On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, matt boex wrote:
> i am trying to alter my firewall to not allow ip
> spoofing. i have read the man pages on ipchains and
> there is a small script to run on boot before any
> network devices are initialized. which file would i
> insert into, i don't figure that would be rc
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Gate wrote:
> Has anyone here ever used Netgear NICs under RH 6.1? They have some good
> prices, and I need to get rid of my generic cards..
yup. never had a problem. iirc, they use the tulip driver. i could be
wrong on that, but it seems right... haven't used one in a whil
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Arni Raghu wrote:
> I have a bunch of machines mostly linux and 1/2 BSD boxes...Now to disable
> user accounts I simple append a "*" to the passwd field in the shadow
> file..It works just fine..
>
> Now I try the same on my BSD box..no luck it just logs the user in..of
> co
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Edward Schernau wrote:
> Any way to get the MS-style wheel mouse to work nicely in X, at least
> to use the wheel as a middle button?
the imwheel package will fill in the support for the wheel in programs
that aren't 'wheel aware'
it can be found in rpm format at rpmfind.ne
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jason Hirsch wrote:
> INvest in an UPS.
>
> They run from 79$ on up, APC makes some very nice ones. The 650 version I
> believe can interface with a serial port to send a shutdown signal.
I just bought a Belkin 425VA ups... it has the serial interface, and is
supported un
I'm trying to set up an Unreal Tournament server on a Linux system, with
no success so far. I've copied [EMAIL PROTECTED], incase someone
there can help me out with this...
I've got the UT with the 402A patch applied, and through installation all
has gone well. When I run:
./ucc server DM-Turb
we have a mac, running os 9 on the network. it accesses the linux box over
netatalk (netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6)
it sets some wierd bit that i've never seen:
drwx--Srwx 6 gaelen 522 1024 Dec 15 14:13 Network Trash Folder
^
what is that? even as root i can't see the contents of the d
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Andy Thomas wrote:
> say, "tech support?"
>
> To me one of the issues is that the keyboard is far superior to the mouse,
> and MSFT lied has lied about that ever since win 3.0 with their, "studies
> show that the mouse increases productivity" bs. The truth is that the
> mous
AKAIK, that chip is not supported by the kernel (if it is, please someone
tell, me, since i have 3 intel motherboards with that very chipset!)
the OSS commercial driver does support it... it's around 45 dollars, IIRC,
to be able to access all the functions of the card
Brian
On Tue, 21 Dec
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Steve Borho wrote:
> nget or aub
haven't tried aub yet, but nget is working great... thanks!
brian
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recommendations for a linux (console prefered) app for getting multi part
news group postings, other than manually combining and uudecoding the
files?
brian
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did you look at MailMan?
http://www.endymion.com/ (or something very similar to that)
it's a perl based pop3 frontend. the code is miserable to try to tweak,
but it can be done...
brian
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jeff Graves wrote:
> Okay, i'm feeling brave today so here goes. This problem
> sp
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Steven Hildreth wrote:
> Excellent utility and it is available in RPM format (yea I am lazy).
I use that at home to watch who's doing what to my machine :) it's also
nice because on occassion i'll start a big download from work, then go
home and watch iptraf to see when it'
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, all
> I seem to have a problem with using pine on redhat 5.1. After I read all
> the incoming mails, aren't they supposed to be saved in the mail.txt in
> the home directory? But now the mail.txt is never created and all the
> mails remain in a f
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Alan Mead wrote:
> As I see it, the main rationale for making a partition is (1) because you
> must (not usually an issue with Linux), (2) to follow a standard, (3) to
> localize something like growing log files, mail spools, etc. so that they
> don't take up the whole disk,
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Hillel Bilman wrote:
>printcap name = /etc/printcap
>printcap name = lpstat
should one of them (lpstat) be commented out? i thought that it was one or
the other?
i don't have the docs handy, but i thought that lpstat was the way to go
on solaris, and /etc/printcap
Forgot about swap... oops :)
I usually use either 2xRAM, or 128, depending on the system (my home
machine has 128 physical, and i don't feel that i need 256 swap)
Brian
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, J. Scott Kasten wrote:
> In addition, I'd split out /tmp, and of course don't forget your swap whi
Did you recompile the kernel from the default? If so, is nfs server
support there?
Brian
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Nathan Smith wrote:
> > Nathan
> >
> > try /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start
> >
> > charles
> >
> I've tried this, it starts the quotad and the mountd, but the last line
> is
>
> St
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jason Grovert wrote:
> What is the best way to partition a drive as far as sizing goes. Let's say
> I have a 8 gig hard drive. How would everyone do it and for what reasons?
Depends on what you are doing with it. I usually do
10 for /boot
100-150 for /
100-200 for /var
2
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Nathan Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to get NFS set up on my server here. I've found no useful
> documentation on knfsd (only thing I can find is a performance
> comparison between knfsd and nfsd - no help in getting anything setup).
> The NFS howto describes how to setup NFS us
a cable modem is usually transparent to the os...
i run linux with a usr cable modem with no problem. unless your cable
provider uses odd connection software, or if it's a 1 way modem, it should
work fine in linux.
i've used rcn and mediaone. both use DHCP.
i plug the ethernet from modem to
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Dean Irvin wrote:
> authstream tcp wait root /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -e -o
> trial and error showed I couldn't use the -v -l parameters so my line ends
> up like this
well, from the man page, -l logs to syslog, and -v is for verbose output.
so it doesn't seem
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> Could we auto-prepend [rh-list] (or somethign similar) to posts sent
> through the listserv?
> Would make sorting inboxes a little easier and I'm sure I'm not the only
> one who would like this.
why not just filter based on to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> This fine morning, Mr. Fedex Man showed up with an envelope from Lokisoft.
i haven't been following too closely since *dons protective gear* i do my
gaming on a windows98 box...
will a linux binary be available for d/l like in the past? and will
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Todd Dunbebin wrote:
> /etc/cron.hourly with:
> */15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
nope.
if you look at /etc/crontab, there are entries for
run-parts /etc/cron.daily
run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
etc...
run-parts is a program that goes through the folder (say
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Tim Fairchild wrote:
>
> Okay I've done this before and had it all working on 5.2, but I've
> forgotten how to get the cd player working with scsi-emu...
>
> I've compiled the kernal and I have xcdroast going okay, the cdrom drive
> is fine, etc, but just no cd audio play...
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> If you need rpms for 2.3, do you really think you should be using that
> kernel?
maybe it's not so much need, but want... i'm perfectly comforatble
comiling apps myself, but in most cases try for RPMs first.
things like netatalk i could really do with
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Eric Sisler wrote:
> If it's an HP DAT24 12Gb is native, 24Gb compressed, although I don't know
> *anyone* who'se ever gotten 2:1 compression. I average about 50 - 65%.
That's the one. When it was hooked up to a Win98 machine, the most it ever
got on one tape was 14.5 gig.
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Yoink! wrote:
> You might get 2 to 3 percent compression of a mpg if it is a very efficient
> algorithm. Forget anothing over that. Don't bother to compress compressed
> data again.
yeah... just for fun, i tried gzip -9, and dropped from 3,5600K to
3,5500K.
> > Esse
Hardware compression... How can I tell if it's enabled / disabled /
working correctly.
I got a tape drive from a friend. It is listed as being a 12/24 gig DAT. I
am currently only getting 12 gig of data on it. Currently I'm backing up
with a simple tar script...
I know very little about tape dr
I ran RHL 6.1 briefly at work. My setup was RHL on a Compaq Deskpro
Pentium II system. On the desk next to it was a Sun Sparc 5, running
Solaris 2.6.
If I tried to mount an NFS share located on the Linux box from the Sparc,
the RedHat box hung, every time.
The same problem did not exist in 6.0
I just got a Belkin RegulatorPro 425VA UPS. It has a serial port, and
includes dos/windows/netware monitoring software.
Anyone know if any of the linux UPs monitoring software will work with
this unit? I'm going to hook it up this evening and see if the genericups
module of NUT ( http://exploits.
anyone know intimate details of the 3com cable modems? mine has a serial
port, and i'm bet with the right pinouts i could probably get something
interesting to come up on one of the terminals sitting next to it :)
i'm just curious what lives in it's little cable modem brain...
brian
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Two nic's is an ideal setup, but one nic with an alias is the cheaper
> version. Masquerading will work either way. Do whatever suits you.
not necessarily. some modems don't like seeing multiple MAC addresses,
which if it's plugged into the hub, it
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Clement wrote:
> I know ssh-1.2.27 is out but forget which site has it. Can you tell me?
this is the version you want for rhl 6.1. one location for it is
ftp.cs.hut.fi
> The IP alias does not work. Apparently it is this script that is not
> working.
> /etc/sysc
Just thought i'd share my recent experiences with odd hardware problems,
and other assorted messes with setting up a new file server, which is
working now, though i'm not sure if i did this the best way i could have.
the machine:
Celeron 333, Intel SE440-BX2 motherboard, latest bios (p.15 at thi
um...
anyone have a good amanda backup howto?
i really need to set up a backup system at home, but i never have the time
to dedicate to getting it done. amanda looks perfect for what i want to
do, but i really don't want to have to learn everything about it right
now...
if any kind soul real
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ed Lazor wrote:
> Here are some options that I have (I'm not limited to these options):
>
> Yamaha SCSI CDRW Drive
> Yamaha CRW 6416S SCSI CD-RW Drive w/software 6X 4X 16X OEM $210.00
i have one of these, and it's worked great in every os i've used it in.
i've been told th
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Jesus Peco wrote:
> I have a Pentium II celeron and RedHat6.0 with
> 128M RAM. I have just recompiled the kernel 2.2.5-15
> for a pentium II processor.
...
>
> Is there a way to make linux see I have 128M?
> Do I have a hardware problem?
> Is it a software configuration
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Jerry Winegarden wrote:
> ssh from www.replay.com, but note that there are now two different
> versions of ssh:ssh and ssh2 and they do NOT work together!
> With ssh1 client, you can only access a machine with ssh1 server, likewise
> with ssh2 client and ssh2 server. Whi
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Ken Arck wrote:
> At 12:36 PM 11/4/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >Use rinetd, from http://www.boutell.com/rinetd
>
> This seems to only do redirects of ports, yes?
>
> I have a feeling that what I want to do isn't going to be possible, as I'd
> like to run services on both the
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