[newbie] Stuck telnet

I am tring to telnet out of my Mandrake6.1 box to another machine "red61" on my local network. I keep getting hung at the following: [root@miah99 /home]# telnet red61 Trying 192.168.1.7... Connected to red61.lando. Escape character is '^]'. I can telnet to red61 using any computer but this

[newbie] chroot help

Does anyone have any working syntax that displays how to use chroot to jail a user or group into a particular directory. I want to provide one account for ftp but do not want the users rampaging my system. Could you please explain where to put it. Thanks

[newbie] HP Openmail on Mandrake 6.1

Has anyone successfully installed HP Openmail on a Mandrake 6.1 box? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

[newbie] Where is Kudzu

When i tried to install the rpm it failed. It says that it needs libnewt.so.0.50. Do you have any idea where this is located. I looked on the Mandrake CD. Original Message Follows On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know where to find Kudzu for Mandrake? I saw it on a

[newbie] port forwarding

I have NT Server Exchange 5.5 that I want to run behind a RedHat 6.1 box. The Redhat box is connected to the internet and does IP masquerading for the local intranet. Could someone recommend a solution that will allow me to use this mail server behind a linux box. I want all mail handled by the

[newbie] Re: NIC suggestions

I prefer 3com 905 and the intel pro100. both of these are superb 10/100 pci cards and recognized by redhat and mandrake. It is much better to build for the future and the cost for 10 base t cards is identical or higher than the 100s. Season's Greetings! I'm considering setting up little

Re: [newbie] Telnet went bye-bye after update.

Happened to me also, go to the RPM folder on the Mandrake disk and reinstall the server for ftp and telnet. Original Message Follows From: "Morrell, Mike" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie Mail list (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Can't connect via Telnet or FTP

i had the same problem. go to the rpm directory on the mandrake cd and reinstall ftp and telnet servers __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

Since these are rpm files do i have to recomplile kernel after running the patches or make any changes to my lilo in order for it to work On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard

[newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

I have installed the new Mandrake 6.1 the kernel is 2.2.13. The problem only occurs with this new motherboard. I have a old p90 that was the orginal system and it didn't have support of UDMA. So it recognized the HD as PIO4. When i start it up it does not hang and when it shuts down it

[newbie] Setting up and maintaining a FTP server

I have Mandrake 6.1 and i want to run a ftp server. What needs to be installed and/or configured to accomplish this goal. And how do i administer the user accounts and the ftp service. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

[newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard and have a 4.2gb Ultra DMA 2 Maxtor hard drive spec 8184cyl 16hd 63sec. I have set it up using Large, LBA, and Normal bios settings. I have it jumpered to master. and it is on

[newbie] Instructions to Compile Mandrake 6.1

Do to the extreme request for documentaion on the compiling of kernels i have developed the attached. This procedure works for Redhat 6.0 as well but some of the file names will be a little different. It's syntax specific for the Mandrake 6.1 release which can be downloaded from,

[newbie] Xterm Colors

Does anyone know how to change configure font and directory colors in Xterm. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com