red-hat7.2 installation through ftp.

2001-11-26 Thread sachin lamsoge
hi i have downloaded both the iso images enigma-i386-disc1.iso and enigma-i386-disc2.iso. now i want to install redhat 7.2 on a pc using ftp. ftp server is on another pc. i have done the following on the ftp server. mount -o loop -t iso9660 enigma-i386-disc1.iso /var/ftp/pub/ and i

Re: Shutting down linux

2001-11-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 26 November 2001 7:41 am, Bill Hartwell wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:56 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: Bill Hartwell writes: That's one interesting machine you have. I know about binding ctrl-alt-del to the shutdown command, but normally a power switch is directly linked to

Re: Shutting down linux

2001-11-26 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:12:00AM +, Gary Stainburn wrote: [AT - ATX] NO!! BAD THING! BAD THING [...] [ATX Supply] Also, the power outlet is not switched, [...] It's NOT? I was wondering about that, as I love this feature in my SparcStations = shutdown -hp now

Re: Shutting down linux

2001-11-26 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Bill Hartwell wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2001 10:27 pm, Redhat mailing list wrote: What I mean is normally shutdown, sorry i 4got to clear this. I have two OS running on my machine, one is windows 2000 and the other is

Re: Vmware Install procedure

2001-11-26 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ganesh HariHaran wrote: Dear List Could you please throw me steps and verification of partition/partition table before installing Vmware. VMWare can usea file on disk as its hard drive, with no need to do any partitioning. Slower than parititions, but works well.

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-26 Thread Mariusz Pekala
On Fri 23 November 2001 17:03, you (Ed Wilts) wrote: The minimum size of your swap partition should be equal to twice the amount of your computer's RAM or 32 MB, whichever is larger. I'm curious... why 2xRAM ? If I have 360 MB of RAM I should also set up a 720 MB swap? Why so much? Why twice?

RHL 6.2 + S3 Trio64+

2001-11-26 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
Hi all, yesterday, I ran into a small problem with an older box that I set up with RHL 6.2. It's using a S3 Trio64+ VGA card with 2MB RAM, which is giving me a slight headache. I tried both XF86Setup and Xconfigurator (both updated to the latest available updates). The card is recognized and the

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-26 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Mariusz == Mariusz Pekala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mariusz On Fri 23 November 2001 17:03, you (Ed Wilts) wrote: The minimum size of your swap partition should be equal to twice the amount of your computer's RAM or 32 MB, whichever is larger. Mariusz I'm curious... why 2xRAM ? If I have 360

Setting up a RAID 1 on an existing system

2001-11-26 Thread nospam
I'm running RH 7.1 and just installed a second HD, /dev/hdc, on the second IDE channel. Is there a way to set this up as a mirror (RAID 1) of the first HD without destroying the data on the first drive, /dev/hda? I've set up RAID 1 before but always on a fresh system. This is the first time

RE: ntp status

2001-11-26 Thread Mike van Lokven (DOUNSIX Systems Ltd)
Hi Bret I use ntp from a CRON command line every 6 hours. It leaves a trail in /var/spool/mail/root Mike -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 18 November 2001 21:55 To: redhat-list Subject: ntp status Is there anyway to determine whether or

Re: Sound driver problem

2001-11-26 Thread Wally Brock
First, make sure that the sound device is enabled in the bios setup. Second, login as root and at the command prompt run sndconfig to configure your sound card. As to KDE's sound server (artsd) I configure KDE to simply not run it, but that is personal preference. Good Luck, Wally Stephen

Re: The Java situation is worse than ever!

2001-11-26 Thread Jörgen Johansson
On Sunday 18 November 2001 18:48, Rick Richardson wrote: When I installed RH 7.2, I selected install everything, which is my usual practice. That left me with an /etc/X11/fs/config file If I comment out this line: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1, and restart the font

RedHat 7.2 Sendmail

2001-11-26 Thread Ashwin Kutty
I did a fresh install of RH 7.2 on a machine and I cant get any connections from the outside world to my box for sendmail.. It refuses the connection.. I thought it was the firewall but I checked to make sure it accepts on port 25(smtp).. I also made sure by checking /etc/sysconfig/ipchains and

SendMail Redhat 7.2

2001-11-26 Thread Ashwin Kutty
Alright.. Got Sendmail to work.. Totally forgot about the fact that Redhat defaults it to listen only to localhost.. Commented out Daemon Options (I think?) and hopefully all is well, the test is still going on.. The other thing is.. When I telnet to my box via telnet my.box.ip 25 I get

RE: ProFTPD logins

2001-11-26 Thread Mike van Lokven (DOUNSIX Systems Ltd)
Thanks Mark and all others who have answered Yes I have read the literature it is a little confusing/frustrating Thanks for your tip at least it is one part of the puzzle Many thanks Mike -Original Message- From: Manzabar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 19 November 2001

Re: GCC3?

2001-11-26 Thread Wally Brock
no problems here :-) Wally Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Has anyone installed gcc3 from rawhide on a 7.1 system yet? Any caveats, broken bones, beheading...anything? -- H | Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

Re: Tekram DC-390U3W

2001-11-26 Thread Jörgen Johansson
On Thursday 15 November 2001 16:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience loading RH 7.2 on a SCSI system with a Tekram DC-390U3W controller? Is it supported on the cdrom? Do I have to use the drivers image? (It's not listed in the certified hardware page) (I had rough time

Re: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Egli
Ok Ok Ok children... Calm Down. Jason, your point is heard. Ben, If you are STILL having problems, please take time to detail EXACTLY what you are trying to do. Then perhaps we can solve this for you. - Original Message - From: Ben Ocean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: Is LABEL syntax in fstab really a good thing?

2001-11-26 Thread Bruce Davis
How do I modify an existing label or label a new partition? While I agree that using labels in fstab can be safer, I have difficulty locating documentation. What happens if I want to re-partition my system? I have found no MAN page documenting how to either change a label on a partition or

upgrading RH 7.1 to 7.2

2001-11-26 Thread Gilbert Goldstein
Is available an upgrade from RedHat? If yes does it have an installation program? Where can I find it? Thanks.

Clustering - Piranha - LVS - etc.. :(

2001-11-26 Thread Ashwin Kutty
Hi, I have been banging my head over the keyboard with this and have gotten nowhere.. I have been trying to get some sort of guidance in terms of docs as to how I could setup a two node cluster using RH7.2 piranha but with no luck.. After checking at the LVS site and Redhat's HA site I still

Re: OT: CD images on hard drive

2001-11-26 Thread Gilbert Goldstein
I suggest ftp or NFS. It is pretty easy to run a NFS or FTP server on the Linux box. After that you can access the files from the Win 98 either with any ftp client or nfs client for windows. (for example for NFS client you can use the Frontier Technologies their NFS suite). If you need

Re:Samba woes

2001-11-26 Thread Raja . Kumar
have you setup user for samba in linux if you dont then login as root in your linux box check to see if the smbpasswd file is in /etc/samba/ or /etc/ depending on your if no then copy from /etc/passwd run smbpasswd username and make use that this user in a linux user as well. answer the

Re: Vmware Install procedure

2001-11-26 Thread Wally Brock
You might also want to ask this question on one of the vmware groups at news.vmware.com Good Luck, Wally Ganesh HariHaran wrote: Dear List Could you please throw me steps and verification of partition/partition table before installing Vmware. Installing Vmware and window ... will it

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-26 Thread Meph Istopheles
Ya know... Mariusz On Fri 23 November 2001 17:03, you (Ed Wilts) wrote: The minimum size of your swap partition should be equal to twice the amount of your computer's RAM or 32 MB, whichever is larger. Mariusz I'm curious... why 2xRAM ? If I have 360 MB of RAM I should also Mariusz set

Webmin problems

2001-11-26 Thread [papapep]
After installing succesfully webmin 0.90, I installed also openssl and NetSSLeay. After that I haven't been able to get in the webmin server again, though I have activated SSL in Webadmin from the same browser (Netscape 6.2) from which now I'm trying to get in it. Does anybody have any idea??

rhnsd logs /var/log/messages

2001-11-26 Thread evelyn
Periodically my rhnsd logs /var/log/messages: /usr/sbin/rhn_check ERROR: unable to read system id. What is this and what do I do about it? Regards, eve. -- FREE Perl CGI scripts add WEB ACCESS to your -- POP E-Mail accounts! Download today!! http://www.adjeweb.com

need help with scsi

2001-11-26 Thread Christopher Rowe
Need some help with a scsi tape drive. Installed a Seagate Python on a Redhat 7.1 server. The tape drive was pulled over from an older 6.2 server. The system seems to see it fine and the tape is shown in the /proc/scsi/0 file. At first the tape was just hanging when I tried to rewind in or

split distribution

2001-11-26 Thread Jérôme Tournier
Hi, i managed to build the redhat 7.2 distribution using buildinstall script. For this, all the rpm was in the same directorie. How could i manage to split this so that i could record it on CDs ? I tried using the splitdistro script but didn't managed to use it. How can i do ? -- Jérôme

Re: Networking: Last Call Before I Quit

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Egli
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Ben Ocean wrote: Hi; I d'l'd RH72, burned the isos, installed it according to defaults, everything appeared normal, but then Gnome doesn't come up (and I installed it twice). Hmmm. Then I can't bring up eth1 until I change BOOTPROTO to static. Hmmm. Then I can't

Re: Simple Firewall Configuration Question

2001-11-26 Thread Daniel BI
Do I need an additional IP for eth0, eth1, and the NIC on my win machine? yep ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Missing asprintf

2001-11-26 Thread Thiago F.G. Albuquerque
Hi, The functions asprintf and vasprintf are missing in my system. They are mentioned in the info page, but not in the man page, and they are not in stdio.h. How can I fix this? Thanks, Thiago ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Disable Finger

2001-11-26 Thread James Pifer
How do I disable finger/port 79 on Redhat 7.0? I saw some things in the Archive, like editting the inetd.conf, but I don't have that. I have xinetd.conf, but finger is not listed in there. I assume /etc/inetd.conf was pre 7.x. Thanks, James ___

Re: Disable certain ports

2001-11-26 Thread dan
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, James Pifer wrote: Is it possible to disable all ports except for a few from a specific IP address? For example, if I have one machine(or IP address) in my network that I want to disable everything but port 80 and 443, but for the other machines leave everything open.

Re: need help with routing

2001-11-26 Thread Daniel BI
Here you have a link to a short a very good tutorial: http://www.sangoma.com/fguide.htm Daniel BI - Original Message - From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:51 PM Subject: need help with routing I have a private network of a

Where can I find the booting infomation?

2001-11-26 Thread xiong zhao
redhatHello, where can I find the infomation shown in the screen when booting the machine? Because it goes so quickly and I cannot catch it. Is it stored in somewhere after booting? Thanks. James

Q about RAID

2001-11-26 Thread xiong zhao
Hello. I have built three RAID 5 disks and connected them to the host with the same SCSI ID but different LUN value(all the three have SCSI ID 2 and are LUN0,1,2 respectively). Now after rebooting the machine, I can find only one new disk LUN0 which is reprented by /dev/sdb(sda is the local disk)

XDM: too many retransmissions

2001-11-26 Thread Deyun Gao
Hi, I have installed Redhat7.2 in one computer, and x-win32 in other machine runing MS Windows2000. But I can not access the linux via XDMCP. I have modified the following files: Xaccess:uncomment * #any host can get a login window. xdm-config: comment ! DisplayManager.requestPort:

RE: Where can I find the booting infomation?

2001-11-26 Thread Brad Bonkoski
Title: RE: Where can I find the booting infomation? run: 'dmesg | less' -Original Message- From: xiong zhao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 8:34 PM To: redhat list Subject: Where can I find the booting infomation? redhatHello, where can I find

Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Hahnel William J
Title: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords?? I recently upgraded to 7.1 from 6.2. Password aging is in place forcing users to change password every 120 days. Some users are hitting this limit now and are being required to change their password. When they attempt to do so they

RE: Disable Finger

2001-11-26 Thread Stephen_Reilly
The file you're looking for is /etc/xinetd.d/finger. Comment everything in here out and save. Then restart xinetd. steve -Original Message- From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 November 2001 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disable Finger How do I disable

RE: Where can I find the booting infomation?

2001-11-26 Thread Jeff Graves
/var/log/dmesg Jeff Graves Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 X31 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Email -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of xiong zhao Sent: Thursday,

Re: 7.2, etx3, RAID1 Grinds to a halt! - Why?

2001-11-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Darryl Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a fairly new 7.2 installation. It runs as a server supplying services for Web (Apache), Mail (postfix), Database (MySQL), and DNS (Bind 9.x) You're better off asking question on RHL 7.2 on enigma-list, as more developers read that list. --

Re: red-hat7.2 installation through ftp.

2001-11-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
sachin lamsoge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how do i mount it on the ftp server. The contents of both CDs should be in one directory. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ntp status

2001-11-26 Thread Duane Clark
Mike wrote: I use ntp from a CRON command line every 6 hours. It leaves a trail in /var/spool/mail/root It is a little puzzling what you are doing here. NTP is a daemon, and should remain running once started, unless there is a problem. -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes

RE: Disable Finger

2001-11-26 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/26/2001 10:13 AM -0600, you wrote: The file you're looking for is /etc/xinetd.d/finger. Comment everything in here out and save. Then restart xinetd. More precisely: 1. In /etc/xinetd.d/finger, change disabled = no to disabled = yes. 2. Save the file. 3. Issue the command

Re: SendMail Redhat 7.2

2001-11-26 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:15:16PM -0400, Ashwin Kutty wrote: The other thing is.. When I telnet to my box via telnet my.box.ip 25 I get localhost.localdomain for domain name listed instead of the name of my box, any way to change this? In the old ver's of sendmail this was not a problem,

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-26 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:09:30AM -0500, Edward C. Bailey wrote: : As one of the people involved in drafting the 7.2 release notes, there was : a fair bit of discussion on this subject while the release notes were being : written. The bottom line is that it's possible to come up with examples :

Re: SendMail Redhat 7.2

2001-11-26 Thread Bob Staaf
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:15:16PM -0400, Ashwin Kutty wrote: The other thing is.. When I telnet to my box via telnet my.box.ip 25 I get localhost.localdomain for domain name listed instead of the name of my box, any way to change this? In the old ver's of sendmail this was not a

Re: upgrading RH 7.1 to 7.2

2001-11-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 12:18:44AM +0200, Gilbert Goldstein wrote: Is available an upgrade from RedHat? If yes does it have an installation program? Where can I find it? The installation CD for RHL 7.2 will ask you if you want to format the previous install or if you want to simply upgrade

tunnelling bridge howto

2001-11-26 Thread cws-dls
Does anyone know of a good resource on how to setup a bridge two connect two private networks across the internet? I know vtun and cipe say they can do it, but I can not find any information on how? Anyone have ideas or suggestions? Thanks, Chad -- Pop3Now Personal, Get quick remote access

Re: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Paul Greene
Do you work as root on the system? Possibly, root privileges allow you to use passwords that don't meet the complexity requirements, but, as regular users, they have to follow the complexity guidelines. (Solaris is like that, and even allows blank passwords, if root manually sets the passwords.)

Re: Redundant connection switching

2001-11-26 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, November 25, 2001, 11:43:50 PM, Nevin wrote: However, the customer would like to have a system in place in that if one connection was to go down for whatever reason, then the linux machine would know about and switch connections to any

Re: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Mike Burger
Tell them to add numbers to the mix. On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Hahnel William J wrote: I recently upgraded to 7.1 from 6.2. Password aging is in place forcing users to change password every 120 days. Some users are hitting this limit now and are being required to change their password. When

RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Hahnel William J
Nope. Did the password change using my own user account. My user account is not set up any differently than the accounts that are having the problems. -Original Message-From: Paul Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:46 AMTo: [EMAIL

RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Hahnel William J
Title: RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords?? They are using alpha, upper lower case, and numeric at least 7 positions in length. Again, I even had one person try a password that worked for my personal account and it would not work for her. -Original Message-

Re: ntp status

2001-11-26 Thread M.Lewis
Try 'ntptrace' or 'ntptrace FQDN' or 'ntptrace 192.168.1.1' On Sunday 18 November 2001 01:36 am, you wrote: Hi Bret I use ntp from a CRON command line every 6 hours. It leaves a trail in /var/spool/mail/root Mike -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Help with cron and lynx

2001-11-26 Thread John Weez
Hi all, i have a PHP script that I want to execute at 12:05 AM everyday. So, i thought I'd setup a cron job to do this. But nothing happens at all..not even an error message. I verified that the job was in the users cron job list. The crontab entry looked like this 5 0 * * * lynx

RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Mike Burger
The only other thing I've seen cause problems were when the system did not have shadow passwords enabled. On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Hahnel William J wrote: They are using alpha, upper lower case, and numeric at least 7 positions in length. Again, I even had one person try a password that worked

RE: ? NIS+/OpenLDAP/nothing

2001-11-26 Thread Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC
Steve, We have a mix environment of SGI, Suns, Windows...and of course Linux. We use NIS, with SGI systems as the NIS master and various slaves, have automount on all the machines (home dirs are on a seperate SGI server). On the PC side we use Samba 2.1.1a on the SGI NIS master server

MSN Messenger

2001-11-26 Thread Amit Karnik
How can i use MSN messenger on my system where Red-hat 7.1 is installed. I trie to download some thing like evrybuddy and so on but when i install the same it give an error saying libxode.so.1 not found and from here on it starts the series of Packages

Re: Help with cron and lynx

2001-11-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:36:50AM -0800, John Weez wrote: The crontab entry looked like this 5 0 * * * lynx http://www.myserver.com/html/test.php I believe this should read lynx -dump http://www.myserver.com/html/test.php;. Check /var/log/crond just in case. Emmanuel

NIS - Bug or feature?

2001-11-26 Thread Robert Dege
I created a netgroup on my NIS Master server. I want to assign that Netgroup to a certain machine, but I want all the users to have the same gid on this particular machine. So I added the following line to my /etc/passwd file: +@PPTP:::850::/: But for some reason, when a user in that

RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Hahnel William J
Title: RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords?? And where is this done?? The shadow password file exists and the password file entries do not contain the password. -Original Message- From: Mike Burger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 12:41

RE: 7.1 not finding new hardware

2001-11-26 Thread Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC
Umm must of missed the tape question, but I'm using a Seagate SCSI 4mm DAT tape which I use to perform tars and dumps to under RH 7.1. You should not have to do any configuration as far as I remember. After the machine comes up, it will be referenced as /dev/st0. Note the no-rewind is

Filesystem Corruption

2001-11-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I have a 7.1 system that gets a lot of disk I/O activity. It's an outgoing mail server that handles all of our hosted mailing lists. Two of it's file systems seems to suffering from severe corruption after several days of uptime. The /var/log filesystem I can stop all services, unmount,

RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Williams, Jeff
Title: RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords?? From what I've read, I thought that this is an issue/bug with the pam version on redhat 7.1... Jeff -Original Message-From: Hahnel William J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:02 AMTo:

anaconda: buildinstall error

2001-11-26 Thread Jérôme Tournier
Hello, i generate my images using buildinstall script. When compiling, the scipt send me error message (but continue): ... Module modlist not found in kernel rpm Module myri_sbus not found in kernel rpm Module pagdepmod: not found in kernel rpm Module pkgorder not found in kernel rpm Module

RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/26/2001 11:11 AM -0700, you wrote: From what I've read, I thought that this is an issue/bug with the pam version on redhat 7.1... Well, it might be, but now I've got a friend showing the exact same problem on 7.2. His user account and root both work fine, and both were created during

Setting classpath for java tools

2001-11-26 Thread Iskixtrm
This may sound like a very basic question, but I was wondering if you could tell me how to set up the classpath so that when I compile or execute java code I don't have to type in the location of the java tools everytime? Instead, I can just type in javac to compile code or java to execute

RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Hahnel William J
Title: RE: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords?? Thanks Jeff, I'm currently operating with pam-0.74-22. I can't get to the Internet right now to check for the latest update. -Original Message-From: Williams, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, November

Re: Upgraded to 7.1 - Now Users Cannot Change Passwords??

2001-11-26 Thread Clarence Donath
Does anyone have any information on how to go about booting Red Hat 7.2 from the Windows 2000 boot menu? From what I've seen, it looks pretty hopeless. Is this Bill's Revenge? Regards, Clarence Donath ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MSN Messenger

2001-11-26 Thread Chris Mason
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Re: MSN Messenger

2001-11-26 Thread Ryan Speed
gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) is by far the best multi IM client available right now. It is definitely very usable right now and the developers are activly improving it on a daily basis. On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Amit Karnik wrote: How can i use MSN messenger on my system where Red-hat

Windows 2000 and Red Hat 7.2 dual-boot

2001-11-26 Thread Clarence Donath
Darn, I replied to a message and forgot to change the subject to reflect what my question is really about. Sorry :(. Here it is again... Does anyone have any information on how to go about booting Red Hat 7.2 from the Windows 2000 boot menu? From what I've seen, it looks pretty hopeless.

RE: GCC3?

2001-11-26 Thread Matthews, John
I was under the assumption that GCC 3.0.2 or GCC 2.95.3 would be the best bets for stability. I thought that the use of GCC 2.96 was discouraged. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: 7.1 not finding new hardware

2001-11-26 Thread Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC
Well this doesn't look good (. Unfortunately as I already posted I didn't have any problem, so from a working system I did a 'dmesg | grep -i st0 and saw this on my machine: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 st0 block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes Note that I have the tape

Re: GCC3?

2001-11-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Matthews, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was under the assumption that GCC 3.0.2 or GCC 2.95.3 would be the best bets for stability. I thought that the use of GCC 2.96 was discouraged. The other way round. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Please help: rpm db3 error

2001-11-26 Thread Reuben D Budiardja
I was doing some installing, un-installing and upgrading some rpm packages. One of the package I tried to unistall was abiword (using rpm -e). But then it just stop and hung there and not doing anything, so I cancelled it using CTRL-C. And then I unistall some different packages, and this

Re: Please help: rpm db3 error (cont)

2001-11-26 Thread Reuben D Budiardja
It seems that installing (rpm -ivh) is doing something, but then gives the error: Preparing...### [100%] 1:gal-devel ### [100%] error: db3 error(-30998) from db-close: DB_INCOMPLETE:

Re: Please help: rpm db3 error

2001-11-26 Thread Werner Puschitz
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: I was doing some installing, un-installing and upgrading some rpm packages. One of the package I tried to unistall was abiword (using rpm -e). But then it just stop and hung there and not doing anything, so I cancelled it using CTRL-C. And

Re: Windows 2000 and Red Hat 7.2 dual-boot

2001-11-26 Thread Anthony Abby
I looked at it, and although I haven't done it personally, it looks no different than how I did it with NT4. Anthony --- Clarence Donath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darn, I replied to a message and forgot to change the subject to reflect what my question is really about. Sorry :(. Here it

Re: Setting classpath for java tools

2001-11-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:41:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This may sound like a very basic question, but I was wondering if you could te ll me how to set up the classpath so that when I compile or execute java code I don't have to type in the location of the java

RE: Redundant connection switching

2001-11-26 Thread Nevin Swan
Thanks for that but unfortunatly the situation is the latter. In addition the customer doesnt know much about computers, nor does he wish to :) He knows he has 3 connections, and he would like to never be off-air so to speak. I suppose even some sort of load balancing would do the job also?

Re: Disable Finger

2001-11-26 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, James Pifer wrote: How do I disable finger/port 79 on Redhat 7.0? I saw some things in the Archive, like editting the inetd.conf, but I don't have that. I have xinetd.conf, but finger is not listed in there. I assume /etc/inetd.conf was pre 7.x. And alternatively,

modem from redhat

2001-11-26 Thread S E
hello.. what are the steps required to connect to the Internet via the MODEM, what are the steps for configuration? thanks, sherif __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month.

Re: tunnelling bridge howto

2001-11-26 Thread Keith Morse
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a good resource on how to setup a bridge two connect two private networks across the internet? I know vtun and cipe say they can do it, but I can not find any information on how? Anyone have ideas or suggestions?

ls: .fetchmail.pid: Input/output error

2001-11-26 Thread Statux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just noticed today (I'm not sure when it started, actually) that I'm getting the following in the output of 'ls': ls: .fetchmail.pid: Input/output error I get the same results whether I'm a user or root. It's happening in a user's directory on

Re: ls: .fetchmail.pid: Input/output error [FIXED]

2001-11-26 Thread Statux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yup.. inconsistency in the filesystem. I unmounted the partition and did an 'fsck.ext2 -f' on it. Found the problem and fixed it :) All good now. - -Statux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope

Re: modem from redhat

2001-11-26 Thread Robert Canary
PPP HowTo S E wrote: hello.. what are the steps required to connect to the Internet via the MODEM, what are the steps for configuration? thanks, sherif __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just

smb win2k

2001-11-26 Thread Duo Maxwell
i have couple of comps 3 running rhat 7.2, 1 running win2k pro. i have a share dir on my 2k system /2k/share none of my linux systems can mount the share dir, the /2k/share has no password setup , when i try smbclient -L 2k it says something about access denied. i also didnt find anything on how

more lines/cols on console?

2001-11-26 Thread gregory mott
what's the trick to get more lines/columns on the console, like the (redhat 7.2) install cd does? resizecons always says cannot find videomode file. the keyboard and console howto says it can be done with lilo. is there a way to make resizecons work without using lilo or dosemu? do i have

Re: more lines/cols on console?

2001-11-26 Thread ABrady
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:59:24 -0500 gregory mott [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html what's the trick to get more lines/columns on the console, like the (redhat 7.2) install cd does? resizecons always says cannot find videomode file. the

Question about ext3 journal file.

2001-11-26 Thread Darryl Harvey
How big is this file .journal meant to be. On my disk it appears to be around 33Mb. Seems a little large to me?? Maybe not? I would expect it to be small with the latest changes in it. Where can I find out more? I have search for info on ext3, but found nothing useful. Pointers?? Thanks

Re: RedHat 7.2 Sendmail

2001-11-26 Thread Steve Lee
telnet into port 25 and see if it accepts connections from the local locp first. see if sendmail is running. are you sure it is running. do a netstat -an | grep 25 look for senmail listening on port 25. Then we can go from there. On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Ashwin Kutty wrote: I did a fresh

Re: Networking: Last Call Before I Quit

2001-11-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Ben, Gordon, Hmmm. Then I can't mount the CD that installed RH. Known bug. I think something like 'depmod -ae' was solving the problem for people who hadn't applied errata. This was fixed in the errata kernel. Or just the fact that you installed autofs. Yes!, I

Re: smb win2k

2001-11-26 Thread Steve Lee
1. make sure you share your drives in Windows . ( you probably did ) 2. this is the command i use, replace the mounts with yours mount -t smbfs -o username=username //Windows/mountpoint /mnt/win 3. it should ask for a password for the current loggin. 4. try it even with the -o username

Re: How to Setup a Proxy/Firewall or Router/firewall??

2001-11-26 Thread Edward Dekkers
I don't think anybody will bother answering you on that. Try going to: http://www.linuxdoc.org/ first and give it a go yourself. This question is asked almost every week. -- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. 822 Rowley Road Oakford W.A. 6121 +61 8 9397-1040 ABN:

Re: Help with cron and lynx

2001-11-26 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John Weez wrote: i have a PHP script that I want to execute at 12:05 AM everyday. So, i thought I'd setup a cron job to do this. But nothing happens at all..not even an error message. I verified that the job was in the users cron

Re: Please help: rpm db3 error

2001-11-26 Thread Reuben D Budiardja
Thanks, that solves some problem. I did that, but now some packages mix up, for example: bash$ rpm -q gal gal-0.18.1-1 gal-0.18.1-1 Notice that the package was listed twice. And when I tried to uninstall, it says: bash$ rpm -e gal-0.18.1-1 error: gal-0.18.1-1 specifies multiple packages

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