Re: aacraid driver from fisher

2001-02-02 Thread Matt Wilson
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:40:38PM +0700, Supasin Sae-heng wrote: It means 2.4.0 does not support WRITE request that larger than 64K, or the method to write is not compatible with the driver. And can we fix this?, such as edit the value It means that the kernel's SCSI subsystem _does_

Re: reiserfs and two cds

2001-02-02 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Evandro Fernandes Giovanini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what do you think about creating a preview dir in cd2 (just like in 7.0) and put the following there: - nautilus - evolution The problem with these is space. - and update-disk which adds reiserfs support to anaconda. I doubt that -

Re: reiserfs and two cds

2001-02-02 Thread Evandro Fernandes Giovanini
Em Sexta 02 Fevereiro 2001 13:15, you wrote: Evandro Fernandes Giovanini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what do you think about creating a preview dir in cd2 (just like in 7.0) and put the following there: - nautilus - evolution The problem with these is space. -rw-r--r-- 1 19837

scsi driver

2001-02-02 Thread Daniel Hammer
BS"D Hi, I have some problem with the new AIC7xxx SCSI driver that comes with kernel 2.4.0-0.99.5. My box: o Motherboard - Asus P2B-LS ACPI Bios Revision 1011 with Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter onboard o 2 IBM hard drives DCAS-34330W, DRVS09V o PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS

Re: ssh+pam problems !

2001-02-02 Thread Nalin Dahyabhai
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:36:34PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Cannot ssh to my own computer when using pam-0.74-1 or 0.74-4. Backing to pam-0.72-40 then everything is OK again. Whats up? Which version of openssh-server are you running? The kbdinteractive support we put into Raw Hide shortly

RE: What's the difference between vmware and win4lin?

2001-02-02 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Bret: I have been wanting to communicate with someone who has tried this product out and wanted to ask if any windoze application will run on this software? I have a school grading database software that runs on windoze only and don't want to run an NT machine or Win 2000 server if I can

block-major-8

2001-02-02 Thread Claudiu Balciza
hi all, I just installed RH7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-22) on a Compaq Server. The SCSI adapter is a ncr53c8xx type. the stock kernel boots just fine making use of a ramdisk then I recompiled the kernel with the scsi driver compiled into the kernel now it won't find the root partition and "kernel panic"

Re: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0

2001-02-02 Thread Neil Hollow
I had a first go at this last night-you could call it a practise on linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2. I got as far as make xconfig. Its not as frightening as I thought it would be but has raised some new questions... First I could find no mention of USB support in the xconfig window. From the USB pages

Re: block-major-8

2001-02-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Claudiu Balciza wrote: hi all, I just installed RH7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-22) on a Compaq Server. The SCSI adapter is a ncr53c8xx type. the stock kernel boots just fine making use of a ramdisk then I recompiled the kernel with the scsi driver compiled into the kernel now

Re: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0

2001-02-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Neil Hollow wrote: I had a first go at this last night-you could call it a practise on linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2. I got as far as make xconfig. Its not as frightening as I thought it would be but has raised some new questions... First I could find no mention of USB support

RE: What's the difference between vmware and win4lin?

2001-02-02 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Woops for got to mention that I am running RH 6.2 on it... Thanks, Eddie Strohmier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eddie Strohmier Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What's the difference

Re: ACL control with Netscape Web Server

2001-02-02 Thread Vineeta
I suppose you can safely click on "save password" once you have entered the settings. Unless you are talking about different users logging in with their passwords. Ok,regarding "Expect",i have used it.But,i am not too sure how you can use it with Netscape's address book or if u can interface it

Re: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0

2001-02-02 Thread Neil Hollow
Yes, you want to say to the three "Loadable module support" questions. I assume this was a yes? and is that it as as far as kmod is concerned I had a look at kmod.txt but was non the wiser. NH. From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001

CGI - $QUERY_STRING missing

2001-02-02 Thread Stefano Passarella
Hi I have a little problem with my ksh shell/CGI. It should get the variable "QUERY_STRING" from HTML file, which is empty and my script doesn't work correctly. [HTML] form action="http://XXX/cgi-bin/unix/search_X.cgi" method="POST" --- valore 1 input name="param1" size="50"

Re: NFS doubt: sharing directories mounted by server itself

2001-02-02 Thread UK Jaiswal
Thankyou Bret and Thornton. Now it IS working. I had to export/mount /home/ftp/pub/slack/install seperately. Regards, Uk Bret Hughes wrote: UK Jaiswal wrote: Hi, I have a linux server(192.168.0.1) which has iso-images of various CD-ROMs. Now I have mounted these iso images on

Re: ssh connection closed

2001-02-02 Thread Tomás García Ferrari
Anything in the logs? Yes, the sshd is down and these are the errors when I try to bring it up: Feb 2 14:19:57 extensa sshd[1886]: error: Bind to port 22 on 192.168.0.3 failed: Address already in use. Feb 2 14:19:57 extensa sshd[1886]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. Any clue? Tomas Garcia

Mounting problems

2001-02-02 Thread Ditesh
Hello all, I have had trouble mounting my windows partition after compiling 2.4.x. Reverting back to the old kernel does not seem to solve the problem. When I issue the command: mount -t auto /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows the error I get is: mount: /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number ls -al

Kernel panic using IBM serveraid 4L

2001-02-02 Thread Almond Wong
Hi all. I just installing an IBM Netfinity 5500 with Serveraid 4L. I downloaded the driver from IBM and upgraded the 4L firmware to 4.50. The installation completed smoothly w/o error. But upon rebooting, the following error messages appeared, and the machine is hanged up. Kmod:failed to

Re: ssh connection closed

2001-02-02 Thread Tomás García Ferrari
Hi, Going further, I discovered something... I am having a conflict between inet and sshd: if I run sshd from /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd then it works nicely. If I try to run it from tcp wrappers, adding this line ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd sshd -i to /etc/inetd.conf, then it

Testing for directories

2001-02-02 Thread Tristan Hill
I've got the following bash function to print the name of all directories relative to the current path and change each directories permission. The script fail to pickup directories with a space in the name though. Corrections to the script would be much appreciated. #!/bin/bash for each in

Redirect

2001-02-02 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I'd like to redirect the STDOUT from a program to /dev/nul and at the same time pipe STDERR to another pgm. How could this be done? Regards Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Calamity
PHD wrote: For some reason, I cannot find any information on setting up a Tcpdump file to scan for keywords. Also, x-girlfriend is a cetified witch and I would like to figure out how to intercept her email. Will Tcpdump work, or is there something better? I dunno about tcppdump, but

Re: Testing for directories

2001-02-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 1:54pm (-), Tristan Hill wrote: I've got the following bash function to print the name of all directories relative to the current path and change each directories permission. The script fail to pickup directories with a space in the name though. Corrections to the

RE: Source Address Verification

2001-02-02 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Yes, but the kernel has to be compiled to support it (The default kernels have this compiled in, so no worry) -Original Message- From: Tanner, Robby [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 6:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Source Address

Re: Squid and non-permanent connections

2001-02-02 Thread Bob Glover
You could use a redirector with squid. I haven't done this, but I envision it like this: When a user requests any page, the redirector checks to see if the line is up. If it is then the URL is not redirected and the user gets what they asked for. If the line is not up, the redirector creates

Re: Kernel panic using IBM serveraid 4L

2001-02-02 Thread Tonko de Rooy
I'm not speaking for IBM here, and have not tried the new ServeRAID driver myself, but it sounds like you have an init ramdisk problem, or better said forgot to either create one, or if you did forgot to define it in your lilo.conf If I understand you correctly, your root filesystem is on a disk

Re: Redirect

2001-02-02 Thread rpjday
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 2:57pm (+0100), Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hi, I'd like to redirect the STDOUT from a program to /dev/nul and at the same time pipe STDERR to another pgm. How could this be done? The order of redirection counts

Re: Testing for directories

2001-02-02 Thread rpjday
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 1:54pm (-), Tristan Hill wrote: I've got the following bash function to print the name of all directories relative to the current path and change each directories permission. The script fail to pickup directories with a

Re: Testing for directories

2001-02-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 9:53am (-0500), rpjday wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 1:54pm (-), Tristan Hill wrote: I've got the following bash function to print the name of all directories relative to the current path and change each directories

Re: Redirect [SOLVED]

2001-02-02 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thanks, Matt. That did it. :-) BTW, yes rpjday, you're right. But since I'm going to use this in a script, I prefer to keep it verbose. I save the shortcuts for interactive commands. Thanks anyway. Regards Gustav Matthew Melvin wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 2:57pm (+0100), Gustav Schaffter

Break in attempt?

2001-02-02 Thread Tanner, Robby
I have the following in my log file. Feb 2 03:37:23 weisktsv03 kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 202.64.65.202:1619 24.68.176.193:98 L=60 S=0x00 I=41281 F=0x4000 T=45 SYN (#12) Feb 2 03:37:26 weisktsv03 kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 202.64.65.202:1619 24.68.176.193:98

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Jeff Lane
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Calamity wrote: PHD wrote: Also, x-girlfriend is a cetified witch and I would like to figure out how to intercept her email. Just a side note, unless you own the server that is sending and recieving the mail for this girl, that is at least somewhat illegal. And even

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Tony Campisi
: : PHD wrote: : Also, x-girlfriend is a cetified witch and I would : like to figure out how to intercept her email. Does she listen to Godsmack too? Quit stalking and do something productive :-) ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Michael R. Jinks
I may have read wrong, but I think he's trying to intercept mail -- like, for reading, not for sending to the bit bucket. If that's the case, then that is most definitely not playing fair. Network managers, legal departments, and HR managers all take an exceedingly dim view of such things, not

Re: Break in attempt?

2001-02-02 Thread Thornton Prime
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Tanner, Robby wrote: I have the following in my log file. Feb 2 03:37:23 weisktsv03 kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 202.64.65.202:1619 24.68.176.193:98 L=60 S=0x00 I=41281 F=0x4000 T=45 SYN (#12) Feb 2 03:37:26 weisktsv03 kernel: Packet log: input DENY

Re: What's the difference between vmware and win4lin?

2001-02-02 Thread Michael R. Jinks
OH YEAH -- almost forgot -- Win4Lin has one BIG drawback: No "current" version of Windows is supported. No CE, ME, or 2000 -- only 95 and 98. We're up against this problem right now -- M$ won't sell you a 98 license for less than twice the regular price (UPGRADE, PEASANTS!), and

Doing a PCMCIA install of Redhat from a NT/Novell Netware

2001-02-02 Thread Kamath
Hello all-- We have a network with some servers running NT and some services provided off of a Novell Netware. I would like to know if it is possible to do a PCMCIA install from such a network. I also believe that we are behind a fire-wall. I tried this once and the stage where the lap-top

Re: MoonGroup Archive's

2001-02-02 Thread chuck
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Bret Hughes spewed into the bitstream: BH[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BH BH For anyone looking to search the archives: BH BH http://www.moongroup.com/stories.php?story=01/02/01/9162740 BH BHSite's looking good Chuck. You've been busy. Gimme a few more days... :-) -- Chuck

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Joseph R. Erlewein
Oh come now, All this "ethical" talk clearly contradicts the basic altruistics of qualities demonstrated by current and potential "Bastard Operators From Hell." (tm) Given that no relationship is actually worth the time spent to do something such as this, the fact remains that you are able to

usb zip

2001-02-02 Thread Barry Schiffman
I'd like to get a usb zip. I've got RH 7.0, with a 2.4.0 kernel with usb support. Can anyone tell me if it will work? Or am I better off with a parallel port zip? Thanks, Barry __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a

eth0 errors

2001-02-02 Thread Peter Peltonen
I am getting these error messages now and then: --snip-- Feb 2 18:44:13 dmz53 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0080 at 65408/65419 commands 000c 000c 000c. --snip-- This is a linux router/firewall and eth0 is the interface where a lot of traffic is goint through.

[OT] morality Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Michael R. Jinks
I agree that the morality of the situation is shady; for example I might have reacted differently if the original poster had said, "How might one intercept network traffic in toto for later perusal with text parsing utilities?" (okay PHD, there's one hint for you.) But here's a person standing

Re: OT: AWK

2001-02-02 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Anthony Capone wrote: If I wanted awk to search through a paragraph and stop at every blank line, display what it found, then continue to the next paragraph and do the same...where would I start??? Perhpas something like this: awk '! /^$/ { print } /^$/ { getline input

GNOME lock screen on rh7?

2001-02-02 Thread Michael R. Jinks
since upgrading my work box to RH7, the GNOME "lock screen" function hasn't worked unless I first run xscreensaver from a command line. This doesn't bother me so much, but soon the rest of the shop is going to upgrade to RH7 and one of the strategies is to dupe my disk, so I'd like to understand

Re: What's the difference between vmware and win4lin?

2001-02-02 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I use both, not for the same purpose. Win4Lin is definitely more light weight than VMware and running applications like Visual Studio etc. is very efficient. However, as stated, it does not implement a complete OS. The main drawback I can see so far : it does not provide a network interface on

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Joseph R. Erlewein wrote: I say let people worry about themselves. Screw seatbelt laws. :) Well...hehehe, we need more info anyway. Like, did he set up a local email server for his capital 'X' and now he's wondering where the spool files are, or, is he talking about

Re: eth0 errors

2001-02-02 Thread Pi
Have you upgraded your kernel recently? Drew --- Peter Peltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting these error messages now and then: --snip-- Feb 2 18:44:13 dmz53 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0080 at 65408/65419 commands 000c 000c 000c. --snip--

Re: ssh connection closed

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Hannon
At 10:46 AM 2/2/01 +0100, you wrote: Hi, Going further, I discovered something... I am having a conflict between inet and sshd: if I run sshd from /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd then it works nicely. If I try to run it from tcp wrappers, adding this line ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd

Update

2001-02-02 Thread NDSoftware
Where i can find a software for check the Redhat Update ? Thanks Nicolas DEFFAYET, NDSoftware http://www.ndsoftware.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] France: Tel +33 671887502 - Fax N/A UK: Tel +44 8453348750 - Fax +44 8453348751 USA: Tel N/A - Fax N/A ___

Fwd: Re: Chokes on GETPPID

2001-02-02 Thread Ben Ocean
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:08:35 -0800 To: "Fredrik Lundh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ben Ocean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Chokes on GETPPID Strange. I moved my server and all sorts of crazy things started happening. You're right: for some reason a user called skharley owns all this stuff.

HTTPD Writable

2001-02-02 Thread Ben Ocean
Hi; I need to create an httpd writable directory. What is this and how do I create it? TIA, BenO ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: ssh connection closed

2001-02-02 Thread Tomás García Ferrari
Hi, Yes, you're right. I am using openssh-server-2.1.1p4-1 and is picking the values from hosts.allow and hosts.deny. We can then asume that TCP Wrappers support is already built in, right? Thanks, Tomas Garcia Ferrari Bigital http://bigital.com The are various implementations of ssh, but

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Jeff Lane
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote: I may have read wrong, but I think he's trying to intercept mail -- like, for reading, not for sending to the bit bucket. If that's the case, then that is most definitely not playing fair. Network managers, legal departments, and HR managers all

Re: usb zip

2001-02-02 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Barry Schiffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to get a usb zip. I've got RH 7.0, with a 2.4.0 kernel with usb support. Can anyone tell me if it will work? It should work (even with the shipped 2.2.x kernel) - "modprobe usb-storage" -- Trond Eivind Glomsrd Red Hat, Inc.

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
"Joseph R. Erlewein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh come now, All this "ethical" talk clearly contradicts the basic altruistics of qualities demonstrated by current and potential "Bastard Operators From Hell." (tm) [...] I say let people worry about themselves. Screw seatbelt laws. :)

Kernel Compile Error

2001-02-02 Thread Pete Peterson
OK -- this should be trivial, but I'm getting lost in all the makefile variables. A friend was trying to build a new kernel to include masquerading for VPN. He had problems and asked me to help. He said he: Did the patches for the VPN (there were two of them) Made configuration file Did

Re: Update

2001-02-02 Thread mburger
Log in as root (or su to root) and run "up2date -l" At Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:49:34 +0100 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where i can find a software for check the Redhat Update ? Thanks Nicolas DEFFAYET, NDSoftware http://www.ndsoftware.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] France: Tel +33 671887502 - Fax N/A

RE: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Cater
Ya know, if he can't figure it out himself why bother.. If you give this guy any help you know he is going to bug the hell out of you for details.. Look Dump-butts, putting a sniffer on a line is one of the most basic skill sets.. Unless you figure there is some magic way to open your AOL dialup,

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Joseph R. Erlewein
On 2 Feb 2001, Harry Putnam wrote: I say let people worry about themselves. Screw seatbelt laws. :) Clearly a `nitwit' heard from. Thanks for pulling the discussion hard to _that_ direction. I'll not stoop to that level. A drooling pedaphile posts here explaining they are a droolling

window machine gateway setup

2001-02-02 Thread linda hanigan
Hi I am making great strides in getting all my computers safely connected to the internet. Thanks Tom for your script, my first attempt wouldn't allow for http still haven't figured out what I did. I know have dial on demand with ppp and it even starts the firewall correctly. I also have one

RE: Update

2001-02-02 Thread NDSoftware
bash: up2date: command not found Nicolas DEFFAYET, NDSoftware http://www.ndsoftware.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] France: Tel +33 671887502 - Fax N/A UK: Tel +44 8453348750 - Fax +44 8453348751 USA: Tel N/A - Fax N/A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: ssh connection closed

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Hannon
At 04:02 PM 2/2/01 +0100, you wrote: Hi, Yes, you're right. I am using openssh-server-2.1.1p4-1 and is picking the values from hosts.allow and hosts.deny. We can then asume that TCP Wrappers support is already built in, right? I would think so. Thanks, Tomas Garcia Ferrari Bigital

Re: Update

2001-02-02 Thread Tomás García Ferrari
bash: up2date: command not found You have to install the up2date packages: rhn_register-1.0.2-0.6.x.noarch.rpm up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-2.1.7-0.6.x.i386.rpm rhn_register-gnome-1.0.2-0.6.x.noarch.rpm (and in my situation I had to install as well these:)

Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread James
At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name, but I like it. Unfortunately, Mail/Sendmail doesn't like it. No matter what I try I cannot get mail delivered to user James, James@localhost,

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread chuck
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, James spewed into the bitstream: JAt the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my JRedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name, Jbut I like it. J JUnfortunately, Mail/Sendmail doesn't like it. No matter what I try I

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Michaell Taylor
get a life. On Thursday 01 February 2001 19:07, you spewed into the bitstream: For some reason, I cannot find any information on setting up a Tcpdump file to scan for keywords. Also, x-girlfriend is a cetified witch and I would like to figure out how to intercept her email. Will

RE: Update

2001-02-02 Thread Mike Burger
"rpm -q up2date" Assuming that it finds up2date and gives you a version, you then do a "which up2date" or a "find / -name up2date" to find the program on your system. You can then "/path/to/up2date -l" On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, NDSoftware wrote: bash: up2date: command not found Nicolas

Re: Update

2001-02-02 Thread Mike Burger
Depends on whether or not it's actually installed...he could just have a bad path configuration in his bashrc. On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Toms Garca Ferrari wrote: bash: up2date: command not found You have to install the up2date packages: rhn_register-1.0.2-0.6.x.noarch.rpm

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Vidiot
At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name, but I like it. Liking has nothing to do with it. You have to fit within the rules. Unfortunately, Mail/Sendmail doesn't like it. No matter what

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Michael R. Jinks
James wrote: At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name, but I like it. As an aside, any NOS worth its salt shouldn't be compromised at all by somebody knowing an account name. For

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Vidiot
Chuck Mead responded: SMTP is not case sensitive. You might be able to use an alias: add the following to /etc/mail/aliases: james: James then type newaliases then type /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart You don't have to restart sendmail when the alias list is changed. MB -- e-mail:

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Michael R. Jinks
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote: At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name, but I like it. I think you're going to have to change everything to "james" (all

RE: Update

2001-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote: "rpm -q up2date" Assuming that it finds up2date and gives you a version, you then do a "which up2date" or a "find / -name up2date" to find the program on your system. You can then "/path/to/up2date -l" I've got up2date, and it's installed in KDE, but

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:03 PM Subject: Re: Upper case user names On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, James spewed into the bitstream: JIf anyone has specific experience with other mail

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Vidiot
I think that this is because DNS doesn't like it. Or more properly, because DNS name queries are case-insensitive, so sendmail always lowercases everything to avoid confusion. I could be wildly wrong on my details here. You are wildly wrong here. DNS lookus have absolutley nothing to do with

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote: Solving the wrong problem. Edit /etc/passwd; change James to james; run pwconv (assuming you left shadowed passwords enabled); done. chown operates on UIDs, not usernames; usernames aren't stored in the properties of the files either, only the UID's are.

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Mike Burger
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote: James wrote: Unfortunately, Mail/Sendmail doesn't like it. I think that this is because DNS doesn't like it. Or more properly, because DNS name queries are case-insensitive, so sendmail always lowercases everything to avoid confusion. I could

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread James
- Original Message - From: "Vidiot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Upper case user names At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Mike Burger
It's not that it's an illegal username. It's that it violates certain conventions. That being said, iti shouldn't really matter to the user if they don't have to type in an upper case letter to log in...so long as they can get their email sent and delivered with the uppercase letter. On Fri, 2

Re: What's the difference between vmware and win4lin?

2001-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
Eddie Strohmier wrote: Woops for got to mention that I am running RH 6.2 on it... Thanks, Bret: I have been wanting to communicate with someone who has tried this product out and wanted to ask if any windoze application will run on this software? I have a school grading

Re: Mounting problems

2001-02-02 Thread Lorris J. Woods
I believe you have overwritten your /etc/fstab; I don't remember the exact format, but you need to have an entry for /dev/hda1 in there. On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ditesh wrote: Hello all, I have had trouble mounting my windows partition after compiling 2.4.x. Reverting back to the old kernel

Re: Redirect

2001-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hi, I'd like to redirect the STDOUT from a program to /dev/nul and at the same time pipe STDERR to another pgm. How could this be done? Regards Gustav man bash has a rather sparse IMHO description about this under REDIRECTION however a quick test of what I

Re: Testing for directories

2001-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
Matthew Melvin wrote: 'cept xargs isn't going to preserve your spaces. Well it might i guess if we get find to help out a bit... find . -type d -printf '"%p"\n' | xargs chmod 2770 what does the %p represent? Is that a find thing or a shell thing? Bret

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Michael R. Jinks
NOT SPEAKING FOR RED HAT ...but quoting Bob Young: "The user has control." Old aphorism, attribution escaping me just now: "Unix gives you enough rope to hang yourself and a little bit more, just in case." The reason for this is (I assume) a design consideration: design should not dictate

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread James
- Original Message - From: "Michael R. Jinks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Upper case user names James wrote: At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my RedHat box - "James." I

Re: Update

2001-02-02 Thread Adam Sleight
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:20:08 +0100 Toms Garca Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:| | Have a look at http://www.redhat.com/network/ There must be instructions | for setting this up under RH 7 and RH 6.2, I guess. http://www.redhat.com/network/service/faq_whatisrhn.html#cost How much will it

RH 7.0 install problem

2001-02-02 Thread shoe
Hello, I've been trying to install RH 7.0 on a little box with little success. It is a P166 wth pretty standard hardware, in fact it runs RH 6.2 just fine. I've tried upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0, I've tried a custom install, server, and workstation installs and all render the same error message

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
James wrote: At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name, but I like it. Unfortunately, Mail/Sendmail doesn't like it. No matter what I try I cannot get mail delivered to user James,

Re: Apache and Frontpage 4.0 Extensions

2001-02-02 Thread Randy Perkins
i have had problems in the way that the frontpage install changed the httpd.conf file. the install adds some ScriptAlias settings, unfortunately, the install puts them inside a section of httpd.conf that is used for a virtual server. search for Scriptalias in httpd.conf. move the frontpage

Re: Kernel Compile Error

2001-02-02 Thread Pete Peterson
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:35:43 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kernel Compile Error From: "Pete Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK -- this should be trivial, but I'm getting lost in all the makefile variables. A friend was trying to build a new

Re: ssh connection closed

2001-02-02 Thread Lorris J. Woods
Tomas you may want to try starting sshd with the debug option; it may give you some kind of hint. ./sshd -d On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Toms Garca Ferrari wrote: Hi, Going further, I discovered something... I am having a conflict between inet and sshd: if I run sshd from /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd

getting explorer to use gateway

2001-02-02 Thread linda hanigan
Hi, I need help figuring this out. I have 2 windows machines and 1 linux machine connected on eth0 I then use a ppp and a modem to connect to the internet on my linux box. 1 windows box is working great the other one explorer will not load web pages through the linux machine. I compared route on

Re: Mounting problems

2001-02-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Lorris J. Woods wrote: I believe you have overwritten your /etc/fstab; I don't remember the exact format, but you need to have an entry for /dev/hda1 in there. No, you do not need an entry in /etc/fstab when you give the device to mount. You only need the entry when you

Re: getting explorer to use gateway

2001-02-02 Thread Terry Williams
emmm. not very much info here but... Did you install ip forwarding on your linux machine? Did you set-up proxy/firewall rules on your linux machine? Have you configured network-neighborhood to use the linux box as the gateway for tcp/ip? Do you have the DNS info correct for your server in the

Re: getting explorer to use gateway

2001-02-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, linda hanigan wrote: Hi, I need help figuring this out. I have 2 windows machines and 1 linux machine connected on eth0 I then use a ppp and a modem to connect to the internet on my linux box. 1 windows box is working great the other one explorer will not load web

RH7: eth0: card reports no resources?

2001-02-02 Thread David Winters
Every so often, while logged in as root, my newly-installed RH 7 test machine displays the message "eth0: card reports no resources". But none of the network-involved stuff has been acting strangely. The corresponding lines in /var/log/messages read Feb 2 17:10:02 ZIPPY kernel: eth0:

Re: Upper case user names

2001-02-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, James wrote: OK, so "James" is an illegal username. I can live with that - but now I have a question for the occaisional RedHat staffer that I see on this list. Why didn't RedHat complain when I created the user? I created this particular user during the install, and

Worried about a break-in (again).

2001-02-02 Thread Tanner, Robby
Well, I just found the following lines in the log and shut down my server. What caused this? Why would 204.112.40.3 being trying to connect to itself? Feb 2 14:53:07 weisktsv03 kernel: Packet log: input DENY lo PROTO=6 204.112.40. 3:1026 204.112.40.3:21 L=60 S=0x00 I=13145 F=0x4000 T=64 SYN

Re: getting explorer to use gateway

2001-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
linda hanigan wrote: Hi, I need help figuring this out. I have 2 windows machines and 1 linux machine connected on eth0 I then use a ppp and a modem to connect to the internet on my linux box. 1 windows box is working great the other one explorer will not load web pages through the linux

Re: OT: AWK

2001-02-02 Thread Anthony Capone
Cool...thanks for the help!! Anthony Capone - Original Message - From: "Luke C Gavel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: Re: OT: AWK On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Anthony Capone wrote: If I wanted awk to search through a paragraph and

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