Re: questions about named and sendmail

Chuck, At 01:13 AM 1/5/02 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius posted the following: > >JO>Wow, thanks for writing that up, Bret. >JO> >JO>I'm not sure what changes on your ISP's DNS server to make it a >"forwarder" >JO>- a DNS

Re: questions about named and sendmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius posted the following: JO>Wow, thanks for writing that up, Bret. JO> JO>I'm not sure what changes on your ISP's DNS server to make it a "forwarder" JO>- a DNS server that didn't forward the results wouldn't be too

Re: questions about named and sendmail

Wow, thanks for writing that up, Bret. I'm not sure what changes on your ISP's DNS server to make it a "forwarder" - a DNS server that didn't forward the results wouldn't be too helpful ... I'll read up on the forwarder idea tomorrow - I'm taking a trip down to my local Barnes and Noble to fin

Re: IPChains vs IPTables

** Reply to message from David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:59:05 -0800 (PST) > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chuck Mead wrote: > > >at>i want to setup a firewall on linux. i am thinking which one to use > >at>IPChains or IPTables ? > >at>Is IPTa

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

Okay, I don't have much experience with dhcp under linux but, Here's a few suspects 1. HOSTNAME is localhost.localdomain, it might be a problem for DHCP? 2. The long delay sounds like some kind of timeout problem 3. Are the nameserver settings in resolv.conf really your ISP's DNS servers? Also,

Re: [RH List] Sendmail Question

Thanks On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Redhat mailing list wrote: > > > NOQUEUE: mailer156.flowgo.com [64.124.202.156] did not issue > > MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. > > > > I got a lot of like of this messages on my logfile.Anybody can > > tell me what this me

Re: LG-CDRW problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 January 2002 02:47 pm, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello all, > > My problem is that my CDR has no drivers. I am using red hat 7.2 and on > previous versions, I didn't have any problems. On the loading screen, > the cdr is read as : > hdc: LG-CDR

Re: Tape Unit in Linux Box

- Original Message - From: "Ted Hilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Okay, I will try these things, but I'm sure I did all this before. Then > I will get back to you. Will have to wait till the wife gets home so she > can watch the Linux server having the IDE Tape Drive as I can neither > see no

Re: HighPoint HPT372 RAID with RH 7.x ??

Hi, thanks for the hints. I don't see much sense in disabling RAID if that is what I actually want to use. I'm not too concerned about this as I have two more PCs where one will serve as Linux box quite fine (850 Athlon with 512 MB, 30 GB HDD). I tried the Highpoint drivers with not much

Re: [RH List] Sendmail Question

Redhat mailing list wrote: > NOQUEUE: mailer156.flowgo.com [64.124.202.156] did not issue > MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. > > I got a lot of like of this messages on my logfile. Anybody can > tell me what this means. How do I fixed it? You don't. It's not something your do

Re: HighPoint HPT372 RAID with RH 7.x ??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 January 2002 10:02 pm, David Krings wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to install RH on my flashy new box with the Abit KR7A-RAID > board. It uses the Highpoint HPT 372 IDE RAID chip and works fairly > well under *duck* Windows. Yet I was not

Sendmail Question

Hello, I got this on my logfile: NOQUEUE: mailer156.flowgo.com [64.124.202.156] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. I got a lot of like of this messages on my logfile. Anybody can tell me what this means. How do I fixed it? tnx carlo ___

HighPoint HPT372 RAID with RH 7.x ??

Hi, I plan to install RH on my flashy new box with the Abit KR7A-RAID board. It uses the Highpoint HPT 372 IDE RAID chip and works fairly well under *duck* Windows. Yet I was not successful with getting Linux installed on it. The kernel hangs right after boot and throws some cryptic error

FTP Server under Firewall

Hi, I have an FTP Server running wu-ftpd and I put it inside a firewall. When I connect to the ftp server from outside the firewall, there's a bit of delay when an ftp-client establishes connection. Same with my mail server. telnet runs normally. Open ports in my firewall is 20, 21,23 and 25.

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

Hi Gregg, Thanks for your response At 07:09 AM 1/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: >What type of broadband connection? dynamic IP via optic fibre >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks OK to me. > >Is there a line in your /etc/hosts file that says, >"127.0.0.1 localhost" ? Preferably th

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

Hi Robert, Thanks for your response. At 04:20 PM 1/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: >You should try to set the machine up on a static ip address and see if this >makes any difference. My ISP only provides dynamic IP address >What are the contents of these files??? > >/etc/hosts >/etc/host.conf >/etc/r

Re: RH7.2-Hardware Raid, Dual Channel Supported?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > Kind of a continuation of a question posed last week. Neither Dell or RH > have wanted to answer my question before a purchase. > > Can I install RH 7.2 on a Dual Channel Box [to be purchased] utilizing > hardware RAID [Raid 1 on OS channel and Raid 5 on D

Re: Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

We would, if only there were freely available, and free, implementations of NFS for Windows. The last time I looked for one, there weren't free implementations available. On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:50:41PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > A hub provides physi

Re: Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

See Samba. On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi All People. > > Can I make use of lan hub to connect a Win box and Linux box for files/data > transfer ? > > If yes, then how. > > Thanks in advance. > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > > > > ___ > Re

Re: Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

Hi Ed, Thanks for your prompt response. I am not familiar with Linux in this respect. (only familiar with NetMeeting in Win which is rather easy in data/files transfer) Could you please throw me some more light or any pointer ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen At 07:50 PM 1/4/2002 -0600, y

Re: Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:50:41PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > A hub provides physical connectivity only. You'll still need something to > provide data connectivity. Absolutely true. > Typically, you configure TCP/IP and/or NETBEUI on both systems and > then use Samba/CIFS or FTP to transfer the d

Re: Parrallel port connectivity

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:39:27AM +, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I am trying to connect an old laptop that doesn't have the ability to use an > ethernet card. I though of getting one of the parrallel ethernet adapters > but they are expensive and would likely give no better throughput. Mea Maxi

Re: LG-CDRW problem

>It was partly the answer. The two most common boot loaders are LILO and >Grub. The answer above shows how it's done in Grub. Do you know another >Linux boot loader can't handle passing kernel parameters and supports IDE CD >burners? >Ed Wilts I'm asking about the ability to put the parameter

Re: Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

> Can I make use of lan hub to connect a Win box and Linux box for files/data > transfer ? A hub provides physical connectivity only. You'll still need something to provide data connectivity. Typically, you configure TCP/IP and/or NETBEUI on both systems and then use Samba/CIFS or FTP to transf

Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

Hi All People. Can I make use of lan hub to connect a Win box and Linux box for files/data transfer ? If yes, then how. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Sendmail with dnsbl option

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 January 2002 05:59 pm, Rob Saul wrote: > Likely they were testing to see if you had an open relay. > Thats' the 'o' and the 'r' in their name. Every bl place > I've look at has some system for testing for open relays. > This is part of

RE: IPChains vs IPTables

Hello Listees, Mike answer is very good. If your using redhat 7.1 or 7.2 you can use the setup command and go to system services to turn off ipchains and turn on iptables. IMHO don't use the redhat graphical config tools in 7.1. I have not had much luck with them. Cheers -Original Message-

RE: IPChains vs IPTables

Hello Ashley, I prefer iptables. It is definately stable, the problem is coming up with the "perfect" script. A good set of links here on both iptables and ipchains: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/gotchas/7.1/gotchas-71.html Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: Parrallel port connectivity

Dave Ihnat writes: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:14:44PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >> > Does anyone know if there is a program available that will allow two >> > computers to communicate over a parrallel null-modem cable? I am thinking of >> > something like direct cable connect in Wi

Re: LG-CDRW problem

From: "Vidiot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> That begs the question, isn't there someplace to enter that other than > >> LILO? What if LILO isn't used for booting? > > > >I am using grub for booting and this is what my grub.conf looks like: > > > >default=0 > >timeout=10 > >splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/gru

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

Stephen, I agree. Go back to basics. You should try to set the machine up on a static ip address and see if this makes any difference. Also, when dealing with general networking issues, I always ask: What are the contents of these files??? /etc/hosts /etc/host.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/syscon

setting up network interface

I'm trying to setup a network interface on a freshly installed copy of RH 7.1 (standard boxed version).  I've got a DSL modem connected to a NetGear RT314 router (it doubles as a DHCP server). I've tried using the network applet of the 'control-panel' and the 'netconfig' command. However, us

Re: OT: really big e-mails

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:29:21PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > > What user creates a 50 MB document anyway? > > A PowerPoint presentation with more than 50 slides and lots of > pictures. PowerPoint, the modern crutch on which hangs the gangly > corpse of a substanceless presentation. Witness,

Re: questions about named and sendmail

On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 11:40, Julian Opificius wrote: > Dave, > > I want to do exactly as you described below - use my DNS server for local > static resolution, and as a cache for real world addresses. > What I need to do now is find out how to build my zone files to support the > local network.

RedHat 7.2 install problem

I was wondering if any of you have run into RedHat install giving you the error message of:   /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-common-2.2.4-13.i386.rpm is not found   This happens on the install and it is the first file (i think) that is being copied over to the system off the 7.2 CD.  Anyo

Re: IPChains vs IPTables

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Mead wrote: >at>i want to setup a firewall on linux. i am thinking which one to use >at>IPChains or IPTables ? >at>Is IPTables stable enough or is IPChains more stable. >at> >at>any pointers is welcome. > >They're both stable IMHO. iptables is

Re: Sendmail with dnsbl option

Likely they were testing to see if you had an open relay. Thats' the 'o' and the 'r' in their name. Every bl place I've look at has some system for testing for open relays. This is part of how they generate their list. Note, using a bl will reduce, but not eliminate spam. You'll likely need t

SNMP uptime and cpuload??

I have been trying to get a grasp of SNMP and don't understand mibs at all. Does anyone know of a good resource that explains these? Two things I would like to know how to do quickly are get the system uptime (no snmp daemon uptime) and average CPU load. From what I understand I need to have t

Re: LG-CDRW problem

>> That begs the question, isn't there someplace to enter that other than >> LILO? What if LILO isn't used for booting? > >I am using grub for booting and this is what my grub.conf looks like: > >default=0 >timeout=10 >splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-13) >

Re: LG-CDRW problem

> >You need to do both. modules.conf determines the modules you need to > load - >ie, ide-scsi. LILO tells the kernel that you only want to use > SCSI emulation >for hdc, and not the rest of your ide devices. >Ed > Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > > That begs the question, isn't there someplace to

RH7.2-Hardware Raid, Dual Channel Supported?

Hi, Kind of a continuation of a question posed last week. Neither Dell or RH have wanted to answer my question before a purchase. Can I install RH 7.2 on a Dual Channel Box [to be purchased] utilizing hardware RAID [Raid 1 on OS channel and Raid 5 on Data channel]? Is this an extremely

Re: OT: really big e-mails

Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Hi Hidong, > > What user creates a 50 MB document anyway? A PowerPoint presentation with more than 50 slides and lots of pictures. PowerPoint, the modern crutch on which hangs the gangly corpse of a substanceless presentation.

Re: LG-CDRW problem

>You need to do both. modules.conf determines the modules you need to load - >ie, ide-scsi. LILO tells the kernel that you only want to use SCSI emulation >for hdc, and not the rest of your ide devices. >Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA That begs the question, isn't there someplace to enter that

Re: IPChains vs IPTables

IPtables has been working fine for me...the real consideration is what kernel version are you running. IPchains is really fully supported on 2.2.x systems, while IPTables requires 2.4.x kernels. Additionally, the 2.4.x kernels support IPchains in a compatibility mode, while they support IPTa

Re: Tape Unit in Linux Box

Charles: I would not shout at you, you are way too nice of a human being. I like to capitalize because I cannot underline (or don't know how) using Netscape on Linux. Okay, I will try these things, but I'm sure I did all this before. Then I will get back to you. Will have to wait till the wife

Re: LG-CDRW problem

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:58:00PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > >Here's a link that should help: http://mconry.ucd.ie/~mconry/cdrw_help.html > >Note that you probably don't need to recompile your kernel, but do need to > >install all the right modules, update lilo/grub, and make sure you're using > >SC

Re: IPChains vs IPTables

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, ashley thomas posted the following: at>hi at> at>i want to setup a firewall on linux. i am thinking which one to use at>IPChains or IPTables ? at>Is IPTables stable enough or is IPChains more stable. at> at>any pointers is welcome

Re: LG-CDRW problem

>You're right of course. I had forgotten about that. Thanks for catching my >mistake. My method would have had him being to use the CD to read CDs, but >not burn them, which is probably not what he wanted. > >Here's a link that should help: http://mconry.ucd.ie/~mconry/cdrw_help.html >Note that

Re: CLARIFICATION: Tape Unit in Linux Box

The tape unit I use apparently has to be mounted on an IDE drive. I don't know if this is legitimate but that is what the builder told me. Apparently when it was physically installed it was attached to an IDE drive (8 IDE channels on the machine) and was defined to be ht0. I originally tried /d

Re: LG-CDRW problem

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:25:04PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 15:05, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:47:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > > > > > My problem is that my CDR has no drivers. I am using red hat 7.2 and on > > > previous versions, I didn't hav

Re: urgent-pdf conversion

Hi, You can just convert it to postscript and then to pdf. man ps2pdf. Jared On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 14:35, FatDaemon wrote: > Hi > > I'm totally sure about it. > > You only have to open the print dialog and choose print to pdf (you could see > the acrobat logo besides it). > This is the dialo

RE: IPChains vs IPTables

Title: RE: IPChains vs IPTables IMHO, iptables.  That's where everything is moving towards, so you might as well do that.  ipchains may not be around forever. > -Original Message- > From: ashley thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PR

IPChains vs IPTables

hi i want to setup a firewall on linux. i am thinking which one to use IPChains or IPTables ? Is IPTables stable enough or is IPChains more stable. any pointers is welcome. thanks ashley _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messen

Re: LG-CDRW problem

>On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 15:05, Ed Wilts wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:47:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: >> > >> > My problem is that my CDR has no drivers. I am using red hat 7.2 and on >> > previous versions, I didn't have any problems. On the loading screen, the >> > cdr is read as : >>

Re: LG-CDRW problem

On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 15:05, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:47:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > > > My problem is that my CDR has no drivers. I am using red hat 7.2 and on > > previous versions, I didn't have any problems. On the loading screen, the > > cdr is read as : > > hdc:

Re: LG-CDRW problem

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:47:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > My problem is that my CDR has no drivers. I am using red hat 7.2 and on > previous versions, I didn't have any problems. On the loading screen, the > cdr is read as : > hdc: LG-CDRW CED-8120, ATAPI CD/DVD ROM hdc is an IDE device.

RE: StartSSL Won't

I just realized I forgot to thank you. THANK YOU! BenO At 02:59 PM 1/3/02 -0700, you wrote: >build ssl into Apache > >There is good documentation on www.modssl.org > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ben Ocean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, Januar

LG-CDRW problem

Hello all, My problem is that my CDR has no drivers. I am using red hat 7.2 and on previous versions, I didn't have any problems. On the loading screen, the cdr is read as : hdc: LG-CDRW CED-8120, ATAPI CD/DVD ROM When I try to mount the cdrom drive, it states "dev/cdrom unknown device". I got

Re: Sendmail with dnsbl option

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have this saved from an earlier post on this list :Från: "Michael Ghens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: :Till: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Kopia: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Ämne: Re: Most spam kil

Mapping PPP to IP:PORT ?

Hello Everyone, Here is a *really* good one for Linux to do... How can I make PPP connections "listen" on myip:port ? I have a device and we are still gonna play with it that will allow you to take 16 serial devices and put them on a LAN or something...how it does it I don't know but it might c

Re: urgent-pdf conversion

Hi I'm totally sure about it. You only have to open the print dialog and choose print to pdf (you could see the acrobat logo besides it). This is the dialog for choose printers (it appears besides the default printer, as an arrow icon) Greetings FatDaemon P.S. I'm using Red Hat Linux 7.2 wi

Time Tracking

I am looking for a script or program that can be run by Cron to calculate how much time a user has been dialed into a server each day. I wrote a small script which pulled the information from the 'last' command, it worked great for a while, but for some reason stopped working a couple of days ago

Re: urgent-pdf conversion

On Friday 04 January 2002 01:34, you babbled something about: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, FatDaemon wrote: > > I'm using KDE 2.x and at the printing utility you can choose to print to > > any printer that you've configured previusly and, surprise¡¡ > > you'll find that there is an option which prints to

KDE vs Gnome

Hi all, I was using Gnome for a while, and really liked the ability to change desktops by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen I have since changed to KDE - for reasons I can't now remember (!) and would like to know if and how I can achieve the same functionality. I cant find any thing t

Re: urgent-pdf conversion

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, FatDaemon wrote: > I'm using KDE 2.x and at the printing utility you can choose to print to any > printer that you've configured previusly and, surprise¡¡ > you'll find that there is an option which prints to (converts) a pdf file. Are you sure you arent confusing PDF with Po

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ippp0 Documentation

Hi, Is there any documention with regards the file in the subject, as I want to setup dual bonding on the ISDN channel. Kind Regards, Chris Bond ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: urgent-pdf conversion

I'm using KDE 2.x and at the printing utility you can choose to print to any printer that you've configured previusly and, surprise¡¡ you'll find that there is an option which prints to (converts) a pdf file. Greetings. FatDaemon El Vie 04 Ene 2002 06:40, escribió: > >Wanted to convert fro

Re: Multimedia - CDRom question.

Hi: If you try to change the default cd player from cdrom to cdrom1, you'll get an error (crash) from kscd, to avoid this, I load an audio cd at cdrom and another at cdrom1, and that let me make the change without problem. Greetings FatDaemon El Vie 04 Ene 2002 05:13, escribió: > Hi All Peop

Re: questions about named and sendmail

Dave, I want to do exactly as you described below - use my DNS server for local static resolution, and as a cache for real world addresses. What I need to do now is find out how to build my zone files to support the local network. For those who have been patiently following (or wading past) th

Redhat 7.2, Grub, & Compaq Proliant 1600

Anyone had experience with installing Redhat 7.2 on Compaq Proliants? For those of you familiar with Compaq Proliants, I can't get into the Smartstart config loaded on the hard drive since installing Redhat 7.2. Usually you hit F10 at a certain point in the boot up process and then the machine

Re: urgent-pdf conversion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony E. Greene wrote: >At 08:57 AM 1/4/2002 +, you wrote: >> Wanted to convert from .html , .xls and >>.ppt files to pdf file format. >> >>Is there any command to do that. >>Or any free software to do that. > >Search the list archives. This

Re: Parrallel port connectivity

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:14:44PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a program available that will allow two > > computers to communicate over a parrallel null-modem cable? I am thinking of > > something like direct cable connect in Win. > > Indeed you can s

Re: questions about named and sendmail

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:38:55AM -0600, Julian Opificius wrote: > But I'm afraid your answer to my last lingering question was a little > unclear, I think because I didn't phrase the question properly :- > ... > My question should have been:- how does the machine running bind satisfy > DNS req

Re: questions about named and sendmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius posted the following: JO>Thanks Brian. JO> JO>So bind does do local DNS, but it uses zone files, not the "hosts" file. JO>That's the answer I was looking for. Now I know where to go. JO> JO>Sincere thanks again t

Re: questions about named and sendmail

Thanks Brian. So bind does do local DNS, but it uses zone files, not the "hosts" file. That's the answer I was looking for. Now I know where to go. Sincere thanks again to all who contributed to this thread. julian. == At 11:23 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote: >On Friday 04 Janu

Re: questions about named and sendmail

On Friday 04 January 2002 11:19, you babbled something about: > > So the question is: HOW do I give it those local mappings, if not the host > file ??? That appears to be the big question here. You might want to try the DNS HOWTO. The hosts file is for the "hosts style look-ups". So you need to

Re: questions about named and sendmail

At 10:52 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius posted the following: > >JO>Remember that a LAN machine making a DNS request doesn't know yet if >JO>the machine whose IP address it wants is on the same network or off >JO>

Re: Parrallel port connectivity

Hi Ian, > Does anyone know if there is a program available that will allow two > computers to communicate over a parrallel null-modem cable? I am thinking of > something like direct cable connect in Win. Indeed you can setup the parallel port as a network device (plip#). You

Re: questions about named and sendmail

At 10:43 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote: Good morning Chuck, >The ip stack cannot use a name, it must have an ip address to choose a >route. We humans prefer names so a host file can be used to provide that >relationship so that the resolver can turn a name into an ip address >(and ultimately a MAC

Re: questions about named and sendmail

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:45:43AM -0600 or thereabouts, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:11:31AM -0600, Gary wrote: > > hosts does not give resolution for static names, just IP addresses. Your > > windows / Linux LAN cannot ping by name, just IP address only, no > > aliases either.

Re: questions about named and sendmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius posted the following: JO>Remember that a LAN machine making a DNS request doesn't know yet if JO>the machine whose IP address it wants is on the same network or off JO>in Outer Mongolia. DNS doesn't care about l

Re: questions about named and sendmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius posted the following: JO>At 08:11 AM 1/4/02 -0600, you wrote: JO>>On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:15:12PM -0600 or thereabouts, Julian Opificius JO>>wrote: JO>> > At 11:58 PM 1/3/02 -0500, you wrote: JO>> > JO>> > JO>

Parrallel port connectivity

Does anyone know if there is a program available that will allow two computers to communicate over a parrallel null-modem cable? I am thinking of something like direct cable connect in Win. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid L

Re: questions about named and sendmail

Dave, thanks a million for this clarification. It was enormously helpful. But I'm afraid your answer to my last lingering question was a little unclear, I think because I didn't phrase the question properly :- Here's the question again ... > Basically, how does a machine on the LAN get resolu

RE:What is tripwire?

Stephen, I've been using tripwire on my system for years now. It's kind of like having a fire extinguisher in your kitchen; you hope you never have to use it, but you're glad it's there if you have a problem. Tripwire is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that builds a database of your (new, c

Re: questions about named and sendmail

At 08:11 AM 1/4/02 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:15:12PM -0600 or thereabouts, Julian Opificius >wrote: > > At 11:58 PM 1/3/02 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > > >[csm@stealth csm]$ cat /etc/host.conf > > >order hosts,bind > > > > > >You see? > > > > Think so, try this out:- > > > > 1

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

Stephen, Three or four minutes to initialize *with* your broadband connection? That's not normal. What type of broadband connection? /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks OK to me. Is there a line in your /etc/hosts file that says, "127.0.0.1 localhost" ? Preferably the first l

Re: What is tripwire?

Tripwire is designed for intrusion detection. ANY changes to the file system can be detected, whether it's a deleted file, a newly created file, or file that has been altered in some way. Tripwire is setup to send out an email on a daily basis, giving you a full report on what's changed. You'r

Re: questions about named and sendmail

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:11:31AM -0600, Gary wrote: > hosts does not give resolution for static names, just IP addresses. Your > windows / Linux LAN cannot ping by name, just IP address only, no > aliases either. That is for DNS I'm sorry, but this is just so totally, absolutely, flat-out wrong

Re: questions about named and sendmail

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:46:25PM -0600, Julian Opificius wrote: > That much I knew ... it's a data file containing links between IPs and > friendly names. But who uses it? It's used in small networks. It's also used as a "shim" to fix bad DNS responses. A good example--a friend of mine has D

Re: Network difficulty [ Was: This is screwy ]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:57:54AM -0600 or thereabouts, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:40:17PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Did you try connection two of these computers using a cross cable? Still no > > result? Are you sure your cables, the switch and the NICs are a

Re: Network difficulty [ Was: This is screwy ]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:40:17PM +0100 or thereabouts, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Did you try connection two of these computers using a cross cable? Still no > result? Are you sure your cables, the switch and the NICs are allright? Not > using cross cables where you should be using str

Re: questions about named and sendmail

This has been commented on in part, but it's got some things wrong enough I want to emphasize them: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:18:50PM -0600, Gary wrote: > Hi Julian, A /etc/hosts file is not a named daemon. True. > It will not resolve name and address, only DNS does that, i.e. BIND. > The Host

Re: making linux directories accessible from windows

At 07:01 PM 1/3/2002 -0800, you wrote: >I've just installed Samba 2.2.1a on a Red Hat 7.2 machine. I've set up >some public shares which are accessible from our Windows machines. Now >I want to make some directories I already have on the Linux machine >accessible only by me from the Windows mach

Re: evolution on 7.2

Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking into trying evolution on my newly installed and working > well laptop. I have been wanting to get out of the mozilla/netscape > all-in-one mail deal for a while and was looking into pgp mail which > led to evolution. I now have an excuse to

Re: evolution on 7.2

>Do I really have to upgrade all those packages? Yes. >What is the difference between gnome vs ximian? Ximian is an enhanced GNOME with more applications and some added pre-configuration that lets you be productive sooner. There's less post-install setup needed thn with a generic GNOME insta

Re: Network difficulty [ Was: This is screwy ]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:40:17PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Did you try connection two of these computers using a cross cable? Still no > result? Are you sure your cables, the switch and the NICs are allright? Not > using cross cables where you should be using straight cables? Is

What is tripwire?

The root user on my Linux hosts get an email message daily that reads: /etc/cron.daily/tripwire-check: Error: Tripwire database for slin01dx not found. Run /etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh and/or tripwire --init. The man page describes tripwire as "a file integrity checker fo

Re: urgent-pdf conversion

>Wanted to convert from .html , .xls and .ppt files to pdf file format. StarOffice 6 will do at least your PowerPoint presentations. I haven't tried Excel spreadsheets nor HTML files but I expect it will work .../Ed Ed Wilts Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

RE: urgent-pdf conversion

Try ImageMagicks convert utility. Manoj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chamarty Prasanna Kumar Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: urgent-pdf conversion Hi All, Wanted to convert from .html , .xl

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