RE: Laptop for RH

2003-09-16 Thread Henderson, Todd L
I just found the website linux-laptop.net. It seems to have a pretty good listing. Haven't had time to completely review it. Does anyone have any experience with the LinuxCertified, Inc. advertiseing on the website? Thanks, Todd Henderson -Original Message- From: John Re

Laptop for RH

2003-09-16 Thread Henderson, Todd L
Title: Laptop for RH I'd like to find out what laptops work the best with RH 9.0 and if anyone has any recommendations. Thanks, Todd Henderson

xdm/iptables

2003-09-11 Thread Todd Karwoski
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Re: SATA and RH 9 Woes

2003-09-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Aly Dharshi wrote: > I hope that you are well. We have recently purchased a Dell Optiplex > GX 270 with a 120GB SATA disk. RH 9 seems to not recognize this drive > and doesn't allow me to proceed with a successful installation of Linux. You might want to check the kernel

Crash leads to problems with USB

2003-08-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
After a crash caused by my own putzing around with swap files, USB no longer seems to work on my system. I reinstalled the dev RPM, and seem to have the necessary modules loaded: ehci-hcd 20072 0 (unused) usb-ohci 21704 0 (unused) usbcore

Re: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-31 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Pifer wrote: > Thanks, I'll try that. Do you know if there are RPMs for bind 9 on > Redhat 8.0? Been googling and the only one I've found is from Suse. Check your installation discs. Bind 9.2.1 is what ships with RedHat

pam authentication failure using openssh-3.1p1-8 rpms

2003-07-29 Thread Todd
and unless I'd tell it to ignore lines like that, I'll see this for every time someone logs in via ssh. I'd hesitate to have logcheck ignore it since then I might miss auth failures that I do want to know about (like someone trying to hammer their way in). Anyone shed any l

Re: RPC question

2003-07-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Joe Stuart wrote: > kernel: RPC: impossible RPC reply size 0! Sunspots? Reality TV overload? Port scanning? If you keep seeing them, run tcpdump or ethereal--or call Geraldo to investigate. Otherwise, it will likely remain a mystery. -- Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks destroying p

Re: Firewall proxies and ssh, cvs

2003-07-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Chad Skinner wrote: > these two systems. For example, will an ssl proxy work for ssh No. SSL and SSH are two totally different protocols. -- Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks destroying private property to ensure bigger campaign contributions from media cartels is "good politics." Let

Re: how to tell if pop3 or imap services are running?

2003-06-30 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jay Moore wrote: > timeouts etc. I have a Netgear firewall appliance that has port 110 > open, however, I am unsure if the box itself has this port open. I'm > slowly still figuring this stuff out, so any direction at all would be > helpful. thanks jay As root, run:

Re: RHN servers are overloaded...

2003-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Panos Tsapralis wrote: > ...so, what other options do I have to download the latest patches > without using the "up2date" mechanism? For example, can I download them > via ftp into a local directory on my system and install them as regular > RPM packages? Yup. In fact, that's

Re: HELP! - I've screwed up on security and now can't access root

2003-06-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
If you screwed up the shell, specify it manually: su -l -s /bin/bash should force a bash shell. -- Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks destroying private property to ensure bigger campaign contributions from media cartels is "good politics." Let your senators know that supporting corporate vigilant

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > and a couple of icons but I'll go with IceWM or XFCE since they're easy > to configure. XFCE is nice when it's running, but getting it installed is a pain. Even with the RPM's, there are *way* too many of them to consider it a newbie installation. L

Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or somethingelse?

2003-06-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: > Which window manager I should go with? Personally, I'm using ROX with TWM, and it flies. Note that if you use such a setup, you'll need to configure ROX's compatibility options to: 1. Overrride TWM's control of rox panels

Re: what makes linux so secure?

2003-06-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > Another thing is that I really think that for system data, ACLs cause > more security problems than they help. Auditting a Linux system is much > easier than an NT box, because you don't have ACLs to worry with. Linux is getting ACLs. I haven't che

Re: mount USB drive

2003-06-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Alan Giltinan wrote: > I am trying to mount my 120GB harddrive as hda3 (hda1 and 2 already > taken) on RH8 You can't. It must be mounted as a SCSI drive. Check /proc/scsi/scsi to see which device it is, but my guess is that you can mount it as /dev/sda unless you have other U

Export sound to another server?

2003-06-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm interested in a way to redirect sound to another server. I know esd and arts have the capability to bind to sockets, but is there actually a way to export sound that isn't application-specific? For example, I can run xine with the video exported to my local server, but the sound still plays

Problems with RPM and public keys

2003-06-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm getting an error about missing keys when verifying an RPM, but the key shows up as imported. Here's the output, showing that the key *is* installed. What gives? $ rpm -K autospec-0.8-1.src.rpm autospec-0.8-1.src.rpm: md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#077eccc5) $ rpm -qa gpg-pub* gpg-pubk

Re: Computer freezes when running cdrecord from INIT 5

2003-06-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 24 Jun 2003, Celso Pinto wrote: > After that, I tried to burn a CD with XCDRoast and about 30 secs after > starting to burn the CD the hole system stopped. The only thing I could > do was to push the power off button and restart it again. I can't speak to Xcdroast, but I had similar problems w

Choppy Sound with i810/SiS7012

2003-06-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Part of the problem may be IRQ sharing, but the BIOS doesn't allow me to change it. Does anyone know of any good workarounds for this chipset? Here's the relevant info. >From procinfo: irq 9: 94314 usb-ohci, SiS 7012 >From dmesg: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 07:13:38 May

Sound "scratchy" in RH9

2003-06-22 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've tried the same AVI's on both RH8 and RH9. The files play fine on 8.0 using Xine, but sound scratchy (like a bad FM channel) on 9. Has anyone else experienced this, or have any idea how I can tweak the sound quality? -- Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks destroying private property to ensure bigger ca

Re: Frontpage extensions (RH9)

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 20 Jun 2003, David Hart wrote: > a Macromedia product. Linux needs a robust WYSIWYG web development tool. I suppose that depends on how you feel about people who can't do HTML in vim. But, for the vim-challenged, there's Bluefish and Quanta Plus. Both are good, although Quanta's perhaps a bit

Re: Where to call xset?

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Bart van Kuik wrote: > I always turn the X Window System bell off with 'xset b off' manually. > Where can I put this command so it is automatically run when X is > started? I've already tried putting it in Put it in $HOME/.Xclients-default (don't forget the ampersand) and it

Re: sendmail/earthlink conflict?

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 19 Jun 2003, gregory mott wrote: > seems something subtle has gone awry with sendmail. i'm getting: > <<< 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator (failed to find > host name from IP address) It's a DNS problem. You don't have reverse DNS properly configured, and the r

Re: case? switch? I need to write a script and neither of theseoptions work.

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, dlangschied wrote: > I am having a bit of difficulty with writing a script. I am on Linux 8.0 > and trying to run a case statement like a would in HP-UX. This is not If all you want to do is run a menu, you might want to look at the select command instead: echo Press

Re: Radius reccomendation RH8 and later?

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Willem van der Walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I googled for radius and found a few servers. OpenRADIUS and FreeRADIUS are the two to look at. I don't really have an opinion as to which is better, though. They have some design differences. YMMV. -- The DMCA is anti-consu

Re: Encrypting filesystem?

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > I saw references to having encrypted filesystems available in the next > kernel release. If that's the case, and it's due out in the not to > distant future, I could hold off. I don't know if that's true or not. Check out kernel.org to find out. A

Re: simple question related to pop3

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 17 Jun 2003, David Richards wrote: >Is there any way that I would be able to add a user to a server so > that they are only able to use their username and password for pop3 ? > Even tho the server is configured for ftp and ssh too? Restrict users with the following. - sshd: use AllowU

Re: Procmail

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, A. S. Budden wrote: > However, once in a while, mutual friends send both "me" and > "somebody_else" emails, but since [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in the TO Fetchmail will (by default) deliver to your local MTA after retrieving the mail, according to the documentation. If you set up

Re: assign prioity for user

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, santosh kumar wrote: > assign high priority for X user to access a particular m/c. For example What is an m/c? > have a high end m/c which is meant for some simulation purpose but it > will be usable by all users around the clock by which it hogs all the > memory so I want t

Re: WineX 3 graphical problems

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Ivan Sivkov wrote: > libraries and specific windows apps/games. After performing a couple of > benchmark tests, we felt sorry to establish that most windows games run > pretty slowly on RedHat with WineX 3. We have noticed that the Red Hat does some weird tweaking to their ke

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: > So... I intalled RH9.0 and all the workstations are so much slower, all RH9 is dog-slow out of the box. Most of the blame probably belongs to KDE/GNOME, though. I dumped them in favor of TWM, and my system now runs faster than it did run

Re: Key bindings in twm

2003-06-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > "l" = a | m : all : f.exec "xscreensaver-command -lock &" The proper command is: "l" = c | m : all : f.exec "xscreensaver-command -lock &" -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no

Key bindings in twm

2003-06-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm trying to configure twm to bind an f.exec to CTRL-ALT-L to lock the screen. However, the following doesn't work: "l" = a | m : all : f.exec "xscreensaver-command -lock &" It works fine if I change it to: "F12" = : all : f.exec "xscreensaver-command -lock &" so the problem appears t

Re: Desperate BASH Frustrations with Single Quotes

2003-06-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Ryan D. Egeland wrote: > RUN="$UNISON -ignore 'Path $2'" Escape weak quotes instead: RUN="$UNISON -ignore \"Path $2\"" -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[E

Re: Enabling hardware 3D acceleration with ATI Rage 128

2003-06-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Some additional info about my configuration: $ lspci 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS >From /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Module

Enabling hardware 3D acceleration with ATI Rage 128

2003-06-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have an ATI Rage 128-series card. I'm pretty sure it's the Fury Pro, but RH keeps insisting it's a standard Rage 128. Either way, there doesn't seem to be a way to enable 3D acceleration or OpenGL support through redhat-config-xfree86. Has anyone been able to get 3D accel. to work with this c

Re: Default tripwire policy: no libexec?

2003-06-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 9 Jun 2003, Patrick Nelson wrote: > Although this may be correct... If you really plan to utilize tripwire > to monitor you system you need to edit the policy file to exactly match > your system. The default policy is for a starting point to edit your > policy to match your system. Yes, but i

Default tripwire policy: no libexec?

2003-06-08 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I was curious to know if there was a good reason for not including the libexec directories in the default tripwire policy. It seems like a lot of critical binaries are stored there. -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves. -- redhat-li

RH9 + KDE = flickering icons?

2003-06-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I am experiencing some flickering icons (e.g. the trash can, home directory, and other icons) along the left-hand side of my screen--almost like they're being constantly refreshed. Has anyone else experience this, and (if you fixed it) how did you solve the problem? -- The DMCA is anti-consume

"xset fp+" doesn't work

2003-06-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Under RH 9, you can prepend fonts, but not append them. For example: xset +fp /path/to/fonts/dir works fine, but: xset fp+ /path/to/fonts/dir does nothing. What's going on here? -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves.

Problem with MS Web Fonts

2003-06-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've added the MS TrueType fonts to my font server, but when the web fonts are in the font path, the default font for things like xfontsel get really wacky. My guess is that one of the MS fonts is being used as the default (probably Comic or Verdana), but I don't know what to do about it. Has anyo

Creating font sample sheets

2003-06-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've got about 4,500 TrueType fonts in my system, and all are available via xfontsel. However, I'm looking for a way to create font samples so that I can quickly locate the fonts I need. Does anyone know how to do this easily? Also, with the version of XFree86 in Shrike, do I require both fonts

PDF to RTF or SXW?

2003-06-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Anyone know of a *Linux* utility that will convert PDF files into something editable? pdf2ps works (usually), but I don't know that raw postscript is any easier to modify. -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves. -- redhat-list mailing

Re: ssh compression problem with openssh-clients-3.5p1-6

2003-06-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > 'man ssh' indicates that you can only control the compression level on > ssh v1. By golly, you're right. It's sort of buried in the ssh_config documentation. Thanks for the tip. -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright

ssh compression problem with openssh-clients-3.5p1-6

2003-06-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've got the following in ~/.ssh/config: Compression yes CompressionLevel 9 but when I run ssh verbosely, it still says compressing at level 6. Has anyone else experienced this? -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves.

Re: My ntpd.conf doesn't accept hostames, just ip's

2003-06-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Bruno Negrao wrote: > If I specify the ntp servers by their hostnames, I receive the following > error messages: Post your config file if you want help with this. But it's a resolver issue; is your /etc/resolv.conf file set up properly? -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RI

Re: Strange Bash Script Behavior -- Doesn't Recognize $variable incd Statement

2003-04-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ron Franke wrote: > I'm having a strange problem with a bash script when trying to cd with a > $variable. A simple example script follows. The issue is on the line shopt -s cdable_vars -- Guvf gntyvar jnf rapbqrq jvgu gur ebg13.fu fpevcg, ninvynoyr ng uggc://jjj.pbqrtabzr.

Re: Sluggish SSH connections

2003-04-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Johnson, David wrote: > We are having intermittant problems with some new Redhat 8 servers, > whereby an SSH connection (as root), is hanging for 10-30 seconds before > connecting. Name resolution problems, perhaps? Make the ssh client verbose, and see what it's doing. Check

Re: Sluggish BitTorrent (Was RE: Stop the disinformation!)

2003-04-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Morgan Doocy wrote: > system. Anyone know more detail about how it works? The FAQ [ > http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/FAQ.html ] doesn't explain much. Download speed can also be affected by upload speed. The tit-for-tat algorithm basically penalizes people for leeching or s

MD5SUM for Shrike ISOs?

2003-04-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm currently getting the Shrike ISOs from BitTorrent, but can't find the official RH md5sums to verify the images. Does anyone know where the sums are listed on the website? -- Guvf gntyvar jnf rapbqrq jvgu gur ebg13.fu fpevcg, ninvynoyr ng uggc://jjj.pbqrtabzr.bet/fpevcgvat/fubjfpevcg.cuc?fpe

Re: list folder size

2003-04-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, J.Slim wrote: > I've been reading all the man pages I though might clue me in but I > can't find a command to list the total size of a folders contents. du -sh -- Guvf gntyvar jnf rapbqrq jvgu gur ebg13.fu fpevcg, ninvynoyr ng uggc://jjj.pbqrtabzr.bet/fpevcgvat/fubjfpevcg

Re: sharing sound with various users and doing a startx -- :1

2003-04-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Sergio Enrique Schvezov wrote: > I'm using RedHat 8.0, have and nforce chipset. Whenever I logging > (through gdm) as user A, this user somehow locks the sound device to all > other users, how can I unlock it so that when user for example stops This is Red Hat being "helpful."

Re: Visual Performance Monitor

2003-04-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, David Busby wrote: > Is there a tool (or tools) that will allow me to watch my system > performance? xosview -- Guvf gntyvar jnf rapbqrq jvgu gur ebg13.fu fpevcg, ninvynoyr ng uggc://jjj.pbqrtabzr.bet/fpevcgvat/fubjfpevcg.cuc?fpevcg=ebg13.fu be sebz n furyy-fpevcgvat ne

Re: vncserver

2003-03-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Simpson, Doug wrote: > I am trying to get vncserver running on a RH7.3 box. I ran the > "vncserver" command and it created the .vnc directory and it appears to > be running. Where's the relevent logfile? Where's your process list? Where's your ip{chains,tables} filter list?

Re: useraccount stange ness

2003-03-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Steve Lee wrote: > i had created some useraccounts on my system. skipped some id to reserve > some numbers and all users logged in is now know only by UID not by the > name You probably did this by hand, and probably skipped a field or added an extra one in /etc/passwd. Run

Re: Bash script .bash_logout

2003-03-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 19 Mar 2003, will wrote: > The .bash_logout script is not executing when my system is in run level If your xterm is not defined as a login shell, it won't execute .bashrc or .bash_profile, either. You may need to define the xterm as a login shell to get .bash_logout working. -- Guvf gntyva

RE: ReiserFS Support?

2003-03-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Robert Adkins II wrote: > is supposedly far swifter at disk writes, which I need to quell the > minor revolt a few of my users are beginning to threaten. This is wrong. ReiserFS is faster on reads, but writes have a much higher overhead because of Btree balancing. Look around

User-Mode Linux not in arch/um

2003-03-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
The kernel-source rpm includes a config file for uml, but trying the standard "make ARCH=um menuconfig" chokes because there's no arch/um directory. Has anyone successfully built uml from the Red Hat rpms (not the raw sources)? If so, what was the secret? -- Guvf gntyvar jnf rapbqrq jvgu gur

Re: Practice Exams

2003-03-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > no, you can't pass by book alone, but that still doesn't mean that a > book is entirely useless. at the very least, any *decent* exam prep > book (regardless of the topic) will give you some guidance about the > areas that you should be relatively fa

Re: a question about shell script

2003-03-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jihuang Zhou wrote: > Anybody knows how to get an input parameter list from the second > parameter to the second last? For example, if $*="aa bb cc mm nn", Why not just shift away the first parameter? foo=$1 shift bar="$*" -- Guvf gntyvar jnf r

Re: Mysql VS postgreSQL

2003-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: > wondering what the diff was between Mysql VS postgreSQL? Is one easier They are similar but different. The best thing to do is to determine what functionality your relational database needs, and then pick the one that comes closest to meeting those requ

Re: User account lockout in Redhat

2003-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Paul Greene wrote: > How do you implement user account lockout in Redhat Linux? You need to configure pam_tally according to your lockout policy. -- Guvf gntyvar jnf rapbqrq jvgu gur ebg13.fu fpevcg, ninvynoyr ng uggc://jjj.pbqrtabzr.bet/fpevcgvat/fubjfpevcg.cuc?fpevcg=ebg1

Re: uml

2003-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Tuija wrote: > Something like linux-inside-linux? Is this really possible and if it is > how can I do that? The UML project page is at: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Red Hat comes with UML support, as well as the kernel config files for building a UML ker

Re: ftp vs scp transfer speed.

2003-03-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > Does scp do a checksum or comparision like rsync and won't reall > overwrite a file if it is the same? Just WAGing. SCP runs over TCP, so it has all the normal packet guarantees. It will also happily clobber files, so be careful. -- Guvf gntyvar jnf ra

Re: ftp vs scp transfer speed.

2003-03-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Chad Skinner wrote: > Does anyone know why there would be a 8500KBs difference between scp and > ftp. I was downloading an 80MB file over ftp at 120KBps and when I uploaded Well, ignoring your math for the moment, ftp will almost always be faster since it doesn't need to conti

Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > thing is, it's going to cost upwards of $430 for a new board for this That's what I'm talking about: why try to fix it, when you can buy a brand new box from walmart.com or similar for $299-399? Heck, you could get one of their Lindows boxes and

Re: Should the kernel be re-compiled when a new driver is added?

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Charlie Song wrote: > When I develop a new driver, should the kernel be re-compiled at all? I'm almost afraid to ask why you're developing a kernel driver when you don't know enough about the kernel to answer this question yourself. That said, probably yes if it's a module. T

Re: How long does a socket sit in CLOSE_WAIT for?

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Until it receives an ACK to the last FIN sent to the remote, or until tcp_fin_timeout is exceeded: usually 60 seconds, but it's configurable. A good state transition diagram can be found at: http://www.utdallas.edu/~cantrell/ee6345/pocketguide.pdf -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape

Re: How to make a second harddisk work?

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Charlie Song wrote: > I'm adding a second harddisk to my computer. Why cann't I find that > harddisk at Disk Management. Could anyone tell me how to make it work? Does the disk show up on your BIOS boot screen? -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- r

Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > be causing this. The system is two years old (give or take 6 months, > and was running for months at a time under 6.2...now I can't even get > one week uptime. Can't really offer much help, except that you might want to order a board diagnostics k

Re: GnuCash QIF Import ???

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Dante Bell wrote: > Anyone using QIF import for GnuCash? I'm getting a failure and don't > know why. Any doc on what the expected file format is?? Did a search, > but didn't find anything usefull. Did you check the archives over at the gnucash site? Did you report the bug

Re: Encrypting file systems

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Adam Long wrote: > Is there a way to do this under linux? A gpg encrypted partition or > container file? Check out http://www.kerneli.org/index.php. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB external hard drive

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Jedicosmonaut wrote: > I recently bought a maxtor USB 120 gig external hard drive. I have been > trying to get it to work on Red Hat 8.0. It does not seem to recognize Check /proc/scsi/scsi for the device number, and then mount the appropriate /dev/sd device. You also need

Re: How can I change the default language?

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, P. E. Planques wrote: > Where should I look for the way to do it? One way to do it is to place "export LANG=" into /etc/profile. There's also a gdm/xdm/kdm for it somewhere; you might want to explore that. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redh

Re: Weird CVS problem

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, MKlinke wrote: > It's easy to overlook. It isn't the file that dictates the revision ID. > It's the module; from the manual ... Huh. Well, it looks like I can specify the revision at the first commit by specifying just the major number (e.g. cvs commit -r 1) so this isn't a

Re: Weird CVS problem

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, MKlinke wrote: > From the text, my guess is that you have another file in the module that > has a 2.x revision ID so the newly assigned internal number would > automatically be 2.1. By definition, a new file in a module does not *have* a previous revision, so this would not b

Re: Kernel versions

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > I'm a newbie, and I was wondering what advantages there would be to > upgrading the kernel on my RH8 boxes from the i386 version to the most > current i686 and Athlon kernels? (I've got a couple of boxes in work Bug-fixes, faster kernel execution, and m

Weird CVS problem

2003-03-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a weird little CVS problem that I was wondering if anyone else had ever encountered. Whenever I create a new file in an existing module, it's created as revision 2.1 instead of 1.1. This isn't really mission critical, but it sure is annoying. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? --

Re: How to set automatically rename the old access_log toaccess_log.1 and create a new access_log file ?

2003-03-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kevin Chan wrote: > /server/logs/ will automatically rename the old access_log to > access_log.1 and create a new access_log for reduce the file size ? Explore the mysteries of logrotate. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: anyone using port forwarding?

2003-03-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Chuck Dutrow wrote: > Anyone using port forwarding successfully with one real address at the > router and int addresses for mail server, DNS server and RADIUS? Have a Firestarter supports port forwarding. Download it from Sourceforge. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a sh

Re: How to get secureCRT and term to look right?

2003-03-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I use SecureCRT 3.4.3 to ssh into my RH8 box all the time, but curses > based programs (like setup or iptraf) don't look quite right -- where vt100 with ansi color should work fine if you've also exported LANG=C. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a

Re: What is Max Swap?

2003-03-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Richardson, Robert wrote: > 1. What is the amount of swap that should be configured? You shouldn't configure more than 1GB unless you expect your active memory requirements to exceed RAM + 1GB swap. Swapping is *slow*, so don't use it if you don't need it. And if you really

Re: Relaxing passwd rules.

2003-03-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'm finding that the rules for creating passwords under RH 8.0 are > too restrictive for my "low security" office. Any way to relax them? You need to be more specific. What "rules" are you talking about? And whatever they aqre, they are doubtles

Re: Multiple ssh public keys

2003-03-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Roger wrote: > keys file, and no matter what type of the new and the old keys? ssh v1.5 and ssh v2.0 use different types of keys, and different key files. Check the relevent man pages from OpenSSH for details. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- r

Re: USB printer doesn't work

2003-03-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 2 Mar 2003, Kleiner Hampel wrote: > usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x1) is not claimed by any active > driver. This is telling you that there is no driver for your printer. Check the hardware compatibility guide, and then see if there's a module you need to load to manage that printer.

Re: tep by step NAT configuration needed please

2003-03-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, khalifa ally wrote: > can any one give me step by step procedure to configure NAT and that > this computer works as gw for other computers. Sure. Here it is: 1. Download Firestarter from sourceforge.net. 2. Run Firestarter. 3. Use the Firestarter Confi

Re: Can i possibly do this? If not, what r my alternatives

2003-03-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Kapil Khanna wrote: > I have always wondered if i can mount this additional windows file > system on / (root) rather than a sub directory of /. That way i can add No. You can't mount over the root of the filesystem. > Any ideas on how i can get around this problem? I have th

Re: Ethernet Blinking Light for Gnome Panel?

2003-03-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
You may also want to modify your X resources in .Xdefaults with: xosview*net: true xosview*netBandwith: 1375000 xosview*netInColor: yellow xosview*netUsedFormat: autoscale and run xosview. It's a little more CPU intensive, but I rather like it. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a

Re: DHCP question

2003-03-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Kerry Miller wrote: > Can you guys point me to a good How-To or something similar on DHCP? I > need to see if I can figure out a way to assign specific ranges of IP > addresses on a single physical network to different departments. I'm at You can't do it on a single logical

Re: module-info?

2003-03-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote: > With the exception that tools like redhat-config-network or anaconda use > a customized copy of a module-info file. I can't find a reference to module-info in /usr/sbin/redhat-config-network or /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/* so I'm not

Re: module-info?

2003-02-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Mike Reed wrote: > that someone from Red Hat who knows the answer would read this list. > As I said it makes you think that this is some guarded secret in Red If it's module-related, then by definition it's kernel related. Why don't you ask on a kernel-related list, rather

Re: Browsing MS Workgroups from Linux

2003-02-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 28 Feb 2003, Tim Willis wrote: > Ok, so I'm trapped in a domain-less windows environment, and I need to > be able to browse, graphically, the workgroups, and the shares in those > workgroups. I have Samba running on my machine...(RH8)..using Webmin to Try xfsamba from the xfce desktop environ

Re: Ethernet Blinking Light for Gnome Panel?

2003-02-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there an RPM or utility that can show me basic network activity in > the panel, preferebly near teh Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool? What's wrong with the netload Gnome applet that comes standard? -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a sh

Re: ACT equiv. For Linux

2003-02-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jeff Kinz wrote: > Does anyone know of a Linux application which does the same job as > "ACT"? There are some groupware products that have some contact capabilities, but nothing like act. I keep kicking around the idea of building something, but I never really find the tim

Re: Partitions size

2003-02-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rodrigo Pereira wrote: > I will install linux in a computer with a hard disk with12GB and 256MB > of memory. I want to create partitions to /boot, / (root), /var, /tmp, > /usr, /home, swap. What is the best size for each one ? It depends. This is also a FAQ. Here's the be

Re: linux performance monitoring

2003-02-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a list of performance monitoring tools for linux? I am fighting sar? xosview? procinfo? top? iostat? Define what you want to monitor, *then* pick a tool. Doing it the other way around makes no sense. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's

Re: silly script question

2003-02-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Kerry Miller wrote: > back to the linux box. I don't know how to put it into a script though. > Here's what I've got: smbclient is not inherently scriptable. You'd need to use expect to automate it; you might try autoexpect, to see if you can do it without having to lear

Re: file's mod time

2003-02-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | As such, there can be proof that a file had not been modified since a > | certain date. > > This is not. Remember that implication is not equivalence. Very true. In fact, for something to be repudiated, all you need to do is: 1. Break the

Re: Is someone trying to get me off the list?

2003-02-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > I honestly think it should be disabled, until the person has the direct > consent of the list owner to run such a bot. You don't need anyone's permission to run a procmail filter. That would be a bad--and silly--precedent to set. -- "Of course I'm in

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