Re: using dd to copy files from tape drive

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
Well, you rewound it first, right? (mt -f /dev/st0 rewind) Are you sure your drive can read their tape? It's possible the tape is just unreadable (perhaps by any tape drive). I would try retensioning the tape 3-4 times before I gave up. -Alan - Original Message - From: Nigel Trivass

vnc on Redhat 6.2

2000-06-28 Thread Anurag Jalan
Hi all, I've installed VNC on my Redhat box... and copied the binaries to /usr/local/bin as suggested... Then I telneted in from one of the Win98s and setup the VNC password . However, when I connected the the Redhat box with the VNC viewer, all i get is a Grey Screen with a cursor and a con

Re: samba

2000-06-28 Thread Dave Reed
> From: "Steven Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Pat, > > I did a ps -ef on the nmb, and this is what I got in return: > > steven2509 2492 0 18:15 pts/000:00:00 grep nmb. > > Now that show as me, should it show as ROOT? Do you know the command to change it >to > root if needed? I

vnc on Redhat 6.2

2000-06-28 Thread vik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed VNC on my Redhat box... and copied the binaries to > /usr/local/bin as suggested... > > Then I telneted in from one of the Win98s and setup the VNC password . > However, when I connected the the Redhat box with the VNC viewer, all i get > is a Grey Screen

Re: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Phredde
I trust that those of you pronouncing the law concerning forfeiture are attorneys, licenses in your jurisdictions in good standing. If so, then one might want to review, merely as a starting point, the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (i.e., the "due process clause," which does n

KDE2 install using RPMs

2000-06-28 Thread Joe
Has anyone done this successfully yet? I tried to use the RPMs from KDE.org but more often than not I get errors saying I've got conflicting files. I've also tried to use the source files but they only half work. Are there commands I need to run with the regular upgrade/install flags? Better y

Re: samba

2000-06-28 Thread Jake McHenry
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Steven Pierce wrote: > > > Pat, > > I did a ps -ef on the nmb, and this is what I got in return: > > steven2509 2492 0 18:15 pts/000:00:00 grep nmb. > > Now that show as me, should it show as ROOT? Do you know the command to change it >to > root if needed?

Re: samba

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
Steven, I think you must have done a 'ps -ef | grep nmb'. and you are seeing your own grep command. Which is, of course, run by you. chmod changes the permissions of files. chown changes ownership of files I don't think there is a (userspace) command for changing the ownership of a proce

windows media player

2000-06-28 Thread rob smith
Is there anything for linux comparable to windows media player...all in one type of program?? -- Rob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Artificial Intelligence stands no chance against Natural Stupidity< -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: shadow file from 6.0-smp to 6.2

2000-06-28 Thread tom minchin
You have MD5 passwords turned on. You can turn them off using authconfig. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:37:17AM -0500, eric clover wrote: > I need to be more specific on this.. > > newway:$1$.omrWIF5$lunkx4Bs4tsIjxLQ6o0Pg/:11135:0:9:7:-1:-1:134547636 > oldway:Kw9hfXOlQ7m.Y:11

[ARGGG--SOLVED] Amanda, operator, and access

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
I guess if I keep posting long-winded questions .. and then a moment later the solution, I'll not make many friends :) The issue with amanda and the operator user seems to be this: operator shares it's home directory with root. But it cannot read /root. So the .amandahosts file couldn't be

Re: using dd to copy files from tape drive

2000-06-28 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:26:26PM +0100, Nigel Trivass wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to extract the contents of a 4MM tape using dd. > > The tape contains backup data from a Windows NT machine. I am waiting for > confirmation of the backup software used. > > Can I use dd to extract the contents

RE: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Jeff Graves
>-Original Message- >From: Nikki Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 1:48 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: I've Been Framed > > >If your state is like ours, you can likely forget recovering your computer. > Confiscations are done here under a forfeiture l

Re: why 5 levels of ../ in link for /etc/X11/X ?

2000-06-28 Thread Bret Hughes
Jack Byers wrote: > [byers@byers /]$ ls -l /etc/X11/X > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 14 1999 /etc/X11/X -> > ../../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Matrox > [byers@byers /]$ > > I dont grok the 5 levels of ../ in this link > > it seem to me i am asking for info on a file(a link) X

Serving with RH 6.0

2000-06-28 Thread Keegan Buckley
Hi all, This is my first post on the list, after my first day subscribed to it i got some 133 messages, but never mind, all of the information is helpful, i've just started out, i know nothing about RH, but i have heaps of experience with Windows. I am looking to set up a linux machine that will

RE: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Tanner, Robby
Whatever. So's the death penalty, the draft etc > -Original Message- > From: Burke, Thomas G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:16 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: I've Been Framed > > > And the wonderful part of the forfieture law is that it'

Re: STrange problem... [SOLVED]

2000-06-28 Thread Bret Hughes
Duane Clark wrote: > Thomas wrote: > > Hermm... I feel like a ninny... > > > > It was a corrupted inbox... I moved all the messages out to another folder, > > and the Inbox was still 2M! > > > > Deleted, & refired, everything seems to be working fine... (Duh!) > > I am also seeing this odd beh

eth0 problem

2000-06-28 Thread matt boex
i am trying to connect my eth0 device to my network. i am getting an error, conflict irq 0 being used... i am using a compaq deskpro with an installed ethernet card. when i built the rh6.1 box, it installed the tlan module fine. how can i change and how do i know if the irq is a o.k. __

Re: eth0 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Bret Hughes
matt boex wrote: > i am trying to connect my eth0 device to my network. > i am getting an error, conflict irq 0 being used... > > i am using a compaq deskpro with an installed ethernet > card. when i built the rh6.1 box, it installed the > tlan module fine. how can i change and how do i know >

Amanda, operator, and access

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
Any one here using the Red Hat 6.x Amanda RPMs? I have what must be a FAQ but I cannot find any answers in the docs and on-line searches. I have two RH 6.x machines, remotehost and backuphost, and Amanda 2.4.1p1. I installed Amanda according to the docs with 'operator' as the backup user. I

RE: AcceleratedX

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Basil
Thanks for your responses guys. Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Basil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AcceleratedX Anyone have any experience with AcceleratedX server? Problems, comments, compaints? Any suggestions to

Re: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Chris Lynch
> And finally, since you were "spoofed" or hijacked, this could fall under the > scrutiny of the higher agencies (state or federal) in accordance with > wiretapping laws (depending on the laws of your state). If you have been > wronged by your ISP and the local police, pulling a "higher" agency

Installing Rawhide

2000-06-28 Thread Nitebirdz
Could someone please provide me with some information about installing Rawhide? Can I find an ISO image anywhere? I certainly did not manage to see it in the FTP site. Is it possible to do a simple FTP install? Perhaps that is the only way to do it... -- Nitebir

Re: a doubt

2000-06-28 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, K.Deepak wrote: > Hi all, > > Just having a doubt. > > Heard about VA Linux ! > > Whether VA linux is a separate distribution of linux. If anybody knows > something about it, pl. bounce me the information !!! > As far as I know, it is not a separate Lin

kernel.h-2.2.16

2000-06-28 Thread Justin Ballou
'Anyone else run into this situation in /boot after installing kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm? lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 Jun 28 16:51 kernel.h -> kernel.h-2.2.16 -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 19 18:31 kernel.h-2.2.16 Repeated removal and installation yields

Re: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Vidiot
>And the wonderful part of the forfieture law is that it's unconstitutional >... It is my understanding that it is being revisited by many states and Congress, because of the abuses. While the law won't go away, there will be many more restrictions placed on it. Of course, it won't help in this

RE: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > And the wonderful part of the forfieture law is that it's unconstitutional > ... > Well, you COULD challenge 'em, after the trial, IF you are acquitted, but that takes money, probably more money than the computer's worth. Unless you want to go after '

RE: NIC howto

2000-06-28 Thread Justin Ellison
If this is with a 3Com, I had this same problem. 3Com cards come out with PnP enabled. Go to their website, download the newest drivers. There's an exe on the first disk called something like 3c50xcfg.exe. Run that, disable PnP, then load the module - it worked for me. ___

RE: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
And the wonderful part of the forfieture law is that it's unconstitutional ... > -Original Message- > From: Nikki Cook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 1:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: I've Been Framed > > To my mind, a number of factors come

RE: STrange problem... [SOLVED]

2000-06-28 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
I believe what happened to me may have been a crash, and that, in turn, corrupted the mailbox. > -Original Message- > From: Duane Clark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 1:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: STrange problem... [SOLVED] > > Thomas w

why 5 levels of ../ in link for /etc/X11/X ?

2000-06-28 Thread Jack Byers
[byers@byers /]$ ls -l /etc/X11/X lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 14 1999 /etc/X11/X -> ../../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Matrox [byers@byers /]$ I dont grok the 5 levels of ../ in this link it seem to me i am asking for info on a file(a link) X 2 levels below /so i would

Re: a doubt

2000-06-28 Thread K.Deepak
Dear Jeff, Yeah , i visited this website, but it doesn't says anything clearly. it just says they distribute pc's with RedHat 6.2 preloaded in it. But again , somewhere they talk about VA linux kernel. I am getting confused. can you tell me clearly whether really VA linux is a separate di

Re: dd and tape

2000-06-28 Thread Bret Hughes
Nigel Trivass wrote: > Greetings, > > We were sent a 4mm tape containing files created on a non-unix machine - NT > we think. > > Our tape drive is on a red hat 6 box. > > I need to get these files extracted from the tape and onto the red hat box. > Then I can transfer them to NT and figure out w

a doubt

2000-06-28 Thread K.Deepak
Hi all, Just having a doubt. Heard about VA Linux ! Whether VA linux is a separate distribution of linux. If anybody knows something about it, pl. bounce me the information !!! TIA Regards K.Deepak begin:vcard n:K;DEEPAK tel;pager:9610129463 tel;fax:+91-44-2432749 tel

RE: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Nikki Cook
To my mind, a number of factors come into play with your situation. Local/State laws that govern your area. What actual damage your ISP suffered. Whether you're a dedicated or dialup customer. Is your ISP running a time client for timestamp accuracy. The logging tools the ISP uses and the quality

RE: STrange problem... [SOLVED]

2000-06-28 Thread Duane Clark
Thomas wrote: > Hermm... I feel like a ninny... > > It was a corrupted inbox... I moved all the messages out to another folder, > and the Inbox was still 2M! > > Deleted, & refired, everything seems to be working fine... (Duh!) I am also seeing this odd behavior. Unlike others have frequentl

Re: Urgent Help - to recover damaged partition

2000-06-28 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I installed MSWindows98 and RH6.2 in the same hard. Accidentally I damaged > the MSWindows98 partition which was caused by force re-booting the PC > because of forgetting to insert the PS/2 mouse. RH6.2 was started but could > not ope

Re: NIC howto

2000-06-28 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > Is there a NIC howto? I installed RH6.2 but was never prompted to enter > the NIC info. such as IP address etc. > > So I guess I'll have to set it up manually > > I usually fill in the info at install time and my NIC works happily > after that...

Re: shadow file from 6.0-smp to 6.2

2000-06-28 Thread eric clover
I need to be more specific on this.. newway:$1$.omrWIF5$lunkx4Bs4tsIjxLQ6o0Pg/:11135:0:9:7:-1:-1:134547636 oldway:Kw9hfXOlQ7m.Y:11135:0:9:7:-1:-1:134550484 This is giving us problems with radius. eric clover wrote: > is there a glitch in the shadow file when adding users after going

dd and tape

2000-06-28 Thread Nigel Trivass
Greetings, We were sent a 4mm tape containing files created on a non-unix machine - NT we think. Our tape drive is on a red hat 6 box. I need to get these files extracted from the tape and onto the red hat box. Then I can transfer them to NT and figure out what the hell they are. What can I us

Re: Mixing Large EIDE and SCSI drives

2000-06-28 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:57 PM 6/27/00 , you wrote: >Sorry about this. I did not read all the note from the first time. One >thing is that if your SYSTEM will only >do 8.4 you MUST get the BIOS upgraded. You have one of the older bios >that has an 8 gig limit. >Contact Dell and let them give you a bios upgrade

Re: wheel mouse stops

2000-06-28 Thread eric clover
imwheel is the way to go i have had both an ms intellimouse and a logitech firstmouse+ working with imwheel without too much messing around http://jcatki.dhs.org/imwheel/ or http://jcatki.dhs.org/imwheel/files if you need further help feel free to email me, ill try to help eric > I had a cheap mi

Re: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Gregory Cox wrote: > I suggest that you look up the laws/ordinances of your State (what state are > you in, by the way?) > > -take your story to your local press. Getting your story out can prompt a > public review of local laws and procedures that may end up shattering th

Re: NIC howto

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Galpin
use netcfg or linuxconf - it will be just like during install time except you have to specify the card type. hth charles On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > Is there a NIC howto? I installed RH6.2 but was never prompted to enter > the NIC info. such as IP address etc. > > So I guess I

Re: Mixing Large EIDE and SCSI drives

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > I have an old Dell with an adaptec SCSI controller, an old 4GB Seagate > drive, and a Seagate STT28000NS tape drive. I need more space for the > backup process so I bought a cheap EIDE drive. Well, even cheap drives > these days are huge; I got a 13.6 G

RE: SCSI adapter driver fails to map device file for new disk

2000-06-28 Thread Eric Sisler
Mark Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry for not making this more clear to begin with, but in >fact my very next objective is to create a partition table >(via: 'fdisk /dev/sd[c-?]') and then lay down a filesystem >(via: 'mkfs /dev/sd[c-?]'). Partially my fault as well. After re-reading y

RE: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Tanner, Robby
> -Original Message- > From: Gregory Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: I've Been Framed > > > I suggest that you look up the laws/ordinances of your State > (what state are > you in, by the way?) > > -take

RE: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Tanner, Robby
You don't need an RHCE. You need a network security expert. Try securityfocus.com, etc. > -Original Message- > From: Manuel A. Camacho Q. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: I've Been Framed > > > Steven Pierce wrot

Re: samba

2000-06-28 Thread Pat Cookson
I question/suggestion that I havent seen in this thread. Is the nmbd running? Often, if there is an error in config, smb will start but nmb will not. Without nmb, there is no advertising of server/share. Just a thought Pat Cookson Atlanta Newspapers "Steven Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 0

RE: Urgent Help - to recover damaged partition

2000-06-28 Thread Tanner, Robby
Try gpart from http://freshmeat.net > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Urgent Help - to recover damaged partition > > > Hi everybody, > > I installed MSWindows98 and RH6.2 in th

Network Troubles in RH6.2 (routing in particular)

2000-06-28 Thread Jeff Graves
I'm having some trouble with networking on a new RH6.2 box i put together. It is going to replace a 6.0 box (didn't do an upgrade because i put a new SCSI drive in). So, everything seems to work fine. It doesn't automatically recognize my 3com etherlink III 3c509B rev C ISA card which is fine (i h

RE: SCSI adapter driver fails to map device file for new disk

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Everett
Indeed, this is a new drive, with no partition table. Sorry for not making this more clear to begin with, but in fact my very next objective is to create a partition table (via: 'fdisk /dev/sd[c-?]') and then lay down a filesystem (via: 'mkfs /dev/sd[c-?]'). The problem is that I don't yet

6.2 CD contents

2000-06-28 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! could somebody kind enough send me a listing (with descriptions) of all the RPMS contained in the 6.2 CD? This can be easily done with: rpm -qip /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm > listing I'd be very grateful because I need it right now and I don't have a 6.2 CD here. Thanks very much -

using dd to copy files from tape drive

2000-06-28 Thread Nigel Trivass
Hi, I'm trying to extract the contents of a 4MM tape using dd. The tape contains backup data from a Windows NT machine. I am waiting for confirmation of the backup software used. Can I use dd to extract the contents of the tape? I've tried using this command dd if=/dev/st0 of=tapedata But

Re: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Gregory Cox
I suggest that you look up the laws/ordinances of your State (what state are you in, by the way?) -take your story to your local press. Getting your story out can prompt a public review of local laws and procedures that may end up shattering the case against you. Incidentally you could argue

sane error

2000-06-28 Thread LomYst
Each time I try to run sane's scan image I get the following error:   scanimage: hp-option.c:2979: hp_optset_fix_geometry_options: Assertion `tl_x && tl_y && br_x && br_y' failed.Aborted (core dumped)   Can someone tell me how I solve this? I have already checked the sane documents but foun

Re: Legal DNS Name

2000-06-28 Thread Edward Marczak
28/6/00 3:04 AM, Gustav Schaffter a écrit: > I guess one should add: > > ...on an American keyboard. Sure, but that's why I said 'blanket statement'. You could even re-program an American keyboard...but thanks! -- Ed Marczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

RE: STrange problem... [SOLVED]

2000-06-28 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Hermm... I feel like a ninny... It was a corrupted inbox... I moved all the messages out to another folder, and the Inbox was still 2M! Deleted, & refired, everything seems to be working fine... (Duh!) > -Original Message- > From: Burke, Thomas G. > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:35

Re: NIC howto

2000-06-28 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 28/06/00 at 0:00 Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: >Is there a NIC howto? I installed RH6.2 but was never prompted to enter >the NIC info. such as IP address etc. > >So I guess I'll have to set it up manually > >I usually fill in the info at install time and

Urgent Help - to recover damaged partition

2000-06-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi everybody, I installed MSWindows98 and RH6.2 in the same hard. Accidentally I damaged the MSWindows98 partition which was caused by force re-booting the PC because of forgetting to insert the PS/2 mouse. RH6.2 was started but could not operate without a mouse, compelling me to force reboot t

Re: vpn with Red Hat

2000-06-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
Charles Galpin wrote: > But I originally wanted to just use a linux pptp client (and could still > use it) and could never get it to work. So if your VPN is PPTP based, then > I'd also like to here from Gordon M. on this. Well, I lost the original message (that this was a reply to), but I've poli

Re: Legal DNS Name

2000-06-28 Thread Gustav Schaffter
I guess one should add: ...on an American keyboard. Regards ;-) Gustav Edward Marczak wrote: > > 26/6/00 2:09 PM, Adv. Systems Design a écrit: > > > Question: they gave me a name that is > > underscored...and I am wondering if in their (NT > > centric) ineptness, they gave me a name that

Re: useing formail and procmail to resort email

2000-06-28 Thread Chris Dowling
thanks Zoki I wasn't confusing things, I probably just didn't write the question well (I think I had a bit of a headache at the time...) I was saying that I could get my email resorted into different mailboxes, but I couldn't sort have them sorted by date in the mailboxes. I didn't want my mail

Re: I've Been Framed

2000-06-28 Thread Danny
-Hello -You are just just making things up aren't you? - You really got framed? - On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Victim of Police Stupidity wrote: > Some cracker broke into my ISP's server and shut them down for a while. The cracker >spoofed my IP address. (He had to. It wasn’t me.) Unfortunately f