upgrade problems

2001-12-08 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade a Red Hat 6.2 machine to 7.1. The upgrade dies during transfer of the install image to the hard disk. It gives a message saying that I probably do not have enough free disk space. During the upgrade wizard, it says that the total install size is 1,658 MB. I have

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2001-12-08 Thread Angel de la Cuadra
unsubscribe - Original Message - From: Oeystein Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:35 PM Subject: Re: printing to hp4550 On Friday 07 December 2001 11:54 am, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I want to be able to print from our Linux machines to an HP

Re: Masquerading issue: please help

2001-12-08 Thread Angel de la Cuadra
unsubscribe - Original Message - From: Ashley Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:47 PM Subject: Re: Masquerading issue: please help thanks for the reply! Yes. The port forwarding and masq is working. But i am not able to ssh from

cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I can't upgrade my Red Hat 6.2 machine to 7.1 or 7.2. I have factory 7.1 CDs, and 7.2 CDs I burned myself. I've used the 7.2 CDs to upgrade two other 7.1 machines. But on this 6.2 machine, the 7.2 CDs aren't even recognized as Red Hat CDs. The 7.1 CD crashes when I try to do a graphical

Re: cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 05:21:48 -0800 Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Hi, I can't upgrade my Red Hat 6.2 machine to 7.1 or 7.2. I have factory 7.1 CDs, and 7.2 CDs I burned myself. I've used the 7.2 CDs to upgrade two other 7.1 machines. But on this 6.2 machine, the 7.2 CDs aren't

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2001-12-08 Thread techsupport
REunsubscribe RE- Original Message - REFrom: Oeystein Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RESent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:35 PM RESubject: Re: printing to hp4550 REOn Friday 07 December 2001 11:54 am, Hidong Kim wrote: RE Hi, RE RE I want to be able to print from our

RootMail forwarding to an external mailaddress

2001-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello folks! how i can forward the rootmails in 7.2 to an external mailaddress? with aliases db? or .forward in root dir? thanks in advance -- webnetix - softMedia Oliver Kaufmann t: 05522 72228 f: 05522 71926 m: 0676 955 49 58 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RootMail forwarding to an external mailaddress

2001-12-08 Thread Mike Burger
Yes. On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello folks! how i can forward the rootmails in 7.2 to an external mailaddress? with aliases db? or .forward in root dir? thanks in advance ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: RootMail forwarding to an external mailaddress

2001-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Burger wrote: Yes. Hi! but i have done the external mailaddress already in the aliases db and executed the command newalias but now i get my daily report as returned mail could not find [EMAIL PROTECTED]! any ideas? thanks On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello folks!

Re: RootMail forwarding to an external mailaddress

2001-12-08 Thread Mike Burger
Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address you put into your aliases file? On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Yes. Hi! but i have done the external mailaddress already in the aliases db and executed the command newalias but now i get my daily report as returned

Re: RootMail forwarding to an external mailaddress

2001-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Burger wrote: Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address you put into your aliases file? nope but this is the returned mail error message! i put in [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an example.. is there something special for dailyreport mail? thanks On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike

Re: RootMail forwarding to an external mailaddress

2001-12-08 Thread Mike Burger
Not that I know of. I'm not sure what might be the problem...and I'm no longer using Sendmail, so I don't even have a testbed to work from. On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address you put into your aliases file? nope but this

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread AABAN34
Use a local port scanner to check open ports.. Brian ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Up2date access

2001-12-08 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: Is up2date only available for users that both a RedHat boxed set? No, up2date is available to everyone. The first machine in an account is free. Extra entitlements are included with various boxed set products. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

RE: RedHat 8.0 beta

2001-12-08 Thread Pieter De Wit
Hello Guys, About that uptimemy one firewall/mailserver/webserver/proxy has been running for 73 days. Only reason thats not longer is cause the admin that shares with me is a Windows freek(system slow/whatever reboot - that type) I have played with Mandrake and busy downloading the

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread Blake Thornton
My box is behind a firewall and want to ssh into it. I have asked the admin to open the port for me, but he's not moving as fast as I would like and I hate to get too pushy about it. So, I am thinking that all I need to do is find an open port and put this port into my sshd_config

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread Blake Thornton
try using port 21 (ftp). you have a good chance of it working that way i would think, what with the active ftp ports which are probably open etc.. Nope, port 21 is closed to me too. I guess I'm still a bit confused. I changed my sshd config file and change the port. I then restarted sshd,

Post User's Web pages!!!

2001-12-08 Thread Fernandez
I have been trying to post a client Web page in an Apache server,you don't have permission to access /~userxx in this server message is returned by the server. The following steps was follow and tested: -public_html dir was created(755) and user's index.html placed under user's home dir.

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Reed
From: Blake Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] try using port 21 (ftp). you have a good chance of it working that way i would think, what with the active ftp ports which are probably open etc.. Nope, port 21 is closed to me too. I guess I'm still a bit confused. I changed my sshd config

Re: Post User's Web pages!!!

2001-12-08 Thread rupendralist
you are not specific about httpd.conf check have you checked UserDir directive in httpd.conf have you set index.html in public_html: 644 cheers - Original Message - From: Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:32 AM Subject: Post User's

Re: Post User's Web pages!!!

2001-12-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Fernandez wrote: I have been trying to post a client Web page in an Apache server,you don't have permission to access /~userxx in this server message is returned by the server. The following steps was follow and tested: -public_html dir was created(755) and user's

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Blake Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 08 Dec 2001 11:59:54 -0700 (MST) try using port 21 (ftp). you have a good chance of it working that way i would think, what with the active ftp ports which are probably open etc.. Nope, port 21 is closed to me too. I

Re: cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Hidong Kim
Whoops! Yes, I did mean 2 GB free on my root partition. The root partition is a 7.5 GB disk. Currently, 5.1 GB of the disk are used. Of this, 1.1 GB are in /usr and 58 MB are in /var. Does it matter how full individual directories are? Wouldn't the installation write the necessary files to

Multifunction printers

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Wilts
Is anyone aware of a multifunction printer (scan/print/copy) that is fully operational under Linux? Ideally this printer would have both USB and parallel ports and allow me to connect it to my ancient W95 box at the same time. Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

sendmail antivirus

2001-12-08 Thread Hernan Brun
Hi friends! Anybody can tell me about a free antivirus for serndmail server? thanks in advance Hernan Brun - Original Message - From: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 6:09 PM Subject: Multifunction printers Is anyone aware of a

testing for a user in a script?

2001-12-08 Thread Chad and Doria Skinner
I am trying to create a SPEC file for a server and need to add a user for the server to run under. I know I can do useradd -r username and create the user, how would I test to make sure this user does not exist before I create it. Or, does it even matter since useradd won't add to users with the

Re: testing for a user in a script?

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 16:56, Chad and Doria Skinner wrote: I am trying to create a SPEC file for a server and need to add a user for the server to run under. I know I can do useradd -r username and create the user, how would I test to make sure this user does not exist before I create it. Or,

Re: DHCP IPTables on 7.1

2001-12-08 Thread Edward C. Bailey
== [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, so do I. The down side is every time you upgrade it gets overwritten. Maybe Red Hat will make this one of those nifty files containing network parameters int he future so we don't have this problem in the future? Well, Starting with 7.2 (I think; it's

Re: testing for a user in a script?

2001-12-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:56:15PM -0600, Chad and Doria Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am trying to create a SPEC file for a server and need to add a user for | the server to run under. I know I can do useradd -r username and create | the user, how would I test to make sure this user does

Re: cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 14:36:59 -0800 Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Whoops! Yes, I did mean 2 GB free on my root partition. The root partition is a 7.5 GB disk. Currently, 5.1 GB of the disk are used. Of this, 1.1 GB are in /usr and 58 MB are in /var. Does it matter how full

Re: FUD alert!

2001-12-08 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Sorry about coming late to the conversation, but I've been in all day meetings for the past couple days; I'm starting to catch up on my mail now... Mike == Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Mike How much of what they say is true? They've got the basic facts just about 100% correct.

Re: sendmail antivirus

2001-12-08 Thread Johannes Eriksson
* Hernan Brun [Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:12:27AM -0300]: Hi friends! Anybody can tell me about a free antivirus for serndmail server? http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/ - Johannes Eriksson ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LSR safety check engaged

2001-12-08 Thread William James McEachran
I've got a digiboard (dumb) with multiple serial ports. These ports showed up as ttyS16 thru ttyS23 on RH6.1 On RH6.1 I also had the expected access to ttyS0 and ttyS1. I just got 'round to installing RH7.1 and used the Red Hat Network to bring it up to date (love that Red Hat Network!).

Re: sendmail antivirus

2001-12-08 Thread Nick Erickson
I have tried Sophos Scan on a trial basis, but they will not issue a free 'Non Commercial' license. Am moving to AntiVir which WILL Issue license for personal use. Just need to write request. Check out antivir for Linux and avmailgate. http://www.hbedv.com/download/download.htm - Original

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread Jim Bija
try netstat -an or netstat -tan that will show open ports.. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:00 AM Subject: Re: Finding open ports Use a local port scanner to check open ports.. Brian

problems printing postscript

2001-12-08 Thread Trevor Irwin
The printer is a HP laserjet 4Li. If I configure it for 75 or 150 dpi the printconf US letter postscript test page prints out, but the resolution is very bad. If I configure it for 300 dpi, the resolution is as it should be, but the image is now much too big and only the top-left quadrant of

lpd /DHCP/ Get_Local_Host failed problem

2001-12-08 Thread John P. Verel
I just had the weirdest problem. Just changed from a fixed IP provider (@home) to a DHCP provider, optonline.net. As the optonline installation instructions said to use any host name one wanted, I changed mine. Upon reboot, lpd would not start, giving a boot message Get_Local_Host failed, and

Re: lpd /DHCP/ Get_Local_Host failed problem

2001-12-08 Thread John P. Verel
In poking around, I find that /etc/hosts has still got the static IP info from my previous provider, along with the old host name. Should I be change this file in some way? John On 12/08/01, 10:32:49PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote: I just had the weirdest problem. Just changed from a fixed IP

package management

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Storey
Being somewhat new to Redhat, I wonder if I haven't missed something when it comes to package management. Yes, I understand how to use RPM, and generally it works OK. The tricky part is when you have dependency errors. RPM tells you when you have dependency errors, but it doesn't resolve them

Re: package management

2001-12-08 Thread John P. Verel
Ximian Gnome Redcarpet does this. FWIW, if you go that route, you'll be installing ximaian versions of gnome, which are incompatible with RedHat's version system. An upgrade to a later release of RedHat, e.g. 7.1 to 7.2 can be, shall we say, interesting. John On 12/09/01, 11:42:01AM +0800,

Re: package management

2001-12-08 Thread Jim Bija
I think RPM is great, but it is missing something that you would think is just NEEDED. I have pulled my hair out MANY times chasing down DEPS. As i understand it in debian when you install something it will go get what you need no matter what it is and it WILL get installed for you. RPM has a

Re: Linux Desktop on Win2K

2001-12-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jason Pond wrote: What program can I get that will let me view a linux desktop on Win2K I have a version of Hummingbird Exceed but it will not work on a NT system. Cygwin/XFree86 is the way to go. It's free and not only gives you

Re: Running without a gnome panel

2001-12-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ian Truelsen wrote: Is it possible to eliminate all gnome panels from the desktop? I have it down to one floating panel, but I don't have the option to remove it from the desktop. Do you know if there is any way to get rid of

Re: package management

2001-12-08 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:42 pm, Robert Storey wrote: Being somewhat new to Redhat, I wonder if I haven't missed something when it comes to package management. Yes, I understand how to use RPM, and generally it works OK. The tricky part is

Re: printing to hp4550

2001-12-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, fred smith wrote: if you can do those things, then it should be possible to print to it if you hold your tongue just exactly right :^). The advice given you by a previous poster looked reasonable to me, except that not being

Re: lpd /DHCP/ Get_Local_Host failed problem

2001-12-08 Thread Statux
In poking around, I find that /etc/hosts has still got the static IP info from my previous provider, along with the old host name. Should I be change this file in some way? Yeah. Just keep that file up to date. Is it your problem? Could be. Try it. Now, with DHCP, don't hostnames change

Re: Post User's Web pages!!!

2001-12-08 Thread Michael Ghens
You may want to check the user directory itself. In RH 6.2, the directory is 700 or rwx__, it needs to be at the minimum 711 or rwx__x__x. Another problem is if apache allows directory access. If you do not have proper index page (like index.html), it will not show you to directory. On

Re: cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Hidong Kim wrote: I refuse to believe that I would have to wipe out the current installation and start over. This machine has been working great under 6.2. It's been up like a year under heavy use. Wiping out and reinstalling is not an acceptable upgrade path. Any

Re: package management

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Storey
I'm in full agreement with you Jim - RPM is good, but some sort of package management system that resolves deps is BADLY NEEDED. SuSE's Yast tool and Debian's apt-get are both a little clunky, but they get the job done. I hope that Redhat is planning to address this in the next release (are you

Re: cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I've made partial progress. I got some factory 7.0 CDs, and I was able to upgrade to 7.0. It wasn't totally smooth. After all of the upgraded packages were installed, the wizard hanged. I never saw the boot disk creation window. That made me nervous. But the machine was totally

Re: cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Thanks for the tip. You may have already read my recent post about being able to upgrade to 7.0. I still can't get from 7.0 to 7.1 or 7.2. Should I switch to the second console during the installation? I'm logged in to the 7.0 machine now (ctrl-alt-f7). 'df' shows 1.8 GB available on /.

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2001-12-08 Thread Angel de la Cuadra
unsuscribe - Original Message - From: Hernan Brun [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 11:12 AM Subject: sendmail antivirus Hi friends! Anybody can tell me about a free antivirus for serndmail server? thanks in advance Hernan Brun -

Re: package management

2001-12-08 Thread Jim Bija
I was unaware that up2date (which i have never used, because its kind of sounds like a pain..you gotta make an account with redhat and if you have more then like what 3 computers? you have to pay for it, even Micro$oft dont charge a monthly fee for updates!) can install a single package that is