Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-13 Thread James Olin Oden
some people do not want to upgrade their distribution because it will mean a lot of work updating their scripts. and to move from 2.0.x to 2.2.x you need to upgrade a lot ... it took me for instance, a lot of time to upgrade my server from 2.0.36 (rh5.2) to 2.2.x (rh6.1) Also,

Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]

1999-12-11 Thread James Olin Oden
What are you talking about? RH contrib? Some other site where you can get kernels packaged as RPMs? We're talking about an enterprise environment here, OFFICIAL RH errata. Whether or not this is the right way to go, this is where people look. Why don't you head on over to

Re: ppp -LAN problem

1999-12-08 Thread James Olin Oden
I have 2 linux boxes in my house, both with RH6.0 and a working network between them. One of the computers also has the capability to connect to ppp. If I connect without disabling my ethernet adaptor, I get no rowting anywhere, but if I disable the LAN, i do get routing to the outside

Re: Sendmail question

1999-06-18 Thread James Olin Oden
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I just installed at our office a redhat 6.0 with sendmail on it. I created all the accounts and everything works ok. Now, I have a user who is going on vacation and want to get his email stored and we'll have an automatic message (something like "Hi, I'm on

Re: Install Fails - Adaptec 2940 UW - Solved !

1999-06-08 Thread James Olin Oden
"Aharon (Al) Schkolnik" wrote: Oops ! Turns out that the problem was a faulty CDROM - I built it myself, and apparently didn't do it right. Sure looked like a hardware problem ;-) You know I was just checking out the Errata site for Red Hat 6.0, and found that they have some known

Re: Samba problem

1999-05-27 Thread James Olin Oden
Alex Dubrovsky wrote: Hi all I'm having the following problem: I got a samba server (2.0.4) at userlevel securety acting as a login server for 98/95 workstations. Everything is fine but 1 problem: user opens a file from a share on the server , and when he tryes to save the file after

Re: Install Fails - Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-05-27 Thread James Olin Oden
"Itamar S.-T." wrote: "Aharon (Al) Schkolnik" wrote: Hi. I'm trying to install RH 6.0 on a new machine which has an IDE CD, and a SCSI disk on an adaptec 2940 UW controller. The install fails as follows: Boots from the CD fine. I've had problems installing RH5.1 when I booted

Re: Looking for a perl script for linux

1999-05-11 Thread James Olin Oden
Oded Arbel wrote: On 10 May 1999, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Elchanan Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a perl script that adds user to linux OS. You can point me to RTFM pointer if the answer is too obvious. Will a bash script do? Look for adduser. It's

Re: losing root access through telnet

1999-03-29 Thread James Olin Oden
I second everything said below. Logging as root and even remotely su'ing as root over a telnet connections is a bad idea. Just so you know though, RH Linux 5.x and greater ships using PAM (Pluggable Authentification Modules) and the default setting for login uses the securetty module. Which

Re: Adaptec-2940UW hangs...

1999-03-26 Thread James Olin Oden
Yuval El-Hanany wrote: Hi, I've just installed an Adaptec-2940UW (my old 1542 controller has gone for good...) and I can't get Linux to boot ever since. I probe the devices and they're OK, the termination is correct (I even tried a few configurations including removing some devices), DOS

Re: Problem with X11

1999-03-22 Thread James Olin Oden
Ira Abramov - Scalable Solutions wrote: Today, Eyal Litver blurbed: Hi I have Linux 5.2. I install it on new computer with celron 333 and 96MB memory 6.4GB HD ... AND G200 AGP graphic card the X can't use the SVGA driver only on VGA ! please help my with a driver for G200 or AGP cards

Re: New Domain Bind 4

1999-03-22 Thread James Olin Oden
Ben Nes Michael wrote: Hi All I would like to add new domain to my DNS Server without giving it a new IP. I know how to to CNAME like www.canaan.co.il - ftp.canaan.co.il but don't know how to add totally new xxx.co.il without new IP Any reference or file example ? -- When you add the

Re: changing the date

1999-03-19 Thread James Olin Oden
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: PLP find $MANPATH -name "clock*" -print Uh-oh... locate is perfectly good command, why not to use it? Like in "locate clock.8", which would explain everything. --' Again, a good strategy, except on RH 5.0-5.2 there is no clock.8 file. There is a

Re: changing the date

1999-03-18 Thread James Olin Oden
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: OG man 8 clock man 8 hwclock Also, man 8 setclock At least on my RH. It was "clock" somewhere in time, but it moved to be hwclock - I think to emphasize that it sets hardware clock, not just some volatile "system time" :) That did it. I am using

How do I programaticlly change a password...

1999-03-15 Thread James Olin Oden
Hi, I have been trying to write a program that will change a users password (yes I know there is passwd). I have found the various api's to read the password and shadow password file, but I am having trouble finding api/system calls to change the this information (specifically the user's

Re: Mostly Apache some Sniffit

1999-03-11 Thread James Olin Oden
Ben Nes Michael wrote: Hi all A Html file that shown ok on one Server (I think NT) Show my its contenent on Netscape 4.5 while IE 4 show it ok For reffer http://www.veredhagalil.co.il/horse.htm - this on loads ok http://www.canaan.co.il/users/vered/horse.htm - this one dont load on