Re: ssh problem

2000-09-30 Thread Chuck Mead
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, John Aldrich spewed into the bitstream: JA>On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Chuck Milam wrote: JA>> JA>> Eh? Could you explain this a bit further? What scp functionality does JA>> OpenSSH not have? JA>> JA>The windows SSH client has a built-in SCP client. So does JA>the "real" SSH se

Re: ssh problem

2000-09-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > I am not sure about using the .tar source files and compiling it > yourself, but if you use the .src.rpm file, and compile if yourself, or > use the pre-compiled rpms, scp is included. scp is a seperate command > from ssh, but both commands are i

Two firewall rulesets on one connection - possible?

2000-09-30 Thread Jack Bowling
** This was also posted to comp.os.linux.networking ** I have recently fallen in love with the interactive dynamic firewall capabilites of the Firestarter firewall app for Gnome-enabled linux boxes. You can block everything (and it does this perfectly as tested at www.grc.com) and then watch the

Re: ssh problem

2000-09-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Chuck Milam wrote: > > > > Eh? Could you explain this a bit further? What scp functionality does > > OpenSSH not have? > > > The windows SSH client has a built-in SCP client. So does > the "real" SSH server for linux. OpenSSH doe

Re: PPP not logging in - Help:Urgent

2000-09-30 Thread Bret Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > now iam fully confused and gave up trying it myself. > > the problem is that iam trying to log into my server > > using PPP. for this, it requires me to start ppp on > > the server using the account 'ppp' at the server. > > so i tried to place that in 'pp

Re: Firewalls and samba

2000-09-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, linda hanigan wrote: > Hi all, > Someone else asked this question but I never saw an > answer on the list. > If I set up a firewall on my Linux computer do I really > still need to disable print and file sharing on the windows > boxes when I connect to the internet. I use a d

RE: NFS Problem

2000-09-30 Thread Jeff Grossman
Well, here is probably my first problem, I used Linuxconf to configure the exports file. I imagine that could be one of my problems. Jeff --- Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Blomgren Sent: Saturda

Re: X Server

2000-09-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, SoloCDM wrote: > I'm not able to get man X to work. What file did I leave out? I used > a Mandrake 7.0 installation with RPMs. > You might want to consider signing up for the Mandrake lists. www.linux-mandrake.com and follow the link to the Mailing lists. Of course you're a

Re: BSD & SysV

2000-09-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Selim Jahangir wrote: > Dear all > what is the fundamental diff between BSD and SysV unix ? > > Explanation is expected . > > Another question: > What is this file " initrd.img" during boot time ? > itird=Initial Ram Disk. It's a "mini" linux which is loaded into ram at boo

Re: disable telnet/ssh access by user

2000-09-30 Thread Thornton Prime
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Dusty deBoer wrote: > I have two user accounts set up on my home workstation (RH 6.1), say "guest" and > "realuser". I want to set the guest account password to a simple password, so I > can allow guests to use my workstation (X windows, other stuff) at the > workstation. I w

Re: NFS Problem

2000-09-30 Thread Peter Blomgren
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:11:35AM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: > Sep 29 21:21:08 apple mountd[2909]: refused mount request from > localhost.localdomain for / (/): no export entry > > Here is my exports file: > > / (rw,no_root_squash,link_relative) man 5 exports: [snip] Each line cont

Re: Backdoor Root

2000-09-30 Thread Thornton Prime
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Dave Wreski wrote: > > > > The error for a user account is: > > > > > > su: incorrect password > > > > It does that for good reason ;) > > > > Add the user name to the 'wheel' group in /etc/group. > > What does the wheel group do? The 'wheel' gr

disable telnet/ssh access by user

2000-09-30 Thread Dusty deBoer
I have two user accounts set up on my home workstation (RH 6.1), say "guest" and "realuser". I want to set the guest account password to a simple password, so I can allow guests to use my workstation (X windows, other stuff) at the workstation. I want to keep telnet access open to "realuser" from

Re: PPP not logging in - Help:Urgent

2000-09-30 Thread madhu
Hi, it seems you are all confused with what i said. I am not trying to setup a ppp server. I am trying to login into my server(PPP server) (dialout). Here iam just a client, please note that. All the replies i got are saying some thing about server info only. i think i made myself

Re: NFS Problem

2000-09-30 Thread Jeff Grossman
In article <8r43gp$bo1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to setup NFS. I am running Redhat 6.2 as the NFS server > and > > Redhat 7.0 as the NFS client. I think I have everything

Re: BSD & SysV

2000-09-30 Thread Andrew So Hing-pong
for initrd.img Under the /boot directory, the kernel file must be bzImage or vmlinuz-version. And one of most important file is initrd.img. The initrd.img contains all the modules (driver). The kernel loads initrd.img to RAM as RAM drive. Hence, when booting up a linux, all the device, that are m

Re: Backdoor Root

2000-09-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Dave Wreski wrote: > > The error for a user account is: > > > > su: incorrect password > > It does that for good reason ;) > > Add the user name to the 'wheel' group in /etc/group. What does the wheel group do? Bret ___ Redhat-list mailing li

Re: dial up downloading faster than DSL line

2000-09-30 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
>Also do a tracroute from inside your network (like from your workstation) to >the site your downloadong from to see if there are any latency issues. If >there are also do a traceroute to other addresses if every thing has latency >problems. This is using the Linux box that's directly connecte

Re: ssh problem

2000-09-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Chuck Milam wrote: > > Eh? Could you explain this a bit further? What scp functionality does > OpenSSH not have? > The windows SSH client has a built-in SCP client. So does the "real" SSH server for linux. OpenSSH doesn't have that built-in. It's an add-on that you have to

Firewalls and samba

2000-09-30 Thread linda hanigan
Hi all, Someone else asked this question but I never saw an answer on the list. If I set up a firewall on my Linux computer do I really still need to disable print and file sharing on the windows boxes when I connect to the internet. I use a dial up connection. My linux box provides print service

Re: Problems with xfs

2000-09-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 08:40:33AM -0700, Brian Wright wrote: > XFS is switched on, the font path was set for "unix:/-1" and it set > it couldn't find the "unix:/-1" and it couldn't load the default > font "fixed". Pre 7.0 this is set in two place: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs and /etc/X11/XF86Config. Th

Re: Problems with xfs

2000-09-30 Thread Brian Wright
XFS is switched on, the font path was set for "unix:/-1" and it set it couldn't find the "unix:/-1" and it couldn't load the default font "fixed". Thanks, Brian On 29-Sep-2000 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Make sure xfs is being started. I haven't installed 7.0 yet, but I > wouldn't be suprised t

Re: Problems with xfs

2000-09-30 Thread Brian Wright
Yes, I set it for unix:/-1 and that still didn't work and it complained that it couldn't load the default font "fixed". I'll check /tmp and clean it out. Thanks! --Brian On 29-Sep-2000 Mr FW User wrote: >> X, I get an error stating that it can't load the >> default font "fixed" and >> reports t

Re: Network stopping

2000-09-30 Thread linda hanigan
Hi, When you lost your connection have you tried changeing to a different port on your hub. I had a hub that lost a connection every weekend. If I plugged it into a different port it worked fine again.The people who sold me the hub said it was the nic, the people who sold me the nic said it was th

Re: RH70: traceroute.rpm Bug ?

2000-09-30 Thread Steve Borho
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 08:14:57AM +0200, Andre Steden wrote: > [root@mini /root]# traceroute redhat.com > traceroute to redhat.com (207.175.42.154), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets > 1 * * * > 2 * * * > 3 * * * > . > [root@mini /root]# rpm -e traceroute > [root@mini /root]# rpm -i tracerou

Dual Port NIC

2000-09-30 Thread Brian
Can someone recommend a good dual port Ethernet NIC that they have had good experiences with? Redhat 6.x support only please. Brian --- Brian Feeny, CCNP, CCDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)

Re: RH70: traceroute.rpm Bug ?

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Steden
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:13:20AM -0500, Wayne Dyer wrote: > Andre Steden wrote: > > Hello, > > > > if i try traceroute (RH 7.0) with my isdn-connection it doesn't work. > > traceroute on my home network is ok. > > > > If i install the traceroute-1.4a5-18.i386.rpm from RH 6.2 > > it works fine.

Re: Matrox G400 dual-head & XFree86 (was Re: XFree86 -4.01a)

2000-09-30 Thread Kevin Wood
One of the other guys said earlier (sorry, I missed the name, but you know who you are) that if you get the matrox driver, all you do is set the screen width to double the normal length. This will cause it to fold to the other screen. Give it a try. Kevin P.S. When I get five minutes here (Ha

Re: Backdoor Root

2000-09-30 Thread Jake McHenry
You DID set the password for the account, right? It works with my machine. Try setting the password again. Look in /etc/shadow to see if there is an encrypted string behind your new super-user. Jake On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, SoloCDM wrote: --Prior to my server update, when I made a backdoor root a

Server Malfunctions

2000-09-30 Thread SoloCDM
Prior to some installations I was able to execute "xhost +[host].[domain].net in a user account, but now I'm getting the following error. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" I also get:

X Server

2000-09-30 Thread SoloCDM
I'm not able to get man X to work. What file did I leave out? I used a Mandrake 7.0 installation with RPMs. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM

BSD & SysV

2000-09-30 Thread Selim Jahangir
Dear all what is the fundamental diff between BSD and SysV unix ? Explanation is expected . Another question: What is this file " initrd.img" during boot time ? Thanks selim ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com

Re: rhnsd: reports: /usr/sbin/rhn_check ERROR: unable to read system id.

2000-09-30 Thread Lee Howard
Turn it off. /etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnd stop and untick the rhnd in ntsysv Lee Howard At 10:39 PM 9/29/00 -0700, Dan Browning wrote: >Periodically my rhnsd logs /var/log/messages: > >/usr/sbin/rhn_check >ERROR: unable to read system id. > >What is this and what do I do about it? > >Dan Brown

Re: RH70: traceroute.rpm Bug ?

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Steden
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:06:57PM -0500, Steve Borho wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:00:37AM +0200, Andre Steden wrote: > > Hello, > > > > if i try traceroute (RH 7.0) with my isdn-connection it doesn't work. > > traceroute on my home network is ok. > > > > If i install the traceroute-1.4a5

Re: RH70: traceroute.rpm Bug ?

2000-09-30 Thread Wayne Dyer
Andre Steden wrote: > Hello, > > if i try traceroute (RH 7.0) with my isdn-connection it doesn't work. > traceroute on my home network is ok. > > If i install the traceroute-1.4a5-18.i386.rpm from RH 6.2 > it works fine. > > Is this a Bug in the traceroute-1.4a5-25.i386.rpm from RH 7.0 ??? Did

Re: Backdoor Root

2000-09-30 Thread SoloCDM
Dave Wreski wrote: > > > The error for a user account is: > > > > su: incorrect password > > It does that for good reason ;) > > Add the user name to the 'wheel' group in /etc/group. It didn't work, with [super-user] uid and gid as 0 or 10. Also, what is the "good reason"? Note: When y

Re: root privilages

2000-09-30 Thread Juan Martinez
Selim, You could install sudo on your RH system too. You can find it here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/SByName.html Good luck, Juan On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Selim Jahangir wrote: > Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:17:49 +0600 > From: Selim Jahangir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rhnsd: reports: /usr/sbin/rhn_check ERROR: unable to read system id.

2000-09-30 Thread Dan Browning
Periodically my rhnsd logs /var/log/messages: /usr/sbin/rhn_check ERROR: unable to read system id. What is this and what do I do about it? Dan Browning Network & Database Administrator Cyclone Computer Systems ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

Re: dial up downloading faster than DSL line

2000-09-30 Thread Robert Canary
It sounds like your DSL provider is having problems. Start a big download, then go into your Cisco terminal and do a show interface serial0. It should show you the in-rate. Also do a tracroute from inside your network (like from your workstation) to the site your downloadong from to see if ther