Re: Funny problem with wu-ftpd on RH 5.1

1998-06-26 Thread GateKeepeR News
hmm, this is odd. It may be sendmail is using a UID that is used by ftp. On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Nemeth Laszlo wrote: |Grant Bayley wrote: | |> On thing was, when I checked in the process listing, ftp was showing up as |> "sendmail", as follows: |> |> ftp295 0.0 1.1 1360 756 ? S

Re: No more HTML mail messages

1998-06-26 Thread GateKeepeR News
I must apologize to Shawn for coming down on him for replying so late to these. He obviously had a good reason for the delayed response, and I respect the fact that he still replied even if a week later... Bryan On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: |I'm no longer in that thread. F

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-24 Thread GateKeepeR News
This was over a LONG time ago, I would suggest you drop it. On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: |-Original Message- |From: M. Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 8:54 AM |Subject: Re: HTML-formatted mail | | |>What

Re: Funny problem with wu-ftpd on RH 5.1

1998-06-23 Thread GateKeepeR News
Umm actually it looks more like sendmail is running as the user "ftp".. sendmail sets a default UID to run as, so if it is the same UID as ftp, well thats what would show up. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.. Bryan On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, William T Wilson wrote: |On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Gran

Re: Help with subnetting

1998-06-23 Thread GateKeepeR News
You know, i get the same thing.. then ipfwadm doesnt work.. If you get anything let me know! Bryan On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Alexander Woodby wrote: |I've this computer on xxx.xxx.xxx.240 subnet (I have the whole class C) | |>From /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 | |DEVICE=eth0 |IPA

Re: Mailing to redhat-list -> Returned mail: Can't create output: E rror 0?

1998-06-23 Thread GateKeepeR News
Okay, maybe I should explain a little further should this happen to anyone else. Sendmail ships default with the procmail filter enabled (who knows what it does). But, sendmail got slammed when someone broke into my machine. That was not even the main problem. The problem was, that I had a perl sc

Re: Mailing to redhat-list -> Returned mail: Can't create output: Error 0?

1998-06-23 Thread GateKeepeR News
Ahh yes. I must apologize, this was me. Someone hacked my machine a few nights ago. Sendmail got a little upset and decided to yell at everyone. All better now, and once again, I apologize for the errors.. Bryan On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dan Cornilescu wrote: |Are you guys getting the u

RPM verify?

1998-06-21 Thread GateKeepeR News
Awhile ago someone posted a script they use to verify all the RPMs installed on their machine (in case their machine was "hacked") and had the results mailed to them. I cant seem to find the command to do that. I know how to put it in a cron script, but not the RPM part.. Thanks Bryan -

Vgetty

1998-06-21 Thread GateKeepeR News
Is there anyplace that I might find some good documentation on setting up mgetty and more importantly vgetty? A simple answering machine would be good, multiple boxes even better.. Thanks.. Bryan On another note, I am looking for a program that wil check a portmaster for a certain user,

Telnetting into

1998-06-21 Thread GateKeepeR News
Hi, Looking for a way to setup a script so I can telnet into a certain port on my box, it would prompt for a username, I would type a user and press enter, then it would prompt for a message, i would type it and press enter. Then it would take that and maybe use the write command to write it to th

RE: sendmail-8.9.0

1998-06-18 Thread GateKeepeR News
I know this is a lte reply, but I have installed that RPM and it seems to be working. The ip_allow file is now /etc/mail/access (look in /etc/mail to see all the others). My problem is that there are *.db (access.db, etc.) files in there. Anyone know how to get this thing ot work? I just now added

Real Audio

1998-06-17 Thread GateKeepeR News
Where can I find the non-expiring real audio/video server at? Thanks.. Bryan P.S. If anyone has a site with FP98 extensions in RPM format, I'd appreciate it if you sent it to me :) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedH

Frontpage and PNserver

1998-06-16 Thread GateKeepeR News
Hi, Where can I find an RPM of the Frontpage extensions? Also, I know I probably missed this already, but where do I find the updated RPM of pnserver (you know, the one that HASN'T expired :) )? Thanks a bunch.. Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: Can anyone help with FAT32 mounting?

1998-06-15 Thread GateKeepeR News
umm, try mkdir /D ? On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Doug Smoak wrote: |I'm still trying to mount FAT32 partitions under RH5.0 w/2.0.34 kernel. | |Here's a session "transcript". | |First the kernel version: | |[root@localhost /root]# uname -r |2.0.34 | | |Then fdisk output: | |Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads,

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-14 Thread GateKeepeR News
pond personally... Bryan On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: |-Original Message- |From: GateKeepeR News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: Chris Fishwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 11:20 PM |Subject: Re:

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-13 Thread GateKeepeR News
I agree completely.. And (as I have told my customers) email is ONLY for text and not for transferring 10 meg files! And they wonder why it takes 3 hours to get their email..Take us back to the beginning of the internet when everyone was using lynx and pine through a dial-up shell account.. On S

Re: cdrom will not mount

1998-06-13 Thread GateKeepeR News
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdf /mnt/cdrom try that.. On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Maxwell Smart wrote: |Robert Hillier wrote: |> |> Hi All, |> When I originally installed RH version 5.0 I couldn't get my |> soundblaster to play CD's. I ran sndconfig and after selecting an IRQ |> and DMA it worked. L

WM RPMS

1998-06-13 Thread GateKeepeR News
Does anyone know where I can find some RPMS of all the WM utilities, like the ppp, net, and the load monitor? Thanks! Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists

Re: just a quick "does this ?????? work with xwindows?"

1998-06-12 Thread GateKeepeR News
I'm using the FireGL but I had to get a diff X server.. I used Xfree with the permedia2 from SuSE and it works great.. On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote: | I'm about to upgrade my graphic's accel board and i've got it down |to either a FireGL Pro 1000 or a Millenium II..

Networking

1998-06-12 Thread GateKeepeR News
I think I may need a good reference for networking. I have my PPP connection running just fine, but I cannot reach anything on my LAN. My network card is working properly, but I do not know how to set it up to access anything locally.. Can someone just give me some quick tips? Thanks.. Br

snmpwalk?

1998-06-12 Thread GateKeepeR News
Does anyone know where I can get an rpm with snmpwalk in it? I need it for an MRTG script.. Thanks! Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: m

Re: Pine, fetchmail...

1998-06-11 Thread GateKeepeR News
Just thought I'd say I get those delays also.. Quite annoying actually.. And I swear it seems to be a lot more than 4-6 secs :)... Bryan On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Zoki wrote: |1/ Using Pine to read my system inbox of up to 1200 mails after each |download, I remark sometimes a delay between

RE: Autotshutdown...?

1998-06-04 Thread GateKeepeR News
I have APM setup on my MB, and in my kernel, yet shutdown -h STILL does not auto-poweroff.. Any ideas why? PII-233 w/Epox board in ATX case.. Bryan On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> You must have Advanced Power Management support in the kernel, |>"Power off on Shutdow

xsysinfo?

1998-05-31 Thread GateKeepeR News
Anyone know where I can find RPMS of xsysinfo and xwatch for Redhat 5.0? Thanks! B. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autotshutdown...?

1998-05-31 Thread GateKeepeR News
Ahh, but this does not always work. I tried to set that up, but it did not work :( Any ways to get it to work for all boards? On Sun, 31 May 1998, Ron Golan wrote: |On Sun, 31 May 1998, Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: | |> Hi all, |> |> well is it possible that on shutdown the PC will shot off a

Re: hmm

1998-05-31 Thread GateKeepeR News
Just though I'd say I agree on the HTML in email. I use pine, and its not worth my time to view the attachment. So people, please, don't use HTML in your email, it is just a waste of time. Just my opinion ;) Bryan |Speaking of flames, some of us (ok, just me, for all I know), have a thin

Re: multiple monitors

1998-05-31 Thread GateKeepeR News
depends on the X server you use and the video card.. On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Rick wrote: |I was just wandering, does linux (more spicifically RH4) support mliple |monitors, in a silimar way to the upcomming win98, and if so where can i |find some reading material? | |Thanks |Rick | | |-- | PLEA

X almost ex-X

1998-05-31 Thread GateKeepeR News
Awhile back I kinda messed up my symlinks to X, therefore rendering it useless. Someone I completely lost startx, nothing worked, etc etc etc. So, I just pulled all my X stuff out (rpm -e) and grabbed the latest from the hurricane/contrib at redhat (yes I'm running 5.0). I alse need the SuSE serve

tcpdump etc

1998-05-31 Thread GateKeepeR News
I saw on the list awhile back about using tcpdump as a sniffer. Any docs on this that someone can point me to? Thanks Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsu

Re: Expect-ing

1998-05-30 Thread GateKeepeR News
Just tried it, didn't do anything different :( On Sat, 30 May 1998, Marco Shaw wrote: |When you execute the expect script from the command line, write it like |this: | |expect.script 2>&1 /dev/null | |Someone here will correct me if I'm wrong in my syntax! | | |-- | PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ

Expect-ing

1998-05-30 Thread GateKeepeR News
I recently setup an expect script, with the help of Mike Lewis :) But, I was curious. When using the script, it shows "spawn telnet blah.vlah.com" and, if I am lagging a lot, it shows the password before even connecting. Is there anyway to hide all of that until I am completely connected? Thanks!

Re: Scripts...

1998-05-29 Thread GateKeepeR News
Umm, I just tried that and it seemed to work just fine.. On Thu, 28 May 1998, Zoki wrote: |In DOS I use small batch files to express my lazyness and type as few |commands as possible. Super practical. I want to do the same in Linux but |I'm making a thinking mistake somewhere... | |Ex: | S

kernel errors?

1998-05-26 Thread GateKeepeR News
I just ran a make mrproper and then tried a make menuconfig but it gave me the following errors.. [root@postal linux]# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.31/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -O2 -W

SCript?

1998-05-18 Thread GateKeepeR News
Can anyone point me to where I could get some help writing a script to add a mass number of users from a comma separated list? I do not have any (well, VERY little) programming experience and I need to get this done as soon as possible. Thanks for your time. Bryan -- PLEASE read the

RE: startx/X links..

1998-05-18 Thread GateKeepeR News
ay-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: |> Ok, I got that to work, but now it doesn't want to read my .xinitrc! I |> had everything working, and don't know what I screwed up.. But now I |> just get the grey screen.. and my .xinitrc is jsut as it should because |> I was using it a few hours ago!

RE: startx/X links..

1998-05-17 Thread GateKeepeR News
| |On 17-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: |> Well, somehow I screwed up my symbolic links for X and I cannot get X to |> start. Can anyone send me what they are supposed to be? I'd appreciate |> it! Thanks! | |# cd /usr/X11R6/bin |# ln -sf X_SVGA X | |where "X_SVGA" represent

startx/X links..

1998-05-16 Thread GateKeepeR News
Well, somehow I screwed up my symbolic links for X and I cannot get X to start. Can anyone send me what they are supposed to be? I'd appreciate it! Thanks! Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errat

RE: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread GateKeepeR News
Alright! Well I got it, but how do I use it? wasn't it like patch p0< blah or something? On Sat, 16 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: | |On 16-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: |> I have heard a lot about this, but cannot seem to find it. Anyone want |> to point me in the right directio

2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread GateKeepeR News
I have heard a lot about this, but cannot seem to find it. Anyone want to point me in the right direction? (I've tried kernel.org with no luck) Thanks.. Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

adding users?

1998-05-15 Thread GateKeepeR News
Hello, I need to add a large (~700) number of users to linux for use as a mailserver. I really have no scripting knowledge whatsoever. My boss doesn't believe that Linux can handle our email (we are using NT and SLmail *cringe* right now). I have setup the server, but I need a way to add all the u

users and passwords

1998-05-15 Thread GateKeepeR News
Is there any way to make it so a user does not need a password to login? ANd how do you disable cracklib (I think my passwords are creative enough)? Thanks!! Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Err

RE: RPM problems -- please lend a hand...

1998-05-15 Thread GateKeepeR News
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Re: RPM problems -- please lend a hand...

1998-05-15 Thread GateKeepeR News
rpm -ivh --force file.i386.rpm that should take care of it, at least I hope it is the right one.. either that or --nodeps Bryan On Fri, 15 May 1998, Van Tate wrote: |Hey everyone...when I am installing some stuff for the kde desktop and |for numerous other things I keep getting the

RE: expect? (offtopic)

1998-05-14 Thread GateKeepeR News
tring" |expect "some string you expect" |interact | |Hope that answers your question, |Mike | |-Original Message- |From: GateKeepeR News [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 2:40 AM |To:Fred Lenk |Subject: Re: expect? (offtopic) | |Well, it seems to work

Re: partitions?

1998-05-14 Thread GateKeepeR News
assume you are using sendmail) to use |any directory for the mail files. I believe /var/spool/mail has been the |adopted standard and is used in all precompiled binaries. | |-Original Message- |From: GateKeepeR News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: Redhat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Dat

partitions?

1998-05-14 Thread GateKeepeR News
Hello, I have 4 partitions as follows: / = 100mb /home = 1gb /usr = 600mb swap = 128mb This is a mail server, so I am guessing I screwed up and made the partitions the wrong size. mailboxes reside in /var/spool/mail/ if I am not mistaken. So I will most likely run out of room very quickly. Any i

RE: expect? (offtopic)

1998-05-14 Thread GateKeepeR News
t;my reply string" |expect "some string you expect" |interact | |Hope that answers your question, |Mike | |-Original Message- |From: GateKeepeR News [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 2:40 AM |To:Fred Lenk |Subject: Re: expect? (offtopic) | |

Re: expect? (offtopic)

1998-05-14 Thread GateKeepeR News
Well, it seems to work at first, but it closes the telnet session.. How do I get it to just stop and let me do what I want to do? On Wed, 13 May 1998, Fred Lenk wrote: |Well, I use expect in my dialup email server, but not to establish |the connection. I'm using the following to dialup: | |#P

RE: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread GateKeepeR News
I like Outlook Express, honestly. It is one of the best mail clients I have seen (besides PINE :) ). Although Outlook Full just plain SUCKS!! Bryan On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Greg Thomas wrote: | |> I am just a newbie here on the RH list, so please excuse any bad manners |> of crashing int

re: CPUs revisited

1998-04-08 Thread GateKeepeR News
Ahh, but the PII is actually just a transitional piece, made to fill in the time between the P classic and the next chip. Not to mention it just sucks compared to all the hype about it. On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Larry Lade wrote: |At 09:16 a 04/08/98 +1000, you wrote: |>>I am trying to find out if th

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-08 Thread GateKeepeR News
Whoa there, a PPro is far superior to a PII.. I have compared them, PII is nothing. I would get the PPro ( I would have if I didn't need 95) B. On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote: |Hi everyone | |I know this is not redHat specific but I am thinking of upgrading. |I am trying to fin

Re: pcAnywhere Express and Linux?

1998-04-07 Thread GateKeepeR News
Oh, I thank you for this news! hahah, I have been looking for something like this (my boss inists on adminning our NT server from pcanywhere).. I really hope this thing actually works! :):) Bryan On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Seif Zadeh Hossein wrote: |Hi there, |It has come to my attention that

Re: ICQ for Java

1998-04-05 Thread GateKeepeR News
Wow, I never even got the thing to run. just sits there and looks at me, without opening any windows. :) I had it running under RH 4.2, but haven't yet under 5... B. On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Peter J Spalding wrote: |Hello; |This may be pushing it a bit... But has anyone successfully install

Re: in.inetd?

1998-03-25 Thread GateKeepeR News
Hey, thanks! Now about the identd, why should I install that on my system? I have no problem doing it, just curious as to why I would need it. Thanks again! B. On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Borek Lupomesky wrote: |On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, GateKeepeR News wrote: | |> Why do I keep getting th

in.inetd?

1998-03-24 Thread GateKeepeR News
Why do I keep getting these mesages in /var/log/messages? And how do I fix whatever it is? Thanks.. Mar 24 03:28:20 koalagate inetd[825]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Mar 24 03:29:29 koalagate inetd[856]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Mar 24 03:36:33

Re: ICQJava

1998-03-23 Thread GateKeepeR News
ather than java |development so this solution worked for me. Not the best soultion but |it was effective. | |-KHD | |On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, GateKeepeR News wrote: | |> Getting problems with ICQ. I am running Redhat 5.0. It seems to have |> installed properly, but when I run it I get the follo

ICQJava

1998-03-22 Thread GateKeepeR News
Getting problems with ICQ. I am running Redhat 5.0. It seems to have installed properly, but when I run it I get the following errors: bkosch@koalagate {/usr/local/ICQJava}$ICQ /usr/lib/jdk-1.1.5/lib/Linux/green_threads/libawt.so: undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale (libawt.so) java.lang.UnsatisfiedLin