ssh Wierdness

2003-01-08 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Hey all, This is probably something silly, but when I upgraded to RH8.0 I noticed that my man pages look really odd. It's like there are extra, strange characters in there that weren't there before. sample from [man cp] +++ Mandatory arguments to long options

RE: Unable to telnet to redhat 6.2

2002-12-20 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Here's what I would doThere's probably a more Unix way to do this, but I not a very Unix type of guy.   1) Make sure that you can ping the address from the client.  If yes, then move to next step...otherwise fix...   2) Make sure that Telnet is set to run at startup.  Type "ntsysv" at t

NAT and Redhat 8.0

2002-12-16 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Is there an easy way to turn NAT on with redhat 8. I have it setup stock with 2 Nics, one pointed at the cable modem and the other at my internal lan...I have the medium firewall stuff started... and now I'd like to offer up addresses to my internal network (192.168.100.xxx) Thanks Carl Engstrom

RE: Redhat 8.0 Questions

2002-12-12 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I guess I need to clarify. I'm using 2 addresses from my IPS for a number of reasons. I can't have the RH system running as a client off the router. Both addresses are in fact dynamic from my provider, thus the need for dyndns. So my config looks more like: ISP <-> Cable Modem <-> D-Link <-> Sw

Redhat 8.0 Questions

2002-12-12 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I have a couple of questions that I would love to see if anyone can answer...Answer any or all of them...   Configuration: I'm Running Stock RH 8.0 (Fresh install) on an X86 system.  (2) NIC cards one attached to hub with cable modem and D-Link Router, other connected to switch and interna

RE: Firewall ports for NFS

2002-11-06 Thread Engstrom_Carl
My first time using grep! grep nfs /etc/services nfs 2049/tcpnfsd nfs 2049/udpnfsd /etc/services is where I go to find out which ports are being used by what services... Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use grep in a sentence. carl -Origina

RE: Recommendation for photo album software

2002-11-04 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I used Dreamweaver and the Flash addin, it comes with a simple one click photo album setup. I'm not sure if it's what you are looking for, but it works for my home clips. carl -Original Message- From: Gordon Charrick [mailto:gmc@;gmc.tzo.net] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:04 AM To:

FW: GUI for Firewall admin

2002-10-30 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Hi All, Anyone have a good suggestion for an ipchains firewall admin program that has a nice GUI interface? I've tried lokkit, and the firewall adm in KDE, but they aren't very easy to use or flexible. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks Carl -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscri

RE: RedHat 8.0 and USB Hard Drive

2002-10-03 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Try these, I haven't done this myself, and I'm not sure about getting the Version 2.0 part of the USB to work correctly, but... http://bravin.home.cern.ch/bravin/usbide/usbide.html usb 2.0 stuff that I haven't read... http://www.linux-usb.org/usb2.html I hope you have some time on your hands.

RE: RedHat 8.0 and USB Hard Drive

2002-10-03 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I think that you will find...if I read your messages correctly...that your greatest obstacle will be mounting an NTFS partioned disk under Linux at all...Here is a link they may help shed some light. http://www.getlinuxonline.com/omp/distro/RedHat/ompntfs2.html If, instead, you are planning to f

RE: ftp to RH through Win2k and XP

2002-09-30 Thread Engstrom_Carl
just an aside... I have Win2K and WinXP both FTPing to my server. The easiest way I have found to do this is to "Add Network Place". Follow the wizard and Viola...no cp, no dir or ls, just drag and drop goodness. It's a bit slow to connect and somewhat clunky, but it works for me. carl -

Note to Redhat, Installer needs a bit of help....just a bit.

2002-09-25 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I have spent the better part of three days trying to reinstall red-hat on my systems and thought that I'd offer up some feedback to the people who design the installation tools for RedHat. The reasons for the multiple installs are most likely hardware related problems, but I still haven't determi

RE: symlinks and ftp

2002-07-25 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Oops. Forgot to mention that I am now running redhat 7.3, with WuFTPd no modifications. -- I'm trying to get symbolic links to work over ftp and I can't figure it out. It used to work in older versions of RH, but no longer. Basically, I just want to be able to link some directories for several

symlinks and ftp

2002-07-25 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I'm trying to get symbolic links to work over ftp and I can't figure it out. It used to work in older versions of RH, but no longer. Basically, I just want to be able to link some directories for several mounted drives into my home directory so that I can access them when I log in. By the way, s

RE: Wierd maillogs - hackers perhaps?

2002-07-23 Thread Engstrom_Carl
first question...do you have pop3 running outside of your firewall? My guess is yes. Second question...do you need pop3 running outside of your firewall? hopefully not. I'd rethink your security setup... The names look to me like hackers...though Beer|Stylez seems like the friendly sort... ;-)

RE: Samba : Linux client to M$ Windows ?

2002-06-27 Thread Engstrom_Carl
The short answer is yes, you can access a M$ share from Linux. I have done this before with the smbmount command. It basically lets you mount a CIFS/SMB filesystem to the Linux server for local access. In my case I mounted a share, music folder, to my home directory, so that I could pull MP3 s

RE: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3?

2002-06-24 Thread Engstrom_Carl
thanks, for the great answer. I never knew about that command..."whichcd"...nice. carl -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED M

Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3?

2002-06-24 Thread Engstrom_Carl
What happened to SWAT? I couldn't find it anywhere in the standard installation of 7.3. Was it replaced with another GUI or did the folks at Redhat decide that smb.conf was so easy to configure manually that any other tools were useless? I looked for Ksamba and GnoSamba, but I couldn't find any

RE: 7.3 on VA Linux (mount: error 6 mounting)

2002-06-21 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I had a similar problem when I tried to install 7.3 on a generic server.  My initial issues related to Grub not booting.  I had a single IDE boot drive that wasn't liking the GRUB MBR or something like that.  It just booted to the Grub prompt.  I then tried to force Grub to boot using the ma

SWAT, Telnet and FTP not working in 7.3

2002-06-14 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I just upgraded to 7.3 and can't figure a couple things out.  In the other versions of RH, Telnet, Swat and FTP worked out of the box, but with 7.3 they appear to be brocken.   I HAVE INSTALLED THE PACKAGES FOR EACH SERVICE I HAVE STARTED AND RESTARTED EACH SERVICE     But I still can't co

Win2K and Samba

2002-06-14 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I'm frustrated and looking for help.  I've been trying to get my win2K client to use shares from my linux server for months (8 months) and have had no luck thus far.    Here's what I've got.   Client: Corporate Laptop (built with Win2K Pro) setup to access corp.company.com as the Domain se

Largest file size for Linux/Samba?

2002-06-13 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I'm trying to do a backup from my client to a samba server (stock redhat 7.3).  The last time I tried this, the backup stopped when the file reached 1GB.  I think this is because of a file size limitation.  Has this been overcome?  Any suggestions for software on the win2K side that would al

RE: samba and windows shares

2002-06-13 Thread Engstrom_Carl
sorry, laptop died... let's try this again. 1) [./ntsysv] I use this to make sure that the smb process is set to start when I boot the server. 2) [reboot] I know that there is some HUP kill restart type thing that could kickstart the processes without rebooting, but I alway forget what it is, so

RE: samba and windows shares

2002-06-13 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I installed RH 7.3 last weekend and Samba was working great! I'm not sure what you went through to set up the service, but for me it was as easy as this: 1) ./ntsysv (check to make sure thja -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2

Firewall setup

2002-06-11 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I'm in need of a bit of guidance.  I just installed RH7.3 on my server and am in the process of testing and configuring.  The one problem I've found is that the security schema has changed and I don't quite get it...   Simple questions:   1) Where is the firewall script? 2) Is there a GUI

RE: upgrading to 7.3

2002-05-30 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I would make sure to backup your important data before doing the upgrade. Either send it to tape, send it to another machine, or put it on a different physical drive and partition from the rest of your OS. Call me over cautious, but I can't tell you how many times I've fried my home directories a

HELP!!! RE: FW: New 7.3 Install leaves me at the GRUB prompt

2002-05-30 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Actually, I didn't select the boot password option. In fact, when I boot up, I go directly to a GRUB prompt, not a password challenge prompt. If I hit the [TAB] button, I can get a list of commands like: Kernel, boot, etc... I tried typing boot, but then it says to get the Kernel loaded... I t

New 7.3 Install leaves me at the GRUB prompt

2002-05-28 Thread Engstrom_Carl
My usual response to this type of error would be to reload (which I have done twice) and change hardware around a bit...But I'm wondering if anyone can help me figure out exactly what is going on here. I have a 6GB IDE HD on an AMD K6-200 processor and MoBo with 64MB ram. Dual 3Com Nics, Diamond

RE: How to start KDE

2002-04-16 Thread Engstrom_Carl
My guess is that you are looking for a way to start EITHER gnome OR KDE from the text interface. You can have only one "default" at startup...you can change the default when you want, but there is no facility that I know of that will launch one or the other depending one the users mood. I would

RE: How to start KDE

2002-04-16 Thread Engstrom_Carl
startx is the way I start it. You used to be able to go into Xconfigurator and set GUI as the default login. If you See Gnome instead of KDE you can go into the desktop settings and set KDE as the default X service. I think I said that right. carl -Original Message- From: Kjetil Tjens

Help with name issues DNS and Cox.net

2002-02-01 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Hi, I have been struggling with the changeover from Cox@home to Cox.net in the past week and I have hit a cross-roads. I need assistance with troubleshooting some DNS issues that I'm having. I'm running RH 7.1 with IPmasquerading and IPCHAINS. My problems are as follows: 1) Cox now requires D

Red Hat Beta ??

2001-12-12 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I'm planning on upgrading my home system from RH 7.0 to whatever the latest version is.  Is there a beta of anay realease after 7.2?    thanks Carl

RE: rc.firewall

2001-11-28 Thread Engstrom_Carl
My setup is simply, as follows: rc.firewall in the /etc/rc.d directory then I add the following line to my rc.local file: /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall everything works great and it's launched at the end of startup routine. this has worked for redhat 5.2, 6.0, 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1 carl -Original Me

SMP and Redhat.

2001-11-13 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I'm upgrading to a dual proc P2 333 system for my redhat server...but I have a few questions... 1) Does RedHat 7.2 support smp out of the box? 2) Can I split processes against the processors? 3) How much memory will i need? 4) Is this going to be a frustrating exercise (rhetorical)? thanks Carl