Re: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
boot into windows and run a thorough scan on the drive using scandisk. if all is well then I'd say there is a bug of some sort in the vfat module. - Matt - Original Message - From: "Patrick Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:54 PM Subject

Re: Non-destuctive hard drive testing

2003-03-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
Boot from some other device. I suggest http://lbt.linuxcare.com/ it is an ISO you burn to your CD-ROM. Then you can boot from it. Anyway, after you've booted so that no partition you need to check is needed to be mounted (eg. the "/" partition) then you can run badblocks on the device you need t

Re: USB printer doesn't work

2003-03-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
It sounds like you have an empty /etc/printcap file. I am just going out on a limb here, but have you tried configuring the printer? Try running printconf-gui from an X window shell. Then be sure to hit apply each time before testing it. HTH, Matt - Original Message - From: "Kleiner

Re: DNS & Bind

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Bradford
Whoa whoa whoa... there is very good reason why the other suggestions for how to fix your problem wouldn't work. Because they won't. :-) If you want to create dev sites for the things then you're gonna have to edit the primary.tcc zone file and your web servers configuration. You need to add thi

Re: How do I make 'startx' launch KDE ?

2002-10-22 Thread Matthew Bradford
edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop change GNOME to KDE save exit editor startx and when you're in X... read the manual. This is a very well documented question. Learn, enjoy, and most of all have fun. :-) - Matt - Original Message - From: "MET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: X-Windows virtual desktop setup on kiosk

2002-10-18 Thread Matthew Bradford
what will you have running? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:34 AM Subject: X-Windows virtual desktop setup on kiosk > Hi everybody, > > We have a non-administerer X-Windows display (no mouse, no keyboard) > (both W

Re: kernal: Neighbor table overflow

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Bradford
Well, weird IRQ's aside, it really looks as though you're having a problem with cinik. (The slapper variant I told you guys about a couple days ago) Go into the /tmp directory and do a "ll -a". You'll probably find you have a bunch of hidden (beginning with a ".") files in there with the cinik n

Another Slapper variant

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Bradford
For those that may not have heard, there is already a new version of slapper out in the wild. I run multiple servers and had forgotten I ran SSL on one of them, so I got infected with it. :-( Anyway the new variant is called: cinik. It stores itself in the same directory (/tmp) but now all the

Re: dhcp server

2002-06-20 Thread Matthew Bradford
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/ and excellent resource on setting all that up. For something like this the web is your best friend. :-) - Matt On Thursday 20 June 2002 03:57 pm, Henning, Brian wrote: > Hello- > What step do i need to take to set up a dhcp server on redhat? > I want the

Re: can not boot up

2002-06-19 Thread Matthew Bradford
When the boot screen says to press I for interactive startup... do so. :-) Then just don't start sendmail. When you get to a prompt log in as normal and then track down just how big that sendmail file is. If you have to rename the S80sendmail file in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d to K80sendmail. (or make the

Re: accessing samba shares

2002-06-19 Thread Matthew Bradford
>From your samba server box type the following: smbclient -L where is the name you gave your server in smb.conf. If it cannot connect... make sure you have the server started. If the services are started then there is something wrong with your configuration. Without seeing the file it is ha

Re: Mailman

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Bradford
Well, this list uses mailman. I use mailman for my stuff and I like it lots. :-) It is just a well written app IMHO. - Matt - Original Message - From: "Ryan Hairyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: Mailman > Hello, > > I was

Re: NeoMagic 128(XD?) / NM2160 XFree86 Problem

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Bradford
whew.. that was a mouth full. :-) AFAIK iptables is the 2.4 kernels version of ipchains. So if you get a 2.4 kernel for 7.0 then you might be ok with that. There is also nothing against tryin to install the kernel from 7.3 and iptables from 7.3 on your 7.0 box. Then again, 7.0 is probably Red

Re: Unistall Grub

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Bradford
If you're installing another boot loader then just install it over grub. If you're getting rid of linux in favor of some other OS... then you'll need to check that OS for how to rewrite the boot sector. for windows stuff just put in a win98 boot floppy and run fdisk /mbr - Original Message

Re: Total Backup of a system (RH6.1)

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Bradford
.1) > How long would this take? > I could use removable ide trays. > Make this a monthly thing > > > -Original Message- > > From: Matthew Bradford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 2:43 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Printing problems

2002-06-15 Thread Matthew Bradford
What kind of printer do you have? Do you have a bidirectional printer cable? are you printing over the network? Is the printer port set up for the right data transfer mode in BIOS? - Matt - Original Message - From: "Aravind Vinnakota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: File server headache

2002-06-15 Thread Matthew Bradford
Just a couple ideas... 1. Make sure you can read and write to the directory as a normal user when you log in locally. If you can't then you need to check your perms again. 2. In fstab try just using Defaults instead of rw, (etc) (probably won't do any good... but i know mine works with this.)

Re: Disk Partition Help

2002-06-15 Thread Matthew Bradford
Title: Message One thing you could do is shut down your mail services and simply make a symlink to another mount on your machine that has a lot of free space.  So basically if /drive1 has a lot of space on it then you'd do the following:   move all files from /var/spool (directories too) to

Re: Plug and play

2002-06-13 Thread Matthew Bradford
I have no clue why this got posted again.  weird.  I got the responses though... sorry.    - Matt   - Original Message - From: Matthew Bradford To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:19 PM Subject: Plug and play Ok, I have asked this question

Plug and play

2002-06-13 Thread Matthew Bradford
Ok, I have asked this question before... maybe there was just too much info the first time:   Is there any way of disabling PNP in the 2.4.18-3 kernel (RH 7.3 out of the box) without having to recompile the whole thing?   Please help.       - Matt  

Re: IPTables Routing Help

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
This is the minimum that you need for a NAT.  This just turns on network address translation.  This offers no other security.  This works on my 7.2 box and it should work with 7.3 as well.  ipchains was phased out with the 2.4 kernel (7.1 release i believe)    - Matt   modprobe ipt_MASQUERAD

Re: rec doesn't work

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
What is preventing you from just using grecord then? :-) - Matt - Original Message - From: "Antoine Jacoutot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:49 PM Subject: Re: rec doesn't work > On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:19,

Re: DNS Help Needed

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
Ok, a few things you need in order to be recognized by the world of the 'net: 1. Your name servers need to be referenced by the top level domain. (eg. Internic) You can tell this by doing a whois on your domain. (without www or anything attached to it) 2. Make sure you can resolve your name f

plug and play

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
Ok, I have asked this question before... maybe there was just too much info the first time:   Is there any way of disabling PNP in the 2.4.18-3 kernel (RH 7.3 out of the box) without having to recompile the whole thing?   Please help.       - Matt  

Re: Graphics Display badly configured in RedHat 7.2 --help-- :(

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
This is smelling like a frame buffering issue. When I was running the 3.x XFree I had this same issue with my Dell Inspirion. I actually had to go in and fix it in the source myself. I found out later someone else had already done that. So maybe someone has done this for your latop? Do a goog

Re: rec doesn't work

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
i have a SB live as well... and I know the drivers are quite limited with it. So perhaps recording just isn't done yet? That seems a reasonable explanation to me. - Matt - Original Message - From: "Antoine Jacoutot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: printer failing

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
n Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:31:25PM -0400, Matthew Bradford wrote: > > It looks like your host name is "buddy". You need to add a line to your > > /etc/resolv.conf file to the effect of: > > should read /etc/hosts > > > > >

Re: Make root account?

2002-06-12 Thread Matthew Bradford
check out sudo.  it should be installed automagically in RH7 and up. - Original Message - From: Jesse Angell To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 1:33 AM Subject: Make root account? I need to make an account to be able to use the su command to

Re: data recovery : Help

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Bradford
02 8:28 PM Subject: Re: data recovery : Help > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Matthew Bradford wrote: > > > At best you'd be able to recover data that hasn't already been written > > over. However there is definately no easy way to do this and companies > > actually get p

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Bradford
Paul, Check out the man page for rpm (man rpm) and look up the part that talks about the --root option. This should be what you're looking for. - matt - Original Message - From: "Paul Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:13 PM Subject:

Re: printer failing

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Bradford
It looks like your host name is "buddy". You need to add a line to your /etc/resolv.conf file to the effect of: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxbuddy buddy.yourhost.name where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address assigned to your computer (not 127.0.0.1) and yourhost.name is the rest of the hostname you ha

Re: data recovery : Help

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Bradford
At best you'd be able to recover data that hasn't already been written over.  However there is definately no easy way to do this and companies actually get paid $1000/KB to recover data like this.  (no joke... per KILOBYTE)   Sorry, I wish I could be more help to you.     - Matt   - O

Plug and Play in RH 7.3

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Bradford
Hello, I am having an issue with RH 7.3 Basically the laptop I have it on is an older model and it needs PNP in order to make the sound work on it. It appears to be SB compatible. (Its a Texas Instruments TravelMate 7100T) Thing is that since the PNP stuff is built right into the kernel it doe

Re: Excessive disk activities...

2002-06-10 Thread Matthew Bradford
If you run top on your system you should see that updatedb is running. This happens with IDE drives as well. AFAIK it helps you to find files quicker when you do searches. I am not certain though. I am pretty sure that is what you're seeing... because that does do a lot of drive work. - Matt

Plug and Play RH7.3

2002-06-10 Thread Matthew Bradford
Hello, I am having an issue with RH 7.3 Basically the laptop I have it on is an older model and it needs PNP in order to make the sound work on it. It appears to be SB compatible. (Its a Texas Instruments TravelMate 7100T) Thing is that since the PNP stuff is built right into the kernel it doe

Re: probl after upgrading to 7.3

2002-06-10 Thread Matthew Bradford
Make sure you have your firewall set up correctly. To test try the following: ipchains -f then try and connect. (this will clear your rule set) If it still doesn't work then you have other issues, but I think that should do it. - Matt - Original Message - From: "Avi Aumick" <[EMAIL

Re: Diableing KDE and starting GNOME

2002-06-09 Thread Matthew Bradford
Ok, here is a way of doing it since I haven't seen anyone else respond to you yet. It sounds like you are using a graphical boot. I would suggest turning that off. (RH6.2 works with it... but a normal text logon always worked better for me when I ran that version) If you decide to do that t

Re: WAN Monitoring

2002-06-05 Thread Matthew Bradford
Hi there, I know whenever this happens on a PC of mine it is always because the routing table is funky. (eg. two default routes on the same interface) Perhaps those should be checked to make sure your routes aren't overlapping? - Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: Moose Mag

Re: POP3 Server ??

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Bradford
It is in the imap rpm. When it is installed it will put the entries into your xinetd.d directory and you have to enable it from there and restart xinetd like so: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart - Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: "Kent Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Question about PCMCIA networking

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Bradford
Are there any ideas about this? I hate to be a pest, but I really don't know where else to go with it. Any ideas on who might know more about this? Is the email address of the person who wrote pcnet_cs.o available? - Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: "Matthe

Re: Question about PCMCIA networking

2002-06-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
"pcnet_cs" opts "hw_addr=0x00,0xe0,0x98,0x88,0x3a,0x2b" I feel like I am getting somewhere... thing is though.. this low level stuff is a bit out of my league. I can troubleshoot it, but I have no idea how to fix it. - Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: "

Re: Linux-friendly MP3 player?

2002-06-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
I think he's talkin about a hardware device MP3 player. Like Apple's thing. Although I don't know off hand which ones would work in Linux, I am sure you could get a USB based one to work in later distros. - Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: "Timothy Lee Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about PCMCIA networking

2002-06-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: "ABrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:47 AM Subject: Re: Question about PCMCIA networking > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 01:34:48 -0400 > "Matthew Bradford" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Question about PCMCIA networking

2002-06-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
-P - Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: "David Talkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:41 AM Subject: Re: Question about PCMCIA networking > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Bradf

Re: Question about PCMCIA networking

2002-06-02 Thread Matthew Bradford
One more thing: I know the slot isn't bad because it was _just working_ with that card and I tried a modem in there and it worked fine. Also I know the card is still good because it works fine in another laptop running Windows98. - Matt Bradford - Original Message - From: &qu

Question about PCMCIA networking

2002-06-02 Thread Matthew Bradford
I am totally stumped. Here is the issue: I am running an NEC Versa 5080/64mb RAM/3gb HD and I just put a fresh install of RH7.3 on it. Now here is where issues come in... I have a SMC8040TX network card which is supposed to be NE2000 compliant. So it just automagically loads the pcnet_cs.o mod