Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Jerry Human
"Gill, Vern" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Actually, to clarify a little. Most PacBell installs in the last 8 > months or so are DMT only. They use Alcatel DSLAMS. If your line is a > Covad line, the only CAP device was the Flowpoint 2100 ADSL Router. One > of the m

[Jack Bowling ] Re: New up2dates

2001-04-06 Thread Jack Bowling
On 06 Apr 2001 23:01:41 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > Welp, after deciding to move to wolverine and help beta test the new stuff, > I did it. > > All I did after doing a complete install was ftp to rawhide and get teh two > up2date packages and the one python package. Updated those and up2date

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Jerry Human
Hal Burgiss wrote: > Are you reading the DSL-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org? Pretty much every issue you've raised > is discussed in there. If something does not make sense > to you. let me know. Yes, and you're doing a great job maintaining it. It's very easy to read and follow. I've even printed part o

video card replacement

2001-04-06 Thread Avi Aumick
One of my video cards just died on me. I had a 3dfx Voodoo 3000. Since 3dfx is no longer in business I would prefer to not find a Voodoo card to replace it with, even if one could be found. I have been looking at cards with the nvidia Geforce 32M and Geforce2 GTS cards. I am runniing Redhat 6.2 an

Re: /etc/init.d

2001-04-06 Thread Bret Hughes
Alec Smith wrote: > update-rc.d is a Debian script which maintains the symlinks, and as far as > I know RedHat lacks a similar script. Its actually one of the "nice" > touches Debian adds over RedHat, and the reason I run Debian when I have a > choice of distribution. > > Someone ought to port th

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Gill, Vern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, to clarify a little. Most PacBell installs in the last 8 months or so are DMT only. They use Alcatel DSLAMS. If your line is a Covad line, the only CAP device was the Flowpoint 2100 ADSL Router. One of the more prevalent USB ADSL modems bein

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:26:26AM -0400, Jerry Human wrote: > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > I'm sorry, I should have clarified this point. I have an ADSL account with > Ameritech and they recommended the SpeedStream 4060 USB modem, which I > have purchased. Ameritech hasn't really told me what type of

RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid)

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Antony Ng wrote: >Oh, sorry, I should have replied you through this email (since I don't know >your reply come so fast :). >Just want to tell you that it works, really great! Thanks for your help a >lot! Ain't it cool when it works? =) If you haven't already

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Jerry Human
Hal Burgiss wrote: > The question gets down to which type of ADSL. The most common is DMT. > CAP ADSL is another that isused in a few places (pacbell maybe?), but > DMT is much more prevalent. These require completely different modems. > If yours is the Alcatel USB (you never did clarify this AFA

RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid)

2001-04-06 Thread Antony Ng
Hello, Charles. Everything's OK now. I have get it working. I'm now using Linux to go to Internet. You and David really helps a lot. I know I'll have more problems regarding the configuration later, but at least I can do the basic tasks first. Thank you for your help very much! -Original Mess

Re: xntpd appears to have the bug

2001-04-06 Thread Bret Hughes
David Talkington wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I have just heard from one person here at UI who says the published > exploit successfully crashed xntpd 3-5.93e on his Linux workstation. > I am unable to tell from the bugtrac message how this is explioted. I have our xntpserver

RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid)

2001-04-06 Thread Antony Ng
Oh, sorry, I should have replied you through this email (since I don't know your reply come so fast :). Just want to tell you that it works, really great! Thanks for your help a lot! I think I'm gonna have other configuration problems afterwards. Then I'm going to ask you later. Thanks again. --

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:12:26AM -0400, Jerry Human wrote: > > I am new to all of this. I've been reading a lot of HOWTOS but I'm not sure what > to do or what to do first. Any guidance you can offer would be greatly > appreciated. Are you reading the DSL-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org? Pretty much eve

RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid)

2001-04-06 Thread Antony Ng
I'm sorry, no problem now. I have successfully done the job. I'm now using the Internet through Linux! Great! Thanks a lot. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Antony Ng Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE

Re: /etc/init.d

2001-04-06 Thread Alec Smith
update-rc.d is a Debian script which maintains the symlinks, and as far as I know RedHat lacks a similar script. Its actually one of the "nice" touches Debian adds over RedHat, and the reason I run Debian when I have a choice of distribution. Someone ought to port the update-rc.d script to RedHat

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Jerry Human
John Aldrich wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > > I do have a small network that I want to share DSL with all the boxes. So what > do you suggest I do? > > > You DON'T want to do that! Are you saying that I don't want to share the DSL with all my boxes or are you saying I don't want to

Re: /etc/init.d

2001-04-06 Thread Bret Hughes
Ted Gervais wrote: > Thanks for your note. It is appreciated. Lots to learn on these things, > especially when installing a new application. At that point one wonders just > how to get around things. > > Thanks again. > > On Friday 06 April 2001 08:21, you wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ted Gerva

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:10:19PM -0400, Jerry Human wrote: > > > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > > Yes, there are many ethernet bridge/modems around. This is a much > > better way to go. > > Would you be kind enough to name a few that are compatible with > Linux? Any of them are 'compatible' with Li

RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid)

2001-04-06 Thread Antony Ng
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Galpin Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid) I have loaded all the modules you specfied in the previous mail (no using

RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid)

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Antony Ng wrote: >the workstation to set the DNS server pointing to the ISP (the one that >used by Linux server to go to Internet), This should be the DNS server that your ISP tells you to use ... usually more than one. Is that what you told your workstation

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Jerry Human
Hal Burgiss wrote: > Yes, there are many ethernet bridge/modems around. This is a much better way > to go. Would you be kind enough to name a few that are compatible with Linux? Thank you. Jerry ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

RE: Problem starting transparent proxy (squid)

2001-04-06 Thread Antony Ng
I have tried typing the command you stated, in the specified order (except for the "echo 1 > ..." one, since Linux warn me to type this first before typing the forward command), in the terminal. After I restarted squid, I go to the workstation to set the DNS server pointing to the ISP (the one tha

Re: bind, cache name server

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Edward Dekkers wrote: >> You should be able to simply add the rpms for bind-* and >> caching-nameserver, fire up named, and point your clients at it. >> - -d > >I'm a little confused now. > >You don't have to put forwarders in the named.conf file anymore? You

Re: SMTP error

2001-04-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
> 0x800CCC79". How can i fix this problem??? > Quick solution waiting I think it may be a misconfiguration in your /etc/mail files. On my RH5.2 server I had to add allowable ip addresses on my local subnet into ip_allow and the names of the users that may relay mail through the server into name_

Re: bind, cache name server

2001-04-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
> You should be able to simply add the rpms for bind-* and > caching-nameserver, fire up named, and point your clients at it. > - -d I'm a little confused now. You don't have to put forwarders in the named.conf file anymore? -- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. 822

talk session

2001-04-06 Thread Lina Wang
dear all, i try to start a talk session to a user on a remote redhat machine but failed. both machines have talk-server-0.16-4 and talk-0.16-4 package installed. redhat version is 6.2. the talk service is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf and the inet is up and running at boot. any idea is deeply a

Re: Mouse wheel (was: Re: New worm to affect RH_

2001-04-06 Thread Krikofer
COL/John Aldrich wrote: > > >> Hmm Are you using IMWHEEL? Also, you need to define the zaxis or > >> something like that... I could give you more details, but my machine > >> here at work only has a two-button mouse (no mouse wheel) and my > >> machine at home isn't online right now, otherwis

running NFS and Apache behind inetd.conf

2001-04-06 Thread Justin Zygmont
Does anyonw know if NFS can be set this way? I have no way to stop anyone from trying to overflow port 111. Also, I know That apache can be set to this but does anyone know the inetd.conf line it will need? thanks... ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

Re: bind, cache name server

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Steve Lee wrote: >What do i need to setup to setup >just a caching name server ? You should be able to simply add the rpms for bind-* and caching-nameserver, fire up named, and point your clients at it. - -d - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org PGP

bind, cache name server

2001-04-06 Thread Steve Lee
What do i need to setup to setup just a caching name server ? is it just the root server? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: UML tools in Redhat

2001-04-06 Thread Richard Critz
FWIW, I've probably been doing this a lot longer than you have and am quite capable of doing the research. But, I come from a time and mindset that says when you post information about a tool, you put the URL in with it since you already have it. It's polite and considerate. It also seemed like

Re: xntpd appears to have the bug

2001-04-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi David, > I have just heard from one person here at UI who says the published > exploit successfully crashed xntpd 3-5.93e on his Linux workstation. Ok, time for me to shut it down. Guess I will be using ntpdate and a cron job for a while. Well, using it was a bit of overkill

Re: OT: ntpd docs?

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Michael R. Jinks wrote: >I'm trying to set up ntp for my LAN, and while the docs that come with >it are just dandy for telling me how to compile it, the theory of >network time synchronization, blah blah blah, they're just about useless >for actually setting up

Re: "shutdown -r 0" stalls

2001-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Statux wrote: > RAM isn't cleared on a cold boot, is it? All of the contents are > considered to be undefined, etc.. so there shouldn't be any problem with > the values in memory... plus everything works on a cold boot > some BIOS versions are known to not reset stuff properl

Fonts for RH 7...

2001-04-06 Thread KANODIA, ASHOK
Hi Gurus,   I need to print some reports from Oracle Financial running on RH7 and Solaris 7. Can any one of you let me know which fonts are required and from where I can download these fonts.   Thanks in advance. -Ashok[EMAIL PROTECTED]Ph: (718)752-5909 PGP public key available at: http:

OT: ntpd docs?

2001-04-06 Thread Michael R. Jinks
I'm trying to set up ntp for my LAN, and while the docs that come with it are just dandy for telling me how to compile it, the theory of network time synchronization, blah blah blah, they're just about useless for actually setting up the service. Does anybody know of a better resource for a quick

Re: "shutdown -r 0" stalls

2001-04-06 Thread Statux
RAM isn't cleared on a cold boot, is it? All of the contents are considered to be undefined, etc.. so there shouldn't be any problem with the values in memory... plus everything works on a cold boot some BIOS versions are known to not reset stuff properly on a reboot. I'm not an expert in this ar

xntpd appears to have the bug

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have just heard from one person here at UI who says the published exploit successfully crashed xntpd 3-5.93e on his Linux workstation. - -d - -- David Talkington Prairienet [EMAIL PROTECTED] 217-244-1962 PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.

Re: Notes on ntpd exploit

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- David Talkington wrote: >restrict default ignore >restrict time.server.address nomodify I confused my sources. time.server.address is the IP of the server which yours trusts. Therefore, what the above should do is ensure that only the server named in time.ser

Notes on ntpd exploit

2001-04-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good day, all -- Messages to Bugtraq since the published exploit have led me to conclude that it is likely, though not yet proven, that xntpd is vulnerable. The published proof-of-concept code, however, doesn't seem to have succeeded against xntpd for anyone

RE: UML tools in Redhat

2001-04-06 Thread TANNER
I actually wasn't being a smartass (ok, maybe a little). However, I don't see that encouraging you to develop your own research skills warrants such a harsh response. If you didn't find my suggestion helpful, it's because you'd rather be spoonfed than do it yourself, in which case maybe Linux is

Re: POP question

2001-04-06 Thread Tomás García Ferrari
Hello, > ipop3d[24611]: AUTHENTICATE twinkie failure host=ourhost.ourdomain.com > [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] It's a message from some MS clients. A while ago somebody explains on this list why this was happening. I think it's harmless and doesn't affect the functionality. Regards, Tomas Garcia Ferrari

Re: Seconday DNS

2001-04-06 Thread Nathalie Boulos
Hi, I executed: /usr/sbin/named-bootconf /etc/named.boot >> /etc/named.conf then reloaded "named" (killall -HUP named) in the /var/log/messages I got the following: Apr 6 15:49:43 Ret1 named[549]: reloading nameserver Apr 6 15:49:43 Ret1 named[549]: slave zone "mydomain.com" (IN) loaded (seri

Re: UML tools in Redhat

2001-04-06 Thread Richard Critz
Thanks very much, Fernando. -r - Original Message - From: "Fernando Lozano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:37 PM Subject: Re: UML tools in Redhat > Hi Richard, > > > Do you have a URL for ArgoUML? > > > www.argouml.org or argouml.tigris.

Re: procinfo

2001-04-06 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I forgot to mention, this is an RH7 system (with all patches up to date as of this morning). I just tried the same thing (procinfo vs. uptime) on an RH5.2 system that's only been up for 3 days, and the values are correct. The same applies for an RH6.2 system (the values are correct in both

RE: newbie / Samba quidance

2001-04-06 Thread Johnny Smith
Thanks Warren for your reply. I have 'attached' copies of config files and 'results-output' from smbclient for your evaluation. Sorry for the long reply. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me. johnny I used your guidelines to rebuild the smb.conf files on both of the linux boxes

procinfo

2001-04-06 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
When I look at 'procinfo' on my system, I get the following values: user: 11:33:10.03 0.3% page in : 50793689 disk 1: 11403320r11550948w nice: 0:00:37.00 0.0% page out: 23066158 system: 5:34:56.85 0.1% swap in : 18304831 disk 3: 158662r 0w idle: 3d 7:12:4

Re: Seconday DNS

2001-04-06 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:14:12PM +0200, Nathalie Boulos a ecrit: > > I executed: > /usr/sbin/named-bootconf /etc/named.boot >> /etc/named.conf This *appends* the result of the named-bootconf command to /etc/named.conf (ie adds it to /etc/named.conf). Try: /usr/sbin/named-bootconf /etc/named.b

Re: UML tools in Redhat

2001-04-06 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Richard, > Do you have a URL for ArgoUML? www.argouml.org or argouml.tigris.org []s, Fernando Lozano ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: UML tools in Redhat

2001-04-06 Thread Richard Critz
Sure I do. You could either be helpful or keep your mouth shut. I don't generally have time for smart-mouthed jackasses. -r - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: RE: UML tools in Redhat > Do you have a w

POP question

2001-04-06 Thread Szemerédy Gábor
Hello! For some of our users we have the following message preceding their login to the pop3 service: ipop3d[24611]: AUTHENTICATE twinkie failure host=ourhost.ourdomain.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Where could be the problem in the settings of those workstations? Thanks! begin:vcard n:Szemerédy;Gábor

mysterious deaths on RH 7

2001-04-06 Thread Anand Buddhdev
I have been using RH 7 on my Toshiba portege 7020 laptop now for some weeks. I have experienced sudden deaths of some applications. Sometimes, literally out of the blue, an application will just die, with no error message or core file. Nothing is reported by syslog either. This has happened with S

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 4/6/01 11:09 AM -0500, you wrote: >I've been told that, in this circumstance, ssh is not an option. I'd love to hear why... -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Thornton Prime
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Jerry Garrison wrote: > Thanks to all of you for all the suggestions and caveats. I've been told > that, in this circumstance, ssh is not an option. At least now, maybe I can > convince people to just leave it the way it is. Argh. I've heard the "we can't use ssh" mantra

"shutdown -r 0" stalls

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Sisler
Greetings all, Came across an interesting problem when I ran "/sbin/shutdown -r 0" on one of my 6.2 servers. I had just compiled a new custom kernel ( 2.2.17-14 ) and wanted to reboot to put it in place. Shutdown went fine, but it hung after the usual "loading Linux..." Uncompre

Re: Is there a way to list CVS module names?

2001-04-06 Thread Vidiot
>I'm trying to do a CVS checkout from a project that is running anonymous CVS, but i >can't figure out the module name. Is there a way to "list" the modules available for >checkout? >Jonathan Wilson Go into the CVS root tree. The directory names that are there are the various modules. You wil

eth0:transmit timed out

2001-04-06 Thread Raúl Pedro Simões
Hi! Someone can sugest me something about the next message?: eth0: transmit timed out status 0050 at 1229649/1229677 command 000c This is a mail machine with RedHat 6.2 and a Intel p100 network card. Thanks for help Simoes ___ Redhat-lis

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Jerry Garrison
Thanks to all of you for all the suggestions and caveats. I've been told that, in this circumstance, ssh is not an option. At least now, maybe I can convince people to just leave it the way it is. Jerry - Original Message - From: Thornton Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing Linux to a second extended partition

2001-04-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Installing RedHat Linux to a second extended partition. This information applies to RedHat 6.2 and later, but is probably applicable to all RedHat 6 versions. This is a step by step HOWTO. It explains how to use a second extended partition to install Linux to. You achieve this by temporarily

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Thornton Prime
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Thornton Prime wrote: > There is an O'Reilly book on the subject of SSH, and I can't recommend it > highly enough, especially for folks just learning to use SSH: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg/ One of the online chapters has a full description of 'Public Key-Base

Is there a way to list CVS module names?

2001-04-06 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I'm trying to do a CVS checkout from a project that is running anonymous CVS, but i can't figure out the module name. Is there a way to "list" the modules available for checkout? Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Thornton Prime
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 4/6/01 08:19 AM -0700, you wrote: > >Replacing password logins with RSA/DSA key logins makes your system hard > >as nails. > > Directions, pointers, hints, gotchas, suggestions, HOWTO's, documentation...? Your ssh documentation should have full in

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 4/6/01 08:19 AM -0700, you wrote: >Replacing password logins with RSA/DSA key logins makes your system hard >as nails. Directions, pointers, hints, gotchas, suggestions, HOWTO's, documentation...? -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-

[GNOME] Is there a way to configures gnome's looks from Windowmaker?

2001-04-06 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hey y'all, I'm tried of the bland grey gnome default colors used by all my GTK apps, but I'm running WindowMaker not GNOME. What tool can I use to set themes and colors from WindowMaker? Red Hat 6.2 BTW. TIA Jonathan Wilson System Adminis

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Thornton Prime
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Nitebirdz wrote: > > > > Red Hat told me that logging in remotely as root had been turned off in RH > > 6.2 for security reasons. Anyone know where the file is to turn it back on? > > I believe it's the /etc/securetty file. It is also tied to your pam configuration. PAM conf

Re: [alsa-user] Re: ALSA and 2.4 Kernels

2001-04-06 Thread Lee Johnson
"S. Massy" wrote: > Now, I wonder where all the problems come from; a lot of people seem to have > problem with the 2.4 kernels, but I've run both alsa 0.5.10 and 0.9.0 with > 2.4.0 and then alsa 0.9.0 all the way for 2.4..1/2/3. Could this be a driver > specific problem? > heck i dunno whats up

RE: OHH NO! My employer just got Linux!

2001-04-06 Thread Frank Carreiro
Yup. You can even download Oracle for Linux from their OTN link. Make sure you have plenty of time and a good connection. My T1 took me a few hours to download 8.1.6. from their site. 8.1.7 was there also but to download about 500+ megs? Ouch :-) Frank > > You can learn SQL with sever

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Jerry Garrison wrote: > Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:16:01 -0500 > From: Jerry Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: root remote login > > Red Hat told me that logging in remotely as root had been turned off in RH > 6.2

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Vidiot
Jerry posted: >Red Hat told me that logging in remotely as root had been turned off in RH >6.2 for security reasons. Anyone know where the file is to turn it back on? Do yourself a big favor and do not attempt to turn on root login from anywhere other than the console. Otherwise you will creat

Re: /etc/init.d

2001-04-06 Thread Ted Gervais
On Friday 06 April 2001 08:34, you wrote: > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:27:43PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > > > I need to set up a new file that will be run at boot time. I believe it > > > should go in /etc/init.d. From there I see that sym links are made. > > > Do I make

Re: /etc/init.d

2001-04-06 Thread Ted Gervais
Thanks for your note. It is appreciated. Lots to learn on these things, especially when installing a new application. At that point one wonders just how to get around things. Thanks again. On Friday 06 April 2001 08:21, you wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: > > Date: Thu, 5 Ap

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Jerry Garrison
Red Hat told me that logging in remotely as root had been turned off in RH 6.2 for security reasons. Anyone know where the file is to turn it back on? Thanks, Jerry - Original Message - From: harmit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:07 AM Subjec

Re: named process

2001-04-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Nathalie, > ps aux | grep named > I do not get any reply except the line for "grep named". > when I run "ktop" I can see the named process and its PID. > Named is surely running because it is handling "nslookup" queries. In response to other responses: using ps aux is fine

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > Yes, good advice. The only reason to use the Alcatel USB is just that > > you absolutely can't find another option (aka ethernet). > > Are you saying that ADSL modems are available to connect to a hub? That is > what I would have prefered but all I could find a

RE: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 4/5/01 06:51 PM -0400, you wrote: >A good Windows SSH client is PuTTy: > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > >It's free and it supports SSH1, SSH2, Blowfish, and 3DES. If you happen to >be stuck using telnet for some reason, the terminal emulation is better than >the brain-

Re: KDE Installer Is on the Way

2001-04-06 Thread Silviu Cojocaru
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, at 06:20 (GMT -0500), Mike Chambers wrote: > EMAZING Linux Tip of the Day - KDE Installer Is on the WayGot this in a > daily email I get and this turned up this morning. Thought I would forward > the info to see if anyone that hasn't already heard of it might be > interested.

Re: [OT] Microsoft should be feared and despised!

2001-04-06 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Craig Bull wrote: > My understanding is that all Truste certification means is that the > company abides by their posted policy. Not that the policy is good or bad > or really protects your privacy - just that the certified company abides > by the policy posted on the company

Re: USB ADSL modem

2001-04-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:31:36AM -0400, Jerry Human wrote: > > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:06:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I know kernel 2.4.x has better USB support. RH7 ships with 2.2.x so > > you might want to consider a kernel upgrade. > > > > Actuall

Re: is there really an ntpd exploit out there?

2001-04-06 Thread Bret Hughes
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Trond, David, > > > > If so, why haven't we seen any updated packages for this? > > > > Because the vulnerability is brand new. We're working on it. > > I thought ntpd was used as a synonym for xntpd. My mistake. I was just a > little worried,

Re: Mouse wheel (was: Re: New worm to affect RH_

2001-04-06 Thread COL/John Aldrich
>> Hmm Are you using IMWHEEL? Also, you need to define the zaxis or >> something like that... I could give you more details, but my machine >> here at work only has a two-button mouse (no mouse wheel) and my >> machine at home isn't online right now, otherwise, I could SSH in and >> get that i

Re: /etc/init.d

2001-04-06 Thread Bret Hughes
Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:27:43PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > > > > I need to set up a new file that will be run at boot time. I believe it > > should go in /etc/init.d. From there I see that sym links are made. Do I > > make those up too or is there a utiltiy that will ge

Re: /etc/init.d

2001-04-06 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 23:27:43 -0300 > From: Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: /etc/init.d > > > I need to set up a new file that will be run at boot time. I believe it > should go in /etc/init

Re: syslogd errors

2001-04-06 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Vidiot wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 01:20:02 -0500 (CDT) > From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: RedHat main mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: syslogd errors > > I discovered that syslogd wasn't running, so I told it to restart > with t

Re: cross compiling kernels that won't boot

2001-04-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Charles, > > If it is a 7.x system, also make sure you have the > > proper version of glibc installed for the target system. There are > > two versions of glibc for 7.0. One for 686 processors, and one for > > lower processors. > > Ahhh! [light bulb turns on in head] So that

Re: is there really an ntpd exploit out there?

2001-04-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Trond, David, > > If so, why haven't we seen any updated packages for this? > > Because the vulnerability is brand new. We're working on it. I thought ntpd was used as a synonym for xntpd. My mistake. I was just a little worried, since xntpd is one of the few services run

how to find out if server has been compromised?

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Peltonen
First of all: I'm not the sysadmin of this server I'm talking about, I don't want to give the wrong impression of myself :) The server is a RH6.2 box that acts as a nameserver and web server. I found out that named was taking almost all CPU resources: --snip-- PID USER PRI NI SIZE RS

Re: FTP Problems.

2001-04-06 Thread harmit
The most imp point here is check out if ftp package is installed using "rpm -q wu-ftpd" without quotes This may work for you. sephia wrote: > We just had our Red Hat 7 > but we have problem on FTP > > Every time we tried to connect > we got this message : >"-> ftp: connect: Connection refus

Re: root remote login

2001-04-06 Thread harmit
Try to coonect as a normal user then try out "su -l"without quotes supply the passwd for root .hope this 'd help Jon Fan wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed a RH 7.0 linux box. when I tried to rlogin or telnet to it > using root, I got "login incorrect" message. How can I fix it. > > Thanks > Jon

Re: Secondary DNS.

2001-04-06 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:52:32AM +0200, Nathalie Boulos a ecrit: > > 2. I changed my /etc/named.boot so it became the following: Hang on, this should be /etc/named.conf if you're using bind 8+ . I was thinking of bind 4. > 3. I rebooted the server Ugh. `killall -HUP named` or `service named