XF86 3.3.6 and PS/2 + USB mice?

2000-09-25 Thread Romain Kang
I have been using a dual-pointer setup, a cordless wheel mouse (Logitech) on the PS/2 port and a USB track ball (Logitech Marble Mouse). It sort of worked with USB Legacy Device Mode enabled in the BIOS, but would always get confused after a while. Among other frustrations, turning on Emulate3Bu

RE: Anyone receiving old list emails today

2000-09-25 Thread Rob Hardowa
How odd, I've chalked it up to about 170 mails from the list today with several old ones in there. I knew it was slow but that's rediculous. I haven't received other old mails on other lists todaymaybe all that traffic finally flushed the queue? hehehe :) On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, you wrote: >

Re: dazed and confused about system setup with rh7

2000-09-25 Thread Statux
Well for one.. there's no concept of drive lettering in the UNIX environment :) The way I've always ordered drives is to put the larger and faster (usually newer) drive as primary master (the one which will hold the main partition (the / partition). Then goes the other one. Then on the other inte

Web Discussion Board

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I'm looking for a good web discussion board type solution... this looks pretty exciting at first glance: http://joydesk.com/ but I'd rather a GPL product... is anyone using a product successfully with a redhat 6.X server setup that provides: Multi User - then again is there su

Re: Can't use ifup ppp0

2000-09-25 Thread Statux
How's your ifcfg-ppp0 file looking (and all other ppp-related config files)? Do you do your configs by hand or do you use some utility like linuxconf or netcfg? /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts is the path of all the interface goodies On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Mark Basil wrote: > List, > > Anyone hav

Can't use ifup ppp0

2000-09-25 Thread Mark Basil
List, Anyone have any ideas as to why, when calling a dialup connection, it does not work...at all. When I use ifup ppp0, my prompt immediately shoot back: remote address: ?some_ip? local address: ?some_ip? ...and then just hangs there. The same happens when I try and use rp3 to dial in. For

Highlighting your nick with ircII

2000-09-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Anyone know how to trigger a highlight (bold/underline) of your nick in ircII when people address you? -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-li

Re: tcpdump and SUID

2000-09-25 Thread Bret Hughes
James Ervin wrote: > I have a script that needs to work with tcpdump. This worked prior to > upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2. Now, even if I set the suid bit on > /usr/sbin/tcpdump, is still fails to allow a user to run the script. Take > a look: > > [root@kites /]# ls -al /usr/sbin/tcpdump > -rwxr-

Re: gdm.conf

2000-09-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Well, I don't use exactly the same config, but this works for me: > > [servers] > 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt08 > 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt09 Thanks. This worked well for me. The key seems to be naming the virtual terminals it will run on. If I don't, X locks

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread cb
On Mon 25 Sep at 19:52:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > I think shipping a BETA kernel with a BETA product is a far cry different > than shipping a BETA kernel with a RELEASE/PRODUCTION product. The first > instance implies bugs. The second implies most or all bugs have been > eliminated

dazed and confused about system setup with rh7

2000-09-25 Thread larry mintz
I want to get RH 7.0 PRO. I want to maximise disk usage. Here are possibilites: [1]Would it be more economical to put a new 20 GB hard disk as my primary slave and demote my ol' 2.2 GB as a secondary drive and leave my primary drive alone ? It is currently a 4.4 GB [2] Change drive C to

Re: DNS question

2000-09-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Rob Tanner wrote: > You need to configure the resolver which you can do either under > "names" in the network section of the control-panel, or you can simply > create the file /etc/resolv.conf if you already know what that contents > should be and the correct syntax. > > O

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Eddie Strohmier wrote: > > > I am sure most of you have seen the anouncement of RH 7.0 on www.redhat.com > > with kernel 2.4. I have tried some FTP sites to see if it was available but > > I still only see Pinstripe beta with kerne

installing perl modules

2000-09-25 Thread Eileen Orbell
I seem to have great errors installing Perl modules. For example if I type: perl -MCPAN -e'install DBD::mysql' It returns There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.57) available! You might want to try install Bundle::CPAN reload cpan without quitting the current session. It should be a s

RE: Restarting a Linux Box

2000-09-25 Thread Drew Hunt
Try "reboot" instead. Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Grossman Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restarting a Linux Box How do you properly restart a Linux box? I use th

RE: Eth0 initialisation ?

2000-09-25 Thread Drew Hunt
I had the same problem, so I added this to my rc.local script. Modify it to run on your run level. I don't have RH up right now, so I may get the S-script names wrong in some of the file names, but you'll get the idea. The actual S-scripts can be found in the /etc/rc.d/rc.#/ directory, # signify

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Uncle Meat
On 26-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke something to the effect: > On Mon 25 Sep at 16:33:07 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: >> "2.4 kernel ready" does not mean it shipped with the 2.4 kernel. Likely >> just >> means they've tested everything using a recent 2.4 beta release. >> I can't see Redh

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread cb
On Mon 25 Sep at 16:33:07 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > "2.4 kernel ready" does not mean it shipped with the 2.4 kernel. Likely just > means they've tested everything using a recent 2.4 beta release. > I can't see Redhat releasing a beta kernel in a commercial product. Way too > many dollar

Re : Partitions

2000-09-25 Thread Peter Skensved
>>I'm preparing to install an IDE 45gb hard drive on a RH6.1 system. It's ^^ >>not a primary drive, and will mainly be used for extra storage of >>documents. I have a few elementary questions: >> >>1) Other than making sure IDE support is compiled into the

Re: Linux source files

2000-09-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, vvk wrote: > Hi > I am trying to modify how ifconfig works for some modifications in > ARP. But i cant find the source files > on my installation.. > I looked in /proc/net but i couldnt find the files. > CAn somebody please tell me where i can get these files. > > -vishal >

tcpdump

2000-09-25 Thread James Ervin
I have verified that tcpdump will run suid in RH 6.1, but will not run suid in 6.2. This has broken some of applications that I use and has caused some consternation in figuring out the problem. If I take the binary from a 6.1 dist. and copy it over, it will run under 6.2. Any light that can

rh7 and enlightentment

2000-09-25 Thread larry mintz
Does enlightenment come with rh7 ? I don't like sawfish. larry mintz<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: linux guy cant get w98 networking going

2000-09-25 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Jack and Luke, > > > BINDINGS: leave as is > > Whoh! If you are going to connect this machine straight to the internet the > LEAST you will have to do is to disable file and printer sharing! Well, I presumed that file and

RH 7 vs. Helix GNOME

2000-09-25 Thread Justin Ballou
Hey All, I'm about ready to upgrade from RH 6.2 to 7, and am wondering what effect this will have on my up-to-date Helix GNOME installation. 'Anyone been through this yet? -- Justin Ballou The Physician's Computer Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Re

Problems with NM256 driver?

2000-09-25 Thread Eric Knudstrup
I have a Sony F150 Vaio laptop with the NeoMagic 256AV chipset. I am trying to use this with Linux 2.2.16 but I'm having a bit of trouble. On my system all I get out is some white noise from the speakers and snow on the bottom of the screen. Has anybody fought this one off before? Thanks, Eric

RE: Anyone receiving old list emails today

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Browning
No. But I haven't been getting many e-mails at all (compared to regular traffic). I suspect this has to do with redhat.com getting slammed with traffic because of 7.0 news. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Hardowa > Sent: Monday

Cyrus Acap Server RPM

2000-09-25 Thread Kevin Diffily
I have been trying to unsuccesfully find an Acap Server RPM. Can anyone point me in the right direction? ___ InterNetWorkingSolutions Your home for Business and Personal Computing Solutions PO Box 152, Cabot, VT 05647 USA

Re[2]: lilo

2000-09-25 Thread Larry Mintz
statux wrote: > I have a 13GB disk and lilo works fine. Just make sure that LBA mode > is turned on for it in BIOS. I also have the linear option in my > lilo.conf (I don't know exactly what this effects), and a /boot partition > of about 5-8MB (which is on the large side) at the very beginning of

Anyone receiving old list emails today

2000-09-25 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hey all, I've received over 100 emails today dating back to sept 14th from this list only. No other old mail has come in from other lists or personal on this mail account. Is this the latency of the list? I know personally i've posted stuff that has never shown up...maybe it's still on it's way

RE: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Thornton Prime
The iso images are already out there. I believe the reason why mirrors are having a hard time syncing up is because there are five CD iso images (disc1, disc2, powertools, docs, and SRPMS). Some installs require two CD CDs to complete. The installer will only install 2.2.16, but there is a "prev

DNS Question

2000-09-25 Thread Stephen King
Yep, that was it. I didn't have an entry in the nameserver just had the domain in the resolv.conf file. Stephen King ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: how to look at files in *.img files

2000-09-25 Thread Luke C Gavel
I'm borrowing an example from the CD-Writing-HOWTO for mounting *.iso(s) before burning them, or in your case, before committing the image to a floppy disk: mount -t [msdos[vfat[ext2[iso9660[etc.] -o rw,loop=/dev/loop0 filename.img /mnt/floppy (the above is one line, word-wrapped) cd /mnt/flopp

Re[2]: Kernel Question

2000-09-25 Thread Y u r i
Hello lee, Friday, September 15, 2000, 01:17:54 zulu, you wrote: lj> YES INDEED the howto's are not always written clear enough i find for the lj> average user.:( but thank goodness lj> there are so many excellent ML's such as this one available...:) is it only me who gets s

Re: Partitions

2000-09-25 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: Stephen E. Hargrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:14 PM Subject: Partitions >I'm preparing to install an IDE 45gb hard drive on a RH6.1 system. It's >not a primary drive, and will mainly be used

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Charles: Try this one: ftp.cs.wisc.edu /pub/mirrors/redhat/releases/guinness/i386 Eddie Strohmier - Original Message - From: "Charles Galpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 1:52 PM Subject: Re: RH 7.0 > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Eddie Strohm

Re: lilo

2000-09-25 Thread Statux
I have a 13GB disk and lilo works fine. Just make sure that LBA mode is turned on for it in BIOS. I also have the linear option in my lilo.conf (I don't know exactly what this effects), and a /boot partition of about 5-8MB (which is on the large side) at the very beginning of the disk to avoid the

Re: DNS question

2000-09-25 Thread Rob Tanner
You need to configure the resolver which you can do either under "names" in the network section of the control-panel, or you can simply create the file /etc/resolv.conf if you already know what that contents should be and the correct syntax. On the other hand, if you're running a name server o

Re: linux guy cant get w98 networking going

2000-09-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jack and Luke, > BINDINGS: leave as is Whoh! If you are going to connect this machine straight to the internet the LEAST you will have to do is to disable file and printer sharing! > Advanced: leave as is Maybe you want to set this device/protocol as your default. It migh

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Kevin Wood
metalab.unc.edu has the directory, but it is not accessible. They are decent about waiting to make it available until it is completely downloaded. I'm not sure about any other sites. I don't care, with a cable modem, I can have that ISO down in about 4 hours under the right conditions from meta

Re: Partitions

2000-09-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > I'm preparing to install an IDE 45gb hard drive on a RH6.1 system. It's > not a primary drive, and will mainly be used for extra storage of > documents. I have a few elementary questions: > > 1) Other than making sure IDE support is compiled int

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Charles Galpin
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Eddie Strohmier wrote: > I am sure most of you have seen the anouncement of RH 7.0 on www.redhat.com > with kernel 2.4. I have tried some FTP sites to see if it was available but > I still only see Pinstripe beta with kernel 2.2.16. Are they going to sit on > this version fo

RE: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Steve Anderson
RH 7.0 does not ship with the 2.4 kernel. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: linux guy cant get w98 networking going

2000-09-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jack and Luke, > BINDINGS: leave as is Whoh! If you are going to connect this machine straight to the internet the LEAST you will have to do is to disable file and printer sharing! > Advanced: leave as is Maybe you want to set this device/protocol as your default. It migh

RE: DNS question

2000-09-25 Thread Kevin Rooney
What do your /etc/resolv.conf entries look like? -Original Message- From: Stephen King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DNS question When I do a nslookup I get Default Server-ns1.steveandjane.net Address-0.0.0.0 where i

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Vidiot
Eddie Strohmier posted: >I am sure most of you have seen the anouncement of RH 7.0 on www.redhat.com >with kernel 2.4. I have tried some FTP sites to see if it was available but >I still only see Pinstripe beta with kernel 2.2.16. Are they going to sit on >this version for a period of time before

Partitions

2000-09-25 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I'm preparing to install an IDE 45gb hard drive on a RH6.1 system. It's not a primary drive, and will mainly be used for extra storage of documents. I have a few elementary questions: 1) Other than making sure IDE support is compiled into the kernel, what steps do I need to take to prepare for

RE: Why doesn't init # work?

2000-09-25 Thread Uncle Meat
On 25-Sep-2000 Jonathan Wilson spoke something to the effect: > Howdy, > > for ages I've been changing runlevels in SuSE with things like the > following: > > > init 0 > > /sbin/init 6 > > init S; sleep 20s; init 3 > > and so on. But If I try to do that in red hat, it completely fails. I >

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Eddie Strohmier
John: Ya I see what you mean. Probably has 2.2.16 and when 2.4 is bug free they will release an RPM. Eddie Strohmier - Original Message - From: "John MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 3:33 PM Subject: RE: RH 7.0 > "2.4 kernel ready" d

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Gavin
sunsite.utk.edu, but you have to wait 'till I get done so's it won't slow my dl down... ;) Gavin Durman --- Xavier University LAN System Administrator = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 20277424 http://durman.xu.edu -- >From: Eddie Strohmie

RE: Make xconfig weirdness

2000-09-25 Thread Uncle Meat
On 25-Sep-2000 Jack Bowling spoke something to the effect: > Here is a weird one, folks. Trying to do the xconfig for the 2.2.17 > kernel but > it refuses to give me a selection for compiling ppp. In fact, the whole > ppp, > slip, etc. section seems to be missing from the scripts. Pretty tough >

RE: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Ward William E PHDN
sunsite.unc.edu has the 7.0 iso downloading it now. Bill Ward -Original Message- From: John MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:33 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: RH 7.0 "2.4 kernel ready" does not mean it shipped with the 2.4 kernel. Likel

Re: Eth0 initialisation ?

2000-09-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Dan Wong (Private) wrote: > Hi, > > I just built my kernel 2.2.16 and everthing seems fine at startup other than > having the following > startup function fail. > > bring up interface eth0 Delay in eth0 initialisation [Failed] > > can someone tell me what this error is

RE: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread John MacLean
"2.4 kernel ready" does not mean it shipped with the 2.4 kernel. Likely just means they've tested everything using a recent 2.4 beta release. I can't see Redhat releasing a beta kernel in a commercial product. Way too many dollars on the line to take such a risk. John -Original Message-

RedHat 7.0 - will somone please notify the list of mirrors that have it up? (when they get it up)

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Browning
Would someone in-the-know please be so kind as to announce which mirrors will have 7.0, when they have them? (e.g. sourceforge just got seven.iso at 11pm pst, etc.). So that way I don't have keep running LS in NCFTP? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [E

Re: RedHat NFS or CDROM Kickstart installation

2000-09-25 Thread Rick Warner
OK, it sounds as if there is a permission issue with your image. It may allow root only 'exec' permissions on the 2nd stage loader or somewhere in the path to the boot loader. Two ways to fix this; you could walk the tree of your image and make sure that there are world read-execute permission

RE: Help with some IPCHAINS details

2000-09-25 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
check out: http://tomii.erols.com/firewall.txt > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Rittner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Help with some IPCHAINS details > > Hi! I've recently begun experimenting with IPCH

Why doesn't init # work?

2000-09-25 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Howdy, for ages I've been changing runlevels in SuSE with things like the following: init 0 /sbin/init 6 init S; sleep 20s; init 3 and so on. But If I try to do that in red hat, it completely fails. I tried using telinit instead of init, that didn't work either - even using the full path d

Re: Problem for passwd

2000-09-25 Thread Andrew So hing-pong
try qmail. http://www.qmail.org On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Alessandro Coppelli wrote: > Sorry for newbie question . > > I want to install a POP3 server but the problem is : > > how I must to do for passwd ( Netscape use SSL ; > Eudora passwd,kerboros,APOP ; Outlook ) . > > I want get

tcpdump and SUID

2000-09-25 Thread James Ervin
I have a script that needs to work with tcpdump. This worked prior to upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2. Now, even if I set the suid bit on /usr/sbin/tcpdump, is still fails to allow a user to run the script. Take a look: [root@kites /]# ls -al /usr/sbin/tcpdump -rwxr-xr-x1 root root

RE: [SLE] Streaming media

2000-09-25 Thread Kester Clegg
There an article in last month's Perl Magazine detailing how to write a perl module on apache for streaming MP3s using icecast - maybe it might point you in the right direction? On Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:39 AM, Jonathan Wilson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Howdy, > > Is anyone he

Linux source files

2000-09-25 Thread vvk
Hi I am trying to modify how ifconfig works for some modifications in ARP. But i cant find the source files on my installation.. I looked in /proc/net but i couldnt find the files. CAn somebody please tell me where i can get these files. -vishal --

Re: vmlinuz

2000-09-25 Thread Rob . Hardowa
The list is a great place to get help with problems you are experiencing, but I doubt that any one of it's participants has enough time to research and describe "vmlinuz" for you. At least not in great enough length that you would likely be satisfied. I noticed you are using MS Outlook as your m

Re: Backspace

2000-09-25 Thread Systems Administrator
try "stty erase ^H" or set your terminal settings for DEC VT 100 Emulation Ian On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > > Does anyone know how to disable those ^H 's from showing when I hit the > backspace key? It is very annoying. If I make an error logging in, I have to > retype my usernam

IP MASQ does not always work!

2000-09-25 Thread Brian Schneider
I am having a dilemma with IP Masqing. I have a system at work where the masquerading only works on some web sites. The problem deals with the fact that my ISP sets my PPP MTU to 1024, while my eth0 is set to 1500. I can go in with ifconfig and set these to be equal (either 1024 or 1500) but it st

Machine not pinging correctly

2000-09-25 Thread Pi
This is a question about my other RH6.2 machine that I am setting up for IPmasquerading. This machine is set up with three NICs. Here is the rundown: 3c509b (eth1) - Internal network netgear fa310tx (tulip/eth0) - external network d-link (ne compat./eth3) - external network testing IPchains po

Re: RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Robert Fausey
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Eddie Strohmier wrote: All I saw from the 2.4 kernel was kernel-headers-2.4.0-0.26.i386.rpm. > I am sure most of you have seen the anouncement of RH 7.0 on www.redhat.com > with kernel 2.4. I have tried some FTP sites to see if it was available but > I still only see Pins

Re: Conflict between to ethernet cards using realtek driver

2000-09-25 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > Check /etc/conf.modules and see what linuxconf wrote to it for the aliases. > There should be two using the same module in thcase but with different > interrupts. At least that is how is it done on my firlwall box, but it has isa > cards. Yes, in the

DNS question

2000-09-25 Thread Stephen King
When I do a nslookup I get Default Server-ns1.steveandjane.net Address-0.0.0.0 where in the configuration files is it getting 0.0.0.0 for the address? Stephen King ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/l

Make xconfig weirdness

2000-09-25 Thread Jack Bowling
Here is a weird one, folks. Trying to do the xconfig for the 2.2.17 kernel but it refuses to give me a selection for compiling ppp. In fact, the whole ppp, slip, etc. section seems to be missing from the scripts. Pretty tough getting ppp stuff to work without it compiled. Has anyone run into this

Re: Installing New Redhat 6.2

2000-09-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Johnathan Smith wrote: > I am going to reinstall redhat 6.2 and I have the > following question. > > 1) Which installed type should I do?? >Gnome - Workstation >Server >Custom > > I would like to use gnome as my GUI but I need to > have telnet, ftp, plip and

RH 7.0

2000-09-25 Thread Eddie Strohmier
I am sure most of you have seen the anouncement of RH 7.0 on www.redhat.com with kernel 2.4. I have tried some FTP sites to see if it was available but I still only see Pinstripe beta with kernel 2.2.16. Are they going to sit on this version for a period of time before they make an .iso version av

Re: newaliases

2000-09-25 Thread Charles Galpin
It is in /usr/bin, so try /usr/bin/newaliases /usr/bin must not be in your path. charles On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Meghan wrote: > Hello, > While in the process of changing over to a new server and a different mail > server, I have been adding and making many changes to /etc/aliases > (actually it

Re: How to build test kernels ?

2000-09-25 Thread Michael Butler/CanEast/IBM
No question this is the best way to do it. Additionally, I would put my stable kernel on a floppy in case something really goes bad. dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0. Now you can safely play without fear. Mike Robbie Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/13/2000 01:32:52 PM Please respond to [EMAI

Networking difficulties...

2000-09-25 Thread Christopher Kern
TWIMC: Problem #1... I have set up a LAN that will use a modem connection to the internet. When Samba is down, the modem connection via 'kppp' works fine, but when Samba is up, the modem connection returns the following whenever ne tries to connect to the net via 'kppp'. Sep 15 22:28:48 ppp

Re: How do I mount/use a SCSI tape drive?

2000-09-25 Thread Willy Wittesaele
Hello Here some small examples from tar and mt put you in a directory somewhere as root : tar cvf /dev/st0 . (this should backup all of the files from this directory to the tape) mt -f /dev/st0 rewind (this rewinds the tape , although the above tar example will also do it) if you want no

Installing New Redhat 6.2

2000-09-25 Thread Johnathan Smith
I am going to reinstall redhat 6.2 and I have the following question. 1) Which installed type should I do?? Gnome - Workstation Server Custom I would like to use gnome as my GUI but I need to have telnet, ftp, plip and all the other services running. 2) After reinstalling what do I

sun type 4 keyboard with x86 Linux

2000-09-25 Thread Brad Cramer
Does anyone know if it is possibel to use a Sun type 4 keyboard with x86 Linux and if so is there any special set-up required or can I just plug it in and go? Thanks Brad ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailma

Re: boot problem

2000-09-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm...I'd see what you can recover by installing a new hard drive > with RedHat 6.x pre-installed. With any luck, you'll see what > SHOULD be there... Not sure what exactly would have caused > this > John My honest guess is that the data is

newaliases

2000-09-25 Thread Meghan
Hello, While in the process of changing over to a new server and a different mail server, I have been adding and making many changes to /etc/aliases (actually it is /etc/postfix/aliases). When configuring postfix, (so much better than sendmail!) I uncommented the lines that would would put the al

Re: Kernel Question

2000-09-25 Thread lee johnson
Stephen King wrote: > OK, this is a stupid question but I got to ask. Is the kernel source only > packaged in the RPM's? I read the How-to configure the kernel and it keeps > telling me to go find the linux-x.y.z.tar.gz file but I can't find it > anywhere on the disk or on the ftp site. I can onl

Re: How to build test kernels ?

2000-09-25 Thread Robbie Robinson
The way I do it is to compile the new kernel, edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the new info to point to this new kernel but keep the info for the original kernel and change it's label to something like linux-orig. Run lilo and then when you boot yo ucan choose the new or old kernel at the lilo prompt.

Re: How to build test kernels ?

2000-09-25 Thread Darren Evans
Read here for kernel compilation http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html Compile the protocols you require as modules. The best advice is not to rush learning, that way you will make it harder on yourself. Purchase some getting started Linux books, there are a lot now available in the

DNS problem

2000-09-25 Thread listmail
I have recently been setting up my first web server. Everything seems to be working great. I am using this server as a name server. I registered my first site to it and can access it just find. The problem is when I try to transfer over further domains, I get a message telling me my name s

MAC Filter

2000-09-25 Thread Justin Ellison
I have a situation where I would like to allow access to the Internet by the MAC address of the NIC, rather than by IP. Ideally, I would have the gateway of all clients be a dual NIC Linux box running MASQ. How might I accomplish this? ___ Redhat-li

Re: [NOVICE] slow performance problems: Setting processes per-user limits for daemons (such as postgres, interchange, etc.)

2000-09-25 Thread ghaverla
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Dan Browning wrote: > How do I set maximum number of concurrent processes for users that run > daemons, such as postgreSQL (under postgres user), or interchange, or mysql, > or anything for that matter. limits.conf edits by themselves don't work. Kurt Seifried recently wro

Re: Apache problem

2000-09-25 Thread Steven J. Yellin
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > > I have been configuring my new box and have been having some problems. Where > are the files that are called when linux boots? I know about the rc.d directory > and how that works, but I've looked all over for where the line > "/etc/httpd" is in the

Re: I cant beleave redhat

2000-09-25 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:11:13 -0400, you wrote: >2) Could not use plip anymore plip has been broken for sometime in the 2.2.x kernels. It was fixed in the 2.2.15 range. So that either you upgrade to the latest 6.2 kernel from updates (2.2.16-3) which should be ok, or apply this patch to you curen

Re: www.redhat.com

2000-09-25 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 13/09/00 at 22:34 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Greg Wright wrote: >> >> It is simple, you can do it with IP's or name based, point domain.com >> as an A record to the box in question, use www (www.domain.com) as a CNAME >> to do

Restiction of su login

2000-09-25 Thread NG CHEE HOONG
Hi ; My name is kelvin . I recently configured /etc/pam.d/su to granted wheel group has a right of su access ; other than wheel group are restricted. It's working if I login in terminal mode. However, the I can't su in X windows environment. The system always prompt me "incorrect password"

Eth0 initialisation ?

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Wong (Private)
Hi, I just built my kernel 2.2.16 and everthing seems fine at startup other than having the following startup function fail. bring up interface eth0 Delay in eth0 initialisation [Failed] can someone tell me what this error is and how to fix this ? Regards =

Re: Shell Scripting HOWTO?

2000-09-25 Thread Ben Logan
Here are two howto's on the subject (scripting in Bash): http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html Regards, Ben Logan On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 01:09:53AM +0530, srikrishnan wrote: > Please let me know,is any othe site whic

RE: Help with some IPCHAINS details

2000-09-25 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Yes, keep PortSentry running... Also check into logwatch & logcheck... Set up host.allow & hosts.deny... Check out http://tomii.erols.com/firewall.txt > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Rittner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROT

RE: Sendmail exploit?

2000-09-25 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Hmm... Thanks. I'm just curious, as this is the 3rd time in as many days (from different IPs)... > -Original Message- > From: Rob Tanner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject:

Re: RedHat NFS or CDROM Kickstart installation

2000-09-25 Thread Mark Shaw
It looks like, as soon as it tries to load the second stage part of the installation..I'll post my ks.cfg file.. I didn't post the packages becuz it was rather large. and I didn't know if you wanted to see them or not.. I switch between the cd install, and network install to see if either one wor

Re: Eth0 initialisation ?

2000-09-25 Thread Luke C Gavel
Daniel, Did you make sure that when you recompiled your kernel, that you kept support for your modules? You could try 'make oldconfig' in your /usr/src/linux directory to tell us what you did--just don't save anything. Maybe we can catch something in the kernel modifications that shouldn't be,

how to bring a package to redhat's attention?

2000-09-25 Thread Martin Blais
Hi. This is a general question: I've got a GPL'ed open source project that is enjoying success amongst users as a useful development tool. Many people have suggested to me that it should be included into a distribution. Some people packaging it for Debian have contacted me so I guess it might sh

Re: How do I make xdm work like startx --bpp16

2000-09-25 Thread Michael Eng
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Smith, Jonathan wrote: > How do I make xdm work like startx --bpp16 > > my xdm start in 8 bit mode. how can I get it to work like startx --bpp16? > Change your /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the preferred colour depth is first in the screen section, viz: Section "Screen"

Re: ps question

2000-09-25 Thread Michael Eng
Pipe the output through | awk '{print $1 " " $2 " " $5 " " $8}' -- Michael Eng, Division of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: http://ukug.freebsd.org.uk/~eng/ On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, linda hanigan wrote: > The output is > UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY

Re: [NOVICE] Removing all instances of "NOT NULL" from an entiredirectory of files

2000-09-25 Thread ERIC Lawson - x52010
(In tcsh; other shells have similar/equivalent syntax.) At the shell prompt: foreach i (*.sql) echo $i cp $i $i.bkp end I'm using echo and cp to illustrate the syntax only; your command(s) would go in their place. James Eric Lawson Research Publications Editor III National Simulation Resource

Help with some IPCHAINS details

2000-09-25 Thread Andrew Rittner
Hi! I've recently begun experimenting with IPCHAINS in order to more fully lock down a couple Redhat 6.2 servers I have. Up until this point I've been running PortSentry, combined with TCP wrappers, and that seems to have worked just fine. However, I wanted some more control over the fine deta

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