Re: Break-in? Can linux read Solaris formatted disks?

2001-11-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Paul, You got your answer from Ashley, so just a side note. > It appears that someone got into the Solaris box and messed it all up. I > went to login and it said the root password I was trying to enter was > invalid, so I rebooted and got a bunch of error messages saying m

Re: system down

2001-11-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jim Sheffer wrote: > The linux server crashed and will not reboot. Ststem starts up, then kickes > me .out to a shell (?) says there is a problem and asks for my password, What "problem"? The exact wording will probably get you a quick answer and a solution. You could also

Re: ntp client for Win2000

2001-11-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Matthew Simpson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good ntp client for Windows? Nothing fancy, > just commandline would be great? You may already know this, but Windows includes a command line utility that can set the time from any other Windows machine or from a Samba server

Re: Question on Message log entry + IPTables entry

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 11:36 PM -0600, you wrote: >Now, if I'm reading this correctly and with the help of the Netfilter log >analyzer; I think I am. The log entry is telling me that I received a >packet scanning for some form of the Sub-7 Trojan horse from 65.1.121.18 >with a MAC address of 00:03:6c:48:8

Question on Message log entry + IPTables entry

2001-11-20 Thread Manzabar
I check /var/log/messages regularly and find this: Nov 19 21:32:51 c896765-a kernel: IN=eth0 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:a0:24:ba:75:64:00:03:6c:48:88:8c:08:00 SRC=65.1.121.18 DST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=118 ID=12729 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3184 DPT=27374 WINDOW=8192 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 N

Re: login screen - background

2001-11-20 Thread Ray Curtis
> "jw" == Jeremy West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jw> Where is this file? xsrirc?? The command 'locate' can be your friend. locate xsrirc -- Ray Curtis Curtis Consulting http://www.ccux.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAI

Re: [RH List] Break-in? Can linux read Solaris formatted disks?

2001-11-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Paul Greene wrote: > Can I take this hard disk out, stick it in another system as a second hard > drive, with Redhat on the first hard drive, mount the messed up disk, and > be able to read both the Solaris partitions on the disk (fdisk recognizes > the Solaris partitions as type 82, Linux swap s

Break-in? Can linux read Solaris formatted disks?

2001-11-20 Thread Paul Greene
I have a little test lab at home, mainly for learning security and getting familiar with various flavors of Unix. The way it's setup is - an openbsd box is connected to a cable modem, running NAT but not a firewall or IDS. Inside the network is another box running Solaris/Intel 2.7. It appear

Re: login screen - background

2001-11-20 Thread Jeremy West
Where is this file? xsrirc?? >You can edit xsrirc and change the .png file to something else--such as a pic of >Tux. > >Jason Jesso wrote: > >> Jeremy West ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: RFS (Request for Suggestions)

2001-11-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Thomas Porter wrote: > SInce the outgoing > mail is to many different people, I guess you would need to BCC: a constant > address you would pick up in the procmail recipe. No, wrong end. The email is INcoming to us, from an external site. And I need to parse it. The format is the same ev

Re: RFS (Request for Suggestions)

2001-11-20 Thread Thomas Porter
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:14:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully expounded: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > I'm trying to find a solution where I can take an incoming email and > > have something, an external program, parse the data as it arrives and > > pipe t

Re: RFS (Request for Suggestions)

2001-11-20 Thread cgalpin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > I'm trying to find a solution where I can take an incoming email and > have something, an external program, parse the data as it arrives and > pipe the necessary information through to a database, say MySQL... > Basically we receive orders over

Printing doesn't work anymore!!!!!

2001-11-20 Thread Art Ross
I'm running RH6.2 on a PC and for some reason after working for years, I'm unable to print. I can't recall conducting any changes to my system that may have caused this. In an attempt to fix it, I've deleted the entire configuration and the printer directory and files. Then, I reconfigured the

no conotrolling tty ?

2001-11-20 Thread Gregory Hosler
Occassionally when I log into my server, I get the following message: rlogin camelot Last login: Tue Nov 20 14:52:20 from amnesia >> Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). >> Thus no job control in this shell. resize: can't open terminal /de

Re: Printing with 7.2: Was working, now stopped dead..brain cramp/queue name corrected

2001-11-20 Thread John P. Verel
And now for something REALLY stupid. When I went through printconf, I called my print queue HP1100A ... which will not work with lpr command, queue needing to be named . lp. Sorry, folks. MASSIVE brain cramp. All's well...I promise...really!!! Your turkey of the week, John On 11/

Simple Firewall Configuration Question

2001-11-20 Thread Alejandro Calbazana
Hello, I have a few configuration questions. I would like to set up a linux box as my firewall with a Win2k machine machine on the inside. I have 2 NICs on the Linux machine... One exposed to my service provider and one exposed to my internal network. I have 2 public IPs from my service p

Re: Printing with 7.2: Was working, now stopped dead: FIXED, HP1100A: NOT YET :(((

2001-11-20 Thread John P. Verel
Wel.almost. I can now print from the printconf-gui menu, but not from any user account. Printing attempts are greeted with this message (running as root): [root in directory: spool]# echo hello | lpr Status Information: sending job 'root@CV150607-A+952' to lp@localhost connect

Re: RFS (Request for Suggestions)

2001-11-20 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 18:49, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > I'm trying to find a solution where I can take an incoming email and > have something, an external program, parse the data as it arrives and > pipe the necessary information through to a database, say MySQL... > Basically we receive o

Re: Printing with 7.2: Was working, now stopped dead: FIXED, HP1100A

2001-11-20 Thread John P. Verel
Voila! Thanks, Tammy. Up and running just fine :) I installed the new rpm via up2date. However, in order to get the printer working, I ran through the steps provided to me by Devon on this list a couple of days ago: delete the printer definition via printconf-gui rm -rf /var/spool/lpd/* redef

Re: RFS (Request for Suggestions)

2001-11-20 Thread Anth Courtney
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: A perl script will do this easily. Depending on what mail system you're running (i.e qmail), put a .qmail which pipes the email through the script. Get the script to parse the email line by line, and use the DBI, DBD:Mysql modules to dump it into a d

RFS (Request for Suggestions)

2001-11-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I'm trying to find a solution where I can take an incoming email and have something, an external program, parse the data as it arrives and pipe the necessary information through to a database, say MySQL... Basically we receive orders over the net and every order placed generates an email. Th

Re: login screen - background

2001-11-20 Thread Mike Watson
You can edit xsrirc and change the .png file to something else--such as a pic of Tux. Jason Jesso wrote: > > I am using KDE and in the Control Panel -> Login Manager I select a wallpaper > to display on the login screen. I don't like the redhat logo and the blue > background default. > > My wa

login screen - background

2001-11-20 Thread Jason Jesso
I am using KDE and in the Control Panel -> Login Manager I select a wallpaper to display on the login screen. I don't like the redhat logo and the blue background default. My wallpaper comes up for a second and the redhat logo and blue background come up again. Is is possible to change this?

Re: RPM for vsftpd?

2001-11-20 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 06:41:39PM +, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > >I presume the "fr1" means that it's a french version (how the fsck > >can you make a $LANG version of a server?). > > Alternately, "fr" could be a reference to `F'resh`R'pms, yes? Would you believe I never even stopped to cons

Re: poor performance on 7.2

2001-11-20 Thread Meph Istopheles
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:28, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > I don't think it is an AMD thing, because I had (maybe still has??) that > problem running intel PII. Sorry I'd not got back to you sooner. Anyway, I'm going to try slack &/or Debian on that box tomorrow. I'll let you know the particulars &

Re: ntp client for Win2000

2001-11-20 Thread Bret Hughes
Matthew Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a good ntp client for Windows? Nothing fancy, > just commandline would be great? > > Thx We use Tardis or it's variant K9 Bret ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redh

Re: ntp client for Win2000

2001-11-20 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Matthew Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a good ntp client for Windows? Nothing fancy, > just commandline would be great? You haven't said which version of Windows. 2K server has a built in client, Atomic Timesync from AnalogX.com works well as a GUI one..

Re: System Log Book?

2001-11-20 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, November 19, 2001, 2:37:39 AM, Thomas wrote: > I have a question on my mind: What do ye folks out there use as a system > logbook? I carry my Palm Vx around everywhere. The program Quickword is a pretty decent Palm DOC

ntp client for Win2000

2001-11-20 Thread Matthew Simpson
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good ntp client for Windows? Nothing fancy, just commandline would be great? Thx Matt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 12:24 PM -0800, you wrote: >First up, I_have_done_my_homework. Clearly... >I've probably spent a good 60 hours trying to figure this problem out to >date. I'm beginning to understand the lingo now. Hopefully, with your >help, I can get it right this time. Fear not, solutions g

Setting up fonts for gnome terminal

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen Torri
I can use a variety of fonts within the gnome terminal. Occasionally I run into problem with fonts displaying irradically. For example using the following font does not clear the screen the command "clear" is executed: -abisource-arial-regular-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 You can still s

Re: Run Levels

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 04:26 PM -0800, you wrote: >I'm wondering how closely run levels may affect stablility? I have Red Hat >7.1 running at level 5, but I'm finding x-windows pretty unstable (not as >unstable as Windows though). No effect whatsoever. A "higher" runlevel is not necessarily "farther from

Run Levels

2001-11-20 Thread cameron
I'm wondering how closely run levels may affect stablility? I have Red Hat 7.1 running at level 5, but I'm finding x-windows pretty unstable (not as unstable as Windows though). Cameron ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman

Re: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:05:13PM -0500, James Francis wrote: > > From: Ben Ocean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > > > DEVICE=eth0 > > BOOTPROTO=static > > BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 > > IPADDR=192.168.1.1 > > NETMASK=255.255.225.0 > > NETWORK=192

Re: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
James Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben, > >> CONFIGURING MASQUERADING >> >> vi /etc/rc.d/rc.masq >> >> /sbin/depmod -a >> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp >> /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY >> /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.2/24 -j MASQ >> ## I do have other IPchains installed... > F

Re: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread Dan Egli
Long post. Hopefully a short responce. I'm doing what it sounds like you are trying to do. Here's how I have it setup: (only difference is we use static IP there, but concept is the same) RH 7.1 box uses IPTABLES to connect clients to net. Simplified example below: server name: mail client1: don

Re: gnuplot site

2001-11-20 Thread Hidong Kim
Thanks! Francisco Neira wrote: > > Hello, > > try http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/ > > Good luck, > > Francisco > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/11/01 17:06 >>> > Hi, > > Is http://www.gnuplot.org still around? I haven't been able to reach it > all day. If it's gone, what's the b

Re: gnuplot site

2001-11-20 Thread Francisco Neira
Hello, try http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/ Good luck, Francisco >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/11/01 17:06 >>> Hi, Is http://www.gnuplot.org still around? I haven't been able to reach it all day. If it's gone, what's the best site for gnuplot information? Thanks, Hidong _

gnuplot site

2001-11-20 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Is http://www.gnuplot.org still around? I haven't been able to reach it all day. If it's gone, what's the best site for gnuplot information? Thanks, Hidong ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/li

RE: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread James Francis
Ben, > CONFIGURING MASQUERADING > > vi /etc/rc.d/rc.masq > > /sbin/depmod -a > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.2/24 -j MASQ > ## I do have other IPchains installed... Forgot to mention...make sure you have a rule like the fol

RE: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread James Francis
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Ocean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel > > > Hello yet again; Hello... > > OUTLINING THE PROBLEM > > I am currently able to ping from the Doze bo

Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread Ben Ocean
Hello yet again; First up, I_have_done_my_homework. I've probably spent a good 60 hours trying to figure this problem out to date. I'm beginning to understand the lingo now. Hopefully, with your help, I can get it right this time. Secondly, I have gone through all of the old posts to try and (

Re: compiling modules fail: missing compile.h [SOLVED}

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Peltonen
Problem solved. One must compile the kernel first (make bzimage) before one can compile modules. It would've been handy if I just could have recompiled the modules for the kernel installed from RPM... Regards, Peter On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:49:32PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote: > I've upd

Re: more install problems info

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 12:36 PM -0600, you wrote: >Once I get 6.2 installed, it reads my homemade cd's just fine. It's pretty >much got to be pilot error on my part, I think, either in the way I'm doing >the installation or in the way I'm burning the cd's. I'm making the cd's on >a Windoze box (I've trie

Re: KDE GUI for IPTables?

2001-11-20 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Burger) on Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:29:55 -0500 (EST) > However, firestarter is out...it adds too much extraneous drop routes, right > out of the gate, for no apparent reason. The reason is called redundancy. You can always edit them out if you don'

Re: RPM for vsftpd?

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 07:38 PM +0100, you wrote: >I presume the "fr1" means that it's a french version (how the fsck >can you make a $LANG version of a server?). Alternately, "fr" could be a reference to `F'resh`R'pms, yes? >I've installed several of the RPMS on freshrpms on my home machine Was the doc

Re: modprobe

2001-11-20 Thread Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz)
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, P K wrote: > Hi all > > What is the following message's meaning? > > > > Nov 11 09:22:48 mail modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-464c > > TIA > Can you see an entry for "binfmt-464c" in your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules file? Did you recompile the ke

Re: RPM for vsftpd?

2001-11-20 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:58:38PM +, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > Who runs freshrpms.net? And why do most of their packages have an "fr1" in > the name? Are they different somehow? Can they be trusted? freshrpms.net is run by Matthias Saou, who posts on RH's enigma-list every now and again.

Re: more install problems info

2001-11-20 Thread Kerry Miller
I left something else out, sorry, here are more details... I DID successfully install RH 6.2 from a boot floppy made from rawrite on that cd, and I had a book with 7.0 cd's in it, I also successfully installed from that using the boot floppy. (All on this same machine.) I think the cd is worki

xine with encoded dvds / avi

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Peltonen
I fetched the following packages from enigma.freshrpms.net: avifile libdvdcss libdvdread videolan-client xine I tried playing my Matrix DVD with Xine, but it said that it does not support encoded DVDs. I thought this would be possible with libdvdcss which videolan-client is also using (and it s

Re: More install problems info

2001-11-20 Thread Brig C. McCoy
At 05:44 PM 11/20/01 +, you wrote: >I didn't install from the floppy so I'm not sure, but I think 7.2 uses a >different floppy image than 7.1 so you'll have to recreate your floppy. >Also, I think the normal boot image for 7.2 is a 2.88MB format (rather than >the normal 1.44MB); you want t

problem with scsi tape drive

2001-11-20 Thread Christopher Rowe
This may be the second time I posted so sorry if you see this twice.  I installed a Seagate Python scsi tape drive into a Redhat 7.1 server.  The tape was pulled from an older 6.2 server.  The system sees the tape drive and is shown in the /proc/scsi/0 file.  Although it never went through

Re: Printing with 7.2: Was working, now stopped dead

2001-11-20 Thread Tammy Fox
It's available now. http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-155.html Tammy On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:27:56PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote: > Devon, > > Got a reply from Tammy Fox of Red Hat on the enigma list, saying that > this is a bug in foomatic. She said a fix will be out shortly.

Re: More install problems info

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 11:40 AM -0600, you wrote: >I forgot to mention - the machine I'm using is an older Pentium Pro 200 and >won't boot from the cd. I didn't install from the floppy so I'm not sure, but I think 7.2 uses a different floppy image than 7.1 so you'll have to recreate your floppy. Also, I

Re: modprobe

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/21/2001 12:41 AM -0800, you wrote: >Nov 11 09:22:48 mail modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-464c PK, I've just gotten three copies of your email message. Even after the third one, I *still* don't know how to help you; otherwise I would. Mailing lists take a few minutes (somet

Re: Redhat installation boot cd questions

2001-11-20 Thread Brig C. McCoy
At 11:38 AM 11/20/01 -0600, Kerry Miller wrote: >I burned a cd from the ISO files for 7.1 and made a boot disk using rawrite. >When I try to install, it says it can't find a Red Hat cd and never gives me >an option to tell it where to look for the cd. What did I do wrong? I just >burned the

More install problems info

2001-11-20 Thread Kerry Miller
I forgot to mention - the machine I'm using is an older Pentium Pro 200 and won't boot from the cd. Tnx, Kerry Network Administrator Info-Power International, Inc. 3315 Silverstone Plano, TX 75023 972-424-4447 ext. 281 ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Redhat installation boot cd questions

2001-11-20 Thread Kerry Miller
I burned a cd from the ISO files for 7.1 and made a boot disk using rawrite. When I try to install, it says it can't find a Red Hat cd and never gives me an option to tell it where to look for the cd. What did I do wrong? I just burned the cd's for 7.2 and want to try again tonight so I want to

modprobe

2001-11-20 Thread P K
Hi all   What is the following message's meaning?       Nov 11 09:22:48 mail modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-464c   TIA

modprobe

2001-11-20 Thread P K
Hi all   What is the following message's meaning?       Nov 11 09:22:48 mail modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-464c   TIA

modprobe

2001-11-20 Thread P K
Hi all   What is this meaning?       Nov 11 09:22:48 mail modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-464c   TIA

Re: RPM for vsftpd?

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 05:38 PM +0100, you wrote: >I believe this is what you're looking for: >http://enigma.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=387> Thank you. Who runs freshrpms.net? And why do most of their packages have an "fr1" in the name? Are they different somehow? Can they be trusted? Excuse the ignoran

Re: Webmin problems [2]

2001-11-20 Thread Bret Hughes
"[papapep]" wrote: > Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > > At 11/20/2001 02:46 PM +, you wrote: > > > >> Well, it seems my problems with webmin continue >:( > > > You may want to try the Webmin list at: > > > > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list > > > > Thanks, I'll do so. >

Re: RPM for vsftpd?

2001-11-20 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:13:26PM +, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > Chris Evans' vsftpd is now in version 1.0.1; does anyone know where I can > find an RPM package of it? I believe this is what you're looking for: http://enigma.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=387> > Also, how does one know what part

Re: Sound driver problem

2001-11-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > Which one would you recommend ? > > alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.i586.rpm > > or > > alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.1.src.rpm Dunno what kernel you have installed, so I'd get the src.rpm and 'rpm --rebuild' it. -- If I had a dollar for every brain that

RPM for vsftpd?

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
Chris Evans' vsftpd is now in version 1.0.1; does anyone know where I can find an RPM package of it? Also, how does one know what particular compile-time options were chosen in the making of an RPM package? TIA, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System Log Book?

2001-11-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Nov 20, 2001, 09:42 (-0500) Bob Staaf wrote: [ ... ] > > But I'm really looking for a method where my system does > *all* the work > > for logging the stuff I'm doing on it ... > > > > Wouldn't Tripwire be good for this? ... thanks, Bob, I already downloaded it :) Regards Wolfgang > > Bob

LILO Error

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen Johnston
Hi what does L 02 02 02 02 . and so on mean please ? S. -- Stephen Johnston Phone: +49 89 32006563 NGAST Advanced Project Fax : +49 89 32006380 European Southern Observatory Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 D-85748 Garching bei

compiling modules fail: missing compile.h

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Peltonen
I've updated my RH72 box with the following kernel packages: [root@pihlaja linux]# rpm -qa |grep kernel kernel-2.4.7-10 kernel-headers-2.4.9-13 kernel-doc-2.4.9-13 kernel-source-2.4.9-13 kernel-BOOT-2.4.9-13 kernel-2.4.9-13 [root@pihlaja linux]# uname -a Linux pihlaja 2.4.9-13 #1 Tue Oct 30

Re: grub

2001-11-20 Thread Eric Wood
For me, my DOS (actually winXP) definition in grub.conf is: title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 I have no idea what all that means except the hd0,0 is the first hard disk, and first partition. My linux kernel boots on hd0,1 which is the second partition. -eric wood For the r

Re: Rewriting a Solaris tape backup script for RH 6.2 linux

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Reed
Yes, but I thought I read that you can't use dump anymore on with 2.4 Linux kernels because of potential filesystem corruption problems. Dave > From: Rick Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > dump. It is the old Berkeley filesystem backup program. Sun's ufsdump > is merely

Re: grub

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Eric, Thanks. Another question. I install Redhat 7.2 on a hard disc running Win2K and use Disk Druid for selection. After installation completed and reboot the PC, there are only 2 items for selection, Linux and DOS. But selecting DOS could not start Win2K. Have you got any idea ? Than

Re: 2 questions (GRUB & RAID)

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Eric, At 09:53 AM 11/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: >What other neat grub boot definitions do others have and want to share? Could you please send me other neat grub boot definitions. Thanks in advance. BR Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [E

Re: 2 questions (GRUB & RAID)

2001-11-20 Thread Eric Wood
- Original Message - > at the grub menu, you can arrow down to the "kernel" line and press "e" > to edit that line, then just add the word "single" to the end of the > line. I've been editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and duplicating the "title" paragraph with a new boot definition t

Re: Rewriting a Solaris tape backup script for RH 6.2 linux

2001-11-20 Thread Rick Warner
dump. It is the old Berkeley filesystem backup program. Sun's ufsdump is merely their update of the same program. - rick warner On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, dfp10 wrote: > Hello! > I have been using the following script for Solaris and need to find linux > equivalents for the following programs:

Re: System Log Book?

2001-11-20 Thread Bob Staaf
> > Hi all, > > > > I have a question on my mind: What do ye folks out there use as a system > > logbook? What I mean is something to keep notes of what RPMs you installed/ > > upgraded/removed (and when), which configuration files you changed, etc.pp. > > - basically notes how you keep the system

Re: Webmin problems [2]

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 03:17 PM +, you wrote: >I did it, but rpm tells me that webmin is not installed, when I try to do >rpm -e webmin.rpm, and when I try to install it it says that it is >already installed. (??¿¿??) RPM only controls packages installed via RPM; that's why it doesn't know abou

Rewriting a Solaris tape backup script for RH 6.2 linux

2001-11-20 Thread dfp10
Hello! I have been using the following script for Solaris and need to find linux equivalents for the following programs: ufsdump (dumpe2fs?) prtvtoc and there are several more that I am not sure about. Thanks, Don Parsons #!/bin/sh # @(#) backup-script 1.2 95

Re: / filling up and tmp

2001-11-20 Thread Nicolas Bock
> - Can I just delete the /tmp files? If yes, will these files delete > themselves if I don't do anything about them? I would think that most of those files you can delete safely. As you said some programs store some temporary information in /tmp so you should be a little careful and not blindly

Re: System Log Book?

2001-11-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Nov 19, 2001, 09:37 (+0100) Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question on my mind: What do ye folks out there use as a system > logbook? What I mean is something to keep notes of what RPMs you installed/ > upgraded/removed (and when), which configuration files you changed, etc.pp.

Re: Webmin problems [2]

2001-11-20 Thread [papapep]
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 11/20/2001 02:46 PM +, you wrote: > >> Well, it seems my problems with webmin continue >:( > You may want to try the Webmin list at: > > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list > Thanks, I'll do so. > I have no idea how to fix it, but

Re: another md5sum question

2001-11-20 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, David Talkington wrote: > This command: > > $ rpm --checksig --nogpg > > meets with my skepticism. It checks the md5 sum of an rpm package. > - From where does rpm get the sum to which it compares the computed > value? If it comes from within the file itself, absent a

Re: 2 questions (GRUB & RAID)

2001-11-20 Thread rpjday
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Darryl, > > > 1/. When using Grub as the boot loader. How do you boot into single user mode > > (like the old lilo "linux single" command) ?? > > I have no experience with grub yet, but if "linux single" fails, you could

Re: CD players

2001-11-20 Thread Jeremy West
Have you tried noatun. It's the standard media player with kde. Has some great looking skins, and works better with the cd than xmms does. > What is everyone using as a CD player on their system? I have gtcd at > the moment and, while I can't complain about the functionality, I > don't find

RE: md5sum question

2001-11-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Stephen, > using the -c switch is much faster though ... Note that when using "-c" you don't substitute the file to check, but the file that contains the checksums for the files to be checked. In case of the CD images this would be the file MD5SUM that is located in the sam

Re: 2 questions (GRUB & RAID)

2001-11-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Darryl, > 1/. When using Grub as the boot loader. How do you boot into single user mode > (like the old lilo "linux single" command) ?? I have no experience with grub yet, but if "linux single" fails, you could try "linux init=1". Or see the man page. > 2/. If I have a ra

Re: The Java situation is worse than ever!

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Peltonen
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:35:20AM -0800, David Talkington wrote: > Rick Richardson wrote: > >I recently loaded up Redhat 7.2 and applied all of the updates through > >11/15/2001 using the Rehat Update Agent. In addition, I loaded up > >lots of extra browsers and followed the instructions as need

Re: Webmin problems [2]

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/20/2001 02:46 PM +, you wrote: >Well, it seems my problems with webmin continue >:( You may want to try the Webmin list at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list >When I try to connect with the browser to its http server, it tells (the >browser) that it has "d

Re: Cert problem popping with 7.2

2001-11-20 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/15/2001 10:38 AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > I've told Eudora always to use SSL "if available." This was always my > > normal config, and have not changed it. However, I've tried "always" and > > "never" now and neither works. > >"never" shou

Webmin problems [2]

2001-11-20 Thread [papapep]
Well, it seems my problems with webmin continue >:( When I try to connect with the browser to its http server, it tells (the browser) that it has "done" the connection and that it has finished, but the browser's page continues perfectly white. This happens from the time I installed Op

RE: Error Compiling Kernel

2001-11-20 Thread Jason Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It is possible that there were old .o files laying around from an older compile, 'make mrproper' deletes everything, (e.g. .config file, etc.) 'make clean' does not, it just removes the leftover compile files and such. Glad it worked for you. :-) TTFN, - -Jaso

RE: Error Compiling Kernel

2001-11-20 Thread Matthews, John
I had the same problem on a Compaq DL360 running Red Hat 6.2. I upgraded to compiler GCC 3.0.2, and saw the problem still existed. Finally I ran a "make clean" and then compiled the kernel and everything worked for me. I used to just run a "make mrproper" before doing the "make xconfig"

Re: xsnow

2001-11-20 Thread Josh Bressers
Michael, The problem you're seeing is with KDE. The KDE desktop manager draws over the top of what would be your desktop. When xsnow runs it sticks itself behind everything on the screen. Basically xsnow is working fine, it's just covered up by KDE. How to fix this I cannot say, but I too see

RE: What is /dev/shm ?

2001-11-20 Thread Jason Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I believe that it appeared with devfs. you may want to look into devfs to tell you more... HTH, - -Jason - - FreeBSD magneto.office.precisioncs.net 4.4-STABLE 7:50AM up 23 mins, 1 user, load averages: 1.05, 0.95, 0.55 > -Original Message-

Re: start user ID

2001-11-20 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 00:54, Steve Lee wrote: > where is the file that i can > setup useraccount to start at > a specific USER ID. man useradd This shows you the files that useradd relies on. The file you're after is /etc/login.defs -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound driver problem

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon Thanks for your advice. Which one would you recommend ? alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.i586.rpm or alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.1.src.rpm B.R. Stephen At 10:58 PM 11/19/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Motherboard built-in sound card > > Motherb

RE: another md5sum question

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen_Reilly
David, --checksig checks the PGP signature. The RPM itself is signed and thus contains the signature. I presume you mean --nopgp ? This "ignores PGP errors when verifying". Its not a md5 checksum, it doesn't check the correctness of the file only the origin. Steve -Original Message--

RE: md5sum question

2001-11-20 Thread Stephen_Reilly
using the -c switch is much faster though ... -Original Message- From: Statux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 2001 02:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: md5sum question -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickly, you could just do: # md5sum filename and the

AWSTATS install not working

2001-11-20 Thread Linux
Hi Is anyone out there using AWSTATS I have configured it according to the many different configuration guides with confusing configuration results. I can get a result page to be produced but it has NO statistics. Any clues. System RH7.1 Perl 5.6.0 Awstats from NOARCH 3.1.1 Many thanks Mike

2 questions (GRUB & RAID)

2001-11-20 Thread Darryl Harvey
After a disk crash and a hard time getting my system back online, I have two questions that could have saved me a lot of time. 1/. When using Grub as the boot loader. How do you boot into single user mode (like the old lilo "linux single" command) ?? 2/. If I have a raid partition set up, c

  1   2   >