Re: dante

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Watt
At 07:31 PM 19/03/2003, you wrote: Anyone out there ever put a socks proxy server together? I am just trying to do it with Dante. Looking for some insight. Doug I've done it with Dante 1.11. Had to make some modifications to the source to get it to compile properly though (mind you I was compiling

Re: OT: Dynamic DNS Questions/Suggestions

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Watt
At 07:09 PM 19/03/2003, you wrote: I know this may be off-topic for ths list, but I would rather ask here than anywhere. I'm thinking of setting up or at least trying to setup dynamic dns for my home network. I was hoping someone on the list is knowledgewable about it and can give some advice for

Re: automated backup hardware and software

2003-03-19 Thread Chris Watt
At 08:55 PM 17/03/2003, you wrote: So, I'm running RedHat 7.3 on a Dell computer and I'd like to be able to back up student (user) home directories. I'm more than a little confused after looking at the HCL. Anyone have experience with doing this and if so, would you like to recommend a hardware c

Re: Can i possibly do this? If not, what r my alternatives

2003-03-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 01:22 PM 01/03/2003, you wrote: I recently installed Redhat on an old P2 laptop. It works like a champ and i am extremely pleased. However the laptop only comes with 2.5 GB of hard drive space. Using the system over the last couple of weeks has the drive at 60% of its capacity. Thats making me a

Re: Microsoft to Redhat 8 VPN

2003-03-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 11:55 AM 19/02/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know of the best source of information on setting up a VPN with Redhat 8 that windows road warriors can use? I would like to CIPE since it comes with RH8 but will use other if I can find a good explanation. Not only doe CIPE work quite well, it's als

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall...

2003-03-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 12:59 AM 13/02/2003, you wrote: But now, there are many vendors come with pre-built firewall that I only have to configure it in 15 minutes (that what they say), and it works. What are the different if I using RHL 8 as firewall, rather than using pre-built firewall. They say that the pre-built

Re: Whoa, hard drive upgrade!

2003-03-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 11:12 AM 07/02/2003, you wrote: I know copy or move the data right!? Well the real problem is that I have my root, boot and grub boot on the multi-disk. I am hoping there is a tried and true way to move the current build to the new disk. The new disk is already in the box and mounted at boot.

Re: CD Burning problems

2003-03-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 08:33 AM 07/02/2003, you wrote: I've got a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha CRW 4416) and I have been unable to get it to work with any version of RedHat since the kernel that came with RedHat 7.1. I'm now on RedHat 8.0. It just gives me a "device unavailable" error when I try to actually burn something. Yeste

Re: Has anyone built Dante with RedHat 8.0? Suggest another SOCKS proxy?

2003-03-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 05:52 PM 04/02/2003, you wrote: I'm having trouble building dante-1.1.13 on my RedHat 8.0 configuration. This message may not be of any help to you at all, but I have successfully built dante 1.1.11 on Redhat 7.1. As I recall, I had to make quite a few changes to the dante source code in order

Re: Redhat-Specific Backup Availability?

2003-01-29 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:17 AM 29/01/2003 +, you wrote: Dear Group, I have looked around for some nice backup scripts or console applications for my Redhat 7.3 system. There are some nice scripts around, but most of require a good amount of configuration (I'm looking for the easy way out!). I can't really

USB Serial adaptors. Was: USB storage device access

2003-01-13 Thread Chris Watt
At 17:17 2003/01/11 -0500, you wrote: I have similiar problem. I bought a usb to serial adpter. How do I find it out which device it is? I am trying to get minicom to use this connection. If you're using full-blown devfs and usbdevfs, then USB serial ports should appear as /dev/usb/tts/0, /d

RE: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs .....

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Watt
At 09:34 2002/12/12 -0600, you wrote: This is not a silly question at all because I do not know much about configuring DHCP. The answer to your question is none of them. The only thing that I did was click the DHCP button in linuxconf on the nic that needs to be hooked up to my ISP. I must now

Re: List of non-free software packages in Redhat 8.0 GNU/Linux

2002-11-03 Thread Chris Watt
At 23:00 2002/11/02 -0800, you wrote: Many in our research group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Dept of Theoretical and Computational Biology) are really pleased by Redhat 8.0. However, some of us are also socially conscious programmers and would prefer to support the spirit of

Re: Linux Routing

2002-10-13 Thread Chris Watt
At 13:11 2002/10/08 -0400, you wrote: >Can someone please tell me the easiest way to route all traffic through a >RedHat Linux box. I would like to pass all data transparently from eth1 >(inside) to eth0 (outside) and vice versa. Actually the problem you have with documentation is probably a r

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-12 Thread Chris Watt
At 21:23 2002/09/10 -0400, you wrote: >Well, ok then, I guess that would bring up another question. Does Linux >based anti-virus software also scan for rootkits or protect against other >various Linux type exploits? > >If that was the case, then it would seem that there would indeed be some >va

Re: diskless boxes

2002-09-09 Thread Chris Watt
At 13:58 2002/09/09 -0500, you wrote: >out CD's than to repartition or modify them, 2) I know I can eject it and do >a automatic reboot, which should result in windows 3) building a cd and >booting from it is something my feable mind can almost understand. This falls into the "Yes, but..." catego

Re: cron job doesn't seem to be running?

2002-08-29 Thread Chris Watt
At 17:40 2002/08/29 -0700, you wrote: >0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg > >00 2 * * sun /root/scripts/virusScan.sh >00 1 * * sun /root/scripts/backup.sh Cronjobs specified in the main crontab need to have the username they are to execute as inserted as the sixth field (befo

Re: Can Multiple drives appear as one network drive?

2002-07-22 Thread Chris Watt
At 01:28 2002/07/23 +0100, you wrote: >A concept for the future question this one. > >Is it possible to make a number of drives on a server (or number of servers) >appear as one large drive over the network. > >If so could some just give a broad outline of how this is achieved? That's a sufficie

Re: A Check to see if RAID 1 is configured corretly?

2002-07-22 Thread Chris Watt
At 16:15 2002/07/19 -0400, you wrote: >Does anyone know if there is a way to check my RAID config to see if the >RAID 1 setup is set correctly? Yes, just run "cat /proc/mdstat" and it will tell you what all your software RAID (I assume that we're talking about software RAID here, otherwise con

Re: setting up a tape drive

2002-07-16 Thread Chris Watt
At 08:39 2002/07/16 -0700, you wrote: >I was wondering if someone could help me with setting up a tape drive on >an existing RedHat 7.2 system. It is a Seagate SCSI tape drive. I am sorry >to be such a newbie about this, but I am completely clueless on how to >start. Any help would be greatly

Re: Forgot root password!!

2002-07-13 Thread Chris Watt
At 18:31 2002/07/12 -0400, you wrote: >I've never thought about this but what if you are using grub? Use the arrow keys to select the kernel image you want to start, then hit "e" for edit and you jump to a screen typically with two or three lines of info (for root fs, kernel and initrd), selec

Re: Triple Boot?!

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Watt
At 09:07 2002/07/11 -0400, you wrote: >hi, > > Is there a way to triple boot three different RH distributions? or even > dual-boot? ... I need to test something on RH7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and have >limited PC resources... Any help is appreciated... Not terribly difficult even. I'd suggest that yo

Re: /tmp and tmpfs

2002-06-30 Thread Chris Watt
At 20:35 2002/06/29 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Users are not "stupid" ! Let me re-phrase my earlier comment: Many users are stupid. You may have intelligent users (I have some as well) but there are a lot of stupid people in the world, some of them are users on systems I'm responsible for

Re: /tmp and tmpfs

2002-06-29 Thread Chris Watt
At 11:00 2002/06/28 -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: >Hi all, >Does enyone have any experience using tmpfs on /tmp in a Redhat system? >I read there are some issues in some systems when doing this. And I >thought I'd better ask in the list before risking my system to sudden >death. I've been

Re: 2 defoult gateways

2002-06-29 Thread Chris Watt
First of all I'd like to apologize on behalf of the list for the level of ignorance and poor grammar which seems to have gone into earlier replies. _Of_Course_ Linux supports having multiple "default gateways". You just need to get the "ip" tool from the iproute2 package and setup multiple route

Re: NOT FOR THE TIMID: RPM, up2date, & LPD server problems

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Watt
At 22:40 2002/05/28 -0400, Carole Womeldorf wrote: >Hi all - I sent this but it didn't show up on the posting so I'm sending >it again - sorry if you get it twice... > >I have three (at least) major problems that I've been struggling with >for a good while. What does "df -h" tell you? You have

Re: Archived snapshot of 6.1?

2002-05-25 Thread Chris Watt
At 13:18 2002/05/24 -0700, Paul Thomas wrote: >Does anyone know if there is a distro snapshot archived >someplace? Redhat has every (non-beta) version they've released on their ftp site ftp.redhat.com, but it's a little busy most of the time. -- Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, d

Re: ssh client

2002-05-22 Thread Chris Watt
At 12:30 2002/05/22 -0700, daniel wrote: >i just did a fresh install of rh7.3 and i guess i missed something 'cause >while i can ssh INTO my box, typing ssh ip.add.re.ss on that box gives me a >"command not found" error. > >i ran up2date openssh and got nothing > >suggestions? The OpenSSH client

Re: C error?

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Watt
At 10:52 AM 3/4/02 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler >cannot create executables I typically get this error when I have configured GCC as a cross compiler of some sort (for a different set of system libraries or for a different

Re: ugly output from rsync

2002-02-10 Thread Chris Watt
At 04:56 PM 2/9/02 -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: >rsync was recently updated...twice. maybe give the new one a shot. As stated in my previous message I'm using 2.5.2, which I had to package as an RPM myself as nobody else seemed to have gotten around to it (last time I looked Redhat was still using

Re: ugly output from rsync

2002-02-09 Thread Chris Watt
At 03:36 PM 2/9/02 -0800, David Talkington wrote: >Warning: unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr >Warning: unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr >home/dtalk/.mozilla/default/a4iaqe5z.slt/Cache/_CACHE_MAP_ >Warning: unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr >Warning: unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr

Re: Apache, behind a firewall?

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:44 PM 1/18/02 -0500, Mike Burger wrote: >Now, however, the systems behind the firewall can't access the sites on the >server...ie, workstation at 192.168.0.3 can't access any of the sites hosted >on 192.168.0.1, because the DNS entries for those sites point them back >outside the firewall..

Re: DSL + 2 Real IPs

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Watt
At 10:19 AM 1/12/02 -0800, nit etc wrote: >I have DSL thru Verizon, and their DHCP server >provides more than one IP address, so I can have more >than one computer on DSL with real IP addresses. Two ways I can think of off-hand: 1. Just set your firwall up to use proxy ARP instead of ip masquera

Re: X10 controller module

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Watt
At 09:39 PM 1/11/02 -0600, Vidiot wrote: >Anyone figure out the X10 Activehome PC interface module and get it >working under Linux? Unfortunately it uses a serial port instead of a >TCP/IP connection. Speaking of which, are there X10 style controllers >available for TCP/IP controlling? Yes, I'v

Re: system entropy pool

2002-01-26 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:42 PM 1/26/02 -0600, cameron wrote: >Can someone tell me what the system entopy pool is (and maybe how it works) or >direct me to some documentation on it? If you've ever written a program in C (or C++, or a similar language) that used random numbers, then you're probably familiar with the

Re: Where is devfsd or how to set permissions

2001-12-13 Thread Chris Watt
At 05:01 PM 12/14/01 -0600, Carey F. Cox wrote: > >I am running a new installation of rh7.2 and have a couple of questions... > >What happened to devfsd? You don't need it unless you're using devfs (actually technically you don't NEED it even if you are using devfs) and last time I looked Redhat

Re: Broadband Allocation

2001-12-11 Thread Chris Watt
At 12:17 PM 12/11/01 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: >G'day, > >We have a low volume ADSL connection to our three-client home office network, run >through a RH 6.2 server. We have ntop running to monitor network traffic, and the >ISP is warning us (using some rather suspect tools) that in a week w

Re: need help with routing

2001-11-21 Thread Chris Watt
At 12:51 PM 11/21/01 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I don't need the machine to be a firewall or to masquerade, just to >bridge the packets to the wireless gateway. So first you read the ethernet bridging howto, then you come back to the list with any specific questions if you can't get it working

Re: another md5sum question

2001-11-21 Thread Chris Watt
At 10:05 AM 11/21/01 +0100, Mariusz Pekala wrote: >> It lets you detect if file has been changed or corrupted by accident or >> error rather than by someone's malicious action. > >No. >1) Modified file also has its md5 sum. >2) The md5 of the modified file will be different than the md5 of an

Re: Checking integrity of downloaded rpm/s?

2001-04-25 Thread Chris Watt
At 09:44 PM 4/23/01 -0700, John Meshkoff wrote: >and trying either the above '-K --nopgp' or 'rpm --checksig [pkgname]' >gives, for example: > > kernel-2.2.12-20.i386.rpm: md5 GPG NOT OK > >This result is the same for any file, even those on the Red Hat CD >(which the example is from).It wou

Remote audio

2001-04-23 Thread Chris Watt
This may be a longshot, but does anyone know of a pre-fab way to start an Gnome session with sound output to an audio device on a remote system? Specifically I'm running the session on a remote X-server and would like to use /dev/audio on that machine rather than the machine actually runni

Re: xinetd vs. inetd

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:53 PM 4/12/01 -0400, Michael George wrote: >After my upgrade to 7.0, I have both of these daemons running. Is that >correnct? I seems to me that only one should be operating... I suppose it depends on whether they have any services in common, if they don't then it's fine to run them both

Re: mounting a second disk

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Watt
At 09:46 AM 4/2/01 +0300, Spyros Ioakim wrote: >i want to expand the capacity of two directories by adding a second >hard disk. > >i want to add capacity to the following directories >/home/atlas/ftp/ >/samba/public/ > >is it possible to mount the disk under two directories? Yes. >mount /dev/hdb

Re: IP Forwarding by MAC address

2001-03-07 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:38 PM 3/7/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you have a linux box setup using IP Masq, is there any way to >limit which computers IPs are masq'd by their MAC addresses? > >Situation: You are running a lab with a DHCP/BOOTP server setup >giving out IP's based on MAC addresses. How do

Re: run-parts

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Watt
At 03:49 PM 2/20/01 -0600, Moby wrote: >run-parts still do not complete. Does someone know where I can get a fresh >copy of run-parts to re-install on my system? Hmm. . . $ which run-parts /usr/bin/run-parts $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/run-parts crontabs-1.8-1 So if your system is like mine, you should

Re: RH 7 and ASUS A7V

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:02 PM 2/20/01 +0100, Roman Martonak wrote: >Does anybody know whether RH 7 would install out of the box on a machine >with Athlon and ASUS A7V motherboard ? If not, are there some tricks for >installation ? It "installs" out of the box, yes, but by default it fails to recognize th

Re: Linux and UPS

2001-01-13 Thread Chris Watt
At 07:51 AM 1/13/01 -0800, bob jones wrote: >Wondering if anybody has a UPS or SPS that allows orderly shutdown of >RHL 6.2? I'm looking in the $200 and lower range. My standard equipment for a server/firewall box is an APC BackUPS-Pro 280, which sells for under $200, has a good service policy (

Time keeping in 7.0

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Watt
Back in the glory days of RH6.2, the install help for rdate said something to the effect of "if you want really good time sync, install xntpd instead", and I did, and it was good. RH7 and Powertools 7 neither seem to have xntpd. Does anyone know offhand what (if any) package is recommended for ti

Re: Supporting more than 65535 UID's under 6.2

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Watt
At 12:29 PM 1/3/01 -0800, Chuck Carson wrote: > >Is it possible under the 2.2.x kernels to support greater than 2^16 UID's? >If so, is it a patch or entirely new kernel we need to look at? This seems sort of like 3 different questions (one in subject, two others in body) to me, so here goes. I ap

Re: LPD Hack

2000-12-04 Thread Chris Watt
At 12:55 PM 12/1/00 -0800, Carson, Chuck wrote: > >I have recently had some RH7 boxes on my network hacked via a brute force >thru the lpd service. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this? This may be a simplistic answer, but why not filter out packets headed for your ldp service if they come

Re: TAZ file

2000-11-15 Thread Chris Watt
At 05:33 PM 11/15/00 +0100, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >Right solution, wrong cause. ;) >.taz is an abbreviation for .tar.Z - these used to be much more common >before gzip and bzip2 became standards. I may be totally wrong about this, but I was under the impression that the "-z" option in ta

Re: does mount point exist. How to kill it

2000-11-09 Thread Chris Watt
At 10:46 PM 11/8/00 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: > All of a sudden I get the following when I try to select >it in filemanager and at the cmd line I get a message that >the mount point can't be resolved. > >"File 'nt_i' exists but can not be stat-ed: Permission >denied > >Now, all I want to do as r

Re: Harddrive duplicating

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 03:08 PM 11/8/00 -0600, Bret Hughes wrote: >I have just about completed a setup for a RedHat 6.2 workstation with >all updates and a bunch of customizations to it. I will need to >duplicate this on a bunch of new machines with identical harddrives. >What is the fastest way to duplicate these m

Re: Network Problem

2000-10-30 Thread Chris Watt
At 11:23 AM 10/30/00 -0500, Shepard,Brian wrote: > So, the only >thing that I can think of is that Linux cannot deal with the network if you >use an ISP that provides direct Internet access via T1 and configs his >customers with static VIRTUAL IP ADDRESSES. I complained to the ISP & he >said it'

Re: UDMA 66

2000-10-29 Thread Chris Watt
At 05:24 PM 10/29/00 -0700, Dan Harrington wrote: >I need to know if anyone has successfully installed Redhat Linux 7.0 using >an off-board Used yes, installed no. Kernel 2.2.16 does not (normally) support UDMA 66 and 100 controllers. It's generally easy enough to find an older supported control

Re: Promise Ultra66 + root RAID 5 + RedHat 7.0-respin Installation + Mike Brancato's ATA/66/100 floppy

2000-10-26 Thread Chris Watt
At 07:35 PM 10/26/00 -0700, Dan Browning wrote: > - However, it only boots into text mode for some reason (Any >comments, Mike Brancato?). In text mode, is there anyway to configure >a RAID device? I don't see the "Make RAID device" button anywhere. >Maybe someone could spell out the baby

Re: Why am I getting "/dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted - check forced" (RH6.2)

2000-10-26 Thread Chris Watt
At 01:55 PM 10/26/00 -0400, Ward William E PHDN wrote: >On after shutting down, and rebooting, I got the error >message. Now, I'm used to seeing this message on this >machine; I get a kernal panic on it every 2-3 days >due to a hardware problem (it almost happens like >clockwork... normally, th

Re: solaris or linux

2000-10-13 Thread Chris Watt
At 05:10 PM 10/13/00 -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote: >The PC will be working with an Informix (or maybe another) database server. >It will have an apache, with PHP. Those would be the most important things >this machine would do. >The PC will have SCSI disks and a SCSI tape for backups. Config

Re: Help! Redhat7: 2.2.17 no module AIC7XXX found error

2000-10-06 Thread Chris Watt
At 11:27 AM 10/6/00 -0400, shane wrote: >Doing this didn't help - mkinitrd still complained. > >Any suggestions? I don't know what's wrong with mkinitrd, but if you're compiling your own kernel and you're not insanely short of RAM you can (as AFAICT you did) simply compile in all the support for

Re: HELP: can't umount filesystem on shutdown!

2000-10-05 Thread Chris Watt
At 06:55 AM 10/5/00 -0400, Ben Logan wrote: >this is possible. What I don't understand is why that wasn't a >problem before--seems like that would be a problem regardless of >where the /usr/lib directory is mounted. I.e., it has to be >unmounted regardless of where it is. Actually it doesn't s

RE: getting started with web hosting

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Watt
At 03:10 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Balazs Wellisch wrote: >Don't even attempt to do web hosting on a cable modem. You may get T1 one >speeds downstream but you only get 128K upstream. Not nearly enough for web >hosting. I think you're jumping to conclusions, cable modem systems differ from place to place

Re: kickstart via network question

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:53 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Guillermo Navarrete wrote: > . It basically does not like the name of this file and >exits in mid copy. There is one of such file at just about every directory >level. Actually, since it's a translation table from short (ISO-9660) to long filenames I would expect t

Re: Become a time server?

2000-09-21 Thread Chris Watt
At 03:49 PM 9/21/00 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: > >Why rdate, instead if ntp, or timed ? (just trying to understand why one >verses the other...) rdate has the advantage of being very very easy to use, but it will not really give you the correct time. A program like ntpdate (or other one-shot nt

Re: XDCMP for Linux?

2000-09-18 Thread Chris Watt
At 12:48 PM 9/18/00 -0600, Frank Carreiro wrote: >Has anyone been successful in making this work? I've had no trouble running X apps on remote X servers, the only trouble with setting it up in Windows is that you need a non-broken X-server program for Windows, but several exist. Make sure you h

Re: UPS

2000-09-14 Thread Chris Watt
At 14:14 14/09/00 +0800, Jeremy Russell wrote: >Well, I tried this, and have no idea what it means It means that it was compiled without debugging information (and as such the gdb's output is pretty well useless ). If you have the source code it might be a good idea to tweak the Makefile (tur

Re: Creating "unprivledged" users, just as "nobody"

2000-09-14 Thread Chris Watt
At 15:01 14/09/00 -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: >Howdy, > >I want to set up a new user - listar - for a the mail serv program to run as. > >I DO NOT want it to have a login shell and definitely not a /home/~. > >What's the proper way to do this? AFAIK The easiest way is just to add it to your pas

Re: NFS problems - no export entry

2000-09-11 Thread Chris Watt
At 11:41 11/09/00 -0700, Mike Lewis wrote: >I'm trying to setup NFS on RH 6.2 with all of the latest patches. > > >My /etc/exports is as follows: > /u1/REDHAT/RedHat-6.2/ 192.168.1.0/24 The syntax for knfsd (at least on my system) is REALLY picky about what it will accept. I have been able

RE: Is it possible?

2000-09-11 Thread Chris Watt
At 08:51 11/09/00 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Just as a side note - you can run a firewall, web server, and sendmail >will less the 150M - I have one running that is using 96M, and I could >strip it down more. (The mail doesn't get stored on this machine.) Space minimization is always fu

Re: External Projector under 5.2

2000-09-01 Thread Chris Watt
At 13:58 01/09/00 -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: >Not meaning to detract from the thread, but, > > Are there any Digital Video projectors that work in Linux? If so >which ones? And what apps would play video/presentations through them? > > JW Yes, ANY digital video project

Re: [OT] Cascaded eth hubs

2000-08-29 Thread Chris Watt
At 10:56 29/08/00 +0200, Gustav Schaffter wrote: >Hi, > >Sorry for the off topic question, but I really don't know where to turn >otherwise. (If somebody has any serious suggestions...) > >I have two ordinary ethernet hubs. One (hub B) is uplinked to the other >(hub A). >- Is it possible to casca

Re: IDE installation moving to a root RAID (hardware RAID) - bootup problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel.

2000-08-25 Thread Chris Watt
At 15:26 24/08/00 -0700, Dan Browning wrote: >"# cp -R -x / /mnt/slash", and a "# cp -R /boot /mnt/boot". Then changing >lilo.conf to have the new root device of /dev/rd/c0d0p1, it comes up with "cp -R" can/will screw some things up for you. I'd suggest using "cp -av" when you want to copy a wh

Re: Squid question

2000-08-23 Thread Chris Watt
At 15:57 23/08/00 -0300, Fernando Rowies wrote: >I'm running an Apache web server. >Can people accesing web pages in my server view more faster >if I configure squid tu run as a cache? >Or only if those people configure their browser in a special way? Yes, you can configure squid as an http accel

Re: RTL8139: where in menuconfig?

2000-08-23 Thread Chris Watt
At 15:24 23/08/00 -0400, Mike Dickson wrote: >Strange that it doesn't show up in menuconfig for 2.2.16 I downloaded 20 >minutes ago. I wonder why... Possibly you have either: 1. A not-from-redhat copy of the kernel source that is for some reason missing this driver, or more likely 2. You have

Re: RTL8139: where in menuconfig?

2000-08-23 Thread Chris Watt
At 13:32 23/08/00 -0400, Mike Dickson wrote: >I'm trying to rebuild my kernel, but don't see an entry for the >autodetected RTL8139 module. I can't very well rebuild it if it's not >available! ;) Is this hidden somewhere in the kernel config? I see the >actual file, but not the option in the

Re: aic7xxx driver hangs during isntall

2000-08-21 Thread Chris Watt
At 09:48 AM 8/21/00 -0500, Nitebirdz wrote: > >I got a problem during the installation of Red Hat 6.1 and need some help, >please. I try to install directly from the CD on a system that has a >Seagate SCSI hard drive, and the initrd images seems to load fine, then it >calls the aic7xxx module dri

Re: ntserver or linux???

2000-08-12 Thread Chris Watt
At 15:19 12/08/00 +0530, vsnl wrote: > can i have a linux server with win95 >clients? will it be advantageous to switch over? In general yes and yes. An appropriate mix of Samba (for file/printer sharing) Squid (for web/ftp caching), dhcpd (to auto configure your client machines), a good firewal

Re: RAID1 and /boot problem

2000-08-11 Thread Chris Watt
At 18:12 11/08/00 +0200, Arturs Korneevs wrote: >I installed RH6.2. I created RAID1 on /boot (md0). >Qwestion: Is it posiible recompile kernel ? If your system boots from your current kernel in /boot, and you will be placing your new kernel in /boot, then yes, it is possible to recompile the ker

Invisible files in ftp?

2000-08-05 Thread Chris Watt
I'm having trouble with an ftp server (the wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x package from Redhat) in Redhat 6.2. Basically many ftp client programs (e.g. CuteFTP, which a great many people seem to insist on using) are not able to see much of the contents of the server (they seem to randomly be able to s

Re: Cpu throttling?

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:19 03/08/00 +0100, Jon Nichols wrote: >'Hatters; > >I noticed my computer getting slow sometimes for no apparent reason after >being on a while, and some programs report during those conditions that my >speed is down to 25-38Mhz. Even when I am running no user apps. The obvious answer is

Re: Support for NFS in the stock Redhat 6.2 kernel (and PCNFSD issues)...

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Watt
At 17:04 02/08/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >Pardon if these questions are contained in a FAQ somewhere; however, I'm >confused about some issues. I can understand that. Redhat ships with weird kernel NFS support and most of the documentation refers to the "normal" NFS server (for ex

Re: Samba question

2000-08-01 Thread Chris Watt
At 13:18 01/08/00 -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: >trouble is that NT and Windows 98 don't include the space availible >under the Software directory when veiwing in explorer. Even selecting Samba always reports the amount of writable space (not necessarily the same as the amount of free space, since i

Re: unable to boot to linux: please help

2000-08-01 Thread Chris Watt
At 07:32 01/08/00 +0530, vsnl wrote: >i have a dual boot machine win98 and rh6.0. recently i loaded win agin and >now i am unable to boot to linux. what do i do to get to lilo boot prompt >again? i dont have a linux bootable floppy... do i need to reload linux??? You can boot from the cd-rom or b

Re: [OT] two connections to the net.

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Watt
At 17:09 31/07/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I will soon have both a xDSL and a cable modem connection to the net. > >I want to set up a linux router use both connections. I am thinking >OSPF.. I have never done this, but I want to try. My question, has anyone >here done this? Does anyone

X-Terminals, help and rescue

2000-04-29 Thread Chris Watt
On and off for the last month or so I have been trying to get a bunch of old NCD X terminals to function with Linux. I have now reached the point of concluding that this is a little beyond me, and I would dearly love a little help from someone with a bit more experience in this area.

Re: xntpd problem

2000-01-24 Thread Chris Watt
At 02:54 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >] server 127.127.1.0 # local clock >] fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 0 I read this, it's "close" but solves the wrong problem. I do have upstream servers available 99% of the time, it's just that whenever a little bit of packet loss

Re: xntpd problem

2000-01-24 Thread Chris Watt
At 01:53 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Buy a GPS receiver and set up your own Stratum 1. :-) This is not a useful solution because: 1. The machine has no free I/O ports or IRQ's thus I would need to buy another computer just to use as an NTP server, throwing out existing

xntpd problem

2000-01-24 Thread Chris Watt
Short question: How do I make xntpd continue to report itself to clients as a usable stratum 3 server even when it has lost sync with its stratum 2 references? Longwinded form: I have a LAN on which only one Linux system is connected to the Internet (I know how to setup an IP-Masq

Re: RAID and new kernels

2000-01-07 Thread Chris Watt
At 10:13 AM 1/7/00 -0500, you wrote: >boot. However, I tend to like to run my own rolled kernels. Will >compiling a new kernel from source stop RAID from working? Only if you disable RAID when you're configuring your kernel. I'm using RAID-0 with kernel 2.2.12 patched with e2compr one one mach

Re: Bulk copy shell script

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Watt
At 04:30 PM 1/5/00 -0500, you wrote: >I would like to bulk copy a file to the same location in every users >directory. What would be the command for this? There are probably easier ways to do this, but off the top of my head I'd do it like this: Assuming you are using the standard arrangement f

Re: External CDR

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Watt
At 08:47 AM 1/5/00 -0600, you wrote: >I'm in the market for an external CD player that has recording >capabilty. Would someone recommend a make and model? The nicest halfway reasonably priced drive I've used is the Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32 model no. PX-W8432Ti. It is actually an internal drive,

RE: Software RAID

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Watt
>GW>I was under the impression that 6.0 supports RAID as well ... >GW> > >Maybe it does... I didn't try it then but... I never saw an install time option >for it with 6.0 and there is with 6.1. To clarify briefly. Linux kernels as-of version 2.1.something support software RAID, if you say yes

Re: How to build a secure OS ?

1999-11-09 Thread Chris Watt
At 05:53 AM 11/9/99 -0800, you wrote: >hi list > >how does one take the bootstrap. >how to add a kernel and a filesystem. >add init >no shell, no password file, no /etc/fstab I would guess that "take the bootstrap" amounts to getting the source code for LILO. Adding a kernel and a filesystem = c