Re: Redhat to release updated iso with 2.2.17?

2001-03-03 Thread Chuck Mead
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Xos Vzquez spewed into the bitstream: XVTrond Eivind Glomsrd wrote: XV XV Christopher Abbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XV XV Today, Trond Eivind Glomsrd wrote: XV Because the reason for not shipping 2.2.18 when we did the errata was XV its failing of XV XV yuck, failing

A question of ARP

2001-03-03 Thread John Summerfield
Recognising the audiences are not the same, I'm posting this to two lists - Guinness because RHL 7 is involved (and the system not working), and devel because it's also a development matter and I suspect there's not a lot of people who understand this anyway. Certainly the HOWTOs and

Re: Redhat to release updated iso with 2.2.17?

2001-03-03 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Xos Vzquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trond Eivind Glomsrd wrote: Christopher Abbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today, Trond Eivind Glomsrd wrote: Because the reason for not shipping 2.2.18 when we did the errata was its failing of yuck, failing how? VM layer. It

Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread harmit
Hi I am not able to telnet linux6.2 box . I have uncommented the ftp telnet in the inetd.conf file under etc but no luck Any suggestions 'be appreciated TIA ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/profile

2001-03-03 Thread rpjday
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Chandra K Nathani wrote: Does /etc/profile get executed in RH 7.0 at startup? I think it is not getting executed.. does anyone have the same problem? What is the right place to set all system wide environment variables.. which can be available to all the users? that's

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Vineeta
What does your log say? Also,when you say "telnet hostname" what happens? Cheers, Vineeta harmit wrote: Hi I am not able to telnet linux6.2 box . I have uncommented the ftp telnet in the inetd.conf file under etc but no luck Any suggestions 'be appreciated TIA

RE: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Hi: Did you do all killall -HUP inetd after making the changes to inetd.conf? Eddie Strohmier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of harmit Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 3:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Telnet Problem Hi I am not able

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread harmit
The messsage I got is "connection to host lost"Is there anyway to increase the time for connection to get established ? Vineeta wrote: What does your log say? Also,when you say "telnet hostname" what happens? Cheers, Vineeta harmit wrote: Hi I am not able to telnet linux6.2 box .

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Vineeta
Can you ping to the remote host? If yes,then,can you telnet to it from any other m/c besides yours? For increasing timeout,refer to the earlier archives.Just a few days back,someone had mentioned about increasing time-outs.You'll need to check it out. Cheers, Vineeta harmit wrote: The

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread harmit
yes i can ping. i have tried out all the possible ways . Vineeta wrote: Can you ping to the remote host? If yes,then,can you telnet to it from any other m/c besides yours? For increasing timeout,refer to the earlier archives.Just a few days back,someone had mentioned about increasing

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Vineeta
Fiirst clarify the foll. things: Are you trying to telnet from your linux box to another linux box? If yes,then,have you verified that the telnet service is running on the remote host? Vineeta ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread harmit
I am unable to telnet from Windows linux boxes. Can you let me know how to check give me the command . What else needs to be checked ? It is a freshly installed OS Vineeta wrote: Fiirst clarify the foll. things: Are you trying to telnet from your linux box to another linux box? If

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Vineeta
There are a couple of things you could check. I don't know whether you have your own nameserver and if you are trying to telnet by hostname and not ip address.Secondly,just because it's pinging to the remote host doesn't mean that the service you are trying to access on the remote m/c is

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread harmit
I am using IP to ping . What services ,need to be checked .Could you help me by giving the comands for that? Vineeta wrote: There are a couple of things you could check. I don't know whether you have your own nameserver and if you are trying to telnet by hostname and not ip

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Vineeta
I suppose you could take a basic tutorial on "troubleshooting your network". There is no command as such which will tell you why telnet is not happening. You can go through some of the FAQ's,HOW-TO's at: http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/ For HOW-TO's:

RE: lilo

2001-03-03 Thread mjs
how do I fix this problem?...if you don't mind lending a hand -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ashley M. Kirchner Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lilo mjs wrote: default=linux

Re: lilo

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Reed
You probably have documentation in /usr/doc/lilo-0.21 (or whatever version of lilo you have). Change the default=linux to: default=mykern or any other valid label. Dave From: "mjs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] how do I fix this problem?...if you don't mind lending a hand -Original

Vicious circle bites me again

2001-03-03 Thread Jerry Human
Hello People: I'm trying to update u2date in RH 6.2 and can't. I downloaded the four files from Red Hat's errata page for 6.2 and put them in the suggested dir. Using the file manager in Gnome I check info on each and the window includes a upgrade button or an install button. Clicking these

Re: Vicious circle bites me again

2001-03-03 Thread Mike Burger
change to the directory where you have the files saved, and then run: rpm -Uvh * If you have to, you can also use the --nodeps option. On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Jerry Human wrote: Hello People: I'm trying to update u2date in RH 6.2 and can't. I downloaded the four files from Red Hat's errata

eth0 not starting

2001-03-03 Thread mjs
i just compiled the new kernel from 2.2.17,.the problem is,..eth0 doesn't work,...on bootup it states incorrect modules parameters and I/O irq not configured properly, its strange how it works when booting into kernel 2.2.17 and not 2.4.2, also, checking my logs,..here's what it says

Re: Unable to set true-type fonts

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:25:26AM -0500, Anthony E . Greene wrote: On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:33:32 Everet Chenevert wrote: Using the HOW-TO on linuxdocs, I am attempting to add true type fonts to my Redhat 7 dist. I am a newbie, so please be patient. Most of the information you will find

Re: Vicious circle bites me again

2001-03-03 Thread Jerry Human
Thanks Mike. I exec the command in a consol as you suggested. Mike Burger wrote: change to the directory where you have the files saved, and then run: rpm -Uvh * Still wouldn't work because of dependences. If you have to, you can also use the --nodeps option. Had to use this option and

Re: sound modules not found

2001-03-03 Thread Larry Grover
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 01:56:31 -0500, Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have configured my sound card with sndconfig and it works correctly. However I have these entries in /var/log/messages that appears once in a while. I am running kernel-2.2.17-14 on RH6.2 up to date.\ Mar 2

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Monte Milanuk
Something else to check is your /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. If your /etc/inetd.conf has the proper entries in it, which IIRC it does by default, and you are sure that you did install the telnet-server rpm, then the next place I'd check is the hosts.allow and hosts.deny file.

Re: lilo

2001-03-03 Thread Bret Hughes
mjs wrote: how do I fix this problem?...if you don't mind lending a hand The other posts should get you going but I thought I would mention this: tip run lilo with the -v option it tells you alot more bout what is going on. /tip Bret ___

Moving hda to hdb

2001-03-03 Thread Jerry Human
My current RH drive is hda and I want to install another drive as hda and move the RH drive to hdb. After the move, how can I start RH to run lilo to set the new boot map? Thanks. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rhn_check errors

2001-03-03 Thread Mike Watson
Yes there has been a change. See... http://www.redhat.com/network mw Drew Hunt wrote: What's the deal with rhn_check? It's been doing this since 02/26 at midnight. Did they change something about the network? Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 2 07:01:20 tenchi rhnsd[13070]: running

Re: Routing Problem

2001-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Kiran Kumar M wrote: Hi, I have a network structure as following. eth1 - 192.168.1.254---Internal Network eth0 - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ---External Network eth2 - yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy ---Management Port I am using ipchains for

Re: Moving hda to hdb

2001-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Jerry Human wrote: My current RH drive is hda and I want to install another drive as hda and move the RH drive to hdb. After the move, how can I start RH to run lilo to set the new boot map? Thanks. Make a boot disk. (mkbootdisk) Write down your root partition. Move

Re: Unable to set true-type fonts

2001-03-03 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:28:22AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:25:26AM -0500, Anthony E . Greene wrote: On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:33:32 Everet Chenevert wrote: Using the HOW-TO on linuxdocs, I am attempting to add true type fonts to my Redhat 7 dist. I am a newbie, so

Re: Foot and Mouth (was Re: Mount problems)

2001-03-03 Thread Chuck Mead
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the...: Neil Hollow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:- Hope we don't give you foot and mouth. NH. *Grumble* I'm not allowed to give blood here in the US because I spent more than six months in England between 1980 and 1996. Seeing as I was

Re: Foot and Mouth (was Re: Mount problems)

2001-03-03 Thread lee
Nobody cares about race here... I'd venture a guess that I only know the race of a handful of people I correspond with... frankly I could care less about it... ditto its irrelevant in the the greater scheme of things :) its takes a village we all contribute to a better world

Re: Telnet Problem

2001-03-03 Thread hanfam
Hi, Did you check both hosts files to make sure you don't have any typos? Check hosts.allow and hosts.deny I messed around for awhile one only to discover I had hosts.deny set to deny all and hosts.allow didn't allow the other machine access. Also are you trying login with telnet as root, the

HELP RPM-4.0

2001-03-03 Thread Pietro
Hello, I have red-hat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12. What is the step for install RPM 4.0 ? The sources code is rpm-4.0.tar.gz. Thanks, by Italy Ciao Pietro ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Two problems

2001-03-03 Thread Jerry Human
The first is in Gnome or Netscape. Everytime I open a window the top left corner is at 10,10 instead of 0,0. This tends to hide both scroll bars and close button and I have to move every one to scroll or close. How can I fix this? The second is in Netscape Mail Address Book. When I start a new

Re: HELP RPM-4.0

2001-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Pietro wrote: Hello, I have red-hat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12. What is the step for install RPM 4.0 ? The sources code is rpm-4.0.tar.gz. Thanks, by Italy Ciao Pietro Upgrade to Red Hat 7.0. It there a reasion you want to run RPM 4.0 on a 6.1 system? Mikkel -- Do

RE: lilo

2001-03-03 Thread mjs
I figured it out... Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Statux Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 2:22 AM To: REDHAT . . Cc: tlug Subject: Re: lilo boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 linear

Re: Moving hda to hdb

2001-03-03 Thread Marco Shaw
My current RH drive is hda and I want to install another drive as hda and move the RH drive to hdb. After the move, how can I start RH to run lilo to set the new boot map? Not really enough info to give you the best or quickest method... It may be safer to start a new install and have hdb as

Re: eth0 not starting

2001-03-03 Thread Marco Shaw
all that aside,..how do i add options to my conf.module file for I/O and irq, I have the settings, I just dont' know what the lines are that I add to my conf.modules file http://members.home.net/djl56/linux_at_home_with_etherez/linux_at_home.modul es.html

Re: /etc/profile

2001-03-03 Thread Chandra K Nathani
Yes.. u r right.. its getting executed. I am setting the PATH variable to some directories like ..say /usr/java/jdk/bin. And when I login... the executables in that directory are not accessible. I see a $ sign attached to the directory name when i see path using echo $PATH. This is the output i

Re: Two problems

2001-03-03 Thread Bret Hughes
Jerry Human wrote: The first is in Gnome or Netscape. Everytime I open a window the top left corner is at 10,10 instead of 0,0. This tends to hide both scroll bars and close button and I have to move every one to scroll or close. How can I fix this? No idea sorry The second is in

Make command

2001-03-03 Thread drdos
When I had Redhat installed they didnt install Make command.Is there a way that I can install it with out have to re-install Redhat. when it was installed they use a ftp site to install it.. Thanks

Re: Foot and Mouth (was Re: Mount problems)

2001-03-03 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 12:30:30 Chuck Mead wrote: Nobody cares about race here... I'd venture a guess that I only know the race of a handful of people I correspond with... frankly I could care less about it... The military taught me that everybody was green anyway! :-) After 19.5 years in the Army,

Re: Foot and Mouth

2001-03-03 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 17:40:04 Anthony E . Greene wrote: [career info snipped] More like foot-in-mouth ;-) That was supposed to be off-list to Chuck. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/ PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D

OT: Are you a Linux sys admin?

2001-03-03 Thread Marco Shaw
One of my dream jobs would be to be a Linux sys admin. I work for a TELCO so set in its ways that Open Source is the Devil in disguise. No matter if IBM announces it will spend $1 billion US in 2001 or whatever, people here want nothing to do with it. I'm curious to hear from people on this

Re: OT: Are you a Linux sys admin?

2001-03-03 Thread Thornton Prime
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Marco Shaw wrote: I'm curious to hear from people on this list that are Linux sys admins. I'm not looking to read your resume, but would love to hear about your work history over the last 2 years or so in about 3-5 lines. For the last 5 years I've been working in

Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread Rilindo Foster
Friends, We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to root). At any rate, here is the problem. The client can't login with the user password that he set; however, he can login via the root

Re: Make command

2001-03-03 Thread Mike Burger
rpmfind.net can be one of your best resources: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=make will find a number of RPMs...just look for the correct distribution/version in the list. On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, drdos wrote: When I had Redhat installed they didnt install Make command.Is

Re: OT: Are you a Linux sys admin?

2001-03-03 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:29:59 Marco Shaw wrote: I'm curious to hear from people on this list that are Linux sys admins. I'm not looking to read your resume, but would love to hear about your work history over the last 2 years or so in about 3-5 lines. I'm not primarily a sysadmin, but I've used

Re: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote: Friends, We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to root). At any rate, here is the problem. [snip] It is as if the root password is

Re: OT: Are you a Linux sys admin? [comments]

2001-03-03 Thread Statux
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:29:59 Marco Shaw wrote: I'm curious to hear from people on this list that are Linux sys admins. I'm not looking to read your resume, but would love to hear about your work history over the last 2 years or so in about 3-5 lines. Anyone who admins a Linux system is a

Re: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote: Friends, We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to root). At any rate, here is the problem. The client can't login with the user password

Re: Vicious circle bites me again

2001-03-03 Thread Michael Burger
Glad to have been of help. On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 09:42:52 -0500, Jerry Human wrote: Thanks Mike. I exec the command in a consol as you suggested. Mike Burger wrote: change to the directory where you have the files saved, and then run: rpm -Uvh * Still wouldn't work because of dependences.

RE: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread Rilindo Foster
John, I hope not. Having said that, I looked at the messages file and I found this wierd part that came up shortly after the server was setup: Feb 26 21:12:52 redhserver PAM_pwdb[656]: (login) session opened for user rilindo by (uid=0) Feb 26 21:13:49 redhserver PAM_pwdb[679]: authentication

Re: OT: Are you a Linux sys admin?

2001-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
1 Its been 2 rough sleddin 3 I haven't gotten a paycheck for admin chores 4 in 4 years now. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

HP USB CD-Writer Plus 8230e problems

2001-03-03 Thread Werner
Hi, Did someone get the HP USB CD-Writer Plus 8230e working? I hope someone can help me on this. I'm using RH7.1Beta and kernel 2.4.0-0.99.11. I'm getting the following errors/warnings; the CD burner is represented through /dev/scd1 (scsibus1)) and it's recognized of type CD-ROM instead of

RE: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread Thornton Prime
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote: Feb 27 22:35:35 redhserver rpc.statd[360]: gethostbyname error for ^X^X^Y^Y^Z^Z^[^[b750 8049710 8052c28687 ... Feb 27 22:38:20 redhserver adduser[3642]: new user: name=sql, uid=0, gid=0, home=/bin, shell=/bin/bash DANGER, DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

RE: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread Rilindo Foster
Thorton, Okay, that confirms the problem. Now how to recover (short of reinstallation)? Had anybody every recovered from such an incident? Rilindo Foster -Original Message- From: Thornton Prime [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 7:30 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: HP USB CD-Writer Plus 8230e problems

2001-03-03 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did someone get the HP USB CD-Writer Plus 8230e working? Look in the source, and enable it there, It's not one of the standard config options, so you need to do more than "make menuconfig" or similar. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrd Red Hat, Inc.

RE: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote: John, I hope not. Having said that, I looked at the messages file and I found this wierd part that came up shortly after the server was setup: Hmmlooking at that stuff, looks like someone used an exploit and got in. I'd say reinstall time.

Re: HP USB CD-Writer Plus 8230e problems

2001-03-03 Thread Werner
That's what I did: in arch/i386/defconfig below the line CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG I added # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e is not defined in drivers/usb/Config.in below the line bool ' USB Mass Storage verbose debug' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG I added bool ' HP-8230e Support'

Intel Lan Card FA82595TX

2001-03-03 Thread redhat
Hi all. I run RH7.0 I have got a few lancards giving Intel FA82595TX on the Chip They work well in Windows I would like to know what module i should include in the /etc/modules.conf help is much appreciated Mettavihari ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: How does fork() work?

2001-03-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:23:35PM -0800, Living Dead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have the following code: | | #define BUFFSIZE 32 * 1024 * 1024 | | int main() | { | char *a; | a = (char *)malloc(BUFFSIZE); | if (fork()) { | // Parent |free(a); | } else { | //

RE: Wierd password problem - root linked to user login.

2001-03-03 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 22:39:32 Rilindo Foster wrote: Okay, that confirms the problem. Now how to recover (short of reinstallation)? Had anybody every recovered from such an incident? You cannot depend on what any of your sysadmin tools are telling you. I'm surprised they even left the system log