Re: [expert] empty smb passwords?

2000-04-29 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Bill Shirley wrote: Yes. Yes, I have that, I've tried both hand-editing the /etc/smbpasswd file to have the strange "NO PASSWORDXXX" form, and using "smbpasswd schellenberger" (as root) and just hitting enter for the password. Either way, it fails to authenticate. But if I set the

[expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Hello. I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: start % cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts

[expert] Posfix config for single dialup

2000-04-29 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I'm running a single machine, that connects to the internet via a dialup connection. After happily using Kmail for a while, I'd like to try postfix as an MTA and use either Pine or Mutt for mailreading (or even Kmail) I've read through all the documents I could find about how a proper unix

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-29 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
Am Fre, 28 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: John Murphy wrote: But only till 2000 12 31. What use is that? Answer: None, to me. Hi Ron, why do you have reservations for such dates ? As long as such programs are usefull, you can use it. And if 12. 31 is coming in your near environment, and there is

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-29 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
Am Fre, 28 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: hi, You have to set X graphics to 16 bit and it solved the problem for me. I'm one of those guys who usually starts reading only when things go wrong! That's me too. Have resolved also my problems with your hint :

Re: [expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems

2000-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:31 -0700, Larry Sword wrote: "S. Newhouse" wrote: Civileme writes: Ummm--don't you have to blank CDRWs before writing to them? Here is the output of trying to blank the CDRW: -- cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.

Re: [expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Matt Stegman
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: % cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash sets the default shell for the cronjobs to bash. PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin sets the default path for

Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice?

2000-04-29 Thread Lane Lester
Vic said: What is ViaVoice? Where is it? It is IBM's voice recognition software. I have used the version that came with Lotus Word Pro for Windows and found it quite capable. Presumably you can download the Linux version from some IBM site. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia

Re: [expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot

2000-04-29 Thread Pieter
At 00:40 29/04/00 -0500, you wrote: What i did was remove 1 nic after i confugured it. Add the other, i had 1 509 and a 905 and i think both nics werent recognized or failed. After the before mentioned procedure they both function well under 7.0 V2. Regards, Pieter

Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-04-29 Thread Vic
I find Pine handy when I'm in runlevel 3 doing maintenance and someone calls me saying they sent me an e mail telling me 'You just gotta read it now' so I get to another tty (ctrl alt F2) and read it with Pine there. On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: I love PINE. It's text-mode, but it still

Re: [expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Matt Stegman wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: % cat /etc/crontab [snip] # run-parts this is a comment :) 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * *

[expert] dump/restore

2000-04-29 Thread Vincent Danen
I just bought a 20GB tape drive for my server and have a question about dump. I'm using it like: /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 / /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 /home When I do this, it looks like dump overwrites the first backup of / so that only /home is one the tape. Is

[expert] libstdc++ilibc6.1-1.so.2 not found

2000-04-29 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
hi, am missing libstdc++ilibc6.1-1.so.2 this file. Does anybody know, where it can be found ? Is a Air (V 7.0) Thanks ind advance Hans Schneidhofer

Re: [expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot

2000-04-29 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Eth0 is set to i/o 300, IRQ 10, eth1 is set to i/o 280, IRQ 11. This was done with the 3Com DOS utility. PnP was disabled at the same time. All IRQs are set to legacy in the BIOS, and PnP support is disabled. With these cards it's necessary to physically remove power from the card after

[expert] Scan your ports from the outside.

2000-04-29 Thread vern
Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. I wonder why that would make a difference to the outside world. Vern

[expert] changed /etc/exports available for remote host

2000-04-29 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
hi, have added an entry in /etc/exports and will make it available for a remote host. But remounting with mount -a the new added subdirectory results in :mount: 192.168.10.5:/usr/src/RPM failed, reason given by server : Permission denied. But RPM-directory have correct rw-rw-rw. So it only can

[expert] million questions

2000-04-29 Thread Deim goston
Hi all ! Since I deleted the buggy linuxconf and don't want to use webmin or any other GUI interface I have some questions. 1.) which config file should I edit if I want that all new users go to the librarians group and create a home directory under for them /home/librarians/ 2.) If a user

Re: [expert] dump/restore

2000-04-29 Thread Jon
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 07:41:58AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: I just bought a 20GB tape drive for my server and have a question about dump. I'm using it like: /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 / /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 /home When I do this, it looks like dump

Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-04-29 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Kmail does the trick for me. Ralph Gavin Clark, on Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: have you tried netscape communicator? gavin -- From: "Bruce E. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone recommend a good mail client with a good addressbook? Or at least a addressbook that will work

Re: [expert] Scan your ports from the outside.

2000-04-29 Thread marler
On 29 Apr, vern wrote: Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. I wonder why that would make a difference to the outside world. Vern Try http://www.grc.com -- Barry Marler Department of

Re: [expert] Scan your ports from the outside.

2000-04-29 Thread Jon
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:04:55AM -0400, vern wrote: Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. I wonder why that would make a difference to the outside world. Probably one of the best

Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-04-29 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Ralph F. De Witt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book Kmail does the trick for me. Outlook Express in VMware for me. (Hate me if you must.) I

Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice?

2000-04-29 Thread Alan N.
Lane Lester wrote: Vic said: What is ViaVoice? Where is it? It is IBM's voice recognition software. I have used the version that came with Lotus Word Pro for Windows and found it quite capable. Presumably you can download the Linux version from some IBM site. -- Lane I imagine

Re: [expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Christopher Cox
/RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have day jobs kids... RANT RANT I find it

Re: [expert] changed /etc/exports available for remote host

2000-04-29 Thread Gavin Clark
es ist possible: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start try that there is a way to force the deamons to see the new permissions without restarting NFS: # exportfs -a read the NFS how-to for more info http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ Gavin -- From: Hans Schneidhofer

Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice?

2000-04-29 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Alan N." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice? Lane Lester wrote: Vic said: What is ViaVoice? Where is it? It is IBM's voice recognition software. I

Re: [expert] Virtual Mail Hosting

2000-04-29 Thread Jan Dittberner
Alberto Passariello wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:54:33 +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote: I have problems with some Outlook clients which want to connect to the vpop3 daemon on my Mandrake box. They get: "-ERR cannot open mailbox /var/spool/vmail/hostname//username" from the server. Is

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-29 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
Am Sam, 29 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: Thus spake Hans Schneidhofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Am Fre, 28 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: hi, You have to set X graphics to 16 bit and it solved the problem for me. I'm one of those guys who usually starts reading

Re: [expert] changed /etc/exports available for remote host

2000-04-29 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
Hi Gavin, thanks a lot. I was looking for such describings, but seems, that I'm missing some docs. Maybe, during the "update process" I have damaged something. Will take a look about due to this weekend. Because I also have a little trouble with some libs, which can't be found. But anyway, I'm

[expert] scsi-device

2000-04-29 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
hi, have discovered a little lack in my own memory : my little daughter powered off my scsi-tape without my knowledge. Now I would do a dump and found a : "couldn't open device dev/nst0" After powering on the tape, the same message appears. So now my little memorylack comes in action : is it

Re: [expert] Scan your ports from the outside.

2000-04-29 Thread vern
Thanks to all (both) who responded I think I've found a pretty good "outside" port scanner at: hackerwhacker.com. grc.com only did the common ports, and nmap is what I use to check "in house" I wanted to be scanned by someone or something in the "real world" environment. And my logs show that

Re: [expert] cron confusion - rant

2000-04-29 Thread Gavin Clark
From: "Christopher Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] /RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have

[expert] add 2nd HDD and Colorado 350?

2000-04-29 Thread David G. Thiessen
i picked up a Colorado 350 and a Western Digital 540MB HDD. i would like to add these to my box, but, I can find no info for how to hook up the Colorado Drive. It came with a cable that has a part labeled TO TAPE DRIVE, a part labeled TO FLOPPY DATA CABLE, and a part labeled TO FLOPPY

Re: [expert] add 2nd HDD and Colorado 350?

2000-04-29 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from "David G. Thiessen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:23:21 -0400 i picked up a Colorado 350 and a Western Digital 540MB HDD. i would like to add these to my box, but, I can find no info for how to hook up the Colorado Drive. If you have a "Multi-floppy"

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] VCD Player

2000-04-29 Thread Wayne Petherick
Sorry. next question! I have tried this but can't locate the actual movie files. This has to be done from the command line and I don't know what they are called. Any help would be appreciated Wayne On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: You can use "mtvp" instead of "mtv". It comes with mtv, but

[expert] How? Convert my Dialup Server from Scripting to PAP?

2000-04-29 Thread Edwin Casimero @PLUG
I'm running a Mandrake Linux 6.1 and a Redhat 6.0 (2 boxes) as dial-up servers. My users still login the scripting way. ( as in username enter password enter /usr/sbin/pppd enter. I want them to login as PAP. How do I do that? Thanks

[expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...

2000-04-29 Thread Steve Olson
All: I'm admittedly a Linux Newbie, but nowhere near a newbie when it comes to machines and software OS'es... I date back to MS-DOS 3.3 Days. I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is:

Re: [expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot

2000-04-29 Thread Greg Gray
After the loss of much hair, I have finally found the answer to this problem of dual NICs failing. I appreciate the input that I received through this group. And I sincerely apologize for sending the original message in html!! For those who might want to know, here was the problem, and the

[expert] DVD-RAM

2000-04-29 Thread Francois Voegeli
Hi there. Has anybody tried to use a DVD-RAM with Mandrake 7.0. I am thinking about buying one to replace my Jaz 2Go, specifically the Panasonic LF-D101. The device will be primarily used for backups (I am not interested about viewing movies with Linux). My config is Mandrake 7.0, kernel

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Hans Schneidhofer wrote: why do you have reservations for such dates ? As long as such programs are usefull, you can use it. And if 12. 31 is coming in your near environment, and there is no comparable application, and - maybe, the price is not too bad - hmm, you can buy it or leave it. So

Re: [expert] cron confusion - rant

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Gavin Clark wrote: From: "Christopher Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] /RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per

Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...

2000-04-29 Thread Russ Johnson
Um, Steve, Somewhere along the way, your message got dated January 29th, 2000. You might want to check your system date/time. Russ Steve Olson wrote: All: I'm admittedly a Linux Newbie, but nowhere near a newbie when it comes to machines and software OS'es... I date back to MS-DOS 3.3

Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Steve Olson wrote: I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is: Lilo won't load and BM won't properly boot the Linux Partition. LILO and BM are NOT alternatives, in that you always need LILO

Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...

2000-04-29 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Ron Stodden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders... Steve Olson wrote: I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or

[expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Hello, grepping /etc/inetd.conf for telnet says this: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd and doing "rpm -qa |grep tcp" produces tcp_wrappers-7.6-8mdk tcpdump-3.4-1mdk Where do I look, since I want to make sure that telnetd is at latest rev. Thanks, Ron --

[expert] Windows managers in init 5

2000-04-29 Thread R_Yeo
Hi, I have installed blackbox,(RPM) but when I bootup in level 5, I don't see it as a choice. Where do I look? Did I miss something? -- Ronald