Several Kernel / Module upgrade questions..

2000-04-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just installed Redhat 6.2 and then upgraded the kernel to 2.3.99 pre5 on my i-opener, and it seems like the new kernel is finally booting and most things are working..(of particular concern was getting USB networking working, because the i-opener doesn't have a PCI or ISA bus, and hence, has

Re: Autodelete 'core'

2000-04-22 Thread Steve Borho
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:57:24AM +0300, Jukka Lindgren wrote: > How can I delete any and all 'core' files on my system without user > intervention. > > I've seen a script on certain Sparcs at work, it was done with 'awk' or > 'grep - or both.. I just can't remember. > > Do I start with 'find /

Re: Samba setup problems

2000-04-22 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I can see the Linux box in my Windows Network Neighborhood window but when > I try to access from a Win98 box it asks me for a password...not a user > name and password.When I type the password I logged on to Win98 with and > created the Linux user with, it says the password is in correct. I

Re: Autodelete 'core'

2000-04-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:57:24AM +0300, Jukka Lindgren wrote: | How can I delete any and all 'core' files on my system without user | intervention. | I've seen a script on certain Sparcs at work, it was done with 'awk' or | 'grep - or both.. I just can't remember. | Do I start with 'find / -name

Re: Samba setup problems

2000-04-22 Thread Bret Hughes
Morse wrote: > I have Samba installed and running in RH 6.2. NICs work. I can ping all > directions across the LAN. I can FTP into the LINUX Box. I have appended > this post with the output of testparm. Everything seems to be fine. I have > gone into Linuxconf...User Accounts ...User Account ..

Re: Autodelete 'core'

2000-04-22 Thread John P. Verel
On 04/23/00, 12:57:24AM +0300, Jukka Lindgren wrote: > How can I delete any and all 'core' files on my system without user > intervention. A better way is to prevent them in the first place. In your /etc/profile, you'll find a line which should be commented out: : ulimit -c 100

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Bret Hughes
have you tried to flush all ipchains rules just to eliminate it? Bret "Michael J. McGillick" wrote: > Afternoon Everyone: > > When I had Red Hat 6.1 installed on my machine, I had the following 4 > lines at the end of my rc.local file: > >echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > >/sbin/

Video Card Compatability

2000-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
Hi, I'm trying to confirm that a Diamond Stealth III S540 video card is compatable with RH 6.2 and XFree86? Anybody have any experience with this card? TIA Dave -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-04-22 Thread Danny
Why would you want to touch sys files. If you want to make space in the / partition you can always delete the "howto's" in /usr/docs/howto/ I think. On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 09:31:21PM -0700, Hyung Kim wrote: > | Can anyone tell me the function of

Re: How to upgrade video card

2000-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
Thanks for the info Manuel, just what I needed. Bye the way, this is off topic, but I am also planning on doing a complete upgrade (motherboard, power supply, memory, etc) of my old Cyrix 6x86 system that I purchased in early 95. I was wondering if anyone new of a good users group that can assist

Re: downloading web sites

2000-04-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Vidiot wrote: > There are no man pages for wget, only info pages, which I hate. wget has a man page on my computer... wget-1.5.3-6 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Mikkel: Wait till you hear this. I went back into my kernel configuration, and took out some other unecessary stuff - IRDA subsystem, ISDN, etc. but absolutely no changes in either the networking section, or network devices section. I recompiled, rebooted, and now I can ping 192.168.1.2 and get

Re: Autodelete 'core'

2000-04-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jukka Lindgren wrote: > How can I delete any and all 'core' files on my system without user > intervention? find /home -name core | while read CORE; do if (file $CORE | grep 'core file'); then rm $CORE fi done -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 07:03 PM 4/22/00 -0400, you wrote: >Mikkel: > >Is there possibly anything wrong with the kernel? I have 2 ethernet >cards, 3Com 10/100 PCI cards. When Red Hat first installed, it set up >modules for these two cards as 3c59x. I believe the correct driver for >these cards is 3c90x, so in the p

RE: Autodelete 'core'

2000-04-22 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Apr-00 Jukka Lindgren opined: > How can I delete any and all 'core' files on my system without user > intervention. > > I've seen a script on certain Sparcs at work, it was done with 'awk' or > 'grep - or both.. I just can't remember. > > Do I start with 'find / -name core' or perhaps 'ls

Re: downloading web sites

2000-04-22 Thread brian davison
Mosaic had a function to do what you are suggesting. I saw an rpm for mosaic o one of the sites... haven't tried it on linux yet tho. brian ;) *** At 11:27 AM 4/22/00 +1200, you wrote: >On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote regarding Re: downloading web sites: > >> >> You have t

Re: SyQuest SyJet 1.5g removable drive

2000-04-22 Thread brian davison
looks like maybe you "su" ed to root and still have the users permissions? brian ;} *** At 12:35 PM 4/21/00 -0500, you wrote: >great !! thank you >thing is , I figured that I could just mount it like any other drive. >So , I wanted to format the drive and do an fsck on

Re: Samba setup problems

2000-04-22 Thread Don Knott
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Morse wrote: > I can see the Linux box in my Windows Network Neighborhood window but when > I try to access from a Win98 box it asks me for a password...not a user > name and password.When I type the password I logged on to Win98 with and > created the Linux user with, i

Autodelete 'core'

2000-04-22 Thread Jukka Lindgren
How can I delete any and all 'core' files on my system without user intervention. I've seen a script on certain Sparcs at work, it was done with 'awk' or 'grep - or both.. I just can't remember. Do I start with 'find / -name core' or perhaps 'ls -R core' from the root and then pipe this to 'grep

Terminal to Console

2000-04-22 Thread Jukka Lindgren
Tell me, O' ye who knoweth: How can I make a gnome-terminal to become a 'Console'. What I refer to is a terminal into which any and all system etc. error messages are directed - if not otherwise specified. It may be that I refer to STDOUT, but don't know... This is by default on certain Sun Spa

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Mikkel: Is there possibly anything wrong with the kernel? I have 2 ethernet cards, 3Com 10/100 PCI cards. When Red Hat first installed, it set up modules for these two cards as 3c59x. I believe the correct driver for these cards is 3c90x, so in the past, as I did this time, I've gone in to the

Samba setup problems

2000-04-22 Thread Morse
I have Samba installed and running in RH 6.2. NICs work. I can ping all directions across the LAN. I can FTP into the LINUX Box. I have appended this post with the output of testparm. Everything seems to be fine. I have gone into Linuxconf...User Accounts ...User Account and created users

Re: sendmail +masquerade +returned mail

2000-04-22 Thread Me
Hyung Kim wrote: > > Hi, > > I have sendmail working and since I have a dial-up > ISP, I masquerade my email. I have no problems > sending email, however if I send email to an address > that does not exist, my email is not returned. Is > this an inherent problem with masquerades or have I > mi

Re: inetd error message

2000-04-22 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >At 11:31 AM 4/13/00 -0500, you wrote: >>I'm getting the following error message every ten minutes in >>/var/log/messages: >> >>Apr 13 11:27:01 mpls inetd[19909]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use >> >>Any thoughts as to what to where to look a

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 05:38 PM 4/22/00 -0400, you wrote: >Mikkel: > >I'm going to try swapping out the cable, on the off chance that this is >the problem. I don't think it is, because I see a link link on the back >of both cards. > >- Mike > > It isn't the cable, not with what ifconfig shows. When you ping, the pa

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Mikkel: I'm going to try swapping out the cable, on the off chance that this is the problem. I don't think it is, because I see a link link on the back of both cards. - Mike On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > At 05:25 PM 4/22/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Mikkel: > > > >Ok - I went

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 05:25 PM 4/22/00 -0400, you wrote: >Mikkel: > >Ok - I went in and looked at the file you mentioned. I think it's >identical to what you said it should be. In the past, as I did this last >time, I usually use the control panel under X to set the interface >up. Here is the file: > >DEVICE=eth1

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Mikkel: Ok - I went in and looked at the file you mentioned. I think it's identical to what you said it should be. In the past, as I did this last time, I usually use the control panel under X to set the interface up. Here is the file: DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=192.168.1

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 04:47 PM 4/22/00 -0400, you wrote: >Mikkel: > >Maybe you can help me interpret what I'm seeing. I'm not very good with >this stuff (yet), so I appreciate any help you can throw my way. You >mentioned something about a route not being set up. Please understand >that I did everything exactly t

sendmail +masquerade +returned mail

2000-04-22 Thread Hyung Kim
Hi, I have sendmail working and since I have a dial-up ISP, I masquerade my email. I have no problems sending email, however if I send email to an address that does not exist, my email is not returned. Is this an inherent problem with masquerades or have I misconfigured sendmail? Thanks _

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Mikkel: Maybe you can help me interpret what I'm seeing. I'm not very good with this stuff (yet), so I appreciate any help you can throw my way. You mentioned something about a route not being set up. Please understand that I did everything exactly the way as I did with my Red Hat 6.1 machine,

Re: bash question

2000-04-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thanks again to everyone for all the constructive answers received. Best regards Gustav Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > Hi, > > In a bash script I can look at $0 to find the name of the current script > file, but if it's started with a full path, I will find the full path > and filename in $0. >

testing

2000-04-22 Thread Mark McGlone
testing -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 04:05 PM 4/22/00 -0400, you wrote: >Afternoon Everyone: > >When I had Red Hat 6.1 installed on my machine, I had the following 4 >lines at the end of my rc.local file: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > /sbin/ipchains -F forward > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipcha

Ipchains & Red Hat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Afternoon Everyone: When I had Red Hat 6.1 installed on my machine, I had the following 4 lines at the end of my rc.local file: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -F forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -s 192.168.1.2 -j MASQ T

Re: samba sync

2000-04-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 09:56 PM 4/22/00 +0430, you wrote: >Hi all > >Does any one knows how can i synchronize smb passwords >from ordinary ones.I have set the similar option in >linuxconf but it didn't work! > >Thanks. > > What are you trying to do? If you want to use encripted passwords in Samba, and create the Sa

Re: Home mail server

2000-04-22 Thread Me
Brad Cramer wrote: > > Can someone who has a home network mail server work that serves mail for > several members with different e-mail accounts and for the local network and > uses a dial up ISP account with a dynamic IP send me a sample sendmail.mc > file they are using. I just can't seem to ge

RE: bash question

2000-04-22 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
use like this: echo Usage: `basename $0` [options] > -Original Message- > From: Gustav Schaffter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:42 PM > To: redhat-list (Mailing list) > Subject: bash question > > > Hi, > > In a bash script I can look at $0 to find the na

samba sync

2000-04-22 Thread Redhat Mailing List
Hi all Does any one knows how can i synchronize smb passwords from ordinary ones.I have set the similar option in linuxconf but it didn't work! Thanks. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: SCP for Windoze ?

2000-04-22 Thread Mike Lewis
Thanks Philip & Mikkel ! Mike > -Original Message- > From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 9:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SCP for Windoze ? > > > At 12:44 AM 4/22/00 -0700, Mike Lewis wrote: > > > >Is there such a thing a

fetchmail/sendmail and spam?

2000-04-22 Thread Müller
Hi all, I'm sendmail and fetchmail. I have given sendmail some adresses to filter. I have a dial up connection to the internet. Now I receive some mails from a spammer and unfortunatly something goes wrong, when filtering. Here are the logs: fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP> MA

Re: Printer/Printer Queue

2000-04-22 Thread linda hanigan
This may not help but when I had a printer problem I unconnected and reconnected the cable and it worked fine. Actually with most problems that involve cables like ethernets, modems, and printers I try this first. It never hurts to try. Linda Hanigan -- To uns

Re: bash question

2000-04-22 Thread Steven W. Orr
As this is a bash question and not a Bourne shell question, I'd like to offer A Better Way. Instead of referring to $0, just use ${0##*/} Typically, the start of most bash or ksh scripts will say: prog=${0##*/} Then later on refer to ${prog} -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a b

Re: SCP for Windoze ?

2000-04-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 12:44 AM 4/22/00 -0700, Mike Lewis wrote: > >Is there such a thing as SCP for Windoze ? > >Thanks, >Mike > > Check http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: 6.1 --> 6.2 worth it ? issues ?

2000-04-22 Thread sixx
At 13:14 00/04/22 +0800, you wrote: >Hi, > >Is the 6.2 upgrade worth it and are there any issues >or traps ? there is alot of traps for sure ... no matter what version you were using before, its like upgrading from 6.0->6.1 ... same issues ... configs would go missing, you need to manually cop

Real Audio 7

2000-04-22 Thread P Eads
Has anyone been able to get RA working on a pentium 100? The docs say it is not possible, but I'm wondering if someone has proved them wrong. I'd like to use RA, but I'm having all kinds of difficulty in getting even RA 5 to work on my system. Being a newbie, I'm probably not doing something right

Printer/Printer Queue

2000-04-22 Thread P Eads
Hi all, I am not able to get my printer to print anymore. I get an error message to the effect that the connection is refused because the daemon cannot be started. I have killed the pid of the lpd, restarted the lpd using /usr/sbin/lpd and the error message persists. I have also tried to kill and

Re: Print Queue stuck

2000-04-22 Thread Bob Hartung
Ah yes, lprm etc will empty the queue but is there a command [I can't find it] that will force all the queued pages to the printer so they are not lost? Thanks again for all the responses! Bob Kyle Hargraves wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Bob Hartung wrote: > > > However, I have never tried

Re: How to upgrade video card

2000-04-22 Thread Eric Cifreo
> For windoze it is fairly straight forward with the s/w taking you > through installation and configuration for the > new video card. I'm not familiar with how this process works for Linux. >Can someone point me to a good source of data or a step-by-step process > for doing this? Shut d

Re: Log error

2000-04-22 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
Hi! First find out if the file actually exists. If it is not there, create an empty one with touch command, and be sure permissions are 644. -Manuel. Kevsurf wrote: > > Hello, > > I keep getting an email from my server saying: > > errors occurred while rotating /var/log/lastlog > > stat of

Re: How to upgrade video card

2000-04-22 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
Good morning, Dave! Ok, first, print out /etc/X11/XF86Config (only in case you may need it later). Second, make your linux system boot in text mode rather than directly to X (you have to edit /etc/inittab and change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: . BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO CHANGE ANYTHING E

Re: 6.1 --> 6.2 worth it ? issues ?

2000-04-22 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
Good morning, Kyle! Can't tell about going from 6.1 to 6.2, 'cause I made the jump from 6.0 to 6.2. But 6.2 has some nice improvements over 6.0. Anyway, I know there are some issues about the upgrade, which you will find on the archives at www.moongroup.com . -Manuel. Kyle Hargraves wrote: > >

Log error

2000-04-22 Thread Kevsurf
Hello, I keep getting an email from my server saying: errors occurred while rotating /var/log/lastlog stat of /var/log/lastlog failed: No such file or directory I don't know how to fix this though. Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: 6.1 --> 6.2 worth it ? issues ?

2000-04-22 Thread Michael A Lane
I just did the change over from 6.1 to 6.2 and is was not a present experience. I bought the official Red Hat packages, 6.1 was the standard, 6.2 was the deluxe. I first chose the "upgrade" install, and when all was said and done it loaded file servers I don't use and when you get to the end of

How to upgrade video card

2000-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
Hi, Not being an expert on Linux yet, I have a question regarding how to get upgrade to a newer / better video card. My situation is, I seem to be having some problems with my very old card. I have a dual boot system to either Win95 and Linux (RH6.2). For windoze it is fairly straight f

Re: downloading web sites

2000-04-22 Thread Vidiot
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote regarding Re: downloading web sites: >> wget >> >> read the man page so you don't accidentally try to copy the >> entire web to your harddrive. :-) There are no man pages for wget, only info pages, which I hate. The interface to traverse info pages is not intuiti

Re: downloading web sites

2000-04-22 Thread Vidiot
>On the contrary, at this time most sites are HTML based and not XML. The ones I >am interested in not likely to be the kind of dynamically driven sites you are >referring to, and anyway if that is the case I have another method of >extracting that info (which is unfortunately not available on my

Re: downloading web sites

2000-04-22 Thread AlphaByte
Peter and Mike, Thanks guys, looks like what I am looking for. Alan On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote regarding Re: downloading web sites: > wget > > read the man page so you don't accidentally try to copy the > entire web to your harddrive. :-) > > I believe wget will do what you are looking f

Re: downloading web sites

2000-04-22 Thread AlphaByte
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote regarding Re: downloading web sites: > > You have to be joking. A properly written website will cause all kinds of > trouble trying to view offline. Let's see, for starters you won't have any > of the images. Even if you did download all of them, it still might

Re: Cdwriter and Redhat 6.2

2000-04-22 Thread rpjday
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > rpjday wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > What does `cat /proc/cmdline` tell you? My guess is that it still has > > > "hdc=ide-scsi" in there. > > > > nope. > > > > auto BOOT_IMAGE=scsi-cdrom ro root=307 > > That _is_ curi

Re: SCP for Windoze ?

2000-04-22 Thread Philip D. Jenkins
F-Secure v.2 comes with command line versions of scp2 and sftp2 for windows. No GUI's though. On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Mike Lewis wrote: > > Is there such a thing as SCP for Windoze ? > > Thanks, > Mike > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. >

6.1 --> 6.2 worth it ? issues ?

2000-04-22 Thread Kyle Hargraves
Hi, Is the 6.2 upgrade worth it and are there any issues or traps ? Also, has anyone undertaken a 5.2 -> 6.2 upgrade which has been incident-free ? cheers, Kyle Hargraves -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

SCP for Windoze ?

2000-04-22 Thread Mike Lewis
Is there such a thing as SCP for Windoze ? Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: 'ps' show user own process only?

2000-04-22 Thread Richard KHOO
Hello, Solar Designer has security patches for the 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels that does what you are interested in, plus a few other things. I think you can get them at http://www.openwall.com/linux/ Cheers Richard KHOO Guan Chen On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Simons wrote: > Hello, > > I want to