eth0 timeout interval

Hi all, quick question for you - probably a no brainer, but I have no clue: How do I change the eth0 timeout for Linux? When my machine boots off the network, it stops at "Bringing up interface eth0" for about 5 minutes. That's entirely too long - 30 seconds should be sufficient. Somewhere the

RE: Making boot.img floppy

Hello all: I originally posted the problems with RH 7.3 in the making of a boot disk via the dosutils rawrite.exe on a windoze machine. Using dd did not solve my problems either so after several hours of working on this I decided to ftp boot.img from the ftp.redhat.com and I made a boot image wit

Re: dialup server

hopping your modems are configured & working, you need to edit the file /etc/options.ttyS0, /etc/options.ttyS1 etc (depending on the com port) & make this entry 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.100 where 192.168.1.1 is the ip of your server & the other the ip of the remote dialup. odemba > Hello- > I am

Re: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:30, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > > This should always work `find * -exec rm {} \;` > > Nope. As long as you include an unquoted * on the command line, it > should fail. Not verified, but since every other bash command

Speaking of ports

I've looked at: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers to find out about all the open ports I have, and I have a few questions if someone cares to explain. This is mainly out of curiousity, but also I would like to know about any vulnerabilities I may have. The following ports are open, an

OT: Sux/Drule Ratios

Results from Google, May 21, 2002 Survey was clearly conducted without bias, It is nonetheless utterly unscientific, yet reproducible. Search string "Results 1-10 of about" - -- "windows sucks" 12,

Traffic Counter

Hi - Having just set up our firewall with iptables I've got a situation where we would like to be able to track traffic coming in through our ADSL link - detailing which machines are causing what traffic. I've been reading up a bit on netfilter counters and believe they're not too reliable - w

Re: unknown port open

yeah try lsof -i and findout which processes are responsible for spawnage of these ports, and close them. If incase these ports do not show up in lsof, then prolly you have a trojanned losf (rarely) , and you need to pack yourself up for a forensics analysis. Regards, - Muhammad Faisa

Re: unknown port open

Not sure if I understand the question, but you can get more info about what is using the connections if you add the p option: netstat -anp Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dear all > >I used the netstat -an and got the following unknown port >What are the meaning and can I close it? > >Thank y

Re: unknown port open

Try doing: netstat -pan On Tue, 21 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all > > I used the netstat -an and got the following unknown port > What are the meaning and can I close it? > > Thank you > > Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established) > Proto RefCnt Flags Type St

rpm seg faulting

all of a sudden rpm is seg faulting on me. i'm using 7.2 with Ximian GNOME (using red-carpet to update). is there a way i can figure out what is happening? do i have to use gdb (not very familiar with it). any help would be greatly appreciated. jack wallen ___

unknown port open

Dear all I used the netstat -an and got the following unknown port What are the meaning and can I close it? Thank you Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 1273 /tmp/

Re: SMTP AUTH SASL

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 06:35, Bradley Glonka wrote: > define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > > This works just fine and authenticates a user against a system account. > > Ca

QoS configuration?

I've got a very simple configuration for an iptables fw... Cable Modem--firewall--internal network firewall: eth0 == outside, assigned by DHCP from cable co. eth1 == 10.10.10.1/24 I've got a SIP-based VoIP device that's connected to the internal network, say 10.10.10.50. I'm

Re: SIGTERM

On 15:16 21 May 2002, Bubulac Tatiana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I want to terminate a parent process that attach several shared | memory segments | with kill(pid, SIGTERM) but it fails to terminate. | Even if I give the command from command line it fails to terminate. | If I give ki

Re: FTP Problem with RedHat 7.2

> I got a call from my ISP saying my server is attempting to connect to > other computers on their network. They wouldn't give me any information > on what computers my server was attempting to connect to, but I got an > email from one of the people whos computer was getting attempted > connectio

Re: samba: user home directory appears twice in windows

it did! thanks a lot :) _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. there is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Re: samba: user home directory appears twice in windows

daniel did pen these words on 5/21/02 at 4:03 PM >i've got samba up and running >and i can read/write to two directories on every windows box in the office >the user's home directory and a common directory i've called 'web' >the problem is that there's THREE shares appearing in windows instead o

Re: Observation: cdrecord easier to use than I realized :)

So, you just used the mount point to label the CDR_DEVICE? On 05/21/02, 04:05:32PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > Mine looks like this: > > CDR_DEVICE=cdrom > # drive namedevice speed fifosize driveropts > cdrom= 0,0,0 10 4m "" -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Te

FTP Problem with RedHat 7.2

Hi, I got a call from my ISP saying my server is attempting to connect to other computers on their network. They wouldn't give me any information on what computers my server was attempting to connect to, but I got an email from one of the people whos computer was getting attempted connections to

7.3 network problems

I just installed redhat 7.3 and now I have two problems (the second should be simple): 1- I can't get ppp to work over my modem. I am using the same ppp scripts that I used with redhat 7.2, but this is what I am getting in /var/log/messages: pppd[2042]: Connect ppp0 <-> /dev/modem /etc/hotplug/

Re: [REDHAT] continual segfaults with make on 7.3

Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- David Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 May > 2002, Mike Martin wrote: > > > > > After upgrading to RH7.3 I get continual segfaults while > > compiling > > > programs. > > > > > > It does not seem to be specific to individual programs

Re: Observation: cdrecord easier to use than I realized :)

Mine looks like this: CDR_DEVICE=cdrom # drive namedevice speed fifosize driveropts cdrom= 0,0,0 10 4m "" John P Verel wrote: > On 05/21/02, 03:19:55PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > >> It get's every easier once you find /etc/cdrecord.conf;-) > > > Actually, I

Re: How to set-up VPN between RedHat 7.3 server and Windows98 workstations?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:09:42PM -0700, Apolinaras Sinkevicius wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what programs should I use for > RedHat 7.3 to become a VPN server(will use DSL link > for serving), and what program should I use so my > Windows98 and WindowsME workstations at couple of > co-workers'

samba: user home directory appears twice in windows

i've got samba up and running and i can read/write to two directories on every windows box in the office the user's home directory and a common directory i've called 'web' the problem is that there's THREE shares appearing in windows instead of the two... the user's home directory appears twice,

Re: Observation: cdrecord easier to use than I realized :)

On 05/21/02, 03:19:55PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: >It get's every easier once you find /etc/cdrecord.conf;-) Actually, I tried to get the scsi bus setting detected via cdrecord.conf by using the CD-RW label as shown in -scanbus, but I must have gotten it wrong. My /etc/cdrecord.conf (edited

Re: Observation: cdrecord easier to use than I realized :)

It get's every easier once you find /etc/cdrecord.conf;-) John P Verel wrote: > Just an observation. Until just now, I'd been intimidated by the, um, opaque (IMHO) > man page of cdrecord. I'd fumbled around with Xcdroast and the burner > software on my Windows partition to burn iso images.

How to set-up VPN between RedHat 7.3 server and Windows98 workstations?

Can anyone tell me what programs should I use for RedHat 7.3 to become a VPN server(will use DSL link for serving), and what program should I use so my Windows98 and WindowsME workstations at couple of co-workers' homes (also with DSL lines) so their systems could become like LAN workstations? Tha

netmeeting and netfilter

Did anyone get sucess using netmeeting underf netfilter firewalls? I could do most things except audio/video. I need help. Thanks, Joao. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Observation: cdrecord easier to use than I realized :)

Just an observation. Until just now, I'd been intimidated by the, um, opaque (IMHO) man page of cdrecord. I'd fumbled around with Xcdroast and the burner software on my Windows partition to burn iso images. (I'd gotten ide-scsi emulation working sometime ago on the linux box). Well, today, as

Re: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > This should always work `find * -exec rm {} \;` Nope. As long as you include an unquoted * on the command line, it should fail. Not verified, but since every other bash command that expands the * fails, I would expect this to fail

Re: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: > This should always work `find * -exec rm {} \;` um, no. you still have the same problem of massive wildcard expansion on the command line, not to mention that it won't remove directories, and will miss hidden files. don't try to make this tougher tha

Re: Making boot.img floppy

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Keith Morse wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > > > > What .img file are you trying to use? > > > On the CD, images/boot.img should fit with no trouble. > > > ls -alh /mnt/cdrom/image

Re: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

This should always work `find * -exec rm {} \;` Henning, Brian wrote: > agreed. this is nice clean solution to the problem. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: bash: /bin/

RE: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

agreed. this is nice clean solution to the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long "Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you coul

Using two SCSI controllers, each with their own tape drive.

I have a server that is using two Adaptec SCSI controllers. The first one seen during POST is an Adaptec 39160 (LVD) that has an internal QIC tape drive on it. This one is used to backup the OS for disaster recovery. The second one seen during POST is an Adaptec 2944UW (HVD) that has an exte

Re: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

"Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you could try > > ls -l * | xargs /bin/rm -f Same problem find -type f |xargs /bin/rm -f should solve it. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: dialup server

Brian, First of all let me suggest you look into the wvdial package. It's a great dial-up tool and really makes doing dial up much easier. If your able to get mgetty to work, great, but before I switched over to cable I ran wvdial all the time and feel that it really made things much easier

Re: dialup server

Brian, First of all let me suggest you look into the wvdial package. It's a great dial-up tool and really makes doing dial up much easier. If your able to get mgetty to work, great, but before I switched over to cable I ran wvdial all the time and feel that it really made things much easier

Re: GUI questions on RH7.3 -- specifiying gnome/kde

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21-May-2002/10:02 -0500, Robert Moses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how do i specify which GUI (Gnome or KDE) is started when "startx" is >issued? Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene OpenPGP Key: 0x6

Re: RH 7.2 & sound issue

> At 9:24 PM -0500 5/20/02, ABrady wrote: > >On Mon, 20 May 2002 18:38:55 -0700 > >Patrick Beart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ...snip... > > > at boot up (Enigma), I get the sound server "Informational" > > > alert that there was a problem initializing the sound driver. > > > Device

Re: [REDHAT] continual segfaults with make on 7.3

--- David Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Mike Martin wrote: > > > After upgrading to RH7.3 I get continual segfaults while > compiling > > programs. > > > > It does not seem to be specific to individual programs and > compile > > continues when I type make again. > >

Re: [REDHAT] continual segfaults with make on 7.3

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Mike Martin wrote: > After upgrading to RH7.3 I get continual segfaults while compiling > programs. > > It does not seem to be specific to individual programs and compile > continues when I type make again. > > Bug 65276 > > Previously on 7.2 no segfaults at all > > Any h

Re: Making boot.img floppy

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > > What .img file are you trying to use? > > On the CD, images/boot.img should fit with no trouble. > > ls -alh /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img > > -rw-r--r--2 root root 1.

Re: Samba Questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-May-2002/12:34 -0400, Dave Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with Samba here's my >issue.. > >Linux server and win98 client > >I would like to have 2 shares that are readable by everyone. >o

Re: ls command

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-May-2002/20:02 -0400, Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The old default behavior of "ls" was to list directory contents in >alphabetical order with hidden objects first before regular objects. Now >adays, "ls" ignores the leading '.' of object

Re: ppp revisited

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-May-2002/13:13 -0500, "Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for your help and your patients. I contiune to have problems with >this ppp connection. >For this command i don't think i have the correct xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx . > >route add

dialup server

Hello- I am trying to set up a dial up server with mgetty so friends can log in to my computer over ppp. I want them to be able to log in and to be able to ftp files from my machine to theirs. I think i am close to getting my machine configured. I think i am having problems giving them an ip addre

Signal and wait question

Hi , I have a parent that catch the SIGTERM and SIGALRM signals. ... signal (SIGTERM, die); signal (SIGALRM, dummy); ... for (min = 0; min < 15 && not_done; min++) { alarm ((unsigned int) 60); /* wait for 1 minute */ pid = wait (&status);/* Wait for a process to end */

Re: Anyone know of a compressing proxy for RedHat? Apache mod_proxywith mod_gzip does not work.

Most modems have built-in compression on the datasteam, and so your additional compression may not help. I've never run any tests, so you may want to consider some testing yourself... Alan -- Alan Peery Unix sysadmin since 1987 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apolinaras Sinkevicius wrote: >I am looking fo

Re: What are you doing for virus protection

Scott Skrogstad wrote: >I run a small ISP and of course my customers have asked me to put up some >virus protection on my server. I was just trying to get some info from >the list what everyone is using. I am not a linux guru so something RPM >would be nice and that has regular updates. > >

RE: Why not from the current directory ?

bigGreatThanksHipHipHipToYou Emmanuel. You gave the answers to many question I asked myself but didn't find anywhere ! See Ya soon bbsc ism -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Emmanuel Seyman Envoye : mardi 21 mai 2002 15:35 A : [EMAIL PROTEC

RE : RE : Microsoft Money

Thanks a lot for it -Message d'origine- De : Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : vendredi 17 mai 2002 22:54 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: RE : Microsoft Money -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 May 2002 09:59 am, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NO

Re: Making boot.img floppy

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: > What .img file are you trying to use? > On the CD, images/boot.img should fit with no trouble. > ls -alh /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img > -rw-r--r--2 root root 1.4M > > To use dd: > dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of

SMTP AUTH SASL

Red Hat has made it pretty easy to setup sendmail for SMTP AUTH. >From the sendmail.mc file: define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl This works just fine and authenticates a user

Re: Why not from the current directory ?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:37:57PM +0200, Ismael Touama wrote: > > Why must we use this prefix to make works a program ? When you type a command, the system looks in a predefined list of directories for the command. If it finds it, it runs it. Otherwise, you'll get the standard "file or director

Where Does The Red Hat 7.3 Boot Logo Come From?

Hello list, I have google-ed this question many times over with no luck so I am breaking down and asking the list. In Red Hat 7.3 if you add the kernel parameter 'vga=788' to your grub menu.lst it displays a nifty Red Hat Linux logo across the top of the screen after the kernel is loaded and dis

RE: Why not from the current directory ?

Hi, Big thanks cuz' I didn't knew why sometimes some cmd were preceded by ./ It works but before I custom my web server it worked alone (without the ./). Why must we use this prefix to make works a program ? thx, bbsc, ism -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

continual segfaults with make on 7.3

After upgrading to RH7.3 I get continual segfaults while compiling programs. It does not seem to be specific to individual programs and compile continues when I type make again. Bug 65276 Previously on 7.2 no segfaults at all Any help appreciated __

SIGTERM

Hi, I want to terminate a parent process that attach several shared memory segments with kill(pid, SIGTERM) but it fails to terminate. Even if I give the command from command line it fails to terminate. If I give kill -9 pid it terminates but the shred memory segments remains. Why

RE: Why not from the current directory ?

Ismael Touama wrote: > Hi, > > I recently install mod_perl-1.26 + apache_1.3.20. > This, had modify my web utils as httpd, apachectl > in the bin directory of /usr/local/apache. > I can use it except when i'm in the /usr/local/apache/bin . > Is there something wrong ? > Why I cannot ! Did you us

Re: SMART hdd

> Some days ago, the PC´s BIOS setup reported a "S.M.A.R.T fail " at startup. > > Obviosly a something wrong happened with the disk while it was working!!! > And this message indicate my disk is not OK and it should be replaced by > other one !!! that´s right. BUT NOW I really need avoid the disk

Why not from the current directory ?

Hi, I recently install mod_perl-1.26 + apache_1.3.20. This, had modify my web utils as httpd, apachectl in the bin directory of /usr/local/apache. I can use it except when i'm in the /usr/local/apache/bin . Is there something wrong ? Why I cannot ! Thank you for any explanations... bbsc, ism

Re: Console font lines per screen

On Tue, 21 May 2002 01:14:39 -0500, ABrady wrote: >I change setsysfont, you change rc.sysinit. Both of us lose the manual >changes whenever we have to update initscripts. It doesn't usually >happen that often and it's easy to forget what you had to do before >after a lot of time passes. Point ta

Re: internal modems

Have you looked at the hardware compatibility list located at http://www.redhat.com, yet? If not, it would probably be your best bet. On Tue, 21 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > can somebody recommend pci internal modem that can work well with redhat > 7.1 (no win/lin modems please).

internal modems

can somebody recommend pci internal modem that can work well with redhat 7.1 (no win/lin modems please). odemba ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Cannot view html files in mutt

> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We are running RH7.2 on a server in text mode. > > > > When trying to view HTML files using "mutt" I get the following error > > > > h: /usr/bin/htmlview: No such file or directory > > > > This was not a problem in 7.0 > > The f