Re: easy question

2003-05-29 Thread Robert
my experience, although limited, is that "COnnection Refused" is yusually a firewall, on web server not running on said host. #1 check a known good site (like google.ca) #1.a Check other internet stuff - telnet, ssh. email, pings #1.b if none of the above work, skip to step 5 ;) #2 if that works,

Re: easy question

2003-05-29 Thread bulent
Mark Neidorff wrote: TANSTAAEQWithout more information about your system--RH version, internet connection type, firewall, etc. I can only make a guess. Check your /var/log/messages file when this occurs. Your firewall could be blocking your access to the net. Or, you could not be connecte

Re: easy question

2003-05-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
TANSTAAEQWithout more information about your system--RH version, internet connection type, firewall, etc. I can only make a guess. Check your /var/log/messages file when this occurs. Your firewall could be blocking your access to the net. Or, you could not be connected even though you thi

easy question

2003-05-29 Thread bulent
Hello friends, when I want to connect any web site, I take message like this; "The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.mkssoftware.com" Do you have ant suggestion? Thank you very much -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.c

Re: Quick and Easy Question

2002-12-04 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04-Dec-2002/08:30 -0400, beno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's been a long time since I've had to create a file to place the >contents of a folder behind a password-secured firewall. How do I do it? >What file do I need to create? Dot-something...

Re: quick easy question

2002-09-17 Thread Blake C. Lewis
put "vga=ask" in your lilo.conf and rerun lilo. lilo will then ask what you want at startup. Or other means: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-16.html Mike Shilling wrote: > I was wondering how (ive done this before, but forget) to change the > font size (or resolution) during

quick easy question

2002-09-17 Thread Mike Shilling
I was wondering how (ive done this before, but forget) to change the font size (or resolution) during startup.  I remember there being some option you could pass to grub to change the display options.   any suggestions?   thanks!   Mike

Re: Easy question

2002-04-18 Thread Barry L. Kline
Al Adcock wrote: > > OK: > > I'm running a RH server in the office, running samba. I have linux on > my laptop. How do I mount the remote file system? I tried: > > mount filebox:/usr/local/home /remote, where filebox is the name of the > file server. > > It returns permission denied. I loo

Re: Easy question

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
hi - I think you want smbmount, not mount - as it's a smb share you're mounting? either that or set up NFS properly... I've just gone through the HOWTO available at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ which helped in fixing an NFS problem that's been bugging me for a while... - dan. At 9:43

Easy question

2002-04-18 Thread Al Adcock
OK: I'm running a RH server in the office, running samba. I have linux on my laptop. How do I mount the remote file system? I tried: mount filebox:/usr/local/home /remote, where filebox is the name of the file server. It returns permission denied. I looked through the mount MAN pages, but c

Re: Really easy question

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
I'd disable the following: telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd shellstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd loginstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind talk dgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd ntal

Re: [Re: Really easy question]

2000-08-02 Thread George Georgiev
Hey, guys, Thanks to everybody, this is really more help than i expected. Thanks a lot, i'll follow your advices (well not all of them since some are just opposite to each other ;)) But really, thank you, thank you, thank you... George Charles Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm no e

Re: Really easy question

2000-08-01 Thread Charles Galpin
I'm no expert, but I can tell you this... On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:32:53PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > > > And a good comment. :-) However, I don't just blindly start up the > > box afterwards and let it run. I go into setup and turn off a bunch

Re: Really easy question

2000-08-01 Thread redhat
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:32:53PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > And a good comment. :-) However, I don't just blindly start up the > box afterwards and let it run. I go into setup and turn off a bunch > of stuff I don't need / want running and do the same with inetd.conf. > :-) I see so much in

Re: Really easy question

2000-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > > Yep. If I'm not tight on drive space I usually do an "install > > everything" setup. Specify custom -- select all, I think. > > John > > > > Be extremely careful with that type of installation, since you will end up > with all sorts of daemons run

Re: Really easy question

2000-08-01 Thread Nitebirdz
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2036 at 08:36:26PM -0400, George Georgiev wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > so my question is when i install Red Hat6.2 do i need to install everything i > > > mean server support both kdi and

Re: Really easy question

2000-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2036 at 08:36:26PM -0400, George Georgiev wrote: > > Hi, > > > so my question is when i install Red Hat6.2 do i need to install everything i > > mean server support both kdi and gnome all the different tools and all other > > stuff,

Re: Really easy question

2000-08-01 Thread redhat
On Sun, Aug 17, 2036 at 08:36:26PM -0400, George Georgiev wrote: Hi, > so my question is when i install Red Hat6.2 do i need to install everything i > mean server support both kdi and gnome all the different tools and all other > stuff, because in the beginning all i am going to use linux is lea

Re: Really easy question

2000-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 14:08 2000-07-11 EDT, George Georgiev wrote: >Hey everybody, i'm kinda new, > >so my question is when i install Red Hat6.2 do i need to install everything i >mean server support both kdi and gnome all the different tools and all other >stuff, because in the beginning all i am going to use linu

Re: Really easy question

2000-07-12 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
No, you don't need to install everything. You can perform a workstation install, and after some time, you will be prepared to make your custom install and choose exactly what you require. Good luck! -Manuel. George Georgiev wrote: > > Hey everybody, i'm kinda new, > > so my question is when i

Really easy question

2000-07-11 Thread George Georgiev
Hey everybody, i'm kinda new, so my question is when i install Red Hat6.2 do i need to install everything i mean server support both kdi and gnome all the different tools and all other stuff, because in the beginning all i am going to use linux is learning commands and setting up of my system, o

Re: Easy question - DNS

1998-05-04 Thread Chris Fishwick
> I need an easy one answered. I have a minimal installation right now and > all my docs and cds are at work. From the command-line how do I set what > nameserver my machine should look at? I've got the IP address but I have > totally forgot where to set it. Set it in /etc/resolv.conf Regards

Easy question - DNS

1998-05-04 Thread Greg Thomas
I need an easy one answered. I have a minimal installation right now and all my docs and cds are at work. From the command-line how do I set what nameserver my machine should look at? I've got the IP address but I have totally forgot where to set it. Thanks, Greg Thomas -- PLEASE read th