Re: named, linuxconf, .sh scripts

2000-01-14 Thread tom minchin
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:19:04PM -0700, Paul R. Watkins wrote: > > I'm having 4 continuing problems with my RH6.1 install. > > 1. named does not automatically execute on reboot. I have to do this manually > /usr/sbin/named not a big deal and I could tie this into a script but isn't > this sup

named, linuxconf, .sh scripts

2000-01-14 Thread Paul R. Watkins
I'm having 4 continuing problems with my RH6.1 install. 1. named does not automatically execute on reboot. I have to do this manually /usr/sbin/named not a big deal and I could tie this into a script but isn't this supposed to start automatically under RH6.1? 2. I can't access my pop3 servers.

Re: netwinder vs pc hardware

2000-01-14 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:30:06PM -0800, Jack Byers wrote: > Steve Borho wrote > >It's always been my experience that Linux is as reliable as your hardware. > >With PC's, this isn't saying much (which explains why I use a DEC Alpha and > >a Netwinder at home). > > Can you explain just how you u

Oh crap

2000-01-14 Thread Vidiot
My system went into weird mode and I ultimately lost my mail spool file, containing over a thousand messages. It might still be in /tmp. I deleted it so Elm would restart, not knowing what the system was screwed and the spool file got erased. One of the e-mail messages was about a program to re

Re: configuring PHP on a RH 5.2 machine

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Reed
Yes, I've done that but I'd like to have it load directly in Netscape. This shouldn't be this difficult :-) and I'd like to learn something in the process about Apache/PHP configuration - I just can't find anything that explains the setup. Also, if I'm going to use PHP at work, I think I'll have

Re: reset my BIOS and can't install linux?

2000-01-14 Thread Vidiot
>> What about LBA mode? I have one disk where it is on and one disk where it >> is off. If LBA mode is on and that is NOT how you used the disk, it will >> NOT boot. > >I don't think the bios even supports LBA mode (I can't find an option for >it at least...) I've formatted the drive sevral tim

Re: reset my BIOS and can't install linux?

2000-01-14 Thread Mark Ivey
> > What about LBA mode? I have one disk where it is on and one disk where it > is off. If LBA mode is on and that is NOT how you used the disk, it will > NOT boot. > > MB > -- I don't think the bios even supports LBA mode (I can't find an option for it at least...) I've formatted the drive

Re: reset my BIOS and can't install linux?

2000-01-14 Thread Vidiot
>I have an old 486 that used to have linux on it. I had to reset the >bios to clear the password and after that it would no longer boot. The >lilo prompt comes up, then it says "Loading linux..." and then >"Uncompressing Linux" and then it gives me one of a couple errors. >Sometimes it says "cr

reset my BIOS and can't install linux?

2000-01-14 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I have an old 486 that used to have linux on it. I had to reset the bios to clear the password and after that it would no longer boot. The lilo prompt comes up, then it says "Loading linux..." and then "Uncompressing Linux" and then it gives me one of a couple errors. Sometimes it says "crc

Re: problem with ndc and named

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Dowling
yeah. I think that I like my script better though :) even re-installing the bind rpms doesn't help. Oh well. thanks for your help anyway. chris dowling Juha Saarinen wrote: > > %-> Hi all. > %-> > %-> when I start named via "ndc start" ndc returns the error: > %-> ndc: error: name ser

netwinder vs pc hardware

2000-01-14 Thread Jack Byers
Steve Borho wrote >It's always been my experience that Linux is as reliable as your hardware. >With PC's, this isn't saying much (which explains why I use a DEC Alpha and >a Netwinder at home). Can you explain just how you use a Netwinder? perhaps as a dedicated firewall or ???. What makes the

Re: configuring PHP on a RH 5.2 machine

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Galpin
Dave If you wan tto just test it from the command line, then just use it from the command line # /usr/local/bin/php first.php skip the SSI hth charles On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Dave Reed wrote: > > I wanted to try learning PHP so I downloaded both the latest version 3 > release and the 4.0Beta3

Re: Group Email

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Galpin
while putting my daughter to bed, I realized that I'm sure to get a half dozen people telling me that there are still cases that this will fail for. Of course, the only proper way is to compare the group to the third field in the passwd file. That's when I realized you said userid, not username, s

configuring PHP on a RH 5.2 machine

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Reed
I wanted to try learning PHP so I downloaded both the latest version 3 release and the 4.0Beta3 release and tried installing them using the standard: ./configure --enable-discard-path;make;make install I've got a php.shtml file that contains: where first.php is a very simple php file form t

Re: MC FTP Problem on RH6.1

2000-01-14 Thread Graham Hemmings
Thanks for the reply, at least I know I'm not going mad! Any ideas when it might be fixed? Graham. >This is a known bug in mc - it can't connect to servers running wu-ftpd >2.6.0. >See http://www.wu-ftpd.org/broken-clients.html > >Didn't have the time to fix it yet. > >LLaP >bero -- To unsub

Re: Group Email

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Galpin
Ok, to excluse a userid (first field, no : in front) do #!/bin/sh TMP=`mktemp /tmp/group.XX` grep -w :`grep "^${1}:" /etc/group | cut -d: -f3` /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 > $TMP grep "^${1}:" /etc/group | cut -d: -f4 | sed 's/,//g' >> $TMP cat $TMP | uniq rm -f $TMP hth charles On Fri, 14 Jan

Re: Auto login and startx

2000-01-14 Thread Kerry Blalock
If your objective is to start up in graphical mode, just change your inittab line from x:3:initdefault: x:5:initdefault: Of coarse you will still have to lo in as user. Kerry B Steve wrote: > > Ok, > > I can get rh6.1 to auto login to the console as by adding the > following line to my inttab

Re: weird entries under netstat

2000-01-14 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I already sent an answer (at least pointing to the culprit ...). might not apply to you but are you running gnome ? If yes, could you step out of X, run netstat again and report. Philippe "Adv. Systems Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem I am having is that my machine's proc

Re: ppp problems after upgrade to 6.1

2000-01-14 Thread Kerry Blalock
> > hk> This file does exist with 644 permission. I can activate the interface > hk> with '/sbin/ifup ppp0', but I would like to use a graphical dialer. I = I use gnome and just set up graphical buttons by using the l

Re: cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Alan Mead
I'll cc this to the redhat-list some they can chime in if I miss anything... At 01:42 PM 1/14/00 -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: >Hi, Alan, > >Thanks for the tips. I found nothing relating to lpd in >/var/log/messages except for messages showing lpd starting and >stopping. I did click "restart lpd" in

Re: weird entries under netstat

2000-01-14 Thread Fred Herman
"Adv. Systems Design" wrote: > > Well, another box running RH4.2 doesnt act that > way...idle goes from 97% to 99%...the box running 6.0 > goes from idle ~8% to ~98%. I know top is not going to > explain my tenet problems, but its curious that the > telnet will not die if I am running top (which

Re: Group Email

2000-01-14 Thread William B. Herman
Ok, I made little modification because if you were looking for a group id, say 10, and a person's group id was 100 it would include them (I just added the -w option after the first grep). Now, how can I make it so it doesn't include a user who's userid is the same as the groupid I am looking for

Re: Starting an Xsession on remote computer

2000-01-14 Thread tshanno
On 14 Jan, Steve Borho wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:43:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage >> my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY >> variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:

RE: Starting an Xsession on remote computer

2000-01-14 Thread Ward William E PHDN
No. Login to the laptop, then telnet/rlogin/ssh to the other machine. You can have as many connections, etc., as you wish. They will be running from the remote machine, but displaying on the local machine. You may need to run some extra programs somewhat differently (for example, you may need to

Re: Starting an Xsession on remote computer

2000-01-14 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:43:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage > my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY > variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0). Unfortunately > when I try to

RE: Starting an Xsession on remote computer

2000-01-14 Thread tshanno
On 14 Jan, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > I really don't understand what you are trying to do. If you have > X-Windows running on your laptop, as long as X is installed on the > remote machine, it doesn't matter if that machine is in terminal > mode or Graphics mode... it can still throw up valid X

RE: Starting an Xsession on remote computer

2000-01-14 Thread Ward William E PHDN
I really don't understand what you are trying to do. If you have X-Windows running on your laptop, as long as X is installed on the remote machine, it doesn't matter if that machine is in terminal mode or Graphics mode... it can still throw up valid X-Windows on your machine remotely. If you don

Starting an Xsession on remote computer

2000-01-14 Thread tshanno
I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0). Unfortunately when I try to start an X session from here (startx) it doesn't work. What more do I need

RE: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Oops, forgot the point about the tab... so it's not even that much of a "BUT"... however, you can still change the root password of the system at level 1, then go ahead and raise it to 3 or 5... that was my point 4. Bill Ward -Original Message- From: Duncan Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Alan Mead
I found printing problems frustrating too, especially the error messages from lpd. The folks here on the list helped but ultimately I read everything I could find and tried different things. You could find a Linux consultant to pay, I think there are paid help desks too. And network printing ma

Re: [OT] All secure server's are broke?

2000-01-14 Thread J. Scott Kasten
It's largely bunk anyway. The "find the private keys" bit means that encrytion keys are known to have higher entropy than any other type of data, so it is possible to identify "suspicious" data segments either in core memory or in a file system in a disk. The act of doing this is easily detectab

Re: weird entries under netstat

2000-01-14 Thread Adv. Systems Design
Well, another box running RH4.2 doesnt act that way...idle goes from 97% to 99%...the box running 6.0 goes from idle ~8% to ~98%. I know top is not going to explain my tenet problems, but its curious that the telnet will not die if I am running top (which leads me to believe that it is pushing som

Re: cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Steve and Alan, I tried logging out and starting the X session as root, deleting the current printers and reconfiguring with printtool, on both the server machine and the other two machines. It still doesn't work. All three machines have the same user accounts with the same user ids. But I

RE: problem with ndc and named

2000-01-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> Hi all. %-> %-> when I start named via "ndc start" ndc returns the error: %-> ndc: error: name server has not started (yet?) %-> %-> a ps will show that named is indeed running. %-> %-> further calls to ndc will fail now giving the error message: %-> ndc: error: ctl_client: evC

Re: partitioning with diskdruid: not enough space

2000-01-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:48 PM 1/14/00 +0100, David Krings wrote: > What am i doing wrong ? I know that i had the same problem back then when Have you read the large disk HOWTO? Go to www.redhat.com, click on suporrt, find their own HOWTO on large disks and then matbe visit www.linuxdocs.org and read the LD

RE: weird entries under netstat

2000-01-14 Thread Adv. Systems Design
I have another box running 4.2 and it does not act the same way, so I know there is something funky going on. The telnet is not timing out...I have never had this problem until I upgraded that box from 4.2 to 6.0... There is a problem, I just don't know where and why. --- Ward William E PHDN <[E

partitioning with diskdruid: not enough space

2000-01-14 Thread David Krings
Hi !!! Just got a nice big harddrive (20GB) and installed on the first 10 GB a win98 system with eleven partitions (i like driveletters so much), one primary and ten as logical drives in an extended partition. Now i want to put Linux on the space left, i am using Halloween IV, a german di

Re: TTY Dead

2000-01-14 Thread Fred Herman
Mike Lewis wrote: > > Tom Gilbert wrote: > > > > * Fred Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Tom Gilbert wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm confused. What in Netscape do you double-click? > > Well, keyboard hotkeys are ok, but I'd still love to know how to control the double click speed. But I am pra

RE: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > 2) Only if you know where the boot kernal is... he didn't > mention that one. Of course, a lot of people leave the/a > boot kernal in the default Hit the tab key at the LILO prompt :) Hey presto, all kernels available in the lilo.conf file.

Re: cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:43:32PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > Hi, Dave, > > Yes, all of the machines are listed in /etc/hosts.lpd. I called Red Hat > phone support about this. They refuse to answer network printing > questions. I was disappointed. The users which need to remote print must hav

RE: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 03:22 PM 1/14/00 -0500, Ward William E PHDN wrote: >There are more "Buts" than that, all though they are only >technicalities. 7) You can usually set a BIOS password. --- Alan D. Mead / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr

Re: cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Dave, Yes, all of the machines are listed in /etc/hosts.lpd. I called Red Hat phone support about this. They refuse to answer network printing questions. I was disappointed. Hidong Dave Reed wrote: > > > From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hi, > > > > This is a problem that

Re: TTY Dead

2000-01-14 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:32:57PM -0800, Mike Lewis wrote: > Tom Gilbert wrote: > I like to be able to clear the URL window by double clicking (select > all) and then typing in the new URL Maybe this is just a sloppy > holdover from my WindDoz habits. I still haven't found a way to change > the

red hat update agent

2000-01-14 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I just installed the official Red Hat 6.1 deluxe. I'm having problems running the update agent. I registered at the Red Hat site. The documentation on the Red Hat site shows a different user interface from the update agent on my machine. In the User tab of the up2date configuration, there

RE: TTY Dead

2000-01-14 Thread Mike Lewis
Tom Gilbert wrote: > > * Fred Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Tom Gilbert wrote: > > > > > I'm confused. What in Netscape do you double-click? > > I have never double-clicked anything in netscape as far as I > remember... > I like to be able to clear the URL window by double clicking (se

Re: cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:54 AM 1/14/00 -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: >This is a problem that's driving me crazy. I have a network of three Try this: On ripley, move the printcap to some name like old.printcap and then fire up X as root and run the Red Hat printtool and recreate the printer. This worked for me and ot

Re: [OT] All secure server's are broke?

2000-01-14 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:22:27PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: > This article seems to say that all major servers (Apache, Netscape, IIS) > are vulnerable to local attacks which read the private key from memory. It > goes on to say that you really need their $4,000 to $17,000 solution to > "vault" th

Re: cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > This is a problem that's driving me crazy. I have a network of three > Linux machines. When I was running Red Hat 5.2, I could print over this > network. Since upgrading to 6.0, I cannot print over the network. I > just upgraded to 6.1, and

RE: weird entries under netstat

2000-01-14 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Um, this is standard Top behavior (no joke, every Unix box I've ever used!). It's compiling information, so what you are seeing is incomplete the first few seconds. If you lower your top threshold time down to the lowest number, you'll see it begins updating faster, so it's not missing that 99%

Re: weird entries under netstat

2000-01-14 Thread Fred Herman
"Adv. Systems Design" wrote: > > The problem I am having is that my machine's processor > is being cycled to death to the point where my telnet > sessions become dead (top reveals that there is 0% > idle, but 0.3% being used by system and 0.9% by user > SO where is the rest of the 99%?! After a f

RE: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Ward William E PHDN
There are more "Buts" than that, all though they are only technicalities. 1) Only during the boot process... that's the LILO prompt, not the login prompt. 2) Only if you know where the boot kernal is... he didn't mention that one. Of course, a lot of people leave the/a boot kernal in the defau

Re: Opinions

2000-01-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Alan Mead wrote: > > As I understand it, the PS/2 mouse is that it uses a couple of it's pins to > draws current. I've had a spark reset my machine while fiddling with the > mouse. I power down now before I mess with it. YMMV. You're lucky. My good friend's mouse stopped working, so he check

cannot remote print

2000-01-14 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, This is a problem that's driving me crazy. I have a network of three Linux machines. When I was running Red Hat 5.2, I could print over this network. Since upgrading to 6.0, I cannot print over the network. I just upgraded to 6.1, and the problem persists. The three machines are ripley,

gdm errors

2000-01-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
What do the following errors mean? Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jan 14 09:29:39 cyrix PAM_pwdb[995]: (gdm) session closed for user nospam Jan 14 09:29:39 cyrix gdm[995]: gdm_auth_user_remove: /home/nospam is not owned by uid 0. Jan 14 09:29:39 cyrix gdm[995]: gdm_auth_user_remove:

Re: New raid patches for anything beyond 2.2.11?

2000-01-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jason Costomiris wrote: > > It seems (based on what's on www.kernel.org) that the latest raid patch > is raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. Anyone know if this has been ported to later > kernels? I'm particularly interested in having it for 2.2.14. I believe that is the same patch that Red Hat includes

Re: linux fdisk cannot see the whole disk!

2000-01-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Zaigui Wang wrote: > I have a 13G hard disk. When I use linux fdisk to do the partitions, it > seems like the maximun cylinder number allowed is 1024, which ends up with > only about 8G. Where does the rest of the disk go? How to fix this > problem? I believe that the kernel has a problem with an

Re: ppp problems after upgrade to 6.1

2000-01-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Not exactly what your asking, but why not bind "/sbin/ifup ppp0" and "/sbin/ifdown ppp0" to keyboard shortcuts? That would seem to be much easier...well that is the way I like it. Cheers, Dominic. > "hk" == Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hk> Hi, hk> I just upgraded to 6.1 from

Re: where's rawhide?

2000-01-14 Thread Eric Wood
it's ftp://rawhide.redhat.com -eric -Original Message- From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 2:15 PM Subject: where's rawhide? >Hi, > >Does this site exist? http://rawhide.redhat.com I found the link on a >searc

Re: Group Email

2000-01-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Charles Galpin wrote: > #!/bin/sh > # > # get's group members > # usage: getMembers group_name > /etc/mail/group.lst > # > grep `grep $1 /etc/group | cut -d: -f3` /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 > > create this script, and stick a call to it for each group list you want to > maintain in a cron job, (o

[OT] All secure server's are broke?

2000-01-14 Thread Alan Mead
This article seems to say that all major servers (Apache, Netscape, IIS) are vulnerable to local attacks which read the private key from memory. It goes on to say that you really need their $4,000 to $17,000 solution to "vault" the keys. So it sounds like crap but I was wondering if anyone with

Re: where's rawhide?

2000-01-14 Thread Jason Hirsch
6 expert ~ % nslookup rawhide.redhat.com Server: expert.cc.purdue.edu Address: 128.210.10.11 Non-authoritative answer: Name:ftp.redhat.com Addresses: 206.132.41.212, 208.178.165.228 Aliases: rawhide.redhat.com -- Jason Hirsch, ChemEng/Chemistry Make it myself? But I'm a physica

where's rawhide?

2000-01-14 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Does this site exist? http://rawhide.redhat.com I found the link on a search of the Red Hat site, but when I try to go there, it says that the site doesn't exist. Thanks, Hidong -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

ppp problems after upgrade to 6.1

2000-01-14 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I just upgraded to 6.1 from 6.0. I'm having troubles dialing out through my modem. I could dial out fine under 6.0, using usernet. Now usernet hangs. I went into control-panel as root, and tried to activate the ppp0 interface. But I get an error message saying: Failed to activate /etc/

RE: Serial/Parallel Ports not functioning in 6.1

2000-01-14 Thread Robin Atwood
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Vince Negri wrote: >> I can't tell if the modem problem is related. The serial ports appear >during >> installation. However, I can't get minicom to respond. the modem is a >Hayes >> Accura 366000. > >One of my colleagues here at work has a PC at home with an internal >modem

Re: TTY Dead

2000-01-14 Thread Fred Herman
Tom Gilbert wrote: > > * Fred Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Tom Gilbert wrote: > > > > > > * Fred Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Not to be TOO greedy, but I have another question that no one answered > > > > and I couldn't find in mail archives. How can I control the > > > > d

Re: 5.2 X11 Odditity/Bug

2000-01-14 Thread Jon Klay
I've seen this, but upgraded XF86 and it went away. Ward William E PHDN wrote: > I don't know if this has been fixed in 6.0 or 6.1, but there > is a nice little bug in X under RH5.2 (stock). If you have > gdm running, and login as root, when you log out, the control > panel is NOT stopped, and

Re: TTY Dead

2000-01-14 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Fred Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tom Gilbert wrote: > > > > * Fred Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Not to be TOO greedy, but I have another question that no one answered > > > and I couldn't find in mail archives. How can I control the > > > double-click mouse speed in X? I'm

Re: Hanging while opening /dev/random

2000-01-14 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Jamie Carl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok peeps, here an interesting one. It's got me stumped. > I have a passwd program which access /dev/random before it changes a > users password. Thing is hangs for no reason before completing. > > Running strace passwd tells me that when it tries to rea

Re: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:46:34AM -0200, Michael Gatti wrote: > Hello everyone > > I'm with a little password problem, we instaled a Linux server for a > company that has a dedicated line with my ISP and one of the guys > that works there (I know it's my fault cause I gave them the root's > p

RE: weird entries under netstat

2000-01-14 Thread Adv. Systems Design
The problem I am having is that my machine's processor is being cycled to death to the point where my telnet sessions become dead (top reveals that there is 0% idle, but 0.3% being used by system and 0.9% by user SO where is the rest of the 99%?! After a few seconds, top must background the proce

[OT] Stocks, Options, IPO's , Opensource & IRC :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Greg W
Hi all Hope there are a few people out there in mail list land that would like to exchange ideas, thoughts, market costs, shares etc , so there is a mail list where we can go to talk about any things of the above nature with RH and all other open source companies being the topic. I hope it may b

Re: Oh, Please!!!

2000-01-14 Thread JAMES VANETTEN
I wonder if they have cool names like "Crash, Lockup and Reboot"?? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Root doesn't accept password -Reply

2000-01-14 Thread Mike Hunziker
Sure, same as HPUX ...it you have physical access to the machine you can get in by booting single user...security begins with physical security. You can lock that down I think through lilo but I'd almost never want to. Only a machine in a public place or perhaps a desktop machine. Never a server.

Re: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:21:26AM -0500, Jeff Graves wrote: > Are you joking me? You can honestly get root access that easy? Probably. Maybe this should have been qualified 'in a default install' it works this way. This assumes runlevel 1 has not been monkeyed with and there is no LILO password,

Re: Oh, Please!!!

2000-01-14 Thread John J. Donohue
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > Microsoft Certified Professional Action Heroes? > > What is the world coming to? > > Yes, let's release Red Hat Certified Microsoft-Killer Action Heroes > (penguins with phasers or something) to react. ;) > How about some posters of Tux

Re: problem with ndc and named

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Dowling
yep, it has access to the pid file. It creates that one okay, but for some reason ndc(?) doesn't create the /var/run/ndc file, which I believe is a pipe of some description. named actually runs fine. it's just manipulating it via ndc that's the problem. I wrote my own sb.ndc that does most of the

RE: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Frank Carreiro
No joke. Most UNIX flavors have something like this available. Sun has a "secure" mode enabled nowdays by default which requires the root password when attempting to enter run level 1. Heck, if you have a boot floppy you can mount the drive and change the password also. One reason why physic

Re: two NICs cause a problem

2000-01-14 Thread John J. Donohue
<-begin quote-> The next problem involves trying to add a second card (a netgear card, forget the name but it uses the tulip driver). I wanted to add the second FA-310TX ? card so I could connect my laptop to my desktop system sometimes to permit both internet access to my lapto

Auto login and startx

2000-01-14 Thread Steve
Ok, I can get rh6.1 to auto login to the console as by adding the following line to my inttab: x:3:respawn:/bin/su -- I tried to get it to startx by changing the command to: x:3:respawn:/bin/su -- -c startx It quits respawning too fast and I get the error can't find startx so I changed t

RE: NIS trouble

2000-01-14 Thread Fontenot, Paul
Do you have the entries in /etcpasswd: +::0:0::: and /etc/group ( group is optional on linux but I do it to adhere to standard )? +: I have linux running as slave server and clients to an HP-UX 10.2 NIS master. If you need any help i'd be happy to assist. -Paul -Original Message- Fr

Re: problem with ndc and named

2000-01-14 Thread Robert Glover
If you're running named as non-root (and you should be), then you'll need to make sure it has write access to it's PID file. > Subject: problem with ndc and named > Date:Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:34:05 +0800 > From:Chris Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all. > >

RE: Serial/Parallel Ports not functioning in 6.1

2000-01-14 Thread Vince Negri
> I can't tell if the modem problem is related. The serial ports appear during > installation. However, I can't get minicom to respond. the modem is a Hayes > Accura 366000. One of my colleagues here at work has a PC at home with an internal modem (full modem, not one of those winmodem nasties)

Re: VPNs, anyone?

2000-01-14 Thread Eric Wood
That 'vtun' program may be a user-space program entirely - no kernel editing neccessary which make it *very* appealing. I don't think I'd ever get a tunneling program that requires a recompile. "Ever" is a strong word though. -eric wood -Original Message- From: Jeff Mings <[EMAIL PROT

Disk druid

2000-01-14 Thread Pete \(Online\)
Hi Can I run disk Druid from the command line to change my partiontion at all? I make a 4.4gig fat32 drive for VMware and I have a feeeling I'd be better off if it where Linux native. has ther been any word from RedHat on an update soundconfig with Live support as yet and lastly I noticed the M

Re: Unknown Ports

2000-01-14 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 06:42:01AM -0600, Chad W. Skinner wrote: > I am trying to stop all unrequired services and was wondering if > anyone could tell me what the following services are and if they need > to be running. > raw icmp 1 > raw tcp 6 These are not "ports". These are r

RE: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: > Are you joking me? You can honestly get root access that easy? Yes, but, and there is a but, enabling a lilo password stops that. However, if someone has physical access to a machine, all the passwords in the world will not really help you. A boot flopp

RE: samba server not browseable

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Galpin
In my case, it was just a linux/samba box and a fe PCs On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: > That's because it takes time before the NT server refreshes it's > browser lists. > > -Original Message- > From: Alan Mead [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 5:31 P

RE: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Jeff Graves
Are you joking me? You can honestly get root access that easy? -Original Message- From: Hal Burgiss [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:56 AM To: RedHat Mail List Subject:Re: Root doesn't accept password On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:46:34AM -0200, Mich

RE: samba server not browseable

2000-01-14 Thread Jeff Graves
That's because it takes time before the NT server refreshes it's browser lists. -Original Message- From: Alan Mead [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: samba server not browseable At 08:07 PM 1/12/00 -0500, y

RE: Unix and Linux Books

2000-01-14 Thread Jeff Graves
I found three books that have REALLY helped me: SAMS Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed by David Pitts and Bill Ball et al. (Explains most networking services in great detail, I use it almost everyday) SAMS Linux: A Network Solution for Your Office by Viktor T. Toth (Good book to go from NT to linux. L

Re: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:46:34AM -0200, Michael Gatti wrote: > I'm with a little password problem, we instaled a Linux server for a > company that has a dedicated line with my ISP and one of the guys > that works there (I know it's my fault cause I gave them the root's > password) changed it and

Unknown Ports

2000-01-14 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I am trying to stop all unrequired services and was wondering if anyone could tell me what the following services are and if they need to be running. raw icmp 1 raw tcp 6 Also, what are the following used for and are they required for telnet or httpd and eventually ssh. tcp auth113

RE: Fwd: RE: Re: IPNAT

2000-01-14 Thread yukon
First off, there's no such thing as an invalid IP ;) However, if you're referring to IP ranges which are designated at private IPs (i.e, 10.*, 192.168.* and 172.16/12), there are a couple things: ipfwadm (I believe) and ipvs (which I use). Both, AFAIK require a kernel patch, but will allow you t

RE: SW RAID Q:

2000-01-14 Thread yukon
At least as of raidtools-0.90... The problem stems from how the raidtools determines which drives to use for the RAID plex (I won't go technical here). But, basically if you get in a situation in which your drive configuration changes (i.e., add or remove a drive), the raid detection attempts to

Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-14 Thread Michael Gatti
Hello everyone I'm with a little password problem, we instaled a Linux server for a company that has a dedicated line with my ISP and one of the guys that works there (I know it's my fault cause I gave them the root's password) changed it and know he doesn't remember what's the correct passwo

high-speed serial port (230400)

2000-01-14 Thread fred smith
Has anyone here used a high-speed serial port? I.e., 230400. I've got a serial board (Byterunner, 2 ports, 16c550 uart chips) which has jumpers to double or quaduple the clock rate so that the speeds you choose will be multiplied by either two or four. I've got a modem that claims to work at 2304

Re: MC FTP Problem on RH6.1

2000-01-14 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Graham Hemmings wrote: > I have a problem with FTP transfers when using Midnight Commander, between > RH6.1 boxes - it doesn't ! This is a known bug in mc - it can't connect to servers running wu-ftpd 2.6.0. See http://www.wu-ftpd.org/broken-clients.html Didn't have the ti

Re: Firewall/masquerading setup with ipfwadm - looking for help

2000-01-14 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:35:49AM -0600, Steve Borho wrote: > > I would recommend a firewall building package called mason. [...] Thanks for the suggestion, Steve! I downloaded it yesterday and played a bit - looks promising. The only drawback I can see so far: You sure need a lot of patience t