Re: remote login

2003-03-09 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:39 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, Jesse Armand wrote: I want to login to a remote computer on my LAN, how do i configure my connection so the other computer at my LAN can't see my hostname by using command : w who finger You can't ... at least not in the sense you probably mean. To m

Re: TGZ Installation ProbleM

2003-03-09 Thread Ray Olszewski
Peter -- What you describe is not a problem particular to Red Hat. It can affect any attempt to install non-distro-packaged source-code programs into any distribution. In a way, it represents bad programming of the configure script ... configure's *job* is to find where the things it needs are

TGZ Installation ProbleM

2003-03-09 Thread Peter
Hi, Since the dawn of RH5.2 I am struggling to install tgz packed programs. I succeed only in 1 out 10. Usually when running configure somewhere it is aborted with various error messages. I am using RH7.3 now and the installation was made from scratch. Now with the help of Richard, he traced t

remote login

2003-03-09 Thread Jesse Armand
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RE: stopping diald

2003-03-09 Thread James Miller
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: Thanks for this detailed response, Ray. > > diald is a dialing daemon that uses pppd to maintain a persistent, or an > on-demand, connection to a dial-up ISP. I thought its functionality had > been superseded by pppd itself being capable of supporting persis

Re: stopping diald

2003-03-09 Thread Ray Olszewski
I didn't reply to this initially because I hoped someone who is more current on dial-up would. diald is a dialing daemon that uses pppd to maintain a persistent, or an on-demand, connection to a dial-up ISP. I thought its functionality had been superseded by pppd itself being capable of support

Re: stopping diald

2003-03-09 Thread whitnl73
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, James Miller wrote: > Newbie question: > > I've started experimenting with diald, since I'm planning on setting up a > small network from which more than one computer will be needing to access > the 'net. Diald works fine, in terms of connecting to the provider. My > question i

Re: mandrake installation

2003-03-09 Thread whitnl73
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Dave Pomeroy wrote: > My old scsi cdrom will not boot. I'm installing from my windows hard > drive. I've made a boot floppy and all goes as it should when I boot, it > asks me for the location of the files and I tell it the path to my windows > drive where the files for disk