Minimum Password Length

2000-10-08 Thread Ken Cole
Redhat 6.2 , kernel 2.2.14-5.0 How/where can I change the minimum password length. -- Ken Cole Satisfaction Software e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +61 7 3268 4722 Facsimile: +61 7 3268 4359 Mobile: 0418 792 349 ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAI

Printing problems w/ RH7.0

2000-10-08 Thread Gregory Hosler
Hi, I have a problem that used to work on earlier RH systems. I just want to find out if it's me, or if it's a bug (before file a bugzilla report)... I have a remote print queue on a HP-UX system. I run print tool. The result printcap is essentially identical to a working RH5.2 system: ps:\

Re: [Fwd: gcc 2.96 comment from GCC steering committee]

2000-10-08 Thread Statux
> > Anyone else see this? Did RH 7 ship with gcc 2.96? I wonder how big a deal > > this really is? How big a deal it is? Well if it's producing incompatable object code, then RH7 is truely screwed :) (if gcc 2.96 is what it's been reported to be, then that's *the* thing which will kill the whol

printer installation

2000-10-08 Thread Selim Jahangir
Dear all is there any tool to configure printer from command mode? printtool is used in X-window. But without configuring x-window Can i not be able to configure a printer ? Obviously there should have a solution.. Please help me to configure a printer without printtool. Thanks selim _

Re: Re: 3d support

2000-10-08 Thread rob smith
well, Jason no offense taken...but before you say something like that try reading the message more carefully...the drivers at linux.3dfx.com are based on xfree86 3.3.5 like I said the first timerh 7.0 has xfree86 4. something or other...I was asking would they still work...not where they were

Re: [Fwd: gcc 2.96 comment from GCC steering committee]

2000-10-08 Thread Paul Anderson
Yes it did ship with the 2.96 gcc. Or at least that is what is on the distribution I installed. Paul Anderson Bret Hughes wrote: > Sent to the bash list. > Anyone else see this? Did RH 7 ship with gcc 2.96? I wonder how big a deal > this really is? > > Bret > > Art Wildman wrote: > > > http:

RE: smbmount

2000-10-08 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the following command? %-> %-> # smbmount //peacedog/c /mnt/stephen -d 777 %-> %-> This command results in the following error message: Try it like this: mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //peacedog/c /mnt/stephen etc. -- Juha ___

Re: procmail

2000-10-08 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Luke, >I don't know anything about sendmail, but /etc/mail/* is explained by >sendmail documentation, right? The most current source is /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/README, which is located on your box. /etc/mail/access isn't mentioned in the official Sendmail manual, which is based on Sendmail 8.8. >

Re: unsubscribe -can someone at least bother to reply 4 the first time

2000-10-08 Thread ktb
soulreaver wrote: > > as i have sent numourus rewuest for help, and no one can be even > bothered to reply and would like to get off this mailing list, so this > will actually give someone a chance to reply (HOPEFULLY); so can someone > please tell me the mail address and subject line to unsubscr

[Fwd: gcc 2.96 comment from GCC steering committee]

2000-10-08 Thread Bret Hughes
Sent to the bash list. Anyone else see this? Did RH 7 ship with gcc 2.96? I wonder how big a deal this really is? Bret Art Wildman wrote: > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg3.html > > It has come to our attention that some GNU/Linux distributions are > currently shipping with ``

Re: 3d support

2000-10-08 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:48:48PM +0400, rob smith wrote: : : I am trying to play quake 2 with rh7.0...I thought rh7.0 came with 3d : support..I am running a voodoo3...with lots of mem and speed. : I looked for drivers but they are based on xfree86 3.3.5 and rh7.0 has : xfree86 4 will the

Re: MS self-extracting .exe files

2000-10-08 Thread Justin Zygmont
well, you can use dosemu. On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, fred smith wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:19:00AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, fred smith wrote: > > > > > Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the > > > contents of those self-extracting

Re: e-mail client

2000-10-08 Thread Darren R. Weber
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:07:00 -0500, you wrote: > nitin jain wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone please tell me about an e-mail client for linux like eudora or > > outlook express of windows.It should be easy to install and should have good > > GUI. > > > > netscape -mail. > kent > I just s

3d support

2000-10-08 Thread rob smith
I am trying to play quake 2 with rh7.0...I thought rh7.0 came with 3d support..I am running a voodoo3...with lots of mem and speed. I looked for drivers but they are based on xfree86 3.3.5 and rh7.0 has xfree86 4 will they work or am I missing how this works?? __

Re: hosts.allow & hosts.deny

2000-10-08 Thread Chad Roberts
>From: Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: hosts.allow & hosts.deny >Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:47:06 -0400 (EDT) > > > > ALL: ALL: (/usr/sbin/wall test) & > > > > Of course, this does not do anything but broadcast "test" to all of the >

smbmount

2000-10-08 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the following command? # smbmount //peacedog/c /mnt/stephen -d 777 This command results in the following error message: mount error: Invalid argument Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons I've looked at the man page for both smbmount an

Re: Graphical firewall App

2000-10-08 Thread rob smith
the firewall program is lokkit or something like that..it is on the second cd another good and easy one is called firestarter...you can get it at gnome.org On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Rick Knebel wrote: > Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:22:44 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: MS self-extracting .exe files

2000-10-08 Thread Justin Ballou
> fred smith wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:19:00AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, fred smith wrote: > > > > > Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the > > > contents of those self-extracting .EXE files that MS uses to distribute > > >

Re: Graphical firewall App

2000-10-08 Thread Adam Sleight
gnome-lokkit or firewall-config on the main cd http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/pl_rhl7.html or perhaps mason on the powertools cd http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/pl_rhl7_powertools.html On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:22:44 -0400 Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #Hi, # #

Re: e-mail client

2000-10-08 Thread ktb
nitin jain wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone please tell me about an e-mail client for linux like eudora or > outlook express of windows.It should be easy to install and should have good > GUI. > netscape -mail. kent -- "Neurosis i

Graphical firewall App

2000-10-08 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I thought I read that RedHat 7 came with a Graphical Firewall App configuring program? Does anyone know what the name of this is and where it is at? Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel ___ Redhat-l

Re: graphing software question

2000-10-08 Thread Chris Harvey
Have you ever looked at mrtg ? Do a search on google and you should find it. Many (including me) use if for graphing the processor load. Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is anybody familiar with software that would enable me to create simple > graphs of linear equations? Did a search of redhat

Re: graphing software question

2000-10-08 Thread Dave Wreski
> Is anybody familiar with software that would enable me to create > simple graphs of linear equations? Did a search of redhat.com, but > couldn't find anything. Is there a good place to go look for things > like this? Normally I'd run over to rpmfind.net, but their site > appears to be down. Tr

graphing software question

2000-10-08 Thread Michael Stack
Is anybody familiar with software that would enable me to create simple graphs of linear equations? Did a search of redhat.com, but couldn't find anything. Is there a good place to go look for things like this? Normally I'd run over to rpmfind.net, but their site appears to be down. Thanks. Mich

pygnome package

2000-10-08 Thread Darren R. Weber
Just wondering if aynone knows why the pygnome package in RH7 was built without the applet and capplet modules? I am just getting interested in this language and it's frustrating when the examples shipped in the docs won't even run. Is there a reason not to build in those two modules? -Darren

Re: Redhat 7.0 lock-up

2000-10-08 Thread Dave Wreski
> I compiled in SCSI emulation as a module and the SCSI drivers into the > kernel as-well as "aha152x". If it's a SCSI CDR you don't need SCSI emulation. > These were compiled not as modules. When I tried as modules during boot-up > the system didn't lockup, but > it didn't recognized my SCSI

Redhat 7.0 lock-up

2000-10-08 Thread Lance Spence
Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me out with a problem I have. After doing a fresh install of Redhat 7.0 I recompiled the kernel to include support for my Ricoh 6200s SCSI CD-Burner and now during boot-up the system locks up at Checking root filesystem... I compiled in SCSI emulation a

Re: hosts.allow & hosts.deny

2000-10-08 Thread Dave Wreski
> ALL: ALL: (/usr/sbin/wall test) & > > Of course, this does not do anything but broadcast "test" to all of the > consoles, but it should have executed the command when i tried to telnet > into my machine, which it did not. Furthermore, it did not even allow me > into the machine using telne

Re: Conferencing?

2000-10-08 Thread Darren R. Weber
I just signed up to this list so I hope I am not stepping in at the wrong place, but if you are looking to do video conferencing over a masqueraded network MS Netmeeting does work. I do it here at home. There is a module available from sofia.net (I hope that is right. . .going by memory) that

hosts.allow & hosts.deny

2000-10-08 Thread Chad Roberts
I am trying to set up some semblence of security on my machine with linux. (redhat 6.2) Unfortunately, I have run into a small problem and was hoping someone might be able to help me with it. I would like to set up hosts.allow and hosts.deny to send me an email whenever someone telnets/ftps

Re: make modules error DO I have to have sound?

2000-10-08 Thread Bret Hughes
Bret Hughes wrote: > > The problem is now that the system hangs at "Finding Module Dependencies" > during booting the new kernel. I did make modules and make module_install. > The new modules were built and put into /lib/modules/2.2.16-3 and the kernel is > named vmlinuz-2.2.16-3 with a symlink

Re: MS self-extracting .exe files

2000-10-08 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:19:00AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, fred smith wrote: > > > Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the > > contents of those self-extracting .EXE files that MS uses to distribute > > stuff? > > > > Thanks! > > > It

Re: Kernel Panic Problem

2000-10-08 Thread ~:~Koshy Karteya~:~
Well I still dun have any idea what's the exact cause of it all Basically, I have removable racks and install windoz/Linux off each HDD and boot accordingly my 4.1 HDD was auto-detected as only 77MB (?) and the booting hangs at booting linux- . ->reset switch 2nd attempt : boots in

Re: XDMCP Question

2000-10-08 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
Solved my own problem The last line of xdm-config is a security line, since I'm on a private line I commented it out and everything works. But, how do I change my default login manager from Gnome to KDE? Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > Hi all, > > My default manager is KDE. > > I modified my Xaccess f

Re: Problem : was What exactly does this mean?

2000-10-08 Thread Bret Hughes
Jake McHenry wrote: > Could the problem I'm seeing be a harddrive that went bad? The bios counts all > the new memory. Now when I go in, it says Kernel Panic. Cannot mount root > partition. How can I test this? > > Thanks, > Jake You might try toms boot disk. Pretty complete linux on a floppy.

Re: Re: Kernel Panic Problem

2000-10-08 Thread rob smith
one more thing...can you tell me what you did just b4 that happened...once I had to hit the reset button which I thought caused it...but the next time I had a normal shutdown and then when I rebooted I got that error...which I thought was strange. What I did since was install a new harddrive on

Re: Re: Kernel Panic Problem

2000-10-08 Thread rob smith
that is bad...that happened to me twice in the last year...I tried everything, basically you have to reinstall...sorrybut true On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Paul Anderson wrote: > Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 02:57:55 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Paul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAI

Re: unsubscribe -can someone at least bother to reply 4 the firsttime

2000-10-08 Thread Matt Housh
> There has been times that I have asked questions and not gotten replies. I > just assume that one knows the answer. I go through list by subject. If I > think I can help, or it on a topic I am wondering about myself, I read the > message. If I don't I go to the next one. As many posts as this li

Re: Kernel Panic Problem

2000-10-08 Thread Paul Anderson
Boot off a floppy and then try to mount the drive. It sounds as though the drive or least the partition table is screwed up. If you can not even see the partition table I guess you will know where you are at then. Paul Anderson ~:~Koshy Karteya~:~ wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a problem booting

XDMCP Question

2000-10-08 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
Hi all, My default manager is KDE. I modified my Xaccess file to have the following lines: * * CHOOSER BROADCAST I am using Hummingbird's X windows emulation software and doing an XDMCP query, but the kde manager does not show up. I recall a long time ago someone had mentioned on this that th

Re: can anyone explain what this is?

2000-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, Nick Hudson wrote: > [root@Blackhawk nickh]# rpm -Uvh fam* > fam > ## > Adding fam to rpc... > Adding fam to inetd.conf... > Couldn't find inetd.conf in /etc /usr/etc /usr/local/etc > Restarting inetd... > inetd: no process kille

Kernel Panic Problem

2000-10-08 Thread ~:~Koshy Karteya~:~
Hi, I've got a problem booting up It's to do with damaged file descriptors or something... something abt block 0 not found in group (block XX) then it stalls with a kernel panic message. I tried repairing with a rescue diskette but it reports someting abt superblock being damaged Tried

Oracle 8.1.6 on RH 7.0

2000-10-08 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
Hi All, anyone running Oracle 8.1.6 on RH7.0? I am getting a ORA-3113 error when attempting to start SVRMGRL I did not rebuild the kernel with the modifications for shared memory and semaphores, I have found in the past that Oracle installed and ran fine without doing this. I have had this runn

Re: [OT] How to disable NIS in HP-UX 11

2000-10-08 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
Hi Ed, I got it fixed, thanks. But in HP-UX there is a /etc/nsswitch.conf file. I had to set some flags in the network configuration file. thanks, Ahbaid. Ed Franks wrote: > On Sat, 09 Sep, 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm desperate here... does anyone know how to get a client

Problem : was What exactly does this mean?

2000-10-08 Thread Jake McHenry
Could the problem I'm seeing be a harddrive that went bad? The bios counts all the new memory. Now when I go in, it says Kernel Panic. Cannot mount root partition. How can I test this? Thanks, Jake ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: Gnome login failure

2000-10-08 Thread Ahbaid Gaffoor
I had a similar problem but with HP-UX on a workstation. My problem was that after logging in, the machine tried to use WORKSTATION:0.0 as the display (For agruments sake say that the machine's IP is 199.1.1.4 and the name is WORKSTATION) but DNS was down so it could not resolve WORKSTATION to

sound problem

2000-10-08 Thread Larry Grover
I'm having some trouble getting sound to work properly on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 3200). I recently upgraded from RH6.2 to 7.0, but this problem actually predates the upgrade -- I think it started with the last round of RH6.2 updates that I installed, but it continues with RH 7.0 Here's the

Could someone help me to set up fetchmail with ssl?

2000-10-08 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I want to use fetchmail + ssl for secure donwload of the messages on a server located at my lab. I read the docs but I didn't get much. For instance on the mini-howto secure pop I managed to run ssh -C -f popserver ... with success, I mean, I could use telnet localhost 0 to lo

Re: HELP me with Redhat 7.0 and Linksys network in a box

2000-10-08 Thread Santiago del Roi
Make sure you aren't using any "Crossed Cables" and make sure you aren't pluging into a crossed port on the hub. You might try plugging the cable that you're using on the 3Com card and joining the two computers directly with it. This will tell you if it's crossed or not and it is crossed you do

Re: procmail

2000-10-08 Thread Luke C Gavel
Hi, I don't know anything about sendmail, but /etc/mail/* is explained by sendmail documentation, right? I find the configuration you mentioned for /etc/mail/access very interesting, and something to check into more thoroughly for a more efficient solution than procmail. But I have a questio

RH 6.2 and Ultra 66 problem

2000-10-08 Thread Michael McLeod
I have been running RH 6.0 and used the setup scrip provided by Promise for 6.0. I wanted to upgrade to 6.2 but the same script did not work with 6.2. After looking for a while I found the method to use in the mini "How To for Ultra 66" This worked fine. (It involved issuing the command "Linux

Re: can anyone explain what this is?

2000-10-08 Thread Bret Hughes
Nick Hudson wrote: > [root@Blackhawk nickh]# rpm -Uvh fam* > fam > ## > Adding fam to rpc... > Adding fam to inetd.conf... > Couldn't find inetd.conf in /etc /usr/etc /usr/local/etc > Restarting inetd... > inetd: no process killed > execution of fam

Re: strip ^M from list of files in for loop

2000-10-08 Thread K.Deepak
Dear Bret, Just try the attached script . This is very simple and you will love to use it. Happy Linuxing! Thanks K.Deepak Bret Hughes wrote: > Thanks to all who responded. For the record, the solution I came up with > was tr. The echo -n I could not get to work in t

Re: HELP me with Redhat 7.0 and Linksys network in a box

2000-10-08 Thread Marco Shaw
Double check your cable to make sure it's the properly wired. You have some kind of hardware misconfiguration if the link light does not come up, or you have a hardware failure. Marco - Original Message - From: "Johnathan Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sun

HELP me with Redhat 7.0 and Linksys network in a box

2000-10-08 Thread Johnathan Mark Smith
HELP me with Redhat 7.0 and Linksys network in a box I have to network two computers one is a desktop and the other is a Dell Inspiron 3200 network with a 3com network card. I picked up the LinkSys fast etherenet 10/100 network in a box and installed the card in my desktop. After pluging th

Re: make modules error DO I have to have sound?

2000-10-08 Thread Bret Hughes
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > [SNIP] > > > > Thanks Mikkel, That appears to be the fix. As I have only done this a few > > times, I have another question. I selected PPro as the cpu type in > > menuconfig but I notice that in all the lines I have seen s

RE: PPP in Redhat 7.0 without GUI- Its no longer in the linuxconf

2000-10-08 Thread Mark Basil
It is an option in linuxconf, but you have to enable linuxconf to support ppp configuration... It was not enabled by default on my box. There is a section in Linuxconf that lets you select what it will configure...can't remember exactly, but just go through all the sections, and your bound to fi

RE: Change URL

2000-10-08 Thread Mark Basil
You can easily do this through DNS. Edit the zone file for the domain. I can look something like this: $ORIGIN com. my.domain IN SOA ns.yourns.com. hostmaster.yourns.com. ( 200024420 86000 7200 360 600 ) IN NS ns.yourns.com. IN

RE: MS self-extracting .exe files

2000-10-08 Thread Uncle Meat
On 08-Oct-2000 fred smith spoke something to the effect: > Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the > contents of those self-extracting .EXE files that MS uses to distribute > stuff? Try 'unzip ' as that usually works. -- Imitation is the sincerest form of television

Re: What exactly does this mean???

2000-10-08 Thread ktb
Jake McHenry wrote: > > I just installed some more memory, and now this is happening when I boot, even > when I try to boot to single user mode. > > INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation at 0x2ec54! sleeping for 30 seconds. > > It is in a loop of this, and won't stop! I let it sit for 2 hours and

Re: MS self-extracting .exe files

2000-10-08 Thread ktb
fred smith wrote: > > Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the > contents of those self-extracting .EXE files that MS uses to distribute > stuff? unzip if memory serves correctly. hth, kent -- "Neurosis

RE: Apcupsd under 7.0

2000-10-08 Thread Mark Basil
This is a _very_long_shot_, but make sure that /usr/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf. Try 'ldconfig', and reinstall. Make sure the libs have correct permissions. Like I said, these are probably what is NOT happening, but you may find something along the way. --MB -Original Message- From: [EM

RE: (OF) Need Help

2000-10-08 Thread Mark Basil
Well, you could open up httpd.conf and see what's on line 250. It's probably a call to something that requires libmysqlclient.so.6, which seems to be nonexistant in your case. --MB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jefferson Ryan Tang Lee

Re: Network cabling

2000-10-08 Thread tcurl
Hi Gustav, Re; established standards, sure. First the key is not the wire color, while that's more a less a standard, there are certainly cables using different trace colors than the ones I provided. The real issue is pinouts, and how they are interconnected. Each end of connection has a tran

Re: can anyone explain what this is?

2000-10-08 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Nick, Try creating an empty file /etc/inetd.conf Install the .rpm and let it write it's line to your inetd.conf. >From there you will have to reflect what fam wrote in inetd.conf in your xinetd.conf file. For the last part you're very much on your own, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure ou

Re: can anyone explain what this is?

2000-10-08 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Nick, I don't have 7.0 running yet but the new file as you have seen is xinetd. I am not sure it will work but try making a symlink for /etc/inetd.conf to xinetd where every its located, (I assume /etc) and try the rpm again. Worth a shot. Eddie Strohmier - Original Message - From: "Ni

Re: can anyone explain what this is?

2000-10-08 Thread Wayne Dyer
Nick Hudson wrote: > Ok that helps but answer me this why do i have a inetd.conf file in my /etc > directory?? if RH 7 no longer uses it?? Im tryin to install fam wich has > nothing to do with telnet or ftp or any internet app but yet its using it?? fam (I just learned this by getting curious a

RE: unsubscribe -can someone at least bother to reply 4 the firsttime

2000-10-08 Thread Rev David P. Giffen
There has been times that I have asked questions and not gotten replies. I just assume that one knows the answer. I go through list by subject. If I think I can help, or it on a topic I am wondering about myself, I read the message. If I don't I go to the next one. As many posts as this list gets

MS self-extracting .exe files

2000-10-08 Thread fred smith
Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the contents of those self-extracting .EXE files that MS uses to distribute stuff? Thanks! -- --- .Fred Smith/