Re: How to make my server to RELAY anywhere for my pc on a differentdomain?

2001-03-28 Thread Jerry Winegarden
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Hector M Banda wrote: > Hi all, > I want to tell my server to RELAY anywhere for user.anydomain.com. > > In essence, I want to let some specific users send e-mail thru my server from different domains. > Well, if you really mean what you have said: to send mail from other s

Videoconference programm

2001-03-28 Thread Alessandro Coppelli
Hi to all. I have RedHat 7.0 and I want to install one videoconference program. I have try with VIC but I have some problem . There are videoconference program like VIC ? Alessandro ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problem with pager and sawfish ( Gnome )

2001-03-28 Thread Alessandro Coppelli
Hi to all. I have this simple problem : when start "startx" I obtain -- Desk guide Alert Gnome desktop guide (pager) you are not running a gnome compliant window manager. Gnome support by the window manager is strongly reco

help-howto un-sucribe

2001-03-28 Thread RaghuNath L
> please unsubscribe me from the list -- Regards RaghuNath L pager:9624395369 WSS-Team,Texas Instruments India. "Unix is user friendly all right, it is just very choosy about its friends in particuler GILL BATES" ___ Redhat-list

Re: Telnet

2001-03-28 Thread harmit
Thanks it has started working.now how can I set the timeout to 5 min restriction so that every user can't use it. Bret Hughes wrote: > harmit wrote: > > > yeah..it has the /etc/xinetd.conf file. > > I have installed it as CUSTOM not the workstation. > > > > I can find telnet is installed

Re: Telnet

2001-03-28 Thread Bret Hughes
harmit wrote: > yeah..it has the /etc/xinetd.conf file. > I have installed it as CUSTOM not the workstation. > > I can find telnet is installed using rpm -q command WHat about telnet-server? seems like that is the server part Bret ___ Redhat-l

Re: Help Basic Linux router configuration

2001-03-28 Thread harmit
Try to visit www.techrepublic.com/linux You will find lot of info there. "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, researcher p wrote: > > > > > Hi > > I am new Linux user and I want to do a simple network with a linux > > router > > I have 3 Linux boxes (Redhat 7.0) and mi network lo

Re: Telnet

2001-03-28 Thread harmit
yeah..it has the /etc/xinetd.conf file. I have installed it as CUSTOM not the workstation. I can find telnet is installed using rpm -q command researcher p wrote: > Are you sure you have > /etc/xinetd.conf > > Did you install your RedHat as a server or as a workstation? > If it was as a wor

Re: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
This script will be correct if you really want to keep all these directory empty. Sometimes I like to keep a few spec file in there just for examples ... Cheers, Dominic. Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, I got my spec file now ... :) > > > __

Re: Modem advice.

2001-03-28 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:23:20 Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote: >I need to know wich PCI modems work on RHL 6.2. Beacuse I have no more >free ISA slots. I suggest an external modem. You can reset it manually if it hangs, it's easier to move to a different computer, and it works with all operating syste

Modem advice.

2001-03-28 Thread Luis Pablo Gasparotto
Hi all, I need to know wich PCI modems work on RHL 6.2. Beacuse I have no more free ISA slots. Thank you very much in advance. Luis Pablo Gasparotto _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __

Re: computer going to "sleep"

2001-03-28 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Kern, Rhonda wrote: >I have a RH 6.2 box (coincidentally or not, the same one that was >having problems keeping time) that, for lack of a better term, goes >to "sleep" some time during the night. > >This box functions as our primary DNS server during the day, s

Re: gnome

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, bob jones wrote: > Hi gurus, and thanks in advance. > > I upgraded to RHL 6.2 from RHL 5.1. The upgrade decided on the packages > of course, on a machine I will call the 'HQ'. On another machine, I did > an install of RHL 6.2 over an older version (4.2). Call this machine the

Re: Ethernet card problem.

2001-03-28 Thread Hidong Kim
(Sorry, accidentally hit Send earlier.) Are you on a LAN of other Linux machines? If so, are you running NFS? On our Linux LAN of 6.1 and 7.0 machines, if the NFS daemon dies on a machine, any machine which is trying to NFS mount volumes from that machine will hang sometimes. For your 7.0 mac

Re: gnome

2001-03-28 Thread Hidong Kim
> > I don't want to use a "desktop", and I don't want to use gnome. I can't > get gnome off the system with rpm -e because of a multitude of > dependencies and the long list of gnome-related rpm's. That leads to > question #1; > > 1. How does one uninstall a long list of related rpm's such as th

Re: Ethernet card problem.

2001-03-28 Thread Hidong Kim
Are you on a LAN of other Linux machines "SMITH, Jacob" wrote: > > Well I've been using Linux for about a year and a half now without too many > problems, but now I'm getting frustrated and ready to give up. > > If anyone knows any resource(s) I could look into to help determine WHY my > R

Re: System is spamming me; rmmod -as failure

2001-03-28 Thread Al Sparks
--- "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have the correct version of modtools? > > > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list I now know what the problem is.

gnome

2001-03-28 Thread bob jones
Hi gurus, and thanks in advance. I upgraded to RHL 6.2 from RHL 5.1. The upgrade decided on the packages of course, on a machine I will call the 'HQ'. On another machine, I did an install of RHL 6.2 over an older version (4.2). Call this machine the 'Dell'. Both the upgrade and the install put "

Ethernet card problem.

2001-03-28 Thread SMITH, Jacob
Well I've been using Linux for about a year and a half now without too many problems, but now I'm getting frustrated and ready to give up. If anyone knows any resource(s) I could look into to help determine WHY my RH7 system crashes with LAN usage, and my RH6 system did not, I would appreciate y

Re: HSP56 micromodem

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, ARIEL PEREZ wrote: > Dear Friends > > I need to know if this modem are supported by > linux red hat 7.0 2.2.16 ... > > thanks for all... > HSP==WinModem. It *may* still be supported though. OTOH, do you REALLY want a POS modem, even under WIND

Re: How to make my server to RELAY anywhere for my pc on a differentdomain?

2001-03-28 Thread Charles Galpin
I think you want pop before smtp http://people.oven.com/bet/pop-before-smtp/ hth charles On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Hector M Banda wrote: > Hi all, > I want to tell my server to RELAY anywhere for user.anydomain.com. > > In essence, I want to let some specific users send e-mail thru my server from

Re: Problems with LPR daemon

2001-03-28 Thread Hidong Kim
Is lpd running? Issue this command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd status. Also, check the permissions on the lp* executables. In my /usr/bin, I have: -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 15816 Jan 6 2000 lpq -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 15608 Jan 6 2000 lpr -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp

Re: Syslog server not resolving host names of logged machines

2001-03-28 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:00:44 Roy wrote: >At 07:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote: >>The simplest thing to do is ad the remote devices to the server's hosts >>file. > >That kind of defeats the purpose of DNS . Thanks for the thought though. In general, yes, but in this case it just reduces the time n

Re: Help Basic Linux router configuration

2001-03-28 Thread Bret Hughes
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, researcher p wrote: > > > > > Hi > > I am new Linux user and I want to do a simple network with a linux > > router > > I have 3 Linux boxes (Redhat 7.0) and mi network looks like this: > > > > |---| |---| |-

Re: Mail Isssue

2001-03-28 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:07:15 harmit wrote: >This is the return message I receive. >Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4) I checked the DNS to see if there is a problem: [agreene@cp5340 agreene]$ host -t mx opentechindia.com opentechindia.com mail is handled (pri=20) by

Problems with LPR daemon

2001-03-28 Thread Hector M Banda
Hi all, when I try to print from my linux, I get the following message: lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued but cannot start daemon. any ideas? Thx. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/

RE: Is it possible to get a video camera (INTEL) to work with LI

2001-03-28 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 28-Mar-01 Hector Banda wrote: > Hi all, > I have a video camera (USB) that I'd like to get it to work with RH 6.2. > Is any driver to get USB and this camera to work? > I already checked intel's site and there is not driver for LINUX. did you check out the USB supported devices page ?

Re: HSP56 micromodem

2001-03-28 Thread Larry Grover
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 03:47, ARIEL PEREZ wrote: > Dear Friends > > I need to know if this modem are supported > by linux red hat 7.0 2.2.16 ... > > thanks for all... I can't answer your question, but you should be able to find some helpful information here: h

computer going to "sleep"

2001-03-28 Thread Kern, Rhonda
Title: computer going to "sleep" I have a RH 6.2 box (coincidentally or not, the same one that was having problems keeping time) that, for lack of a better term, goes to "sleep" some time during the night. This box functions as our primary DNS server during the day, so it's kept busy with que

Re: Lynx not able to run ? (help)

2001-03-28 Thread Bret Hughes
Tally Jones wrote: > i can run lynx ok as root (su) > > but i cannot run lynx as another user. > > error: Lynx: can't open temporary file > I don't know where lynx tries to put temp files but either something is full or the user does not have perms on it. I would look at df -h and see if someth

RE: computer not keeping time

2001-03-28 Thread Kern, Rhonda
Title: RE: computer not keeping time Martin, Thanks for the suggestions -- yes, it *is* a Linux-only box. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: computer not keeping time On

Re: webmin

2001-03-28 Thread Bret Hughes
doug piper wrote: > I check out all of the stuff Jerry Winegarden wrote and came up with the > following: > > Starting Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin > [doug@localhost doug]$ ps aFailed to bind port 1 : Address already > in > use at /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl line 247. > [doug@loca

RE: Postfix

2001-03-28 Thread Chad W. Skinner
Thanks Chuck and mike for the answers, I appreciate it greatly. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Mead > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:26 PM > To: Redhat-List > Subject: Re: Postfix > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chad W. Skinner bl

Re: Help Basic Linux router configuration

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, researcher p wrote: > > Hi > I am new Linux user and I want to do a simple network with a linux > router > I have 3 Linux boxes (Redhat 7.0) and mi network looks like this: > > |---| |---| |---| > | | | |

Is it possible to get a video camera (INTEL) to work with LINUX?

2001-03-28 Thread Hector Banda
Hi all, I have a video camera (USB) that I'd like to get it to work with RH 6.2. Is any driver to get USB and this camera to work? I already checked intel's site and there is not driver for LINUX. Thanks, == Hector M Banda

Help Basic Linux router configuration

2001-03-28 Thread researcher p
Hi I am new Linux user and I want to do a simple network with a linux router I have 3 Linux boxes (Redhat 7.0) and mi network looks like this: |---| |---| |---| | | | | | | | a |---| b|

HSP56 micromodem

2001-03-28 Thread ARIEL PEREZ
Dear Friends I need to know if this modem are supported by linux red hat 7.0 2.2.16 ... thanks for all... ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Lexmark printer setup

2001-03-28 Thread Rob Visser
funny. I configured a Lexmark today as it is a standard HP laserjet 5 network printer. Prints fine. I used control-panel to configure the print queue and selected the Laserjet driver. Besides, I do not see why ncursers is needed. Regards, RobV - Original Message - From: "Drew Hunt" <[EM

Re: Installing FrameBuffer

2001-03-28 Thread Matt Wilson
use "vga=789" (0x315 in decimal) Matt On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:35:47AM -0600, Carlos Proal wrote: > > Hi all, anyone can help with this ?? > > im trying to install framebuffer support because i saw that Wolverine > installation based on fb works fine with my laptop so i think must insta

Re: Lexmark printer setup

2001-03-28 Thread J. Scott Kasten
You really don't need drivers. Try setting it up as a generic postscript or PCL printer. In fact, usually you don't even need to use a print filter with lpd for most Lexmark printers as they auto sniff the incomming print job and treat it as PCL, PS, or ASCII appropriately. On Sun, 25 Mar 2001

Redhat 7.O et XDMCP

2001-03-28 Thread Michel Erard
Bonjour à la liste ! Je n'arrive pas à faire fonctionner le protocole XDMCP à partir de terminaux X NCD Xplora sur un serveur Dell PowerEdge Linux Redhat 7.0. Ces terminaux fonctionnent correctement sur d'autres systèmes Unix, ils se bootent et chargent leur fichiers de configura

Installing FrameBuffer

2001-03-28 Thread Carlos Proal
Hi all, anyone can help with this ?? im trying to install framebuffer support because i saw that Wolverine installation based on fb works fine with my laptop so i think must install it to get X working; i have a sis630 video card, and my monitor only works to 800x600. I have followed a

Re: Attack of CRS...

2001-03-28 Thread Mike Watson
Thanks! That was it! I looked, and I looked... :-) Mike W "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mike Watson wrote: > > > OK. I admit it. I can't remember how to change the log-in banner for telnet > > and the standard, non-X login. Can someone point me to it? > > > > Thanks,

Re: Attack of CRS...

2001-03-28 Thread Hector M Banda
What about the one for FTP? 03/28/2001 14:00:28, Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK. I admit it. I can't remember how to change the log-in banner for telnet >> and the standard, non-X login. Can someone point me to it? > >/etc/issue, /etc/issue.net and /etc/motd. > > > >

Re: Attack of CRS...

2001-03-28 Thread Dave Wreski
> OK. I admit it. I can't remember how to change the log-in banner for telnet > and the standard, non-X login. Can someone point me to it? /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net and /etc/motd. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redh

program for harddrive test

2001-03-28 Thread Steve Lee
Does anyone know of a good program to test a harddrive for writes and reads. Test for large files to small files. Thanks. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Attack of CRS...

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mike Watson wrote: > OK. I admit it. I can't remember how to change the log-in banner for telnet > and the standard, non-X login. Can someone point me to it? > > Thanks, > > Mike W > For a temperary change, that lasts untill the next reboot, edit /etc/issue, and /etc/issue.n

Re: Attack of CRS...

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mike Watson blurted out: MW>OK. I admit it. I can't remember how to change the log-in banner for telnet MW>and the standard, non-X login. Can someone point me to it? Edit these files: /etc/issue /etc/issue.net and to change it permanently edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local. -- Chu

Re: webmin

2001-03-28 Thread doug piper
I looked at the Perl script and the process dies at the following lines: # Open main socket $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); socket(MAIN, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "Failed to open main socket : $!"; setsockopt(MAIN, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, pack("l", 1)); $baddr = $config{"bind

Re: Re: webmin

2001-03-28 Thread Kirk
Webmin is already running (miniserv.pl) did you try connecting to it like; http://your.ip.add.ress:1/ instead of localhost? Im kind of coming in late here. here's a look at my ps on the machine im trying webmin out on: 03:21pm kirk@nasty kirk >>$ ps -ax | grep webmin 950 ?S 0

Attack of CRS...

2001-03-28 Thread Mike Watson
OK. I admit it. I can't remember how to change the log-in banner for telnet and the standard, non-X login. Can someone point me to it? Thanks, Mike W ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-

Re: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Bret Hughes
Richard Potter wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > I'd like to extract a spec file from a existing SRC.RPM I have here ... > > didn't manage it until now ... that's what I did: > > > > -- > > $ rpm -q --specfile wget

How to make my server to RELAY anywhere for my pc on a different domain?

2001-03-28 Thread Hector M Banda
Hi all, I want to tell my server to RELAY anywhere for user.anydomain.com. In essence, I want to let some specific users send e-mail thru my server from different domains. Thanks, ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.re

lynx help

2001-03-28 Thread Tally Jones
i am only able to run lynx as root. how do i run lynx as an ordinary user. error when running lynx as user other than root : Can't write to temporary file. The directory has write permissions. BTW which temp file is it referring to ? thanks (i am resending this again as my earlier post did not g

Re: webmin

2001-03-28 Thread doug piper
I check out all of the stuff Jerry Winegarden wrote and came up with the following: Starting Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin [doug@localhost doug]$ ps aFailed to bind port 1 : Address already in use at /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl line 247. [doug@localhost doug]$ ps ax | grep webmin

RE: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chris Worth
Then a better verification system to be created. well perhaps created is not the right word. but simply make it more convenient? would that help? On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:24:40 -0500, Paul Anderson wrote: >I am been around Unix in its variants for over 15 years and have even ported >it to diffe

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chuck Mead wrote: JW> JW>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: JW>> JW>> JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: JW>> JW> JW>> JW>> http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html JW>

RE: computer not keeping time

2001-03-28 Thread mjbjr
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > > > David, > > > > I am in the central time zone and there's roughly 6 hrs difference between what >time my RH box thinks it is and *I* think it is... I think that 6 is my GMT >differential. > > > > When you say,

Re: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Richard Potter
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I'd like to extract a spec file from a existing SRC.RPM I have here ... > didn't manage it until now ... that's what I did: > > -- > $ rpm -q --specfile wget-1.5.3-6.src.rpm > line 1: Unknown t

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Jerry Winegarden
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chuck Mead wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: > > JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: > JW> > JW>> http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html > > JW>I don't know clowns to the left of me, bozos to the right... :

Re: How to get Digital Camera (USB) to work in LINUX

2001-03-28 Thread Kirk
First you need to find out if your camera is supported. Check out www.linux-usb.org You also may need to be running one of the latest kernels 2.4.x After all that, there is a great little piece of software called camE you can find it on freshmeat.net , it will capture, ftp and archive pictures f

Re: How to get Digital Camera (USB) to work in LINUX

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Hector M Banda blurted out: HMB>Hi all, I have an intel video camera that is connected to my RH HMB>server using USB port. I'd like to capture snapshots from my HMB>server and put them into a web page. Is this possible? HMB> HMB>I already checked intel's site and they have no

Re: boot disk

2001-03-28 Thread Thornton Prime
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Human wrote: > I have just reinstalled RH 7.0 but this time it wouldn't creat a boot > disk. The old boot disk doesn't work. RH is on /dev/hda4, how can I > start RH to make a boot disk? Boot to the CD, or install floppy. At the prompt type linux root=/dev/hda4. It sh

How to get Digital Camera (USB) to work in LINUX

2001-03-28 Thread Hector M Banda
Hi all, I have an intel video camera that is connected to my RH server using USB port. I'd like to capture snapshots from my server and put them into a web page. Is this possible? I already checked intel's site and they have not drivers for LINUX. Any ideas? Thanks, ===

boot disk

2001-03-28 Thread Jerry Human
I have just reinstalled RH 7.0 but this time it wouldn't creat a boot disk. The old boot disk doesn't work. RH is on /dev/hda4, how can I start RH to make a boot disk? Thanks. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/

RE: computer not keeping time

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > David, > > I am in the central time zone and there's roughly 6 hrs difference between what time >my RH box thinks it is and *I* think it is... I think that 6 is my GMT differential. > > When you say, "setup" -- are you talking about booting from the cd and g

RE: computer not keeping time

2001-03-28 Thread Kern, Rhonda
Title: RE: computer not keeping time David, I am in the central time zone and there's roughly 6 hrs difference between what time my RH box thinks it is and *I* think it is... I think that 6 is my GMT differential. When you say, "setup" -- are you talking about booting from the cd and going

Lynx not able to run ? (help)

2001-03-28 Thread Tally Jones
i can run lynx ok as root (su) but i cannot run lynx as another user. error: Lynx: can't open temporary file what's causing the problem. I need to run lynx as normal user. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://

YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound error using RH 6.2

2001-03-28 Thread Jerry Garrison
I get this error message when I log onto the machine. Someone suggested that I check to make sure my settings are correct by running authconfig. The authconfig GUI looks, in part, like this: NIS Domain: (the correct server name is here) NIS Server: [ ] Request via broadcast

Re: lilo.conf question (solved)

2001-03-28 Thread Mike Lewis
Thanks Mikkel, Remo, and Jacob. That clears up my questions. Yes, Mikkel, I am booting from ide devices and I have SCSI devices (tape backup) in that machine as well. Mkinitrd has a very nice switch (--ifneeded). I did the mkinitrd using this switch and it made a new initrd image. So I must

Re: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Bret Hughes
Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to extract a spec file from a existing SRC.RPM I have here ... > > didn't manage it until now ... that's what I did: > > try this rpm2cpio path-to-src.rpm | cpio -div '*.spec' this should extract the spec

Re: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer on Wed, 28 Mar 2001, 22:01 <+0200>: > Thanks, I got my spec file now ... :) > > And this little note: > Harry Putnam posted here last December (thread: 'Regaining disk space') a > fine little script that I just used to clean up the directory where I just

"*" and "!!" in /etc/shadow

2001-03-28 Thread Werner Puschitz
Can someone tell me why a difference is made for the users xfs, named, etc. to use "!!" and not "*" in the password field of the /etc/shadow file? Thanks Werner ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Re: Trying to get USB camera to work with RH 6.2.

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Hector M Banda wrote: > Hi all, > I have a video camera (USB) that I'd like to get it to work with RH 6.2. > Is any driver to get USB and this camera to work? > I already checked intel's site and there is not driver for LINUX. > > > Thanks, > > > =

Re: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Thanks, I got my spec file now ... :) And this little note: Harry Putnam posted here last December (thread: 'Regaining disk space') a fine little script that I just used to clean up the directory where I just installed the wget.SRC.RPM: _ #!/bi

Re: Trying to get USB camera to work with RH 6.2.

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Hector M Banda blurted out: HMB>Hi all, HMB>I have a video camera (USB) that I'd like to get it to work with RH 6.2. HMB>Is any driver to get USB and this camera to work? HMB>I already checked intel's site and there is not driver for LINUX. There is USB support in the newer

Trying to get USB camera to work with RH 6.2.

2001-03-28 Thread Hector M Banda
Hi all, I have a video camera (USB) that I'd like to get it to work with RH 6.2. Is any driver to get USB and this camera to work? I already checked intel's site and there is not driver for LINUX. Thanks, == Hector M Banda | Irvine Ca 92614 =

Re: Becoming my own CA Root

2001-03-28 Thread Michael Ghens
Go to http://www.freshmeat.net and search for openca On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Pieter De Wit wrote: > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 06:39:05 +0200 > From: Pieter De Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Becoming my own CA Root > >

Re: can't send mail

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Wei Jiang wrote: > I am quite sure the problem is not related to disk quota or user quota. It > works after i change the permission on /var/spool/mqueue to 777, however, > this is a big security hole. I am desperate for a solution!!! > > Alan > What user/group is sendmail ru

RE: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Paul Anderson
I am been around Unix in its variants for over 15 years and have even ported it to different platforms (anyone remember the Wang VM IN/ix port?). The story does have that 'I do not know what I am writing about' journalistic touch, but it also may be a wake up. We are not impervious, and in my be

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: JW> JW>> http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html JW>> JW>> This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that JW>> affects Linux. This form is nondestr

Re: NCFTPD (solved)

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > It is, unless you've used ftp servers forever. It's mostly a historic > thing. > This is why it's deprecated in the current version. You should use > deny-uid and deny-gid (in wu-ftpd's ftpaccess file) instead. > Ahh... Ok. Well, this is just a personal machin

Re: can't send mail

2001-03-28 Thread Wei Jiang
I am quite sure the problem is not related to disk quota or user quota. It works after i change the permission on /var/spool/mqueue to 777, however, this is a big security hole. I am desperate for a solution!!! Alan On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Wei Ji

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Michael R. Jinks
Chuck Mead wrote: > Pure BS unless you're silly enough to read mail and execute unknown > binaries which have arrived in the mail as root (which presumes the > thing even arrives by mail)! ~sigh this is a case of journalistic > sensationalism crying wolf when there ain't nuttin there but a >

Re: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to extract a spec file from a existing SRC.RPM I have here ... > didn't manage it until now ... that's what I did: > > -- > $ rpm -q --specfile wget-1.5.3-6.src.rpm > line 1: Unk

RE: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread ABrady
On 28-Mar-01 Wolfgang Pfeiffer opined: > I'd like to extract a spec file from a existing SRC.RPM I have here ... > didn't manage it until now ... that's what I did: > > -- > $ rpm -q --specfile wget-1.5.3-6.src.rpm > line 1: Unknown tag: í«

Re: RPM-4.0.2-6x and --target

2001-03-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Thanks for your reply. ABrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You need and "=" in there, as in > > target=i686 > Yes I just found out. However the documentation ( man pages ) has got it wrong as I just posted since it does not mention the need of the "=" which was not required befo

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Jerry Winegarden
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: > http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html > > This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that > affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only takes a script > kiddie to change all of that. Th

Re: NCFTPD (solved)

2001-03-28 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > Ok. I have to thank Bero for pointing out what I shoulda cought myself. :-) It > turns out to be a problem of mis-reading the docs. If you DON'T want someone to > be able to log in via FTP put 'em in the "ftpusers" file. :-) This seems > COMPLETELY count

Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
I'd like to extract a spec file from a existing SRC.RPM I have here ... didn't manage it until now ... that's what I did: -- $ rpm -q --specfile wget-1.5.3-6.src.rpm line 1: Unknown tag: í«îÛb query of specfile wget-1.5.3-6.src.rpm failed, c

Kerberos disable?

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
How does one disable programs from trying to authenticate using Kerberos? Just about everything on my system tries to authenticate using kerberos and I don't use it... kinda aggravating, if ya ask me. :-) Probably my fault for enabling something somewhere... :-) John ___

Re: NCFTPD (solved)

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > You mean like /bin/bash or /bin/false? ;-) Yeppers. Per the docs, I > > > double-checked that when I was installing. Like I said... I *did* RTFM while > > > installing, but not

Re: NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > > > You mean like /bin/bash or /bin/false? ;-) Yeppers. Per the docs, I > > double-checked that when I was installing. Like I said... I *did* RTFM while > > installing, but nothing there seems to apply. This *seems* to b

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: > http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html > > This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that > affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only takes a script > kiddie to change all of that. Th

Re: NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > At least on wu-ftpd, ftpusers lists users who may *not* ftp to the > system... > If you've added everyone to ftpusers, that's why they can't login. > Ahh... Ok. The docs seemed to indicate the opposite. John _

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson blurted out: PA>http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html PA> PA>This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that PA>affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only takes a script PA>kiddie to change all

An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Paul Anderson
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only takes a script kiddie to change all of that. This is the first I am hearing of it. Does anyone her

RE: RPM-4.0.2-6x and --target

2001-03-28 Thread ABrady
On 28-Mar-01 Dominic Mitchell opined: > > I use to rebuild rpms this way > > rpm --rebuild --target i686 foo.src.rpm > > Now, it does not work. It seems to think that i686 is a file : > > $ rpm --rebuild --target i686 gnapster-1.4.2-1.src.rpm > error: cannot open i686: Aucun fichier ou réper

Re: RPM-4.0.2-6x and --target

2001-03-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
OK, got it. The calling of target has changed but it is not documented in man pages. Well it is documented, but the old way: Extract of the man pages --target When building the package, interpretas arch- vendor-os and set the macros _target, _tar

Re: lilo.conf question

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Remo Mattei wrote: > Well here it is: > if you systems is a scsi machine you need to have initrd to boot > otherwise you will not be able to. Of course you do not need that with > the ide drive that's why is not there. Every time you rebuild your > kernel, usually upgrading o

  1   2   >