is someone trying to enter into my server?

2002-12-22 Thread nlimbu
Hello frens, Since few days back, I am getting some messages poped up in my screen saying, " IP_MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx!" where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx comes with different public IP. What might be the problem? Is somebody trying to enter into my server or is there any

RE: Question about sendmail client

2002-12-22 Thread aljuhani
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >I wonder if there is possibility that sendmail can push the emails to client >in time automatically? Sendmail stores email to /var/spool/mail/user-id. What kind of notification you need for your clients. >If not, if there is a linux-based em

Question about sendmail client

2002-12-22 Thread Roger
Hi, There I am running RH8 as my smtp server. But now, I feel it's not as convenient as the MS Exchange I used. Before, when we use Exchange,it will inform users immediately after emails arrive. But Sendmail can not. We have to wait for emails' arriving every sevral minutes that is set within ema

gimp printer settings not saved

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Davison
I'm running RH 8.0 with very few modifications and have a couple questions about gimp. Perhaps someone here can help. First, the print settings do not get saved when the appropriate button is clicked. Second, I have to select the desired printer every time an image is printed. It's really a pai

Re: Newbie Question(s)

2002-12-22 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 21-Dec-2002/12:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:04:26AM -0800, Andre Stevens wrote: >> >> I successfully installed RedHat, but I'm not sure how to connect to the >> internet. I'm trying to use dialup, but my ISP (AOL) says that it >> doesn't support Linux. Does any

upload files to http folder using ftp.

2002-12-22 Thread Bo Peng
Hello, I would like to upload file to my http server through ftp. I installed vsftpd server and have anonymous account working correctly. However, httpd uses /var/www/html and ftpd uses /var/ftp/pub. How can I let /var/ftp/pub/upload be mapped to /var/www/html/upload? I used ln -s but this doe

Re: Redhat 8 terminfo problems?

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 December 2002 09:43 pm, Ben Logan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:31:13PM -0500, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > Try starting your application as: > > LANG=C your_app > > > > For example, man pages display improperly. I've created an ali

Re: service iptables does not support chkconfig

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Burger
Does your script contain the full path to the iptables executable file? On my system, it's in /sbin. On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Silkk wrote: > Here is an error message i get in my boot.log messages > firewall: /etc/rc3.d/s80 firewall: iptables: command not found > > > > --- Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROT

Re: service iptables does not support chkconfig

2002-12-22 Thread Silkk
Here is an error message i get in my boot.log messages firewall: /etc/rc3.d/s80 firewall: iptables: command not found --- Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "chkconfig iptables" won't work if you don't have a script called > "iptables" in your /etc/init.d directory. > > Try "chkconfig fi

Re: service iptables does not support chkconfig

2002-12-22 Thread Silkk
I added this to my firewall script # chkconfig: 2345 80 30 # description: iptables and: chkconfig level 2345 firewall on worked but my iptables still didnt load with it? And i still get that error on startup after iptables loads but cant see it in my logs!! --- Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

boot disk

2002-12-22 Thread Donald Ade
I installed Redhat w/o a boot loader. I made the boot disk and I updated my box but the new kernel doesnt boot by defualt. How do I make a boot disk a with the latest kernel as defualt or is it possible to make a boot disk with boot options. i.e.: boot:> press 1 for kernel xx2 press 2 fo

Re: service iptables does not support chkconfig

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Burger
"chkconfig iptables" won't work if you don't have a script called "iptables" in your /etc/init.d directory. Try "chkconfig firewall on" and see what happens. On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Silkk wrote: > Hello, > > I installed iptables 1.2.7a with kernel 2.4.20. I tryed to get them to start when i >boo

service iptables does not support chkconfig

2002-12-22 Thread Silkk
Hello, I installed iptables 1.2.7a with kernel 2.4.20. I tryed to get them to start when i boot my pc but they are not starting. I created a firewall script named "firewall" in: "/etc/init.d" ---I ran: chown root.root /etc/init.d/firewall chmod u=rwx /etc/init.d/firewall chmod 775 /etc/init.d/fi

Re: not a valid block device

2002-12-22 Thread Dale Satterfield
I am having the same problem. Only my Cd is a firewire device. I manually loaded the ide-scsi module and it doesn't help. I did find /dev/sbpcd, which is a link to sbpcd0. All of the sbpcdX give me the same error message you are getting. If anyone helps you with your issue, I hope that it wil

Re: iptables and performance issues

2002-12-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 21:12, James Pifer wrote: > Anyone else have anything to add to this or can anyone give more detail > on how this is a DNS issue? I have a very similar problem as the > original poster. > If this is the thread I respondeed to, I thought his issue was that the -L was taking a

RE: Postfix SPAM Issue Clarification

2002-12-22 Thread aljuhani
Hi. You can post the header of one of the spam messages here. Also, you can test your mail server relay (if open to outside world) by simply trying yourself from any ISP to relay messages through your box, OR you can test online. Go to http://www.abuse.net/relay.html and in the form just ente

Tandberg DLT8000 Autoloader with RH Linux 8.0

2002-12-22 Thread Michael
Hi all,   Does anyone know if the Tandberg DLT8000 autoloader works well with RH Linux 8.0? I have done backup on a HP DLT40e before. And I simply write to ‘/dev/st0’ for tape backups. How do we write to a device like the autoloader mentioned above? Does it come as an array (/dev/stX)

Re: boot to new kernel from floppy

2002-12-22 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steve wrote: | I updated the kernel (2.4.18-19.8.0) using the redhat update tool. How do I | make a boot floppy to boot the new kernel? mkbootdisk is the command. You might also need the kernel-BOOT package in order to have a kernel which is small en

Re: iptables and performance issues

2002-12-22 Thread James Pifer
Anyone else have anything to add to this or can anyone give more detail on how this is a DNS issue? I have a very similar problem as the original poster. I have two Redhat 8.0 machines, one has this same problem while the other one does not. Both have the same DNS settings, ie they hit the same DN

Re: Postfix SPAM Issue Clarification

2002-12-22 Thread Gary
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:54:31PM -0800 or thereabouts, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > > What's the problem? > > The problem is that someone has hijacked mt Postfix server to send SPAM. No, the problem is you do not know how to use postfix, and have allowed this. By *default*, postfix will not allow

Re: Postfix SPAM Issue Clarification

2002-12-22 Thread Nicholas Marsh
> What's the problem? The problem is that someone has hijacked mt Postfix server to send SPAM. nick marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: not a valid block device

2002-12-22 Thread David Kramer
On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:27 pm, Glenn Bursell wrote: > Ummm so can anyone tell me how to correct this? > when trying to mount the cd-rom drive RH7.2 tells me > it is 'not a valid block device' Not unless you give us a lot more information. What command are you typing in to get this error? I

boot to new kernel from floppy

2002-12-22 Thread steve
I updated the kernel (2.4.18-19.8.0) using the redhat update tool. How do I make a boot floppy to boot the new kernel? Regards __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- redhat-list maili

Re: Postfix SPAM Issue Clarification

2002-12-22 Thread mklinke
If your linux box is relaying only internally and cannot be accessed from the Internet, is it possible that one or more of your other mail servers *can* be accessed from the Internet and is trying to bounce spam email back to the sender via this linux box? Are there any clues in your maillog??

not a valid block device

2002-12-22 Thread Glenn Bursell
Ummm so can anyone tell me how to correct this? when trying to mount the cd-rom drive RH7.2 tells me it is 'not a valid block device' --- Glenn Bursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all > > think i may have asked for help on this before. > have forgetten..old age and brain overload... > > how

Re: Postfix SPAM Issue Clarification

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:25:45 -0800 (PST), Nicholas Marsh wrote: > Sorry, I didn't give enough info in the previous message. Here is that > I have... > > A RedHat box the has 2 NICs, 1 on our internal network and 1 on our > public network (from our IS

RE: Modem

2002-12-22 Thread Mathur, Sachin (UMKC-Student)
some external modems are not detected by linux, you cam use wvdial wxdial.conf, if the modem is on the serial port stty0, it will be detected. hope it helps, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Teodor Georgiev Sent: Sunday, December 22, 200

Re: rpmbuild BADLY broken?

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 December 2002 02:04 pm, mike wrote: > I am trying to rebuild perl SRPM and it fails as follows > > /usr/lib/rpm/check-files > > then a get a list of files rpm has created but it says that these are > unpackaged, and the build fails. > > Co

Re: up2date for a different machine

2002-12-22 Thread David
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Hauser Marcel wrote: > i have a small question about up2date. I have redhat box acting as a > firewall. That box has no X and only a few (or more :) ) rpms i'd like > to keep up2date. I DON'T have up2date installed at that box! Well, install it. :) X11 is not a prerequisite

Re: can't turn on DMA for my new dvd drive

2002-12-22 Thread christopher j bottaro
nevermind, figured it out. gotta add 'options ide-cd dma=1' to /etc/modules and reboot. thanks anyways, christopher On Sunday 22 December 2002 04:36 pm, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hello, > > [root@semaphore MPlayer-0.90rc1]# hdparm -d 1 /dev/cdrom > /dev/cdrom: > setting using_dma to 1 (on

Re: rpmbuild BADLY broken?

2002-12-22 Thread David
On 22 Dec 2002, mike wrote: > I am trying to rebuild perl SRPM and it fails as follows > > /usr/lib/rpm/check-files > > then a get a list of files rpm has created but it says that these are > unpackaged, and the build fails. echo "%_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0" >> ~/.rpmmacros > Could an

can't turn on DMA for my new dvd drive

2002-12-22 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello, [root@semaphore MPlayer-0.90rc1]# hdparm -d 1 /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) because i can't turn on dma, my dvd playback is really choppy. how do i get this command to work? also, once its worki

Re: Modem

2002-12-22 Thread David Colburn
I am currently using a US Robotics internal pci modem with no problems, RH8 picked it up. I also have a backup $14. pci modem from SAMS, brand CPU Builder, and it lists Linux compatibility. I did not need to load any special driver for the US Robotics. I tried two others before these and neith

Re: Postfix SPAM Issue Clarification

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Watson
Nicholas Marsh wrote: Sorry, I didn't give enough info in the previous message. Here is that I have... A RedHat box the has 2 NICs, 1 on our internal network and 1 on our public network (from our ISP). The RedHat Box acts as a mail relay for 2 internal servers. It uses IP Tables for filtering. Al

RE: up2date query

2002-12-22 Thread Jensen, John T
That was going to be my next trick, but I was afraid to :-) --force says "install it anyway." I thought somebody would know the 'right' solution... I'll try --force. jj John Thayer Jensen, System Administrator Commerce Computing, University of Auckland ext 87543 -Original Message- Fr

Postfix SPAM Issue Clarification

2002-12-22 Thread Nicholas Marsh
Sorry, I didn't give enough info in the previous message. Here is that I have... A RedHat box the has 2 NICs, 1 on our internal network and 1 on our public network (from our ISP). The RedHat Box acts as a mail relay for 2 internal servers. It uses IP Tables for filtering. All the internal traffi

Re: up2date query

2002-12-22 Thread mklinke
Did you issue the "--force" switch to override the skip list? Regards, Mike Klinke On Sunday 22 December 2002 20:53, Jensen, John T wrote: > 'Seems to' is the operative word. It doesn't, because the kernel is > in the skip list. > > jj > > John Thayer Jensen, System Administrator > Commerce Com

RE: up2date query

2002-12-22 Thread Jensen, John T
'Seems to' is the operative word. It doesn't, because the kernel is in the skip list. jj John Thayer Jensen, System Administrator Commerce Computing, University of Auckland ext 87543 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 23 December 2002 9

Re: geting ALSA running

2002-12-22 Thread Cliff Wells
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 11:12, Stephen Raiman wrote: > I installed the latest stable release of ALSA on my Redhat 8.0 machine with > the Audiophile 2496 soundcard by Midiman. When I tried to run /dev/mixer it > gave me this message: "bash: /dev/mixer: Permission denied". /dev/mixer is a *device*,

RE: up2date query

2002-12-22 Thread Jensen, John T
Yes, thanks, John, I saw that, but it didn't seem even to download the kernels - it (Bsaid that I had marked them to be skipped in the config file, which, of course, I have (Bdone. (B (Bjj (B (BJohn Thayer Jensen, System Administrator (BCommerce Computing, University of Auckland (Bext 875

Canon Printer Driver

2002-12-22 Thread mklinke
One of the tasks I have been putting off is getting my linux box to print decently on a particular printer. I have a Canon BJC 6000 printer shared via a Win95 box on the network which does a wonderfull job for any Windows boxen on the network. Printing to this printer from a Linux box howeve

Re: up2date query

2002-12-22 Thread mklinke
John, the "man up2date" command shows a "--download" switch with a description that seems to fit your needs. Regards, Mike Klinke On Sunday 22 December 2002 19:20, Jensen, John T wrote: > Probably a very obvious thing, but when I mark kernel for up2date to > be skipped (which is what I want), I

Re: up2date query

2002-12-22 Thread Jon \"GenKIller\"
man up2date ‐d, ‐‐download download packages only, do not install them. This option is provided so that you can override the configuration option "Do not install packages after retrieval." It is mutually exclusive with the ‐‐install option. Just update what you want updated, skipping th

up2date for a different machine

2002-12-22 Thread Hauser Marcel
Hi All i have a small question about up2date. I have redhat box acting as a firewall. That box has no X and only a few (or more :) ) rpms i'd like to keep up2date. I DON'T have up2date installed at that box! How can i retrieve a list (or the rpms itself) for that box on a different machine ? D

up2date query

2002-12-22 Thread Jensen, John T
Probably a very obvious thing, but when I mark kernel for up2date to be skipped (which is what I want), I would still like the kernels to be downloaded, so I can install them rather than upgrade them. I can ftp, of course, but is there a way to make up2date upgrade some packages, just download oth

geting ALSA running

2002-12-22 Thread Stephen Raiman
I installed the latest stable release of ALSA on my Redhat 8.0 machine with the Audiophile 2496 soundcard by Midiman. When I tried to run /dev/mixer it gave me this message: "bash: /dev/mixer: Permission denied". The three ALSA packages are installed, but I still have no sound, and do not know

rpmbuild BADLY broken?

2002-12-22 Thread mike
I am trying to rebuild perl SRPM and it fails as follows /usr/lib/rpm/check-files then a get a list of files rpm has created but it says that these are unpackaged, and the build fails. Could anyone explain what is going on here I am using rpm-4.1 (the same happened when I tried to rpmbuild cup

Re: can't login from

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Burger
IPtables firewall in the way? On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - OS - Red Hat 8.0; > - wu-ftpd enable =yes; > - hosts.deny and hosts.allow is blank > - ftp accepts connection locally > - But from remote computers ftp doesn't accept connection, why? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubba

Re: Modem

2002-12-22 Thread Teodor Georgiev
Internal or external one? What is the brand exactly (btw, you can do the check on the Linux hardware compatibility list). - Original Message - From: "Gibbs, Martin D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 6:47 PM Subject: Modem > Would anyone have t

Re: IMAP/POP3 Servers that are available

2002-12-22 Thread Teodor Georgiev
I would go with the Courier-MTA package. It is all-in-one and has almost all the features mentioned below. - Original Message - From: "Tim Kehres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: IMAP/POP3 Serve

RE: Help! Someone is using my postfix!

2002-12-22 Thread aljuhani
Hello, You may have an open relay mail server (smtp). Port 25 is always open to receive messages to local users. If the spammer is using your SMTP as a gateway to send messages to outside domains (outside your box) then you have an open relay SMTP. You need to use pop before smtp i.e. local

Re: software

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew Pasquale
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:13:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dave Eells wrote: > Are there websites where I can go to download freeware for RH 8.0? > Ex:gnucash is the financial software that comes with 8.0 but it is not > an acceptable software to me. Is there freeware financial software that > would

Re: Help! Someone is using my postfix!

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:07:41 -0800 (PST), Nicholas Marsh wrote: > Help! Someone is using my postfix server to send sex SPAM! The worst > part is the fact that I have ALL PORTS closed! How did they get past > that? What can I do to stop it firewall wis

Re: software

2002-12-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 22 Dec 2002, Dave Eells wrote: > Are there websites where I can go to download freeware for RH 8.0? > Ex:gnucash is the financial software that comes with 8.0 but it is not > an acceptable software to me. Is there freeware financial software that > would equal quicken? Thanks www.rpmfind.net

Re: Help! Someone is using my postfix!

2002-12-22 Thread Jon \"GenKIller\"
Tell us why you believe that someone is relaying through your server. Then we'd have more of a handle on the situation to help you. -Jon On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:07, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > Help! Someone is using my postfix server to send sex SPAM! The worst part is the >fact that I have ALL PO

Re: Help! Someone is using my postfix!

2002-12-22 Thread Nathan G. Grennan
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 09:07, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > Help! Someone is using my postfix server to send sex SPAM! The worst part is the >fact that I have ALL PORTS closed! How did they get past that? What can I do to stop >it firewall wise and postfix config wise? > > Please help me stop SPAM. Tha

Re: Help! Someone is using my postfix!

2002-12-22 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:07, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > Help! Someone is using my postfix server to send sex SPAM! The worst part is the >fact that I have ALL PORTS closed! How did they get past that? What can I do to stop >it firewall wise and postfix config wise? > > Please help me stop SPAM. Tha

software

2002-12-22 Thread Dave Eells
Are there websites where I can go to download freeware for RH 8.0? Ex:gnucash is the financial software that comes with 8.0 but it is not an acceptable software to me. Is there freeware financial software that would equal quicken? Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: can't login from

2002-12-22 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - OS - Red Hat 8.0; > - wu-ftpd enable =yes; > - hosts.deny and hosts.allow is blank > - ftp accepts connection locally > - But from remote computers ftp doesn't accept connection, why? does iptables -L show ftp is blocked? can you telnet from a remo

Re: can't login from

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew Pasquale
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:17:09PM +0530 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - OS - Red Hat 8.0; > - wu-ftpd enable =yes; > - hosts.deny and hosts.allow is blank > - ftp accepts connection locally > - But from remote computers ftp doesn't accept connection, why? > You need to open ports 2

Help! Someone is using my postfix!

2002-12-22 Thread Nicholas Marsh
Help! Someone is using my postfix server to send sex SPAM! The worst part is the fact that I have ALL PORTS closed! How did they get past that? What can I do to stop it firewall wise and postfix config wise? Please help me stop SPAM. Thank you. nick marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list

Re: /etc/profile.d to /etc/rc.d/init.d

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew Pasquale
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:02:14PM +0900 or thereabouts, shawn wrote: > I have the following in /etc/profile.d which works fine but I would like > to move it to /etc/rc.d/init.d and then link it to the correct run > level. > > Any tips? Pointers? > I'm not sure why your script isn't working. O

can't login from

2002-12-22 Thread nlimbu
- OS - Red Hat 8.0; - wu-ftpd enable =yes; - hosts.deny and hosts.allow is blank - ftp accepts connection locally - But from remote computers ftp doesn't accept connection, why? With Regards Nabin Limbu -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe http

Re: Upgraded now I get DMA errors

2002-12-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:49:46PM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: > Hi all, > > I just upgraded my system to a P4-2GHz which also involved a new > motherboard and video card but I kept the same harddisks. > > Dec 22 15:53:49 ws19 kernel: hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } T

Upgraded now I get DMA errors

2002-12-22 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi all, I just upgraded my system to a P4-2GHz which also involved a new motherboard and video card but I kept the same harddisks. The 2nd harddisk in the system I used to use under Windows but since I repartitioned using that for Linux now. Installed Red Hat 7.3 and noticed I am getting these e

Re: cdrecord

2002-12-22 Thread David P. Giffen
I did go into my grub.conf and see if  the =ide-scsi was there it was. So I ran the cdrecord -scanbus. It gave me the info I deeded and was able to burn my images to CD-R. Mike Burger wrote: The easy way around it (I say this because it's how I got around it), is to load the ide-scsi module