extracting string from rpm files

2002-07-12 Thread loophole
hi, any ideas of how to generate a list of GUI based applications (and their purpost) for Red Linux 7.2 rpms? Or are there any list of GUI based apps for that version. 'm not too good in manipulation bash scripts. :( tried doing "rpm -qpi /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm | grep GUI > list.txt" but

Re: openldap errors

2002-07-12 Thread Ziad Samaha
Sounds like slapd can't create files in the db directory.. make sure '/usr/local/var/ldbm' exists and slapd as _write_ access to it. !!! >From: Chad Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: redhat-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: openldap errors >Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 2

RE: SANs

2002-07-12 Thread Irfan R Khan
Yes there is qla2200f fibre channel supported by redhat 7.2 by default U have to add a line in /etc/init? Which Is mentioned in the readme file provided by the qlogic card site. Pls check that also although the driver provided Is not reqd. but do read the readme. Regards -Original Message-

Re: Killing 'locked' applications

2002-07-12 Thread achana
Bret Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:02, David Talkington wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Netsetandgo wrote: > > > > >tried PS with KILL 1234(or whatever) does not kill it off. I need to > > >lick this one, so, any help please :-) > > > > I don't know

Modprobe

2002-07-12 Thread Toto Gamez
What is the meaning of this and how can I resolve this "Can't locate these modules ppp0: 22 times" TIA, Toto ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Followup: newbie file system error - another question

2002-07-12 Thread Irfan R Khan
Boot from the Redhat OS disk1 cdrom and select rescue mode. Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Followup: newbie file system error - another quest

open router???

2002-07-12 Thread Lewi
a few days ago, I recently build a gateway with linux, which has ip_forward to be turned on, I don't use any firewall yet so there is any chance that someone in big dad internet use my gateway to access fake ip under my gateway, I use real ip in my gateway??? and how the theory works?? because

Re: /etc/mail/access/hosts_deny

2002-07-12 Thread Kirby Clements
Thanks for the help. Tonight's mail was a lot lower, after adding about 20 REJECTS in the access file, and then using makemap, restarting sendmail. I am looking into spamassassin - sounds appropriate. Cheers Kirby ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMA

Not a valid location in address line in Natulis

2002-07-12 Thread Dan Sabo
Hi, I'm trying to start up my Dell Server Administrator again (running Linux 7.2). Somehow it worked fine the first time but now I get this error when trying to start it up (I'm a Linux newbie). When I type in the address https://10.10.2.20:1311 which is (what I thought) the correct address to

Re: Killing 'locked' applications

2002-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:02, David Talkington wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Netsetandgo wrote: > > >tried PS with KILL 1234(or whatever) does not kill it off. I need to > >lick this one, so, any help please :-) > > I don't know what PS and KILL do. Are they relat

Re: Segmentation fault

2002-07-12 Thread Jay Daniels
if ((fptr = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL){ printf("file error message...\n"); } else { dosomething...; domore...; } You will need to declare the pointer to file and declare filename[] value. Sorry, I took up C years ago and have forgotten a lot but this should help you check the

Re: restricting ftp access

2002-07-12 Thread Michael Sorrentino
Try this: http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/ You'll find the answer in the docs, I can't remmeber what it is off the to of my head. There may be some other directives you might want as well On Friday 12 July 2002 03:29 pm, daniel wrote: > that's the ftp daemon i use... how do i do it? > >

Re: /etc/mail/access/hosts_deny

2002-07-12 Thread KnowHow Tech Support
That would be so much easier. We use it and I'll tell you, it's unbeatable. IMO Jon KnowHow Network > Why don't you just install spamassassin and use their white/black lists. > > -- --- The KnowHow Network Tech S

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Jay Daniels
I've never thought about this but what if you are using grub? jay On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Matt Rowley wrote: > > Does anybody know how to reset root password from console when forgot > > password? > > reboot > > at the lilo prompt, type 'linux 1' > > by default, you should get to single-user

Re: restricting ftp access

2002-07-12 Thread daniel
that's the ftp daemon i use... how do i do it? _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer when the missionaries came to africa they had the bible and we had the land. they said "let us pray." we closed our eyes. when we opened them we had the bible and they had t

Re: /etc/mail/access/hosts_deny

2002-07-12 Thread Gerry Doris
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Kirby Clements wrote: > Spam is now killing me. I am managing just 3 domains, with email running > through all of them. > > I understand the /etc/mail/access directory with the allow and deny files > are the way to prevent this. Can anyone provide an example of how the deny

Re: Red Hat 7.3 and its MTA

2002-07-12 Thread Jay Daniels
If you do not install sendmail and install postfix, the mta is postfix. jay On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > The default MTA is Sendmail. > > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josepablo Pérez wrote: > > > Hi People, > > > > Iam currently with 7.2, and I have been in allot of trouble with Exim.

Re: restricting ftp access

2002-07-12 Thread Michael Sorrentino
I find proftpd is far easier to configure to cage users into their directories. Also, it's a matter of opinion but I believe it's more secure than Wuftpd On Friday 12 July 2002 12:19 pm, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:52:11AM -0700, daniel wrote: > > you know how if you log into s

Re: DNS Server on Redhat 7.2

2002-07-12 Thread Michael Sorrentino
Try "service named start" :) On Friday 12 July 2002 04:26 pm, deb wrote: > I an having problems trying to start DNS on redhat 7.2 with the utility > rndc. The response is that connection refused. I don't no any more where to > correct. I tried to make sure that the file rndc.conf and named.conf

Re: uninstall program

2002-07-12 Thread Jay Daniels
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Edward Marczak wrote: > On 7/9/02 6:07 PM, "Norm Yates" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys forming the > message: > > > Okay I know how to uninstall an rpm package - 'rpm -q ' > > > > How do I uninstall a program that is installed with - 'make install' ? > > > > 'make un

DNS Server on Redhat 7.2

2002-07-12 Thread deb
I an having problems trying to start DNS on redhat 7.2 with the utility rndc. The response is that connection refused. I don't no any more where to correct. I tried to make sure that the file rndc.conf and named.conf are configured as required but without result. Please can any one give some

RE: Killing 'locked' applications

2002-07-12 Thread Adam Ellis
In KDE you can do a Ctl+Alt+Esc and click on the problem application with the little skull and crossbones. -Original Message-From: Netsetandgo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:54 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Killing 'locked' applications Under KD

Re: Scripting question - script to find and delete files

2002-07-12 Thread Saul Arias
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:56, Joe Nestlerode wrote: > Thank you, that works beautifully. I modified it slightly to allow a > user to enter a search pattern on the command line, to wit: > > #!/bin/sh > > echo -e "Enter a file or pattern to search for...\n" > read file > > for i in `find . -name

Re: Killing 'locked' applications

2002-07-12 Thread Francisco Neira
Netsetandgo wrote: > Under KDE when an application freezes up/falls into an indefinate > loop, how do you stop it running? > > I had a little kill applet on the mandrake distro, but not with RH. > Now I'm new to this, so go easy on me > > In windows (eekkk) the [ctrl][alt][del] END TASK w

Re: Killing 'locked' applications

2002-07-12 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Netsetandgo wrote: >tried PS with KILL 1234(or whatever) does not kill it off. I need to >lick this one, so, any help please :-) I don't know what PS and KILL do. Are they related to ps and kill? (*) Try this: $ kill -9 Using -9 says "kill with

Re: Scripting question - script to find and delete files

2002-07-12 Thread Joe Nestlerode
Saul, Thank you, that works beautifully. I modified it slightly to allow a user to enter a search pattern on the command line, to wit: #!/bin/sh echo -e "Enter a file or pattern to search for...\n" read file for i in `find . -name "$file"` do rm -i $i done exit 0 Thanks again! Joe [EMA

Killing 'locked' applications

2002-07-12 Thread Netsetandgo
Under KDE when an application freezes up/falls into an indefinate loop, how do you stop it running?I had a little kill applet on the mandrake distro, but not with RH. Now I'm new to this, so go easy on me   In windows (eekkk) the [ctrl][alt][del] END TASK was liveable. Finding the 'linux

RE: landscpape printing

2002-07-12 Thread Rob Emanuele
mpage has similar functions too, plus multiple pages on one sheet. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony E. Greene Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: landscpape printing -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAG

Re: mkpasswd utility

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Jul-2002/15:04 -0400, "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Could someone tell me in what rpm package is mkpasswd utility? I tried >to find it but no success. Thanks in advance. On my RH72 box: [user@localhost user]$ rpm -qf `whic

Re: landscpape printing

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Jul-2002/18:31 +, Clyde Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We tried that, still no success. The data being send is text output from an >older program. It allows us to pass the hex codes but the printer just >ignores them. Try piping the

Re: mkpasswd utility

2002-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:04:15PM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Could someone tell me in what rpm package is mkpasswd utility? I tried > to find it but no success. Thanks in advance. On my 7.2 system, it's in expect. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: restricting ftp access

2002-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:52:11AM -0700, daniel wrote: > you know how if you log into some sites with your ftp client, the machine > puts you in "/home/username/" but as far as your client is concerned you're > at "/"? how do you do that? does it have somthing to do with chroot? what > is that

Re: how unsubscribe?

2002-07-12 Thread Gary
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:32:15PM +0200 or thereabouts, uvleda wrote: > how can i unsubscribe this list?Thanks The same way you subscribed in the first place. OR... read your mail headers. It is listed in EVERY mail in this group. -- Best regards, Gary ___

mkpasswd utility

2002-07-12 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hi, Could someone tell me in what rpm package is mkpasswd utility? I tried to find it but no success. Thanks in advance. Reuben D. B. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

restricting ftp access

2002-07-12 Thread daniel
you know how if you log into some sites with your ftp client, the machine puts you in "/home/username/" but as far as your client is concerned you're at "/"? how do you do that? does it have somthing to do with chroot? what is that? this is one of those questions i've had for a long time but n

Re: /etc/mail/access/hosts_deny

2002-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:10:15AM -0700, Kirby Clements wrote: > Spam is now killing me. I am managing just 3 domains, with email running > through all of them. I've cut out a vast majority of my spam by using the blackhole lists. These lines are from /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: FEATURE(`dnsbl', `rel

Re: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread daniel
there isn't one downloading the iso is free but takes time and your own cd burner and buying it costs money and you get it right away but the data on the cds remains the same. _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer mr. president, i have blood on my hands - j. r

enabling quotas on rh73

2002-07-12 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Hello Guys, I'm having problems trying to enable quota support on rh73 ( distro kernel ). Edited /etc/fstab and added usrquota and grpquota, rebooted machine and got FAILED on 'enabling local filesystem quotas'. Trying to enable quotas with quotaon on the console, I got: quotaon: u

Re: landscpape printing

2002-07-12 Thread Clyde Barrow
We tried that, still no success. The data being send is text output from an older program. It allows us to pass the hex codes but the printer just ignores them. >From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: landscpape printin

Re: procmail's default system mailbox

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Jul-2002/13:36 -0400, Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >With redhat the procmail default mailbox is /var/spool/mail/$USER > >How can I safely set it to use a file in the users home directory like >$USER/mail/INBOX for all users? Or is

Re: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread - kitsune
Thanks to everyone that replied to my original question. As for the person that asked for pounds... I live in Mexico. So I don't think the package would ever arrive. I thought that the program was not free, at least not anymore... I could start getting the ISO image, but it would take me about

Re: procmail's default system mailbox

2002-07-12 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay Daniels wrote: >How can I safely set it to use a file in the users home directory like >$USER/mail/INBOX for all users? Or is it safe to do so? Personally, I do it with compile options. >I know there may be an unforseen problem here with lock

/etc/mail/access/hosts_deny

2002-07-12 Thread Kirby Clements
Spam is now killing me. I am managing just 3 domains, with email running through all of them. I understand the /etc/mail/access directory with the allow and deny files are the way to prevent this. Can anyone provide an example of how the deny file is used? I want to just use the deny file, withou

how unsubscribe?

2002-07-12 Thread uvleda
how can i unsubscribe this list?Thanks ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Scripting question - script to find and delete files

2002-07-12 Thread Saul Arias
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 13:13, Joe Nestlerode wrote: > I'm trying to write a simple script to search a directory tree for a > file pattern (specified as an argument with a wildcard, ie, testfile* or > *.jpg), and then delete matching files after first prompting the user > for a y/n. (yes=delete,

RE: Question about IP addresses

2002-07-12 Thread Adam Ellis
No, you could still have a fully functional FTP system with only 1 ip address. You'd just need to configure your FTP server to deliver directories based on what the user logs in as. For example, if I log into ftp as Site1_Admin the ftp server automatically dumps me into /var/www/html/Site1. If

procmail's default system mailbox

2002-07-12 Thread Jay Daniels
With redhat the procmail default mailbox is /var/spool/mail/$USER How can I safely set it to use a file in the users home directory like $USER/mail/INBOX for all users? Or is it safe to do so? I would like to try mutt again and had an idea that if procmail would deliver to ~/mail/INBOX mutt

Re: Retaining users for reinstallation - HOW TO?

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Jul-2002/09:27 -0400, "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am going to do a fresh install of RH. 7.3 on one of our machine here, >that has RH 5.1. However, there are many users in that machine, and I >don't want to have to re-cre

RE: gcc3

2002-07-12 Thread Rob Emanuele
Where does RawHide live? ftp server, directory, etc. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ABrady Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gcc3 On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:45:36 -0700 "Rob Emanuele" <[EM

open router???

2002-07-12 Thread Lewi
a few days ago, I recently build a gateway with linux, which has ip_forward to be turned on, I don't use any firewall yet so there is any chance that someone in big dad internet use my gateway to access fake ip under my gateway, I use real ip in my gateway??? and how the theory works?? because

Scripting question - script to find and delete files

2002-07-12 Thread Joe Nestlerode
Hello, I'm trying to write a simple script to search a directory tree for a file pattern (specified as an argument with a wildcard, ie, testfile* or *.jpg), and then delete matching files after first prompting the user for a y/n. (yes=delete, no=don't delete, find the next match) The followin

ymessenger

2002-07-12 Thread Jay Daniels
After starting yahoo messenger for linux from an xterm I get the following message... The font "-*-(null)-light-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") S

Re: landscpape printing

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Jul-2002/10:24 +, Clyde Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anyone tell me how to print landscape documents to a HP LaserJet >4050TN printer? We have no problem printing in portrait, we have tried >the HP escape codes with no success. M

Strange /var/log/messages LOG Hack attempt?

2002-07-12 Thread Nicolae
I have this in my message log and I haven't had this happen before. Any input on this.. Jul 11 11:48:15 myhost rpc.statd[807]: gethostbyname error for ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^ [÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%n\220\220\220\2 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\ 220\22

RE: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Jim Crippen
For GRUB when the screen comes up press 'e' for edit. then highlight the line starting with 'kernel' and press 'e' again. Add the word single to the end of the line and press enter. Then press 'b' to boot into single user mode. Jim -Original Message- From: Fred Sheppard [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: (no subject)

2002-07-12 Thread KnowHow Tech Support
You have to go to this URL to unsubscribe. https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list KnowHow Tech Support On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, uvleda wrote: > unsubscribe > -- --- The KnowHow Network Tech Suppot Team

GRUB

2002-07-12 Thread HUNT_DREW_NONLILLY
I have been learning all I can about GRUB (I think I have version 0.91 or something).  But what I can't find an answer to is how I get back to menu mode once I lost it.  Now it will only take me to the GRUB command line.  I can't even seem to use the commands to mount a drive to get into the grub

Segmentation fault

2002-07-12 Thread cana rich
Hi, I tried to make a daemon which check if a file exist in a directory so I made a "fileopen" in "read" mode in a loop (while (1)...). That's why i have a segmentation fault. Is someone have an other method to do it without a segmentation fault? Thanks for your help. Canarich ___

RE: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony Abby
This is easy to fix... reboot and boot into linux single mode.  You'll be logged in as root so you'll be able to change your password normally.   Anthony -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter LiSent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:16

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread dbrett
Thanks, I was wondering how to do this. I didn't need it yet. david On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Javier Gostling wrote: > On 2002.07.12 10:44 Fred Sheppard wrote: > > What if you are running grub? Any way to do this? > > > > Fred > > > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Matt Rowley wrote: > > > reboot > > > >

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Fred Sheppard
Thanks to everyone who responded! Fred On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Barton Hodges wrote: > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:05:11 -0500 > From: Barton Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Forgot root password!! > > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manua

Re: logwatch message that i don't understand

2002-07-12 Thread Francisco Neira
Banze, Andreas wrote: >>Well, in fact I received the "Don't panic" message from logwatch this >>morning. After checking Google I found that the message is a >>signature >>left by scanssh as noted in >>http://www.der-keiler.de/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/incidents >> >> >/2001-12/0244.html

Re: Retaining users for reinstallation - HOW TO?

2002-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:55:01AM -0400, Edward Marczak wrote: > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am going to do a fresh install of RH. 7.3 on one of our machine here, > > that has RH 5.1. However, there are many users in that machine, and I > > don't want to have to re-create every us

Re: JFS intallation on Redhat 6.2 and can a JFS filesystem be lessthan 16 MB!!

2002-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 22:07, Deepak Kotian wrote: > > 1.Could someone please give me the installation procedure of jfs filesystem for >Redhat 6.2, kernel-2.2.16 >The exact site and tarball, which needs to be downloaded. I think you want "JFFS", not "JFS": http://www.embedde

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Fred Sheppard wrote: > > What if you are running grub? Any way to do this? It works exactly the same way with grub. Emmanuel ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

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Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Barton Hodges
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-q-and-a-linux-single.html Fred Sheppard wrote: > What if you are running grub? Any way to do this? > > Fred > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Matt Rowley wrote: > > >>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:23:59 -0400 >>From: Matt Ro

Re: SENDMAIL+IMAP

2002-07-12 Thread Edward Marczak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > that's it nobody receives a mail. Got it. >>You should be looking at /var/log/maillog for error messages. >> > I'll see the maillog 2morrow morning and send you the last lines. I cant now > bcoz i'm at home it's 11Mb big and sshing from here to work is really sl

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Javier Gostling
On 2002.07.12 10:44 Fred Sheppard wrote: > What if you are running grub? Any way to do this? > > Fred > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Matt Rowley wrote: > > reboot > > > > at the lilo prompt, type 'linux 1' It does. Only you have to press the 'e' key in grub to be able to edit the boot string and ad

Re: Retaining users for reinstallation - HOW TO?

2002-07-12 Thread Edward Marczak
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hi, > I am going to do a fresh install of RH. 7.3 on one of our machine here, > that has RH 5.1. However, there are many users in that machine, and I > don't want to have to re-create every users, plus I am not the original > admin of the machine, so I don't know ever

problems with imap and IMP on RH 7.3

2002-07-12 Thread martin
I'm trying to get IMP to work on a RH 7.3 system, and when ever I try to conect with the webmail, I get this on the maillog: Jul 12 11:47:20 math imapd[6003]: imap service init from 127.0.0.1 Jul 12 11:47:20 math imapd[6003]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=UNKNO

Re: partition size

2002-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:52:57AM -, shyam wrote: > if i want to have a windows partition with RH7.2 what should be > the size The size should be big enough to hold all the data you plan on putting there. We don't know what you'll be putting in that partition! -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View,

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Fred Sheppard
What if you are running grub? Any way to do this? Fred On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Matt Rowley wrote: > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:23:59 -0400 > From: Matt Rowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Forgot root password!! > >

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread dbrett
Does this work for GRUB? david On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Matt Rowley wrote: > > Does anybody know how to reset root password from console when forgot > > password? > > reboot > > at the lilo prompt, type 'linux 1' > > by default, you should get to single-user mode as root without having to > giv

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Matt Rowley
> Does anybody know how to reset root password from console when forgot > password? reboot at the lilo prompt, type 'linux 1' by default, you should get to single-user mode as root without having to give the password. then reset it. then either reboot again, or do 'init x' where x is you defau

Forgot root password!!

2002-07-12 Thread Peter Li
Does anybody know how to reset root password from console when forgot password?

Retaining users for reinstallation - HOW TO?

2002-07-12 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hi, I am going to do a fresh install of RH. 7.3 on one of our machine here, that has RH 5.1. However, there are many users in that machine, and I don't want to have to re-create every users, plus I am not the original admin of the machine, so I don't know every users there. So my question is, is

Re: Newbie: File system error!

2002-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 06:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a problem with redhat the last time I ran it... The power went off while I was >doing something... When it came back on it started normal, for the most part.. It >came up to a screen that basically said checking the disk and filesyste

RE: RedHat on a Sun Sparc Machine

2002-07-12 Thread Hughes, Michael
I would just go with Solaris 8 or 9... both will run on a sparc machine.. And you can get binaries from sun.com -Original Message- From: Anand Buddhdev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat on a Sun Sparc Machine On Thu

RE: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 05:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > this version is *way* too old to use. get a copy of 7.3 or, if you're > > feeling bold and daring, get the limbo beta. there's no point at all > > using 6.0. > That's a very subjective statement. On some boxen here I'm still happy > enou

Followup: newbie file system error - another question

2002-07-12 Thread freeballer
He he, sorry had to ask cause I've never gone into it before... How do I enter "linux rescue mode"?? --__--__-- Message: 14 From: "Arvind Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie: File system error! Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:53:09 +0530 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Diald disconnecting ...

2002-07-12 Thread Rupesh
I have installed / confgured diald on Redhat 7.2, it works well without any issues. But, when the connection is idle, it drops within 30 seconds, I read the man pages as well but couldn't make sense of that. If anyone can tell me how I can increase the time from 30 seconds to 5 minutes for idle

Re: scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx disappears

2002-07-12 Thread Nick Lindsell
I have a very similar setup - in what way does this cause a backup failure? Perhaps you need to have "modprobe aic7xxx; modprobe st" at the start of your backup script??? At 08:11 12/07/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I setup a RH 7.3 machine with stock kernel and a Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter >and pow

scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx disappears

2002-07-12 Thread Andrew Judge
I setup a RH 7.3 machine with stock kernel and a Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter and powervault tape drive. I try to cat /proc/scsi/scsi and nothing is there, then I run mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind (or any command that calls the tape and the /proc/scsi/scsi file is loaded and the tape is available. Then,

Re: Newbie: File system error!

2002-07-12 Thread Arvind Narayanan
if you are able to login as root properly then:- try running e2fsck and if that doesnt work then try e2fsck -f {to force a check) If login doesnt work properly then boot in linux rescue mode and try a check there Arvind - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: red hat 8 -> maybe a stupid question?

2002-07-12 Thread Eric Wood
And incomplete gui tools at that -eric - Original Message - From: "loophole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And to think of it > -they are replacing some great text based tools with > gui based ones. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Jul-2002/11:40 +0700, Kevin Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote: > >>If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for >>authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP a

Re: Newbie: File system error!

2002-07-12 Thread Willem van der Walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, After putting the root password, you should run fsck / It then goes into checking and would most likely assk you to anser yes or no on questions like: eg. invalid inode, correct it yes or no. Just answer yes to all these questions and type reboot when you get to the # prompt again. It should b

Newbie: File system error!

2002-07-12 Thread freeballer
I had a problem with redhat the last time I ran it... The power went off while I was doing something... When it came back on it started normal, for the most part.. It came up to a screen that basically said checking the disk and filesystem... Then told me that it couldn't do an automatic check

RE: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread Stephen_Reilly
> this version is *way* too old to use. get a copy of 7.3 or, if you're > feeling bold and daring, get the limbo beta. there's no point at all > using 6.0. That's a very subjective statement. On some boxen here I'm still happy enough running 5.2 ... steve ___

Help RH 7.2 X-server needs to be restarted after boot

2002-07-12 Thread Rob Cartier
I am running RH 7.2 on a AMD 850 mhz athlon with a Voodoo 3 graphics card. The system appears to work just fine but after a boot the login screen will not take any keyboard input nor can I get to a virtual terminal screen (ctrl-1 ctrl-2 etc) I have to restart the x-server (menu option). Once tha

Re: argent help

2002-07-12 Thread Willem van der Walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, You could try to put the line: lba32 in lilo.conf and then run lilo again. Windows prefers to be on hda1 in my experience. regards, Willem On 12 Jul 2002, shyam wrote: > hi friends > > i am trying to install RH7.2 with win 95 ,with each of 9GB > partition > i have windows partition on /dev

Re: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread Wesley Murphy
Send me some blank CDs(3) and I'll send you RH 7.3 Or deposit a few pounds into my paypal account. Wez On Friday 12 Jul 2002 8:29 am, Mike Burger wrote: > Do you have a CD-Burner? > > If so, you can download and burn to CD the latest copy of Red Hat Linux. > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, - kitsune wrot

Kcron shedular

2002-07-12 Thread pcprobs
Hi guys not sure if any of you used the kcron schedular, I using for testing purposes. I waiting machine to shutdown at a specific time 16.50pm every day. I setup everything up in the kcron schedualar but nothing happens. Do I have to enter any thing in the variable floder or can that be lef

Re: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, - kitsune wrote: > Uh, hi. > > I recently obtained a copy of the book titled "Linux Clearly Explained" > by Bryan Pfaffenberger, and it included a copy of Red Hat Linux 6.0. this version is *way* too old to use. get a copy of 7.3 or, if you're feeling bold and daring, get

Squid problems

2002-07-12 Thread Paul Manyika
Which partition should be large if Iwant my squid to run properly, and if I reinstall linux where can I obtain squid and how do I configure it? _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ___

Re: RedHat on a Sun Sparc Machine

2002-07-12 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:05:12PM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > The last version that will run on on a Sparc (Red Hat, thatis) is 6.2. Which is also very old and a lot of the packages are outdated. I'd recommend Debian or Suse for Sparc. > > Guys, > > > > I just want to know if I can run Linux

Re: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
you need to visit: http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/ for 6.0/ 6.1 and 6.2 errata: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/archives/rh60-errata-general.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/archives/rh61-errata-general.html and http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh62-powertools-securi

Re: A question.

2002-07-12 Thread Mike Burger
Do you have a CD-Burner? If so, you can download and burn to CD the latest copy of Red Hat Linux. On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, - kitsune wrote: > Uh, hi. > > I recently obtained a copy of the book titled "Linux Clearly Explained" by Bryan >Pfaffenberger, and it included a copy of Red Hat Linux 6.0.

A question.

2002-07-12 Thread - kitsune
Uh, hi. I recently obtained a copy of the book titled "Linux Clearly Explained" by Bryan Pfaffenberger, and it included a copy of Red Hat Linux 6.0. I am not a Linux user; I've used DOS and Windows since I can remember. But I got this book by chance and want to try out Linux, even for a bit. T

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