Re: 1st OS

2000-10-17 Thread Selim Jahangir
Thank u for ur good reply. Thanks agaian selim - Original Message - From: "Statux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:30 PM Subject: Re: 1st OS > > Dear All > > What was the 1st invented OS in the world and when ? > > The first or the first

Re: Tracing Email Addresses

2000-10-17 Thread Statux
> Can a trace (just as in traceroute) be placed on an email address as > it goes about the Internet? Email is traced by the SMTP servers. Every email message (unless edited by a particular server) shows all SMTP servers it passed through in the headers (in descending order). The headers show som

Re: 1st OS

2000-10-17 Thread Statux
> Dear All > What was the 1st invented OS in the world and when ? The first or the first well known? :) *digging from my book cowritten by Andrew S. Tanenbaum (author of MINIX)* In section 1.2.2, mentioned are FMS (the Fortran Monitor System) and IBSYS (IBM's operating system) for the IBM 7094.

Re: etho speed

2000-10-17 Thread Statux
> I have a RedHat 6.2 server running the seawall firewall. One ethernet port > (etho) is connected to a dsl router. I would like to know in real time the > speed at which data is flowing throught that interface. Is there a command > I can type to get this? ...interface eth0 (not etho, if we're

Re: Headless linux boxes, monitors through serial ports? Plus Q onWyse 30,50,60,150 models as monitors

2000-10-17 Thread Bill Carlson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Dan Browning wrote: > I've read recently about running linux boxes that can use mgetty, vgetty, or > something-getty on certain serial ports as monitors (instead of using a > normal vga video card / monitor combo). > > How is this done? > Is there a website for it? > Where c

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-17 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:41:56PM -0500, Steve Borho wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > I also have a new reason not to trust it, now. RedHat 7.0 seems > > > to have a problem that may be related to

Re: solaris or linux

2000-10-17 Thread Bill Carlson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Martin A. Marques wrote: > Well, thankfully I was asking for that kind of information. HOW-TOs, > articles, papers, etc. Benchmarks would be appreciated. > Does somebody know where I can search the linux-kernel archives? The Solaris user license specifically forbids publish

Re: DSL Pricing...

2000-10-17 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Darn, I was just thinking about this. Do I need that second line I have for DSL. I am used to the solid T-1 connection I used to have with my ISP business I used to have and am not familiar with DSL. Can my home line deal handle this. Sorry again if this is off topic. Eddie Strohmier - Orig

RAID1 with 2.2.17 on RH6.2

2000-10-17 Thread Philip Tong
Has anyone managed to get a system up on RAID1 using 2.2.17 kernel on Redhat 6.2? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: DSL Pricing...

2000-10-17 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Mikkel: Ya, I was wondering the same thing. They are very general with the old "up to 20 times faster" statement. I had not even thought about the static ip and possiblity of a web server but it is my only choice for now as I live in the boonies near Brookville, Indiana so I think I will give the

RE: "Masking" ports from IP ranges (was RE: Thanks & port 80 filterin g by IP)

2000-10-17 Thread Ward William E PHDN
-Original Message- From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 11:56 PM Subject: Re: "Masking" ports from IP ranges (was RE: Thanks & port 80 filterin g by IP) On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: >> IOW, could you arrange that the only way t

Promise Fast 100 IDE Raid card

2000-10-17 Thread hc
Hello everyone, Does anyone know if the Promise Fast 100 IDE Raid card is supported under RedHat 7.0 ? Hugo Curbelo SoftwareRx Associates 131 DW Highway #327 Nashua, NH 03060-5245 Web: http://www.softwarerx.com eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ R

RE: "Masking" ports from IP ranges (was RE: Thanks & port 80 filterin g by IP)

2000-10-17 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Most of the ISP's (so I understand) monitor by traffic. You can limit this traffic by requiring passwords, etc... (I have a friend who does this) > -Original Message- > From: Ward William E PHDN [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:32 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

Firewall / Bandwidth Measurement

2000-10-17 Thread Ed Lazor
I'd like to use a Linux box as a Firewall and have it measure network bandwidth utilization. It would have two nics and sit between a DSL router and a switch. I haven't done this before, any recommendations? I'll be starting with a clean installation of RedHat and would appreciate any advic

RE: NIS Client/Server Config

2000-10-17 Thread Gregory Hosler
I believe on your server, you need all 3: ypbind, ypserv, yppasswdd which need to be started in the order ypserv, ypbind, yppasswdd. Typical S numbers are S12ypserv, S13ypbind, and S66yppasswdd (these will be the 2oft link files in the /etc/rc.d/rc.# run level directory). note that yppasswdd is n

RH7: unresolved MEMCPY in sis_drv.o

2000-10-17 Thread Tonko de Rooy
Hi, I'm trying to get XFree86 4 working with Red Hat 7.0 on just installed system with a SiS630 chipset using a 1024x768 LCD panel. The problem I'm facing is that the sis_drv.o module that is shipped with RH 7 dies with the error: "Symbol memcpy from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv

Re: legal possibilities of attack reaction

2000-10-17 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael Weiser wrote: > I'm administering some Linux machines permanently connected to the > internet which I'm trying to protect reasonably. Therefore I > disable unneeded services, keep software up-to-date, run a packet > filtering firewall and use a intrusion detection and

NIS Client

2000-10-17 Thread Selim Jahangir
Hi All !!! NIS client configuration. In my server ypserv is running and in client ypbind. I can not get the password database in my client machine. Please help me with configuration files. Thanks selim ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DSL Pricing...

2000-10-17 Thread Kevin Holmquist
> It's 24/7 and 0 startup, free DSL equipment and free installation, and free > setup though I think the setup part will probably be restricted to the > Windozze customer. I use 6.2 as dialup server on an internal network with > some RH 6.0 and windoze machines. Is this a good deal. Sorry if off t

Re: Tracing Email Addresses

2000-10-17 Thread Vidiot
>Can a trace (just as in traceroute) be placed on an email address as >it goes about the Internet? No. Now, for the clarification. While you cannot trace the route it takes through the internet, you can see the machines that handled it by looking at the complete header. This only works for stu

RE: Headless linux boxes, monitors through serial ports? Plus Q

2000-10-17 Thread almquist paul
There was an article about serial console configuration in Linux Journal 2-3 years ago. I seem to recall reading of a how-to on the subject also. check the linux doc project site. I have not done it but would like to give it a try sometime. I just did a search on Google for: linux "serial consol

Re: Brainbench certifications

2000-10-17 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I actually learned about these in college. granted they don't mean anything in the field, but it is an interesting way to measure your knowledge. - Original Message - From: "Marco Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 200

Re: solaris or linux

2000-10-17 Thread Kevin Holmquist
Hi Juha, > Ooohh... I couldn't resist replying to this one. In my experience, customers > decisions are based on what the sales geek tells them. It's often not very > related to the more important factors you mentioned above. > As for me, I don't know which is worse-- what our sales geek tells th

Tracing Email Addresses

2000-10-17 Thread SoloCDM
Can a trace (just as in traceroute) be placed on an email address as it goes about the Internet? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM

Re: solaris or linux

2000-10-17 Thread Kevin Holmquist
Hi Rick, > Actually, Solaris was written for 32-bit SPARC chips then ported to 32-bit > Intel and 64-bit SPARC. SunOS 5.x (the actual OS component of Solaris) is > about 7-8 years old, the first 64-bit SPARC chips started shipping a bit > over 4 years ago, and the first 64-bit SunOS (5.7) came o

Re: Mailing list systems

2000-10-17 Thread Mike Burger
Webmin can also be used to manage majordomo lists, as well as the rest of your systems. On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Duncan Hill wrote: > > Is there any ML package, freely available, that allows creation, > deletion and maintenance of mailing lists via the web? I've been > using Majordomo 1 + MajorCo

Re: mail from script

2000-10-17 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:04 Bryan K. wrote: >I need to send mail to multiple Bcc recipients from a script. But, the >from address needs to be different than the user who is sending it. >Basically this is for a virtual domain, so it needs to send from >[EMAIL PROTECTED] but the From address needs to

1st OS

2000-10-17 Thread Selim Jahangir
Dear All What was the 1st invented OS in the world and when ? Thanks selim ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Linux in the developing world (fwd)

2000-10-17 Thread Luke C Gavel
-- Generated Signature -- If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams. -- End Sig -- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:22:17 -0300 (ADT) >Linux snubbed by development activists > >Washington DC insiders and bureaucrats have put together two recent >conf

NIS Client/Server Config

2000-10-17 Thread Selim Jahangir
Hi All !!! NIS client configuration. In my server ypserv is running and in client ypbind. I can not get the password database in my client machine. Please help me with configuration files. Thanks selim ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: Brainbench certifications

2000-10-17 Thread Marco Shaw
Someone introduced me to Brainbench (www.brainbench.com) on-line exams last week and I think they're great! I've written Linux Administration (General), Linux Administration (RedHat), and Web Server Administration so far. But the choice is incredible: UNIX admin, OpenVMS, Windows servers & appl

Re: DSL Pricing...

2000-10-17 Thread Bob Hartung
Eddie, I have DSL running through USWest (ugh :-( ). RH6.2 as masquerade server and ipchains. Very easy to set up and if you got the dial up running, then DSL setup a snap. If I am correct, if you use a masquerade server you will need to IP addresses, one for the inside port of the DSL

Mailing list systems

2000-10-17 Thread Duncan Hill
Is there any ML package, freely available, that allows creation, deletion and maintenance of mailing lists via the web? I've been using Majordomo 1 + MajorCool, and while it works, the integration is not as tight as I'd like. I've looked at Mailman, but I only see list management via the web, n

RE: Headless linux boxes, monitors through serial ports? Plus Q on Wyse 30,50,60,150 models as monitors

2000-10-17 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
You need a terminal or terminal emulator to do this (serial video). Yes, your WYSE terminals are exactly what it's intended for (They are serial comm devices). No, Never done it, don't know how (Although, I _am_ curious). > -Original Message- > From: Dan Browning [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-17 Thread Charles Galpin
run 'date>>/tmp/top.log;top -b -n 1>>/tmp/top.log' every 5 minutes from cron and you will have a log you can review after thsi happens again. Then you can at least determine whether or not it's the kernel leaking memory, or some other program. I'm not sure how to get top to sort results by memor

legal possibilities of attack reaction

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Weiser
Hello, I'm administering some Linux machines permanently connected to the internet which I'm trying to protect reasonably. Therefore I disable unneeded services, keep software up-to-date, run a packet filtering firewall and use a intrusion detection and protection tool (snort). But the number o

Re: Sendmail on 2 RH6.2 servers

2000-10-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Enrico Payne wrote: > Hi, I am trying to get 2 RH6.2 servers to accept e-mail from each other. > > What files should I change. > > I have added both servers to the following files: > /etc/sendmail.cf > /etc/sendmail.cw > /etc/hosts > /etc/mail/access > /etc/mail/ip_allow >

SafeTP on RH7?

2000-10-17 Thread Gavin
Has anyone kludged SafeTP on a RH7 box? With xinetd i/o inetd, it won't work. I've tried modifying xinetd, wu-ftpd, etc. to point to the correct directories and programs, generally following the instructions for an inetd install of SafeTP, but with no luck. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Re: BeOs

2000-10-17 Thread Matt Nelson
these answers are pretty much right on the money. one thing i would add is that BeOS is more similar to Windows than it is to Linux (not multiuser etc). BUT... BeOS appears to be much nicer than windows from a technical standpoint, and would make a nice windows replacement (assuming Be could ove

Re: mail from script

2000-10-17 Thread Chris Harvey
> I need to send mail to multiple Bcc recipients from a script. But, the > from address needs to be different than the user who is sending it. > Basically this is for a virtual domain, so it needs to send from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the From address needs to be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I do th

Re: disk partitioning

2000-10-17 Thread Kelly Scroggins
Since I've received no responses, I guess there isn't a way around it with diskdruid. kelly Quoting Kelly Scroggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks ken, But I stated that I already know how to accomplish this with fdisk. My question is concerning diskdruid. kelly Quo

Re: solaris or linux

2000-10-17 Thread Marco Shaw
> Well, thankfully I was asking for that kind of information. HOW-TOs, > articles, papers, etc. Benchmarks would be appreciated. > Does somebody know where I can search the linux-kernel archives? A search for 'linux-kernel mailist list' produced: http://www.tux.org/hypermail/ Marco ___

mail from script

2000-10-17 Thread Bryan K.
I need to send mail to multiple Bcc recipients from a script. But, the from address needs to be different than the user who is sending it. Basically this is for a virtual domain, so it needs to send from [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the From address needs to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I do this? Thank

re: DSL pricing, etc.

2000-10-17 Thread Edward Schernau
I pay $39.95 a month for Bell Atlantic, 640kbit downstream, 90kbit upstream. Make sure you get an external DSL modem device, or better yet (if you can) pick up one of those Linksys DSLmodem/router/NAT/100mbit-switch boxes for like $160. BA requires you to use this weird Windows/Java applet thing

Re: DSL Pricing...

2000-10-17 Thread M. Neidorff
At 10:17 PM 10/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hello: > >I know from seeing past post that quite a few of you have DSL and I have >just been informed today that DSL is now available in my area via >earthlink.net. They are charging 49.95 /month and the offer includes: > >ยท FREE DSL Modem and Equipment

Re: POP Mail

2000-10-17 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:11 Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: >I just checked my log files and saw the following: > >Oct 15 12:31:46 pappy gnu-pop3d[12161]: refused connect from >208-192-8-114.apex2000.net > >which seems to indicate that the pop3 request is making it through my firewall, >but that the daem

Re: POP Mail

2000-10-17 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:58 Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: >I've got telnet pretty much locked down so that only I can get in through >ssh. When I try to telnet to port 110, the system closes the connection with >the following message: > >warning: Authentication failed. >Disconnected; connection lost (

Re: BeOs

2000-10-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, cristian wrote: > I tried something called BeOs and seemed to me some kind of Linux. Am > I right ? Nope. BeOS includes a shell, and some (GNU??) fairly common *NIX utilities. You can even get emacs for BeOS. All the same, BeOS is not a Linux or UNIX operating system. I

RE: CD woes

2000-10-17 Thread Drew Hunt
Here is the log associated with the error: Oct 16 15:49:02 ryoko kernel: ATAPI device hdc: Oct 16 15:49:02 ryoko kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Oct 16 15:49:02 ryoko kernel: Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00) Oct 16 15:49:06 ryoko k

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-17 Thread Steve Borho
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > I also have a new reason not to trust it, now. RedHat 7.0 seems > > to have a problem that may be related to THAT version of pump. My son > > installed RedHat 7.0 on hi

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-17 Thread Cokey de Percin
"Michael H. Warfield" wrote: > > > The scripts for updating DNS and FreeSWAN from dhcpcd? I'll > post in a couple of days after I finish testing out the DNS end. I've > gotta wait for the next address change to make sure it correctly updates > DNS and pushes the results out. > >

Sendmail on 2 RH6.2 servers

2000-10-17 Thread Enrico Payne
Hi, I am trying to get 2 RH6.2 servers to accept e-mail from each other. What files should I change. I have added both servers to the following files: /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/sendmail.cw /etc/hosts /etc/mail/access /etc/mail/ip_allow /etc/mail/relay-domains I have also run make in /etc/mail direc

Re: "Masking" ports from IP ranges (was RE: Thanks & port 80 filtering by IP)

2000-10-17 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > IOW, could you arrange that the only way the ISP would be able to > detect the service was to either use a packet sniffer, or to go > outside the native IPs of the ISP and sniff from outside the ISP? Yes, but: what if the ISP does the equivalent

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-17 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Steve, Look... Give us some credit... I have asked this before. Will you PLEASE tell use what revs and what distributions you are using so we can tell WTF you are talking about Almost everything you have posted is version dependent and I can't tell from what you've posted! On Mon,