Re: glibc resolver issues?

2002-10-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 23:09, Mike Burger wrote: > Is anyone else noticing problems with threaded, internet related programs > crashing, lately? Yep. It's related to this: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75128 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-req

Re: ldap and ldaps

2002-10-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:29, Patrick Nelson wrote: > channel being set up? If I use the pam_ldap to authenticate from my ldap > server how do I make sure that it's done over SSL/TLS? If I understand correctly, you should just have to set "ssl yes" in /etc/ldap.conf. If you use "authconfig" to co

RE: ACL support in RedHat

2002-10-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:21, Todd Lee wrote: > > Thanks, for the info, I was interested in why the support got pulled, like > what problems were encountered and in what ways was ACL found to be unstable > as well as what patches were used. ACL support was removed because the implementation didn't

Port scan question

2002-10-31 Thread linux power
Why are more ports open when I scan the ports as root rather than as user? And why are more ports closed when I scan the ip 127.0.0.1 rather then the wan card ip?http://home.no.net/~knutove/knut_ove_hauge_kuren.htmPrøv betaversjonen av den nye Yahoo! Mail Nytt design, enklere å bruke, alltid tilga

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > abusername hardnproc 2 This limit may need to be higher. Some quick poking around on my system shows that a process limit lower than about 10-15 *above* the desired amount will prevent things from running properly. I can't se

Re: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, christopher j bottaro wrote: > i've been using linux for like 2.5 years now and i've always wondered > about this question. is there any way i can log into a remote computer > via ssh, start a command, then kill the sshing shell and have the > command still be running on the

Re: need help with ~/.bash_profile

2002-10-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Stone, Timothy wrote: > Is there something I'm missing here? Something that needs to be turned You've probably failed to export the variable. You can either: export SOME_VARIABLE=foo or: SOME_VARIABLE=foo export SOME_VARIABLE But either way

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the > users often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU > and Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic The following additions to /etc/secu

Re: Font problems

2002-10-31 Thread Vidiot
>Consider the following two images: > > http://vidiot.com/Browser-Linux.jpg > http://vidiot.com/Browser-Windoze.jpg > >Both images are using Netscape 7.0. Both are of the same web page. Both >are on a screen resolution of 1280x1024. [...] Nevermind, I found the problem. I saved the

Font problems

2002-10-31 Thread Vidiot
Consider the following two images: http://vidiot.com/Browser-Linux.jpg http://vidiot.com/Browser-Windoze.jpg Both images are using Netscape 7.0. Both are of the same web page. Both are on a screen resolution of 1280x1024. You can read the Windoze version. It is eye strain unde

RE: ACL support in RedHat

2002-10-31 Thread Todd Lee
Ed Wilts Wrote: "Red Hat had included ACL support in the limbo and null releases (betas of what became Red Hat Linux 8.0). The instabilities it caused forced them to pull the code before they started shipping. This leads me to conclude: 1. Red Hat wants to make it work but not bad enough to hold

Re: risc 6000/350

2002-10-31 Thread fluke
Silly answer: Yes, but you first need to get Bochs running on the installed AIX v3. Serious answer: IBM has NEVER been very open about the programming specs for Micro Channel. Some work was done to figure out the x86 flavor of Micro Channel but nothing has really been done with RS/6000 flavor

Re: Accessing Windows files

2002-10-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:57:29PM -0800, Red Hat wrote: [snip] Since the from address isn't from a redhat.com domain, is this ethical? Personally, I find it disturbing to see personal names of "Red Hat" when the message is not from the company that owns the trademark to the software we're using.

Re: cvs behind a firewall

2002-10-31 Thread christopher j bottaro
hehe, i already thought of that and it doesn't work...=) i edited ~/.ssh/config to have the line "Port ". it works although i don't really like that method... On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:12 pm, Will Francis wrote: > export CVS_RSH="ssh -p " > > or maybe in your shell rc file: > > alias ssh '

Re: CGI in Apache not work

2002-10-31 Thread Manuel Tejada
Thank John, but it didn't work. My fault was in the sintax as Anthony help me to see. - Original Message - From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:49 AM Subject: Re: CGI in Apache not work > In your httpd.conf file, look for th

Re: CGI in Apache not work

2002-10-31 Thread Manuel Tejada
Anthony Many thanks indeed, Anthony You gave me the solution. I did exactly what you told me and voilad!. The line "Hola, Manuel" appeared. I tried first the the advice'John Nichel but it didn't work - Original Message - From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Red Hat License?

2002-10-31 Thread fluke
As far as I know, the biggest issues you should be aware of when redistributing the downloadable version of Red Hat GNU/Linux is: 1) the majority of the CD binaries are covered by the GPL/LGPL, you must either provide the source code or provide a written offer that you will provide the sour

IPTABLES help

2002-10-31 Thread Chad Skinner
During my update of RedHat I failed to backup my firewall script and so I am trying to recreate it and was wondering if someone would give me input into how to improve it. To outline what I have: 1. Set variables for interfaces/networks 2. Create a Table to block traffic from reserved and privat

Re: cvs behind a firewall

2002-10-31 Thread Will Francis
export CVS_RSH="ssh -p " or maybe in your shell rc file: alias ssh 'ssh -p ' Don't have the time to test those but it might work. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:55, christopher j bottaro wrote: > i've been using linux for like 2.5 years now and i've always wondered about > this question. is there any way i can log into a remote computer via ssh, > start a command, then kill the sshing shell and have the command still be > runni

[OT] public news server?

2002-10-31 Thread fred smith
This is very OFF TOPIC My ISP no longer carries any newsgroups (I've been running a cnews news server here since '92, getting news from him), so now I'm suffering withdrawal pains. Anybody know of a good public news server, that allows posting too, where I can pick up a couple of dozen group

cvs behind a firewall

2002-10-31 Thread christopher j bottaro
ok, jeez, i've been posting a lot recently...=) i'm trying to access my cvs repository via ssh. the computer running ssh is listening on a non standard port (i.e. not port 22). this is what i tried: export CVS_RSH="ssh" export CVSROOT=":ext:me@myhome:/path/to/cvsroot" well it failed because c

RE: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread Red Hat
First set up public keys so you can ssh to the target system w/o a password. Then I think this will do it: ssh -f -l -CC -Original Message- From: christopher j bottaro [mailto:cjb@;cs.utexas.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exec a comman

RE: Accessing Windows files

2002-10-31 Thread Red Hat
Title: Message   Create a windows share containing the documents you wish to access and then mount the windows share to your linux box.   On the RH box:   mkdir /mnt/docs mount -t smbfs -o username=,password=   ///   /mnt/docs   Ex: You have a windows user named 'john' with a password of

Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread Bret Hughes
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:44:12PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: > > ok, i got a couple computers behind a linksys cable router. the way i setup > > ntp is really simple. on each computer, i set the step-ticker to > > clock.via.net in /etc/ntp/step-tickers. then i just had the service

Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:42:00PM -0600, Gary wrote: > > What program do you use so that Windows syncs to Linux? http://nettime.sourceforge.net/ With XP, there's a built-in time sync. It's accessed through the date/time control panel. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:

Re: Accessing Windows files

2002-10-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:33:08AM -0500, IS Department wrote: > I have RedHat 8.0 loaded with Open Office. I want to be able to access Word/Excel >documents on Windows server. What is the easiest way of accomplishing this? > Assuming you've got samba loaded: man smbmount -- Ed Wilts, Mounds Vi

RE: gnome version

2002-10-31 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:08, Simpson, Doug wrote: > Thanks it barfed out a lot of info which one do I want - > "gnome-core-1.4.0.4-54"? > You know I don't really know how the gnome team versions that stuff but If I had to bet, that is the one I would bet on. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Accessing Windows files

2002-10-31 Thread Francisco Neira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 IS Department wrote: | I have RedHat 8.0 loaded with Open Office. I want to be able to access | Word/Excel documents on Windows server. What is the easiest way of | accomplishing this? | | Thanks Peek at smbclient in the samba package. Hope this helps

Re: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread Kent Borg
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:55:36PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: > is there any way i can log into a remote computer via ssh, start a > command, then kill the sshing shell and have the command still be > running on the remote machine? I do this frequently. Most commonly it is with wget and

Re: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
info nohup man screen :) Regards Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Head of GemSEC / Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk Key Id: 0x784B0202 Key Fingerprint: 6F8C EDCF 6C6E 06A5 48D7 6A20 C592 484B 784B 0202 --- christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hello again, > i've been using linux for like 2.5 years now and i've always wondered about > this question. is there any way i can log into a remote computer via ssh, > start a command, then kill the sshing shell and have the command still be

RE: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread Cheatwood, Scott (WCS)
try starting the command using: nohup & -Original Message- From: christopher j bottaro [mailto:cjb@;cs.utexas.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal hello again, i've been using linux for

Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread Gary
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:46:11PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:44:12PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: > The short answer is no. I've got my Linux server behind a Linksys > firewall and have no ports open. The Linux system initiates the > connection to t

Accessing Windows files

2002-10-31 Thread IS Department
I have RedHat 8.0 loaded with Open Office. I want to be able to access Word/Excel documents on Windows server. What is the easiest way of accomplishing this?   Thanks

imap help

2002-10-31 Thread Simpson, Doug
I am trying to configure an IMAP server. I thought I would use the default imap server on RH 7.3. First of all what is the default imap on 7.3? - UW's? Also what do I need to configure or add? I configured the xinitd files so imap would start but don't I have to configure something else? I can

Spanish speaking newbies

2002-10-31 Thread Francisco Neira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, A month or so ago I was invited to share my just-less-than-newbie knowledge about squid. Somebody had the idea to tape the seminar and now it is a couple of downloadable MPEG files at ftp://gis.mtc.gob.pe/pub/seminario in case that other span

exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-10-31 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello again, i've been using linux for like 2.5 years now and i've always wondered about this question. is there any way i can log into a remote computer via ssh, start a command, then kill the sshing shell and have the command still be running on the remote machine? thanks, christopher --

Re: RH8.0 and large file sizes.

2002-10-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:24:12AM -0800, Rich Parker wrote: > We have RH8.0 along with various other flavors of RH going back to 7.0. > Here's my problem: I am having problems with WinNT '/mnt' 'ed servers > that have very large files on them (In excess of 10GB). When I run my Large file suppo

Re: lpd

2002-10-31 Thread David Holden
Glenn Remstedt wrote: list, I'm running RH8.0 When trying to to start the "lpr" via : /sbin/service lpd start Starting lpd: Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port ' 515' Way that ? Thanks for any suggestion! I had the same problem, I checked cupsd was running and it was, but I got it wor

Re: ACL in RedHat

2002-10-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:41:55AM -1000, Todd Lee wrote: > Does Red Hat have a particular patch that works well on implementing ACL > filesystems? I've found acl.bestbits.at and was just wondering if anyone has > used it with Red Hat 8 (which I really like by the way) and if there were > any probl

RE: need help with ~/.bash_profile

2002-10-31 Thread Stone, Timothy
Paul, et al., Thanks for the reply. I think I'm making fundamental mistake in understanding the difference between a login shell and non-login shell. I found out that the ~/.bash_profile is read when, for example, I do the following: C:\>ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: in .

suggestions for easy backup?

2002-10-31 Thread gregory mott
can anyone tell me the backup program i want? i want to include&exclude files&directories by clicking checkboxes. then, i want to be able to further edit the selections in a text editor. then, i want to pass the selected files to whatever archiver i want. for the archive, afio/bzip2 would be pref

Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:44:12PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: > ok, i got a couple computers behind a linksys cable router. the way i setup > ntp is really simple. on each computer, i set the step-ticker to > clock.via.net in /etc/ntp/step-tickers. then i just had the service startup

Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread christopher j bottaro
On Thursday 31 October 2002 01:55 pm, Cowles, Steve wrote: > I really have not followed this thread, but based on the above, it sounds > like ntpd is not synchronizing with your defined stratum server. > > Couple of things to try: > > 1) Have you run "ntpq" to see if ntpd is synchronizing with your

ldap and ldaps

2002-10-31 Thread Patrick Nelson
--- scenario --- On the servers -> RH 7.2 with openldap-2.0.21-1 openldap-clients-2.0.21-1 openldap-server-2.0.21-1 openssl-0.9.6b-28 opens

Re: How do I get PHP working with Apache on RH 8?

2002-10-31 Thread Dave
That makes a little more sense, but I still think disallowing the short tag by default is overkill though given the different MIME types and associated file extensions and also that it probably is and will cause much confusion and cursing for people trying to run legacy PHP :) - Dave - Origin

Re: DVD/CD-RW support

2002-10-31 Thread John Sherwood
I am at work and don't have the directions in front of me... but I fixed my dvd stuttering issue by enabling dma on the dvd drive... worked like a charm. - Original Message - From: "Justin Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:38 AM Subj

RE: gnome version

2002-10-31 Thread Simpson, Doug
Thanks it barfed out a lot of info which one do I want - "gnome-core-1.4.0.4-54"? -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:bhughes@;elevating.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gnome version On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 11:19, Simpson, Doug wrot

Re: need help with ~/.bash_profile

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Campbell
Do you logoff and logon after changing the bash. env | grep SHELL will tell you what you are actually running At 01:54 PM 10/31/02 -0500, you wrote: >While I'm not a newbie with Linux (mostly abuse Apache and Java on my box) I take a >lot of things for granted. One is how BASH works. It works mo

Serial Ports cont'd

2002-10-31 Thread George . Saylor
My specific problem is not being able to read from either COM1 or COM2.  My device which uses write( ) for output works fine.  Although file descriptors are assigned on open( ), and write( ) works, read( ) returns a -1 when querying the no. of bytes returned.  I used "errno" and came up with "11"

RE: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread Cowles, Steve
> -Original Message- > From: christopher j bottaro > Subject: Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?) > > > thanks for your help, guys. i guess how i'm doing is it > fine. i have 2 computers behind my firewall/router that > are running ntp, but here's the prob. it takes less th

compiling qt with xft support

2002-10-31 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello, i'm using redhat 8.0 and xft and xft-devel are installed, but when trying to compile qt-3.0.6, running configure with -xft doesn't work. its not thinking xft devel is installed. what gives? =) thanks, christopher -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;r

Re[2]: GCC 2.96 FUD alert

2002-10-31 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello mark, Thursday, October 31, 2002, 1:39:18 AM, you textually orated: m> Several folks say I should ignore my friend, and that gcc 2.96 is just fine. m> Wrong. m> About a week ago, *I* was compiling a new kernel, 2.4.19 (seems to be the m> real stable release). I was getting SEGVs, alternat

Re: Red Hat License?

2002-10-31 Thread Dave
Amen. As a developer (currently) feeding my kids building software for MS platforms, I resisted anything to do with Linux for a long time because I (wrongly) thought that "Free Software" meant "free" as in beer rather than "free" as in speech ( to paraphrase http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.h

need help with ~/.bash_profile

2002-10-31 Thread Stone, Timothy
While I'm not a newbie with Linux (mostly abuse Apache and Java on my box) I take a lot of things for granted. One is how BASH works. It works most of the time. In fact I'm a TCSH convert to BASH. In RHL 7.3 BASH is the default shell, hence my conversion. But let me ask about the ~/.bash_profile

Re: gnome version

2002-10-31 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 11:19, Simpson, Doug wrote: > Does anyone know how to figure out what version of gnome is running? I am > running redhat 7.3 and I have looked in the "System information" window in > Gnome but it does not tell me what version of Gnome. > Doug > > I would try rpm -qa|grep g

RE: ACL in RedHat

2002-10-31 Thread Rechenberg, Andrew
Not sure about when/if ACL support will be included with Red Hat. I have tested GRSecurity and it seemed to work fairly well. You probably would need to get a vanilla kernel though as the patches may not work against Red Hat kernels since they patch the kernel heavily to provide stability and ext

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
> Yes, it's a program that was wrriten and compiled by the user. I put a > priority for this user in file /etc/security/limits.conf. I wonder is there > is a way to put a quota for CPU % a user is allowed. The only thing that I > saw that can be set there is Max CPU Time. Or is that the same thi

Re: System crashed!

2002-10-31 Thread Chen Shi-Ping
Hi Mark, Thanks for your email. I tried to rescue my system without success. I am currently doing re-installation. >Shi-Ping wrote: > >> I have a big problem with my RH7.2. It will not reboot. It always >> hangs after the following line: > >>Setting hostname mycomputer.mydomain.com:

Re:RH8.0 - /etc/group max line length bug?

2002-10-31 Thread mnehemiah
Thank you, I've been pulling my hair out over this!. I installed redhat8 on a system, copied my standard passwd,shadow,group files over and it cannot find any of my group ID's. I have one group that exceed that length. It def. buggered it up, it reports that it can't find group ID's for anything

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5709 - 9 msgs

2002-10-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:38:57 -0600, mark wrote: > Subject: Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5709 - 9 msgs When replying to digests, *please* adjust the subject line to reflect which message you reply to. Alternatively, consider splitting the digests i

Re: lpd

2002-10-31 Thread Xander D Harkness
Glenn Remstedt wrote: list, I'm running RH8.0 When trying to to start the "lpr" via : /sbin/service lpd start Starting lpd: Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port ' 515' Way that ? Probably as it is already running i.e. it is already using that port or you are not running it as root. 515 is

Re: GCC 2.96 FUD alert

2002-10-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:39:18 -0600, mark wrote: > Several folks say I should ignore my friend, and that gcc 2.96 is just > fine. > > Wrong. > > About a week ago, *I* was compiling a new kernel, 2.4.19 (seems to be > the real stable release). I was g

Re: mpeg files

2002-10-31 Thread Xander D Harkness
Greg Klofa wrote: Very much in the process of learning linux, and reading all the documentation. In the initial stages I need some help to get me up and running. One thing I am having problems with is opening up and viewing mpeg files. When I open up a mpeg I get this message. Konqueror cra

Re: Default Route Not Sticking

2002-10-31 Thread Xander D Harkness
Edward Marczak wrote: I have a machine that I've moved. I edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to reflect the new ip address. I'm also sticking the new gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network. However, upon a reboot, I don't have any default gateway under netstat -rn. H. This is a 7

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Thursday October 31 2002 11:42 am, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > > I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users > > often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and > > Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question > > is, h

Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread christopher j bottaro
On Thursday 31 October 2002 08:21 am, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > Generally, each network has one box that syncs with an external source > and all other local boxes sync from that one. The minimizes the load on > public time servers and makes for a flexible system. *nix boxes can sync > to the local

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5709 - 9 msgs

2002-10-31 Thread mark
All - I have been trying to get to http://www.kernel.org for about half an hour, beginning around 1120 CST, and continually time out. Anyone else having this problem? mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://li

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5709 - 9 msgs

2002-10-31 Thread mark
On Thursday 31 October 2002 11:12 am, Ximo Llácer wrote: > I've got installed RH 7.3 and I can't see well some fonts in (Netscape - > Mozilla - Konqueror) the screen resolution in desktop works fine but > when I entry in (Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror) I see some web pages > very bad and anothe

RE: Red Hat License?

2002-10-31 Thread Patrick Nelson
Marcel wrote: - We deliver PC's with W2000 or RedHat Linux together with our technical equipment. Question: Can we simpy download the RedHatLinux image from the RedHat server, burn the CD's, install it and deliver them with the burned CD's (with a self-created label), without

gnome version

2002-10-31 Thread Simpson, Doug
Does anyone know how to figure out what version of gnome is running? I am running redhat 7.3 and I have looked in the "System information" window in Gnome but it does not tell me what version of Gnome. Doug -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=

Installed redhat * and recomiled the Kernel for apm Support but...

2002-10-31 Thread Peter Charlwood
Okay wanted to setup apm support for red hat so my laptop battery would last a bit longer. so made the changes in the kernel recompiled it and all seemd to go okay no probs at all even added the correct lines to grub so it shows the new kernel at bootup the prob is that it gets all the way to mount

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5707 - 15 msgs

2002-10-31 Thread mark
Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:39:18AM -0600, mark wrote: > > >also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer > > > supported*. > > > > Ok? No FUD, personal knowledge, and documented in the source. > Nope. Its still FUD. > The Red Hat gcc 2.96 compiler subtree can

Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror

2002-10-31 Thread Ximo Llacer
Hi . I've got installed RH 7.3 and I can't see well some fonts in (Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror) the screen resolution in desktop works fine but when I entry in (Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror) I see some web pages very bad and another well. Could anyone help me about this matter ? Un Cor

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
> I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users > often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and Memory > that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question is, how do I > prevent him to run that program without revoking his user a

DVD/CD-RW support

2002-10-31 Thread Justin Alexander
I've got a laptop with a QSI SBW-081 DVD/CD-RW combo drive. It works well under windows <>, and kinda under linux. I can read data discs, music CDs, and to a limited extent play DVDs (though they are very jumpy). I can NOT write to CDRs. And I can find no specific info on QSI drivers for linux

Re: Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror

2002-10-31 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, you have to change the preferences of the web browser you are using. For Mozilla and netscape click on Edit-Preferences. Click on Apperance in the dialog box that pops up and change the fonts as per your needs. For Konqueror there is a zoom icon. you can click on that to increase your font siz

RE: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Have you tried 'nice' on that program? If running that program with lowered scheduler privileges relieves the symptoms, then putting that program in a script wrapper that uses nice could help everybody, including the guy who really wants to use that Fortran program. >>-Original Message---

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Burger
Change the ownership (user and group) to something other than that user, and only grant execute permissions to the user/group which then owns that app. On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hi all, > I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users > oft

Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror

2002-10-31 Thread Ximo Llacer
Title: Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror Hi . I've got installed RH 7.3 and I can't see well some fonts in (Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror) the screen resolution in desktop works fine but when I entry in (Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror)   I see some web pages very bad and another well. Could

RE: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Red Hat
You could change the ownership to root (or any other user he does nothave access to) and remove group and world execution bits. Or, you could write a simple shell script wrapper that checks the UID and if it is the target, exit from the script with a nifty message. Rename the file to something el

RE: GUI for Firewall admin

2002-10-31 Thread Simpson, Doug
Their home page says kde too. http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: Christopher Porter [mailto:cdporter00@;yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GUI for Firewall admin I've used Firestarter for several months and it

Re: GCC 2.96 FUD alert

2002-10-31 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
> > Wrong. > > What compiler do you think Red Hat uses to compile their 2.4 kernels? > (they use 2.96 on 7.x) what do they use for RH8.0? I've been unable to compile a kernel with either gcc 3.1 or 2.96 (both latest rpms from RedHat). ld -m elf_i386 -r -o parport.o share.o ieee1284.o ieee1284_op

How to ban someone from running a program

2002-10-31 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hi all, I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the users often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU and Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic question is, how do I prevent him to run that program without revoking his user

Default Route Not Sticking

2002-10-31 Thread Edward Marczak
I have a machine that I've moved. I edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to reflect the new ip address. I'm also sticking the new gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network. However, upon a reboot, I don't have any default gateway under netstat -rn. H. This is a 7.3 boxdid they chang

Re: GUI for Firewall admin

2002-10-31 Thread Christopher Porter
I've used Firestarter for several months and it works really well. However, it's GUI is built for Gnome. http://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/ > Hi All, > > Anyone have a good suggestion for an ipchains firewall admin program that > has a nice GUI interface? I've tried lokkit, and the

RH8.0 and large file sizes.

2002-10-31 Thread Rich Parker
Hi everyone. We have RH8.0 along with various other flavors of RH going back to 7.0. Here's my problem: I am having problems with WinNT '/mnt' 'ed servers that have very large files on them (In excess of 10GB). When I run my Perl programs to do some sort of 'Processing' be that a read of the fi

Re: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30-Oct-2002/22:44 -0600, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ok, i got a couple computers behind a linksys cable router. the way i >setup ntp is really simple. on each computer, i set the step-ticker to >clock.via.net in /etc/ntp/ste

Serial Ports

2002-10-31 Thread George . Saylor
Running Red Hat version 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10 on a Dell 233mhz PC I have programs in C which access the serial ports (COM1 and COM2 only).  Each program flushes the port attributes and resets them since I have two serial devices, one at 1200 baud which sends data to the port, and one at 2400 baud

Re: CGI in Apache not work

2002-10-31 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30-Oct-2002/22:11 -0500, Manuel Tejada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use RedHat 7.2 in a PC workstation not for production, just for homework. >This is the first time working with Apache. It is working fine with html >pages, but not with cgi program

RE: ntp behind firewalls (need to open ports?)

2002-10-31 Thread Joe Polk
This sounds confusing, but if I understand correctly both computers are behind the Linksys? If so, then nothing is necessary. If they are going out to retrieve time, nothing is necessary either. If they are going to be time servers for someone outside the router, then they would likely require

Re: Via sound driver

2002-10-31 Thread Jorge González
Does anyone have teh VIA8233AC97 on-board sound on their system. The via82cxxx_audio driver seems to be in my 2.4.18-17.8.0 kernel but I'm having no luck getting sound out of it. Hi! I have a Soyo mobo,with such a chipset.No problems. It was working fine with 2.4.18-14,and now with 2.4.18-17.8.0

lpd

2002-10-31 Thread Glenn Remstedt
list, I'm running RH8.0 When trying to to start the "lpr" via : /sbin/service lpd start Starting lpd: Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port ' 515' Way that ? Thanks for any suggestion! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://

ACL in RedHat

2002-10-31 Thread Todd Lee
Does Red Hat have a particular patch that works well on implementing ACL filesystems? I've found acl.bestbits.at and was just wondering if anyone has used it with Red Hat 8 (which I really like by the way) and if there were any problems, or is there a better version I should try? Does anyone know

looking for embedded linux info (incl. embedded planet)

2002-10-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a company i know is considering an embedded POS solution based on embedded linux (specifically, embedded planet's rpx lite unit). any pointers to URLs/mailing lists where i can read up on this, since i might want to give them a hand. and anyone who's gone down this road, you're certainly welc

Re: Red Hat License?

2002-10-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:48:38AM -0800, Marcel wrote: > > Hi! > > > > We deliver PC's with W2000 or RedHat Linux together > > with our technical equipment. > > > > Question: > > Can we simpy download the RedHatLinux image from the > > RedHat server, bu

RE: disk partitions

2002-10-31 Thread Martín Marqués
They are ext3. On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Vaughan Roberts wrote: > I can shed no light on why you are losing files, but I can suggest you > check whether you are using the ext3 filesystem. If you are still using > ext2, you might like to convert your partitions over to the ext3 > filesystem. The add

Re: Red Hat License?

2002-10-31 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:48:38AM -0800, Marcel wrote: > Hi! > > We deliver PC's with W2000 or RedHat Linux together > with our technical equipment. > > Question: > Can we simpy download the RedHatLinux image from the > RedHat server, burn the CD's, install it and deliver > them with the burned

RE: Red Hat License?

2002-10-31 Thread Spanke, Alexander
Hi, Yes you can download and install it. Regards Alex -Original Message- From: Marcel [mailto:marcel73@;yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Red Hat License? Hi! We deliver PC's with W2000 or RedHat Linux together with our technical equip

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