Re: [newbie] Webmin.....

2000-11-27 Thread Aaron Lynch
Try localhost:1 Hth On 11/27/00 9:51 AM, The Defendant "Fred Klaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Confessed: > I have been using RedHat 6.2 with Webmin for remote control in my home. > > I saw the new Mandraake 7.2 system and decided I had to have it. > > Everything is working perfect except: brows

[newbie] getting apache to server user pages

2000-11-15 Thread Aaron Lynch
After a fresh install of 7.2, I can't seem to access /~username/ webpages. (I get a 'forbidden' message) I've changed the /home/username and /home/username/public_html/ directories perms to 755 and the index.html file's perm is 644. What else might I have to do to enable user web pages.

[newbie] ftp users

2000-10-28 Thread Aaron Lynch
how can I have a user with ftp access to a specified directory (inside another user's home dir) but not a shell account? -- Featured on TV: "How do we get it all in? Hey, We're Pizza Hut... We've put cheese in places you've never dreamed of"

Re: [newbie] apache

2000-10-26 Thread Aaron Lynch
>Do you have an index.html page in the directory you have defined as >the user dir? >Gerry > >At 10/26/00 03:17 AM, you wrote: >>What's the 'trick' to getting a user dir to work in apache? >> >>I keep getting 'forbidden' no matter what I try. >> >>I've tried to set the user dir at 755, grp=users

[newbie] apache

2000-10-26 Thread Aaron Lynch
What's the 'trick' to getting a user dir to work in apache? I keep getting 'forbidden' no matter what I try. I've tried to set the user dir at 755, grp=users the public htm dir is 755 and the index file is 644. What do you have to do to a default 7.1 install to make ~user work?

[newbie] howto raid

2000-10-18 Thread Aaron Lynch
ok, I'm a dumbass. I figured it out. How big does a /boot partition need to be?

[newbie] howto raid

2000-10-18 Thread Aaron Lynch
I have a toshiba magnia server, with 4 sca hot-swap drive bays (I got too cheap!) Back when I installed 7.0, the installer at one point asked if I wanted to configure RAID, and since I was poor, and only had 1 drive I chose no. well, now I just picked up 4 sca drives, and thought I'd wipe the

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem

2000-09-13 Thread Aaron Lynch
> >O...man! that was low. Give the poor guy a break. He's having a real >rough time and NT can be a real pain to deal with at times. :) >-- And that makes it not suck because..??? ;>

[newbie] bashing the date.

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Lynch
I need to have cron execute a shell script to download a file. the file is MMDDYY.zip I figured out that date +%m%d%y will get me the date in the right format, but what I can't figure out is how to put that into a command. I've tried multiple variations of date +%m%d%y | wget http://somehost

Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread Aaron Lynch
Your honor: on 9/6/00 12:37 AM, Jon Roig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] confessed: 'hoover' doesn't reply, and smersh isn't authoritative with Network solutions. -- Aaron Lynch System Administrator NineWire Digital Solutions || http://ninewire.com If I were two-faced, would I

Re: [[newbie] Full Harddrive Warning]

2000-08-31 Thread Aaron Lynch
Lemme steer this back onto Linux a bit. I have a server that's been running happilly on 6.1 & a 2 gig drive for a while now, and it's getting about 92% full, so I wanna upgrade. What's the easiest way to do that? I'm hoping things like crontabs and userdata and programs like MRTG can move witho

[newbie] remedial bash

2000-08-29 Thread Aaron Lynch
I need to ping a couple of hosts and save the results to a file. so I figured out: ping -c3 domain.com > file.txt Now, how can I ping another host, and append the result to the same file? -- Aaron Lynch

Re: [newbie] WIll this thread end?? lol

2000-08-25 Thread Aaron Lynch
I really hate these os vs os things... But > And if you want to talk dumbing down of users by OS, I think Mac takes the > cake > for *that* one! Af far as generalizations go, I've found that windows users ar far "less aware of their surroundings" shall we say than Mac users. I deal wit

Re: [newbie] Time

2000-08-21 Thread Aaron Lynch
Your Honor; on 8/20/00 9:28 PM, the Defendant, Tom Brinkman, confessed: The only other thing I can think to suggest is to try LinuxConf, Control | date and time. BINGO! there was a nifty little check box by the GMT option :) Thanks for all your help Tom!

Re: [Re: [newbie] Time]

2000-08-21 Thread Aaron Lynch
Your Honor; on 8/20/00 6:53 PM, the Defendant, Jaguar, confessed: > Is GMT checked in one of the setup options? If so...uncheck it. > HTH > Jaguar > Like where? I'm not doing a new install, it's a running system.

Re: [newbie] Time

2000-08-19 Thread Aaron Lynch
Ok, but here's the deal. When I do this :rdate -sp time.nist.gov it sets it correctly to 17:01 but if I restart the box, it reverts back to 10:55 so how do I make it stick? > On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > I can't seem to set my machines time correctly. When I do, it ends up soon

[newbie] Time

2000-08-19 Thread Aaron Lynch
I can't seem to set my machines time correctly. When I do, it ends up soon reverting back to GMT, as if it's using a NTP server. How can I set my machine to use a ntp server to sync it's clock, and also know it's PDT?

Re: [newbie] Connecting to Macintoshes

2000-07-21 Thread Aaron Lynch
Your Honor; on 7/21/00 7:49 AM, the Defendant, Andrew Miller, confessed: > I have two Macs on the same LAN as the Thinkpad and I want to copy > files from one of them to the Linux Thinkpad to use it a a web > server. Both are configured with IP addresses and file sharing is > on. HOw do I get t

[newbie] Atalkd (repost)

2000-07-16 Thread Aaron Lynch
reposted with a correct subject... sorry bout that :) I have netatalk running just fine, however, on the mac clients I have an applescript to mount the drive, and it refuses to mount the drive without me manually entering the password. I am assuming this is because somewhere atalkd doesn't like

RE: [newbie] List Cancellation

1999-06-02 Thread Aaron Lynch
> "Philip W. Huff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/01/99 11:47:51 PM > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject:[newbie] List Cancellation > > > Okay, I've asked twice and no one will email me regarding how > to get off > this list. I will commense i

[newbie] 6.0 image

1999-05-21 Thread Aaron Lynch
I know it was posted before, but can someone point me to a URL where I can fing a copy of the mariner.iso image? -Aaron -- "He may not have a clue and he may not have style, but everything he lacks he makes up with denial." -The Offspring

Re: [newbie] PCI128

1999-05-16 Thread Aaron Lynch
> Hi Alan, > Thanks for the correction, (--: > I did as you instructed, and it said there was one already configured. > So what can I run to test the sound? > I am totally ignorant of this OS, and now believe it may not be for me. > I can't see whats so great is having to pull teeth to make someth

RE: [newbie] I want to use Linux...Can someone help?

1999-04-10 Thread Aaron Lynch
when you say 'work' what do you mean? If you are interested in email and web surfing then yeah, go for it. If you want to run any kind of server definitely go for it. if you want to learn and tinker, go for it. But if you want to run office programs and games... probably not quite for you. hth

RE: [newbie] Netscape questions

1999-04-06 Thread Aaron Lynch
you can get a rpm from contrib.redhat.com or a mirror At this point in time, it's reasonable to believe that if it's metal and runs into your home, you'll be able to connect your computer to the Internet on it. (Personally, I can't wait for SepticNet) -Matthew May ~computer source > To: Linux

RE: [newbie] Telnet

1999-03-27 Thread Aaron Lynch
Yeah, that would probably be me. Sorry bout that. Seems like even though My default is plain text, Outlook decided that since I recieved it in HTML that I must have REALLY WANTED to send it back that way, and that my plain text preference was just me being stupid. Thanks for looking out for m

RE: [newbie] Telnet

1999-03-26 Thread Aaron Lynch
along these same lines, my isp has various very funny/cool quotes that come up randomly at logon & I'd like to emulate that. (they use bsd) can someone tell me how to make the random part happen, and/or point to a good source for the quotes?   I wanted to know if any of

RE: [newbie] Netscape 4.5 stable?

1999-03-26 Thread Aaron Lynch
seems to work fine for me. it runs out of ram when I do something dumb like open 20 windows... but other than that it's been fine > > Aaron Lynch wrote: > > > all my redhat netscape problems were fixed automaigically > by installing > > > the 4.5 rpm from contrib.

RE: [newbie] httpd user

1999-03-25 Thread Aaron Lynch
f and his page would come up, but not > the others. > > g, BSD I've gotten to work, but this is killing me... > > thanks, > pj > > Steve Philp wrote: > > > > Aaron Lynch wrote: > > > > > > can you please explain what the settings mean? I sorta

RE: [newbie] Alright! time to nuke NT

1999-03-25 Thread Aaron Lynch
all my redhat netscape problems were fixed automaigically by installing the 4.5 rpm from contrib.redhat.com > > Greetings folks, > > I finally got my ppp working. Many many many thanks to > everyone who helped > (directly or indirectly) - you guys are great! > > And they said Linux has poor suppor

RE: [newbie] httpd user

1999-03-25 Thread Aaron Lynch
can you please explain what the settings mean? I sorta have a grasp on the chmod 644 style (sorta), so are you? chmod Group Owner adding Read & eXicute? So what happens if for example the file alread had global exicute, no change? tryin to learn :) -Aaron > Check the permissions on your home d