Re: Identify Linux OS in packet Header

2000-01-27 Thread Aaron Turner
Port scanners such as nmap and OS detectors such as queso are known to do this, but not the way you indicate. Rather they send a set of packets to the machine and look at the responses. By looking at the response, one can determine the OS and even sometimes the kernel version. This is because

Identify Linux OS in packet Header

2000-01-27 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello redhat-list, Anyone ever hear of Liunx, as an OS, being identified anywhere in a TCP/IP packet header? Reason I'm asking is that a certain software claims to be able to glean that specific information from the packet header, dunno which daemon, of a Linux machine. Best regards, P

please help...somebody mess up with my ftp server...

2000-01-27 Thread cnet
hi all... somebody have login to our ftp server... he had made some changes... our ftp site does appear when you go there...but... directories for download was gone... can somebody tell me what are the correct permissions...owner and modes... so i could make it work again... /pub thanks for

Re: Hardware raid recommendation.

2000-01-27 Thread Clement
Thank you very much for your recommendation. I get the low cost Mylex AcceleRAID 150. It comes with all the drivers for OS/Win/NT/NW but not Linux althought its web pages says Linux 2.2 is support. Do you know where to get the driver for Linux? Cokey de Percin wrote: > > Jason Costomiris wr

Re: kppp

2000-01-27 Thread Clare Teoh
Neil, kppp is asking for the root password. You can either supply the root password to make your connection or do the following :- 1. Delete /usr/bin/kppp 2. give the real binary suid root permissions :- chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp 3. Create a symbolic link :- ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp

Re: Bash script

2000-01-27 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
You can also use bc #!/bin/sh var1=5 var2=6 echo "$var1 + $var2" | bc # end Have fun, -- Rick L. Mantooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said before, I never repeat myself! On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote: => Just trying to write a bash script and can't seem to figure out how to => do additio

To Compile apache with mysql and php3 HOWTO?

2000-01-27 Thread dannyh
WHen the documentaiton specifies ./configure --with-apache=/path/to/apache/dir --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql what does it mean by /path/to/apache/dir Does it mean source of the apache or the location of ap

Re: [RedHat-List] why root cannot chmod on /home?

2000-01-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:38:56PM -0600, Zaigui Wang wrote: | what will prevent root user from doing "chmod 0755 /home"? I just could | not do it! | My /home directory is defaulted to "0444". As a result, adduser | command failed to create a home direcotry for new users. I don't suppose you hav

Re: can't install EWS

2000-01-27 Thread Wei Jiang
I have just installed redhat 6.1 and try to reinstall all the softwarepackages. One of them is EWS1.1 which is a free search engine from Excite.However, when I run the installation, I get the following error message: ./perl: can't load library 'libdb.so.1' I don't remember having this problem fo

Re: Anyone using the FullOn 2x2 boxes?

2000-01-27 Thread Lance A. Brown
There is a recent (today or yesterday) Q&A interview on slashdot with the president of VA Linux. Someone asked him about the price differential on the servers and he talkeda bout the engineering and heat management work they do with their servers and specifically mentioned the FullOn 2x2 as one

Re: A new convert to Linux

2000-01-27 Thread Brandon Dorman
Other than the demo for Quake 3, Civ 2 Call to Power, and Heroes of Might..., are there any good games out there? Anyone know of good websites for them? Thanks, Brandon -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Sharing one kicq account with 2 users

2000-01-27 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hi, I have a single user system and i have a few different accounts on them for me. I like to expiriment with different window managers and such. What I was wondering, is if i could have one directory somewhere on my machine so that no matter which login, i would use the same kicq account and t

Re: killing processes

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
I've seen this done in perl cgi scripts to prevent them from taking too long - put the following in your script, right after the #!/usr/bin/perl alarm(6); If the program is still running after 6 seconds it will send an SIGALRM signal to itself and die. You might want to define a handler, and cat

killing processes

2000-01-27 Thread Reiner Rusch
I'm wondering if it's possible to kill processes automatically (as a cron-job?). I've managed to setup Linux and Apache and now I tried to kill the machine by executing several processes to find out, how the machine reacts. I wrote a little perl script (cgi) that calls itself. My provider has the

html2ps -- ps2pdf

2000-01-27 Thread Reiner Rusch
I want to convert html into pdf. I found a html2ps-converter, which is written in perl and a ps2pdf-converter written as a shell script. So this would be the way. But there are several problems: I took a html-file which a converted to postscript via html2ps. Everything worked fine. I transfered t

about anonymous login

2000-01-27 Thread Nandar Lay
Dear friend i want to disable anonymous ftp login to linux ftp server. pls let me know which setting files should i edit . Thanks in advance Nandar Thailand __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: Bash script

2000-01-27 Thread Jeff Smelser
this worked great, thanks a lot! On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Try some thing like this > > > #! /bin/sh > # addnums - adds two numbers input as args and outputs the result > newval=`expr $1 + $2` > echo 'the sum of ' $1 ' and ' $2 ' is ' $newval > > > Jeff

Re: Bash script

2000-01-27 Thread Bret Hughes
Try some thing like this #! /bin/sh # addnums - adds two numbers input as args and outputs the result newval=`expr $1 + $2` echo 'the sum of ' $1 ' and ' $2 ' is ' $newval Jeff Smelser wrote: > > Just trying to write a bash script and can't seem to figure out how to > do addition with variab

Re: Anyone using the FullOn 2x2 boxes?

2000-01-27 Thread Robert A. Hayden
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Jason Costomiris wrote: > I'm looking at building some big bad servers. I'm faced with choosing > between building and buying. > > I'm considering getting a few of VA's FullOn 2x2 servers configed as: > > FullOn 2x2 > 2 x P-III 700 > 512 MB RAM > Mylex eXtreme RAID 1100/

Re: root question

2000-01-27 Thread Vidiot
>Is there a way to make a second user, similar to root, that has full access >w/o having to type su each time? I've got a 6.1 box that I have my p/w set >as su, but I need to give another full access, but I don't want him to know >my password, and I'm not too fond of changing it. Just create

Re: Anyone using the FullOn 2x2 boxes?

2000-01-27 Thread Aaron Turner
Jason, Between systems the VA has donated to the LinuxKB and sytems my company has purchased from VA (about 60 computers total). One thing I can say is that they're all very high quality and well engineered. I've never had a problem that was heat related (actually I'm not sure I've ever had a

Re: I also have lots of attacks from this place.

2000-01-27 Thread Frederic Herman
I have been getting some attacks from rooted servers. In one case, the attacker went through at least comprimised boxes to get to me. I got reports from owners of both boxes (one was a tech school in Texas, and the other one belonged to an isp.) Fred Nate Waddoups wrote: > > Interesting. It

Re: Hardware raid recommendation.

2000-01-27 Thread Eric Sisler
Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >Well, it looks like a showdown between Mylex and ICP then... You'll have to let us know which one you went with and why. I'm not in the market for a RAID controller at present, but who knows what the future holds. >Not having to boot DOS t

Bash script

2000-01-27 Thread Jeff Smelser
Just trying to write a bash script and can't seem to figure out how to do addition with variables. If someone could give me a quick example, I would appreciate it. Thanks -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: root question

2000-01-27 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, David Hansen Jr. wrote: > Is there a way to make a second user, similar to root, that has full access > w/o having to type su each time? I've got a 6.1 box that I have my p/w set > as su, but I need to give another full access, but I don't want him to know > my password,

Anyone using the FullOn 2x2 boxes?

2000-01-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
I'm looking at building some big bad servers. I'm faced with choosing between building and buying. I'm considering getting a few of VA's FullOn 2x2 servers configed as: FullOn 2x2 2 x P-III 700 512 MB RAM Mylex eXtreme RAID 1100/32 MB 5 x IBM 32G 7200 RPM (raid 5) Those are pretty kicking bo

root question

2000-01-27 Thread David Hansen Jr.
Is there a way to make a second user, similar to root, that has full access w/o having to type su each time? I've got a 6.1 box that I have my p/w set as su, but I need to give another full access, but I don't want him to know my password, and I'm not too fond of changing it. Thank you kindly

Re: Web site filter

2000-01-27 Thread Adam Goucher
filtering is censorship! censorship is bad! though, should you want to play big brother, look at squid. i believe it has some access lists you can apply to it. http://squid.nlanr.net -adam On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, mi na wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a web filter (Block certain website) software that

A new convert to Linux

2000-01-27 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
Well, my son has become a Linux convert. He always thought it funny that his father was deserting Windoze for Linux. Understand, my son is 12 years old and more into games than anything else. Until yesterday, I had never gotten a game for Linux. However, yesterday I saw Heroes of Might & Magic 3

PostGres && PHP3

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Cathey
I have sucessfully compiled php-3.0.12 w/MySQL support and Apache 1.3.9. However, I am having problems compiling php-3.0.14 with support for PostGres. I downloaded the latest version of postgres and the problem actually surfaces when I try to compile apache. It gives me the ever so common er

Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
ok, I just want to mount them with the loopback device. If I can find it I'll give it a try. thanks charles On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Peter Monta wrote: > > [ isosize ] > > Sorry to reply to my own message, but another reason > to use isosize is that some (most?) CD-ROMs are padded > with a few sec

Web site filter

2000-01-27 Thread mi na
Hi, Is there a web filter (Block certain website) software that can work with linux proxy (redhat 5.2). Thanks! Li __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as th

Re: booting with lilo

2000-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
"Carey F. Cox" wrote: > This will mean you won't be able to boot to single user mode or > > linux single > > and thus won't have the ability to correct goof-ups without a working > boot and rescue disk. Oops. I meant remove the "prompt" line from /etc/lilo.conf. You can leave the time

Re: booting with lilo

2000-01-27 Thread Carey F. Cox
Caution! This will mean you won't be able to boot to single user mode or linux single and thus won't have the ability to correct goof-ups without a working boot and rescue disk. Carey On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Roberta Nicolis wrote: > > I've installed linux re

Re: booting with lilo

2000-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
> Roberta Nicolis wrote: > I've installed linux red-hat 5.1 on a HP netserver, I want to know: if > I have not other operating systems on that server, but only linux can > I boot without lilo? If the answer is "yes", How can remove lilo? No, lilo is required to boot Linux. If you would like to b

Re: RPMs

2000-01-27 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Lee Ward wrote: > I am attempting to install the RPMs for Gnome. However, when I > type rpm -i ... and hit enter all it does is bring up another > prompt. From what I can tell, it's not installing. What do I do. RPM, unless told to be verbose, produces no output, even when s

Create a RAID

2000-01-27 Thread Clement
Hi, Can you give hints or instructions to create a RAID? I have 2 identical SCSI drives and would like them to mirror each other, ie a RAID-1 array. Thank you very much. Regards Clement -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: I also have lots of attacks from this place.

2000-01-27 Thread Nate Waddoups
Interesting. It had been my understanding that everything under .da.uu.net was assigned dynamically. Rumour has it that the "tnt" in 1Cust190.tnt1.iowa-city.ia.da.uu.net refers to the Lucent "max tnt" access boxes, which I assumed meant 56k dialups for your average dialup internet access. I ju

Re: I also have lots of attacks from this place.

2000-01-27 Thread Cokey de Percin
Sean Clarke wrote: > > Be warn this hostname/ip have been causing me alot of grief. > > TCP Wrappers: Connection Refused > By:neptune.tzo.cc > Process: in.ftpd (pid 4714) > > User: unknown > Host: 1Cust190.tnt1.iowa-city.ia.da.uu.net > Date: Wed Jan

Re: I also have lots of attacks from this place.

2000-01-27 Thread Sean Clarke
No just for information. I seen a post from another person with the same host name that had attacked them and I get this one at least 2 time a day. But fortunately I have everything blocked and no one can get acces ( Ihope) So far so good. If it is a dial up then possible a spoof because I hav

Re: RPMs

2000-01-27 Thread Hidong Kim
Are you trying to get RPMs off of a Red Hat installation CD? The RPMs are usually in /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS, if you mount your cd-rom on /mnt/cdrom. When installing RPMs, I do: rpm -Uvh .rpm Good luck, Hidong Lee Ward wrote: > > I am attempting to install the RPMs for Gnome. However, wh

Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Peter Monta
> [ isosize ] Sorry to reply to my own message, but another reason to use isosize is that some (most?) CD-ROMs are padded with a few sectors of zeros at the end. You want the copied image to be the same size as the original ISO9660 filesystem (so that md5sum will turn out right, for example).

RPMs

2000-01-27 Thread Lee Ward
I am attempting to install the RPMs for Gnome. However, when I type rpm -i ... and hit enter all it does is bring up another prompt. From what I can tell, it's not installing. What do I do. Also, whn I used glint in X, I tried to look at the pacakges on my CD-ROM it says "/mnt/cdrom/SRPMS conat

Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Peter Monta
> thanks. got an easy way to know how big the disk is? It's not always 640. Here's what I use. The isosize tool is part of the old cdwrite distribution, I think---it just prints the size of the ISO9660 filesystem in bytes by looking in the superblock. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=whatever.iso bs=2048 co

Re: Sendmail Totals

2000-01-27 Thread tom minchin
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:24:56PM -0600, Jeff Smelser wrote: > Is there some software out there that goes through the sendmail/syslog and > give me an overview of the mail that goes through my system? I would be > curious to know who is sending/receiving mail during the day on a nightly > basis f

Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
thanks. got an easy way to know how big the disk is? It's not always 640. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jake Johnson wrote: > Sometimes dd is a little picky so make sure you now the size of the disk > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=whatever.iso bs=1024 count=640 > > > > Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote:

Re: was Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging? now DCHP name resolution

2000-01-27 Thread Bret Hughes
I got it! Thanks. Bret Charles Galpin wrote: > > The assumption is that if you want to do what you are describing below, > both client1 and client2 have entries in the server's hosts file, and had > a host block in the dhcp.conf to get them to always get that name/ip. > > Most of the tiem th

Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Jake Johnson
Sometimes dd is a little picky so make sure you now the size of the disk dd if=/dev/cdrom of=whatever.iso bs=1024 count=640 Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > thanks so much. this is exactly the answer I was looking for. > > BTW, If you don't hear it enough, it's great having you on

Re: was Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging? now DCHP name resolution

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
The assumption is that if you want to do what you are describing below, both client1 and client2 have entries in the server's hosts file, and had a host block in the dhcp.conf to get them to always get that name/ip. Most of the tiem thought you don't care aboput the clients getting different IPs

Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
thanks so much. this is exactly the answer I was looking for. BTW, If you don't hear it enough, it's great having you on the list! On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > > > I want to copy a CD image to disk from the command line (i'm

was Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging? now DCHP name resolution

2000-01-27 Thread Bret Hughes
Charles Galpin wrote: > > I guess I haven't explained it properly, but I'm not sure If I can do any > better than this. > > When the machine with the ethernet card having the mac address of > 00:e0:98:03:9d:7b requests an IP, the dhcp server will lookup the hostname > piglet.lhsw.com (where th

landscape printing in star office

2000-01-27 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, How do you print in landscape orientation in star office? I'm trying to print out a spreadsheet. In the File menu, I choose Print and specify Landscape, but the printout always comes out portrait. Thanks, Hidong -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subj

Sendmail Totals

2000-01-27 Thread Jeff Smelser
Is there some software out there that goes through the sendmail/syslog and give me an overview of the mail that goes through my system? I would be curious to know who is sending/receiving mail during the day on a nightly basis for example.. Thanks Jeff -- To unsubscribe:

Re: mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > I want to copy a CD image to disk from the command line (i'm used to doing > this with the xcdroast GUI). I'm pretty sure this is done with mkisofs, There's a much easier way: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=whatever.iso LLaP bero -- Anyone sending uns

mkisofs and copying a cd to disk

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi This may seem a bit silly, but I don't see this in the man page. I want to copy a CD image to disk from the command line (i'm used to doing this with the xcdroast GUI). I'm pretty sure this is done with mkisofs, but reading the man page, it looks like you have to mount the cd first. I didn't

Re: Hardware raid recommendation.

2000-01-27 Thread Steve Dixon
we only use mylex and have been since we used SCO. never have any problems with them. i like the ability to rebuild and whatnot from sending commands to the /proc/rd/XXX, personally. of course the setup from the cards bios is nice also. Jason Costomiris wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:0

Re: Hardware raid recommendation.

2000-01-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Eric Sisler wrote: : Don't have any direct experience, but there's a review of the ICP Vortex : cards in the November 1999 issue of Linux Journal. Not cheap, but good and : at the time of the article one of the few with multi-channel card supported : b

Re: I also have lots of attacks from this place.

2000-01-27 Thread Steve
I got hit early sunday morning by this guy: Active System Attack Alerts =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jan 23 08:11:17 localhost portsentry[587]: attackalert: Connect from host: 1Cust249.tnt20.chi5.da.uu.net/63.20.110.249 to UDP port: 31337 Jan 23 08:11:17 localhost portsentry[587]: attackalert: Ho

Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging?

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
I guess I haven't explained it properly, but I'm not sure If I can do any better than this. When the machine with the ethernet card having the mac address of 00:e0:98:03:9d:7b requests an IP, the dhcp server will lookup the hostname piglet.lhsw.com (where the dns server will look in the hosts fil

Re: I also have lots of attacks from this place.

2000-01-27 Thread Nate Waddoups
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Sean Clarke wrote: > Be warn this hostname/ip have been causing me alot of grief. > > Host: 1Cust190.tnt1.iowa-city.ia.da.uu.net Two things come to mind... First, that's a uu.net dialup IP, so there's a good chance that the person attacking your system has another

Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging?

2000-01-27 Thread Bret Hughes
Very cool. But I still don't get how the addresses for fixed address hosts get resolved. Bret Charles Galpin wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > Are you using host files for the internal machine resolution? I use a > > local dns for my internal network so I don't have to

Re: can't get linux to boot of the harddrive

2000-01-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 08:54 PM 1/26/00 -0700, Patrick O Neil wrote: >I have three harddrives: >hda is a 8GB >hdb is a 4GB >hdc is a 3GB > >hda is partitions thusly: > Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System >/dev/hda1 1 109875511b Win95 FAT32 >/dev/hda2 110

Re: cannot get into X from xdm anymore solved -------------but new query

2000-01-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 02:58 PM 1/27/00 +, you wrote: >My colleage solved the below by deleting files from his /tmp directory. He >has a new problem. In X linux is reporting a lack of disk space and says it >cannot do x,y,z due to this lack of space. There is over 800mb of free disk >space. He has one ext2 p

Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging?

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Are you using host files for the internal machine resolution? I use a > local dns for my internal network so I don't have to change all the > hostfiles every time I add a machine to the netowork. I think there is > a DHCP tie to dns somehow I guess I

Re: How to take a snapshot ofyour desktop

2000-01-27 Thread Tom DeLuca
But now, how to do a print-screen from within X? Tom DeLuca Manager Computer Operations, Radiology Johns Hopkins Hospital (410) 955-6618 pg (410) 283-0055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > that second menu is called Xtns I just looked at my own screenshots. :-) >

I also have lots of attacks from this place.

2000-01-27 Thread Sean Clarke
Be warn this hostname/ip have been causing me alot of grief. TCP Wrappers: Connection Refused By:neptune.tzo.cc Process: in.ftpd (pid 4714) User: unknown Host: 1Cust190.tnt1.iowa-city.ia.da.uu.net Date: Wed Jan 26 16:35:20 PST 2000 --

E-mail Masquerade

2000-01-27 Thread rruth
On my Red Hat 6.1 system, I set the /etc/sendmail.cf variable DM variable (as instructed in the Red Hat 6.1 Reference Guide) and stoped & starded sendmail. My e-mail Return-path: header is NOT being masqueraded. Any ideas on how to get e-mail masquerading working would be appreciated. Richard

Re: Linux Database - which to use.

2000-01-27 Thread Jim Morris
Bob wrote: > Oracle 8i with WebDBProbably overkill > Informix > Sybase > MySQL > PostGreSQL Add Interbase (http://www.inprise.com) to this list. Also DB2 from IBM, which is available for Linux. Hope this helps! Jim Morris -- To unsubscribe: mail

Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging?

2000-01-27 Thread Bret Hughes
Are you using host files for the internal machine resolution? I use a local dns for my internal network so I don't have to change all the hostfiles every time I add a machine to the netowork. I think there is a DHCP tie to dns somehow I guess I need to read up. I was also thinking about the ip

OT-Latest version of apache-fp and where to get it?

2000-01-27 Thread Steve
Does anyone on the list know the latest version of apache-fp rpm and where to get it? The only version I can find is 1.3.3 and I would like to get some thing closer to 1.3.9 TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Computer Telephony Applications

2000-01-27 Thread Adam Goucher
Have a look at... http://www.linuxtelephony.org The web is like a giant directory service these days :) -adam On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, THOMAS M WATSON wrote: > Does any know if any CTI (Computer-Telephony Integration) applications > have been ported to Linux? > > Mike Watson > Raymore, MO > >

Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging?

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
I am no expert at this stuff. In fact i only just recently started runnign a caching only name server myself (zero config needed btw other than adding 127.0.0.1 to resolve.conf) - another thing I shoudl have done a long time ago. But I can tell you what I did. You simply setup you dhcpd.conf to

Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging?

2000-01-27 Thread Bret Hughes
Too cool, no problems with DNS? How does naming resolution work. If too much to explain no worry I'll RTFM. Bret Charles Galpin wrote: > > It was really quite easy. I have no idea why I didn't do it sooner. Well, > I know why. If you have a simple network with a few computers it is really > n

Re: instaltion suxs

2000-01-27 Thread Martin A. Marques
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jake Johnson wrote: > Go the Red Hat's site and download the new installation disk. They had > a problem with that as well. > Do you have an exact URL? Thanks alot :-) -- "And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me." - Melvin Udall ---

Re: Aliasing IPs and IP chains

2000-01-27 Thread Bret Hughes
You know, I think the placement of this script is due to my having the script in ip-up.local when I was using dialup from the house with a dynamic ip. It is good to know that I can bring the interface up and down without having to run the ipchains setup each time. I thought it was kind of weird

Re: Filtering out mail without a "From" header

2000-01-27 Thread Dominic Mitchell
> "ee" == era eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ee> On 27 Jan 2000 09:37:07 -0500, Dominic Mitchell ee> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It appears that he is probably using a script that monitors my >> connections and fetches my mail. Since I was using fetchmail in >> demon mode I did not o

Computer Telephony Applications

2000-01-27 Thread THOMAS M WATSON
Does any know if any CTI (Computer-Telephony Integration) applications have been ported to Linux? Mike Watson Raymore, MO

Re: mail headers --> Got Hacked!

2000-01-27 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Hi Bob, The problem appears to be unfortunately local... As you suggested, I stopped running fetchmail in demon mode. In other word fetchmail does not run and my mail is getting fetch anyway... He is controlling my mail... I am learning the hard way that security is a must! Have got a copy

Re: cannot get into X from xdm anymore solved -------------but new query

2000-01-27 Thread Neil Hollow
My colleage solved the below by deleting files from his /tmp directory. He has a new problem. In X linux is reporting a lack of disk space and says it cannot do x,y,z due to this lack of space. There is over 800mb of free disk space. He has one ext2 partition and one swap partition. Any idea

Re: instaltion suxs

2000-01-27 Thread Jake Johnson
Go the Red Hat's site and download the new installation disk. They had a problem with that as well. Jake On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Martin A. Marques wrote: > I have been experiencing lots of trouble latelly to upgrade and install new > machines. I will discribe the problem: > > I have a RH 6.0

Re: Parallel Port Zip Question - Solved

2000-01-27 Thread Edward Marczak
on 26/1/2000 12:28 PM, Carey F. Cox shot down the bitstream: > From my /etc/conf.modules... > > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc Ah, that was the magic line. Thanks! -- Ed Marczak, The New York Media Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Aliasing IPs and IP chains

2000-01-27 Thread Greg W
I never gave a thought to a slow DHCP server :-( , anyways, maybe a nice place to use "wait" if in fact there was a problem, from memory I have only seen reference to rc.local, but I don't have to worry about ppp or DHCP where chains are. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 27/01/00 at

instaltion suxs

2000-01-27 Thread Martin A. Marques
I have been experiencing lots of trouble latelly to upgrade and install new machines. I will discribe the problem: I have a RH 6.0 which I have installed succesfuly in the past. Now I want to upgrade old PC with 5.0 to 6.0 via net (ftp). I mount the CD in /home/ftp/pub/RH-6.0/ with no problem. Bu

Re: Inbox Lock

2000-01-27 Thread Greg W
Not sure what you are posting here, but the error below will happen under certain scenarios.. 1 there are more than one person trying to access the pop acc 2 a connection died before closing off properly and the pop server thinks there is still a client connected, there fore will hold

Re: Aliasing IPs and IP chains

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
You can setup ipchains *before* the interface is up if you have a fixed IP. I believe this would indeed be preferred. However if you have a dynamic external IP, and your script figures that out before setting it's rules, then you obviously need to run it after the interface is up, but as soon as p

Re: how to reduce dhcpd logging?

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
It was really quite easy. I have no idea why I didn't do it sooner. Well, I know why. If you have a simple network with a few computers it is really not needed. As soon as you have more thasn a handfull of machines or you start trying to swap a PC between 2 or more networks, it becomes essential!

Inbox Lock

2000-01-27 Thread scott.list
>I have a user complaining about mail errors on his Win98 Client. I have RH >6.0 with it's default sendmail version. The maillog shows an entry with: > >Error opening or locking INBOX user=bsmith. > >Can someone tell me what's amatter here? > >Thanks, >Scott -- To unsubscribe: mail [

Re: Linux Database - which to use.

2000-01-27 Thread Charles Galpin
I agree with Aaron here, but suggest you worry more about using a language/tools that allow you to write database independant code. Then you can get going with your development on postgresql/mysql, and "upgrade" if you find you need to later. With those numbers I really doubt you will need to. I w

booting with lilo

2000-01-27 Thread Roberta Nicolis
Title: booting with lilo Hello, I've installed linux red-hat 5.1 on a HP netserver, I want to know: if I have not other operating systems on that server, but only linux can I boot without lilo? If the answer is "yes", How can remove lilo? thanks Roberta

Cannot get tvout feature to work with ATI Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X

2000-01-27 Thread Raju K V
Hi For one of our projects we need to get X up on Linux with TV as the display monitor and we are not succeeding. I got ATI All-In-Wonder card and installed it on a pentium II machine running redhat linux 6.1. With this setup and when i start to boot with TV as display i get all the boot

Re: Dreaded sendmail lock

2000-01-27 Thread Neil Hollow
RH6.0 2.2.5-22, everthing was fine until I altered the /etc/hosts. I only did this since changing hostname every time I went into X I get an error message. Will RH boot past sendmail after a long delay as otheres are suggesting? Ta. NH -- >From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PR

Re: Dreaded sendmail lock

2000-01-27 Thread Vidiot
>No, no I'm not that stupid! Sorry I didn't make myself clear, I put >something like >127.blah blahlocalhost >192.168.255.255 hollow Sorry, I had to respond based upon what I saw. You can pretty much pick any value, except that it can't end in .0 or .255. So something like 192.9.200.1 wo

Re: Li......

2000-01-27 Thread Zoki
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Lee Ward wrote: ->> > as I remember it the FAQ says to do ,"fdisk /mbr" from dos. ->Don't know if that will effect the rest of your harddrive and/or ->getting into linux. You can't boot into windows or linux, right? ->Did you make a bootdisk? -> ->I did make a bootdisk,

Re: Dreaded sendmail lock

2000-01-27 Thread Neil Hollow
No, no I'm not that stupid! Sorry I didn't make myself clear, I put something like 127.blah blahlocalhost 192.168.255.255 hollow in the etc/hosts I cannot remember the exact number, but I only put one not a range. -- >Try booting single user and then editing and fixing your hosts

cannot get into X from xdm anymore

2000-01-27 Thread Neil Hollow
Another colleage of mine (a mini linux invasion is taking place at my work) cannot login any more via xdm. At level 5 xdm appears on boot, he enters the user details it crashes back to the prompt (out of X). At level 3 startx starts X normally. Whats going on - I'm unable to help since I've ne

Re: Dreaded sendmail lock

2000-01-27 Thread Vidiot
>I've altered my /etc/hosts file and now my machine won't boot. I added an ip >mumber in this range 192.168.0.1-192.168.255.255. and the hostname hollow. Huh? You put "192.168.0.1-192.168.255.255 hollow" in your /etc/hosts file? That is totally incorrect. It has to be a single IP value and th

Dreaded sendmail lock

2000-01-27 Thread Neil Hollow
I've altered my /etc/hosts file and now my machine won't boot. I added an ip mumber in this range 192.168.0.1-192.168.255.255. and the hostname hollow. I did this cause I found a webpage that said if I didn't I wouldn't be able to use X when I was online. Oh experts out there, its question time

Re: Linux Database - which to use.

2000-01-27 Thread tom minchin
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:05:34AM -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: > Hello, > I need to begin picking a database fora project. The > number of choices is now staggering. Generally, I will have > about 15,000-20,000 patients and about 35,000 procedures > entered per year. I need to be able to run thi

Re: Linux Database - which to use.

2000-01-27 Thread Aaron Turner
My .02 for what it's worth: MySQL doesn't do transactions. For medical info this should in your mind take it out of the running. PosgresSQL is probably the slowest of the bunch, but has a good feature set and is very popular in the Linux community. For that few records, it should do quite well

Re: Aliasing IPs and IP chains

2000-01-27 Thread Mihai Ibanescu
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote: > I have created a script to add 2 ips to interface eth0. This script simply > contains the commands > > ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > When I reboot my machine i simply run th

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