

2000-09-15 Thread Smith, Jonathan
> The following is a email that I got back from redhat telling me that is my issue. >Can someone please help > > Your Red Hat Service Request 157528 has been closed > You are: JOHNATHAN SMITH > Your Account Number : 253728 > Your Red Hat Contact is: Kemp, Felicia (Felicia) > > The product yo

Re: Bulk e-mailer

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I don't have the guts to try switching from sendmail to postfix. I'm the one that talked my boss intot the fact that "we really need to switch from NT to Linux" heh. I sure wish some of these distros would use postfix and ProFTPD as the default instead of sendmail and wuftpd. Of at least ask

How do I change monitor types

2000-09-15 Thread dawg
I've changed monitors and have been unsuccessful in finding where to make the change, any help would be appreciate. Thanks Dennis ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread Bret Hughes
Luke C Gavel wrote: > Hi, > > If I type more than two dots consecutively on separate lines, the > remainder of the message seems to get truncated. To confirm > this, I'm trying it in this message again: > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTE

Problem copying audio CDs.

2000-09-15 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
Hi! I have no trouble on duplicating data CDs, but when try to copy audio CDs, I get error messages regarding the track size. The master disks are played fine, but it seems I am doing something wrong on copying them. I am using gcombust 0.1.25-1. BTW, I tried copying the CDs with Easy CD creator

Changing Monitors ---

2000-09-15 Thread dawg
Forgot to mention, I'm running Redhat 6.2 thanks again Dennis ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: is this true?? (RH 6.x **requires** a reinstall???)

2000-09-15 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:54:15PM -0400, Kurt A. Brust wrote: > Sorry, but going from 5.x to 6.x , does (IN REALITY) need to be fresh > installed... the install overites just about everything... dont mean to burst > your bubble... I can't imagine what you're talking about here... I did a fresh

Re: console System monitor?

2000-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Was already using free, tail -f and top but I'd forgotten about netstat - thanks JW At 05:07 PM 9/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: >-Original Message- >From: Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:02 PM

Re: List Archive

2000-09-15 Thread Bret Hughes
Chuck Mead wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes spewed into the bitstream: > > BH>Chuck Mead wrote: > BH> > BH>> http://www.moongroup.com/old/redhat.php > BH> > BH>gives me the feeling that I am not using the up to date access when the path has > BH>/old in it. > > Well... I hope to fix that

Re: is this true??

2000-09-15 Thread lee
> > > This is simply not true. There are better ways to go about this than > installing from scratch. We ain't talking Windows here. > > Upgrade 5.2 to 6.0 (which worked pretty well as I recall), then 6.0 -> > 6.2. This is a good reason to grab older CDROMS at your local LUG (you do > have a Lin

Re: Possible list bug [It IS a bug]

2000-09-15 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote: > > Hi, > > If I type more than two dots consecutively on separate lines, the > remainder of the message seems to get truncated. To confirm > this, I'm trying it in this message again: > > ___ > Redhat-list m

Re: redhat-devel-list not working

2000-09-15 Thread Vidiot
>> I tried subscribing and got this in return: >> >>- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >> >>- Transcript of session follows - >> ... while talking to mx.corp.redhat.com.: >> >>> RCPT To

Possible list bug

2000-09-15 Thread Luke C Gavel
Hi, If I type more than two dots consecutively on separate lines, the remainder of the message seems to get truncated. To confirm this, I'm trying it in this message again: ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mai

Re: redhat-devel-list not working

2000-09-15 Thread Tobias Roppelt
> I tried subscribing and got this in return: > >- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >- Transcript of session follows - > ... while talking to mx.corp.redhat.com.: > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL

Re: how do I locate a linux partition

2000-09-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Kevin Maguire wrote: > Hi > > While re-installing my system from a kickstart server, and before we > discovered the "--ondisk hda" option, I had 2 disks: One with the a > linux OS on it, which I was happy to waste. The other (hdb) with my > data on it, which I wanted to kee

Re: is this true??

2000-09-15 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Kurt A. Brust wrote: > Sorry, but going from 5.x to 6.x , does (IN REALITY) need to be fresh > installed... the install overites just about everything... dont mean to burst > your bubble... > Stop the madness! This is simply not true. There are better ways to go about this

halt GPF problems

2000-09-15 Thread John Aldrich
My machine here doesn't seem to like to power down cleanly. I have to reboot it in order to shut it down. I seem to recall there was a file that needed editing for some systems, but I don't recall what file or what changes needed to be done. Can someone point the way? I'll be honest and admit I h

Re: console System monitor?

2000-09-15 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > > > Hey chuck, are working or playing over there? :) > > > > He said *no* X btw. > > > > charles > > > One other posibility that he may not have thought of is to use an X > based program, but have i

redhat-devel-list not working

2000-09-15 Thread Vidiot
I tried subscribing and got this in return: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mx.corp.redhat.com.: >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 55

Re: List Archive

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes spewed into the bitstream: BH>Chuck Mead wrote: BH> BH>> http://www.moongroup.com/old/redhat.php BH> BH>gives me the feeling that I am not using the up to date access when the path has BH>/old in it. Well... I hope to fix that soon... I laid a new face on the sit

Re: is this true??

2000-09-15 Thread Billy R Nordyke Sr
Just a note toremind of the difference between upgrade and install. Install for me wipes everything out, but Upgrade usually works quite well. Took me a while to figure that out. Bill On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:41:10 -0400 Thomas Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Kurt A. Brust" wrote: > > > >

Re: After full install the 'ESC' key stop working

2000-09-15 Thread Chuck Mead
Check the archives... this came up when 6.2 was first released and it's been asked a bunch of times. I don't remember the resolution but I think it's on the Red Hat "gotchas" list (which I cannot get to right now for some reason). On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Smith, Jonathan spewed into the bitstream: S

Re: [OT] Style sheets

2000-09-15 Thread Vidiot
You are also missing comments around your stylesheet so that the browsers to not get confused. It is a simple rule, written up in all the books: N=D3MINA