NetKit's future? (OpenBSD ports)

Hi, I had a look at NetKit and was curious why RedHat delivers version 0.10 when sunsite has version 0.16. On a page from David Holland (http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/netkit.html), he states that NetKit had gotten into bad shape and that RedHat was thinking of porting some

Extending rpm

I'm getting pretty fed up with broken rpms, particularly those that do this install -o root and thought I'd write a script to fixem automagically. I thought too, that this would be useful to others, and therefor it should be sensitive to users' rpm configuration. On exploring rpm's

Re: NetKit's future? (OpenBSD ports)

Well, quite simply, the latest version of NetKit that was available when developing our latest release (Red Hat Linux 6.1) was NetKit 0.10. We did some work to port the OpenBSD tools over during development for 6.0, but that's been abandoned. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at

yawn2k

We regret to inform you that due to intellectual difficulties beyond our control the beginning of the next century/millennium has been delayed until 1 January 2001. It is hoped that this will allow the worlds mathematicians and computer scientists sufficient time to complete the education of

Re: Ipchains MASQ problems AGAIN![thanks and Happy New Year !]

Thanks and Happy New Year to you too you can use a special version of identd for masq hostsor if using ipchains , you can set it to REJECT and this should be enough for the requesting server as its an answer and overcome this problem. search http://www.freshmeat.net for

Module loaded?

Is there a way to see if a particular module has been loaded into the running kernel? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Module loaded?

On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 05:58:27AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Is there a way to see if a particular module has been loaded into the running kernel? lsmod [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Problem with Netscape Plug-in

Dear List, I am not sure if this is a RedHat, Netscape, or user issue. When I am prompted to download the Flash Player from Macromedia, I receive this error. "A network error occurred while Netscape was receiving data. (Network Error: Connection reset by peer) Try connecting again." Any ideas

The new year!

Hey, just want to say happy new year to everyone. Thanks for all your help. I hope every survives this crap. If the bombs start flyin' i'm going to mexico to drink tequilla and live on the beach. I spent the last 4 hours backing up our entire network onto cds so if anything happens we got the

Re: Fetchmail Error

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, SoloCDM wrote: My .fetchmailrc has the following defaults: poll mail.network proto pop3 user username password user_password Looks like you created this by hand. My fetchmailrc seems to require the keyword "with" before "proto", and a few other anomolies

Re: Abit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

I run an abit bp6 with 2 400C's and have upgraded the bios to the latest and have never expirenced any of the problems that you all seem to be expirenceing. It contains a Fujitsu UDMA66 7200 10.2gig drive a Riva TNT2 32meg AGP video card 128megs PC100 Ram and Redhat 6.0 on 24/7 and never have

re:New Year

Gee... thanks Jeff for the comforting words... :-) Seriously though happy 2000 to everyone. Joining this list has been the best thing about Linux - to see people helping others in need. If the rest of the world acted like the people on this list, the world would be a great place to live in.

Re: Running X with Exceed

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Joe wrote: Are there any logs I can look at? Someone suggested I look at X.log and X.err but I don't think they're on my system. Also I checked sshd_config and X forwarding is already allowed. You also need to add a line for 'sshdfwd-X11' into your hosts.allow file.

Re: fetchmail question

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Robert Key wrote: script I have to start it manually after the the link is up. The error message is "not the owner". How can I solve this? ip-up* is run as root. Man setuser for info on running stuff as other people from a script. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as ext2 has a 2GB file size limit. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsh for root

Sorry for butting in here, but that kind of answer is going to get the Linux box placed out on the back porch. I can't recommend installing ssh as *THE* answer when my shop has 100+ *NIX servers that are not Linux and 3 machines that are. You have to protect your machines as best you can with

Re[2]: sendmail puts my machine name as part of the domain ????

Hello Philippe, Thursday, December 30, 1999, 12:58:08 AM, you wrote: PM Well, ok, I can read and configure sendmail by hand ... PM On the other end, there exists something called linuxconf which claims it can do it. PM It would be nice if somebody could tell me what is the part I am missing

dialpad.com

I'm still having difficulties getting port forwarding to work with my Linux firewall, specifically in the use of dialpad.com. Helpful suggestions would be very helpful. :) I've running kernel 2.2.5-22, with the ip_masq_portfw module loaded. tcp_syncookies are enabled, as is the rp_filter,

User startup of Gnome/enlightenment with startx only

I can't seem to get the installation right in order to allow a non-root user to get past the login screen while in init level 5 (gdm). Root can get in. In order to get access to enlightenment for a non-root user I need to use startx.. and that works with no problem. I believe there is a

adding user to NIS domain ?

Hi, I created a new user at my NIS server box. How to update the NIS server so that this user can log to NIS domain ? And,How to make the NIS server auto update each time i create a new user at NIS server box ? Thanks -lz __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk

Re: The new year!

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Graves writes: Hey, just want to say happy new year to everyone. Thanks for all your help. I hope every survives this crap. If the bombs start flyin' i'm going to mexico to drink tequilla and live on the beach. I spent the last 4 hours backing up our

HTTP Error 403

Hi: I don't know if it is the appropriate list to ask the question, but I am running out of resources. When i install RH6.0 or RH6.1, except for the test html page, I get an error 403. Even lynx under the user name looking at its own directory gets the error. I tried to install 5.1 and

Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too

Test Post

If this makes it to the list, success at last. sorry bob -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Y2K

2000 has started over here - no Y2K problems whatsoever. So we've finally proven that W2K is a *much* bigger problem than Y2K. ;) LLaP bero -- Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM. -- Bill Gates, 1983 Windows 98 requires 16 MB RAM. -- Bill Gates, 1999

Thanks

To all who have tolerated a newbie for the last year and helped through a few [more than not] areas of blissful ignorance and highlighted the right path to solve a problem - - - THANKS. Bob Hartung -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Y2K is here!

If this makes it... I guess MoonGroup survived the rollover intact! Woops... there goes another cannon shot! -- Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc. http://moongroup.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public key available at: wwwkeys.us.pgp.net 12:16am up 1 day, 3:58, 1 user, load average:

xdaliclock

Anyone else having a problem with their xdaliclock after 12:00am? I had mine set for a 24 hours clock. It is 1:45am EST right now. My xdaliclock reads 71:45 with those digist backwards (in place). :-) - Raymond Popowich [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xdaliclock

Anyone else having a problem with their xdaliclock after 12:00am? I had mine set for a 24 hours clock. It is 1:45am EST right now. My xdaliclock reads 71:45 with those digist backwards (in place). :-) Raymond Popowich I use xclock and it rolled over just fine and is displaying without a

Re: xdaliclock

heh, jumped too soon. start a new one and you are okay. but if you had one running during the roll-over it will be broke. go figure. On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Raymond Popowich wrote: Anyone else having a problem with their xdaliclock after 12:00am? I had mine set for a 24 hours clock. It

Re: Y2K is here!

No Y2K problem here, even on my old 486s! =) HAPPY NEW YEAR! -Manuel. On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Chuck Mead wrote: If this makes it... I guess MoonGroup survived the rollover intact! Woops... there goes another cannon shot! -- Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc.