Is it possible?

2000-09-08 Thread Jerry Human
I know you guys are going to have a field day with this one but I have a need. Is it possible to install just enough Linux (not necessarily RH) to boot an old 386 laptop and the C++ compiler with the bare minimum libs on a 20 meg hard drive? The only /dev needed would be for the LCD screen, built

dns question

2000-09-08 Thread Stephen King
I'm trying to figure out how to not be able to type anything except the domain name and get a response. Example domainname.com and get a response instead of typing www.domainname.com. Basically what I'm trying to say is I want to be able to leave off the www to get a response from that domain.

printer via NIS

2000-09-08 Thread redhat.angus
Is there a possibility in Red Hat 6.2 to have printers give by a NIS Solaris like passwd and group. It works fine with a Solaris NIS server for authentification but I have not find any great information (with deja.com) if it's possible for printers like for solaris workstation. Any idea or URL

Re: fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-08 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Chuck Mead wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Vidiot spewed into the bitstream: > > V>>http://www.linuxguru.com/stories.php?story=9 > V>>Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com > V> > V> > V>Great, a web site that one can barely read because they programmed it with > V>dark text over a blac

Re: making sense of log messages

2000-09-08 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Terry Wright wrote: > 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=

Re: Urgent: Masquerading

2000-09-08 Thread Bret Hughes
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, UK Jaiswal wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have finally done it with just one NIC. eth0 has the private IP and > > eth0:0 has the public IP. But is this a security lapse and can somebody > > exploit it? > > > > Thankyou. > > Uk > > > If I remember the

Re: Urgent: Masquerading

2000-09-08 Thread Brady Montz
Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not if he's using private IP addresses on his 'local' LAN (10.0.0.0:8 > or 192.168.0.0:16), since no packets destined to those addresses will > get routed through the internet. > > You might be subjected to attacks from someone at your ISP, depending > o

Re: SMB shares in fstab

2000-09-08 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:07 AM Subject: Re: SMB shares in fstab >On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Barton Hodges wrote: >> I don't have an example, but I found that I had to >> make the mou

Re: fonts in redhat 6.2

2000-09-08 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Vidiot wrote: > >V>Visit - 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

Re: SMB shares in fstab

2000-09-08 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I just tried chmod +s /usr/bin/smbmount too, and I still get: [jw@garnet jw]$ mount /mnt/Cschomeserver/ cannot mount on /mnt/Cschomeserver: Operation not permitted smbmnt failed: 1 mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mnt/Cschomeserver: Invalid argument [jw@garnet jw]$ I think i

SMP not working on a Compaq ProLiant 5500

2000-09-08 Thread redhat
I put a second PPro 200 into my Compaq ProLiant 5500 server and ran the configuration utility so that the system sees the processor just fine. However the kernel (2.2.16 with SMP support custom built kernel on top of RedHat 6.1) is telling me that the motherboard is not an SMP motherboard. It is

Re: [RH 6.1] up2date no longer working

2000-09-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, 'up2date' worked well for quite some time, then, after installing > Helix gnome it stopped working: > > [root@localhost /root]# up2date > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 155, in ? > from gui import Gui > Fil

[RH 6.1] up2date no longer working

2000-09-08 Thread mjbjr
Well, 'up2date' worked well for quite some time, then, after installing Helix gnome it stopped working: [root@localhost /root]# up2date Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 155, in ? from gui import Gui File "/usr/share/up2date/gui.py", line 7, in ? from gtk impo

PLIP does not work after update to 6.2

2000-09-08 Thread Johnathan Mark Smith
I update my two computers from 5.2 to 6.2 and now I can get them to PLIP?? in been over a year so maybe I am doing something wroung but I dont know. can someone please help me fast! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.re

Re: Echo colored text to console

2000-09-08 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I type /dev/tty12> the text Hello World > appears on the virtual console number 11. Does anyone know how I could > change this text to another color? > Yes. Check out the Bash-Prompt-HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org for the ESC codes that manipulate c

RE: NIS problems

2000-09-08 Thread TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel
Title: RE: NIS problems Please disregard. It was in fact a naming problem for the master server. I fixed it, recreated the yp databases, and now all works like a charm. Thanks anyway :) Manu

Re: 2nd NIC

2000-09-08 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Stephen King wrote: > Trying to add a second NIC to my Linux RH6.2 box. Where is the config file > for the NIC's? Also, what is the easiest way to add a second card from a > telnet session? > SK ]$ su root ]# PATH="`echo $PATH`:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/ro

NIS problems

2000-09-08 Thread TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel
Title: NIS problems I have a few computers networked together. I'm using NIS and mounting the /home filesystem from the master server on all the other systems. Running RH 6.2 with yp-tools-2.4 and ypserv-1.3.9 This is the problem I'm having: All systems connect properly. Even the master kn

Re: SMB shares in fstab

2000-09-08 Thread Jonathan Wilson
No, please understand: when the mounting occurs, samba TOTAL ignores the permissions on the mnt point, and resets them to what it pleases (right now its root root 755 I think) So it wouldn't even matter if it was world read/writable, samba woul still change the permissions without asking. How

Re: Webalizer in crontab

2000-09-08 Thread Steve Manuel
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:48:55PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Howdy, > > If anyone is running webalizer from cron, I'd like to see their crontab > line too. It goes in /etc/crontab right? Or do I need to do my own thing in > /etc/cron.daily ? 0 4 * * * /usr/bin/webalizer Steve -- illegi

RE: [OT] crappy list latency

2000-09-08 Thread Ron Brinkman
I noticed the same latency. Plus, my reply was posted twice. The time stamps were many hours apart. Also, I have noticed MANY posts where I receive several replies long before the original post appears in my inbox. Ron -Original Message- From: Alan Mead [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Se

Re: Echo colored text to console

2000-09-08 Thread Ben Logan
Howdy, You have to send it an ANSI escape. First, you need to either use 'echo -e' (the -e switch allows it to interpret backslash sequences) or the 'printf' command. Now, escape sequences for colors (you can also do cursor movement with them) are of the form "\033[0;34m", so to turn the text b

Re: DHCP client fails after kernel upgrade

2000-09-08 Thread Luke C Gavel
Since it's a precompiled rpm of a compiled *wince* kernel, you may have to choose rpms that are more specific to your hardware architecture: kernel-2.2.16-3.i386,i586,i686.rpm kernel-ibcs-" " " ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://li

Re: ipx routing

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Rambo
Steve Borho wrote: > > > two things: > > 1) There's some known issues with IPX and some frame types > and windows. Make sure the Windows boxes aren't trying to use > Netbeui. It's been removed. Only IPX/SPX and TCPIP exist. > > 2) A network sniffer would be a good place to start. I wou

Re: Urgent ! denial of Service Attack

2000-09-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Luke, This one should have gone to the redhat-install-list :). What happened? Bye, Leonard. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.co

Echo colored text to console

2000-09-08 Thread chadws
If I type /dev/tty12> the text Hello World appears on the virtual console number 11. Does anyone know how I could change this text to another color? -- Is your email secure? http://www.pop3now.com (c) 1998-2000 secureFront Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. _

Re: Differences between two directories

2000-09-08 Thread Steve Manuel
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:49:15PM -0700, Peter Blomgren wrote: > Chad, > > > If I create a directory "a" and copy it to directory "b" then add or delete > > files from "a," how could I get a list of the files that are different > > between the two directories? > > "diff" (in diffutils-2.7-17),

Re: Starting X in a second console

2000-09-08 Thread Steve Manuel
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:13:58PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Howdy, > > In SuSE I used to be able to startx in tty1, then use CTRL+ALT+F2 to get to > tty2, then do "startx --:1 to start a _second_ xsession - both running at > the same time. > > However in red hat this does not work. > >

Re: Urgent: Masquerading

2000-09-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, UK Jaiswal wrote: > Hi, > > I have finally done it with just one NIC. eth0 has the private IP and > eth0:0 has the public IP. But is this a security lapse and can somebody > exploit it? > > Thankyou. > Uk > If I remember the start of this thread correctly, you are connected

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > Just to give myself a warm and fuzzy I also set the PermitRootLogin no > option > Yep. Not a bad plan. Then you can always ssh in as a user and su to root, as needed. :-) John ___ Redhat-list maili

Re:[OT] crappy list latency

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, Eric Clover wrote: > just do what i did and get a job working for your isp. > > this way there is noone to blame but yourself :) > Heh. I know that feeling ALL too well! :-) i'm in the same position, although I got the job before they were my ISP. :-) John ___

RE: Asus CUV4x motherboard ok with RedHat 6.2

2000-09-08 Thread kabir
On 06-Sep-2000 Dave Reed wrote: > > Can anyone confirm that this motherboard works fine with RedHat 6.2? > > Asus CUV4X > > http://www.asus.com/products/motherboard/pentiumpro/cuv4x/index.html > > The RedHat hardware compatibility web says all motherboards except a > few they list work as far

RE: allowing root telnet access

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Robert Soros wrote: > what will even make some of you guys even more excited is that there is > no password on the root accounts... My roomates are trusted, it isn't > connected to the net, and I can telnet to each machine and log on as > root.. some situations dont require se

Re: SMB shares in fstab

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Barton Hodges wrote: > I don't have an example, but I found that I had to > make the mount directory be owned by the user that wants to mount. > Or perhaps, just making the directory owned by a GROUP that the user is a member of would be enough? Especially if you made the di

Re: RH 6.2 Server Can't get past login!

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Kate Vieux wrote: > Hi.. > > This morning i went to log into our RH 6.2 dev server, after typing in my > name, > the whole thing just hung.. ftp and http still function fine, however, > i can no longer telnet in or log in directly to the box. I had uploaded > a number or web

Re: FTP Transfer of a RH ISO Image just STOPS???

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Lawrence Houston wrote: > > With other large files I am experiencing similar problems with downloads > failing to complete, although the "block" is different for each file! > Additionally after truncating the file (so that it contains just the > "missing" data), these downl

Re: Starting X in a second console

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Matt Housh wrote: > > > tty2, then do "startx --:1 to start a _second_ xsession - both running at > > > the same time. > > > > > > However in red hat this does not work. > > Last time I checked, this worked fine, but I was doing "startx -- :1" - > perhaps the space between th

Re: Urgent: Masquerading

2000-09-08 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:01:37AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > > From: UK Jaiswal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I have finally done it with just one NIC. eth0 has the private IP and > > eth0:0 has the public IP. But is this a security lapse and can somebody > > exploit it? > > > Yes...

Re: Chnages to X and XFS

2000-09-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Smith, Jonathan wrote: > I working on adding true type fonts to my system and I make some changes > nad XFS config file and also the X86Config file. but I did something > wroung and not I am box will not let me login how can I make it boot > command line? and not xdm if I cant

RE: Urgent: Masquerading

2000-09-08 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Yes... Anybody on the outside world can get directly to any machine on your LAN. > -Original Message- > From: UK Jaiswal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Urgent: Masquerading > > Hi, > > I have finally don

Chnages to X and XFS

2000-09-08 Thread Smith, Jonathan
I working on adding true type fonts to my system and I make some changes nad XFS config file and also the X86Config file. but I did something wroung and not I am box will not let me login how can I make it boot command line? and not xdm if I cant login Johnathan Mark Smith Messaging & Collabora

Re: modprobe problem

2000-09-08 Thread UK Jaiswal
Thankyou Jasper. Now its working. Uk Jasper Jans wrote: > > 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_m

Re: Urgent: Masquerading

2000-09-08 Thread UK Jaiswal
Hi, I have finally done it with just one NIC. eth0 has the private IP and eth0:0 has the public IP. But is this a security lapse and can somebody exploit it? Thankyou. Uk John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > >

RE: Webalizer in crontab

2000-09-08 Thread Mulcahy, Chris
I just did crontab -e to edit my own crontab. I added: 0 * * * * /usr/local/apache/webalizer/webalizer -c /usr/local/apache/webalizer/webalizer.conf > /dev/null Obviously, I installed webalizer under my apache directory, though there was no real good reason to do so. This worked for me. Make s

Problem with xtraceroute

2000-09-08 Thread Mick Farmer
Dear Red Hat, I'm trying to run xtraceroute (version 0.8.14) on Red Hat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.16), but it always crashes with a segmentation fault. Has anyone else experienced this problem or know a solution? Regards, Mick ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

Re: ssh-2.3.0 and openssh - compatible?

2000-09-08 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Thanks a lot. I managed to get it working. I had also made a soft link to ssh as slogin. Regards Ed > 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? > > >

Re: sshd and tcpwrappers

2000-09-08 Thread burk
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Hannon wrote: > When I've built ssh "from scratch" I got TCP Wrappers support by adding a > pointer to the appropriate library on the "configure" command line, as: > > ./configure --with-libwrap=/usr/lib/ > > where the directory name is derived from, for in

Re: Graphical diff

2000-09-08 Thread Stephan Tobies
"Chad W. Skinner" wrote: > > I am looking into cvs and ran across maccvs, I believe this is the correct > name, and it has a graphical diff program. The application color codes lines > such as green being files that have been added, red-lines that have been > deleted and orange lines that have be

Re: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-08 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:17:27AM -0700, Bill Ries-Knight wrote: > K6 is pentium MMX emulation K7 is 686. ^^^ I thought that was the K6-2, not the K6? Thomas -- "Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes and plain text only!" Thomas Ribbrock | http://www.bigfoot.com/~

Re: What architecture is an AMD k6?

2000-09-08 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:33:04PM -0400, Jake McHenry wrote: [...] > Linux is for Intel based chipsets, ie.. SIS, not RISC. Which probably explains, why you can indeed run it on Sparc machines - gee, didn't know that Sun uses Intel x86 CPUs... ;-) But seriously: The type of the CPU has next to

DHCP client fails after kernel upgrade

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Lewis
{I'm posting this for a friend who is having trouble getting on the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).} - I have a Redhat 6.1 box with the following configuration: ifcfg-eth0 == DEVICE=eth0 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes NA

Re: SSH & Machine permissions...

2000-09-08 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El día Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:03:23 -0400 "Burke, Thomas G." escribió: > My understanding is that hosts.allow/deny only effect those services run by > inetd... > This is not true. Tcpwrappers provides a library (libwrap.a) you can use when you are developing a software you want it to use tc

Re: SSH & Machine permissions...

2000-09-08 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El día Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:26:40 -0400 "Burke, Thomas G." escribió: > OK guys - I'm befuddled > > I have SSH set up on my box. I use TeraTerm SSH to log in from > remote. I do this from work & my internal network all the time. Now, the > other day I was at my parents' house in S. IL