Re: Red Hat 7.3 and linuxconf

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lcfe wrote: >I need a text terminal based configuration tool. I'd recommend vi or emacs. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: M

track pads (was: xmodmap)

me if you already know this, but if you have a Synaptics touchpad (common on Dells), you _need_ Bruce Kall's tpconfig utility to keep the tap-to-click feature from inducing homicidal tendencies in the user! - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11

Re: xmodmap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> basic editing keys present in the Emacs editor. ALT+b moves the cursor >> to the beginning of the previous word. ALT+l will lowercase the word >> after the cursor. If you've left the capslock on, move the cursor back >> a

Re: Iptables

ion for iptables? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPTNNGb9BpdPKTBGtEQI7kwCdFaHrzzcXNNVy5fNckit1hNQLZYEAoLK3 Lng2EO4F+eOmcZ6ccXKPowJJ =2t+y -E

Installing _with_ CPU optimization (was: Installing without CPUoptimization)

in the i386 directory which must be satisfied, and this makes it more difficult to automate ... is there a simpler way? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBP

Re: Setting up a database server

, and you'll probably find that there are lots of people here with the experience you're looking for. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6

Re: Killing 'locked' applications

;-) Ergo, PS and ps are not the same thing. - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPS81579BpdPKTBGtEQL0fgCfUw5YV9voF80QDu5qe7dc0c6Yd/IAn3zJ Qzilau2dEwelz

Re: procmail's default system mailbox

ve had far fewer (in fact, only one documented) instances of mailbox corruption since our home directory server was changed from Solaris to Red Hat. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment:

Re: cd burner not working

d symbol. > >I am presuming I misconfigured the kernel somehow... Anyone have any hints? Obviously you left something out of your build. Maybe scsi-generic? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PG

Re: How to make it possible

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Burger wrote: >IPtables can work based on name resolution... ... a quantum leap of faith, if you don't control and trust the nameserver. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -B

Re: nfs shares and ownership.

ake sure you have local groups on the client with the same GID as those on the server, and set up group memberships to correspond. Then everything will map as you expect, and you can handle permissions (setgid bits and whatnot) on the server side. - -d - -- David Talkingt

Re: 7.2 freezes during boot process (SOLVED)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Messmer wrote: >It would be nice to find a proper fix for this problem, since most >servers run headless... Some BIOSen (such as my KT7) can be configured to ignore keyboard and video errors on boot. - -d - -- David Talkington P

Re: Diferences route - ip route

s: you don't. The man page does nothing but refer the user to the postscript documentation. Rally helpful on a router console. Thanks, guys. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: 3com FE575 PCMCIA cards in 100MB full-duplex networks...

aded in, but that PCMCIA always seems to go into 100Mbps I haven't seen that happen (I have a 575). Have you checked the man page for ifconfig? You can force a particular media type; see if that helps. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11

Re: VIM and SSH (Putty)

u don't need page up/page down/arrow keys. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPSYSwL9BpdPKTBGtEQJmBQCcDRnS6PSiik5nT9XlU2m2arYf494An0pK

Re: route

t; >style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I class=SpellE>don´t understart how another eth0 >works fine when it routes to internet >? > >face="Courier New">(0.0.0.0style='mso-tab-count:2'> 

Re: web server alternatives

find a web server that peaks >my fancy, I'll switch to it and use Apache as the backup. It's all about choices, and it's nice to have many. I certainly don't mean to discourage exploration; I just don't want to see you ditch a good product because of a fixable p

RE: starting and stopping DHCPD

use that. Is there some reason that you can't use the init script? # /etc/init.d/dhcpd {start|stop} - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Co

ssh and sftp (was: Dell Inspiron 8000 Modem Question)

g to an unrelated message, even if you change the subject line. This practice breaks threading in mail readers that do it properly. Thank you. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made wit

Re: chmod: sticky bit

t the sticky bit, that's the SGID bit. Yes, thank you; I read the intent and didn't mentally register the incorrect term. To the original poster, please note that my instructions are correct for your intended purpose, but Mr. Day is correct about the term. - -d - -- David

Re: chmod: sticky bit

ter, that mode will propogate when a user creates a directory below it, _if_ that user's umask is set appropriately. In this case, you probably want it to be 002. Does that help? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: procmail

somewhere >> that you've forgotten about ... just a guess. -d > >You are correct! My /var/qmail/bin points to /usr/sbin 8-) Thanks, I'll take '80s Hair Bands' for $500 please, Alex ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.

Re: samba as a domain contoller

roller reading material. Have you tried the samba site, the docs shipped by Red Hat, and the text files included with the source? Have you punched 'samba domain controller HOWTO' into Google? There's abundant documentation out there. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: htt

Re: procmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay Daniels wrote: >Am I overlooking something or did the redhat procmail rpm update just >drop a bunch of files in my /var/qmail/bin? Sounds more likely to me that you've got a directory symlink somewhere that you've forgotten about ... just a gue

Re: Win2k and red hat 7.3

ut happening to me Experienced what? You haven't given us any information that will help you solve your problem. What did you install, and in what order, and how? What specific error do you see when you try to start one OS or the other? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://w

Re: Uninstallation help

other machine that's running Linux, and use Linux fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk, etc. to clean all the partitions off it. - - Joebewan's DEBUG routine, if you're feeling brave. Good luck ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp

Re: How to install Linux 7.3 via remote CD-ROM drive

the CDROM if you have a fast network connection; just pull the install files directly from your favorite ftp mirror on the fly. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: M

Re: equivalent to /etc/system file in red hat 7.2

'll probably be interested in sysctl, and /etc/sysctl.conf. You might also want to browse /etc/sysconfig/*, and perhaps /etc/modules.conf. Hope this helps a bit -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.

[OT] sftp (was: How do I convert a DOS file to a UNIX file?)

ou didn't ask about ssh), I believe the latest versions of the commercial SFTP GUI client for Windows handle this translation automatically, which is nice. Lack of that feature was one of the major complaints from our users of earlier versions of SFTP. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: h

Re: How do I convert a DOS file to a UNIX file?

is stuff? >How can I convert a file designated as a DOS type, to a UNIX type? dos2unix. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPRtVNb9BpdPKTBGtEQI6XQ

Re: dns query tools

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 listserv wrote: >I am looking a tool to run under X for DNS queries. Any suggetsions? How about dig? Runs in an xterm. ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: mySQL directory

hing but speculate. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPRs0lL9BpdPKTBGtEQKLSQCgtNnHC9i36HTt0p5OQnTfQDbQy4oAnRNy z+vpMgmD5EwRBXfOtFwPjG

Re: [openssh-unix-announce] OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss)(fwd)

tely tilt my position toward yours. >Buut... I guess you don't get to be a dictatorial project leader by seeing >shades of grey... who are we to question genius. There's plenty of that to go around. It's all about choosing the egoist whose interests happen to coincide with your

[openssh-unix-announce] OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss) (fwd)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, this definitely could have been handled differently. Especially since they seem to have changed their minds mid-stream after telling people they'd have until Monday to shore up before this announcement. - -d - -- Forwarded message -

Re: OpenSSH Vulnerability

a potentially problematic configuration change is also required, followed by yet another upgrade in a few days. For those interested, details are at http://www.openssh.org. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OT] Re: anyone know anything about osX

7;t orthodox. I ain't recommending it. - - if you don't understand 'BSD startup files, you need to buy a book on FreeBSD before you start mucking with them! The "right" (Mac-ish) way to do it, I later learned, is to use Netinfo Manager. The book I mentioned in my previous

[OT] Re: anyone know anything about osX

er of the two above methods will get around that. For future reference, the best text I've found so far for info at this level is "Mac OS X Unleashed" from SAMS. Many of the other ones commonly found don't go into Unix administration details to a degree that helped m

Re: RPM's bad rap

distributions. It's not RPM's fault that LSB is being widely disregarded, for instance, nor is it something for which RPM can reasonably be expected to compensate. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: RPM's bad rap

hank you." The link came from slashdot, so the "damage" was obviously already done. If it were me, and I wasn't ready to go live, I wouldn't have put it on the air. ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN

RPM's bad rap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's no secret that I'm not a fan of RPM. Here's an article explaining its problems in a broader context. http://distrowatch.colug.net/article-rpm.php Cheers -d -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-

Re: Please help with kickstart problem on 7.2

) driver to get it running. I've never encountered a situation that couldn't handle ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with

Re: OT: vi and "|"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dbrett wrote: >When I tried to do the following > >:1,$s/\|//g > >no changed happened, although vi says it large number of replacements >happened. Drop the escape: s/|//g Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://

Re: Shell Scripting

rtains. Sorry >about that. You can also do it in 'update mode' with Perl with no temp file, but it requires enough memory to hold the entire file. Seldom worth the trouble. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: Sudo

to give su(1) any flags. > >you could also get rid of the [!-]* to let it pass flags... but the one >mentioned in the man page should be the best solution... isn't it? If you only want to prevent su to root, yes. Our wrapper allows us to specify a range of excluded UIDs, which i

Re: Sudo

Email me offlist if you'd like a copy, and I'll send the code along if the author doesn't object. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwU

sendmail (was: redhat 7.3 and performance)

rusted local users who might take advantage of its insecurities. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQjxdL9BpdPKTBGtEQKqsACg8nHekXItSdUs8w3LDdzyg92bYJ

dynamic addresses and /etc/hosts (was: redhat 7.3 and performance)

- -d

With all due respect ...

timeout of 21 minutes, 253 sets a vendor-defined timeout, and 255 is interpreted as 21 minutes plus 15 seconds. ..."somewhat peculiar"? *boggle* -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

.net herald Why would you do that if your address is dynamic? It's guaranteed to break things when your IP address changes. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine

Re: Sudo

our (not root's) password. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQflf79BpdPKTBGtEQJMJACeJe0qjFZpWfwYH+QTXCAh/cprX2gAn2qA 1Wfy0TDEFr/SATwg

Re: ssh problem

orized_keys2 should move those keys to authorized_keys at the >earliest convenience to avoid unpleasant surprises in some future >update. >May I ask where you have gotten this information from? Yes, you may. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11A

Re: Sudo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Angell wrote: >> > > I edited the sudo config to give a user root privs. But its not >> > > working.. How do i make it go active and work? Post the contents of /etc/sudoers. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: h

Re: ssh problem

are of this, authorized_keys2 is being phased out. Anyone using authorized_keys2 should move those keys to authorized_keys at the earliest convenience to avoid unpleasant surprises in some future update. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11

Re: compiling bash scripts

yment) will dictate whether it's possible or appropriate for someone to modify system files, and the consequences of doing so. That is my $.02. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Co

Re: compiling bash scripts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: >Question is: is it possible to 'compile' bash script of, somehow, >scramble it source ? Rewrite it in C. ;-) Seriously. If it's large and you want it fast, that's the usual way. - -d -

Re: Make root account?

gt;just that feature any way to do this?? Please help asap Read up on sudo. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

solv.conf? This needs to point to a recursive DNS server, usually provided by your ISP. You won't get far without that. ;-) Example: nameserver 192.168.1.1 - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: Linux and Windows

be too much trouble to write a script that uses WINS queries (man nmblookup) to populate /etc/hosts for you. Just a thought. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with p

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

ost.localdomain localhost then therein lies your problem. Get rid of the other unneeded entries. A DHCP host should not have a static entry for itself (and *thwap* to Red Hat for putting it there when you install as a DHCP client). - -d -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

calhost', your hostname, and your hostname.domain (if you've assigned one) all resolve. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQY2u79BpdPK

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

pplication/octet-stream Thanks for the pointer. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQFeXb9BpdPKTBGtEQJ2HQCghx+Gg1Ff5TLTGbcKoS8mSKfccq0AoK/+ 05DvuEBBZ+qCgl

RE: listing directories only

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >I use the following: > > ls -d */ That's handy -- much cleaner than the grep method, which is what I've been doing. Thanks for the tip! -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.

RE: Order of resolution

host.conf. I know what nsswitch.conf does, but host.conf appears to perform a redundant function. What is the relationship between the two? Neither man page mentions the other file. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP

Re: selected system files get zeroed out

es you mention are not files that should ever be written to except during the process of patching and updating. Therefore, if you can't correlate this artifact with a legitimate activity of this nature (by rpm or otherwise), you should probably suspect a cracked machine. - -d - -- David Ta

Re: Order of resolution

from Eduardo configuration... > >/etc/host.conf What is the relationship between that file and nsswitch.conf? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwU

Re: telenet access for root

sk, and can be run right from the floppy. Don't even need to "install" it. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP5q4r9BpdPKTBGtEQLeSAC

Re: POP and IMAP through NAT

them, the REJECT rule is proper. Oops, yes, thank you for the correction. -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP2Kwb9BpdPKTBGtEQKQRACfdSRIdkXLGNun1RQZhU

Re: POP and IMAP through NAT

raffic to port 113 on the floor (to avoid annoying ident timeouts), and make sure the machine doing the fetching knows who it is (its IP address MUST resolve). A simple entry in /etc/hosts is usually sufficient. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4

Re: how does umask and login account affect install of new programs?

like. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP01xr9BpdPKTBGtEQJjzACeKClaPbW1DJm3D2+NrxfJsG7LI5YAoMaf gHQFJOJzJ7gdwsy2OVvnlGvK =cIY2 -E

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

gt;kind of file type the print job is. Apparently LPRng doesn't communicate >that to cups. That just might solve a problem of my own; thank you ... -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comm

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

there. I got most of what I needed, including the basics for cups-lpd config, from this book: http://www.cups.org/book/index.html Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with p

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

using them without your help! Very slick. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP0Mor9BpdPKTBGtEQJIxACgnwxqc6phkzRwBEJ5uAPjWc75moQAoOu0 8PloffXpxOsTHBrG

Re: POP3 Server ??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Darryl Harvey wrote: >I am running RH7.3, it doesn't seem to come with a PoP3 server. (Why?) Sure it does; it's part of the UW IMAP package. 'locate pop3' would have shown you /usr/sbin/ipop3d. - -d - -- David Ta

Re: IPTables & Windows Messenger Voice/Video

rotocol though. Last I heard, you needed an experimental kernel module for this. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPxZN79BpdPKTBGtEQITWQCgyXGCDzP3k

Re: AT&T Broadband on RH7.3

PCDARGS in the network scripts ... figures there'd be an easier way. Thanks for the tip. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPwVNb9BpdPKTBGtEQK

Re: AT&T Broadband on RH7.3

d whatnot there. Speed, however, is very disappointing so far, compared to the Earthlink DSL link I lost when I moved. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pg

Re: installing X by non super user.

on a secure system is not a familiar concept to people who come from other operating systems. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPuxfr9BpdPK

Re: Question about PCMCIA networking

nterrupts might give you some clues. And try the other slot, too. The outputs of `lsmod' and `route -n', when the card is working vs. when it isn't, might be interesting as well. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGI

Re: Installing CUPS

included and installed by ./configure, so that's taken care of. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPp9Y79BpdPKTBGtEQLSwACgxtspMw2UbixWGLw/0vL

Re: Help. I need a traffic shaping program for RedHat (with GIUwould be great)

s, so I'd start there ... Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPe1tL9BpdPKTBGtEQJ3GQCePhCun0EVdrlwAPRvQhYK/kISQ/oAn3Lh gLdULHGYN+rMszCc2S9qqt/7 =t

Re: NFS, symlinks and installation trees

es. Use relative links, and it should work fine. For example: $ pwd /path/to/7.3 $ cd rpms $ for file in ../dist*/rpms/*; do ln -s $file; done Something like that, with 7.3/ exported. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PG

Re: Help. I need a traffic shaping program for RedHat (with GIUwould be great)

h yeah, free >would be great :-) Hmm ... the 'traffic shaper' and/or QoS components of the Linux kernel come to mind ... ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made

Re: drive spin for the impatient

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daniel wrote: >you know how a lot of hard drives are designed to "spin down" when they're >not being used? is there a way to turn that off in redhat 7.3? man hdparm. -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.

Re: missing lpr on Redhat 6.0->7.3 upgrade on Pentium 4

hipping CUPS (kudos!) in 7.3. I have no experience yet with their shipped installation, but you might investigate whether you got that as your default print system, and whether it displaced other utilities. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp --

Re: mozilla rc3 installation

ut needing a specific version of Mozilla. I'd just grab the binary package -- which includes mail, chat, and other toys -- from mozilla.org and unroll it in /usr/local. Done. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: Error in hard disk...How can I test?

few extra for a margin of safety) and continue to use the disk for quite a while. I do this for old service laptops. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made

Re: mozilla rc3 installation

uild almost all user and server software from scratch, but I even I draw the line at the fire dreathing bragon. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-

Re: ReiserFS for root partition

heresay. I'll leave open my original request for links to hard info. Thanks for the note. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comm

Re: ReiserFS for root partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anand Buddhdev wrote: >Yes I realise that, and I know some of the reasons why RedHat prefers us >to use ext3. If someone can smack me with a link to an exposition of the above, I'd be interested in the discussion. Thank you -d

Re: Linux box won't stop beeping

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manzabar wrote: >So why am I writing this e-mail? Because since I did that about every 2 >minutes the box has been beeping at me and I don't know how to make it >stop. Oh, so THAT's what this button does! I'll stop it

Re: Do NOT mirror updates daily! (was Re: Hacked again...)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: >Mirroring daily seriously increases the bandwidth drain on the mirror >servers It wouldn't, if more of them supported rsync! I'm surprised that so few do. - -d - -- David Talkingto

Re: Hacked again...

only my language >which is at fault; my iptables is competently set up. I figured as much ... just didn't want to let that confuse the unwary. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Hacked again...

T/masquerading does. iptables can do both, but please don't confuse them, nor rely on NAT to protect you. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPNbz6r9

Re: reboot & shutdown problem

hardware. In the former case, 'chkconfig apmd on'. In the latter, just turn off the box when you get to that point. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made

Re: OT:Re: RAW Sockets

emed slower than usual, or have you heard it squeaking? You might need to squirt some lightweight oil in your ethernet jacks. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp

Re: newbie PCMCIA question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Potter wrote: >I am using my notebook to get used to Linux. Everything works except >for my PCMCIA NIC. >It calls for module 3C575_cb.0 Are you using a 575? It's supported right out of the box. Just plug it in. - -

Re: I did not attack other's machine!!!!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Canary wrote: >Oh yeah, and what David said. > >I hate it when he shows me up. :-) And that was pre-coffee, too, I wantcha to know ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -

Re: Install kernel source

t is, but it's raw. You can configure it by digging the appropriate file out of configs/ in the kernel source dir, copying it to .config in the parent dir, then 'make (old|x|menu)config'. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEG

Re: Setting time display

imeconfig. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPNAzrr9BpdPKTBGtEQKdsgCeJl37/IvuxFIgsnua5Z2ZKrIVMiMAoKzy akBYRHEvawa0P67Ug9XJgcRq =uIFq -END PGP

Re: script help

s/^BOOTPROT0.*/BOOTPROTO=dhcp/ } Or was that a trick question ... ? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPM8i5b9BpdPKTBGtEQKf2QCggZuKqO8jtrDv2b+04il0PB7

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