Bash question

2002-11-10 Thread Ronald Hermans
Hi there, I wrote a little script to change to an other directory: #!/bin/bash cd /home/ronald/scripts clear ls -l *.sh Everything goes allright except the fact that when the script is ended I'm still in /home/ronald and not in /home/ronald/scripts The scripts fol

Question

2002-11-10 Thread Zoltan Szabo
Hi I have a question. How can I find out, from what ip address I am logged to a Linux server (through telnet). There can be more terminals logged with the same user. I can use only my terminal. Thanks -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Perso

To setup printer in Debian

2002-11-10 Thread Santhosh
Hai, What is the command to set up a printer in Debian Linux (Similar to printtool in RedHat). Santhosh -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Promise IDE card

2002-11-10 Thread Mikevl
Hi I installed a promise TX2200 card a while back. I found that the grub.conf and the information in the /boot partition did not match. I copied the files from the boot floppy. The initrd-2 file was missing so I copied it from floppy and renamed it. [root@Lizzi root]# more /etc/grub.conf #

GnoRPM does not work well in my linux box.

2002-11-10 Thread Takahide Nojima
Hello all, I wonder if why 'web find' function in in GnoRPM(v0.96) does not work well in my linux box (RH7.3). 1. I've already connected the linux box to the Internet. Browser works fine. Applications using SSL work fine,too. 2. 'Rpmfind' window shows the package list.But when I clic

Re: REPOST: NFS lock problems

2002-11-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Been there, done that. Every thing I've read so far about this > particular error message says the same thing. And end result is that no > one's able to figured ut why it does it. And no one but you will. Verify your rpms. Turn off ipchains/i

Iptables

2002-11-10 Thread Luke Brown
Hi, Just a quick question, is there a way to specify multiple addresses in an iptables statement? Ive been trying to use variables at the top of my script to represent a group of addresses to no avail... ideas? -- Luke Brown Computer Support Officer Center for Water Research, UWA [EMAIL PROTE

Boot fails at 'Initializing Firewire Controller'

2002-11-10 Thread Jeremy
Hello, I'm new to the Linux platform. I just finished installing Red Hat on my laptop, but when it boots up it seems to freeze when it attempts to initialize the firewire controller. Is there any way I can fix this or perhaps bypass loading firewire altogether? Any help is greatly appreciate

a SquirrelMail Qn

2002-11-10 Thread K Hargraves
Hi, does anyone know where i an (error) log file is written to ? ii what would cause SquirrelMail to report such an error after the login and password challenge ? There was an error contacting the mail server. Contact your administrator for h

How to easily install additional applications from RedHat CDROMs?

2002-11-10 Thread Takahide Nojima
Hello all, I'm looking for how to easily install additional applications to a linux box from RH7.3 CDROMs. I don't want to worry about dependency between each RPMs or about contents of each CDROMs as much as possible. And I can not connect the linux box to the Internet by some reason. What c

Re: How to increase /usr partition size

2002-11-10 Thread Cheng-Jih Chen
- Original Message - From: "ORACLE ADMINISTRATOR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:38 PM Subject: How to increase /usr partition size > Hi, > > I have installed red-hat 7.1 with /usr of 1gb space.. > My disk have 10gb unpartioned sapce. > Ho

How to increase /usr partition size

2002-11-10 Thread ORACLE ADMINISTRATOR
Hi, I have installed red-hat 7.1 with /usr of 1gb space.. My disk have 10gb unpartioned sapce. How can i increase /usr to 3gb?? Thanks. atul -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-li

RE: HOW TO : convert DOS file in Unix format

2002-11-10 Thread Cowles, Steve
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Ghens > Subject: Re: HOW TO : convert DOS file in Unix format > > > Another way is to use vi > > Pull up file in vi then: > > :set ff=unix > > Type: ZZ > > All done > Who says you can't teach an old dog new vi tricks. That's actually pretty cool!

RE: MBR problem

2002-11-10 Thread Manoj
can u please elaborate about your problem -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redhat.com]On Behalf Of ORACLE ADMINISTRATOR Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MBR problem Hi, I am trying to install red-hat 7.1 on m

Boot in Shell

2002-11-10 Thread Lama Boy
John, thank you so much. Its working just as advertised. LlaamaboyDo you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive medley & videos from Greatest Hits CD

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Blocking IP at a Cisco

2002-11-10 Thread Steven Raymond
Form your deny/permit statments like this: access-list 1 deny 192.168.1.1 access-list 1 permit any Substitute 192.168.1.1 for the IP address you want to block. Dont forget the permit at the end or every IP addr will be denied. Then you must apply the ACL to the interface you want, and specif

[OFFTOPIC] Blocking IP at a Cisco

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Canary
I'm really sorry for this far off post... I am trying to figure out how to block an internal IP address from going out on the internet. I just am not a Cisco person, and I am trying to learn it. Any help or pointers to some online docs would be great, I bought this router second handed so I have

Re: RedHat 8 Inst. freeze

2002-11-10 Thread Edward Dekkers
> no, > > this was is not! Hi Alex, I can't help you at this point, but would like to mention I have a similar problem. MD5SUMs all match and Linux MediaCheck was all OK as well. However, my system actually loads some packages. It only ever gets to 46% maximum (but this varies), then either free

Re: HOW TO : convert DOS file in Unix format

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Ghens
Another way is to use vi Pull up file in vi then: :set ff=unix Type: ZZ All done On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, cana rich wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 01:45:00 +0100 (CET) > From: cana rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HOW TO : convert DOS file

Re: REPOST: NFS lock problems

2002-11-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > > Nov 9 13:38:21 avalon kernel: lockd: cannot monitor MAILSTOP_IP > > Nov 9 13:38:21 avalon kernel: lockd: failed to monitor MAILSTOP_IP > > Make sure statd, lockd, and portmap are running on both the client and the > s

RE: HOW TO : convert DOS file in Unix format

2002-11-10 Thread Cowles, Steve
type: man dos2unix   If you don't have the dos2unix command on your system, you can always use:   tr -d '\015' unixfile   Also, most versions of ftp (although I haven't tried ncftp) can remove the CRLF during the put. Check for ascii/binary setting prior to issuing put.   Steve Cowles  

RE: USB keyboard

2002-11-10 Thread Lstevens85
It is a Compaq internet keyboard. My mouse is a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse. My mouse usually seems to work at one time it quite working but it seems to work fine now. The problem is in my USB keyboard I cannot seem to get it working no mater what I try. It did work under and older version of R

Re: HOW TO : convert DOS file in Unix format

2002-11-10 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi, >I am using RedHat7.2. I copy file from Windows via ftp (ncftput) and > i would like this file be in Unix format (without ^m and the end of > each line) man dos2unix -- Regards, +-+-+ | Peter Kiem.^. | E-Mail:

What's these (custom) options in boot manager?

2002-11-10 Thread Rodrigo Peplau
Hi there, I'm first time using Linux. After installed I was configuring the system, trying to mount a windows (fat32) partition. Everything goes well. But when I tryed to install my soundcard (ForteMedia 801), with a downloaded pack from ALSA Project, something strange happened. When I'm booting

Re: paging systems from RH

2002-11-10 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, James L. Reiling wrote: > Does anyone know of any paging systems (I mean sending a message to a > pager, not viewing files) like Tivoli that run on linux? Kinda of vague question, what should these systems be pagiing you for? Is www.netsaint.org what you are looking for? --

HOW TO : convert DOS file in Unix format

2002-11-10 Thread cana rich
Hello,    I am using RedHat7.2. I copy file from Windows via ftp (ncftput) and i would like this file be in Unix format (without ^m and the end of each line) Thanks for your help CanarichYahoo! Mail -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français !

Possible Slapper Worm installed?

2002-11-10 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi, On my nightly chkrootkit run over the weekend I noticed this on one of my servers: Checking `slapper'... Warning: Possible Slapper Worm installed Yet subsequent checks turned up nothing. It is a Red Hat 7.1 server running apache-1.3.22-5.7.1, mod_ssl-2.8.5-5 and openssl-0.9.6-13 which are th

Re: REPOST: NFS lock problems

2002-11-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Nov 9 13:38:21 avalon kernel: lockd: cannot monitor MAILSTOP_IP > Nov 9 13:38:21 avalon kernel: lockd: failed to monitor MAILSTOP_IP Make sure statd, lockd, and portmap are running on both the client and the server. -- "Whenever I feel blue, I

/etc/rc.d/init.d/ problem

2002-11-10 Thread cj
G'day all Im using RedHat 7.1 I am trying to get named to start with the named script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/named this is how the script starts named start() { # Start daemons. echo -n $"Starting $prog: " # if [ -n "${ROOTDIR}" -a "x${ROOTDIR}" != "x/" ]; then # OPTIONS="

Re: Promise IDE card

2002-11-10 Thread Dale Kosan
I assume you have linux installed, then shutdown and put the ide card in? If so, the reason you are a getting the kernel panic is because the partition table has changed. When you install an ide card, hda hdb ect changes to hde hdg ect.You need to edit grub or lilo to point to the right dev

RE: Promise IDE card

2002-11-10 Thread Christopher Hoffman
Sarah, Here you might try this, this is the latest bios flash for you promise card. This solved several problems with the Linux side for a buddy of mine. Thanks, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redhat.com] On Behalf Of SarahTF Sent: Sunday, Nov

RE: Boot in Shell

2002-11-10 Thread Chad Skinner
Ok, So it's midday here and I am exhausted .. time to read and forget about trying to answer messages. The original poster was correct in that you want run level 3 ... I misread your original question. Sorry! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redha

RE: Boot in Shell

2002-11-10 Thread Chad Skinner
Actually, I believe the line should say: id:5:initdefault: ^ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redhat.com]On Behalf Of John V. Turek > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 11:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Boot in Shell > > > Llaamma

Re: Newbie Question: Samba HELP!!!

2002-11-10 Thread linux power
Hi. I wouldnt use swat. It needs a few steps to set it up correctly and samba works fine whitout it, The error on 127.0.0.1 is due to the port 139 isnt open in the firewall. You must open 137 dcp 138 dcp and 139 tcp.On your lan card and not to the outside world. Remember to create the equals us

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5800 - 15 msgs Message: 12 NAT and Speedtouch

2002-11-10 Thread Kyle Raglin
Forget about configuring it that way. Download Firestarter from http://firestarter.sourceforge.net Firestarter is configured within an Xwindows session, so if so consider that first. It has a much easier graphical user interface, and the script it creates will start iptables for you. It aslo gi

Re: numeric users

2002-11-10 Thread Alan Peery
Alan Peery wrote: Cameron Simpson wrote: In a former life we used to just present the student ids with an "s", thus: s1234567 See if you can do this. It may save you a lot of pain later. If you're already up and running the numeric user ids, you can smoothly transition to the new form

Re: Promise IDE card

2002-11-10 Thread SarahTF
Chris, I am running 7.3. Planning on upgrading to 8.0, but the downloads are not going well. Sarah -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

REPOST: NFS lock problems

2002-11-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I'm using one server as a 'mailstop' right now (all incoming email gets delivered to this one machine), and the real users server does an NFS mount of the /var/spool/mail directory from the mailstop. The setup looks like this: mailstop is the mail server -> exports /var/spool/mail

Redhat 8.0 Freeze

2002-11-10 Thread Clifford Lewis
I had a older computer lieing around doing nothing so i put 196 megs of RAM 2MB Trident and A 4.0 GiG harddrive in it and install RED HAT install went fine but when i got to the log in screen or as soon as i log in it locks up everytime. I'm new to linux so i need some help.

RE: Promise IDE card

2002-11-10 Thread Christopher Hoffman
What version of linux are you running? I am running RH 8.0 and its works just fine for me? Thanks, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redhat.com] On Behalf Of SarahTF Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Promise ID

Re: Installation freeze! Now with my BIOS settings

2002-11-10 Thread Joe Giles
Have you tried to do a text only install... When the CD boots, and you have a list of option then a boot: prompt, I believe you enter text and press enter. Hope this helps Joe On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 12:18, Alex wrote: > Hi L Vachon, > > if anaconda starts > probing for video card ---> det

Promise IDE card

2002-11-10 Thread SarahTF
I installed a Promise Ultra ATA/133 controller. Works a treat in Windows. When I booted into Linux, I got a kernel panic. Promise's website inidicates support for Linux, but there is nothing there. I bought it because it inidicated support for Linux on the box. I guess they lied. Anybody know how

Re: Installation freeze! Now with my BIOS settings

2002-11-10 Thread Alex
Hi L Vachon,   if anaconda starts probing for video card ---> detects my tnt2 probing for monitor  > unable to probe < IS THAT THE CAUSE WHY MY INSTALL FREZZES   If ja what can i do against it?? - Original Message - From: L

RE: Installation freeze! Now with my BIOS settings

2002-11-10 Thread L Vachon
Alex, Did you specifically test the monitor during setup?  Even if the OS probes the video card correctly, the monitor must be set correctly.  I've seen setups freeze and the monitor has been the culprit. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beh

Re: Boot in Shell

2002-11-10 Thread John V. Turek
Llaammaa boy... edit your /etc/inittab , change it to what you see below: # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuse

Installation freeze! Now with my BIOS settings

2002-11-10 Thread Alex
Hi List,   I post my prob once again BUT now with my BIOS settings (look at the end). I exactly wrote it down like it is at the moment. Perhaps that helps!     I am trying to install RedHat Linux 8.0 with the configurations you see underneath on my machine but the Installation freeze. -

Re: RedHat 8 Inst. freeze

2002-11-10 Thread Alex
no, this was is not! - Original Message - From: "João Pedro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 3:38 PM Subject: Re: RedHat 8 Inst. freeze > Alex, it looks like the problem is that you have placed Lilo in > /dev/hda3 wich is the / partition ins

Boot in Shell

2002-11-10 Thread Lama Boy
How can I tell 8.0 to boot in shell so I can start X manually? Thanks in Advace. LlaamaboyDo you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive medley & videos from Greatest Hits CD

Ximian Evolution

2002-11-10 Thread Jim Webb
I like this groupware package, but I am constatnly having to enter my pop3 password. And this happens even though I have requested that evolution remember the password. I told it to remember the password when I set up the package and whenever I re-enter the password. I'm running RH 8. TIA,

Re: root ssh restricted by ip

2002-11-10 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 23:49, Werner Puschitz wrote: > > Here is what you could do. Set PermitRootLogin to yes and use the > pam_access.so module to restrict direct root access to the server. > Add the following pam_access line to /etc/pamd.d/sshd: > accountrequired /lib/security/pam_acc

Menu Dividers

2002-11-10 Thread James L. Reiling
Using gnome on RH 7.3, Does anyone know how, using the GNOME menu editor, to insert "dividers" (i.e., horizontal lines) when you're adding menu items? begin:vcard n:Reiling;James L. tel;cell:561.307.0967 tel;fax:561.575.2648 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:http://reilingconsulting.com>Reiling Consulting

Re: RedHat 8 Inst. freeze

2002-11-10 Thread João Pedro
Alex, it looks like the problem is that you have placed Lilo in /dev/hda3 wich is the / partition instead of /dev/hda1 where it should be - the /boot partition . Why don't you use Grub instead of Lilo ? You'll see that it's much more flexible and neat ! And, by the way, RedHat configurator re

paging systems from RH

2002-11-10 Thread James L. Reiling
Does anyone know of any paging systems (I mean sending a message to a pager, not viewing files) like Tivoli that run on linux? begin:vcard n:Reiling;James L. tel;cell:561.307.0967 tel;fax:561.575.2648 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:http://reilingconsulting.com>Reiling Consulting Corporation adr:;;152 W

Newbie Question: Samba HELP!!!

2002-11-10 Thread Eliza Dushku
I'm trying to use a simplified version of the online manual that you can view at: http://members.rogers.com/freeballer/Downloads/samba-howto.pdf My Lan Being: Downstairs (Samba/Linux Machine) 192.168.1.101 Laptop 192.168.1.100 Wacko 192.168.1.102 Everything was going good so far until this point

Re: NAT and speedtouch under RH 8.0

2002-11-10 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Geoffroy Hallard wrote: I have configured the ip_forward like this : $> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip-forward Take a look at /etc/sysctl.conf and make the change there, so it will happen automagically every time you boot. [...chop...] Use this sc

RE: Webmin

2002-11-10 Thread Mike Burger
What I do is set my firewall to only allow access to the Webmin port from a select set of IPs. On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Chris Mason wrote: > Further to this thought on security, I would not even do it that way as > root. > I would only allow connections to webmin from 127.0.0.1, and I would use > an

RedHat 8 Inst. freeze

2002-11-10 Thread Alex
Hi List,   I am trying to install RedHat Linux 8.0 with the configurations you see underneath on my machine but the Installation freeze.   My System: AMD Athlon 700MHz CPU FIC SD11 Mainboard 384MB RAM 2 x IDE Primary Master Maxtor 30GB HDD, Primary Slave Creative 52x CD ROM Video Card RIVA

Re: boot option

2002-11-10 Thread João Pedro
My advice is that you install and use Grub instead off Lilo - it's much more flexible , eficient and it allows you to pass those kernel parameters at boot time by pressing "e " ( as in edit ). ORACLE ADMINISTRATOR wrote: Hi, what to do so that at the time of booting i can give boot option

RE: Webmin

2002-11-10 Thread Chris Mason
Further to this thought on security, I would not even do it that way as root. I would only allow connections to webmin from 127.0.0.1, and I would use an ssh session with port 80 forwarded to port 80 on your workstation, therefore encrypting all traffic between the user and the server. I think tha

Re: xmms not playing in RH8 ?

2002-11-10 Thread Tobias
Check Bugzilla, theres a verry easy soulution to the problem. Regards Tobias On Saturday 09 November 2002 22:21, João Pedro wrote: > I just installed RH8 ( twice ) and have used various previous versions > before, without this problem : > > -when an mp3 file ( this is the format I tried but I bel

Re: xmms not playing in RH8 ?

2002-11-10 Thread Tobias
Check Bugzilla, there is a verry simple soulution. Regards Tobias On Saturday 09 November 2002 22:21, João Pedro wrote: > I just installed RH8 ( twice ) and have used various previous versions > before, without this problem : > > -when an mp3 file ( this is the format I tried but I believe anyon

Re: USB keyboard

2002-11-10 Thread Brandon Dorman
We'd love to help. What brand of keyboard, model type, etc. is it? Same for the mouse. Are there certain circumstances when the mouse will work or not? Telling us that will really help us in resolving your problem quickly and happily. :-) I think you'll find Red Hat 8 to be a worthy investmen

USB keyboard

2002-11-10 Thread Lstevens85
I recently got Redhat 8.0, and I some what disappointed. My USB keyboard doesn’t work at all. I also have a USB mouse but that works sometimes. How do I fix this please tell me step by step. Thanks