Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Dan Cyr
My opinion is that you are screwed. However, someone out there with more years under their belt might know of some super duper utility to fix this, so wait for more responses before you start crying. Dan At 02:11 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >I ran into trouble while trying to install Linux. I

Re: Network throughput using Chargen?

1998-06-18 Thread Dan Cyr
http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf/ Should be what you want. http://freshmeat.net Sign up! That IpTraf was posted in the newsletter, in my mailbox, afew days ago, along with 'all' the software releases that day.I love it! Dan At 02:48 PM 6/18/98 +, Graham wrote: >I want to measure n

Re: monitors: plug 'n play okay?

1998-06-17 Thread Dan Cyr
There is no such thing as a Plug 'N Play Monitor. It's just the computer manufacturers that are feeding on peoples lack of knowledge to suck them into buying their monitor. They think (and with good cause) that people will buy it because Plug 'N Play is supposed to be such a 'great' thing. I (an

Re: diald+masq ?

1998-06-14 Thread Dan Cyr
Ok, cd /etc/sysconfig edit the network file and comment out both gateway entries. Then type this; /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start ok, so you know that ttyS1 is com2 right? And you changed the connect script that you copied from /usr/doc/diald* to /etc/ppp to have

Re: diald+masq ?

1998-06-14 Thread Dan Cyr
rpm -ivh diald.1.16-5.i386.rpm cd /usr/doc/diald* cp connect /etc/ppp cp diald.conf /etc vi /etc/diald comment out the fifo line, change the /dev/ line change the remote ip and local ip settings add your local diald IP to /etc/hosts with a name to itelse route will bring the link up vi /etc/p

Re: mgetty & pppd problem

1998-06-13 Thread Dan Cyr
I'm quite tired or I'd spend more time to try an help out here..If you don't get it going this way let me know and I'll try harder tomorrow when I'm awake. =) http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html It sounds like you can leave mgetty alone. You should compile and install a fresh ppp-2.2.0

Re: samba problem

1998-06-13 Thread Dan Cyr
Chances are your using the hosts allow feature of samba in the smb.conf file, and your using 192.168.0. as your subnet, and you didn't pay attention (when you uncommented that line), to the fact that the smb.conf uses 192.168.1. I'm guilty of doing this. =) Dan At 07:30 AM 6/13/98 -0400, you

Re: ISP FAQ

1998-06-12 Thread Dan Cyr
Here's the link you want. http://www.buoy.com/isp/ And now afew more useful ones. http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html Mine =) http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/ http://www.mtiweb.com/isp/ Then there's a mailing list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe li

Re: How do I burn a RedHat 5.1 cd

1998-06-12 Thread Dan Cyr
All ideas except the following would be appreciated.. It seems I didn't look his local copy over in enough detail. He is missing the files from /RedHat/instimage I've just sent him an email, and hopefully we'll get it right next time. Still, any other ideas would be welcome. Though seeing

How do I burn a RedHat 5.1 cd

1998-06-12 Thread Dan Cyr
I am asking this for a friend, who has tried many ways to burn a RedHat 5.1 cd. He is using a mirrored copy straight from RedHat's ftp site. Is there some trick to doing this? He has set the cd root to be redhat-5.1/i386 I have looked it over in detail and it should work without a hitch. If you

Re: Unknown interface??? "Dial on demand" and SAMBA

1998-06-12 Thread Dan Cyr
For the unknown interface. Look at the files in /etc/sysconfig the ifcfg-??? files are the interfaces it trys to startup on bootup (if ONBOOT=yes is set) Chances are you used diald-config and either diald-config-metered or diald-config-unmeteredif you do then do this. (Get rid of them...they'

Re: secure shell

1998-06-10 Thread Dan Cyr
I don't recall what the web page was but, the software is F-Secure yahoo should do. Dan At 01:06 AM 6/10/98 -0700, you wrote: >Greetings, > >I use secure shell(ssh) to move around between various linux/unix >machines. I am looking for something like this for all of my windows/mac >machines. Th

Re: Linux Magazine

1998-06-09 Thread Dan Cyr
The Linux Journel And www.linuxgazette.com is an online mag. Dan At 01:01 PM 6/9/98 -0500, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: >Can any one give some info about a good Linux Magazine that I can >subscribe to? >Thanks a lot. > >_

Re: Voicemail for Linux?

1998-06-09 Thread Dan Cyr
mgetty+sendfax has vgetty, which will do it.quite the challenge though. I'll be venturing out on this in afew weeks myself..let me know if you get anwhere please? Dan At 11:39 AM 6/9/98 -0400, George Lenzer wrote: >Does anyone know if there are any voice mail programs for Linux that w

Re: Moving directories

1998-06-09 Thread Dan Cyr
At 11:17 PM 6/8/98 -0700, Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote: > >I have a system which has the fs setup as follows: > >FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/hda1 99M 72M22M 77% / >/dev/hda7 4.2G 2.3M 4.0G 0% /home >/dev/hda6

Re: IP masquerading

1998-06-09 Thread Dan Cyr
Change the line in /etc/sysconfig/network to =yes or throw this in your rc.local file echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Either will do the same thing. (Though the first requires a reboot, where the second doesn't. You could change the line in that file then issue the echo command for this s

Re: ssh

1998-06-09 Thread Dan Cyr
Check out ftp://ftp.relay.com Dan At 07:42 AM 6/9/98 -0500, Chris Frost wrote: >Where could I pick up an rpm for ssh? > >Chris ><- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> > ><-- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt --> > > > >-- > PLEASE read the Red H

Re: Good Kernel Version

1998-06-07 Thread Dan Cyr
2.0.34 is the lastest stable version.it was just released afew days ago and I have had no problems with it at all. One thing to note; It does have fat32 and joliet cd support BUT, you have to include Unicode support, then add your MS filesystems, then codepage 437 and NLS ISO 8859-1 Make su

Re: finally ip masquerade works

1998-06-05 Thread Dan Cyr
Just put them in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and they will run on every bootup. Dan At 09:01 PM 6/5/1998 -0400, you wrote: >Ok after only two weeks and I have finally fiqured it out and the damn thing >works I have one question what file do I add the ipfwadm commands to or is >one time all I need? > >G

Re: SECURITY: new XFree86 packages now available

1998-06-05 Thread Dan Cyr
Good luck getting an answer from redhat on thissheesh I've asked on afew of their lists afew times. One time I got no reply from anyone at all, the other time I was told something about pam but I can't recall what it was (it wasn't from a redhat employee either)...though it wasn't a fix at a

Re: pppd frustrations

1998-06-02 Thread Dan Cyr
You missed it. =) Network device support ---> <*> PPP (point-to-point) support Keep truckin.. Dan At 11:42 AM 6/2/98 -0600, you wrote: >First, I want to say thanks to everyone that gave me a hand with the >lilo.conf, it worked and I can make a clean boot to the new kernel. I'm >glad I k

List - IGNORE THIS MESSAGE | ListMaster - Read This. Re: Mgetty and receiving faxes/dialup

1998-05-31 Thread Dan Cyr
What is going here? There is someone on your list that isn't able to receive from your list? Shouldn't resend catch this? Maybe you could setup a filter to catch the first two lines and bounce it back to the sender with a rude message? =) I've seen this afew times over the past few weeks Dan

Re: RedHat 5.0 crash....

1998-05-31 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/errata.html Upgrade your kernel. Dan At 05:10 PM 5/31/98 +1000, you wrote: >Hi, > >Just wondering if this makes any sense to anybody: > >May 31 03:02:34 gzunda kernel: Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on >a list >(from 0138faf4). >May 31 03:02:34 gzu

Re: Mgetty and receiving faxes/dialup

1998-05-31 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html will get your system answering data callsNo idea howto get it to answer incoming faxes. As far as I know there isn't a single web page that describes howto use mgetty for faxesWish there was one.Wish there was one for mgetty voice aswell. =

Re: RADIUS and Linux

1998-05-29 Thread Dan Cyr
Here are links to the server/client I use. http://home.cistron.nl/~miquels/radius http://portslave.mnic.net ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/radius/ Here is where the source for both of the above can be gotton. Other Radius stuff. http://www.livingston.com/Tech/Docs/RADIUS/guide/index.h

Re: News on HotWire <-> RH 5.0

1998-05-28 Thread Dan Cyr
At 07:31 AM 5/28/1998 +0200, you wrote: >**UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE > >Hotwire is compiled for RH 4.2 and looks for libs in the wrong place when >installed on RH 5.0. I've been in contact with Gary and he's been so kind >to send me the libs linked to t

Re: Installing LILO onto a diskette. How?

1998-05-25 Thread Dan Cyr
pop a floppy in the drive edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the first line to point to /dev/fd0 instead of a partition. save and exit that file then run /sbin/lilo This will work out great..once you have lilo to the point that it will boot all your OS's you might just want to install it to your MBR.

Re: adding swap

1998-05-23 Thread Dan Cyr
Someone else will have to guide you through the commands. But... You will be using swapoff to turn your current swap partition off..fdisk to delete the old swap and remake a new one (hopefully you have the spare hard drive space to make it bigger).swapon to turn the new swap partition on

Re: floppy

1998-05-23 Thread Dan Cyr
man mount mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy or mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy If you want to be able to see long filenames cd /mnt/floppy and your off. There is a kernel patch for fat32 somewhere but, it requires a kernel build. http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO kernel-howto The ppp-ho

Re: SCSI Tape drives

1998-05-22 Thread Dan Cyr
How odd. Someone else posted this same question just afew days ago...Maybe it was another list. Anyway, the devices are /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 st1 st2 nst1 nst2 etc Dan At 01:42 PM 5/22/98 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings, > >I am trying to test a piece of software which uses the rmt program

Re: PATH settings

1998-05-22 Thread Dan Cyr
The system wide path is in /etc/profile Per user PATH is appended to the system wide PATH in a file called .bash_profile in each users HOME directory. Dan At 11:55 AM 5/22/98 +0200, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I have some problems with my PATH setting. When I log on as root to the console >my PATH

Re: 3.0.3 bind update

1998-05-22 Thread Dan Cyr
Why not just download the -safe- bind source and compile it? Or for that matter, just use rpm to remove the bind version he has now (he has the 3.0.3 cd I asume in case this doesn't work -there's no reason it wouldn't work-), then try out the redhat 4.2 bind rpms...as far I can tell there are no

Re: modem sharing - under Linux OS

1998-05-22 Thread Dan Cyr
You should read the windows-modem-sharing mini howto. I tried the perl script included with it but found it didn't work for me. However the mserver script that he mentions works Great! I use it all the time. Though it is only ment for serial ports, I'm sure if you have a client for it (or can fi

Re: Compiling Kernel under RH 5.0 system fails on a Cyrix processor

1998-05-17 Thread Dan Cyr
There is an unsupported fix in the redhat 5.0 errata for this. Dan At 12:00 PM 5/17/1998 +0900, you wrote: >Hi, > >I tried compiling the 3.0.32 kernel with the IPChains stuff in it on my >Cyrix-based machine last night, and I got a rude shock. > >The build failed with the following messages: >

Re: cc1 gets fatal signal 11 ???

1998-05-14 Thread Dan Cyr
At 12:52 PM 5/14/98 +0400, you wrote: >Hello everybody, > > I am sorry in advance for this long message, but this is the only way >to explain what is going on. > It seems either me or my computer goes crazy. Indeed, I try to perform >a very simple operation - to recompile the kernel. I used

Re: PPPD Serving Win-95 Machines....PAP-only authentication

1998-05-14 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp1.html Soon the second will replace the first. user="myuser" should be user="AutoPPP" If you have any problems after reading my page, and following it or the link for Redhat 5.0, feel free to email me.

Re: Red Hat is Hiring! (Web Developer Position)

1998-05-11 Thread Dan Cyr
Ever remember seeing a message at the bottom of all the emails you receive from this list, a long time ago? ;) Dan At 03:22 AM 5/11/98 -0400, Joel Robert Oliveira wrote: > >What job is this ?? and why did I miss this thread ??? And I AM single.. >with no "family" per se. I wouldn't mind loo

Re: Help to make a choise!

1998-05-11 Thread Dan Cyr
Sure, you can do both. However, I HIGHLY suggest you use 2 different systems to do this. 1st) Web server / Firewall - IP Masq / 2 IP's one internet the other intranet. Intranet uses a private network address. 2nd) SQL / App server - SMB Server / 1 IP private - therefore behind the firewall / A

Re: 6 more concoles

1998-05-09 Thread Dan Cyr
At 12:12 AM 5/10/98 -0400, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: >How can I get 12 concoles in Red Hat? In /etc/inittab # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:res

Re: MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Dan Cyr
At 02:21 PM 5/9/98 -0600, Robert Goodwin wrote: >thanks for the info. I was able to uninstall the whole thing ok but >then when I went to reinstall as you suggested it is still hanging up. >this is as far as it gets... it seems to be almost done but just >doesn't give me my prompt back. >--

Re: Linux setup - Newbie

1998-05-09 Thread Dan Cyr
At 11:45 AM 5/9/98 +, Doug Peterson wrote: >I'm setting up a linux box (currently 4.1, possibly upgrading to 5.0 >before i do this) that will be on the internet via ISDN 24/7. It will >have mail/web/name/etc etc servers running on it. I know theres got >to be a site where someone documented

Re: MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Dan Cyr
At 10:01 AM 5/9/98 -0600, Robert Goodwin wrote: >Hi there, > >I'm trying to install the mysql RPM's that I downloaded from the >hurricane contribs. I'm having some problems with it though in that it >keeps hanging on me. I Installed the clients RPM without a problem then >this is as far as it ge

Re: Apache stuff - and a small bit of networking advice

1998-05-09 Thread Dan Cyr
Scroll down. At 01:16 AM 5/9/98 -0400, Joel Robert Oliveira wrote: >thanks to Dave's suggestions I succesfully got that "moving" linux box >transported to the other side of campus and working properly .. thing is, >now I have another problem. For some reason I cannot start httpd .. it >keeps

Re: Ncurses RPM Update

1998-05-08 Thread Dan Cyr
Hmm, when I installed BitchX I got the source (tar.gz) and built it that way, and there were no problems at all. I can't remember the ftp for it but if you goto efnet #bitchx you can get it there. I use RH 4.2, and I didn't have to upgrade ncurses to do this. I also installed it on a RH 5.0 syst

Re: System is too big

1998-05-07 Thread Dan Cyr
At 02:32 PM 5/7/98 -0400, Gene Wilburn wrote: >Just successfully upgraded RH50 from kernel 2.0.31 to 2.0.32. But when I >tried to compile a new kernel for 2.0.32 I got the following at the end of >make boot: > >Root device is (3, 4) >Boot sector 512 bytes >Setup is 4344 bytes >System is 528 kB >S

Re: Help SMC card problem

1998-05-07 Thread Dan Cyr
I suggest you go and find the SMC utility disk for your cardsimple to find it online. Then you really should change the IO from 2c0 to something more common like 300 or 320 AND if you have a sound card or plan to have a sound card in your system you should change the IRQ from 5 to either 10 o

Re: Fortune cookies

1998-05-06 Thread Dan Cyr
At 06:42 PM 5/5/98 +0200, Ruud de Bruin wrote: >I would like to use a "fortune cookie" whever a user logs in >(/usr/games/fortune). What is the best place to put in this line? > >Regards, Ruud. > >-- >Next time you wave, use all your fingers. For your current users, put it in their .bash_profile

Re: Moral abuse...

1998-05-06 Thread Dan Cyr
At 10:14 AM 5/6/98 +0200, Zoki wrote: >I heard a lot of complaints about M'soft not being the issue of this list, but I >think the next link should be checked anyway because it affects indirectly any >computer user and especially those trying to get some work done instead of >trying to make it run

Re: 2.0.32 kernel install

1998-05-06 Thread Dan Cyr
At 02:08 AM 5/5/98 -0700, glory wrote: >I have the kernel. I have 2.0.31 stock with my rh installation. I have never >installed a new one. Is it easy? How do I do it. You should get the lastest stable kernel, which is 2.0.33 To install it you should read the kernel-howto, aswell as the lilo-

Re: Install Hangs up

1998-05-06 Thread Dan Cyr
At 12:20 AM 5/6/98 -0400, you wrote: >After installing the system seven times tonight alone, I have been able to get the system to boot using: Here is a different alternative. Copy your vmlinuz-2.0.32 to your dos partition as vmlinuz.32 into a directory called c:\loadlin Copy loadlin.exe from th

Re: Linux user wants to install Win95

1998-05-05 Thread Dan Cyr
This should work fine for you, if you have recompiled your kernel in the past (I'll asume you have as you only use linux right now =). Put a fresh floppy in /dev/fd0 cd /usr/src/linux make zdisk reboot and test that disk out. If it lets you in, go right ahead and install win95. After it's done a

Re: Network etc

1998-05-04 Thread Dan Cyr
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/howto the ethernet-howto will do it for ya. http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP has alot of docs on most everything. Dan At 02:30 AM 5/4/98 -0700, Gate News wrote: >Hello, >Just setup a RH5 box,, only has a 340 HD so no X for me :( But, I >wanted to know where I co

Re: IRQ woes

1998-05-04 Thread Dan Cyr
At 10:55 PM 5/3/98 -0500, Brian C Hand wrote: >here is a dump of my dmesg >Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled >tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A >tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A >tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A This is going to be a problem. Turn off COM2

Re: IRQ woes

1998-05-03 Thread Dan Cyr
cat /proc/interrupts Will give you irq's, but in most cases not everything in your system. I suggest you download the dos driver file for your nic and if your lucky (most have it), there will be a utility to change the irq, io, mem addresses for the card. Then just play around until you find a s

Re: Simple ? on 4.2 > 5.0

1998-05-03 Thread Dan Cyr
At 04:36 PM 5/3/98 -0400, Abandon_All_Hope wrote: >I upgraded from 4.2 to 5.0..I did a "clean" install but did not >format the /usr which is now /home >My question is under a fresh intall of 5.0 should /home contain just user >home dir's or look like mine: >X11 foo

Re: Win95 & Linux Networking "?"

1998-05-03 Thread Dan Cyr
You have samba running. /etc/smb.conf is where your can change it's 'workgroup' then /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.init stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.init start to restart it. Dan At 04:37 PM 5/3/98 -0300, Webmaster wrote: >Hello All, > >I finally fixed my network. It was bad cable. 8> > >I do have a smal

Re: Strange SCSI problem

1998-05-03 Thread Dan Cyr
No idea what would cause this but here's a way to get in and compile a new kernel and see if it works after that. Put loadlin on a floppy disk, along with a kernel image file from the other system and run it like this; loadlin vmlinuz root/dev/sda? ro Of course it would help to have the same n

Re: X windwos

1998-05-03 Thread Dan Cyr
Run /usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator until you get it right. Dan At 12:32 PM 5/3/98 +0200, Sahar Nitzan wrote: >Hello everybody, >I am new to this mail list . >I have a problem with my new installed linux 4. >When I am trining to start the x windwos ( startx,or xinit ) I get the resault like :

Re: No Remote Login

1998-05-02 Thread Dan Cyr
I haven't used X all that much, most of my work is done remotely. Give adduser a try and if it doesn't work email me personally, there's no point this being on the list anymore. Dan At 10:06 PM 5/2/98 -0300, Webmaster wrote: >I used the user configuration in the control panel in X-windows. I

Re: No Remote Login

1998-05-02 Thread Dan Cyr
> >On 5/2/98, at 5:12 PM, Dan Cyr wrote: > >>Hit ALT-F2 and try to login with that username and password. Does that work? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lis

Re: No Remote Login

1998-05-02 Thread Dan Cyr
ery time. > >Thanks > >*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > >On 5/2/98, at 4:58 PM, Dan Cyr wrote: > >>For root ftp access, edit /etc/ftpusers and comment out root with a # >>For telnet, just telnet in with your user account and type su then root's >&g

Re: No Remote Login

1998-05-02 Thread Dan Cyr
For root ftp access, edit /etc/ftpusers and comment out root with a # For telnet, just telnet in with your user account and type su then root's password. Dan At 08:50 PM 5/2/98 -0300, Webmaster wrote: >Hello All, > >I am not able to login as root or any other user remotely. I have a peer to pe

Re: Kernel panic

1998-05-02 Thread Dan Cyr
I'm not a programmer but, it could be because of the nestea exploit. http://www.linuxhelp.org/syndrop.shtml I suggest Alan Cox's fix (only because that's the only one I've used, and I've used it on many machines). You will have to recompile your kernel after applying it. Kernel-howto. & lilo-howt

Re: DHCP "stuff" setup questions

1998-05-02 Thread Dan Cyr
I've only played with dhcpd alittle bit, but it wasn't to hard to get going. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is where you will find the help you need. Dan At 11:06 PM 5/1/98 -0500, Chris Frost wrote: >On our network I would like for the computers to get all the info from my >linux box at boot (ip, gateways

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-05-01 Thread Dan Cyr
At 10:11 AM 5/1/98 -0400, Jake Colman wrote: >Dan, > >Thanks for the the detailed reply. And thanks for all the other messages that >this thread has generated. No problem. > >I appreciate the detailed help and explanation you provided. I _did_ read much >of the necessary documentation and I _d

Re: Time for a new list - commentary@redhat.com?

1998-04-30 Thread Dan Cyr
here here Dan At 10:48 PM 4/30/1998 -0400, John C. Flohr wrote: >Linux is great! > >RedHat is great! > >It's very important to me that I know what is happening in the Linux >technical world! We use RedHat extensively in our own shop and with our >customers. > >_However_, I'm just about read

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-04-30 Thread Dan Cyr
At 09:17 PM 4/30/1998 -0400, Dave Wreski wrote: >> >I assume that the recent 2.0 series of kernels (the one supplied with RH 5) >> >support IP Masquerade? I don't need to move to a 2.1 series kernel? What >> does >> >> Nope. They only have the bare necessities in there to run your system. The >

Re: (please) new entry, old questions?

1998-04-30 Thread Dan Cyr
At 02:54 AM 5/1/1998 +0200, Marcantonio Magnarapa wrote: >But the real question is: is there some way to make linux accept incoming >calls through the serially connected USR Sporster/Voice, discriminate >between voice and fax calls, receive faxes, store voice messages? >Additionally, since I'm run

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-04-30 Thread Dan Cyr
At 06:39 PM 4/30/1998 -0400, Jake Colman wrote: >>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Cyr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Dan> Add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local > >Dan> ipfwadm -F -a deny ipfwadm is the tool, -F means it's a forwarding r

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-04-30 Thread Dan Cyr
At 03:04 PM 4/30/98 -0400, Jake Colman wrote: > >I know that this has been discussed and I've tried to find the anwnser to this >but to no avail. I have printed out and read many, many manuals but if the >answer is RTFM, just tell me which one. IP-Masq mini howto In win95, set the tcp/ip gatewa

Re: rlogin as root *always* ignores the first password you enter...

1998-04-29 Thread Dan Cyr
Did you setup your /etc/hosts.equiv file? eg. 192.168.0.1 Dan At 10:53 AM 4/29/1998 -0400, Chris Patti wrote: > >Hi folks; > >Whenever I rlogin to another host as root, whether I have >.rhosts access or not, it *ALWAYS* ignores the first password I type! > >Even if it's verifiably correct, it

Re: Configuration Problems

1998-04-29 Thread Dan Cyr
At 02:55 AM 4/29/1998 -0400, Keven R. Pittsinger wrote: > >There was a line in a file *SOMEWHERE* that needed to be set for my mail >server as: > >mail mail.glasscity.net # My ISP You could make this your SMTP server. Though I don't know where. /etc/sendmail.cf I suppose. Of course this assumes

Re: setserial

1998-04-29 Thread Dan Cyr
etserial RPM package. So I thought there was no >such a RPM package. > >Thanks for the help >xun > > >Dan Cyr wrote: >> >> You obviously haven't even tried to look for it. >> It happens to be called the (hold on to your pants now) setserial package. >&g

Re: setserial

1998-04-29 Thread Dan Cyr
You obviously haven't even tried to look for it. It happens to be called the (hold on to your pants now) setserial package. Dan At 09:46 PM 4/28/1998 -0700, Xun Cheng wrote: >Could anyone tell me in which package I can >find the program setserial? > >thanks >xun -- PLEASE read the Red H

Re: Fun with SCSI

1998-04-29 Thread Dan Cyr
I remember when I was looking at getting an aha1502 working (never happened & no I'm not confusing these two cards) that there are some args that must be past to the kernel for it to notice the aha1520. There is a doc in the kernel source tree that discribes it, aswell as the lilo-howto. Dan A

Re: Sockets info..

1998-04-28 Thread Dan Cyr
Sockets are opened in /etc/services Dan to 07:52 PM 4/28/1998 -0500, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: >When I try to give a service in inetd, does the socket is created, if >sohow can I handle it, if not how can I stablish the comunication with the >client socket... >Thanks for your time --

Re: Easy script to install errata RPM's?

1998-04-28 Thread Dan Cyr
There is a program called AutoRPM but I haven't tried it. One thing about it to note is that there are some errata instructions that say you must do afew things before actually upgrading some packages. So I'd be wary about implementing this. Dan At 06:17 PM 4/28/1998 -0500, Jon A. Christopher

Re: 01010101 again

1998-04-28 Thread Dan Cyr
Yes. Change boot=/dev/sda to boot=/dev/hda save it then re-run lilo Dan At 10:33 AM 4/28/98 +0100, Ron Golan wrote: >What is the problem? Do I need to remove the IDE before editing lilo.conf >and running /sbin/lilo? Help, please... > >I can still boot off the IDE drive and mount /dev/sda if th

Re: Kernel 2.0.33 build

1998-04-24 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/rh50-errata-intel.html#cyrix Dan At 04:50 PM 4/24/98 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I'm new on the list, I've just purchased de RH 5.0, and I got some pb when >trying >to compile the kernel. gcc terminated with an internal error. My proce

RE: Two network address on the same card

1998-04-21 Thread Dan Cyr
ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.0.0/8 -D 0.0.0.0/0 Someone want to comment on the netmask he is using for his Class A? As far as I know you should only being using 255.0.0.0 as the netmask for 10.0.0.0 Which is a Class A network. Dan At 01:22 PM 4/21/1998 +0200, Cedric MARSOT wrote

Re: Two network address on the same card

1998-04-21 Thread Dan Cyr
Go check out the IP Alias mini howto. It only takes afew seconds to do it (if your doing it the right way =) It's all right in there. Dan At 10:32 AM 4/21/1998 +0200, Cedric MARSOT wrote: >Hi, > >I need to put two network addresses on my network card: >10.0.0.20 255.255.255.0 gateway: 10.0.0.

Re: Multi IO's

1998-04-21 Thread Dan Cyr
Ok cheapest. =) It shouldn't be too hard to find a Boca BB2016 16 port serial board. There is a mini howto to set it up, and they are cheap. That is what we are using, and they work great. Though they don't support 56K. Perfect for your needs. I believe the quake server has a chat program built

Re: Multi IO's

1998-04-21 Thread Dan Cyr
Sure does. What serial board are you thinking of getting, and what do you plan on doing/requiring with it/for it? eg. friends or business, support 56k or just 33.6's http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html Dan At 05:13 PM 3/7/1996 +1300, Chas Green wrote: >Hi, Just wondering Linux would

Re: Setting up Linux for dialup.

1998-04-20 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html The page itself is a mess (it's being worked on) but if dialin ppp access is what you want, that's how to do it. Dan At 09:21 PM 4/20/98 +0200, Anthony E. Greene wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >At 12:35 4/20/98 -0500, Cory T. Lamb wro

Re: [Q] eth1 loading when it is not there !

1998-04-20 Thread Dan Cyr
Chances are at some point you were playing with the netcfg tool in X and now there is a file called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 Just delete it, or edit it and change ONBOOT=yes to ONBOOT=no then it should stop doing that. Dan At 06:15 PM 4/20/98 +0530, Raj Singh wrote: >Hi, > >I

Re: Setup Loadlin

1998-04-20 Thread Dan Cyr
Use your redhat install disks to get into your system. hint root=/dev/??? Then copy the kernel image to your dos partition and reboot to dos. Type: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/??? ro \\ \ \\ \_ means read-only \

Re: How do you stop SYN Floods?

1998-04-19 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.linuxhelp.org/syndrop.shtml Read the redhat errata it hould be in there, and they 'should' have a kernel rpm for you to use if you don't feel comfortable patching it yourself. Dan At 05:31 PM 4/19/1998 -0700, David S Edwards wrote: >Hello, > >I've been having a problem with my RH5.

Re: SECURITY: Kernel updates

1998-04-18 Thread Dan Cyr
Good question! This got me thinking. I do most of my work remotely aswell, so I just did a make bzImage locally and it didn't like it all (it wasn't needed the kernel was fine with make zImage) So, I'd be careful about doing it and also look into it some more. Chances are there are some docs on

Re: win3.1 to Linux PPP

1998-04-16 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.unixworld.com/uworld/archives/97/tutorial/015/win31.html Dan At 09:39 PM 4/16/98 -0500, Robert W. Canary wrote: >Hi, > >Can anyone direct me to some info on how to get a win3.x machine to >connect to a Linux Dial-Up PPP connection. > >thanks in advance :-) >-- >robert -- PLEASE

Re: Ethernet

1998-04-16 Thread Dan Cyr
'usually' most network cards use an IRQ of 10 or 11 or 5 and an IO of 0x300 or 0x320 What network card do you have? These are the files you need after you get your card working. IRQ IO kernel driver etc.. #/etc/HOSTNAME linux.dan-hender.com #/etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localho

Re: Cheap Serial Multi-Port Recommendation for use with RH5

1998-04-16 Thread Dan Cyr
Sorry but we don't have any to spare =) But if you look around on the net, I'm sure you could find a Boca B2016 16 port serial board for about $100. We have 3 and they are simple to get working under redhat. vi /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/serial.c and change the define line to #define BOCA_FLAGS

Re: Linux on DECpc 433 revisited

1998-04-13 Thread Dan Cyr
Check out the Hardware Compatibilty HOWTO, I remember seeing something special on the aha1520. Can't remember what it was though. If you do it it going you 'might' have to add an 'append' statement to your /etc/lilo.conf to keep it going. Check out the lilo manel, aswell as the boottime howto (i

Re: HardDrive Size

1998-04-12 Thread Dan Cyr
4.2 gig with say 4 - 900 meg partitions mounted on / /var /usr /home and the rest for a swap drive. Would last you for years and still give you the chance to add in a bigger drive under one of those mount points if a partition fills up. Get yourself a DAT tape drive aswell. A 'big' one. Dan At

Re: pre-install questions

1998-04-12 Thread Dan Cyr
At 03:11 PM 4/12/98 -0400, Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote: >Group: >I just purchased Redhat Linux but hasn't yet arrived. I have superficial familiarity with >Unix. I carefully reviewed the installation guide but before I get started installing, have >a few real basic questions that would help me

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000

1998-04-12 Thread Dan Cyr
Are you using the 2.0.30 kernel? You should be using 2.0.32 or 2.0.33, alse your vulnerable to the teardrop attack. What you might need to do is; cd /usr/src/linux make modules make modules_install Dan At 03:13 PM 4/12/98 +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: >>See if your system has that file. >>find /

Re: Xvidtune

1998-04-12 Thread Dan Cyr
haha *adInstalled: true Dan At 08:43 PM 4/12/98 +0800, aoc wrote: > >hi all, >i was editing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xvidtune when i >accidentally deleted the ff. : > >*adInstalled: > ^^^ > >..so now xvidtune won't start. i do realize the lameness of

Re: COFF executables

1998-04-12 Thread Dan Cyr
I think what you need is called iBcs or something like that. Check out redhat's ftp site in their contrib directory, I know it's in there. Dan At 05:36 AM 4/12/98 -0700, Dan Octavian wrote: >I want to use RedHat 5.0 >I have some applications that run under SCO Open Server 3.0. This are >COFF e

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000

1998-04-12 Thread Dan Cyr
See if your system has that file. find / -iname binfmt* If you find it copy it to /lib/modules/2.0.??/somewhereinhere ;) Just an idea anyways. Dan At 02:38 PM 4/12/98 +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: >I have this two lines in the messages log file, after I started a >freshly compiled VMailer. Yeste

Re: Installing LILO on floppy

1998-04-12 Thread Dan Cyr
Use both of your redhat boot disks (boot.img & supp.img) to get into your system. Then edit your /etc/lilo.conf and change the first line to boot=/dev/fd0 Then run /sbin/lilo with a floppy in your floppy drive. =) Reboot with the disk in drive a: and your off Dan At 02:07 AM 4/12/98

Re: ppp configure

1998-04-11 Thread Dan Cyr
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/serial/ppp or maybe its /pub/Linux/system/network/serial/ppp 1 of those directories has it. Dan At 07:29 PM 4/11/98 -0700, Norma Thompson wrote: >What is EZppp? Where do I get it? I did a Web search but came up blank. >New Linux on my other box, I'm us

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