Re: Struggling with RedHat 7.1

2001-05-19 Thread Eric Hancock
As mentioned, RH 7.1 introduced xinetd, replacing inetd. Do a `man xinetd` for more info. Everything is off by default, so you'll have to re-enable things, as noted. I'm not sure what is wrong with Netscape. One thing I've noticed about large RedHat upgrades; avoid them. RPM wasn't meant to

Re: mgetty and another question

2001-05-19 Thread System Administrator
Hi Rick, Don't know if you got any replies, and I just chanced upon this.. This is my config... login.config... which works well enough. /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/options.server * - - /bin/login @ Options.server -detach asyncmap 0 proxyarp lock crtscts mod

Connection Time out

2001-05-19 Thread System Administrator
Hi, Is it possible to timeout a connection using mgetty with AutoPPP, on a global basis. I'm looking to implement two time outs. (1). Disconnect if no activity after xx minutes (2). Disconnect connection after yy hours (Regardless of activity). If it can't be done with mgetty, is there anothe

Opera 5.0 final version released

2001-05-19 Thread Jack Daly
For the cats on here who use the Opera browser, or are connoisseurs, 5.0 "Final" version was released May 15. Seems to work pretty good, at least compared to the netscape 4.61-12 I've been running. That is all. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the

RE: Struggling with RedHat 7.1

2001-05-19 Thread Ken Rossman
Problem with inbound TCP ports resolved (still working on Netscape, but that's less urgent). xinetd is the "launcher" daemon in use under 7.1, not inetd. xinetd uses a directory called /etc/xinetd.d, which in turn contains a config file for each of the services. By default, ALL SERVICES ARE DIS

RE: Struggling with RedHat 7.1

2001-05-19 Thread Marco Calistri
On 19-May-2001 Ken Rossman wrote: > I've just upgraded from RedHat 7.0 to RedHat 7.1. Two things have stopped > working (that I've noticed so far) in the way that they used to work. > > 1) Many inbound TCP ports seem to be disabled now. Telnet and ftp in > particular. How do I turn these

Re: Struggling with RedHat 7.1

2001-05-19 Thread Ken Rossman
> > 1) Many inbound TCP ports seem to be disabled now. Telnet and ftp in > > particular. How do I turn these back on?... > > Dont forget, Redhat does install a firewall during the install process, i > have even seen it get installed when "No Firewall" was clicked. (My > fault,! who knows

Genuis scanners....

2001-05-19 Thread Jim
Hi all Does anyone out there use a Genuis ColorPage-CS scanner with sane? This scanner is made by Leo Systems, their part number is "FS-1130A". I need to know if it will run with Linux and if so which back-end to use for it. Thanks! -- Jim Hatridge Proud Linux User #88484 Owner -- beowu

Re: SCSI Tape drive....FIXED!

2001-05-19 Thread Jim
HI All. > That sounds correct, i belive one does not mount a "tape" drive, one simply > uses tar to create an archive on it. > > > Any ideas? > > Try; > > tar czf /dev/st0 example.tar.gz /path/to/example/dir/ This was the problem... I was trying to "mount" a tape drive. I tried the tar co

another SCSI Question....

2001-05-19 Thread Jim
Hi all OK I've got my SCSI tape drive working, THANKS! Now I've added a small SCSI HD (202 mb) just to learn how it's done. My problem now is when I try to auto mount the HD when I boot I get an error. It seems that Linux trys to mount the SCSI HD before the controler is up. In other wo

Re: Struggling with RedHat 7.1

2001-05-19 Thread Richard Adams
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ken Rossman wrote: > I've just upgraded from RedHat 7.0 to RedHat 7.1. Two things have stopped > working (that I've noticed so far) in the way that they used to work. > > 1) Many inbound TCP ports seem to be disabled now. Telnet and ftp in > particular. How do I turn

Struggling with RedHat 7.1

2001-05-19 Thread Ken Rossman
I've just upgraded from RedHat 7.0 to RedHat 7.1. Two things have stopped working (that I've noticed so far) in the way that they used to work. 1) Many inbound TCP ports seem to be disabled now. Telnet and ftp in particular. How do I turn these back on? (I filter external Internet tr

Re: X windows 4.0.1a

2001-05-19 Thread Richard Adams
On Sat, 19 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody It's me again. I took some advice and re-installed RH7.0 Redhat 7 or 7.1 like i suggested. ? > > The machine I'm using : > Toshiba Satellite 200CDS > Pentium P100MHz (not genuine Intel) > 40 Mb RAM > 781 Mb Hard Drive > Laptop d

Re: X windows 4.0.1a

2001-05-19 Thread Philips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody It's me again. I took some advice and re-installed RH7.0 > > The machine I'm using : > Toshiba Satellite 200CDS > Pentium P100MHz (not genuine Intel) > 40 Mb RAM > 781 Mb Hard Drive > Laptop display capable of 800x600 > Chips&Technologies CT65550 w