Re: Linux Security (Thank You!)

2000-05-31 Thread Krikofer
First of all I apologize for sending HTML email. I did not realize it. I hope I send it right this time. Second, thank you for all your replies. It makes sense that all OS's have vulerabilities. Security depends alot on good written programs and the System Administrators' knowledge, experienc

how do I add a module to apache ?

2000-05-31 Thread Pete Lancashire
I need to add mod_auth_mysql to the RedHat 6.2 apache RPM. But mod_auth_perl wants me to add to the apache configuration file and recompile is there a easier way ? -pete -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

"VM: killing processes", memory leak & other weirdness

2000-05-31 Thread greg walsh
Howdy... I've got a few different problems/symptoms, I suspect they are related. # The System RH 6.2 (*KRUD Distro) - AMD K6 450mhz - 64mb RAM - kernel-2.2.15 w/ 2.2.25-ow1 patch. - 13 gig IDE drive - ATI AGP graphic card w/ 8 mb VRAM - 330mb swap disk. The system was installed clean on fresh

Lilo not loading properly

2000-05-31 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I am getting my first taste of frustration with linux lately. I had a hard disk go bad in my notebook so I ordered a replacement to install only linux on. The problem is that lilo will not come up at boot time. I partitioned my disk as follows /dev/hda1 Suspend Partition /dev/hda2 / /dev/hd

ISA NE2000 problems with kernel 2.2.14

2000-05-31 Thread Multitrode Engineering
Hello everybody, I am having problems on an embedded 486 development board that has an NE2000 network interface. Running 2.2.12 kernel straight from the Cartman install works fine. isapnp correctly assigns the port address to 0x360 and IRQ 11. The NE2000 driver uses ne.c and in turn 8390.c. It

Help: Redhat 6.2 + Apache (6.2 dist) + Perl 5.6.0 + mod_perl

2000-05-31 Thread Pete Lancashire
Time to ask .. Here the problem. I can not get any RPM version of mod_perl to work. What I have is RedHat 6.2, Apache from 6.2, Perl 5.6.0 from Rawhide. The mod_perl from 6.2 needs perl 5.003 to install The mod_perl from rawhide seg faults (11) Next I modified the SPEC file to use 5.6, and mod

lost compression???

2000-05-31 Thread Mark Basil
Hi, Sometimes while connected via ppp, things just seem to stop. I'm still connected, but can't access anything. Now, I know the problem, just not what's causing it. In /var/log/messages, there will be an entry somewhere along the lines of "??lost compression something??, disableing compressio

Not recognizing partitions

2000-05-31 Thread mbjornson
I have an 8.4 GB hard drive that I had RH 6.1 installed on an older computer. I was planning to stick it into a newer pc to dual boot with WIN98. I have the hd installed and my bios recognizes both hds. My challenge is that I go into the install program to UPDATE the the system. I WANT TO KEEP /

Re: rpmspec.in format

2000-05-31 Thread Bob Taylor
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Ribbro ck writes: > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:17:42PM -0700, Bob Taylor wrote: > > Am I right in that the rpmspec.in format is simply a file containing > > the spec? If not could some kind soul point me in the right direction? > > I haven't heard of "rpmsp

Re: password's

2000-05-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
eagle wrote: > I wanted to know that if someone forgets the root password and even > forgets the password which has been assigned for single user mode is > there any way to get in to the system then(I am not asking about the > normal user but the super user i.e, as a root) if so please tell me how

Re: Statistics

2000-05-31 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 31/05/00 at 12:52 Scott Skrogstad wrote: >I am looking for a program that I can run that will monitor up time and >give me stats on Apache and Front Page servers. I have both NT and RH >systems running web sites. And my customers want reports on up

Re: password's

2000-05-31 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
"eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > I wanted to know that if someone forgets the root password and even > forgets the password which has been assigned for single user mode is > there any way to get in to the system then(I am not asking about the > normal user but the super user i.e, as

Re: fetchmail problem

2000-05-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Brian Schneider wrote: > I have fetchmail running on a couple of machines. My machine at work will > not download mail that has MS word or MS excel attachments. My machine at > home works just fine. What could be causing this? > > - Could there be a procmail recipe filtering them out? fetch

Re: pump and remote printing

2000-05-31 Thread Carey F. Cox
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > "Carey F. Cox" wrote: > > No, the server is not able to resolve the client hostname. However, I > > haven't seen any error messages on the server, just on the client. As most > > workstation addresses (static ips reserved for servers only) are > > d

password's

2000-05-31 Thread eagle
hello, I wanted to know that if someone forgets the root password and even forgets the password which has been assigned for single user mode is there any way to get in to the system then(I am not asking about the normal user but the super user i.e, as a root) if so please tell me how . And i would

Re: Sound Card Drivers

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Michael McLeod wrote: > No WinModem it works in DOS, the Modem will work in Linux just a problem > with the sound card part. It's a combo sound and modem > Michael > Yeah I figured that out. That's what made me wonder if it's wasn't a WinModem. Hmm...have you checked wi

Re: New NT OS Loader + Linux

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Adv. Systems Design wrote: > I have NT and Linux on one drive, but recently have > bought another drive for linux alone, so I would like > to recoup the drive space for mp3's! > > Problem: I put LILO on the MBR, where I was dual > booting into NT and Linux...how do I take it

Re:netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Meghan Madel wrote: > Yes I do get that directory. However, I did remove all .netscape > directories in all users directories. When I click on netscape icon > or run it from the command line, the .netscape directory is created > again. And, I still get the problem. I hav

Re: Sound Card Drivers

2000-05-31 Thread Michael McLeod
No WinModem it works in DOS, the Modem will work in Linux just a problem with the sound card part. It's a combo sound and modem Michael John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Michael McLeod wrote: > > I am running RH 6.0 I have just installed a Diamond Multi Media > > sound/fax card Teleco

Re: attempting to change SHMMAX

2000-05-31 Thread Christina Clark
Adam, Thanks alot for this information. I had received this info, but I appreciate the detail on the best way to implement as well as suggested reading... I'm still curious however, why the steps I took to change within the kernel were not successful, it makes me think I have some gap that I'd

IBM WebSphere for RH Linux

2000-05-31 Thread Gene Wilburn
I was in a WebSphere workshop today where IBM indicated that they were bringing WebSphere 3.02, as well as VisualAge for Java, to RH Linux Real Soon Now. Maybe by mid-summer. Good news for those of us who are deploying it on AIX at work and then have to run NT at home to get a matched version. G

RE: gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
Why?? I think their ver 1.2 is better. You can find which packages they loaded and do rpm -e package on all of them and reinstall the originals from your CD. Joe > -Original Message- > From: Rick Knebel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
The seg fault is a crash. Are you reinstalling your original netscape packages? Does the other app of yours get a seg fault also? One thing your might try, make a new non-privliged user and try with that account. gnome leaves a lot of garbage in the /tmp dir for each user that might be causing y

Re: random resolve ip ?

2000-05-31 Thread Edward Marczak
on 31/5/00 1:46 PM, Simons shot down the bitstream: > Hello, > > How can I resolve a hostname into several ip randomly? > I wanna make one for my irc network. Not sure what IRC has to do with this but If you just create multiple A records for this host, BIND will serve them up one after an

Re: SSH, VPN's, and firewalls

2000-05-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
Three replies in one: Bret Hughes wrote: > Found it. Bug in script. needed to add fi at the end of the last if > construct. Confirmed. Thank you. > message when forwarding is not on suggests to the user that he do the old echo > "1" > ../ip_forward deal. As this is deprecated in the Red

Problem connecting to mysql

2000-05-31 Thread Bob Hartung
This is a repost of a post to the mysql list. The only response I received there was that I shouldn'g mess with the permission tables directly. My problem is connecting to mysql.sock. This may be addressed more appropriately here on the RH list. Hope someone can give me a hand. I'd appreciat

Looking for Linux/Sun admins *** off topic ***

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Curry
*** Please respond directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Guys/Gals, Sorry to waste space on this list but I am in serious need of more Unix Admins with either Linux or Sun experience (or both!). You would have to be willing to move to San Jose California. Details are as follows: 1. Pre IPO comp

fetchmail problem

2000-05-31 Thread Brian Schneider
I have fetchmail running on a couple of machines. My machine at work will not download mail that has MS word or MS excel attachments. My machine at home works just fine. What could be causing this? "If you're not one of us,

New NT OS Loader + Linux

2000-05-31 Thread Adv. Systems Design
I have NT and Linux on one drive, but recently have bought another drive for linux alone, so I would like to recoup the drive space for mp3's! Problem: I put LILO on the MBR, where I was dual booting into NT and Linux...how do I take it off? I can reformat the Linux partition and leave lilo on d

Re: pump and remote printing

2000-05-31 Thread Anthony E. Greene
"Carey F. Cox" wrote: > No, the server is not able to resolve the client hostname. However, I > haven't seen any error messages on the server, just on the client. As most > workstation addresses (static ips reserved for servers only) are > dynamically allocated on this campus from one dhcp server,

Re: RedHat and Apple

2000-05-31 Thread Eric Wood
Just as a side note, Samba has a compile time option which may make you think that Samba will do Netatalk - I wish this was the case. Instead, this compile time option is to support file locking if Netatalk and Samba are sharing the same directory. -Eric Wood - Original Message - From:

gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a way to uninstall the gnome-helix and get back to redhat gnome. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

OT - ADP Computer

2000-05-31 Thread Kirk Whiting
Anyone know where I can get some info on an old ADP 8500 COmputer System. If it helps on the back it says: 6000 Series A20035320-001 SN 54031 McDonnell Douglas File # 45378 Thanks, Kirk -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re:netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Meghan Madel
Yes I do get that directory. However, I did remove all .netscape directories in all users directories. When I click on netscape icon or run it from the command line, the .netscape directory is created again. And, I still get the problem. I have completely uninstalled netscape and reinstalled

RE: RedHat and Apple

2000-05-31 Thread Robert Burton
Yes and No. Samba is for SMB networking, basically for Windows networking. Macintoshes don't do Windows networking without additional software, such as DAVE. - To use the built in Macintosh networking software, use Netatalk. - If you already have Samba running and don't want to mess with N

Re: IP masquerading

2000-05-31 Thread Victor R. Cardona
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Martin Reiser wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 03:04:41PM -0500, M. Smith wrote: > > > > There is a change in RH 6.2 regarding masquerading. Have to say they > > did not do a real good job of highlighting this and I had to root > > around to find

RE: RedHat and Apple

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Curry
Would Samba not be another solution all together? We use SAMBA running on an SGI Origin 2000 farm here which allows our graphics team to access the image database. They mount the SGI array as a network drive Comments? Steven L. Curry NOC Unix Engineer NonStopNet, Inc. http://www.nonstopnet

RE: virtual hosting

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Curry
Scott, I'll send you a copy of my Apache httpd.conf file to show you how it's done tonight. I'm seriously snowed under at the moment but I'll send you something later tonight. It's actually really easy to do once you understand information what apache wants from you (assuming your running apach

Re: RedHat and Apple

2000-05-31 Thread Robert Burton
>I've recompiled my kernel to include netatalk but I'm finding it difficult >to locate answers to some basic questions. From what I can gather, netatalk >is a way to communicate between nfs and hfs via AppleTalk? What I want to do >is use my Linux machine as a file server for one of my Macs but I'

Re: Statistics

2000-05-31 Thread Alan Mead
For "usage" I guess you mean analyzing your log files? Then you want something like analog, webalizer, or any of the many, many such packages. Something perl-based will (probably) run on both NT and Linux. I've heard that IIS used to have a problem creating separate logs. I guess they've f

RE: virtual hosting

2000-05-31 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I am going to do just virtural web domains. I already have a virtual email domain server. I would like to do it named based. I don't want to keep using up my IP's. Scott Skrogstad Computer Integration Inc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800-522-3475 Phone On Wed, 31 May 2000, Steve Curry wrote: > Scott,

Re:netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Meghan Madel wrote: > okay, > It says there is a Segmentation fault. > type "ls -al" from your home directory and see if you get a .netscape directory showing up. If not, then you don't need to worry about it. :-) John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Statistics

2000-05-31 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I am looking for a program that I can run that will monitor up time and give me stats on Apache and Front Page servers. I have both NT and RH systems running web sites. And my customers want reports on up time and usage. Scott Skrogstad Computer Integration Inc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800-522-3475 P

RE: virtual hosting

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Curry
Scott, I have a couple of questions first... 1. When you say virtual hosting do you mean like multiple web domains and email? 2. If you answered yes to 1 then are you planning on doing IP or name based virtual web hosting? Let me know and I'll tell you what I know... Regards, Steven L. Cu

Re: Linux Security

2000-05-31 Thread Alan Mead
At 01:12 AM 5/31/00 , Krikofer wrote: >Hi. My friend had told me that Linux does not have a good >firewall. Linux can be broken into easily (according to his job's system >administrator). Would any of you know if this is true? He says his >friend likes Linux. Any facts? > >CH This is a to

RE[2]: x windows problem (problem solved)

2000-05-31 Thread dattatraya
-Original Message- From: Pete Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: x windows problem It looks to me as though you're consistently logging in as root, doing an "su" to another user, and then t

Re: attempting to change SHMMAX

2000-05-31 Thread Adam Sleight
don't need to recompile the kernel to increase your SHMMAX just add the following to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local file if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax ]; then expr 128 \* 1024 \* 1024 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax fi no need to reboot either just execute rc.local /etc/rc.d./rc.local then c

virtual hosting

2000-05-31 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I would like to setup a server to do some virtual hosting. I need a document on how to do this. The howto that I have seen are for older versions of RH. I am using 6.1. Has anyone tried Linuxconfig to do this or is there an easy manual way Scott Skrogstad Computer Integration Inc, [EMAIL

Re: 6.2 installer retarded?

2000-05-31 Thread fred smith
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:30:44AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000, fred smith wrote: > > One other small bit of retardedness in the installer: > > > > I've got a 3-button mouse which emulates a Mouse Systems mouse. If it is > > switched into 3-button mode, the installer refuses

Re: mount problem (urgent!!)

2000-05-31 Thread fred smith
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:44:27PM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > Hi all, > > I did backup some of the major programs using tar to floppy > disk. Now, my origional server is formatted, and have it re-installed. > But, with the new redhat 6.2, I won't be able to mount the floppy disk. > So tha

Re: making RH 6.2 CD: can't mkisofs

2000-05-31 Thread Robert Fausey
On Wed, 31 May 2000, David Kramer wrote: I have not made a bootable iso in a long time. Here is the command I used to use mkisofs -a -r -N -L -d -R -T -v -o /usr2/redhat.iso -b images/boot.img -c boot.cat -A "RedHat Linux 6.0" -V "RHLinux6.0" . You can safely delete all the ls-lR files. I have

random resolve ip ?

2000-05-31 Thread Simons
Hello, How can I resolve a hostname into several ip randomly? I wanna make one for my irc network. I'm using A record of bind now, is there any solutions for getting better random rate? Thank you. Simons -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: 6.2 installer retarded?

2000-05-31 Thread David Talkington
Agreed. The whole point, I thought, was to bring make it more newbie-proof and accessible, but had that been my first experience with Linux, I'd have been pulling my hair out. Perhaps Red Hat should take some hints from Microsoft's installers -- be more conservative in its initial driver choi

RE: netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
I believe RH 6.1 is glic 2.1. Did you upgrade any packages prior to it going belly-up? such as your librarys, etc? Joe > -Original Message- > From: Meghan Madel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:10 AM > To: Joseph T. Tannenbaum > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; recipie

Re: Term type "linux"

2000-05-31 Thread Tom Oehser
> >it in my shell config files, I wonder what does it take to define the > >"linux" terminal type on the other box? See http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html, chapter 15. -Tom -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Term type "linux"

2000-05-31 Thread Vidiot
>When I ssh to another unixy box, Solaris for instance, I frequently >encounter a message saying "unknown terminal type 'linux'" and while I >know I can set the TERM environment variable and be on my way, or even set >it in my shell config files, I wonder what does it take to define the >"linux" t

Term type "linux"

2000-05-31 Thread Bruce Tong
When I ssh to another unixy box, Solaris for instance, I frequently encounter a message saying "unknown terminal type 'linux'" and while I know I can set the TERM environment variable and be on my way, or even set it in my shell config files, I wonder what does it take to define the "linux" termin

Re: netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:09:36PM -0400, Meghan Madel wrote: > I am using netscape 4.61. How can I check what library it is using? I am [...] ldd `which netscape` or ldd /PATH/TO/netscape should display all libraries Netscape is linked to. HTH, Thomas -- "Look, Ma, no obsole

RE: netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Meghan Madel
I am using netscape 4.61. How can I check what library it is using? I am using Redhat 6.1. Netscape has worked fine for some time and just recently stopped working. Nothing was changed! Thanks, Meghan PS Gnotepad is not working either. Could this be related? On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joseph T

Re:netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Meghan Madel
okay, It says there is a Segmentation fault. Thanks, Meghan On Wed, 31 May 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Meghan Madel wrote: > > Thanks! > > > > Both programs are installed and I am stuck at step 2, I am getting an > > "invalid option" error. > > Any suggestions? > > Than

Re: starting procs remotely

2000-05-31 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi eric, The linuxconf http is at port 98. ie. http://your.host.dom:98/ Or you could try to root your own system to get a shell;) Without knowing what other services you have running still, it is hard to say. Have fun, -- _ Bria

Re:netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Meghan Madel wrote: > Thanks! > > Both programs are installed and I am stuck at step 2, I am getting an > "invalid option" error. > Any suggestions? > Thanks, > Meghan > cd [enter] (will put you in your home directory) then "rm -rf .netscape" (deletes the .netscape direc

Re: Linux Security

2000-05-31 Thread Frank Carreiro
While no system is 100% secure, I've tweaked my linux system to the point that most people simply give up when trying to break into my Linux box. I run SAINT and nmape on a regular basis and check my logs regularly. I've seen people port scan me and try all sorts of tricks to get in. After a fe

Re:netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Meghan Madel
Thanks! Both programs are installed and I am stuck at step 2, I am getting an "invalid option" error. Any suggestions? Thanks, Meghan > Step 2: clean out any previous netscape settings. > > rm -r ~/.netscape (Make sure you are logged in as the correct user) > > Step 3: Run netscape m

Need a hand with groff

2000-05-31 Thread Steven W. Orr
I got a document that needs to be groff'd and it's failing. Here's what happens when I run it: 1061 > make groff -p -t -mm -Wall -Tps draft.mm > fhs.ps troff: fatal error: can't find macro file m make: *** [fhs.ps] Error 1 I thought that m was a standard package. Anyone know what I should do? T

RE: netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
Good! and make sure both packages are same rev, etc. Joe > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Greg Wildman > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: netscape on gnome > > > Meghan Madel wrote: > > > He

RE: netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
Which netscape are you trying? There are two or three for Linux, based on whether you are using glic2.0,2.1 or lib5. using the wrong one will cause it to bomb when loading. Joe > -Original Message- > From: Meghan Madel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:26 AM

RE: mount problem (urgent!!)

2000-05-31 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
You don't "mount" it. you just tar -xvf /dev/xxx it. Joe > -Original Message- > From: Mark Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 5:44 AM > To: redhat user list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mount problem (urgent!!) > > > Hi all, > > I did backup some

starting procs remotely

2000-05-31 Thread eric clover
umm , is there any way to start a proc(like ssh) remotely?? im at work , and need to get into my box at home , but I forgot to start my ssh(even tho I am sure I had set it to auto start) I can get in via ftp, and I might of allowed the linuxconf via http, but I have no idea how to do the linuxconf

OT: X-window time out

2000-05-31 Thread Roger Dooley
I recently set up a home network. If I just leave a program up on a remote x session without any activity, the session eventually times out. Is there any way to stop this behavior? TIA, RD -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: making RH 6.2 CD: can't mkisofs

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, David Kramer wrote: > I'm trying to burn my own bootable Red Hat 6.2 CD by following the > mini-HOWTO(*). I downloaded i386/* from valinux, but ran into a problem. > > When I ran mkisofs, it complained about duplicate file names in different > directories. I was unaware of

RE: Keeping RH up to date

2000-05-31 Thread Mobeen Azhar
Thanks Craig, it all makes sense now. I switched to a different mirror and everything updates pretty quick :) Thanks again. So now that I have a RH 6.1 box, with an updated kernel, and I have applied updates for 6.1 via autorpm, can I change my release information in /etc/redhat-release and aut

Re: 6.2 installer retarded?

2000-05-31 Thread Prentice
If the the installer GUI (which I hate, BTW - it's way too slow) can't be expected to run on every platform that RH Linux may be installed on, then RH should not use it. The install routine should be bomb-proof. On Wed, 31 May 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000, fred smith wrote: >

Re: PCMCIA Help

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Feehan
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > > this leads me to believe that the card and pcmcia are coming up fine, > I just need to get the card "networked" > > What do I need to do from here to set up the card with an IP address of > 199.1.1.3 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 > ? > S

Re: Opinions about Partitioning

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > With the new Lilo, can the Linux partition be anywhere on the drive, or > does it still have to be below the limit? I'm running 6.1 and have had to > use partition magic to completely rearrange my drive. If I knew that the > new Lilo did this, I would hav

Re: netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Greg Wildman
Meghan Madel wrote: > Hello, > I still have not solved my netscape problem on gnome. Basically, it is > not working! It will not start. Last week I posted this problem and > received one response. The response was to delete all netscape files and > start over. That has proven to be very tedi

Re: 6.2 installer retarded?

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, fred smith wrote: > One other small bit of retardedness in the installer: > > I've got a 3-button mouse which emulates a Mouse Systems mouse. If it is > switched into 3-button mode, the installer refuses to run in GUI mode. > I've seen this on 3 different machines, in fact. S

Re: Linux Security

2000-05-31 Thread Frederic Herman
There is a RedHat derivative that is supposed to be much better at out-ot-the-box security configuration, called KRUD: http://www.tummy.com/krud/ John Aldrich wrote: > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Krikofer wrote: > > > > Hi. My friend had told me that Linux does not have a good firewall. Linux can

making RH 6.2 CD: can't mkisofs

2000-05-31 Thread David Kramer
I'm trying to burn my own bootable Red Hat 6.2 CD by following the mini-HOWTO(*). I downloaded i386/* from valinux, but ran into a problem. When I ran mkisofs, it complained about duplicate file names in different directories. I was unaware of such a limitation. Can someone advise me on if I

netscape on gnome

2000-05-31 Thread Meghan Madel
Hello, I still have not solved my netscape problem on gnome. Basically, it is not working! It will not start. Last week I posted this problem and received one response. The response was to delete all netscape files and start over. That has proven to be very tedious. I tried removing netscape

Re: Opinions about Partitioning

2000-05-31 Thread Jake McHenry
With the new Lilo, can the Linux partition be anywhere on the drive, or does it still have to be below the limit? I'm running 6.1 and have had to use partition magic to completely rearrange my drive. If I knew that the new Lilo did this, I would have just gotten that instead of having my computer

Re: Linux Security

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Krikofer wrote: > > Hi. My friend had told me that Linux does not have a good firewall. Linux can be >broken into easily (according to his job's system administrator). Would any of you >know if this is true? He says his friend likes Linux. Any facts? > > CH > --

Re: Sound Card Drivers

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Michael McLeod wrote: > I am running RH 6.0 I have just installed a Diamond Multi Media > sound/fax card Telecommander 2500. Even though it is probably > compatible with Sound Blaster Pro, it does not seem to work in Linux > (for that fact it didn't work in windoz with the

Re: Opinions about Partitioning

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote: > I have been reading about HD partitioning for server systems and security > and am wondering what others think about the topic. This is a somewhat > personal topic as well since I am getting ready to reinstall my system. > > I have read that it is a g

Re: scsi module loading twice

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Eric Clover wrote: > this has to do with an email i sent out yesterday. i found out , what is > happening is for some reason , my kernel is loading my advansys scsi > module twice , first on scsi0 , then it tries to do it again on scsi1 , > i Have no scsi1 , thus , it just han

ANNOUNCE: KDE Snapshot Binaries available 2000-05-31

2000-05-31 Thread Christopher Molnar
VERY IMPORTANT: THESE BINARIES ARE CREATED FROM THE CVS AND MAY NOT BE IDENTICAL TO THE BETA THAT WAS RELEASED. THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL KDE BINARIES. ALSO, THE PACKAGES HAVE MOVED TO A NEW SERVER THANKS TO MANDRAKE. PLEASE CHECK THE LINKS BELOW. A new version of the KDE ALPHA binaries are availa

Re: PCI DMA disabled

2000-05-31 Thread Eric Clover
oops , here is the rest of the ul , sorry. http://bean.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~trouble/LinuxIDE eric knet wrote: > > eric clover wrote: > > http://bean.cs.ccu.edu.tw > > > > that is the url for the ali15x3 chipset patch > > > > 1.0b3 is the latest , i think > > Thanks for your replies, Eric. Ho

Re: CDROM Disk Change Hallucinations in 'dmesg'

2000-05-31 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:25:09AM -0400, Pete Peterson wrote: > > On two RH6.2 machines with SCSI hard drives, SCSI tape and SCSI CDROMS, I > get output from 'dmesg' consisting of 170 lines of: >"VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)". > No, I HAVEN'T been popping CDs into and out of

Re: mount problem (urgent!!)

2000-05-31 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:44:27PM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > > I did backup some of the major programs using tar to floppy > disk. [...] How exactly did you use tar to do this? Did you just tar the files up and copied the resulting file to floppy or did you use tar directly (i.e. 'tar cz

Re: mount problem (urgent!!)

2000-05-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Mark Lo wrote: > Hi all, > > I did backup some of the major programs using tar to floppy > disk. Now, my origional server is formatted, and have it re-installed. > But, with the new redhat 6.2, I won't be able to mount the floppy disk. > So that I am not able to recovery my programs.

Re: gnome list

2000-05-31 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Meghan Madel wrote: > > Can any one tell me what the address to the gnome list is? > Thanks, > Meghan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: SSH, VPN's, and firewalls

2000-05-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Gordon Messmer wrote: > I feel somewhat productive today. :) > > I've written a few new scripts (and improved an old one) that I'd like > some feedback on. Some of you might find them very useful. > OK Gordon, you asked for it :-) First off, I've got the vnp working but had a little problem wi

gnome list

2000-05-31 Thread Meghan Madel
Can any one tell me what the address to the gnome list is? Thanks, Meghan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

mount problem (urgent!!)

2000-05-31 Thread Mark Lo
Hi all, I did backup some of the major programs using tar to floppy disk. Now, my origional server is formatted, and have it re-installed. But, with the new redhat 6.2, I won't be able to mount the floppy disk. So that I am not able to recovery my programs. I have tried to use various

Re: IP masquerading

2000-05-31 Thread Bret Hughes
Martin Reiser wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 03:04:41PM -0500, M. Smith wrote: > > There is only IPCHAINS in my RH 62. The same is on ftp.redhat.com > > Where may I get IPTABLES ? > > Martin Reiser > Martin, Later in the thread it was determined that IPTABLES is only for 2.3x kernels. Running

CDROM Disk Change Hallucinations in 'dmesg'

2000-05-31 Thread Pete Peterson
On two RH6.2 machines with SCSI hard drives, SCSI tape and SCSI CDROMS, I get output from 'dmesg' consisting of 170 lines of: "VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)". No, I HAVEN'T been popping CDs into and out of the drive. Following from messages file: (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at

Re: Linux Security

2000-05-31 Thread Victor R. Cardona
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:12:31PM -0700, Krikofer wrote: > Hi. My friend had told me that Linux does not have a good firewall. Linux can be >broken into easily (according to his job's system administrator). Would any of you >know if this is true? He says his friend likes Linux. Any facts?

Re: x windows problem

2000-05-31 Thread Pete Peterson
It looks to me as though you're consistently logging in as root, doing an "su" to another user, and then trying to start X. That won't work (well, at least not without some tweaks), as you've discovered. Do the following: Log out, getting back to initial login prompt. DO NOT LOG IN AS ROOT! Lo

Re: 6.2 installer retarded?

2000-05-31 Thread fred smith
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 01:31:38AM -0500, David M. Talkington wrote: > > Wow, is it me, or is the installer for 6.2 a big step backwards? I've > had all kinds of trouble with it, in stark contrast to the 6.0 > installer, which was fast and reliable. One other small bit of retardedness in the i

Re: IDE on Vesa Local Bus machine - speed? - update

2000-05-31 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:59:28AM +0100, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > I'm wondering about something: I have a 486DX2/66 box with Vesa Local Bus > (VLB). That machine also has a VLB IDE card (Promise 20x0 (2020, I > think)). What strikes me odd, though, is that the hard drive access on > this box is v

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