Re: Per process network traffic statistics

2000-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Daniel Bodea wrote: Hi, Is there any way I can determine the network load generated by a specific p rocess? I have a limited bandwidth that works just fine until I start the bin d DNS server. The problem is a little more complicated than that because bind runs

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-09-07 Thread jfm2
I purchased redhat Linux 6.2 which was released around Apr-June 2000. On this distribution they have egcs and no gcc. Isn't egcs history now? Yes On October 24, 1999 the GCC team released GCC 2.95.2. All I can find on Redhat pages are rpm's for gcc-2.95.1. Where are the

ipchains vs iptables

2000-09-07 Thread Svante Signell
The following ipchains rules are working for kernel 2.2.x. Which are the corresponding rules with ipbables and kernel 2.4.x? Which modules to load? 2.2.x: working /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.4 -j MASQ 2.4.x: my attempt, not working

Re: SMTP Server.......

2000-09-07 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Raghuveera Nanchariah Chalasani wrote: Hi, I am writing a SMTP server and I am having problems with figuring out various scenarios. I am implementing the version of SMTP as described in RFC 822. I am curious if there is any free source code that I can look up for

Re: In _C_, determining if an interface is up or not.

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jim Treadway wrote: reading methods, I have plenty of those allready. I'm wanting this so I can learn kernel interface functions, and doing it via other methods does not teach what I'm wanting to learn. I believe that I saw a code example for this in one of "the

Re: how to debug linux kernel

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just a newer to Linux operating system. I'd like to know more about Linux. Here I have a question, i.e. how I can debug linux kernel. I think this will be helpful for me understanding the underlying mechanism. The "ikd" patches. Do a

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote: Personally, I suspect that it's because gcc-2.95.2 can't compile working kernels without a LOT of screwing around. I've yet to make the debian compiler from frozen give me a working kernel. I'm much happier with the WORKING software that RedHat

Re: SMP question ?

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote: Uh, you realize that for some architectures it isn't 1-2-3-4 if you store 0x01020304 into a double-word. It might be 2-1-4-3 o something else perverse. In 30 years, I've only seen two orders of arranging bytes in ints. There other representations

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Panu Matilainen wrote: I can't speak for Red Hat, but my observation is that Glint was buggy, and a native GNOME/Gtk app would be much nicer. GNOrpm came along, and is no less stable than glint really.. I got bitten by gnorpm and was angry about it, however I don't

Re: Hi

2000-09-07 Thread identity
You are both right. I was accually doing C. I only just remembered one book about C++. :))) thanks - Original Message - From: "Mike A. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Hi On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Jesse Marlin wrote:

Re: ipchains vs iptables

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Svante Signell wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:19:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: ipchains vs iptables The following ipchains rules are working for kernel 2.2.x. Which are the

Re: Hi

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, identity wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:59:26 +0200 From: identity [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Re: Hi You are both right. I was accually doing C. I only just remembered one book about C++. :)))

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Torre
These bugs are around the gcc-2.95.2 and the kernel behind the 2.2.16, or they are about even the 2.2.16 kernel? What I mean is that many distribution give the gcc-2.95.2, and I have an e-mail from this mailing list that says in the RedHat Linux 7.0 there will be the gcc-2.95.2. I have compiled

kernel-2.2.16 source rpm

2000-09-07 Thread Frank Hale
I downloaded the kernel-2.2.16 source rpm. I noticed a number of patches in there. What are these patches for? Are they RH specific. What would be the harm in just packaging the kernel source tarball by itself. I've never had the need to patch the kernel with any nonstandard patches. Frank

Re: Athlon K7 + ASUS A7V does not boot for redhat6.2..

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Dodd
Bill Nottingham wrote: Wacek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: After a proper installation of RedHat 6.2 Gnome workstation option on Athlon K7 with A7V mainboard computer, boot crashes (both normal and single option from LILO) with "General protection Fault ". What should I do to cure

Re: BioStar M7VKA motherboard w/ AMD Duron Boot Problem

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: Greetings: I have been running RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel) on this machine for a couple o f months, without problems. Yesterday, I upgraded to 6.2 (2.2.14 kernel) and the machine refuses to start Linux. The installation was uneventful, and I can run in

Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread Nasir Mahmood
Dear Developers, I am using REDHAT 6.1. I am getting New "trintry" Danial of Service Attack from Yahoo Aol. You may find more info on CNN.com or I may send article copy on request to avoid huge pile up of list mailing disk. It is a kind of attack which can be operated through CHAT/IRC systems.

Re: kernel-2.2.16 source rpm

2000-09-07 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: I downloaded the kernel-2.2.16 source rpm. I noticed a number of patches in there. What are these patches for? Are they RH specific. What would be the harm in just packaging the kernel source tarball by itself. I've never had the need to patch the

RE: anaconda isn't very graceful about bad entries in a kickstartfile

2000-09-07 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff Pitman wrote: -Original Message- In particular, it gives ugly backtraces if you have a kickstart file that worked just fine with RedHat 6.2. Incompatible changes are bad enough, but these failures should be more graceful and give more clue what's wrong.

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Steve Dixon
Frank Hale wrote: No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm inside now though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much more useable in the next release as well. Thanks for the pointer.. Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM? I am just not ready

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Ingo Luetkebohle
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:13:36AM -0700, Frank Hale wrote: Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM? I am just not ready to use Gnome all the time. Its perfectly possible to use GnoRPM without "the rest" of Gnome (which is usually the panel and the session manager, really). --

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Dodd
Frank Hale wrote: Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM? I am just not ready to use Gnome all the time. I like using just a small Window manager and a minimal You can use GnoRPM without GNOME, sawfish, or Enlightenment. It just need the GNOME liraries The ones I see (for

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread jfm2
No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm inside now though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much more useable in the next release as well. Thanks for the pointer.. Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM? I am just not ready to use Gnome

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-09-07 Thread jfm2
X-Authentication-Warning: asdf.capslock.lan: mharris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 06:09:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike A. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Unexpected-Header: The Spanish Inquisition Copyright: Copyright 2000 by Mike A. Harris - All rights

Re: Syslogd not starting

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke C Gavel) writes: given the situation. I just wanted to add one tiny little correction: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Ramiel Givergis wrote: rpm -qa|sed "s/^./rpm --verify /g" /root/verify-rpms ^ | You need a

Re: Syslogd not starting

2000-09-07 Thread Luke C Gavel
Oh dear, found one more teeny tiny detail: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Ramiel Givergis wrote: /root/verify-rpms /root/verify-results 21 ^ | rpm --verify is

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Harry Putnam
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:13:36AM -0700, Frank Hale wrote: No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm inside now though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much more useable in the next release as well. Thanks for the pointer.. What does `glint' do for you that

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread kort
On 7 Sep 2000, Nasir Mahmood wrote: 1. How I check which port services are running except through /etc/inetd.conf. 2. How I can kill harmful port addresses to check above attackes. More info: My system is under Danial of Service Attack Service. It is continuously generating heavy

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread Matt Fahrner
One thing I can't find a good document on is *how* these denial of service programs (the binaries) got onto the Linux boxes in the first place. Were they installed through the "rpc.statd" hole? Is it IRC buffer overflow issue (it doesn't sound like it)? How did the trojan horses get onto the

RE: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread Jesse Noller
Typically, you are left to secure your own box. The intruder could have gotten into your box from a misconfigured SSH daemon, or the wrong version of an FTD Daemon... Any hundreds of holes you may have overlooked. Best thing to do, is double-check you have the most recent copies of anything

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread Matt Fahrner
I do understand that, I wasn't trying to imply anything about anyone's responsibility as it's obviously our own to secure our own boxes. What I'm trying to find out is if there was one particular hole that was used to insert the trojan or, as you suggest, the trojans were inserted through

/var/log/messages

2000-09-07 Thread Yuzz
Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sep 8 07:01:06 mail hifsd[375]: Bad number of procs: 731 from mail Sep 8 07:02:49 mail hifsd[375]: Bad number of procs: 731 from mail Sep 8 07:07:57 mail hifsd[375]: Bad number of procs: 732 from mail Sep 8 07:08:07 mail hifsd[375]: Bad number of procs:

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread Alvin Starr
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote: I do understand that, I wasn't trying to imply anything about anyone's responsibility as it's obviously our own to secure our own boxes. What I'm trying to find out is if there was one particular hole that was used to insert the trojan or, as you

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Frank Hale
Harry Putnam wrote: What does `glint' do for you that you cannot easily duplicate from the command line? I have no problem with the command line. However its nice at certain times to see things graphically, thats all. -- ICQ: 7205161 http://sapphire.sourceforge.net - Yet another X11 Window

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread W. Reilly Cooley
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:19:38PM -0700, kort wrote: Reinstalling will fix any currently hacked services, but that will just require the vandal to re-infect the system. Not necessarily. Only a complete wipe and re-install will. Otherwise, you need to use 'lsattr' to make sure that none

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Harry Putnam
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:54:51PM -0400, Frank Hale wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: What does `glint' do for you that you cannot easily duplicate from the command line? I have no problem with the command line. However its nice at certain times to see things graphically, thats all. Not

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Mario Torre wrote: Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:04:16 +0200 From: Mario Torre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.2 These bugs are around the gcc-2.95.2 and the kernel behind the 2.2.16, or they are about even

Re: kernel-2.2.16 source rpm

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:22:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: kernel-2.2.16 source rpm I downloaded the kernel-2.2.16 source rpm. I noticed a number of patches in

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using gcc-2.95.3-0.2517 for some time and before that 2.95-2 with nothing more than a few snide remarks here to unsettle me. Jeepers creepers... ;o) This is one of the biggest FAQ's I think in all of Linux land... People argue

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote: One thing I can't find a good document on is *how* these denial of service programs (the binaries) got onto the Linux boxes in the first place. Were they installed through the "rpc.statd" hole? Is it IRC buffer overflow issue (it doesn't sound like it)?

Using command substitution in make.

2000-09-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
I have a makefile with the following: bindist: @echo Making: bindist @echo -n"Creating tar archive ... " @DATECODE=`/bin/date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M"` echo $$DATECODE tar --exclude-from bindist-excludelist.txt \ -zcvf

Re: Syslogd not starting

2000-09-07 Thread Luke C Gavel
Sorry to perpetuate this, but I thought it important given the situation. I just wanted to add one tiny little correction: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Ramiel Givergis wrote: rpm -qa|sed "s/^./rpm --verify /g" /root/verify-rpms ^ | You need a

RE: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Steve Curry wrote: Why don't you just login under a normal user account and then "su" to root? This is the easiest way, and the way most of us do it. If that's "the way most of us do it", then it's probably worth pointing out that getting root over telnet, including using

RE: Making Linux bootable after the fact

2000-09-07 Thread Ron Brinkman
I have used Partion Magic [includes Boot Magic] (from Power Quest) to solve a number of disk reconfiguration issues like yours. It cost some money, but saved a lot of grief. -Original Message- From: Ben Logan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 4:51 AM To:

swapon

2000-09-07 Thread abmit
hi, I have some problem with the swap space. when I boot linux there will be such errors: swapon: /dev/hda7 insecure.permision 0660, 0600 sugest; swapon:/dev/hda7 invalid parameters .[failed] how to settle these error thanks

Re: swapon

2000-09-07 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, abmit wrote: hi, I have some problem with the swap space. when I boot linux there will be such errors: swapon: /dev/hda7 insecure.permision 0660, 0600 sugest; swapon:/dev/hda7 invalid parameters .[failed] the first is just a warning, not

Re: swapon

2000-09-07 Thread Luke C Gavel
I really have no idea, but swapon reads from the /etc/fstab file. Here's what /etc/fstab should say about the swap partition: /etc/fstab: /dev/hda7 swapswapdefaults0 0 HTH On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, abmit wrote: hi, I have some problem with the swap space. when I boot

DNS problems

2000-09-07 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! I am running into a problem with accessing a DNS server in my local network from a client. If I ping directly from the client to the DNS server, I get a response as normal, but when I try to access an outside site, it says it can't find the name server. I tried changing the nameserver

RE: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-07 Thread Stephen_Reilly
I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway and then trash what's on it (NT or wever) to install Linux then why not start with RH and build from there ?? That way you get the Linuxcare

Re: leaving xterm open

2000-09-07 Thread Ben Logan
Whichever of the methods you use to capture/view the output, you'll probably want to change the 'grep emacs' part to 'grep [e]macs'. If you don't do that, then 'grep emacs' will show up in ps's output--which you probably don't want. e.g.: xterm -e sh -c 'ps -aux | grep [e]macs ; read a'

Re: HP 712/80

2000-09-07 Thread louis . francoeur
No. But a group called "The puffin group" is working with HP to port Linux to there PA-RISC processor. You can find more information at http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ Louis Francoeur Unix system administrator MDS Pharma Services Ahbaid Gaffoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/06/2000

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-07 Thread Robert Canary
huh? I am looking to buy the Dell with Linux already on it. I would not be trashing anything. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway and then trash

Re: Making Linux bootable after the fact

2000-09-07 Thread Ben Logan
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:27:12 -0500, Bret Hughes said: Ben Logan wrote: Greetings, Awhile ago, I installed a new hard-disk in my computer (which already had win95 on it), and put RH6.2 on the new disk. I didn't make a bootable linux partition though (I've been booting off

Re: ssh-2.3.0 and openssh - compatible?

2000-09-07 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello If I am mot mistaken that rpm package does that, doesn't it? However just in case how do I use ssh-keygen? Thanks alot. Regards Ed On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I have recently removed my openssh pacakges from the server and installed

Re: 2 machine with the same IP

2000-09-07 Thread kf
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =it seems that RH 6.2 Linux doesn't complaint if there are 2 machines of the =same IP addess sitting in the same segment. =why is that so? (i have checked the /var/log/messages) = =I have installed Solaris and Windows before with the same scenerio

Re: Suggested CD-RW Drive

2000-09-07 Thread Luke C Gavel
Pasted from: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=runaround Main Entry: runaround Pronunciation: 'r-n-"raund Function: noun Date: 1915 1 : deceptive or delaying action especially in response to a request tired of getting the runaround 2 : matter typeset in shortened measure to run around

Re: ADP Max 8500 Computer

2000-09-07 Thread kf
Is it Intel architecture? What kind of cpu does it have? Sorry, I don't know this make/model. But these are important questions (if you want an answer). hth, kf On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Kirk wrote: = I just acquired an old ADP Max 8500 from a friends car dealership. This = thing has been in

Re: Majordomo

2000-09-07 Thread Osyrys
There's a TON I have someone locally that has been helping me out, I'm going to make a list of everything he's been working on, and post it here for informational purposes I've had about 3 direct emails asking for the info, so I'm sure there's a few more that are too shy to

Re: DNS problems

2000-09-07 Thread Osyrys
This looks to me like a reverse DNS setup issue At 08:07 AM 9/7/00 -0100, you wrote: Hi all! I am running into a problem with accessing a DNS server in my local network from a client. If I ping directly from the client to the DNS server, I get a response as normal, but when I try

Re: DNS problems Part 2

2000-09-07 Thread Osyrys
I've been trying to figure out reverse DNS on both windows and linux for a while I've had no luck, and had to put it on the back burner... Sorry I couldn't provide more info... Fred At 08:07 AM 9/7/00 -0100, you wrote: Hi all! I am running into a problem with accessing

Re: IPChains

2000-09-07 Thread Charles Galpin
It's dependent on the kernel version. I'm running 2.2.13 on Rh6.1. My 6.2 box is running 2.2.16 so I'm quite sure it will work there. You have to install the ipmasqadm rpm of course. I'm sure it will work. Give it a try. Since it's a seperate utility, I don't think you can casue any harm trying

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-07 Thread Frederic Herman
We bought our boxes with no OS installed. I do know that NT has significant problems recognizing the hardware, at least an older version that I had a license to as a former MSDN subscriber. The NT install I tried required special drivers from Dell just to deal with the buses. We use a plain

RE: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-07 Thread Mike McNally
Yes, you're wrong. The P6 is as CISC as they come, though you might be able to make an argument that there's a busy RISC core in there doing all the work. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/6/00 8:42 PM Subject: Re: What architecture is an AMD k6? On

RE: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
No, as the SPARC's are RISC... It's all in the compiler... Now, that said, the AMD's (Used to be) RISC cores that emulated Intel architecture... Cyrix was the same way. -Original Message- From: Jake McHenry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:33 PM To:

RE: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-07 Thread Mike McNally
Um, no it's not. If it was, you couldn't run windows or linux on it. Windows and linux only run on the SIS architecture. You are either running IBM AIX or MAC OS on a RISC processor. Linux is for Intel based chipsets, ie.. SIS, not RISC. That's almost entirely wrong. Both Windows (NT) and

RE: Lots of attempts recently...

2000-09-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
I have port 139 disallowed from the outside world in my firewall (I use it for samba on the inside LAN) -Original Message- From: Hal Burgiss [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Lots of

fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-07 Thread Smith, Jonathan
fonts in redhat 6.2 I install redhat 6.2 about two days ago and I been trying to use netscape web browser and staroffice, but the fonts are very hard to see. Can someone please tell me how to fix up the fonts Johnathan Mark Smith Messaging Collaboration PaineWebber Incorporated 1000 Harbor

No logging

2000-09-07 Thread madhu
hello all, my system is not logging messages to /var/log/messages can anybody tell me what could be wrong. my /etc/syslog.conf file contains something like... # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages!

CD Playing and burn

2000-09-07 Thread Smith, Jonathan
I install redhat 6.2 and my HP8100 cd will not burn CD's If I use cdcd I can play audio cd's but if I try to use anything like xcdplay or xcdroast it does not see the cd as a audio cd. can someone please help me out Johnathan Mark Smith Messaging Collaboration PaineWebber Incorporated 1000

NIC Speed

2000-09-07 Thread Stephen Johnston
Hi How do I determine the speed my eth0 NIC is running at? TIA, I will summarise. Stephen. -- Stephen Johnston Phone: +49 89 32006322 UNIX Systems Manager Fax : +49 89 32006380 European Southern Observatory

Re: does RH install on SGI Visual Workstation 320?

2000-09-07 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Rob Saul wrote: Anybody know if one can install RedHat on a SGI Visual Workstation 320? Thanks, ~Rob As far as I know, the stock standard Red Hat installs fine with the

RE: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Mead
At 04:46 AM 9/7/00 , you wrote: I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway and then trash what's on it (NT or wever) to install Linux then why not start with RH and build from there ??

Installing RH 6.1 With Kickstart

2000-09-07 Thread Otto Stolzenberger
I'm trying to install Red Hat 6.1 using a kickstart file. The kickstart file is located on an NFS server in /kickstart. The file name is ks.cfg. When my RH 6.1 CD boots, I enter linux ks=nfs:172.17.3.243:/kickstart/ks.cfg After the everything loads, I get dumped into the graphical

Re: fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-07 Thread Chuck Mead
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Smith, Jonathan spewed into the bitstream: SJfonts in redhat 6.2 SJ SJI install redhat 6.2 about two days ago and I been trying to use netscape web browser and staroffice, but the fonts are very hard to see. SJ SJCan someone please tell me how to fix up the fonts

sshd and tcpwrappers

2000-09-07 Thread burk
Hi all. I'm setting up a new server (RH6.2), and I loaded OpenSSH 2.2.0 from rpms. Worked fine. In the process of hardening the server I ran the Bastille-Linux script (pretty cool IMHO). Bastille did something quite cool, and I can't figure out how it did it. It set up sshd to use tcp-wrappers.

making sense of log messages

2000-09-07 Thread Terry Wright
Hi, I just got my firewall up and running and I need to be able to make some sense out of the log messages on it. Here is one line: Sep 3 13:09:12 mickey kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 213.25.136.60:9704 204.50.93.96:9704 L=40 S=0x00 I=39426 F=0x T=29 What should I be on the

Re: Making Linux bootable after the fact

2000-09-07 Thread Bret Hughes
Ben Logan wrote: On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:27:12 -0500, Bret Hughes said: Ben Logan wrote: Greetings, Awhile ago, I installed a new hard-disk in my computer (which already had win95 on it), and put RH6.2 on the new disk. I didn't make a bootable linux partition though

Re: DNS problems

2000-09-07 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: Rodrigo Moya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:31 AM Subject: DNS problems Hi all! I am running into a problem with accessing a DNS server in my local network from a client. If I ping directly from

RE: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-07 Thread Robert Soros
Because i have a cluster of machines sitting here and 'su'ing' is not the easiest way. Your going to ask something like 'why not ssh' .. I dont need the security in a an already secure environment. Why don't you just login under a normal user account and then "su" to root? This is the easiest

Re: Making Linux bootable after the fact

2000-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Ben Logan wrote: I'm still somewhat confused as to where linux is going to get the files it needs to boot.Don't I have to copy a boot image or something to hda1 in order for Linux to boot? Also, lilo only resides on the floppy disk...how do I put it on hda? Run

Re: fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-07 Thread Vidiot
http://www.linuxguru.com/stories.php?story=9 Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com Great, a web site that one can barely read because they programmed it with dark text over a black background. So much for that site. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys?

Re: ssh-2.3.0 and openssh - compatible?

2000-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello If I am mot mistaken that rpm package does that, doesn't it? However just in case how do I use ssh-keygen? No it doesn't. You need to run "ssh-keygen" with whatever paramaters you specify. Type "man ssh-keygen" from the

Re: Re: fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-07 Thread calamity-marie
http://people.redhat.com/~scoile/fonts/fixing-1.html I like this one. I don't know why. ;-) Marie Bennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-07 Thread eric clover
typing su is too hard??? Because i have a cluster of machines sitting here and 'su'ing' is not the easiest way. Your going to ask something like 'why not ssh' .. I dont need the security in a an already secure environment. Why don't you just login under a normal user account and then

software raid

2000-09-07 Thread Jim Baxter
Hi I have been told that very few people if any use software raid. Do any of you use it? What is your opinion of it? Does it support 0/1? Do you have a feel for any performance degradation that might be caused by it? Feel free to address me directly rather than load up the list. Everyone else

Re: Installing Redhat 6.2 on a computer without a CD-Rom?

2000-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Smith, Jonathan wrote: Installing Redhat 6.2 on a computer without a CD-Rom? I have a computer without a cd-rom and I would like to install redhat 6.2. I have two other computers running redhat 6.2 so I was thinking that I can maybe do a PLIP install. Can this be

RE: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Robert Soros wrote: Because i have a cluster of machines sitting here and 'su'ing' is not the easiest way. Your going to ask something like 'why not ssh' .. I dont need the security in a an already secure environment. Well, maybe I'm just paranoid, but I have telnet

Re: fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-07 Thread Chuck Mead
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Vidiot spewed into the bitstream: Vhttp://www.linuxguru.com/stories.php?story=9 VChuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com V V VGreat, a web site that one can barely read because they programmed it with Vdark text over a black background. V VSo much for that site. V VMB VVisit -

Cannot Telnet to Server

2000-09-07 Thread Tanner, Robby
Hi, I'm running RedHat 6.x on a PC here at work. I can log in locally but not over a telnet connection. I was able to previously and don't think I have changed any of the configuration for this machine. Since it is only for testing, I haven't had any reason to worry about it being

Re: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Billy R Nordyke Sr wrote: Hi, Don't know amdk6 architecture but my amdK6-2 450 cpu is recognized as i586 by linux and linux runs flawlessly as far as I know. It won't accept 686 linux upgrades for me either. Ahh...so it's PENTIUM compatible, but not Pentium-Pro or

Urgent: Masquerading

2000-09-07 Thread UK Jaiswal
Hi friends, # Here is an institute with leased line connection to internet and a small pool of ip adresses. # One professor has a room in the institute, with one UTP cable to plug into the NIC card of one computer and has been given 2 permanent IP addresses. # He has brought four computers(all

modprobe problem

2000-09-07 Thread UK Jaiswal
Hi, When I run " /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_autofw.o ", I get the error: " modprobe: Can't locate module ip_masq_autofw.o " But ip_masq_autofw.o is present at " /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/ipv4/ip_masq_autofw.o ". What is missing friends? Uk ___

re: gedit core dumps

2000-09-07 Thread kabir
** Original Subject: gedit core dumps ** Original Sender: Robert Fausey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:54:16 -0400 (EDT) ** Original Message follows... Has anyone else encountered this problem. If you try to print from within gedit it core dumps. Rob

Re: modprobe problem

2000-09-07 Thread Jasper Jans
modprobe does not like to swallow the .o try: modprobe ip_masq_autofw J. On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, UK Jaiswal wrote: When I run " /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_autofw.o ", I get the error: " modprobe: Can't locate module ip_masq_autofw.o " ___ Redhat-list

quick ssh question

2000-09-07 Thread jprice
I am thinking of installing ssh on my RH6.2 machine soon. I have a question, though. My LAN consists of one Win2k box and the RH6.2 box. Is there a windows client for ssh? I don't work directly on the linux box all that much, I mostly telnet in from the Windows box. Would kind of be a

Re: ssh-2.3.0 and openssh - compatible?

2000-09-07 Thread Jonathan Wilson
ssh is in an awful state right now, Openssh and ssh are not really compatible (not easily anyway, though *technically* they are, it just doesn't work very well). I spent almost a week trying to get either one to work on Red Hat and can't get anywhere. Very discouraging. I'm hoping with the

Anonymous FTP RH6.0

2000-09-07 Thread scott.list
In Redhat 6.0, where do I configure (turn off/on) anonymous FTP via a web browser? A pointer to any man page will be appreciated, or whatever appropriate docs. Thanks for any help, Scott ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-07 Thread Vidiot
VVisit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/ (Your link to Star Trek and UPN) ^^ Great... another frames based web site that I can't see in Lynx... so much for that site. Lynx doesn't work with frames? I thought that was fixed. Frames is HTML 4.01

oops [RHL]

2000-09-07 Thread eric clover
sorry i forgot to take out the [RHL] out of the subject of my last reply sorry again eric ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: swapon

2000-09-07 Thread abmit
it works! thank you - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:03 PM Subject: Re: swapon Just for giggles, try running (as root) "mkswap /dev/hda7". If it's already a standard swap partition (as formatted by

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