Re: adding users

1998-06-04 Thread Steve Hazelett
Try (as root) /usr/sbin/adduser username. Then change the password for that user. Steve Stacy Brodzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I add users?? I've tried a couple things but haven't been very successful. -- Stacy Brodzik INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of

Changing window managers?

1998-06-04 Thread George Lenzer
First of all, a big thanks to everyone who explained setting up a dual boot NT/Linux system. I got it working flawlessly. (...and I didn't need to re-install NT!) Now, I have a question relating to window managers. I prefer AfterStep as my window manager, which is what I have chosen from

Re: Changing Networks, have questions...

1998-06-04 Thread redhat
Thanks for the advice. I think I am going to have to do it with 2 cards. We have a new provider and a new T1 line that we are switching to. So, we have a new router for that line and everything. So, I will need the IP's on both networks to be active at the same time. So, when I do the DNS

loadlin tar and zip?

1998-06-04 Thread Peter Lavender
Hi, I'm wanting to install linux on a second harddrive on my win95 machine with out using lilo on the MBR as I want to take the second HDD out once I return home, so reading through the howto it says to use loadlin, so I grab the file from sunsite and it's tared as well as gziped. Now,

Need more linux/redhat help? Want to contribute?

1998-06-04 Thread Matt Housh
PLUG In the effort of spreading awareness and helping as much as possible, I'd like to inform anyone who isn't aware of the small IRC network known as LISC. If you don't get the answers you need here, or are interested in participating in a little more "interactive" manner, LISC is a

Re: name server stopping

1998-06-04 Thread Me !!
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Alexander Morales wrote: Is there an exploit for name servers? I have 4.2 and my name servers keep stopping for some reason. I do a ps -uax|grep named and thay are not there. I then do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/named.init start and it says done but it does not appear. I then

Re: Changing hostname breaks login

1998-06-04 Thread fugue
Never, under any circumstances, change your machine's name to something other than localhost. Your machine should always respond to "localhost", as it's bound to both your default IP and 127.0.0.1. You can name your machine something in *addition* to localhost. Man hosts. What??

What is linsniffer ???

1998-06-04 Thread wnpauls
Suddenly linsniffer showed up on my machine. What is it? thanks, Paul -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

fstool and usercfg in RH 5.1

1998-06-04 Thread hcheng
Hi, I have been using RH 4.2 and have recently *installed* RH 5.1 (I wiped the hard drive before starting). After the installation, I was running first control-panel and then linuxconf to set all the system parameters, etc. as root. I compiled a kernel, rebooted, and did a few other things

Red Hat 5.0 - no install

1998-06-04 Thread Ron Stodden
I installed Red Hat 5.0 from the 6 CD set quite happily last week. But since Partition Magic won't move Linux partitions, I had to delete them, create the new partition I wanted (for another OS), and then hoped that another Red Hat install would recover me. Alas, install won't work any more.

random crashes in RH 5.1

1998-06-04 Thread hcheng
Hi, I have just installed RH 5.1, and I have been using RH 4.2 for a while. I have noticed that egcs and gcc both give internal compiler errors from time to time, and emacs sometimes die with seg fault. I know that this looks like one of these hardware problems, but it seems unlikely because

Re: 256MB RAM

1998-06-04 Thread Ronald Pottol
At 06:29 PM 6/1/98 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, W.D.McKinney wrote: Is there a MB that caches more than 256MB's of RAM ? There are a smattering of Pentium motherboards which cache 512MB of RAM, the Intel HX is one of those (provided you have the tag ram) and many of the Tyan and Asus

Re: attacked?

1998-06-04 Thread Andrea Borgia
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My utmp file has been corrupted. in.rlogind has been changed. Has anyone heard of using in.rlogind as an exploit? Any ideas on how to find all the damage a repair it short of reloading the system? rpm -Va will verify all the installed files

Lilo problems

1998-06-04 Thread Chris Frost
I'm moving to a new hd, and have moved everything over (using this: cd /; tar -X /exclude.file -cf - .|(cd /mnt/newdrive ; tar -xvpf -) but when I boot up w/ my redhat recovery disks (aka bootdisks of course) I can't lilo the hd. Doing a /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt give me an error "open /dev/hda: Can

some 5.1 questions

1998-06-04 Thread Robert Sim
Hi, This past weekend I migrated from my Slackware dist to RH5.1- a complete reinstall. Since then, I've been pretty impressed w/ RH (rpm is a godsend!). Anyways, some problems I've noticed: rc.serial is missing- does anyone know what RPM this is supposed to be in? I had to copy my old

POP3 server error

1998-06-04 Thread Neely Kountze
Using RH5.0, I am able to use pine to send and receive mail via sendmail, but when I try to connect via windows (Navigator), the message POP3 server error appears and no connection is made. Am I missing something in my configuration? Aany help to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be appreciated.

Re: Where is .config for the RH5 kernel?

1998-06-04 Thread Clemens Adler
There is a file , /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig which is loaded as default in case there is no .config file in your ..src/linux directory, but probably you should go through the cofiguration and read the help, and decide what you need. have fun, Clemens

ftp question

1998-06-04 Thread webmaster
Dear Linux Gurus: Where do I define the setting for my ftp directories? I know currently that /home/ftp/ is defined as the root of ftp. How do I define a different path? I am currently using htpasswd to create a restricted site. In that site, I'm making links to restricted file for certain

Re: Where is .config for the RH5 kernel?

1998-06-04 Thread Matt Housh
Looked in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig? --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa Engineering and Natural Sciences

Re: some 5.1 questions

1998-06-04 Thread Claire Bradford
Finally, perhaps I wouldn't have to ask the first two questions if I had the answer to the next one- I am no longer in posession of the install media I used (I installed by nfs at work), and so I'm looking for an online resource for searching for the RPM's that contain the files I'm looking

Re: Changing Networks, have questions...

1998-06-04 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 7:05 PM Subject: Re: Changing Networks, have questions... Well, I have to have the second card for the other Network, don't I? Or, is there a way to route

3D accelerator?

1998-06-04 Thread Michael Jinks
A Diamond 3D accelerator just turned up on my desk. I believe that it's a 'Voodoo', whatever that means -- two of the chips have '3Dfx interactive' printed on them, for whatever that's worth. A look through the RedHat hardware compatibility list shows a couple of cards that might have something

RE: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO

1998-06-04 Thread graham . dodd
Michael, do you have the plip module loaded? Have you set up your routing table correctly? I have all the info at home, yes I did get it working after a few problems, I can send more info tomorrow. BTW I'm in Germany so my tomorrow may be your nighttime. If you can send me any errors

Re: Changing Networks, have questions...

1998-06-04 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Changing Networks, have questions... Thanks for the advice. I think I am going to have to do it with 2 cards. We have a new provider

Re: zombie

1998-06-04 Thread fugue
What is a zombie process and how do I get rid of it? A zombie process is a process that has terminated, but for some reason its parent process has not collected the return code from it. The parent is supposed to go into a wait state (man -s 2 wait) to clear this return code from the

Test. Don NOT read.

1998-06-04 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Test -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

TraceRoute

1998-06-04 Thread Michael George
In FTP95Pro, along with the standard WhoIs, Ping, and Finger functionality, there is also the TraceRoute program. Since these other bits of software originated in Unix and were taken to Windoze, I would guess that there's and easy user-level way to do a trace route in Unix. Is there? And if

Where is .config for the RH5 kernel?

1998-06-04 Thread Jake Colman
I want to recompile the RH5 kernel sources so that I can add in IP Aliasing. The .config file used to generate the 2.0.32 kernel that is booted by default does not seem to be part of the kernel sources RPM. I want to base my changes upon the parameters already used by the default kernel since

RE: cron email commands to retrieve info.

1998-06-04 Thread David . LANDGREN
anyone know how to setup cron to receive email from the owner of the account and for cron to run a process to send all the web stats to another email address? specifically i want to do this: 1)issue a email from my desk at work to my email account on my linux box telling cron to issue a

Re: zombie

1998-06-04 Thread Holger Paschke
I have often successfully removed zombie processes (especially kerneld children in former RedHat 4.2 times) by sending a SIGCHLD/17 signal to the parent. On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Steven W. Orr wrote: From: ramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is a zombie process and how do I get rid of it? A zombie

Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO

1998-06-04 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Michael H. Price II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 10:38 PM Subject: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO The laptop has no network connections while the desktop machine has an ethernet connection.

RE: Vt bloking after doing init 3

1998-06-04 Thread Joseph Doran
Sounds like your tty is going into telegraph mode. Unix used to go into telegraph mode or something similar as far as I can remember back (showing my age !! ;-) Try doing ctrl-d at login prompt. Should bring up another login session. If you try to login with CAPs on you will get funny things

Re: .htaccess

1998-06-04 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, I have set up a .htaccess file with a AddHandler directive, but it is simply ignored by apache. The AccessFileName directive in the srm.conf file is ".htaccess", so it should be read and considered. But apache keeps on ignoring it. Any suggestions? Marcantonio Check you access.conf file.

Re: name server stopping

1998-06-04 Thread James Youngman
"am" == Alexander Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: am Is there an exploit for name servers? I have 4.2 and my name am servers keep stopping for some reason. I do a ps -uax|grep named am and thay are not there. I then do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/named.init am start and it says done but it

Re: logout/login question

1998-06-04 Thread Raul Manuel Jorja
Just change your /etc/inittab to boot in level 5, like this: ... id:5:initdefault: ... It will immediately go to X and xdm and let you login there. Also you have the Virtual Consoles working (CTRL-ALT-1, 2, ...) begin: vcard fn: Raul Manuel Jorja n: Jorja;Raul

Re: Support for ET6000 chipset?

1998-06-04 Thread Christopher Fisk
I have the same card, (Love it -- very reliable). All I did was run xconfigurator and chose NOT to probe the hardware, Choose the appropriate settings and all should be well. HTH Chris On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Scott wrote: I have an STB lightspeed 128 vid card that uses the Tseng Labs ET6000

Re: Cron Revisited

1998-06-04 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
I thought I knew it all about cron, so didn't pay attention to the recent thread on the subject. :-) Please excuse me if this question was asked and answerd. I would like to know the relationship between the /etc/crontab and /var/spool/cron/root files. Specifically, I would like to know the

RE: name server stopping

1998-06-04 Thread Joseph Doran
take a look in /var/adm/syslog and messages. Is there any messages about incorrect format etc? Try running named with debug. The format is named -d x where x is the level of debug. You could also put the query flag on to trace querys to see if a particular query is taking bind down. Chances

Re: What is linsniffer ???

1998-06-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suddenly linsniffer showed up on my machine. What is it? It's a hacker breakin, probably. :) linsniffer typically is used to record the passwords of people flying by on the network. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Re: Changing hostname breaks login

1998-06-04 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Sorry, that may have been a bit unclear. Too much caffeine, plus a tendency to forget that some of these questions aren't coming from work. :) Anyway, much more clearly, and with a solution for the original poster: In /etc/hosts, never remove the 127.0.0.1/localhost entry, either in its

Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO

1998-06-04 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: David Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 04, 1998 6:09 AM Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO Gee. With NT, this would have been child's play! Yes; even after you got it configured, you'd still

Re: fstool and usercfg in RH 5.1

1998-06-04 Thread Simon Liddington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have been using RH 4.2 and have recently *installed* RH 5.1 (I wiped the hard drive before starting). After the installation, I was running first control-panel and then linuxconf to set all the system parameters, etc. as root. I compiled a kernel,

Re: What is linsniffer ???

1998-06-04 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Sounds like a packet sniffer. Remove it, install TCP-wrappers, remove your r-commands from /etc/inetd.conf, change all your passwords (both on that machine and on your other accounts), install fresh copies of all the programs mentioned in /etc/inetd.conf from your install media, and consider

aka in fetchmail...

1998-06-04 Thread Zoki
I posted a question on the low speed of my fetchmail... I'm still in the process of understanding the problem but adding "no dns" in /$HOME/.fetchmailrc seems to speed up things a bit. Another thing mentioned in the man page is about the "aka" option. I don't know what it exactly looks like...

Re: linuxconf firewalling MIA?

1998-06-04 Thread Michael Jinks
Al Potter wrote: Greetings fellow red-hatted geeks! Huh? Oh, who, US? But this hat is blue. . . Hope you all enjoyed the Linux Expo. If you weren't there, you missed out. Best conference I've ever attended. Indeed. I came out feeling like I'd been dipped in GNU-soup. So, the

RE: zombie

1998-06-04 Thread David . LANDGREN
What is a zombie process and how do I get rid of it? A parent process may, at some point in its lifetime, spawn a child process that does some work. Eventually, the child exits, and returns a status code to the parent, as an indication of success/failure/whatever. Now, in order for that status

Re: *Anyone* using a VIA MP3 chipset with RH?

1998-06-04 Thread Jil Tardiff
I don't have any personal experience with the VIA MP3, but what's the other choice, just out of curiosity? :) My backup board would have been a ASUS TX97-X. Of course, I wimped out and managed to squeeze a little more money from the boss. SO, in the interests of maximal

Re: kernel compiling question

1998-06-04 Thread Clemens Adler
Brian, That nothing to worry about, you could even live with it, but since it's not nice: there is a file /etc/conf.modules, which is used by modprobe on startup to look for modules that should be loaded give information to them ... I'm not sure when it is generated, at some point definitly

linuxconf firewalling MIA?

1998-06-04 Thread Al Potter
Greetings fellow red-hatted geeks! Hope you all enjoyed the Linux Expo. If you weren't there, you missed out. Best conference I've ever attended. So, the question is, how does one access the firewalling menu(s) in linuxconf? I've played with the demo at the linuxconf page and was

RE: Changing hostname breaks login

1998-06-04 Thread Thern Nathan R 1Lt SMC/XRT 833-1632
That is great info! I've been reading all the HOWTOs and the Network Administrator's Guide for three months in preparation for setting up my home LAN. I never encountered anything about this subject before now. Thanks! Nate NT Nathan R. Thern, 1Lt 310-363-1632 SMC/XRIC

Re: Where is .config for the RH5 kernel?

1998-06-04 Thread Clemens Adler
Dear Jack, I guess you'd have to ask redhat to get an exact answer, but the defconfig file includes more or less reasonable choices that should work for most people as far as I can judge, however I'm always feeling more comfortable with having the device drivers I need compiled into the kernel

Re: *Anyone* using a VIA MP3 chipset with RH?

1998-06-04 Thread Matt Housh
I would have gone with Asus either way :) --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa Engineering and Natural Sciences

Re: Changing Networks, have questions...

1998-06-04 Thread redhat
Thanks for the advice. I think I am going to have to do it with 2 cards. We have a new provider and a new T1 line that we are switching to. So, we have a new router for that line and everything. So, I will need the IP's on both networks to be active at the same time. So, when I do the DNS

irq confilcts

1998-06-04 Thread quinn coldiron
I have a DELL OptiPlex at work with an integrated 3c59x ethernet card and I am trying to get a PCI SymBios SCSI card installed under 5.1. I have been using the ncr53c8xx module with the SCSI card and am fine as long as I unload the 3c59x module, load the scsi module, then unload scsi and load

Terminal problem after 5.1 upgrade.

1998-06-04 Thread Jeremy Hansen
Has anyone had problems with terminal environments after a 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade. Every terminal env setting I use results in an unknown terminal error from bash. Anyone having this problem? Plus, where would be a good place to look. I've looked at termcap, and that doesn't seem to be a

Number9 I128-2 MetroX problems

1998-06-04 Thread redhat
I've been having problems with my #9 I128-2 4 Meg DRAM video card and X server. When I move an xterm (or any open app on my desktop) I get little white lines appearing all over the screen like the video is breaking up!? This happens whenever I run with more than 256 colors at 1280x1024, even at

Changing ISPs

1998-06-04 Thread johnr
Hi- I have a machine running RH 5.0 which is co-located at an ISP. The machine is primarily a mail server and runs its own primary and secondary DNS. I THINK the files I need to change are as follows: 1. /etc/named.boot 2. The files referenced in /etc/named.boot ( in the /var/named

pppdaemon not answering

1998-06-04 Thread Jann Linder
i am running on a private lan and ips are 192.168.1.0 for network and 1.10 for linux. Fetchmail gets my mail from outside the lan and puts it in the mailbox on linux..but if a client (winnt--ip 1.13) tries to connect to linux to get the mail, then the connection just closes. hosts.deny and

Re: Changing Networks, have questions...

1998-06-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I have to have the second card for the other Network, don't I? Or, is there a way to route all the traffic for the new network through the old network?? I have 2 different routers going, one for each Yes, there is, but it matters whether

rockwell modem

1998-06-04 Thread Linux user
I have 33.600 Rockwell fax modem that i use to connect to an identical modem on a leased line.. The thing is that the modems connect, i know that, but i don't get the CONNECT string ... Anyone had this problem before ? Thanx in advance . -- Andrei Postolache, Romania,

RH 5: 2.1.* kernel upgrade questions

1998-06-04 Thread David Wollmann
I want to upgrade a RH 5.0 (stock out-of-the-box 2.0.31 from RH CDs) box to 2.1.53 or later to add full support for the 16750 UART on a Pacific CommWare ExpressCard 920. I tried installing 2.1.53 (recommended by the mfr. of the 16750 card) but had problems with ncurses depending on glibc6

Re: 3D accelerator?

1998-06-04 Thread Scott
That is a Diamond Monster 3D which uses 3dfx's Voodoo chipset. Quake and Quake 2 for Linux have readme.linux files that tell you what you need to use this card. I have not tried this yet but I wil within the month. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/4/98, at 12:13 AM, Michael Jinks

autofs and NIS...

1998-06-04 Thread Dan Kirkpatrick
I've gotten autofs working for NIS but it won't mount off the root directory... I thought maybe you could help if you do anything like this... I've been told to install "autofs" for automounting... did that, have NIS running and the machine can do a ypcat auto.direct... after installing the rpm

WAV player

1998-06-04 Thread Robert Fausey
Can anyone recomend one. Rob Fausey. ''~`` ( @ @ ) +--+ooO---(_)---Ooo+--+ | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | | American Cyanamid Mercer County | | Information Technology

Newbie trying to get started

1998-06-04 Thread Mike Hesse
I am having problems installing Redhat 5.0 Hardware Asus TX7 pentium mother board Intel P54C 233MMX Mhz 64Mb EDO ram (72pin) Diamon stealth 64 Vram with 4Mb 2 x 6Gb seagate IDE Ultra DMA hard disks (using 32bit fat) 3Com 3C590 combo ethernet card Adaptec 2940 SCSI ultra wide controller Seagate

Re: 3D accelerator?

1998-06-04 Thread Matt Housh
The Monster3D works quite well with linux, using the Mesa GL package and the linux version of the glide rasterization libraries. Don't expect it to run glquake nearly as fast as windows, though :) Mesa is a full implementation of GL, whereas windows glquake uses a miniport, so (among

ppp without X11

1998-06-04 Thread Frank Cristinzio
ppp works fine under X11 but not otherwise !? Running Redhat 5.0 / 2.0.31 kernel / ppp 2.2.0 The modem hangs-up 4 to 8 seconds after Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/cua1 Whether connect via minicom first and then exec pppd -debug or, just using ./ppp-on and ppp-on-dialer the modem hangs-up the

Are more kernel modules coming?

1998-06-04 Thread Eric Wood
Maybe someone who plays with development kernels can answer this: When configuring a new kernel, why would you want to answer 'yes' when a 'module' selection is available? And for the most part, is the new linux kernels becoming more and more modular to a point where kernel compilation will

Re: Can't login as non-root user

1998-06-04 Thread Scott
I missed the first part of this so if its off topic sorry. I had the same problem. There seems to be an undocumented feature when adding users in RH 5.0. The password file does not get an encrypted password. Thus when you login and the unencrypted password is unencrypted you get an error that

2.0.34 troubles

1998-06-04 Thread Chris Frost
When building 2.0.34 this flew accross my machine (and when I did a mrproper). It's still building (slow machine, 386) but this is what flew accross: make[2]: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. Is this A Bad Thing (TM)? Chris - Visit Me At

Re: 2.0.34 troubles

1998-06-04 Thread Chris Frost
Hmmm..uh-oh, as a user if I do "date" I get 13:30, but as root I get 18:30! What?!?! Chris - Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost - -- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Two times on same machine???

1998-06-04 Thread Chris Frost
Went to make 2.0.34 today, and found something **really** wierd! The date as reported from a user and root is different! As a user, the time is 13:49, which is correct, but root says it is 18:49! If I change the time by doing a "date 06041350" root is right, but the time for users is off! What's

RE: adding users

1998-06-04 Thread Paul Pettit
From: Stacy Brodzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 11:59 AM How do I add users?? I've tried a couple things but haven't been very successful. -- Try (at command prompt): useradd ##the blank is the users name passwd

Two times on same machine???

1998-06-04 Thread Chris Frost
Thanks to Paul, turns out I had exported TZ=CDT (for bru) in my root bashrc, but not the global bashrc. Chris - Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost - -- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

useradd question

1998-06-04 Thread CarpetF
I'm new to Linux and have a question about adding a user. For the life of me I can't figure out how to add a user and then login under that user. I've tried the useradd command, which appears to setup the user in the etc/passwd file, but whenever I login I get "Invalid Login". Please help! Matt

Re: WAV player

1998-06-04 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Robert Fausey wrote: Can anyone recomend one. Rob Fausey. how about wavplayer :) xx // xx xx ( o o ) xx xx/oOO-O-OOo\

Re: WAV player

1998-06-04 Thread Matt Housh
splay, bwavplay, wavplay, wavplayer, etc... --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa Engineering and Natural Sciences

RE: aka in fetchmail...

1998-06-04 Thread Paul Pettit
-Original Message- From: Zoki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 5:18 PM To: Red Hat Users List Subject: "aka" in fetchmail... I posted a question on the low speed of my fetchmail... I'm still in the process of understanding the problem but adding "no

Re: Two times on same machine???

1998-06-04 Thread Cristian Tibirna
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote: Went to make 2.0.34 today, and found something **really** wierd! The date as reported from a user and root is different! As a user, the time is 13:49, which is correct, but root says it is 18:49! If I change the time by doing a "date 06041350" root is

RE: Changing window managers?

1998-06-04 Thread George Lenzer
Vince, George, Do you have the info on the dual NT/Linux boot? Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] I read all of the responses I got and found the best way to set up the dual boot based on what different people said. My situation was as follows: Windows NT workstation with one 6.4 Gig IDE hard drive

Re: Can't login as non-root user. Help!!

1998-06-04 Thread Steve Ki-Won Lee
Sorry if I'm posting this twice, but I just got a "Failed message delivery" from redhat's mailer daemon. On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Clemens Adler wrote: dear Steve, I don't know about your usercfg-problem maybe you try to remove and install it again, I guess this won't help but it will tell you

the amazing BRU2000

1998-06-04 Thread Son of a Preacherman
I can't get the PE version of BRU working on my system. It gives me this error: bru: [E134] internal error 100 - failed self consistency and portability checks Does anyone know what is wrong? I've performed the upgrade prescribed in the Errata, and it didn't help. Lee Parker

SatTrack math errors

1998-06-04 Thread Endaf Jones
I used a program called SatTrack. ftp://ftp.amsat.org/pub/amsat/software/Linux/sattrack-3.1.5.tar.gz Its a satellite tracking program written a few years ago for unix and optionally supports X11 graphics. I have compiled and used it fine on many unix platforms over the years (HP, IBM, Sun,

Re: the amazing BRU2000

1998-06-04 Thread Chris Frost
Acutally, go get the updated glibc from redhat, 2.0.7-13 has updates for this. Of course, don't put the TZ=xDT in youre bashrc w/ the newer glibc. Chris - Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost - -- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt -- -- PLEASE

I see a lot of newbie questions

1998-06-04 Thread Kotik Besch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all ! Recently I had problems booting to linux , cause I change lib.so.6 point to the wrong thing , anyway , I remember seeing "rescue" and "single" mode as recovering somewhere in HOWTOs or minis , anyway , as I figured out redhat website in an excelent

NFS mount errors

1998-06-04 Thread Doug Elznic
I try the following: [root@ian /root]# mount -t nfs calvert:/ /mnt/floppy mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive Does anyone know what that error message means? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: What is linsniffer ???

1998-06-04 Thread Doug Elznic
linsniffer is an ethernet sniffer. It sits and listens on a network and grabs every packet it sees. This is why ssh is a good thing... On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suddenly linsniffer showed up on my machine. What is it? thanks, Paul -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

Re: What is linsniffer ??? Packetfilter

1998-06-04 Thread Doug Elznic
For added protection, install some form of packet filter, and drop malformed packets, short packets, long packets, OOB data, and all incoming protocols on ports you're not actively binding programs to in inetd.conf. Does anyne have a packet filetr like this? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

RE: aka in fetchmail...

1998-06-04 Thread Zoki
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Paul Pettit wrote: - Subject: "aka" in fetchmail... - - I posted a question on the low speed of my fetchmail... I'm - still in the snip - -What ver. of fetchmail are you using? -Never used the "aka" option. Are you on the fetchmail list? - Hi Paul, The version I have

/dev/log AWOL

1998-06-04 Thread Antonomasia
In RH 5.1 (2.0.34) I find /dev/log does not seem to have anything lying underneath it. I've looked for comments explaining the disappearance. It's a nuisance as it breaks smap. I think I'm likely to alter my smap if there isn't an easy way to bring back /dev/log. Does anyone know one ? --

RE: useradd question

1998-06-04 Thread Paul Pettit
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 1998 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: useradd question I'm new to Linux and have a question about adding a user. For the life of me I can't figure out how to add a user and then login under that user. I've

Re: pppdaemon not answering

1998-06-04 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi Jann, We really need need more info! The only thing you said here is winNT won't connect. What have tried so far? Lets see your configuration? Ipmasq? etc? Don't think it is a big problem belive there might be just a typo somewhere. -- robert Jann Linder wrote: i am running on a

fetchmail...

1998-06-04 Thread Zoki
I've been playing around with fetchmail and lost 25 mails but found out a bit about the --mda option. The download speed of mails is at last how it should be. However, I don't know how to tell sendmail to deliver the mail directly to me. I use the mda option as follows: poll [options...]

runsocks and Linux 5.0

1998-06-04 Thread Chris Humphres
After spending several hours over many days trying to solve this problem, I'm willing to ask for help. I downloaded the socks5-v1.0r5 rpms from the RedHat ftp site (pub/contrib/...). After installing, everything seems to work except runsocks. The error is: Trying 208.221.102.252... telnet:

Diald + IP-Masquerading problem

1998-06-04 Thread Matt Housh
Hello everyone, got a new problem. I have a small lan at home consisting of 4 computers. One is set up with a modem and ethernet card as gateway, and has IP-Masquerading set up on it. I tried to set up diald, so anyone could make the gateway dial from the lan when trying to connect to an

Re: Newbie trying to get started

1998-06-04 Thread Mike Hesse
Robert Hailman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 4 Jun 98, : I then deceided to use the normal fdisk to make the particions. This seemed to work fine. The install proceeds , I format the partitions, I select virtually everything to install, and at the point where I guess it should start copying

RE: fetchmail...

1998-06-04 Thread Paul Pettit
-Original Message- From: Zoki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 1998 5:00 PM To: Red Hat Users List Subject: fetchmail... I've been playing around with fetchmail and lost 25 mails but found out a bit about the --mda option. The download speed of mails is at

Re: Newbie trying to get started

1998-06-04 Thread Robert Hailman
Robert Hailman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 4 Jun 98, : I then deceided to use the normal fdisk to make the particions. This seemed to work fine. The install proceeds , I format the partitions, I select virtually everything to install, and at the point where I guess it should start copying

Re: Newbie trying to get started

1998-06-04 Thread Mike Hesse
Richard Mahn wrote on 4 Jun 98, : You should still be able to install LILO to the master drive on your first IDE even if it is FAT32. I've been able to do it and I have FAT32 partitions. So all I can say is that your error is not because you can't install LILO to the boot record of a

re: Re: Newbie trying to get started

1998-06-04 Thread Michael Lees
"Robert Hailman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: | | Robert Hailman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 4 Jun | 98, : | | | I then deceided to use the normal fdisk to make the | particions. | This seemed to work fine. The install proceeds , I | format the | partitions, I select virtually everything to

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